[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gdroid666:
this guys guide does not work at all ,and it is like 200 years old

is there anyone else who actually knows what they are doing that has a more recent guide on how to get past the initial setup without an update?

i have searched all over and i can not find one, everything points me to this same old outdated non working guide

i don't think this guy has actually done this anytime recently because the youtube video he has is from 2014

at least not on a fire stick , maybe he just tested it on a regular amazon fire tv box and assumed it still works on the stick but it doesn't

i setup the open DNS , entered my network password, went to advanced instead of connect

entered the IP(guessed one like he told me, tried 2 in the range ,192.169.1.5 and 192.168.1.55 , network prefix 24, gateway 192.168.1.1, primary and secondary open DNS 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

i hit connect and then pulled the etherenet cable from the back of my router going to my modem

when it says connection successful but before it goes to checking for updates

but it never lets me go to the registration screen it just always stays at checking for updates for like an hour then it goes to the error screen where he tells you to hit the back button , hitting the back button takes you back to the wifi screen,i re configure the wifi enter my wifi password go to advanced and enter the DNS settings again,and it just does the same damn thing every time hangs at checking for updates for an hour and then it goes to the error screen again and you start all over again and end up in the same damn place every single time , the error screen , hit back and do it all over again , rinse and repeat ,it never goes to the registration screen no matter how many times i do it

there is no way to ever get past the error screen and get to the registration screen i tried it like 100 times and it does the same thing every single time

can i just rely on the open DNS with the 4 domains blocked and go right into settings and turn on adb

and then do his guide where you connect from cmd propmt and block the updates from there, i installed the adb drivers already

but now i have zero faith in this guys guides

and i see a bunch of other guides that say to use debloater tool and adbfire to block the updates

so does the cmd prompt method do the exact same thing as debloater/adb fire method?

if i am only relying on open DNS and not on this pull out the cable method to get past the checking for updates screen BS and this ancient guide am i going to get updated?

there must be someone who has tried this on a new stick more recently that 2 years ago

i do not trust a single thing from any of these ancient guides now

i don't trust open DNS or any of his update blocking guides now

i just know this Fing POS is going end up getting an update

and i bet if i do not do the pull the cable method and open DNS does work and does block the update

then i bet when the update fails due to the domains being blocked that this MF'er

will just go to the same god damn error screen again and still not take me to registration screen

i'm not ready to try that yet ,maybe tomorrow since this guide is worthless and getting to registration screen after pulling the ethernet cable is hopeless at this point