[Fire TV Android Development] Pachacouti:
I have been working on my firestick 4k mantis for a month now. It seems to me even after deleting all update stuff, and whatever I can to free up space, I can see the freed up space being made available, but upon reboot, it seems that space has been filled again. Apps I know for sure I deleted, returned. Think about it, if we're logged into amazon, they can do what they want from their end, I've been deleting same files over and over despite disabling, freezing, and deleting apps we deem not required. It's as if they are simply putting them back while logged into amazon. No updates APPEAR to have taken place.

Looking forward to a firestick that works without logging into amazon. I mean, surely if we can flash a debloat, we can make an alternative os that bypass's amazon login?

Edit, I have noticed 2 user account's one is user 0 and one is user de, which I thought may come from the root rom, but possibly one of the debloats I've tested. I thought the 2nd user was created by a german firestick? Anyone know of this 2nd user on theirs? Perhaps this is how the files deleted keep returning?

---------- Post added at 12:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 AM ----------

My first attempt was to install the root rom, all went well.

In testing, I figured after installing the AFTVMM2.2.zip hat I cannot wipe system in twrp, does not exist. Wiped with a reflash of the root.r1.zip, and discovered that since, I too get already installed no matter what I do with magisk. I could wipe system in twrp up until I installed the AFTVMM zip. Since, no matter what I flash, in twrp, wiping system is pointless, system not found in proc/mounts, yet, I can MOUNT system.

In twrp, i do:

adb shell <- shows garbled user, but is useable to do:

mount -o rw,remount /system

I then use:

cd /system

cd /priv-app

ls to show list of packages.

rm -rR com.amazon.shoptv.client <-example

In the first page, the op mentions difficulties with magisk.

In twrp, I do NOT have su, explaining the garbled username before '>'

Explaining why we cant flash magisk, for no magisk exists in working form to re-install and hence grant magisk perissions, does this make sense? I'm a noob on a firestick, have read all firestick threads, in this post is the answer to 'already exists'.

PARTS of magisk still exist. WIPING system in twrp is the answer, but if system is not found in twrp? (unless mounted)

Ps apologies for this post, I did not mean to quote, and the mess that ensued :eek:

---------- Post added at 12:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:06 PM ----------

Okay, found the problem seems my theory on the mirror image is correct, there are indeed two system partitions, one is wiped, so cant be found, this would be the one I wiped in a crash, where I had no choice but to wipe system to get out of bootloop, ended up using some amonet recovery, stuck with amonet for now, need dm-verity to fix it?

So by erasing files from system, your only wiping the system you use, upon reboot, the other system is loaded into the wiped one, negating space saved, it's not so much an update, as a system restore from another sytem partition, which is only found using disable dm-verity?