yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
I'm getting that impression as well ^.^

I wonder if I should try re-signing the Underground app too... Like I said earlier, that's a dangerous path to go down.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Lolento:
I think as long as Instant Video is working, let's just keep a low profile.

I personally don't need to use the Underground app.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] jmacc:
Hello

Have a small issue maybe someone can help with.

I have had amazon video running fine on my shield for the last 2 weeks, I have been using the 2.xx app..

Tonight i thought i'd try the 3.xx app so i did this:

Uninstalled all amazon apps and the launcher on my shield.

Downloaded the launcher again and when opening it offers to install the 3.xx app.. problem is the app always just says "app not installed" also tried downloading the 3.xx zip but get the same error.. Put back on the 2.xx app and it worked fine again... also my details were still in the 2.xx app after reinstalling so it's saving all my info somewhere..

What do i need to delete to be able to install the 3.xx app and any future upgrades it has?

Thanks
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
Do you have Amazon Music or Amazon Underground (or earlier versions) installed? They'll have mismatching signing keys, so they can't be installed side-by-side.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] jmacc:
I don't and never have had them installed.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
You shouldn't get automatically logged in unless an Amazon app pre-exists on the device, very strange.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] daniel644:
working for me on the SHIELD TV I got last night using the 2.0.45.1210 VOD, haven't tested the other version yet.

any idea of if we will be able to get HD streaming?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Lolento:
5.1 audio would be nice too....that would be the holy grail.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] jmacc:
Well i deleted it all again, restarted my box then tried and now it works :confused:

Temporary glitch in the matrix.

Thanks again for a great app! :good:
[Shield Android TV Android Development] wy1d:
HD and 5.1 needed! I would assume HD quality would be built into the source app for 3.x by now anyway?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] sidamos77:
[MENTION=233853]Will[/MENTION]: Great progress in the last weeks! It's now totally usable with my german Amazon account on my Shield TV! Thank you!

I don't mind that I need a mouse for some things. Only thing remaining for me would also be HD and 5.1. But HD would be more important for me.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] wejgomi:
HD is not and sadly won't be compatible anytime soon as the base app(Video Player) is a smartphone version, which hasn't been blocked by Amazon solely due to its impractical usage with a remote.

This has been around for more than a year now. Although the developer has made it very convenient by developing a GUI where you picked movies instead of trying to click them from a website, the support(lack of) from Amazon hasn't changed which makes it limited to this.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
Exactly this, I was not trying to create a brand new app, merely an experience that felt more at home on, and interacted natively (via recommendations), Android TV :)
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Kovs:
I am 100% thankful and grateful for all the work you have done to make this a reality! I love that its working on my shield, although my dream would be to have them on all my other nexus players (along with fast forward and rewind)!

Thank you for all the hard work you have put into this!!!
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Kovs:
What about using the attached APK? This was the original one that worked on the Nexus Player (from the sony android tv) before Amazon changed something to disable it.

Just a thought.

Thanks again for all the work!
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
Doing a quick decompile of that app (and ~20 minutes browsing).

In MainActivity, this section is amusing (that error should never be thrown):

signedAsExpected = true;
if (!signedAsExpected) { ... throw error... }

Otherwise, it looks like the following issues are present:

The app is checking the signing key against a known signature retrieved from the web, I think this came up with previous development work (https://www.airpair.com/android/posts/adding-tampering-detection-to-your-android-app for a local example)

The app is checking the application version, Amazon could have set this to always return "expired"

The app is checking the device information, if the above is not true, this will have to be faked in some convincing way--either editing device properties (which could break other things) or changing the source

Decompiling and signing the APK again might break compatibility with x86 devices using Houdini to interpret ARM commands (I'm not 100% on how this works, exactly)

I thought I could walk around this check, but even forcing a video to play (via the adb command "adb shell am start -n com.amazon.aiv.us/com.amazon.avod.playbackclient.EdPlaybackActivity -e asin B008Y7Y6QU") gives me a LICENSE_ERROR--I received a different error before logging in to Amazon. I think they just plain revoked the license distributed with this device (if we got around the signing issue, could we drop the mobile license in?).

None of the other activities listed in the Manifest offer anything that seems immediately useful.

Other points of interest:

The SonyTV app is using an older version of the libTabletSICS-2.3.15.so library, I don't know what this does exactly

The SonyTV app (and probably the mobile app) is using this library in part: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/media-services-sspk/

The second screen code is interesting (com.amazon.avod.secondscreen), if you're into that kind of thing

TLDR:

It looks really unlikely that we'll be able to use the Sony TV app as the basis for further efforts unless we hijack calls to authenticate both the signing key (I'm pretty sure this is a remote check, not a local one) and maybe the license verification. Even then, we'll have to be able to find a compatible license (mobile app?) and put it into the APK.

I don't want to repeat too much of the research that has already been done with this particular APK, but you'll find some of the efforts online, both in XDA and other places. Basically the app would require an entire rewrite plus some fancy local network tricks (beyond the layman's ability to sideload an APK). Efforts might be better off seeing if we can find and port the settings that allow 4k video into the mobile app--then again that information might be tied to the license.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Kovs:
Wow thanks for the awesome breakdown and letting us know where things are at! Awesome job with everything! I thought it was worth a shot with that APK.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Fenny:
Just to add here:

The total number of function definitions in this application are greater than the number allowed in an APK, so amazon has another APK containing the rest of the functions that is downloaded from a url.

The "expired" message is actually a different version of that apk which only downloads when the values in the build.prop do not match that of the sony TV.

The signature checking function you found checks the signature of this additional apk before it is loaded.

Amazon does not appear to check the signature server side, and does not even do any sort of CRC verification of the dex files.

You are right that the license has now been revoked for this device. I was able to verify this by using an untouched version with a modified build.prop

I can bypass everything else, but I am unfamiliar with the playready drm used to validate the license. Perhaps you can shed more light on that part.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
I was hoping you'd pop in eventually :).

Thanks for clearing up the above, I only glanced at the code and did a quick dive.

I honestly don't know much more than you do--and maybe less--about this particular DRM (PlayReady), but I've worked on integrating similar products in the past as a dev. Going out on a limb here (again, I didn't look in depth), usually how the licenses work is you drop in a text/binary file that is passed to the server along with some related information (package name, signing config, and whatnot). This is validated server side and it controls the quality of the stream, the audio config, etc. returned to the device. Depending on how closely they're checking the license (just package name vs package name and MD5/SHA signing hash), it might be possible to drop in the cert from a different application--Fire TV 4k box version of Instant Video, for example. You said above they aren't doing signature checks, are they not checking sigs with the license either?

With that said, it might be better to just abandon this APK altogether and see what can be done with the Fire TV apk (if no one has yet).
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Fenny:
I had a moment to take a look at the FireTV apk the other month, it has the same method limit issue, but supports proper multidex (There are actually 3 dex files in the apk). It does, however, seem to be fairly dependent on the amazon frameworks, and several native libraries embedded in the rom. I do have a full system image of the fire tv, but I have not had much time to look too far into getting it to install.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] will.blaschko:
They're not making it easy, for sure. That was the main reason I stuck with the mobile app for this project, despite the limitations (video quality, audio), they can't gut it without hurting/affecting a lot of their every-day users. They might do a forced upgrade at some point, but that's a bridge to cross later.

Let me know if you find something, however, I appreciate all the work you're doing on the project :).
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Zacharybinx34:
Wouldn't just changing the Build.Prop to the Sony TV solve all the issues?

Also, sorry, I'm not finding it. Does this current setup play video at 1080P?
[Shield Android TV Android Development] xaudiblex:
Will's work isn't based on the Sony TV app. As a result, it doesn't matter what the build.prop is changed to. Also, it does not play in 1080p in its current form.
[Shield Android TV Android Development] Zacharybinx34:
This is nice, but I can't rewind or forward.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odyss199:
hey guys i was wondering can anyone help me with this i want to change the splash boot screen of my i9300 (see image attached)

ps not the bootanimation

any help is appreciated:D:D

peace ;p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivadow:
I wouldn't change it if i were you. The chances of bricking are too high.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Dear Members,

Its almost a month today and till now i have visited almost all the repair centre here in Mumbai finding a solution for my dead prophet.

To by hard luck the NEO is not being rectified!!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=323071

for those who want to know the history of my problem/s

So here I m greeting all the members GOOD BYE!:)

But I shall be always keep visiting the site to help all the beginners!!.

THX to all the cookers in the limited life span of my neo I got to enjoy the best of the WM 6 and the touch-flo on the prophet...

But I promise to bounce back as my love for PDA is not going to die like the neo..may be after a few months as I cannt afford a xpensive phone..

Cheers to all !!!

XDA DEVELOPERS ROCKS..:cool:

Rgds,

Chirag-Mumbai,India.

R.I.P O2 XDA NEO.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] triplejay:
hey dude, sorry to hear your phone's dead. It must likely be truly dead, seeing as you've tried all the repair shops, but I thought I'd type this out anyway, as I just saw some of your old post on the topic to do with "I got into boot loader by connecting wires directly to battery pins and now reflashing"

You were asking

...did u ever try it? The other thread I used to look at had this:

and this
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Hey triplejay

How r u dude..I m currently using an old nOKIA 3315:o

YES i did tried the charger trick ...dint help.Any other trick..

Well I think i shall give one last shot with this trick.(my phone is still in service stn i have to collect it yet)

The repair guy told me that there is some problem with the "POWER IC"..

He told me it will be repaired at a cost of around Rs3500 i.e around 87~88US$.

I agreed to go ahead for repairs and than next day I called him ..

To my horror he said it cant be repaired as he is not able to find the spares..

He told me the entire board needs to be repalced at a price of Rs.17000.00

i.e.425 US $ .I had bought the phone for 2000Rs (500$)

And I had told him not to repair n here i m with a dead neo.:mad:
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] kamalneet:
well you should try a fully charged battery of another prophet user like me ,or may be pass me your permanent cell number privately. if this works and you enter bootloader mode and then format wm5 nvid and swear not to touch rom's again . service centre guy scare you off ,its policy wise correct they charge double the amount for battery Rs2500 which u get for Rs1200 at other places . i can understand your pain cause i lost my ipod mini same way , i think battery is culprit here .don't loose hope.but if you have connected reverse terminals then you might have burnt it already.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Some sign of LIFE

To my surprise when I bought the phone from repairs and put the phone to the wall charger the NEO the batt LED just turned RED and than went off after a few seconds...

What Is the problem with this phone :mad:
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] NetrunnerAT:
do you sell your device?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Wht do u mean.:confused:

i may sell it off if it does not get repaired..

(GOD PLS,HOPE THE PHONE STARTS WORKING:) )

i have the BOX with all the acessories including the stylus and HF not used atall.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
This is for the HTC

Hi,

can any one tell me what is POWER IC.

the service guy told me its the problem with power IC.

The estimation was around 90$.

But later informed me that part is not available any where on the planet earth...:confused:

and the entire board needs to be changed.and guess what he told the estimation "A COOL 425$"

i have some doubt :

why is the spares so expensive??

If the spares are not available than why does HTC manufacture such a phone.

SHAME ON HTC for making such a fragile phone..for which they cannt provide service.

I m as a profession here in INDIA working for a japan based co manufacturing hometheater..we do service the set which are not introduced here in INDIA (obvious at a premium) but it does not cost the set itself.

I think most of you will agree with me on this.

(pls second the motion if u guys agree.)

any ways mean while i mailed HTC but no use i dint get any respond from their side.

I think the company willnever pay attention for a petty issue like mine.

But its admin and moderators guys of the forum who if put a word with the company will take some measures.

PLZ Dont get me wrong and take it in true spirit.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] crest_delta:
Will This Solution Work.

HI

yesterday I had put my phone on an external charger the phone gave me a RED LED atleast now :D after eventually giving no sign at all...

Do u guys think this can help me further

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=330678

Waiting for your advice.

Pls pray for my NEO :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwellings65:
Asus ME301T BlackScreen-Not Booting-Raw Firmware

Hello,

My Asus Memopad ME301T locked up yesterday,while updating google "G" app.

Screen froze,so waited 1 hour,did a reboot,and nothing but black screen.

Led's light during charge and will turn orange if certain volume keys and power long hold attempts.

Led also lights on USB to PC.

Showing taskbar APX device.

Have downed firmware from Asus for version 4.2.1

Have no experience with SDK or flashboot. No serial # using ADB device command from cli

Blob is on microSD but not flashing.

Reading flash procedure using Asusflashinstaller1.14.

mention of raw file,not supporting Asus firmware.

Need ME301T raw file or advice.

Thankyou
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwellings65:
Update

Have acquired Android device ME301T in device manager list as "Android Device-Android ADB Interface(Android ADB Driver)"

Task bar -safely remove hardware icon showing -Eject APX

Still no response to -power-volume down key for micro sd card and downloaded Asus firmware JP_epaduser_10_6_1_38_updatelauncher.zip unzipped

Renamed to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip

Memopad 10 ME301T

Requesting suggestions
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deathvirus:
Sounds like a Hardbrick I would recommend sending it back if youre still in warranty :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwellings65:
Android Factory Motherboard Hard Reset Useless

Thanks for the response.

Tried all the tricks,drivers,fastboot,adb drivers,isolate battery,no recovery,no devices in fastboot called.

Device Not Recognized Error.

Hopefully something will popup in the future,with a Jtag solution.

Meantime my tag is collecting dust.

A very poor engineering design on motherboard reset.

Called Asus, and they want $200. to repair, alas no warranty.

Not worth it in my opinion.
[T-Mobile LG G3] spirodave:
I am running stock rooted 5.0.1 and have been searching for a custom kernel I can flash that I can OC/UC with amogst other options. I have searched and came up with Nada. My apologies in advanced if it was staring me in the face. Thanks Guys and Merry Christmas

[MENTION=5755324]spirodave[/MENTION]
[XDA Assist] mikechase3:
Hello!

I just got an Asus ZenPad 8.0 about 6 hours ago, and now I broke it. I rooted it successfully using this guide, but then I updated the firmware, and now it's bricked. I can probably return it with all of the holiday returns policies, but I'd rather keep it. Anyways, here's the problem, and what I've tried.

I found the script in the link above that lets me access CWM recovery. My plan was to format everything, then copy the zip using adb, and install it through CWM recovery. The script temporarily flashes CWM. I can't find another version of CWM for my device, so this is all I've got to work with (I think). This backfired on me because I also deleted my RSA keys. I never thought I needed them in my recovery, and I've done this pleanty of times on my Nexus 6, without the need for keys when working with my TWRP recovery. TL;DR: I can't copy the factory image zip to my tablet.

Here's what I've tried

-------------------------------------------

Using ADB to copy the file (Doesn't work, need RSA Authorizations)

Find a new recovery, then flash it via fastboot, and then use ADB via that recovery (Couldn't find another recovery. Checked CWM and TWRP pages, but couldn't find my device)

Put the zip on my SD card & extract the zip from the card (Error mounting the card. I used another device to format the sd card. No luck. Tried this article and this article)

Booting into safe mode (Still bricked... still didn't work)

Cursing at it

If I can get past the "Permission Denied" and "unauthorized" stuff with ADB, that would be great! I just don't know how to do that.

Let me know if I'm missing anything and what my options are before I return it in a few days. Cheers!
[XDA Assist] mikechase3:
I figured it out. CWM needed a SD card with a capacity of 32gb or less. Since I was using a 64gb card, I couldn't mount it. I stuck in my 8gb card from my Raspberry Pi, put it in, and now it's mounted. I installed it, and now I just have to wait on that.
[Samsung Gear S2] CarolDNC:
Just got my Samsung Gear s2 today and love it so far except for s health. I can't get anything to work. I've been walking all over the place and it's not registering any steps. When I do my heart rate it says try again and nothing registers. I've been researching this for a couple of hours now and I keep coming across something that talks about the s health manager and I have yest to find that. Is it something on my phone or on the watch itself.? What am I doing wrong?
[Samsung Gear S2] gschot:
What phone are you using? S Health features only work with Samsung phones.
[Samsung Gear S2] kta:
That's not entirely correct. I'm using all of those features on a Huawei Mate 7 with no issues.
[Samsung Gear S2] gschot:
Really? Well, that is good news for people who do not have a Samsung phone. I read it in a review of the GS2 and originally the S Health app was only available through the Samsung app store. I double checked and it is indeed now available in Google Play.

Thanks for this insight!
[Samsung Gear S2] CarolDNC:
S Health

I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
[Samsung Gear S2] NinjaMom:
It doesn't track sleep like you are looking for. I'm guessing that may be coming in a future update.
[Samsung Gear S2] redram38:
The first one I had did the same thing yours did. I had to reset it to get steps and heart rate to work. I had lots of trouble with notifications on this watch as well and was having to reset it all the time. I took it back and swapped it and the second one has worked near perfect. I think it has only missed one notification so far and the other one was about 50/50. I would watch it close and return it if need be while you can.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rafa43:
Hey! I have a question, I want to go back to 4.4.2 KK, I'm on 5.0.1 Lollipop, but I've read other forums and say it is erases the number from IMEI, so I want to know how to perform correctly the downgrade. ¡THANKS!

PD: Sorry 4 my bad English :(

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Hi,

Use this step -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=58985536

But, instead following download ARO firmware, download Stock KitKat firmware from your phone region.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deathvirus:
Downgrading a stock firmware never erases the IMEI nor triggers any counters. I did it a lot of times
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Why you quote me? You might want to quote the OP instead.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deathvirus:
Sorry xD I am new here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sexoško:
Hello, I have a question that I haven't found the answer, so I am going ask it here...did someone find or know about the exist ROM with Marshmallow (Android 6) on LG F60 phone? I will be grateful for any helpful answers. (sorry for my english)

Sincerely, Smexhy