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[Amazon Fire Phone] ekam99:
Same here. Very pleased with all the work ggow has done. If the camera receives its full functionality in the apps that uses it I'll send you money too. Is there certain price for it? :o
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
Yeah, ggow has added serious value to some Amazon devices that are otherwise cumbersome at best
[Amazon Fire Phone] lh94:
This might be off-topic a bit but is there a way to set up Google Photos as the default library to behave like on a Nexus device? As in, if I delete a photo in the app, then the cloud copy and the local copy both get deleted instead of just the cloud version when you install it as an user app? I know if it's flashed with stock GApps, it'll behave like on a Nexus but I don't like/ need the other stock apps that come with that package. TIA.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Alfre97:
Can I use the USB tethering with this ROM?
[Amazon Fire Phone] SuperT.A.:
Google App is using tons of battery. Is this normal?
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
I think I read some where else here some people were talking about the audio from the headphone jack not working. I reproduced this yesterday. Previously it worked, not using headphones, but using a 3.5 audio cable in my car. Yesterday I went to use a true pair of headphones and it plays for a second, but it's cutting in and out. It eventually just stops playing all together. Tested in Pandora, Apollo, and Amazon Music with streaming and downloaded audio. I then tested it on my stock Fire Phone OS, no problem there.

Any idea?

Edit... Come to think of it the 3.5 in the car was before this recent build. I'll test that again on this build to see the results.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Lord222:
i think if ggow creates a donation page and writes what changes he will do for which amount of money a lot of people will contribute, including me
[Amazon Fire Phone] will5394:
Great Start! Happy to Use my Amazon Phone Again

I would not recommend using the Google App at all. It isn't needed for normal functions. I uninstalled that long ago. I have voice input (voice to text) without that app.

With this ROM I noticed it will reboot all of a sudden for no apparent reason (even when the phone is cool.) I also would recommend SWAP support because the phone has little to no memory when processing different demanding programs. I have enjoyed the functionality that wasn't there with the Fire OS. I even got Amazon Video working on here and can now take screenshots in there. :) Call recording works on Total Recall as well.

Would Like

>Swap Support for more RAM Memory Incorporated into the CM ROM

>More Stability (No Random Restart Reboots That Reboots all the way to the Amazon loading screen After Long Use of Run Time)

>Audio Issue Fixes After long use of run time
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- I

don't

do this for Money.

- It's nice that people donate but I will never ask for money for any of the work I do on xda

- As for features, I am

not

holding back anything for hope of payment.

- I should state this is something I enjoy doing in what little spare time I have.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ekam99:
Fair enough, giving you already have 'donate to me' button. Is there any hope you can fix the camera?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION], you're a person of integrity for whom I have a great deal of respect. The vast majority of us here appreciate your significant contributions to the forums, thank you for sharing your work with us, and would never dream of accusing you of holding back fixes from the community.
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Same problem here. I never tested it on stock but problem is definitely there on this custom rom. I got a 3.5mm cable in my car as well. When I plug it in I cannot get certain pitches of music. For example voices in the song doesn't come through but music does. However, I used a 3.5mm wired dual ear piece and microphone and I could talk to a person just fine. Ill test it more but I think it has to do with the hardware and not the rom. Maybe the rings around the 3.5mm plug aren't lining up correctly inside the jack of the phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] LilLowEK:
I just tested it with the official amazon ear buds and it works fine. It appears to be a connection issue between third party cables and the phone.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Baconrind:
Nethunter

Has anyone tried to see if Kali nethunter runs with this ROM. I see it works withe the one plus one running cm11. Just thought I'd ask see if anyone had tried in before I try.

Thanks
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
This one is a great stable ROM for Fire Phone, [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] thank you a lot! The biggest flaw is camera that does not work in many apps (e.g. Skype). [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] is there a technical discussion regarding the issue with camera on CM11? I can help if some debugging is needed. I tried to use some original libcamera*.so libraries from FireOS, but they are not compatible with CM11, probably heavily patched by Amazon or I missed some of their dependencies.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
Ran Android VTS against the April 7th release and it showed vulnerable to CVE-2015-6616. Is this something [MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] is aware of? Could a couple of other people on this build check to make sure I'm not getting a false positive?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonkplonk:
I did some testing, too, after some of you reported about problems. I tried everything I could find here:

1: original earphones

2: no-name earplugs

3: a Y-connection (one end 1x male, other side 2x female - how is it called in english?)

with both earphones

4: a third-party three-pole audio lead connected to my computer for recording

5: same lead connected to a radio with aux-in

The audio lead is really not the best but it all worked as it should, including toggling between speakers and audio plug "on the fly".

Thomas
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
This one I remember, there was no backport available for kitkat.

EDIT: [MENTION=5222274]zerbey[/MENTION] - Just had a look, can include it in the next release.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
On both FireOS and CM if I use either the stock or third party headphones with the 4 conductor type the microphone input does not work and once I disconnect nobody can hear me on phone calls until I reboot. This has been an issue since at least 4.6.1 (the earliest version I used) through 4.6.6 and all CM installs. I've seen this reported a lot on various forums and I assume there is a fairly sizeable batch of Fire Phones with this issue.

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Hurrah!
[Amazon Fire Phone] nolimitzz:
i had latest release of CM11 (7April) installed on my friend's phone yesterday, so far he is happy, thanks ggow.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
- Not seeing any random reboots at all, I know there is issue that is caused by T-Mobile hotspots. Can you provide tombstone logs, logcat or last_kmesg?

- What Audio issues are you seeing?
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
Interesting, I just noticed I've lost SuperSU and reflashing doesn't seem to bring it back. Anyone seen this?

Apparently I had only lost the GUI portion and reinstalling from Play Store fixed it.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Minkwon:
call recording

ggow,

Thank you for your good CM11. Would you check the voice relate file when you make a new version room ?

ACR calling recording app(from google play) does not work properly. My voice could hear through ACR app, but

other person voice did not record. Original Fire OS and Slimkat 9/30 works very well for calling recording app. Maybe you missed the voice relate files when you made a room.

pls consider at this point. Thank you.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
It's more likely down to a change in the slimkat ROM repos. I have no control over the the proprietary audio hal that Amazon has implemented. I'll take a look in the repos and see if I can spot anything.
[Amazon Fire Phone] zync100:
After installing the CM11, every time i started the phone, it goes to the safetrap first and then after 10 second it boots into CM11. There is an option to choose either "reboot" or "continue" during the 10 second period. Is it possible that we bypass the safetrap and go to CM11 directly? I am worried that the kids might mistakenly click on "reboot" and mess up everything. thanks a lot in advance.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION], sorry for asking this again. Is there any technical discussion regarding camera issues on CM11? I would like to help with debugging if needed. Do you have any ideas to try?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
There has been some discussion, it's not as simple as swapping libs from other devices. Amazon have a custom HAL implementation based around the ov680 image processor. Without the source code it's almost impossible is my current understanding.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
My experience is mostly with Linux, not Android, but if I understand correctly, kernel and kernel modules are from Amazon, because bootloader is still locked. What libraries implement HAL abstraction for video on Android? I tried to take original libcamera*.so, but probably missed some dependencies and CM11 did not boot.

Is there something blocking from taking the whole video hardware abstraction layer from FireOS itself? Skype and others do work on FireOS, which means that Amazon's HAL provides compatible API for Android apps.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
The libcamera*.so files are only part of the issue. The camera.msm8974.so HAL lib is a big part of the issue not been compatible with the API required for AOSP or Cyanogenmod. There is an issue with Autofocus which I should be able to fix in the kernel (but not useful due to the locked bootloader) to enable 3rd party apps to work. The autofocus steps are going out of range crashing the HAL. This is the reason when you open a barcode scanner app the image freezes and would also explain why snapchat shows a dark shadow of an image. Open the camera HAL with IDA Pro and you will see just how customised it is. The other camera libs also come with customisations making them difficult to use. I have even started to manipulate the camera HAL arm code but this is a long process.

You will struggle swapping libs, there is only one unique combination that enabled android to boot and the camera to partially function which is what we have now. Every other combination resulted in either the camera not been functional at all or android failing to boot.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
Thank you for the detailed explanation. So if I understand correctly the only option now is to try binary patching msm8974.so to avoid crashes (if this is possible at all). If this library is outdated, it may not have full implementation of API required by Cyanogenmod.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
You can disable the recovery / safestrap screen within the Safestrap app. You could still make a TWRP backup before that and store it somewhere.

So even if something happens in the future, let's say worst case, the OS doesn't boot up properly, etc. you could go back to stock, then root and safestrap again and then TWRP your way to the finish line with the "old" backup...
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Exactly, binary patching is what I've started looking into. Just trying to build up a picture of how it fits together and going from there. Not a pretty thing to be doing.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
If you point me to a way of collecting coredumps on Android or if you already have a coredump, I can take a look.
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Recently dirty flashed newest build. Google search bar can no longer be removed from home screen by Xposed Gel Settings. Can anyone confirm?
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Coredumps are the linux way. For android look up using adb to get a logcat. For looking at the kernel messages lookup using dmesg (i'm guessing you might be familiar with dmesg given your linux background)
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
Yes, I am quite familiar with kernel and dmesg. For me the biggest challenge now is to find gdb, strace, ltrace and such for Android. I guess if I can crash something on the phone, I can analyze crash dump on the host rather than on Android device. Will try it on the weekend.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
for logcat go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
[Amazon Fire Phone] guliver365:
Today was using Waze all of sudden lost GPS the GPS status see 22 satellites with only one in use , so the phone cannot get a fix even after hours, it was working fine before maybe I need to wipe it and start again?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Minkwon:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION]

thank you for your interest and response. My fire phone is likely to revive in by ggow in the future.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Paraglider1982:
Cannot confirm, I was able to remove it as it should be.

Die you try to reboot afterwards?
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Tried but still not working. When I click on the refresh button on Xposed Gel I get a toast message stating "stopped com.Google.android.Googlesearchbox" but search box is still there. Tried re installing Xposed gel, rebooting, even located the .com folders in root directory and renamed the folders but when I reboot the folders are renamed back. Very weird. Any advice? Are you using premium or free Xposed gel?
[Amazon Fire Phone] Censo:
Thank you, logcat documentation was useful. I saw a crash trace involving libcamera_client.so when camera app was started. I also found out why FireOS libcamera*.so could not be loaded, there are missing symbols, some of them were fixed by swapping libraries and installing missing ones (like omx_c2d*() symbols from libCC.so), but it also required some from libcutils.so, that can not be swapped, because it breaks CM. What I want try first is to rebuild libcutils.so from Cyanogenmod tree to include symbols required by original libcamera libraries and try this approach again until all dependencies are resolved.

Can you send me a link to a repo from which you build your ROM?

Side note: I saw this message on CM11 build:

E/HAL ( 467): load: module=/system/lib/hw/hwcomposer.msm8974.so
E/HAL ( 467): dlopen failed: could not load library "libmedia.so" needed by "hwcomposer.msm8974.so"; caused by could not load library "l
ibsonivox.so" needed by "libmedia.so"; caused by cannot locate symbol "__android_log_error_write" referenced by "libsonivox.so"...

Not sure if it breaks something, but it was fixed on my phone by using FireOS liblog.so, which provides __android_log_error_write(). Maybe a candidate to include into your next build.

Ignore the above, it is actually the opposite, liblog.so has to be extended as well with symbols required by both CM and libcamera_client.so from original FireOS.
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
Okay so I figured out the problem. I had a higher version of Google App then what Xposed Gel Settings supported. I probably updated it and didn't realize the update broke Xposed Gel Settings. I had Google App version 5.12.xx installed. I uninstalled Google App and selected restore factory app and got version 5.7. Tested Xposed Gel Settings and it worked. So I found Google App arm version here http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/googl...le-app-5-11-35-19-arm-3-android-apk-download/ and updated and still works. Problem solved!
[Amazon Fire Phone] Paraglider1982:
I am using the free one :o
[Amazon Fire Phone] juwie69:
What kind of camera app do you use? At the moment i use Open Camera, but i miss the pano and sphere function.

Is there a solution for the bad radio signal? I think it is not only lower reported, it is really lower.
[Amazon Fire Phone] biodante27:
I know is a newb question but the cm-11 works on a 4.6.6 fire phone!?
[Amazon Fire Phone] netsriht:
Yes it does

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Amazon Fire Phone] DarthVesh:
Camera KK has regular panorama. I don't think the camera is working well enough for more modes
[Amazon Fire Phone] zerbey:
SnapCamera works great for many people.
[Amazon Fire Phone] messuphard:
"Quote:

Originally Posted by Minkwon

.... Would you check the voice relate file when you make a new version room ?

ACR calling recording app(from google play) does not work properly. My voice could hear through ACR app, but

other person voice did not record. Original Fire OS and Slimkat 9/30 works very well for calling recording app. Maybe you missed the voice relate files when you made a room..."

I think ACR stopped working with release 2016-01-11

I would also be very happy if that could be fixed :)

Thank for your hard work!
[Amazon Fire Phone] OffBeatMammal:
you can download the zip from chrome on the phone, reboot to recovery and flash...
[Amazon Fire Phone] jai2test:
Thanks. I am not seeing any chrome browser on teh phone running CM11 . Guess it is due to NexusGapps was not installed.
[Amazon Fire Phone] OffBeatMammal:
d'oh. didn't think of that. have you enabled ADB in developer options? If you don't see developer options you'll need to to to settings, about phone and tap on "build number" 7 times. when it tells you it's enabled go back up a level and you should see "developer options". Enable Android Debugging in that menu and you should then be able to adb the zip file across
[Amazon Fire Phone] Plonko:
Confirmed. I changed the 5GHz channel from 157 to 36 and the phone was able to recognize and connect to my network, however the signal quality is very poor. I'm just going to rock 2.4GHz if/until ggow is able to figure it out.
[Amazon Fire Phone] KLit75:
Is the internet browser functioning on cm? You could download it from there and then boot to recovery.

If adb is working you could adb push it to sdcard

I had trouble with Android file transfer on Mac. All I did was try different cable and it worked.
[Amazon Fire Phone] lolwatpear:
anyone getting terrible data reception in doors? places where I used to get 1-2 bars with my G3 are now getting 0 and I cannot use data.
[Amazon Fire Phone] MortaLPortaL:
if you can't connect to your PC, did you try going to;

I noticed there was a report of the phone not showing up when connecting to a computer

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

someone posted this, and it worked for me.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
No probs, will definitely take a look into this. In your bug report could you include a logcat whilst the WiFi radio is scanning for networks?
[Amazon Fire Phone] wxswjtu:
look forward to cm12,go on
[Amazon Fire Phone] MortaLPortaL:
concerning 5GHZ Wifi;

I have mine on my 5ghz channel. I set it from 48 to 36 and it works fine all over my house.
[Amazon Fire Phone] omxx:
:good:

glad to see the android interface
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
[MENTION=690558]Plonko[/MENTION] - can you confirm whether this works for you?
[Amazon Fire Phone] v6ser:
Just letting you know that mine works at 5GHz as well.

It's set to 11.
[Amazon Fire Phone] davewthompson:
WhatsApp web - camera issues?

Excellent work, really appreciated.

The only one issue I've found (apart from the Play Services crash) is that using WhatsApp Web isn't possible because the camera freezes for about 5 seconds when trying to scan the barcode through the WhatsApp application.

Apart from that, all is perfect.
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
i have had mine on the 5ghz band since getting the update and have had no problems. i think the 5ghz range isn't as good as the 2.4ghz. i'm currently using the asus dsl-ac68u an upgrade from the crappy sky router.
[Amazon Fire Phone] russy23:
will the camera be fixed in the next release do you think??
[Amazon Fire Phone] fuelvolts:
For the 12th time, there will probably be no CM12 on this phone: straight to M.
[Amazon Fire Phone] killer_whale:
Can somebody please add instruction how to install safestrap v4 in the manual? Struggling to find it
[Amazon Fire Phone] sergio687:
There isn't a manual in this thread because it's about flashing CM11. There's already a thread about Safestrap in this very forum section.

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

Giving instructions in how to install Safestrap in this thread would be redundant.
[Amazon Fire Phone] ggow:
Update

- In short I don't think it will be fixed by the next release. It is the top priority to get the camera fixed up

- Unfortunately since Sunday I have been unwell, I have been off work this week so far.

- Hoping to get a few things fixed up and make a new release this week or when feeling better..
[Amazon Fire Phone] irbis9:
try change source to VOICE_CALL in ACR settings
[Amazon Fire Phone] ponghclub:
do you know which update that work good with battery?
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
ACR sucks. I believe it was stablished earlier its not working with is device/release.

I recommend trying BoldBeast from play store. He has an XDA thread as well and is extremely responsive.

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-boldbeast-call-recorder-galaxy-htc-t2923904/
[Amazon Fire Phone] messuphard:
can you confirm that BoldBeast works with releases later than 2016-01-11 ?

back then i tried BoldBeast and many others + trying different sources (if they were selectable..) but it didnt work properly
[Amazon Fire Phone] Runner_cz:
I can confirm it. Used it with February version of CM, now using it with AOSP ROM. Anyway kernel is the same - so it works the same way.
[Amazon Fire Phone] Mycraigslistid:
I had Cyanogenmod on my Fire Phone but accidentally somehow went back to the Amazon Fire OS. Do I have to do the same things I did the first time I loaded Cyanogenmod or is there a quick way to switch back to Cyanogenmod?
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
There is no way that the phone can switch to back Fire OS "accidentally"... unless you installed CM to another slot but then you would have had connectivity issues on CM, so that seems rather unlikely...

Please provide some details:

Device is still rooted?

Is Safestrap recovery available at boot?

Is the Fire OS system state just like you left it or did it come back with the default settings?
[Amazon Fire Phone] biodante27:
last question guys, doing this mod, the phone will get a huge performance? Im right now with stock fire os with a google launcher ( managed to install play store) and the phone is working fine but if the mod will give the phone a good boost, I will do the mod. Thanks in advance
[Amazon Fire Phone] :
[trump] The performance? I'll tell you about the performance, it will be so good, it'll make your head spin! You will pwn ewryun in ze Antutu benches, mazzive sc0rez, soo l33t! [/trump]

[IMG="'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!!!"]https://i.imgflip.com/p8blw.jpg[/IMG]

Nah, but honestly, it's still the same hardware and we are forced to use the stock kernel, so performance is more or less the same as on Fire OS.

It feels snappy and responsive though, because all the custom ROMs like CM, AOSP Fire Nexus & SlimKat are lightweight to begin with...

If you can live and survive with a semi-crippled camera, you will enjoy CM on the Fire Phone.

Everyone do the Mod! It's the latest dance craze!
[Amazon Fire Phone] Minkwon:
Did not work properly.

I've just changed the setting of ACR apps as you said, but following pop-up " recording have been stopped "appeared on screen.
[Amazon Fire Phone] gorilla p:
Use BoldBeast.
[Amazon Fire Phone] themo44:
Is there anyway to switch from cm11 back to fire OS without losing info or data
[Amazon Fire Phone] Parcours97:
Yeah. Works fine on mine

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Anyone managed to get Xposed working?
[Amazon Fire Phone] JDubbed:
I second Bold Beast. Its a heavy price tag if you want auto record vs manual but the dev is on Xda forum and is constantly improving it. ACR was what I used to use with stock rom. Then I went over to CM-11 and it stopped working. ACR's tech support said they don't support non stock roms and didn't want to. But they did end up refunding my money even though it had been several months later. Save yourself time and switch to Bold Beast.
[Amazon Fire Phone] randybo:
The most serious problem with the camera is that people keep posting the question to ggow if he can fix it. My god, I believe that frequently repeated question must be 25% of the posts in this forum!