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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raiees:
Hi Guys,

I have just installed XBMC (Kodi Alpha5) in my Fire TV. Everything is fine except the keyboard. The Virtual keyboard appears, I can see shift key, Done, Arrows but cannot see any letters. all letters are missing from the keyboard.

Anybody can help me on this?

Thanks in Advance

Raiees
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RuKuS4Life:
I believe there's a keyboard setting in your xbmc settings. I can't remember what the exact selection says, but I remember the phrase "onscreen keyboard". Maybe you can snoop around in the settings and see if you find it. I just use the Yatse XBMC/Kodi app, so I don't need the virtual keyboard. I also have a Hausbell usb keyboard connected just in case i'm not home and someone else needs to use xbmc.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhumber:
kodi has a different keyboard setup... most skins arent supported yet and u get a blank one or none at all. im using amber right now since it is working good.. kinda starting to like it too. goto xbmc.org and do some reading on the forums.. easy to figure out what skins work and what ones dont. i might have downloaded it from the amber skin thread over there.. cant remember since it was a bit ago.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raiees:
Thanks Guys for your help.

But I was not able to find any solution. I uninstall Kodi 14 and install XBMC 13 and I have no problem with keyboard.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhumber:
most skins dont support keyboards yet for kodi.. did you try the stock confluence skin?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raiees:
Hi nhumber,

Yes I tried the skin but it did not help me .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azki22:
Hey all!

Recently rooted and put KK on my gtn7100.

All was awesomely sweet and buttery smooth for like a few days..

That's when ExGo launcher sstarted crashing.

Now it's every hour almost.. Can't multitask at all. Constantly clearing my ram.

On jelly bean I would have 750-900mb ram free with Go launcher runnin aswel as 9gag and facebook..

Now without anything running I have at the absolute most 100 mb free.. Usually 70 mb.

I can't open basically anything without go launcher crashing / restarting.

Been thru applications and stopped everything that wasn't needed running. (just the OS stuff and Go launcher (BTW go only takes 40mb)

I'm sitting here so frustrated...

What can I do XDA??

All help appreciated!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
You haven't even mentioned which rom/kernel you have installed. Common sense would dictate that if you request help you provide relevant information.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gb61:
Helo , like TheATHEiST says, is difficult to help you without more information, but you can use Clean Master from Google Play to see if you have many memory used and what applications use it.

Have you try to uninstall Go Launcher and use you phone some days without this application for see if it works better ?

Excuse me for my english :(
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azki22:
Wooopps howd I forget that! Sorryy guys

AV : 4.4.2

Bb : n7100DDUFND1

Kernal : 3.0.31-2654639

Build : n7100xxufni - phantom v11.0 by wesamothman

Phantom note 3 v11
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] QA Bot:
Q&A for [RECOVERY][ Unofficially Open Recovery TWRP 2.8.0.0 ][ 14/09/2014]

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Thanks for understanding and for helping to keep XDA neat and tidy! :)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] pusmak14:
Hey guys im running windows 8.1 on laptop and i dont know how to or i just cant open that cmd .....

And please can u write a tutorial step by step what to do ? Havent done these thing for many years and have forgot about all this stuff ;)

Im running KK 4.4.2. , please help me out , i really need root, its the question about life and death :( (Im realy sorry for my bad englsih) , if u have any questions, ask ;) waiting forward.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] surdu_petru:
Hello !

Please, take a look here ;)

Best regards !
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] damage83:
Huawei P6 B513 stock cannot load twrp 2.8.0.0

Hi All, can anyone help or guide me how to install twrp 2.8.0.0 from B513 stock? I tried using adb + fastboot to flash but i received error saying that it cannot load. Please help.....

Ok after sleepless night now i got it. the answer is given above..... thank you so much........

Another question, will there be a problem if I flashed straight to twrp 2.8.00 from stock recovery B513? just curious will i be missing any important updates coming from the early revision that may not be available in the latest one?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] moby292000:
twpr

when i do "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0.img" say me "cannot load openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0.img".

why?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] tileeq:
Maybe you need to redownload the file, and check the spelling just in case.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Kostyan_nsk:
Just rename file to something shorter, for example: twrp-2.8.0.0.img and try again.

I'm sure it will help.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] meetloaf:
I had TWRP 2.8.1.0, now I tried to get stock, HELP needed!

First of all, many thanks to [MENTION=2335078]surdu_petru[/MENTION], as usual your works have been always appreciated!

I had TWRP 2.8.1.0 and CM11, now I wanted to go to stock (recovery and rom). So, I flashed the B510 stock files: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51718316&postcount=2

and now, when I try to go to recovery to install the UPDATE.APP in dload folder, it displays some other info with no options:

ro.build.version.release = 4.4.2
ro.product.name = UEDGE
Current build version release is not 4.2, don't need move.
USB Update Enter...
HUAWEI SDCARD&USB UPDATE AGENT VERSION 2.0
This phone is secureboot phone.
This phone is unlock state.

I searched the forums but no avail, most of them refer to older versions;

I am on android kitkat, and most of the guides I found were referring to jellybean.

EDIT: I have found the way, to go from custom to stock manufacturer rom, and to go from KitKat to JellyBean.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] meetloaf:
To downgrade from KK to JB; To go back from custom to stock w/o backups

Former details:

Huawei Ascend P6

-running CM11 (thanks to [MENTION=2335078]surdu_petru[/MENTION])

-using TWRP 2.8.1.0 (thanks to [MENTION=2335078]surdu_petru[/MENTION])

-on B512 before installing custom rom and recovery

**requirements

-sdcard

-enough battery capacity

#optional; USB cable

What I did:

-flash B635 repack in TWRP [http://xdaforums.com/ascend-p6/development/b635-repack-bbnkk4-4-2-huawei-p6-t2929111]

-flash B510 recovery.img in bootloader mode [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2709353; POST #2]

-place B132 in dload folder; in sdcard

-force update by holding [Vol -]+[Vol +]+[PWR]

**you will be in a bootloop after

-go to recovery (in this case; stock recovery-B510)

-wipe /data; /cache;

-and reboot

-Voila!! update to B512; international firmware
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] moby292000:
now it's ok. my error was path not correct ( i put in the dekstop for resolving). thank
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Sumar4e:
Can some one help my, i have a problem with installing flashing openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0

I'm on P6 B707 EMUI 3.0 International Firmware and when i trying to flash i get this error:

error: cannot load 'openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0.img'
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] tileeq:
Is the twrp .img file that you downloaded in the same folder as the fadtboot and adb files?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Sumar4e:
Yes it is, i manage to find my problem and successfully flash it, thanks any way for your effort :)
[Moto 360] dangreene1:
I know WatchMaker has radar shaders, so would love someone to put this watch together with smooth seconds.

http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/entry_photo_images/10227561/moto2_verge_super_wide.jpg

Seeing this at 30 fps would make my day!

This was one of the 10 runner ups in the Moto 360 design contest earlier this year.
[Fire TV General] AFTVnews.com:
Amazon just posted the source code to software version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420 on the US Source Code Notice page. So far this update has been limited to UK Fire TVs, but based on the timeline of the German updates, we should all start to see this update roll out soon. The last two updates both began arriving on US Fire TVs 3 days after the source code was posted.

Be warned that there is an older update prior to this one, numbered 51.1.40_user_514005520, that is reportedly causes XBMC/Kodi to instantly crash on launch. I'm guessing most, if not all, will skip it and update directly to the newer version.
[Fire TV General] spyder3:
Reason number 1 to root and block updates.
[Fire TV General] AFTVnews.com:
Download URL for software version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420 is http://amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuit...ueller-ota-51.1.4.0_user_514006420-signed.bin

Interestingly, the file path is slightly different from previous updates.

amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net/obfuscated-otav3/... (this update)

amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net/obfuscated/... (all previous updates)

Thankfully the domain has stayed the same.

Like the previous update, the Fire TV I don't want to lose root on is the one that received the update. So I'll post my overview of the changes this update brings when either my "sacrificial" Fire TV gets the update or rbox gets time to pre-root this one.

Psst, [MENTION=3991724]rbox[/MENTION]
[Fire TV General] loekf:
My FireTV updated last night to this firmware (I am in the Netherlands). XBMC/Kodi still works.
[Fire TV General] rbox:
So I just updated my Fire TV and uploaded it to my prerooted thread. It looks pretty much the same although my Menu Items xposed module stopped working. It looks like they added the English (UK) language to the selection list. FreeTime still shows up even when switching the language, so not sure how the German/UK boxes know to hide it. Netflix told me I had to update. I hadn't seen anyone mention a new Netflix version and I don't know if people on the old firmware can update to it. The old one is here and the new one is here. It looks like it's a completely different package name, but somehow the Fire TV knows to remove the old one in the process. Some Amazon magic probably, because stock Android doesn't do that. I think this is the "new" layout people have been waiting for. It also seems like it's possibly a native android app vs the old one which seemed to be an html5 app. I am having issues with actually using the Netflix app though. At first it wouldn't log in, then it finally did and it doesn't seem to want to play anything. It might have to do with the fact that the tz partition was updated and it requires that update. I hope not because updating tz can cause an instabrick. I may have to look into this later if Netflix doesnt start working tomorrow.
[Fire TV General] moqwai.:
same issue here. I hope, there is a solution for this as i want the new netflix ui ;)
[Fire TV General] kraqh3d:
I tried too. I was forced to upgrade the Netflix app which then prompted me to re-enter my login credentials. I had no problem with that, but nothing will play. I restarted the app multiple times. It always connects to the service, but cant play anything. The circular indicator comes up and spins a bit, gets to 3% and then fails with a message saying that the video cannot be played right now.
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
Unless Voice search is part of this NetFlix update or not sure if it was already functioning ?? Isn't it better to just sideload NetFlix from the PlayStore since it's the one that gets the most/quickest updates anyway ?? And get rid of this one ?
[Fire TV General] rbox:
I tried the Android Netflix app once. Thought it ran and looked like crap.
[Fire TV General] shollywood:
If I update to this with a prerooted image, will I get root, if I don't currently have root?
[Fire TV General] KarlP:
Well, you need root (and custom recovery) to update the pre-rooted image. So, no, you won't...
[Fire TV General] Resnoid:
possible Netflix fix?

I just had a look over on the amazon forums and found this below. Is someone able to try this to see if it fixes Netflix please? If I upgrade & break Netflix I'll be in a lot of trouble with the family :)

From Amazon customer discussions...

"I found this tip somewhere, and it finally worked. Apparently the Amazon Video app has problems clearing cache or some such.

Go into your settings--> Apps---> Amazon Video. Click the clear cache, and then the delete data. Let it sit for about 30 seconds. Back out and view it to make sure they both show 0.0 MB. Then just turn off (unplug) the FireTV for about 30 seconds. When you come back in, Netflix, Hulu and anything else that has been having trouble connecting will work again. IIts clearly a bug in the Prime Video software "
[Fire TV General] rbox:
Just backup and restore the backup if it doesn't work.
[Fire TV General] Resnoid:
You are quite correct. Complete brain failure on my part :D
[Fire TV General] moqwai.:
Tried it and its not working. Same problem as before...
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
How about clearing the cache of the NetFlix app too... Or uninstalling Netflix & trying to get it from the Amazon Store again.
[Fire TV General] kraqh3d:
I tried that earlier. I cleared data and cache from the Netflix app but it didn't help. (Though I still had no problem connecting again after entering my credentials for the second time.)
[Fire TV General] rbox:
I have a possible fix for Netflix. I'm not very confident about it and there is a very good chance it could brick the Fire TV. If anyone wants to try it, knowing that it could very well brick it, PM me.
[Fire TV General] nhumber:
i cant get the new netflix to install on the older firmware, not backwards compatible for me at least.. which is weird since US users aren't forced to update yet afaik so it should work, amazon store says it sent it to my fire tv but it was still the old app. so i added it to the amazon cloud, which got it showing up on the TV, when i goto download it i get "install failed". Are any US users using the new netflix app with an older firmware and updates blocked?

can we swap boot and recovery and still get to fire OS via reboot recovery? might make it safer to test.
[Fire TV General] rbox:
The new netflix app seems to require a newer version of the Amazon SDK. After playing around with some things I noticed it's expecting a new type of drm library that if it doesn't exist it will fail to run. And that library didn't exist before 51.1.4.0.

As for testing my fix, it's something that would prevent the main bootloader from working if it were to brick it. If only someone was able to figure out how to write the mmc, it'd be very risk free to test...
[Fire TV General] rbox:
Well I said screw it and tested it out. Luckily it didn't brick my fire tv. Unluckily, it didn't actually fix the problem. Looking at logcat while running Netflix I don't really see anything screaming "IM BROKEN". It may well be that it's a problem on Netflix's end. I googled the code shown in the bottom right corner and it seems like a generic error. Do we know of any US unit that has gotten this update pushed where Netflix is working?
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
Haven't found confirmation either way that Netflix works fine on unrooted US updated FTV's so far. I am wondering if the drm library problem might be related to the IP blocking or OTA disabling.. Just wondering... :confused:
[Fire TV General] rbox:
I think my assumption of it relating to drm problems was wrong. According to the logcat it's loading the library fine and talking to the trustzone. Not touching the ota server or the dcp package.
[Fire TV General] moqwai.:
Well, if you look at the reviews at the us amazon netflix page, users are not complaining about it is not working. So this is probably not a netflix problem, if these users are on the latest firmware. Too bad you can't test it on the unmodified unrooted firmware to check if its working and then go back to a rooted firmware...

If these problems will be more frequent with newer versions, than root is not worth for me. I want to have things working and not messing around for days to make it work again. As long as xbmc and lama is working, thats enough for me. Maybe i will go back to a unmodified version and report if it fixes the netflix issue. No root for me then.

Or are you confident to fix this problem in a short period of time, rbox?
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
DUDE! If you got ants in your pants then go ahead and unroot. I don't think ETA's help at all. You can see RBox is doing what he can & we are throwing ideas to see what sticks... So far the feedback is running 8to1. So it does seem to work for 8 updaters. It could be just a stupid thing that is causing the problem. It could be Amazon/Netflix taking the douche level to 11. If it's deliberate then we should do a massive netflix desubing. Just saying... But have some patience. Maybe a new source of the FW might help. But the PreRooted release is barely over 24 hours old.... "C'mon Son..." Patience... This is a hobby not a job... :cowboy:
[Fire TV General] moqwai.:
Hey, i was not asking for an ETA. Just an opinion, IF its fixable. Ok, might be a bit early to tell, i agree.. And yes, i have ants in my pants and sometimes i have to hold me back for doing stupid things ;) After writing that post i decided i'll wait. I can watch Netflix on different ways and a rooted box is just great and deep inside me i don't want loose this.

Thank you for your effort, rbox.
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
I understand how it goes... The mere fact that we are here at XDA = We all got ants in our pants... We don't want to wait for Amazon or some other company to limit what we can do with our hardware. And when we can have such abilities. I would not be surprise if thru testing &/or sheer luck someone runs into a solution... Seen it so many times here at XDA... Just got to deal with the ants while we wait for some Raid!
[Fire TV General] ars_92:
For now I'll stay with the 51.1.3 firmware and use the blu ray player's netflix if i want the new ui lol. As long as netflix with the old ui works on the fireTV im not sacrificing root,not just yet
[Fire TV General] Skater4599:
I am stuck, was wondering if anyone could guide me in the right direction so I don't end up with a brick. I have 3 Rooted Fire TV's at my house. I had installed the latest pre-rooted update one 2 of them before finding out netflix is broken on them, so i rolled back using CWM to pre-rooted 5.1.1.3.0, netflix is working again on the old pre-update app but I have some strange things happening on the both devices, The Main problem is that the screen saver no longer works, I click on it screen saver options under settings > display and get a blank grey background no words on it, And it seems to freeze for a few seconds, but never shows any options, It won't enter sleep or screen saver at anytime, through xbmc or fire tv itself.

I've tried rolling back to both variants of 5.1.1.3 now and clearing cache in CWM but same problem. Any suggestions for easiest way to fix this?

If i factory reset and do a complete new setup, how do I do this without losing root or messing anything up? Does the CWM wipe data/factory reset work for this? I know you can't use the amazon factory reset since I have amazon.dcp disabled

or, could I use my third/working Fire TV to do a CWM backup and restore everything to the other two? This would be nice cause its fast/easy and I keep all 3 the same way anyway. Just don't know if that's possible

Thanks all for your help!
[Fire TV General] rbox:
When you are using the prerooted roms, root is included in /system and you can factory reset all day long, and root will still be there. You want to do the factory reset in CWM, that should fix your problems. I know people have had issues with backing up on one Fire TV and restoring onto another.
[Fire TV General] mjbxx:
For clarity, do you have to manually disable the firmware updates after each factory reset when using a prerooted rom?
[Fire TV General] Skater4599:
Thanks so much for your input! Going to do that now, exact info I was looking for :D

P.S. Thank you so much for all your work on the Fire TV, CWM, rooted updates, xposed module etc etc. I use it everyday and honestly would not like it near as much without your work
[Fire TV General] rbox:
Yes, you need to disable dcp after a factory reset. But in reality, it doesn't really matter. If you were to get an update it'd just reboot into recovery and sit there and act stupid. I've disabled automatic updates in CWM.
[Fire TV General] tivimac:
Is not your rom !!!

The problem isn't in your last rom. The issue is with the new configuration for Netflix thats blocks DNS Smartcache configurations. I had to revert back to last version on my Kindle HDX.

Here's a link with this problem from unotelly: hxxp://help.unotelly.com/support/solutions/articles/199318-netflix-3-7-2-not-working-on-android
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
So does this mean a solution to not being forced to use google dns might be a hacked .apk of the new NetFlix ? Are they not forcing this for the UK/GER 51.1.4.0?

Guess first someone needs to test this by setting Google as their DNS on their router... Anybody tried it yet...
[Fire TV General] tivimac:
3 Options

Right now we have 3 ways to deal with it:

1) Using DD-WRT/TOMATO Router

2) Revert back to previous version.

3) Hack the apK as you said. But remember that Netflix has many security checks in place.

In the long run we have to use an advanced router (DDWRT/TOMATO type) because in the future all streamers will have the smartdns block in place.

Remember that this is only a problem for people that tinker with connections for Netflix from outside the markets that they serve. People that live in the US and use american Netflix don't have this problem.

If you're on the US, this will not be a problem; but remember that in our pre-rooted roms we're blocking some address and/or ports to blocks update. I'm not an expert but maybe this may also contribute with this current problem.
[Fire TV General] nhumber:
i dont understand why this affects anything. Most users in the USA arent using a VPN so netflix needing to use the google dns servers shouldnt be an issue. am i missing something from that article?

---------- Post added at 07:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:24 PM ----------

can someone post the new netflix apk if its not too much trouble.
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
Well lucky for me I use Shibby's Tomato on my router. Have done for years.. So option 1) will be my choice once I understand what it does. And I do use vpn's but on a per device basis. But on my router I just use DNSCrypt.

Trying to understand why & what it does. http://help.unotelly.com/support/solutions/articles/199416

If you can describe it better I wold appreciated it...

So in my case will Tomato be intercepting the Netflix Apps call to Google DNS & route/force the traffic thru DNSCrypt or what ever DNS service I choose to use ??
[Fire TV General] rbox:
I have my router set for google's dns and see the problem. But anyone can test this out by setting their Fire TV to a static IP and then manually setting the DNS server it uses.
[Fire TV General] Y314K:
Sorry, Just to clarify. Even with Google's DNS you are still not able to play any video from the app ? So we are chasing a different bug...
[Fire TV General] tivimac:
the new netflix (3.72+) contains hardcoded dns to google/norton? dns servers with dd-wrt and or tomato you can make modifications to bypass these settings.

hxxp://help.unotelly.com/support/solutions/articles/199416
[Fire TV General] rbox:
Yeah, it sounds like nonsense what the guy with 3 whole posts is saying...