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[Kindle Fire Android Development] acale:
Google Earth

Hi Guys,

First post here, so I want to send a massive thanks to you developers and JackpotClavin in particular, ICS on the Fire is awesome!! Sound now working great, for me its good enough to use daily, though I know there are still video issues.

I've got a question though on Google Apps. I have installed the gapps package from the first page of this thread, using the INSTALL option in TWRP.

When I then booted up I didn't have Google Maps, which I easily downloaded from the market and all works well.

I then tried to find Google Earth in the market which comes up as not found. Is this a compatibility issue? Is there any way of getting the market to show these apps which it is hiding?

Many thanks for any replies!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
You can always check if it's a compatibility problem by going to the market website and finding the app - market.android.com. In this case, it's apparently incompatible for whatever reason. Probably some tweaks to build.prop would get it to show compatible, but I have no idea what those tweaks would be.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jwilliamf:
I'm also using apex launcher and it seem better than nova and trebuchet imo. More configurable than the previous two launcher mentioned.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] acale:
Ok, I just tried that and it says that its not compatible. Thanks anyway for your reply!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tjrocks91:
Is ther any way to hide the volume toggle? I don't like the icon for it :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jwilliamf:
As previously mentioned, there is no way to hide it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
Actually as previously mentioned you can push a couple of files from older builds to your device over ADB and hide it that way. It's a wonder anyone still works on this device...none of the users bother reading the thread. :p

I, for one, like it. The icon is oversized and appears to be from Gingerbread, but it's VERY useful, IMO. :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
I agree, it is very useful, but I think it'd be better suited in the quick-settings menu or as a widget. I don't like that it's ALWAYS there no matter what...I'd at least like a way to turn it off in the settings. I really do like it, but it's a little too obtrusive for me to find its usefulness better than it's obnoxiousness...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mattpannella:
if anyone knows how to use chiggins' volume add-on it would be way better than the current method i think

i'm not sure what to do though haha

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21499183&postcount=593

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21501516&postcount=595
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sduvick:
in order to use chiggin's volume add-on, you just need to rebuild from source. the problem right now is that Jackpot has been too busy to update his Github, so noone has his edited source that fixed audio yesterday. You could rebuild and just flash SystemUI.apk, but it would be better to rebuild the whole thing.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mattpannella:
yeah, i was worried i'd have to rebuild from source

not worth the hassle cuz i've never done it
[Kindle Fire Android Development] MayfairDROID:
Where oh where is the Frameworks/Base/packages? I really want to add this to the newest ICS from JackpotCalvin. Thanks!

Edit, someone asked ahead of me...damn slow typing...I guess I need to read up on compiling from source. Thanks!

EDIT 2:

The Source on GitHub is not the most recent. Is there anyway to get this framework change with out building it out?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sduvick:
Frameworks/Base/packages is the location in the source where this goes.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jwilliamf:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21604000&postcount=688

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Did you try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1423184&highlight=all+app+on+android+market
[Kindle Fire Android Development] philwaud:
battery and sound

OK quick update.

Battery life appears no different on yesterday jackpotclavin from.

Sound: couple of issues!

First, turning volume to zero when typing doesn't work. Next time you add a new line volume is 10% ish, not to bad but loud enough to annoy Mrs W when I'm replying to email at 1130 pm!

I added the monkey volume job ie from the market and it seems to have killed sound, haven't played too much because sound isn't an issue for me but wanted to report it.

Wish I could fix the looping enterprise wifi network at work, not sure thasts an issue with this from, my colleagues on apple kit add the network + 64 bit me and connect fine whereas android stuff sticks at "acquiring IP address" Hey ho!

Again, many thanks to the amazing effort!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] fulvi3tto:
how do i fix the SD?

If i type in the terminal emulator:

# mount -o bind /sdcard/.android_secure /mnt/secure/asec

it says mount no such file or directory.

I cannot use adb too because it doesn't recognize the Fire (on cm7 it worked good)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Oh wow, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully someone can compile a build with this when Jackpot updates his source...Downloaded that SystemUI file that guy provided in case it gets deleted or something. If someone needs it to add it and can't find it, send me a PM and I'll be sure to get it to you.

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Latest build has it baked in. Use the build added yesterday.

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You can go in to settings and turn off Touch sounds. I know it's still an issue having it bump up to 10 when you press a key, but this should help your situation in the mean time.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] SirVilhelm:
Anyway to stop the launcher from putting newly installed apps on the home screen? It's pretty annoying
[Kindle Fire Android Development] AproSamurai:
Setting sdcardfix to run at boot.

I've uploaded a quickly done, straight forward(as in the command within the OP) script that'll run the command for the sdcardfix to stop hotbooting upon going to storage.

After you download put the script in the root of your sdcard and then you'll need ScriptManager. You'll want to allow it to run as root and allow it do so within when SuperUser has it's side of the prompt.

Then scroll down to the sdcardfix.sh and tap it and tap at boot as well as su, then reboot and go into storage and shouldn't have any hotbooting issues. It's been working for me so I hope it's of some help for those who don't want to go into terminal upon boot each time.

Also be sure to remove .txt, I only put it to upload the file to the site.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] QuBe2:
In market by settings
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
It's not hotbooting for me when I go to storage. Are you using the latest version...?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] AproSamurai:
Yeah, I am on the latest version. I had it set up for the previous version so I just have the script for the sake of having it. It was just put there if someone is to have an issue with it happening.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
Same here, I just flased the "Sound1-19.zip" version today and when I view apps, I can poke around, uninstall stuff, clear cache on individual apps, etc. no sweat.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] JackpotClavin:
Glad the hot boot issue is done. From now on I'll use the volume slider in the from Chiggins as it's prettier than that ugly icon. Trying to get video working now, my source is up on github now. I made a new repo with both the vendor and device folders combined into one. I also kept the old ones and marked them as obsolete in case somebody wants to view changes or whatever
[Kindle Fire Android Development] fleton:
Amazon Appstore is working fine for me. Might want to try flashing again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dj.lub:
I'm also having this issue after upgrading to the latest build. I'm going off a clean install with reflashed Amazon apps, and I'm still having instant crashes with the Amazon Appstore and Kindle apps.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rmagruder:
Re-flashed Sound1-19.zip. Wiped Dalvik & Cache. Still no go.

Again, looking from the logcat, it seems that the OS is unable to create/edit the SqlIte database that Amazon needs in data\data.

Randy
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Works perfect for me. I'd say try wiping everything and reinstalling from scratch. Kind of a pain, but that usually fixes bugs like that...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rmagruder:
Wiping...Stay tuned.

Complete Wipe worked. It's running now. Once again, attempting to Flash without a wipe burns me. You'd think I'd have learned by now :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] JackpotClavin:
Well I just got video working but I can't remember what I did. Hopefully when I go home my adb logs will still be saved and I can see what did the trick
[Kindle Fire Android Development] treUse:
That's awesome, do we have a zip coming our way? Assuming you can find what you did of course :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] fleton:
Nice :) good job. Cannot wait to see what the issue was.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] SirVilhelm:
Here is another silly question, how come I loose so much real estate on the top and button of the home screen?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jearl75:
Was wondering too, but this rom is so nice! Great job to all the devs! Keep up the good work
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Sweet! Can out do us all a huge favor and put in that volume slider someone linked to a few pages ago instead of the button that's there now? I'd donate $5 just for that lol.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
I'm not 100% sure, but I think its like that to even out app spacing when you rotate the screen. If you could use all that vertical space, it would look weird in landscape.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Uejji:
10 characters
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Chiggins:
Okay so for anyone that wants it, here's the SystemUI.apk that you'd need for my volume slider. Use Root File Explorer to make /system/app/ writable, put this SystemUI.apk there, then reboot.

This is just until another zip comes out with mine included it it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Thanks, but this is causing SystemUI to crash indefinitely :( Tried chmodding to 644 but that didn't fix it. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Chiggins:
Really? That's the same one that I have on my Fire...

Any chance you can hit me up in IRC, or PM me some instant message info?

By the way, mine is set to 777, though read only filesystem.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] treUse:
The mod works perfectly. Thanks :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Ah sorry, I was just an idiot. Forgot to delete the old SystemUI so I don't think it was overwriting properly. I deleted it this time and it works perfect :)

EDIT: bl1nkk, if you haven't already, please add that APK and instructions to the OP (make sure you say to delete the old SystemUI.apk for idiots like me)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
MX video player does work perfect for playback. with S/W fast setting. awesome:::::::

A drink is coming your way JC tomorrow when pay clear's

thanks again to all involved.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] phatboypat:
New UI apk worked perfectly for me as well.

I'd recommend people backing up their current UI just in case something goes wrong.

Nothing ground breaking I know, but a good thing to remember. ;-)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
Chiggins thanks so much for posting that and revxx14 thanks for reminding me to delete the file I'm replacing (I renamed it SystemUI.apk.bak which seems to be sufficient). I was very happy to see the volume slider on the status bar, but this is definitely EVEN NICER. :D After fooling with it for a while today I'm going to make this my "daily driver", htough I still have my MoDaCo backup just in case I want to go back. Still, I don't see that happening right now. Wish there was a way to force Netflix app to use software video playback (since MX works in software, surely any other video that supports software decoding would work). IT'd be a nice workaround for now, but meh. Life goes on. :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Anyone know how to remove the camera icon from the lockscreen?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
I think there are "bugs" in the spreadsheet that aren't bugs. Apps not installing to SD Card for example - I've got apps taht installed to /sdcard by default, including XDA Premium, which is the app referenced specifically in the bug report. I added a note to the wifi bug that I don't think wifi is REALLY disconnecting/connecting, because larger app downloads from the android market (Angry Birds, for example) complete fine even while that icon is cycling around.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
sorry to be a noob but i cant find where to put systemui.apk

system/framework/??
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Just needs updated for the latest build. I'll take care of it.

EDIT: Done.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
OK, cool. I didn't want to do much without permission, because I don't want to goof up the devs. :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dnd61:
You can install Titanium Backup to uninstall Camera app. :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Chiggins:
I'm looking into it, the code is throwing me for a loop though.

Will that actually remove the icon from the lock screen though?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] koltloveshisevo:
any one not able to install apps from the market?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Takenover83:
Been waiting patiently to try ICS once sound was fixed and video working. Looks like my wait is almost over :D

Thanks to all involved.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thomas1218:
It doesn't remove it from the lockscreen even if you nuke it with Ti
[Kindle Fire Android Development] RanT476:
Just wanted to say, Thank you to all the people who contributed to making this rom happen, i braught 2 kindle fires jus for this 1 for me and 1 for my mom. Now all that has to be uploaded and added to the new build is the fix that jackpot has alrdy so good work everyone thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much.

now come ooooooooooooooooon Jackpot Upload ur fix :D.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
Certain apps aren't showing up. My request for long down the line is that whatever magic paulobrien worked to get the KF to look like a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will make its way to ICS. As for installing nothing at all, no, it's working fine when I can find the app I want.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] yumcax:
This would be a modified build.prop. There are a few threads on this already, e.g. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1371021, but I'm not sure on compatibility with this ROM.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] koltloveshisevo:
i can find all the apps i want but it just sits at downloading and never actually says a percentage and im sure i have an internet connection
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rmagruder:
What kind of battery life are people seeing with 19?

I'm seeing my KF hovering at 60-65% and that's with the charger plugged in. Per a previous post in the thread, I went in and turned off the [pointless] GPS setting, and even went out to eat for an hour and left it plugged in, Wi-Fi turned off, screen turned off. Got home....battery was a whopping 64%.

Is it the battery stats that need to be reset? Or does this thing just eat battery as fast as it gets it from the wall?

Thanks,

Randy
[Kindle Fire Android Development] str8killinya:
My battery life with Has been really great actually. I charged it last night and its been off all day and it still at 77% with hardly any use. Took it of the charger at about 11am

Sent from my Kindle Fire with ICS on Board
[Kindle Fire Android Development] PlatinumMOTO:
I can't get my KF to see my phone so I can tether to it is this a bug? I searched and didn't see it listed in the forum or the sheet. How do I get it to see ad-hoc?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] xheavymetaldadx:
I hope I didn't miss this being asked but is there a way to fix the margins and spacing in the kindle app?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thomas1218:
Its a known issue now. There are a couple threads around but no word on a fix. On person flashed on top of cm7 and the kindle app restored his previous margins
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Do you mean Bluetooth or wifi? If by, this doesn't have the by driver enabled. If wifi, my kindle connects just fine, but I use a windows phone.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] eclass82:
THANK YOU! This worked great!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] iroctheworld:
Video....Is.....WORKING!!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D :cool:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dcaplinger76:
As in video for YouTube and stuff???
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Takenover83:
Yes, if he has video working, then I would expect Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc... to work.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] JackpotClavin:
I don't use Netflix, but I opened up YouTube to listen to some old school nelly while eating some cherios and bam, video was working. I pushed some files and made a tweak to my device setup. Just gotta see which files did the trick

The browser video worked as well as youtube
[Kindle Fire Android Development] That Baker Guy:
+1 i know this is just a alpha and what not and im very fond of your work but that giant button looks wonky in the ics layout. is there anyway to make it go away?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Trackstar996:
For some reason when I try to download the gapps the link doesnt work?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Takenover83:
Yea good call on the old school Nelly. I like his old stuff better then his new stuff. Appreciate the updates. Kindle Fire is all charged up, backed up, and waiting patiently.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Trackstar996:
Nevermind!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] JackpotClavin:
We aren't using the volume button anymore, it's now gonna be a slider just like the screen brightness slider on the quick menu all courtesy of xda user Chiggins
[Kindle Fire Android Development] wtphoto:
go HERE and download the SystemUI.apk

place in your platform-tools directory

open a terminal and

adb remount
adb push SystemUI.apk /system/app
adb shell
cd /system/app
chmod 775 SystemUI.apk
reboot

and all will be well no strange (albeit useful) button, chiggins did a great job on getting the volume slider in the notification settings.

Edit: to the person asking about the room at the top and bottom of the screen (im to lazy to go find your post again :) ) if you use Apex launcher instead of Trebuchet and set the grid to 8x8 it uses all of the screen.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] DeerSteak:
edit: wish there was a way to delete posts. This would so be gone.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] revxx14:
Anyone else notable to log in to Google+? I did switch to an apps account, but I don't think that that's the issue...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rmagruder:
Has anyone noticed that the touch improvements that amazon made to 6.2.1 to make the fire more responsive are not in this build? Obviously you wouldn't expect to see Amazon code in this but whatever they did to their build did fix it , whereas whatever issues there are with this screen are making it so I have to touch multiple times to launch apps or bring up the notification bar.

Does anyone know what Amazon did to improve the touch responsiveness and whether it is something that can or should be applied to this ROM?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] eclass82:
Good call, I'd like to know this as well I hate having to touch an app several times before it decided to launch.. :\
[Kindle Fire Android Development] wtphoto:
I too have noticed this, but just like anything else get everything working then worry about tweaking it for better performance. sounds like JPC has a line on getting video working, once that is done this will be a solid base that he can work from to make improvments.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] randallu:
Hashcode -- I thought g1011999 had turned off hwcomposer (he moved the makefile or something to take it out of the build). I think we'd need to be using the newest (i.e.: from the GNex or PandaBoard ICS build) PVR/gralloc bits for hwcomposer to work. Also, we will need to update to ICS graphics for composited video (via the OES_EGL_image_external extension) to work (this feature is new to HC/ICS -- ICS properly defines an interface via SurfaceTexture in the SDK to get video into a texture).

I had a quick look at taking the PVR stuff from the AOSP "omap" kernel's pandaboard branch, but it wasn't as simple as taking just that directory so I stopped (maybe it'd even be easier the other way around -- porting LGD panel and the other "board-kc1" bits to the AOSP kernel?).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
not like this on cm7. wifi on and cpu scales normal
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jcatt:
Ok so I fired up the ilitek utility you can find on the market. When I tried to "calibrate" the screen I got a permission denied error. I never saw this when I was on stock. Could that be somewhat related to the touch sensitivity, or is it just a bug between the program and ICS? Only I am seeing a bit of jitteryness with the touch response, like having to hit links a bunch of times for them to register.

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Yeah, they call it Factory Reset but its the same as Wipe Data in CWM.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] flamingBurrito:
I've been playing around with this for the last few hours, and it's pretty great. Only issues I'm having are:

-Sound only works sometimes as mentioned elsewhere in this thread

-Touch screen feels kind of off. I'm not sure exactly what it is but it doesn't feel 100%

-For some apps I downloaded from the market, I'm getting a "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card" error.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] shobon:
I've been getting this too, none of the fixes posted online have helped; it's obviously an SD card problem. You also can't move apps to the SD card from settings.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] randallu:
It seems like the built in apps (the launcher and browser) are not using graphics acceleration -- the browser is using the old display model, not tiles (you can see by zooming in: the motion is not super smooth but lacks the bilinear scaling artifacts from scaling tiles with OpenGL which I do see on my Nexus S). Also, the CSS 3D demos render in 2D only.

There was a change g1101999 made to frameworks/base that removed the memory check for high end graphics. Did that change make it into this build?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] big gulps huh?:
Yeah, same here... I went back to cm7 since I have no clue what I am doing. Lots of progress since yesterday though! You all are amazing.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] adbirdie:
Do you think the WI-FI scaling issue will effect the Kindle's hardware (in the long term) ?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] big gulps huh?:
Likely not as it was just discovered so they just haven't figured out the exact cause... give it a couple more days like myself and much more will be straightened out
[Kindle Fire Android Development] bborror:
CM7 has the same problem, CPU pegged at 1008Mhz while WiFi is enabled, and 300Mhz when disabled. I'm using whistlestop's CM7 rom.

What CM7 rom are you using?

Edit:

If you are not connected to a WiFi network, the CPU scales normally. As soon as you connect, it jumps to max.

Edit2:

Connecting to a non-secured network (no wpa2) allows cpu to scale properly. I don't have a wep/wpa device to connect to to check those...

All of my testing has been on CM7 btw, I'll have to reflash the ics build tomorrow if you guys don't get a chance to try the same tests against it.