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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jrw88:
Hey, is any1 else getting flashing screen when double click to launch kodi?

Its on the Firetv2
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mad212:
Yes I have the same problem.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Electronic Punk:
Yes, I have it with single click, however if I launch from Firestarter it is fine.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Ditto. It just keeps getting better with every release.

The launcher is coming along nicely - very acceptable. I'm sure if you were able to organize the icons into custom folders that would go over very well.

Three cheers for Sphinx02!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Small bug-fix release, which should fix the problems with flashing kodi-screens on FireOS5 ([MENTION=7007127]jrw88[/MENTION] [MENTION=1282169]mad212[/MENTION] [MENTION=438152]Electronic Punk[/MENTION]).

v3.1.1

Fixed flashing screen / start app problems (disabled JumpbackWatchdog for FireOS5).

Updated translations

Hit THANKS button if you like it! :)

Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
A little Cup of Coffee for you ;)

Bestätigungsnummer: 8BA6874760918984T

Danke :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] john88888888:
force stop kodi then launch kodi in one step?

hi the biggest problem on the stick is dead links and kodi locking up.when it happens you have to hold down the select button and

play button for seven seconds and wait for it to reset to amazon home screen then launch kodi. is there a way to have an option

to click home button twice and firestarter will force stop kodi and launch kodi at same time or a force stop shortcut on firestarter

home page?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Organized_Chaos:
I love this launcher. I use it on both Amazon Fire TV devices I have and tell everyone else about it (if they have AFTV devices). However, I noticed a typo (maybe?) in the settings. The option to hide the left bar in the app drawer says "Left selection bar is hided when on the main page (App Drawer)". I think the word you're looking for is hidden or maybe hid. Hidden sounds better.

Keep up the great work! (And if the misspelling was intentional, don't mind me)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
You can force-stop any app directly from the App home, by selecting the app, pressing the menu button (three bars button) and selecting "app settings" where you can force stop and restart the app. the App is only able to start the menu, where apps can be force stopped. the App is not able to force stop any other apps by itself, so a force stop and restart functionality on home button clicks is not possible.

You are completely right. Sorry for my typo's, I am not a native english speaker so any help and hints with typo's and grammar failures is appreciated. Thank you for this, I will fix this typo in the next release :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] robtheicon:
Wrong Time Zone

Is there any way to change the time? It's showing west coast time & I'm on the east coast.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
Fire TV settings/system/timezone
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Simple feature request:

I think it might be helpful for those who aren't so fluent with navigating the Android file system if you included the choice of a few plain coloured backgrounds with the launcher. I'm currently using black, which works nicely for me. I'm not so crazy about grey. No big deal, just a thought.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Trialer03:
Restart Fire TV

Is there an app to the Fire TV to restart? I known the combination keys...
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
Who is not so fluent with android: It's Hobson's choice. ;)

I use android Lollipop background. I am a nerd :D

---------- Post added at 02:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:15 PM ----------

FireTV settings/system/restart or reboot I do not know in english.

Or Wukong Remote App for shutdown and much more.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Trialer03:
This function is not working since 3.x
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
In FireStarter settings, look in FireTV settings!

FireTV Einstellungen/System/Neu starten

Help in german

Hilfe in deutsch
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] aHcVolle:
Have you guys fixed this somehow?

I just updated and ran into this as well.

I found one workaround :

If you enable system apps kftv-launcher shows up at the position where firetv-home was earlier.

When you run this you'll get to the fire tv Launcher.

The only problem is that your home screen in firedtv is full of system apps which you can't hide....

If you set the double click action to firetv home (clean start) firestarter just reloads, so this doesn't help...

[edit]

When you enable system apps and reboot the hide apps list gets populated with the system apps too.

This way you can hide all system apps except kftv-launcher and everything is kind of working again. Except the app icon looks like ****..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] bingobill:
I am able to hide the unwanted system apps.

Just keep scrolling down in the 'hidden apps' in settings.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] zolaisugly:
Completely new to Amazon fire-TV, i have got an Amazon fire TV stick, which has had kodi preloaded, and got an old version of this launcher pre-installed I have got message about update available, can I update the launcher without losing kodi?

I assume I have root would I lose this as well?

Thanks, I am still trying to get the hang of fire stick, and navigation menu etc.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
If you do not update to android 5.x.x (disable updates in settings) you are fine.

You do not need update if you have the old AFTV. On new AFTV2 4K HD no kodi ist pre-installed.

If you update FireStarter it do not touch your other app's.

I am very new on AFTV but root will also work if you not update to android 5.x.x
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ChrisULM:
I'm running the current version of FireStarter, but my "FireTV Home" icon has disappeared. I've also mapped the home key to return to the regular home screen, but it does nothing. Anyone experiencing this? I'm unable to return to the regular home screen. (device is rooted running current firmware)

*edit*

Followed the previous advice and enabled system apps. Bit of a bummer but it works.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Shinyhead:
This is the current solution for me as well.... I didnt update my other AFTVs yet :confused:
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] XDA Rage:
I made an account just to let you know this is amazing !
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Renegade1504:
Welcome to the XDA forum and you are right for thanking the dev for this awesome app. Thumbs up.

But please use the hide function in reply window (or search xda help for it) and do not quote the complete OP ;))

Makes reading the thread rather confusing.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
Do not talk, buy him two coffee :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] XDA Rage:
Thanks, and fixed it :good:
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] {ParanoiA}:
[MENTION=6881211]ChrisULM[/MENTION] I am having the same issue where the Amazon Home launcher will not show up unless it is manually started. Started happening after the 3.1.1 update
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] RVD26:
I'm doing a fresh install on a new Fire Stick with the latest versions of Kodi and FireStarter.

However, I can't get it to launch into Kodi or even FireStarter on startup even though I choose the option under settings.

I still have to manually open up each app.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
v3.2

The new v3.2 brings us the possibility to install and update Kodi directly out of the App (see Updates section). Furthermore the readability when using bright wallpapers is increased. I want to thank attilaszasz and semitop7 for their contributions!

v3.2

Added possiblity to install / update Kodi (see Updates section). Thank you very much attilaszasz for your contribution!

Made "Background for App Names" a bit brighter. Thanks semitop7 for your contribution!

Added semi-transparent background for system, updates and settings section if the "Background for App Names" setting is enabled. Thanks semitop7 for your contribution!

Hit THANKS button if you like it! :)

Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
You made my day :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] dk1keith:
This app just keeps getting better. Firestarter saw my Kodi install and updated with no problem.

thanks again for a great app.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] taylormadearmy:
I forgot to say thanks for this!

So - Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Great work on the Kodi update button.! I wonder if it would be possible to detect and update the nightlies channel? It's reporting the version correctly.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] szasz.attila:
I implemented this feature.

It will detect release candidates too, but not nightlies, those are posted to a different url.

I think nightlies would introduce a possible instability for average users, and for those who need/want the latest nightly, it's not a problem installing it manually.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Fair enough. I realize it's a pretty out there request.

For what it's worth, I do recommend the 16a channel. It's well and truly stable enough and brings in some improvements that are relevant to the Fire, such as long key press detection.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] athosk:
Firestarter on Amazon Fire TV2

I have installed the MoviesHD.apk on my firetv and then moved it on the MicroSD card.

When I installed the Firestarter app, the MoviesHD app dissappeared and was no where to be found. When I uninstalled Firestarter, the MoviesHD app reappered.

Is this a bug in the program? Is there something that I am missing?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
To clear some things up: Starting from the App v3.0, I added the possibility for the App to replace a default Launcher. This means on a free / standard Android, when clicking the home button, the user is asked which Launcher-App he wants to use as default Launcher where then the App can be selected as default Launcher. This is exactly what is not possible with the default FireOS on FireTV's (what is the whole reason for this dirty hacks). For people who have rooted their FireTV's there is a way to use other Apps as default Launcher (I dont know how, because I see no advantage in rooting my FireTV but I think it is one of this Xposed Tweaks). It was a request of some users, to enable this behaviour for ROOT users. So could it be, that in your cases the App does completely replace the FireTV Home Launcher (means you can disable the whole background detection thing and the App still opens up when pressing the home-button..)? If this is the point than (at least for me) it becomes clear why you are not seeing the FireTV Home Launcher in the the App App-Listing..

The workaround for all ROOT users facing this problem is to make system apps visible and hide all except the "KFTV-Launcher" as this Launcher is called by Amazon.

Startup detection works only if the App has been opened once after installing it and if in the settings "Enable background observation" is set.

What exactly means "dissappeared"? I am really sure that the App does not let any app disappear.. I do not know the MoviesHD.apk but perhaps there is another reason for your problem.

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] RVD26:
I have 'Enable background observation' already set. I tried it right now again and get the same problem.

When I restart the firestick it goes to the Amazon Home screen rather than Kodi, like I have checked off in the settings.

Also, pressing the home button does not take me to Kodi, like I also have in the settings.

I have to press the home button several times for it to take me to Kodi and even when it does, it starts up weird.

I am setting up this stick for a family member who is not very technical, so I would like to have Firestarter take them directly into Kodi and bypass the Amazon Home screen altogether.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ballgum:
Is there any way to put Firestarter in recent apps list??? When kodi crashes (which is quite regular), it seems to crash Firestarter also. This is for someone else and they don't know how to go to managed apps-> Firestarter.

Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ballgum:
nevermind...i just went ahead and put kodi back in recent apps for the times it crashes
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
It is normal that it takes some seconds on the FireTV Home Screen before the startup app is launched. This behaviour can not be changed without root. Also the click-detection starts to work earliest after this point. Perhaps you just need to give the system a little bit more time after restarts.

No at the moment there is no possibility to put the App to the recent apps list. But the App should not crash when Kodi crashes. I remember a user a time ago which reported the same problem. I will try to investigate again in this behaviour perhaps I can fix it, than this should also fix your problems as you can restart Kodi from the App in a convenient way. Which device are you using? FireTV 1.Gen, FireTV 2.Gen or FireTV Stick?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] RVD26:
Thanks, that was the problem. I thought it would automatically boot into Kodi upon startup.

Just needs a few seconds to boot into Kodi and home button works.

Thanks again.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] T-1311:
Wow update Kodi! Georgeous! Thank you so much
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ballgum:
they're fire sticks. i noticed when kodi crashed without "TV" enabled, it seemed to allow firestarter to resume. but when i started messing with TV and getting iptv/stalker working when kodi would crash, firestarter would be killed. i was thinking it was perhaps a memory issue, perhaps all the running kodi stuff was taking priority so it would kill firestarter since it's lower priority process/service or something like that.

since i changed the advancedsettings.xml to zero cache, and fixed the TV settings, it hasn't crashed as much. so hopefully it'll run smooth.

thanks for your hard work btw!! i love the idea of updating kodi internally so that people dont have to give me their firesticks to update each time.

can you tell me, when kodi updates through firestarter, it should keep all kodi settings in tact (addons/userdata)? i just want to make sure of this
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
I can of course not guarantee that a Kodi update works without loosing data and it's always a good idea to have a backup. But I checked it multiple times on my own FireTV and my complete user- and addon-data always stayed in tact and working after updates! Sometimes I had to re-enable the TV-plugin but the config was fine.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ballgum:
OK thank u!!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] guiso98:
Please add back the option to reboot the aftv
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] lcohen999:
I love the app, thank you

A suggestion. Can you have a program run after firestarter starts. Ie a VPN client could start once firestarter takes control.

That would be awesome and pretty much remove anyone from needing root.

Launch app(s) on firestarter startup, etc
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] catman2005:
Thank you for this app.

Great app for easy use of FireTV with Kodi installed.

I have my FireTV rooted.

After update from Firestarter 2.7 to 3.2 it's hard to get single button to go to FTV-klauncher.

I followed you instructions that you post it for rooted guys but it's a little annoying since will go first to FireStarter for a second and after that to FTV-kLauncher.

I moved back to 2.7 and everything it's working as suppose to.

I do like the new feature in 3.2 with Kodi update but I like the behavior from 2.7.

Do you think you will have a chance to work on the ones with root?

Again, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!!!

Cat
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] darren1:
Will you add an install/update for SPMC as well as Kodi?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Swlunatic:
Error updating kodi..please help

When I try to update kodi from 14.1 to 15.2, it downloads and starts the process and errors out saying “App not installed” the reason being “An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed”.

Can any one please help me figure out what I am doing wrong.

Fyi,

I have my kodi installed on ext usb and all data is on the usb too. If that helps.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jarayn:
How are you guys using this?

It doesnt work properly for me any more.

I cant open kodi at all with double or single click assign.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sgs9:
You are change the settings? You Do not talk what you try, so I must ask this ;)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Why exactly to you need the option? Reboot has been removed, as it is only possible for the App to trigger a reboot via ADB. That means the setting only works if ADB background observation is enabled. As with the new version it is possible to use the App without ADB observation at all (Non-ADB home button detection), I removed this feature as it wouldnt work then anyway. You can simply restart the FTV with the remote (I added an info).

Normally the actual App should integrate an option to start it's services after reboots. I dont think it makes sense to start more than one App at startup. Or am I missing something here..? Anyway, the App would only be able to start the GUI of other Apps and not only it's background services..

As already mentioned here, I added the option to let the App replace the Standard Launcher which causes this behaviour on rooted devices. Sadly this can not be set as an option, so the only possibility is to remove this funcionality completely.. I dont really know if anyone is using the App as Default Launcher on other devices or on rooted FireTV's and needs this option... Is there anyone using the App as Default Launcher (without the Home Button Click Detection) ??

As far as I know, SPMC is only a kind of test or nightly build for the standard Kodi for Android version. So I don't think there is any advantage in using SPMC instead of Kodi anymore or am I wrong here?

I'm really sorry but your 14.1 does not have the offical signature of Kodi. This means the only way is to uninstall Kodi and then using the App to install / update Kodi. Perhaps you can work with the Kodi Backup Plugin to save and restore your Kodi settings..

Could it be, that you are using a "FireTV 2. Gen (4k)" and in the the App settings "Home-Detection via ADB" is disabled? If this is true, than your click's are only recognized if you are on the standard FireTV Home screen.. Perhaps you can check this, or tell us some more details about your device and the App configuration..

For everyone: At the moment I have not much time left to work on the App but I am really happy about any contribution in form of an pull-request on GitHub. I am really happy that semitop7 and attilaszasz, with their implementations, already helped to make the App a better App for the FireTV and I really like the idea to have a greater programmer community which is working on the App.. I will try to review and integrate open pull-requests as fast as possible!

:) :) :)

Best regards,

Lukas
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] lcohen999:
What I meant was, the firestick cannot auto run a VPN application.

So once firestarter starts, have a built in start menu. So firestarter starts normally, then you have PIA setup to launch, so you simply run the program.

Almost a secondary start menu when the program first runs. So people can start background tasks they normally could not do without root
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
As far as I know, VPN programs do not work at all on unrooted FireTV's and which VPN-App is not able to start it's VPN service at startup? As I already mentioned it is anyway not possible to start the background-service of another App, it is only possible to start the App as if you would start it via click on the app-icon. Sorry, I really don't get it..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Soul0Reaper:
I know you mentioned it before how nightlies are on a different URL but it would be great if you eventually implemented a possibility (maybe a toggle?) for us to update to the latest nightlies via FireStarter. Would made the whole process a lot more convenient.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jarayn:
Nope, Gen 1 FTV.

Ill try 2.7 again later and see if it works like I remember. I think that one was the last implementation of the old system yeah?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Glee217:
I am having problems installing FIRESTARTER 3.2 APK file since i heard you can now install KODI within the app. I have a ftv2 4k.

So first I turned on adb debugging and 3rd party apps under developers settings. And the fire OS is 5.0.3.1 the latest.

I then downloaded es file explorer but it didnt download the latest 4.0.2.3 instead it downloaded 4.0.2.2. So i then tried to update by scrolling all the way down and hit update and it never completes the download instead the max it went was 99%!

Then i gave up after multiple tries and proceeded to download FIRESTARTER at github.c o m/sphinx02/FireStarter/releases

After selecting it (orange lines surrounding apk link) using the controllers circular selector and then hitting the center button the firestarter apk file does not download. All i see is the refresh button on the top right for a second and nothing happens!

I then un-installed and installed same thing happens. Please help!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Claude Koch:
Plus one from me on that, also bearing in mind that those of us who are running nightlies are the ones updating the most. Really, though, it's about time Kodi itself did its own updating.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] testman86:
really thanks for this great and very usefull app and all contributors! Another nice app which makes life a bit easier and nicer :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jarayn:
I put 2.7.2 back on and its perfect.

Literally flawless.

The new one is completely unusable.

I dont have any need for any updates. I stay with 2.7.2 for the duration.

Thanks mate,

You created a great app.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] LOAA:
I did notice today that the update function for kodi kicks back an error ....unable to pars package...something to that effect..might have something to with it pointing to 16.0 alpha 4?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] JeffATL:
Hi,

I'm having some trouble. When I try to go to the regular Amazon home screen I get black, same if I try to launch settings. Netflix stopped working. Netflix is playing really bad, some red bleeding in the launch logo screen, and playback starts and stops. Tried rebooting. This problem seemed to go away, ironically after I uninstalled WuKong remote but now its back.

Update: Might not be a software issue. Been using Fire Stick with an hdmi splitter and that could be cause of my issues. Currently testing. Timing of issue was coincidentally when I installed Fire Starter.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hamspiced:
I am having a few small issues as of late with firestarter. I cant quite place it but all of a sudden on my Fire Tv Stick with Voice Control i cannot install Kodi through Firestarter without getting a Parse Error.

Any idea what is causing this? Firestarter was installed through ADBFire for mac.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hamspiced:
HA! I thought i was going nuts, im having the same issue. Wonder why we cant just choose to not update to experimental builds.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Studulike:
Same here.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Schnuecks:
Same problem here. Cant parse the package.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] uptempo777:
Love the feature to update but I do concur. It shouldn't allow updates to any builds unless they are considered a stable release.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sword9982:
didnt worked as well. it was my inital installation today. firestarter + kodi update => parsing error with kodi. any ideas?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hamspiced:
The only thing i can assume is that if it links directly to kodi.tv/downloads/ that they changed the structure in which they list their versions. Or if its saved from a central area the installation is corrupt.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sword9982:
thanks, thats what i thought, installation file seems to be corrupt. so i will wait for an updatet link...