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[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashcode:
This is being worked on. But it not an obvious fix. So its taking a while.

Lately ive been testing a new clockwork recovery.. and its working great, except that it doesnt power off correctly, so im hesitant to put it out just yet.

And im rewriting the charger driver.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] fleurdelisxliv:
Just updated my bootloader thanks for the hard work :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] AFront85:
Just flashed this and I am really really happy. Well done Hash!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] melmantheman:
Little Question.

I there im a huge fan of you're work, but i have a question. How do you install a bootloader for the first time? Do you get TWRP and flash it? Thanks in advance.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] fleurdelisxliv:
i just flashed the zip through twrp :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ammubarak:
You need to unzip the file and use fastboot to flash the bin file included in the zip file. Use the following command:

fastboot flash bootloader <file.bin>

The file name should match the extracted file from zip downloaded.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] soupmagnet:
The whole point of making it in a .zip format to be flashed in recovery is to avoid any possibility of installing it incorrectly and thereby hard-bricking one's device. Plus it automatically performs checksum to prevent it from installing a corrupt file.

Always flash in recovery when possible.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] rukin5197:
Random comment, but Icemank, I loved your work for the Optimus V! Glad to see you've moved on to bigger and better things!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pbailey212:
Hi gannon, good to hear your voice again, hows life after android central? Ok done with off topic conversations

sent from my Nokia 5110
[Kindle Fire Android Development] HaiKaiDo:
So just to be absolutely clear (which you can never be to careful when flashing a bootloader on anything) From TWRP all i have to do is flash

Rombot mirror:

http://bit.ly/J5izIt

and it doesnt matter what version of FFF bootloader im on already(Obviously im still on the one with the gian yellow sign with an "!" on it?)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] soupmagnet:
Correct
[Kindle Fire Android Development] HaiKaiDo:
Appreciate it, just wanted to make sure! :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pbailey212:
I don't blame you, we would rather you ask to clarify, then to be another "I bricked my kindle" thread

sent from my Nokia 5110
[Kindle Fire Android Development] hockeystar711:
Looks good

I definitely like the new improvements you have made to the bootloader, it was driving me crazy to not be able to get hardly any feedback on what was happening. However, I'm still having the same problem I did with the FFF before this.

I cannot for the life of me get it to boot into recovery by just using the bootloader. I end up having to use fbmode, then reflashing the whole recovery.img to get it to boot into twrp (when I set the idme bootmode it refuses to work, which brings me to the next point.)

After I get it into recovery and flash what I need to, then it is a pain to get it to boot normally. So the "reset bootmode" option on here still hasn't worked for me, it repeatedly boots back into recovery. Even after I set the idme bootmode back to 4000.

I'm very puzzled as to why I'm having such difficulty, and I haven't found anything related to the problem...I usually spend all my time on here searching for answers (hence the low post count.) So I'm sorry for such a long post, but I have three different kindle's that I need to fix, and I just haven't figured it out yet...

Edit: I have tried the instructions from the twrp site (http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/79):

"If your device is always booting TWRP run: adb shell "idme bootmode 4000"

If you still can't get out of booting TWRP, first run: adb shell "idme bootmode 4002"

reboot your device, then run: adb shell "idme bootmode 4000"

reboot again and you should be out of your bootloop"

to no avail. This is a strange problem.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

Edit Again:

So, I have turned this post into a little story here and I apologize. But I seem to have found the solution. Somewhere along the lines, I had typed the wrong command in...see, I was going off of memory, and not really thinking. (My drive for figuring stuff out by myself has its own consequences.) So, I ran:

fastboot flash boot (recovery).img

and uh...well as you can imagine that made a mess of things. So, after a long time of wondering what I did wrong, I reflashed the recovery using "fastboot flash RECOVERY recovery.img" and then had to extract the boot.img from the rom and flash that to the boot partition again, and THEN reset the bootmode and now I think everything is FINALLY working.

So, there's an entertaining story for your day, I doubt anybody will be looking for this post as a solution to their problem (so I won't get any thanks lol) Anyways, I figured it wasn't a problem with your bootloader, I appreciate the great work Hashcode! Keep it up.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pbailey212:
Yeah be careful, you almost flashed your recovery on your boot partition, that's no fun to fix. Ask lovejoy.

sent from my Nokia 5110
[Kindle Fire Android Development] interceptor_1972:
Works great. Thanks for the update :-)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] moonsbabe:
Flashed this with no problem. Personally I don't understand how someone could run the battery so far down that it won't charge. The first thing I added when I rooted was a battery widget that has alarms. I have one alarm set up to tell me when I am fully charged. And another set to alarm when my battery gets down to 25%. Been like that since December when I rooted. To me it was just common sense. But that is just me. Anyway sorry about getting off subject, this flashed with no problem. And gee the blue is sure pretty....Duh! LOL! Thanks again!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] erad1:
So would this bootloader be backwards compatible if I wanted to flash back to a GB ROM from CM9 or ICS?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jfb9301:
I can't see why it wouldn't. In general you can think of the bootloader as a director, it looks at the bootmode variable, and causes the KF to boot from the desired partition. If bootmode is set to recovery, you get TWRP or CWM. If it is set to fastboot, you get fastboot mode. If it is set to boot normal, you get the OS, be it stock, CM7, CM9, or any other GB or ICS rom.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] erad1:
I really like the new UI for boot choice...thanks for your work making our device rock!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] wintablet:
how to flash with this?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sthomas38:
Should your question not be "How to read the OP?"?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
bootloader and charging questions and issue

Hi first off thank you to everyone for the great work on the kindle fire.

OK I have had a problem charging my kindle since i let it hit 0 percent . I was running fff 1.1 and 3.0 kernel number 8 with GED rom no issues until I let the battery drain. Now when I boot it just gets into os and says battery is low and reboots. I can get into twrp and wipe and flash and what not but even doing that and restoring a back up hasn't fixed it. I have been custom roming it for awhile now with phones and what not and am not a noob not a noob but I'm a bit confused.

How do I get into the bootloader?

how can.I flash this new version if I can only get into twrp? Like how can I get the zip on my kindle?

If I some how get the zip on my kindle and flash it in twrp will that fix my problem?

I really appreciate any help again I'm not a noob and read the op and understand everything but my biggest problem is how to get the file on my kindle if i can only boot into twrp?

Ty for any help guys!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sthomas38:
Put your Kindle in Fastboot mode and let it charge for an hour at least (I'm guessing you can boot into fastboot if you can boot into your ROM). Extract the bootloader .img file from the .zip and flash it using Fastboot ;).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
I know this will sound stupid but how do I get into fast boot and how do I get the file on my kindle with the described problems above?

And when it goes into rom I can't do anything because battery so low it reboots
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sthomas38:
Open a Fastboot prompt on your PC (go into KFU folder\tools and press Shift + Right click and choose "Open a command prompt here"). Then type "fastboot getvar product" without quotes and press enter. You should get an output -waiting for device-. Now put your Kindle powered off on your PC via USB. It should stay in Fastboot and you should get an output for the command. Let it charge and then put the bootloader .bin file in the KFU\tools folder. Then type "fastboot flash bootloader exact_name_of_the_bootloader_file.bin" without quotes and press enter. Then reboot, it should be fine ;).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
avoid fastboot.

get into twrp or recovery, go to mounts n storage and mount USB storage. transfer this zip and flash in recovery. reboot n let it charge.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lovejoy777:
^^^^very good tip^^^^ (trust me don't mess with fastboot & bootloaders unless you know what you are doing).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] sthomas38:
Oh yeah, you're right... I thought he can't get into TWRP :o. My bad! So boot into TWRP, let it charge, mount USB storage, transfer the .zip from your PC to the Kindle and flash it. Sorry, my mistake.

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9000 avec Tapatalk
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashcode:
SMALL NOTE concerning the charging mode of the new bootloader:

I noticed the other night that the "CHARGING" image doesn't stay up very long on the screen when the mode is engaged (the backlight goes off so that charging will be more effective). And that if you hit power and see the charging screen, it goes back off the screen too quickly.

I could probably fix this in a future version, but at this point, I don't want to make people flash any more bootloaders than they have to.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Stage:
Thank You Hash!!!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kinfauns:
So, I was curious about the battery charging feature in FFF 1.4. I wanted to test out how it worked, so I flashed an older version (FFF 1.2) and intentionally let my battery drain out completely. It was to the point that the device did absolutely nothing when I tried to power it up... no LED or bootlogo.... and it was ready for testing.

As expected, plugging it into the charger kicked the bootloader on and it shut off immediately when I disconnected it. Next, I hooked it up to the USB port on my computer and it also turned on. I issued a fastboot command to stop the countdown and it stayed that way, so it appears the bootloader can be completely powered by an external source and does not rely on the battery (like others have reported). While in fastboot mode, I flashed version 1.4a and rebooted the device.

I got a green LED, then a couple of flashes of amber, but nothing appeared on the display. That was unsettling as I expected either the bootlogo or the charging notice to appear. I thought I might have gotten a bad flash somehow and was thinking I'd have to crack the case open. Then I tried swapping in the wall charger again and I got finally got the bootlogo... sigh of relief. It booted up normally into the ROM, but I heard the low battery tones even before the bootanimation gave way to the lockscreen. A few seconds later, it shut itself off again. At this point, I still wasn't sure how to get the bootloader to notice the low battery condition and put itself into charging mode.

I tried plugging it into the computer again... I got the same sequence of green/amber LEDs I got the first time, but then I finally noticed that the amber LED had not shut off, but actually dimmed itself. I knew the backlight would remain off, so I strained to see if there was anything actually on the display, but saw nothing. I thought I'd try holding the power button to turn it off and that's when the backlight turned on and I finally saw the battery charging notice. I wanted to see if would it would still keep on charging if I plugged in the wall charger, but it it looks like it bypasses battery charging and boots normally. Again, the system shut itself off after a few seconds. Only when hooked up to a low amp power source like the USB port does it enter the charging mode. I think it was another 30-45 minutes before it was able to continue booting normally.

So, based on that...

Like you said in your post, I think it's important to have the charging notice up on the display at least for a few seconds before shutting off the backlight. Otherwise, it doesn't look like it's doing anything at all. If it is supposed to come on... I never even saw it when I was staring at the display.

More importantly, I'd like to see it enter charging mode even with the wall charger if the battery is sufficiently low. There are users who don't have regular access to a computer. Without a battery that has at least a small amount of power left, the ROM will shutdown and not charge the battery.

All in all, I think this is the best feature (yet most unappreciated) on the new bootloader. Nice work!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] smirkis:
I get the low power display when I hit the power button on a dead battery. I think when u plug in a power source first, the device just boots?

I haven't done much at the dead battery level, so I'm not too sure how it works either, but both are dead for sure and ill find out when I get home.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kinfauns:
I actually don't know what happens when you hit the power button with a low battery on this bootloader. I had v1.2 on there until the battery was fully dead. After I flashed v1.4a, I only turned it back on by plugging in the cable.

Yes, if you plug in the wall charger, v1.4a just boots normally. The problem is that the ROM (at least the one I tested) will turn the device off if the battery is too low. I was suggesting that the battery get charged with either the wall charger or USB power for a low battery condition. That way, someone with access to only the wall charger would still be able to charge it up.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashcode:
Thank you for the fantastic write up. And I agree 100% that I should hold the boot even on the wall charger. I also might raise the needed battery % to 5 vs. 3% so that the OS won't immediately try and shutdown the device.

Seeing the charging screen for some initial amount of time (10 sec?) will go a long way towards helping users understand what it happening as well.

Also fixing the charger driver in the kernel will help as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Reserved for future use....
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Tcollins412:
I did this, and i believe that AdamOutlers .pit is what messed up my device. Can you please give me a copy of your or another copy?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
AdamOutler's pit is not messed up... I used it to repartition my player and it worked perfectly with the right partitions.

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[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Tcollins412:
when i tried it, it messed up my player. do you know how i could fix it?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] iJimaniac:
Hey klin1344, not sure if you still watch this thread, but I was wondering if anyone has had success using heimdall 1.3.2 with the 4.0? I see it says it broke compatibility with some devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] GalaxySWifi4:
No problem for me
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] crancpiti:
i wanted to use this method to backup my /efs (like daniel advicd me to do:D ) but i cant seem to do it. It says Can't open 'sdcard/efs.rfs': Read only file system

pls answer :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
You have to be rooted to do this.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] crancpiti:
i think either i hadnt BuSY box installed(my device was rooted before) or it was bcause i connected my device to the PC / i mounted my sdcards

:D now i have a efs.rfs file and that should do it i hope
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] aminking2005:
thanks . i have problem with heimdall to download my wifi 4 int PIt file

is there any ADB command for downloading pit file from device?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I do remember that there is the dd command from the adb shell in order to get your pit, but it's not the recommended way to get it.

You can download the pit files right here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531850
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] aminking2005:
most pit file are represented for wifi4 8GB . but mine is 16GB.

so im not sure about pit files in forum.

if i install a custom rom and it faild can i recover my yp-g1 by having above backups?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Sorry for the long reply time, and yeah you should be able to restore with those backups.

Envoyé de mon Nexus 4 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obartuckc:
Just got a new ext SD card, and wanted to know what I need to do in order to format and mount it properly?

~Sent from my unlocked, rooted, Faux 1.45gHz Atrix 4G~
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dratsablive:
Just insert into your phone, and it should take care of it automatically. If not just go into Settings>Storage> you should be able to format the card from there.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zamana:
Hi!

Anybody ever considered to downgrade from 4.0.3 to 2.3.6?

Is it worth?

What do you think about?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adik82:
Though as per the review by www.gsmarena.com.. 4.0.3 is more stable than 2.3.6.but still if you wanna do it then you can download the previous Stock firmware from www.sammobile.com and then flash it through odin... but make sure before doing it..search on youtube for video tutorial.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnwiredDroid:
Why you will downgrade? Android 4.0.3 is stable enough than Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananalow:
It depend on you~~ do u have problem with ICS? for me i will stick with ics ~~ :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zamana:
I'm not considering to downgrade yet, but sometimes it seems that ICS isn't so smooth as it could be...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Judged by all the muppets posting help how do i upgrade to ICS i want i want .

Followed by help how do i go back to GB = plenty .

Personally no ICS rom quite as good as my GB set up just yet .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bananalow:
yea, it might be not so smooth, but for me i still can accept it~~ It will take sometimes before ICS become as good or better than GB~~ ^^
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaitec2002:
To be honest yes I am seriously thinking of downgrading :(

OK I'm with Orange UK and have the GT-I9100P with NFC.

I got the 2.3.6 update about a month ago and it was pretty good everything was working like it should. Then last week I got the ICS update and even after doing a full wipe my battery life is less than 24hrs ( GB 48+hrs ) the camera sound is now full blast and and taking a photo takes a few seconds whereas in GB the camera sound was quiet and taking a photo was pretty instant.

Sound in ICS is also an issue not sure what is causing it , some of the system sounds are extreamly quiet even when set at max also Video sound doesn't seem consistant one video is quiet next its loud yet in GB its the same level on most videos. Skype sound is also the same no where near as loud as before.

Ram usage has also increased even though I have the same apps installed from 340MB now on average I'm seeing 560MB , If I reboot the phone I then see Ram 270MB but after an hour or so its back to 560MB and that is just after letting it sit there ( even with all the apps uninstalled after a few hrs its still the same )

I like ICS don't get me wrong but to me its more like a testing OS it just has too many bugs and glitches.

If I knew how to develop ICS I would. I would love to remove all the Orange bloatware and sort out the camera and sound install ICS 4.0.4 to get better battery life
[General Questions and Answers] foxsam:
I have been using my samsung conquer with stock rom rooted. I have been using mainly fox fi but also other tethering apps. I always got good 4g speed. I needed to replace the phone because of a broken charger port. When I did there was an update installed that would not root, I followed a guide on rootzwiki (unavailable atm) to flash and root a stock rom with the update already installed. Since then tethering does not work very well. Some sites load very slow some not at all. Google search works perfect but links do not.

How can I tell if this a hardware issue or something else? I have another phone that has the same update but it is OTA not built-in and tethering is fine.

Is there anything I can do to test what is happening? It feels like a firewall...

thanks
[Desire Themes and Apps] edwardally:
Just share my incomplete theme base on MIUI4 theme for Oxygen ROM and you are welcome to edit and make it better.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6786812/EdTheme2.zip
[Desire Themes and Apps] parabellium:
thank you.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Ferdinoptimus:
THANK YOU

DOWNLOADING:):silly:
[Desire Themes and Apps] sssimo96:
Nice one, I will deffenetely gonna try that as soon I install Oxygen or Oxygen based ROM
[Desire Themes and Apps] vince0812:
Thanks:good:
[Desire Themes and Apps] zecabra:
clean install Oxygen and theme, phone boot loop
[Desire Themes and Apps] hellbrandt:
Works for me, nice piece of work. Only problem is drop down is a few pixels shorter than the height of the screen, so wallpaper underneath can be seen - a very minor issue though.
[Desire Themes and Apps] nicka3200:
I know it's been a long time since the last post on this thread but I have only just started using this theme.

The issue with the drop down bar is easily resolved by using a UOT footer. You do however lose the nice orange line from it.
[Android General] generalist:
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/1805-android-driveby-download.html
[Android General] boborone:
I'm wondering if you have your browser's user agent set to desktop or ios, does it still do the redirect or does it just see the browser has something else?
[Android General] generalist:
Though I don't know exactly how these exploits work, your question seems valid to me. Hopefully mobile security developers are testing this. I would think that a user agent value of iOS or Android would be most likely to invoke such an exploit when it is aimed at mobile devices.

On my phone, I rarely use a web browser. When I do, it is Firefox with the Phony extension (which lets me change the user agent), and I mostly browse via bookmarks.

Would I have the vigilance and stamina to change to a presumed safer user agent (e.g., Firefox desktop) when I browse to each domain I don't trust? If I could automate the change, yes. Otherwise, maybe not.
[Android General] spunker88:
Looks like its a page sending an apk to be downloaded. Some browsers like the system on in GB will auto start downloads, Dolphin HD and possibly others will display a prompt before downloading unless these sites have found some exploit.

In order to be infected the user would not only have to download the apk, but also accept the installation notice. A malicious apk file that isn't installed doesn't pose any threat. Its safer than websites that try to send executables to a Windows machine, because those files will post a threat before being installed.

All OSes have their weaknesses, iOS jailbreaks through the browser showed some pretty serious security flaws being exploited.
[Android General] boborone:
Major weekness, no, not all. But one that could potentially harm the tech illiterate? Yes. Not all people understand the consequences of clicking links in email. Those who don't would be the ones who this would infect.

"oh something just popped up on my phone.......

it says "better browsing".........*clicks ok

ummm, "Do you wish to install "A Faster Internet".......*clicks ok"

Infected.