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[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
It would be advantageous if you could be more specific about the error messages. Try to read them before they disappear. I know it's tough when they vanish before you get the chance to read them, but maybe you can find something that causes the error and repeat it a few times to read the message.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] spocko:
I was also unable to get voice typing to work in GBoard. It does work in Swiftkey though, so I just switched to that.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] j1miroquai:
I made 2 profiles but I can only install google play only on one of them.

Can`t I install google play on both profiles?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] j1miroquai:
I did that , but the thing is that when I change user and try to install google play services it gives me errors all the time....

For some reason it only goes through installing play services but only on one user (doesn`t matter which one btw)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] j1miroquai:
Yes but in both cases the error I get is
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] j1miroquai:
It worked.... Thank you very much
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mtifford:
Just got a new HD 8, downloaded V23 and went to town on it. Everything went smoothly until I tried installing google services which gave me the same corrupt file error others have mentioned. Is there a current work around? I tried the side loading fix from back in the April discussions, but that didn't work.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Rae020:
Hey, I have an Fire 10 HD, I've tried to download google services but has loading and it isn't actually downloading what do I do? I have also tried deleting the apk out of the folder
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
Google suddenly failed to refresh Google Play Services on my Fire8. It is needed by among us, for example ...

About a week ago I deleted and reinstalled Google with the current toolbox, it worked, but now I have the same google services error.

Which version and source should we use for sideload the services apk?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mrkp89:
Is there any new development on this front? I would also like to remove a Google account from my Fire. I am currently logged in with two accounts in the Play Store, one of which I no longer use. Thank you.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
@Datastream33

Thanks. Tested version V24, but there are no updates found for google play services?

Installed: Google Play Services 21.36.14

Error: Google Play services won't run unless you update Google Play services
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] paulri:
I just updated to v. 24. Thanks for continuing to maintain this software.

My Amazon Fire tablet hasn't been updated in months. The version on my tablet is FireOS 7.3.1.8; build date of Jan 2021 (the latest updated OS I can download from amazon, is 7.3.2.1). I have seen a page here that explains how to manually update (just using the System Updates gets me the "check for updates failed" message): https://www.lifewire.com/update-kindle-fire-tablet-2740669 But even manually moving the update file gets me the same error message.

Can the toolbox be used to get the tablet to update itself (I'm not talking about the toolbox itself being updated)?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Rae020:
I actually had to factory reset my tablet yesterday to get it to update because I was getting the same error🥲 hopefully you find a better solution.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

I must of forgot to update the version numbers server side. Please give me a minute to update it. Thank you!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
But shouldn't 21.36.14 already be the latest version?

Strange that the error message comes up anyway. Yesterday it stopped working, didn't install or update any apps.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Oh, you're right! You're on the latest version and still getting the error? That's not good...

I sincerely hope the error isn't a direct result of the tablets not being Play Certified. According to Google, devices that aren't certified:

Devices that aren't Play Protect certified may not be secure.

Devices that aren't Play Protect certified may not get Android system updates or app updates.

Google apps on devices that aren't Play Protect certified aren't licensed and may not be real Google apps.

Apps and features on devices that aren't Play Protect certified may not work correctly.

Data on devices that aren't Play Protect certified may not back up securely.

We may want to look at alternative third-party solutions such as Aurora Store...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

I'd usually recommend not updating the tablet, as OTAs are known to revert changes made by the Toolbox. However, if you are ok with this, then try enabling OTA Updates in the Modify System Settings tool.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] loid08:
Fire Toolbox v24.0 opens a window with blank boxs. Windows 7 pro.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Unfortunately, we are still searching for a solution... Sorry my friend! :(
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings, and welcome to XDA!

Try this solution by our good friend @blaacksheep. That should do the trick! If not, please don't hesitate to ask for further help! Best of luck!🤞
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
The google playstore is currently working. But I can not use some google authentication since yesterday.

I had the same problem about a week ago, the temporary solution was to completely remove google services and reinstall them with the toolbox.

At among us sign in:

Update Google Play services message (popup) ... and after that ingame error: GoogleAuthNoToken

Do not use many google services except the playstore, no idea whether the message appears anywhere else.

Among us sign in is working on my phone with the same google services version.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

I know this is probably a little too late, but I'd recommend closing and re-running the Google Services tool. That should hopefully work. Please also make sure to delete any APKs (besides GAssist.apk) from the Google Services directory (default directory: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Datastream\Fire Toolbox V24.0\bin\Google Services) and retry. Best of luck!🤞
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Hmm, that's what's got me worried, the Play Services issue only seems to be effecting Fire Tablets... 😟
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] paulri:
The only changes I've made with the toolbox was to enable Google Play store.

If there is a reversion that disallows this, I could just plug the tablet into my laptop again (which has the toolbox) and then re-enable Play store, correct?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Rae020:
Thank you😊
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] vadiro:
Hi guys,

Because Mario Kart was not seeing the google services as being updated I uninstalled them and tried to install them again, but failed with this errors:

What options would I have now?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] vadiro:
Thank you for the suggestion Falcon342, but it made no difference.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] CEG3rd:
If you block updates to keep a new launcher working does that block updates to the device, which seems pretty undesirable.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
Yes, it blocks system updates. Contrary to what you may think about system updates, Amazon system updates are generally undesirable because they tend to revert the changes we've made like Launcher choice and lockscreen ad blocking. They could also permanently block the ability to make those changes again in the same way.

I haven't heard of Fire tablet users being hit with any attacks due to their security patching being old. I'm sure it could happen if you play around in the Tic Tok or Facebook world long enough.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] CEG3rd:
Thanks for the reply. I am concerned about losing OS updates, but I guess that's the trade off.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
I haven't had any problems and I'm on 7.3.1.2 firmware. I don't think there are many security patches in their updates anyway.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] _Sherrif:
@Datastream33,

I'm not sure if this is a permanent fix or maybe something to consider, but i had the Play Services issue with both of my grand kids FireHD 8's (10th gen) for a couple months. I would follow the posted fix; deleting Google services and then re-installing thru the toolbox, but it would only last a few days...a week at the most.

I recently downloaded and side-loaded the BETA version of Play Services v21.36.14 on 9/20/21 from apkmirror, and have not had any issue for 13days. Before posting, i checked and all is working with Play Services as it should, mainly with Google Play, which is where we had most of our problems.

I read somewhere that installing the BETA version would stop the play services issue, not sure where i read it but believe it was in this thread.

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Anyway, just throwing out what is currently working on my 2 FireHD 8's, in case it's of any benefit.

Thanks for all the work on the ToolBox! It's much appreciated and i use it regularly to keep their tablets working smooth.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] johny.mnemonic:
Not so fast with the panic;-)

As we already discussed here before, the issue seems to be in the botched (auto)update of the Play Services.

So when you are in the situation, where apps are complaining about needing Play Services update, what you really need to do is to sideload the same (or newer if already available) version of the apk.

So the only mistake you have done in v24 tools is, that unless there is newer version, than detected on the tablet, you won't do the sideload. While you should do the sideload always with the installed = newest. I even think, that the situation with available newer version than installed won't ever happen, as it's autoupdated pretty fast.

I just sideloaded 21.36.55 and same as before, it fixed my issues.

The only remaining question is, why the autoupdate always/often ends with broken Play Services? Maybe we are missing some other core component installed, or it breaks thanks to some check for running on the certified device...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] rocjoh:
Hello!I updated toolbox to v24 and tried enable & disable navibar again but still having this issue...

Here I attach the screen shot again.

When I rotate the tablet 90 degrees to right (powerbutton on right), disabled navibar shows up and the whole UI are misaligned to left (so time on the notifcation bar is not displayed).

When I rotate 270 degrees (powerbutton on left), navibar shows up and UI are misaligned to right (battery icon is not displayed)

Any advice would be welcomed! Thank you very much!

Fire HD 10 2019/FireOS 7.3.1.6
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] meissen:
Hi there - first off, huge thank you for the tool and how easy it is to use!

One problem though - v24 with a Fire HD 10 2021. When I click to remove lockscreen ads and then click "Execute Tool" the application hangs and becomes unresponsive. Any tips? It's the only step that didn't work seamlessly for me.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
Once had a similar error message. After uninstalling, I would try to restart the device and install gservice with the fresh and portable Toolbox V24.

Otherwise, a factory reset is the best option, like @Falcon342 suggested.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
The only thing that comes to mind is maybe Google Play Games isn't up to date or synced with the rest of Google Services. You could try uninstalling/reinstalling that. :unsure:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] meissen:
Thank you - that worked beautifully!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blowtorchhonor:
Does anyone have recommendations for custom nav bar icons? I want to make sure they are the right resolution. I particularly like the MIUI and One UI icons. LMK where I can find them!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] _Sherrif:
@blowtorchhonor,

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Here are the softkeys we are using. One grandson has Zenyth and the other has FLX. I use the FLX softkeys on my mobile personally.

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Disregard the colors, it will not take on the FireHD tablets...not on ours anyway. If for some reason the color shows on yours and you want to use these navbar icons, let me know i can make them white or whatever color. I was trying to color them for contrast when on white backgrounds, but it did not work on our FireHD 8's (10th gen).

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These are the my recommendations for the size. If you want them bigger or smaller, just let me know.

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Hope this helps....

Forgot to add these. The reflection shows if you like that sort of thing.

Edit: Added HTC_Reflective 100521 @ 1512
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mpdavis81:
Great tutorial & software!

I have a 2021 Fire HD 10+ that I'm having a problem getting "Amazon Prime Video" to install from the Google Play store. It fully downloads, then gives me an error of "Can't install Amazon Prime Video". No additional error codes are given. I looked in the Amazon App store for this app & it does not exist.

I've tried clearing cache, rebooting, etc. I did not see it listed as a hybrid app in FTB either.

Any suggestions?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mpdavis81:
Ok... figured it out... When I initially killed the bloatware, the Amazon Prime Video app got killed as well. I've reloaded that app using FTB & all is good now!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Ah, that's right. Thank you for reminding me. OK, I'll update the tool to allow same version updates along with new versions. 😄(y)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

Awesome! So glad to see you've managed to figure it out! Nicely done my friend!

By the way, I see you're a new member... welcome to one of the best websites on the Internet! :D
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings my friend!

Hmm, looks like the overscan value may be too high. Try running the following command in an adb shell to restore the default value:

wm overscan 0,0,0,0

Then if you'd like to disable the navigation bar again, try running this command:

settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=*

Best of luck and please let us know how it goes! :)🤞
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings, Siena!

Firstly, it just makes my day to hear you find the Toolbox useful and enjoy it's UI! Glad to see things working smoothly, despite the mentioned concerns with the Manage Amazon Apps tool. I'll be sure to add a respective

label in the next update to ensure it goes smoothly with TTS. Thank you for bringing it to my attention as one of the primary goals is to make the Toolbox the most user friendly it can be! As for your other questions/concerns:

1. I would be more then happy to add Rootless Pixel Launcher to the supported list!

2. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to change the TTS engine. I tried looking for a hidden settings accessibility activity, searching through the settings database for a string to change, and disabling Ivona and Pico. All resulted in no joy. I'm not sure it's possible because in order to change the engine you usual do so in the Settings app, which VoiceView is hardcoded into. I'm not sure there's anything we can do without root... :(

3. When trying to install Android Accessibility Suite it gives off an error, that doesn't look pretty:

I'm not 100% sure what this means, but it doesn't sound good. I'll try a few other things and see if I can it to install.

I'm so sad to inform you about the issues above. It just sucks Fire Tablets are so freaking restrictive. Anyway, please have a great rest of your day/night and please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :D
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] nextbond007:
Hello, thanks for this!!! One question/problem, I added the Google Services and everything checked out but now when I go into the app store and try to download something it just says pending and times out. Any suggestions? Kindle Fire 7.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mpdavis81:
So I have found a new problem. I can't access pictures/videos in the Files tool. It gives me an error of "Photos Blocked, You can unblock it in Parental Controls".

But my Parental Controls are all disabled. Any suggestions? (I am running the Nova Profile/Launcher on a 2021 Fire HD 10+.)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] mpdavis81:
Nevermind... figure out it was another case of the "recommended" bloatware stripping the Photos & Video Apps... added those back & all good now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

Try force stopping/clearing the cache for the following apps in settings:

Play Store

Downloads

Download Manager

That should do the trick, and you should be good to retry. If you need further help please don't hesitate to ask! Best of luck! :D
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] chetqwerty:
I know this has been mentioned before regarding v23 but text is flowing outside the boundaries of the window and text is also super tiny in v24.1. (odd that in the attachment the font is actuallly larger than on my screen) My font size is set to 100% so that's not causing the issue. Not a big deal just an FYI.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] maven33:
Your micro update V24.1 with reinstall play service fixed my problem for today.

The last play services installation is only a few days ago, the update message suddenly appeared while ingame among us (after signin)! After that, I could not open the game with signin again, I am wondering what is causing this problem.

There was no (visible) gservice update, maybe a device check in background ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
There's the screen size percent setting that's easy to find, and there's also a setting to set "custom font size" that seems to act differently. I've used it a long time ago, but I forgot the differences. Maybe that's what is causing the problem? As I've told others, you can always make another user account on your computer and leave the default settings to run the Toolbox.

:)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Murrfk:
I have found this extremely useful and it has worked flawlessly on three tablets. I made a donation as I found this to be smooth and simple.

One feature request, (or instructions on how to do this!) would be to enable a way to disable that annoying startup tone when the device powers up. I sometimes use my tablet in the wee hours and have to start it up under my pillow or face the wrath of wifey!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
I don't think anyone has found a way to do that. There are numerous threads on that subject with various "solutions" that don't work. The only way that worked for me was to mute all sounds before shutting it down or rebooting. I think it's the media volume that does it, but it has to be completely down or it still makes noise. If we ever get root, I'm sure someone will post the name of the file to rename or delete.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] johny.mnemonic:
Yep. Google Services and other core Google stuff always update itself on the background.

Thing is that normally it works afterwards, while on our tablets it almost looks like only part of the update is done or the version number is not propagated everywhere.

It's weird. Play store tells you that you have the latest version of Google Services installed, while other Google apps are complaining that you have old version of Google Services 🙄

Not sure if we are able to check without root whether the files of the app are really updated. That could give us some hint.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] rocjoh:
Hello Dear developer!! Thanks a lot for your kind reply!

I ran the 2 commands you suggested, and mis-alignment has been fixed now.

However, nav bar is hidden and not disabled... Can I disable the nav bar with firetoolbox again now?

Thank you very much!!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Hafeez5050:
Tablet: Amazon Fire HD 10 Plus tablet [Device's codename: trona]
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] blaacksheep:
uh-huh. The rest of the tablets covered by the Toolkit are:

Amazon Fire 10/10+ (2021) Trona

Amazon Fire 8/8+ (2020) Onyx

Amazon Fire 10 (2019) Maverick

Amazon Fire 7 (2019) Mustang

Amazon Fire 8 (2018) Karnak

Amazon Fire 10 (2017) Suez

Amazon Fire 8 (2017) Douglas

Amazon Fire 7 (2017) Austin

Amazon Fire HD8 (2016) Giza

Amazon Fire HD10 (2015) Thebes

Amazon Fire HD8 (2015) Memphis

Amazon Fire HD7 (2015) Ford

Amazon Fire HD7 (2014) Ariel 7

Amazon Fire HD6 (2014) Ariel
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Ellie0221:
Is there any way at all to get the Amazon toolbox without a computer? I have a Kindle fire HD 8 10th Generation (2020).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Unfortunately, I'm afraid not. So sorry my friend... :(

By the way, welcome to XDA!!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
An Automate script could do the trick? Mute audio on shutdown broadcast, and then restore it on "user is present" broadcast?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Insomniac2648:
I'm having the same problem with a fire 7 7th gen, i've run both fire toolbox V24.0 and v24.1. Just used the toolbox couple days ago on a newly bought fire 7 from amazon and it worked fine. Is it a tablet issue? the fire 7 7th gen tablet was given to me for free, i have 4 of them, they all have issues. This one i was able to change the battery and it works, the other 3 are stuck on fire menu
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Willscuba:
Very nice work, where do I ask questions? I was hoping the toolkit would allow me to have my Fire Tablet HD 10 9th gen report its operating system as a standard Android table for an app from ATT for text messaging. Is that possible?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Raldor:
Is it possible to attempt this with a Fire TV Stick/Cube?

Because I think a cost-effective Android TV with Google Play is an interesting idea...
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] melariaz18:
hi, question i wanted to know if there is a vesion of this for chromebook computer users?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] fnm525:
After I use it, many Settings of the device cannot be used. How can I solve this problem?

(It keeps telling me to check parental control)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings my friend!

At the moment the Toolbox unfortunately only runs on Windows due to the language the Toolbox is written in. Perhaps one day it will ported to other platforms. I hate to disappoint! Anyway, please have a wonderful day/night! :D
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] Datastream33:
Greetings!

I've always wanted to support Fire Sticks but due to time constraints haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe one day... ;)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Android Development] ferograf:
I'm using the tablet for my kid what I see is that all the content you download from the google play can't be share with the kid profile it only let you share the apps I have download in the appstore.