[nmglug] replacing FireOS

[Mark Galassi]

Arlo writes:

    Arlo> Wherever we meet, in two weeks anyone wanna help me get 
    FireOS
    Arlo> off a workshop-donated tablet and something more
    Arlo> freedom-friendly [...]

I investigated it in detail in November 2016 and found that at the 
time
Cyanogenmod (now LineageOS) only ran on specific revisions of the 
Fire7
tablet, and those were not the ones amazon was selling anymore. 
The
result of installing was to completely brick the Fire7 
(fortunately
amazon takes returns).

I see that as of January 30 2018 there is a Fire7 release for the 
2015
edition - might have the same issue, or it might be solved.  They
mention new versions of FlashFire.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-lineage-12-1-t3639447