How to Install CyanogenMod 7 (Alpha) to Amazon Kindle Fire

February 20, 2012 John Reyvaldi Android News

Thanks to a XDA member known as JackpotClavin, Kindle Fire users are now able to experience the famous CyanogenMod 7 custom ROM in their tablet. Sadly, the ROM is still in alpha phase. It is only made for testing purposes and compatible with Kindle Fire in software version 6.0 and 6.1. JackpotClavin also noted that once you’ve installed your Kindle with this ROM, you can’t go back to the factory default stock and loose integration with Amazon. Anyway, if you’re interested to try this one, here’s the installation instruction.

1. Make sure that your Kindle Fire is already rooted.
2. Grab the CyanogenMod 7 ROM and ClockworkMod Recovery for Kindle Fire and move it into the root folder of your SD card
3. Grab log and last-log file and move it into the /cache/recovery folder. In order to do that, you’ve to type the following adb command

adb shell
cd cache
mkdir recovery
cd /
cp /sdcard/log /cache/recovery/
cp /sdcard/last_log /cache/recovery/

4. Next, we will install the ClockworkMod Recovery into your Kindle Fire. Type the following adb command

adb shell
cd cache
mkdir recovery
cd /
cp /sdcard/log /cache/recovery/
cp /sdcard/last_log /cache/recovery/

5. As soon as you enter the last command line, your Kindle Fire will be installed with Clockworkmod Recovery. Now, we need to boot into the Recovery mode. In order to fo that, you need to type idme bootmode 0×5001 in the adb command

6. Press power button for few times until you’ve succesfully flashing the CyanogenMod 7 ROM in your Kindle Fire

7. Grab the Stock Recovery and enter the following adb command

adb shell
mount SD card
exit

Now, you have to enter the folder path where you put the stockrecovery.img file. You must enter the location in the adb command. It should be look like this

adb push <folder path> /sbin/

next, you have to enter this command

dd if=/sbin/stockrecovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/recovery

8. Wait for a while before you continue with the next step. A minute will be more than enough. When the time is come, you must type

adb reboot

Your Kindle Fire will be automatically reboot and worked under CyanogenMod 7

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