yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
... and for me! :good:

I tried Fire OS a couple of days after I got my "new" phone, but found it not that satisfying, so I quickly turned to this ROM few weeks ago. (After using tytung's version of CM11 for HTC HD2 for quite a while I thought, I should give it a try).

I flashed the new version yesterday and it works without problems. I just had to re-activate Xposed framework and to re-install BetterBatteryStats as a system app, what made me reboot twice - that's all.

You are doing a really good job, ggow!

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] crisolnet:
this is a forum. You have read all post not only the last one and you will find the answer. Is a bad habit not read and ask the same question again and again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- You can use any gapps that works for you

- However if ever there are any Gapps related problems then it might be easier to debug any issues if using the recommended OpenGapps
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- No progress on the camera worthy of reporting yet

- But be assured if I have something then you'll hear about it :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] sacomais:
i rebooted the phone and noticed the safestrap recovery is still there and i could've flashed the .zip anytime (i never used a safestrap before and thought it disappeared after flashing).

thank you for your help it's really much appreciated

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i don't think there's a single person who would read 1600 posts (that's why there's a search button)

i don't think you read all my posts either (i got helpful answers from the op and i already found a way)

thanks for your help it's really much appreciated
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
I have read every single post. I use the search function

It is good etiquette to read and search BEFORE asking questions. ggow and other members of this forum are very lenient towards noobs.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication on this project!
[Amazon Fire Phone] Farlicimo:
What are the chances the camera can be fixed without Amazon giving the unlock needed? I'm having a bit of a phone identify can crisis and trying to figure out what to do. The Fire OS, even with Google on top, is awful but the loss of the good camera on CM11 is tough also (but otherwise great). I've tried all the suggestions but I've realized that while on CM11 I just don't take pictures since they are iffy at best. Not being pushy at all, just wondering what kind of chances we have without Amazon since I'm pretty unconvinced they will unlock. I love the form factor and stats of this phone, and I love CM, but feel I have to have a good camera. So if we are totally dependant on Amazon it may be time for me to move on. If there is likely a solution without them, and I just need to wait, that I'm good with. Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] tonochito:
Camera

I am using Snap Camera and seems working fine, even HDR and i haven't have fc like with Google and other cams apk, but i don't know if my phone is faulty or what , even with the stock Fire OS i had terrible times taking a picture with flash in close range, pics were like too white almost impossible to see clearly on any situation, i mean not only on night.

And with Snap or the other ones i have the same issue, pics with no flash are fine.

And other question is there any other phone apk that i could install? I have some delays at the time to dial a number or a USSD code i have to press twice back to get the dialpad on the screen.

The mms apk in my case when i try to erase multiple sms, the screen gets like weird resolutions, changed to messenger apk from Google i don't have problems

Other than those bugs the rom works fine, i have been using it for a month.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Can you elaborate a bit on "microG“ noted in changelog? Does this have to do with usb otg?

Thanks for giving this rom so much attention and follow through. Its appreciated by MANY users.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
You can read about it on this this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616

[MENTION=3999488]MaR-V-iN[/MENTION] is doing some good work over there :)

EDIT: Also linked in the change log now on Post #2
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Why can't I install the Google Calendar app?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- There is a bug in the CM-11 package signatures (I think)

- Best workaround is to install an older one from apkmirror then update to the latest via the Play Store
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Thanks. Installed Google Calendar from Apk mirror, updated it from Google Play and now works fine.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adamx:
Is it possible to copy paste all the amazon dependencies for the camera so it works? I am not worried about bloat, just want a decent interface.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
[IMG="Short answer: no"]http://t.qkme.me/3rgp0e.jpg[/IMG]
[Amazon Fire Phone] gsmhelper:
Great work here. I wish camera works...
[Amazon Fire Phone] kallsop:
Just got on board - new phone, Kingroot, SU, Safeload, downgraded to Fire OS 4.6.1, reboot, Kingroot, Safeload, CM11 latest, micro gapps 4.4.4, SU. Now running CM11, looking good so far. The stock camera app is working, in as much as I can take pictures from front or rear camera, and that's all I need.

My Oppo Find 5 running CM11, I can take the phone out of sleep mode by double tapping the screen. Not sure if that is a configuration item or what, but I haven't been able to get that to work on the Fire - is it possible? A double tap in the status bar does work to put the Fire into sleep mode.

Especially considering this is Unofficial CM11 for Fire, this is a fantastic effort. If only the Oppo Find 5 had this much support, that's stuck on an ancient CM11 version.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Dantrpan:
fubar'ed

Well, I was messing around with restoring a backup and now I am stuck. When I am in safestrap, the rom slot shows no selection. When I go to boot options and select stock rom, then activate; it just shows "rom slot:". And it states that it cannot mount /datamedia, /systemorig, /ss, and internal storage. I have no idea how to get the stock rom slot activated. I am thinking I may have to use adb to restore an original fire phone ROM. Any help is much appreciated.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
This is what Amazon told me.......
[Amazon Fire Phone] virx14:
Great ROM. If sources were available would use it as my main phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- The DoubleTap2Wake feature requires the kernel to be modified, this is not possible because our bootloader is locked.
[Amazon Fire Phone] kallsop:
I see, thanks for the reply and appreciate everyone involved and their hard work.
[Amazon Fire Phone] misconcepti0n:
Has anyone experienced Google play services crashes since play services updated? A family member of mine who uses the phone has been experiencing a painful, unusable experience where the unfortunately google play services has stopped notification pops up every 5-10 seconds.

I updated to 10/24 build with Opengapps pico package and continuing to get crashes. I reverted to the play services in the SlimKat thread, but it updated play services and began giving crash notification again. I also deleted cache/data for play store and play services apps.

Wondering if this is an isolated case or if others have experienced. I am thinking of wiping and clean flashing 10/24 build with opengapps pico, but wanted to see if there were any easier methods for remedying this.

Thanks in advance.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
I don't have any crashes at all (using "pico" as well)

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Every time I reboot the phone, the SuperSU icon disappears from the homescreen.

Any Ideas?
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
Wipe and reinstall
[Amazon Fire Phone] ponghclub:
once i installed cm11... . does this mean my fire phone unlock?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
The netlock will stay (I assume you're asking about "unlock" as in unlocked for other carriers / networks...)

Also, only the system partition is affected when you install CM-11 or SlimKat, so you can revert all changes by sideloading Fire OS again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ponghclub:
[MENTION=275478]bingo[/MENTION] ...... it's good to know my firephone still lock so i have to keep the unlock code in save place.... again thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Will USB OTG work with CM?
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
This has been answered several times before
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Just to clarify things: You haven't used the code yet? Once you unlocked the phone, it will stay unlocked, no matter what OS you're using. ;)

Indeed... USB OTG won't work on any custom ROM on the Fire Phone, because Kernel modifications are needed. Locked Bootloader = stock Kernel only = no USB OTG.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
Hi!

Searching for a suitable camera app I tried Google camera from PlayStore during the weekend (2.5.052). Surprisingly the flashlight works without problems.

Two new issues: Now I have no location saved, although enabled. And the camera button still opens the CM11 cam and I didn't manage to change this.

Maybe someone else could try as well.

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] themo44:
Any alternatives to Snapchat camera?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Do you mean Snapchat or Snap Camera?

Snapchat alternative, use Casper.

Snap Camera alternatives and settings in this thread.
[Amazon Fire Phone] themo44:
Casper can get you banned I need a different alternative to snapchat
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Everyone knows but no one seems to care / stress about it (Casper had ~ 80.000 downloads in the last 30 days):

You already knew Casper, why ask for another alternative... it would face the same consequences as Casper. Logic'd, bruh.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adamx:
The flash works with no problems, or the flashlight. Just want to be clear. I tried google camera, and with exposure -2, any time I used the flash it was over exposed.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
No, I really meant the flashlight/exposure. I took some pictures yesterday evening and the flashlight worked as I expect it to. (Well, in this case I did NOT expect this ...) I didn't copy the files to my computer but on phone's display they looked quite good. Will test some more during the next days.

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] adamx:
In that case, I don't really understand what you are saying. Are you turning on the flashlight and then taking pictures?
[Amazon Fire Phone] plympton:
Hey all,

I have 2 fire phones both with the same CM11 build (latest). On 1, the camera is really funky - switching to the front camera will give "camera already open" errors, won't take video - just be glitchy.

On the other, life is fine. Same camera apps (open, Google are the 2 I like best).

Any ideas on what to try to fix it? The borked one is a daily driver for my neighbor. Should I just revert her to 4.6.3 stockish?

Is there an easy way to wipe yet preserve her stuff? (Contacts photos etc)?

Thanks!
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
I use Google photos. This backs up your photos for free

Are her contacts saved via Google account? If they are they will auto populate on the new device
[Amazon Fire Phone] Yobyot:
Amazon is replacing my phone due to a hardware issue. I have this ROM working perfectly. I'd love to just back it up and restore it on the replacement.

Does anyone know if that would work using Safestrap to backup the ROM and then restore it on the new phone?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Should work.

Had a similar scenario when I switched from the 32GB to the 64GB phone. I made a backup of system + data, rooted the new device, installed safestrap, flashed the SlimKat build (yes, from the zip file) and then restored my backup.

And of course the usual prep.: factory reset while in recovery / wipe, etc.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Anyone having issues with no data through AT&T with this newest rom version? I'm rarely not around wifi and noticed it a few days ago confirmed again today. Wifi is great, it's mobile data that isn't working. Again, just noticed it on this updated version. Apn is att phone. I think that's the default.

Any suggestions?

I just changed the apn to att lte and it's working now. Anyone else see anything like this? Will this apn limit 3g or 4g?

I was curious and switcher back to the att phone apn. Things are working fine now. I'm not sure what happened for toggling that brought it back to life, weird.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
No, I just took pictures with flashlight set to "automatic". Unfortunately it doesn't work any more after I tried to take a "panorama" picture. Google camera closed and wouldn't start any more, so I deleted cache and settings to get it work again. Since then pictures are much too bright, like noticed by others. Removing and installing the app again didn't make it better :(

As I couldn't get Google camera back to normal behaviour I now use OpenCamera again ...

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
I was browsing through my photos when the phone randomly rebooted. Should I be worried ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
WiFi will not stay turned off even when on airplane mode.

EDIT: Fixed the issue
[Amazon Fire Phone] fungo45:
Just installed CM11, and really liking it. Only issue I have is that my signal seems much weaker. Anyone else having this issue?

Also, any way to enable the camera quick launch button on the side of the phone?
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
That's great!

Both of your questions have been answered before.

"Search and you will find"

JC
[Amazon Fire Phone] adam.nox:
ggow have you ever used app ops [root]? It's pretty much my favorite app for taking control of what is happening on my phone. You download the installer (green hexagon shaped icon with android in the middle), and you reboot and then it works. But so far I can't get it to work on this rom. If you have any idea what to do, would appreciate it.

edit: working on figuring it out. The app itself doesn't get the SU prompt, which might be the problem, don't know.

edit: oh hey there's pretty much something just like it built into cm11. Have to admit I haven't used CM11 on a phone until now. I guess I don't need the others.

There's an app ops that has a cog for an icon, they appear to be almost identical, and wouldn't you know it, it doesn't work either.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- never used it, I had a look on google briefly and for unknown reasons it fails to work on some devices.
[Amazon Fire Phone] fungo45:
Thanks - thought I did a good search, but guess not. I did find a thread regarding the camera button that lead me to download Home2 Shortcut. That works for remapping the camera button to open the camera (or any other app, I think) with a long press.

I can't find anything on the reduced reception. I must not be searching the right words. Any guidance would be great
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
Try post 1214
[Amazon Fire Phone] adam.nox:
I just moved my phone to tracfone which is supposed to have LTE data, but I get no data icon in the notification bar at all, and the APN settings button is completely missing.

Something is horribly wrong here, any ideas?
[Amazon Fire Phone] yt400pmd:
Wipe and reload
[Amazon Fire Phone] adam.nox:
Well luckily I didn't need to do that, at least not yet.

I had to say "apn settings" or something into voice call, and then it let me get to the apn settings. I don't understand why lol. But I got it to work.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ken314stl:
Not sure if this is would be another work around for the mute button or not but I installed two apps that disable the mic all together mainly to keep apps from being able to use your mic. I ran a logcat when I disabled the mic and seen the command "adev_set_mic_mute state 1" and when I enabled the mic I seen the command "adev_set_mic_mute state 0". Does anyone know if/how these commands could be ran from the terminal? I would use the apps in question but I'm not too fond of them running as a service all the time. It would be nice to be able to just issue a command to turn the mic off and then issue another command to turn it back on using a solution such as GScript Lite or something like it to make a widget for each command.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
I am running this ROM for 2 days now. I use the camera and home button to lock and unlock my device. The signal works fine both on lte and 3g. No issues so far and the speed is fantastic
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Dated 2015-11-15

- Change log on post #2
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
I have a problem with Xposed (even experimental version 2.7) now: "Xposed is not (yet) compatible with Android SDK version 19."

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Did it happen after flashing 11/15? Xposed is fine for me but i havent updated yet.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
It was fine for me, too, and I had several modules working. I tried cm-11-20151115 just now and afterwards I got this error. Did a downgrade to 20151024 a few minutes ago and everything is working again.

Regards,

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I'll take a look to see which CM commit may be at fault.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Hmmm... Ill update and report back. Did you do anything special to downgrade or just flash the old firmware and reboot?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
I just flashed the older version of CM11 and did a reboot.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ezavod:
Hello community,

I just played around with the NFC functionality of the FirePhone. I found by accident an interesting article by iFixit who teared down the phone. They mentioned the NFC chip number (Step 10: "NXP 47803 NFC controller") and linked chipworks page that says that the used chip is also build in "Samsung SM-G900S S5".

Luckily this device is officially supported by Cyanogenmod, so maybe its worth to have a look on the NFC inplementation on the Samsung device.

If this is not helpful, I also nodiced something else:

Android knows the NFC device of the phone as "/dev/pn544" (see 'file_contexts' line 66 in the kernel ramdisk) and can communicate over I2C (see 'init.target.rc' line 82: setprop ro.nfc.port "I2C").

After asking my favourite internet search engine I found a well written documentaion of how to port pn5xx drivers to Android. This Guide is written by the manufacturer NXP so its probably reliable.

As far as I understand chapter "3. AOSP adaptation" is the most interesting one because the kernel drivers are alredy build in, are they?

I hope this will help to bring this incredible project as small step ahead.

Thank you ggow:good:
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Really? I tried the same thing and still got the error. Then I tried uninstalling xposed and it booted me to stock recovery and still didnt create a disabler zip. So now I'm in the process of transferring a nandroid backup to my phone to flash it.

Is that all you did? Can you tell me what version you have--v32? Anything else? Thanks

EDIT-Nevermind. thought you were referring to a fix for xposed but you were talking about installing older fw. Sorry
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
Latest update is as stable as last one. Thnk you for making my fire phone my daily driver
[Amazon Fire Phone] kallsop:
To update to the newest cm11 but keep apps and data in place, is it:

boot into Safestrap, backup, load cm11, restore
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- To update, just flash the ROM over the last and reboot
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
And don't forget to wipe Cache and Dalvik when it get's offered after flashing (to avoid problems with apps FC, etc.).
[Amazon Fire Phone] dark_prince:
Just a question, is USB OTG supported with CM11 or is it the limitation from amazon sources?
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Installing now. :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] kallsop:
Thanks all, it's my wife's phone, I like to keep it current with the latest OS.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
No USB OTG support due to Kernel limitations, so "even" Fire OS users can not enjoy it. :(
[Amazon Fire Phone] topcaser:
Hi, I can also not install xposed. I did a fresh install with CM11 built from 15.11. Where do I find the working version from 14.11.? The download link in the OP directs to 15.11.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Look on the change log all the versions are linked there.
[Amazon Fire Phone] happydad4130:
I also can't get xposed back on does not support SDK 19?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ponghclub:
thanks.....you guy are great just flash the update Rom today......cheer.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I'll looking into what broke Xposed - I'm guessing there is a commit in CM that has caused this.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperCana:
Any way we could get Android M? I'd be willing to donate :')
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
It needs an Android M based Fire OS version (for the Fire Phone)

or

an unlocked bootloader (in order to allow a different Kernel, etc.) for that to happen...
[Amazon Fire Phone] arvindkonar:
i sent a message to Amazon.

Will the amazon fire phone get fire OS 5.0 update?

Reply:

Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the delay! Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any information regarding device compatibility and future releases through this support channel. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you!

I am not sure we are gonna get unlocked bootloader or new Fire OS for this phone. Unless they come out with Fire Phone 2 ;)
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Doubt amazon will make a new phone for a long time, if ever. They are bringing os 5 to as many devices as possible but thats probably because they can sell more content on kindles and streaming boxes. My feelings are they sold this phone to 3rd party sellers and want little to do with it. If thats the case, the least they could do is release all source code so someone else can do something that amazon couldn't be bothered with.
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
You are correct, other ROMs built upon latest builds of CM11 are having the same problem:

Xposed for android 4.4.4 not working anymore + FIX

By robuser007, Senior Member on 15th November 2015, 07:21 PM

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/xposed-android-4-4-4-t3249895
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Thank you, will do another release as soon as humanly possible :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] xamar:
This rom works pretty well for me and its fairly stable.

The only deal breaker being the camera issues with other apps. Office Lens that I use to scan papers, Whatsapp to link the app with the web interface, Barcode, etc.. I rely on these apps a lot and this is the only thing that keeps me from using the Amazon Fire as my main phone.

Anyhow, kudos for ggow (and other developers involved) for his/their efforts :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Dated 2015-11-19

- Change log on Post #2
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Thanks a lot ggow! I noticed your recent work on the new kindle--you've been busy so this is a nice surprise. ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
Flashed it, rebooted, installed Xposed, rebooted - and here we go ...

:) I know why I sent you some coffee
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
Today i got this message. Please someone explain what is this
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Never seen that before

- Could it be you have spyware?
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
I installed avg avast and another app to scan for malware after seeing this message. They could not find nothing unusual. Should I be worried or should I do a fresh install.could you please recommend a good app to scan my phone for malware?

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Which version of xposed did you install i would like to give it a try. I have never used it before
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Never had any need to use one

- Maybe someone else can help here
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
I use Lookout Mobile Security.

If that doesn't work for you try Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
I'm using de.robv.android.xposed.installer 2.6.1
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
I will try lookout now. I used malwarebytes anti malware first thing when I saw that msg.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zabihjan:
I tried 8 different apps and all could not find nothing. If I get that message again then I will do a full clean install
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Try uninstalling any "fishy" apps that are installed. If that doesn't work, do a clean install of CM.