FireTV 2 (sloane) Prerooted Stock Images [5.2.7.6_r1]

rbox · Feb 6, 2016

Here are prerooted stock images for use with my recovery. Note that these contain addon.d support, so any 3rd party things you install to /system need an addon.d script to be retained between flashes.

Managing Stock Recovery
Starting with 5.0.5_r3, stock recovery gets disabled. This means you cannot reboot in to stock recovery manually or automatically because of a system update. This will make it safer for people who forget to disable updates. You should still disable updates though. If for whatever reason, you want to reenable it, or verify it is disabled, you can use the manage_recovery program. Under normal circumstances, you should never need to use manage_recovery.

Connect to adb and start a shell
Switch to root with su
Run manage_recovery (if you do not run su first, it will seem to run, but won't actually be able to do anything)
Code:
```
manage_recovery
```

There are 3 different scenarios that manage_recovery will detect and prompt for.

The first is when stock recovery is disabled, it will look like this:

Code:

Checking current stock recovery status... NOT STOCK
Checking for reason... DISABLED
Stock recovery is currently disabled,
Would you like to enable it?
Type 'yes' to enable it, anything else to quit.

The second is when a stock recovery is flashed that does not match the current system version:

Code:

Checking current stock recovery status... NOT STOCK
Checking for reason... WRONG VERSION
Would you like to disable stock recovery?
Type 'yes' to disable it, anything else to quit.

And finally, the third is when stock recovery is enabled and the correct version:

Code:

Checking current stock recovery status... STOCK
Would you like to disable stock recovery?
Type 'yes' to disable it, anything else to quit.

After changing the recovery status, you can run the program again to verify it changed.

WARNING: DO NOT FLASH 5.0.5.1 OR EARLIER IF YOU STARTED WITH VERSION 5.2.1.0 OR LATER

NOTE: If you were at 5.2.6.6 or below, you MUST flash 5.2.6.7 before going to 5.2.6.8 or later.

Changelog and Downloads:

December 26, 2020 - 5.2.7.6_r1 (md5sum: 01178aecf55cd895cbfdeb64d5a19e62)
July 4, 2020 - 5.2.7.3_r1 (md5sum: 875436574974c3603aef179b898a4c60)
December 7, 2019 - 5.2.7.2_r1 (md5sum: b91c6b596ef5daae085ddf08c1c504e5)
September 21, 2019 - 5.2.7.1_r1 (md5sum: 0d72e930cee2652d324d2fceebdd4202)
June 29, 2019 - 5.2.7.0_r1 (md5sum: 1e402185cefb91276d811f1321494863)
March 30, 2019 - 5.2.6.9_r1 (md5sum: a3e23a7f337346a4638f8c8895632046)
February 10, 2019 - 5.2.6.8_r1 (md5sum: bd0daa677635e04e368d1b2b235e03e9)
December 2, 2018 - 5.2.6.7_r2 (md5sum: b50a1fddb3e01c18c353195c9f7f50cd)
- This ROM contains updated DRM firmware.
November 27, 2018 - 5.2.6.7_r1 (md5sum: b0ee16b57b37a934778ca1436f29916a)
- This ROM contains updated DRM firmware.
September 28, 2018 - 5.2.6.6_r1 (md5sum: 37ce0c6dda850fa2d462835496b68576)
June 24, 2018 - 5.2.6.3_r1 (md5sum: 08982269022c01c9a1eac8ff94adf637)
January 28, 2018 - 5.2.6.2_r1 (md5sum: 0967de2a707f173ca8715356a20ea88e)
October 8, 2017 - 5.2.6.0_r1 (md5sum: 84eedbb2e9fd4b57679747ecb8fae797)
July 27, 2017 - 5.2.4.2_r2 (md5sum: a96e73478cdbe8659f6758a5d27b4738)
- This includes updated firmware to fix Hulu and HBO.
July 3, 2017 - 5.2.4.2_r1 (md5sum: 0719fde0db90702c2407461003217977)
May 1, 2017 - 5.2.4.1_r1 (md5sum: 64915fceb4e7d1c0de9d1ef625db48e7)
December 10, 2016 - 5.2.4.0_r1 (md5sum: 77af47d3c43fe79e82740d0cc0c4bce5)
September 10, 2016 - 5.2.1.1_r1 (md5sum: fd7c06bce26d4aa611eef402ef156322)
July 4, 2016 - 5.2.1.0_r2 (md5sum: a69981f6d4dce77cf1f9907f8a39b391)
- This is the same as the previous 5.2.1.0, just with the updated version that Amazon released.
June 1, 2016 - 5.2.1.0_r1 (md5sum: 81693eae0ce3b497cf425691bc4ad041)
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-5.
April 8, 2016 - 5.0.5.1_r1 (md5sum: c6d8a11b7ca7a0b45a38af4f9f70cf2d)
- The updated TWRP in this version should disable auto flashing amazon updates.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-5.
February 14, 2016 - 5.0.5_r4 (md5sum: 9145c8f6d52fda2c3cfdd1d091bcb331)
- The updated TWRP in this version should fix the issues certain keyboards were having.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-4.
February 13, 2016 - 5.0.5_r3(md5sum: 92d08a12d240cf9bf6d25005a65bd82d)
- Starting with this update, stock recovery will be disabled to prevent stock updates from being flashed. Please refer to the instructions above for managing stock recovery.
- This includes 2ndinit version dee776 and TWRP version 3.0.0-3. Because this comes with a newer 2ndinit version, do not flash an older recovery package. Doing so will disable su.
February 12, 2016 - 5.0.5_r2

OTA updates are permanently disabled, otherwise the same as r1.

[*]
- This breaks booting with a factory reset.
February 12, 2016 - 5.0.5_r1(md5sum: 211a15f949e317b02c637b2927a7c8ba)
- This includes 2ndinit version 743aa4 and TWRP version 3.0.0-3.
February 8, 2016 - 5.0.4_r2(md5sum: ebcecf89e9b81c02f22ed2706fe5f796)
- This comes with TWRP 3.0.0-2
- This comes with the same 2ndinit version
February 6, 2016 - 5.0.4_r1(md5sum: 87ce4f7802d21bd1f14c45d473783713)
- This comes with 2ndinit version fe3362 and recovery version 3.0.0-1
February 6, 2016 - 5.0.3.1_r1(md5sum: e38d66dce235c9c0122dfbde2db5a6b6)
- This comes with 2ndinit version fe3362 and recovery version 3.0.0-1

AFTVnews.com · Feb 6, 2016

Awesome work!

For those who need a step-by-step guide with screenshots:
[GUIDE] How to Root a Fire TV 2 by installing rbox's Pre-Rooted Image

[VIDEO GUIDE]

wadisnake · Feb 6, 2016

Awesome! Thanks !

dk1keith · Feb 7, 2016

wadisnake said:
Awesome! Thanks !

Awesome! Thanks for all your great work!

ians325 · Feb 7, 2016

Any one with Mac Guide Please help

elliwigy · Feb 8, 2016

awesome sauce!

Takeoo111111 · Feb 10, 2016

Hi,
I ended up with following message during image installation:

Code:

[...]
Coping system image...
Updater process ended with signal: 7
Error installing zip file '/usb/sloane-5.0.4-rooted_r2.zip'
Updating partition details...
...done

And, no wonder... after power cycling (I had to do so, since recovery seemed to be frozen) it stuck in a bootloop.
But I still can access recovery!

Any ideas? Is there any way to get a more verbose output?
(Used recovery 3.0.0-2 and recovery_installer v3)

Edit:
Now there is no /system Partition mounted

Edit2:
I was able to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p13 manually to /system but it seems that I can't mount it in rw mode.
If I do so, it switches back to ro when I there the folder. (I think, that could be the error during image installation)

What's strange is: If I enter /system/lib I can't execute any command (like "ls" "touch" etc. only cd is working) I get following output:

Code:

/system/lib # ls
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: "libc.so" is 32-bit instead of 64-bit
# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
.:/sbin

File libc.so is existing, but I can't finde a way to get the file type data

Edit3:
More strange things:
I was wrong! I am able to write to /system till the point when I execute a "ls"

Than its back to ro.

Edit4:
I tried to reflash recovery and the following error:
Locating the target file...

Code:

[...]
Reading 05055F000: 100%
Opening the target file...
Reading 01D947000: 100%
error: source file is larger than target file!

No shure if that was there when I flashed it first.
Related to this post

Hoggels · Feb 10, 2016

re-rooted works fine !

its full Google Play Store Support possible ?

elliwigy · Feb 10, 2016

Hoggels said:
its full Google Play Store Support possible ?

yes.. its been done already but some users are having issues

rbox · Feb 11, 2016

Takeoo111111 said:
Hi,
I ended up with following message during image installation:

Code:

[...] Coping system image... Updater process ended with signal: 7 Error installing zip file '/usb/sloane-5.0.4-rooted_r2.zip' Updating partition details... ...done

And, no wonder... after power cycling (I had to do so, since recovery seemed to be frozen) it stuck in a bootloop.
But I still can access recovery!

Any ideas? Is there any way to get a more verbose output?
(Used recovery 3.0.0-2 and recovery_installer v3)

Edit:
Now there is no /system Partition mounted

Edit2:
I was able to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p13 manually to /system but it seems that I can't mount it in rw mode.
If I do so, it switches back to ro when I there the folder. (I think, that could be the error during image installation)

What's strange is: If I enter /system/lib I can't execute any command (like "ls" "touch" etc. only cd is working) I get following output:

Code:

/system/lib # ls CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: "libc.so" is 32-bit instead of 64-bit # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH .:/sbin

File libc.so is existing, but I can't finde a way to get the file type data

Edit3:
More strange things:
I was wrong! I am able to write to /system till the point when I execute a "ls"
Than its back to ro.

Edit4:
I tried to reflash recovery and the following error:
Locating the target file...

Code:

[...] Reading 05055F000: 100% Opening the target file... Reading 01D947000: 100% error: source file is larger than target file!

No shure if that was there when I flashed it first.
Related to this post

If you reboot in the middle of flashing the ROM, you're /system is going to be corrupt. It's a miracle recovery is still working. The reason the installer is failing is because you can only use it for 100% stock roms. Once you start using recovery and flashing things, you cannot (and should not) use the installer. I will add a warning.

If recovery hangs again, you can run

Code:

killall recovery

from adb shell and it will restart. It is extremely important never to reboot if you have a failure. As for logs... /tmp/recovery.log has the full log. Have you verified the file transfer properly before trying to flash?

Hoggels · Feb 11, 2016

Google Playstore

elliwigy said:
yes.. its been done already but some users are having issues

Who can find it? Itsca zip to Flash with Recovery or gapps.org?
For gapps.org what for options i must select it? Thx

bula1ca · Feb 11, 2016

Hoggels said:
Who can find it? Itsca zip to Flash with Recovery or gapps.org?
For gapps.org what for options i must select it? Thx

Read this tread: http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/help/q-guide-to-getting-google-play-rbox-t3310974

elliwigy · Feb 11, 2016

bula1ca said:
Read this tread: http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/help/q-guide-to-getting-google-play-rbox-t3310974

haha thx for posting the link..

amazing how much tunnel vision exists as theres threads for most anything but somehow some fail to find them lol

bula1ca · Feb 11, 2016

elliwigy said:
haha thx for posting the link..

amazing how much tunnel vision exists as theres threads for most anything but somehow some fail to find them lol

LOL

TorqueWrench001 · Feb 12, 2016

Success!! I have the issue with the recovery screen being scrambled. Switched to another tv got through recovery and installed rom, then the screen would be blank when booting to system. After 2 hours of reading and trying.... Went back to the original tv , the tv recognizes the home screen display. Apparently whatever the issue with the recovery screen is prevented the home screen from being visible on the second tv. anyway all good now!

elliwigy · Feb 12, 2016

TorqueWrench001 said:
Success!! I have the issue with the recovery screen being scrambled. Switched to another tv got through recovery and installed rom, then the screen would be blank when booting to system. After 2 hours of reading and trying.... Went back to the original tv , the tv recognizes the home screen display. Apparently whatever the issue with the recovery screen is prevented the home screen from being visible on the second tv. anyway all good now!

i think someone else had the same issue and i think it was the tv lol

what do you have the fire tv set to in the display settings? If you had it set to a certain setting such as 1080p but the tv is in a different setting could be the issue.. or something like that lol

krawhitham · Feb 12, 2016

5.0.5_r1 installed perfectly

dk1keith · Feb 12, 2016

krawhitham said:
5.0.5_r1 installed perfectly

how did you install....did you update recovery first then flash 5.05_r1?
thanks

AFTVnews.com · Feb 12, 2016

TorqueWrench001 said:
Success!! I have the issue with the recovery screen being scrambled. Switched to another tv got through recovery and installed rom, then the screen would be blank when booting to system. After 2 hours of reading and trying.... Went back to the original tv , the tv recognizes the home screen display. Apparently whatever the issue with the recovery screen is prevented the home screen from being visible on the second tv. anyway all good now!

elliwigy said:
i think someone else had the same issue and i think it was the tv lol

what do you have the fire tv set to in the display settings? If you had it set to a certain setting such as 1080p but the tv is in a different setting could be the issue.. or something like that lol

Someone in the comments of my guide said the scrambled screen issue was due to incompatibility with 1080i TVs. I'm curious @TorqueWrench001 is your scrambled TV a 1080i set that's not capable of 1080p ?

Largewoodenspoon · Feb 12, 2016

AFTVnews.com said:
Someone in the comments of my guide said the scrambled screen issue was due to incompatibility with 1080i TVs. I'm curious @TorqueWrench001 is your scrambled TV a 1080i set that's not capable of 1080p ?

Mine is a 1080i tv. Old sony bravia. Great picture and sound though. The display is most definitely tits up on twrp. However, I have a broken tiny cheap wall mounted 1080i flatscreen, with no sound, which is now my dedicated 2nd aftv monitor, just for twrp purposes. It even fits snug under my living room tv unit out of sight.

I am awaiting funds for a new samsung curved 55inch beast. But, I think it will have to wait until the sony bravia dies on me! lol

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