yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] a0theve:
I keep getting an "error 7" when trying to install the 14.1 zip from TWRP. What am I doing wrong?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
If coming from cm12, you must do a full wipe and data format.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dooderooni:
Many thanks for this, it runs so much better than the stock Amazon OS :good:

I can live with the lack of YouTube for now, sure it'll get fixed at some point.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Mokson:
How to return to the stock rom?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
You flash it just like you flashed this ROM. I think you need to change the extension to ZIP, first.

Be sure to wipe data.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dooderooni:
There's probably an easy solution to this, but I've added an SD card, formatted it and copied some mp3 files to it and they can't be played by either the Lineage or Google Music apps. However, if I long press on a file and use the Open With option they do play.

I've tried clearing the music apps data and caches and also added a Magisk module that should grant access to the SD card too avail.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] n3wt:
Search the thread for "sd card" I'm pretty sure someone found a magisk module that'll fix it for ya until it gets fixed right.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dooderooni:
As I said, I've added that Magisk module and Solid Explorer sees the SD card OK. Google Music and the Lineage music player both see the mp3 files on the SD card, but when you try to play them it simply skips through them all before returning the error 'could not play the track you requested'.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] TheDevil259:
Doesn't work on my device either. I hadn't realized it before because I exclusively use Poweramp which works flawlessly.

Just tried out Shuttle and Phonograph.

I haven't found any issues with Shuttle but Phonograph does have the same issues as Play Music and the build in music player.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
It seems to be an issue with how Lineage maps the SD card location. Some apps just don't see it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] 911medic:
The "warning" is buried deep in the thread, not in the OP, which may be as far as anyone looks when clicking the link from this thread.

Yes, opening the tablet remains an option. Being forced to open the tablet because you didn't read hundreds of posts into the thread to learn your build isn't compatible with the downgrade script would be a nasty surprise; hence my post above.

And while i appreciate the update on k4y0z's life, it is unnecessary. I never implied he wouldn't get to it or is dragging his feet. I just stated a fact: the update to make it compatible with that build has yet to happen.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] hindjew1:
From my understanding, its just the YouTube app not working, but you can bypass that by using a browser. Netflix works by using magisk to pass safety net, right? Plex works. Any word on Hulu, prime video, Kodi? I use mine too stream tv shows and watch movies, check email, and light browsing.

If no one has these answers, I'll wipe and install this rom and report back. Thanks for expanding the useful life of this cheap device.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
You sure? OMX has more to do with video playback in general than just YouTube.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] hindjew1:
I'm going off the comments on this thread in regards to Netflix, Plex and YouTube playback.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
Could be the Power Rogue GPU. The hardware libs built with the ROM(s) are built with the generic GPU libs. For example ROM is built with gralloc.so and there's a gralloc.rogue.so, which is the non generic GPU lib for Power Rogue. System/lib/hw gralloc.rogue.so, hwcomposer.rogue.so, sensors rogue.so and vulkan.rogue.so. there might be more but those are so far the only ones I have come across. This is just a guess as to the issue and might not make a difference one way or the other.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] nikothebarber:
Does this kernal support audio control?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
You can turn the volume up or down. If that's what you mean. *Shrug*
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] BeniS98:
[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION] Any news about the new build with working OMX?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] ggow:
Not had a chance to do anything as yet. Busy with work, high stress and need to focus on that for the moment. When that passes then I can start to do more again.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Shadow Death:
You do what you need to do. The rom can wait and I think most of us believe that.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] violentx:
Google play games not installing from play store so i sideloaded from apkmirror (Google Play Games 2019.09.13205). It installs but asks to update the play services.

No update available on play store for play services.

I installed the latest version (19.4.55) from apkmirror now im getting the error "play services has stopped".

When i try to uninstall updates/app of play services it says its device administrator so can't uninstall. But its not in the device administrators list.

1. Do i need to reflash gapps now?

2. How to get play games working?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
What gapps did you flash before?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] violentx:
[MENTION=1464372]GuyInDogSuit[/MENTION] open gapps arm64 7.1 micro
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
That should be fine, should have no issues. Hmmm...

I would suggest wiping, reflashing the ROM and Gapps package, and reboot, sign in, etc, and test again. Sounds like something got borked in the initial process.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] HulkSmashBurgers:
I'm so happy that the HD10 is finally getting some custom ROM love. Curious though why it is so far only 12.1 and 14.1 when 16 has been available for a while and is being worked on for the HD8. Are there harder challenges to getting Pie working?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
There is a pie ROM, but it's not stable. I don't have a link handy though.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] HulkSmashBurgers:
If you do find it, please post a link. The only one I see in this forum is Pie for karnak (HD8), which for some reason says HD10 in the notes even though the dev says it's not built for the HD10.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Because that's just how this forum is set up and development threads are formatted. I think there's a form template used for development threads that require certain information from the OP, which is included in the section you see in every such thread, which states the Android version it's based on, stage of development, and the device(s) it's built for. In this case, since it's in the HD8/HD10 section, that's what the DevDB will categorize it as. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Shadow Death:
And if they haven't already, wipe storage too.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] violentx:
Didn't have to wipe anything

- reflashed gapps

- updated play services from play store

All is back in order now :p
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Here's my initial thoughts on this ROM so far:

Seems much snappier than 12.1, maybe because RAM usage is more efficient or maybe all the CPU cores are actually being used now. I believe in the case of 12.1, most of the cores were usually idle, even when they shouldn't be.

External storage seems to be in a very strange location. In this case, with most apps, when you choose the "external storage" option, it doesn't go to the external SD card, but rather internal storage. I found it from going to the root directory, and looking around, eventually seeing it in /mnt/media_rw/0000-0000. I believe someone else had mentioned this location as well. Very weird place for it to be. Then again, when using TWRP's file manager, it showed up under an "auto-01" folder in the device's root directory. On the other hand, the Files app shows it in the directory tree in the left fold-out panel, and I was able to get Titanium Backup to easily detect it as well using the "Document Provider" option (which I usually HAVE to do, regardless of ROM, anyway). But again, in most apps, I have to manually go to the location mentioned before to access it. Kodi, as it did with 12.1, doesn't load all the folders I added to the library, for some reason, so I had to create several different sources for individual folders in order for my anime to show up. It's only the anime that does that, not sure why, but it doesn't seem to be a LineageOS issue, I don't think.

The video playback works, for the most part. Not sure what OMX is needed for in this case, but it mainly seems to be for certain video streams. And by that I mean, most apps I tried actually WORK, though the YouTube and Twitch apps only play audio (as stated before). Most other video service apps DO work. Google Play Movies, Amazon Prime Video, VRV, and so on, stream just fine. However, a few had various issues. Movies Anywhere said "there was an error" when I tried to stream movies, and also couldn't get the license for any owned movies I tried downloading. VUDU crashed immediately upon launch, which is not surprising since it wouldn't log in on 12.1 no matter how many times I tried. Netflix, I can't test Netflix just yet since I don't have the password to it at the moment (family member changed it and forgot it as well).

But so far everything seems very stable and smooth.

Here's some interesting stats from Kodi's system info panel:

Storage lists ONLY the /storage/emulated/0 (internal) folder. No external SD. Though it CAN still access those files.

Video, to confirm what [MENTION=8165603]DragonFire1024[/MENTION] stated before, mentions that the GPU is specifically a PowerVR Rogue GX6250.

Hardware confirms that all 4 cores are indeed in use, ranging from 60% at most for Core 0, to 4% for Core 3.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Thibor69:
Yes I would also like the link if you locate it DragonFire :)

Also ... GuyInDogSuit ... are you saying you are running this build on your Fire HD 10" (2017) ?

Thank you
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Uhhh.... yes? That is what this ROM was intended for.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Thibor69:
Uhhh ok thank you. The OP had me a bit confused but that is me being me :confused:

Cheers
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Sorry, yeah, you had me confused as well.

Yup, this forum makes it very confusing as to what ROM is for which device. Don't know why they don't split them, but it is what it is. The DevDB is setup the same way, and when a ROM is published/posted/released/whatever, the DevDB info will be included for this forum, not for the device. Yep, it's weird.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
By the way, Substratum works great on this ROM!

Also, I just found out WHY the SD card is found where it was (mnt/media_rw/0000-0000}, is because of a Magisk module I installed (SD Write Access Enabler}. Not sure if it's needed it not, but everything works ok for now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] retora:
No, mnt/media_rw/xxxx-xxxx is the standard path the sdcard is mounted to with this rom, even without this module (try it by disabling the module). The module seems to change some permissions only, but e.g. I had Titanium Backup and ES file explorer working with sdcard before enabling the module.

Btw., there are two Magisk modules concerning sdcard access:

- [Magisk] v9 Module - SD Write Access Enabler v1

- [MODULE] ExSDCard Write Access Enabler 5.0-8

I think you mean the 2nd, as the first one is not supposed to work with Magisk 14 and newer.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, the second is the one I used.

So that's the default path? Why?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
If I had to take a guess I would say that's where the Magisk image lies. which technically you're supposed to change when you want to change things in the system at least so I was told.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Wave123456:
As mentioned in an earlier post, hardware decoding is not working. To get Kodi working until there is a fix, load Kodi, settings, player, switch to expert, under videos see allow hardware acceleration - MediaCodec (Surface) - set to disable and Allow hardware acceleration - MediaCodec - set to disable. Kodi now works on software decode with local playback, NFS shares and Samba.

Everyone probably already knew that but hey, just putting it out there.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] retora:
Please ask the LOS-developers. :) On my other device with LOS 14.1 (but without Magisk) the external sdcard is also mounted to this path (and also to /storage/xxxx-xxxx). We talked about this quite a month ago.

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Hm, it was about the mount point of the external sdcard, why should there be a Magisk image?

Anyway Magisk makes the mount thing

very

confusing, with Magisk 20 there are more than 1000 mount points on my device.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
I am finally trying out this ROM on one of my regular tablets, but it stays at home. I've pretty much been playing on this all day and the only issue I have are playing videos. Some will preview, but won't play, While others don't even load. I downloaded DLC which work in the past to accelerate video, though it doesn't seem to be doing as good of a job this time around. No big deal I wasn't planning on using this tablet to watch anything in terms of television or movies anytime soon. The volume on this ROM is definitely much better and so far I have not used any tweaks or hacks to raise the levels. So far that's literally the only thing I have to complain about. Aside from the general complaining about this version of Android I generally do to myself. It seems like you spend most of your time toggling permissions.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
I found a bug. Don't know if it's been mentioned, but if you try to access your own profile in settings, the Settings app crashes.

Also, I don't think my tablet is much louder than it was on 12.1.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
You have to go into Google contacts app and create your profile there. It should be in the settings to setup your info. Then when you tap on the profile, it will bring up the profile file you just made. Unless you're talking about the system profiles in which case I have no idea.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
System Profiles, yeah. I don't have Google Contacts installed. No need for it on this device.

Also, why can't I see my extSD card when connected via USB to PC? MTP doesn't show it.

I can't find a relevant answer to this anywhere. Anyone know? I kinda need to know ASAP.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] retora:
I think this is the same issue we discussed before. The external sdcard is not mounted to the "right" place (or with wrong options), so it is not fully recognized as an sdcard by the system and other apps.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
So is there no way to access it then? The tablet has a case with no access to the SD card slot and I don't want to have to keep removing it.

It doesn't even show up when in TWRP.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] retora:
I'm afraid there is no possibility with this build. But you can use LOS 12.1. In TWRP my sdcard is available (formatted with FAT32).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
Well that's not very helpful.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] retora:
You're welcome. Please complain to the developer, that's not me.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GuyInDogSuit:
All snarkiness aside, I'm sure he's got his plate full at the moment, but it's probably on his list of bugs to figure out for the next build release.

[MENTION=5749760]ggow[/MENTION], to summarize, the external storage doesn't show up in Windows when connected via USB.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] hindjew1:
I know this is 12 days late, but life comes at you fast and the days become a blur.

Process of installing 14.1 (wiped Dalvik, system, data, internal storage, cache, and all the other storages I could find):

lineage-14.1-20190926-UNOFFICIAL-suez.zip ---> add zip open_gapps_arm6407.1.-micro --> add zip magisk-v20

The OS is pretty snappy. Youtube worked OK in the browser. Kodi and Hulu were okay. Netflix didn't want to work no matter what I did. Also, sites like gfycat didn't want to respond with the built in browser or with chrome or firefox.

I've also tried just Lineage 14.1 with all the extraneous wipes & Lineage 14.1 + open_gapps.

I didn't find the device functional for my needs (streaming video device). I ended up switching over to ggow's Lineage-12.1 (and boy does it fly). I'll keep an eye on this thread and try out new revisions as they come (and use twrp's handy backup / restore feature in the middle).

I hope this review helps someone out there.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] GS2Giova:
No more development on this rom? it's so good...with video working it would be perfect!!! Please finish this rom! I will pay you!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
ggow is busy. He has other important stuff to do (i.e: His work, family, etc). Just wait a little until he can continue;)

Cheers!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Wave123456:
Just adding to my previous post about Kodi. You can turn off hardware encoding in Kodi. Once that's done videos work. Great thing about Kodi is there are addons for everything, like YouTube, Plex, etc. Because the add-ons run in Kodi, they are not hardware encoded, which means they all work.

I know it's not the "butter" solution we are all looking forward too, bit it's a crutch that I've been very happy with.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] michaelcrossland:
Great Update over the 5.1 one, only thing i found is that no matter if I use chrome or firefox or other mobile web browser's I'm unable to play any streaming media. No matter if it's a video or a audio podcast however youtube in chrome works.? Guessing that has to do with the OMX stuff. BTW have you looked at the new updated version of android that Amazon just released on the 10 it's now 9.0 pie.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] DragonFire1024:
Is it even the same Hardware? As in the same chipset like mediatek? I'm going to guess the no video issue is a GPU issue because I can get some videos to play three or four frames before they crash but some won't even load. In fact in some cases Chrome just doesn't load them at all. And the boxes would be replaced with some kind of generic warning has in this video cannot be played. Or the format is incorrect. I also noticed with my favorite wallpaper application, it tells me my resolution is 1920x1200 but that it can go higher to 1920x32xx or something really dumb and insane like that. So if something is off and reading the screen resolution for whatever reason it would stand to say it would affect video resolution as well.

Also I still am curious as to know why super SU won't install in any form on this device any longer. I have been trying and I can only get as far as it recognizing the SU binaries, it tries to update them but fails every time. If I try to flash it whether it does systemless install or not the device won't boot. I found it particularly odd I was able to get an old-school super user app to install with it binaries the old one from chainsdd. Even then I won't be able to remove it without doing a full wipe and reset. Because the device will only recognize that application and those binaries at that point.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
It's almost the same. It uses MT8183 octa-core. About video issues is OMX.

Cheers.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Michajin:
I used the files here to fix youtube.

OMX (YouTube video playback fix)

https://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/mods-lineage-14-1-fixes-t3989855
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] michaelcrossland:
I also get doing that just don't get this can't be played part or format stuff what I do get is the bandwidth download is is still going as if it was still playing the feed. As for the hardware Amazon didn't release any new hardware with the OS update so that means it's the same, because just for S&G's I went back to my full stock backup I have and I did do the OS update on my tablet that I'm using this ROM on. As for the screen resolution thing I think you may have a bad flash there because I can't get anything to let me go past 1080p. As for your SU thing that chain one is DOA now. You might need to re-download the rom and check the hash of the file some download managers that use multiple part downloads will not rebuild the file right so on ROMs I always use the built in downloader in the web browser because they get they file in one untouched stream.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mukwing:
Michajin thanks for the fix file link.

I seems cant figure out how to make use of the files.

I copied the files to /system/lib, and change the files permission to 644, and after reboot youtube still black screens.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Ziona:
OMX FIX FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK

FLASH VIA RECOVERY

FIX'S YOUTUBE , FACEBOOK , LOCAL & WEB PLAYBACK

(No more video black screen or glitches)

:good:
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] $@N:
Thanks for the fix. I tired it works perfect now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] nikothebarber:
Flahed and did not work pixel launcher crashing repeatedly on start up no video playback

Reflashed still blackout in video on YouTube. Calling bull ****?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] zed011:
Great fix. YouTube and Instagram working
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] hartleyshc:
Do you have YouTube vanced installed? I was using that before for testing, and had the same issue as you. Uninstalled the magisk module and tested with stock YouTube and the fix works just fine.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Michajin:
Worked on both of mine. I just copied and overwrite the files in system/lib from the zip. I didn't flash the zip he created but it is reported that is working as well. I am using vanced. I had a black screen with audio, copied the files from the zip and pasted in system/lib (it had to replace a few as new files) then i went back to vanced it had video.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] nikothebarber:
Yup my bad vanced is installed but unfortunately Google play keeps enforcing a update. I have sudo hide in Xposed supposedly hiding it. Doesn't show up on installed apps at all no YouTube but in my app screen it shows up and works but is not vanced... Anyways sorry for the rant. Just annoyed by it. Yeah porn hub works you good sorry for the hate :good:

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Now if we can just get the audio output working from the headphone jack