yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
If you find any bugs, let me know! I was gonna add a tweaked barebones with init.d tweaks, Beats audio, and build.prop tweaks. However I'm running into some framework crashes :p I'll post a tweaked ROM once I work out the bugs
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Guitarman:
I ran into a bug when I flashed the regular sblood cm7 ROM for alt, the flash itself went fine but the bug occurred when I booted the ROM for the first time....at the beginning of the Google setup an option window came up to select either setup wizard or......can't really remember the other option......maybe com.android.provision?......it was hard to read as the option box looked like it was on a vibrating table going 400mph lol.....had me nervous but finally I was able to select one of the two.....couldn't tell which one and then proceeded as normal.......no other bugs noticed :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Yeah I had that too :p that was an old bug and it's not in the barebones. I'll delete the setup wizard apk and mod the build.prop to set the setup_wizard=true to false :) upload later tonight for future downloaders

Off topic: GO PACK GO!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Guitarman:
The only thing I notice with the barebones alt is the Google Services Framework constantly FCing but I know that's only because some apps were removed, does not make a difference, I just freeze playstore and Google framework when not in use :)

Sent from my Amazon Gindle Fireoid
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
Not to get off topic, but how do I get ubuntu's wifi to work on a live cd? My wifi chip is a dell wireless 1397 mini.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Are you booting from a live CD? Or are you using virtual box? And are you using a netbook?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
If it doesnt work on its own yoi have to repack a bootable cd with your driver...or better yet do it on a USB disk

Sent from my GT-N7000000000 using Tapastalker 2
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
I know that Ubuntu 11.04 and up supports all 32 bit and 64 bit netbooks (atom powered) wifi, graphics, the works. I've installed Ubuntu on numerous netbooks and never had to repack a boot cd :) it works on Gateway, Acer, Dell, and HP mini's, for I have quite a few netbooks for my school programming club :) and yes, USB install does go by A LOT faster than a CD or DVD
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
It is a live cd. the main os is vista. Should i make a bootable usb? 4gb would work, right?

Devices:

Kindle Fire with AlienDroid primary and Modaco secondary
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
Okay, I got Wifi to work on a Crashbang Live cd. Any instructions to extract the Boot.img inside a rom?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
No offense my friend, but you are kind of hijacking this thread with something completely unrelated....
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Removed :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] hutson23:
Any news for a alt JB Rom?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Not yet for some reason anything with a 3.0 kernel bootloops with Read/Write errors. Seems like something so simple but I've tried so many things and just can't get why :confused:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
Most likely due to the different data and cache mounting options just a guess.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Maybe. But I've gone through the kernel's mounting options and adjusted all the options to the right points. I re-did the test and noticed that the errors are actually permission errors. It will say it is unable to write because access is denied or something like that. The weird thing is that it still boots up it just won't go past the bootlogo.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
Sounds inherent of a data mounting issue.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Yeah I know :P right now I'm digging even deeper in the kernel to see if I missed something.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Okay so I tried something new. Instead of modifying the kernel I compiled it using hashcode's instructions on his git and made ALL the possible mount points to the System2 partitions. I would test tonight, but I lost my charger and my kindle is completely dead so I'm letting it charge with my phone charger, so tomorrow morning I'll post results :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Okay sorry it took so long to post guys I got a little busy for the New Years but it boots. However, most of the apps crash. This is a simple fix I just have to find a way clear the davlik cache :P
[Kindle Fire Android Development] BrooklynNY:
Me too Waiting for cm10.1 4.2 alt rom
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Coming Soon ;) just have to set up a cache fix
[Kindle Fire Android Development] lelandfried:
Don't forget MoDaCo's stock 6.3.1 for alt-partition.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
I've been researching this lately but am behind. I won't be updating this for a few days until I compile some shiny new roms for the Kindle Fire. :) I'm looking into a PACman rom and rasbean right now
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
These roms aren't ports. They're compiled. Right now I'm fixing a few minor bugs here and there.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
You don't 'format' dalvik cache in the traditional sense; have a look at how it's done from recovery (apart from the ors callback this is the same method as CWM).

As you can see it makes a call directly to system and uses the 'rm' binary to recursively remove the contents (I believe TWRP handles this the same way). I'll admit my edify is limited so I can't provide the updater script syntax for such a comment (though I know it should be simple) such a comment could be very easily passed to TWRP (or COTR) using an openrecoveryscript from the ROM as well (note the 'cmd' function).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Why does recovery have to be used at all.. Correct me if this is just a stupid statement, but since it is the alt and not booted, couldn't the alt rom's cache (which includes the dalvik) be cleared in terminal emulator or root explorer

Does it not mount when in primary rom?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Suppose it doesn't have to be in recovery no; doesn't really matter where the commands are issued from so long as the data being removed isn't currently in use (being booted to an alternate rom obviously means just that); sorry I was working on some recovery code when I realized I had read a question asking about dalvik cache wiping, forgive me if I have recovery on the brain lol.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Im not seeing the mount point - does it mount when not in use?

Nevertheless, here would be the definitive procedure to wipe the alt cache.

modifying the regular format-all script from the dual-boot thread...

the "updater-script" file, should contain only the following:

ui_print("Formatting ONLY DALVIK-CACHE dir on alternate cache partition");

ui_print("Formatting dalvik-cache2...");

format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15");

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15", "/cache");

delete_recursive("/cache/dalvik-cache");

unmount("/cache");

ui_print("Done.");

is it not that simple?

So this modification will mount cache, as it must be since dalvik is in cache on the KF, but instead remove just the dalvik dir

---------- Post added at 03:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:53 AM ----------

Meh stupid tapatalk put in "smilies" at the end of each line of code, but you get the picture...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Yeah that should do it; just if you are formatting mmcblk0p15 before mounting it than it's already erased entirely so probably skip that part. Otherwise assuming all the edify syntax is right you're good to go. Otherwise you're correct in the dalvik cache does not have a mount point.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
I'm working on a custom build of TWRP 2.4 that can handle primary rom along with AltRom, including wiping davlik cache, wiping secondary partitions, and backing up and restoring. I'd say right now it's about 70% completed. I have to touch up on a few things yet before I post an alpha build.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Funny; I've been writing up an altboot variation of COTR; it would be done if it weren't for the fact that the kindle isn't the only device on our list lol.

Either way that will be cool, look forward to seeing it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Nice. I chose TWRP for ease of use but right now I keep getting sync errors when updating the repo. It's quite annoying
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
I fixed the sync errors hashcode changed local_manifest.xml I updated that now I've finally updated to my second unstable build. Only backup works so far. Once I fix everything else I'll upload and post
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Oh, yeah I had to update the gingerbread manifest for that reason as well; I should have said something I didn't think that was your issue.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Wisefire:
I am currently working a on a Kindle Fire for a coworker. I was thinking that dual booting the stock OS and CM10 would be the best option.

Now that I have been reading for a few hours, I see that this is not possible, correct?

I have successfully dual booted the stock OS as primary, and CM7 as alt.

I see the note about issues with certain roms/kernals. Is it possible to install CM10 as primary, and stock as alt?

Thanks for the help.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Moscow Desire:
Keep it on Topic

Peoples, keep it on topic please. This isn't a social networking site, so don't turn it into one.

Thread cleaned.

MD
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Okay so far I have a partially working recovery! I just have to touch up the ui.xml to show the System icons (a bug I missed before I compiled)

Here are some pics:

ETA: 1 Week with testing :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
So does working alt recovery mean we can flash right to system 2 w/o repack?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
NO, It would just mean we could wipe the system2, data2, cache2 and dalvik2.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
Fixed the UI.xml yet? I might test it in when it come out. (2.4 I Mean)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Sorry guys it's gonna be awhile yet maybe another week at the latest... I want to add Cache funtionalitiy before I release.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
I know this thread hasn't been updated, but what happed to your TWRP already?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Got busy with school + I got a new phone which doesn't have many ROMs so I introduced a few :)

I'm planning to update when I have 4+ hours of free time (which is rare.) it takes a long time to hand-code those options and buttons..
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tobiascuypers:
Here is 6.3.2 stock rooted alt ROM:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kpj491te9p0zdfg
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tobiascuypers:
How's the recovery coming along?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] BrooklynNY:
I'm waiting too :D:)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Alright. Just waiting for my little bro to come home from his trip so I can test it. (He took my kindle) :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vlasp:
And that will be in... I am also waiting.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Just use the scripts on the dual boot thread they work fine.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] BrooklynNY:
So what happened when your little bro came home? :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
Its really not necessary just use the scripts tfrom the dual boot thread
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Tested and it worked. TWRP version 2.4. Then of course Dees_Troy dropped 2.5 which would've made a month project into a 4 hour total project. Starting over with 2.5 :).

Yes that is true. That's what I would do for now.

Don't expect too much from me development wise in the next few weeks. It's been quite rough for me these past few months. As the signature below says I had one of my close friends kill herself Monday, so I'm still trying to cope with that. Nuff getting personal now. I'll see what I can do but as of now it's not on my top priority list. Once I update my ROM for the One V I'll dig back into the recovery and copy over my work.

Cheers.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] BrooklynNY:
Anyone made or found a cm10 or JB alt ROM? Just would be cute to have 2 JB ROMs dual booting on this outdated piece of tech! Thanx for all the work!

Currently running cm10.1, & cm9 alt. :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Jspex:
Noob question here but can I dualboot an ice Rom while running a Gb Rom as my primary?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] firered365:
If it is the one listed yes. You can run the GB and ICS together.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Jspex:
Awesome thanks.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ronf119:
not sure what i'm doing wrong to dual boot

Followed the directions using Kindle Fire Utility

Installed drivers

Installed permanent root with super user

Installled TWRP recovery

Installed FireFireFire

and did the dual boot #7 option

downloaded 2 of the roms to try out and put them on the kindle

went to recovery and tried to flash. Says it was successful. Then power down and booted up and chose alt-rom and screen just goes black.

Normal Boot still works fine and runs the Kindle OS

The only thing I did prior to installing the new rom is I installed COTR recovery as I wanted to make a backup. So I am using COTR to flash the image.

I did however try to reinstall TWRP but Kindle locks up on the boot screen and I get this error on the computer

sending 'recovery' (6144 KB)...

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 0.011s

Do I have to have TWRP reinstalled or can I use COTR to flash the image
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Jspex:
If no one has requested it yet or I am missing something in the OP (which is the likely case) id like to see a rooted stock alt Rom. The stock ui is really kid friendly but I wouldn't want it as my primary.

Edit: yup I didn't read the OP correctly thanks for everything :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ProfEngr:
Look for modaco. it is very close to stock rooted. I run it as an alt w/ NRG rom as primary.

Sent from my SGS4 using one opposable thumb.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Jspex:
Thanks I figured that out seconds after my post. I can't thank awidawad enough for all his help troubleshooting help over the last few days. You have not only helped me fix my old kindle but you also breathed new life into it and with it my knowledge of my device has increased exponentially.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ronf119:
can anybody help. still having problems
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
You should take ask your info and post a new that in q&a
[Kindle Fire Android Development] 404-Not Found:
I am having problems installing, first when I put the alt-rom factory reset zip I get the thing where it says could not mount data on the end. And when I flash the ROM it just freezes and doesn't finish the installation.

I have twrp 2.5.0.0 any help???
[Kindle Fire Android Development] galearned:
Can't get to alt recovery?

Not sure if anyone is monitoring this post any more:::

I tried to dual boot a first gen Kindle fire.

I am running TWRP 2.6.3.1

I am using 1.4a and have flashed ffe-1.4.1-awidad.zip

I have the alt boot option on power up.

From here, I have no success at a second OS initially but, then figured out what I was not doing properly.

I thought I had to boot into alt recovery to install an alt OS/ROM.

I tried to run altrom-format-all.zip which worked the first time I flashed it

I have also installed alt-as-primary-1.4.1 signed....zip to reverse boot order.

There are numerous Utube videos on dual boot but, every one of them is just a show and tell of the screens and nothing on how to actually get into alt recovery? There is one section in these posts but, nothing specific on exactly how to get into alt recovery.

I then realized from a small note on a post that there is only one TWRP recovery GUI and process and that it is the ALT ROM itself that is written and scripted to seek out and install itself in the alt partition created with either the menu selection in the KFU utility or manually with the altrom-format-all.zip flash, I believe.

When I grabbed an Alt rom (I used the Modaco Kindle Fire alt rom) and flashed it in TWRP recovery, the OS was in fact installed and I was up and running.

In my case, I flashed the CM11 KitKat in Recovery which installed as Primary and worked fine.

The Modaco alt rom was flashed which installed as Alternate boot and worked fine as well.

Note: As a result of several failed attempts at this process, I had corrupted the alt partition so the alt ROM would not finish flashing.

I then flashed the altrom-factory-reset.zip file and then re-flashed the Modaco alt rom and all went well.

Regards
[Kindle Fire Android Development] BrooklynNY:
Nice report, and yes, I'm still here...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ProfEngr:
I'm barely treading water after 2yrs. Completely forgotten how to recompile a ROM for the ALT slot. Even lost my Ubuntu image from virtualBox (hardware upgrades). Can you point me in the direction of the steps you used? I want to try to repackage the 6.3.3 released by sd_shadow. He had issues getting it to work.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] awidawad:
Wow! Time sure flies by. Can't believe it's already been two years... Anyways, I followed this while repackaging:

https://github.com/eldarerathis/FIR...ow-to-Package-a-ROM-for-FFFE's-Alternate-Boot

Good luck! :)
[LG Optimus 2x] lopiop:
Hello all, I was wondering could anyone make a video tutorial on how to use nvflash for windows 7. I want to flash the v30 a rom but I cant really understand how to do it from the description I found. Im using cm7 now. Also how to revert back to old partition layout and old bootloader in the future? Thx in advance
[LG Optimus 2x] babi_perang:
do you know what's so great from a forum? ;) you don't even need to request a tutorial video. just ask man, what's so confusing you about using nvflash?

p.s : you can revert your bootloader changes by using nvflash again :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] peikojose:
Hi,

Today I was using my phone as usual, battery was about 75%, then suddenly while I was using Whatsapp the screen went totally black (I have to add that it has happened before, but I haven't been able to identify what is causing it, it might be Android 4.2,franco kernell and maybe switchpro).

I think it has to do with the brightness control becase the screen still detects the touchs, the phone is certanly working, but with a black screen (Brightness to 0% maybe?) so after I remove the battery it boots fine.

But this time, when it was restarting the phone I noticed the battery went down to 20% from 75%! That's impossible to happen (Phone would have melted) because the restart time was under 5 min!

What is more strange is that the phone stayed with 20% for a very long time, it even "autocharged" itself (I know it's impossible)...

What could it be? Help appreciated!

Thanks

Setup is:

Gnex 4.2.1 stock

TWRP recovery (last version)

Franco Kernel 342
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] huxuan:
yap, I have two gnexs both have had this problem.

I can get a screenshot with vol-down + power

but the screen is totally black.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
Yeah I've had this screen of death issue too. I've been trying forever to diagnose what is causing the problem. It happens on any kernel including stock. I factory reset, flashed stock images, everything.

I've narrowed it down to the weather channel app, Adobe flash, csipsimple app, or animations being turned off. Still trying to nail it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] allgsmnetwork:
i not have restaert using apk franco updater and set :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] akash3656:
The sudden battery drop is normal when you pull out the battery. Basically, the phone loses it's calibration on the battery capacity. And that " auto charge" is your phone slowly trying to get a better estimate of your phone battery capacity.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] irizwan:
I believe that SODs are a common problem faced by many on 4.2 i personally havn't faced it yet =] running arhd with ak kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] peikojose:
I was able to reproduce this using Velis Auto Brightness https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS52ZWxpcy5hdXRvLmJyaWdodG5lc3MiXQ

After messing with the brightness it wents black screen.

I'm sure this has to do with the autobrigtness!

Best regards
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
the battery losing charge, and the "autocharge", i see often across many devices. that happens to me when flashing different things over a short time period or when benchmarking and crashing :o its really not losing the charge, it just thinks it did. the batterystats file becomes inaccurate fairly often, maybe it corrupts. and the autocharge or ghostcharge(usually pretty slow btw) is the batterystats slowly becoming accurate again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b177y:
I think you just helped me pin it on animation off. I have had the black screen happen to me 3 times in the 3 days that I disabled animations (stock rooted ROM, developer options). I kept trying to find an app that caused it but the animation off matches the start of my problem.

EDIT: Well, animation off isn't the cause since I just had another black screen. :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sert00:
Totally agree with you!happened to me many times too,especially when crashing after tweaking\benchmarking.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] coachmoore:
Hi guys! I tried to install the trinity kernel and the phone would barely boot. I tried the back up I had made and all of them more say my SIM card is damaged. It's asks to format but I'll lose all my stuff on the card. I can go into file explorer and access all the stuff. Anyone know what happened it how to fix it?
[Nexus 4 General] Copperwatt:
Ok, so I thought I was having a touch sensitivity problem on my Nexus 4, because often a touch or a swipe would go unrecognized...

Then I realized I was noticing it especially in these two situations:

-Turning wifi slider switch on/off

-Swiping back to a previous tab in chrome

Turns out, what was going on was when I reached that far with the thumb, my palm was touching the curved edge of the screen, making it think I was already touching with a different finger. This "numbed" the screen from my intended touch until I shifted my hand slightly, releasing the unintended multi-touch situation. This made the issue seem sporadic.

I am not saying this is what all other people are experiencing, I am just putting it out there in case someone else is unknowingly doing the same thing. I could also imagine typing errors on the far side of the keyboard for people with certain hand shapes.

It seems almost unavoidable due to the thin bezel and rounded edge, but I would think problem could be avoided with some clever "palm touch near edge" recognition code, but until then I just have to get used to not gripping the phone so tight.

-copperwatt
[Nexus 4 General] aceo07:
I think that might be the case also. In some instances, it seems like I can't tap on the screen, but it can swipe and if I reposition my hand, it will work.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AlexSochi8:
I have a stock s3 every time I go to kill tasks it shows 49 apps were killed... why is there so much stuff running in background is there a way to stop this without rooting this phone?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Dmwitz:
There should be no need. Itws better imo to kill the ones that show up in running that use aldt of ram.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Without rooting? Yes.

Setting, application manager, all, then you can click on certain ones and click disable.