I feel like a bonehead cuz I bricked my FireTV by getting ahead of myself. This FTV came shipped with 51.1.3.0 and I have always had updates blocked in my router. I purchased a SD-card adapter and was able to gain root by injecting su into /system/xbin, Installed busybox, and all that fun stuff. Everything was going along just fine, until i tried to install RBox's boot menu/Recovery without fully understanding everything. Following a guide, I ran the full bootloader unlock script and it seemed to complete fine and FTV would still boot normally with root access. What I did next is the following, trying to install recovery I download the bootmenu.img file, uploaded it to my sd card and issued the following commands:
I have the ability to gain direct access to the FTV's file system, but although my electronic skills are superb, my linux/android skills are quite lacking. When I disable the CPU and connect the flash to my Ubuntu 15 VMWare system via usb, I am able to mount up 6 linux partitions from the FTV. I explored around them, but don't want to go plowing through anything like a bull in a china shop until I have a direction to take from someone who actually knows what they are doing to get my beloved Firetv booting again. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.
mount -o remount,rw /systemMy FTV restarted and has been stuck at the FireTV Logo every since. Not exactly sure where I went wrong. Did I have to downgrade before trying to install the boot menu? I did to the checksum test on the file before using it and it matched. Anyways, I tried factory reseting by holding the back/right remote control keys....no joy, tried the alt+prtsc+i keyboard procedure....nothing, tried a fastboot cable recovery.......got the drivers installed, firetv listed in devices using kindle usb driver, but although fastboot would connect and communicate to the FTV, it wouldn't respond to any fastboot commands.
mkdir /system/boot
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=/system/boot/boot.img
mount -o remount,ro /system
dd if=/sdcard/bootmenu.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot
exit
exit
adb reboot
I have the ability to gain direct access to the FTV's file system, but although my electronic skills are superb, my linux/android skills are quite lacking. When I disable the CPU and connect the flash to my Ubuntu 15 VMWare system via usb, I am able to mount up 6 linux partitions from the FTV. I explored around them, but don't want to go plowing through anything like a bull in a china shop until I have a direction to take from someone who actually knows what they are doing to get my beloved Firetv booting again. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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