Developing ROMs for Kindle Fire 2 - Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Hi everyone!
I will be purchasing a Kindle Fire for my friend on Christmas, and wanted to become further informed regarding custom ROMs on the Kindle Fire.
Specifically, the newer Kindle Fire 2nd Generation, which was available at a lowered price for a day on amazon. (upgraded 1GB RAM, 1.2GHz, running Amazon OS over android 4.0 vs. older gen which ran on 2.3, with only 512MB RAM and 1Ghz processor)
There are currently no custom android ROMs for this new model Kindle Fire, but there are masses of ROMs for the first Kindle Fire.
Would it be possible for myself to modify a Kindle Fire AOSP-based rom for the new Kindle Fire? (unoficcial CM10, Jelly Bean ROM tablet optimized, etc.)
They have very few hardware differences, perhaps I could implement the new additions into the source code and attempt to run?
I would like to know if this idea is feasible for a person with little android developing knowledge, or if it would be only for higher-level devs.
Thanks!
question_air said:
Hi everyone!
I will be purchasing a Kindle Fire for my friend on Christmas, and wanted to become further informed regarding custom ROMs on the Kindle Fire.
Specifically, the newer Kindle Fire 2nd Generation, which was available at a lowered price for a day on amazon. (upgraded 1GB RAM, 1.2GHz, running Amazon OS over android 4.0 vs. older gen which ran on 2.3, with only 512MB RAM and 1Ghz processor)
There are currently no custom android ROMs for this new model Kindle Fire, but there are masses of ROMs for the first Kindle Fire.
Would it be possible for myself to modify a Kindle Fire AOSP-based rom for the new Kindle Fire? (unoficcial CM10, Jelly Bean ROM tablet optimized, etc.)
They have very few hardware differences, perhaps I could implement the new additions into the source code and attempt to run?
I would like to know if this idea is feasible for a person with little android developing knowledge, or if it would be only for higher-level devs.
Thanks!
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Did anyone ever get the bootloaders on the new Kindle Fires unlocked so we could boot an alternate kernel yet? (I know Hashcode was working on it but I haven't been keeping up)
Still locked, making the second generation a white elephant.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda app-developers app
Isn't this the wrong forum to post this? First of all, the title says Kindle Fire 2 (misleading), second, this is a question.
this "question" belongs in the Q&A section not development...
asf58967 said:
this "question" belongs in the Q&A section not development...
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Agree and moved to Q&A
MD
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