Has anyone successfully gotten android 4.2 running on the 2nd generation Kindle Fire? I've been trying to flash the ROM from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2041694. I use TWRP to flash the ROM and google apps. When I reboot, it successfully loads the new ROM, but is stuck on the Jellybean loading screen endlessly and never progresses to the login screen. Has anyone been able to get past this problem? If so, what did you do? Also, will there be a ROM coming out tailored specifically for the 2nd generation Kindle Fire?
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Hey Guys, I'm new here and am not a pro at rooting phones but have done it several times. On GB, I tricked my droid razr into thinking it was a Droid3, so I could install and play a Game (Order and Chaos) from the market (it isn't compatible with the Razr). All worked fine following the instructions on editing the build.prop.
When i had to reformat to upgrade to ICS, that method ended up bricking my phone, resulting in hours of un-bricking it.
Wondering if there is a way to do this same type of "tricking", so that I am able to play the game on this phone, like I used to.
I have eclipse ROM installed (newest since ICS update.
Anyone know or have done this?
Also, I have a galaxy tab 2 7", and it also won't allow me to play the game. Is tehre a way to hack it and get it to work?
Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you.
Hi guys,
I've tried and tried, but whatever I do with TWRP/CWM recovery, whether it be full wipes etc, I can't seem to be able to get CM10 to boot.
Was previously running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, and from what I can gather, CM10 should be compatible according to the latest nightly builds. I'm using the latest TF300T nightly build from get.cm.
Every time I flash CM10, I get stuck at the non-animated Asus screen with it stating "This device is UnLocked", the Asus logo, and also has the Nvidia Tegra stuff on the bottom right.
Can never get past this point with any Cyanogen Mod build. Back to normal and working condition with a wipe and flash of rooted JB 4.1.1.
Please help me, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I'm kind of new to android but should be able to handle some technical jargon
Cheers guys,
Axeon
Axxeon said:
Hi guys,
I've tried and tried, but whatever I do with TWRP/CWM recovery, whether it be full wipes etc, I can't seem to be able to get CM10 to boot.
Was previously running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, and from what I can gather, CM10 should be compatible according to the latest nightly builds. I'm using the latest TF300T nightly build from get.cm.
Every time I flash CM10, I get stuck at the non-animated Asus screen with it stating "This device is UnLocked", the Asus logo, and also has the Nvidia Tegra stuff on the bottom right.
Can never get past this point with any Cyanogen Mod build. Back to normal and working condition with a wipe and flash of rooted JB 4.1.1.
Please help me, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I'm kind of new to android but should be able to handle some technical jargon
Cheers guys,
Axeon
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No where in that thread does it say it's compatible, in fact it says the opposite at least 64 times. Not compatible once you're on the jellybean official
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Hello
I just got a Kindle Fire 6.3.1 from a friend in America (i'm in Australia). After I realised that I can't really use the Kindle Fire here I started researching how to change it to a Android.
FYI - I'm not at all computer savvy
So... I managed to root it and installed superuser. I also managed to find the jelly bean file and google app files and uploaded it to my Kindle. I then managed to get into team win - did a back up, wiped the cache and delvik cache but when I went to install and then flash the zips it always says error can't flash.
I also allowed other apps in the kindle settings.
I don't know what to do or what i'm doing wrong. I've spent about 2 days trying to do this and I'm starting to think that maybe I just don't have the magic computer touch.
I would really really appreciate any help.
thank you
P.S I have a MAC
Might I suggest rooting it and posting this in the Kindle Fire thread.
I would suggest taking a look at the Jelly Bean Roms.
Hi guys,
I just bought a new Coby Kyros MID8127 tablet (A8, Android 2.3) for my friend.
Now, I want to flash a custom ROM with JB on it, but I just did not find any ROM, CWM or tutorial for that here at XDA (or elsewhere).
Is it possible, that there is no custom ROM for that tablet to have?
Thank you in advance.
Greetings,
sYCO
I have the same tablet and I bought a custom ROM from the people at KTZ, however, I could not install this ROM successfully, in order to install it I had to take the tablet to factory reset state and then delete a bunch of system applications to make room for the new ROM because the ROM does not allow you to install it from a formatted system partition (it's more like an upgrade). But when I finally installed the ROM it wuold not boot a second time; what that means is that, after installation the ROM boots normally but if I reboot it gets caught in a loop where I just see a blue disk spinning and it doesn't do anything else and the only way to get it out of that loop is to connect the USB cable and boot to recovery via adb and restore the backup that i did before flashing the new ROM. I tried to get help from the guy who makes these ROMs but he wasn't very helpful. I followed all his instructions and always got the same result.
I managed to install manually most of the components of this ROM through a long process of trial and error and left out the components that make the tablet misbehave and now I have a hybrid on my tablet which works pretty well with the exception of the wifi. The wifi works but at times is painfully slow.
I tried other ROMs from Android Tablet forums (check here). There is an ICS Rom there (or more than one, I don't remember) and also a JB ROM for the 8127 but I could not make them work on my tablet. The ICS ROM installed fine and runs very fast but it keeps freezing so I uninstalled. The Jelly Bean did not install properly and it was very hard to get the tablet to a working state after it bricked.
That was a while ago and I haven't checked lately if there is something else out there.
leunam12 said:
I have the same tablet and I bought a custom ROM from the people at KTZ, however, I could not install this ROM successfully, in order to install it I had to take the tablet to factory reset state and then delete a bunch of system applications to make room for the new ROM because the ROM does not allow you to install it from a formatted system partition (it's more like an upgrade). But when I finally installed the ROM it wuold not boot a second time; what that means is that, after installation the ROM boots normally but if I reboot it gets caught in a loop where I just see a blue disk spinning and it doesn't do anything else and the only way to get it out of that loop is to connect the USB cable and boot to recovery via adb and restore the backup that i did before flashing the new ROM. I tried to get help from the guy who makes these ROMs but he wasn't very helpful. I followed all his instructions and always got the same result.
I managed to install manually most of the components of this ROM through a long process of trial and error and left out the components that make the tablet misbehave and now I have a hybrid on my tablet which works pretty well with the exception of the wifi. The wifi works but at times is painfully slow.
I tried other ROMs from Android Tablet forums (check here). There is an ICS Rom there (or more than one, I don't remember) and also a JB ROM for the 8127 but I could not make them work on my tablet. The ICS ROM installed fine and runs very fast but it keeps freezing so I uninstalled. The Jelly Bean did not install properly and it was very hard to get the tablet to a working state after it bricked.
That was a while ago and I haven't checked lately if there is something else out there.
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Hey Guys,
Just found this link. Maybe you can try it out and tell me if it works for you.
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...lly-bean-stock-lite-mid8127-rooted-gapps.html
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Hey Guys,
Just found this link. Maybe you can try it out and tell me if it works for you.
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...lly-bean-stock-lite-mid8127-rooted-gapps.html
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Sorry, I gave that tablet back and cannot test it anymore. I rather recommend to buy an Ainol Novo 7 Crystal. It is cheaper, better and ****ing fast with a nice custom ROM support like CM 10, CM 10.1, Paranoid 3.0, Crystal-Fuse, ...
Btw, KTZ sucks totally.
Hi,
I'm new to ROMs with the Motorola Photon Q, but I have prior experience doing this with other Android devices. I'm also a longtime Linux guy, so "adb" and "adb shell" are both comfortable environments for me.
A few weeks ago my stock JB Photon Q reached a state where it would only reach the yellow "Sprint" screen during the boot process, and hang there. I fiddled a bit with the bootloader, but didn't get very far, and ordered a replacement used Photon Q. Unfortunately my newer phone came with ICS, and I when I attempt the builtin operating system JB update I encounter a message "Unfortunately, Motorola Services has stopped", followed by an indefinite "Checking for available update.* Please wait ..." So I've unlocked both phones, and began fiddling, while using the newer (ICS) one as my active phone for making phone calls, etc.
Fortunately on my older phone (the one that had the yellow screen) I've now been able to install the TWRP 2.7.1.2 Recovery, and I installed the September 26th version of the MoKee KitKat ROM, i.e. MK44.4-moto_msm8960_jbbl-140926-RELEASE.zip. In principle I'd rather use a blessed CyanogenMod version, but am concerned about some of the recent Wifi (and to a lesser extent, Bluetooth) problems that I've read about.
Overall, my primary goals are a stable environment and being able to store Amazon Prime DRM'd files on my SD card, symlink them from the primary storage, and be able to play them using the Amazon Music app. Thanks in advance for your recommendations regarding stable ROMs.
[ on my MoKee KitKat phone, the Amazon app is crashing on most of the DRM'd files that I downloaded from the Amazon Music app, even though I haven't moved them to the SD card or done anything tricky like that ]
My question now is: if I install the same TWRP recovery on my newer phone, will I then be able to install the stock JB image? I've researched to see whether TWRP 2.7 is backwards-compatible with JB ROMs, but haven't found the answer. It would be nice to use the same Recovery when trying out different ROMs, including both JB and KitKat.
Thanks ...
Yes, TWRP should be able to handle any appropriately formed .zip. Regardless of Android version.