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Backing up the stock partitions of Android Kindle Fire HD 7 (codenamed Tate)

This article is about installing TWRP on Kindle Tate and still use your stock ROM using Android SDK and with TWRP 2.8.7. Using the following commands after going to /path/to/Android/Sdk folder: ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 of=/sdcard/boot0block.img" ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/stock-boot.img"  ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img" ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system of=/sdcard/stock-system.img" We can verify the system integrity of my Kindle Fire 7 HD (in this article aka Kindle Tate). Next, we can proceed to backup the partitions with the following commands: ./platform-tools/adb pull /sdcard/boot0block.img ./platform-tools/adb pull /sdcard/s