yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Had that happen a few times; generally if the kindle is powered entirely off and you plug it in it will boot up automatically. Has to do with how the amazon ramdisk is setup. The CM7 and CM9 ramdisks of course are based off of the amazon one, in particularly the init and charging system so both should do this.

Having said that, as I said prior; I've had that happen lol.

From what I can tell there's a random chance that when the battery dies the ramdisk gets stuck in a state where it won't accept a charge (I'm not actually sure as to what causes it, perhaps extended drain beyond a normal (amazon) shutdown limit?).

In all instances I've needed a factory cable to resolve it, in some I've actually had to flash a stock boot.img to the device from fastboot and power it off than plug it back in and watch it try to boot (running CM9 the kernel causes boot issues so I boot into recovery), shut the device off from there and it continues to charge, power it up later and restore a nandroid image or flash a compatible kernel again. In some cases simply booting it from the factory cable letting it sit there for a moment than moving it to a normal cable works also, just something to get the ramdisk to wake up it seems (not sure I really understand why that works as the battery is not charging off the factory cable).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Johanpro:
Thanks,

Factory cable?

Isn't it just a USB cable?

I got plenty of micro usb cables what the difference?

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Found something regarding the factory cable,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1392693

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Yep that's it, I wound up just buying one from one of the guys through that first link; solid work and it's good to have around (strangely it doubles as a samsung prevail data cable O.o)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Johanpro:
I also bought one from Ebay 9,99 including freight cost

Thanks again for the help
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rockstarar:
I keep coming back to this :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] a2296455:
If you're still having trouble:

It's possible the battery isn't drained, but rather it just won't turn on. I've had this happen a few times with this ROM. Try holding down the power button for about 10+ seconds, then pressing it again. This should perform a hard shutdown and let you boot your device again. Best of luck.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] towir022:
Anyone know about getting HBO gobapp to work? I did dizzy imei generator with success so I didn't think it would not work for me
[Kindle Fire Android Development] moeaz05:
could someone pls tell if this is the most stable custom rom for kindle?

THANKS
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
I would say certianly its one of the most stable I ran it for several months without so much as a hiccup:-)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] moeaz05:
thanks, have you noticed any major bugs?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
I really didnt notice anything love this rom :-)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] moeaz05:
do you think this rom is better then aokp ics? Please tell me why u do or do not, thanks:o
[Kindle Fire Android Development] portezbie:
I recommend this CM7 rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1508802

I like it because it has almost nothing extra added and the developer updates it regularly, which very few of the other cm7 roms seem to get.

Regardless of which CM7 rom, I do think you should definitely go with a cm7 rom over an ics rom, for now at least.

The ics roms are just too buggy now. They are missing a number of settings still, they often crash, there are issues with charging, usb storage mounting, full screen apps, video streaming. They have come a long way but for me, they aren't ready for full time use yet.

CM7 maybe be old news, but it's reliable and it works.

I'd say go with a cm7 rom and maybe switch to ics or perhaps jellybean, when they are really ready.

EDIT: From what I understand, you get much better battery life with cm7 right now as well. I can usually go 2-4 days with regular use without charging my kindle running cm7.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
Portezbie said it all and I would tend to agree even though I presently run ics stability is what it is:-) I watch my kindle like a hawk on any ics its not needed on cm7 run with confidence :-)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tudorrul:
Kindle Fire Default Password For Lockscreen

Hello guys

A few days ago i entered settings went to cyanogen settings ----> lockscreen and unchecked the box which said "disable lock screen" ( by default it was checked). After that the device, when i light up the screen, it has a swype to unlock but then asks me for a password which i don't know since i didn't set any( it`s a password not a finger gesture ). Does anybody know the default password for this rom or has anybody encountered the same problem and got away by not erasing everything and installing again.

P.S. - I am a noob...i know.

Have a good day!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
No clue I think you will need to get into recovery do a full wipe and reflash:(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] alancai:
time to switch to jb. remember to do wipe data/system.

i tested 3 jb rom, this is the best for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1778010
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
That's strange, there's definitely not a default PW on the lockscreen, at some point you or someone would have had to create one somehow, even if it was inadvertently...

Might be able to get away with a factory without doing a complete reflash, all those settings should be in data.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tudorrul:
re

Hello guys and thank you for your posts so quickly.

Yesterday i wiped out the system and did a fresh install since i had no other solution.

Anyway what i described initially is a little bit wrong because what i really did is : settings ---> cyanogenmod settings ----> tablet tweaks ---> and there i unchecked the "disable lockscreen" which is by default checked. I wanted to mention that so it won`t happend to anyone else. And as a security measure, after the fresh install, i went in: settings --->cyanogenmod settings ---> lockscreen ---> unlock options --and ckecked "skip on security" ( which is by default unchecked ) just in case:D.

Have a good day all of you and Thank you once more.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] MayfairDROID:
You guys on CM7 really should take the leap and at least give Jelly bean a shot. Jelly Bean has some really nice features, and is smooth as butter and just as stable as CM7 is. Check out TWA's builds. They have all the aspects working, and I have not had one forced close or issue on his latest build.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] cloud71:
Yep its nice, I put jellybean on mine and I like.

Give it a try y'all might like it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tobiascuypers:
>>mfw replying to a thread 10 months old...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Stevethegreat:
This thread is older than the rocks. From the pre-hashcode (BH) era as I call it :p
[Kindle Fire Android Development] moriz1:
I think that's a problem with the screen, not the ROM. The panel used for the kf has hilariously bad input lag.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ck_looi:
yes!! my Kindle fire is having that mac address too, as is my housemate's fire. Now i couldn't connect to home wifi as my housemate already connected to it.

DUH!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pyrostic:
Can you change it in adb by using "idme mac "? I don't know if this is a valid command.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] terracode:
The Augen Gentouch also had this issue where all unit had the same MAC address.

There is procedure on XDA at the link below that may work to allow you to change the Mac address. It does require root. I haven't tried it myslef since I currently don't have Mac address conflicts.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739504&page=174
[Kindle Fire Android Development] teookie:
Yeah, someone needs to try this. having everyone on the same mac address is going to cause some kind of problem. We can change bootmode with idme so why not mac address?

connect fire then type:

Let us know if it works! I'm hesitant to try it on mine since I'm running the stock rom at the moment...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] cllinna:
You can go here to see a video of how to install Jackpot Calvins Rom. I am assuming it would be the same just using the new Rom from this post.

http://www.kindlefirewire.com/2011/12/06/how-to-install-cyanogenmod-7-on-kindle-fire-tutorial-video/
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kjwalker:
Odd, I would try again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pyrostic:
The question is, does your MAC restore when you go back to Stock?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ck_looi:
YES, i tried just now. After went back to stock ROM, the MAC changes back to the original MAC address. Then when I flashed back to CM7, the MAC address changes again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pyrostic:
I imagine they will have to code it into a file to make it acquire it from a device.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ck_looi:
I try to play an mp4 video with MX VIDEO PLAYER under 3 scenario (I purposely go back stock rom to try and out) , below are what i observed.

1. Nexus one with CM7 - HW/SW decode no issue

2. kindle fire with stock rom - HW/SW decode no issue

3. KINDLE FIRE WITH CM7 - HW DECODE FAIL, SW decode ok

@whistlestop, is it really possible that some codec or lib missing in this CM7 build?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] treleung:
Sound quality is infinitely better with CM7. Thanks for your hard work. Outside of a few FCs, working very smoothly.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Are you on the latest ROM that was uploaded yesterday morning? I just did a search for H.264 movies on the internet and was able to play them in the browser just fine. I can try and download this app and test with it but can you PLEASE point me at exactly the same movie/clip you are having problems with.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
On lunch break so checking in. Looks like the MAC address issue is something that has been around CM7 for awhile (a quick google found a number of people commenting on it) I'll do a bit more poking to see if there is something in the way I'm building the ROM that is causing the issue.

In looking at the possible video issue, can someone that has a stock 6.2 that is rooted please fire up 'adb shell' and cat /proc/cmdline and post the entire output here.

I'm wanting to see what values the stock kernel uses on startup.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] treleung:
May have a problem. It booted fine, and I was adding a widget when my soft keys disappeared. I used a menu shut down, and now it's just been sitting with the Cyanogenmod logo for the last few minutes spinning.

Help :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nebneb333:
Going to get a kindle fire for both myself and my other half for Christmas so was wondering what is is and isn't working on this rom?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] treleung:
After three hard resets it booted fine. Is inconsistent booting like this normal? Every time prior it was frozen at the spinning CM7 logo.

Thanks,

Trevor
[Kindle Fire Android Development] animefun135:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0E0LW20 try this mp4 720p video file.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] eastyuk:
oh never mind.. not eaten yet.. haha

sorry
[Kindle Fire Android Development] teookie:
Tried this from a terminal emulator on the fire. Not sure if it actually worked or not

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ su

# cat /proc/cmdline

console=ttyO2,115200n8 mem=463M@0x80000000 init=/init vram=5M omapfb.vram=0:5M

#
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
just curious cuz i was gonna try and wip together a quick touch based CWM, is there any particular reason we cant leave CWM on the device at the end of the install when we reboot? does it not boot or cause some issue?

working on it based on this

http://android.modaco.com/topic/346772-final-version-of-clockworkmod-gui/

EDIT: k, found out wy, gonna work on getting touch based CWM going

EDIT2: ok, think i figured how to get CWM rebooting into the system and recovery correctly when you tell it to reboot. Gonna wait to hear back from JackpotClavin before i test and also here is my plan for the initial version

Controls

Screen tap moves down

Power button selects

cross your fingers and hope i get this done quick =P
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mlhope:
I experienced something similar a couple reboots ago and haven't been able to duplicate it since. Other than that, loving the experience. Worth the donation :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] cmay227:
Thanks everyone who has kept this alive and moving. I have a question about the possibility of a virtual home button?instead of back button constantly! Im thinking of trying to figure it out. But new to all this.

sent from my cm7 Fire
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
alread there, go to CM settings and turn it on in tablet tweaks

PS. I still cant connect to WPA or WPA2 networks, havent tried WEP but I can only connect to ope nnetworks =/

Edit:now i gotta wait for my battery to charge =P

EDIT2: Have Event types and such mapped for CWM, now to compile and test =]
[Kindle Fire Android Development] cmay227:
Thanks.. now i feel stupid. :P

can't believe i didn't see that.

I've read about the wifi issues with WPA and WPA2. I've had no problems yet with any security. I Use WPA and WEP on mine and connect with no probs at all
[Kindle Fire Android Development] txtj:
disregard found it
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rotsu:
Anyone having youtube playback issue in browsers?

The youtube app is working fine, but if you play youtube in browser it lacks and skips frames.

Sorry if this was asked before, but i think this issue was fixed.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] a2296455:
dev, please consider using your time on bringing CM9 ICS to the Kindle instead of CM7! Thanks! I Will donate!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Thank you and yes, it appears to have worked like a charm. I'm just surprised by the numbers given what I've read about how to set up the video memory. I'll go build a ROM with those settings and see what I get (I wonder if the larger vram settings I have in the latest build are causing some problems)

Just to make confirm, this is from a stock 6.2 image that's only been rooted. No other changes.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] brett10:
There's already a port in progress, the dev in this thread was only continuing the original dev's work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1379208
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
First I've heard of anything like this for the published ROM. This happens to me a lot but that's because I'm constantly tweaking things and I often get them wrong as I experiment and when they are wrong I get this behavior.

If it happens again, can you connect with "adb shell" and do a logcat and send me the output. By the time you get to the logo, the kernel is running and something (like sound not coming up) is keeping the UI from finishing loading and the logcat would tell me what.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Works for me. Anything we can get that provides for a mechanism to move through the menu and select should do the trick. We could finally get back to a reasonable flashing model (with backups... YEA)

PM me when you have something and I can try it out.

Off to work on the video for a bit to see if I can get that finally put to bed.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Hmmm... I'm connected to a WPA2 network (DD-WRT) as I write this without any issues. Any chance the MAC address issue is catching you? Do you have your router set to only serve IP's to specific MAC's?

I also regularly connect to my mobile hotspot which is WEP without issue.

Connect with "adb shell" and do a logcat and then try to connect. It "hopefully" may give us a bit of insight as to what's causing the issue.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Will do in a bit, gonna finish up the initial test build of new CWM
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Heading there now to see if I can trap the error. Thanks for posting the file, having a reproducible error makes tracking things down SO MUCH easier.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] teookie:
Yup. Stock 6.2
[Kindle Fire Android Development] MayfairDROID:
It is there under settings/cyanogen mods
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
hate to poison your thread again whistlestop but this wil lbe my first time compiling CWM. Does anyone know if i need the entire android/CM source or just the source from koushs github? thats my last step =3
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Epix4G:
You can do this but if you wait twrp 2 is almost ready to release agraben is finishing it up and it's a touch recovery
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Sorry, I'm worthless. I've been a CM7 developer for all of four days, I started this current little escapade over the weekend (came from the dark side of iPhone/iPad programming) I'm still catching a clue on how this all hangs together and haven't ventured into CWM yet so of no help.

Anyone else been in/around the CWM code? Would sure be nice to have a touch enabled CWM for fire...

And poison away, if we can manage a working CWM with a functional CM7 ROM, I'd call that a good few days worth or work.

Back to reading about video setup with an OMAP processor...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Thank you!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Ill stick with CWM, no offense to twrp, I have used it for a long time and its kinda a standard
[Kindle Fire Android Development] txtj:
I have wpa2 and it connects without an issue
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
Initial post updated with current set of issues. Drop me a note if I missed anything as that's the list I'm currently working to kill off.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] death2all110:
Ummm you guys may not have noticed... but the tty part in the cmdline is actually tty02 not ttyO2.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
any of the files from stock firmware usable in CM7? if so I'll test and try and help with HD HW acceleration.

PS: anyone who could get me any logcats or anything when you go to play HD video and the like that needs HW accel thatd be awesome. If anyone would be willing to collect a decent amount of logcat data there are logcat apps on the market that will save every so often. Post them and I'll go through and see what I cant help with. Any other debug info you could get would be awesome
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ck_looi:
@whistestop

Can you please try using TUBEMATE (http://devian7.iisweb.co.kr/download.jsp) to download any video from youtube at 1280x720 resolution? Then you will find out both stock or 3rd party video app fail to HW decode it. With stock ROM or other CM7 devices, totally no such issue. I think this could be the reason it fail to play any video from video streaming app like PPTV.

And if you download 640x360, stock and 3rd party video app able to HW decode it but you will see a slightly hang once a 2-seconds.

Sorry for my poor english, hope you can understand what I want to tell. :)

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How to get the logcat?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] death2all110:
adb logcat

or get a logcat app of the market
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rotsu:
Thanks for the great work. There is an issue wit youtube playback in browser when the video skips few frames every 10 seconds of so, this is when played in HD. While the youtube app is flowless. This is an important factor for my usage of the kindle >_<

Thanks again for the awesome work.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ck_looi:
logcat

The following is the logcat when I try to play video I downloaded from youtube (1280x720) using stock android video app....

.............

D/dalvikvm( 3346): GC_CONCURRENT freed 285K, 48% free 3222K/6151K, external 388K/899K, paused 1ms+3ms

E/OMX_PROXYDEC( 1349): Error in Initializing Proxy

E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 1349): failed to capture a video frame

E/MediaMetadataRetrieverJNI( 2048): getFrameAtTime: videoFrame is a NULL pointer

W/MediaThumbRequest( 2048): Can't create mini thumbnail for /mnt/sdcard/Video/The Christmas Song - David Choi, Inch Chua IYCA._HD.mp4

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): CMD: DRIVER RSSI-APPROX

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): wpa_driver_tista_driver_cmd RSSI-APPROX

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): rssi-approx command

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): CMD: DRIVER LINKSPEED

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): wpa_driver_tista_driver_cmd LINKSPEED

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): Link Speed command

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): wpa_driver_tista_private_send ioctl_cmd = 800632 res = 0

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): wpa_driver_tista_get_rate success: rate=127

D/wpa_supplicant( 1497): buf LinkSpeed 63

W/KeyCharacterMap( 1523): No keyboard for id 0

W/KeyCharacterMap( 1523): Using default keymap:

.............

I am not sure if i highlight the correct portion...the file i try to play is "The Christmas Song - David Choi, Inch Chua IYCA._HD.mp4"

I go to gallery -> choose the video -> then choose "Movies" trying to play
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Banditlol:
The MAC address thing i've encountered before on either the captivate or atrix boards, on those devices it had something to do with the Rom install file replaces the file on the original device which holds the original MAC address information. Let me see if i can find the specific information about that issue and link it here for possible solutions.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] chipg07:
Whistlestop....

I just wanted to say thank you for being a class act... your update on how things are progressing is something other devs dont take the time to do... it shows that you actually own and use the device..

Most devs just list so called bugs without detail...im experiencing the same lag in netflicks and figured it might have something to do with hw video acceleration...it also might explain why some gameloft games crash... ie...Asphalt 6

Thanks again
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pyrostic:
Not to toot TWRPs horn but there are things it does that I've not seen any recovery do I'll leave it at that. I can't say what they are but I do at least recommend giving it a shot.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] gloos:
Could someone please provide an updaterecovery.img to have the first option of using nandroid to backup and another one to restore via nandroid please?

Thanks :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ckong1:
anyone else having sleep of death issues? For me, it happens every night, i'll wake up and have to simulate battery pull and i find that the battery has drained 20 - 30%. tried leaving wifi off overnight and no luck. I only experienced this after 6.2 update, was hoping cm7 install would get rid of it...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] whistlestop:
That would be great. Thanks!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] teookie:
Wo, this app is awesome! Thanks for posting about it! My biggest complaint about the kindle fire has been the video quality, but after using this app I see that it was a software problem all along an not hardware like I thought. THANKY YOU.

(Ok, back on topic now.) :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tex321:
I am experiencing a great battery drain as well.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] asb2164:
Can you post a screen shot of your battery usage stats.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Skimp Killah:
Under five minutes if you know your way around adb.
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