something little different today it is
April 7th 2019 and we have a Kindle Fire
seven and a little friend who's gonna
watch so they recently announced that
there was a route option available for
the 2015 or the rather the 5th gen
Kindle Fire 7 and so today I'm gonna try
and figure out how to route it there is
not a video that I saw online that shows
how to use the new hack route thing Bob
blahblah
so I'm gonna make one first off we need
to open it up and this guy said you can
do it with a guitar pick and he made it
look easy
great ok so next so I was able to get it
to crack open one of these cheapy iPad
pod thing of Bob's alright here we go
what is that RFID interesting alright so
here's the device and let's see if this
pops up I think I need to get underneath
that come on buddy
starting to come off I think we need a
better tool there we go all right
so here is the back side of the unit
looking pretty for us and we've got the
processor right there and that looks
like it could be the storage oh wait
there's another mediatek yeah that's the
processor that's the other thing the MT
6 3 2 3 L GA and that anyway we're
inside and our instructions say for us
to short out what appears to be this pin
to this which is I assume a grounded
area and this is the image that's linked
over on the XDA developer thing so what
I'm gonna do because this needs to be
done while it's plugged in I'm just
gonna sod our a little wire on there so
I can easily touch it to this when I
need to actually I have this little tiny
switch I'm gonna side of that on and
just to see what's going on I am going
to check something out here cuz I have a
suspicion that this little pad is also
ground no very nice I'm not reading any
the image there and then I'm just gonna
check what is this this goes through
some kind of 88 ohm resistance and if I
flip it around
[Music]
598 ohms alright so yeah so I'm gonna
actually I'm just gonna solder this
little guy right across there just
happen to have something the right size
put some solder gloop on it some old
flux and tin the the pad
I should probably disconnect the battery
but they didn't just put a little bit of
solder on there oops a bit of solder a
little bit of solder oh that just
doesn't want to wet it needs to be a
little bit warmer because this candle is
obviously assembled
come on with non leaded solder go all
right now we got that soldered on there
I can easily depress that when I need to
take it off when we're done
all right per the instructions this was
for the fifth gen we're gonna download
this Emma net thing some repositories
turn off the modem and we're supposed to
supposed to update doing the thing
install some other things stop modem
manager if you're running from a live
disc you could just sudo everything or
you can add your user if you're
installed Linux whatever username to the
dialog group oh I already did that all
right so now we're ready we have opted
to go with opening the device and
putting a thing in a little short so my
switch is underneath the metal thing
which is holding down the switch so that
when I get to the right point I can just
pop that metal cover off and the switch
will stop being pressed in so we're
gonna run this and it's gonna be sitting
here and now hopefully when I I got to
get two hands for this the instructions
aren't really clear if I have to hold
down the left thing while I plug it in
or not when I have the pin on the back
shorted so I'm just gonna try one thing
at a time
okay so it knew that I had the pin on
there so now I just flip it over I'm
gonna pop that cover off so I guess I
didn't really need that and well then we
see what happens
where's my mouse get into here hit enter
whoa what's it doing on the front
nothing can't see anything
all right we'll let it do its thing
all right so now mmm nothing's coming up
Oh
hacked fastboot mode 0 X Y Z 4 K 4 y 0 Z
all right cool
hull so let's run the next option which
is the fastboot step and it turned off
did something
ok so we're waiting for TW RP come on
baby
all right that's what we want to see all
right so what do we do now all right so
I think it's just as simple as allow
modifications so actually that screen we
just saw about sliding that means that
the operating system image is encrypted
I forgot that they started encrypting
everything by default so at this point
we can let's see what what can we do we
can follow the instructions to just
flash a new OS a new ROM which there is
one available that doesn't have some of
the stuff enabled by default such as
over-the-air update I mean I guess the
reason why I want to do any of this from
the get-go is that I'm not happy with
the stock firmware because it's very
slow for me and so I just want to be
able to like use this stinkin tablet for
watching Amazon videos and not have it
mess up all the time on me so I don't
have anything on that device I'm going
to download this fire OS revamped and
[Music]
move on from there so this doesn't have
forced over-the-air updates or any of
this other junk and I'm going to
download it
I hate these big green buttons that say
click here to download how do I know
this is the right one okay okay and we
wait
[Music]
there we go verify the md5 okay 73f see
do for it looks good and I don't know if
this is a good idea if it's useful or
not I'm gonna back up to an SD card that
I have inside it's a 64 gig and of
course the internal storage being the
three pictures on there are not going to
be backed up because that's an encrypted
storage location and they can't access
it but I don't really care but you know
I'm curious let's just reboot login see
what's going on on oh yeah I know
what do I use I use Prime video only and
occasionally obd2 and that's all I
actually use this for see you I did have
one file but I have to send my Dropbox
okay let's do that again
turn it off unplug so it's ready to go
get this thing going go ahead and plug
oh wait a second we gotta get a hold
down my little power switch or my little
reset switch so I'm gonna hold down this
button and that will short it out and
while I'm doing that I'm going to be
watching on this screen so
precarious remove the short and press
Enter
okay so I've removed to the short not
pressing the button hit the enter key
does the things again
Wayne for it all right
hacked fastboot mode yogurt and then we
run fastboot and it flashes flashed some
things on the screen but it should come
up as T WRP now come on
alright so now a one last thing I also
downloaded magic and I copied both of
those to the SD card got magic and I've
got that fire OS that we downloaded
earlier oh okay so now first thing we're
gonna do is I don't know if the right
thing or not but I'm gonna wipe the
device format data yes and that's
because the internal storage is
encrypted and I don't need that
and then I don't know if that is
required but now I'm going to select an
install image and install zip I think
wiping it requires that I reboot for the
third time we run this I hold down the
button Oh Laurie cam hold this down
while we plug in plug in let me watch
the thing I let go with a button
Oh enter it's doing its thing it starts
up and then we launch fastboot and it
should boot GW RP for us there we go
that uh alright so now we're going to is
it install or is it restore select the
SD card and I want yeah what is that
no that's a backup so I think it is
store install so I have the SD card
loaded up now and it's a zip file and
it's fire OS and so now it's going to
install the thing
now of course it's backing up but that's
fine
okay that was really quick and now we
see what happens hopefully we have a new
fresh OS there was note that once you
enter the Wi-Fi information for the
first time it's supposed to freeze and
supposed to bring us to the noble
launcher so we'll see if that happens
fire optimizing welcome to fire
let's do English it's supposed to crash
or something at this point did it
alright so now you should do something
horrible like crash cuz I said no
updates right crash please what
interesting if you play with this enough
the not now button comes up and you can
skip registration
so were we successful I don't know
all right well uh let's also check um
interesting so I don't know what
happened I should be on five six three
oh and this one is showing five six
three five three six four as if it
installed fresh I did something wrong I
think yes I have music and I have silk
so why does this have silk and music
let's let's try again booting up again
what does that mean I think I hit the
button on the back while it was flashing
so I'm not gonna do that again it's
coming up launch fastboot it does its
thing and it should come up to t2 or
TWRP so let's just try this again we
want to install we want to install a zip
file from the SD card and we're gonna do
fire OS and we're going to reboot
five six three zero build 2018 buy
Android maybe I just clicked the wrong
button last time this is taking much
longer which is good okay is that it all
right he's working let's check on my hot
pepper okay whew so interesting it
remembered my Wi-Fi settings somehow but
now we have a different launcher and yes
so now we have a successful install of
this custom ROM cool alright so I'm
gonna play with it for a week and see
how the performance is and if it
actually made it better but I did the
thing it only took us 20 minutes two
hours in the real world so cool just
show you the version there we go alright
so you too can root your device I am now
going to unsolder that little button on
there and put it all back together
subscribe
[Music]