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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] xokol2lvox:
rbox mod with hdd mount script

Has anybody had success with this module to autolaunch xbmc while using the system mount script for external hdd? Initial boot fire remote works fine, but upon rebooting it somehow becomes unsynced. Pulling my hair out here, have factory reset and redone whole setup twice. Any clues? Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Neo3D:
Sorry for the very newb question, but how do I install this mod? I already installed Xposed. I couldn't find it in the list of the Xposed app in its DOWNLOAD section?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] toe451:
1.3 is the newest ,it's on the front page bottom , sideload it, it installs like a app, go into expose and check box .
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Neo3D:
Duh, thank you. I didn't notice that the 1.3 text was an actual link!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jmcguire525:
Home button SPMC

Everything is working great for me, but is the anyway for the Home button to always take you back to the SPMC home? It does this if I am in another app, but if I'm in Genesis or something built into SPMC it would be nice to just press home instead of going back 10 times.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mvanzante:
If you are rooted you can get SPMC as your home by installing the compiled version that has the launcher intent. It's available on the SPMC webpage.

I'm not sure if it can be done without root.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] hildebrau:
HDMI-CEC issue

I have SPMC as my launcher on my rooted FireTV.. However, recently, after having to purge SPMC's "data" to clear space, I had to reset all my settings somewhat.. It seems I'm missing a setting, because now when SPMC/FireTV is idle for a while, and the sleep mode screen saver tries to kick in.. but when it does that, it apparently sends some HDMI CEC signal, because my receiver will auto-tune back to that input.. even if I'm in the middle of a multiplayer game on the Xbox One.. NOT COOL!

Anywho... anyone know where the magic setting may be on the FireTV to not send that signal when the screen saver kicks in and out?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jmcguire525:
Yes, I have that and it is working. Is there a way for the Home button to take you to the SPMC home page from anywhere though? Lets say for example you are in the Tv folder, Game of Thrones, Season 2 and I want to go home without pressing back 5 times.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
Try long pressing the "Back" button on the Fire TV remote wherever you are in SPMC. Or try using a cheap Qwerty mini keyboard and select the escape key. I actually use this in place of the Fire TV remote mainly for the ability to type search and other shortcut keys.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mcmanuf:
Remove additionel items from "HideAmazonMenuItems"

Hi.

It is possilbe to update the plugin to it is possible to remove Amazon Freetime from the launcher?

Thank you!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
No, because the Fire TV already supports that. Go in to FreeTime and say "remove" or "disable" or whatever it is. And it disappears.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
Rbox is it possible to remove most menus with root and create own on stock fire launcher? With your awesome mod I use square home launcher.

Is there anyway to make my own menus?thanks!:)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
If you are already using another launcher, then I am confused as to the question...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
Simply wanted to play around with stock launcher.

But would that be possible ?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
OK. Well the source for my module is up on GitHub, you can take a look at what I'm doing with the menus and play around with it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
I am no dev so all these are magic to me lol.

Thanks for the response tho :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
HideAmazonMenuItems: Gives a settings menu to select which menu items to show.

I don't see this option, what I'm I missing? I did reeboot , recents works fine etc.. but I could never get that part to work to hide menus.

Is this only working on specific firmware by any chance?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
Update: I updated to last rootable version which is : 51.1.1.0 and I do see the menu to Hide things from launcher but the problem is inside there is only things like help and contact us.

Any ideas why? I have the 1.3 rbox mods
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
Click on free time.. then it says "Hide free time" you don't need any plugins to do that.. I just hid the freetime on my firetv
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] KLit75:
I had some issues after attempting to push my advanced settings to a launcher. This is really my first experience with your mods. It was working great until I attempted to get those settings working by deleting textures13db (done it at least half a dozen times with no issues) but I won't bore with the details.

Basically, I'm ready to just start from scratch and reset it in cwm. This may sound dumb but I want to make sure your mods won't stick after the reset. I have NO reason to think they will but to be honest how it works is a little foreign to me.

BTW--I have every intention of reinstalling your mods after the reset but since I'm having issues I'd like to start from a clean slate. Thanks.

Never mind. Wound up uninstalling your mods and starting over. I should've read a little closer.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] n2outlaw:
I'm using 1.3 on Kodi 14.1 using MySQL.

I have one problem. Because Im using MySQL. I need to delay the first initial start up so my WiFi can connect to the server. If not, I have to "Force Stop" Kodi in settings and relaunch it and from there everything is fine until I do a fresh start/reboot. Meaning, it loads Kodi without the "Advancesettings.xml" on first launch.

I've tested this on Llama with a delay setting for 6/15 sec. on startup and it works prefect but I like yours better. :)

Is there anyway I can add a 6/15 sec. delay on startup?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] collindv:
Interesting. I have the same setup (spmc, mysql server, wifi connection, rbox's mod) and I don't have any problem on reboots.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] superkoal:
What do you think about dispatching a keyEvent with some exotic keycode everytime the homebutton is pressed (so that we can detect and map it in kodi)?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Aobeta:
I agree with this, I have this same problem. Except, I don't use wifi, I use ethernet. Kodi just loads too fast I guess. A delay until there is a network connection would be great.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] patt2k:
Here is an idea. Use CCM Helix skin. Use the Intro Movie script (it loads this Kodi short movie file) it actually is pretty cool. See if that is enough of a delay?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] HandyPro21:
Hi everybody!

First, let me start by thanking rbox for his valuable contributions to the project. Keep up the great work man!

I just wanted to let you guys know that I was able to activate the rbox mods on Xposed without needing a physical mouse. I just followed moeduss suggestion of using Limitless Remote and it worked!

Just sideload Limitless Remote Service to the FireTV and start the service. Then connect with the Limitless Remote on your tablet or cell using the mouse module and you have full mouse function!!!

Important: Make sure to sideload the Limitless Remote Service version 2.2.5 to the FireTV, since the 2.0.0 version that is on GooglePlay does not work.

Good luck!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] moeduss:
It also works as a keyboard, and puts the fire TV right to sleep when you are done, play with it like I did, it has many handy features.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Annunneo:
Do I need to be on 5.41 to install and work this modeule? I'm on 5.110 with just root and playstore etc. but i haven't unlocked my bootloader or installed cwm or anything.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] moeduss:
Not sure but you do need root for it to work right.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] toe451:
how will this work on the new update 51.1.50_515020820 , amazon has shortcut on the home button when you long press , any way to keep the shortcut sleep, your exposed mod will override it and make it just recent apps.

Thanks...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rueda:
update 51.1.50_515020820

With update 51.1.50_515020820 keybindings doesn't seem to work anymore. Also it is not loading a launcher anymore with the menu button or when booted. Please help rbox.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
That's odd that the launcher thing isn't working. They must have changed some things. Unfortunately I don't really have the time right now, but when I do, I'll take a look at it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] will4958:
You should be able to use someone like My Backup Pro or Titanium Backup Pro to freeze the Amazon home screen. I had to after updating, but it was on to of an old backup I restored before applying the update.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] LakersFan_73:
With the new update to 51.1.5.0 (rbox custom rom), the long press of the home button does not bring me to the shortcut menu for sleep/mirroring/settings. Anyone else able to confirm this?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mdpauley:
It's strange... When I had KEYCODE_HOME_LONG launch Kodi, the shortcut menu would appear over Kodi until I clicked back. I change the key binding to KEYCODE_MENU_LONG and now I don't get the shortcut menu but the recently viewed items. I think it's because of this chunk here. I'll remove and test just to make sure.

Mike
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Firef0xx819:
Did you go into Xposed installer and install the framework again and reboot?

I got the shortcut menu to appear by making a key_bindings.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
<string name="KEYCODE_HOME_LONG"></string>
</map>
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
What an excellent workaround. I'll add it to the OP.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rueda:
Tried exactly the same yesterday and ended up with a booting screen with the following:

Amazon FTV always shows Installing the lastest software. The update will finish soon" screen everyime I boot up my AFTV. I will try reinstalling the rbox framework today and check if its working for me.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rueda:
confirmed wokring great
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] TomParis01:
I would like to bind the "RecentsOnMenuLong" to a long press of the "Play/Pause" key for 51.1.5.0. How do I manage that?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
I have not tested this, but thought about doing similar but with the long press of the Menu key instead of home.

<string name="KEYCODE_MENU_LONG">"RecentsOnMenuLong"</string>

I just don't know if "RecentsOnMenuLong" is the correct code for bringing up the recents menu
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Unfortunately it's not that simple. Android has the builtin ability to open the recents when long pressing the home. So by default I would just enable that if there wasn't already a binding for the home long. In theory it would be possible to bind it to an arbitrary key, but that would take more code. I'll definitely put it on the list of things.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Thanks for clarification rbox, appreciate the help in any case, its not that big of a deal can definitely wait, its not a problem.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] TomParis01:
Thanks for explaining! Would it be possible to manage it the other way around, namely leaving the recent apps on the home key and binding the new 51.1.5.0 menu to another key?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Probably possible. I haven't had time yet to look at how they are launching the menu.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] AQKhanTheOne:
+1

This would be ideal...have the new menu on the play/pause button and recents on the home button.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] subwoofer81:
This is a great thread and a way to bypass the Amazon home screen. I added the XBMC launcher and everyone was working great until the other day it got stuck. I could only access the voice commands for the Fire TV but Kodi would not come up. So I was able to get around this by using ADB and uninstall org.xbmc.kodi and that worked! I'll be reinstalling this sometime soon.

So my question is: How do I get the Fire TV home button and the bootup to start with the Amazon home instead of Kodi? Is it as simple as uninstalling XBMC Launcher?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Ortega0517:
I still can't hide anything under "menu items" -__-
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
What version of the OS and what version of the mods are you using?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Nedle:
Saw the new shortcut menu which gives you the option to sleep the FireTV. Really liked this but didn't want to give up the recents menu.

So instead I made a small app which sleeps the FireTV and bound that to long pressing the back button. Still have recents on long home this way and also the sleep functionality on a different key.

The app is simply a tasker task which I exported as apk so it can be launched using the key bindings in the rbox mods.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Ortega0517:
OS 51.1.1.0_user_511070220 & mod version 1.3

Is there 1.2 version I can try instead?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Update your OS
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Ortega0517:
Is there a guide on how to update without loosing root? I looked at AFTVNEWS.com guide on how to update or downgrade and was afraid I might loose root access or maybe brick. What should I do? Sorry for the noob questions. Iv never owned an android device before. Getting the fire tv was my first android :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
The site has guides on how to do it all, unlock, install recovery, update the OS.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] loughrey101:
This mod was great but the only problem is there is no way to disable the feature that when you hold the home button a few recent app selections appear. The problem with this is it blocks the ability of the new update to allow you to put the Fire TV to sleep by holding the home button. Is there a way to disable this feature on your Fire TV mods to allow you to make use of the sleep feature in the new official update? Thanks!

---------- Post added at 09:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:02 PM ----------

This mod was great but the only problem is there is no way to disable the feature that when you hold the home button a few recent app selections appear. The problem with this is it blocks the ability of the new update to allow you to put the Fire TV to sleep by holding the home button. Is there a way to disable this feature on your Fire TV mods to allow you to make use of the sleep feature in the new official update? Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
You could scroll up like 20 posts... or read the OP...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hav2roll:
Would a previous version of your module work on software version 51.1.0.2
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] loughrey101:
Thanks rbox. I'm not sure how to create the . xml file though. I copied and pasted the file info you have here into a notepad and saved it as .xml and pushed it into the sdcard folder of the Fire TV, but nothing happens, the functions remains. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Did you reboot?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] loughrey101:
Thanks very much rbox, I think I was putting in the wrong text. I finally managed to get it. Thanks again for everything, all your mods make the Fire TV a joy! :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
I updated the OP with version 1.4 to hide those annoying ads on the main screen.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] barbedwiredave:
I have been using the alternate launcher with SPMC launcher and usb to data script flashed using a SSD successfully for some time. Recently SPMC was running slow so I rebooted the FTV. Now it will not boot past the colorful amazon splash screen. Figuring something was corrupted I imaged the drive to preserve as much of my setup I could. Is there something I can manually do to the files on my drive to disable the alternate launcher and try to get to the stock launcher?

Thanks

Dave
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] bula1ca:
Thank you
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] LakersFan_73:
I personally don't mind the top banner, as it's directed towards Fire TV products. However as I know you may eventually add more features to this great addon, I'll ask now... Can you make it an option to show or hide the banner in the "Hide Menu Items" category? It's not a deal breaker either way, just checking....

Thank you.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Yeah, I could probably do that. I'll look into it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] getmoneygreen:
hey rbox thank you soo much for the mods i really enjoy your work i have one question more like a problem. Once i installed your 1.4 mod i lost the ability of having my box go to sleep fyi I'm running elmerohueso kodi launcher should i revert back to 1.3 or is there a work around. thanks in advance

edit: got it to work apparently it was a bad download :/
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tavery:
Was working, but I messed it up badly, please help...

I fiI had the Xposed modules working perfectly since they were first released. However, I managed to screw up my FireTV trying to free-up some space by deleting what I thought were backup copies of application apk's with ES File Explorer. Turns out they were required. Save me the lecturing please, trust me, I've learned my lesson :) . I re-installed the latest pre-rooted ROM and had to reinstall my apps (even though it thought they were still sort of installed) and got everything working except Xposed. I have tried installing every version of it at least 3 times, rebooting, uninstalling via the adb shell, installing with different methods (adb console, AGK Fire, abdfire) but Xposed will not show in the programs list no matter what I try. Hoping someone may have an idea on how to fix it other than reset to defaults which basically writes-off another evening. Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] spyder3:
Do I need to uninstall any Xposed modules or the installer to revert back to stock?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] moeduss:
You can try getting agk fire apk for you phone or tablet and install exposed from your phone, with this app you can side load any of the apps that are installed on your phone or tablet I use it all the time for my fire TVs when I want to add to my apps, you can even unusual them with it. You can find the app on the Amazon store.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Fgarcor:
I have the same problem. Fresh installed 51.1.5.3 and although the HDXPosed-1.3.apk is installed, it doesn't show in the Applications of the Fire TV menu. So I cannot install it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] bula1ca:
It will never do, go to settings- manage application and it should be three.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Fgarcor:
Yes, that is where I mean. In previous versions of the fire TV, I could sideload it and it would show up there. For example in the 51.1.3. However in the 51.1.5 other side loaded applications like kodi are there but not this one. Strange... No idea what to do. The only thing that comes to my mind I'd to find the activity inside the package and launch it via command line. Any other suggestion?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] KLit75:
This might be irrelevant but why would you need to access this app? Ive always used it but couldn't even tell you if it shows up under manage applications. Are there extra modifications you can make?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Fgarcor:
Just to launch it. Aren't the modules managed from inside? I need to select rbox module. Or how do you select an Exposed module? Maybe something has changed in the latest versions.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] moeduss:
If you have not tried the agk fire app from the Amazon store you should give that a try, you can side load apps, you can uninstall apps and you can see all the apps on your fire TV or stick with it. I use it all the time and it is the easiest way to side load apps that I've used. You don't even have to download apps of you have them on your phone or tablet you can push them right to your device and they install at the same time, or if you have the app on your sd card you can push it as a file and then use your file explorer to locate it and install it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Fgarcor:
I will try that, thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ewookie:
Root required?

i think the answer is 'yes' but i want to be sure. i only want to use the alternative launcher.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Nesmaster75:
Hi all,

I've never had a problem with my Fire TV or Xposed, but after having Google Play keep crashing on me lately, I found out it was due to version 2.6.1 of Xposed, and needs to be on 2.5.1. However, whenever I try to install 2.5.1 after successfully downloading it, I get an error message "App not installed". I've tried uninstalling Xposed and re-installing it, but I keep getting the same problem. Coming here and asking for help was a last resort, and I am absolutely baffled right now. Thank you for your help!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] I_did_it_just_tmrrow:
Is it perhaps possible to fix the "format mass storage" dialog with a xposed mod?

This would be very nice.

Here is a thread about it but we got help until now:

[Q] Disable USB Mass Storage detection in recent firmwares

And another topic for me is how to create a share-mount-point from my nas:

[Q] How can mount SMB(cifs.ko) to local file system on AFTV?

Could xposed be helpfull for thoose problems?

Greetings by Idijt
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
Probably. Once I release Fire OS 5 update, let me know if it's still a problem and I'll need a screenshot and I'll look in to it.

When amazon releases full kernel source for the Fire OS 5 update, I could probably compile the cifs module.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] I_did_it_just_tmrrow:
EDIT:#Sorry, I just should load the apk file, not the guthub sourcecode :D

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Did I see that right, that the 51.1.6.3_516012020 FW is Android 5 based, so we need a xposed module that is Android 5 based?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

I can not find a "add dialog" in module section with xposed 2.6.1 stable.

Greetings by Idijt
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] I_did_it_just_tmrrow:
It driving me crazy!

I hard-rooted a Fire Tv Stick with fw 54.1.1.0_user_110031420 and push the su file into xbin.

So after that I installed xposed and your newest apk 1.4.

I see that you write that the apk need a special version of the Fire TV box, but I try.

Everything works really great but one thing not:

When I enable you module over xposed, kodi 15.2 (by elmerohueso) is muted!

I can only disable the mute by http-remote (only with volume up, not with mute button ?!).

When I disable your module (I test 1.4 and version 1), the mute is not per default enabled after fireTV-Stick restart.

Any tipps?

I love your xposed module! I really wanna use this on my hacked stick.

Is there any chance?

Greetings by Idijt
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
This module is not for the stick. I don't know how different the stick software is. I can't imagine anything I did that would cause this... But try creating the key_bindings file as documented in the first post, where it sets KEYCODE_HOME_LONG.