yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Surge1223:
Next steps for those who are going to try to find a root method:

1. Download tar

2. Find start addresses and offsets

3. Analyze with your favorite analysis program

4. Check for kernel source

5. Check if kernel is patched for all known vulnerabilities

6. Start irc channel for galaxy s5

7. Gather devs with S5 and discuss possible methods of attaining root
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] joderme:
Thank you for outlining this as I wouldn't even know where to start.

Having said that - we have a channel on freenode: http://webchat.freenode.net/ - #SGS5

Any guides to get me started on looking at addresses and offsets. I know I am capable, just have to learn what I am looking for and what tool to use (Windows preferably). I am guessing that we are looking for empty space in the memory that can be written to?

A few of the devs I know who could crack this don't want anything to do with a Verizon SGS5. The advice I get is go buy an dev or unlocked version. I can't necessarily blame them as they get crapped on when they put lots of work into something like this. Especially with little to no payout.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Surge1223:
Yeah we've run into a similar situation over in the VZW s4 section. We're still fighting to find a bootloader workaround and a root method for the impending kitkat ota. Figured you guys might as well get started lol. I posted how to find start addresses in the op here
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] JCBiznatch:
Just what I was thinking!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ravenofdoom:
Very excited to see what turns out. I have no developing background but am desperately in need of root. Moral support being sent your way :good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] onyx51:
Root and Recovery

I have very little experience rooting devices. This I was hoping to make my first. The download booster along with the camera were major selling points but Big Red removed the download booster. I was able to find the download booster through an alternate launcher, but can't change the mobile network type to get it to function.

Hopefully there will be a root so I can use the tethering and use the download booster.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] n2ishun:
Why in hell was this moved to general ?

It is the very first step in making a rom, rooting, or finding a way to weasel in a boot method.

It is everything to do with development, and nothing to do with general.

noob mods.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] JavaManRules-GS4:
Did someone say party?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jcase:
I moved the thread some time ago, as I personally do not believe uploading of stock firmware is development. I personally feel all stock firmware should be maintained in a single thread in general.

This "noob mod" has rooted or unlocked (as in found the vulnerabilities and written the exploit, not just running someone else's exploit) more devices than anyone in this thread, and most people in this community.

Pretty sure I know what the first steps are in researching and developing exploits, probably more so than anyone posting here.

This kind of insult and behavior is one of the reasons people with the ability to develop these exploits are stepping away from doing so publicly. Continuing this kind of behavior, were going to start ending up with fewer and fewer people willing to work on such projects.

Good luck on your endeavor.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] beaups:
(beaups is looking for the *****slap emoticon)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] trikotret:
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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Please talk to your Devs again...since the payout (even though I know all won't, but I would still expect 75%) is now almost $9,000 to find root...and I'm sure no one would crap on them for this!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrMichaelJames:
Has anyone setup snesx emulator yet? I can get it side loaded but I'm trying to connect it to xbmc with advanced launcher or the rom loader without luck so far.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damagedpanda:
Yes i have run snes emulator

just push roms with ADB.

i have a video on youtube of it running.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeVSS:
I got retroarch working. I used the arm7 v1.0.0.2-r34. The Amazon Fire game controller did not work with it but it worked great with the XboX 360 controller. Retorarch detect the amazon game remote and you can use the D pad but the buttons don't work. I got it directly from libretro.com

I put my roms on my google drive account and linked my google drive to es file explorer cloud and moved them to the fire tv that way.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrMichaelJames:
Hmmm I'm trying to avoid copying the files to the firetv, not a lot of space so was hoping to do it within xbmc so it can access the files over the network.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tennisbgc:
probably a long shot but has anyone tried the dolphin emulator on this?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolfchimneyrock:
I tried dolphin emulator but it forcequit immediately. I can upload the logcat if you're interested.

also you can use ES file explorer to associate the emulators with the rom file types, and browse to a network share and run the roms from there. this worked with emulators with roms below a certain threshold size (N64 largest that worked) but the Wii rom and dolphin wouldn't work
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dot19408:
Loading ROMs ?????

:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Can you explain more what you did here with the google drive? I have NESoid and SuperGNES and MAME4droid all loaded, and they launch... But I have not figured out how to copy the ROMS onto the Fire TV.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ralphkaz:
If you have ROMs on a network share drive on you LAN you should be able to use ES File Explorer to copy them. Or - how about dropbox?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrMichaelJames:
With the limited space on the firetv you don't want to copy the roms to the device until they add the ability to use the USB port for extending the storage.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
As MrMichaelJames says space is limited, but if you aren't copying more than a couple of GBs worth then you should be fine. That's what I've done for now. As to how to get ROMs to the Fire TV, you can use push via ADB, but that is tedious IMO. I just side loaded an FTP server and fire that up when I want to add or remove files. Then you can connect from your PC with an FTP client and just drag and drop files.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeVSS:
In ES File Explorer under like network you will see a cloud option. Choose that and tell it to add your google drive. I put the apps on my google drive account and then they show up in ES File Explorer so i can transfer them to the Fire TV.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dot19408:
OOOOOooooo Thanks!

I just want to get my Old School on with some Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and PacMan. A few MB at most.

<edit>

What FTP server are you running?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
This one here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rapfox.ftpsvr

Nothing fancy, but it works well. I tried a some others, but many wouldn't recognize the Ethernet connection and kept looking for a cell/wifi connection. And in case you do not know already, you can aquire the APK for any free app on Google Play using this website:

http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

Just enter the package name, in this case "com.rapfox.ftpsvr", and then click generate download link.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinbojan:
Reicast works, but for some reason, it will not start any game, although they are listed.

Snes9x works great, unless image effects are selected.

ppsspp works. Most 3d games are not playable (Tekken 6, GT), but some are (Patapon 3, Ridge Racer 2).

SuperN64 works, but framerate is not rock stable.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamtek7:
I got Nostalgia.NES (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nostalgiaemulators.neslite) working great!

I'm using the Nyko Playpad Pro and initially, couldnt get buttons working as I wanted with the default input, I then configured the PS3 input, remapped some keys and BOOM!

Old skool SMB, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaga etc..

They claim that Wifi control may work (using your phone as a controller for multiplayer) but have yet to try it!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firewire9979:
Emulator Parameters

I have RetroArch, and all my roms installed on my media server (Windows 7), but have not been able to get it to launch successfully on my FireTV.

So far I have been attempting to use ROM Collection Browser (RCB) to manage and launch my roms, but have reached a point where I am now stuck.

If I use the autoconfig setup in RBC it defaults my application path to /usr/bin/retroarch. As you might guess, RetroArch is not installed there.

It currently is at smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/RetroArch (where XXX is my IP address). I am able to set the path to the exe file, but the arguments

for the parameters are killing me.

In the documentation for RetroArch, it says the arguments should read:

-f -L /usr/lib/liberto/core_library "%rom" (where core_library is the approriate value for the system to be emulated)

So I tried :

-f -L /smb://XXX.XXX.X.X/EMU/ROMS "%ROM%" in order to point it towards my rom directory. Needless to say, this didn't work, and I really have no

idea what I am doing when it comes to arguments.

If someone could help square me away on setting the arguents to have RCB launch RetroArch from a remote location and have it load roms correctly,

you would be my hero. I have tried searching, but most of the help I find is directed at either running RetroArch directly from Windows, or through

Android, which I know the FTV is, but a very limited version of it.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vylle:
Unfortunately dude, i've tried this many times and it doesnt work because the firetv cant launch files on LAN even though RCB is fully able to find the files. The furthest i've gotten was being able to import the roms and scrape the artwork but then after that you get a message saying that the fire tv cant launch the rom because it can't see the path

the only way it could is if somehow firetv got modded to mount network drives. otherwise your either going to have to go 1 of 2 routes

1) if your firetv is rooted, put the roms on a flashdrive and mount it onto the firetv - but doing that means u have to plug out the controller

2) ADB Push the ROMs or use cloud storage to download the ROMs to local storage

3) Use an addon to download the rom+scrape directly to the device, either advanced launcher or freeroms downloader

with that being said, if someone somehow figured out a way to mount network drives - this would be some nice information to share

EDIT: I suppose this could work as well https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lysesoft.andsmb&hl=en
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spykez0129:
I've found that all the .emu emulators work the best for the systems they're made for.

Snes9x ex is the same dev

The dev for fpse is sending me a test version to get triggers on the 360 working
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firewire9979:
I suppose if I went this route, I could install RetroArch directly to the FTV and hopefully avoid all these configuration issues. Do you know if sideloading RA for Android would work in this case, as it seems to be the easiest and best soultion. Plus I would gain an addition 64GB of storage from my thumb drive on the back, which would be awesome. Then I could keep all those games the I keep downloading, and move the XBMC thumbs to a remote location, freeing up additional space.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vylle:
it would work for sure..

only reason why i havent done this is because it would sacrifice the use of a bluetooth keyboard/mouse (unless there was one that could natively pair with the firetv without needing a dongle)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firewire9979:
What about the native remote and controller?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vylle:
yep but there isnt a native keyboard - the remote/control works fine but if you use any browser or use the search feature through XBMC you'll find that having a keyboard is pretty helpful.

I think someone was doing some research on USB Hubs with fire tv and they mentioned that they got it working with all their different peripherals but no mention on thumb drives

EDIT

Long answer short - best solution it seems is to buy a USB Hub and hook it up with a thumb drive then use StickMount to mount a thumbdrive.

in that case, im gunna take my 320GB and load it up with a comprehensive library of roms from SNES, N64, PSP then from there let RCB import and play from there :D
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firewire9979:
Ditto
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dhickory:
I'm getting a little wrapped around the axle here, and would appreciate some help. I've been digging through the forums reading quite a bit today about emulators. My goal is to use Retroarch for emulation and store the roms on an external HD.

I would love to use XBMC+Advanced Launcher or RCB for launching the roms, but not quite sure how to accomplish this.

Would I use the Android version of Retroarch and install as regular app on my aftv, then point Advanced Launcher to Retroarch as well as my rom collection?

I know I could just launch Retroarch directly, but again would love the full experience within xbmc. I'm good with mounting my HD, just need a little guidance with the rest. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
Could you or someone else please provide more information on loading the ROMs to the Fire TV using the ftp server?

I have FileZilla installed on my PC and the apk installed on the FTV.

Just not sure what port number to use.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
Depends on which FTP server you are running. Also, the few I've tried require you to manually run them on your Fire TV. So you need to start the server then go to your PC. I've been using Rapfox FTP; which is the one I mentioned earlier. By default it uses port 2121 and the login "fox" with the password "fox". It shows this information on the screen when you start the server.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
I too used Rapfox based on your suggestion.

I tried using port 2121 on FileZilla but got an error.

I assume the address to use is the same IP address as the FTV.

I will try it again and see if it works.

EDIT: Still getting the same error. This is the error I get:
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
I'll take a look at my set-up again when I get home. As for the IP, that should be showing on your TV screen when you start the FTP server. And to be clear, are you actually starting the server? You have to run the program and then actually select and press the on-screen start button in Rapfox. When you do it will then show the IP address (with port number) and the login information. That information must then be entered into FileZilla. Plus, make sure you have the correct protocol selected in FileZilla. It should default to FTP for a new connection, but double check and make sure it doesn't say something like SSH.

Anyway, I'll take some screenshots of both the Fire TV screen and FileZilla when I get home after work.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
OK, here are the screenshots:

Rapfox on Fire TV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20059538/ftp.jpg

FileZilla on my PC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20059538/filezilla.png
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
Yes, I am starting the server (by pressing the button) on Rapfox.

I would really appreciate screenshots.

I was able to push my SNES roms to the FTV.

I only have about 30, so it was not too bad.

However, I have MANY more NES roms to push and cannot push each individual rom.

Is there no way to play the roms via USB connection to the FTV?

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Haha, looks we both posted around the same time.

What version of FileZilla are you using?

Mine looks a lot different.

I am running 0.9.45 beta.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
I'm using 3.9.0.1: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20059538/filezillav.png
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
This version worked for me.

Thanks! :good:

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What kind of game controller are you guys using to play games on the emulators?

Is there any way to use my current Xbox One or Xbox 360 controller?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
NP.

I have two controllers I use. The official Amazon Fire TV controller and a OUYA controller. I'm not sure about a One controller, but I have a friend that uses the 360 controller with the wireless gaming receiver:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-...ons/xbox-360-wireless-gaming-receiver-windows

He just plugs it into the USB port on the Fire TV and it works. He has an official MS wireless receiver. There are a ton of non-MS adapters out there. I can't say for sure if they will work as well.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
Thanks, just placed an order.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S5
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
What other emulators are working for the FTV?

Any N64 or Dolphin emulators available that work?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
I'll give you a full list of what I'm using later. Off the top of my head though, I can tell you I'm using a Mupen64 for N64 games. However, there is one problem. You can't access the settings menu without some sort of touch pad or maybe a mouse (the emulator expects you to have a touch screen device). And you'll need to because one of the buttons doesn't get mapped (Z maybe? Can't recall). That is where the OUYA controller comes in handy because it has a touch pad on top of the controller. I haven't tried any Dolphin emulators.

I'm also using Retroarch. It has a bunch of emulator cores built in (including Mupen64). But I mostly use it for the Final Burn Alpha core so I can run stuff like NeoGeo and SFIII. But be warned that the most recent build is actually missing the FBA core. They made a mistake compiling and left out FBA. It is supposed to return in the next build, but they haven't done one in a few months. Anyway, here is info and downloads for Retroarch:

http://www.libretro.com/index.php/ecosystem/

http://www.libretro.com/index.php/downloads/
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dhickory:
Have you been able to play any SNES games with Retroarch? I tried the latest version and kept getting crashes and restarts when trying to play Mario Kart in specific. I was able to launch NES games, but would get kicked out on occasion. My Logitech F310 controller also wouldn't get recognized and I couldn't map any buttons. Might try a previous version and see if that works any better.

Hopefully my new controllers coming in Friday will work better.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retroben:
I installed the latest version of Retroarch from emucr,then copied the cores folder.

Then,I uninstalled retroarch so I could re-install the stable version.

After that,I pasted the cores folder into the data/data/com.retroarch folder so it would overwrite the older cores,thus giving me the extra cores that are normally not included in the stable release. (such as Yabause and the missing FBA core)

I tried running Sonic R in the stable build as I have successfully done in the emucr build,but without physical controls.

It successfully ran in the stable build and the controls worked!

Too bad Yabause is slow and glitchy as you would expect regardless of the conditions. (Sega Saturn emulation is extremely hard to do)

If you have root accesss,you can also do what I did with the cores folder.

Everything ran properly so far. (SNES9x Next still works with Earthbound as my tested game.)

I hope this is VERY useful.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
I've been using a different emulator for SNES games. I just tried on Retroarch and it seemed to work fine, but I didn't play for very long. I also didn't try MK because I don't currently have it loaded. How long would I need to play to expect to see a crash if mine behaves the same as yours?

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These are the emulators I have loaded:

PCE.emu

ePSXe

GBA.emu

MD.emu

NES.emu

Snes9x EX+

RetroArch

MAME4droid

PPSSPP

Mupen64 Plus AE
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
Thanks for the list.

Looks like the other emulators still have bugs that need to be worked out.

I've tried John NES Lite and SGNES emulators (still waiting for my gaming wireless receiver to arrive) and both look like they should work fine.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jarcuri:
Hey I saw some posts about loading roms to the fire tv. There is an add-on in xbmc that allows you to download roms directly. Freeroms I believe is the name. Also I have ausb hub and connected an external hd to it for space saving
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dhickory:
Well, actually I made the mistake of not unzipping the SNES games. Once I did that everything works perfect, and I was finally able to map my controller buttons. Have not had any restarts after unmounting/unzipping/remounting my drive with the games.

Even the 30 life code works for Contra:laugh:
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
I just received my Microsoft wireless receiver to use my 360 controller.

Although I can navigate menus using the controller, it doesn't appear to work on games.

Also, the guide button keeps on flashing even after I have pressed the connect buttons on both the receiver and my controller.

The kit came with a CD, but I assume there's no way to install it on the FTV.

Do I have to install some kind of driver?

Any idea what's going wrong here?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thrashman69:
What games are you trying? The guide does that. There no way to stop it
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vidikron:
I'll check with my friend that uses the controller. I work with him so I'll ask when he returns from lunch. And, yeah, as thrashman69 said the guide button flashing is normal. I think my friend puts tape over it. LOL.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
Contra on John NES Lite emulator
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thrashman69:
Ok. I'm mostly playing official games. You should be able to setup the controller in the setup for the emulator. You may need a mouse to do that
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RVD26:
I got the SGNES emulator and the games to work somewhat with my 360 controller, just not very well.

Seems off a bit.

The NES emulator is still a work in progress and I haven't gotten it to work yet.

Anyone tried using the Wii remote with it?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bam099:
N64oid works great.....but the DS4 remote isn't completely configured for it. I think it is the Z button. Has anyone configured it?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retroben:
Anyone know where I can get mame 0.15x for android?

I was hoping for the chance of even poorly running Star Wars Pod Racer,but I doubt that it even runs in mame.

Otherwise,any Sega Model emulation would be nice,like Sega Model 1 or maybe Sega Model 2.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spykez0129:
If you guys want perfect running emulators with 0 issues I've found the .EMU series by Robert and his Snes9x EX are the best. All buttons work fine and everything.

Also I noticed for a while I couldn't use the start button my xbox360 gamepad until the Fire TV updated and all a sudden my gamepad worked even better.

Current Gen consoles need beefy x86 processors to emulate them properly. Hell even Gamecube games on PC still aren't running fully smooth and it's a BEAST on cpu's even like my 8350. Little mobile cpu's like this aren't going to have the power to emulate anything dolphin related. PSX is really as far as you'll get on Android until mobile devices surpass current gen desktop CPUs, don't hold your breath.