[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
I did it....and it worked!!! I'm not sure if i got everything that I should have, but I did get the Confluance skin with the android screen saver that allows you to put the unit to sleep while in XBMC....and I can now change skins.....It's an entirely different setup now and I'm thrilled! It a little bare... I need to install shortcuts below under each screen and will learn how to do that, but this is what I did.....I don't know if any of it will make sense, but the end result was success.

First I tried to restore to a stock unit using CMW and although the unit connected with the Utility app it locked the screen on the FTV. I unplugged it and tried again with the same results, but it didn't brick it. Then I went back to the FTV home page and into settings, add ons and uninstalled XBMC. After doing that I again tried to reset the unit using CMW and it rebooted the unit. I immediately side loaded the app from another thread here and it popped up with a success message. I rebooted the unit and it booted to the standard FTV page. I again went to settings, applications and sure enough XBMC was again listed there. I ran it and it booted into XBMC stating that it was the first time running the program and had the Confluance home page. That in itself was a great sign for me as it allowed me to go into the settings and change the skin if I wanted to....although I like that one and left it. I then went to the screen saver section and noticed that now it had the "android" setting for the screensaver and in expert mode allowed me to either put the unit to sleep of shut it down. I selected sleep, set it for 15 minutes and tried to select a screen saver.

When I tried to preview the screen saver "Superuser" or something popped up asking me to approve it and timed out after about 10 seconds. It did this 3 times and then went blank. The unit would not go to sleep this way. I went back home again and in settings, apps, I uninstalled the "superuser" program....( it's a yellow superman shaped shield...but I don't recall the exact name....I should have noted it, but when I was asked to install it warning labels popped up everywhere saying that it allowed total control of my XBMC and looked like something I wouldn't want. In any case I uninstalled it. The I went back to screensaver settings and when I went to preview the screensaver the screen simply went dark. Fine for me...no biggy. I backed out and went back to the XBMC home page and shut my TV off. 15 minutes later the FTV went to sleep!!! When I hit the OK button on the remote it immediately booted back up to the XBMC home page. I'm a happy camper!!! Don't ask me how all of this worked...but it did and I have a virgin unit that's clean. I need to still add super repo and enable programs and reload a few things, but I can handle that. I do still need to find out how to put icons and shortcuts under each section of the home page though. Hopefully it's an easy task. Once that's done I'll have exactly....or at least close to what I purchased with the good units! ( I'd still like to be able to boot to XBMC if I'm first powering up and have that great splash screen that the other unit has, but eventually I'll discover how. Right now I just want to back this unit up so that I can recover it to this stage if I screw something up later down the line....... Life is good!!!