Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite (amazon-sheldon)

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Amazon Fire tv stick lite
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Fire TV Stick Lite
Manufacturer Amazon
Name Fire tv stick lite
Codename amazon-sheldon
Model sheldon
Released 2020
Type set-top box
Hardware
Chipset MediaTek MT8695
CPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 1.7GHz
GPU -
Display HDMI
Storage 8GB
Memory 1.5 GB DDR4
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software FireOS
Original version 5
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline partial
postmarketOS kernel 4.4.161
Features
Flashing
Partial
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
SD card
Screen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Audio
Broken
Camera Flash
IR RX
Connectivity
WiFi
Broken
Bluetooth
Broken
Ethernet
Miscellaneous
FDE
USB OTG
Works
HDMI/DP
Works
Haptics

Contributors

User:BeastRein

Maintainer(s)

Users owning this device

  • Chipmunk (Notes: Unlocked using the kamakiri exploit; runs LineageOS 18.1)
  • Neko (Notes: Stock)


Installation

create a recovery zip as flashing through fastboot will lead to a temporary soft brick. postmarketos does not see the root filesystem when using the system partition, so ensure that the rootfs is on userdata