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[Amazon Fire Phone] kewllion:
just loaded up CM11 [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] edition) on my fire phone. what a breeze it was... FireOS was 4.6.3. KingRoot + SafeStrap + CM11 + Gapps + SuperSU worked first time! boy, what a relief to be rid of FireOS and be back to a saner version of Android that we all know and love. I have only had the following issues so far:

known:

- camera - i'm using google camera and opencamera and have no issues at all. the problem is as others have described in other apps that use the camera.

- occasional google play services crashes

the other issue is (did some research but didn't find any more info)

- GPS lock seems to take longer - i have tried high accuracy as well

finally, some really good software to go with some really good hardware (high-perf, cheap and solid). thanks, [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION]...:)
[Amazon Fire Phone] Spach Daddy:
FWIW the people that discovered the stage fright virus has released an app that lets you know if your device is vulnerable. I ran it on my fire phone running cm11 and it is vulnerable.

Curiosity of Engadget, sorry won't let me post links yet.
[Amazon Fire Phone] tdcrone:
CM had a stagefright fix before anyone, but it wasn't in the CM11 branches until after 7/26:

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/7iuX21Tz7n8

Hopefully [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] will incorporate when he gets a chance.

To the poster whose work won't let Android phones get e-mail, maybe remind the IT department that the e-mail should be stored in an encrypted container? My recollection is that Exchange is configurable to do this, and any management application like AirWatch certainly will. Touchdown can do this for any kind of e-mail account, also, as I recall. As long as the PIN/password is secure the e-mail should be also.
[Amazon Fire Phone] phirefone:
That is exactly what I was looking for! Don't know how I messed around with this for so many hours and never pressed the three dots.

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I only use AHSK to get rid of the bar, so I don't get any vibration since it doesn't ever trigger. The vibration you are getting might be coming from AIOG. Click on the three bars in the upper left of the screen and click on "personalization" and then click "vibration" and set it to "0".
[Amazon Fire Phone] hammaad5:
Hello ggow! I thank you so much for putting your hard work into making the first custom rom for Fire Phone. And I thank you so much for revealing it to the public for free. However, there is a major bug, the Camera. Picture and Video making works but not Snapchat. Snapchat's camera doesn't work. Is it ok if you can fix this major bug? Thanks, and I highly appreciate your hard work!
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
For snapchat Casper for Snapchat is a work around see apk mirror

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/casper-io/

You will have to choose the non play store link as it has been pulled from Play Store .

I don't use it but it has been covered in this thread before so good luck :)

Link updated to latest Casper
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Snapchat seems eager to block ANY third party software using ther service. A couple of people mentioned, that after using Casper, you get blocked until you switch back to the official app.

edit: New Casper releases are still coming strong ^^ So if you're feeling lucky, give it a try. ;)
[Amazon Fire Phone] BringTheLevel:
This is amazing but I cannot get Snapchat camera working, it's black :(
[Amazon Fire Phone] jd999uk:
Vibrate don't work on anything here. At all.

Volume adjust, touch and USB/Charger sounds all work fine.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jeffreystryker:
All this was working for me but I turned it all off. It took several tries to get it all shut off because there were multiple places to make the settings. After editing the pastebin setting to eliminate the bottom navbar I installed swipe navigator but left the vibe on back swipe on. I am a complete novice but was able to make the ROM swap work the first try, so forgive me if this suggestion is not applicable; did you wipe dalvik and cache?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Sadim007:
if you still want to use the fire OS and you want to get notifications your best bet is to install KK floating notification there's a free and paid version normally this type of apps only works with its own launcher but this is the closest to proper android notification you can get on Fire Phone OS.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Seabiskuit:
Fire OS 5 developer preview is starting to rival this

Dealing with fire OS is now worth it... Sort-of

Being an Amazon developer, I have the preview of fire OS flashed to my device. The lack ofcl camera issues, as well as the ability to shoot in RAW, make it for me.... I miss CyanogenMod greatly tho.... :(

To anybody who wants fire OS 5, email me at worldmergency@gmail.com with the title "Fire OS 5?"

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On the kindle tablets... I mixed up the two forums sorry

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Anybody else have this issue?
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
All of a sudden I'm getting more frequent "play services stopped working" pop ups. Has anyone tried uninstalling play services and using "this app will run without play services" I need to do this on my rooted fire TV or play store won't open. Of course that is a different device and even when play services was installed I never got a pop up message.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jondecker76:
I can't get the bug report link to work, so I guess I'll just report it here:

GPS accuracy is absolutely horrible. I do a lot of running and map my runs using several different running apps. Historically, on both FireOS and on my Galaxy Note 2, the accuracy is near flawless. However, after flashing CM11, the accuracy is so bad that it isn't even usable for running apps. The path will show so much noise and zigzags along the road that it counts this as extra distance (and therefore my displayed pace is WAY off). I've used CM11 for a 5k yesterday, which was off by nearly 20% on distance, and a 10 mile run this morning, which was also off by 20%. This is a problem that has never happened with this phone under FireOS.

I have checked the location settings and made sure it was "Device Only". Perhaps the setting isn't working?
[Amazon Fire Phone] themo44:
Switching back

I need help switching back to fire os like I'm not sure what the steps would be from cm11. Please help this noob!
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
It's pretty much what ggow put in his original post, and Safestrap makes it very straightforward.

I mean, download the zip files, reboot to recovery, select Install, then select the file (or files) you want to flash. I'm always scared of messing up, so I flash things one by one. It'll make its job and then reboot automatically.

(you don't have to unzip the files, by the way)
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Exactly what sergio687 said:

Vist the safestrap thread: Safestrap v4.0.1

It contains all info needed: requirements, step by step install guide, doesn't get much simpler than this.

I was still typing when I saw sergios reply, posted it anyway. ^^
[Amazon Fire Phone] romario3600:
Safestrap is relatively easy compared to other recoveries like CWM, at least in my opinion. Once you have rooted your device with kingsroot, simply install the safestrap apk, run and reboot(no need for fastboot). When the phone initially boots you will see a screen with recovery in the bottom left corner as an option for boot. Once inside, the two main parts are highlighted, first you wipe/factory reset, the option is given by default therefore you only need to swipe right as instructed, after go back to the main page and select install, simply search for the cm11 Zip file that you downloaded and select it, once again swiping right as instructed. Then you're done :) and can now reboot. Wiping again isn't necessary when installing your gapps and superuser as you may know, but you follow the same porceedure
[Amazon Fire Phone] JackBreaker:
Aaah nice, I didn't even know what Safetrap was, I was looking for CWM. Thanks a lot guys!

Cheers!
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
And for the updates, you don't need to wipe each time. Just flash it, don't make your life miserable wiping every day ;)
[Amazon Fire Phone] fulanorex:
Yep I followed them exactly and it went very smooth but sim is not recognized and Bluetooth not able to be enabled.

I am on fireos 4.6.1
[Amazon Fire Phone] wildgunman:
have your phone a simlock ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
This will show you how to capture logs : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
[Amazon Fire Phone] iloveboba:
After flashing CM11, will Safestrap still be installed as our recovery or will we need to install something after CM11?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Safestrap will remain as our recovery until the bootloader can be unlocked.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Update

- Gonna try and get NFC working now.

- Photos using the flash are washed out.

Edit: Got NFC options in settings now but greyed out, one step closer.
[Amazon Fire Phone] escape75:
Realizing that we're talking about CM11 here, but just wondering what the chances of getting CM12 to run on this device? :)

I just modified my Galaxy S3 i747m (Canadian) to run nightly CM12 and I like it ...
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
double post
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I'm not so keen to work on CM-12 for this at the moment considering Android M is around the corner :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] uscanst56:
I had the same thing. Make a backup of stock and use stock ROM slot. Not slot one. Sim recognized and Bluetooth good.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Update

- NFC is partially coming but failing a check in the Hardware Access Layer

- Will start a new release now.

- At least then we can use an improved camera.
[Amazon Fire Phone] fulanorex:
Good point I used slot one. I will use stock slot and update everyone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Link updated on OP with new build

- Changelog is Post #2

- After flashing new build install Open Camera from Playstore - worked for me
[Amazon Fire Phone] fulanorex:
Well that did it. I installed to slot 1 to be safe, but it needs to be stock slot to have the SIM recognized and Bluetooth enabled. Proper baseband showed up as well. Thanks for the advice. Worked perfectly.
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
this is awesome..this is £200+ phone all day long IF it had the right software..saying that for me at the moment, im happy staying on 4.6.1 with playstore etc, but when the bugs get ironed out its a no brainer, i guess moving away from fire OS thats a warranty void, correct?? also wheres all the screen shots, theres not been any so far :(
[Amazon Fire Phone] ivm_ivm:
Thanks ggow!

First of thanks ggow!

Everything seems to be working except two things:

1. LTE - for some reason phone don't won't to use it, even tried *#*#4636#*#* and select LTE only - but phone didn't found network. Might be bad LTE coverage, will check later.

2. Skype does not work with camera at all and this is pretty annoying - and crashes after each attempt to use video call. However Open Camera able to use main and front camera. Does anybody have such problem?

Thanks for help
[Amazon Fire Phone] specopsjuno:
How can I install this on a separate slot as the Stock Rom? It won't connect to the network when I do that.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
I know its only for kindle right now but it looks like a step in the right direction. BUT I think its very likely we won't be able to root it for a long time. Deal breaker for me despite the fact we'd be able to utilize some unique camera features and it'd take care of camera issues in general.
[Amazon Fire Phone] k1mu:
You can't. (I'm pretty sure this is covered in the FAQ post.)
[Amazon Fire Phone] sashusmom:
Stagefright vulnerability

There is an awful lot of chatter about this stagefright vulnerability on redmond pie to the point of many apps in the market to detect it. I have the 7/26 build on at the moment ( love it!) and used the checker apps and it appears this rom build is vulnerable to a takeover due to stagefright via auto downloads of an infected mms message. You don't need to open this message, just auto download is enough to infect your phone.

I was hoping the new build addressed this problem. I went to download the 8/7 build to check and the link is listed as a date of 7/26 upload so can anyone address this? I haven't DL's any new builds yet.

Thanks.

OOPS! Sorry- must have misread the 7/7 release announcement. I guess the 7.26 build is the latest?

Thanks!
[Amazon Fire Phone] k1mu:
Yes, 7/26 is the latest. It doesn't have the Stagefright patch, but the fact is that this is way over hyped. Your phone is NOT EXPLOITABLE. Period. Full stop. Anything running a reasonably current Android release has address space layout randomization (ASLR) enabled, which means that the worst case is that an attempt to exploit stagefright will crash the application trying the exploit.

Once ggow is back from holidays, I'm sure he'll release an image with the stagefright updates incorporated. However, you have nothing to worry about in the meantime.
[Amazon Fire Phone] sashusmom:
Thank you for that response. I appreciate your reassurances. Can you point me to any reading to support this? I don't really understand all this stagefright stuff anyway. :p Any reading I can do about it will be appreciated. Thanks:D In the meantime I will look up ASLR. ;)

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So this is what I found in my research of ASLR-

From this article: https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/a-look-at-aslr-in-android-ice-cream-sandwich-4-0

"Wrap-up

Unfortunately, the ASLR support in Android 4.0 did not live up to expectations and is largely ineffective for mitigating real-world attacks, due to the lack of randomization of the executable and linker memory regions. It also would be beneficial to randomize the heap/brk by setting kernel.randomize_va_space=2."

Which leads me to believe what you claim about ASLR doesn't seem to be so blanket of a statement?? I still don't understand it, But will continue to read about it.

A stagefright patch will make me feel better about the whole situation. Hopefully ggow can add it in when he gets a chance. I read this patch wasn't available to CM 11 roms till after 7/26.

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That quote was specific to 4.0. Maybe 4.4 is different. Hope so! :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] Teknishun:
If you go to Messaging > Settings > Multi-media settings.

Then disable Auto-retrieve MMS messages then you're protected from random texts using the Stagefright exploit.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Progress Update

- Back from Holidays

- Was unplugged for 99.9% of the time, so catching up

- New build of CM will come today to fix stage fright issue
[Amazon Fire Phone] k1mu:
http://www.androidcentral.com/stagefright

This quote:

Is probably the real heart of that article.

Also

http://www.networkworld.com/article...vulnerability-black-hat-security-updates.html

Like many features, there's always a way to make them better. Linux ASLR could be more complete, and more of it can be turned on. But what's the performance impact to that? In any case, even with ASLR, someone could come up with a way to exploit this, but it would end up being quite phone specific due to the ASLR that's already there. That changes this from a "silent hack that only requires me to know your phone number" so I can send a hostile MMS with an image to "I need to know the model and build of your phone and your phone number." That's why the OMG factor is exaggerated.

Even with specific build information being available, ASLR will make any possible exploit less reliable, requiring sending the victim dozens of MMS images to exploit a phone.

I'm not saying that it's not worth patching, just that it's not pants-on-fire urgent to get the patches installed. I haven't downgraded to FireOS (which has this patched) because of the small risk exposure here.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
I use Textra and it has the Stagefright patch baked in.
[Amazon Fire Phone] qingtest:
4.6.3 works too

I have started with a version of 4.6.3_xxxxx (cannot remember the number, but a version update of july): install safestrap v4.0.1, replace the stock rom with the cm11 etc, everything works perfect. Android wear is working too.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Good to know :)

I haven't had time to dissect the 4.6.3 update yet.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jondecker76:
Yep, I also did everything from 4.6.3 with no issues
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
Nice tip , I have just done that , does anybody use MMS anymore anyway ? I use Facebook / watsap etc now never sent a MMS for years
[Amazon Fire Phone] billclay1988:
Good for you! I know we can be pests sometimes. ;)

Cheers!
[Amazon Fire Phone] alfick3:
Some people still do. I do occasionally; for me and my wife is the easiest way to send pictures. She doesn't really use Hangouts on her Fire Phone while I do on my Moto G.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
New Build

- New build 2015-08-10 is now up

- See change log on Post #3
[Amazon Fire Phone] theandrewgordon:
Did you find a solution. I video chat my wife and daughter a lot on the go, and this is extremely annoying, because it happens when using bluetooth or speaker...
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Wow! Youre one of those guys that just goes right back to work mode.

Too soon to report but after an hour I got only one play services crash. Dirty flash worked fine for me.

Question--with android m right around the corner, how much longer u think the kk cm builds will update their code? Or is that left to independent developers.? I did a quick search online but didn't really find info. Thanks a lot for the prompt update!
[Amazon Fire Phone] connellr:
My FirePhone should be arriving in the mail today. I am anxious to try this out (Thanks so much for all your continued hard work ggow)

These talks about play service crash messages are actually my biggest concern - How often/annoying are they? Do they pop up hourly? Do they cause google apps (gmail, play store, etc) to crash?

I can live with the camera problems (though I'd love to see them fixed)

Don't really need NFC (again nice, but not critical)

Constant crashes and errors however would be enough to keep me on FireOS...

Also - are there any instructions on how to revert back to FireOS if say - eventually we got a different phone and wanted to revert back to stock before reselling the phone or such?

Thanks again GGow and all the other contributors.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Spach Daddy:
Ive actually done it several times and its pretty simple. I go into the fire phones recovery mode, while powered off hold down the volume up and power until the screen turns on then release the power button. You should get 4 options, reboot, apply update from adb, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition. I didn't know if i had to reset and wipe cache but i do them anyways and then I download the latest fire os, think its 4.6.3 from amazon. I then use terminal on my mac and the apply update from dab setting on the phone to put fire os on. There might be other ways but thats worked for my. The terminal part is a little tricky on a mac but if i can do it most people can.
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
The crashes are just a pop up saying Google play services has stopped working ( but it does not ) they are very infrequent , perhaps once an hour but have no I'll effects that I have seen , play store etc still work fine :)

The ROM is so simple to install

I would not go back to Fire Os
[Amazon Fire Phone] damiloveu:
The Fire phone becomes laggy after 1 month, I am going to flash CM11 guided by your post, thanks so much.
[Amazon Fire Phone] absolut1:
On testing right now great work!!!!
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
ggow,

Could you explain why this ROM isn't 100% functional in any slot other than the Stock ROM slot in SS? Also, do you have any idea if this can be fixed in the future? I would love to have the ability to dual boot into both CM11 and FireOS 5 (when it comes out later this year).

Thanks for supporting this ROM.

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] anameOSF:
hello ggow,

I noticed that gps is less accurate as in fire os. Is there any chance to improve it?

thanks
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Hi smithmal,

- Dual booting CM11 and FireOS 5 will not be possible from Safestrap

- It may be fixed in the future but for now the ROM is my priority.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I use copilot with no problems on accuracy

- Which app(s) are giving problems?
[Amazon Fire Phone] anameOSF:
ggow,

I use some tracking apps to store my walks, i.e. My Tracks from google or Sports Tracker. These apps lost from time to time the signal thus the length of the walks is wrong. The strength of the gps signal in fire os is definitly stronger ( Sorry for my english, it is a little bit rusty)

anameosf
[Amazon Fire Phone] qingtest:
Bug reports part is closed? It is blank and nowhere to input.

There is a bug: cannot install calendar app from google play: impracticable, both remain or uninstall system calendar apk.

image: url
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62004055&postcount=644
[Amazon Fire Phone] Alexander_DeLarge:
I ended up selling the Fire Phone and got an Asus Zenfone 2. Sorry to disappoint but I couldn't deal with running on a device with a serious issue like that. Was really turning off friends/family/coworkers.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rompip:
I am on fire OS 4.6.3. (463001420) and rooted with Kingsroot and installed Safestrap 4.0.1

Is it safe now to flash the current CM11 (2015/8/10)? If I need to go back to Fire OS, can I use the simple backup created in the recovery?

Thx.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
We're really going to miss you. Your contributions to the forums have been invaluable, but we will try our best to contain our disappointment with your departure.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Spach Daddy:
Ive flashed cm11 multiple times from 4.6.3 with no problems, as for going back to fire os I've never done it from safestrap.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Spach Daddy:
Battery

What's everyone's Android system percentage running at in the battery setting? Mine is always in the 40+ percentile and I've tried changing all types of settings. That seems high to me considering the next closest one is cell standby at 17%.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jeffreystryker:
Dirty flashed here, all is well. I used this thread and have only gone back to FireOs via ABD. I have lost zero functionality. Perhaps my device was built Tuesday through Thursday!
[Amazon Fire Phone] sashusmom:
I'm a little rusty dirty flashing. Do I need to reflash gapps? I think not, Seem to remember that's only when you wipe.

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So I'm a little stuck. My computer doesn't see my phone so I can move the new zip file over.

I have gone and changed the usb connection to mtp. Restarted the phone. I am on a windows 10 PC.

My next step is to restart the laptop and see if that helps. Other than that, anyone have suggestions?

Can the file be downloaded directly to the phone and flashed from there?

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Solved....I restarted my laptop and changed my cable. It might have been a charge only cable, not data capable. We're all good here.

Thanks ggow for the update :)

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Successful update :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
Dirty flashed and play store not loading. Going to do clean flash.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ivm_ivm:
Flashed latest version over dirty flash. Everything is working except things which didn't work before - LTE (phone don't want allow me to select LTE at all) and video call via skype. However skype installed update immediately after reboot. And now I even able to see myself while calling but not when connection established.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jeffreystryker:
I have had the LTE issue before when leaving the wifi at work. Rebooting restores LTE every time for me.