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[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] cnjax:
There's a 10u but you can go straight to v
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] sheik124:
You're the man. I yanked modem out of that ZIP, renamed it modem.img, and used TWRP to update my baseband. Had to use shell (dd if=/sdcard/modem of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/modem) for some reason since TWRP wasn't seeing .img files.

Was hoping that would fix Wi-Fi Calling on AT&T, but it's only ever worked when the phone was bone stock. Tried the stock kernel and it wanted to format my SD card just like alpha kernel did, so I'm guessing the stock kernel doesn't like exFAT. Wish I could figure it out, something I must've toggled in LG IMS also made IMS/VoLTE stop working. What's in the devcfg partition?

Anyone know where IMS stores its settings? About to make a giant backup, go to 10v stock, and cook everything I like back into it/debloat one by one until it stops working, then go back a step. There's no way to fix the static with the stock kernel, right?
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] toastyp:
As for wifi calling I never had an issue with it while I was rooted, the only difference between bone stock and this zip is the bootloader. Shouldn't have any effect on wifi-calling. Then again ATT is super finicky about volte/wifi -calling. Has to be an ATT branded phone to work. As for where IMS settings are stored I have no idea. There are a few dialer codes to access the hidden menus to make changes to all the cellular functions *#LGMENU#*910#. As for actual location on the phone use a root explorer and peruse the data/data folder. May have a few apps that relate to hidden menu and whatnot.

Edit- yeah the static on boot is a permanent feature on pure stock kernels. You'll need to flash a custom one to fix that
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Skylined:
Good day, by any chance someone has an updated working link for these files...

Thanks
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] partyman66:
I'm looking for these too. I need the 10u or 10v firmware for H910A Nougat.
[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] minhtuan990:
Can you give me the download link is still working, I want to download those 2 links but it's not working
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] simselain:
Hello,

I get an issue on my brand new LG G6. After booting it for the first time, I loaded my gmail account and downloaded my apps. Then I performed the upgrade to come to the latest firmware version.

So, no modification was done regarding bootloader, root access or development mode. Anyway my bank app refuses to start with the message "Root or development mode detected". How is this possible ?

Anyone is experiencing the same behavior ?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] basicreece:
Do a fresh install using LGUP and uppercut
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] coyot352:
Where are you buy this phone ? It looks like a refurbished product..
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] simselain:
Device was buyed in a mainstream shop. Package seemed brand new.

I flashed device with stock firmware and it is ok now. How does it come they sell refurbished as new devices ?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] coyot352:
Normally if it is reconditioned it is necessarily indicated, it's weird, was there a sticker on the box for the sealed warranty?

The new G6 has a very thin plastic screen protector to affix basic, was it present?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
I saw a new release, Fire OS 5.6.1.0. I didn't update yet. I wonder what this has in store for us, except a more hardened and hard-to-root firmware!

Someone who updated check out the changes and tell us here!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] donalberto17:
Be careful with this Update, probably has something to do with certified Google devices, the rule says: every device with a firmware build from march 18 and forward should be certified to be able to use Google apps.

So probably this Update wont be able to use Google apps.

---------- Post added at 09:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 AM ----------

Be careful with this Update, probably has something to do with certified Google devices, the rule says: every device with a firmware build from march 18 and forward should be certified to be able to use Google apps.

So probably this Update wont be able to use Google apps.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] retyre:
The update isn't available on the U.S. site, but it's up on the Japanese page for the 2017 HD 10. For other Fire tablets, go to the U.S. update page and change the domain name in the URL from .com to .co.jp.

Update: 5.6.1.0 continues to be rootable from scratch (i.e., after an adb sideload). The bootloader files have different hashes, though.

Note: There's no need to adb sideload an update to test whether it's rootable. Just inject su:

-- Extract system.new.dat from the update .bin

-- Convert system.new.dat to system.img using one of the MTK tools

-- Mount system.img in Ubuntu and inject the su binary and other su files

-- Flash the rooted system.img and the 5.6.1.0 boot.img (from the update .bin) in FlashFire

As others have reported, 5.6.1.0 has a build date of 03/22/2018. W.r.t. certification, I read somewhere that devices with already signed-in Google users might be grandfathered? In any case, the lack of clarity regarding certification is one more reason to be armed with a 5.6.0.1 FlashFire backup.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] gabosius:
Build date appears to be 22nd March, so likely no Google Play Services functionality will be available from this point..
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] lakitu47:
For those who don't want the update yet, make sure you use something like NoRoot Firewall to block OTA updates. Fire devices have a tendency to update at odd hours without user consent, Windows 10-style.

I'll see what happens when my mom's HD 8 updates.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Anyway, I have blocked the updates on router. If someone update an HD 8, please try Kingo Root or Offline Rooting by retyre.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] xvitehx:
Can you point which processes must be blocked? I have four, but it still managed to update to 5.6.0.1 recently.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Happened to me too, even after blocking ALL Amazon apps. That, I think just works for someone, and doesn't for someone. That's why I moved to blocking them in router.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Wow, this looks like a major update! After a long time they moved 50.5.X.X to 50.6.X.X. That makes me think, it is almost sure that this is not downgrade-able.

EDIT: They also moved to 5.3.6.2 from 5.3.6.1.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] lakitu47:
I blocked all Amazon apps, turned on the "start on boot" feature, and my device hasn't checked for updates since 3/26.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Blaiser47:
Anyone with the update notice any major differences? Is there any reason to update if I am satisfied with my current rooted set up?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Monfro:
Someone with gapps (no root) updated to this version?

Are gapps still working?

The new gapps build date control is triggered only when accessing for the first time with Google account or even with a device already set up?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] kapilathi:
Fire HD8 7th gen - got auto updated to 5.6.1.0 today in India. Dont see any difference, all Google apps are working just fine. Not rooted, obviously
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] kapilathi:
Change log.. good stuff
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] oregonbruin:
5.6.1.0 No loss of Google functionality

Just got pushed to 5.6.1.0, Fire 8 (2017) and Alexa is now available hands-free, which is the first thing the tablet notified me of after the update. I'm not rooted and I lost absolutely no Google functionality.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] thdk0302:
I updated Fire to 5.6.1.0 from Japanese Fire user.

Hello! I am a Japanese Fire user.

I updated my Fire to 5.6.1.0.

After that, I used Google, the Google Play Store, etc., but there is no problem.

However, I think that it is better to stop updating by looking at this reply.

I used Google translation, so I think that it is wrong sentence.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
As per post#3..... does this mean that the FireHD 8 is now rootable if updated to 5.6.1.0 or just the HD 10's?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Nope, I think just the HD 10s. Nobody tested though, it may work really.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ErickC21:
Just got the 5.6.1.0 update on my Fire HD 8 this morning in the US. All my google apps are working correctly, no issues at all.:)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] anujdatar:
Google Play seems to work

Just updated to Fire OS 5.6.1.0, it actually auto-updated while I wasn't looking. I have google apps side-loaded, no root. Google Play seems to work, apps are updating. YouTube plays videos, and Maps, Movies & TV and Chrome work too. Haven't tried anything else yet.

Fire HD 8 btw
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] lakitu47:
So far I have only updated my 2015 Fire 7, and yes the Gapps still work fine. I was also still able to grant an app the "secure settings" permission over ADB. I also noticed everything was slightly smoother and faster than before.

Most of the settings seemed the same compared to 5.6.0.1. One tiny difference I noticed was that in the settings, the "security" section is now "security & privacy".

Support for hands-free Alexa has indeed been extended to all 2017 tablets, at least in the US (according to their change log, at least).

I didn't find anything new with Activity Launcher. I will look at the settings databases to see if anything else was added.

I know this is not an HD 8/10 tablet, but in the past the Fire 7 software has been nearly identical to these tablets.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] maly82:
My device was updated automatically. Play store still works. I noticed extra icon in notification shade to turn on / off Alexa handsfree. When off there is extra icon in status bar notifying you that alexa is off. I noticed slight improvement in fluidity of launcher (home pages). Apps seems to load a notch faster. There is no big lag when switching between home page and Amazon app. For example launching videos from home page takes less time than before. Some system apps were updated after this update like Silk browser and maybe music app. I let you know guys if I find something else later.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] abacabie:
Updated my hd8 7th gen today in the UK, hands free Alexa is great and as others have said i still have access to my Google apps. I did try to certify my device with Google but it still says uncertified in settings even though the number i entered was acepted ,there seems to be a bit of confusion about this.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] @pops:
it works fine
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] thearches:
Hands Free Alexa for HD8

OS 5.6.1.0 adds HANDS FREE Alexa to the Fire HD8.

I have 2 of those tablets. One updated 3/28/2018 the other hasn't yet.

Hands free Alexa is great but not quite as versatile on the HD8 as on the HD10. It works when the tablet is on. And it works when the tablet is asleep and plugged in. But it doesn't work when asleep and not plugged in. Presumably to save the battery.

I haven't noticed any other changes.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
1. In logcat with firewall enabled I see repeating warnings and errors in AudioMTKstreamManager, AudioCloseDumpPCMFile which seem to indicate repeated attempts to enable the microphone and send something over the network even when Alexa is disabled. Have not confirmed this on a second device, but Fire OS has always reported every app launch and usage time to Amazon metrics servers.

2. I still see some fatal exceptions in Fabric and other examples of improper network error handling. Fire OS components are very chatty, constantly calling home to report everything you read or touch, but many are poorly written and do not properly handle network timeouts if the physical connection is up but the server is inaccessible. (As Amazon recently learned the hard way when Alexa "lost her voice", this kind of scenario is not just theoretical and not only caused by firewalls.)

3. I see permission requests in 'No Root Firewall' for 3 new apps:

Legal notices, Parental controls, Amazon Bluetooth DFU

(which could be a sneaky method to force OTA update over a bluetooth internet link)​

4. The user interface seems to be slightly less sluggish, but this could be premature. You still cant disable any of the bloatware that you are not going to use. And of course the biggest performance hit: it still caches apps in memory which I never use and then runs the swap file like crazy (see Cool Tool's I/O gauge feature).

5. Apps which require Google Play Services are still working for me. But the Play Store app did repeat the initial permissions dialog.

Also worthy of note, you still can not choose non-Amazon products as the default Launcher, Keyboard, Calendar, Text to Speech Engine

As if Fire OS needs one more bit of battery-slurping bloatware. :(

I agree... it appears the same patches were pushed to 7/8/10. Here is a list of some tools which I found helpful on non-rooted Fire OS devices:

Taskmanager, OS Monitor, D-vasive, X-plore, Launcher Hijack, Startup manager, Device Admin Detector, No Root Firewall, Cool Tool, Gboard, Simple Calendar (offline alternative to Amazon spy calendar), Saiy (optionally-offline-only version of Alexa), Better Open With, Launch by Default, Camera security, Logcat Reader

Did not work the last time I tried it. Can you point out where the current update server list is?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Just a heads up for everyone. Had everything from Amazon blocked (I thought!) on my Fire HD 8 7th generation with Net guard no-root firewall, but my Fire updated to 5.6.1.0 anyhow, this morning. I was trying to prevent an update in case root became available for 5.6.0.0. Should I try to root this version? If so, how would I go about it? Thanks.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] avalst:
As others have pointed out post update Google Apps still work but all of a sudden I've developed a maddening screen flicker! That's enough of a reason to not update in my view.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Hi, The links I used are in this thread.

https://xdaforums.com/hd8-hd10/general/how-to-block-updates-usual-router-t3747327
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
LOL, I keep getting ignored when I ask anyone about it. Please, try with Kingoroot? Thanks!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
If youre going to try Kingoroot you may as well try Kingroot too. It used to work on the Fire 7.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
What's the point, really? Both just use CVE-2016-5195 as the latest exploit, and both are known for installing adware. Kingoroot is just a little bit less-malware. :(
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Tried Kingoroot from PC to Fire HD 8 w/5.6.1.0 ... All I get (after allowing USB debugging) is "Connecting...." on Kingoroot screen on PC. Is there something else I should be doing? Is it safe to try Kingoroot.apk? Or is it a waste of time? Thanks.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Anyway, I just checked out the decompiled kernel sources. The big is not present at all.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Oco:
Any HD8 6gen 2016 user got this update? mine still on 5.6.0.1 :rolleyes:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] :
Yeah I got it on two of my devices mid last week, on my HD 8 (6th) and also on my HD 6 as well.

Nothing on my HD 10 (7th) yet.

Amazon rolls updates out in stages, my HD 6 seems to get updates first, before any of my others do.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] autobulb:
Can you use Alexa after the update? I am in Japan and am sad that Alexa is not enabled.

アップデートのあとAlexa使えますか。
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Of course you can. :) I'm fact, Alexa have more functionality after the update, hands-free.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] autobulb:
Even on the Japanese version, which didn't have Alexa enabled? Neat! What would be the best way to upgrade on a rooted tablet?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Wait, I don't know about specifically Japanese version :crying: Maybe 5.6.1.0 will make the change, but I didn't know that Alexa is disabled in Japan. I misunderstood your question, I thought you are asking for Alexa availability in 5.6.1.0.

Anyway, if you still want to upgrade, you can just sideload from ADB, and root again, (I'm not sure if rooting works properly in 5.6.1.0, you have to do some research, I don't own a rootable Amazon) or you can mount the system.img, inject root, and flash by FlashFire (foolproof but tedious).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
And, did you try running,

adb shell settings put secure alexa_enabled 1

In your current version?

Maybe that will enable Alexa.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] lakitu47:
To add to that, there are two other settings related to Alexa availability:

alexa_availability (set to "1")

alexa_locale (set to "en-US" for me)

These I found in the secure settings table.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] autobulb:
I didn't know about these. I had experimented by setting alexa_enabled to 1 since it was at 0.

availability was at 8 and local was en-US. I set availability to 1 and restart, but it was still missing from settings. The Alexa app then complained that the languages didn't match and to change it to Japanese.

Oh well :(

I can't seem to find any Japanese sources saying that this update added Alexa. Just seems to be minor improvements.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] TR24:
I tried with 5.6.1.0 and kingoroot. No success.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] KSP1234:
See at morning auto-updated to 5.6.1.0 version without any promt...

Seems all working and Alexa too, but latest Gmail build from apkmirror again/still dont give me possibility to download attachments from received letters. I see start process and white square with running process line under it, nothing more.

How to solve this ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
You should really make a new thread in Q&A. This is dedicated to the discussion about 5.6.1.0, not troubleshooting issues with 5.6.1.0.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] pocketrussian:
Downgrade

I have a rooted Fire HD 10. I am in the process of injecting supersu binaries in the system.img files that I extracted from the 5.6.1.0 update (with sdat2img.py) . This should keep me rooted. However, I read that this firmware cannot be downgraded.

So my question is: if I flash boot.img and the modified system.img (as per the instruction of Retyre in this thread) with FlashFIre, will I be able to downgrade to 5.6.0.1 in case I need to? Or will I be stuck just like with the sideload method?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
You should be able to flash 5.6.0.1 system.img and boot.img with FlashFire. You should be okay as long as you leave the bootloader intact.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] KSP1234:
Whats news about rooting 5.6.1.0 ? Still nothing ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
As before. HD 8 rooting doesn't work, HD 10 rooting works like before.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Jnsystems:
How to root? I disabled WiFi

I disabled Wi-Fi On my Amazon fire tablet running 5.6.1.0 to prevent updates. Hopes this helps. I can't find a way rooting it but

There is always a way:

Intercept network while updating amazon fire

Pull the URL

Run a dns server and have the fire tablet connect to it

Push your own update to it.

Pretty hard but possible.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
I'm not so sure, because Amazon may verify the update signature,
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
Spectre / meltdown mitigation

• The ARM Cortex-A72 in Fire HD 10 (2017) is affected by SPECTRE / MELTDOWN !

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-device-and-feature-specifications.html

https://www.androidauthority.com/meltdown-spectre-kpti-827527/

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

- What if anything has Amazon done to rectify this? Any official statement?

- Is there any diagnostic app which can determine if the platform has been patched?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Even if it's unpatched, who in this forum will have the skills to implement it? :(
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
I was not suggesting that anyone here should patch it. We need to determine whether or not Amazon has patched it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
I'm not sure whether they will care.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
You're probably right, but a patch might have been pushed through anyway since Amazon only modifies Android OS, they don't maintain it. The point was to alert those who need to know about the security risk, and allow others to contribute any knowledge they might have about the situation. If you don't have anything useful to contribute, there is no point in whining about it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
You want a useful contribution? Here it is;

1.) Spectre heavily leans on specific hardware, so, it's more likely that Amazon will have to modify the patch according to their hardware.

2.) Do you even know about the history of Amazon devices? Just look at the HD 10 you are speaking about, it is vulnerable to DirtyC0W and do you mean to tell that it is in a low priority than Spectre? There are malware in the wild exploiting that. I'm not telling that knowing that the device is vulnerable to Spectre is useless, but there are some priorities for everything.

Even the latest firmware is vulnerable to DirtyC0W. I just think there is no point of Spectre when comparing them. I understand that you want to alert about the security risk, but anyone with a proper sense about these exploits will know the power of DirtyC0W over Spectre.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
1. The existence of that exploit is not a justification to stop discussing other exploits. You are certainly welcome to mention it here, but since you only did so to justify criticizing my post, I have to question your motive and what else is bothering you that you are projecting onto me through your snotty attitude. Note how your excuses change for disparaging my post:

First you ask who in this forum is going to patch it, which is totally off-point.

Then you say that no one at Amazon is going to care.

Only when I pointed out the irrelevance of this whining did you mention Dirty COW.

The existence of Dirty COW might be relevant to a discussion of security issues, but you only brought it up to justify your irritating, antisocial behavior. If you had just said "by the way, the following Fire tablets are vulnerable to Dirty COW too", it would have been totally reasonable. But your motivation for jumping in with a bunch of catty remarks was not to discuss Dirty COW, it was to give me a hard time for posting.

2. Since Dirty COW allows rooting, Amazon will probably patch it soon, as they have been really aggressive about patching

other

root methods on the Fire devices. And this history contradicts your insinuation that bugs of this nature will never be patched.

I think my previous statement should answer your question. You also seem to have forgotten that I am the one who took all of the risks and did all of the work to answer the questions in your original post:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76129050&postcount=26

To this I would add: I see Alexa running and talking to Amazon when the user interface says Alexa is disabled.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
Sorry for that. It's just that I am angry about Amazon, for their attitude toward major bugs. I shouldn't have tried to spend my anger on others.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Supersonic27543:
And when speaking of DirtyC0W, it looks like Amaozn fails to patch it. I just grabbed the kernel source and the patch was present? I'm not sure what makes the exploit still work.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] XPJ:
OK, no problem.

This is an interesting mystery.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] bongobill:
For anyone wanting to speed up their device, disable background processes in developer options. It doesn't stay disabled forever though. Can anyone tell me how to make it stay disabled?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Dankees:
Will updating remove my Nova Launcher and widgets?