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[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Another quick update, my replacement firestick arrived and was already on 5.0.5 so didn't take any chances of updating (plugged USB power into TV, 460ma I think? Stops fire stick from performing updates) and Rooted with Kingo. First attempt as suspected, no reboot or manually rebooting.
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
Do you think I could try to root my unfortunatelly to 5.2.1.0 updated Fire TV Gen1 with this lottery method?

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[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Yes, well I really didn't give a to** if my stick went to crap as I was expecting a replacement anyway, if you read back my posts and have a go. By the way, ive accidently foobared my fire tv 2 and had to recover it previously and it was back up and running from a non boot state, (does that stand for fire tv original?) but that aside my fire stick never bricked trying the method the original poster found out. I can vouch it works as I got it working on 5.0.5.1 and after resetting to factory defaults it updated my stick and I still had root, so I would imagine thst nothing in the update from 5.0.5.1 changed in anyway which way the trick works. Good luck and let me know how you get on.
[Fire TV General] Share_:
I've tired this at least 30 times, no dice. never worked. Maybe the people who it worked for were/are already jailbroken?
[Fire TV General] jaminmc:
I had Firestopper installed, and I did the center + Play-pause buttons to restart it after I had clicked root, and it seemed to not be doing anything till after it said "Turning Fire TV off" It showed 90% right before it powered off.

Also, I had OTA updates disabled with the

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

method.
[Fire TV General] jaminmc:
No, this was my first root attempt. I didn't ever do the kings root when I was on 5.0.5

The first time I tried it, I thought it froze after I clicked the root, so I told it to restart, and the progress started moving. Then in reboot, I tried it again, and it said I had root. I must of been real blessed to have it work the first time :)

This is a Fire Stick that came with OS 5 on it, and it came with a voice remote.

I didn't install SuperUser till after it said it was successful, but it was trying to install it, and failed, so I installed it manually.

I think the key is to start the reboot before it starts moving the progress, or right as it starts? I hope you figure it out, as you are a big help to the comminity with your website :) I did have the OTA updates disabled, if that helps at all.

Try it! The worse it can do is fail :)
[Fire TV General] jaminmc:
I Initialized the reboot before the progress bar started moving. I would guess it was 10-15 seconds after I started the root attempt.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Strange as it looks like im the only other person to ger it working and I initialised the reboot (non voice version) home/play after a period of seconds at 90 percent.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
So to recap on everything I done to get it working.

My non/never been Rooted fire tv stick non voice version on firmware 5.0.5.1.

Apps already installed:

Kodi 16.1

Firestopper

Mouse toggle for fire tv

I sent over Kingo root 3.1 (latest version/op version) with apk to fire app on phone.

I launched Kingo root (not sure if it was launched from within firestopper or from fire tv main menu), dont think that would make much difference but its a variable to consider.

I waited for it to reach 90 percent (it sticks at various percentages for a few seconds) once it was on 90 percent I waited a number of seconds, probably around 45 to 50 seconds and held down home/play to restart.

Once it restarted and as soon as the main fire tv menu loaded (but before firestopper loaded) I launched Kingo root again and clicked root.

It started off and kicked me out to black screen for a couple seconds then firestopper loaded, I then quickly launched Kingo root again this time from within firestopper to find it already on 90 percent.

After sitting on 90 percent again for a few seconds it reported root successful.

Then send over super user.

I then restore to defaults the fire tv stick and during the restore process my stick was updated to the newest version 5.2.1.0 (unintentionally).

When it finished and loaded up I reinstalled Kingo root and without even trying to root again it reported it was already Rooted.

So I sent over super user and a couple of root needed apps to check.
[Fire TV General] Harry Seaward:
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[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Im starting to think that 5.2.1.0 has allowed root to work again, (although I got it working on 5.0.5.1). We need someone to test with an unrooted stick already on 5.2.1.0 to see what outcome they get.
[Fire TV General] shovonz:
I was able to apply root on Fire TV stick 5.2.1.0
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
How did you do it shovonz? Did you use Kingo root 3.1? Was there any restarting needed? Or did it just complete straight away after clicking root?

This is good news if it works on latest firmware.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
All we need now is a working recovery.... Need xposed on my stick, got my fire tv 2 fully sorted thanks to the development from all involved.
[Fire TV General] elsler:
Well i managed to get root after trying for ages on 5.0.5.1 with no luck i ran the update to 5.2 then used the method listed and bingo now have root
[Fire TV General] cuki3r3k83bln:
Can confirm it works!!! Fire TV Stick 5.2.1.0. Yesterday updated to newest fw and few minutes ago just pushed the Kingo Root from obove and run only once and it was finished without restarting the stick or the app... Great work guys ^^

Only one problem at this moment... ADB (via WiFi) is not working...
[Fire TV General] Bramton1:
A few questions, if I may. I have a Stick on 5.0.5 with the OTA package hidden. Thinking of trying this out.

1. Is Kingo Root safe? I know King Root is known for being very shady. Also, King Root is known for not playing nice with Kodi. How does Kingo work with Kodi?

2. If I root with this and end up upgraded to a newer version, should I still be able to use rbox's eventual pre-rooted image and recovery if it's based on 5.0.5?

3. I want to be sure about this. Trying to install SU on a stick rooted with King Root will brick your stick. Are we saying that su can be added here safely?
[Fire TV General] mezdev:
Worked for me, Firestick original rooted recently with kingroot then lost it (forgot to block updates) .

Updated stick , downloaded kingo from link in post , ran kingo stuck in places then blank screen and it rebooted, ran kingo again and rooted :) . Tried blocking with debloater, it seems to complete but when I check again it didn't work (confirmed root status though).Blocked updates via adb (For Fire OS 5 (version 5.0.0 and up), run the command: pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota) thanks AFTVnews.

I have firestarter installed but didn't use to launch kingo.

no mouse used just controller exactly as above.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
I had this problem, I reset to factory defaults and it updated to the latest 5.2.1.0 I then transfered Kingo root and superuser over went to click on root but came up already Rooted. So to answer your question reset to factory defaults will sort it out.

Dont forget to re enable ADB in settings.

---------- Post added at 05:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:22 PM ----------

We now need people to test Kodi/Netflix etc while Rooted with Kingo root, see if there are any freezes/playback issues. I think I recall people over on a different thread having crashing issues after 30 minutes of playback while Rooted with king root.

Lets see if Kingo root is any different.
[Fire TV General] mezdev:
ADB debugging on and off a few times seems to work ok for me if adb not connecting
[Fire TV General] cuki3r3k83bln:
ADB is working now normally after some time and thats good :)
[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
Any reports on Netflix etc after 30 minutes or so of use?

Seems as if we update to newest firmware it'll allow root to be more successful. I'll try this when I get home (update to newest then root with Kingo root) and report back.
[Fire TV General] cuki3r3k83bln:
After factory reset on 5.2.1.0 root seems to stay... Kingo SuperUser starts without rooting device again. Did someone use Chainfire's SuperSu instead of the Kingo Su?
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
I used super su when I managed to get root on 5.0.5.1 instead of Kingo roots super user.

---------- Post added at 08:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:38 PM ----------

Think the only reason I went ahead and tried multiple times without any thought about bricking was because I was trying with a stick that was overheating, and a replacement was getting sent out.

Stupidly I decided to try to remove the root by deleting files from root folder (as I couldnt select the menu icon in king roots super user app) and after restarting that stick its stuck at the fire stick logo.

Has anyone got any idea how to put this right?

Im not really fussed as its getting sent back then probably threw away by retailer, just would like to use it as a test unit a little more.

On a better note, my new stick is fully Rooted on the latest firmware. :)

---------- Post added at 08:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:43 PM ----------

Ive been watching Netflix on mine for over 2 hours without a glitch.
[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
Great news! Thanks!
[Fire TV General] crackers8199:
i thought it was kodi that had the playback after 30 minutes issue...was it netflix too?

also, saw someone posting somewhere else that disabling updates with pm hide wasn't working in 5.2.x...i guess if we can root and disable that way it doesn't really matter, but can anyone confirm that?
[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
If you go back a page or two someone suggests that Netflix might be affected.
[Fire TV General] crackers8199:
oh alright, i saw that but i thought that was just an overall 5.2.x issue some people were seeing.

can anyone confirm if pm hide (or pm disable after rooting) still works in 5.2 for disabling OTA?
[Fire TV General] Ultraschorsch:
Did you succeed rooting your Fire TV 1 with this method?
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Ive just updated to 5.2 and have disabled updates but your question is asking if it actually disables updates, since this is the latest update how would one know until another update comes out? The certain way to stop the updates in my opinion is to plug the power into a 460ma USB port on a TV, as fire stick reports to plug into official plug to update?
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
I will try it tomorrow or later the coming weekend.

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[Fire TV General] Ultraschorsch:
Thank you! I would try myself but I am on a business trip until next Tuesday. Good luck! :)
[Fire TV General] crackers8199:
i'm just asking if the command works. i know from my fire tablet that disabling those apps will work to disable updates...someone elsewhere had posted that the command wasn't working. i forget where i saw that earlier this afternoon...
[Fire TV General] Schpum:
block updates seems to work with much effort

debloater--no go

adb shell pm hide com.amazon.device.software.ota---no go

and after i tried about 10 times --reboots included, this worked (with root):

adb shell

su

pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota
[Fire TV General] mezdev:
Yes as I said see post #51 above
[Fire TV General] aHcVolle:
can't get this to work with 5.0.5.1 .

I'm waiting for the new update to arrive at my stick and i'll try it after updating... :(
[Fire TV General] cuki3r3k83bln:
ADB via WiFi is working very ****ty since the 5.2.1.0 has been rooted on my AFTVS :( After factory reset and installing Kingo SuperUser sometimes it works, sometimes not... And yes it was enabled in settings menu and disabled and enabled and disabled... But anyway it is not very stable :( ADB via USB works perfect... Anyone else with this problem?
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Couldnt say for fire tv but my stick doesnt have this problem.

It was unstable after I Rooted but aftrr a reset everything is fine.
[Fire TV General] frankpixie:
Yes, for me ADB is not working after rooting 5.2.1.0 most of the times. I haven't replaced kingoroot with supersu, I don't know if this will make any difference.
[Fire TV General] cuki3r3k83bln:
SuperSu did not work for me. After factory reset installed SuperSu only and it crashed everytime after starting...
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
I tried to root my Fire TV 1 with kingoroot, but no success ? sorry friends.

The good news:

I tried it several times, and my device still runs. No brick! That means we can keep on trying!

Try it yourself, and let us know if you are successfull.

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[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
I spent lots of time trying as well. No luck. I also can't get it to update either (because I believe this should work easier after the update).

I emailed the developers of Kingo root and asked for some support or help getting this to work more consistently.

I'll let you all know how it goes.
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
My Fire TV 1 has 5.2.1.0

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[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Maybe a little non related but I thought id share it with you guys.

After being on 5.0.5.1 and getting root (after a few tries I might add, and only succeeded after 2nd try restarting) on firestick, I decided to reset to defaults in settings.

This automatically updated me to the newest 5.2 and after ADB ing Kingo root and just about to click to root it automatically reported I had root.

So I decided to try unroot and re root the new 5.2 and because I couldnt do this with fire remote I had to do it manually, following what it says on Kingo root site, this entails removing su etc from the root folders.

Upon restart the fire stick was a brick, stuck at the coloured fire stick logo.

After a little reading I thought I would try ADB, but over WiFi but it did not detect.

So (I already had drivers installed from a previously successful unbrick firetv2) connected straight to my laptop and decided to ADB (while plugged in), to ADB push the files I deleted and even after trying to change permissions it was not successful.

So I thought there was no way to bring the stick to life and inboxed rbox as he is the only person I van think of on here who might of had a suggestion.

So in the meantime I tried 1 more thing, Kingo root has its own pc rooting app (just like king root) and after a couple of unsuccessful attempts (root failed) my fire stick still did not complete the boot. So I tried 1 last time but this time after having the fire tvs usb plugged into the laptop when Kingo root got to 70 percent, plugged the hdmi in and it finished with a successful root.

Unplugged fire stick and plugged back in to find the home screen (with the deleted su files back) :)

By the way this is a test unit which is getting sent back to retailer because its overheated previously and restarting.

So to highlight the main points ive found out on my journeys:

Fire tv stick (while on fire stick coloured logo is still able to connect to ADB through usb)

Kingo root and possibly king root are available while plugged directly into USB port on pc.

Thanks for reading I thought id share with the community incase anyone else has problems and possibly get something from this.
[Fire TV General] dns2k:
Root Succeeded!

Installed supersuser from this thread

Restarted (center button/play pause)

Installed kingo

Started kingo from (esfilemanager)

Started process

0-90% pause >Root
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Block updates, Amazon is peeling everything they can from our freedom ;)
[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
How would one use these commands from a phone to connect to the stick via adb over wifi?
[Fire TV General] Mosquito79:
Remote adb shell from Google Playstore

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[Fire TV General] Antieco:
Worked as charm.

First installed super user, then kingoroot..

Adb didn't work at first but it did after disabling and enabling it back.

Just can't disable Ota update

//edit pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota did the trick.

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[Fire TV General] daddymikey1975:
Pm hide worked for me. After that I tried to check for an update and it hung for a while at "checking" and eventually it gave me an error message.
[Fire TV General] badflife:
Is it possible to use the openvpn app with root?

I use it on my android device.

Hopefully it does.

Thanks.
[Fire TV General] Antieco:
Did anyone replaced superuser with supersu?

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[Fire TV General] ytsejam1138:
I tried it and couldn't get it to run with the latest supersu. I used an older version of supersu (1v.97 I believe) and got it to run, but it hung at trying to install the binary. It asked me to reboot and upon reboot my FireTV Stick now sits on the logo screen and is non-responsive to any remote key presses. I got it at launch, so it's not under warranty. Looks like I need to go buy another one as this one is now a small brick. :mad: :(
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Plug your firestick into a windows laptop or computer and download Kingo root windows exe.

When the drivers are installed, (mine already were as I unbricked a fire tv 2 and Rooted it previously), run the tool on ur computer, if it fails try again, I found the trick to get it to run to 100 percent and finish is to wait till you get at 70 percent, and plug it into hdmi (obviously into your TV with USB still in laptop/computer.

This should replace the su binaries you may have altered.

It worked for me.
[Fire TV General] wdcspurs:
I tried the op instructions to no avail. The whole time I kept getting the " do you want to install the latest update" option . Obvious answer was no. For whatever reason, I decided to try rooting it with the king app on the pc. Straight from their site. All seemed to be going well and then it hung up at 70%. Stopped that and plugged it back into my tv. Upon plugging it back in, it immediately started installing the OTA update. However once installed, I did have root once I ran the kingo app again.

One problem now. With both of my boxes, once I rooted I lost the ability to use the PS VUE app. I found some commands in another post on here to get it working again. This commands don't work with the firestick. I assume it has to do with the superuser installed with this method. Anyone have any insight on this?
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
I actually manually deleted su binaries and restarted to fire stick coloured logo, stuck there.

So plugged in and Rooted with Kingo root windows tool, same method as you plugging hdmi in at 70 percent, su files replaced and it booted up.

So id suggest we might be safe with this method to try a couple of different versions of su, not Kingo roots.

I did have super su myself installed on 5.0.5.1, but that was before I updated the stick to 5.2 and used Kingo super user.
[Fire TV General] ytsejam1138:
I'm back up and running!! Thanks for the tip!!
[Fire TV General] Antieco:
It's all about this shady Chinese tools, you never know.. That's why I'm keen on switching to supersu. Also is it possible to uninstall kingoroot?

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[Fire TV General] badflife:
Kodi streams Lagg now.

Since I have rooted my stick.

I'll have to unroot it again.

And block the updates.

How do I unroot?

Thanks.

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[Fire TV General] Ultraschorsch:
Did you use the same Kodi version? And did you try other sources of that lagging stream?
[Fire TV General] badflife:
Yes it is still the same kodi version 16.2

I streamed from different addons.

So not only one stream laggs every stream laggs.

Edit: Everything seems to work fine with SPMC.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
None of my streaming software lags, I use Kodi 16.1 and Netflix.
[Fire TV General] Serefor:
Mount a network share into the filesystem.

It´s possible mount a network share into the filesystem with a stick rooted with kingoroot?
[Fire TV General] wdcspurs:
I was wondering the same thing myself, as far as unrooting. My deal is that the PS VUE app doesn't work on a rooted device. I can't seem to figure out the commands needed for a fix to it as i did with my boxes.

I haven't done it yet, but i assume the easiest way to unroot would be a factory reset. Let me know if you have figured out different.
[Fire TV General] Ultraschorsch:
You should be able to mount a network share into pretty much any decent file explorer. If you need this for Kodi you can do this inside Kodi

http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources#Adding_Remote_sources
[Fire TV General] Antieco:
Im rooted and not having any issues with Kodi nor netflix.

I also installed L-speed app and set entrophy to agresive mode and other tweaks, it does feels faster, havent benchmarked it yet.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
As far as unrooting goes, when you factory reset it doesnt take root away, (found if you reinstall kimgo root/super user, before you press root after opening Kingo root it reports its already Rooted.)

There is a menu icon in the kingo roots super user app but no way to select it, I read there is an unroot option in there but obviously not tried it. If the newer version of mouse toggle for fire tv works on latest 5.2 you could use that to select it.

Other way id imagine will work will be plug firestick into Windows laptop, and use Kingo roots exe and unroot with Windows app.

Please understand ive not tested this but cant see why it wont work (especially when ive used the windows version to unbrick my firestick with removed su files, stuck at FireTV logo)

Hope you can get what you need from this post.
[Fire TV General] badflife:
Thanks for all your help.

But I solved the problem.

I just installed the Kodi fork SMPC.

And now everything plays normal.

So I won't be unrooting it.

I just can't get openvpn to work.

I installed the required binarys with openvpn installer.

Then I imported the VPN configuration files from my vpn provider ( AirVpn)

Installed openvpn settings.

Then I choose the VPN confige file but nothing happens.

I checked everything is installed.

Anybody else tried this?

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[Fire TV General] ashmanmb:
Successfully rooted using kingoroot

Tried multiple times on 5.0.5.1 version, stuck at 90% multiple times. Tried again and again, rebooting and all. switched usb ports, installed superuser, uninstalled superuser, cleared cache, cleared data on kingoroot. nothing.

Finally decided to just update to the new version. After fully updating, ran kingoroot, and it said my wifi was down. but it was working. rebooted again, and tried launching kingoroot.

It kept crashing back to the apps screen. So tried several times and no go. Went into ADB fire, connected and ran install api for superuser again. and while I was still installing superuser, got kingoroot to launch and it rooted successfully. confirmed by running superuser after reboot and it shows kingoroot is allowed.

Not sure if it was a combination of the system installing superuser while kingoroot was trying to root or what, but it is rooted now.

Not sure what I plan on doing with it with root access, but if anyone has ideas to make it better, I'm all ears.

I really only need it to launch spmc on boot. since that is what I use it for mostly, apart from netflix and pandora.
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Nothing much yet id advise until rbox releases custom recovery.

You can make a start by disabling updates, as if by the time rbox has finished and released custom recovery the fire stick/tv might of endured more updates rendering root unavailable. At least you have root now and as long as you block updates your good for when recovery is released.

Then maybe xposed, any custom launchers that might work.

Just don't try install stuff that could brick the device until you have recovery.
[Fire TV General] wdcspurs:
What happens if I unroot the stick, as far as the OTA updates. I disabled the updates but want to unroot at this point to get the PS VUE app back. Will updates still be disabled if I can successfully unroot?
[Fire TV General] sconnyuk:
Ive no idea, anyone help him out with this question?