[Fire TV Original Android Development] bogart1117:
No, it was "Yellow." Not much debate on that. And it was a solid, i.e. non-flashing, light. When I started the box had the white light and it was doing everything it was supposed to as stated in the article.

I had a few unsuccessful attempts and then i succeeded in getting the program to flash. No lights turned on when the script ran the reboot command. Nothing happened. I eventually wound up flashing it several more times hoping it'd finally boot right. After awhile I gave up for the moment and left it plugged into the pc and about 5 hrs later I glanced at it and it had a solid yellow light. So I flashed it some more.

Figured if there was that light then it was a good thing and maybe I should just redo the flash.

And I totally agree, if I can flash this thing 1000 times before it breaks then I'm gonna try for 1001. It'll give up before I do.

Here's the script running. I tried two times and intentionally hit enter while the short was connected to see if the script would complain which it did. So they're talking. The second wwas a successful flash/failed reboot.

root@SucADicSpace:/home/bogart1117/amonet# sudo ./bootrom-step.sh

[2019-11-26 17:46:18.388575] Found ['preloader.img', 'boot.img', 'unbrick.img', 'tz.img', 'lk.img'] to flash

[2019-11-26 17:46:23.399756] Waiting for bootrom

[2019-11-26 17:47:03.948920] Found port = /dev/ttyACM0

[2019-11-26 17:47:03.950930] Handshake

[2019-11-26 17:47:03.954914] Disable watchdog

* * * Remove the short and press Enter * * *

[2019-11-26 17:47:15.860499] Init crypto engine

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 537, in write

n = os.write(self.fd, d)

OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "main.py", line 158, in <module>

main()

File "main.py", line 95, in main

load_payload(dev, "../brom-payload/build/payload.bin")

File "/home/bogart1117/amonet/modules/load_payload.py", line 112, in load_payload

init(dev)

File "/home/bogart1117/amonet/modules/load_payload.py", line 9, in init

dev.write32(CRYPTO_BASE + 0x0C0C, 0)

File "/home/bogart1117/amonet/modules/common.py", line 141, in write32

self.dev.write(b'\xd4')

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 571, in write

raise SerialException('write failed: {}'.format(e))

serial.serialutil.SerialException: write failed: [Errno 5] Input/output error

root@SucADicSpace:/home/bogart1117/amonet# sudo ./bootrom-step.sh

[2019-11-26 17:47:21.204920] Found ['preloader.img', 'boot.img', 'unbrick.img', 'tz.img', 'lk.img'] to flash

[2019-11-26 17:47:22.179710] Waiting for bootrom

[2019-11-26 17:47:26.813725] Found port = /dev/ttyACM0

[2019-11-26 17:47:26.815735] Handshake

[2019-11-26 17:47:26.819718] Disable watchdog

* * * Remove the short and press Enter * * *

[2019-11-26 17:47:30.538250] Init crypto engine

[2019-11-26 17:47:30.779663] Disable caches

[2019-11-26 17:47:30.783656] Disable bootrom range checks

[2019-11-26 17:47:30.932708] Load payload from ../brom-payload/build/payload.bin = 0x45D0 bytes

[2019-11-26 17:47:30.936312] Send payload

[2019-11-26 17:47:35.429628] Let's rock

[2019-11-26 17:47:35.434648] Wait for the payload to come online...

[2019-11-26 17:47:38.995662] all good

[2019-11-26 17:47:38.995996] Check GPT

[2019-11-26 17:47:40.299572] gpt_parsed = {'PRO_INFO': (1024, 254), 'NVRAM': (2048, 10240), 'TEE1': (12288, 10240), 'TEE2': (22528, 10240), 'lk': (32768, 2048), 'boot': (34816, 51200), 'recovery': (86016, 51200), 'KB': (137216, 2048), 'DKB': (139264, 2048), 'MISC': (141312, 1024), 'LOGO': (142336, 16384), 'EXPDB': (158720, 23296), 'system': (182016, 2477600), 'cache': (2659616, 512000), 'userdata': (3171616, 12098239), '': (0, 1)}

[2019-11-26 17:47:40.307599] Check boot0

[2019-11-26 17:47:41.500589] Check rpmb

[2019-11-26 17:47:41.706641] Clear preloader header

[8 / 8]

[2019-11-26 17:47:43.040585] Downgrade rpmb

[2019-11-26 17:47:43.043536] Flashing TEE..

[3725 / 3725]

[2019-11-26 17:48:48.306254] Flashing bootloader..

[806 / 806]

[2019-11-26 17:49:03.255901] Flashing unbrick image..

[8956 / 8956]

[2019-11-26 17:51:38.168087] Flashing boot..

[31252 / 31252]

[2019-11-26 18:00:34.063726] Flashing preloader..

[319 / 319]

[2019-11-26 18:00:40.706838] Reboot to TWRP..

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Can I boot from a microsd card? Won't the bios possibly do that?