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[Fire TV General] HoreaM:
Sadly you were right, the app keeps crashing, even after installing your never version. I also don't have a Firestick 4k, I only have a standard Firestick (tank). Is there a way to do all that on my device too? Thank you again!
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
Maybe

0815hoffi or @Sus_i will be able to help you out, i do have a tank but i broke it, so i cannot create anything for tank.​

If you have root then its nice you can do anything with it, it just need patience and someone to mod it.

Maybe if someone alters something then tank will have a package manager which can disable stock launcher also.

Fixing Accessibility is easy, but that device cannot handle heavy tasks, its not that capable.

It bootlooped for an entire day on the first day when i bought it, it overheated, and now its dead.

Fixing prime is easy, you may have to update your rom which has TZ and also some of the files also needs to be removed from the system.

But do not do anything on your own, ask for help from someone who has a tank (working)
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Hey @SweenWolf,

First off, I wanted to say THANK YOU for both the Launcher Manager and especially for the Wolf Launcher! It is a MASSIVE upgrade compared to the stock launcher!

I have a potential feature I wanted ask about.

Unfortunately, multi-lingual keyboard support is not available with the native ATFV keyboard. Having said that, LeanKey Keyboard does support adding multiple languages. It does require running a couple of commands to activate the new keyboard on a Fire TV (ATV's Gboard solves this issue).

I was was wondering if it may be an option to add the ability to activate the LeanKey Keyboard from the Launcher Manager interface of FTV and avoid the lengthy process (not to mention complex for some) of manually typing them in Remote ADB Shell and connecting with Shell remotely.

Is that something you are willing to consider adding?

Again, thanks much for all your work!
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Many thanks @SweenWolf for adding keyboard change option!

I do have one question. In both the latest version (1.1.2) and the previous one (1.1.1) on a Fire TV 4K stick, when selecting the Display & Sounds option within the Launcher Manager for the first time, it pops up a message saying that it providing secure permissions, however, it only kicks me out to the home screen. Tried it on a couple of different 4K stick devices but am getting the same behavior.

Is the new option only works on a rooted device? Is there something that I am missing? Is there a debug log I can send you to review?
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
It's not a rooted thing is kinda like "registry thing" for Android.

And yes i do need some logs, because i think i have done some changes with mine ( i have actually done a lot) so i don't know what may be crashing the stick. Most probably its going to be NPE, but i can't know without logs.

Some said it crashed on their devices but without logs i cannot do anything, just filter com.wolf.lm from the error logs and send it to me, it should be obvious
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Happy to send logs.

Please tell me which logs and where they are located so I'll upload them for you.
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
adb logcat | findstr com.wolf.lm

use this code and send whatever the console outputs
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
07-27 08:36:21.070 1390 1390 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.wolf.lm, PID: 1390

07-27 08:39:25.550 610 3490 I ActivityManager: START u0 {act=android.settings.SETTINGS cmp=com.wolf.lm/.main.MainActivity} from uid 10178 on display 0

07-27 08:43:02.377 3028 3028 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.wolf.lm, PID: 3028

07-27 08:43:02.407 610 3490 W ActivityManager: Force finishing activity com.wolf.lm/.main.MainActivity

07-27 08:43:02.457 610 1768 I ActivityManager: Process com.wolf.lm (pid 3028) has died

07-27 08:43:02.457 610 1267 I WindowManager: WIN DEATH: Window{e1fe5fd u0 com.wolf.lm/com.wolf.lm.main.MainActivity}

07-27 08:43:02.461 610 1768 W ActivityManager: Service crashed 2 times, stopping: ServiceRecord{23c1faf u0 com.wolf.lm/.logcatservice.LogcatService}
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
That didn't help, do this

adb logcat > log.txt

then press enter.

Open laumcher manager and then display settings

When it crashes wait two seconds and press

Ctrl + C on your keyboard

Then send the log.txt file here

This file will be saved in the place where cmd will be pointing
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
BTW, just as another validation that I made sure was not the cause, I have a 4K stick that I have with TDUK's debloat tool removing all the unnecessary apps from. Since I was not sure if one of those apps are needed for this function, I did re-enable all the files again on the stick, tried selecting the option again, but unfortunately, same result...

Log is attached.
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
Thanks for the logs, Crash is now fixed.
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Thank you @SweenWolf. I can confirm that on the 4K stick it works perfectly for all the shortcuts within Display & Sound, including changing the keyboard! Kudos for the amazing work! Truly!!!

If you're feeling up to it, I do have another feature request, for if you're feeling like adding :)

Screensaver change and parameters. Unfortunately, on Fire TV OS 6 (not sure if 7 has it, don't own a FOS7 device...) there is no real way to change the screensaver from the default FOS one, as well as a lack of ability to change the idle time before SS kicks in or after how many minutes in SS to go to sleep.

I have to admit that TDUK had actually created a separate tool for that, but it is limited to only Aerial Dream (which is amazing :), but still does require another tool to install). I believe it would be a great compliment to your launcher for a complete suite of the ultimate management tools!

I am sure you are familiar with the commands, but worth a good summary here:

Setting the new SS APK as active SS:

settings put secure screensaver_components <selected SS package name>

Setting idle timeout to start SS:

settings put secure sleep_timeout <value in milliseconds>

Setting sleep timeout for device:

settings put system screen_off_timeout <value in milliseconds>

In case you need to revert back to stock SS:

settings put secure screensaver_components com.amazon.bueller.photos/.daydream.ScreenSaverService

Probably worth doing the math behind the scenes to translate the on-screen menu view to mins/hours. You can use 0 and 2147460000 to disable the sleep and screensaver timer, respectively.

If you ever get around to it and see value in this one, I think it's an awesome addition. And again, THANK YOU for the multi-lingual keyboard support!!!
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
Thanks, but I'm now busy and I'm not taking any future request for a whole upcoming month,

About the screensaver, if you see the little logo on the right side of the banner, you would know its made by me.

I will not be doing anything now for a month
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Not a problem :)

As I said, if and when you have some spare time for it :)

Thank you!
[Fire TV General] mbk17:
I have installed Wolf Launcher and Launcher Manager. I select the disable option in LM and press the home key and it still won't go to Wolf Launcher. Any suggestions? Both options in developer options are selected.

Edit: Disregard post, found the solution. Thanks wolf for the continued work.
[Fire TV General] AML276:
On my mecool KM6 AndroidTV when I first used Launcher Manager to enable wolf launcher it worked and I setup wolf launcher to my liking. When I booted up the device the next morning it was back on the default Google launcher. Each time I try launcher manager it now only has setup wizard as the alternative launcher. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both your apps but still only get setup wizard as a launcher.

Any suggestions?
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
Different devices can have different setup wizards.

Download launcher manager ultimate from post #2, then click on Disable custom launcher after opening it. Which should enable whatever apps other Launcher Manager has disabled. (Or use existing LM to do that, up to you)

Then as regular click on Enable Custom Launcher, it will disable your stock launcher.

(Do not spam buttons if you see nothing is happening let the app do its job, do not try to close the app while its running)
[Fire TV General] AML276:
Thank you. I tried LMU as you described and when I enable custom launcher it has LMU (no launcher selected) so I went into choose custom launcher and only LMU shows up
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
Click on it, its a dropdown
[Fire TV General] AML276:
Oh. Thank you. All working now.
[Fire TV General] Chocka99:
I tried today and shortcut maker doesn't support Wolf launcher, also with any mouse app.

Also tried some other things, but out of the blue all the app tiles where vanished. Nothing seems been working anymore. Luckily I just made a backup of Wolf Launcher.

So after disable Wolf Launcher with my phone, I first deleted Launch Manager and Wolf Launcher. Rebooted and installed both back again.

Restarted Wolf Launcher and tried restore backup, which didn't work, what was really a bommer. So I needed to do everything again manual.

And during this process I found a bug with managing the sections settings like how many tiles etc. The first section could I change, but after I used the back button to confirm, everything goes back as before without changing? Also when I tried to go back to the settings for sections window is total greyed out and there nothing anymore to change. Hopefully this will be fixed in the newer version, cause the tiles are only five in a row and very big.

Otherwise any suggestions are welcome ;-)

PS I use the Shield Pro 2017
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
The inability to make shortcuts may be OS related? I think Wolf is working off of FireOS 6 (Android 7). I can't make shortcuts either with FireOS 7 (Android 9). Is your Shield also on Android 9?

My guess for the failed backup restoration with Wolf launcher is that backups may not always work between different Launcher versions. Best to make a new backup after Launcher updates, or reinstall the launcher version used to make the backup, restore, then update. I know it's a hassle but potential work around for now.
[Fire TV General] Chocka99:
Shield is also latest version 8.2.2, which is Android TV 9 Pie

About backup, I did the backup after I updated Wolf Launcher to 1.9, because in older version there no suchs option. Thats why I don't understand I can't restore it?

May there an option manual restore the files from the backup folder to the Launcher folder?
[Fire TV General] psycon:
@SweenWolf

can you compile a version that does

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 tv.formuler.siptv.leanbacklauncher.real - to activate and

adb shell cmd package install-existing tv.formuler.siptv.leanbacklauncher.real - to deactivate

for Formuler Z10
[Fire TV General] CloudItaly:
@SweenWolf

Hello! I have install latest version (1.12 and 0.19). Congratulation.

I have a request for you. Can you add the possibility to change background color (for example: navy blue, black, white, gray..) with a gradient selector?
[Fire TV General] akirru:
Hi all,

I have a problem that when my firetv looses power for any reason my video settings reset. I have it plugged in via hdmi to my onkyo tx-sr605 receiver. It works perfectly until I either shutdown/sleep or use another device like my ps4. Then I need to go in an manually change my settings. Otherwise refresh rate switching wont work etc.

I'm using the latest version of launcher and wolf.

Love your work btw 🤩

Any ideas?

Andy
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
Can you give more details on what you mean when you say 'video settings reset'?

If you switch your FireTV back to the Amazon Launcher do your video settings still reset the same way?

What is your FireTV model?

What Launcher Manager version and Wolf Launcher version are you using? Better to list version numbers rather than stating latest.
[Fire TV General] akirru:
Hey thanks for the reply,

I have the fire tv cube 2nd gen

Wolf Launcher version 0.1.9

Launcher manager 1.1.2

Yes my settings reset regardless of launcher. I just thought someone might be able to shed some light. I also noticed that changing the video settings in wolf launcher does nothing. I have to go back to the amazon launcher every boot and reset refresh rate option etc otherwise refresh rate changing wont work.

Is there an option to add 24p to wolf launcher or have it change to that at boot?

Andy
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
Alright, so the problem is that refresh rate matching turns off when the Cube is powered off and on again?

I don't use that feature so I can't be off much help. I'm assuming you have video resolution set to 'auto'?

Maybe this article will give you some insight into what's going wrong:

Explanation of the new Frame Rate Matching feature on the Amazon Fire TV and how it works

Software update version 6.2.5.3 to the Amazon Fire TV has added the ability to configure the media player so that it adjusts your TVs refresh rate to match the frame rate of the video content being played.

www.aftvnews.com
[Fire TV General] funnypanks:
For whatever reason, this doesn't work on my gen2 fire tv cube. The apps install and I think the launcher manager is doing what it is supposed to. But wolf launcher crashes once I disable the stock launcher. I open the launcher, it runs fine, I open settings and disable the stock launcher and press home, and Wolf launcher opens, but the icons have disappeared and nothing works. I have to reenable the stock launcher to get control back.

I installed Applauncher to test, and that launcher works fine, but I can't get prime on it...
[Fire TV General] ASCiiDiTY:
I'm using a cube 2 as well. Just reset your device by holding the menu button and play together, when you see that messed up looking launcher.

When it reboots it will look as it should.
[Fire TV General] funnypanks:
That worked! Thanks!
[Fire TV General] xoxo_xdagirl91:
Thank you for this. I'm on a firestick 4k and this method works but after a day it reverts back to the amazon stock launcher and I have to go back into the launcher manager app to disable the stock launcher and enable wolf launcher. Any idea how to stop it from defaulting back to the stock launcher?
[Fire TV General] l.capriotti:
works great on my 4k!

would you accept a feature request ie add a button to lock/unlock FireOS updates?
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
This is working great on my Fire Cube 2nd gen that just got the most recent updated (OS 7.2.2.4 (PS7224/1752)). Thank you, using the FireTV is not a jumble of advertisements anymore :)! I just wanted to second the request for a button in the settings page to disable/enable FireOS updates.
[Fire TV General] ASCiiDiTY:
Also just updated to 7.2.2.4 and can confirm it doesn't break the launcher.

I've disabled updates again, and would also like to request the button to enable or disable updates feature inside the launcher manager app.
[Fire TV General] MOBILEHS:
How did you disable the updates??

Thanks
[Fire TV General] ASCiiDiTY:
I entered the adb commands from my pc, but you can use this: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=83475583&postcount=485

Or just search this sub, there are many comments explaining how to do it.
[Fire TV General] hopler:
Hi, great job, Thanks from Spain!!
[Fire TV General] albi7894:
Hi can you tell me the way to use this? Cause for now it's just a bunch of links i don't know how to make use of. Thanks
[Fire TV General] ASCiiDiTY:
For fire OS 6/7:

1. Install both Launcher Manager and Wolf Launcher

2. Launch Wolf Launcher once, press home

3. Launch Launcher Manager, disable default launcher, press home

4. If the launcher looks messed up, just reset by holding Select and Play for five seconds

5. Optionally use ADB to enter the commands to enable widgets, and disable updates
[Fire TV General] albi7894:
which are the commands for enabling widgets and disabling updates?
[Fire TV General] PinguinKilla:
Hello,

and eventually do you know how to make it for a fire OS 5 (FTVStick 2nd) ?

Thanx a lot.
[Fire TV General] funnypanks:
The command for the widget, you’ll see when you install Wolf launcher and try to enable the widgets

To disable updates, look at the last page, someone posted a link to an app that does it for you. (Sorry on phone, otherwise I’d post here)
[Fire TV General] jgpalmeiro:
Hi,

Works like a charm!!!

But ... i want to enable widgets and dnot know how. When i install Wolf launcher i did'nt see any question about ...

Thanks!!
[Fire TV General] ASCiiDiTY:
No, sorry.

Read the full topic, all answers are there.
[Fire TV General] 0815hoffi:
adb shell appwidget grantbind --package com.wolf.firelauncher --user 0

Now you can add widgets on the home page.

---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:11 PM ----------

For fire OS 5

1. Install both FOS5 Settings_1.0.2.apk and Wolf Launcher.apk

2. Launch Wolf Launcher once, press home

3. Launch FOS5 Settings
[Fire TV General] Bertonumber1:
Firetv 2 sloane 5.2.7.6

Hey, I have a firetv Sloane on 5.2.7.6 that doesn't want to root. I have all the apks for wolf's launcher installed and fos5 settings won't grant usage permission, just stays on denied.

Is there a fix for this os 5.2.7.6, I managed to disable ota by changing permission user 0 to user 1

And it disabled updates but I don't think this launcher method will work on this version unless I'm doing something wrong

###EDIT ### Sorry guys I missed the permission wrote out for the apk below the download links
[Fire TV General] hopler:
Hello [MENTION=7352779]SeenWolf[/MENTION], thanks for the app. It is much more practical than the Amazon's launcher.

Can I make any suggestions?

It would gain a lot of attention if the background changed to tones similar to those of the app icon.

Thank you very much !!
[Fire TV General] Nathaniel9:
@SweenWolf:

The developer tools menu can be implemented to supplement the developer shortcuts. The package name of the app is com.amazon.ssm.
[Fire TV General] BreadedChicken:
Hello friends.

Please pardon if I'm missing something, but in the instructions, it states:

"STEPS TO GO STOCK:

Click on "Disable Custom Launcher", press Home."

I don't seem to have a "Disable Custom Launcher" box, button or option I can click on.

Please see the attached picture.

View attachment 5414071

I also don't seem to have the default launcher as an option for me to choose in the Selected Launcher dropdown menu.

How do I make sure it is safe for me to uninstall any custom launcher I might have?

Best regards!
[Fire TV General] Nathaniel9:
Which version of Launcher Manager do you have installed and on which device?
[Fire TV General] BreadedChicken:
Hi. Thank you for your reply.

I'm using a firestick under fire os 5.2.8.2, and the app version is Launcher Manager (FOS5) ver 1.0.6.
[Fire TV General] Nathaniel9:
If you want to have the Stock Launcher again, it should be enough to delete the data of the Launcher Manager app in the app info. Then you should actually be able to select the Stock Launcher again when you press the Home button.
[Fire TV General] BreadedChicken:
Hello friends.

I'm hoping to get some advice from anyone who's willing to help a newbie out.

What I'm trying to do is, when I press the home button on my remote, have wolf launcher show instead of the default bloated and ad-ridden launcher on my firestick under fire os 5.2.8.2.

I am able to successfully select wolf launcher and enable "Launcher detection" on Launcher Manager (FOS5) ver 1.0.6.

The thing is, a press on my home button still shows the default launcher. When the default launcher is shown, a second press does show wolf launcher, but what I want to do is have wolf launcher shown on the very first press of the home button, thus bypassing the default launcher altogether . I hope this makes sense.

Is that even possible without rooting or whatever? 'Cuz I definitely don't have the paygrade for that.

Thanks!
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
The home button goes straight to Wolf Launcher on FireOS6+OS7. I believe some accessibility feature is disabled by Amazon in FireOS5 that prevents it from working right in that version.

I don't know if an app like Button Mapper works any better in FireOS5?
[Fire TV General] BreadedChicken:
I see.

Version 5 seems to be the latest for my particular model of stick, unfortunately.

I appreciate your reply. Thank you very much.
[Fire TV General] Nathaniel9:
Only a new device will help. ;)
[Fire TV General] yeahman45:
@SweenWolf

the remote access app Anydesk input control does not work anymore firetv 4k running on latest firmware because they removed accessibility access.

Do you know if there is a workaround (without root) similar to what you did with Launcher manager?
[Fire TV General] CloudItaly:
@SweenWolf

Hello!! Is there the possibility to bookmark a website on the home page with Wolf Launcher?
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
It was suggested before that you can try an app like 'shortcut maker' to create icon/links on the launcher home page.

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-firetv-...e-launcher-without-root.4176349/post-85252277

I believe this works for FireOS6. I had mixed results on FireOS7.

Wolf has already said that he will no longer be updated Wolf Launcher, only Launcher Manager. Wolf Launcher is a mod of ATV Launcher so futures updates will depend on the original ATV Launcher creator coming back develop it.
[Fire TV General] yeahman45:
is there the source somewhere?
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
You can find 'Shortcut Maker' in the Google Play Store, or apkmirror.com, or any other site that mirrors the Google Play Store
[Fire TV General] yeahman45:
I meant source code for wolf launcher since you said the launcher is based on atv launcher and no updates are planned for wolf launcher anymore
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
ATV Launcher is not open source, you'd have to get it from the creator. Wolf Launcher is a mod without access to the source code which is why there were always limitations to what could be changed and added.
[Fire TV General] Finnzz:
I just came across AFTV News' solution to this here:

Introducing Remapper, my new app to reassign the App Buttons on Fire TV Edition Remotes

Ever since the first Fire TV Edition televisions were released, there have been people wanting to reconfigure the app buttons on the bottom of the remote to launch an app of their choice.

www.aftvnews.com

There he mentions his bookmarker apps which are links to a website that you can put on your launcher page:

Amazon.com
[Fire TV General] dikodahan:
Hey @SweenWolf,

I saw that you have your own fork of the MATVT with automatic bosskey detection as well. I was wondering if this is a feature that can be added to your launcher for FireTV sticks?

Perhaps now, with Fire Stick 4K MAX and Android 9.1 (FOS7) behind the scenes it is possible to support it vs the original 4K stick?
[Fire TV General] SweenWolf:
I do have mouse functionality added on my older app i.e. FireTV Settings. I can still use Accessibility because I patched by stick. Amazon has disabled Accessibility Access to ALL third party applications, if its not signed by platform certificate (i.e. not signed by Amazon) it wont be able to bind with the Service.

So it is no longer possible on a stock amazon stick, unless Amazon decides to revert those changes, which also won't happen.
[Fire TV General] Alekos:
I'm experiencing a weird issue on 2 4kfiresticks for the past few months where the remote will stop working in the launcher. Only way to get it to work again while in the launcher is by long pressing home key, choosing apps (arrow selection works at this menu), then picking W launcher, then I can choose a shortcut/app again. I've had this with 0.1.7/0.1.9 and all recent LM/LM(AD) versions.

I don't have any cursor or key mapping apps installed. Updates/bloat all disabled. Even tried factory reset. Doesn't happen on leanback launcher. (Changing animation scales doesn't help).

Any help would be appreciated.