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[Amazon Fire Phone] Greenbelthuffman:
Use es explorer to rename *lockscreen apks in ./system/apps to .apk.exe.

Or you can just delete them.

The only one you shouldnt change is the lockscreen.apk, if you do then the home button and voice control stop working.

you have to be rooted though.

Hope this helps.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Next lock screen works and seems to over ride Amazon lock screen without having to disable it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
I'm might try freezing with titanium. Apart from lockscreen.apk, most of the other related stuff is previewer and settings. Will stopping these really stop the lock screen?
[Amazon Fire Phone] amf100:
I also use Next, which lets me use a pattern and has widgets. Feels like stock Android.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Adam_nox:
Is there a way to get rid of the scene screen but still enable pin locking?
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
I installed Next but it still appears usual Fire Phone lock screen after unlocking Next lock screen. So I have two lock screens. Is there a way to disable completely Fire Phone lock screen when using Next?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Strange. When I use next it overrides fire lock screen. In other words, I don't unlock twice.
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
After installing Next, when the screen is locked and I unlock the screen by pressing the top button, first I see the Next unlock screen:

And after unlocking Next unlock screen, Fire Phone lock screen appears:

And finally I can use the phone :crying:
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Well I can't answer that sadly. But you've proved one of my points earlier which was that next doesn't display properly on fire phone. Your first shot shows the top row of pixels on the icons at the bottom of the screen. It should and does show two full rows of icons on all other compatible phones.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
I've just tried the app called start from play store. It has under advanced settings an option to make it default home and then let's you choose your launcher. I've also frozen lock screen apk, and now everything works ok. The start button issues I had when just freezing lock screen are resolved.
[Amazon Fire Phone] amf100:
I wouldn't say Next doesn’t display properly on the Fire phone, as others aren't having the same issue. It may have to do with how you have your settings configured, but Next works perfectly for me. I have no idea why you see icons at the bottom. I'm using Nova for my launcher with no problems. In phone settings, I have lock method as none and set to lock immediately on screen off and I only see Next since there is no lock method set for system settings.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Actually, I would say next doesn't display properly on fire phone. Poster #14 above proves my point. See the first screenshot? With only a couple of pixels visible of the icons at the bottom of the screen? Well, that's a display bug whether you like it or not. It's supposed to show a row of full icons at the bottom. I guess If you've never tried next on another phone you might not understand.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Bingo Bronson:
I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, read the paragraph Change / Replace Lock Screen. It even has pictures for people who don't like to read. 'Next' works fine if you configure it properly.

small hint:

? ? ? STATUS BAR MODE ? ? ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
Bingo, I read your post, but it doesn't change anything in my phone. For some reason, it doesn't work in my Fire Phone. FP screen lock is always displayed after unblocking NLS.

I've enabled notifications for NLS in System Notifications settings

I've checked Hide checkbox in NLS Settings inside Status bar mode

I've disabled Screen Lock both in NLS and System settings
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Just freeze the stock lock screen like ratbags suggested. It will work after that.

If you are novice user, don't bother trying to fix this steaming pile of ? that Amazon calls an OS. ^^

You can switch to CM11 in the near future, don't forget to donate your life savings to ggow and say thank you.
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
Do yourself a favor and do what Bingo says. Use Kingroot to root the device (if you haven't already) and switch to CM11. It's totally worth it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
Thanks sergio687 and Bingo Bronson :)

For the moment, I won't root my phone as I don't trust Kingroot and I'm afraid that Amazon could block next OTA update if the phone is rooted. I'd prefer not removing AmazonOS so I'll continue suffering with it :cowboy:
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Well, then you might find this interesting:

Play Store link Super-Sume (Ads version)

Play Store link Super-Sume (Pro)

The free version of Super-Sume has been removed, only paid version available.

Btw. IF you EVER decide to safestrap CM11, it will erase all traces of Kingroot / KingUser. Feel better now? ^^

Next update? You mean FireOS 5? Huehuehue. I wouldn't worry about that. You could still completely "unroot" your phone again, if necessary... ;)

Other than that: have fun suffering with your miserable phone. :laugh:
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
And what about Towel Root?

I'm conscious that most probably Fire Phone won't see FireOS 5 :crying:
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
He ded. No chance on FireOS 4.6.1.

You're goddamn right. Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, if they ever release another OS version for Fire Phone...
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
Would releasing FireOS 5 (or 6, or 7) make any difference? There are so many things wrong with FireOS.
[Amazon Fire Phone] sashusmom:
LMAO!!:D
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Oh no. Oh dear. Please don't be true. May I suggest some 'premium mango butter'... :crying:
[Amazon Fire Phone] itsplesiosaur:
LOL, don't worry I'll buy the finest one :laugh: :laugh: ;)
[Amazon Fire Phone] sashusmom:
This is how it was with me too. Which defeats the purpose for me. Followed all the instructions exactly. I would get the Next lockscreen which was great, but I was not able to change that picture ( I had a choice of 3) and then the native lockscreen would display, however, after adding the next lock scream I was able to change the picture for the native fire lockscreen. I don't remember being able to do that before installing Next lock screen. Maybe I just missed that setting before.

So I disabled the Next lockscreen and now I have my own pic on the native lockscreen with notifications working. Only thing I miss is pattern unlock that was on the Next lockscreen. If I could figure out how to change the Next lockscreen to my own pic and get rid of the 2 lockscreens being displayed one after the other, Then it would be perfect.

But I am happy just getting rid of the native pics on the native lockscreen.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
For all the people still using FireOS and tinkering with it, jaywong found out something useful regarding lock screen removal / replacement in general:

"whatever.apk" is ofc. the name of the lock screen of your choice, e. g. "com.microsoft.next-2.4.0-15014-minAPI16.apk" or "com.luckycoin.lockscreen.apk", etc.

updated method and results from munkymack
[Amazon Fire Phone] adamx:
Sorry to ask again, but I still can't figure it out. Is there a way to get rid of the non-PIN lockscreen only? I want the phone to lock after 30 minutes of non-use, but in all other circumstances I want the phone to open as soon as I hit power/home, without any additional swipe screens.

Is this impossible? Do I need to do the above and then a certain configuration on the 3rd party app?

Whenever I try to disable the lockscreen, the phone has a 50% chance of giving me a blank screen when I turn it on, and I have to screen off/on again.

Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Don't think there's a way to do it with stock but if you disable stock and use a replacement, some of them allow you to alter time out settings. I've tried loads and can't remember which though.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adam.nox:
yeah if you could name one or two that would be awesome.

edit. I've now tried a half dozen. None will operate that way. If you set them that way, the amazon lock screen starts showing up.

the more I deal with this, the more ridiculous and infuriating it becomes. When did we decided we needed an extra layer of protection between our fingers and our phones? Is this due to a bunch of fatass butt-dialers lobbying google? Or did everyone who used iOS decide that android had to act just the same. That's what fire phone is like, it's like a sad attempt to copy apple.

Why not 4 or 5 screens you swipe away before you get to your home screen? One can tell you the weather, the next can give you the news, by the time you get to your home screen you can turn your phone off. There are hundreds of lock screen apps that give you app shortcuts. I guess no one told these people there are app short cuts on the HOME SCREEN. JUST GO THERE. Have a pin?? Awesome, put it in once every 10 minutes of inactivity, it is a lot easier than SWIPING EVERY GOD DAMN TIME I TURN ON MY PHONE SCREEN.

I am all for the OPTION of a lockscreen that doesn't even lock anything, but geezus, forcing it on people. I don't even know why.
[Amazon Fire Phone] amf100:
Not sure why it's so problematic for some when it's working perfectly for others. I'll retrace my steps with replacing stock with Next to see if what I did is easily reproduced.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
All credit to you. You've also got all icons displaying correctly at bottom of the screen on next. Other screenshots I've seen here and my own experience depict only a few pixels of each which looks crap.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Right, I've got hi locker installed and its got an option somewhere to increase delay before screen locks. If I increase it from zero/immediately it never locks the screen. Even if I set it to ten seconds or something. Which is probably a fire phone glitch. It's also got a smart lock feature where you can have a secure lock screen that switches off when you're linked to a white listed Wi-Fi connection. I've got fire os lock screen disabled.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adamx:
Did you do the moving apk's around from earlier? I have not tried that yet, but with that setting and a pin setup ONLY from within Hi locker, I get the fire phone unlock screen still.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Yeah, after a while hi locker became problematic, it doesn't completely override lock screen so the home button starts playing up. The only one that works for me is start lock screen but it doesn't allow delayed lock or anything. But at least it doesn't lag like stock lock screen.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adam.nox:
I tried other solutions to this issue. Mostly that I have to do multiple interactions just to get inside my phone. So I thought well how about an app that turns on the screen based on proximity sensor. Unfortunately half the time it doesn't trigger. Sigh.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
I'm using acdisplay at the moment which acts as a lock screen and notification app, and also uses proximity sensor to wake. Actually works more reliably than on my nexus 4!
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
How do you Freeze the stock lock screen with Titanium or other? I don't see the option.

I tried the Rename but after a notification came in, it froze the home button.

Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
I froze using mybackup pro. It should be an option in titanium although might only be in paid version. You do have to replace the stock locker with an alternative. You can't have no locker installed to my knowledge.
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
So, I would like to use Next. I have Titanium and can freeze LockScreen.apk - Do I need to find the Next~.apk - rename it LockScreen.apk and place it in the same folder?

Edit: Tried above but no luck. What can I replace the LockScreen.apk with so my home button keeps working?

I even tried several permission changes to get it to leave me the home button but not the lockscreen....

Thanks again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
I'd heard that changing the name worked but obviously not for you. I've never tried it. I installed 'start lock screen'. This allows you to choose start as your launcher in the options. Since then I installed acdisplay which is now my lock screen and I don't have issues with start button.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
Sorry to bring this one back from the grave...

Did we ever figure out how to get Next Lock Screen to display the icons correctly? I'm only getting the top few pixels showing on the bottom of the screen. It's driving me nuts. I tried setting the status bar to compact and then hide, but it doesn't solve the issue. I'm running 4.6.4 kingrooted.

I also tried AcDisplay with the system lock screen which works, but just hate the janky stock PIN lock. There aren't many good lockscreen alternatives with actual locks. Most of them use the system lock (which I think is the correct way of doing things).

EDIT:

In case anyone wants to know the method I used to change lock screen...

I used a root file explorer (Amaze on F-Droid) to delete LockScreen.apk from system/priv-apps (you should make a backup first). Moved com.microsoft.nextwhatever from data/apps to system/priv-apps and renamed it to LockScreen.apk. THEN I REBOOTED and the new lock screen was working. (I don't think I read anywhere that you have to reboot when you change system apps). Interestingly enough Amaze file manager also has some issues displaying icons on the top toolbar when you select a file. Its not enough to hinder its functions though.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ratbags:
Do you still have the missing pixels on next lock?
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
Yes. I still have the problem with the bottom icons. I just added the edit to let people know that changing lock screens works with that method.

BiG EDIT:

Ok, thanks to Bingo Bronson for giving me this idea. I didn't realize Fire OS had its own setting for the Status Bar under Display. Turning that to ON and setting Next Launcher' status bar setting to "system status bar" fixed the issue for me. Having the system status bar on the lock screen pushed the lock screen stuff down just enough to get rid of those pesky rows at the bottom that were showing a few pixels of the apps. And I still see the home/on the go/work label perfectly. The bottom app menu also looks completely normal when I open it.

This comes at a price though. There is an inconsistent but noticeable lag now when I wake the phone. For a split second I see Amazon's favorite black texture right before I see my lock screen. Sometimes it hangs there longer than other times. On a couple occasions I've also seen the old lock screen appear right before the normal Next lock screen (for just a second and I don't actually have to unlock it). My old wallpaper with the little up arrow that flashes. Mind you, I deleted the original LockScreen.apk. So I don't know how that is happening and I can't reproduce it consistently.

One last undocumented issue with Next Lock Screen is the hardware camera button. Pressing it does indeed open the camera (and long pressing opens FireFly)...but it does NOT unlock the phone or even take you to pattern unlock screen. When I press the button from sleep, the phone wakes and I see "Launching Camera...." briefly on that [sarcasm]wonderful[/sarcasm] black textured background. And then my normal lockscreen. When I manually unlock the phone the camera or FireFly will be there running and ready. Minor issue.

I can live with this now.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
This is great, except I can't find LockScreek.apk.

I'm running 4.6.3, and using ES File Explorer (with root privileges), I navigate to /system/priv-apps/. If I run a search for "lock", I get com.amazon.lock.scenes.apk, and then slot1 through slot10 apks. Is lock.scenes.apk the one I want to replace?
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
I think caps matter. You're looking for LockScreen.apk. You should be able to just scroll down to "L" and look for it. It's not named com.amazon.whatever.apk...just LockScreen.apk.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Weird. On mine, LockScreen.apk is in /system/app/. Should I assume that is the same one? Or is that the kind of assumption that will blow my **** up?
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
That is NOT the same one. I screwed up my lock screen messing with that one. I had to adb sideload 4.6.3 to fix my mess. I don't know any more. When I was on 4.6.4 I had a LockScreen.apk in BOTH /system/app and /system/priv-app. Trying to fix my mess, I noticed the bin of 4.6.3 did NOT have one in /system/priv-app. I didn't think much of it then and sideloaded that anyways. Now I just checked my phone (4.6.3) and indeed, there is no LockScreen.apk in /system/priv-app. But there is one in /system/app.

EDIT:

I just checked the 4.6.4 bin and it, also, does not have a LockScreen.apk in /system/priv-app; only in /system/app. I must've not been paying very much attention when I was switching apks around.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Good to know. Wouldn't want to have to go through all that again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
Read my edit above. I don't know anymore.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Hmm...Okay. Well, maybe I'll dive in and mess with that one later, when I've got my personal computer close at hand and a few hours to kill.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Ok, I can definitely confirm that the LockScreen.apk in /system/apps/ is not the one you want to mess around with. I replaced it, rebooted into the minimal recovery, wiped the cache, and then when I restarted the phone, the home button no longer worked. For some reason, my custom keyboard went away as well. Thankfully I'd backed up the original APK and could get into the file explorer. So I moved it back, and everything seems to be back to normal. I'll keep trying.

Anybody else have ideas for 4.6.3?
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
Nothing ever worked for me. Those problems your describing have all been covered. The lockscreen is built in to FireOS and you need it for the phone to function correctly. Go to SlimKat or CM11 for a lockscreen customization.

I just went back to FireOS from there for the camera. There are pros and cons to each. I'll deal with the lockscreen Amz provided just to keep the camera... After installing the latest Tesla Launcer & Tesla Notifications, It's pretty Androidy other than the lockscreen and no Android Pay...
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Aw s#it, and I didn't pay much attention when I was copy pasting that quote. :( *furiously edits post*

I'm tempted to go back to Fire OS and take a look at it again, I guess I will do so tomorrow when the battery needs charging. Don't expect an answer right away, I may be offline / unavailable on Thursday and most of Friday...
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
I have only recently started digging into your list, but a statement like this both makes me laugh, and makes me want to break things (on my phone, I mean).

Since that thread isn't live anymore...are there any particular things that you disabled that you think directly link to battery consumption?
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Custom Lock Screen Working!

[MENTION=3170083]DePingus[/MENTION], I hope you don't mind if I quote our message exchange.

DePingus and I exchanged messages this morning (edited for brevity):

My response was:

I wasn't serious. But it's slow at the office, so I tried it anyway.

It actually works.

Here's what I did/used. Can't guarantee it will work for everyone else, or with other lockscreens, but it's worth a shot. I'm running ACDisplay on 4.6.3 w/ xposed, rooted, GApps & Play Services, etc. Nothing Amazon Lock Screen related frozen/disabled/deleted.

1. Installed ACDisplay (sideloaded an APK, then installed it. Don't know if it will work through the Play Store or not)

2. Opened ES File Explorer, made sure Root Explorer was turned on

3. found the installed apk (com.achep.acdisplay-1.apk) in /data/app

4. renamed it LockScreen.apk and moved it to /system/priv-app/

5. Opened up AC Display, granted it access to Accessibility Settings and Notifications

6. In ACDisplay>Settings>Lockscreen I moved the slider to On and made sure that "Enable when no notifications" was ticked

7. Opened Xposed and activated the ACDisplay module.

8. Rebooted

After the restart, the Amazon Lock Screen popped up once, and then after that, only ACDisplay has popped up. No unlocking ACDisplay and then having to swipe the Amazon Lock screen. No carbon fiber background where I have to turn off the screen and then turn it back on again to get my lockscreen (which I did have to do when I disabled some of the Lock Screen stuff that [MENTION=6709669]Bingo Bronson[/MENTION] suggests in his massive, awesome post). It just works. After further reboots, I don't even get the Amazon Lock screen the first time.
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
I think this actually worked!

I still get the screen coming on and then closing out really quick when waking with the home button. Power button wakes the phone normal. Did anyone find the cause of this? It's kind of like the proximity detector engaging but it doesn't happen on cm11 or slimkat...
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
I'm not getting the screen on / close out with the home button press. Every once in a while I'll get the carbon fiber background for half a second before it switches over to AC Display.

Which lockscreen did you try it with?
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
Acdisplay
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
with or without Xposed? (I want to keep my tutorial updated, so the more information I have about this stuff, the more I can add on to it)
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
xposed module is on. I also just renamed the stock lockscreen.apk and it seems same. Have to hit home button 5-6 Times to get the screen to stay on. Never see the stock lock however, which is good.

Are you using a different launcher than stock?
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
I don't seem to have the same problem with the home button, it functions exactly as it's supposed to. Probably a knock-on effect from some random thing I froze in titanium
[Amazon Fire Phone] DePingus:
I was getting this issue with Next Lock Screen. It would hang at the carbon wallpaper or sometimes even my old wallpaper before the lockscreen appeared. I posted my findings earlier in the thread. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62788448&postcount=49

Question for you guys using ACDisplay...what are you doing about securing your phone? IIRC, when I tested ACDisplay as /system/priv-app/LockScreen.apk I never got a lock mechanism. ACDisplay would be my lockscreen, but a swipe would open the phone. I couldn't secure it with a PIN or Pattern. Which is why I ended up with Next. Next baked their own lock mechanism into the app. I think ACDisplay (on a normal Android system) relies on the system lock mechanism.
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
You can actually still use the stock lock pin. Swipe open acdisplay and the unlock with pin.
[Amazon Fire Phone] distearth:
It was my screen protector! I thought all the holes were in the right place then I went and looked at a tear down. Took off the screen protector and all is well. Your tut is perfect.

AcDisplay is my one and only lock screen and works great.

Thanks again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
Awesome, that's good to hear. Has anyone had success with different lockscreens?
[Amazon Fire Phone] munkymack:
I use Themer (MyColorScreen). It's a little heavy, but I really like it
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el56:
Hi,

Currently on build LRX21P. (5.0 for the 2012 Nexus 7 wifi)

I recently received a notification that an OTA update to 5.0.2 was available.

When I tried to install it, the tablet would reboot into TWRP and stay there.

It looks like the update installed a file /cache/a6645eee89af34f58db74f6a1ad93fe400fcfc7b.signed-nakasi-LRX22G-from-LRX21P.a6645eee.zip but TWRP can't install it. I have attached the logfile from TWRP.

Any suggestions? I would much rather do an upgrade than wipe in order to install the 5.0.2 image.

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbaumert:
Download the factory image from Google's website. Extract the system.img file from the zip. Use fastboot to flash: "fastboot flash system system.img". It worked fine for me.