Do you own a Kindle Fire and wished to get the new Jelly Bean update on your tablet? When you thought that it’s not possible, AOSP-based Jelly Bean (4.1.1) ROM has been released for the Amazon Kindle Fire.
The new ROM has arrived courtesy of XDA Developers member Hashcode, and although it’s said to run fairly smoothly, it is in beta state and this means that it does have a few imperfections. For example, there are a few issues with the HD codecs, which could affect the use of both YouTube and Netflix. But this problem is expected to end with Texas Instruments soon to be updating the libion code in the next couple of days.
Apart from the codec problem, the screen might also have some issues and turning on UMS could bring about more problems (just a little bit). But then again, that should also end soon.
Remember: Flashing the firmware onto your Kindle Fire isn’t that difficult, but make sure you follow the tutorial carefully so as to avoid having any issues along the way. Neither Redmond Pie nor iTechPost will be held accountable for any software/hardware related issues you may incur as a result of following this guide. So proceed at your own risk. (You will find all the download links below)
Here are the steps to install –
Step 1: Download the Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 ROM for your Kindle Fire. It’s around 108MB, so it may take a little while if you’re on a slow connection. Download link at the official XDA thread below.
Step 2: Download Gapps, which you’ll also need to flash onto your device. Download link at the official XDA thread below.
Step 3: Power down your device, and boot into recovery.
Step 4: Flash the ROM/Gapps you downloaded in the first two steps from ClockworkMod Recovery, and make sure you do a complete wipe of the data and cache. (Warning: This will delete your personal data, so ensure everything is backed up)
Step 5: That’s it. Simply restart your device from CWM and your Kindle Fire should now be running Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1, and if you find you cannot connect to Wi-Fi after flashing, you simply need to adb shell su fix-mac.sh and you should be good to go.
Download Links –
Download ROM
Jelly Bean Gapps (Fixed link 7/11)
