[Q] New Member with Kindle Fire 2

Dustoff00 said:

Hello all. Glad to have found this forum. Been here for a short time and from the looks of it, I am in the right place.

Have a Kindle Fire 2nd Gen and was looking to flip it to Android OS.

Problem - My Kindle did an OTA software update and from reading the forum doesn't look like I will be able to go back to an older version which means I am stuck with the simple Android 2.(something).

As this forum has a wealth of information I know I have not read every tread......

Any advice on converting to Android 4.(something)?

My Kindle Fire has SW Version 10.4.8

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Hi Dustoff

please search Kindle in Device Option you able to get Amazon Kindle Fire 2
after you able to see developments

Hello Dustroff00, had the same issue, OTA update from a just rooted 10.4.6 to 10.4.8. Had found the KF2 unrooted next morning :-{ But doesn't matter anyway! Rooted him once again with bin4ry_v30 - Further on installed with the hashcode tutorial TWRP2.6.3.0 (without downgrade). For a later CM11 you must update TWRP to 2.6.3.1 and install a brand new CM-11-20140401-NIGHTLY-otter2 (4.4.2 Kitkat) who runs very fine. Did it yesterday. All descriptions you find in the dev area.

Only one observation: After installing TWRP found out that a boot into the KF system kills a ready installed TWRP. So i flashed only the TWRP img once again (fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery otter2-twrp-2.6.3.0-recovery.img) to get the TWRP working again. Then I booted back to TWRP imidiatly (without entering the KF sistem) and flashed a CM-10.1/CM-10.2 temporary. (To get out of the "harmfull" KF 10.4.8 Sistem). In the TWRP description I found a post from one guy who faced the same problem that booting into the KF 10.4.8 Sistem harm the ready installed TWRP. So, i can confirm that You are able to get a CMx comming directly from a 10.4.8 by following the actual tutorial as you can find them in the Dev area.

What I used:
1 - Root with bin4ry_v30: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2075959
(Dont used Step 2 with Qemu because reached the root just with the bin4ry_v30)

2 - TWRP 2.6.3.0: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2100963

3 - TWRP update to 2.6.3.1: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2388569

4 - CM-11-20140401-NIGHTLY-otter2 from here: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=otter2

5 - Used the Gapps Package CM 11 20140105 from here: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps
(Very clean and small gapps package, very good)

!!!!*** Always check and double check the MD5s of Your downloads ***!!!!
You need to buy or build a Fastboot cable.

Good luck and have fun!

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