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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] chrootz:
Hi, I wanted to ask your help, im having a problem with the automount and link2sd still failed when boot process complete and it didn't mount the sdcard 32gb ext4 on sda1 and fat32 on sda2.

I did installed and everything was working except after complete the boot process got lot errors.

Here the dmesg log. My aftv running pre-root 51.1.3.0_user_513011820 made by rbox.

Let me know how fix this errors.

http://pastebin.com/vS24B9s8
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
This should help http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/general/link2sd-amazon-fire-tv-t2828687
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
Update v0.26

New Update version 0.26

Added Remote Keyboard

Rearranged Virtual Keyboard and Remote

Removed Classic TV icon as Ikono is worldwide friendly

Connect to Amazon FireTV on startup

Added Manual Connect in Menu

Added Manual Disconnect in Menu

Update notification Icon changed

Uninstall 3rd Party app option added

Sideload App button text updated

ADB connect to AFTV at start, and not when clicking on button for faster performance

Removed Close button from Main app and replaced with connection status
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] chrootz:
[MENTION=3128771]imti[/MENTION]ameah -

Howdy, I have been struggle all day trying fix this problem. I found out why it screwed. I tested 51.1.3.0_user_513011820 wasn't working so I decided try downgrade to 51.1.1.0_user_511070220 then tested everything WORKED!!!

I tried dirty install 51.1.1.0 to 5.1.3.0 (latest current version) pre-root and it doesn't work with the Link2SD for me. I gave up then reinstall 5.1.1.0 everything worked like CHAMP!!!!

Anyways, Thank you for excellent Utility App and this is helluva easier for me multitasking amazon FTV. :good:
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Legolas2:
Backup/Restore Data

Hi

I am trying to backup my data and notice that downloading the thumbnails, etc takes a lot of time. Is it possible to choose what data we want to backup? Also, does AFTVU do an incremental backup? or it just overwrites everything the next time I try it.

Similarly, I may want to change/delete only a few files, like change a few thumbnails, can we do only incremental restore?

Thanks in advance
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] yazyazoo:
I am trying to change the iKonoTV icon to Kodi via the app. It doesn't seem to change. Does the FW matter? I am on 513011820.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Legolas2:
Needs Root Access.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] yazyazoo:
Thnks for the reply.

I do have root access I think. I used towelroot, busybox afterwards, then installed CWM via the XDA App, then flashed with the latest pre rooted rom from aftvnews, and blocked updates. I sideloaded XBMC and then tried to use app to change iKono app icon to Kodi but I don't know why it doesn't change.

Also is there a way to get a status bar on the app when it's doing something? When I downgraded rom or sideload it's hard to know how long it takes to transfer to the FireTV. I know it depends on your wireless signal or if hard wired. A status bar on how far it's gone would be helpful.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
I am wondering.. If I was to delete the custom recovery in the FTV folder & add the new custom recovery to the folder without renaming it. Will this app use the differently named custom recovery figuring out that it needs to flash the file in the directory now. In other words is the custom recovery file name hardcoded or not??
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
The current work around is to rename the new file and replace the old.... I will release a quick update this evening if you can wait :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Went ahead & renamed the file like before. How about putting the CWM in a folder where one can change the contents of it when there are updates ?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
Good idea... will get thinking and hopefully added in the next release or so after todays quick fix.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
Update v0.27

Changelog v0.27

Updated remote keymapping

Updated minor bug with uninstall 3rd party apps

Update CWM Recovery 6.0.5.1.3 For more detals headover to http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/development/recovery-cwm-recovery-6-0-5-0-0-t2882336 thanks rbox
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
Can the option of uninstalling an APK File be added to the AFTV Utility App?

I had requested the ability to uninstall an APK File in post #237. As mentioned, adbFire has this and it really got me out of a jam with the ability to do so. Is there a possibility that this feature can be added to the AFTV Utility app?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] imtiajmeah:
I've already added it ;) button just under sideload.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
My bad, right you are as I thought I was up to date with AFTV Utility App. Thanks for adding this great feature.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
First trying to clarify things. Are the other two units rooted or rootable or not-rootable ??? The one's that don't act like you like ??

I think what you are trying to do is clone one of the first two FireTV's. For that you will need CWM Recovery 6.0.5.1.3. But it doesn't seem to do what folks think it will....

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55705035&postcount=107

For the launcher part you will need to have rooted FireTV's. And you will need to fiigure out which launcher he used. Not sure if the launcher will leave an app listing in the Amazon menu or an apk or something letting you know what he used.

Can you PM me the eBay link to the guy that sold you the good setup. Would like to take a look that the pics to try to figure out what was used. Thanks...

Note: http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#Launch_XBMC_on_the_Fire_TV Parts 4 & 5 might be relevant for what you are trying to accomplish.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
Thanks for the reply.... I actually did somewhat come up with something close, but encountered another problem while doing it. I don't think they're related though. I used the application here to load XBMC when I first power up the unit.... That worked great.....and I can get back to the normal Fire start screen easy enough, but if I want to then return to XBMC I have to do it the old fashioned way or use Llama again to load it from another ap. I'm slowly learning though.

All of my units are rooted with updates blocked and all of them have XMBC installed. It's just that this first fellow..... a college student in North Carolina loaded a unit better than any I've ever seen.....It's just a pleasure to use and navigate. The other two work OK, but whoever did them was either in a hurry to do them or took a lot of shortcuts to get them to work. You can tell that some time and thought went into the first 2 I bought....and I paid a good deal more for them, but it was worth it....and he advertised them just that way. His statement was...well....I'll let you read it for yourself and after communicating with him he turned out to be quite a fine young man. I paid considerably less than what he has them for now and he sold me the second for the same price as the first....shortly afterwards he started raising his prices considerably. It's from Flebay and you can simply look for item 231297443054

In the meantime I have a new issue,,,,, I have Aeon Nox as a theme and although under "system" it has a setting that is labeled "skin settings" it doesn't allow you to change the skin to any of the other skins I have enabled or to disable or uninstall it..... I'm stuck with it! I've tried everything I can think of and explore to get rid of it, but it simply won't allow me to. How can I change skins on this???

I'll be posting screenshots of the good unit soon...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
Screen Shots

I think this young college fellow did a lot of work to set this unit up as it is.....and I am thrilled with it's layout and the ease of navigation.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mroneeyedboh:
How safe is the downgrade firmware option on this? I have 51.1.1.0 on my unit. Im looking to just install CWM
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Yeah.. Looks nice & precise. The biggest thing about XBMC is what is done under the hood to keep it running smooth & clean. Seems he included those things too from looking at his flebay post. Thanks for sharing the pics... Might have to PM you to try to see if I can get mine as close to that one as possible. Specially links wise.. Seems he has a good amount of extras. It's going to be fun trying to get mine to that level.

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Sorry, check PM... The important FW number is after the 51.1.1.0_user_ThisNumber.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
I forgot to mention.... he did one other thing to the unit that he told me about. Since XBMC doesn't time out like the stock Fire unit does, he added something to his layout that even when in XBMC the unit will automatically time out after 15 minutes. I paid about $160 to get this unit setup this way, but to me it was well worth it and I researched almost every rooted Fire unit on Flebay before deciding to get his even though there were many others that were cheaper. he was less than $20 more than others and I couldn't see not investing the extra to get what I got. This and the second one I got from him was truly a "plug and play" unit from the get go. I wish I'd spent the extra and bought 2 more from him instead of thinking I could simply setup a cheaper rooted unit to match his.......I've spent days on this now and still am not pleased with it. It's usable, but his is such a pleasure to use that I'm tempted to dump these even at a loss and get 2 more from him! I still can't find a way to change the skin on this one! It happened after I used the Fire TV application in this thread. I think I istalled something that is not allowing me to get to where I can change the skins. if i can do that I'll be satisfied with this one. At least it has everything on it....you just have to look for it anytime you want to use it! I need help with this skin issue...

And yes.....I'm at the last version before they can't be rooted anymore.

That cloning program looks a little dangerous to me.... I'd rather massage this unit a little more to get what I want than to take a chance on making it worse. If I knew more about coding I wouldn't be as hesitant... and I'm very computer literate having worked for IBM for 10 years before doing electronics special effects for the film industry for 37 years, but all of this is new to me and I just jumped in feet first a couple of weeks ago! I was into coding sat cards years ago and did FTA for many years, but this streaming thing is incredible. Even living on a lake in the sticks of Ga with a paltry 3mbps I can still use it with no issues except a slow start once and a while. I miss my 20MBPS that I had for so many years in Los Angeles, but it's a good trade off for living on the 5th best bass lake in Ga! I'm just sick of paying almost $200 a month for satellite!!! Since I bought my first little Raspberry a month or so ago I haven't used Sat at all....it's about to go bye bye!

PS..... All four of my units are rooted and have updates blocked.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mroneeyedboh:
ID like to find out that feature on the timout in XBMC. Mine doesnt do that, and I need to back out to the Amazon fire menu/screen.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
There seem to be two options (Part 4 & 11) as far as I can tell one dependent on what build of XBMC you are running..

http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#Launch_XBMC_on_the_Fire_TV

Wonder which version fxbill FireTV uses.... Guess it will depend on which screen saver comes on after being idle on XBMC & if he timing is controllable.

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Yeah, if CWM is not already install on your FireTV's then you would need to downgrade which would mean you would be throwing away the setup you paid for. So no point in that.

Which button did you press on the app ??
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
You might try this.... I went into settings, appearance and into expert levels. He has the screensaver set to a 30 minute time. That might be what does it. It's worth a try anyway.... Let me know if it works!

Edit.... I just reset my screensaver to 5 minutes from 30 and sure enough.....after 5 minutes the unit shut down! I don't know if he has done anything else to make this work, but that's part, if not all of it. Perhaps there is more coding done to tie the screen saver into the shutdown, but changing the screensaver time also changed my shutdown time from XBMC! Let us know if that works....

Also....screensaver mode is set to "android power options". It's at the top of that section......1st entry with the time about 4 sections below it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
After reading around. That option is definitely made thru option 4 on my prior post aka "Android Power Options" screensaver.

FxBill which button did you press on the app ??
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
I tried to reply to this, but I guess it got lost.... My version is the last one before not being able to root....

As to the power shutdown..... Go to settings Appearance and screen saver. The top setting is "use android power settings." The screen saver is set to 15 minutes. I dropped it to 5 minutes and turned the TV off.....Sure enough the unit turned off after 5 minutes! I don't know if other coding was used to facilitate this, but changing the screensaver timing changed my shut off time.

PS... I just got in touch with the fellow who programmed the first two and asked if he would do these other 2 for me. I'll end up paying more than if I'd bought them from him to begin with, but live and learn.... I want them done right and this young fellow is honest and seems to really know what he's doing with setting them up the right way.

Sorry... I keep forgetting and I can only post every 5 minutes! I pushed a few of them... the auto pilot, kodi splash screen, the keymap and might have also hit the Switch Ikono TV icon. I think I got frustrated and carried away... I'd been at it all day!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Was it LLama that you installed & now you can't change skins or something else ??
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
YES!! Boy, you sure nailed it!

BTW.... The bad box is 5.1.1.0.1 and I have the user number as well. It's below 510 prefix so I should be good. I just tried to do an XBMC backup from the good unit and restore to the bad unit. It listed more than one recovery file. One was from 1970! There must be a storage spot in the unit itself for recovery files because I ran a backup off the bad box onto a pen drive and even when unplugged and no internet connected it had the backup file to restore it with! If I selected the backup that I made from the good unit it simply ignores it so I'm still stuck with that stinking skin that I can't remove and it also shows all kinds of files that talk about support forums and such that I've never heard of, but I can't open them to see what's going on. I just know that somehow I lost the ability to change the skins on the unit. Is there some sort of restore that will keep XMBC on the unit, but delete all settings for it? I think that's what I need to do.... I setup my Ugoos that way and it's not that difficult once the basic XBMC is on the unit, but I was afraid to try any type of restore for fear that I might lose XBMC altogether and I don't want to have to try to start installing from scratch..... I just need to be able to lose this skin and have the skin choices open again.

That's it.....3AM and I've spent three days setting up a new iphone trying to recover lost info from an old one.....$100 worth of software that was worthless and now this. I finally got everything back on the phone including 3 years worth of messages , contacts and photos....all I lost was my call history...no biggy. It jailbroke easily so I'm happy about that, but totally burned out and that's when I start making bad things worse!

Nite!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Not sure why it would cause that. Had you been able to change skins before. If the app doesn't have a way to uninstall LLama I would try to manually uninstall it. Thru the apps menu or from the apps "uninstall 3rd party app" & see if that fixes things.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] bubbasworld:
Virus ?

Hallo

Is there a Virus in the Download Link ?

Greetings
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
No there is no virus but the Rooting app is what is being reported as a trojan. This is normal. Just make sure Exploit.Towel is the only thing that is being flagged. Do not clean it. You needed to install root. Just checked and both this app & adbfire gets exploit.towel reported as such. Normal.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
When I got the unit just several days ago I was able to easily change skins...and I even picked the current skin, but something happened after that and the only thing I have done is experiment with the application in this thread. The very first thing I did was to take the youtube ap and load Llama onto the unit so that I could use youtube as a redirect to XBMC. At that point I could still change and edit skins. Then I began to try to do a backup from the good unit and do a restore with the bad unit connected. Obviously it didn't work, but I can't recall if that's when I lost the ability to change skins or not. After that point I was beginning to get frustrated and started experimenting with the program. At this point in my life I should know better. That always leads to problems!

I did manually remove Llama and autopilot. The same condition exists.

At this point I'd like to do a complete reset on the unit if i could do that and still leave the bare essentials of XBMC on the unit. Is that even possible? I can see that I'm in for a learning experience here. It's going to be like learning backtrack was years ago all over again, only when I screwed something up in backtrack nothing was ever harmed! This unit just keeps getting worse so I'm leaving it alone for now until I can get more answers and learn more. Where is that XBMC backup file being stored in the unit and why won't it allow me to use one from a USB stick? Do the serials have to match. I'm sure the contents of one backup could be modified to include much of the contents of the good one while still being identified as one from the original unit, but XBMC Backup is only choosing from an internal source. I'm over my head here.... but I will prevail in the end! When I learned how to repair old pocket watches I did it on line and the suggestion was to use and old "dollar" watch to start with.....not me.... I began with a $500 Illinois Bunn Special..... a very collectable railroad grade watch. Thank God it went well, but I have trashed a couple of nice Accutron watches because the parts are so small that you have to use a microscope to work on them! Live and learn...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Did you make a XBMC backup on the "bad unit" before flashing the backup of the "good unit" onto it ? Could be that the versions or flavor's or mods of XBMC between the units might not be fully compatible.

Now you said you had two of the "bad units". I am guessing both of those should have the same stuff install since you got it from the same guy. So why not do a XBMC bacup of the "bad unit" that is not messed up & try that on the "bad unit" that is messed up. Kind of like a transfusion from the same blood type if you will.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
Yes... I did backup both units before doing anything, but did not use the XBMC backup utility.... I didn't know it even existed at that time. I used the backup from the application in this thread. I suppose trying to restore from the good unit could have done something, but I seem to remember that I was still able to modify the unit...and screens after I did that. It wasn't until later that the skin locked.

I haven't received the 4th box yet....It's possible that I will like it. I just don't know yet. Right now I'm basically dealing with 2 great units and one that I can't do anything with.

I noticed that in another thread someone wrote launcher for XBMC that includes the android power saving screensaver that puts the unit to sleep with XBMC running and uses the exact settings that my good units have in them. That's what allows you to let XBMC time out and shuts the unit off. I'd love to install his package.....so I need to ask....... How can I remove XBMC from my bad unit and then install his apk? I know I can use the utility program in this thread for installing the new apk, but I need to wipe the XBMC plate clean first. How can I do this reasonably easily?

Update: Here's my plan...let me know if it sound reasonable or not worth trying. Using the FTV utility restore my unit with a stock recovery or CWM recovery...( which would I use??)... Then sideload the apk of the XBMC file "signed-xbmc-13.2-FireTV(v8)" also using the FTV utility and have my modem unplugged during the entire operation so that it's impossible for any updates or stoppers to come through while this is in progress.

Would this work? if so which way would I make the recover....stock or CWM?

Thanks for all the help here.... I can't express my appreciation enough for enduring my ignorance!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Not sure it would be that easy since the [LAUNCHER] XBMC for Fire TV (Root) requires Xposed framework & rbox's Xposed module installed. And the latter requires software version 51.1.1.0 or 51.1.3.0 which would mean downgrading, re-Rooting, installing CWM & then upgrading again to latest pre-rooted fw. Just make sure you are aware of all that is required. Very doable but you mention being on 5.1.1.0.1.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Glad u'r getting it the way you like it.. But the SuperUser prog is good to have. It lets you control what gets root access on the FireTV. It is not good to let every app have root access. It's like a bouncer for root control. But I'll leave it to you how you want to run your FireTV.

If this install version of XBMC looks the same as your good units XBMC. Now you should be able to copy over the saved configuration of your good units XBMC onto your bad unit XMBC. That way you can just clone the good setup instead of having to input everything manually. Now that you know how to get back to the way it is now you can play some more with it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fxbill:
How can I copy the setting and config from the good unit and also how can I install them on the other? Can it be done using the FTV ap or is there another program that needs to be used.....or is it the XBMC back and restore ap? I'm a little confused about that. If not,,,how can I place icons and shortcuts under each section of the home page? Again....sorry to show my ignorance...

Also.... the Superuser program never allowed me to accept it....it only gave the options to remind me again in a certain period of time. There was never an "OK" window or anything else that allowed me to actually implement it. I would certainly use it...I was just concerned not knowing anything about it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
On the SuperUser it will give you 5 seconds to choose the "Grant" settings in the bottom right of the popup screen. Just restart the app or setting that requested root access to get the chance to Grant again. Once Granted it will stop asking you about that specific app or setting.

[IMG="Grant"]http://www.aftvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/firetvscreenshot_20140615-142148.png[/IMG]

Will post steps on how to backup/restore(clone) XBMC settings shortly...