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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xl97:
Hopefully this thread is also welcomed as 'noob friendly'. :)

I have never rooted a device before.. so this will be my first attempt.

I have two (2) Kindle Fires.. left over form my kids.. (they have since 'upgraded' to iPad mini's.. [thanks grandma])...

I have only checked one of them so far.. not sure if it updated while plugging in or what... but I 'originally' thought these were First Gen devices.

(back side says Kindle.. bottom says Amazon.. pics also matched what a first gen looked like I believe).... but I know believe these are Second Gen? (as the serial number starts with D0026).. correct? (and not D0016)

However.. when I checked the OS version.

Settings >> More >> Device >> About >>

It says System Version: Current version 10.5.1_user_xxxxxx (update Kindle Fire button is grey'd out)

And this is where I am.. LOL..

I read several threads.. but not clear on what (if any) are valid any more? (some were years old)..

Nor if I need to be following a certain tutorial for this particular system version?

I (think) I understand the basics..

* add device drivers to pc

* download some utilities to be able to do stuff on/to the device (explore..etc)

* root the device

* upload a rom image to device.

* reboot device and install new rom image/os to device.

just a general understanding ..not specifics I know.

My questions are:

1.) Can anything be done with a System Version: 10.3.1 device?

2.) What are the current 'tools' (tool chain) to be used?

I understand I need something to 'root' the device with (what is the current recommended rooting tool for this device/system version?)

I understand I need a ROM to upload/transfer over to the device (what is the current recommended ROM to use? More or less looking for speed, not really a power user, just want Android store, and normal surfing/emailing... I think the second one is going to be used in a MAME project... so Kitkat? Lollipop? a special ROM version?)

Do I need to upload/transfer any other files to the device once rooted?

Are there are other tools/software needed for this project?

from reading.. I feel like my ADB driver is not installed or running correctly... as non of the rooting tools seem to 'find' my device. (I have the 3rd party apps and ADB turned on, on the device itself)

Sorry if I missed an updated sticky or a current tutorial somewhere (I looked, but I am also new to the forum itself.. and not comfortable with where things are located yet)

Thank for any links/tutorials and general 'spoon feeding'. lol..
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xl97:
bump^

Anybody? 50+ views.. hoping someone replies and can point me in the right direction.. (I 'feel' its an ADB driver thing.. as none of the tools seems to 'find' my device..)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
you posted in the wrong forum

Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xl97:
[MENTION=4267571]sd_shadow[/MENTION]

Sorry.. are you saying I shouldnt have posted in the: " Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting" forum? (or did you move it here?) haha

I 'believe' my KF to be a 2nd Gen..

but cant any rooting software to 'find' the device. :(

(even though external apps and ADB is turned ON on the device itself)...

so I'm leaning toward the ADB driver on the PC side of things?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
see my

Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?

for kindle fire descriptions, and links to forums
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LAcube:
Any Idea why my Windows 10 PC won't recognize my Nexus 10? When I connect my Nexus 10 to my PC via USB it makes a sound but won't appear under devices. If I click on FTP on my Nexus 10 it does recognize but it won't work when it's on MTP. Any idea of what's going on? Thanks.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnet&gold:
It sounds like you may have a problem with your drivers. You can either install them on your own you can use Wug's Toolkit.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LAcube:
Thanks that worked. I was sure I installed the drivers correctly but I guess I didn't. I used wugs toolkit which made it super simple.

:D
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] MishaalRahman:
A few months back, I wrote about a hacky way to enable one-handed mode using a shell script, taken from this reddit thread. With this task (provided you have root access), you can enable one-handed mode just by holding down the home button or swiping-up from it.

Prerequisites

Root access

Instructions

(For Android 6.0+) Go to Settings --> Apps. Press the settings cog up top, then go to Default Apps. Enter "Assist & Voice Input" and for the "Assist App" choose Tasker. Be warned that doing this will stop the "OK Google" on every screen (and off) from working, but if you're okay with that then go ahead and change it!

(For Android < 6.0) Clear the default app that is set for swiping up from the home button. You will enable Tasker as your default app after you're done following the rest of the steps below.

Create a new profile and name it whatever you want, then choose the Event context. Go to UI, then choose Assistance Request.

Back out, and create a new task named 'Overscan' or whatever else you want.

Now, we'll make the actions needed for the task itself.

Task --> If. Set the condition to %Overscan eq 1.

Code --> Run Shell. For the Command, type in wm overscan reset. Check "Use Root" and then back out.

Variables --> Variable Set. Under Name, choose %Overscan, and set it to 0.

Task --> Else.

Code --> Run Shell. For the command, type in wm overscan LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM where each of the directions are the pixel counts that the screen will shift in. On my Nexus 6p, I've set it to wm overscan 0,845,0,0. See my article for examples.

Variables --> Variable Set. For Name choose %Overscan and set it to 1.

Task --> End If.

That's it! Now when you swipe-up/long press the home button, you'll launch the Overscan tasker task which will shift your screen depending on whether or not it has already been shifted. The %Overscan variable is a global variable that is set to 1 if the screen is shifted and 0 if not.

Of course, this isn't the only thing you can do with long-pressing the home button. You can also do and set the Assistance Request to open a web-search overlay on any app.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] mi_guel69:
Un 6.0.1 i don't have the option to change the assist app to tasker
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] moso11:
+1
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] MishaalRahman:
Tasker's Accessibility Service should be enabled for it to show up, try that.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] mrorange4287:
I have this enabled and tasker still doesnt show up.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] prokopiff:
Set to shake event instead

When I just use play button in Tasker it works fine, but if I shake it sets only top overscan ignoring rest parameters :(

Oneplus2, CM13
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] th3 game:
I had this problem as well. Create the profile with the context event "Assistance Request" and it will be available for you use set in the Assist menu
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] digitalpig82:
[MENTION=7050182]MishaalRahman[/MENTION]

Thanks for this great guide! :) I first set it up as suggested and then switched it to a shake event, quite handy. I might end up using this with a swipe gesture from Nova launcher.

Do you have any idea how we could realize a shrinking screen just like Samsungs one handed mode? Example here -> http://www.androidcentral.com/sites.../2015/09/note-5-reduce-screen-size-screen.jpg

I did some research and I think it might work using the commands "wm size" and/or "wm density", but I have very little knowledge about how to use them properly. Maybe you can help me out on this...?
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] mrorange4287:
https://imgur.com/a/e3e3y

When I use this in the home screen and all drawer I get what's in the pictures. Any thing I need to change to fix this? I am using Nova launcher on a rooted nexus 6.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] b.age:
Hi, nice works but how to set correct overscan? I'm using OP2
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] MishaalRahman:
To mimic Samsung's implementation, you will have to change the LEFT and RIGHT parameters. However be noted that it will really mess with a lot of apps and they won't display properly.

Some apps just don't turn out that well, unfortunately. Like I said this is a very hacky method.

Experiment a bit. Make sure you set a fail safe to revert it back to normal, say if you shake your phone.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] AshKaiser:
Thanks for this trick! But i don't seem to be getting tasker as an option in the voice assist list of apps. I do get secure settings though. Anything that i might be missing here? Also, i've granted accessibility permissions for tasker. On 6.0.1 - Nexus 5
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] MishaalRahman:
Hey, make sure Tasker is enabled as an assist device in settings
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] AshKaiser:
Yeah, trying to do that exactly, am not getting taker as an assist device option.
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] MishaalRahman:
I think you have to uncheck "Beginner Mode" in settings first
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] AshKaiser:
Thanks! It worked! I use pie controls from gravity box, so had to point to this task directly. A little glitchy, but still somewhat usable![emoji106]

Any way we can change the background color after the over scan? Just a thought!
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] lokesh.acm:
View attachment 3782301

I have checked the 'root'box. Accessibility on for Tasker. But as you can see from the pic above, it's not running. See the red dot? I'm on 6.0.1 and use Google launcher. Long press on home doesn't work either. I get the su toast message saying Tasker has been granted su permissions but that's it. Any help would be appreciated. [MENTION=7050182]MishaalRahman[/MENTION]
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] ohuzo:
Hello!

Help needed, I am on Galaxy S6 and I am looking for a way to start / stop the task by long pressing the home button.

As for now I didn't figured it out.

Any help please?
[Tasker Tips & Tricks] zitongzhao:
How can I get the correct overscan:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] NaimC:
Pretty damn impressive given the S7 is pushing nearly twice the number of pixels.

SuperSaf TV | Galaxy S7 Edge vs iPhone 6s Plus Speed and Memory Test

Here's his earlier camera comparison in-case anyone missed it.

SuperSaf TV | Galaxy S7 Edge vs iPhone 6s/6s Plus Camera Test Comparison

And His Finger Print Scanner speed test.

SuperSaf TV | Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6s Plus - Fingerprint Scanner Speed Test
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Cst79:
Wow, that guy from SuperSafTV does make some really nice reviews ! And the autofocus on the S7 Edge is just gamechanging, really.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] natefish:
This was a good video. Thanks for posting. That auto focus... Dang. Maybe my toddler will finally meet her match.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ziggazee:
That camera comparison was really good.
[X Play General] DDillonT44:
Coming soon with Download links!

If this project is cancelled, then this thread will be deleted.

Mods: I will keep track of this. I don't have permission to post in ROMs, so I have to post here. Hopefully see you all soon :D
[X Play General] LenAsh:
Placeholders - not allowed. PM when ready, closed.
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
I have a Huawei ascend mate 7 L09 and was running Lollipop Emui 3.1, B331. After an incorrectly flashed Marshmallow update my phone got stuck in bootloop. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed twrp to it, downloaded a B331 Nandroid backup, flashed B331 and then restored the B331 backup, all successful, went to restart twrp says No OS installed. From that point on I haven't been able to get any Rom, custom or otherwise to flash to the device. Can someone please help? I am so stuck!!!
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
first flash twrp for mm. Secend download twrp backup b513. copy to ext sdcard and go to twrp. now resrtore backup and do it wipe data and cache ( wen you do it wipe you lost custom.bin and you dont see what hw you have. When start boot wait
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
I downloaded the twrp mm flashed via fastboot. Now it won't boot into twrp and it doesn't seem to be charging. :crying:
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
Write what you do exactly

Send frome globe
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
My friend was working on it and I just received back. All he told me he was able to is download MM twrp and flash it via fastboot. Now it doesn't seem to be charging and I'm unable to get into twrp. It does go into fastboot & recovery. Please help. :crying:

btw, i'm unsure of of what "send from globe" means. sorry. :(
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
Do you can go to Fastboot and recovery??? If you can't we can't do it anything

Send frome globe
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjoseph623:
'Sent from globe' is his signature. Not an instruction for you to follow.

Sent from my HUAWEI MT7-L09
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
Exactly that

Send frome globe
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
Yes, thank you, I realized it was a signature after I sent it.

& Yes, I can get into fastboot & recovery. I also rollbacked to the previous version of twrp so I can get into that now.
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
Download this

https://mega.nz/#!w15xjZxL!0-alMyU4RgsxQ6K6FjOPZna-piQLXODLE0QarKtdVCg

Flash twrp for mm and download this backup

https://mega.nz/#!UsJh1YAb!A41FoZnuzWAcNdN0TaHN0pyA6AmDPQqz8vwYULxO0-8

Backup copy to your sdcard using Microsd adapter to PC to locations

TWRP/BACKUP/( FOLDER WITH YOUR S/N) / DOWNLOADED MY BACKUP

When you do it go to twrp/wipe/advanced wipe and select system, cache, dalvic cache, cust, data and wipe this partition. When it's finish back to start twrp and restore my backup and do it wipe cache I dalvic cache and reboot. When you do it write it's work and do you have bootloop if you don't have we can do it next step to back to lp

Send frome globe
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
Okay, I did everything listed above. Still says no OS installed, but now instead of bootlooping it just stays at the huawei logo.
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
And what happen now it's boot to Android or no

Send frome globe
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angm1979:
It's Fixed! Thanks to [MENTION=4190256]chudy_85[/MENTION] & [MENTION=7233018]Blue.Ember[/MENTION]! [MENTION=7233018]Blue.Ember[/MENTION] helped me figure out that the rar extractor program was incompletely extracting the ROMS.
[Ascend Mate 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chudy_85:
Good work now you know how repair you phone on future. Cheers

Send frome globe
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
Hi guys

I forget to do a nandroid backup accidentally before test a build of cm12.1 that i make, the problem now installation stuck at 90%, and no progress after that, many tries on internal and external sdcard and with 2 different firmware, (perhaps was for dual sim verison) any solution for that before bring to assistance?

P.S: each day did new progress for cm12.1, hope to got booted rom.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olrak:
Can't you flash the B052 version with Fastboot?

https://mega.nz/#!lEcGQZCC!X2fmOZ-ShY-Kx-9lwnSUN16Vo52_aU0i4K1KmdBW64Q

Normally you will then be on stock boot, recovery and system images.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
Yes fastboot is working, will report if work, with the following order?

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash system system.img

???

services in italy are really slow like one month for a stupid reparation.
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olrak:
No, all the commands are normally in a FLASH-ALL.bat file (yeah windows :) )

Commands are:

mfastboot flash boot boot.img

mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img

mfastboot flash cust cust.img

mfastboot flash system system.img
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
alright, so should use mfastboot instead of fastboot?
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
Problem solved, thanx a lot :good::good::good::good::good:
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruben parra:
hows your progress on that cm12.1 build that youre workin on?:)
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
i got progress on boot.img, we have hope :)
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmINoS007:
Good luck man , I hope we get a custom rom soon :)
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haky 86:
I almost finish a cm-12.1 and doesn't boot due to blobs issue and still cannot copy them to the build :/
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivi2016:
Probs

Hi everyone

What can I do to upgrade from b052 (after flash with fastboot ) because this Rom cause too much problems to my Huawei p8 lite so if you have a link for download an upgrade to replace B052
[P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivi2016:
Then

Then did you uptade you're android system?is it possible to install new firmware from B052
[General Questions and Answers] ned4spd8874:
We switched from Big Red about a year and a half ago to TMO. it was a very painful transfer and they never got our accounts quite right. For example, my caller ID shows my wife's name.

We have been contemplating moving away from TMO but aren't quite sure if it's worth it and where to move to. I currently have a M8 and she has a iPhone 6. We still owe on our phones, we are doing that plan where we will own our phones after paying them off. I'd like to upgrade to the S7 Edge and she will probably stay with her phone for the time being.

We were originally thinking about going to Sprint, but I was recently talking to a friend and he says that he's always having dropped calls with them. But AT&T doesn't have very good promos right now. Sprint has that 50% off deal going on and at Costco, they said we would get a $200 (or was it $225?) gift card per line activated on top of the half off deal and paying our termination costs!

Sprint definitely seems like the best deal going right now, however, we don't want dropped calls.

I've searched and can't quite find a carrier comparison site out there, at least anything updated in the recent months. I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions. Thanks!

Oh, also, we're still confused what would happen with TMO and our phones if we do cancel. Do we have to turn them in? But we have been paying on them, so that doesn't quite seem right??? I don't know...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
Not sure why that is, I remember on my S6 Edge I didn't have that limit, not sure why I have that here now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] photon4glover:
I'm not positive but I believe it's due to formatting of SD card
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
Like a timer? Or a just stops recording
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] vukis:
I believe photon4glover is refering to filesystem.

Look at maximum file size column:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
I let the phone format the SD card when I put it in. So not sure why it would limit. And when I choose regular 1080p there is no 10 min limit
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
When moving my sd card from my m8 I copied all my stuff to pc then had s7 format then copied everything back
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] photon4glover:
Yes that's correct the maximum file size is 4gb on a fat system. Like I said could be wrong
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
This is what I did and am getting that 10min record limit for 1080p60fps

The question is why there is no time limit when any other recording format?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
My question is is there a timer or it just stops at 10 min? I record at 60fps too but never more than 5minutes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
Testing now to see what happens when it hits 10min
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
It is a hard 10 minute timer. At the end of 10 min, it stopped recording and said maximum time limit had been reached.

File size for the full clip is 1.97gb so well below the 4gb limit for Fat32
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
Weird, I don't see a timer like I would for 4k on g4 or gs6
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
Could it be the SD card? I'm using a Samsung Evo Class 10 card

What card are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
I don't know I have a SanDisk class 10
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
But you're not getting the same 10 min hard stop?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
I don't take videos of that length so I don't know
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
Just set it to 60fps and hit record. The timer/limit will show.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] PunishedSnake:
Hmm it does show

I never noticed before
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] RRFreeman:
Overheats

It's probably an overheating issue due to the waterproof design. Touch the phone after 10 minutes and it's super hot.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] KoRoZIV:
Where is this limit supposed to show up? I haven't noticed any limit when using 60fps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] time4tt:
10 minute limit - solved (sort of!)

I found this problem on a Samsung S7 Active with Qualcomm CPU (AT&T branded phone). Samsung may have put a 10 minute limit on video for 2 potential reasons:

1. The phone gets very toasty if it's over 10 minutes at 4k.

2. 11m 30s seems to be the 4GB limit for 4k video, which may be a limiting file size for certain storage.

I solved this, but still have the limitation that every 11.5 minutes or so the video stops and starts again after a couple of seconds (because it's reached the 4GB storage limit).That's OK for my purposes, but might not work for you.

To get this working I first installed two apps:

1. Open Camera

2. No Screen Off

Open Camera is an open source camera app that can be downloaded free from the Google Play Store. It allows for 4k video recording for as long as you have storage (I had it recording for 3 hours without a problem).

You will need to do a couple of tweaks in the Open Camera app to get 4k video recording working:

* Settings | Video Settings | Video Resolution. Make sure it's HD 1280x720.

* Settings | Video Settings | Maximum Duration of Video. Make sure it's "unlimited".

* Settings | Video Settings | Restart on maximum file size. Set to "yes"

* Settings | Video Settings | Force 4K UHD video. Set to "yes" (this is the critical setting that worked for me on this device but may not work for you).

If you want to record to a storage card, go to Settings | More camera controls... | Use Storage Access Frameworks and turn it on. You should be able to use it to select the SD card folder to store photos and videos to.

That got me recording 4K video, but the screen times out which stops video recording. The max time I can set the screen to stay on for is 10 minutes (not much use!). So I used the "No Screen Off" app. Installing that and tapping the icon forces the screen to stay on indefinitely.

I've coupled this phone with a damaged screen ($37 from eBay), with a 64GB micro SD card and a power bank to provide power for 3 hours to make myself a cool 4K camera for recording concerts. I can afford to have several capturing different parts of the choir / orchestra to edit in post processing.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] nmonger:
I had a BSOD on my laptop during a radio flash and was left with a phone that got stuck on boot screen, with NO GSM on the display and no KTIL possibilities. Sent it back to Brightpoint (HTC contracted repair shop) and they wanted 350 euros to replace the system board.

So before i sell as scrap on ebay - i wanted to check that i hadnt missed any miracle cure that may have been found.

Thx