Any possible unlock for the Fire TV Stick 4K Max 1st Gen?

[evil_santa]

unfortunately no progress, but I bought new equipment for 1000€. Microscope, soldering station, bga rework station, measuring devices, etc.
in my last attempt to find the dat0 pin on the PCB I damaged the trace.
I have to repair it first, which was impossible without a microscope.
In the meantime I have found another good way to contact the dat0 point on the eMMC.
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I'll let you know when I finally have time for them. I'm sorry

 

[Skel40]

unfortunately no progress, but I bought new equipment for 1000€. Microscope, soldering station, bga rework station, measuring devices, etc.
in my last attempt to find the dat0 pin on the PCB I damaged the trace.
I have to repair it first, which was impossible without a microscope.
In the meantime I have found another good way to contact the dat0 point on the eMMC.
Click
I'll let you know when I finally have time for them. I'm sorry

No worries!! We appreciate you taking the time with scanning the board and giving us updates

 

[Skel40]

@evil_santa did contacting the dat0 with the emmc work?

 

[evil_santa]

Long time no see, but good news finished to find all necessary points to contacting the emmc.
When I have time in the future I will try to root it.
But whit this information you can try yourself.

 

[Skel40]

Long time no see, but good news finished to find all necessary points to contacting the emmc.
When I have time in the future I will try to root it.
But whit this information you can try yourself.

Same with you!! That's awesome we can have @k4y0z and @Sus_i take a closer look at it again we can't thank you enough for taking the time with this project. Keep us updated

 

[Sus_i]

Just had a look into my stick, I guess the points are a bit too small for my soldering equipment.
Can't even see the points without a magnifying glass
A PCB needle probing jig is probably way better than soldering to the points.

 

[evil_santa]

Yes a probing jig is better whiteout good soldering tools.
The wire on the picture has a diameter from 0,1mm

 

[extream87]

1st thank you for your hard work.
So to root 4k max we will need to open firestick?

 

[Sus_i]

So to root 4k max we will need to open firestick?

There isn't an unlock or root for the 4k max for now...
Lets see what happens in the future.

 

[extream87]

@Sus_i thanks i know but im asking to @evil_santa since hes looking into the board

 

[alexpip]

extream87, as far as I know all previous sticks have had to be opened and the emmc reimaged first by physically soldering to the data lines of the chip. As with the Fire Stick 3, this unlock process was only afterwards improved to allow rooting through the USB port. If you want to root your stick you need to follow the procedure from previous device roots.
Anyone please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.


sus_i has provided you with a good answer and evil_santa has stated he is not working on the project at the moment so probably best to wait for now.

 

[evil_santa]

1st thank you for your hard work.
So to root 4k max we will need to open firestick?

in theory, the stick can be rooted as I intend. The whole thing is similar to the root of fire TV 1st gen.
But if it afterwards also works is not clear yet.
I also don't have much time to deal with it intensively. As i have news i will share it here. So far I have only soldered some wires to clk, cmd and dat0.

 

[Skel40]

in theory, the stick can be rooted as I intend. The whole thing is similar to the root of fire TV 1st gen.
But if it afterwards also works is not clear yet.
I also don't have much time to deal with it intensively. As i have news i will share it here. So far I have only soldered some wires to clk, cmd and dat0.

That's some very exciting news! I still have two of my Max's on 7.2.5.5/2444 and 2465 so it's safe to unlock eventually when it rolls out

 

[Flash1993]

Just so everyone knows, this Fire Stick is on sale at Target for $34 right now. I just picked one up.

 

[extream87]

Any news on this my boys?
Thanks

 

[evil_santa]

Nothing new from my side.
Need to move my workbench from my garden to my home, no gas to heat the garden

 

[roligov]

@evil_santa How are you going to bypass dm-verify once you have direct write access to the EMMC?

 

[duckdown]

I get excited every time I see an email about this thread, since I am subscribed to new replies!

A shame this thread isn't more active, these devices are super popular where I'm from, thought there would be a ton of activity but I guess 99.999% are content with the Amazon OS?

 

[evil_santa]

@evil_santa How are you going to bypass dm-verify once you have direct write access to the EMMC?

at this point my root attempt will probably fail. but that way I can always provide the dev's with the latest firmware, maybe someone can develop a hack from it. we will see what comes up.

 

[dzaxx]

Is it possible, tu use these pins to downgrade FOS in 4k MAX?
Can i clone /system and /userdata partition, from one FTV to another?