[rom] fire OS revamped for 5th gen and 7th gen

[ANDROID2468]

This is currently made only for 5th gen and 7th gen.
Requirements

• This requires a unlocked device

What's the purpose of this?!?

• because hacking stock FW is fun!
• I made this for people who want options and wants some of the Amazon apps without the crappy launcher, adds and the forced OTA updates
  

Added things

• nova launcher
• black player (music player)
• xda labs
• F-Droid
• Firefox
• open Gapps

Removed things

• Home Pages
• music
• DeviceSoftwareOTA
• Forced OTA
• Help
• Silk Browser
• silk Content Service
• Amazon music
• Chinese keyboard
• more more here

changes in behaver

• once you enter your wifi info for the first time at setup it will freeze for 5 sec and will bring you straight to the Nova launcher
  more info:
  
  I think it does this because it's trying to check for updates but it can't so it crashes. you can still enter your Amazon account in settings

Issues

• look here
  (You probably noticed that there are a lot of issues listed on github and that because it's not just for bugs. Everything that going to be in a next release is listed there. If or when there is a bug it will have the bug label next to it.)

installing instructions

• flash in twrp.
• if you came from LOS you will have to do a wipe

Download

• Android file host

Adding features request/found issues?

• you want me to add something to this rom? you can notify me with gethub issues tracker or you can commit on this thread.

want root?

• magisk

images

enjoy.

 

[ANDROID2468]

update list

updates(July 19 RC)
you need to do a clean flash (factory reset) for this build. (it's because of the deodex)
-changed the default wallpaper
-it is now deodex
-it uses ggow's kernel
-comes with magisk installed
-removed amazon app store
-replaced the default email client with K-9 mail
-comes with youtube
-updated nova launcher, gapps, black player, xda labs firefox (for 5th gen)
You can download it here

updates(April 2019)
The 5th and 7th gen are released.
The 7 gen still has some problems but it is working.
Issues ( 7th gen only):
-Costum boot animation is not working.
-firefox is not included ( out of space)
-sdcards were reported to not be working ( you may have a different outcome)
I will be addressing these issues in the next release.
Added/removed
-Block Facebook for security reasons learn more here
- remove F droid from 5th gen
- remove 15 bloatware apps
- update xda labs
- removed unified search
- update nova launcher
- removed audible
- added Ad Away
-Remove fire keyboard in favor of Gboard
- Remove documents
- Update the kernel
- Added the MiXplorer

updates(Feb 19)
-added support for the 7th gen
-added revamped to settings
-added gapps
-removed Chinese keyboard
-removed amazon music
-removed Fire Tutorial
-removed amazon game circle
-removed good reads
-removed amazon kindle and kindle store
-delete hd 7 in updater-script (this tablet is not HD)
-Removed Free time
-Removed WPS for Amazon
-add a new boot animation
-fix mislabeled fire OS version in settings

 

[ANDROID2468]

reserved-2

 

[DB126]

this is currently made only for hd7 5th gen. (may come to 7th gen later)...

Quick clairification: target device is officially identified as "Fire 5th generation" although many refer to it as a "5th gen Fire 7". There is no "HD" in the name. Same with the 7th gen varient. The HD designation is reserved for 2nd-4th gen devices (some) and 5th-7th gen devices with a screen size of 8" or above.

 

[ANDROID2468]

Quick clairification: target device is officially identified as "Fire 5th generation" although many refer to it as a "5th gen Fire 7". There is no "HD" in the name. Same with the 7th gen varient. The HD designation is reserved for 2nd-4th gen devices (some) and 5th-7th gen devices with a screen size of 8" or above.

yup 1024 *600 is not HD, ok I will change it.

 

[djcrystals]

@ANDROID2468, thanks for all your hard work. We had recently shelved these devices at Christmas because we upgraded our kids' tablets. My son broke his today so I had to dust off the Amazon Tab and put it back in service. I'm thrilled to see some more progress has been made in opening this device up. It was the perfect "first" device for my kids. I'll be unlocking and installing your custom ROM tonight.

 

[djcrystals]

This thing runs freaking great too man!! Thanks!

 

[ANDROID2468]

This thing runs freaking great too man!! Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! ya, especially with amazons ad service and OTA update removed, it makes the tablet run a lot faster! I'm glad you are enjoying it

 

[gabriel_hart]

It's great to see these devices getting some love! I've got three 5th gens for my kids rocking a 2016 build of LOS 12.1. They seem to be running ok for an old cheap tablet, but I can't help but chase shiny new things... How do you feel that the overall smoothness and operation compares to the old Lineage 12.1?

 

[DB126]

It's great to see these devices getting some love! I've got three 5th gens for my kids rocking a 2016 build of LOS 12.1. They seem to be running ok for an old cheap tablet, but I can't help but chase shiny new things... How do you feel that the overall smoothness and operation compares to the old Lineage 12.1?

You can improve responsiveness (especially after wake) by adding a 128 MB swap file in the largely unused cache partition then dialing back swappiness to 10. Makes a huge difference.

Disabling sync also helps with post wake responsiveness (ie: lag), especially if a Google account is involved.

 

[GuestD2567]

Lovely Rom, very fast.. Is there anyway to remove the lockscreen though?

 

[krsmit0]

Lovely Rom, very fast.. Is there anyway to remove the lockscreen though?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/root-enable-lock-screen-lock-options-t3777362

 

[ANDROID2468]

Lovely Rom, very fast.. Is there anyway to remove the lockscreen though?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/root-enable-lock-screen-lock-options-t3777362

oh, I forgot about that lockscreen hack, I'm going to find a way to implement that at a system level for the next build

 

[GuestD2567]

Can't wait

 

[thevoiceover]

Do we take chance for ban if we register? I would like to use the alexa functions but it requires me to register.... Any ideas of way around this?

 

[blakegriplingph]

You can improve responsiveness (especially after wake) by adding a 128 MB swap file in the largely unused cache partition then dialing back swappiness to 10. Makes a huge difference.

Disabling sync also helps with post wake responsiveness (ie: lag), especially if a Google account is involved.

Care to expound on this one? I know this is a bit off-topic but the Nabi SE which runs on the same MT8127 SOC has a largely dormant /addon partition which could be exploited.

 

[RAEDIT2015]

Add arabic language

Thank you my friend for this nice rom .. and if you can please add Arabic language .:good::good::good::good::good::good:
with my worm regards for your work .:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

 

[DB126]

Care to expound on this one? I know this is a bit off-topic but the Nabi SE which runs on the same MT8127 SOC has a largely dormant /addon partition which could be exploited.

Largely SOC independent. Devices with <2GB of user addressible RAM rely on swap to reduce resource contention and lag while multi-tasking. 5th/7th gen Fire kernel allocates 64MB of ZRAM which roughly equates to 128 MB of addressible space yielding around 1GB of usable memory for FireOS. Trouble starts when ZRAM fills leading to aggressive swapping which the low end processor doesn't handle well. Adding a static swap file in the cache partition makes use of wasted space while expanding the effective memory footprint.

But there's a new problem: ZRAM is memory based so makes sense to aggressively swap out idle processes as recovery is relatively quick. A static swap file resides in relatively slow eMMC storage. Dialing swappiness back to a low number (10-25) discourages swapping of process memory in favor of file/page caches which are generally less critical for typical work loads. It also slows cache fill rate which dramatically improves responsiveness switching between applications.

The above is a simplified generalization of Android swap management (tip of the iceburg) and not strictly accurate. But the bottom line remains the same: performance improvement with no downside other than the time required to implement (5 min).

 

[ANDROID2468]

Thank you my friend for this nice rom .. and if you can please add Arabic language .:good::good::good::good::good::good:
with my worm regards for your work .:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

I'm still researching about adding Arabic system wide, but in the next update I'm replacing the keyboard with Gboard so for now you can install Gboard from play store and change the keyboard language that way.

 

[castillo92]

Thanks you very much! I installed in a Fire 5th gen