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Amazon Fire HD 8 2017 (amazon-douglas)

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Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017)
Fire HD 8 2017 booted and running weston.
Fire HD 8 2017 booted and running weston.
Manufacturer Amazon
Name Fire HD 8 (2017)
Codename amazon-douglas
Released 2017
Type tablet
Hardware
Chipset MediaTek MT8163
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T730MP3
Display 800 x 1280 IPS LCD
Storage 16GB or 32GB
Memory 1.5 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android (Fire OS)
Original version 5.1 (Fire OS 5.3.7.1)
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline no
postmarketOS kernel 3.18.19
Features
Flashing
Partial
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
Works
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Broken
Audio
Broken
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Broken
Bluetooth
Broken
NFC
No data
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB OTG
Broken
HDMI/DP
No data
Sensors
Accelerometer
No data
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data


Contributors

Users owning this device

  • Autumn64 (Notes: Running Lineage)
  • Neko (Notes: LineageOS 17.1)


Known Issues

  • When accessing the audio device (such as via hwtest), the device freezes. After reboot you may be prompted with a "Collecting Logs" screen with an Amazon logo, indicating some sort of firmware level log collector.
  • CPU1,2,3 continuously enable and disable themselves, with logs such as:
[  378.053320] -(3)[0:swapper/3]CPU3: Booted secondary processor
[  378.053334] -(3)[0:swapper/3][name:cpuinfo&]Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3
[  378.053385] -(3)[0:swapper/3][name:topology&]CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
[  378.122632]  (0)[1829:kworker/0:2][name:mtk_wcn_stub_alps&][cmb_stub] thermal_ctrl_cb null
[  378.342631] -(0)[1600:kwin_wayland][name:sched_monitor&][BURST IRQ DURATION WARN] IRQ[ 51:musb-hdrc.0.auto] +1237 ( dur 30000 us , avg 24 us)
[  379.122661]  (0)[1829:kworker/0:2][name:mtk_wcn_stub_alps&][cmb_stub] thermal_ctrl_cb null
[  380.053771]  (1)[71:hps_main][name:smp&]CPU3: shutdown
  • Although the kernel can detect plugged in USB keyboard, nor X neither wayland can use the keyboard. evtest works tho. USB drives also mounts correctly..

How to enter flash mode


Alternatively, you can flash just the boot_x partition and then flash the rest of the system on an external sdcard:

  • pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/...: This will install the rootfs on a SD card mounted on your computer.
  • fastboot flash boot_x boot.img-amazon-douglas: This will flash the initramfs onto the device.
  • Then remove the sd card from your computer and insert it into the device. Then reboot it.
  • Future updates to the rootfs does not require additional fastboot operations.

See also