[Fire TV Android Development] wwarwick:
Thank you for this! This is fantastic. I made an account just to give insight on my experience getting montoya working decently in 2023.

A lot of the mediafire links are dead. As of this writing, the following version links are live:

July 4, 2020 - 5.2.7.3_r1 (md5sum: f8ecbdf986b0033f923e2cbade84bda0)

December 7, 2019 - 5.2.7.2_r1 (md5sum: 68d16fdc9c42fe29c29a88200a932e15)

October 26, 2019 - 5.2.7.1_r1 (md5sum: d9cee3ebfb09a562619466a1efa024f1

December 18, 2016 - 5.2.1.1_r1 (md5sum: e71b6fd2eae7a0e78ad37e6609f7c36d)

December 19, 2016 - 5.0.5_r1 (md5um: a033912f6586dd7cb8a738a7218d3713)

Knowing that this device is so old, my intention was to get the oldest version I possibly could on it. With that said, I tried flashing and registering my device with 5.0.5 and 5.2.1.1. I didn't have success doing this initially: 5.0.5 said that they were sending me a verification code which I needed to input (which never arrived for me) and 5.2.1.1 sent me to login through my phone's web browser using a code that was on the screen, but didn't do anything after this step.

Given these circumstances I flashed 5.2.7.3, on which registration worked without a hitch. However, this version was terribly slow even when browsing on the launcher, so I tried reverting back to 5.2.1.1. This time, registration was successful as soon as I logged into my account. I think what did the trick was registering the device on 5.2.7.3 so when I logged in on the downgraded version the device was already associated with the account. With this luck, I reverted to 5.0.5, in which I was also able to register the device with no issues. In my experience it didn't even try to update or anything without having to change any settings on my router (maybe whatever server it's checking for updates is dead?).

After this I had no issue turning on ADB debugging, running the commands to kill OTA updates, and installing kodi. Kodi (version 19.5, the latest version as of this writing) lags a little when browsing through the interface, but so far it has worked well for me when actually watching video. So far I have only tested watching IPTV, but if it can handle streaming 1080p video (with some ocasional frame drops) just fine I don't why regular video files wouldn't work. I would say that browsing kodi on 5.2.1.1 is smoother than on 5.2.7.3, but this may be placebo. 5.0.5 seems to be even smoother than 5.2.1.1, but this again may possibly be a placebo.

With all of this said, I have no complaints running 5.0.5 and I would recommend it. The stock launcher feels snappy and kodi is decent enough to watch some video. Given that I just wanted to have a stick that could run kodi this suits my purposes very well. I have not tried login into any of the Amazon services (Prime video, Amazon music, etc) or any of the other streaming services (see edit) so I am not sure if those work on this ancient version, but I may try that out in the future. If I do, I will update this reply with any findings.

In any case, thanks again rbox for these pre-rooted stock images and breathing some life into this ancient fire stick!

EDIT: So far Amazon prime video and Amazon music don't seem to work. For prime video I can see the TV show and Movies show up on the launcher, but I'm unable to play them. When I install the latest version of the prime video app, it crashes on launch. For Amazon music, it just stays loading my music library. Maybe side loading is an option?

EDIT 2: YouTube and VLC for fire don't seem to want download. Might be possible to sideload as well.

EDIT 3: Added info for 5.0.5