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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] JamesManios:
My phone recently did a spontaneous hard reset and then turned off soon afterwards. Instead of a red flashing light (low battery), I had a CONSTANT red light, (I think this means hardware problem???)

I removed the battery and re-installed it, did the hard reset keys, everything and the unit would not turn on. I charged it for one day straight, still would not respond. I then charged it for another day. Still nothing, (except for the constant red light). I had plugged it into the USB cradle and the battery charger separately but nothing helped.

I then (2 days later) plugged it into the USB cable at work, and this is where it gets REALLY weird!

The unit turned on, but the LCD has flashing, (like a loose connection), alternating between difference brightness it seemed. Once the hard reset stuff was over, I check the battery and the backup was at 28% and the main battery was at 94%.

As I left the unit to charge, (with the screen still flickering like crazy) the screen got better and better, though it sometimes still flickers a little it was more-or-less constant.

Now, (2 weeks later) the batteries seem fine, I haven't had a battery issue since but this is the STRANGEST part!!! I can not increase the brightness beyond the third tick. If I move the brightness beyond that, it doesn't get ANY brighter! So I'm basically stuck right now at 3 brightness level only!

I tried a friend’s battery, and it was exactly the same, (brightness level problem), so I don't think it’s the main battery. Anyone have ANY ideas??? I’ve been thinking of opening it to check the ribbon cable to the LCD but not really sure that would be it, since the cable has a lock on it.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] JamesManios:
More Info:

ROM: 1.13.00 WWE

Radio: 1.13.00

Ext: BigStorage

* I've been running that setup for a while, (so not a new rom upgrade screwup)

* When I go into the camera app it does not over brighten or change the brightness at all.

I've tried a hard reset and going into the bootloader, (really hard reset) but the brightness is always at level 3 brightness.

What I mean by that is, if I move the slider from 3rd to 10th tick there is absolutely no change in brightness, only 0,1,2,3 have any change
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] hanmin:
No solution here, but see if this helps

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=54806&highlight=
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddyscooltv:
When I go to my gallery all of the photos that I have on Google + in albums are just showing in my gallery in one big folder called Picasa instead of the individual folders that I have them in.. is anyone else seeing this?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greatnesstx:
Go into your account where you sync your contacts,disable the picasa from syncing and then go to your gallery app and clear cache and data. When you open it back up it will be gone

Sent from my Galaxy S V
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddyscooltv:
Thanks.. by doing that I was able to delete the Picasa folder but how do it get it to sync all of the folders that I have put my photos into in Google +? In all of my other devices and tablets all of my individual folders with my photos in them synced to all my devices they didn't put all my pics into one folder .... now I have 1 Picasa folder with 700 pics in it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lodaserves:
I tried this and its worth working,just try this i hope it works with you also.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bpsears90:
My original battery def took a turn for the worst. Is there an aftermarket battery anyone recommends? Or should I stick with OEM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Zerolemon 7000mah, amazing battery and can be found on amazon for pretty cheap also
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] digit12345:
unless of course you want the stock size batter zerolemon offers a awesome 2300 mah battery which i have 3 of and the external chargers are great. just search amazon and there cheap like 2 and a charger for the price of a oem. the warren is gassing as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwilliams20:
So I've had my phone rooted with a custom Rom and Kernal for the last year. Just this morning it was working fine, and as soon as I took it off the charger, the screen went black. Now my phone wont turn on. I've pulled the battery several times along with the sim card. I will hold the power button down and it will buzz and briefly show the Samsung logo, before just going black. I've also tried 3 different batteries and still the same thing. The only thing I can get my phone to do is go into Odin mode...thats it.

This is what I'm running: Hyperdrive Rom, Zeus Kernal
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Curst:
What happens if you flash a stock firmware through Odin?

Tapped using TapaTalk on my GT-I9300 running CM11 with Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Questions go in the q&a forum. Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it for you.

As above, see if you can flash stock with odin first.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jameskasmonr:
pull battery and as soon as you put it in, hold in power, home and volume UP
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k-semler:
Flash a stock ROM from Sammobile, and then see if it boots up. You might also need to flash it with a *.pit file. If it boots up after that, you can then flash a custom recovery, and then a ROM of your choice.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] yuk7392:
View attachment 2681185

But Toomany error (if...Its Good news?! :P)

Maybe it released 4.0
[Galaxy Note 3 General] seanmcs:
what is this about??
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
FRIGGIN CHAMPION GENIUS IDEA of scottsdca

get Settings.apk from here:

http://www.glassxe.com/2013/05/23/s...-from-the-hacking-glass-session-at-google-io/

UPDATE: original article is gone. check archive.org if you want to read it. but you can still get the Settings.apk here

don't bother with the Launcher2, all it does is crash immediately. although if you have a thing for apps that crash immediately, well then there you go. could be it's a year old and maybe we need to try a 4.2 launcher.

like the article mentions, nearly all of the Settings stuff just crashes (plus, some of it I'd be scared to mess with anyway for fear of messing up spamazon settings)

I don't have any 4.2 devices (aside from ~ firetv obvs), but if anyone else does (like standard-ish non-weird device... e.g. generic tablet or phone?) - would you mind pulling settings and launcher apks please? they might be more suitable and less crashy...

I haven't done much but so far I have a bluetooth speaker paired, connected, and WORKING - sound is coming out the BT speaker and not my TV.

even fired up PrimeTV and sound was as normal, only it was the BT speaker.

xbmc? darn right the sound is coming perfectly out of the BT speaker.

now I turned off the BT speaker, and sound is coming out the TV again. seamless as it should be.

turned the speaker back on, and it autoconnected, all fireTV audio is back on the BT speaker again.

no luck with BT keyboard just yet, and have other settings to still mess with...

(also: the spamazon settings are all still there and all still work as before)
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
slightly more useless info:

it seems like anything that needs a PIN code still doesn't work.

which is hilarious for 2 reasons:

- the PS3/BD remote does not use a PIN. but so far every android device I have, asks for a PIN for it. the workaround app for anything up to android 4.1.x (i.e. bluez) is great. but firetv is 4.2 and that app doesn't work with the new bluedroid.

- my BT speaker that is currently working (BEM Cube), also does not use any PIN. but it is different somehow, in that android understands in this case, and pairs without asking for any PIN.

Settings shows the BEM Cube's profile as media audio, as expected.

if I try to pair my BT keyboard, the firetv BT settings gives me a PIN to type on the kbd. but the firetv pairing dialog sits there waiting forever no matter how many times I type ####+Enter on the kbd.

if I try to pair my phone, both the phone and the firetv pop up a dialog with matching numbers, but after I press OK on both dialogs, nothing happens. (sometimes the phone says incorrect / missing PIN, afterward. but not always)

if I try to pair my Supertooth Disco speaker, the firetv asks me for a PIN. in this case the PIN is most definitely 0000. but after entering that, nothing happens. not even any error message.

so it seems to be a generic passcode issue? I haven't looked at logcat yet...

I really wanted to try the Disco because it has some extra controls on it. the BEM Cube only has Play/Pause - which does work correctly in both xbmc and PrimeTV.

addition: I found my crappy old Arctic P311 headset (audio has 0.5s lag on every single desktop, laptop, console, phone, etc. I ever tried it on, that's how cheap+awful it is.) - it also happens to be PIN-less (in the good way like the BEM, not the bad way like the BD remote. whatever the hell that means.), and it paired right away with firetv. and then connected with no problem. it has a play/pause button, and also ff + rewind buttons. all the buttons worked as expected in PrimeTV and xbmc. whee.

also, the P311 shows up in Settings with both a media audio profile, and a phone audio profile. nice.

///

after a ton of times connecting/disconnecting the Cube (only because it was stupid fun and made me smile for some reason), started to get a few sound artifacts, some out of sync a/v, and eventually no sound at all on BT (but still perfectly normal sound on HDMI). probably also worth a look at logcat. I also wonder if all the messing around with the other BT devices that all failed, caused any instability.

restarting BT seemed to clean up the audio weirdnesses -

the settings app WILL let you turn BT off and on, just be careful lol. it scared the heck out of me the first time.

- turn BT off. BT goes off. settings app crashes. uh oh! wtf am I gonna do?

- run settings app again. toggle BT on. settings app crashes. oh no! am I seriously screwed now?!

- run settings app again. BT button is blue/on! waow! Thank Crom!
[Fire TV General] dhayman11:
have you tried to allow apps to install from unknown sources?
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
'developer options' was the very first thing I tried - sorry, no dice (

it, and most of the other settings items, only crash the app.

the only things that work (or semi-work), are:

bluetooth

sound (changing the ringtones is ok, but trying the volume setting crashes)

display (didn't try any of these)

battery (uh huh)

location services (uh huh)

security (but no way am I touching any of those)

dock (yeah, no...)

date&time (it's right, why mess with it)

about phone (tells us stuff we already know)

I haven't really tried to change anything in any of those (except bluetooth obvs) - nothing terribly useful to change, so, to me, nothing else there worth the risk of breaking anything.
[Fire TV General] dhayman11:
the unknown sources box is usually found under security not developer options, but that may crash too
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
duh me, ugh. yeah you are totally right.

ok, so it is there on the security subsection if I scroll to the bottom.

but, yep, it crashes back to the main settings page. that's unfortunate.
[Fire TV General] dhayman11:
Damnit that would have been ideal. Thanks for trying
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
no worries it was definitely worth a try.

ok.

so.

I just had a really stupid idea.

even worse, it actually works. but not sure it's worth making a separate post about.

1. turn on adb wifi debugging

2. sideload your favorite terminal, e.g.

http://jackpal.github.com/Android-Terminal-Emulator/downloads/Term.apk

3. fire up said terminal

4. adb connect localhost

(LOL!)

5. profit? profit!

$ adb -s localhost:5555 install foobarbaz.apk

$ adb -s localhost:5555 shell

...

not as quick or classy as unknown sources, but you can do it all within the firetv and don't need an extra phone or computer. so... kinda not too bad?

///

edit:

the reason I use "-s localhost:5555" is that in some cases the firetv already had an existing device listed, "emulator-5554". which may have been the result of not disconnecting adb from my laptop, or just the fooling around I was doing running adbd and adb on the same device, or...?

once you are in the terminal app, run "adb devices" first. if it already shows emulator-5554, then you don't need to connect a second time and can just use adb normally. if it does not show any existing device, then you do need to "adb connect localhost" but then in that case you should not need to specify "-s whatever" and also just use adb normally.
[Fire TV General] dhayman11:
Awesome worked flawlessly for me. :good:
[Fire TV General] dhayman11:
You ever get anywhere with the BT keyboard? I'm stuck here too. Tried pushing a settings.apk from 4.2.2 but haven't had any success there.
[Fire TV General] tarvoke:
sorry brother, no dice :( I tried 4.1 and 4.2 versions too, but not really surprised it didn't do much

from what I remember of dmesg output, the firetv kept requesting a pin over and over, and not getting one
[Fire TV General] mjg59:
I tried pairing a keyboard and got a PIN dialog on the FireTV, but entering the PIN on the keyboard failed. adb logcat showed that the pairing request had been cancelled immediately after the dialog appeared. Perhaps some Amazon modification to the low-level Bluetooth stuff? Interestingly, despite being 4.2 based, Amazon are still using the BlueZ stack rather than Google's own implementation.
[Fire TV General] brownrt:
It is my understanding that Android now tries to auto guess the PIN to make pairing simpler. Perhaps the pin on your cube is 0000 or 1234, the standard pins, hence the non need to pin pair it.
[Fire TV General] hmagoo:
bluetooth mouse works

I tried this to get a logitech bluetooth mouse paired and it worked! thanks
[Fire TV General] jainanshal:
Have you been able to find any solution for this?
[Fire TV General] ILLESTNOIZE:
Install any APK!!! Unknown sources

Hi,

Every one the settings apk does work and you can check the unknown sources box to allow installation of any apk without sideloading!!

You need the settings.apk and you have to tweak a system app. Cant give out all my secrets but it works I can install apks from any market, drop box or even when downloading from a web browser.

Fire TV is the stuff!!! Hope fire tv 2.0 offers HD audio and 4k compatibility and of course more memory :good:
[Fire TV General] zahir32:
Secrets?

Can't give out your secrets?! What are you, a patent lawyer? This is a forum where we all help one another. If you don't want to help, don't prate or strut your little finds.
[Fire TV General] vi3tl23n3gad3:
If you look on aftvnews you can find their guide to install any app. It's a small apk called market helper.

Anyone figure out fix for bt audio lag?
[Fire TV General] ILLESTNOIZE:
Hello all,

The market helper does allow for any installation of any Google Play Store app however does not allow installation from "unknown sources".

If you would like a tutorial on how to get this working please let me know and I can try to assist for a small donation to charity. Thanks.
[Fire TV General] ILLESTNOIZE:
Just raising money for a good cause. In the long run I may provide the tutorial anyway exclusively to all XDA community members.

It is as easy as installing any apk on any other android device. You do not need the Q lite editor or anything like that. Just simply install.
[Fire TV General] DaveTO:
Has anyone figured out how to "enable" location services using Settings.apk without the app crashing?
[Fire TV General] KingJEwNJ:
Turned bluetooth off on amazon fire stick please help

turned Bluetooth off accidentally on fire stick. Anyone know the command I can use in adb shell to re enable it. Please help.
[Fire TV General] cgro:
I fixed that by restarting the fire TV. Try that way
[Fire TV General] koalauk:
thanks guys I got my bluetooth headphones paired after trying few times at it refused pairing to start with but worked ok , i can watch whilst listening with bluetooth headphone, great
[Fire TV General] KillerJoeBR:
Have you tried watching a movie with your bluetooth headphone? I can pair mine but the sound start losing signal after about 15min. I need to stop and pair the headphone again. I cant find a solution for this

Enviado de meu GT-N7100 usando Tapatalk
[Fire TV General] ften:
The bluetooth Logitech Tablet Keyboard (Amazon Link) pairs perfectly fine through the Settings.apk . Not sure what's special about this keyboard, but I didn't have to do anything to make it work.

Edit: Yeah I need to pay closer attention to the threads, This was for the Fire TV Stick and not the standard Fire TV.
[Fire TV General] sdgros01:
I just ran into the same issue with mine. A reboot and pulling the power cord from the fire tv stick does not solve the problem. Any suggestions as now the remote doesn't work
[Fire TV General] sic_lic1o1:
If you have android phone or android tablet. Go in the playstore and download firetv remote.
[Fire TV General] ften:
This follow is in theory because I don't want to disable my Bluetooth to test it. I did test it on my phone and it works as expected even without root.

Try this from ADB;

am start -a android.bluetooth.adapter.action.REQUEST_ENABLE

(This command should pop up a screen saying "An App wants to enable Bluetooth. Deny or Allow)

input keyevent DPAD_RIGHT

(If "Allow" isn't highlighted enter the command again)

input keyevent ENTER
[Fire TV General] sdgros01:
Thanks for the suggestions

I am no longer an android user so installing the app from the play store was out of the question. Converted to apple when sprint gained the iPhone. That said I booted into windows from my desktop and was able to re enable with the use of the Fire TV Utility Apps virtual remote.

Thanks for all the suggestions and help. The fire stick for 19 dollars was just to good to pass up and am really really pleased with it
[Fire TV General] sankyou:
Just wanted to say thanks and mention that I was able to pair this device using a pin 1st time: iPazzport Mini Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard with Touchpad Backlit and Laser Pointer for Smart TV and PC KP-810-10BT.

It's a cheap keyboard that works pretty well. The battery is just ok and it doesn't have "Select/OK" on the d-pad but enter works.
[Fire TV General] speaklouderpls:
I had the bluetooth settings working last week on my Fire Stick. Got a bluetooth mouse today, but now settings crashes every time I try to enter the bluetooth portion of settings.

Any ideas?
[Fire TV General] chateau1:
I had the same problem and finally did a Settings, System, Reset to Factory Defaults.

Of course you will have to start over from that point.
[Fire TV General] speaklouderpls:
Thanks, I thought about doing that but didn't want to reload everything. Guess I'll have to do it!
[Fire TV General] petermg:
I am able to pair bluetooth speakers on my FireTV Stick, but NO SOUND comes from them and when I go into the Bluetooth settings from the settings.apk, it only shows PHONE AUDIO, no Multimedia Audio. Any suggestions or did Amazon just leave that profile / service out when they made the FireTV Stick? :(
[Fire TV General] marlowe310:
Both download links in the OP appear to be down -- anybody know which version of settings worked best? Or an alternate link?
[Fire TV General] neverdoubt:
Same here.

Setting.apk shows my BT speaker is paired, but sound goes to HDMI only.

I could not checked the current connected profile, but I assumed "Phone audio" from the above article and i tried to output media audio through the phone audio profile(HFP) using apps such as BTmono and BTheadset.

No luck so far.

I really want to output the audio to my BT speaker.

Specially, AFTV stick need this since it does not have 3.5 jack or optical output.

BTW, where can i check the paired device's supported profiles (such as phone audio and multimedia audio) ?
[Fire TV General] petermg:
I'm wondering how I can check the supported profiles of the AFTVStick!!! Looking for an android app for that!
[Fire TV General] neverdoubt:
sdptool might be an answer.

Actually, sdptool enumerates the services supported by certain remote device.

I guess you can issue it on other machine to enumerate the services supported by AFTV stick.

Amazon says the both of AFTV and AFTV stick support HID, SPP, and HFP only.
[Fire TV General] sundayradio:
I successfully paired my bluetooth headset using settings.apk method - thanks!

However - Bluetooth only puts audio out of my headset for SIDELOADED apps - but not apps from FireTV's app sources, i.e. NETFLIX. (I even confirmed by installing NETFLIX and sideloading NETFLIX - audio comes out differently ...)

Does anyone else experience this?
[Fire TV General] d1dd1:
Did not try it on the FireTV, but Soundabout (Pro) helped me a lot with these kind of problems on other devices

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&hl=de
[Fire TV General] sundayradio:
Thanks! Looks promising. I'll let y'all know results
[Fire TV General] blahdc:
So I managed to pair my phone with the fire tv stick after multiple attempts. The problem is that now when I go into the settings.apk and click on the bluetooth menu it crashes. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Has anyone gotten a mouse to work with the fire stick?
[Fire TV General] tekweezle:
Factory reset and start again is one solution to the crashing bluetooth/settings app

a few of us have successfully paired bluetooth mini keyboards with touchpad mouse from a couple of manufacturers like Favi, iPaazport.

btw, just in case anyone turned off their bluetooth and found their physical remote did not work anymore(since it;s bluetooth), the way to get bluetooth working again is to load the wukong romote app on your cell phone or tablet and firestick and use the mouse module in the app to turn it back on.
[Fire TV General] blahdc:
Thanks the wukong app is handy! Might not need to get the nyko gamepad after all.
[Fire TV General] mscroggins:
Just so share my experience:

That wukong app is nifty but I startet getting notifications on my phone after a few days.. I bought the ipazzport KP-810-10-BTT keyboard for <$20 and have been very happy. There might even be cheaper BT keyboards that work fine.. I bought this one because it was specifically mentioned in the threads as working fine..
[Fire TV General] tekweezle:
the remote app is useful but too laggy for everyday use.

hopefully there will be more choices for gamepads and other peripherals as us users test them out. the only "official" choices are the Nyko(gets mixed reviews) and the Amazon one(expensive and always on backorder).

i am using the ipazzport KP-810-19-BTT. It;s probably the same as yours but the only difference is that my unit can be powered by 2 AAA batteries. same price under 20$.
[Fire TV General] lightning413:
From what I understand the Favi bluetooth remote is supposed to work with the settings.apk but not matter what I do, when I enter the code provided by the FTV nothing happens.

Any suggestions?
[Fire TV General] tekweezle:
just checking to be thorough but are you connecting the bluetooth dongle to the AFTV's USB port? If so, I am thinking that you shouldn;t need it because the Amazon devices have a bluetooth controller built in. if this doesn;t apply to you then ignore.

is your blue led flashing when you are trying to pair the keyboard? if not, hit the FN + F1 keys on the keyboard. then type the code and hit enter when prompted by your AFTV.

I also had difficulty connecting my iPazzport keyboard to my AFS but got it paired eventually by turning off bluetooth and then turning it back on using the Wukong Romote app on my cell phone to emulate a mouse and then attempting to connect.