Amazon Fire TV Stick Basic Edition (amazon-tank)
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Flashing |
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Display |
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Contributors
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Maintainer(s)
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Users owning this device
Information
The Amazon Fire TV Stick Basic Edition contains the same hardware of Fire TV Stick (Gen 2), but is meant for global market.
Unlocking the bootloader
Before installing PostmarketOS you need to unlock the bootloader using the amonet exploit as explained here.
Installation
- Install the amonet exploit following this guide on XDA
- Configure PostmarketOS using pmbootstrap init
- Create the recovery zip using pmbootstrap install --android-recovery-zip
- Export the recovery zip using pmbootstrap export
- Clone the amonet repository
- Launch amonet/boot-recovery.sh
- Connect the Fire TV Stick to your computer
- The Fire TV Stick should boot to TWRP recovery
- Copy the recovery zip with adb push /tmp/postmarketOS-export/pmos-amazon-tank.zip /tmp/
- Install the recovery zip with adb shell twrp install /tmp/pmos-amazon-tank.zip
- Reboot with adb shell reboot
Serial port
This picture shows the location of the UART pads on the PCB.
See also
- pmaports!939 Initial merge request
- FCC certification page