Magisk vs. SuperSU for Fire TV

[Sizzlechest]

I had to switch from SuperSU to Magisk on one of my cell phones to get an app that wouldn't run if it detected root. I must not have uninstalled SuperSU correctly on the phone, because I had to reflash the boot.img file in TWRP to get Magisk to install. I was thinking of trying it out on one of my FireTVs now that I know how to fix it if things go fubar. Has anyone tried converting their rooted FireTV to use Magisk? Does it resolve issues with problematic apps like PlayStation VUE?

 

[Sizzlechest]

Is there a way to get a clean boot image for a Fire TV 1 with a fully unlocked bootloader?

 

[Sizzlechest]

Good news and bad news. The good news is that the boot_unlocked.img in rbox's bueller-5.2.4.1-rooted_r2.zip file is a clean unlocked boot image without SuperSU. If you extract and flash it in TWRP, you will lose SuperSU, which is a good thing, since we want to replace SuperSU with Magisk. Bad news: Magisk 14.0 doesn't work. I flashed it and it seemed to install properly, but the system boot fails and drops you back into TWRP. I had to flash the boot_unlocked.img to get my Fire TV to work again.

 

[JakDaRippa]

Magisk on AFTV

Will Magisk work with the latest version - 16.0?

 

[Sizzlechest]

Will Magisk work with the latest version - 16.0?

I haven't tried it, but if you want to give it a go on a FireTV 1, you can follow what I did and try it. Just make sure you have the unlocked boot image on the /sdcard partition for the version of the OS you're using.

 

[jj^2]

Has anyone been able to get Magisk able to work onto FireTV any version?
Can it replace/remove King(o) Root?
Can it block DirectTVNow rooted device check?
Thx

 

[Sizzlechest]

The Fire TV Cube and Fire TV 3 have just been rooted. Those get rooted with Magisk, but they're using a version of FireTV OS that is based on Nougat. The older Fire TVs still are based on lollipop and cannot use Magisk. I just tried this two days ago on my Fire TV 1 with a fully unlocked bootloader using Magisk 17.3 beta. It will not boot if you flash it and you need a USB A-A cable to restore it.