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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
hey guys,

i have some trouble with my german version of the AFTV. I hope you have some good news for me to get out of the "amazon ecological system" ;)

- At first i have a german firmware installed: "51.1.4.0_user_514006420" this is the latest at the moment and i think there is no possibility to gain root access to the AFTV....? I hope you have a good answer to me.....

- What server addresses i have to block in my router that amazon stops that autoupade. I want to use the amazon services but not the autoupdate feature.....

- do you have a 24p problem in the US? in germany the picture is stuttering. the AFTV have no 24fps support. so all movies stuttering. Its terrible to watch. this also apply to amazon content.

thanks for your support

best regards

Vince
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaksbeer:
As far as I know, Android 4.x output framerate is fixed. Auto framerate change will only be possible with Android 5/L...

So yes, always stuttering with 24p movies ?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
With latest firmware "51.1.4.0_user_514006420" is no working root solution known.

Concerning forced amazon updates try blocking:

amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net

softwareupdates.amazon.com

BTW: there is no special "german" version of the firmware. It is the same firmware globally used everywhere in the US, UK, GER etc.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacktheskipper:
Also on the lookout everyday if someone finally finds a solution to gain root access on the latest firmware, but besides that I'm pretty much happy with my purchase.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
[MENTION=4706044]Jacktheskipper[/MENTION]

the missing 24p is no problem for you? Because of that, I hate the AFTV and Iam very unhappy with my purchase. :(

[MENTION=5685231]Calibaan[/MENTION]

When I block these URLs with my Router, the AFTV have problems with the network connection. iI can see that this fault desciption is not correct because XBMC is fully working.

The main problem when i block this URLs is, that I cannot see the apps in the Amazon menu and on ervery page the information that the network connection is not correct. When this fault occur, the starting of XBMC is very extensive... i think you know what i mean.

[MENTION=630470]shaksbeer[/MENTION]

Do you live with this problem or what you have done to minimize the stuttering? Iam glad about every hint to solve that. It makes me crazy.

[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION]

Thanks for your support! ;)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
Didn´t try these URLs actually before posting because my FireTV is already on the latest unrootable firmware but they should work. Have a look at this guide:

http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-amazon-fire-tv-update-to-ensure-rooting/
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d1dd1:
Sounds like FritzBox :)

If you add URLs to the Blacklist, the FritzBox blocks these and ALL connections to IP-adresses, no matthere if they belong to these URLs or not. You can add IPs in a IP whitelist, but you have to check which are the relevant ones for the AppStore
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
You are right. It is a FritzBox. The IP blocking of that box annoyed me in some other applications too. This is the first annoying problem with a fritzbox i ever had... :mad: sometimes the box block intern (VPN) used ip addresses..... i added all for me relevant VPN IP addresses to the whitelist.... very curious and useless.

How i can find out, which IP addresses I have to add to the whitelist?

This is what i have found:

54.231.32.161	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.96.201	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.1.33 s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.18.121	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.0.233	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.65.9	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.96.209	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.65.89	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.32.193	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.0.169	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com
54.231.33.9	s3-1-w.amazonaws.com

and so on.......and so on

I have to put all that IPs to the whitelist? all of them are belong to amazon? ..... a little bit exaggerated, amazon......

[MENTION=5685231]Calibaan[/MENTION]

thx for the link. I found that page lately, but it create that fritz box IP-blocking problem which I have. :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loplo:
Finally my AFTV is being shipped. Ordered as Prime member on the 5. September 2014.

I'll have 2 AFTVs in the house, one from US (rooted) and one from DE (not rooted yet).

[MENTION=1115878]Vince0815[/MENTION], you could use opendns, AFAIK it works.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
opendns is not free of charge, or? why use another service when i have the (bugged) hardware at home :confused: use of opendns is a litte bit excessive for my intent.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loplo:
For personal use is free.

I have a FB too, but I hate 50% of it.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
OT: oohh okay... why? in my opinion it is the best router i erver used. But I can change my opinion. ;)

Do you have a good alternative router with the same features?

Is it enough to allow one of these IPs i have wrote down, in post #8?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loplo:
The thing I like on the FB is the DECT and the VOIP. I'm stuck with FB because my ISP providing internet via CATV, and they have some kind of monopole in this area.

In my opinion the best routers are those running on modified firmware (openwrt/ddwrt), for example the TP-LINK. The best would be the Linksys WRT1900AC, but is very expensive.

I own and use 2 TPLINKs for different things (beside my FB), and manage 3 more in different locations.

BTW, my AFTW just arrived.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phil402:
I am quite happy with my Fritzbox too. Although I have to use it as a combined CableModem/Router.

I can configure almost everything I need to. My old TP-Link Router with DD-WRT obviously was something else.

Since I have the exact same problem, that I can't block the two update-domains in my fritzbox without loosing complete functionality (why is that, I don't understand) I am curious about how to use openDNS for blcking the updates (I am still hoping for a root option in the future).

The problem is that I want to use the unblock-us DNS servers so I can access US-netflix content. At the same time I would have to use the openDNS servers to block the updates.

Any recommendations how to set this up?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
Concerning the Fritz!Box trouble try in your Filter settings: to enable the HTTPS protocol (Internetseiten filtern -> HTTPS-Abfragen erlauben) so that they are not blocked in general.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phil402:
I am pretty sure I tried that. As soon as I set a certain profile for the fireTV i loose all access. (I can still start XBMC via settings but Instant video and all my Apps are gone from the homescreen). The very second i diable the profile, the fireTV regains access to all features.

I guess the fritzbox is doing something wrong.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
same here and I think it is the IP blocking "feature" of the fritz box. It is auto activated, when you activate the black- and whitelist in the fritzbox.

The AFTV also connect via IPs and the fritzbox block them automatically. which IP this are for example you can see it in post #8 of this thread. But there are much more IPs which the AFTV tries to connect.

Iam not sure that it is enough to allow one of that IPs is enough to use the Amazon services. I dont want to allow all of that IPs.... this looks a little bit to much for me....

strange is, that it will work sometimes without a change and sometimes not. thats not WAF compatible :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
I got sick of the Fritzbox and switched to OpenWRT.

just add the blocked hosts to /etc/hosts and set them to 127.0.0.1, restart dnsmasq -- done.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackwolf78:
Hello , I too have the same problem of stuttering with xbmc file 24Hz . I do not understand why but if I play the file with VLC, movie can be seen much more fluid. You also have observed the same thing?

regards
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
I don't get it, 24hz is a worldwide standard for movies, and US hard+software of the fireTV are the same.

So EVERYONE should have these issues?!

On another note, does someone know if the firmware the UK/German FireTV comes with runs well with s/xbmc?

Would like to block updates from the beginning.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
Not really ;) In Europ PAL is standard with 25FPS for movies, so recordings, rips etc. are normally not in 24FPS. So not a big issue here.

For me there are no problems with XBMC or the FireTV optimized XBMC fork SPMC.

Advantage for SPMC: it can be installed from Amazon store and does therefore show up in the FireTV launcher without any tricks.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
How can I do that?

The German store says my device (FireTV) is not compatible, and the US says i can't buy it. And in the US stores there are many recent comments, urging Amazon to approve it for FireTV. Am I missing something?

---------- Post added at 08:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:04 PM ----------

Just sideloaded spmc and 24p movies seem to play fine.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
Also played some TV rips and the German 'ARD Mediathek' plugin for XBMC, all look fine.

No idea what you guys are talking about!

Maybe it depends on how the TV handles the input? I've got a Sony Bravia out of 2013 i think.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
where do you come from? because of that, it can the be the solution that you cant see the problem.

you can see the problem when the camera in the movie is panning fast or slow. you can see micro stuttering ervery few seconds.

But it is very strange, that some frineds of me, cant see it. They see it when I talk about that problem with them. Same with my wife. She saw it first, as I pointed her. Some peoples see it some not.

For me a movie is unsightly because of that. And now for my wife too.... :silly:

here is a good description of that. i hope google translator perfom its job in a good way... :eek:

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hifi-regler.de%2Fhdtv%2F24p_ruckeln.php%3FSID%3D18952572c6afec165c490e3f9f0166a9&edit-text=&act=url
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
I'm usually quite perceptive of stutter etc.

I saw this when i had xbmc running on intel hardware and 60hz set at all times while playing a 24p movie. It looked terrible.

However, now with the FireTV, i can see no such thing.

E.g. the intro of Boardwalk Empire, with the waves rolling on the sand, it looks incredibly smooth.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
[MENTION=4034491]freezer2k[/MENTION]: Strange. I did install SPMC from Amazon store without sideloading it and I´m also using a german Amazon acount.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCFish:
Buy the SPMC app from the Amazon app store even though it says it's not compatible. Then sideload the SPMC app as well. Even though you sideloaded it, it will show up in the Recent apps list because it was also "Purchased".

That's the method I've used on multiple FireTV units, both rooted and unrooted.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhumber:
24p movies play fine on all xbmc variations, but they play at 60hz so people who KNOW what they are watching will be able to notice, i can. its annoying but theres nothing to do about it with an android box as of now, this is one of the reasons i wanted to get fedora going on the fire TV, hopefully it supports 24hz, havent checked yet tho.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacktheskipper:
there's nothing noticable that annoys me up until now ...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
see the post from nhumber above yours... :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhumber:
if you have a 120Hz, 240hz, etc etc TV.. and your using what they call "tru motion, Clear Motion Rate, MotionFlow, Clearview and all those other names they use" and keep them enabled, you wont notice the 24hz problem because your already upconverting the crap out of the video, its called soap opera effect. and just like when your watching a TV at the store and everything looks fake and you see something is just "off" with the picture, the fireTV is upcoverting 24 frames to 60 frames a second.. so its adding in extra data to compensate for the missing frames.. why does this matter? Movies and most "prime time' or "fictional" TV is shot at 24hz for the "cinematic experience". so you take 24 double each frame and you get 48.. so 12 fps are being generated that are kind of a blend of the previous and next frames.. OR something along those lines.. basically if your a BIG A/V guy.. your going to be annoyed with the picture of HD content on the FireTV as opposed to say a BD player... is it a BIG issue? no, i love my FTV and its not something that matters all that much.. if it did i would buy a htpc and have true 24hz support. the picture below explains it better than i could..

[IMG="img"]https://documentation.apple.com/en/cinematools/usermanual/Art/L00/L0027_32Pulldown.png[/IMG]
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince0815:
[MENTION=5838320]nhumber[/MENTION]

thx for that explanation. I was not in the postion to descibe it such a way, because of my bad english :D

But i dont agree with: " is it a BIG issue? no, i love my FTV"

For me it is a issue not a big one but it makes me crazy when i watching 24p (23,975fps) content. :eek:

But this is a subjective feeling. This is what I meant with "someone see it and hate it and someone does not see it, so he cant hate it" ;)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Motorpsycho:
Doesn't setting the FTV to 50 Hz reduce the problem? I am annoyed by lacking 24hz support as well but with 50hz the stuttering doesn't ruin the whole watching though it is still noticeable.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freezer2k:
I just noticed significant stutter/lag with a 24p movie (XVID encoded), i had this a few times before... i wonder why some look like **** and some I can't even notice?

I booted up my Haswell box with OpenELEC and it looks flawless there, of course it also switches my TV to 24p output....but still a bit confused why some 24p material seems to look fine and some not.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowbee:
Ok, you are going to call me crazy but I fiddled around with some XBMC 13.2 settings and it plays 24fps movie fine.

But wait, I undo the 2 settings (software acceleration, sync to display with audio clock) and it still plays 24fps movice fine until I rebooted the fireTV, now it plays 24fps with stutter....Argh !!!!

I can't get it to work again no matter what I do and NO I am not imagining things. I tried this trick on 2 out of 3 of my FireTV and they have the same behaviour. Now I am really puzzled.:confused:

Edit: All 3 of my FireTV are running rbox pre-rooted 51.1.4.0_514006420
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marinaxs:
I tried Kodi 14.1 and spmc - everytime thame problem.

also with advancedsettings.xml for buffer size

Everytime 24p videos stuttering.

Is there any solution that works?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HolGORE:
im having the same issues. a german firetv without root and installed xbmc

i cant play a single MKV with 23,97 FPS. its always stuttering and the sound will get asynchronous.

is there any solution for this?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hello everyone

I have my GT-P5110 since a bit more than a year and since the begin, it runs CyanogenMod 10.1.3. Everything worked fine until a few days ago, since when my tab isn't recognised by any computer (as storage but also via Odin/Heimdall) Before I could connect my tab to my Pc and it appeared as external drive. I want to give the device back to the shop to get a new one with my warranty. But to be able to get warranty, I have to reinstall the stock rom. I saw a bunch of tutorial explaining how to flash the stock via odin/heimdall. But as I told, this is not working in my case. I read, that some ROM's are installable with ClockworkRecovery (which I have still installed on my tab). Unfortunately, I couldn't find a Samsung GT-P5110 stock rom, which is installable via CWR. An other way would be to recovery with a nandroid. But because I do not have a nandroid backup, this is also not working. Could anyone help me out with a Samsung stock rom, which is installable with CWR, an nandroid backup or an other idea, how to install a stock rom without USB connection.

Thank you very much in advance.

Chip
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PanchoPlanet:
Did you try a factory reset,that should make the tab stock again.

Pp.

sent from my microwave running lollipop 5.0.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hi PanchoPlanet

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, a factory reset only resets my CyanogenMod to factory mode and doesn't bring me the Samsung ROM back.

Cheers, Chip
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hello

Could someone do me the favor, doing a backup of the Samsung stock rom with the CWM Recovery and send me this backup? This way I could restore the Samsung stock rom. I would be really glad, if someone could help me this way because it is the only solution I can see at the moment.

Thanks in advance

Chip
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PanchoPlanet:
By flashing the stock firmware (samsung ) twice you can get back to stock os, rooting and installing CWM can give you nandroids galore.

Pp.

---------- Post added at 10:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:58 AM ----------

Look here for your build, if it's too slow Google may give you a better link to download .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27268346

Pp.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hi PanchoPlanet

Thanks for your answer. I tried to install the (Samsung) stock rom again. I downloaded SMO-P5110XXCMA2. The problem is, that it doesn't work to install the stock rom with CWR. I get always the following errer:

-- Installing: /external_sd/SMO-P5110XXCMA2-201301121172232.zip

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:Can't open /externel_sd/SMO-P5110XXCMA2-201301121172232.zip

(bad)

Installation aborted.

Installing a CyanogenMod rom with the CWR works without problem. How should I proceed to install the stock rom with CWM?

Cheers, Chip
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PanchoPlanet:
The zip you downloaded may have to be opened (un-zipped) first and you may find a file that you will use with Odin, stock firmware cannot be flashed with a custom recovery. (Not from Samsung anyway)

Use Odin , go to download mode on Tab, connect and flash with Odin.

Main objective is been able to get download mode, run Odin on PC, make sure you have drivers installed on PC , load corresponding file (md5) onto PDA slot and tap start.

*** Only re-boot should be checked on Odin. ***

Pp.

sent from my microwave running lollipop 5.0.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hi PanchoPlanet

Thanks again for your help. My problem is, that my tab's usb connection is broken, and so Odin will never detect my tab (Also is my tab not longer recognized as an external device, when I start CyanogenMod). That's why I'm searching for a stock rom, which I can install with CWM or I would really appreciate, if someone could share his/her CWM backup with me, that I could install it. Maybe there are other solution to bring me back the stock rom without a usb connection. I'm open for every suggestion.

Cheers, Chip
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip4Android:
Hi everyone

I would like to ask again for a favor. Could anyone make a CWM backup of his/her GT-P5110 with stock rom installed? This way I could get the stock rom back.

Thanks in advance

Chip
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
Since we don't have root yet, I was looking for a way to bypass the Exchange security my employer enforces because I hate having to put in a PIN every time I unlock my phone.

I came across this excellent email client called MailWise.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syntomo.email&hl=en

They have a built-in option to bypass Exchange security protocol and it works perfectly!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] borijess:
I use aqua mail with no issues. The only thing is that it doesn't sync my work calender.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 4! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
I was using CloudMagic before, but it didn't sync my Exchange calendar. MailWise does so I'm good to go.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] truelyinspired33:
Touchdown HD works great also
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
Does TouchDown bypass Exchange security protocol?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] JasonJoel:
You have to put in a pin when you open the Touchdown app, but not every time you use your phone.

So it is 100% exchange security compliant, without taking over your whole phone.

By the way, at my company you would get fired for intentionally trying to bypass the exchange security requirements... Not saying that applies to your company, but be careful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
I really like the app called Nine and it also has application level exchange security, but I don't want to pay $10 for it.

I just want to use the fingerprint unlock instead of PIN unlock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] flexfield:
I like Nine as well. Last I check, it was 50% off, at $9.99. Well worth it in my opinion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] JasonJoel:
I've been a touchdown user for years, but I have to admit that Nine looks really good. Trying it or now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
Nine is fantastic, the best IMO.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] sweetboy02125:
I remembered Enhanced Email by pass that before. Seems like it's not anymore now because I have to gain the Ad right in order to use my Corp email with it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Snarksneeze:
The biggest thing holding me back from upgrading to the Note 4 is this. I just downloaded and setup MailWise, it took a while to realize what steps it took to get the security bypassed, but I managed it. I'm much closer to getting this phone now, thanks OP!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] borijess:
Using mobimail and it bypasses it.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 4! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] ekerbuddyeker:
How do you get rid of the awful ads on mailwise
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Tikerz:
I don't get any ads on Mailwise?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] DiscipleDOC:
I've used both Touchdown and Nine, and I Nine is much easier to use and the UI is much better than Touchdown.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] trant01:
No ads for me either. Great app!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] doctorspeed1:
I just set up lock screen security when I set up the account on the stock email (or gmail) app then turn off after the account is set up and it never caused me issues. Did this on my note 4, galaxy s3 and tablet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Snarksneeze:
Me either. Works perfectly for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] JasonJoel:
And that is exactly why my corporation won't allow android devices to sync to our exchange servers with the stock app, nor any of the 3rd party apps that allow you to bypass the security..

All of these security bypasses are really hindering Android device use in the corporate world...

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] stark1159:
I have the Sprint HTC One m8 running viper 3.1.0 Rom and in the venom tweaks app when I go to Home screen and theme where you change the home screen icons they won't change it just stays on default anybody know what's going on or can help me please.... Thank you in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] frankx85:
Hey All ,

I am new to this phone and particular forum. This is just a general question I don't expect anyone to have a definite answer, just curious if and when Lollipop roms will start popping up for this device. Obviously it's all speculation but I was wondering if anyone had an opinion. Thanks for any response.