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[Fire TV General] 2WhlWzrd:
Very specific instructions

I ran across some very specific instruction for the use of Super-Sume regarding various Kingroot versions.

I don't remember exactly where I got them, I just saved them to a text document for future reference.

They are as follows:

(KingRoot 4.1 users, install this AFTER you have rooted with KingRoot !!)

So unfortunately the rooting methods available to most Android users has diminished over time.
Fortunately there are some good rooting programs available though.
One of these is Kingroot. While it is good at doing what it is intended to do,
we do not know for sure all of the information it is collecting and sending to China.
So with all of that said, this program will remove all of the Kingroot applications and associated binaries
and install SuperSU and allow you to update the su binary, etc...

This is the process that you MUST follow in order for this to be successful prior to KingRoot 4.5:

* Once your device is rooted install this application, do not install it prior !!

If you have temp root and are on KingRoot prior to 4.5 you will need to reboot your device first,
re-root with KingRoot and then install this application AFTER you are rooted and run it.

If you are on KingRoot 4.5 or higher you should be all set to just install it and run it at any time after root.

If you try again with these instructions, let us know if it works!

Also if you read my post above you will see Kingroot will auto update to version 4.8 if that helps.
[Fire TV General] Projectns:
I updated my fire stick to 5.0.5. (Germany)!!!

Kingroot 4.1 worked also well without any problems!

How can i block the updates via adb/su? I disabled already the com.amazon.dcp.

Should i also block the com.amazon.device.software.ota?
[Fire TV General] 2WhlWzrd:
com.amazon.device.software.ota applys to 2nd gen Fire TV, so you should be good to go!

(correction, see post below.)
[Fire TV General] SilentBot:
With 5.0.5 you have to block the com.amazon.device.software.ota package regardless which gen you have.

In Android 5 there are two options to do so:

1. "disable"; requires root:

adb shell pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota

2. "hide"; no root required:

adb shell pm hide com.amazon.device.software.ota

In both cases the update-check shouldn't work anymore.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Ether you read this on the same place I read it or you read this on aftvnews? I don't think I be trying again until there is a proper fix, someone wrote a script & had zip with 4 items In which they used with a android terminal on there device to do the same thing that super sume pro does but I didn't want to mess in case the file structure was different on our AFTV Sticks so I left it
[Fire TV General] 2WhlWzrd:
I stand corrected.

Thanks for the info, AFTVnews needs to update their page to reflect that.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
It is common knowledge, the first rule of rooting or any modifications is read read & just before you start read again!

Here is the guide from aftvnews -

Method 1 Guide

Your Fire TV must be rooted. Otherwise, use one of the other methods to block software updates.

Connect to your Fire TV via ADB

Run the command: adb shell

Run the command: su

(Be sure to select “Grant” if your Fire TV prompts you for superuser access.)

For 1st-gen Fire TV, run the command: pm disable com.amazon.dcp

For 2nd-gen Fire TV, run the command: pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota

Run the command: exit

Run the command: exit

(Yes, you do this twice.)

Screen Shot 2014-06-15 at 8.56.42 PM

To re-enable updates, simply follow this guide again but replace disable with enable in step 5. Alternatively, performing a factory reset will also re-enable updates. Updates will not be re-enabled when installing custom ROMs.
[Fire TV General] 2WhlWzrd:
That is specifically the guide on the page I referrenced. It is even referenced from Everything you need to know about the Fire OS 5 update for the 1st-gen Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.

It makes no reference to 1st-gen with OS 5 need to run both commands.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Good news for AFTV gen 1 &amp; AFTV stick owners (You got Root?) 20/02/16

I am on 5.0.3 for the fire stick and used supersu me and was able to get rid of kingroot but I cannot no matter what open SuperSU app it crashes however it allows me to accept/deny root access. Old panasonic tv but it's only used from time to time. So fire stick w/ that tv is more enough.

But after rebooting the stick it is stuck on fire TV stick logo anyone had same? I will give it like 20 min it might be optimizing apps or something. If not then did I brick it somehow?
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Think that's standard, I can't open super su on my aftv2 which was rooted a while back. Which version did you use? I tried but it just hanged for ever on the loading screen
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Supersu Me preloaded 2.46 but I installed newest one but after I rebooted my fire tv stick it gets stuck on "Fire TV Stick" logo I think it got bricked somehow. Unless someone knows how to recover from this?
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
a lot of people got this problem with super sume. Hopefully you maybe able to recover from this or maybe a fix maybe available at some point?
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
It appears to be boot looping a factory reset would fix it but don't know how to get into recovery now.

Everything was working great sooner or later the device would need a reboot anyway.
[Fire TV General] SilentBot:
Are you able to connect via ADB? Is it the coloured logo? Does it restart every few seconds or does it stay like it is?

The stock recovery doesn't feature any options, so getting there would be kind of useless.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
It does not restart every few seconds first it shows Amazon logo then black screen for like 30 seconds and then Fire TV Stick logo which is animated. Nothing happens.

I doubt it at this state I could connect to adb or you mean adb when plugged into computer?
[Fire TV General] SilentBot:
I mean ADB over network. Actually the ADB service starts before loading the full interface, so there is still a chance.
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Good news for AFTV gen 1 &amp; AFTV stick owners (You got Root?) 20/02/16

I will give it a try after UCL ends today lol thanks for the help. Will let you know.

Adb connect and ip address right?

EDIT: Error: unable to connect to : fire stick's IP

I guess im bricked only way to get it replaced to ask amazon for replacement if still under warranty I think it still might be.
[Fire TV General] dony71:
Anybody dare to try removing KingRoot with SuperSU using this method?

http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2015/05/How-to-Remove-Replace-KingUser-KingRoot-with-SuperSU.html
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
I looked at this but with reports of bricks when removing/swapping I decided not to do this. I did try Super Sume pro about 8times but thankfully it didn't work & lucky enough I didn't brick ether so I thought I wouldn't go any further. Rbox now has a fire tv stick so I am waiting until he's ready & maybe he can come up with a solution to doing a swap for super su, if a recovery Is possible I'd imagine he would start playing with a swap/replace then. Just block updates for now & sit tight, you have root now so don't panic!
[Fire TV General] rbox:
It's not really a matter of swapping... The prerooted roms wipe out /system completely and install the fresh rom and then install SuperSU afterwards. Along the recovery on Stick front... I've been making some progress on getting it to work on locked bootloader Firetv1's. Then once that's working I can try it on the stick.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
I understand mate, cheers For clearing that up
[Fire TV General] rbox:
I should add that people will want to do a factory reset after installing the prerooted rom, to remove whatever crap they spew on the data partition.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
You mean when using Kingroot & then install a prerooted rom (in the future)?
[Fire TV General] rbox:
Yes
[Fire TV General] Zenroid:
I did try this procedure to remove kingroot successfully on an Onda android tablet but not fire tv

http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2015/05/How-to-Remove-Replace-KingUser-KingRoot-with-SuperSU.html?m=1
[Fire TV General] freshjr:
How are you guys getting exposed framework installed. Starting with android 5.0, there is no APK installer.

For now all I want to do is replace the launcher with firestarter, and freeze the original launcher.

Also for those of you that don't trust kingroot. Did you sniff Internet traffic to see if it's phoning home post root and what it's sending? I will check, but if it doesn't you are being paranoid.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Xposed framework needs a working recover to install so that's off the menu for now
[Fire TV General] ldeveraux:
Flashfire works fine, if you can remove kingroot and install supersu.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
With the risk of anymore bricks I'd wait for a recovery before attempting anything else
[Fire TV General] ldeveraux:
Well sure, if you're scared :p
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
You do it then, if you wanna burn £35 up in smoke go right ahead! It's a risk if you wanna try without a recovery to fall back on you will feel small if you brick & no one will be to blame but yourself. Good luck mate
[Fire TV General] merkman:
So this may not be the exact place for this question, my apologies if not.

When the Amazon Fire TV Stick first came out, they were a deal for like 24/48 hours as I recall. I picked one up, not sure exactly what I'd do with it.

Since then, it's often gone unused for months at a time, as I can watch movies, WWE Network, and do similar things with my Oppo Blu-Ray player, Xbox One, PS4, etc.

That said, I recently plugged it in again, as my game systems weren't hooked up to the TV, and I was able to watch WWE Network (WWE NXT) on Wednesday without issue. But what I'd LOVE to be able to do is use my Fire TV Stick to watch my Vudu movies.

I've read elsewhere that you could sideload Vudu, but it wouldn't work with the remote so you'd need a USB keyboard and mouse, and even then it wouldn't be 1080p, etc. Today I was searching on Google, and I read about rooting my Fire Stick here. But as silly as it sounds, while I've rooted Android devices, used VLC, etc... I've never really used XBMC, or whatever I might be able to install on the Fire Stick. Are there any OS'es, Apps, or whatever that might let me watch Vudu via the Fire Stick?

It's not a bad device as is, but I'd love to be able to stream the movies that I can't access via it at the moment.

Thanks for your time, and have a great weekend!!!
[Fire TV General] Dude360:
Really easy to replace the launcher with FireStarter.

Install Titanium backup or any other app that can freeze apps (Don't know any off hand bar TB)

Set FireStarrter as Single Click and Launch on Startup.

Set Kodi as Double Click if you want.

Make sure you have all the settings you want set in the FireTV main 'Settings Menu' as it gets disabled when you freeze FTVLauncher

Freeze FTVLauncher in TB/other app

Press Home and FireStarter will now be the main Launcher.

Freezing the FTVLauncher will stop some Amazon related things from running. I don't use anything Amazon so don't know them all but Settings is the big one. If you need to change something like a WiFi network then you will need to unfreeze FTVLauncher first.

Make sure you have access in case you lose connection to your remote/controller

before

you set something as default, even if its adb so you can uninstall your new launcher if things go wrong.

If you lose remote access you will not (easily) be able to unfreeze FTVLauncher to access Settings to re-pair.

Notes:

There's a couple of other ways to do this, I think there's a adb command to halt the FTVLauncher process but freezing it completely frees up a lot of RAM which is especially useful on the Stick (around 150-200mb)

I believe if you have another Launcher installed such as Nova, you will get the prompt to select either Nova or FireStarter as default.

I highly recommend that you do not set another Launcher as default until you are happy and comfortable with your new one.

There is no option anywhere in the Amazon Settings to revert this change as there is on normal Android. I think I've seen some adb commands to revert this change, might have been a SQL edit, to reset the prompt but cba to find them out as my Stick is packed away.

OT: We've had root for what, a week now? I understand the eagerness and excitement that we may have the chance for recovery and Xposed on the stick but come on, how many people have bricked so far? A bit of patience won't hurt while rbox looks into it all. If he says its not possible THEN go off experimenting....
[Fire TV General] freshjr:
Follow up question.

When I have firestatter listening thru adb, no other adb session can exist. I think with the new update you can only have one concurrent session, and the other sessions connect but the devices say offline.

So if I freeze the firetv launcher, and use firedtv, effectively I have zero access to repair it since firedtv block adb access.

If I don't use the adb listen feature of firedtv, it's not very reliable.
[Fire TV General] dony71:
is it possible to install google play store after rooted using kingroot ?
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Well turn adb off then back on again don't go into firestarter but make sure firestarter isnt set as listening in there options, then you should have adb access from a terminal & will show as online

No you can't install Google play store because you need to install gapps & you have to flash that in recovery. The same goes for Xposed too which needs a zip flashed in recovery.
[Fire TV General] rbox:
And along these lines... I would strongly recommend not attempting to manually install things that require recovery to properly install, such as Xposed, because people have already bricked by attempting it.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
I agree totally
[Fire TV General] Ewle:
So how do you get rid of Kingroot after running it? 4.8.1 survives a factory reset and there is no uninstall after rooting.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
For now we wait, when rbox creates us a recovery, which is probably possible then we can start to try & remove it & keep root, then at least we have a fall back. We have some good Devs here so sit tight & hold on for now.
[Fire TV General] DigiRay:
Hi all

I'm hopeing someone can help me in some way with my 1st Gen FireTV.

The FireTV I had that wasn't rooted, recieved the FireOS 5.0.5 update and was working fine. I then decided to root using Kingroot and that worked fine. Reading that it installs certain bloatware, I used SuperSU-Me to replace all the Kingroot apps and have the normal SU app instead.

Everything was working fine and dandy. I blocked updates both on my router and on the device using the same command I had used previously on other devices and that was that. I did no more tinkering at all.

On Saturday I rebooted the device (pressing OK and Play on the remote) and now my device won't boot. It shows the white Amazon Logo, that disappears and then it goes to the Amazon FireTV coloured logo. That's it, it goes no further.

I have tried the Alt + Prnt Scrn + I thing, and the 1st time I tried it, it the device did flicker and reboot, but since then, it doesn't recognise the keyboard. I know it doesn't recognise it because I have plugged in a keyboard with LED's on the sides and they light up, but when pressing NUM LOCK, CAPS LOCK etc, those lights don't actually come on, and I've tried 3 different keyboards. Could the combination of changed in FireOS5.0.5?? Could my USB port of some how taken damage?

If I connect it my PC with an A-A cable, while the white Amazon logo is showing, it picks up an ADB Device for a few seconds. That disconnects and then it picks up 4 unknown devices.

Also it doesn't boot far enough in to the OS for the remote to work or have network capability.

It appears to me as if it has gotten stuck at the part where it searches for an update at bootup, but it can't as the "app" is disabled...

Any help would be very much apreciated

Thanks in advance
[Fire TV General] santamanga:
Hi folks, after you installed kingroot, open an adb shell and type in

netstat

you will see kingroot establishes a connection to 183.61.38.246. So block that in your rooter if you like.
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
This is what I was saying before, on the first reboot it will brick after installing Super Sume! Best thing you can do is wait & keep your fingers crossed that a unbricking image can be made? It is advised not to install Super Sume, just block updates & wait for a recovery before attempting anything risky, this is also the case for installing Xposed which shouldn't be attempted unless you have a working recovery.
[Fire TV General] Ewle:
I had the same issue bricked a stick to the logo screen only rooted with Kingroot 4.8.1 and did a pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota

Not sure what was different than the other 20 sticks I rooted. Maybe that was the one I accidentally hit the optimize button on who knows....
[Fire TV General] DigiRay:
I'm thinking it was more down to Kingroot rather than SuperSU-Me, but I could be wrong. I'm thinking maybe one of them left residue or a system file labeled R/W and that's screwd it up. Either way, I agree and recommend people holding out. I should of taken my own advice but hey-ho, too late now..

I'm the same, have rooted many FTV boxes, not had any issues in the past. Even had Google framework, Play Store and everything working, no issues at all. The device I've screwed around with the most is still working.

Kingroot must do something wrong somewhere. So I'm guessing best advice is for everyone to hold out for a bit until custom recovery is done. Then root, replace recovery and do what ever you want from there on.

On another note, I was told to get in touch with Amazon. Just tell them that you got the update, rebooted and that it's screwed up since. To not mention anything about rooting. Apparently the person that told me this lives in Canada and has a new (I'm guessing refurbished) device on the way. Don't know how much of truth is in this, but may be worth a shot.
[Fire TV General] jarayn:
While youre at it a how about a bit of insurance fraud. It's exactly the same thing.
[Fire TV General] DigiRay:
I wouldn't say it's exactly the same... this is more like only partially telling the truth about a warranty claim... :D
[Fire TV General] BagiMT:
Do we have a full 5.0.5 system image for the Fire TV stick yet? With that it should be possible to create a rooted image with super su and to copy it with the dd method that was used for the FTV 2 before the recovery was available (http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/general/root-amazon-fire-tv-gen-2-4k-t3245407 see To go back to stock..). That should be a save methods for replacing kingroot. But maybe it's easier to just wait until rbox has finished the recovery for the stick.
[Fire TV General] xenyz:
If Fire OS 5 is like Lollipop, then everyone who has modified their system partition can no longer accept any OTA updates from Amazon.

It's a bit of a decision whether to obtain root access with the possibility of no more updates after 5.0.5, or block updates and wait patiently for custom recovery & ROM to ensure a path for future updates.

Just a fair warning to those considering their options after reading this thread.
[Fire TV General] kyukun:
Once rbox finished the recovery for the stick, will it possible to downgrade the Fire TV stick back to 54.1.2.3_user_123067020 stock/rooted firmware?

I don't want to stay with 5.0.5 as it broke a old app that I have. The old app is working with my other Fire TV stick with OS version 54.1.2.3.
[Fire TV General] Ludacrisvp:
This is not the case here, you can still OTA update and lose root.

I had my FTV2 on 5.0.3 rooted with the 2+ hour method, had added rbox recovery and had modified my system partition (added nano and required changes for that to work, and gapps and xposed modules too) and I had forgot to disable OTA updates as I was trying everything under the sun to get google play to work properly at the time and it had updated to 5.0.4 (or 5.0.5) overnight.

Then I had to re-root using the faster custom recovery method.

Make sure you disable OTA!

rbox is working on custom recovery for both FTV1 and FTVStick (AFAIK) so once he has that done he plans to release pre-rooted ROMs that will have the updates from Amazon so I wouldn't be worried about not being able to get updates from Amazon directly.
[Fire TV General] Ewle:
Amazon does offer warranty replacement for sticks with software issues hung at boot. Even ships out replacements 2 day shipping so you can send the boot hung stick back. :)
[Fire TV General] mrchrister:
i should have read this thread before messing with replacing kingroot

my firetv 1gen is now officially bricked. I tried supersu me pro to replace kingroot and now i'm stuck on the amazon logo. I guess the only way out of this for now is emmc soldering...?

waranty is out of question since I've had the FireTV for 2 years :(
[Fire TV General] criscodecookies:
I can confirm this is not the case for AFTV Stick, I was on 5.0.3 rooted with KingRoot and it OTA updated to 5.0.5 losing root in the process. Then rooted again and blocked further updates.
[Fire TV General] jsneak:
Im just about to try and root my FireStick with software 5.05 ... From what I've read, its a case of installing the kingroot 4.1 (can i side load the apk through ABD ?) Then its just a case of running the program ?
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Yes sideload it,

Guide is here -

http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-root-the-fire-tv-2-using-kingroot-no-usb-cable-required/

Or use this guide here no sideloading needed -

http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-root...covery-and-a-pre-rooted-rom-all-without-a-pc/

Please read-

Loads of people have bricked using super sume & super sume pro after successfully rooting with kingroot then trying to remove kingroot, if you want to root using kingroot I recommend you don't use super sume or super sume pro, once rooted block ota amazon updates via adb using a guide on aftvnews & then wait for a custom recovery/prerooted rom then we may have kingroot removed?

Hope this all helps If so press that thanks button.
[Fire TV General] deershoot3r:
Just Rooted my AFTV Stick 5.0.5, using kingroot 4.82 and the app wukong remote for a mouse :) works great! blocked updates with titanium backup :) and working smooth! I have about 200mb of free ram WITH Kodi running, without Kodi running i have no idea my ram level
[Fire TV General] Joooscha:
How did you block updates?
[Fire TV General] deanr1977:
Use this -

http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
[Fire TV General] tmf22:
i have a question... if i root my fire tv with kingroot.. can I use storage with nfts partition?

sorry for my bad english..
[Fire TV General] sebr:
It is really not recommended right now to root your ftv 1st gen or stick. Wait for a custom recovery to be available and then root and immediately install a pre-rooted stock rom.

But kingroot is closed source and comes with a lot of bloatware and establishes connections to chinese servers without permission. You really wanna have that on your device? Think twice!
[Fire TV General] patt2k:
Is there yet anyway to unbrick fire stick that is stuck on fire tv stick logo ? Or only way for now is to send to Amazon for replacement. ?
[Fire TV General] kilumnati:
Trying to find a fix also , shouldn't have used Super Sume it bricked my firetv also after kingroot? ordering an EMMC chip, but still don't know how i will get it back up and running. all i can do is ADB to it but just sits on amazon color logo!!
[Fire TV General] D-an-W:
Amazon swapped mine for me! The replacement was also faulty (Wouldn't even power on), so ended up with a third!
[Fire TV General] kilumnati:
mines out of warrenty i tried