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[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
We need a Fire HD user or somebody with more knowledge of how things work to figure out where we can get "amazon.unifiedsettings.UnifiedSettingsHelper" from. This is the missing service it crashes on. I can't find any lib files or apks from the ROM that fix this issue. Also even if we get past this crash error another one may appear. At this point I'm thinking we may be better off trying to get the old GB app working since it seems to have fewer issues. It allows you to open and browse to videos on ICS, also allows you to add your Amazon account to the device, but crashes when you go to play a video. Its having a database issue according to the crash log posted over in the GB thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31633773&postcount=193
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikebeatrice:
could amazon.unifiedsettings.UnifiedSettingsHelper be part of one of the odex files in system/app ?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latinmaxima:
It will be fantastic once this can be resolved. I hate that they are allowing this on iOS but not on other android devices.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gonzorito:
Yes, it is absurd that iPad has access and general android devices are SOL. We purchased our content...and can't watch it reliably (app access). I would encourage everyone to let amazon know this is unacceptable - and I'm hopeful the good people here find a fix for us in the mean time.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobAndroid:
I tried giving Amazon some feedback on supporting other Android devices - they didn't seem to care much. I guess they want to sell more Fires, but if they're selling them at a loss wouldn't they make more profit by supporting their app on other devices?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gonzorito:
Our how about, I purchased my kindle to read, purchased a tablet before the fire was a gleam in their eye.

I purchase video content and have limited access to it, so i won't purchase future content with amazon as a result.

No I won't buy a fire and I am encouraged to buy my future content through Google play on top of that!

Loss, loss, and more loss for Amazon. Doesn't make sense.

Sorry for side tracking the thread, I will end the QQ :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
Yup. Of course they aren't going to listen to any one complaint, but Amazon is a pretty responsive company on the whole. Squeak enough and they'll grease the wheels. There's no indication they want to make this fire-only, given how many other devices its on, it's just a question of priority. You can bet the apple people whined more than the android people, so if you want them to get it in gear get on their contact page and make the request. I've done it repeatedly, but we need more people to get noticed.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansoho:
The kindle fire HD has a different screen resolution from original fire. I'm guessing that makes the new Amazon video app more applicable to our new Android devices?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gonzorito:
Ok, so does someone have advance access to the apps found on the fire hd? If so, that's impressive! I just assumed we were going to need to wait for the release in November to see if we would have any luck with the ICS compatible rips.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
The ROM updates from Amazon are .bin files but they are simply a renamed .zip file so its easy to extract stuff from them. So far I've had no luck getting the new app running, it FCs on ICS. The Fire HD and the lower res Fire updated model both have the same exact apk file for Amazon Video. So in theory if we got the app working it would scale better on tablets.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gonzorito:
So we have the .bins that amazon will use in the upcoming hardware then? I tried doing this with the apks that worked in honeycomb a while back...right after i got the ics update for it, lol.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letier:
Did anyone make progress with this?

I tried to search the whole firmware update for "amazon.unifiedsettings.UnifiedSettingsHelper", and i got a hit in Settings.odex and framework.odex.

when unzipping those files, theres to traces of the name.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Those are android system files, so you'd have to replace the existing ones with those. I may try it on my Touchpad if I get curious enough, but theres a chance it causes the device not to boot. But I have nandroid backups just in case.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letier:
You will most likely have to exchange the Settings.apk and framework.jar and rebuild the odex files somehow. Haven't really played around with that stuff much...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikebeatrice:
I deodexed the framework.odex and it's definitely in there. I also looked through the settings.odex, but didn't find it.. i'm guessing the settings file just makes calls to the framework.

I highly doubt this.. but is adding new modules to an existing framework as easy as decompiling, putting in the bits I want and recompiling?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezieger:
These two threads should talk:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1897055&page=2
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winsettr:
I'd be interested to know if a deodexed stock Kindle Fire HD ROM will run Amazon Videos reliably... when I get some time I'm planning on trying to pull a log from the emulator but anyone is free to try this first ;)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4rs fed:
subscribed!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Amazon+Mobile+LLC&start=12&num=12

There's a version for google tv ... I wish I knew how to get my hands on the apk.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elcidroyale:
Yes!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Awesome! Now I'll have to see if we can get the apk and if it will work on non Google TV devices.

I'm starting to question whether I even want to renew my Prime account. I'm sick of Amazon treating Android users like they don't exist, they've had a basic Android port of the instant video app since the 2011 Kindle Fire release. Netflix, Hulu, etc seem to be able to get Android apps out there no problem. I mostly use Amazon Prime for the 2 day shipping so this hasn't bothered me, but now Amazon has introduced their stupid Add-on program where we can't even buy certain items unless we make a $25 purchase. If we don't have an easy way to view Prime video on Android 4.x by the time my Prime membership is up next summer, I may end up not renewing it.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
I never much cared about getting small things in two days, I just really liked not having that $25 super saver threshold to hit before I could make an order. Addons really screw with that benefit, and Amazon could save money/make prime more sustainable with a lower threshold and longer shipping times or similar limits without alienating me.

Streaming selection has improved by leaps and bounds this year. If it improves by as much next year, the price will be unbeatable for the streaming alone.

Edit: There are commenters on the engadget post saying the apk would only work on version 3 of google tv due to amazon relying on a particular DRM element included therein. They didn't speak to whether we'd be able to extract and install that DRM on another device. However it might open up another item to look for in the fire roms. It's been a while since I played around with it, but might there be additional security apks necessary to use the fire instant video apk that we haven't tried because they looked like they might be for something else?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stacman:
This is a lot of work just to get Amazon videos (even with Prime), which are usually old and stale. It's not worth owning the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 for, which only has the video quality going for it. I bought it for my girlfriend for Christmas and returned it today. Slow doesn't begin to describe the performance. I spent more time waiting for web pages to load than anything, and I was maxed on my WiFi signal. Bought a Nexus 7 today, and even without the Videos it'll be a better device. Besides, NetFlix seems to stream better quality videos made in the last two decades...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
I got the apk from an LG TV owner over on the GTVHacker forum. Unfortunately it refuses to install on my Touchpad running CM9 and when I tried to force install it by copying the apk to the system/app folder and changing permissions it still didn't show up as installed. I'll attach the apk in case somebody else can get it to work.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobAndroid:
No go on my HTC One X (AT&T) either.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hcoling:
Can't install on my tablet.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
From alogcat, here is what the apk installation is failing on. Sounds like a Google tv lib.

E/PackageManager( 421): Package com.amazon.avod requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.tv.v1; failing!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
someone needs to grab it for us then lol
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathan118:
Agreed! Can't wait to have this working.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] npompei:
Man I really want amazon prime video. To me it's leaps and bounds better than Netflix. But Netflix shines in their native apps. I can get it on my phone and Vizio costar.

If I were Google, why wouldn't you push Amazon around?! I mean, why withhold such a big piece to the experience?

The apk on the previous page doesn't work on my Clean 5.0 either (damn)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sohip:
so we need to pull that com.google.android.tv.v1 lib file from some google TV device's rom and push it to our phones library folder?

*starts looking*
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
I'm the guy from GTVhacker who posted the apk from my LG 55G2. As I said over on GTVhacker if you need anything else from me to get this working let me know.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winsettr:
If you could pull the lib referenced in the post above yours that would be awesome. Thanks!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
I would need someone to walk me through it out send me to a how to if this is even possible on a Google TV device. If someone knows how to do this pm me and we can work out a time to do it over a Google hangout.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bookworm6:
You should be able to just use es file explorer and run a search for "com.google.android.tv.v1." Make sure you start it in the root (/) directory.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
It will ether be installed under /system/apps/ or /data/apps/. I would also check the /data/data/com.google.android.tv.v1/ folder to see if it has any library files(would be .so) that might be needed also.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sircrisp:
I've been waiting for someone with a google tv to come along :]
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
Sorry for the wait. Been crazy busy these past few days. I'll try to see if I can find/pull the library files tonight.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezieger:
You're such a tease.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
So I did the search in the root directory and uploded the file to dropbox. Let me know if this is what you are looking for.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rlsw7tycpxxc92p/com.google.android.tv.v1.xml

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FYI it was listed under "/system/etc/permisions"
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bliger241:
with that it can now be installed, however still force closes when tries to open...logcat gives

01-24 02:14:03.394 8699 8699 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.android.tv.media.GtvMediaPlayer
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
So I take it you need me to look for com.google.android.tv.media.GtvMediaPlayer
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
Is there anyway we can get you to do a file dump of your whole device?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
Let me know the easiest way to perform one and then pm me so I can share it individually via dropbox. I'm not comfortable sharing a system dump openly since there is a lot of personal information in there.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sircrisp:
With the surge of android sticks and tv set top boxes I am amazed Amazon has yet to release an app to all devices.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
And potentially limit revenue for the Kindle Fire line? Not likely.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
The Kindle Fire is being sold near cost with profit being made from sale of content. This is why it makes no sense for them to not release a Instant Video app for Android. I don't think keeping Amazon video off Android is going to convince Android tablet users to buy a Kindle Fire, most people will just get their video content elsewhere or else use the desktop site.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobAndroid:
Maybe they think Fire owners are likely to buy MOAR! :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winsettr:
If you could pull your system and data partitions that would probably have everything AVOD needs without any of your personal information. If you are using a file explorer you could zip the entire folder (just makes a copy of everything, you won't actually lose your system files). I know Root Explorer and Zarchiver can do this, I would imagine ES File Explorer can, too. Thanks for your help!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user1484:
If they aren't really making any money from the Kindle Fire sales anyway why not release the VOD to all devices and make money from all android users on subscriptions and rentals.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
I've asked the same question, so I agree with the sentiment, but there are some potential answers. 1) There are an insane number of devices to test. Even only testing the most popular devices is a chore compared to the other platforms they're supporting. 2) They've actually been releasing AVOD on a bunch of devices, ipad, wii u, something new every couple of months, prioritizing what they think will broaden the appeal of Prime instant the most. 3) The Android devices they do already support have special drm, the Kindle Fire has their own, including precautions against running on a rooted device (back when I ran the old version on an android 2.x Nook Tab, we had to temp unroot to make it work), and the newest release of Google TV which has a new drm element they rely on.

It's just a matter of time, I suspect. I've gotten more comfortable watching it through the browser since I upgraded to Jelly Bean. Not sure if my tolerance for the ever so slight loss of sync has increased or if the loss of sync has decreased, but in any case, while the app would be better, I'm a little less worried about when they'll get around to it.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
So it didn't find that specific file name. It did however find two other files that started with com.google.android.tv I'll share links to them shortly.

They were both located in /system/framework

---------- Post added at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:30 PM ----------

The first file is com.google.android.tv.odex

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5c3bbwuw45c1dm/com.google.android.tv.odex

The second on is com.google.android.tv.jar

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gs4523zwzzboz3d/com.google.android.tv.jar

Still working on the best way to get a file dump. ES Explorer isn't capable of zipping and sharing entire directories and I don;t know yet whether I can get one of the other file managment apps you mentioned to work. I may be able to use airdroid. I'll try that real quick before I head out of town for the weekend.

---------- Post added at 01:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 PM ----------

Okay so airdroid didn't work since it doesn't have access to the root directory. However, I was able to zip the system folder and upload it to dropbox. The data folder didn't have anything it. I've attached the link below. Let me know if you need anything else.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ziiuar02yuvv6ul/system.zip
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
it does just without root it appears empty :). Thanks for the files so far tho. Might still be a way to grab the data partition...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Netflix seems to work just fine and it doesn't even care about root. Theres even been times they list Cyanogenmod in their changelog. I guess they realize that the users are paying for their content and just because they root their device or run a custom ROM doesn't meant they are trying to steal content. Besides if I really wanted to steal content from Amazon or Netflix I'd use a desktop computer.

Same thing here on my Touchpad, tried the MediaPlayer.apk from the system zip and it didn't change anything.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
I hope you don't think I disagree. I've made some of the same points in this and related threads.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sohip:
So in order for him to copy the whole system & Data folders/partitions he needs root? ohh that sucks we were so close :(

anyway, does this source code for this TV help us in anyway? the file size is 1.7 GB!

http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource-detail.jsp
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Negreac:
Yeah unfortunately there is no known way to root the TV yet. If you think of a way for me to get the data partition without root let me know.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue206:
I have a rooted SG3 and you can watched Amazon Instant Video using the Firefox Browser. I am watching Fringe on my phone while I am typing this. The only problem that I have encountered is that it appears that you can't skip ahead but you can you use the full screen function.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winsettr:
Ya that's what I (and I'm sure most people here) have been doing as well, but it is still frustrating that Amazon will not release this app for all/current Android devices...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue206:
Sorry I didn't see the other people talking abut watching it in the browser.

I am just as aggravated as you about the lack of support for our devices, I sent a letter of complaint to Amazon earlier threatening to cancel my prime membership if they don't support android.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winsettr:
Nothing to be sorry about, I don't think it's been talked about too much in this thread but in other threads about how to watch Amazon Prime videos.

Hopefully you get a response that says they are working in it...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
I experience a bit of loss of sync watching it on my transformer infinity. If you don't experience that, would you mind checking what version of flash you're using for me? It's not bad enough to make me not watch, but I do wish I could improve things some. That's a big part of why I'd prefer an app. I never had any problems on a much weaker device (the old Nook Tab) using the AVOD player ripped from a fire rom.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sohip:
Why don't we start a petition or at least start sending angry emails to Amazon and maybe they will listen?.

If they don't wanna release it to other Android devices because they feel it's gonna hurt their own tablets sales, then why did they release it to the iDevices?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
I've been sending persistent emails to Amazon support for months, and the more people do it, the more likely it is to help. Holler back when you send one, it might encourage others to do the same. I even turned off auto renew and sent them a notice that I was letting my prime lapse because of a lack of support for android. I resubbed a couple of months later, :o but I did let it lapse.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigblue206:
I have Flash 11.1 installed
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jug6ernaut:
Considering this is a thread about the Amazon VOD APP can we stop talking about watching it in the browser please?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnbjones:
Can you please provide a zip of the files under /system/framework, both jar and their odex files?

Your com.google.android.tv.odex references a version of the GtvMediaPlayer class that isn't in other gtv platforms I was able to get com.google.android.tv from. With those files we can start to resolve the class not found errors.

Thank you.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bikeracer4487:
There's a new app that basically lets you spoof your device as one of a few other devices (one of them being the Kindle Fire HD): http://codekiem.com/2013/02/13/market-helper/

Any chance we could use this to download the Amazon Instant Video app and fool it into thinking it's running on a Kindle Fire HD?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
That only lets you download apps from Google Play which aren't compatible. Would have been useful when the Google TV Amazon Video app first came out, but we already got someone with a compatible TV to get the apk:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36271417&postcount=37

The problem with that apk is its failing to run due to missing files from the LG Google TV that aren't in regular android. Meanwhile, the Kindle Fire ripped apk is outside of Google Play as it only ships on Kindle Fires.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EniGmA1987:
Anyone have more info on getting this working with other devices?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J913B:
This ^
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloud1771:
currently I only have several Android phones. And I am in the market for a Tablet... reading though this post makes it look like if i want a android tablet that had a app for instant video I better get a Kindle fire and root it to have the rest of the function of the tablet.

It was between the Nexus 10 and the Kindle Fire HD 8.9.

Has anyone got the Amazon Instant Video app to work on any other device other than a kindle fire???
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bookworm6:
This has become more significant in light of Amazon's enabling of Adobe DRM on their videos. As far as I know now, there is no possible way to watch Amazon Instant Video on Android devices... :(
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BmoreBadBoy:
I just started fooling around with remote desktop servers/clients and 1 workaround is to connect to a remote windows desktop, open up a browser on that computer and watch amazon prime that way. It's convoluted and the picture is choppy but maybe with some tuning it could be workable...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gonzorito:
Bmore, I was thinking the same thing at this point.

Did you use splashtop? Find anything better? I know it's not free anymore (officially).

I've tried others, and splashtop seems to have the smoothest performance for playing video remotely (and games).
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BmoreBadBoy:
Gonzo, Did you try 2x client/server?

That's what I'm using since they are free for personal use. I just started messing around with it, so I'm not sure how well it will work, but I did get it to play, although the picture clipped and I couldn't hear anything. When I do some more experimenting, I'll report back. If anyone else has more experience with this, please share...