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[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaana:
Hi guys,

Got my 5.01 fire yesterday, disabled ota, rooted, freezed bloat, took a backup via twrp, installed nova etc.

Thanks for the guides & legwork.

My noob question is;

I couldn't find a way to activate a lockscreen like Acdisplay or C-locker.

It's asks notification permission but looks like there is no selectable option in FireOs.

Is there another menu to activate this setting or do you know any app supports this device ?

I searched thru the threads for a tutorial in here but all I found were about removing the ads on lockscreen.

I'm a total rook so I don't prefer flashing CM or another rom atm.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaelle:
Has anyone had good luck using a stylus with this thing? My bamboo stylus is barely responsive. I'm running the feared 5.1.1 with google play. It arrived with four dead pixels and light bleeds around certain spots, so maybe I can get a replacement and avoid the update this time. This Amazon os is crap.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAMan:
USB Connection

I flashed CM 12.1, Gapps, and SuperSU using the RootJunky KFU. That worked very well. But now I can't connect to the tablet over USB. In CM12.1, the option to enable USB debugging isn't even available because it says the "Device is Charging" (even when it isn't charging).

I'd like to get a USB connection so that I can run the RootJunky KFU one more time to "Disable OTA Updates" on the same device. I'm worried about connecting to Wi-Fi in CM 12.1 and the tablet trying to auto-update to 5.1.1.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
CM12.1 won't do an OTA update. Only stock Amazon OS needs to have OTA blocked to not update to 5.1.1 and break fastboot.

---------- Post added at 06:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:05 PM ----------

You can just hold down a volume button while pressing power to turn the device on. One volume button goes directly to fastboot, the other goes to stock recovery. If you get the stock recovery chose "reboot to bootloader" and you will get to fastboot.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
You can just hold down a volume button while pressing power to turn the device on. One volume button goes directly to fastboot, the other goes to stock recovery. If you get the stock recovery chose "reboot to bootloader" and you will get to fastboot.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAMan:
Thank you. That's helpful. Is there a particular reason it no longer connects over USB? (My laptop does not even realize it's connected.) In the CM 12.1 Developer Options, turning on Android Debugging is not possible (even when I have it disconnected from the laptop) because it says the Device is in Charging Mode.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
If adb drivers worked before flashing CM I would guess it's a problem with the CM install. I would probably try reflashing the CM and gapps without flashing supersu (fastboot drivers should still work if you manually boot fastboot with vol and power button) to rule out supersu being the problem. I think someone said something somewhere about a beta supersua few CM builds ago(?).. but personally I've been using stock CM superuser (privacy manager - enable root in developer settings) since it was fixed by ggow.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavitztm:
Is there Any way to Flash a cm Rom on 5.1.1 with flashfire for example?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdeandeck:
Wife got one for xmas...

My wife got a FIre 5th gen, for christmas didnt think about flashing anything till i could convince her that the fire os sucks, and it updated to 5.1.1 . i have gotten root and su working, installed gapps, and have used 'pm hide packages' to hide ota stuff and kso stuff, i would like to know if it is possible to just replace stock launcher, so that when i push home button it just goes to new laucher, or how safe is it to flash cm 12.1, I have a little experience flashing firmware, had 2 generic coby tabs and flashed cm9 and cwm recovery on it and my mothers, and have unbricked lg phone. So even if i do brick it is it pretty easy to go back to stock.

And has anyone tried to 'fastboot oem unlock' like some lg phones say you need to?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gad42000:
You were able to get the 5.1.1 rooted?

Also, has anyone been able to get Skype working on this? I tried installing but it the cam function isn't working. (im running 4.7android)
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nEUTRon666:
I have the Play Store / Work problem and all 3 accounts i tried are 10000% NOT apps/business accounts. They are all normal gmail.com accounts, is there a fix for this ?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlv:
Please clarify....your wife's Fire was definitely updated to the 5.1.1 Fire OS via OTA, then you rooted it afterwards?

If so, I think you are the first to do so, and the OTA update should have locked down the bootloader. This would make the use of a custom recovery impossible (at least for now) so there will be no way for you to flash CM 12.1.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
5.1.1 still wont boot a custom recovery.img or boot.img, but there's a new method for rooting 5.1.1 that doesn't require you to.

http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/root-t3272362
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT29c:
Hi, can you link me to the "Google Account Manager (v4.4.4-1227136)" you made?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
https://mega.nz/#F!AI5n0AaR!Qw-WJrBoCP8bce-so0hzFQ
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT29c:
Thank you!

I tried installing the Amazon Fire SDK drivers, but at the "Select Kindle Fire USB Driver, Kindle Fire Device Definitions, and optionally the Amazon AVD Launcher."

Only Kindle Fire USB Driver show's up in the list.

"Select at least one Kindle Fire image so that vendor information is available for ADB. I’ve chosen to select the three Kindle Fire 3rd Generation images (API Level 17)."

And none of these show up at all Either.

Any ideas?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

[TOOL] [WINDOWS] ADB, Fastboot and Drivers - 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.4.2
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbuddh@:
Could you go into a little more detail on how you got Google Account Manager from your Galaxy S4 to the Fire. I'm trying to find it on my Nexus 7 so I can copy it to my Fire. Everything else is done...this is my last step. Thanks for the post!
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
apps are /system/apps

you need a root browser or file manager with root options

browse to files copy and paste to SD card

or you can use a backup app

then you can save to PC, send them to your self, Dropbox, mega...
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirkHe:
You can also use ES File Explorer, Menu -> Library -> Applications, tap on user-apps, select system-apps, search the app you want to transfere, long click the app so that it gets selected, open the three-dot-menu, click send and all other ES File Explorers in the same network should show up.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT29c:
Thank you for your help. I already had tried that before my post, and that didn't work either.

The only thing that did work for me was

1. Downloading this: https://app.box.com/s/dy9mz30t6ejf0j03xunfxdnel1oeuqoi

2. Device Manager,

Right Click On Amazon Fire,

Properties,

Update Driver,

"Browse My Computer For Driver Software",

"Let Me Pick from a List of Device Drivers on my Computer

Have Disk

Browse to extracted files from the downloaded zip from step 1.

Next

and now ADB should find the Amazon Fire Tablet.

Any other method I tried did not work. I really hope this helps out anyone else trying to do this in the future.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiz0id:
How exactly did you get the Play Store to run? Were you able download and install?

Tell us howw you did it please.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you need a file manager like root browser or es file manager

down load Google apps from https://mega.nz/#F!AI5n0AaR!Qw-WJrBoCP8bce-so0hzFQ

place on sd card

open with file manager

file manager will ask if you want to install
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xT29c:
Yeah, just follow the guide, and you'll be able to install the Play Store and use it as a normal android tablet. :)
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyos:
I'm curious, how long does it usually take until new devices like this are rooted and then we'll be able to load Cyanogenmod? Also, would this be the thread to follow to know when this is possible or is there another site/link?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Anywhere from 0 days to never.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyos:
Ok, lol. Does the new Amazon Fire tablet that came out this week appear to be promising from anyone on the inside or what is the thought on when I can check back? I, like everyone else, obviously hate this Fire OS.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Popularity of the device helps with development, but the right dev needs to be trying the right things.

Looks like amazon closed the older exploits, but there are several clever hackers out there.

There are no time frames for hacking a new device, it happens when it happens.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
There are several different possibilities

Rooting

Someone finds an existing root hack

Someone modifies an existing root hack

Someone finds/creates a new root hack

Custom recovery: There are 2 type of custom recoveries

Bootstrap recovery: requires root (like safestrap)

Replace stock recovery with Custom (may require root)

Requires one of these

Unlocked bootloader

Custom Bootloader
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbob1016:
I almost got one of these. Waiting for TWRP of some sort, as I want to try to get AOSP or CM on it. I know that's unlikley at the moment, but one can dream.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiz0id:
I followed the directions and the play store wont connect to the google servers. I did the adb commands as said in the mentioned article you linked. Is there any other option i could have missed?

I am using FireOS 5.01
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirkHe:
Did you restart your tablet? For me the final trick was using the files provided by sd_shadow (see this thread 05:19 PM)

I installed them in reversed alphabetical order (don't know if that matters) and then restarted the tablet. After that it works, even without the adb command.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Reversed order? lucky it didn't blow up...jk

shouldn't matter, reboot is a good idea
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlv:
Good to hear. Progress!
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
Also.. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere that you can use flashfire to flash SlimLp over 5.1.1, but that it wasn't working for CM12.1. (?)

Do some reading through the Fire threads and confirm this info before flashing yourself a brick though, as I don't have 5.1.1 and have never used flashfire. Just sharing that I think I remember hearing that it worked. I'm not sure I would try myself unless you can sideload stock 5.1.1 through stock recovery to un-soft-brick if you run into problems. Not sure about that one..
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambucca1977:
apps disappearing after reboot cm12.1

I have an issue with my fire running CM12.1

I installed several apps and moved them to my SD card using es file manager.

After a reboot, the apps are gone from the launcher screen.

Anyone know what happened?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Root junky Video

Amazon Fire 5th gen 7in Slim Rom install on Fire OS 5 1 1 with FlashFire App

https://youtu.be/NaCBSuUuhRE
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennBr:
Does anyone know what version of Slim he is using? Just trying to download the rom...

Edit:

Nvermind I finally found the links in the description of the video. Got SlimLP working, so much better than Fire OS
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankieChen:
Sorry, I'm assuming this has already been asked but I've read all the way through this thread & tons of others and haven't been able to find the answer.

I've just received a 5.0 Fire.

I'd like to root it and also use google play services.

If I understand correctly, gapps won't work on 5.0 so I have to go to 5.01. I know that 5.1.1 is also out and from other people's comments, it seems it's preferable to stay with 5.01 and not go to 5.1.1.

What I'd like to know is if the updates get installed one by one or in bulk? I.e, if I allow the device to update will it first install 5.01 so that I can stop the update there, or will it continue to 5.1.1. without allowing me to stop at 5.01?

Thanks in advance
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you will want to manually download the 5.0.1 firmware and install in twrp or stock recovery

links in the index (link to index in post 1 & 2 of this thread)

then I would also root with Supersu.zip and install open gapps both in twrp
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] means:
unrooted stock 5.1.1 here. seems like brightness only goes as low as 25

(checked using adb shell, /sys/class/LEDs/lcd-backlight )

is this a bug? the on device slider at 25 is about 40%.

which suggests it is. slider jumps to from zero to

40% when I toggle blue shade on and back off.

is anyone on stock, rooted stock, or even other roms experiencing this?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heavy2803:
Hi, any way to install the kindle app google playstore version?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
need to modify built.prop so playstore and app think it's a different device
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atayal:
How do update the root version?

i am a complete noob and know nothing about this
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
don't need to update root.

update firmware/system version?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atayal:
yeah, how do you do that
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
what system version is on the device now?

5.1.1, 5.0.1 or 5.0.0?

and what do you want to do?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atayal:
basically i want to update the cm rom and i am on 5.1.1
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
see

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63943805

[Videos] Tutorials on how to root, flash roms and more on the Amazon Fire 5th gen.

and

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64422918

How to Use FlashFire App to install a Rom
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hedied4me:
[MENTION=4267571]sd_shadow[/MENTION] Well Im on my second Kindle having stupidly upgraded the first one to 5.1.1 Im going to install TWRP and root today and cm sometime later. What can I do to keep my device from updating to 5.1.1 like if I walk away and WiFi is on? I just want to make sure I don't make the same mistake twice.

Thankfully I can return the first one because of a dead pixel. Will see if I get any on this one.

Thanks shadow.

Sent from my Virgin Mobile CDMA Moto G3
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
block update by freezing update apps or hide with adb

see

Safe to remove 5.0.1 Bloatware

or

Adb Shell Pm Hide as much bloat and amazon as you can by k3ll0gs
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemon79:
Adding widgets to alternative launchers?

Hi there!

I rooted (well, believe I rooted) my 5th Gen last night using the SuperTool, and I'm having a problem that I am not even entirely sure is related to rooting. :)

Basically, I have ADW.Launcher installed, but not set as the default launcher - I launch it from inside of the Kindle native one. However, when I try to add a widget to the homescreen, when I select one, it just goes to Settings. I have found this happens regardless of what launcher I am trying out.

I figured this was root-related, which is why I went to the trouble of rooting it (before I just had the Play store installed), but the behavior has remained the same.

Is this expected behavior, or is there a fix, and if so, what?

Thanks much for any help!

-- Chris
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
try google now launcher or most launchers need to be moved to /system to use widgets
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hedied4me:
shadow I have one more question that I am uncertain about. I know I can just flash supersu.zip in recovery after flashing recovery (and backing up of course). Can I flash latest stable (2.46) or do I need to use beta? Im a little unsure after reading previous posts. Thank you for your help. It is very much appreciated.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemon79:
Can-do. Is "moving to /system" the same as "make it the default?"

At least I know it's behaving as it should. I will give Google Now a shot. Thank you!
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
stable should work fine
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
no moving to /system makes it a stock app

default is what app is opened when preforming an action, like tapping the home button
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemon79:
Got it. I was trying to look into it using an article on Groovypost that I apparently can't cite yet...but when I go to data/app I am seeing an empty folder. Did this location move on the newer devices?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you need a file manager with root options like ES File Explorer
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemon79:
Aha! Didn't realize I needed to turn on root access within ES File Explorer as well. Now I am seeing stuff in there. Thank you! :)
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davedough:
I just received a 7" 5th Generation Fire HD from my boss as a Christmas gift. It's the 8Gb WiFi model, if there are other models. I tried searching for answers to this and didn't see anything, but forgive me if I missed something obvious.

I tried to boot it up for the initial setup and just registering my device, I went to connect to wifi and register. The guest wifi at work is certificate based and as such, when the Kindle boots up and shows a 2009 date with 1 hour behind, the wireless won't let it proceed because there's a gross time mismatch. I go into Time & Date and no matter if I set it to automatically change via wireless or not, it won't get off of 1 hour behind and January 2009. It can't get out to the Internet because the certificate based wifi isn't letting it go any further until it gets its confirmation from the device and there's no option that I can tell that allows me to manually put in the time and date. I've set my time zone correctly and it still won't update to the correct time and date.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoLooper:
If you will want to root AND the OS is 5.0.1 (in settings/Device Options/system updates), turn off wifi to prevent auto-updating and read some threads about rooting 5.0.1 vs. 5.1.1 and blocking OTA. You'll want to disable OTA before turning wifi back on.

EDIT: [MENTION=7157995]Davedough[/MENTION], the Supertool will handle OTA blocking. Of course, if you're on OS 5.1.1 or won't be rooting none of this matters. ;)

You can't manually change the date/time, only your region. The Fire needs wifi to set time per your region so this is a catch 22 until you can connect to another network.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davedough:
Thanks for the info. I do plan on rooting it, so it's good to know about the OTA before I proceed. I guess I'll just wait until I go home. I was just excited to play with my new toy.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankieChen:
If I understand correctly, I need to download the 5.01 firmware. Following the links on the Index I've reached your post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62986665&postcount=3

There are two 5.01 firmware versions

5.0.1: update-kindle-37.5.2.2_user_522054520.bin - Amazon

5.0.1: update-kindle-37.5.2.2_user_522053820.bin - Amazon

Which one would it be best to download? If I've found the wrong file, I'd hugely appreciate it if you could point me in the direction to find the right one.

Thanks again
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
not really any difference in the 2, 5.0.1 versions the 4520 is newer
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankieChen:
Just want to double check, in order to load the 5.01 firmware onto my 5.0 device I should follow this guide?

[HOWTO] Unbrick/Restore Stock 2015 Amazon Fire (KFFOWI/Ford) with custom recovery
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
Yup, that's it.

Or.. I don't see it mentioned there, but I believe you may also fastboot twrp and flash stock Amazon rom as a .zip after just renaming the .bin file extension of the file to .zip (I restored my original firmware version this way, it was a restore not an upgrade, but that shouldn't make a difference).

Sent from my SGH-T599N or KFFOWI
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
yes or Unbrick/Restore Stock 2015 Amazon Fire (KFFOWI/Ford) with custom recovery
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davedough:
So last night I rooted my new 5th Gen Fire 7" with the SuperTool and it was painfully easy. It came running 5.0.1 and I left it that way. The only hangup I had is having to add the Hardware ID into the .inf for the batch file to recognize my device during the ADB driver install, but once I got past that, it was gravy.

I rooted, blocked ads and blocked OTA updates. Now I'm thinking I want to go with a custom rom to get away from the Amazon look and feel and have a real Android tablet.

I found a couple threads for the Cyanogenmod rom, but some of what's said in there is rather obtuse and confusing for a noob like me. Does anyone know of a reliable step-by-step guide to getting a custom rom onto the Fire 7"? My search skills are lacking today.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
see

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63943805

[Videos] Tutorials on how to root, flash roms and more on the Amazon Fire 5th gen.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] su6ur6an:
Not sure where I saw this question asked in the fire forums.. It's somewhere.. Anyway, I just wanted to note that I was able to tether gps for tablet navigation with "GPS 2 Bluetooth" (on phone) and "Bluetooth GPS" (on tablet). Both apps are on Google play. I had to enable moc locations on the tablet.. Haven't run across a problem with any apps not liking mock locations, but if you do there is an Xposed module "Mock Mock Locations" that may help.

I also recommend "Fake Wifi" xposed module if you tether internet over Bluetooth. I was able to run both at the same time for smooth navigation.

Just sharing.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ehmedhemidli:
5.1.1

So i bought kindle fire. İt is coming tomorrow. Probably it is on 5.1.1.

İ need it use for movies and slight gaming. So should i instal custom rom or take it in stock rom with gapps? And if i go for cuatom rom which is good slimlp or cm12.1?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pauljsgreen:
I have searched but am losing the thread on this (pardon the pun).

I have used TWRP, rooted and installed cyanogenmod and then attempted to restore to stock rom which seems to have worked.

However, I cannot now boot into recovery. I can fast boot and load TWRP, but without being tethered to the PC by using power and vol down I only get the Amazon logo and a small line of text saying "=> Recovery Mode".

Any and all advice appreciated.

Thanks

Paul
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlv:
See Q5 in the second post of this thread.
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gyokujo:
I 'm now on FireOS 5.1.1, rooted, i 'm planning to install CM12.1 via Flashfire but i have a question, can i swicht to other ROM (like SlimLP,...) or back to 5.1.1 via Flashfire?
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggow:
- Yes you should be able to flash SlimLP 2.3

- Never tried to flash fireos via flashfire but don't see why not
[Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Stock backup works, not sure if anyone has got stock update.zip to flash with FlashFire