Once the tablet was rebooted, I was able to pull apart bat and repurpose the command lines for my ADB implementation. This took a while, but it successfully downgraded the OS to 5.4, which allowed me to start stripping away the Amazon bloat. Here was my command line history after I unzipped Platform Tools onto my desktop:Ĭd /Users/ YourUserName/Desktop/platform-tools Using ADB, I sideloaded the bin via the command line. MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere. In regard to ADB, I actually use Platform Tools, which just runs from a file I unzipped on my desktop: I used this link to download Fire OS 5.4 directly from Amazon: The device was now in a state waiting for the new/old OS bin to be loaded. Once in recovery, I used the volume buttons to navigate down to the option to update over ADB. I then connected the tablet to my Mac to confirm it showed up in ADB then turned off the device completely (held down the power button for 20 seconds), and booted into recovery (Volume Down and Power at the same time). Once the device was booted up, I enabled developer mode, enabled ADB debugging and enabled installation of unsigned apps. I knew the only way I could do this was to downgrade the OS and risk bricking the device – a risk I was willing to take for ~$35.įirst I did a complete factory reset on my device, and went through the setup again, this time following the instructions described in the post to input a bogus wifi password and then skipping the wifi setup. I then came across this thread and wanted desperately to strip out the Amazon bloat. Before ever seeing this thread, I set up my tablet and upgraded the OS further to 5.6.1. I purchased an Amazon Fire 7 7th Generation that came with Fire OS 5.6 installed. Hello all, just wanted to give some insight into my experience getting this set up on my device.
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