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[Amazon Fire Phone] azheng:
i did that already, i got it to connect but it pops up as usb device not recognizable.

im trying to install gapp file on the phone. its pretty useless right now since i cant even go online after cm11 install. this is my first time doing root and custom rom on any phone lol. any help is appreciated.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rsshivs:
Did you get a pop up sayig installing driver after selecting it as Media device (MTP)?? Usb device not recognizable might be a driver issue with your machine. Try connecting to a differ USB port.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
If you're certain the drivers are installed I'd try a different cable. Sounds too simple to be the fix but I've spent a long time racking my brain in the past only to use a different micro USB and presto. In fact, I had the same issue earlier last week with this phone. Also make sure mtp is enabled, think it is by default anyway.
[Amazon Fire Phone] transentient:
I am actually having problems getting the phone to be recognized by my PC as well, so I can't get the new ROMs on there.

I cannot see the phone show up, but my windows box does make a little sound when I turn on or turn off EITHER MTP or USB debugging.

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Hmm...actually that might have been the cable.
[Amazon Fire Phone] noctshadow:
Hi, i have v3.5.0 installed in my fire phone. Can I use another version of safestrap to upgrade to CM11? 4.6.1 is the prerequisite to use safestrap v4, but I heard getting root access is harder than 3.5.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Moogagot:
ggow, I was to personally thank you for your amazing work!

This is my first time rooting and installing a custom rom, and it was was a total JOY!

The only minor issue I've noticed is that the camera doesn't work in snap chat.

Also, the camera button does not boot the camera app (which I'm actually OK with!)

I will keep my eyes out for the next version and I hope to eventually see 5.1 released ;)

ggow, thank you for taking a decent piece of hardware with unusable bad software usable again!
[Amazon Fire Phone] jman315:
The latest version of kingroot works with no issues on 4.6.1. Follow the link in the first post of the thread.
[Amazon Fire Phone] MrSalue:
When I stop using playstore and use the device normal then I get a pop up message saying that the playstore is not responding is that normal ?

note : I am using the latest playstore gapps that was given on this thread to download from 18th of july 2015 ( HDX Gapps )
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
ive had this so yea i think it is normal at the moment
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
Play Store not responding is not normal but also not completely unexpected at this stage of the ROM.

Please note that there's a difference between Play Store not responding and Play services crashing (and restarting).

Try PA GAPPS Pico, these are the ones showing the best results for now with only a few crashes (services get restarted automatically, so it's only a small annoyance).

Deleting all the HDX GAPPS files manually is out of the question, so start over clean (Aww, I know, soo much work right... ^^)
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
But doesnt the content of the gapps package get updated to their latest builds anyway, so does it matter whats installed..
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
It's not primarily about Play Store & services, but about the additional files that get installed (e. g. to the framework and lib folders...)

Good example:

I made a flashable zip (not the one I posted a while ago) with ONLY the Play Store, Play services, Google Account Manager & Google Services Framework from the GAPPS Pico.

The results: less stable than the original GAPPS Pico installation with additional files. And yes, the system was cleaned between those tests, so there were no leftovers that could've had an effect on the results.
[Amazon Fire Phone] desikanr:
Awesome ROM!

Thanks for your hard work! This works great! Just 2 asks - NFC, and

Double tap to wake" feature of Cyanogen...if you could get them to work that would be fabulous!
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- The Double tap to wake feature requires kernel changes

- This is not possible at the moment as the bootloader is locked on our device.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rsshivs:
PA GAPPS Pico also crashing

PA GAPPS Pico was fine for one day and it's starting to crash from this morning :(:( Any idea what i might have done wrong?:confused:

P.S My phone restarted automatically this morning while i was browsing on FB and while booting it said optimizing apps 1/1. Not sure what i did :confused::(

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How about lock screen button actions? I have submitted a bug for that.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Will take a look into the lock screen button actions

- On the phone restart there isn't information to debug that one. Never seen that either.

- So far today today with PA Gapps Pico, only had 1 crash.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rpsouthall:
Temporary fix for snapchat

If you're a snapchat user like myself and have been stumped by the usage of snapchat there is an app called "Casper" that you can download

Even though the camera has been labelled as "experimental", not only does it work, but I find it even out performs the suggested "open camera" application in terms of usage of the front and back cameras, and general quality

It's highly suggested that you make a fake gmail account for it's usage as it requires the email and pass of one to bypass any google play services troubles (or so I believe)

"casper.io" - here is the link to the site where you can download the APK - Happy snapping everyone :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] rsshivs:
Thanks ggow, appreciate it. I guess something went wrong after that phone restart. Mine is crashing quite often today(about 4 or 5 times so far). I will try re-flash it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] wezbrookes17:
Brilliant!!
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Fixed up the LockScreen Button Actions, will be in the next Release.

- When setup, Long Pressing Home can now enable Torch.

- Attached is a screenshot which shows the layout of the new settings screen for this.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SirWintermute:
This reminds me of a question I was wondering about. Would it be possible to switch the camera and power buttons? I'd like to have my sleep/wake/power on the side of the phone similar to a motorola or iphone, and the stock position for the camera button can be very awkward when taking photos...

Also I think it would be great to have an option to long press the home be the "back button" That way we could use the home button for all of the standard nav buttons and not have to have on-screen buttons, if we want.

Thanks for all your hard work!
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- It should be possible, put this in as feature request if you don't mind so it doesn't get lost.

- For the moment, I am focusing on existing functionality to gain even more stability.
[Amazon Fire Phone] SirWintermute:
Can do! And I'd say that's a good priority!
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
ive had it on the phone a couple of days now, very pleased we got this, dont get me wrong amazon i think did a decent job with their OS, but it wasnt appealing enough to people..im more than happy with speed and stability, the only thing for me is the

camera issue (no HDR)..im sure this will get sorted soon anyway, all in all awesome ROM, and im sure we can all agree it gives the phone a new lease of life, and certainly worth the £99 most of us probably paid :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] techsci:
what is the problem is the safestrap not starting ? or were you not able o get into recovery ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Try downloading cm11 zip again. Use md5 checker and ensure the md5 sums match up.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
techsci, are you serious? This has been resolved 2 weeks ago. Please read everything instead of creating a useless necro. (Don't worry about his different usernames... old & new account)
[Amazon Fire Phone] gunslingerfry:
NFC isn't possible or tap to wake isn't possible?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Tap2wake
[Amazon Fire Phone] Metemptosis:
How's the GPS for everybody? I can't seem to get a fix.
[Amazon Fire Phone] nerohero:
Tmobile Wifi Calling

Thank you ggow for your efforts. It brings so much more meaning to this beautiful piece of hardware done right but software done bad.

Now that tmobile's wifi calling code has been made open source and is also already supported by nexus 6, is it possible to bring that to this ROM.
[Amazon Fire Phone] desikanr:
Ran into an issue with DCU mobile app as I try to deposit a check - when I try to snap a picture of the check from the app, nothing happens...no preview no image nothing. Any suggestions/fixes?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
I'm pretty sure the answer is no. My understanding is Wifi calling needs to be supported in the kernel. With the bootloader being locked, custom kernels with wifi calling are not possible.
[Amazon Fire Phone] rsshivs:
Awesome :) Thanks ggow :good: :)

Also I was wondering is there any way to change the screen capture button to something like long press on camera/home button or something like that? Is it possible to customize that screen capture button based on user needs like an option under settings? Just checking if that is possible or not, ofcourse it's not a priority though :)

I'm finding it difficult to do screen capture by pressing power and down volume button. may be it's just me.:confused:
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
This has been addressed countless times in this thread. If an app uses the camera, it won't work. This affects pretty much all apps other than 3rd part camera apps.
[Amazon Fire Phone] desikanr:
Got it...will this likely get fixed in a subsequent release possibly?
[Amazon Fire Phone] themiz101:
The dev is working on a fix.
[Amazon Fire Phone] jman315:
Used GPS tonight for a couple of hours and it worked fine for me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] azheng:
hello op, im having issue with FP after flash clean system partition and flashed the pa_gapps. now phone is stuck in black screen with amazon logo in middle. i tried the power button+up botton, reboot, reset etc. non works. i think somehow i accidentally deleted the os and safestrap. i cant even get into recovery. please help!

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i got as far as being able to sideload apps through adb. i got the phone into screen where its red triangle in middle, black screen. yellow words on bottom saids:

Now send the package you want to apply

to the device with "adb sideload <filename>"...

i tried in the send the cm11 or gapps (which i renamed winrar)

adb sideload cm11 or adb sideload gapps

but it saids it cant read the file. is there certain format of file i need to sent to reboot my os or get into recovery?

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also when i type in cmd adb devices

it came back saids my device name and sideload (not recovery)
[Amazon Fire Phone] Pfhortune:
Many thanks to you, ggow! I got a Fire phone for $140, needed Amazon Prime anyways, so you made my $40 phone worth something!
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
That' because the Amazon stock recovery supports ONLY sideloading the original factory images. (Doesn't matter what you try, all those ZIP files will be rejected.)

1. Download the factory image (FireOS 4.6.1): Amazon Server DDL or use the Mega.nz Mirror

2. Connect device to PC & boot in recovery: PWR + VOL. UP [ you already know how this works ;) ]

From the list, choose "Apply update from ADB"

3. I recommend renaming the the downloaded file (update-fire-phone-35.4.6.1_user_461013820.bin) to "update.bin" so you can just type in the cmd: adb sideload update.bin

Do yourself a favor and read all about stock recovery & safestrap recovery (links in my signature) so you gain more knowledge about those processes. Read more in general, you will be much better prepared in in the future and you can avoid mistakes like 'not flashing an OS after cleaning the WHOLE system partition'.
[Amazon Fire Phone] plympton:
I'm getting huge battery drain with wifi on and airplane mode on. 10% / hour or so. Anything to be done about this? Doesn't happen on stock.
[Amazon Fire Phone] mspkash1:
any way to get rid of the back/home/list icon from the bottom and use some type of gestures to go back?

it is taking up some screen real estate
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Been using mini gapps for awhile and the play services message appears much less frequently.

Anyone know a good way to stop certain apps from updating? I installed an older version of YouTube because I use xposed mod to keep audio playing after display goes off. I detached market link with titanium backup but it just auto updated itself. Far as I recall, the titanium method worked in the past.

Update-- irrelevant now. Just notice YouTube background mod was updated yesterday to support newest version of YouTube.
[Amazon Fire Phone] mhill1986:
Removing Navbar

Check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/fire-phone/help/removing-navbar-cm11-t3153048

I'm using All in one Gestures to go back (see Play Store).
[Amazon Fire Phone] MrSalue:
I want to install the mini gapps, but I already have HDX Gapps, should I uninstall anything or just flash the mini gapps ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
check the FAQ section on the first page
[Amazon Fire Phone] transentient:
Yes - ggow posted a link to a rom you should flash first to clear out your /system directory.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
It's not a ROM, it's a script. Here it is for you lazy mofos... and you're welcome transentient :silly: :laugh:
[Amazon Fire Phone] transentient:
Thanks for the correction. :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
I just cleared dalvik & cache then flashed mini gapps and its been fine for at least a few days now. Correct me if I'm wrong but think the system clean is for PA gaps because you can't flash that over normal gaps.

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I using it now but is there a way to hide the nav bar using that? Or an additional xposed mod to do so? I saw the followup link but rather not edit build.prop and/or start from scratch.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KuroXilla:
So I made the mistake of flashing the cleansyspartion and forgot to reflash CM11. I am stuck on the amazon screen now. Anyway to get into stock recovery?
[Amazon Fire Phone] rajeevn:
Please provide the device tree with build instructions. Thank you.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
See here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61726217&postcount=3
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
No, I flashed the HDX Nexus GApps from the original post.
[Amazon Fire Phone] CommunistDroid:
minimum brightness is a bit high compared to stock rom
[Amazon Fire Phone] DerToniq:
Good Work ,respect, but by the way I have little question. Is it possible to unlock the Firephone by using yours CM11 instead of the FIreOS?, i´m using a german t-mobile network locked device
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
Oh this is exactly what I wanted when I picked mine up for $179 with Prime about 2 weeks ago. Can't believe it got CM!! Can't wait to flash this when I get home. Thanks for all the hard work.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I believe it is, when I put my 3 SIM in I get prompted to enter the SIM Network Unlock Code.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Update

- New Build is UP.

- Changelog will live on Post #2
[Amazon Fire Phone] DerToniq:
:( hmmm sounds some bad to hear that you still need the Network Unlock Code

in my understanding the request for the Network Unlock Code should be deleted after installing a new OS, the only code to use and to know should be the simcard pincode, or am I wrong ?

my provider wants 100€ to unlock the little boy for other networks :mad:
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
The network unlock code is probably stored in the modem or in its associated eeprom/flash, so it still applies no matter which ROM you have.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DerToniq:
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I hate this World never Mind, everything is better than fireos :D:D
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I just found this, I'm going to try it.

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Other-...phone-to-use-a-different-SIM-card/td-p/540294

I'll get a PAYG SIM then fill in the form in attempt to get the device unlocked.
[Amazon Fire Phone] extremeblizz:
Truly magnificent work, really, thanks so much for this- you have no idea what this means to me, amazon fire phone didn't have my language as a GUI choice which can get so annoying, you really helped me out! Will donate!

Only one thing- camera seems to be not really working, video is a complete bust while stills do work but once you try to use video instead of stills the entire camera stops working (at least with google camera)

Please, if you could fix that one thing this entire rom will be perfect, I wanna take this phone on vacation in 2 weeks but I despertly need the ability to take photos without worrying the camera is gonna fizzle out.

Don't make me count on amazon's crappy sorry excuse for an OS!

Help me Ggog Wan Kanobi, you're my only hope!

:)
[Amazon Fire Phone] netsriht:
great job, really great job!

Thanks for your efforts :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Happy you like it :)

I'll prioritise the video camera fix for the next release. All the Media stuff is essential for a fully working device.
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] It's not necessary to wipe again before flashing, is it?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Just flash the ROM and you should be good to go.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
To All

Thanks for the nice comments,

All the support is very appreciated :)

I want this to be my main phone - really like the hardware.

F***OS doesn't do these devices any justice at all so will endeavour to make it the best that I can.
[Amazon Fire Phone] extremeblizz:
I don't like it.....

I love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw8mpgccugc

But seriously, I've never seen a rom in its' first release for a device ever perform so smoothly, it truly feels like a new device, amazon really bloated the hell out of this one.

So again, thanks, and another thank you for putting the camera thing on the to-do list, but I agree- no media/youtube is higher up for basic functioning of the device. Hopefully the camera thing won't be too much of a hassle, but after you fixed the truly horrible sounding audio problem, I have faith in you :)
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
I will probably redo gapps for this device, I forgot about the different DPI's. I'll probably go for something like HDX Nexus Gapps without a few bits. And another really Slim version. I'm wondering if I could make a flashable version of the 4 files you posted above that can survive CM-Updates.
[Amazon Fire Phone] dhack21:
Every device I have used in the past has always had to be unlocked by inputting a code provided by the carrier or a third party. Installing a custom ROM doesn't affect a network unlock.

Sent from my Fire Phone using the XDA premium app.
[Amazon Fire Phone] DerToniq:
Could someone give this guy a cockie PLEASE DAMN....
[Amazon Fire Phone] KalROFL:
How does CM11 run overall on this device? I'm thinking of buying one since it would only cost me $80 if you factor in the Prime membership and I'm curious to know how well it runs.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ItsDon:
In one word? FAST! This phone with this rom is sooooo fast. There are a couple bugs which are well known and hopefully will be addressed in future updates but none are showstoppers. Install was easy and Kit Kat is a delight. Also, this thread and the folks participating in it are awesome. No whining, or complainers and people generally want to (and do) help. If you are already going to pay $100 for Prime it is a no brainer.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KalROFL:
Thanks for the fast reply! Yeah, I went ahead and ordered the phone. <3
[Amazon Fire Phone] Klaudioz:
It's amazing ¡¡. ty
[Amazon Fire Phone] bighuta:
I didn't see this mentioned in this thread,

Is there no USB tethering in this rom?

Everything works just fine for me (unlocked ATT ver.) except for this.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KalROFL:
ItsDon, could you elaborate on that part about the bugs? What bugs are present?
[Amazon Fire Phone] mspkash1:
thanks much... the phone is solid and CM 11 is solid.. superb
[Amazon Fire Phone] hawsey:
Well I can only say this is amazing , what a breath of fresh air for my phone to have this working , great work and many thanks .

Only issue so far is a message saying Google play service s stopped working , oh and the time went funny but a reboot sorted that ,

Any fix for the play services message ?
[Amazon Fire Phone] justifun:
I'm getting a "safestrap: disabled" screen that comes up for 10 seconds every time i power on my phone from a cold boot. Do i need to remove that now that CM11 is installed? or can i hide that screen somehow?
[Amazon Fire Phone] sharingan18:
low call volume and ringer

I know this is kinda subjective but has anyone else noticed its not quite as loud even when maxed.

My last LG phone is way louder ringing and during calls. Wondering if it has to do with the ROM or just poor amazon hardware.
[Amazon Fire Phone] vista1984:
Me2. When calling the other side said I spoke too low. Anyone else?
[Amazon Fire Phone] king200:
I have that issue and ggow gave some information http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61898322&postcount=405

I thought it was mainly my poor hearing but it must be more.
[Amazon Fire Phone] keinam.ty:
Not sure about USB tethering, and frankly I am not sure it matters because hotspot works great.
[Amazon Fire Phone] crispy91:
Camera HDR Bug

I tried going to the bug page to post a bug, but I couldn't figure out how to do so.

I'm experiencing a camera bug with HDR, as it Freezes the Google Camera and the Open Camera app as well when I try to take a photo using HDR.

Way to reproduce the bug:

-Go to the picture settings of Open Camera and select HDR as your shooting mode.

-The app then freezes and the only way to get it running again is to close it and relaunch it.

-On my phone the bug is reproducible every time I try to a photo using HDR.

Note my configuration is as follows:

Fire Phone Unlocked 32GB, running CM 11 the latest 7/15 build, and SafeStrap V4

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Camera HDR Bug

I tried going to the bug page to post a bug, but I couldn't figure out how to do so.

I'm experiencing a camera bug with HDR, as it Freezes the Google Camera and the Open Camera app as well when I try to take a photo using HDR.

Way to reproduce the bug:

-Go to the picture settings of Open Camera and select HDR as your shooting mode.

-The app then freezes and the only way to get it running again is to close it and relaunch it.

-On my phone the bug is reproducible every time I try to a photo using HDR.

Note my configuration is as follows:

Fire Phone Unlocked 32GB, running CM 11 the latest 7/15 build, and SafeStrap V4
[Amazon Fire Phone] smithmal:
First off, hats off to ggow for making this ROM available to the community (anyone using this ROM should make a donatation to ggow so he keeps supporting it).

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere in this thread before (I searched but didn't see an answer) but once flashing the CM11 ROM, how do you get root? I assummed that the ROM came rooted, but when using the Root Checker app and trying to install SuperSU, it indicates that I don't have root. Is TowelRoot an option here?

smithmal
[Amazon Fire Phone] Moogagot:
What thirdparty camera app works best? Pictures are dark in the Google Camera and the flash timing is off. Stabilization is also bad. Looking forward to more camera work in future updates!
[Amazon Fire Phone] sharingan18:
so are we stuck with this issue?
[Amazon Fire Phone] kwxda:
First off, this ROM is great! Thanks ggow. I've been pouring through camera apps, the best one I've used is CameraMX. It's a little buggy, but it doesnt crash as often and doesnt have the dark photo issue. HDR doesn't work... but I can at least take a pic.

Also, apps that use the camera dont work (Amazon UPC scanner, Lowes, Target Cartwheel, QR codes, etc.)

What will it cost to get Google Camera fully functional? I'm willing to pay, just want a price. :)