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[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
DO NOT USE THIS METHOD ANYMORE DUE TO BRICKS WITH LATEST DEV PREVIEW. PLEASE FOLLOW ONE OF [MENTION=6058831]DoLooper[/MENTION] 'S GUIDES TO GET OS5.0

Warning: I am not responsible for any damage that may occur. Follow this video at your own risk

Just got an email about the Fire OS 5 developer preview. It's available for the fire HD6 and HD7. It runs lollipop.

developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/platforms/android-fireos?sc_channel=EM&sc_campaign=FireOSPreview&sc_detail=GetPreview

It's downloading now on my device. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.

Edit: Amazing update so far. Much closer to stock android! It even has wallpapers enabled by default. It has a few strange grapgical glitches but nothing to worry about. Many of the apps are stock instead of amazonified. For example the browser and even Launcher are stock aosp. Even the recents activity is aosp. I really do like this. If we never get a custom rom, this will be the best choice as an os.

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=vSKPEss-8RY[/YOUTUBE]

DO NOT USE METHOD DESCRIBED IN THIS VIDEO ANYMORE DUE TO BRICKS ON LATEST DEV PREVIEW. INSTEAD, DOWNLOAD update-kindle-devpreview_ariel-20.5.2.2_user_522041550.bin FROM xdaforums.com/fire-hd/general/lolipop-ota-capture-t3141810 AND PLACE IT ON THE ROOT OF YOUR SD CARD. THEN GO TO SETTINGS>DEVICE>SYSTEM UPDATES AND PRESS UPDATE etc.

Downgrade Instructions:

1. Download firmware from http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201596860

2. reboot device into recovery via "adb reboot recovery" or by holding power, volume up, volume down all at the same time on boot

3.use volume and power keys to select "apply update from adb"

4.sideload the firmware with "adb sideload update-kindle-20.4.5.3_user_453011120.bin"

5.wipe data/factory reset

6.reboot
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Did you install this via TWRP and kept root, or just the regular Amazon update?

How is the speed? Slower than 4.5.x, or about the same?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
regular amazon update. Seems about the same speed
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
So you just gave up on the whole root business ? Back to the Amazon empire for good ? :D

Amazon probably could not keep up with the changes required for Lollipop 5, and so they are switching to stock versions of stuff. Which is good news for us, those who manage to keep root going forward ! :p I see the light at the end of the tunnel!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Sounds incredible! I don't know about developer previews, so just to clarify: Amazon has killed the carousel and is (finally) providing aosp-like launcher that allows wallpaper?!

Are you testing Kingroot yet? lol!

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[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Some pics
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
ya pretty much at least as of now unfortunately. I made the mistake of updating to the 4.x version and lost root so I'm stuck for now
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
Well at least in the preview. Also I need to check if the amazon Launcher is still disabled. Some reason pm unblock was not working for me earlier. That may have been changed to prevent that stuff.. No KingRoot does not work
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
I put up a video if anyone is interested btw
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanyz10:
Kingroot

I tested, and Kingroot unfortunately does not work (which was to be expected).
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] siegesoldier:
would it be possible to remove the recovery and bootloader it comes with an flash it to a device with twrp and an unlocked bootloader?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
it is only plausible if we can either root this version so we can grab the partition we want, find the direct download to the bin update file, or somehow grab the update file once it's downloaded via otaverify
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Bahamutmaster:
All of the Amazon apps crash for me and an error message saying there was an internal error for third party apps is popping up for me. Is anyone else getting the same problem?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
I'd sugest doing a factory reset
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] tarvoke:
considering doing that anyway - the screen is extremely twitchy and seems to react if you simply look at it wrong lol.

but I really like this, and probably won't even try to -> 4.5.3 -> root. agree with the comments about lollipop possibly being different enough they may never try to re-spamazon-ify this OS as hard as they have in the past. (but I'll still keep updates blocked if possible lol)

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oh and good call on speeding up by hitting system update. although surprisingly my did it on its own within minutes of applying for 5.0 on spamazon.

(which is doubly-hilarious, because I had gone through their phone support in an effort to downgrade mine to 4.5.3, and after tens of minutes of trying to convince them that YES IT IS POSSIBLE, they agreed and said it would take up to 24 hours. naturally it never happened, and subsequent calls to try to make it happen were even more painful lol. trying to explain the whole thing again over and over, surprising since obvs they had records/logs of the initial request...)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
You might wamt to do a factory reset as well. Seems to have fixed some of my issues i've had before in 5.0. Good thing you can downgrade without calling now
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] tarvoke:
had definitely been considering the reset - thing was getting abominably super-hot and the screen was absolutely not behaving. but next day, it seems to have changed its mind lol. possibly just b/c it cooled down.

I wonder also if some of the weird behavior was due to some spamazon packages still remaining pm-blocked, even after the OS update? obvs a factory reset would clear this, although I could also just use the debloater tool to check. (well, whenever I get a chance to run windows)

also also, can you report any experience with the stock kindle-reader app in this version? (up until now, I have been using the hackified version that I believe you can be thanked for repackaging)

and getting some consistent failures on spamazon-appstore apps, but not all of them. instant video and mp3/music are fine, but xbox-smartglass and spamazon-echo always fail. probably also just indicates need to reset the whole thing...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] blackwat3r:
if kingroot didnt work on 4.5.4 why would it work on 5.0 at all. its not like they released 5.0 with the same vulnerable kernel as 4.5.3 and below
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanyz10:
off topic, whoops.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] blackwat3r:
nobody said i was mad about it, that was just your own assumption, and you didnt have to reply either LOL
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanyz10:
Sorry, this is off-topic
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bpeery84:
It changed my battery life from losing about 30% in a half hour to 10% in an hour. Also standby battery is so much better. I have an issue where the screen will stay locked to a position even when auto rotate is on. Also, you have to load up the New bookstore app to get it to open books in the kindle app. I'm not sure why. it's very annoying especially since I had to turn on a mobile hotspot when I was at the pool from my phone to access the bookstore's already installed books. I still can't get it to work with my Chromecast which would be really nice.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Jacobwitt:
Cannot get OTA Update

Hi, I own a Kindle FIre My Self, And I Sign'ed up for the update and I still havent received it!

I Click on Check for updates,

No Luck

I Restored the device to factory, No luck, (It's still the same name so its signed up for the Dev group getting the OTA.)

Restarted multiple times.

Also, This device wont let me use ADB on it.

So

EH

HELP!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
What is model name of tablet? (Look at Settings->Device->Device Options.)

Regardless of model, if adb doesn't recognize your device: Drivers aren't installed, wrong drivers are installed, or drivers need updating..
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] saltine:
For what it's worth, I had a heck of time trying to find out how to make GoogleNow the default launcher. If it does exist somewhere, it's hard to find. So for anyone interested in changing the default launcher from Amazon's to GoogleNow, here's the fix.

Now my problem is the "OK google" voice settings is missing the option to have the voice command from any screen. The only option I have is to turn it on and off from the search bar. I am trying to remedy that so if anyone has any ideas/advice/fixes for the missing "from any screen" option, please let me know in the thread or via PM.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] connellr:
Is it possible to still sideload google play services & store with Fire OS 5
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] me_is_rushin:
http://xdaforums.com/fire-hd/general/how-to-upgrade-to-lollipop-root-gapps-t3163950
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] A0425A:
Anyone know how to stop receiving the developers preview so I can get back on the mainline of code?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
I assume you're rooted and know that this will break root.

(1) Reverse command that blocks updates. (Not knowing which package you blocked, I'm giving both):

adb shell

su

pm enable com.amazon.dcp

pm enable com.amazon.otaverifier

(2) Reverse the extension rename you did on /system/priv-app/DeviceSoftwareOTA/DeviceSoftwareOTA.apk

(3) Go here to unsubscribe from developer previews. Amazon will install latest OS 4.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] straylight:
Well this sucks,

I signed up for the developer preview with by HD6 and immediately started downloading after hitting "check for updates. When the download completed I turned my Kindle off and went back to work. I plugged it in to recharge after returning home from work and left it over night.

Now the sucker just cycles on the "FIRE" logo repeatedly. Note, I've never rooted this device, nor screwed with the OS, (I have my droid turbo for that :) ).

Any ideas on how to fix this?

UPDATE: So, I forced a factory reset by hold the up and down buttons and the 4th or 5th time i did this, It booted right into the preview. All fixed I guess. I had to reregister my device but this is a small price to pay to have it working again.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bommel_23:
I signed up for the developers preview but got no updates so fare? Is there anything else to do than wait?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] powerpoint45:
are you sure you were on the same amazon account on your device and browser. Did you ever disable ota updates? If so yo need to re-enable them. Also try going into the software update section from settings and choose "check for updates"
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] davidstjohn1:
I have a different launcher, i wanted the stock aosp launcher but this fire launcher is all i can use. I installed apex through box cloud but when i hit home... Right back to fire launcher.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Not sure the question Fire launcher IS the stock launcher. If you're rooted, you can do this to use Apex: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63725819&postcount=9
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bommel_23:
Now it just worked ... thanks anyway!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] davidstjohn1:
Yeah I had watched a video after someone installed the Developer Preview I'll have to find the video but it had like a stock AOSP home launcher instead of this one after they had installed the Developer Preview

https://youtu.be/vSKPEss-8RY
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
OK, right. The Developer Preview had a much more AOSP launcher. The official release you're running is back to the "all Amazon all the time" UI. Clearing out the cobwebs, I realize you should be able to block Firelauncher on unrooted tablet after all, so your custom launcher will work. Try gatesjr's Debloater tool.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] davidstjohn1:
Ok thank you for the info and where can I get this tool right here on XDA

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Okay I will give this a try later tonight when I get home from work thank you for the info crossing my fingers hope it works
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ElBeaner:
I installed the developer preview on wife's 4th Gen fire hd7 and now books no longer work.

How can I fix this? She's quite upset at the moment
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
While she's in the candlelit bubble-bath you've prepared for her (after rubbing her feet for at least 10 minutes), :D decide whether you want to root or not. If not, let it update. Everything works fine on the latest OTA release. Otherwise, root it and flash the latest release (part of root process) and it should be fine. You'll also have play store and can install custom launcher and the Kindle app. Plus she'll be able to switch between Amazon UI and custom launcher if she wants to. Good luck!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ElBeaner:
I let it update to developer preview 5.0.1 but it hasn't gone further than that in terms of updates. At this point books doesn't work

Was hoping to avoid having to root if at all possible
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
What's the build date of your OS? Books weren't working on early releases, but there's been no complaints since the September 5.0.1 update (September 23, 7:51 pm Pacific daylight time).

If your's is earlier you can adb sideload the latest if you don't plan to root. It's here: http://xdaforums.com/fire-hd/general/lollipop-5-2-2-update-2-ota-capture-t3229844

Or, she may be able to get to books through the bookstore app. Press the square of dots at upper right. You can't get to the bookstore offline, however. [MENTION=4469251]powerpoint45[/MENTION] provided a hacked Kindle reader app that might work: http://xdaforums.com/fire-hd/themes-apps/how-to-set-custom-launcher-default-home-t2932791

Your other option is to downgrade to OS 4.5.3 (there's a guide for it) and then let it OTA update to 4.5.5.

EDIT: [MENTION=4509495]nest75068[/MENTION] I might be wrong about downgrading if you're running latest bootloaders. Better ask in Q&A first.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ElBeaner:
I did the whole update on Saturday but it's only 5.0.1 and not any others(I'll look at the build date when I get home today). I'll check for updates and see hopefully it gets another update. It was stuck on 4.5.5 and wouldn't go further which is why I signed it up for the developer preview thinking it would continue to get OTA to the latest. So far that has not been the case.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Hmm...maybe I haven't understood. 5.0.1 is the latest. Just that there have been a couple versions of it. You probably do have the latest. As said, haven't heard about books problems with it--unless you inadvertently blocked something. Might want to post in Q&A where more people will see it.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
If we take the developers previous on Fire HD 7, 5th gen, will it get future OTAs automatically as they are release? So will I always be on the latest official version?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
I took this update on my kindle fire hd 7, 4th gen and it completely bricked the device. It downloaded and then was doing the update and it just turned off and now dead. Can't turn on, long press of power, nothing, no light when plugging in charger. Someone on slickdeals forum reporting the same.

What happened?

Amazon is providing a warranty replacement for me at least.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Developers Preview was designed for 2014 Fire HDs, not 5th gen Fires. Obviously it's incompatible. I'm amazed Amazon didn't check your model before downloading it to you. You want to be in the Amazon Fire forums.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
Sorry, i didn't correct my post in time. The device that bricked is kindle fire hd 7,4th gen (2014).

As I said, there's someone in a slickdeals.net forum thread who has the identical issue.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
There are nw 4 people on that slickdeals thread who have bricked their hd7, 4th gen trying to update to the developer preview.

Be very weary if you are thinking about it.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
The only way I can imagine this happening is if you guys already had OS 5 on device per the OTA update that is rolling out now. Could that have happened with you? Again, I'm amazed that Amazon would put the preview on an updated tablet, but I'm not saying they wouldn't do it by mistake. Downgrading OS 5 pretty much guarantees a brick. If Amazon is allowing this to happen, there's a good case for getting a replacement even if out of warranty.

Hmm. There's one other possibility. Did you try to root--did you downgrade that developer's preview to 0S 4.5.3 and then upgrade? Your post said it bricked immediately when the preview was installed, but a few month's ago we had a release that exploded tablets at the point of the upgrade from 4.5.3. This would be helpful to know. Thanks.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
What do you mean updated tablet? Remember i corrected myself that i have the hd7,4th. No, definitely did not have os5 on already.

One thing i just thought of is that i did just get an ota os upgrade the other day. So os4.x, but i don't remember the exact version number. Perhaps upgrading from that will brick devices. Makes sense since the people on the other thread are all people who got new devices that would have taken the ota immediately. My device was pure stock, never rooted.

So who wants to take the newest ota and then try to upgrade to the developer preview? :)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Which slickdeals thread are you referring to where 4 people got bricks ? I have just bought more than 1 tablet at a good discount, and would like to explore this a bit.

From what we know, it could be that the tablets already had the updated FireOS 5 at some point, and then Amazon re-loaded some earlier FireOS 4. So the developers preview does brick if it comes after the latest FireOS 5. Details matter here, but most people who got bricks unlikely to have observed these details ...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
Here's the thread.

http://slickdeals.net/f/8432103-dea...l-offers-36-and-up-amazon-warehouse-deals?v=1
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
I've just skimmed through that thread. It's a lot of voodoo moves with unknown version numbers :D

It's not clear to me how the bricks look like, do they have totally black screens, or the Fire logo does come up? Can you ask people with bricks what they see now ?

People get Fires with FireOS 4.1.1 (!!!), so updating from that to anything would be a breeze. Realistically, the safest way to Lollipop is to update FireOS to 4.5.3 manually, root it with Kingroot, install TWRP, and then follow the guides in here. It took quite a few bricks to get to these streamlined procedures, so it's a great chance to stand on the shoulders of giants :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
I had a brick. Totally black screen, no charging indicator light, holding power for 40 seconds did nothing. Literally a brick.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
And which FireOS did it have upon arrival ? Any recollection ? It has a 30 day return window, just no recycle with Amazon, so have to catch and buy another one.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
Mine actually wasn't part of that deal. I got mine in July and it updated itself just the other day. I don't recall to what version, but had to be whatever was released the other day.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Interesting, this sounds like an unknown condition. No official OTAs were known to brick devices. So did you have Fire sitting at 4.5.5, and then it updated to something that bricked it ? There was no developers preview or other funny business on your Fire, just regular stock?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
Always pure stock, device was purchased new, took the latest ota just the other day, signed up for developer preview, manually checked for updates, downloaded os 5 update, clicked update, looked back over and tablet was dead. Bunch if other people reported the same thing.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
This is the issue that is still unclear. When you say you "took the latest OTA just the other day," which OS was that? Depending on your region, the latest update could be OS 5. Was it OS 5 or OS 4.5.5? You said earlier it was 4.5.5, but it would have OTA upgraded to that month's ago. Only thing being released now is OS 5. Thank you.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
I don't know what version came the other day exactly, but it definitely was still 4.x.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
[MENTION=6680544]bibikalka[/MENTION]: I got a 6" at black friday sale. It came with OS 4.1.1. and I just blocked OTA and rooted it at the time. Haven't updated yet. Should I get 4.5.3 on this before updating? Hadn't thought much about it, but now wonder if 4.1.1. bootloaders can boot TWRP. thx.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Your fastest way to heaven is to actually follow this (a well known procedure!):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62011272&postcount=2

So you'd go from 4.1.1 to 4.5.3 bootloaders and bootable TWRP, and then you can do anything that's in your own guides ! :D With 4.1.1 the risk is that you cannot get into recovery by pushing the buttons while it's booting, I had a brick once because of this.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] jleonard711:
I have taken the latest OTA update on 2 of these, then upgraded to OS 5 preview, and it worked just fine.. Devices were both brand new and originally on 4.1.1, then updated to 4.5.3, then 4.5.5 (with no more OTA updates available), then installed OS 5 preview. Did it with 100% battery while plugged in.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] alexalex3:
I have a hd6 with 4.5.5.1. all stock, I received dev.prev 5.01, I start installation, but now do not bootup, if I connect to pc I see mt65xx preloader for few seconds, nothing with pwr button for more than 30sec or psw+voldown/up both, any idea? Is it over?

Thank you
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Return it to Amazon. For once, XDA folks have nothing to do with these bricks ...

It looks like there'll be more Amazon warehouse deals after they restore these bricks ;)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] lexluthor:
So how do we get Amazon's attention here? You'd think they'd want to pull 5.0.1 for anyone on 4.5.5.1 until they have a fix. Otherwise, they are going to brick lots more people.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
[MENTION=4634826]cmm324[/MENTION] posted about it and started a thread on the Amazon developers forum: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64881146&postcount=224
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] alexalex3:
No warranty, I'll destroy for "study purpose" ^_^

ROTFL
[Sony Smartwatch 3] sillieidiot:
Hey, I just got this like a few days ago and have been testing it out pretty much.

Anyways, everywhere I read so far about Android Wear and the SW3, is that it could send messages, but I can't seem to do it. I can reply to a message, but it never works when I try to send a new message. Also I read that you can send messages over Wi-Fi too? But that doesn't work at all for both sending/replying. Is there something I'm missing? I'm using Hangouts btw.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justcouse:
Hi.

All options to get the voice working when someone calling are enabled. I got something like that: ring then silent, ring then silent, ring, silent - no voice are heard. All voices are installed and working ok. I got stock rom G900FXXU1BOE5. I`d try other roms, also kitkat, and did full wipe -nothing has change.

There is no metter if calling person exist in my phonebook or not -no voice heard at all.

I guess, there is problem in voice settings in hidden engenering mode or something like that (i have no idea) - i never seen that options and did not touch anything. It`s like mute enabled or something.

I know that a lot of people has problem to turn off Caller ID voice announcement, i got problem to turn it on -get that works.

Any help?

Thank You!