[Fire TV General] Tinwarble:
First I would like to thank jmandawg for the script, really good job, it’s working like a charm.

Second, I would like to suggest that anyone using this to use a HDD (portable would be better) rather than a thumbdrive. Thumbdrives, for the most part, really aren’t meant for this type of access. I’m currently using a 500GB WD Elements USB 3.0 drive connected to a power USB 2.0 HUB and see a negligible speed difference, using v2 script by the way.

The only really issue that I have with using a HDD is that it never spins down, which will shorten the life span of the drive (not that I’m really worried about it with the drive that I’m using since I didn’t pay anything for it and had no real use for it until now ;) ). Later though, I think I may try and replace it (money permitting) with either a cheap mSATA or SSD using a SATA to USB cable (which I already have) and see if that works. That or a card reader with a USB cable and see if a SD Card will work.

So far everything appears to be working fine. All game apps work just as they did before, as does all other apps. Even XBMC appears to not be affected, scrolling through my media library is just as fast as it was before or at least pretty nearly the same which wasn’t the case when using path substitution to move the thumbs to an external drive.

The only real issue I have is that the instructions aren’t as clear as they could be. I’m not really new to these types of mods, but I don’t really do this kind of things very often, so it does make me nervous when the steps seem to be incomplete and so I can imagine that others might be just as nervous trying something like this. So here’s what I did:

1: Format my HDD to EX4 using Mini Tools Partition Wizard (Free)

2: Format a USB Thumbdrive to FAT32 (just using Windows formatting)

3: Download the latest version of rbox’s pre-root FW (51.1.3.0_513011820)

4: Download the “v2” version of jmandawg’s script.

5: Copy both the FW and script to the USB Thumbdrive (I could have pushed both to the AFTV’s /sdcard, but this was just quicker and easier for me at least).

6: ADB into the AFTV, then run command: adb reboot recovery

7: Once booted into CWM, plug in the USB Thumbdrive (with the FW and script) into the AFTV or connected HUB.

8: Once the drive is mounted, select “Install zip”, then select “/usb/storage”, then select the FW name you copied to the USB Thumbdrive.

9: When available, select reboot from the CWM menu, then allow the FW to finish updating.

10: Once the AFTV has finished updating, repeat Step 6.

11: Repeat Step 7, except this time, select the v2 script from the USB Thumbdrive (Note: if the drive is not available, didn’t mount when booted into CWM, unplug the drive then plug it back in)

12: Once the script is installed, select “Wipe data/factory reset”, then select “Wipe cache”, then unplug the Thumbdrive and plug in your EX4 formatted HDD, then “Reboot”.

13: The AFTV will reboot, then you will see the amazon logo, it may stay on the logo for a minute or 2 (I really can’t say how long as I can’t remember).

14: You may then see a pixelated screen (don’t panic). It may stay like that for a few minutes (again, can’t really remember how long it took, but I was holding my breath so I may have lost consciousness :) ), but it will eventually finish booting.

15: Once booted make sure you adb back in and block updates.

16: Now you can start installing and sideloading your apps. On a side note, since I didn’t format my /data and /media, nor did I wipe davaik, I didn’t need to do anything to XBMC once I reinstalled it. Since my userdata folder was intact and not deleted just moved to the HDD, when I launch XBMC everything was just like it was before I installed the script.

Just a few other notes:

If you don’t want to update to the latest FW, you can skip Step 3 and Steps 7 – 10. However, you need to make sure (either way really) that you take measures to block updates. When I did this, I didn’t take the exact steps I laid out and didn’t update my FW first and forgot to take measures block updates.

So after I did everything, I checked and the AFTV was showing that there was an update (the latest US version 513011820) that would install upon reboot. So I had to reboot into CWM and flash the pre-rooted version, then flash the v2 script again, so it wouldn’t install the stock version of that FW. This made the AFTV think is was on the most current FW, so it didn’t try to install the stock version.

If someone has a SSD or mSATA laying around and would like to give a try, this is the cable I have:

http://www.amazon.com/Patuoxun-Conv...F8&qid=1414211543&sr=8-1&keywords=sata+to+usb I know this cable works with a SSD connected to a PC’s USB port, but don’t know how or if it will work connected to the AFTV. But if someone has the drive already, it would be a cheap way to see if it will work. I wouldn't mind doing the test, but I just don't have a spare SSD/mSATA drive to test.