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I've had my kindle fire rooted and played around with things here and there on it but am ready to make the jump and install a rom on it to get close to the full android functionality i have on my phone. I have read a few of the ROM threads but am having trouble deciding which one to install. I see multiple cm7 ones, multiple ICS ones, etc. I'm having a hard time figuring out the difference on them.
I am looking for the ROM that is the most stable. I mainly use my kindle for watching movies on netflix and google videos while traveling, reading in the kindle app, surfing the web, and playing a game or two here and there.
Recommendations?
Thanks!
I'm kind of in the same boat but tried cm7 barebones, modaco custom, hashcode, and miui blaze..I think I have one of the cm7's (with ics theme) on it now since I watch movies from vlc interface (from pc) and movies on my sdcard. I never did use the kindle for kindle cause day one, I rooted it and start putting roms on it . So i don't know what software to use for books (audio books too).
I love MoDaCo. I prefer the stock look since I already have an Android phone. It's been rock solid.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
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I love MoDaCo. I prefer the stock look since I already have an Android phone. It's been rock solid.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
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While I personally use CM9 on mine, I'd have to agree with Lithium. I used Modaco's from from day 1 of purchasing my kindle up until last Friday when I flashed CM9. Its a great, rock solid ROM with just the right number of tweaks.
Plus, if you really want to stray a little further from stock launcher just get ADW or something of the sort.
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Most Stability and Most Features: CM7 for Kindle Fire (aka standing on the shoulders Giants) Add Volume ControlVolume Control and your good to go.
Most Stock with Extra Features:MaDaCo
Cutting Edge without Hardware Acceleration (No HD Netflix/Youtube): CM9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1510127
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495266
thanks for the advice everyone. ill give one of these a try.
suggestion to the kindle rom developers out there-
it seems to me that its a tougher to get an idea of the features, problems, etc with some of the rom in the kindle forum (including a few suggested in this thread) than the other ones ive been in (epic 4g primarily). Seems like the first posts for the kindle roms are from when the rom first started and the developers keep describing most of the new features and problems in later posts instead of updating the first post. makes it hard to decide if you want to try the rom if you have to read through 30 pages of posts to get a feel for all the features and issues with the rom. most of the roms i have looked at for my phone had screenshots and long lists of all the features and any ongoing issues with the rom.
thanks!
I have been experimenting with ICS Rom for Nook Color. It's Kindle Fire turn now. To get up to speed, I just want to ask for your opinion as to which ICS Rom is, relatively speaking, most promising so far?
Nathan
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Ooop! Sorry. I will move to proper section.
Nathan
I've tried quite a few now and I keep going back to this one:
[rom]cm9-16mar12.zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23696294#post23696294
To me it is the cleanest and most stable, and it closely resembles stock ICS which I prefer.
The latest Energy CM9 is awesome. The developer (NRG), has done some very nice theme enhancements and performance tweaks that make this ROM about as perfect add it can be short of the known ICS issues, namely lack of hardware acceleration.
Here's where to find it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528024
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I have been experimenting with ICS rom for Nook Color. Now it's Kindle Fire turn. I see a few ICS rom out there for Kindle Fire.
Which ICS rom has been doing well for you?
Nathan
So far I like AOKP the best which can be found here at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528755
It is really responsive and smooth so far.
I recently swapped from GummyNex to AOKP on my Galaxy Nexus and thought I would give this ROM a try and I am not going back.
Use the ROM in the link though. Their site has a newer build and it says the kindle fire is supported, however, me and a couple of other people cant seem to get it to boot.
I have not ready anything on a Nook in a while so I am not sure if it suffers from the same problem, but currently Hardware Acceleration does not work on a KF in ICS so that means you cannot play HD Videos (youtube, the web, etc), use google chrome, or watch Netflix.
Other than that I have not had any problems.
I like the classicnerd butta one, but recently I've been compiling my own builds.
My daughter got a new Kindle Fire as a birthday gift over the weekend, and we’re trying to figure out which ROM to put on it. She has an Android phone, so her primary purpose of ROMing the Kindle Fire is to access the Google Play store and to be able to sync all of her other Google services... Books, Music, Apps, Gmail, Calendar, Talk, etc…
We’re not necessarily looking for the latest/greatest, but we are mostly interested in…
Most Stable & Bug Free (we don't plan on changing often)
Closest to Vanilla Android (no themes)
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Honestly a rooted kindle fire and Go launcher app will get you the least fuss and closest to an android phone without losing the Amazon functionality.
However, if you want to go ROM and are looking for most stable the Cynogen Mod 7 roms are the most stable and will be exactly like having an android phone.
Good luck
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Honestly a rooted kindle fire and Go launcher app will get you the least fuss and closest to an android phone without losing the Amazon functionality.
However, if you want to go ROM and are looking for most stable the Cynogen Mod 7 roms are the most stable and will be exactly like having an android phone.
Good luck
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Thank you... and honestly, we don't care much about keeping the Amazon functionality. If I knew magic, I would simply turn the Kindle Fire into a Nexus 7 and be done with it. But, we'll work with what we've got!
i use this mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778010
it is pretty stable as is, and updating it is easy.
cm7 is nice, because it is stable, but myself, i prefer the latest and greatest.
also, be sure to use something along these lines to set up your kindle for the new rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
Thanks I was looking at that one and also Hashcode's Jellybean.
I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and read the KFFB Guide this morning... just trying to figure out which ROM to go with.
Personally I recommend an ICS rom. CM7 is good but it is getting outdated. Jellybean is also good but still has bugs. ICS does not have any major bugs and is a lot smoother than CM7. I suggest either the SGT7 based rom by twa_priv, Glazed ICS, or gedeROM.
When you ask me the cm9/ SGT7 based rom by twa_priv,
Or cm10/jelly bean rom based on SGT7 by twa_priv.
If you need to use Amazon's services, check out the MoDaCo ROM. It is the stock rom, but has preinstalled, the Play Store, as well as other things.
If you would like to use ICS, check out GedeROM as it is based on Cyanogen Mod 9 and has lots of features such as advertisement blocking and Beats audio as well as limited support for USB OTG.
If you want it to look like a Nexus 7, you can always install a Jelly Bean ROM. I'm using the Jandycane ROM.
twa_priv's jelly bean Rom is pretty stable. I use it and haven't had any problems.
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Thanks everyone... I got Hashcode's Jellybean installed last night, and it's running great. However, now my daughter is telling me that she misses the way her Kindle Fire looked before the ROM... teenagers! So, I might have to redo it and give MoDaCo that jji7skyline recommended.
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Thanks everyone... I got Hashcode's Jellybean installed last night, and it's running great. However, now my daughter is telling me that she misses the way her Kindle Fire looked before the ROM... teenagers! So, I might have to redo it and give MoDaCo that jji7skyline recommended.
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Modaco is pretty good. I personally like the real android interface better but it's her kindle not mine.
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I second the MoDaCo recommendation. It gives the best of both worlds, full Amazon integration with performance enhancements, root and GAPPS! I've tried many of the ICS ROMs and the charging / battery life issues are just a deal breaker for me as it seriously hampers usability. I also have yet to see an ICS ROM that implements decent 2D video acceleration...try using Zite on an ICS ROM vs stock/MoDaCo, it's buttery smooth on stock and so slow scrolling on ICS that it's nearly unusable (and that's with the 1.2 Ghz overclock).
Good luck with whatever choice you make!
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I ended up installing MoDaCo over the weekend. My daughter was out of town, so she hasn't given me her feedback yet. But, I played around with it and liked it quite a bit.
The only thing that bugs me is the low resolution icons from the Play Store that show up in the carousel. The Play Store icon itself seems to be high resolution, but the icons from downloaded apps look pretty bad when enlarged by the carousel.
In the next coming days ill be running into your same situation. Younger sis got a kindle fire for her birthday. Am planning to root and install her a good ICS Rom. A stable one, as I will not have free time to wipe cache and debug everytime something happens. My kindle fire has the Modaco Rom. I can tell you from my experience that the modaco has several downsides, as I see it. As u mentilned the carousel icons are hectic but bearable. One more problem is the gapps are all outdated like youtube and the browser is sub par compared to chrome.
I just wish I can flash nexus 7's Rom right on top
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veeman said:
Personally I recommend an ICS rom. CM7 is good but it is getting outdated. Jellybean is also good but still has bugs. ICS does not have any major bugs and is a lot smoother than CM7. I suggest either the SGT7 based rom by twa_priv, Glazed ICS, or gedeROM.
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This is good advice. CM10 ROMs still have Location Services issues and the occasional widget loss on reboot. If you want everything to work nicely grab twa_priv's CM9 ROM. If you want Jelly Bean and can wait a few weeks it's likely a good idea to wait. Remember, for us half the fun is gettng the latest and greatest and fiddling with getting stuff to work. For your daughter you really just want it to work.
Try Jandycane. I installed it and it runs great
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Anything from twa_prob. His CM9 based ROM is more stable, but the CM10 version is quickly catching up.
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Hashcode's is great and easy to use. (I am a kid , also.)
When life gives you tech....Make use of it.
Kindle "Tate" & OFFICIAL CyanogenMod 11.0 for the Kindle Fire HD 7"
Just wanted to post this for anyone looking to do this. I have the Tate Kindle Fire HD and as we all know there have been no updates to the OS and there probably will not be any. Most of the people here like to play with things to see how they work and see what they get away with. I'm no different.
Not being able to use all of the Android apps can be frustrating especially when there is an app that can play on your device but it's not on the Amazon app store yet. Every Kindle owner secretly dreams of being able to use the Google Play Store.
So I did what a lot of us have done and I rooted my Kindle Tate and installed the Google Play Store. I was checking out some apps and then I went to purchase Grand Theft Auto and I got a this version is not supported on your device warning. It would not let me purchase this app while rooted with the Google Play Store. Apparently the services that it checks for are not available on a rooted tablet. Plenty of other apps let me install them but I realized that the good apps all had hardware requirements.
After this happened I was thinking that rooting your Kindle Fire HD is just a waste of time if I'm limited to only the generic apps. Grand Theft Auto runs on my Kindle Fire HD from the Amazon app store just fine in case anyone is wondering.
So after seeing that rooting your Kindle Fire HD is really a waste of time if you're just going to put the Google Play Store on it. Especially for people that want everything. If you only want generic apps then you might as well just stay with Amazon. So that's what I was thinking. Then I said well maybe I can just install Android 4.4 with theCyanogenMod
So I got everything I needed and proceeded to put CyanogenMod 11.0 on my Kindle Fire Tate. First impressions I was like YEAH, this is hot. You could configure it and change the wallpaper and it just looked great. I was thinking that I definitely made a good decision and that I would be able to enjoy my Kindle Fire HD more.
Then after playing around with it for a while and trying lots of apps for it I started to realize that yeah it looks good but compared to the Generic Amazon OS it ran like crap. I could install Grand Theft Auto on my device once I put the CyanogenMod on my device but it ran like crap so I installed Magic 2014 on it, a game that I had played on this Kindle for many hours. It was choppy and laggy. You would press the screen and nothing would happen. It was playable but it was bad compared to playing on the Amazon OS. I tried to optimize it and spent at least 3 hours trying to get it to play games smoothly but it just wouldn't. I'm older also and you will notice right away that apps text size is smaller. You can increase the text size for the device in settings but it has no effect on the apps that you run. Text from apps I played on the Amazon OS was very small on Android 4.4. This may not be a big deal to younger people but to me it was noticeable. It was like the text for a phone instead of a tablet.
So then I restored my Kindle Fire HD and then wiped it to factory settings and re installed everything that I was using on the Android 4.4 and wow was it so much better. The Amazon OS while not pretty is fast and responsive compared to this. It felt like a nice tablet again.
I'm just writing this for the average joe. Don't waste your time with your Kindle Fire HD Tate by trying to make it better. Nothing you can do is going to get it how you want it. Just enjoy it for what it is. If you want to have a nice Android device running the latest software then just buy an Android Device that's running he latest software. If you buy a Kindle they you are just locked into what you spent.
My next tablet will be a device that just runs on Android.
hi
what build of cm11 did you use?
Im curious I have just installed snapshot m6 on my kindle but I haven't tested any games or apps at all.
I'm curious how you tried to adjust text size, I just would have tried tweaking the DPI (think it's labeled something like screen density in the build.prop) I believe you could boost your performance more with maromis kernel by setting the clock as high as it can go (not every device can handle the highest setting without locking up) and putting it in performance mode. Remember hashcode is still working on this ROM and has been for a while. Personally my kindle runs much faster on cm 11 than it did on stock, but I dont use it for gaming, I find most android games annoying once they bring in 3d games that look like ps1 era graphics. I prefer 2d games on android like beat hazard or angry birds.
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Skinpipe said:
hi
what build of cm11 did you use?
Im curious I have just installed snapshot m6 on my kindle but I haven't tested any games or apps at all.
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I tried the build from the 29th and the 30th and it was the same with both builds. I also read through the development thread and I noticed that playing games was an issue.
If you're not playing games then it would probably be fine. All the normal apps ran good enough that I could live with the performance but I want my device to be able to do everything.
stunts513 said:
I'm curious how you tried to adjust text size, I just would have tried tweaking the DPI (think it's labeled something like screen density in the build.prop) I believe you could boost your performance more with maromis kernel by setting the clock as high as it can go (not every device can handle the highest setting without locking up) and putting it in performance mode. Remember hashcode is still working on this ROM and has been for a while. Personally my kindle runs much faster on cm 11 than it did on stock, but I dont use it for gaming, I find most android games annoying once they bring in 3d games that look like ps1 era graphics. I prefer 2d games on android like beat hazard or angry birds.
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Yeah I think the issue is gaming. It ran fine while doing normal things. It was just when I put games on it that it had major problems. I know everyone doesn't play games but a lot of us do. It's a deal breaker for me. I just went into settings and made the text size large which was fine but in apps I noticed that the text was small. I mainly noticed this in Magic 2014. The text is already small in this game but running the Cyan-Mod it was unbearably small for me. Some people would probably be ok with it. I'm 48 and my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
This tablet only has a dual core processor, it would run games a lot faster with a quad core processor.
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Maxxgold said:
Yeah I think the issue is gaming. It ran fine while doing normal things. It was just when I put games on it that it had major problems. I know everyone doesn't play games but a lot of us do. It's a deal breaker for me. I just went into settings and made the text size large which was fine but in apps I noticed that the text was small. I mainly noticed this in Magic 2014. The text is already small in this game but running the Cyan-Mod it was unbearably small for me. Some people would probably be ok with it. I'm 48 and my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
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I have a KFHD7 and a Nexus 7 and the both game fine. My Kindle is the tablet I have set up for gaming using the HDMI cord and my six axis app because the Kindle natively maintains a charge while using HDMI. That means I game all day if I want. I play emulators, GTA, Modern Combat, Max Payne and a slew of other games. The Kindle games great and the majority of my games are from the Play Store. Sorry your luck is not so good with the Kindle. It's not as snappy as my Nexus 7 Flo but it's much faster with CM on it. My opinion.
Edit: About GTA from Amazon App Store - Some apps sold there are Kindle editions and are not completely compatible for other tablets. GTA from the Play Store works on my Kindle with CM on it while the one I bought from Amazon is not compatible with either my Nexus or Kindle because it's a Kindle app. When you put CM on your Kindle, your tablet is no longer recognized as a Kindle. I bought it because I got half coins back plus $20 buck worth of coins free.
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After reading your post I felt compelled to reply, as my own experiences installing and using CM11 on the KFHD "Tate" have been nothing like what you have described. It is unfortunate that you were not able to get things working the way you wanted them to...that being said, the decision to switch from the stock Amazon ROM to CM11 has transformed my Kindle from a glorified e-reader/24 hour Amazon advertisement to a fast and reliable full-function Android tablet. I can say this without reservation. There is nothing that a Nexus 7 or other comparable tablet can do that I can't do just as well on my KFHD. 100% of the credit for that goes to CyanogenMod. Thanks to CM11, my KFHD is currently overclocked to 1728.0MHz max frequency, which is a 42% increase in clock speed over Amazon's kernel. The GPU is similarly overclocked. This has come, at least in my case, at no cost to stability. Prior to switching from the stock Amazon ROM I sideloaded Antutu benchmark. With the stock ROM installed the highest score I ever saw was around 9500. After switching to CM11, the same exact device managed a score of 15485. There is simply no comparison. CM11 > Amazon ROM. Any day of the week.
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After reading your post I felt compelled to reply, as my own experiences installing and using CM11 on the KFHD "Tate" have been nothing like what you have described. It is unfortunate that you were not able to get things working the way you wanted them to...that being said, the decision to switch from the stock Amazon ROM to CM11 has transformed my Kindle from a glorified e-reader/24 hour Amazon advertisement to a fast and reliable full-function Android tablet. I can say this without reservation. There is nothing that a Nexus 7 or other comparable tablet can do that I can't do just as well on my KFHD. 100% of the credit for that goes to CyanogenMod. Thanks to CM11, my KFHD is currently overclocked to 1728.0MHz max frequency, which is a 42% increase in clock speed over Amazon's kernel. The GPU is similarly overclocked. This has come, at least in my case, at no cost to stability. Prior to switching from the stock Amazon ROM I sideloaded Antutu benchmark. With the stock ROM installed the highest score I ever saw was around 9500. After switching to CM11, the same exact device managed a score of 15485. There is simply no comparison. CM11 > Amazon ROM. Any day of the week.
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I think the guy ****ed up somewhere. Never had issues besides rooting. Not even gonna lie when I rooted my device was fine but when I tried to install boot loader it never completed properly but I got lucky and our worked. ROM's never had issues with device besides allowing my device to run faster. Amazon os seems good because their is literaly nothing but the app drawer and store on it.
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Thanks to CM11, my KFHD is currently overclocked to 1728.0MHz max frequency, which is a 42% increase in clock speed over Amazon's kernel. The GPU is similarly overclocked.
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What tool or kernel are you using for overclocking? I'm running CM11 M8 on my Tate, and the built-in performance settings only let me go to 1500MHz for the CPU and I don't see any GPU overclocking options.
Although I will say that even just running CM11 at 1500MHz seems substantially faster than running Amazon's stock at 1200MHz, including for games, so I don't know what OP is talking about. Granted, he was running a nightly from several weeks before the M8 snapshot, so he could have just been running into some bugs.
Dr. Drax said:
What tool or kernel are you using for overclocking? I'm running CM11 M8 on my Tate, and the built-in performance settings only let me go to 1500MHz for the CPU and I don't see any GPU overclocking options.
Although I will say that even just running CM11 at 1500MHz seems substantially faster than running Amazon's stock at 1200MHz, including for games, so I don't know what OP is talking about. Granted, he was running a nightly from several weeks before the M8 snapshot, so he could have just been running into some bugs.
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You have to flash the linaro kernel for cm11...you can find it in these forums and should be able to flash from twrp
Kindle Fire HD 7" all data and partitions lost
Miskreant said:
You have to flash the linaro kernel for cm11...you can find it in these forums and should be able to flash from twrp
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hi,
i have Kindle Fire HD 7" after some issues i try to flashing, voip all data and delete backup etc, my WTRP V.2.7.8.0 changed to v.2.6.3.1 and stuck in kindle fire logo and not connected to pc or not show storage in my computer.
please help me and restore my kindle fire tate. thanks a lot