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[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Our bootloader on the Fire Phone is locked and locked down quite tight as it were. The Samsung S3 has a bootloader unlock available which is a game changer when it comes to running custom roms.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
True, a "tutorial" won't hurt, making an illustrated guide or a short video is also an option and the Teamviewer remote plugin works on this device (but still, he'd have to finish the flashing process by himself) ... and ggow really released a new build, huehuehue, at this point it's just bragging how fast the Skylake can compile... :laugh:
[Amazon Fire Phone] rjmohit:
Thank you so so so much! :D
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Not using the skylake machine yet, pcspecialist seem to think there is a hardware fault on my unit. I'm working out of a temporary machine until it's sorted or it goes back and I choose another machine. It seems I'm not the only one with the issue.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Thanks for the update on this rom. Oddly enough when I did a dirty flash I was prompted for the CM11 initial setup. That's a first for me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] dato02:
same here. also my device froze for some odd reason when in the wizard so i had to force reboot. no freeze on second bootup tho ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
That is strange, I'll look to see what changes were made. Other than that everything else seem OK?
[Amazon Fire Phone] dato02:
it's fine for me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Yeah, so far everything is fine. Nothing out of the ordinary, but then again it's only been an hour or two. I'll give it a day or two and report back if anything is off to me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] toussaintjames:
oh dam...:( ok thanks alot for explaining
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
Any chance of adding the new CM Snap Camera?

Used in on my N4 and N5X and its a good camera.

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android/commit/57c4ce6d77f5f3b9a1cf00daebb1995e3213517f
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
It would require "a little bit" of extra work to create a compatible version and I think it uses some additional libs as well.

Cyanogen Camera would be the next best thing, but it needs to be modified / updated as well, you remember the view finder problem... ;)

Maybe if we put a bounty on it, but 9/10 coder will scoff at it when they read for which device it is requested. ^^

The cam is quite fast compared to the others and image processing is also very pleasing...
[Amazon Fire Phone] Alfre97:
Help

Can anybody show where I can download the Feb 2 version? :o
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
You can find all downloads in this post, just click on the desired date and you will be forwarded to the download page.

(There is no Feb. 2nd release, just Feb. 3rd and 16th.)
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Cyanogen Camera is closed source so no modding of this will be possible by anyone except Cyanogen Inc, Snap camera (based off Snapdragon Camera app) requires lollipop minimum (sdk21) so probably a no go for our kitkat roms.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
S#it, that's right, I mixed it up with Snapdragon Camera (more like, I was "fooled" by an apk, I still had on my PC) which only needs a min. SDK 14. ^^
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
I have made extensive changes to alarms, wakelocks and the like using third party programs like Amplify as well as using tools like greenify and the like. If I dirty flash the newest ROM from the 2016-2-03 release or just dirty flash in general will I have to re-apply these changes or have to reinstall apps or re-approve supersu for apps or just need to do any kind of reconstruction or is it seemless?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
The theory is it should be seemless, most apps store their settings in the /data partition or on the /sdcard. Take a backup if your unsure.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
This time I forgot to wipe dalvik cache and my ringtones are still active. Having to re-set them was the only thing I've ever noticed. E. g. did Amplify never lose it's settings during a flash in the past.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
Theres a number of apps, ringtone packs and wallpapers on bit.ly/makostuff if anyone wants them. I keep the latest stable supersu zip and Viper4Android as well.
[Amazon Fire Phone] adeebulrehman:
After dirty flash Promoted for initial setup, downloaded languages, But it is awesome. Good Battery life, flawless operation.
[Amazon Fire Phone] xwin01:
For me the latest flash has worse battery life than the one before it - cm-11-20160310-UNOFFICIAL-kodiak. Other than that and initial setup I dont see any issues. The CM11 launcher was a bit sluggish at first but after that it is just like before.
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Thanks ggow. When I get time I'll give it a shot and report back.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
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[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
I find it so odd how the same builds have different batter life for different people.
[Amazon Fire Phone] bigrammy:
Could anything be done with the oppo camera mod http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/themes-apps/port-coloros-camera-cm11s-t3030369 same SoC version as our phone.

Apologies if it's already been explored but just incase it got missed. :o

It's not a problem for me as I have snap camera (paid version) which seems to be working fine for me (I just do some quick snaps etc nothing major) :good:
[Amazon Fire Phone] xwin01:
I can confirm my statement. I reverted to the 20160310 rom and after 6 hours just sitting on the table battery is down 1%. Signal is 4 bars so the phone does not have to work hard. With newer rom, battery was consumed at a rate about 0.6% an hour. This is may not be big deal for most people but I would prefer longer battery life when phone is not used, since I don't use the cell phone much. Anyway the new rom was as stable as the previous one but one package was added to it. When davic cache is reset, the OS would optimize 99 packages with 20160310 build and 100 packages with the 20160317 build.
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
Thanks for your testing. I have also noticed that the battery life had improved on the 10 Mar 2016 release from prior ones, but my evaluation was more subjective. Considering the dirty flash and battery life issue, I plan on skipping the 17 Mar 2016 release.

It's always amazing to me how many people always clamor for the latest build, that contains minor, mostly insignificant security fixes. What is in the latest build, is a crap load of relatively untested, unrelated to our device, changes still flowing into the CM-11 tree. I wish someone would create a CM-11 tree stable, with only security and critical bug fixes only like they have the Linux kernel long term release series, that ggow could pull for his Fire Phone CM-11 ROM releases. I use my Fire Phone 3 - 4 hours a day over Wi-Fi and my friend uses her phone as her daily driver, so I place stability and battery life high on my list of priorities when ggow build's a new release for us. I definitely give the 10 Mar 2016 release two thumbs up!
[Amazon Fire Phone] Surmisation:
wifi keeps losing connectivity. Requires a toggle every ten minutes.

Anyone else experiencing WiFi issues?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ponghclub:
same here... same build different out come i fell the 10/17 improve better battery life but if i play game it doesn't make any difference
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
What build are you using? I have been using the 10 Mar 2016 build with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi with no issues. In fact, I have never had any connectivity issues with these ROMs over Wi-Fi.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Surmisation:
Problems started occurring on MAR 10 build and are ongoing in the MAR 17 build.

I updated my router firmware, and set a static route to the phone.

While the router itself delivers good speeds, its DHCP component has caused issues in past instances.

Will report back in a few.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Google Drive gives me an error every time I try to update it
[Amazon Fire Phone] ipdev:
Normally an sd card issue. On other devices simply unmounting the sd card works. Not sure on this one. Search other xda forums for this error and you can find a few different solutions, or attempted solutions.

(Seems to be affecting a lot of different devices.)
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
I have 12 GB available, that shouldn't be the problem
[Amazon Fire Phone] ipdev:
http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/help/getting-error-code-963-907-play-store-t3119007/
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
I've done the steps listed on there, now I get Error Code RH-01.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ipdev:
Wait a little while and reboot again. (Worked once for me on a Samsung tab.)

I have gotten this error on a few other devices when I installed an older gapps. (Seems to be an error given when some part of gapps is updating? or hanging?)

When I am impatient, or waiting doesn't work, I reboot into twrp and reinstall gapps. (More than likely you will run into your original download problem.)

---- Just ran across a note.

Settings - Google - Remove account. Reboot and log back into google.

Seems this worked for me before. ( I have it circled in my notes. Yes I still have paper notes..)
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Having problems with keeping default apps selected. When I select a phone number in Google Calendar it asks me to set the default app. I select dialer and select "always". I try it again and same message. Its like the default app trigger isn't working. This has been happening since a couple months ago and am just now getting around to trying to fix this problem. This problem only happens when there is more than 1 app that can be used to default to. I dirty flashed to 3-10-2016 version and that didn't fix it. I have turned off all 3rd party apps and disabled Xposed and still problem. I downloaded 3rd party app defaults apps and tried to set default apps within the app but problem persists. I must of done something to break this but not sure what. Does anyone have any suggestions?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Runner_cz:
I have found an interesting thing about the speed and benchmarks.

Current stock ROM 4.6.6 gives about 5% better benchmarks in AnTuTu than the most recent versions of the CM11 on our device. I wals looking into it and noticed that the difference is always by the "Dalvik" performance - it's always about 30% less on CM11 vs stock.

Does anybody know why is this and how can it be set the same way as on the stock?

PS: BTW, does anybody know if the stock 4.6.6 FW uses Dalvik or ART? Just a thought this may be the cause...
[Amazon Fire Phone] Skeeterdrums:
Interested to see what you find. Had some interesting issues where the phone isn't detecting certain Wifi networks that other devices can detect.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Surmisation:
My situation is looking far from over. While internet connectivity drops are decreased since assigning the static route, they're still occurring. I may try a 30-30-30 reset to see if that helps (in past experience it hasn't).

In other years, I might have flashed DD-WRT. But that comes with its own set of issues.

As for your phone not seeing SSIDs, quite strange. But then again, networking is so complex. The module on the phone may not be seeing the broadcast from a different manufacturer's module on the router. Sometimes encryption gets outta whack. Other times devices simply error out on connection. Sometimes HW, sometimes SW, sometimes one device, sometimes both.
[Amazon Fire Phone] lh94:
My battery barely lasts half a day. Back when I was using FireOS or the earlier version of CM11, it lasted almost a full day. Anyone has any suggestion? Is there a way to find out if it's just my phone or the OS itself?

On a side note, has anyone figured out how to use Skype on this thing yet? If not, is there an alternative to Skype? Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Tbh. even "almost a full day" sounds not too good, how heavy is your usage? Lots of gaming and video binge watching? ;)

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You mean video calls in Skype, I suppose? Not possible, maybe not ever, because:

3rd party apps like QR & barcode scanners, Snapchat, Skype, Whatsapp (the "Whatsapp Web" feature in particular) suffer from the problem mentioned above.

NO custom ROM for the Fire Phone can use those apps. Even some alternative cameras are not suitable, a few work fairly well, considering the circumstances...

Btw. is anyone using the latest version of Casper on CM, SlimKat or Fire Nexus and is the in-app camera feature still working?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
Bingo, how do you keep from developing a severe case of the weltschmerz?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Picture me like this, only next to a computer screen. :laugh:

[IMG="Aaayyyyy Tonyyy!"]http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-31-2015/cu1Imk.gif[/IMG]

(pretty sure I violated a couple of forum rules just now ^^)
[Amazon Fire Phone] lqtdc:
hey ggow do you know is cyanogenmod is going to support AT&T wifi calling? and if you are going to supported in this build??
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I think AOSP hasn't got support for AT&T wifi calling as of yet.

- T-Mobile Wifi calling is supported in AOSP as of lollipop 5.1.1 branch.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
Yeah, I think the Project Fi carriers are supported.
[Amazon Fire Phone] meranaamjoker:
My phone shuts down by itself- wrong battery % read??

I am on the latest ROM 20160317. For some reason, my phone gets powered off quite frequently. I can restart only after connecting to power socket. For some reason, the battery % it reads is wrong. After I connect to power socket, it shows what it was originally after 2-3 seconds then it can restart. Its probably reading it as 0% and shutting down by itself I guess. Did anyone face this?
[Amazon Fire Phone] azirgi:
I'm using the March 10th version..., battery performance is rock solid. Even much better than any other versions I could remember...

I hope the same thing is true about March 17th version?
[Amazon Fire Phone] charly394:
I'm on the latest build with dirty flash and for me there are no problems so far. I have a very simple app list with no Google Apps installed.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
Same here with Gapps Pico and a whole bunch of apps.

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] german_psycho:
First, thanks for the great work.

I am new to Fire Phone (or better say, the phone is for my wife). I am struggling a bit with FireOS and would like to try out this CM11 build.

From what I read, I root the phone (already did that), install Safestrap and then flash the ROM, right? I mainly flashed MTK devices before this, so it seems a little different this time.. But I'll figure it out by reading the guides.

My main concern is: Can I revert back to stock ROM (FireOS) if I don't like this ROM or it doesn't suit my needs?

Where can I download the Stock ROM and/or is there also a guide reverting to it?

Thanks!
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Yes, you can revert back to Fire OS if you don't like CM. There are Safestrap flashable stock images at http://xdaforums.com/fire-phone/development/safestrap-v4-flashable-stock-image-t3150531
[Amazon Fire Phone] Nobuddy0816:
First root your phone, second install safestrap (TWRP). Before you do anything else, perform a backup from your stock-rom and keep it on the phone!!

After that, perform a factory reset within safe strap (!) and then you can flash (install) the cm11-rom and play around with it.

If you want to revert back to stock, you simply perform a factory reset within safe strap and recover the backup you made and all will be fine!
[Amazon Fire Phone] mettoi:
Fire phone and quick charge

Does fire phone support quick charge?
[Amazon Fire Phone] lawbarb:
I'm on the 17/3 build, anyone having problems with the headphone jack? I'm not getting any audio output if I don't have the cable (tried two AUX, a pair of earphones, and a pair of headphones) plugged in from startup. I cleaned the jack with compressed air with no change. The phone recognizes that the earphones et al are plugged in, but like I said, only functions if they are present when I turn the phone on. It even stops working if they get unplugged at any point.

No, it does not.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
No, I've been using the earbuds that come with the Fire Phone. They work just fine for me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Runner_cz:
Small bug-report: in the quick settings in notifications panel there is no way to setup the network mode switch for 4G. Only 2G and 3G in all combinations are avaliable. 4G is missing.

CM11 10.03.16
[Amazon Fire Phone] lqtdc:
i can't use google now launcher with the last build. any work around?
[Amazon Fire Phone] mpces:
I usually use Nova Launcher, but Google Now Launcher works fine, just tried it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DatwasEz:
Im on February 16 build and I'm using my iphone earphones. With Apollo music player it doesn't recognise if its plugged in. I restart phone try tune-in radio and it works really strange with iphone earphones only.
[Amazon Fire Phone] lqtdc:
i am using pico gapps. that could be the problem?
[Amazon Fire Phone] DatwasEz:
I'm using pico too and I upgraded to cm-11-20160317-UNOFFICIAL-kodiak, kindle-35.4.6.6_user_466000820-1.bin, open_gapps-arm-4.4-pico-20160331. If my earphones unplug and I try to replug them in, only the speakers work not the earphones. I'm using iphone earphones, If I restart my phone and try again it usually fixes it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
I've had the same issue with headphones since day one. Including on FireOS. I think it's a design flaw with the phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
Hmm, I have no problems neither with the original earphones nor with "no name" ones.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
Interesting, I wonder if it's a certain manufacturing run. I've seen many forum posts about it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
Camera KK for CM-11 Fire Phone flash pictures

I am always experimenting with camera apps on my CM-11 Fire Phone to see which ones work and those that don't. Most just lock-up after launch and the ones that work, over-expose flash shots, except for Snap Camera HDR with the 'Zero Shutter Lag' option. The base issue with flash pictures under CM-11 with the Fire OS's binary camera support seems to be a matter of timing between the flash firing and the camera shutter. That's why the 'Zero Shutter Lag' option works with Snap Camera HDR.

After experimenting with Camera KK by Moblynx, I have found another camera app that works good for low-light flash pictures and it's free for most of it's essential features. Removal of a bottom banner ad, Live FX photos (12 effects), and Pebble smartwatch support are a $1.99 in-app purchase (which I went ahead and purchased). All the non-flash front camera, back camera, and video modes work great with this app. If you take a standard flash shot, it will still be over-exposed, like the ones shot with Open Camera. To fix this with Camera KK, under the flash options select the 'TORCH' option. This leaves the LED flash lit and your flash pictures are now properly exposed and you get red-eye reduction as a bonus. To turn off the LED flash, just select one of the other flash settings. I also tried Camera M by the same developer, but it fails on launch with the error message, "Camera error - Can't connect to the camera."

I hope everyone enjoys checking out Camera KK, it's a really good camera app and another option to use for low-light CM-11 Fire Phone flash photography.

P.S. - I just discovered that Open Camera by Mark Harman, a totally free camera app, also has a 'Torch' flash setting and works as well as KK Camera using this mode. I still prefer the 'cleaner' minimalist interface of KK Camera though.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DatwasEz:
wow great to know thanks, maybe I got lucky and have a design flaw phone either way not a deal breaker. I barely found out about this about 6 months into this phone. I love it especially with GG's improvements. Thanks for all of you're responses all!
[Amazon Fire Phone] Sn33z3x:
How to boot to stock recovery while it shows only amz logo and we can't remove battery to restart phone at all?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Hold the power button until the phone switches off

- Then power on the phone whilst holding the volume up button
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Got my laptop back from the retailer, so hoping new release should be out today.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Sn33z3x:
I've got into stock recovery as you had said. I see 4 options but dont know how to "sideload FireOS .bin through Amazon's stock recovery to recover" :confused: :confused: :confused:
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Select 'Apply update from ADB'

- Then from your PC use the command (where update.bin is your amazon stock firmware file)

adb sideload update.bin
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Fantastic news for all of us! :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Dated 07 April 2016

- April 2016 Security Patches Included

- Updated CM Code
[Amazon Fire Phone] Sn33z3x:
All i have to do is running "cmd" in Run and type "adb sideload update.bin"? no extra file on PC and phone needed?

After doing this, my phone will run on stock rom without any apps or data?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Can we PLEASE end this Q&A session inside a ROM thread?

Read this thread: Back to Fire OS

Post #14 explains ADB in detail: how to connect & recognize the device, ADB commands...

Please, actually read it, it will tell you everything that is needed: ADB, sideloading, recovery, images, etc.

And if you don't like reading and prefer moving pictures: Youtube offers a variety of video guides on how to set up ADB and use CMD.

I doesn't matter if the phone is soft-bricked, a boot loop occurs, Safestrap is unavailable, or if the user wants / needs to go back to Fire OS:

The thread linked above offers a solution to multiple problems and contains enough information about setting up the environment properly.

And yes, sideloading a factory image will lead to a freshly factory reseted device with stock OS & stock apps...
[Amazon Fire Phone] Surmisation:
Tight work jefe

Prompter than Google themselves :good::good:
[Amazon Fire Phone] Larz2.2:
Project Fi Data-only SIM ... it works great!

Just FYI: I have a Google 5x and run Project Fi. I ordered a data-only SIM for tablets and inserted it into my Fire phone. Fortunately I kept the (SIM) unlock code that came with the Ebay ordered phone -- because the phone asks for it. It's working great on LTE.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
A HA! I knew deep down you had a breaking point and would eventually succumb to the weltschmerz!! :highfive:
[Amazon Fire Phone] tarnyc:
Thanks ggow

I've been using this build for a few months now, this is my first time posting. Thank you ggow for your continued dedication :good:

I am a brokeass student, but if you somehow find a way to get the camera fully function I swear I'll send you money.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
Do a search in this thread for snapcamera. Install it and disable the one option. Camera works well that way.
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
I updated all three of my Fire phones to the latest 2016-04-07 release and they have all been working flawlessly. Once again, great work ggow! Like others dirty flashing their phones to the 2016-03-17 build (which I skipped), I was prompted for the CM-11 initial setup when I rebooted the phone. While redoing this short initial setup is not a big deal, I was curious if users updating to 2016-04-07 from the 2016-03-17 build were also prompted for the initial setup? It would be interesting to know if this is a one-time occurrence for anyone upgrading from a 2016-03-10 and earlier ROM build, or we should start expecting to see this behavior every time we update to a later ROM?
[Amazon Fire Phone] tarnyc:
The yes I use snap camera with no shutter lag. Pictures look great. I meant apps that use the camera like qr readers, Skype,,etc. Or hdr... If ggow could figure that out this would be flawless.
[Amazon Fire Phone] charly394:
I updated to current from 03-17 and I think there was no inital setup any more. So I think this was a one-time thingy.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I dirty flashed the new version and didn't see the initial setup wizard. Unsure of the cause on your devices. I'll do a clean flash of an older version and then do some upgrades. I'll let you know if I find a cause.