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[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
I would try one of the malware checkers on playstore just to be safe. May a rogue program.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] misutogan123:
So different malware checks have not found anything. However the request for root has not popped up again recently. Maybe it is just a bug.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] jeckoy.v:
Thanks for this ROM master ggow and please continue fixing existing bugs.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] zoB6T:
Audible app low audio output using headphones?

Hi, thanks for the great ROM!

As mentioned in the title, I get very low volume on the headphones when using the Audible app.

I searched the thread for any reports of low audio but didn't see anything more recent than a year ago.

Is this a known issue or should it be working (and I'm doing it wrong)?

Thanks!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
There are such problems with audio and other problems with media in general.

The Amazon binaries seem to be the limiting factor here.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] cell2011:
Front facing camera not working? Any suggestions or app. I take a pic it freezes
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Im_vicky:
Use Noah Camera apK
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] kyle12345109876:
Hi if I wanted to downgrade from the rom back to original fire os how would I go about doing that because the original 4.5.3 rom doesn't want to flash in twrp.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] zincyellowmach1:
Maybe adb the 4.5.3 back on like you are downgrading and then auto update.

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Can't say thanks for this enough! Needed a 6" tab for a project and could not have gotten this far without your work. Crossing my fingers for bluetooth :). Thanks again!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] tramCS:
Hello.

Is this thread for the FIRE HD 6 ( 5. Generation ==> KFFOWI ) too ? What is the short Name of this device ( not Ariel ,or )? Can somebody give me the link to unlock the bootloader for KFFOWI.

THX

Christian
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] tramCS:
Its Ford and no unlock for this device.

THX

Christian
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Jacobwitt:
The Fact that I still have this on my Fire is hilarious.

I just wanted a CFW, and I mean like it works :/
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] marathonjon:
Thanks for creating this ROM--I got it flashed and running without problems. I'm so happy to be running something besides the bloated Fire OS. Maybe the battery will last more than a couple of days now!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] xtr3m3:
Does anyone know how to get CF.lumen to work with this ROM?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] toasterboy1:
Probably wont get an answer to this but why does Noah Camera work? I tried Open Camera and Camera MX and even tried changing the save to directory. Plus why does the panorama function of the stock camera work but no the other two?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Ender875:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] said he would notify if he stopped working on this. I have to assume he has stopped? I'm stuck on the last version posted. No root, no recovery, no twrp. I'd keep it, but the volume and bluetooth issue are killers for me. Can't change it though. Everything is locked. No write access in adb or fast boot :(
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] toasterboy1:
Any tips on getting headphones to work with this ROM? Just did a road trip with the kids to find out they could not hear anything with their headphones when watching videos in VLC. Needless to say I got to hear 3 different movies at the same time.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] peshmarga:
please any solution for camera & bluetooth not working on my hd 6 ??
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Provided:
So why wont Netflix work if vlc and yt does? Also are you working on a fix for the camera? I'd really like a custom rom for my ariel, and this is the only one ported as of now? Please let me know whether you're still working on this or if it is what it is.

Mostly its Netflix that's the drawback but I think I wouldn't install unless the camera was working as well.

Thanks!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] werwiewas:
Microphone not working in this ROM... Please advise
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] deraylor:
Netflix 4.16.4 works fine, even downloads episodes for this device.

Just Google search "Netflix app not available in app store" and get it right off Netflix webpage after following the couple applicable links.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] werwiewas:
it's a pitty, this device is overlooked for newer ROM's. More and more apps will not work in cyanogenmod 11, which based on Android 4.x. any possibility to get cyanogenmod 12 od 13 on fire hd 6 (ariel)?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] rhricik447:
Resources ...

(Ahem.... old man steps up on soapbox..)

[SOAPBOX]

I've never been an Android developer, but long ago, when PC's were just starting out I made a very good living developing programs for the PC platform. Later on, I managed the people that wrote the code. I know what's involved when developing these ROMs. It's not magic, it's a *lot* of hard work.

I'll take a shot at this question...

Probably the biggest reason is that Amazon has never updated the Linux kernel or the binary hardware drivers that go with that version of the kernel. This kernel is based on Linux 3.10 --ancient in hardware and Android terms. Amazon has no driving force to update it unless it wants to (I.e., to keep your eyes and wallet on Amazon!) This tablet is 5 years old now. Want a faster Fire tablet - Amazon says, "Buy this new shiny and faster one from Amazon!, " thereby keeping you in their walled garden and your eyes and wallet in Amazon's ecosystem.

Remember, you're not running true Android on the stock Fire, you're running FireOS - a forked version of Android, no longer pure Android. Amazon changed code to fit their needs, not the Android community's needs. The Android developer has to find those deviations and decide on their suitability for normal usage. Amazon has no reason to help the Android community - in fact, it's in their best interest if they don't. You're taking their device from their captive ecosystem where they can make money from it, and saying, "Hey, I want to take your moneymaking device and make it a generic tablet that you won't make money from any more. Can you help me do that? " I know if I was Amazon, my answer would be, "He.l NO!"

The secondary reason would be that these *great* developers (and they are great! ) make these ROM's in their *spare* time, while they have the device. People move on - with their devices, their families, their careers, and their lives. Nobody pays them to make these ROMs, they do it for the fun of it. When it's no longer fun, and it's not putting money in their pocket, why do it? It's more fun going out with friends, significant others, going fishing, etc., than working on a program.

We should be profusely thanking these developers for their time and effort for doing what they have done already!

[/SOAPBOX]

(Old man gets off soapbox and disappears into the crowd...)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] werwiewas:
Thank you for your answer. I hope my post sounded not to rude and ungratefull. :) I am not a prgrogrammer at all but I can imagine how hard it is to do custom roms especially on devices which are totaly different from other ones. I learned the fire hd6 is such a device.

Please don't get me wrong. I am of course thankfull for every rom, for every theme, for every app or programm I got on XDA. I know, everything I downloaded for free is hard work and someone did it free of charge.

In my post I just wanted to express, that the hd6 is really a good device. Not to big, not to small. I use it hanging on the wall for home automation with the cyanogenmod 11. The rom is awesome. Comparing it to the fire OS is like comparing day and night. Unfortunatally some things aren't working in this rom like the microphone and the blutooth. :angel:

Again I never wanted to minimize someones work. I really appreciate good work and some good work is found on XDA.:good::good:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] riverstyxxx:
Good work, finally got it installed. Gave some error about "failed to mount" until I changed something in twrp. Needs an update, a lot of apps don't work.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] I know that this is very abandoned but I do not lose anything to ask.

Do you have the device tree and the ariel vendor tree?

Thanks!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Not abandoned yet, still a work in progress. When I have a device tree that is complete I'll release it then.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I mean that the thread was abandoned. I know that you still working on this project.

Ok, so I'll wait until you release it!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] deraylor:
this is great news! This little device is very fast with this rom, having a camera and mic on this would be amazing! By the way, much thanks for the port.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] werwiewas:
WOW, really great news... Thank you very much ggow! You made my day... I am looking forward to hear from you...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
I've got bluetooth working, will be in the next release.

I'm looking into OMX currently.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] HERKULX:
CM 11 is currently working for Hd6 front and rear cameras and bluetooth

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So what exactly works in Cm11 and what doesn't work. I want to install cm11 as soon as possible. Because of the fire on hd6 4th Gen Os is very cumbersome
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] toasterboy1:
Replaced my kids' HD6s (ariel) with Fire 7 (ford) because of the easy brick recovery and your work on newer ROMs. Thought I would come back here and see what was new as I still have one collecting dust. Excited you are still working on these as well. Seems like you have made a lot of progress. Did you ever figure out the headphone jack issue? Excited to see if you manage to get these pushed past KitKat as I was excited to see the ford go to Nougat, opened up some newer apps.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
This device is difficult. Haven't fixed the headphones yet. Might look to see if amonet unlock can be ported at some point then that would open up nougat.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] dex9mm:
Just installed last night as a media throw for my Xbox but with the cm11 on this its like a rocket thanks for your hard work hope you crack the bootloader seems like a mammoth task but keep plugging away
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
New Build is Up

14 Oct 2019

- Security patches up to and including February 2019

- Bluetooth works
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] toasterboy1:
Great news. Not to sound ungrateful but is there a link I am missing?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Apologies for that, link on the OP is now updated to point at the correct folder
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] toasterboy1:
No apologies needed. You serve these up for free. I wish I was half as smart as you are. I have not even been able to build TWRP successfully for any device.

Forgot what state my HD6 was in had to do some downgrading and what not. Then I made the mistake of flashing Magisk and then it boot looped. No recovery access so unbricking right now. Just wish I could get my two other bricked ones working. Too bad they were on newer FireOS builds and the unbrick ISO does not work for them. Was thinking of setting up a couple digital picture frames.

Update: Back up and running. The only thing to point out is the only camera app I could get to work was Noah Camera.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Fin9ers:
Something I've noticed with this rom and cases with magnets to trigger sleep.

When the tablet is sleep/locked and I close the case, the magnet triggers the screen to come on. And visa versa....

I have to make sure the tablet screen is on before closing the case.

Slight niggle, but apart from that, its pretty good rom. Very quick for a tablet that's 5 years old
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] M03:
Thank you very much
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] sundog1:
I´m new to this thread, so I have a few questions: I have an old FireHD6 (4th gen) that I like to put this Lineagos 11 on. At this point it is not bricked, but also not rooted, bootloader unlocked or any twrp on it. It has the lastest FireOS installed. Is there any chance to make it happen or is it not possible because of the "new" FireOS version?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] KittyTantrum:
Success!

I bought a Fire HD 7 (4th gen) on sale (with "special offers") about 5 years ago, and was so frustrated with the FireOS that it's just sat around getting shuffled from box to box in storage ever since. I dug it out recently and decided to see if anyone had come up with a way of rooting and installing a different ROM on it yet... and I feel silly now because it looks like I could have done this years ago!

Nevertheless... it's still possible! When I dug it out of storage and turned it on, it automatically updated to FireOS 5.6.1.0, which of course added Alexa. Then Amazon had the audacity to ask me if I wanted to pay $15 to make their ads go away... lol NOPE.

I loosely followed these instructions to downgrade from 5.6.1.0 to 4.5.3, root, and disable updates. The first step is unnecessary since the downgrade works just fine directly from 5.6.1.0 to 4.5.3 - but everything after that is the same. I used the recommended KingRoot-4.1.0.249-release-nolog-201505211812_105001.apk (google searched to find since the kingroot website seems to be closed?) and JmzFireHDTool_v4.apk.

I had a little trouble getting ADB sideload to work for the downgrade - it would recognize the device while the tablet was booted into the OS, but wouldn't recognize when booted into recovery. What worked for me was unplugging/plugging back in (while in recovery), and that caused the device to be recognized by Windows' Device Manager, and from there I was able to install the appropriate drivers and it worked like a charm.

Once I was running 4.5.3, I used these instructions to install TWRP with the DD command. NOTE: my tablet does not have an SD card slot, but the base "Internal storage" directory apparently reads as "/sdcard/" anyway, so I had to enter the DD command exactly as shown for it to work with the twrp-3.0.2-0-ariel.img file sitting in the "Internal storage" directory on the tablet.

After I got TWRP installed, it was quick and easy to flash the ROM, SuperSU, and Open GApps. I was a little unsure of which versions I should be using, but these seem to work just fine: SuperSU-v2.78.zip, open_gapps-arm-4.4-nano-20200123.zip.

The only issues I'm having are, as noted by others: camera and bluetooth. Only the Noah Camera app seems to work (and that's fine - I don't really use the camera anyway), and bluetooth will turn on and SAYS my headphones are paired/connected properly, with "connected to media audio" checked - but all sound/music comes out of the tablet speakers regardless; not the headphones.

But since I wanted this mainly as a reader in the first place (8 gb, not enough storage for much in the way of audio/video anyway), these are small issues and well worth living with to be rid of that godawful FireOS.

THANK YOU!!! <3
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Wootrefresh:
I also found my Fire HD 7 4th gen and tried my luck following your steps and it worked pretty painlessly. Thank you. Did you still download the Kindle app for your reader?

Thanks ggow for making this custom rom and I look forward for future updates.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] boredgod:
Probably old an outdated, but With the newest version of rom... I can't get youtube videos to work properly. Just errors out at the point of playing the video. Am I missing something else?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] KittyTantrum:
I did install the Kindle app. I like that just fine. I like having the freedom to do as I please. I do ALSO find that some videos won't play. But some will. I'm not sure what makes the difference. Overall I'm still much happier with this than with FireOS. D:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Przemu1:
Latest build seems to have problem with OMXCodec. Logcat: pastebin.com/WyVDTpFC
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] jacoblong09:
audio issues

I'm having an odd issue. I've gotten the ROM installed perfectly and it works great, the only issue i am currently encountering is with audio. the speakers work great, they are loud and DSP manager even works correctly, however when i plug in headphones, no matter the size, even if i plug in a powered amp to the jack, i have to turn my amp up all the way and the tablet up all the way to hear a very small and faint amount of sound. i can tell dsp is working, the equalizer changes the small amount of sounds clarity haha, i just cannot figure this out. i thought the mixer paths XML would help me but alas, it is nowhere to be found. please help. if you need any logs, just let me know which ones are required. i'm stumped, usually i'm pretty good with this kind of thing but this is out of my comfort zone, I've only worked with coding and roms for Samsung devices and that was a while ago.

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i'm currently going through and checking the file manager just to see and if i don't see anything, i'll try a few tricks I've tried in the past, like viper audio, etc. etc. i know a lot of people here have this same issue, but does ANYONES audio work through headphones, or is this a lost cause? if you have a fire hd 7 with this ROM and your headphone jack works properly, please , pm me, i need to see whats different.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] guidol:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION]

I freshly freed my Kindle HD6 today from amazon OS5.

Downgraded to 4.53 and installed SuperSU for root.

Worked fine, but Iam wonder why I do get a black screen (with audio) in the newer lineage-11-20191014-UNOFFICIAL-ariel.zip

and in the older cm-11-20161016-UNOFFICIAL-ariel.zip it does work.

With the ROM and SuperSU I installed also open_gapps-arm-4.4-pico-20200627.zip.

Video does play wth the LineageOS 11 in Chrome, VLC and MX Player Pro and now with CM11 also in the Youtube-App

Thanks for your work over the years...now my HD6 can do something useful and maybe I could give it to my little son.

With these amazon apps before I wouldnt do that :(
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
There are lots of changes that have gone into lineage since the cm. When I have time I will i will unpick it.

Hope you enjoy the rom so far.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] sketchman16:
I'm getting, as the previous user noted, extremely low headphone jack volume and BT audio is not working at all. I've paired successfully with 2 different devices, but the tablet won't use them. No log yet, because Magisk made it bootloop, so I'll have to try SuperSu.

Thanks a ton for this ROM. To have it working at all is pretty awesome.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] sketchman16:
A log for your kingdom!

Collected from starting a song in Apollo, then turning on BT, successfully connectionizing, and the tab continuing to play through the speaker like a little rebellious maid.

Also noteworthy, the order in which I connectionize the BT device does not seem to matter. I tried before I started the music playing too. Made no diff. Also, all the system sounds don't work through BT. It's like the tab just doesn't want to use it even though it's there.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] tarsonis666:
Anyone know if the ch341 USB driver is integrated?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] DestroyedEDGE:
so i was wondering if you had the proprietary-files.txt aswell as the boardconfigvendor.mk for this device

i only ask because i have been looking to build lineage 12 for this device since kitkat is essentially unusable these days atleast for me

however the only github repos for this device are just for building a custom recovery and afaik you are the only person to have built cm/lineage for this device

im really not looking forward to porting lineage from scratch so if you do that would be very helpful

in terms of the rom its working great

only issue i have is youtube locking videos to a ridiculously low resolution
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] NssOne:
Is there any possibility that this device could run a newer version of Android? Even something as recent as 7.0?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] apblack:
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to say thanks @ggow for all the work you put in to this. I was able to give new life to a 7-year-old HD6 as a basic wall kiosk. So much more responsive than with stock FireOS.

My only wish is that I could swap the WebView for something newer, but with Fully Kiosk and Chrome 79 it does what I need for now.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Alicyl:
How do I do the bootloader part for Fire tablets? There was a guide for doing so—one I kept finding over and over on Google, but the original poster removed the steps and locked the thread.

I don't know what they meant by "Not needed" either.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] apblack:
I don't remember exactly what I did, but I saved a bunch of links. Hopefully one of these helps you out:

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-lineage-11-0-for-amazon-fire-hd6-and-hd7-14-oct-2019.3270138/

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[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] abarrett79:
If I remember correctly I never got twrp to install, but it would boot fine when called by adb. That's probably what was meant by not needed. If you are still waiting to get this going...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Fak3adm1n:
Hello,

How can I check did it in "the 4.5.3 bootloaders loaded"
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] luc_luke:
Just updated to 14 Oct 2019 from 17 Oct 2016, works great, thanks!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] guidol:
I came from the CyanogenMod (JMZ PlayStore) with

Bootloader 4.5.3 and had rooted via KingRoot since years.

I cant remember to unlock the bootloader :(

I flashed the TWRP Recovery 2.8.6 (later 3.0.2) via Flashify over the the old CM-Recovery and with TWRP (via USB OTG drive) I installed LineageOS 11 (Android 4.4.4), OpenGApps from the 15.02.2022 for LineageOS 11 (Android 4 4.4) and SuperSU 2.8.2SR5 as new Root-Access.

Now my Fire HD6 is working fine & fast :) Many Thanks for that!! :)