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[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pj311:
I have spent about 3 weeks with my Fire TV now and have scoured the internet for a solution but have had no luck thus far. Out of all my research thought this forum seem to have the most relevant answers, thus why I am posting here and hopefully somebody will be able to assist before I get rid of it.

First I can stream movies and television shows on Netflix and XBMC with no problems, running Kodi 14.1.

When I try and stream a movie or television show from my Windows server I get a very annoying stutter/jitter when both wired and wireless.

This happens with 720p or 1080p. I do not get any dropped or skipped frames while running codecinfo.

I have changed the video acceleration and playback settings numerous times with no luck. ie. hardware, software video acceleration, libstagefright, mediacodec etc. messed with audio and several other things that I found suggested on the internet.

Now prior to this I ran everything wireless over a WDTV with no issues at all, video nive and smooth. Should I just give up on the Fire TV and go back to the WDTV?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sizzlechest:
I had similar issues. Did you try SPMC instead of Kodi? Also, you might want to try using a advancedsetings.xml file to correctly set the caching and read-ahead.

EDIT: Here's mine for Kodi 14.1:

<!-- tuxen -->
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<curlclienttimeout>45</curlclienttimeout>
<cachemembuffersize>104857600</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>10</readbufferfactor>
</network>
<gui>
<algorithmdirtyregions>3</algorithmdirtyregions>
<nofliptimeout>0</nofliptimeout>
</gui>
<videoscanner>
<ignoreerrors>true</ignoreerrors>
</videoscanner>
</advancedsettings>
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCFish:
How are the videos shared from your Windows server? What protocol are you using?

Have you tried a different protocol? I use SMB from my Win7 machine to FireTV and it's always worked well.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm41907:
I had some issues with stuttering as well. I changed my router and the new one did not support Samba, so I switched to NFS and things got better. I still occasionally get a buffering break now, but I can't be sure if it was the new router or NFS. Everything I've read is that NFS is much faster than Samba.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pj311:
Thank you all for your answers.

Sizzlechest; as for the advancedsetings.xml I did set that with other setting I found on the internet, I will give yours a try. Can someone tell me if I can edit my existing advancedsettings.xml and if so how? or do I just create a new one and push it to my Fire TV

As for what protocol I'm using on my windows server I'm not sure. I am accessing it via samba share on my fire tv, I couldn't seem to find the server using NFS, but will try it again.

It's a Windows Homer Server with Power Pack 3 2009

on an Acer Aspire Easystore.

I've read that SPMC is better on the Fire TV then KODI and have planned to try it, I just need to find some install instructions for it on the Fire TV, I have some computer background but am fairly new to the XBMC scene.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sizzlechest:
There won't be an advancedsettings.xml file on a regular install. It has to be added.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pj311:
Ok here is another strange one.

I brought the fire tv to my basement and hooked it up to me Epson Power Lite Home Cinema. I do not have a wired connection here so I had to run it wireless. Well it played everything perfectly!

What I was playing on before was a Sony KDL EX-500, could my TV be the problem?

This makes no sense to me, it's it something to do with the refresh rate of the tv, or a possible setting in the tv?

Ok I solved the problem .....My Sony TV has a feature called Cinemotion. I had played with the Motionflow both on and off and that didn't help the problem. Turns out Cinemotion was on and this is what was causing the stutter with XBMC. It had nothing to do with Fire TV and XBMC like I had thought and spent the last week blaming....thanks again for your help.

Cheers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
Just picked up my N6 today and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get The Weather Channel widget to show up in the Google Now Launcher. I downloaded Nova Launcher and when I load widgets there, The Weather Channel widgets all show up. When I go back to the Google Now Launcher, press and hold in a blank space, and go to widgets, they just won't show up (TWC widgets, other widgets show up fine). I really love this weather widget AND the google launcher. I don't want to go back to nova if I don't have to. Any ideas??
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper34:
Are the Widgets first in line? Its been awhile since I used GEM, but I know there is a weather app that the Widgets show first in the list rather than where they should fall in place.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
I looked on all of the widget pages, it only has the google news & weather widgets.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper34:
View attachment 3219506

View attachment 3219508

Shows on the first page of mine. And the second......

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
That's so strange, mine does not show up there. J/W what build are you on? Would that make a difference? I literally cannot think of anything else. I'm on LMY47E. All I've done is bring it home, unlock the boot loader, and root it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper34:
Rastarom 5.1.

Don't think builds would matter. Its still LP. Try uninstalling and reinstalling it.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshm.1219:
Did you try restarting?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
Uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted phone, force stopped the Google Now Launcher. Still nothing. I work for Verizon tech support, I should know how to fix this but everything I try just comes up with nothing. I'm completely baffled.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper34:
You better remove that comment before you get bombarded with questions!!!

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
/Facepalm lets hope no one looks at this thread, it really is a pretty boring issue lmao.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eetabeetay:
LOL, idk what happened, I did a 2nd restart and it's there. Anyway thank you both for your help. :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshm.1219:
It's been happening to me occasionally on Nova and Action Launcher since 5.1 came out. Download an app and the associated widgets don't show up without a reboot. I don't use GEL without Xposed so I wasn't sure if that would work or not. Glad it started working for you though.

By the way, what's the word on that S6 Developer Edition for Verizon? :silly: haha jk
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bigben85:
This is furstrating...I have a Tytn and I can't figure out how you quit games (most don't have access to game menu once you start playing). normally it wounldn't be a problem but there are lots of games that I own that don't have a game over screen (like majong, gameplay keeps going for a long time). I can't figure out how you quit/force quit.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Applestar:
Please!

Do you read the URL? XDA-DEVELOPERS

Its not "Games-on-PPC-I-want-to-play.com"
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bigben85:
don't you think this is related? I mean my friend was able to quite a game by pressing some button accidentally but we couldn't reproduce it...this is about the tytn hardware design (buttons), not about actual games, get it??
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] MrWee:
You post is far to vague for anyone to give you an answer.

All the games I have installed (that are full screen) DO have access to an in-game menu with a quit option. Sounds like you either aren't looking hard enough, or have some very poorly coded games.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] scottmog:
this is what i do for most games...

1. windows button

2. select today screen

3. windows button

4. select settings

5. select system tab

6. select memory

7. select running programs tab

8. select the game you want to close

9. click stop
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] aCe_aLe:
1 step : sell htc tytn

2 step : buy nokia 1100

3 step : buy playstation 2

4 step : realize that u are 2 lazy to own a tytn
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
I've been a lurker of this forum for years. I just joined and I've always done my research before posting anything. But I'm at a loss right now and I do not know what to do.

I have a Kindle Fire HDX 7" (Thor), yesterday I was trying to flash an Android ROM on it. I got up to the point where I was in TWRP, and I accidentally factory reset the Kindle thru TWRP. When the Kindle rebooted, it showed a screen that said something like...

"Kindle Fire System Recovery; Your Kindle doesn't seem to be able to boot. Resetting your device to Factory defaults may help you to fix this issue."

The choices it gave me were, "Reboot your Kindle" and "Reset to Factory Defaults"

I rebooted my Kindle as a first choice, and it booted back to the same screen. So then I reset to factory defaults. Nothing worked and it kept bringing me back to that screen. I'm guessing there is no bootloader or anything on the Kindle.

I left the Kindle on for hours as I was trying to find my fastboot cable knowing that I would probably need it to fix this problem. I then turned off the Kindle hours later (press and hold until screen shut off). I did have a full battery prior to trying to put an Android ROM on the Kindle.

This morning I found my fastboot cable, but when I pressed the power button on the Kindle, it will not turn on. No response from it at all. Did I drain the battery?

When I plug my Kindle to my computer using the fastboot cable, it was showing me "QHSUSB_BULK" in the USB device list. I tried ADB, but it says "error: device not found".

When I plug my Kindle to charge, it doesn't show the low battery/charging indicator like it used to.

What should I do next? Is my Kindle permanently bricked?

I need mad help right now!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MinerBoy004:
Try to boot into twrp, but you may bricked your device permanently because you did a factory reset with the default kindle recovery
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
Okay, one question, how would I boot into TWRP? I ask only because the Kindle is not starting up, and when I plug the fastboot cable, the computer is not recognizing it.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jeryll:
By TWRP you mean safestrap recovery? If you flashed through safestrap other ROM than Nexus for Safestrap 1.0.1 (which one BTW? Did you flash by accident ROM for Hdx 8.9?) that could be the first reason for bricking your kindle... Safestrap is not TWRP, is only TWRP based and works differently than TWRP 2.8.5.0, also safestrap is located on system partition, but TWRP 2.8.5.0 when installed is flashed to recovery partition...

Doing factory reset through safestrap should be relatively safe unless you mess with advanced wipe and delete/wipe system partition - this effectively erase content of /system including safestrap recovery, this could be the second reason for bricking your kindle.

If you had installed real cuber signed TWRP 2.8.x.x, then the only thing I can think of is that you tried to flash one of amazon update bins with TWRP, these bins when installed replace content of the recovery partition with Amazon FireOS recovery, successfully deleting real TWRP in the process, but this should end with booting to FireOS...
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] EncryptedCurse:
Just hold the volume up button (+) when it's booting.

However, I'm not really sure of your situation, because TWRP should've replaced the stock recovery.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
I finally got it to turn on somehow. And this is the screen that it's giving me (see attachment). I tried both of the options given and it'll bring me back to the same screen.

Also, before I was able to power on the Kindle, it'll say QHSUSB BULK in the connected usb devices when I use my fast-food cable on it. But when I have the Kindle powered on it says Unknown Device.

If I can get the Kindle to respond to adb I can probably work from there. But my computer is not recognizing it.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dpeddi:
What version of fireos you had? maybe is possible to unlock bootloader.. but you should know mmc manfid and serial. We don't know yet how to get emmc serial from bootloader only.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
I had to rollback as I was following the guide on the post in the developmental forum on here. Will the manufacturer id be on the box? I still have the original box for the Kindle.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dpeddi:
Actually you can get it from adb without root
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
My Kindle is not communicating with adb. I've been trying all week and doing a lot of researching. I either get an "Unknown Device" or "QHSUSB BULK" in the connected usb list.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dpeddi:
Dies it go in fastboot mode with vol+ vol- power?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Silverclaw280:
How did you get to that screen? do you remember what you pressed?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
Nope.

I held the power button for maybe a good 30 seconds and it powered on and took me to that screen. I'd usually have to keep trying to get the Kindle to power on, and when I do, that screen is all it'll do.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] dpeddi:
Turn kindle off.. then press and keep pressed vol+ and vol- and keep them pressed. Turn on kindle while pressing both volume. You should enter into fastboot. If we found a relation between emmc serial and kindle serial number you should be able to fix it. (I think your boot.img is corrupted)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Junava:
I was able to get back to that screen by following the steps in this quoted post.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] modi:
My Kindle gets the same status. It was safestraped, locked on 3.2.8. Tried to update it with OTA to 4.1.1, it downloaded firmware, checked and rebooted, after that device won't boot up and on connect to pc detects as QHSUSB_BULK. The only way i found is to ask replacement at support
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DB126:
(reposting as a warning to those who may stumble across this thread)

This seems to be the recent fate for many who have rolled back to 3.2.8 and not blocked OTA using HDX Toolkit or an equivalent blocker (renaming otacerts is not reliable). It appears Amazon attempts to push an update that ultimately corrupts the boot partition. Not much you can do to fix it with current techniques/exploits.

If the device is still under warranty Amazon will likely replace it. Just say it died during an update.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doom1337:
I am looking to root my device. The details are in the title. I am looking for someone experienced to guide me on how to go about this.. i don't know anything. Is anyone able to help? I don't want to download the wrong thing.

Edit; it may be a 8.0, I'm actually not sure.
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nannaniel:
http://nasirtech.blogspot.ca/2014/08/root-t310xxubnh1-android-442-stock.html
[Nexus 6  General] opssemnik:
First of all:Remember:im just making a thread, all of this wasn´t possible if not for [MENTION=6519641]ccfries[/MENTION](He works at motorola, and sent the files to shamu´s device tree repo)

and [MENTION=4337504]Casper34[/MENTION]

See: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59562745&postcount=9 and https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/143010/

Requirements:

Motorola Drivers:

http://storage.googleapis.com/tetheredupgrades/MotorolaDeviceManager_2.5.4.exe

Qualcomm Drivers:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=631288&d=1308601930

Optional: If having issues use:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2263822

Unbrick Stuff:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8783ohne2mufiwc/Nexus6Unbrick.rar?dl=0

or

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwduAK2l37Oaa1BQZncwaEpNb1E/view?usp=sharing

Factory Images for Nexus 6(needs to be 5.1)

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/shamu-lmy47d-factory-6c44d402.tgz

or via RSD Lite

http://motofirmware.center/files/file/1069-shamu-lmy47e-release-keys-subsidy-default-cfcxmlzip/

FASTBOOT AND ADB NEEDS TO BE ALREADY SETTED UP

Pre Requirements:

- Disable driver signature checking

Windows 7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RwaI4mn6Y

Windows 8:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorial...abling-signed-driver-enforcement-on-windows-8

Windows 8.1:

http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how...8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/

- Install the drivers:

Go to device manager, Unknown devices, double click qhusb_bulk, install driver, select location and select where you extracted the drivers.

- Next you should extract both zip files (Unbrick and factory images)

- Then Connect your nexus 6 on your computer (now should appear as Qualcomm HS-USB QD-Loader 9008 under "COM PORTS"):

- Open the Unbrick folder and run blank-flash.bat:

- Flash Stock factory images: (Problems see #2)

Your phone should show up on the computer as fastboot.Just flash stock factory images. (Motorola via "RSD Lite" or Google one should do the trick).

Thanks:

[MENTION=6519641]ccfries[/MENTION](HUGE Thanks to him, turns out he is the one who made the commit with the necessary files, props to him!)

[MENTION=4337504]Casper34[/MENTION] (Huge help with his working nexus 6)

[MENTION=4325732]bitdomo[/MENTION] (helped me a lot, and i got some images from another thread of his)
[Nexus 6  General] opssemnik:
Problems that may occur during or after:

Stuck at waiting for device

Check if drivers are installed correctly and restart pc

Check if you have an updated fastboot

THESE TWO ARE THE MAIN REASON OF PROBLEMS (mostly outdated fastboot)

-Drivers

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2263822

http://storage.googleapis.com/tetheredupgrades/MotorolaDeviceManager_2.5.4.exe

Fastboot:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317790

Problems while flashing factory images:

PS:

Wifi / Bluetooh dosen´t work:

See http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59561966&postcount=3

No IMEI / No Signal

Restore EFS Backup
[Nexus 6  General] opssemnik:
If wifi/bt/camera dosen´t work Then probably your /persist got somehow corrupted. (Post Under construction)

For a fix:

Flash a custom recovery, and open a terminal with the phone booted to it

run

umount /persist

mkdir /persist

mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist

#e2fsck /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist

you will be propmpted to check / repair errors, keep pressing enter for each that it appears

then run

umount /perist

and reboot phone
[Nexus 6  General] jayharper08:
Wow! Very nice. I bet you just saved some poor guys from getting yelled at from wifey. Good job and thanks for helping the community. :highfive:
[Nexus 6  General] simms22:
wow indeed!
[Nexus 6  General] opssemnik:
Thanks to both, thankfully cm already merged a check for the bootloader, but i hope this can fix phones that are already bricked for people who cant use warranty (outside area, on a trip, etc).

Oh yeah, or in the case of my friend, his mom :P
[Nexus 6  General] akellar:
This needs stickied
[Nexus 6  General] Casper34:
[MENTION=5303660]opssemnik[/MENTION]

No worries, glad to help out!

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] ccfries:
I authored the commit this afternoon so finding it was pretty easy. :good:
[Nexus 6  General] opssemnik:
Oh no wait, I DIDN´T SEE THE AUTHOR LOL.

may i ask was it hard for you to get the permission to post? afaik these files are proprietary (aside from the paritition table) or aren´t they?.

also can i ask you something a bit more offtopic?

i noticied the nexus 6 works directly with QPST (at least it can communicate with it)

but some other devices (like the nexus 5) can´t, its something that qualcomm or the manufacturer decide / make?

Once again ,props to you and motorola!

Never thought of an oem doing that, even more that the bricks can only be achieved when messing with things you shouldnt be :P:good::good::good:
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
Erm, don't mind me asking one question.

How do you back up your efs if your phone is bricked?
[Nexus 6  General] serdaj:
So I thought I would rid myself of no Xposed or CM12 on 5.1 (LMY47D) by going back to 5.0.1 and flashing CM12 again from an older nightly I had downloaded already....I think we all know what happened.

I managed to get through it all and have the blank-flash boot loader screen up but I get hung up on <waiting for device> when trying to flash factory image (LMY45D). The boot loader shows as locked and as a result I am unable to flash a factory image. Hopefully I am not breaking any rules or anything by posting this here but this is the error I am getting when running the flash-all.sh:

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'bootloader' (3807 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.131s]

writing 'bootloader'...

(bootloader) Motoboot: Unknown partition name

(bootloader) Preflash validation failed

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 0.181s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'radio' (85422 KB)...

OKAY [ 2.769s]

writing 'radio'...

(bootloader) Motoboot: Unknown partition name

(bootloader) Preflash validation failed

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 2.772s

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.001s

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

archive does not contain 'boot.sig'

archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'

fastboot(665,0xa03911d4) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=1779851264) failed (error code=3)

*** error: can't allocate region

*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

failed to allocate 1778070480 bytes

error: update package missing system.img​

and when I try to run em unlock:

fastboot oem unlock

...

(bootloader) Check 'Allow OEM Unlock' in Developer Options.

FAILED (remote failure)

finished. total time: 0.002s​
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
Looks good. Does this only help the CM12 people or does it override the "enable OEM Unlock" people too?
[Nexus 6  General] ccfries:
First, fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

Then, fastboot reboot-bootloader

Then flash the other images.

If you just bricked by downgrading bootloader, the persist and modem calibration should still be happily where it was when you started.

This won't help you if you're stuck with Allow OEM Unlock. Be careful locking on 5.1. There's accurate information elsewhere in the forum on that.

-Chris
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Damn, wish this was on here last week. Had to send my N6 off to repair centre for this as I thought it was a gonner. Fault diagnosed as 'Electrical issue - Replacement required'. Replacement is coming tomorrow hopefully. Will bookmark this, thanks.
[Nexus 6  General] Casper34:
That was when he started this.... After many bricks. I know a lot of people RMAed their phones, but this can still help others!
[Nexus 6  General] cam30era:
It would be helpful if the OP would add this to his first post.
[Nexus 6  General] EslamA7med:
[MENTION=5303660]opssemnik[/MENTION] Great Job can you please help me to do so with my HTC One M8 ?

i had the same problem " qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 "

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] xtcdk:
Restore he wrote

Shamu/Hammerhead/Flounder Dkwhq www.jsand.dk