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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] spaghettiknight:
First of all, thanks a lot to Cpasjuste for making the working gapps flashble zip, here's a link to that. I take no responsibility for doing this, all credit goes to Cpasjuste. Also I do not know a lot about deving myself but i've had two android devices before this and have been avid in modding them, just thought i'd put that out there.

So, first thing I did was get root, factory reset and get safestrap recovery. then I made a backup of my stock ROM, kept it on my kindle, and moved it to a safe spot in my computer (I recommend everyone does this, no matter if they choose to follow this setup or not.) I created a new ROM slot with default partitions, and restored my stock ROM to it (you do this in case any thing happens you have your stock ROM to fall back on). I tried flashing Cpasjuste's gapps rom, but for some reason there were multiple issues with it so instead, i restored to stock, on ROM slot 1, and flashed his gapps zip mentioned earlier. Rebooted and everything (well almost everything) worked perfectly. playstore works and only app that I have discovered to be incompatible is instagram for some reason, but i found a apk download online that installed perfectly to replace it. I installed a app from play store called recent apps quick button, which basically activates android's recent apps, then I installed a app from play store called Home2 shortcut. this lets me assign the resent apps quick button to double tapping the home button so now when i double tap the home button it brings me to recent apps. It's really nice since kindles default Rom doesn't have a recent apps button! Right now I am working on blocking updates from amazon to prevent losing root or bricking, using the tutorial found at the end of the root link. Let me know what you guys have done to make your kindle fire HDX experince better, or any questions you have.

Also, I forgot to mention that using the gapps flashable zip broke my amazon appstore and most amazon services, except video it seams like, but since we have safestrap recovery this isn't a big deal to me because i can always get it back, and im sure it will be fixed in future. Have fun and be safe while experimenting with your kindle.

I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR DEVICE, KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING BEFORE YOU DO IT!!!!!!!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] OurFriendIrony:
Ah! Thats what I missed, I didnt realise I could use restore on a different ROM slot! Thanks for that, going to try it later!:good:
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] spaghettiknight:
No problem! Also if I were you I would delete most of the user apps on your stock ROM, Idk if you did what I said and factory reset before you got safestrap (I would not try it if you already safestrap since you will lose safestrap and possible break you device!) but if you didnt I would just go back and delete most user apps and data off stock ROM and then redo the backup and restore with that. because you most likely wont be using the stock ROM (you don't want to alter it since you want to have a safe spot to restore to) you want it to take up as little storage as possible. My advice, pretend that you don't have root and don't do anything with it, like editing parts of system, or flashing mod packages, etc... (only exception is having super user and safe strap app installed.) Let me know if any part of this was to confusing. Hope this helped!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] OurFriendIrony:
Haha, I saw your reply about 2 minutes after starting up the factory rest. I can, however, confirm that safestrap is still installed between the boot and IS load, so I'm actually in a perfect position. Have taken a new backup of pure stock rom!

Happy days!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] OurFriendIrony:
I got a copy of my Stock ROM installed into ROM slot 1 and then added the gapps package, it worked beautifully!

I now have a tablet with all the google features on and have no issues so far.

except...

when I boot to ROM slot 1, I get a message saying "Kindle is Updating/Upgrading". It doesn't do anything and it only takes a few seconds before it gives up. I was just wondering if there was a way of getting rid of this??
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GreatEmerald:
As someone who hasn't had any prior experience with Android (although a fair share of experience with GNU/Linux), I appreciate a thread like this.

I also rooted the device (works well from GNU/Linux), installed SuperSU and some essential apps to make the stock OS usable (busybox and a terminal emulator, of course; and also a lightweight file browser that doesn't take much space and does exactly that, lets me browse local files). Then installed SafeStrap and backed everything up to both the Kindle and the PC (the backup is accessible via MTP, in the internal storage, so you can just connect the USB cable and copy the TWRP directory – at least in KDE).

Now I'm going to try the new AOSP ROM. Though since I'm new to the whole Android business, the partition sizes have me a bit confused. I'd want to have three slots – the stock ROM (obviously), the stock FireOS (one that I can modify) and AOSP. What partition sizes for the two slots would be the best, if it's the 16GB HDX? Also, say I download a PDF file; would both FireOS and AOSP see the file if I put it in internal storage, or would I have to manually copy it over to the other slot through my PC?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] OurFriendIrony:
[MENTION=5668475]GreatEmerald[/MENTION], whats AOSP? I'm thinking of playing around a bit more. I want to try out some more ROMs.

I put my first ROM slot (Stock with gapps added and amazon crap removed) on Flight Mode and now when I try and put it on wireless it restarts....
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Wrw311:
AOSP = Android Open Source Project

Many other devices have an AOSP build and is typically a very nice build to flash if you like the core android feel with some extra very nice features.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GreatEmerald:
Yea, as mentioned, AOSP is a ROM for stock Android 4.2.2, pretty much the only big ROM available for the HDX7 right now: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2607185

It works pretty well as it is, I'm impressed it's as good already given how new the project is. Though it still has some issues for normal use. Aside from the bugs mentioned in the post, Chrome crashes as soon as it's launched (but you can use Firefox instead), as does the Kindle app (which is mainly what is stopping me from using it, because the point of a Kindle is the integration with Amazon services...). Also, the Facebook app fails to install for some reason.

Everything else I tried works fine. I installed F-Droid, a file manager, Busybox and a terminal, then the Amazon app and some of the Amazon cloud apps, and finally Skype. All of them work very nicely on AOSP. Even tested a video call on Skype and it worked without any problems (including the camera working correctly).

As someone new to Android and from a GNU/Linux background, I'm really happy that F-Droid exists. It's an app store/package manager that offers only free and open source software. For regular users that might sound as not a big deal, but actually filtering software by license is more powerful than one would think. You're guaranteed to have only apps that have no spyware and adware, because you can't hide them in open code. And those who make apps without publishing their code obviously have something to hide. So much like in GNU/Linux, the first place to check for new apps for me is F-Droid, and after that the main store of the OS (be it Google Play or Amazon Store), and only then 1Mobile market.

I still would like to know more about that partitioning, though. I figured out that the emulated SD card is shared between ROMs (I uploaded F-Droid to the Downloads directory on FireOS, and could see it on AOSP just as well), but I still don't know what exactly the two partitions you have to make to set up a ROM slot are and how much space should be allocated to them.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] spaghettiknight:
The system partition only needs to be as big as the Rom or backup you flash is, the data partition I typically make as big as possible (4000 mb) since this is what your Rom will consider internal storage. This is where apps and app data will be downloaded onto, where the rest of the data on your ad card is shared and is used for music, videos and lots of other custom stuff you can add. As for the cache I leave it at the default, this is where temporary data for apps is stored ( for example when you play a youtube video, it is temporarily stored on this partition.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GreatEmerald:
Ah, that's good to know. It makes me wonder, though – can I resize partitions in some way? Say, I created a smallish partition setup for ROM slot 1, then another one for ROM slot 2, and then have a bit spare; can I allocate the whole space to ROM slot 1 if I no longer need ROM slot 2? Or to do a backup, clear the partition setup, then restore the backup into newly sized partitions?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] spaghettiknight:
yes, what i would do is backup my current setup, delete the rom slot your using, then remake it with your newly picked partitions
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] vuvu123:
Nevermind. Got it working now. Thanks for the guide!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] pinksummer17:
safestrap not working on my kindle hdx 7"

Hi my kindle is already rooted and I used towelroot. I have supersu installed too. I'm currently on the step of where I should install safestrap, but it seems safestrap is not working on my tablet. I tried 3.65, 3.72, 3.75 version of safestrap but it does not work. It always restart normally. Not in recovery. Pls help. 13.3.2.8 version. Thank u in advance.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] DB126:
Have you blocked OTA with HDX Toolkit? If not your device will likely brick if Amazon attempts to push an update. At present the blocker in HDX toolkit is the only one that works on 3.2.8.

Your attention should be focused on this task; can deal with safestrap once OTA block is in place.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kenny23692:
ya I had to learn about that the hard way
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i Software Upgrading] joncab20:
any help is gratefully received.

i was doing a rom update(pugs) and the unit has become stuck in what i think is bootloader mode. the screen is dark and displays "serial v1.01

after much searching on this forum i tried to hard reset then run maupgradeut again.

problem is that activesync no longer detects my device.

ive tried pressing power/reset/action buttons to no effect.does this mean i now have a pretty coffee coaster.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i Software Upgrading] clustered:
now you were at bootloader mode. try remove the device n put it back on cradle, for sure windows will detect it. after that, try run the upgrade again. The problem that you're having now are same like me when I first bought my device. The answer is good being a newbies n ready to ask question at here. hahahahah

thanks
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i Software Upgrading] joncab20:
now youve hit the nail squarely on the head. i thought i knew enough to update but when its gone boobies up realised i dont.

ive tried resetting the device and then connecting to my pc several times with no success.

anyone know how to take the device out of bootloader mode. im hoping theres a backup stored on the device that will boot...or...anyone know how to get the pc to recognise the damn thing before i launch it out of the window(all the way to an o2 shop).

im sure im not alone(can hear the voices)
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i Software Upgrading] joncab20:
took some brain power on my part. turns out microsoft activesync was the problem.

upgraded to the latest version and everything went as it should.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omarblu:
How do I update the baseband to the latest version? I'm running maclaws latest KitKat. The baseband is XXAME1.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mauam:
You can find it here. Simply flash it & reboot twice if you have any issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xxperrin:
I am trying to uninstall safestrap 3.11, but when I go to settings/apps, safestrap is not listed. I am not able to open safestrap from the device. How can I uninstall it so the boot screen no longer asks me if I want to enter into recovery mode? Please help!

-xxPerrin
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
I think you need to reboot into the stock rom (since that is where safe strap was originally installed), then start safestrap and select the uninstall option, and you may also need to then check apps to make sure it is completely uninstalled. If not you can finish the uninstall from there.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xxperrin:
I am in the stock ROM. Uggh!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Dwillian:
You could use the Droid RAZR Utility (see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2192467 ) to restore your phone back to stock. Use the wipe option. At that point you should be back to a completely stock RAZR.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] beyedup:
Were you able to get safesatrp 3.11 uninstalled yet? Did you install recovery on stock ROM or a custom Rom?

---------- Post added at 08:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 PM ----------

If you did install recovery on stock ROM and do not want to flash with Razr Utilty, you can try to reinstall recovery on stock to retry and remove it again. Something might have gone bad somewhere along your flashings and caused a mix up in files.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xxperrin:
Good call! The reinstall worked! Thanks.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] fortnoob:
What apps do I need to white list in android firewall so that google play will download apps. I have google playstore and service white listed but I have to disable android firewall in order for the downloads to download. otherwise it never starts to download when I click on download/install. Thanks!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Eddie_real:
Same question here! 8-o

Great application, but with no "who is who" info about system components its quite lottery... :-/

Anyone aware of any kind of such list/descriptions?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Eddie_real:
Solved!

Tried one by one - answer is: "Download manager, Downloads, DRM Protected Content Storage, Media Storage" (Clear: 10019). :)

Thanks everyone for help. :-/
[Sony Smartwatch] Nomad1600:
I am on a 4.1.2 ROM and finding the Notification extensions don't play well with my ROM. Since a solid rooted and unlocked 4.3 has been released for the GS3 Verizon and a number of the 4.4 ROMs seem pretty stable I am evaluating both directions. But since my SW2 now is a key part of my phone I'd like to make sure that the SW2 plays well with whatever direction I go. I am pretty sure the phone plays well with 4.3... anyone using a 4.4 phone yet and any challenges?
[Sony Smartwatch] polish_pat:
some people are reporting issues with 4.4 and some extensions not working. I'd stick with 4.3 if stability of the watch is what you're looking for
[Sony Smartwatch] adamsweeting:
No issues with 4.4.2 - works perfect
[Sony Smartwatch] cas239:
Some 4.4 ROMs are reporting issues with Bluetooth in general. I'm currently running the latest Carbon nightly 4.3.1 and haven't had a single issue
[Sony Smartwatch] toyface:
Not sure I can speak for other 4.4 ROMs on other devices but, with KitKat on the Nexus 5 (stock) I've had no problems with using my smartwatch 2 at all. Watchnotifier brings through other notifcations that Sony misses and the GMail extension works great. Bluetooth is generally very good but, I have noticed the occasional disconnect when connecting to another bluetooth device (speaker etc) but, it's a quick reconnection.
[Sony Smartwatch] colts187:
It works wonderfully on my n5 on 4.4
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blurry25:
I've recently rooted my Wi-Fi xoom and have attempted to flash some custom roms. I've tried cm10 and multiple eos4 wingray nightlies. The issue I'm having is no matter what Rom I flash it won't boot past the initial boot up logo. It boots past the Motorola logo and then just spins on the custom Rom logo. Whether that be the cm or the eos4 logo. I'm using twrp 2.3.6 for recovery. I've tried flashing both from an sdcard and the xoom's internal memory, same result either way. Any help would be appreciated.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbay:
It's a bootloop, mate. Have you wiped data and cache?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blurry25:
I had wiped both the dalvik cache and cache with no success prior to paying this question. Based on your recommendation I wiped everything and it worked. No bootloop now. Thanks a bunch!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iherbivore:
If I enable the location tag setting in s note, the gas notification keeps going on and off causing the status bar to come and go. Did I miss something or is this a problem everyone has.?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ETM:
Using CWM v6.0.4.5 and CM11 on a Nook Tablet 8.

I've been playing with CM 10.1 and 10.2, installing everything manually

with CWM5x. Recently updated CWM and am now running CM11. (no TWRP).

For the first time I am trying to install nightlies using Settings/AboutTablet/CyanogenModUpdates. It downloads then reboots to CWM. CWM then cannot find the update (E:failed to open /storage/sdcard0/cmupdater/cm-11-...) because in the first step of the updater leaves the zip on sdcard1:

(/storage/sdcard1/cmupdater/cm-11-...) I can manually install the zip from sdcard1 but I want to get the automated update to complete as intended.

I tried to begin the process with no SD card installed thinking that sdcard0 is internal but the download just waits until a SD card is inserted. Since I installed CWM6 I have the ability to choose from sdcards 0 and 1. Don't remember having that choice before.

Any ideas how I can get the download destination and the CWM to default to the same drive?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] newbtrigger69:
i personally have never been able to download a cm update and let it update automatically. if i do, it turns into a bootloop or something crazy. i jus use the cm update to download. and then instal via cwm. also the previous cwm DID have the "storage 1 or storage 0: choices but it was called instead, "choose sd card" or "choose internal storage" sd card meaning the "1" and internal meaning the "0". i mean from wut i understand the structure of the system in NT doesnt really allow auto update. because it has to work around the stock barnes and noble bootloader. unlike the nook color where its capable of auto update. so basically u always have to manual update unless ive got my hands on a demon tablet.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrygarcia4295:
More detail

Mine worked fine ... even w/ CM11 until I did a factory reset (prior to that I just cleared cache and davlik) ... now I have to install from CMUpdater folder manually ... also - some of the apps that were available prior to the factory reset will not show up in the play store now - TV Guide and Playmaker (buzztime trivia) specifically ... says I have an incompatible device now ... again this worked fine w/ the early nightlies of CM11, but not since the factory reset.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
You might want to check (from your PC) Google Play Store -> Settings -> My Devices and see if your NT appears as different models before and after the factory reset.

I had a similar problem in that after the upgrade from 10.2.0 to 11 some apps became unavailable ("incompatible") in the Play Store, include a few already installed apps that still run just fine after the "dirty" flash of 11 on top of 10.2!!!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrygarcia4295:
Interesting ... it shows the nook tablet, but says it was last used in August ... what if anything can be done about this?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Another potential factor at play here is that somewhere between 10.1 and 11 (I can't recall which release) the serial number of the NT no longer gets picked up by CM (and presumably passed onto apps/services that might use it for tracking purpose).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] jerrygarcia4295:
Can I do anything about it? The thing is basically a blank slate at this point because I haven't re-installed most of my apps ... if I'm going to mess with it in a major way now is the time.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ETM:
Updating again and I find that the reason for it not working is that the drive designations are not consistent.

Running Android:

Internal storage is /storage/sdcard1

External SD card is /storage/sdcard0

Running CWM:

Internal storage is /storage/sdcard0

External SD card is /storage/sdcard1

So when settings/AboutTablet/CyanogenModUpdates passes the file location and reboots into CWM, the zip file can't be found.
[General Questions and Answers] gronics:
hi everyone

i have a dell streak 5 phone i put in another chip from another phone when i go to contacts and import from sim it says it says that there are no contacts even though i can view them on another phone does anyone know how i can fix this
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piercerkarl:
Hi I have a question which I have been searching the Internet for and have had no luck. So I was wondering if someone could help me.

My question is to with factory software. As my Samsung note 3 (9005) runs the Samsung touchwiz ui, could I if I rooted my phone run the stock 4.4 from the nexus 5? As I say I am a noob to this and from what I understand android is open source software so if this is the case why couldn't I do this?

Any response is a great help to me understand androids os.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B29Korn:
Nope, the Stock 4.4 Rom of the N5 won't run on your phone.

It is not that eaaaaasy...

But (!), you can easily head over here to start looking for some custom roms that are close to stock android :)

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3

But before you do anything, always make a backup and read some guides carefully or your phone will may end up bricked.

Btw, if you just dont like the Touchwizz Launcher, try Nova Launcher :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kadett-k2:
I have a big problem which appeared suddenly. I wanted to play a music but any player couldnt.I cant even make a call,phone just vibrate and turn off.I tried to reflash Dans 【4.4.2】Google Edition rom.I didnt help.I tried wipe all user data and it also didnt help.I cant even hear that sound when phone is booting.Whats wrong? Thanks a lot

In the morning I flashed MFK modem.Could be this my problem?How can I fix this?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] rjefferis:
Just wondering i have put the orange AKU2 update on my universal and all seems quite good. I am currently running TuMa v1.3 on my blueangels but is it possible to have AKU2 on the blueangels using the AKU2 wizard roms. I am not really up on the complex side of things so is it possible and is anyone working on it.

Thanks

Rob.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Minidwerg:
I rooted and installed Cyanogen MOD on mye Xperia right after summer last year! and now i want to go back to the original ROM, is there any place i can get it from? or is it possible to get it from another Xperia that is not done anything with yet without rooting or anything?

If it is possible to send me a backup i would appreciate that!

if Region does matter im located in Norway
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] WhiteNeo:
Install a stock kernel with recovery, then flash a stock rom for your device. Just check out the Development section for your Xperia and you'll find one ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] kwangkun:
THANKS
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gumbyx84:
I've been running into an issue with Swype since the last update. Whenever I first power up my tablet (Nook HD+ running Unofficial CarbonRom JB3), I keep getting an error stating swype has crashed/stopped respsonding whenever I unlock the screen. This only happens after a boot or reboot. This doesn't happen on my phone which is running a rooted Stock ROM. I can't post in the deveoplers forum to ask the dev directly, so I'm asking here. Has anyone run into this problem with any forks of CWM or CWM?