Hi all!
Without much ado I am presenting you this repo for CM10 that lets you build somewhat functional CM10 ROM for Kindle Fire HD 8.9".
(Obviously this is not end-user friendly yet. If you don't know how to compile CM10 yourself, you are not a target audience for this yet, sorry. Many things don't work to make it viable main ROM yet anyway)
Build instructions (assuming you met all other CM10 build dependencies).
Download code:
Build:
In the out/target/product/bowser output dir you'll have two important files generated:
recovery.img and cm-10-XXXXXXXX-UNOFFICIAL-bowser.zip
For the first install only:
Step 0; Connect kindle to your computer, have android sdk installed and adb and fastboot in the path.
Step 1: (very important) Back up raw partitions from kindle responsible for recovery, boot and system.
(this requires root, though root-less installation is also possible, you will need the backups to return to stock!)
This last command will stop waiting for the fastboot device to appear. Do not unplug the kindle from USB.
Now reboot kindle: either power it off and on via it's GUI, or do adb reboot from a different terminal session (do not interrupt fastboot command still waiting!)
You'll see a "fastboot mode" on the screen and fastboot command started earlier will finally finish after writing the image onto the kindle.
Reboot kindle again via fastboot:
This will reboot you into CWM recovery
Step 3: In CWM recovery, do install from sdcard and install the cm-10...zip file we transferred in the previous step.
the /data/ settings from stock amazon install are not compatible with CM10, but (very important)Do not reformat /data/ and /cache from CWM, this will result in a corrupted filesystem due to 3.0.21 kernel currently used by amazon not having necessary fs features!!!
Instead, clean /data via adb while booted to CWM:
Step 4: Now, installation is complete, you may reboot and it will bring you to your freshly-installed CM10 - enjoy.
(note by default this CM10 install starts with adb disabled, so you'll need to enable it in settings again).
How to reflash back to stock
Step 1: Remember where did you put those backups from step 1 during install.
Step 2:
Now either connect a powered off kindle, or reboot an already connected kindle.
(note: I don't remember if stock rom is smart enough to wipe /data in this case or if it bootloops, so you might want to do rm -r /data/* before the final reboot)
once Kindle enters fastboot mode and recovery image is written, write the other two images too:
Now you are back to factory stock.
Not so short video on the install starting from somewhere around step 3 for those who cannot perform the steps, but need to ensure this ROM is not for them yet:
Many things don't work yet:
- Sound
- Video playback
- Sensors (no rotation)
- Camera
- BT
- probably some other stuff I have not noticed yet.
Please do send in your patches/fixes.
Without much ado I am presenting you this repo for CM10 that lets you build somewhat functional CM10 ROM for Kindle Fire HD 8.9".
(Obviously this is not end-user friendly yet. If you don't know how to compile CM10 yourself, you are not a target audience for this yet, sorry. Many things don't work to make it viable main ROM yet anyway)
Build instructions (assuming you met all other CM10 build dependencies).
Download code:
Code:
mkdir android/system
cd android/system
curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/repo
chmod a+x ~/repo
repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b jellybean
wget -O .repo/local_manifest.xml https://github.com/verygreen/android_manifests/raw/master/bowser-jb/local_manifest.xml
repo sync -j16Build:
Code:
. build/envsetup.sh
lunch cm_bowser-userdebug
. vendor/cm/get-prebuilts
mka baconIn the out/target/product/bowser output dir you'll have two important files generated:
recovery.img and cm-10-XXXXXXXX-UNOFFICIAL-bowser.zip
For the first install only:
Step 0; Connect kindle to your computer, have android sdk installed and adb and fastboot in the path.
Step 1: (very important) Back up raw partitions from kindle responsible for recovery, boot and system.
(this requires root, though root-less installation is also possible, you will need the backups to return to stock!)
Code:
adb shell su -c "chmod 777 /dev/block/*"
adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
[code]
Save these block images.
Step 2: Prepare and run CWM:
[code]
rm -f /tmp/stack; for i in $(seq 1024) ; do echo -ne '\x00\x50\x7c\x80' >>/tmp/stack ; done
adb push /tmp/stack /data/local/tmp/
adb shell su -c "dd if=/data/local/tmp/stack of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/boot bs=6519488 seek=1"
adb shell su -c "chmod 777 /cache"
adb push /path/to/cm-10-XXXXXXXX-UNOFFICIAL-bowser.zip /cache/
adb shell su -c "echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro"
adb shell su -c "echo -n 3 | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 bs=1 count=1 seek=4104"
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img -i 0x1949Now reboot kindle: either power it off and on via it's GUI, or do adb reboot from a different terminal session (do not interrupt fastboot command still waiting!)
You'll see a "fastboot mode" on the screen and fastboot command started earlier will finally finish after writing the image onto the kindle.
Reboot kindle again via fastboot:
Code:
fastboot reboot -i 0x1949Step 3: In CWM recovery, do install from sdcard and install the cm-10...zip file we transferred in the previous step.
the /data/ settings from stock amazon install are not compatible with CM10, but (very important)Do not reformat /data/ and /cache from CWM, this will result in a corrupted filesystem due to 3.0.21 kernel currently used by amazon not having necessary fs features!!!
Instead, clean /data via adb while booted to CWM:
Code:
adb shell "mount /data"
adb shell "rm -r /data/*"(note by default this CM10 install starts with adb disabled, so you'll need to enable it in settings again).
How to reflash back to stock
Step 1: Remember where did you put those backups from step 1 during install.
Step 2:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/mmcblk0p9 -i 0x1949(note: I don't remember if stock rom is smart enough to wipe /data in this case or if it bootloops, so you might want to do rm -r /data/* before the final reboot)
once Kindle enters fastboot mode and recovery image is written, write the other two images too:
Code:
fastboot flash boot /path/to/mmcblk0p10 -i 0x1949
fastboot flash system /path/to/mmcblk0p11 -i 0x1949 # This one will take a few minutes
fastboot reboot -i 0x1949Not so short video on the install starting from somewhere around step 3 for those who cannot perform the steps, but need to ensure this ROM is not for them yet:
Many things don't work yet:
- Sound
- Video playback
- Sensors (no rotation)
- Camera
- BT
- probably some other stuff I have not noticed yet.
Please do send in your patches/fixes.
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