Amazon'southward Fire Telly Stick lineup is among the most popular streaming dongles out there. Unlike other devices, they do not feature Android Idiot box. Instead, they run a fork of Android maintained by Amazon dubbed Fire OS, with the Alexa integration and app library support beingness a cardinal highlight. That's not to say the Fire Telly interface is perfect, as it'due south loaded with clutter, filled with ads you cannot turn off, and lacks Play Store support in lieu of Amazon-supported apps and channels. Now, if you are willing to take matters into your hands, you can run Android 11 Idiot box on your tertiary gen Fire TV Stick and the Stick TV Lite, all cheers to an unofficial LineageOS 18.one ROM.

This process is non for the faint of heart, and it becomes even more complicated due to the lack of an official tool to unlock the bootloader of the Burn down Television Stick. Considering of this, you accept to rely on an exploit discovered by XDA member k4y0z (via XDA) for the 3rd-gen Burn Television Stick and Stick Light that allows you to install TWRP on them. Another catch is that the streaming stick must be running FireOS v7.2.7.3 or lower. Additionally, you must have admission to a PC running Linux. The bootloader unlocking process is a chip convoluted and risky — you risk potentially bricking your streaming stick if you erase the wrong partition.

Once you get effectually to installing TWRP, though, the actual procedure to flash the unofficial build of LineageOS eighteen.1 made by developer Rortiz2 is relatively easy. Note that the Android TV 11 ROM is compiled in 32-bit mode, and so ensure that you flash the correct Google Apps package. Don't expect an entirely bug-free feel, as Netflix is known to crash subsequently a movie is played; thankfully, a elementary reboot fixes this issue. There will likely exist a few other bugs and issues that are yet to be reported. Perhaps the bigger trouble is that SELinux is prepare to permissive, which is i of the critical security features of Android.

Notwithstanding, if yous are desperate to get Android Boob tube 11 on your Burn TV Stick or Stick Lite, you lot now at least have a manner of doing so. For some users, this process might even brand upward for the removal of tertiary-party launchers.