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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Makenshi2k:
Hello sphinx02,

thank you for your great launcher! It really works great for people who sideload a lot of apps.

Unfortunally I have encountered two bugs when setting a new sleep time for my fire tv.

Firestarter doesn't save the time correctly after a cold restart. (Plug out the power cord) It gets resetted to 0.

Changing the timeout value doesn't reflect on the view immediatly. You have to change to a different menu and then return, before the changed value is displayed.

Besides that there is nothing to complain about. Please keep up the good work!

Regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Brds7t7:
Also having this issue on the fire stick. Keeps resetting to 0. Have to keep reverting it back but it doesn't stick.

Any way to fix the sleep timeout without doing a factory reset?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Hi,

as I for myself do not have another remote for the FireTV (and I am happy with the original one), I will not implement any support for alternate remotes, sorry.. I also think most of the FireTV users will not buy a second/alternate remote, so this is a very special request.

Thank you :) yes for now, only images stored on the FireTV are supported.. I guess there exist Apps which can copy images from amazon cloud to the sdcard.

Hmm, first of all I use the App on my FireTV-Box and FireTV-Stick and both are plugged out every night when I dont use them.. But I never faced this issue, so it's not a general problem (which makes it hard to reproduce and fix..). It sounds as there is a bug in combination with the go-to-sleep function of the App, have you ever used the go-to-sleep function and there went something wrong while using it?

The timout-value does indeed not change immediately (only on view-resume). But if you are only using the App to manipulate this value, this is not a problem as the value can not change itself.. So when exactly this is a problem? If you open the system-tab, the value is updated and if you set the value with the App, the value is also updated.. When exactly can the value change while the App is the front-app?

If more people are facing this issue, I tend to remove the functionality completely in new releases. I guess there are not many people using this feature and it produces too much bad publicity..

EDIT: While thinking about it, I guess I know whats going wrong.. Could it be that you bring the FireTV to sleep by using the go-to-sleep functionality in the the App System-Tab and then plug out the cable some time (without wake up the FireTV in between)? Because this would explain the issue you are facing! Yes indeed this is a problematic behaviour, have to think about that.. If this is your problem, set the sleep-timeout to the value of your choice (amazon default is 30min) and DO NOT use my go-to-sleep functionality anymore (instead you can bring the FireTV to sleep by long-press home-button and use the orignal go-to-sleep functionality of amazon).
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
v2.7.2

Again a smaller update which removes the problematic go-to-sleep functionality and adds two small features ;)

v2.7.2

Show device uptime and boot time in system tab

Back button returns to main app view if on another tab

Removed Go-To-Sleep functionality, as it is anyway possible via long-press home-button. The existing implementation was not reliable enough and made some problems under specific circumstances.

Hit THANKS button if you like it! :)

Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] lowbee:
Thanks for listening, new features with update works great.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Se23:
Working great on fireTV stick non root. Thank you so much for this.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] xTyD23x:
The Best

Awesome work. I just found this app a couple weeks ago (I was previously using FiredTV). This is a much better and more reliable solution. Funny thing is, you fixed a couple things in this latest update that I was hoping would get fixed in future releases (mainly the back button taking you back to the app section). I have one more suggestion for you though: Make the "apps" section the main home screen without any menu items docked to the screen. I realize that having a pop out menu on the side would require some extra programming, but that may not even be necessary. You could probably combine all of it into another icon that fits in with the apps and have the other 3 menu items within this section. Just a thought :). Honestly not trying to criticize your work, but hoping to offer useful feedback and suggestions.

Honestly, this feels unbelievably smooth and well done. The Home button stuff has always been an annoyance for me and this has worked FLAWLESSLY. Thanks for your hard work!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
Maybe a popout menu toggled with the Back button? :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mlvn:
Thank you first and foremost for your work!

I was wondering if it were possible to add the ability to manually set the date and time.

Currently, the Fire TV lets you pick a time zone and adjusts the time pulled from the internet.

I would like to use the Fire TV offline and being able to manually set the date and time would solve the incorrect date and time issue (Jan 1, 1970).

Either way, thanks again!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
There's a settings.apk you can download, this gives access to the Android date-and-time page, but if you change the settings they just get switched straight back again so I don't think FireStarter would be able to change it either.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Hi, thank you for the feedback :) perhaps I will add some possiblity to hide or pop out/in the sidebar menu in future with an option in the settings. But it has not the highest prio for me..

Setting the time could be possible via adb, I will check this. But I think it is really annoying because the FireTV forgets the date and time everytime you plug it out and I am sure with the FireTV remote you need some time to enter the correct date..

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Minkiu:
It's as well working great for me on the Fire Stick TV.

Thank you very much.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] abced123:
Can we have option to disable " sleep Timeout " on next update, I prefer to have screensaver on .
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] taylormadearmy:
Super app!

I'd like to use this to setup my Logitech Harmony remote to be able to automatically start certain apps when changing activities.

Its almost there - Right now I can use it to start 2 apps easily - one for single click home key and one for double click.

However I could do with some more :)

Any chance of either adding more shortcuts for triple, quadruple clicks etc or always returning the highlighted icon to the same app after any other app is started from the app screen - this would allow me to set up macros using arrows etc to start new activities.

(Hope this makes some sense - if not shout and I'll try to explain when I'm not quite so sleep deprived!)

Many thanks for your consideration and great app:)

T
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] drewlover:
So bootup app seems to work, i set it to spmc...

But it does take a while to start, and then home/dbl home clicks don't work at all... I have to ADB in to kill start the activity manually.

FireTV Stick, up to date as of this post.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rgrever2:
Need to set FireStarter as boot up app to monitor the home button
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] drewlover:
Sorry, I missed detailing that I did do that. Even uninstalled/reinstalled to no avail.

It does work occassionally, but more often not.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jonashrem:
thank you very much for this app.

Exactly what I needed. Even more since Amazon banned kodi from my start screen.

One suggestion if I may:

Could you add an option to change text colour as white font is hard to read on some wallpapers?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
I have to check if that is possible :)

I will add an option to let the App always start like it is started initally (with first icon-highlighted or first left-bar-item highlighted depending on the "select-first-icon"-setting).

It is normal, that it takes a while till the boot-app is started, that is because amazon throws the boot-completed event relatively late. There is no alternative without root, so we have to accept this delay.. The click-detection should work anyway no matter which app is set as startup-app, do you disable adb sometimes?

That is not correct. Home-Button monitoring should work no matter which app is set as boot app!

I put that on my ToDo..

Best regards :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Please confirm this is compatible with the 5 preview that's been released OTA as of now:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/general/android-5-onboard-t3181226
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rgrever2:
That must of been a glitch on my side or something with an old version. I just tested again with current version and monitoring works perfectly when loading Amazon home during initial start up. Thanks for correcting me :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] stealthdave:
I just installed this on our stick, and it's perfect for our needs! We like the media-centric interface of the default launcher, but we still need an easy way to launch side-loaded apps. It was easy to set this up so that the Fire TV interface comes up by default, but all of our side loaded apps are just a double-click away.

Thank you!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Edit: Firestarter is broken!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Hello everybody,

thank you for checking out the Fire OS 5 developer preview and giving me feedback. Yesterday I also installed the developer preview on my Fire TV Stick and I can confirm on a first run, the App failed to start the home-button observer mechanism.

Some facts I noticed on my FireTV Stick with Fire OS 5 developer preview:

Initially the App fails to start the home-button observer mechanism (error message: logcat can not be cleared...)

Disabling ADB for a short moment and then re-enabling it let the App launch the observer mechanisms correctly -> the App can work on Fire OS 5!

ADB connections in general are some kind of buggy on the FireTV Stick with Fire OS 5 -> It is and will remain a DEVELOPER PREVIEW

I think there is some time left till the official release is rolled out -> There is no reason for this early panic..

Untill now I had no time to look into deeper details of the problems on Fire OS 5. So give me some time, I will start to work on it this weekend ;)

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Three cheers!

Good luck this weekend. I know I , for one, will be F5ing this page!

Edit: temporarily disabling ADB does indeed restore (kind of) home button detection but it's messy. It can launch Kodi, for example, but it flashes several time before becoming stable. Not recommended quite yet.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Minkiu:
I know it's kind off topic, but I couldn't find any review or similar, but how is the Fire OS 5 gonna make the fire better? Any major changes apart from being based on Android 5.1?

I will wait for the stable release though.

Thanks in advance.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] binary01:
Can you please add a feature to be able to change an apps icon and its title?

For example I would like to rename FireTV Settings to just Settings so it fits on the screen and I would like to change its icon to something nicer.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Hello,

here some results of my deeper analysis of the Fire OS 5 developer preview:

After a reboot no (TCP based) ADB connections are possible at all, neither for the App nor for any PC from outside. One have to move to the dev settings and disable + re-enable to connect via ADB.

Only one (TCP based) ADB connection in parallel is possible. Every further connection shows only an "offline" device in ADB. That means if the background-observer of the App is active (and connected), you can not connect from the PC and the way round (to be more correct, connection is possible but for the second connector, the device is shown offline).

For the one that connects first, ADB seems to work completely as expected. Also the App works completely as expected.

I hope and I am quite sure, that in the final Fire OS 5 version this buggy ADB behaviour will be fixed so I wont investigate further in this problematic. For everyone who is using the dev preview, I suggest to disable and reenable ADB after a reboot and further deactivate the background-observation in the the App settings if you want to connect from your PC.

Put it on my ToDo (which is meanwhile quite big), perhaps I can add it in any future release.

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
You're right: it kind of works at a pinch if you disable/enable ADB debugging. It will load Kodi with the Home button if you can put up with it flashing half a dozen times. It's completely buggy, really.

Speaking of which, do you think it's worthwhile lodging a bug report re the ADB?

I would be rolling it back except it means I probably won't get any dev preview updates - if there are any...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Some of the flashes are caused by the jumpback-watchdog (which you can disable in the settings). I worked already on a new release of the App where some of them are fixed (nothing FireOS 5 specific). I can not confirm that it works "completely buggy", on my FireTV Stick everything works as expected and as it have behaved on the older FireOS. I already sent a bug-report for the buggy ADB behaviour to Amazon, dont know if Amazon reacts on it.. In case of an answer I will inform the community.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] pashtun:
I've just installed this on my Fire TV stick and it is such an improvement! Thanks, sphinx02 for this essential application.

Is there any way to have the apps automatically sorted alphabetically? I couldn't find an option in the settings menus for that. I realize that manual sorting of the apps is possible, but automatic alphabetical sorting would be fantastic.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Yes, that worked. Thanks.

In fact, it's all working as it should - until you reboot, and then you have to go into settings and disable then re-enable ADB debugging.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] dk00:
just want to say thanks for making firestarter!

i use it daily!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jim16127:
Is this preferred over FiredTV? I noticed this gets updates more often than FiredTV does! Maybe it's time I switched?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fsi09:
It's time to switch bro ;)

I used FiredTV first but then I decided to move to FireStarter some months ago and I never regret it :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jim16127:
Is there anything that FiredTV can do that FireStarter can't? ANYTHING at all? I'm just curious?

I already use FireStarter on all the non-root devices that I've set up for people. I just figured root should use a root required solution.

Thanks for the reply! I'm sideloading the FireStarter apk now!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Calum 2:
I came here looking to see if there was an option in firestarter to disable the sleep timer. I know I can do it with llama, so it's possible. But I'd like to not have another app running in the back ground.

Thanks for the awesome app!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] petermg:
This app is amazing! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I love it. One question, is the only way to view Prime videos by going to the Fire TV Home app to launch the original home screen? So far I've not found any other way. If that's the only way that's fine I just thought I'd check. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):D
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Calum 2:
What other way are you looking for? Are you asking for a different UI, or a different way to launch the fire TV home page?

You could set the fire TV home page to either launch from a single or double click of the home button.

For a different UI, you could download the amazon prime video app to an android phone, then send a copy of it from your phone to the fire tv using es file Explorer. You'll need es file Explorer on both the phone and fire TV

*I'm not sure if that will work, amazon keeps most things pretty locked down, but it would be worth a try.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Antieco:
Great app! I would like to translate it to Spanish.. How can I help with it?

Enviado desde mi OnePlus One
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] josuearisty:
.....

Enviado desde el Moto X 2014!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Antieco:
Thanks

Enviado desde mi OnePlus One
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Antieco:
I sideloaded and installed the apk you provided without success. The language package is installed but the app won't allow me to change the language. Any idea!?

Enviado desde mi OnePlus One
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] josuearisty:
Sorry wrong thread! My mistake!

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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Nice to hear, that there are spanish translations out there! But please, can you [MENTION=3269357]josuearisty[/MENTION] make an official pull-request on GitHub. I think it makes no sense to have various sources for the App with different languages but I am really happy about any contribution on GitHub. In case someone needs help how to check-out the GitHub-Code or how to make a pull request, please ask. There are many good tutorials out there (e.g. on YouTube).

Thank you :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] josuearisty:
Im very busy right now, I have two jobs and its not that easy for me to be doing such things at this moment! Sorry.

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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Antieco:
So what did i installed? could you be more carefull next time?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] josuearisty:
I thought I was in another application thread where I translate some things to spanish mx

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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Antieco:
So, what if you delete the comment to avoid more confusion..

So there isnt a spanish translation ..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] josuearisty:
I alredy did bro!

Ya lo borre desde que me di cuenta. Yo ayudo a traducir una app y estaba en ese foro cuando vi tu mensaje e inmediatamente pense que era alguien preguntando por la traducción.

Enviado desde mi XT1096 mediante Tapatalk
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] niphoet:
Agreed, any word on how to sort alphabetically automatically? Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] monkey1230:
Has anyone tried this app on fire OS 5.0? home observer is broken now :(

Sent from my L720 OD2 deodexed
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Renegade1504:
Are you on developer preview? You need to disable an enable ADB every time Fire TV is restarted.

Sent from I9300 by tapatalk
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
The OS 5 preview is an utter mess, and hasn't been updated since the first release. Amazon has two weeks to get it sorted out:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/help/apps-services-broken-fire-os-5-t3183463
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jarayn:
Has anyone figured out how to use this with rbox xposed Firetv mods?

I really like that for recents on long press and remove menu items, however the home button function of that seems to mess with this.

I really want the best of both worlds
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] chrootz:
[MENTION=3172973]sphinx02[/MENTION] - I wanted to thank you for this excellent launcher and It really very useful for my wife and myself included 2 daughters.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damascato:
Hey guys,

I have successfully converted my international HTC M8 to GPE. From what I was reading, changing the CID should have been enough for the phone to be recognised as a real GPE for OTA updates.

Unfortunately when I try to install the update received OTA, the phone gets stuck on n error message after the reboot, during the update installation, and I can only wait for it to restart to hard reset the phone.

Any idea?

Cheers!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xunholyx:
You also need the stock recovery, and an unmodified system partition. That means uninstall any Xposed modules through Xposed itself, and uninstall Xposed itself. It modifies /system

You can pull the stock recovery from you OTA.zip by transfering it your PC and opening it with 7zip. Unzip the firmware.zip. The recovery.img is in there. Put it into your fastboot folder and hook up you phone to your PC.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot reboot.

Then try the OTA again
[General Questions and Answers] loop_x:
Hi XDA,

This is my first topic ever .... First, hello everybody ... Second, sorry if I post on the wrong place ...

I am already familiar with unlocking, root and rom ... but I have question related to my Xperia Z1.

First of all, I get a Z1 from a friend and that phone has been bought from Switzerland. When I start it, I see a logo from a provider from that country. I didn't rooted it yet, is still locked and using a code from Sony, I can access special menu which tell my that I can root my device (not locked by the provider). This phone is currently running KitKat and I want to try the Lollipop, as everybody ... But, since I found some people crying after the upgrade, I want to first backup ... and so, I could downgrade ... well, you probably already understood where is my problem.

(if you can respond to all number [yes/no] .. that will help me a lot)

To backup (what I already know), I have to reach the "recovery" mode ... I can't for now, probably because :

1) there is no recovery in my phone => I can only go to bootloader (using USB cable) [+/- vol on boot do nothing, no "light" and so, no way to go to recovery]

2) so I have to install the recovery ... and I have to unlock my device first ... (tried with Nexus : was automatically done using an app ... it seems that I can get a code to unlock using fastboot)

Well, here are somes questions :

3) do I really need to install the recovery to be able backup/restore a partition (system and data) or can I do it correctly using fastboot ? (a possible scenario is to upgrade to Lollipop and after testing, goes back to Kitkat)

4) as I didn't try it, is that mandatory to unlock the bootloader to be able to flash using fastboot ? (I suppose it will fail with kind of "permission denied", something like that, not yet tried)

5) I read that after unlocking the device, a swipe will occurs. Is that true ? Why ? Which partition (only data) ? I don't get it why ...

6) when unlocked, I still don't have any "recovery" available. So, I have flash the boot (which contains a recovery) : true ? I don't get it : why is there some recovery inside boot ... where it seems that in my Nexus, the recovery is well on another partition ... Any explanation ?

7) if I flash the boot, should I also flash the system or it is well two different part (in my mind, I will try to unlock, flash boot and so I can backup using recovery ... well, if the wipe occurs, I will not be able to backup before upgrade ...)

Thank you for you response. As I understand, it seems that I will be stuck because of the "wipe" after "unlocking" the device ... so, I should backup using Titanium backup and restore all applications/data after the device has been unlock ... Then, I could finally backup the partition (all ..?). Or any other idea ?

8) I also read that the "misc" partition could contains important data. So, it should be a good idea to back it up too. Is that correct ? Some component of the phone could get bad configuration after a wipe of "misc" partition ?

Again, thank you :)
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