Amazon Fire 7 2015 (amazon-ford)

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Amazon Fire 7" is a cheap low-end tablet released back in November of 2015. It had specs similar to a Nexus 7 from 2012.

Amazon Fire 7 (2015)
Amazon Fire 7 running postmarketOS with Weston
Amazon Fire 7 running postmarketOS with Weston
Manufacturer Amazon
Name Fire 7 (2015)
Codename amazon-ford
Released 2015
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Original software Android (Fire OS)
Original version 5 (FireOS 5)
postmarketOS kernel 3.10.54
Hardware
Chipset MediaTek MT8127
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU Mali-450MP4
Display 600x1024 IPS
Storage 8 GB
Memory 1 GB
Architecture ARMv7
Type tablet
Features
USB Networking
Works
Flashing
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Display
Works
WiFi
FDE
Mainline
Broken
Battery
3D Acceleration
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
GPS
Internal storage
USB OTG
Works
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
Ir TX
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader
Broken


Contributors

  • BenTheTechGuy

Users owning this device


How to enter flash mode

  • TWRP can be reached by holding Volume Down and Power at boot.

Installation

Icon WARNING: PMOS needs to be flashed using TWRP instead of fastboot so the boot.img can be patched with the amonet exploit.
pmbootstrap init
pmbootstrap install --android-recovery-zip
# Make sure you're booted into TWRP at this point and Started ADB Sideload on the device
pmbootstrap flasher --method=adb sideload

See also