yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Reload rom if problem persists. WiFi radio issues are not characteristic of this rom or device. If still no joy may have a hardware issue. Hotspot functionality is not applicable on a single (no mobile) radio device. USB/BT network sharing is typically supported via 3rd party apps.
[Fire Original Android Development] eldon.mcguinness:
Just did a fresh install of this on my Kindle and it works great! Just to be clear I had 3.5.2 on it and downgraded to 3.5.1 and then used Kingroot to get root and followed the ops post on using fireflash.
[Fire Original Android Development] bassbox:
Thanks for the great port! Runs flawless so far!

May it be, that Screen Mirroring (to a Chromecast) ain't featured? (It just seems to connect for a mere second and then fails)

Guess the hardware can't/won't handle it?
[Fire Original Android Development] TheZoker:
Is this rom working on the HD 7?

I'm little confused about the forum, because there is a Amazon Fire forum and a Fire HD forum

So which one does fit for the HD 7 and if it's not the Amazon Fire forum, what purpose does the Amazon Fire forum has?
[Fire Original Android Development] sd_shadow:
[Index] Amazon (Kindle) Fire(s) aka Which Fire do I Have?
[Fire Original Android Development] thesrod:
I have 5.3.2 and Kingroot 4.8.2 and 5.0 are not working. I have tried several times including rebooting and nothing. Also Towelroot is no go. Is there any other way to root at this point? I'm trying to get root in order to install Flashfire. Thanks

Also I tried to adb sideload the 5.3.1 bin and it said "error".
[Fire Original Android Development] ryankne:
camera does not record video - fixed

thanks so much for the quick fix for the camera recording issue.... confirmed working on the 11-22-16 build after upgrade ... (i couldn't comment on the bug report)
[Fire Original Android Development] jay-zi:
Thanks for the great guide. Here's what I did with my Fire:

Mine was on 5.1.3

Activated Developer Options

Downgraded to 5.1.2 with http://rootjunkysdl.com/files/?dir=Amazon Fire 5th gen/Firmware *Firmware-Downgrade-to-Fire-OS-5.1.2-Supertool.zip608.13MB2016-07-17 15:20:52

Rooted with http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/development/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool-root-t3272695 *AmazonFire5thGenSuperTool.zip137.07MB2016-10-06 01:24:35

Installed CM 12.1 http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-cm-12-1-2015-11-15-t3249416

with opengapps ARM Mini 5.1 http://opengapps.org/
[Fire Original Android Development] sebr:
I installed latest version but I cannot access sdcard anymore. How can I determine if it is related to CM or a hardware issue?
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Have you rebooted? Also try reformatting SD card (vFAT seems to work best for general access on CM)
[Fire Original Android Development] Jagr21:
It is possible to install this with Flashify instead of Flashfire? Because the latest won't work on my Fire. :(
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Flashify can not be used to install roms. Problems with FlashFire suggest the underlying environment (FireOS) has not been properly prepared. Did you use the SuperTool to root and install SuperSU?
[Fire Original Android Development] pyoungworth:
Does this new version support Alexa? Is that possible with cm?
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
AFAIK no Alexia ports exist for custom ROMs. Amazon has stated there are no immediate plans for a generic Android build. Might be awhile.
[Fire Original Android Development] yungskeeme01:
I just downgraded and rooted my Fire. About to try to flash this with FlashFire. I'm using the ARM 5.1 Pico GAPPS. Hope that works.
[Fire Original Android Development] GamerKingFaiz:
Care to update us on how it worked? I'm thinking about getting a Fire 7 from Amazon right now during Black Friday, but I'm not sure which GApps Android version I'd need to get.
[Fire Original Android Development] yungskeeme01:
Up and running! Only issue is I can't get the keyboard sound to go off. I know in the OP it's mentioned but turning down the volume in the keyboard settings doesn't work. I even turned off sound on key press. Booted up fine for me though. So much better without that bloated stock.
[Fire Original Android Development] jay-zi:
In the instructions on page 1 it's said to "Use either micro, pico or nano". However I tried stock first but it didn't work so I decided to use mini and it worked.
[Fire Original Android Development] yungskeeme01:
Got the sound to go off. All is well
[Fire Original Android Development] corax2.05:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION]

Many thanks for the update! Works nice.

Three little girls are very happy you fixed the video recording bug.
[Fire Original Android Development] skypirate123:
CM12 installed great but no Google Play so assuming there was an issue with gapps?

Any quick way to get that set up? Or is it a case of having to start from the beginning?

Redo FlashFire and a clean install with CM and Gapps?

EDIT: Nevermind I noticed I had stock Gapps... I'm dumb and didn't read. Grabbed the micro one... let's see how that goes.

EDIT 2: Micro - no Play store appeared. Pico next with Flashfire clean install.

EDIT 3: Nano worked! Installed on it's own with Flashfire after CM12 stock install.
[Fire Original Android Development] h4waii:
FYI, after enabling encryption, root seems to be lost. I haven't done any deeper looking yet -- but just want to advise if anyone else is having this issue. Toggling root from developer options doesn't resolve it.
[Fire Original Android Development] s.i.t.h.l.o.r.d:
One question: I just got my (used) Fire 7 tablet and I am about to falsh CM12.1 (used to run CM on my phone for ages).

As my colleagues mentioned FireOS'ses parental control is pretty nice, I wonder if I could revert back to FireOS in case I don't like CM. A full nandroid of my FireOS 5.0.1 is done already.
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Yes h you can revert back to FireOS and retain 5.0.1 bootloader by restoring nandroid backup via TWRP. Can also sideload FireOS 5.0.1 and then upgrade ROM independent of bootloader. Obviously this only works if you truly have 5.0.x bootloader/kernel. Any attempt to downgrade will permanently brick device.
[Fire Original Android Development] s.i.t.h.l.o.r.d:
Thanks a lot for your reply. I'll install CM12 now and keep my Nandroid backup just in case.
[Fire Original Android Development] Webern:
I think the standalone thing is: bootloader is locked, so currently to boot into recovery (so you can flash a rom, etc) you need to plug the fire into a pc and boot from a recovery image on the pc, then do your business and reboot and then the tablet will work without the pc. but before that (look at the second post in this thread for dates) there was a point where you couldn't even boot into the rom without the pc; each time you rebooted the tablet you needed to connect it to a pc otherwise it would boot into stock. that's my reading of it, anyway.
[Fire Original Android Development] sandman512:
Ok, that is what I thought it was. I wasn't sure if I was missing anything. Thanks!
[Fire Original Android Development] ggow:
- I'll do another release tomorrow which fixes using usb flash drive
[Fire Original Android Development] Webern:
Another thing which was weird was that i had to use pico open gapps, not the normal one as it complained there wasn't enough space, even though it was a factory reset device. is this because i was reading and writing from internal memory and it would have needed a bunch of space for temporary files? (i would have used to sd card only for the exfat problem I didn't know about at the time)
[Fire Original Android Development] blueberry.sky:
You could try wiping dalvik cache, cache, data and system before flashing CM.
[Fire Original Android Development] sd_shadow:
Actually i recommend Pico, because of the small system partition
[Fire Original Android Development] k4y0z:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] is anything special needed for exfat?

I thought it uses fuse which should be compiled into the kernel?

Anyhow, since I got my kernel-sources up and running, in case you need specific modules I will try to provide them.
[Fire Original Android Development] Webern:
On the 1st post it mentions video being a problem; is there perhaps some way to force it to use a different decoding method, given that i've found that using software decoder on mx player (and the aio codec zip from xda) seems to work fine? might be a workaround.
[Fire Original Android Development] sam tyler:
I didn't expect another update, I just thought I was using the otg wrong. Thanks for being on the ball with this.
[Fire Original Android Development] swicago:
Wow, that was super easy....thank you so much to all the hard work you guys did.

My kid is going to love his new tablet. ....YOU GUYS ROCK
[Fire Original Android Development] xm41907:
Thanks for the suggestion on the aio codec. MX Player is working fine for me now. Netflix is still having issues though.

Other than the video issues, everything else seems to be working well except one thing. GPS tethering seems wonky. I planned to use mine as a car system, but realized after getting it there is no hardware GPS. I've gotten it to connect to my phone's GPS and on both Google Maps and Waze, it will show the correct position, however navigation for both doesn't work. This may not be a CM issue, it might be inherent to the Fire, but figured I'd mention it here just in case.
[Fire Original Android Development] danweb66:
Video workaround

People with video problems I've stated this earlier in the thread go to developer options and disable HW overlays, and click on use awesome player. Problem solved

Edit. If you restart the device you will have to go back and choose to disable the Hw overlays each time. Just fyi
[Fire Original Android Development] shadowsiul:
So I am wondering does CM updater work by chance?
[Fire Original Android Development] mercurio.:
First of all thanks for your work! I have one question: could it be that the aspect ratio of the screen is somehow wrong? All circles seem to have a oval shape to me...
[Fire Original Android Development] xm41907:
While this worked to get HD decoding going, it left mine with a choppy video in MX Player. SW decoding works much better. It did help with Netflix though.
[Fire Original Android Development] theophile2:
Yes, unfortunately this is a known issue.
[Fire Original Android Development] demig0d01:
It seems like no matter what gapps i flash i keep getting the error "google play services has stopped"when i open the playstore, anyone have a solution?
[Fire Original Android Development] lixxus:
thank you to the developer/maintainer for all your work.

I am very hopeful for this device especially since its a mass product. Hopefully other developers can support the build and development for it.

would be great to see this receive official build Status by cyanogenmod mod at some stage.
[Fire Original Android Development] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Dated 04 Dec 2015

- Change log on Post #2
[Fire Original Android Development] ggow:
- If we could get CIFS and exFAT, then that would be a good start

- Good stuff :)
[Fire Original Android Development] sebr:
Yes I did. I tried different cards with different filesystems as well. What finally helped: format a card in the tablet. After that it recognized again ALL the card i had tried before! Very strange :confused:

Another thing I observed: after around the 24 hours of standby the battery drained about 50% :eek:
[Fire Original Android Development] AndroidSpaceMonkey:
Chromecast Screen Cast Issue

Hi, first thank you to the developers so making a great ROM for us to use and get some use out of the Amazon Fire 7" 5th Gen.

I got one in the Black Friday sales along with a Chromecast 2nd Generation and after installing CM 12.1 on the Fire 7" tried to cast my screen to the TV but every time I did this the TV would go back as if to connect and the tablet would say connected but after around 5 seconds (maybe less) it said "Screen Cast to MainTV has ended" on the bottom of the screen.

I have looked through this thread to see if anyone else has made comment of it but couldn't seem to find anything, (sorry if I missed something but i did look), if its a bug that people know how to fix please share as I would love to get the full use of this tablet now that FireOS is off it.

How I installed CM12.1 in case it matters

Used RootJunkys tool to add SuperSU

Installed FlashFire

(followed the instructions word for word on the OP)

Used GApps Arm 5.1 Pico

Look forward to hearing from someone with some advice.
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Yes, that works but often makes the card unreadable by other systems. Not an issue if it will primarily live in your tablet.

I experience ~2-3% drain per 24 hours in standby taking no special actions other than disabling WiFi while sleeping. Take a look at stock battery stats for excess background activity. Can also use more advanced tools like GSam, BBS, MAT and WLD to monitor usage along with Greenify which emulates (KitKat/Lollipop) and enhances Doze (Marshmallow/Nougat) depending on ROM. Works a treat.

BBS=Better Battery Stats

MAT=My Android Tools

WLD=Wake Lock Detector

BTW - I do not recommend Amplify (wakelock limiter) on WiFi only devices except in special cases. Side effects do not offset side effects IMHO.
[Fire Original Android Development] ryankne:
I have the same issue - unable to cast screen with cast button from slide down menu or using chromecast app - i was able to use this with fire OS ... it tries to start and then stops immediately
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
AFAIK no 3rd party display mirroring (Miracast or Chromecast) with any of the custom ROMs currently available for this device. FireStick / Fire TV obviously works with FireOS; pretty sure mirroring to those devices is a no-go with other ROMs.

Edit: apparently incorrect on mirroring via Chromecast; see previous post.
[Fire Original Android Development] kramalot:
I have no problem casting to Chromecast either screen mirroring or streaming from apps (though I should mention that I'm not using the latest version of the ROM by a few months).Mirroring this to the TV as I type. Only effect is very slow response to keyboard!
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Thank you. I knew streaming was OK but thought mirroring was a non starter. Btw, I'm also claiming no humans have travelled to the moon and the world is flat. Little off on the guidance lately...sorry 'bout that. :(
[Fire Original Android Development] FBis251:
Hey guys anyone else have trouble getting ADB enabled with the 22 NOV 2016 build? The ADB toggle in developer options is grayed out for me, worked fine in last month's build
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Toggle working fine for me on 20161122. Unfortunately, can't verify actual functionality at present as travelling w/o laptop.
[Fire Original Android Development] Michael_Ge:
How do I make a complete backup of the CM12 so I can perhaps re-import it with adb?

THX
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Use native backup/restore commands via adb. Google "adb backup" for details. Can also use FlashFire backup for partial/conditional recovery capability. See FlashFire page for more info: https://flashfire.chainfire.eu/
[Fire Original Android Development] sylvio2000:
Thank you very much. I did the same and Netflix works. I already installed all my other apps and so far everything is fine. There is only one problem I had not before: I cant install google play games. I get an error 505. I will try to install it manually and see if it works.
[Fire Original Android Development] s.i.t.h.l.o.r.d:
ADB works fine for me. At least my quick check with "adb devices" and it gave me the expected list with my tablet's ID.
[Fire Original Android Development] dorpmuller:
Same here. On 5.12 and I followed the Supertool instructions to a T. Installed Flashfire 0.53. When I go to wipe system, dalvik and data per the prompts it factory reset thr device and took flashfire with it. I'm at my wit's end... can someone give me a hand? Tried it four times already. System just won't wipe. BTW the device started off on 5.13 and I downgraded successfully to 5.12 and went from there.

Thanks,

Rich
[Fire Original Android Development] bijubiju007:
Thank you very much, I now have a CM 12.1 tab :)
[Fire Original Android Development] Miiick3y:
Hi, when i launch FlashFire, it's stuck on "Checking for Pro" do you have a solution for that ?

Thanks
[Fire Original Android Development] niphoet:
Buy the Pro version ☺
[Fire Original Android Development] Toshman:
Thank you for this nice ROM, Installation works good, i still have 2 questions so fare

a) Sound at typing

I disabled all sounds but still have this annoying sound at typing. Is there any special option i forgot or is this a known bug?

b)Rotation

It rotates only in 3 directions, if the hardware buttons are at bottom it does not rotate. It directly made the change to CM so i do not know if this already was also under Fire OS, is this a normal behaviour of this device?
[Fire Original Android Development] PepeLasNoches:
Not sure about B, but I had the same problem with the keyboard sound and I was able to find it here:

Settings > Language & Input > Android Keyboard (AOSP) > Preferences > Sound on keypress

That should do it!
[Fire Original Android Development] Toshman:
Thank you very much, this was the option i was looking for!
[Fire Original Android Development] TheKindleMCPEGuy:
I'm enjoying the ROM. But, after a factory reset, my root doesn't work anymore. FlashFire doesn't get to the flash screen anymore, Xposed is probably going nuts over it,etc. How could I fix this?
[Fire Original Android Development] Cryss_Florin:
Hello guys, I just bought the Fire 7 tablet and I was looking to install a custom rom on it. Unfortunately I updated it imediately to 5.1.1 and the TWRP method will not work. When I try to use FlashFire, the app just crashes on start without any error. Do you know how could I make FlashFire work? (I rooted the tablet using King Root)
[Fire Original Android Development] GhostRider86:
Use latest Version from Play Store

---------- Post added at 10:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:16 PM ----------

Use latest Version from Play Store
[Fire Original Android Development] ipdev:
FlashFire only works with cm root and SuperSU.

There are ways to replace KingRoot with SuperSU. Being on 5.1.1 you have another option to root it it.

http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/root-t3272362
[Fire Original Android Development] Wickii:
Enable Root in Developer Options.
[Fire Original Android Development] Cryss_Florin:
For now, I will try to replace the king root permission manager with SuperSu, if it doesn't work, I will try the other rooting method. Thank you for reply :D

Also, thank you [MENTION=7367623]GhostRider86[/MENTION] for your reply, I tried the latest version from apkmirror, because I don't have the Play store on my tablet, yet :D
[Fire Original Android Development] TheKindleMCPEGuy:
Here's some pics.

And yes, I did enable root.
[Fire Original Android Development] ipdev:
As silly as it sounds, try disabling root and then enable it. (Sometimes a reboot in between disabling and enabling is required.)

Seems to happen on cm roms, regardless the device.
[Fire Original Android Development] TheKindleMCPEGuy:
Will try, thanks!

Edit: doesn't work :/
[Fire Original Android Development] ipdev:
Sorry it didn't work. :(

Just flashed cm-12.1-20161122-UNOFFICIAL-ford on mine, same problem.

I don't use mine much, so I'm not losing anything restoring fireOS and starting over. (Mine runs 5.1.1)

(This time I will flash supersu with it.)

Note : su was not available in terminal or adb shell.
[Fire Original Android Development] s.i.t.h.l.o.r.d:
Sweet typo, I wished you were right but we're still working with CM12.1 instead of the up-to-date 14.1 thanks to a locked bootloader. Thanks Amazon.

But for <25USD I won't complain...
[Fire Original Android Development] ipdev:
Oh but, we can dream. :)

I've been flashing a lot of roms the last few days, most of them are now 7.1 builds.

Thanks for catching it, I corrected the typo.
[Fire Original Android Development] bclark1223:
So, because I'm an idiot I could use some help. I accidentally chose full instead of micro for Gapps. Now I am stuck. I no longer have flashfire, or any google apps. Anyone know how to proceed/fix my mistake?
[Fire Original Android Development] el_charlie:
If the tablet actually boots (you're able to get to the homescreen), then enable root access in developer options (tap 7 times the bluid version in Settings > About), install FlashFire again and start over. I suggest making the full wipe like on OP.

If not, enter recovery and sideload FireOS again and start over.

Cheers!

EDIT: stock gapps work ONLY if you use a gapps-config.txt excluding many apps from the installation. In my case I excluded GoogleNow Launcher, Play Movies, Play Newstand, Speech files, and some others I don't remember now. I still have like 130 MB free on /system. I did it because I wanted to have google camera, Chrome as a browser and play books for my mom.
[Fire Original Android Development] kramalot:
I think usual advice is to reboot once (or occasionally twice) after enabling root.
[Fire Original Android Development] Bioschnitzel:
I need help to restore my Fire 7 to Fire OS.

I would like to send it back to amazon.

What are the steps to do when I`m on CM Rom?

Thx for your help.
[Fire Original Android Development] GhostRider86:
Sideload FireOS, same Version originally in it
[Fire Original Android Development] sd_shadow:
do you know what was the last stock version?
[Fire Original Android Development] efid:
I rooted using kingroot, then flashed using flashfire and it all seemed to be working, but once the device finished doing what it was doing, it just turned right back on to the original amazon software without root or anything, as if nothing ever happened.
[Fire Original Android Development] Cliffsu:
Help!

My 5.3.1 tablet can successfully rotted and flashfire, but for some reason i need to do it again but failed.

Now I can sideload 5.3.1 and kingroot it.

But when i use Super Sume pro(paid app), the app halted in the first stage, and i dont see any root requirement popup window. The supersume stop at 'valid copy' and 'processing, please wait...'

Any how i can do it 3 months ago, but cant do it again. Pls help

Cliff
[Fire Original Android Development] will_danbury:
Brilliant!

I just got my fire tablet on cyber monday/black friday week for 39€ and i'm truly amazed about the performance. sure, the camera isn't very good and it doesn't have gps, but hey: it was 39€!

cm works very well. i got the device with fire os 5.1.1, upgraded it to 5.1.2 and used the rootjunky script to make all the necessary changes. i rooted it with kingroot which the script replaced afterwards with super su. i then got flashfire from the playstore and flashed cm12.1.

the only problems i encountered was with google cast. it didn't work at first, neither youtube nor netflix or else. but for some reason it worked with spotify, and then it also worked with youtube, netflix etc... probably some network issue i had at home. however, casting the complete screen still doesn't work. immediately after connecting with my google cast it ends the connection (but i can live with that).

thanks for the excellent work!
[Fire Original Android Development] DB126:
Reload/sideload FireOS 5.3.1 and then use the 5th gen SuperTool to root, install SuperSU and perform other housekeeping/preparatory steps. Going the Super Sume route is just asking for trouble.

http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/development/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool-root-t3272695
[Fire Original Android Development] GhostRider86:
Wipe in wrong order, needs to be before flash, See OP