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[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] LaserChicken:
A locked bootloader generally means no custom kernels. Kexec is the only workaround (that I know of) other than unlocking, to start a new kernel . Root simply gives su access, it can't, in and of itself provide kernel customization.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Antoine.WG:
Didn't the recovery for the KFHD's get put on hold? The stock recoveries won't usually let you flash anything that's not signed.

I'm not a dev but it seems like porting the KF1 ROM over to the KF2 should be pretty easy. Other than the bootloader, the hardware changes were minor, just bumping the CPU/GPU up one model and doubling the RAM. Again, it all hinges on unlocking the bootloader or reverse engineering the key it's signed with. Anybody have access to Amazon's EC2 system?
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] iytrix:
I just toured google today and made a new friend. He doesn't work on the android side, and that building is the most secure on the campus (That and the google+ are the only buildings regular employees can't enter fully without special permissions)

I am hoping he can introduce me to people on the android side of things and see if they would be willing to offer any insight that wouldn't involve an NDA heh.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] Redwolf379:
This is true, however the question was around custom ROMS, not kernels. You do not need a custom kernel to run a custom ROM, it's just nice to have the flexability. :)
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] tjmack3rd:
Has anyone tried a Kindle fire HD rom? I think the specs are identical except for the screen. I'll do a little research and see what I can do. I would like to see otg working on my son's 2nd generation fire. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] powerpoint45:
I might make a kf2 root app
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] iytrix:
That's not quite how it works. I would also recommend to NOT TRY ANYTHING ON THE OTHER KINDLE FORUMS. If you check here, people have posted what works. I believe there is one guide for the basic rooting, and another for the steps on using root to make your Kindle do some decent stuff (new launchers, lockscreens, marketplace, all the good stuff!)

However, the issue with the KF2 is not really getting ROMs on, it's the step before it which is getting a working recovery so we can safely flash ROMs onto the device. Once that's done it shouldn't be hard to get a ROM, and it may be even possible to just use a KFHD ROM without any issues, BUT we need the recovery on here first, and getting around the locked bootloader.

To my all caps warning, just check the Q & A forums to see all the people who tried the recovery, rom, and rooting methods for their KF2. Most end up bricked.

If you are experienced in the sort of thing, go ahead and try at your own risk, just be careful. As you may notice, yes, most if not all (can't remember off the top of my head) of the methods we use to root ARE from the KFHD, so yes, some things do work, but way too many times I read about people that tried to put software that wasn't for the KF2 on it and it ends up bricked. Thankfully people seem to be fixing the bricked Kindles, but it's a very unfortunate experience people shouldn't have to go through.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] iytrix:
Forgot to multi quote :\

This would be great I think! We have the tools so far, it's just that none have been made specifically for the KF2.

Good luck on the app as I'm sure many new KF2 users will appreciate it!
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] fmkilo:
I burnt out my usb port trying to make a fastboot cable. I tied the wrong pin in... I'm waiting on my replacement. I'm going to try to use the revrom to get the cwm on my kf2 if that works, I'm sure we could get someone to make a touch cwm or twrp for the kfhd. If the kfhd cwm works, we could use the touch cwm/twrp. Perhaps it will need to be modified... perhaps not. I suspect that the cwm won't work perfectly and we need to modify it to use the correct partition table.

I should mention that using my current factory cable, I can get to fastboot. I just burnt out the data pin. I tried to use dd to flash the revboot stuff, but I forgot to do the part where you get past the locked bootloader... instabrick
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] powerpoint45:
I was trying to make a fb cable earlier today but the connectors were too hard to solder so I need a new cable to work with. I had same idea as u. Trying to boot into a recovery like cwm
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] powerpoint45:
Nvm
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] fmkilo:
you should be able to delete a post...
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] chronicfathead:
I bought one on eBay for £3 including free next day delivery. I'll try to find the link as he was selling lots and it was delivered fast (in UK).

EDIT :

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=140893291002

Sent using my Jelly fingers.
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] mindmajick:
Not devving yet, but as soon as we have our own recovery...
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] powerpoint45:
Hey guys! Just wanted to show you the tests that were done yesterday with Hashcode. We are testing a boot image made by Hashcode. A custom recovery was built by hashcode but we never got it to boot...

Test 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af2QeTZSgyI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Test 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtT4BoHQLOM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Test 2 boot selection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWVPBygQSA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Test 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozr_62ssVkw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting] fmkilo:
I know this is old news by now, but Hashcode's rom recovery and bootloader were released yesterday. Powerpoint45 is working on a rom, I may be available for help and tutorials/walkthroughs...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
I don't care where this topic belongs. Close it if you wish. I just want to wish all of xda, devs and community A happy happy new year. All the best and may your new year bring good fortune to all. Love y'all. Shout out to prelude drew, mazda, jmztaylor, mmuzzy, motcher and any others I missed. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
Feeling good and thinking about my peeps at xda.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
Bump this s.h.i.t
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Coycaine:
Happy New Year bruh! Be safe!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FrostyF7:
Happy New Year everyone!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] broad_st_bully:
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

[YOUTUBE]7Idzm8jlxjs[/YOUTUBE]

outside my house...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
Yes siiiiiiiir
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
Love you man happy new year
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
I love you guys man. You understand?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tomzefi:
2013 brings qauds , gigs , megapixels, resolutions, and key lime pie. Yeeeessss siiiiir.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
Why aren't there any screenshots for the ROM?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lovesky37:
Error "Cannot start the app due to insufficient permissions" when open weblink

I encountered the message "Cannot start the app due to insufficient permissions" when open web link in facebook for android or friendcaster or some news apps. Before, I rooted my Xperia by follow guide at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2023756 and do some mods with Small Apps and Toggles. Any advice? Thanks
[Nexus 7 General] mobile epidemic:
Hi guys thought I'd start the year with a first thread OMG. (My mum would be proud- yeah right)

ATTENTION:

The following tasks were performed on a stock rooted 4.2.1 nexus 7 16 GB

NO 1:

keyboard and mouse... They both work surprisingly well together with a curser that looks strangely like another os out there.

No 2:

Connecting USB powered devices like ipod s, phones and others and charging them. (Not as effectively but suitable for emergency Facebook pokes) addon: some devices u can use for mass storage see no 4

No 3:

USB gaming devices... This is sort of a ongoing project for most manufacturers as with 'different hardware comes different responsibilitys'

(Getting a bit too OTT must be that shot I just had) anyway nexus does support it on some games go to play store and dwn load tegrazone.

No 4:

USB mass storage: because nexus doesn't mount new hardware automatically u have to get a app that will for nexus: nexus media importer and (ROOT) stick mount. Not the only but ones I use and recommend

I add some more in a bit depends how hungover I am LOL

HAPPY NEW YEAR XDA *HICUP*
[Nexus 7 General] michaelkenward:
What's with the strange format? Message unreadable.
[Nexus 7 General] mobile epidemic:
Dunno what's happened there but I was drunk when I wrote it so anything could of happend

Sorry about that.

Happy new year

mobidemic

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[Nexus 7 General] ucubz:
Anybody ever tried plug a portable hdd? I heard that these one need powered usb hub?
[Nexus 7 General] mobile epidemic:
Yeh It kind of depends on what type it is because some are formated and made to work with just PCs I will try it and let u know.

What mount app do u use?

mobidemic

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[Nexus 7 General] rcarsalan:
Yep . I've tried and it works fine . I usually connect 1tb WD my passport device . I have tried it several times without any problem
[Nexus 7 General] Kodiack99:
Stickmount is what I use, I even bought the pro vesion but it caused some double mount and unmount problems so Im just using the free vesion and no problems at all.
[Nexus 7 General] mobile epidemic:
yeh I use stick mount as well. it is just easy to use.

mobidemic

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[Nexus 7 General] H4CK_H0PP3R:
Please remove HTML code & edit the post if its possible ,BTW Happy new year
[Nexus 7 General] ucubz:
WD 1GB works just fine :)
[Nexus 7 General] james robinson:
I must be doing something wrong because my Nexus 7 won't read my 1 TB WD external hard drive. I am rooted with the stick mount app.
[Nexus 7 General] Kodiack99:
Is it a portable with seperate power?

What have you tried?
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
When noobs attack...in HTML.:rolleyes:
[Nexus 7 General] WithAria:
Guys, I have seen people quoting that the nexus doesn't mount external drives via otg automatically.. But when I tried with ES file explorer under the /mnt I can see the drive contents and the MX player can load the videos without any problem..

Then what is all about the drive not mounted automatically.. Can someone explain.. BTW, I use paranoid 2.9 ROM..

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Many of the aftermarket ROMs in here have this function built in. It is not something that comes in a stock ROM, but it also does not require root to get it working. I use an OTG cable I got off eBay on my unrooted stock N7 with the Nexus Media Viewer app from the Play Store and it works just fine at reading several of my USB thumbdrives.
[Nexus 7 General] gillon:
When I try to connect mass storage with otg, it won't recognize exfat.
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Yeah, try FAT32 or NTFS.
[Nexus 7 General] IRX120:
I have a WD 320gb and I could view the files, but couldn't delete anything
[Nexus 7 General] labeppanza:
Forma the USB key i need root or i can re ad the key in stock firmware?
[Nexus 7 General] mobile epidemic:
Sorry guys error with the post fixed now

Happy new year

mobidemic

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[Nexus 7 General] Stanerefor:
Yeah, You have read only access.
[Nexus 7 General] jake9891:
I can't get my external HDDs to work on my nexus 7, you can hear HDD clicking like its trying to start but it can't, I assume that's power issue. Tried it fully charged too. Do I have to use some sort of power hub to get it working?
[Nexus 7 General] insanity213:
My USB drives do the same thing till I apply external power. My drive has a port on it for 5v power. A powered hub may work too.
[Nexus 7 General] arc07693:
Yup. My hard drive will not work over OTG unless I plug it into my self-powered USB hub. The drive itself has no option for external power.
[Nexus 7 General] veener79:
Has anyone tried a USB to SD card adaptor plugged into the OTG cable? When shooting with my DSLR it would be nice to remove my SD card and upload so pics with my Nexus.
[Nexus 7 General] jake9891:
I tried it with a mini adapter for microSD 8 GB card and can confirm its working fine. So SD should be OK too. Just bought 32gb microSD, hopefully that will work as well.
[Nexus 7 General] veener79:
Sweet thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] kierlo:
Can you mount devices via terminal emulator, like typing "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"? (With root obviously)
[Nexus 7 General] gunkle:
I have a micro sd usb adapter plugged into a OTG cable with a 32GB SanDisk ultra micro sd and it works fine. I using xenon hd rom and stick mount
[Nexus 7 General] jake9891:
Just connected my spare SSD, which I removed from my netbook and it works fine through OTG cable, so from now on I am going to use it as my external HDD. I guess it works because there are no moving parts and SSDs don't use as much power as HDDs
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
#1 - http://www.eye.fi/

#2 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.eye.android

Also if you are a DSLR junkie:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller
[Nexus 7 General] NeilGregan:
I have the media exporter installed and can access my SD card from it.

The weird thing is my car reader(Kingston MobileLite) can read both the micro SD and SD cards when both are inserted at the same time in a Galaxy S3, but when plugged into the Nexus 7 will only read the micro SD if both are inserted?

Any clues as to why this is the case?
[Nexus 7 General] BrianDigital:
have you tried plugging your dslr right into the nexus, I only have a point and shoot and when I plug it together the gallery opens up and I can import all the pictures or ones I select
[Nexus 7 General] krew760:
I'm getting a OTG cable to go with my 32gb flash drive, mainly for movies and such, so these tips are gonna came in handy when it arrives.. :D
[Nexus 7 General] kyelo2:
I have a Nikon S3100 point-and-shoot camera, and I plugged its USB cable into the in to the OTG cable. The screen went dark, a panel appeared on the N7 identifying the S3100. Then the beginning and ending pictures (in the camera's memory) appeared on the N7 screen.

When I tapped on one of the images, an icon appeared labeled "Import", and tapping on the icon transferred all of the images from the camera to the N7..

Pretty smooth!
[Nexus 7 General] eastside770:
hey when yall are using a external hard drive do you have a custom rom and kernel? are just rooted?is it still charging and showing the external hard drive?
[Nexus 7 General] 1barlog17:
So this may be a stupid question but I can't figure this out. When you use a USB drive with the Nexus 7 can you move files to and from the drive ? Or can you only view files from the drive? I bought a USB drive and I wanted to back up pictures from my N7 to the USB drive. But when I try to move a file it says unable to write files. Please help
[Nexus 7 General] Groid:
Read/write access requires root and the Stickmount app. Using Nexus Media Importer gives read only access to external memory but does not require root. NTFS file system is not supported natively, but there are custom roms and kernels that support NTFS. If you have a stock rom/kernel and root, the easiest thing is to use Stickmount and external drives formatted in FAT32.
[Nexus 7 General] Bronto9:
a new tip from me:

how to use a self powered external hard disk(i'm using a 1 TB toshiba hd)

requirements

- OTG cable

- nexus 7

- powered usb hub

- hard disk

- stickmount

connect the hd to the nexus through the hub(don't plug its power supply in)

wait until a stickmount notification (saying "searching...") appears, then plug the power supply in the usb hub, and enjoy your new storage!

---------- Post added at 10:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:58 PM ----------

you should supply more information about your problem.

are you using stickmount? what app are you using to copy your pictures?
[Nexus 7 General] Kamal Hans:
NMI/OTG/MXPlayer/SRT files

Hi all,

I have a stock unrooted N7 4.2.2 updated.

When I connect a thumb drive via an OTG cable, NMI pops up and displays the movie files & the associated srt(subtitles) files.

When I click on the triangular play icon at the top of NMI screen, it asks which player to use -ESPlayer/MXPlayer/the inbuilt player.

On choosing MX- or any other player for that matter, the movie starts playing but no the srt file.

I have configured MX Player to play srt files; when I load a movie folder containing bith the movie file & the srt file thru thr usb cable from my laptop, MX plays the movie & the subtitles without any problem, so the MX is configured right.

Is there any way I can get the subtitles file to also play while using NMI/OTG ?

BTW, I faced the same prob while I was on 4.1.2..- did not update to 4.2.1 at all.

TIA
[Nexus 7 General] xender69:
Hi,

I just got my nexus 7 to work with an OTG cable using the nexus media importer. The setup seems to work fine when I connect a 16GB thumb drive but when I connect WD 500GB hard disk it seems like it might want to work then doesn't. Is this because of the power issue? just JYI the WD 500GB usb drive is NTFS formatted.

I have read others having sucess even with 1TB usb drives so what am I doing wrong?

Thank you.
[Nexus 7 General] Groid:
I think you need a custom kernel or rom that includes ntfs support. By default a stock rooted n7 with stickmount does not support ntfs.
[Nexus 7 General] bsoplinger:
StickMount does have optional ntfs file support. Check out the thread here on XDA to learn how to add it.
[Nexus 7 General] dgattenb:
Connect your drive to a non powered hub, the hdd will need to be powered... This is how I get my 1TB working fab sata to usb power cable works fab on the hdd
[Nexus 7 General] xender69:
Hi,

I have tried two different OTG cables and sometimes they seem to work and sometimes it just doesn't, at least using the nexus media importer. Should I root the nexus 7 and try the stickmount, can I expect better results and is it worthwhile to root nexus 7?
[Nexus 7 General] bsoplinger:
Rooting just for StickMount seems excessive to me. Having said that there are plenty of things you get once you root. Titanium Backup, widgets able to directly change GPS state, ability to turn off the broken Nvidia video thingamabob that makes the screen brightness fluctuate after watching a video, stop system services that eat CPU cycles, use full!screen+ to hide the button bar and the list goes on.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] mkoch820:
"widgets able to directly change GPS state, ability to turn off the broken Nvidia video thingamabob that makes the screen brightness fluctuate after watching a video"

which apps are these? Thanks :)
[Nexus 7 General] snoopytony:
I have rooted the Nexus 7.

After I update the andriod from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, the stickmount doesn't work. How to fix???
[Nexus 7 General] FitAmp:
It works fine for me. The update wouldve made you lose root, unless you rooted again, stickmount would not work
[Nexus 7 General] snoopytony:
Righ! it maybe un-rooted while I update it from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2. How I can re-root it again in 4.2.2?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] bsoplinger:
ummm, the same way you rooted 4.2.1 ;)

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] sparksd:
Which WD drive is it? I recently bought a WD 500GB My Passport drive and it works fine formatted as NTFS on my unrooted N7 through Nexus Media Importer & OTG cable. This is my drive:

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-500G...&sr=8-11&keywords=western+digital+my+passport

Dave

---------- Post added at 07:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:26 PM ----------

To add some info on what I see for battery usage with an HDD powered by the N7 over an OTG:

I have a USB-powered Western Digital hard drive that works with my N7 using an OTG cable. I was curious as to how heavy the battery usage would be when powering a spinning drive so I did a small test, playing the same movie from the hard drive and then from a flash drive. Here’s what I saw (I charged the N7 between tests, usage number from battery monitor measure of charge level):

Stock 16GB N7

Play movie with MX Player Pro through Nexus Media Importer

Duration of 1 hour, screen at 100% brightness

Video: 832 x 352 1503 kbps h264 MP4

Results --

Sandisk Cruzer 64GB Thumb Drive, FAT32 -- 12% battery drain

Western Digital My Passport 500GB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, NTFS -- 23% battery drain

Dave
[Nexus 7 General] snoopytony:
I was using "Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.2" to root the nexus. It only have andriod 4.2.1.

So, how can I make it into 4.2.2?
[Nexus 7 General] bsoplinger:
Umm read the thread on the toolkit here at XDA and follow the instructions in that thread?

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] FitAmp:
I have rooted 4.2.2 with wugfresh's toolkit. Took only a couple mins :p
[Nexus 7 General] snoopytony:
I have followed the instruction of wugfresh's toolkit to root it again:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Yes, I am aware that this isn’t working on 4.2.2 right now. This will be fixed in v1.6.3 which will be released ASAP (within a few days or sooner if possible). As a temporary fix you can replace the old adb/fastboot/dll files in the toolkits /data directory with the new ones: new_adb_and_fastboot.zip just download that zip and extract/unzip its contents into the toolkits /data directory and agree to overwrite those files, then proceed to use “Any Build” mode to perform subsequent operations like rooting. Again, this is just a temporary fix for those who are impatient.

Is it necessary to unlock, then root ...

or, I just root it.

If unlock and root, is all the data shall be deleted?
[Nexus 7 General] TheScarecrow:
Nexus Media Importer V5 released on the 24th March, has achieved what till now seemed impossible on a non-rooted Nexus 7. Now you can write to your external storage as well a read from it!

Works with FAT format (not extended). It's working for me and I never thought this would be possible on a bog Standard Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 General] Kaiyes:
I don't have writing permission while using a 32gb pen drive. I'm rooted, PA rom , motley kernel, have stick mount. What do I need to do to have writing access so that I can transfer files to flash drive?
[Nexus 7 General] lolcopter:
Menu > Preferences > Enable Write checked

??

In nexus media importer fwiw
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] photon4glover:
So do we not have a 4.2 ROM? I'm running jellybam but I want the quick settings/2 finger pull down
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bobarune:
http://dl.evervolv.com/

This is a 4.2 rom. It might be a 4.2.1 rom but I'm not sure. This is also probably alpha. Lots of things might not work

"You might have a very minor case of serious brain damage."
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gregorywojcik:
Hi,

I want build custom modules for kernel, but my problem is that I can't find config.gz. I'm searching in few places on system but no result :/.

I need compile pl2303 driver for GPS USB. I need this solution because my device don't have bluetooth.

My device is Fun Tab 7.0 (specification: www[dot]orange[dot]pl/kid,4002009501,id,4002825896,title,Neostrada-z-tabletem,article.html (only in polish)).

I use this tutorial for compile drivers: android[dot]serverbox[dot]ch/?p=285

I try to configure kernel manually, but no result, module don't load due to version magic issue

Is another way to get kernel configuration?

cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.0.8 (lihongling@lihongling-desktop) (gcc version 4.5.1 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010.09-50) ) #5 PREEMPT Thu Aug 23 16:37:30 CST 2012

cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 1001.88
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 2

Hardware : sun5i
Revision : 0000