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[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
It's a very known issue with cameras, HDR is not working.

You can flash SuperSU from the zip ggow provides in the original post. Just reboot to recovery, flash the zip and it's done.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gunslingerfry:
Compared to my laggy constantly killing apps while I use them piece of crap s6 edge, it's blazing fast. Seriously. I bought this phone because the s6 was driving me bananas and, other than the few issues that people have mentioned here, I could not be happier with my purchase.
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
Thanks for the reply. The link that ggow provides is to another xda thread and it suggests installing SuperSU via the Playstore is even easier the installing it via the pack's DL link (so that's what I did and of course it didn't work). After downloading the SuperSU pack and flashing it within recovery all is good.

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] onlyifuknewme:
Having issues with WIFI

I just flashed latest ROM. Have done several factory resets and have reflashed ROM several times as well but wifi will not connect. I'm getting "Authentication problem". All my other devices hook up to my router without a problem. Any ideas???
[Amazon Fire Phone] chris_ds:
If I wipe out the system directory to flash the mini gapps, do I have to reinstall all apps and set all my settings again?
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Which gapps do you have now?-is it HD nexus gapps that were originally suggested? If so you really don't need the a clean install. Just wipe dalvik cache & cache. Then flash mini gapps.

If you want PA gaps that involves a clean install and using the clean system partition zip that ggow included.

When you do need to do a clean install I'd suggest titanium backup to restore user apps.
[Amazon Fire Phone] slxar:
Is there any limitation on 5g wifi?

I just flash this rom and found that I cannot connect to 5g wifi any more

I am using channel 149 before that have no problem
[Amazon Fire Phone] sharingan18:
Selling mine---$55 obo

So I had it for 5 days and its been rooted and flashed with CM11.

This was intended for my dad but he's hard of hearing and the volume is not loud enough for him.... so I got no choice but to sell it.

I already placed a Glass screen cover and bought the spigen case.

I'm willing to ship it to you for $55 or best offer. private message me and we get do it over paypal.
[Amazon Fire Phone] guliver365:
PM Sent
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
I have 2 different xposed mods. One makes the status and nav bars transparent. The other hides softkeys. It makes for a nice clean home screen but still wind up with the black nav bar in app drawer and web browser. Does the above method (edit build.prop) completely remove the black bar on all screens? Do the soft keys come up when you tap the bottom?

That's what I want. Not sure I want only gestures but do want to see the full screen. Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] mhill1986:
One other option

Editing the build prop completely gets rid of the navbar. Your screen shot seems to have a space at the bottom of the home screen that won't be there if you use the build prop method. Build prop method doesn't allow you touring up soft keys as far as I can tell.

I found an app that may do what you want. It is called GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. I tried it and it does seem to work well. Only problem is that it overrides the "swipe-from-bottom" back function of all in one gestures. You could, however, set "bottom left" or "bottom right" as your back gesture and it would work. Hope that helps.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jman315:
Try a channel in the 40's.
[Amazon Fire Phone] mhill1986:
One more thing

Okay, so I did find that, in the above app, you can shrink and move the little glowing bar that you tap to bring up the nav bar. I made it as small as it could go and moved it all the way to the left, and this enabled me to keep using swipe from the bottom to go back via all in one gestures. Something like this may be a good setup for you.
[Amazon Fire Phone] king200:
A remote chance that crash of the services crasn.

I mention only from recollection of services crashing on another device because of the device identification. I don't remember it exactly. On a Nook HD+, when the identification ID was changed, some apps were indicated as not compatible. One app, Zinio, would not install with "Barnes and Noble ID" but would when that was changed to a Nexus device.

I don't know how to change device ID for Google. I'm guessing it it an edit in build.prop. You can know the id changed "Account Permissions - Account Settings" https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions will change.

You revoke permissions and then when you use Google, you'll have to sign in and then see the new device again.
[Amazon Fire Phone] outbackvandy:
I rooted using KingRoot. After I installed CM11, I never got SuperSU working. Root seems to be lost. I tried to use Kingroot app on the phone and it doesn't work.

How to get root back?

Thanks
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
Download the SuperSU zip file from the OP and run it in Safestrap.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Thanks for sharing! Gonna try it. So does the app also work in web browser? Remember using something awhile back similar to what you described and not only did it hide softkeys and eliminate bar but resizing the icons was doable. That'd be perfect. Maybe its just me but fire phone is really responsive (a good thing) but sometimes gestures get triggered too easily. Eventually I know I'll try editing the build.prop but think my personal preference is to still have those soft keys accessible. Just hate the way they rob you of screen space. Thanks again!
[Amazon Fire Phone] transentient:
You have safestrap on your phone now, so you can root it by putting the SuperSu package on your phone, then booting into recovery mode and flashing it along with ggow's rom and whatever gapps package you are using.

i.e. you do not have to use a tool like kingroot to crack root again, you can just load the permissions as you boot up.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Rick949:
Gesture typing on the AOSP android keyboard

Any chance this can be fixed? I'm using the 7/15/2015 build.

I got around the problem by using SwiftKey, so it's not a big problem. I'm just used to the default AOSP keyboard.

Maybe there's a missing library somewhere?

Some other notes about the ROM:

1. I'm using SnapCamera for the camera app. Camera button's working again!

2. I do occasionally get the Google Play service crash.

3. I flashed the Google Play minimal zip file. However, to get a calendar working I had to use the "Calendar from Android 4.4" from the Play store. When I try installing the Google Calendar app I get the "incompatible with other application(s) using the same shared user ID" error. If I want the Google Calendar app, do I have to flash a different Google Apps zip?

Overall it's a much better phone now. Thanks for the doing this ROM ggow. It's much appreciated!
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
Is anyone else having issues having their PC access the phone's internal storage after the CM11 flash? Before the flash, my PC had no issues seeing the Fire Phone. After the flash I can not get it to show the drive. It recognizes it and I hear the "bong" when I attach it via USB, but no storage icon shows up under "My Computer." I've checked this with both USB debugging on an off on two separate PCs. Neither will give me access to the phone's internal storage.

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] cdudeman:
This is from the second post in this thread.

Question 2:

My phone doesn't show up when connecting via USB, what's going on?

Answer

- This may help

- Go into Settings->Storage

- Click on the 3 vertical dots in the top right corner

- Select "USB computer connection"

- Then select Connect as "Media device (MTP)"

- Your phone should then appear as a Media Device
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
I had a similar issue and had to use the actual USB cable that came with the Fire phone. When I switched it out my PC saw the phone with CM11.
[Amazon Fire Phone] outbackvandy:
awesome. that works. Thank you!!

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Thanks! It works.

After I reflashed everything (mini gapps), google now launcher is not longer available. I downloaded another google now launcher from Play Store, it doesn't work.

How to get 'Google Now' launcher working in CM11?

Thanks.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Alexander_DeLarge:
Is anyone having issues with Hangouts over VOIP giving them an echo? I can make voice calls just fine, but VOIP is giving an echo even with headphones in so I know it's not the hardware.
[Amazon Fire Phone] bhaputi:
Android Wear

Good stuff. I am up and running great, with the exception of Android wear. I have an LG g watch, and the devices can see each other via bluetooth, but android wear does not see the watch. Could it just be a Bluetooth version issue maybe?

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What do you mean by "it doesn't work"?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Could you send me some logs of scanning etc when your trying to connect to the watch?
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Is this what you mean? That's as much as it let's me shrink it without pro and if it has to be there I'd prefer the center (just a preference) I could live with it being there just not crazy about the color and I can't change it. But wanted to confirm this is the glow bar you mentioned...
[Amazon Fire Phone] mhill1986:
Yeah, that's it. I agree, I wish the free version gave control of the color/transparency, but it does the job, I guess.
[Amazon Fire Phone] appelsaft:
Great job. Works fine. Just play service stops sometimes.
[Amazon Fire Phone] chris_ds:
Yes I installed the HD nexus gapps. Cleaning the cache sounds pretty good, will test it this evening.
[Amazon Fire Phone] wjchen0:
Get reboot when try to uninstall this cm11 theme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tung91.lconcept.

The log is here http://pastebin.com/DL2cXp3t
[Amazon Fire Phone] emgee28:
Hi Guys.. What happened with Bluetooth tethering? When in FireOS this was not available.. I thought by getting CM this function would be available.. Any workaround?
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
My LG G watch works perfectly. Have you tried factory resetting your watch and trying to reconnect?
[Amazon Fire Phone] claywd:
Lovin it

Thank you, now my phone will actually last through the day and act dependably and responsibly. Only issues I can report are that the camera still has trouble in some apps like Office Lens and various bluetooth devices don't communicate well, ie. fitbit surge. It syncs data but the app could never get notifications turned on in the bluetooth settings.

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I had to install google play frameworks and services. Frameworks I downloaded for the Amazon FireOS backin February and found by googling, "Get google play on Amazon Fire Phone". The Services I downloaded from the google play store. :) after installing both I am good to go rocking that google now launcher. ps: it should work with just Google Play Services from the store.

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I was thinking about the bootloader earlier and found this. http://www.unlock-bootloader.info/mp3-0/amazon-fire-phone-6453.html.

It takes you through the steps to unlock the bootloader. Any chance you know how to make this a flashable zip from recovery?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
This page about the bootloader you link looks like spam to me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
Any news on how the camera fix is coming along dev??
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
Thanks for this response. Turning on MTP access did the trick.

smithmal

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Anyone know if CM11 allows you to control how your LED charge light is used? I'm not seeing any options for this in the settings menu. I know in some of some of the Lollipop ROMS that I have used you can control how and when the LED charge light is used and even what color is displayed. Not sure if this is also true with KK ROMs.

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] axel2230:
This isn't legit, it's a hoax. The webpage claims that the info comes from XDA but there are no links to the forums where it supposedly comes from. I also tried looking around the page and it seems incomplete/broken. It also claims that there is a 5.0 custom rom for our phone though it doesn't specify if its CM 12 or anything like that and the list of features apply to Lollipop in general not our phone. (Our phone wont get a 64 bit cpu upgrade with a custom rom) Last but not least the downloads are protected with scammy surveys.

P.S. I don't know everything but as far as I know there hasn't been a single bootloader unlock that can be flashed through recovery for any phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Camera fix is not going to be easy.

- What we really need is source code for the camera HAL from Amazon - not likely to see the light of day.

- I have seen lots of devices on xda in the same situation with custom ROMs where the camera is not working correctly.

- I also have not found any other android devices using the Omnivision 680 Image Processor.

- I continue to investigate.
[Amazon Fire Phone] outbackvandy:
Original HDX Gapps includes 'Google Now Launcher', the new mini gapps does not.

After google now launcher is downloaded from google play store, it does not show up on the list of available launchers.
[Amazon Fire Phone] axel2230:
The fire phone doesn't have a notification light so the option won't appear in settings. The LED charge light option uses the notifications light. I attached a sample notification light from the nexus 5 as an example. Normally smartphones come with 2 LEDs: the camera flash LED and a small front facing RGB LED that is used for notifications and to show the if the phone is charging. The fire phone doesn't have that RGB LED. I hope this clarifies things a little.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Peterpaulmarie:
Awesome work! Thanks so much. Little donation send.

Any possibility to get USB OTG working?

Thanks again!
[Amazon Fire Phone] alfick3:
See post above yours on the notification LED
[Amazon Fire Phone] axel2230:
USB OTG is disabled in the Kernel. The Kernel can't be modified until the boot loader is unlocked. There ain't a boot loader unlock as of now.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
I'm having the same exact issue and error message with the calendar, were you ever able to find a solution? I really like Googles calendar more than any other in the Play store.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I solved this by downloading and installing Google Calendar from apkmirror.

- After that it seemed to upgrade just fine from google play store
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
The Dell Venue 8 7000 uses the OV680 ISP too.
[Amazon Fire Phone] cdudeman:
Not sure if it would help but there are some open source kernel files for that tablet.

http://opensource.dell.com/releases/Venue_8_7840_Moorefield/developer-edition/4.X/
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Hi cdudeman, sergio687 thanks for that.

- I saw that device

- It uses an intel processor

- It's not really the kernel source files I'm after

- In an ideal world it's the camera HAL source files that enable interfacing to the kernel from userspace that I need.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Rick949:
That worked for me as well.

Thanks ggow.
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
Me too , cheers
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
Very helpful thanks. Is there a setting to get the Notification light to turn on when the phone is being charged? I'm not seeing it in Settings.

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
There is not any notification light in the Fire Phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] v6ser:
Which means unlocking the bootloader would be another solution to this.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I'm not sure about unlocking the bootloader been a solution

- The only code we have is amazon's/omnivision's open source kernel driver

- I suppose if we can refactor this kernel side driver to conform to a more generic CAF camera interface implementation it could be possible that unlocking the bootloader may be helpful.
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
Hi , loving this ROM , my phone is now a butterfly and before was a caterpillar :).

Do I have to do anything to stop Amazon updating anything or is it now out of their reach ? Sorry I am a bit of a rusty old timer here .

Thanks
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
Completely out of their reach :) Just enjoy - it truly is the perfect rom for this hardware.
[Amazon Fire Phone] axel2230:
No, you are OK as long as you don't return to stock rom. If you do return to stock rom then avoid connecting to wifi or cellular data to avoid getting an updte. I'm quite impressed that you managed to install this rom.
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
Woah, step back a little. While it's amazing, especially it's all done by one dev, it's far from perfect. Weird Play Store crashes, worse camera quality, complete lack of camera in-app (which makes banking apps less useful, no QR code scanning), no NFC (I love me some Google Wallet), and other small quirks make this nice, but far from perfect.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
I'm having some audio issues. If I get a phone call when I'm using the headphone jack, I remove the cable then answer the phone. But it seems the phone still wants to send audio to the headphone jack. Figured out I need to press the sound icon to change it. If I don't, the caller can hear me but I can't hear them.

Also, if I'm listening to audio in my car through headphone jack, then I stop the car to go into a store or something, when I return the playback will go to the phone's speaker not headphone jack. I need to reboot to get it working right. This could be a conflict between my cars Bluetooth (telephone only) and the headphones. Not certain.

I just thought I'd share to see if anyone else is having issues like these.
[Amazon Fire Phone] kiran1906:
Try installing Google search along with it and run
[Amazon Fire Phone] claywd:
Hmm... I tracked the file they offer for downloading back to the nexus five bootloader unlocking tool. Had someone already tried that to see if it works?
[Amazon Fire Phone] gunslingerfry:
The Nexus 5 is a developer phone. It's designed to be unlocked and messed around with. The fire phone was designed with the opposite in mind. The tool will not work.
[Amazon Fire Phone] natter_deluxe:
Has anyone already gathered some experience in order to compare average power consumption of FireOS vs. CM11 in his 'normal' daily usage?

Thx.
[Amazon Fire Phone] neverborn:
What's the correct way of wiping the phone after CM11 (and GApps, and SuperSU) has been set up previously?

Is it through the Factory data reset option, or should it be done in with Safestrap's Wipe option?

If it's the latter do I need to flash the CM11 again?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
If your looking to setup from fresh again then:

- Factory reset from Safestrap

- Flash CleanSystemPartition.zip from Post #3

- Do NOT reboot yet

- Then immediately flash new ROM, Gapps and SuperSU

- Then Reboot.
[Amazon Fire Phone] neverborn:
That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!

You rock, by the way.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gimmesocks:
When I open snapchat, the camera is black and when it takes a picture the picture is just a dark blur. Is there a way to fix that on my end, or is it a limitation of the rom?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
It's a known issue.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gimmesocks:
Do you think there could be a fix, or will this forever be without? Thanks!
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I'm working on it now as I type this message

- It's not going to be an easy fix unfortunately as previously stated.
[Amazon Fire Phone] najoor:
What do you mean by open source? Has t mobile published the source code for WiFi calling? Provide a link please.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Like Plonko said... If the Kernel doesn't support it... & the carrier has to support it as well...

Little bit of history:
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
I think what he meant is that T-Mobile transitioned from UMA to IMS, which Google natively supports in AOSP. (i.e. wifi calling support on Nexus 5 and 6). So my understanding is yes, IMS is open source, but no, it's not from T-Mobile.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Leecai:
Is the front camera functioning?

I have used the fire phone with the new rom to video chat with my family using apps like WeChat.

I was able to see them but the front camera seems to be dark, and when I touch it, it also shows the same view as I saw my family. Then upon a second touch, the cut us off from the video chatting. Potentially, the sound may not be very stable.

Any similar problems from you folks?

Let me know and thanks,

Lee
[Amazon Fire Phone] lou090985:
Just created an account and donated to say thank you to ggwow. My donation probably doesn't even cover an hour of his time, but I would encourage others to do the same.

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*ggow
[Amazon Fire Phone] Chocolina:
Is there a beginner's tutorial somewhere that would get me ready for this? Anytime I delve into modding a new phone, there's usually a whole new set of guides, processes, and terms I need to learn. For example Safestrap is a completely new term to me.

Where I'm at currently in my modding: Without PC, I've installed Kingroot, and with Kingroot have managed to replace it with Super SU. Currently curious on how the steps to get to the point I'd be ready for this mod.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rsshivs:
ggow, could you please add the steps for a factory reset in the FAQ? Do i need to restore to the stock ROM or can we do it with the CM11 ROM itself? re-flashing ROM & GAAPS didn't help me with the frequent crashes, so thought of trying the factory reset and then flash them again.

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Start with the below thread

http://xdaforums.com/fire-phone/development/recovery-safestrap-v4-0-1-t3149888

you should be good to go, once you are done with the above thread then come back to this thread and follow OP instructions.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Chocolina:
TY, worked like a charm. Didn't know it was based on TWRP so I was in familiar territory. However I noticed Holding Vol and Power brings me to normal stock recovery. So Safestrap isn't a custom recovery but something that boots before android? Anyway, I don't know whats exactly going on, but can you help me answer this:

#1 I wiped/deleted the System and Data partition through Safestrap for CM11's, What would happen if I factory reset through Stock recovery? What would happen if I factory Reset from CM11 settings?

#2 Can you remove or lock Safestrap on CM11 to prevent people from messing up the phone. Assume I give this phone to a 4-5 year old to play with, I want to make sure he can't find a way to brick the phone through aimless button pressing.

#3 Does Safestrap require BusyBox? I just naturally instal BusyBox on my own whim anytime I root, but not all root apps/privileges require it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] mydanuyen:
Help me! I`m on cm 11, now i want stock room fire os? How? Thanks
[Amazon Fire Phone] jeffreystryker:
Excellent

This is awesome! Thank you ggow! I am running the navbar delete mod with the swipe app. This has totally made the phone a daily driver. Thanks to reading the posts from everyone here, I installed and got everything working on the first try, including the addition of the line deleting the navbar. I am also an absolute novice! This is Totally Jammin'!

I joined so I could post this. Now, what is the suggested donation to ggow? This is totally worth paying for!
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Hi rsshivs,

- To factory reset

- Within Safestrap

- Hit the Wipe button

- Then Swipe to Factory reset and reboot
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Take a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-phone/development/safestrap-v4-flashable-stock-image-t3150531