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[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Thunderstar1984:
Thanks! do you have the home button problem when you switched the launcher? How did you change it? Sorry i am new to this tablet
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Need amazon store back error app not installed

I inadvertently did on hide in Amazon app store. So, I did an unhide but still can't see app. So, I am trying to install the apk amazon store and keep getting "app not installed". How can I get the amazon appstore back? Unknown sources is enabled. Thanks, Cindy
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Did the unhide actually work? (It says that the hide status is false?)

If so, it's possible something else you hid is preventing it from working. You have to unhide packages one at a time and try it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
The app store is com.amazon.venezia. So just pm unhide that.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] @pops:
THANKS A MILLION Supersonic27543.... I MADE A VIDEO ON THIS FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED.http://bit.ly/disable_s_app_kindle
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] trfr3ak:
Guys, is there any way to see which apps has been disabled?

Alexa wont work anymore, it reacts and says "Something went wrong".. but I'm not really sure which app is causing the issue here..

Thanks in adavnce =)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Yes, status was true. I ended up installing apk edit from Google play store and edited the apk to run as internal and now amazon appstore is back! Thank you!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
The status should show false after the "pm unhide" command, not true.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ginfest:
I used the OP and subsequent tips throughout along with the list and it worked. Great job on this, a big thanks to all involved :good:

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Thanks for this, very helpful ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] DragonFire1024:
Since I don't have a tablet that needs to use this method (HD 8 has been on 5.4.0.0 since it came out of the box), does hiding fire launcher with this method, break any buttons like home or recents?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
If you hide Fire Launcher, you get a message saying "The requested action is not permitted. Check Parental Controls settings and retry." every time you hit the home button. Once you clear that message, things move on (i.e. if you're using Launcher Hijack, then your launcher of choice loads). So not "broken", but annoying, yes. I just left the Fire Launcher unhidden because of that.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Colossus96:
the app is not installing. it just says app not installed. what should i do?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
What is the exact command that you are trying?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Colossus96:
i just tried installing it directly.

but it worked with this command:

adb install -r -d .\com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook.apk
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
Just an update of what I found out about the problem I was having with not being able to install "new" apps after hiding the apps on the list in post #21 ( see post #98 ). I went through and hid each entry on the list one by one until my problem re-occurred .... the culprit was "com.amazon.Venezia" ..... Amazon Appstore. With it unhidden the problem went away. As for not being able to hide the "parental controls" app, I think it may be because I have a password in it which I have forgotten ...I don't use this function anyway... I think I did this soon after getting the tablet because I was afraid I would purchase something by mistake and not realize it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] ildepo:
Thank you sooo much!

My FireHD after 5.6.2.0 update became almost unusable; spotify didn't work well anymore, the app often crashed; everything became slow.

So I tried your guide and now everything works fine again!

Great job, Supersonic!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Thank you [MENTION=3039097]GoodSoul[/MENTION]. I've already done the above except I needed venezia back (amazon store) so hot that back. I would love to install nova launcher. Is it too late? How would I do it? Thanks, Cindy
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] GoodSoul:
Sure, in case you really use the Amazon Appstore/Store you should not hide com.amazon.venezia. If you already did use the follwing command:

pm unhide com.amazon.venezia

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https://xdaforums.com/hd8-hd10/general/tool-disables-ota-lockscreen-install-t3715320

Nope. See step 6 from the link above. You can also download the apk from https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/teslacoil-software/nova-launcher/ and install it via "adb install <name-of-apk>". In case of problems search for "nova launcher" in this forum. There are some posts about how to get Nova Launcher up and running trough appstore/command line.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Yes already did pm unhide after realizing venezia is the Amazon appstore 2 days ago. Thanks
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] trfr3ak:
[MENTION=3039097]GoodSoul[/MENTION] When hiding the fire launcher I get the annoying message with the parental controls, how did you manage to deactivate this?

Update 1: ah I see you were able to deactivate the parental controls app, how did you manage to do that? For me it just won't hide
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
No one has figured that out yet. You're better off leaving the Fire Launcher unhidden for that reason.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] trfr3ak:
Guys, a minute ago all the hidden apps are visible again, it feels like Amazon has just regained access to my devices :/ has someone else notice something similar?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
I wanted to also report that I also ran into problems post hiding the AppStore / "com.amazon.venezia" package. Many of the system settings menus gradually started to become inaccessible and that parental control warning appeared more and more. Even after "pm unhiding" everything I'd hidden it still was having issues. I quickly made sure nothing was hidden, hid any developer apps/new launchers, etc. and called Amazon tech support to see if they could quickly just reset the system app cache files or something instead of having to factory reset and setup my device again. They couldn't do anything like that and seemed super baffled by the parental controls warning message. They asked if I would be OK with letting them pull some log files from my device because they were really curious but I declined and said I'd just go ahead and factory reset / told them to have a great night er morning er whatever time of day it was for them in the world and ended the call. ? ? *click*

?️*♀️ I will never divulge our discoveries to the overlord!! ??? Though, I wonder sometimes if they ever look on here out of curiosity, lol.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Are you sure you unhid everything? That worked for me when I was trying stuff out. Remember you still have to go through the preliminary steps up to the run-as for the unhide to work too. And you should see the hide status = false after any "pm unhide" command.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] mrdannyaitch:
Would really like to get this to work. Initially I tried and got a UID=2000 response, so I've tried all of the various install methods in the thread and no joy.

A couple of times trying the different methods I've got a response that the app is not debuggable. The only one I couldn't try properly was GoodSoul's post #133, getting no such file or directory after the first line is input.

Help very much appreciated.

EDIT - Used t0x1cSH's post #8 and that changed the id, going to try the rest now!

Running a Fire HD8, 7th Gen, 5.6.2.0 build date July 6,
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Colossus96:
having troubles selecting any app as a default app. when selecting an app to be used always it doesn't work. anyone have any idea which options control this?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
provisory solution for Parental control warning

i wrote a simple service that close the parental control warning as soon as it appears, this solution is very rudimentary but it works

should work with almost every languages

for the app to work you have to enable it in the android accessibility settings

Settings->Accessibility->ParentalControlHide

let me now how it works (i've made this app at 1:00am my time so forgive me if wont work on your device, on mine does :D)

git https://github.com/raffy909/ParentalControlHide
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Vclong2003:
Works

Easy to do
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
Excited to try the parental control fix!!

Unfortunately, the "pm hide" method seems to no longer work on my device at all :( In my command prompt/terminal I do get the message: "new hidden state: true" for whatever package I am trying to disable, but it doesn't actually seem to be hidden on the device. I can no longer even get the parental control warning to appear when I try to hide "com.amazon.launcher" aka "Home Pages" in ADB. It says it is hidden, but it is not. :-/
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Rortiz2:
Congratulations for your work.

It works pretty well since sometimes I open some desactivated app and I see the parental control warning for a thousandth of a second. That usually happens one out of 10 times so that's why there's no problem.

The bad thing is that I would like to support Spanish since I use my fire in Spanish language.

Anyway, congratulations for your excellent work.:good::D
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] fire1951:
I have a question concerning hiding and/or blocking. I have a Fire HD 8 7th gen w/5.6.2.0 . A couple of weeks ago I was having problem with certain downloads , I was getting "cannot reach server" errors. I then realized I had Amazon's download manager (com.android.providers.downloads), blocked with Netguard No-Root. I unblocked it and forgot about it. A few days after that, my Fire updated from 5.6.1.0 to 5.6.2.0. The download manager was the only thing of Amazon's that I unblocked and I suppose Amazon snuck the update in with it. Is that a reasonable assumption? Is there a way to ( without blocking Amazon's download manager again) to prevent this? Maybe somehow direct the Fire to use a third party download manager or something?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] samuel6827:
Im getting the same not debuggable error how did you get yours to work ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
added compatibility for multiple languages :)

I've added compatibility for multiple languages, let me know if it works
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] stew1411:
You can keep the download manager unblocked and actually just disable the OTA software.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
i've added spanish among other languages in the new apk, you can try and let me know if it work :)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
I had everything working so well, with most bloatware packages disabled, but then suddenly it stopped working :( In ADB, it still showed that packages had been hidden but in reality they weren't. I was already running the latest FireOS (5.6.2.0) and had disabled all the OTA update packages, etc. Well, yesterday afternoon I'm in the middle of using my tablet and suddenly the screen stated it was installing updates :(

I'm not exactly sure what it installed, since I already had 5.6.2.0, but that's what it said it installed. Maybe it was reinstalling hidden packages?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] DragonFire1024:
Possibly. You should clear the data of the OTA package before hiding it. Might have had a full update waiting there. That's the only thing I can think of. Unless hiding apps doesn't disable them...?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
I am thinking about exchanging my new fire hd 8 for the hd 10. I'm hoping the above will work on the HD 10? Also, does any of the above remove the lockscreen ads? Thanks, Cindy
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
Hi Cindy! For the HD 10 (2017), we actually have full root access, so you can do better than disabling/hiding these system apps and can actually remove them altogether. See extremely helpful posts from DragonFire1024, Supersonic27543, and others on here and you should have no trouble getting started. :) Also, a week or so ago, I kind of jotted down my steps for rooting/optimizing an HD 10 from scratch (using posts I'd found helpful from this forum) and you can find that here.

Hope this helps!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Sindee75:
Thank you so much!!! Just ordered the fire hd 10 and will return the hd 8 while still under 30 day refundable. The hd 10 sounds faster and better screen resolution. I made a mistake with the hd 8. But I am super happy to hear the HD 10 is even MORE customizable than the HD 8! Thank you all!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
Thank you so much for putting this together! I wish I had your skill set!!

I have your multi-language v. 2 installed and it's doing what it's supposed to do, except, yes, there still is a quick flash of the warning message each time. Not the end of the world. I'm very curious as to how Amazon went about setting their launcher as the default launcher - it doesn't seem like they did this in a normal way. Even without disabling their launcher or without using Launcher Hijacker v. 3 I'm still able to set the launcher to a different launcher of my choice by opening the Android "Home" settings menu directly (I can confirm it is indeed set: when I use Nova or Action Launcher/others and it's not set as "default" launcher in Android settings the launcher displays messages in various areas asking you to set that launcher as your default launcher. The message goes away when I do set the default launcher in system settings). It seems to me that Amazon just programmatically bound that warning message to any time the home button is pressed or something. Idunno. Whatever they did just seems unorthodox and sneaky... lol.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] DragonFire1024:
Wouldn't surprise me. They were very sneaky with the boot animation so some kind of weird script like that wouldn't surprise me the least bit.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Ivorin:
Details of another success on HD 8

Another success for Fire HD 8 (7th gen), but it worked only after upgrading the OS from 5.6.0.1 to 5.6.1.2, which solved the error "failure [install_failed_missing_shared_library]"

In case it helps anyone, here are the packages that were removed by the upgrade from 5.6.0.1 to 5.6.1.2:

com.amazon.precog
com.amazon.knight.speechui

Packages added by the upgrade from 5.6.0.1 to 5.6.1.2:

com.amazon.device.software.ota.override
com.amazon.device.sale.service
com.amazon.device.metrics
com.amazon.knight.calendar
com.amazon.knight.blink
com.amazon.knight.ecs
com.amazon.knight.hds
com.amazon.virtual.dash.knight.app
com.amazon.comms.knightcontacts
com.amazon.comms.knightmessaging
com.amazon.paladin
com.amazon.zordon
com.amazon.gambit
com.amazon.tablet.dock.settings
com.amazon.displayclockface
com.amazon.alexa.modeswitch
com.amazon.alexa.youtube.app
com.amazon.speechui
amazon.speech.wakewordservice
amazon.speech.audiostreamproviderservice
amazon.speech.davs.davsclientservice
com.amazon.aca
com.amazon.glorialist
com.amazon.gloria.smarthome
com.amazon.webview.awvdeploymentservice
com.amazon.ava.shopping.android
com.amazon.comms.multimodaltachyonarm

It has been suggested that to prevent auto-updates, the new package com.amazon.device.software.ota.override should be hidden or disabled.

And others have suggested that these be hidden to unburden memory and CPU:

com.amazon.device.sale.service
com.amazon.comms.multimodaltachyonarm
amazon.speech.wakewordservice

However the wakeword for Alexa can also be disabled in Settings->Alexa->Hands-Free Mode, which might reduce CPU load without having to hide amazon.speech.wakewordservice. Can anyone confirm?

Someone said that com.amazon.paladin is the new launcher, so it should probably not be hidden or disabled unless you have a replacement.

On a related note, hiding com.amazon.kindle.otter.oobe disables Settings->My Account, which might be no problem depending on your usage.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] bedeegc:
Add Language

You added the Spanish language, is there a possibility to add the Dutch language.

I have now for a while the Fire HD8, in the English language. No problem but some apps adapting to the system language, I cannot change them into Dutch. Would be great if you add the Dutch language.

Is it easy to do, maybe I can help?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
if you install ParentalControlsHide.apk all the languages supported by FireOS are supported in the app, the default one is english and in may case work with italian sadly i cant try Dutch but is in the app

this is the text that the app search in an error for the Dutch languge:

Die angeforderte Aktion ist nicht zulässig. Prüfen Sie die Einstellungen für die Kindersicherung und versuchen Sie es erneut.

i've used a python script for extract all the value for the localizzation of the error from framework-res so they shuld be correct
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
ParentalControlsHide.apk stopped working for me :( It was working for the most part, but when I opened certain programs (like Google Chrome) and then tried to return to my home screen/launcher by touching the home button, the warning message would go away but the tablet would not navigate home. It leaves me stuck/in limbo between apps. I've also noticed after restarting that my launcher (Action Launcher) doesn't launch, but instead I'm stuck in some sort of Alexa cards display screen. It's not full "show mode" but I believe it's the "Alexa Cards" app. I've tried killing it with no success.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] t0x1cSH:
Well that's strange, im using Brave as browser and i dont'have the strange limbo between apps thing but when i close all the recent apps im not presented with the launcher and i have to press home again so, is this the strange limbo between apps thath you are describing, if yes this depend on launcherhijack

the only things that ParentalControlsHide does is close the error message by pressing back as soon as it appears and this shuld only affect the error message that contains the parental control message hence the need for multiple languages. for now this is the only solution i found but im going trough the android documentation

btw im using LawnChair as launcher andim not having any problem, i've disabled almost every amazon app
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
I found if I leave Launcher Hijack v3 installed and also leave the Launcher Hijack accessibility service enabled that things work most smoothly. But shouldn't we not need Launcher Hijack at all if we have the Fire Launcher ADB hidden?

I think my problem might be that I've perhaps additionally hidden something I shouldn't have and that's what is causing the excessive parental control message. I also think I need to hide the second "show mode" launcher or something. I'm still getting stuck on each boot/it's. not loading my chosen launcher :-/

Probably not related, but I've also noticed strange behavior when I try to record an Instagram video (which requires holding down the camera "record" button in the app. As I hold down the button, the parental control message rapidly appears and disappears, which prevents the camera from recording.

If it's not too much trouble, can you look at the list of system apps I'm ADB hiding (green items listed here in reply #157)? Perhaps I'm hiding something I shouldn't be or am missing something I should be hiding...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] Ivorin:
I suspect the parental control warning is just a default response whenever an app encounters an unexpected error due to the selected app being hidden. I get that message whenever I try to access a specifically hidden app via Settings.

You'd probably want someone more experienced to review it; but from my limited experience, I didn't see anything in your green list that raised any red flags for me. You may have already seen the spreadsheets below, which list various packages:

This spreadsheet might be older but it's the one I've been using lately: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GLb_1xIWz1uGVEJEikwEaqRF0rhMVQI5vlMQcUm6m8U

The one might be a bit newer in some ways may contain a lot of packages you wouldn't want to consider disabling: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19KAt3uzWB-13F9utW56ITkZaPBNIYF_jYl2tvQV0hrc
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
Thanks for taking one for the team. I was having the same issue but I didn't want to upgrade in case the firmware was further locked down. Perhaps OP should update the first post to indicate that procedure will not work with fw 5.6.0.1.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] krucesky:
Not to be ungrateful, but what is this com.amazon.unifiedsharefacebook apk? Just don't want to install random packages...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] teixeirap:
A version of the app that has the developers debug settings enabled. It apparently was mistakenly enabled in one of the official Fire tablets firmware distributions.

If security is your concern, the apk may not be needed as there was another apk that Amazon made the same mistake which may still be installed on the tablet with current firmware; see post #90 https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77213851&postcount=90
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] andreskafe:
I get this message on Amazon fire hd 8 gen7 running fire os 5.6.2.0

"Is no debbugeable"

Whats is wrong?

Enviado desde mi XT1575 mediante Tapatalk
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
Did you install the apk file that was attached to this thread? You need to.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] richaardvark:
Thanks for your input on this! Yes, I agree that the parental control message is likely a default response that appears when a hidden app cannot be accessed.

I'm still not in great shape yet. I have two 2017 HD 8 tablets, both configured the same, with system apps and Fire Launcher hidden via ADB "pm hide" and with the ParentalControlsHide.apk installed/accessibility service activated. Unfortunately, both tablets still aren't really working very well and are rather difficult to use right now. When they boot, I'm stuck in some sort of "Alexa Cards" environment (it's not full-blown 'Show Mode,' but similar) and the home button does nothing, and the 'recent apps' Android button is missing. I think my problem is that I'm not hiding enough system apks and that I need to hide/disable a few more - I'm just not quite sure which ones. I think that most people on here who have setup their tablets similarly and have everything working successfully with ParentalControlsHide.apk installed chose to disable more of the Amazon bloatware than I have, including getting rid of Alexa, etc.

Thanks for linking to those FireOS apps spreadsheets! I actually made that second (FireOS 5.6.2.0) spreadsheet myself, about a week and a half ago. A few people have messaged me/left comments with new details on some of the apps, but yes, it would be really helpful to find someone who is knowledgeable on the details of these overhead/system apps, who can help us update the spreadsheet to provide the best info for the benefit of everyone. For now, I think I'm just going to fiddle around and hide some additional apps and see if things work better.

The only other question I have is - should we keep Launcher Hijack and its accessibility service installed and enabled, or is that not necessary now if we "adb pm hide" the fire launcher? Things were working much better when I still had Launcher Hijack installed, but I thought that might not be necessary any longer since we are actually hiding Fire Launcher itself now. Do you have Launcher Hijack running on your tablet?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 General] cybersaga:
You still need Launcher Hijack installed. There is no way to truly change your launcher without root. That's probably why your home button does nothing right now.