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[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pom532:
I was having difficulty getting Family link and Google store to accept the device as a Google pixel. I managed to get it working by skipping wifi and set up. I manually installed the magisk app, magiskpropconfig, and then changed the device. I then set up wifi and account etc. It seems to be working so far. I've installed Netflix, Disney etc directly from the Store with no issues.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I can confirm you that I'm having problems with multimedia located on the external sdcard. Using this app seems to fix the issue: https://darkjoker360.github.io/2021/MediaScan-app/
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2021-09-07 [douglas] [giza]

Fixed volume keys (kvolcb takes care of them now).

Fixed external storage permissions (sdcardfs).

Enabled "show internal storage by default" in File Explorer.

Added option to reboot to hacked bootloader using ADB (reboot-amonet).

Disabled the update recovery function (Developer Settings).

Extended support for {OTG,ext SDs} formats.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
@Rortiz2 : I've just ended testing the latest build (0907) and seems good enough for me to replace the 14.1.

I've installed it without gapps but just some .apk that I needed.

Tested and perfectly working for me:

- Netflix HD videos

- Prime Video HD videos

- Stremio (HVEC x265 720p not working)

- VLC ( HVEC x265 720p plays fine)

- Alexa app (mic is working fine)

- Edge browser

- Microsoft launcher

- Home Assistant app

Can't talk about deep sleep/battery usage but seems in line with Lineage 14.1.

Bluetooth earphone are working fine and android 8.1 added a nice battery percentage now, yay!

About default configuration, the stock browser had many force close for me and the default launcher is too "basic", lucky for us is easy to disable/replace them.

Seems I still have some minor wifi issue that plagues me like on 14.1, I got 3 disconnect in the latest two hours of tests (on both 2.4 and 5Ghz) and sometimes it takes a bit to find a wifi at boot/reboot but nothing to worry about: overall the tablet connection is solid.

Thanks man!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Thanks for the detailed report,

I am already aware of these connection issues, it seems that libwifi-hal-mt66xx causes these annoying connection drops. I will try to disable it but I can't promise anything (as I tried it today, but as a side effect, it generated a lot of build issues, so it will take some time).

Regarding the Stremio thing, I guess it's related to HW decoding / encoding not working, I still need to fix that.

As for the default browser, I have never experienced such crashes, could you please explain what you did to face them? I can try to reproduce them and try to figure out why it crashes (though as a quick guess, I'd say it's webview problem).

Regards.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pom532:
I was having issues installing the new update, but I had zip verification ticked for some reason. Unticked. Working now.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
As I stated on the other topic, the latest build for me with satisfactory working wifi was an old 14.1 (20210711) after that one I started to having issue, probably when you changed the lib.

Look at it more like an additional information than a real problem.

I was testing more streaming type and HVEC seems a problem with Stremio since it is working on VLC.

As a side note, please consider a 1080p HVEC x265 is simply too much for the device, just the 720p are in reach for the Douglas.

Nothing fancy. Just doing a simple search on Google. I'll re-eneable it tomorrow and I'll do some more tests.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
@Rortiz2

I found the stock browser more stable now. Still, I was able to see a force close once after a lot of tests.

I'll advice to not consider it as a bug for now, at least until someone else will report it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Asura24:
Hello, about the gallery issue, for some reason the gallery app I have been using for years doesn't work(the modded version of quick pic). Now with stock I can access internal and with simple gallery I do see my SD card.

The wifi problem still persist, not sure what could BD causing it basically it will randomly drop, in both 5G and 2.4G.

I will try some more stuff to try to find out what could be causing it.

I'm on the newer built from September 07.

Great job!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] klister:
Rotiz2, I know you don't hear from me much but I have to say the difference between this ROM and 14.1 is night vs. day. I've been running it for almost a week and its snappy (you know, for cheap hardware) and it runs all the apps I use it for quite well. Battery life seems back to normal also. Thank you for all you do in publishing these updates.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
Hey the youtube app keeps fisplaying the control ui whem in full acreen. Is anyone else having this problem?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
Nm after installation of the app rebooting the tablet fixed the problem.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I managed to drop wifi-hal without breaking the build (I think), I'll be doing some tests with Wi-Fi and if drops are gone, I'll release the new build.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
thanks for looking on the wifi issue @Rortiz2 .

I think I've found another small issue, this time with the Bluetooth. Seems the tablet doesn't remember any previous paired devices, even if they are on the list of known devices. There is not an automatic connection, you need to tap on the known device and then the tablet will ask you to pair again until the next reboot.

To reproduce the issue remove the pairing, reset the earphones (or any other BT audio device you're using) and then do the pairing process again. After that restart the tablet and try to use the BT device.

For the rest the tablet is running Rock solid!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2021-09-12 [douglas] [giza]

Fixed up wpa_supplicant config files.

Cleaned up wpa_supplicant service definitions (rootdir).

Kanged Wi-Fi HAL from the BQ Aquaris M10 (freezerhd).

NOTE: please, let me know if wifi drops are gone.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Thanks, I'll try to reproduce that issue.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kasumiii:
hello installed the rom too so far everything works correctly but theres one issue i having. Its affects the Obb Folder. Ihave a game called Dead Trigger which needs access to the obb folder , which works so far but it kinda lets the OBB folder dissappearing and then theres a obb file which is 0 Bytes replaces the folder. I tried to fix it by removing the obb 0 byte file but it keeps coming back and crash the obb folder.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Nightstalk3rs:
Just installed this ROM last night after using the 14.1 version for a bit. Other than the known issues, it's been working very smoothly for me. Even with deep sleep not working, the battery life in my opinion has been very good.

Thank you for keeping a 4 year old device working optimally @Rortiz2. Appreciate the work :)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Weird behavior, I personally tried these games and they're working fine. Try to clean flash the ROM (formatting data) I guess.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Barrytoo:
Great work as always, the build is almost stable!

The one issue that affects me is the inability to connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks. I can add them, but they will go to the saved networks afterwards and won't be seen in the available networks page.

I hope you squash this in the next build. If it's something wrong that I'm doing, I'd appreciate letting me know.

Keep up the good work! Thanks
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kasumiii:
I try it then with reflash the rom , i did install it via ota update. Since then it happens which is weird indeed. I will tell if its working then after reflash or no.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kasumiii:
i tried it i wiped everything and reinstalled the rom , it still having those weird behavior.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] roomer11:
Thank you for the great job.

Question, USB tethering is not possible?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] xenonrider:
I can confirm this. It works initially but eventually the obb folder becomes a 0 byte file. Also, Chrome isn't able to save to the download location and complains about not having access to the SD card.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
@Rortiz2 I did a 2 days test with the new build and wifi disconnections are almost gone for me. I lose connection from my nas from time to time when streaming video using VLC, better test another player when I have time to see if there is some kind of buffer issue within the app.

Since Netflix and Amazon Video are working fine could be just VLC acting weirdly.

About battery time, I got more than a day of juice with about 3 hours of full hd streaming and a bit of navigation.

Not bad at all if considering the age of the battery and the deep sleep not working yet.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Yes, it works.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Alright, I could experience this issue as well, I'll investigate it as soon as I can.

By the way, I did some progress with camera and now the device isn't crashing (and force rebooting) when opening camera. I'll keep you guys updated ;)

Spoiler content hidden.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Awesome. Let me know if the issue persists with other players as well.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Camera fixed (through buggy as ****)View attachment 5410675
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
The camera seems to be working without problems after modifying lib3a.so with Ghidra (I just had to patch NS3A::AeAlgo::getRecommendCWTarget_v2p0 to always return 2). The video recording isn't working but fixing it will not be very complicated (since I had the same problem with my old MT8163 tab).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
New build is up.

2021-09-16 [douglas] [giza]

Fixed camera.

Fixed internal storage (OBB) issues.

NOTE: Video recording isn't working at all, it crashes with the stock camera app but it works with some third-party apps (such as Telegram).

NOTE: Let me know if obb issues are fully gone (I basically reverted the sdcardfs squash update). Try to clean flash the ROM as well before reporting if the bug it's still present.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] xenonrider:
Whoa, never thought I'd see the day the camera was working on this thing. Rortiz2 does the impossible once again. Great work!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Same here, looks like everything is possible;)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] fmschuler:
I was using 14.1 and have now installed 15.1 and WOW! Way more stable! 14.1 will be automatically upgraded to 15.1?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
No, I don't think that's possible since you probably need to wipe data to avoid incompatibility issues.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] fmschuler:
So I'll keep 15.1 (my mom's tablet). She won't know how to do it hahaha
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dontpanic-xda:
I think the md5sums on the Top Post are swapped.

I got 333b7050032309695134abbf2830ea15 on lineage-15.1-20210916-UNOFFICIAL-douglas.zip.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] :
Great work man, I may have to bust out my douglas and add a few more roms. It's been a while. Any plans for Android 9 support?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
True, thanks for the report, fixed them up.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kacboy:
Hey @Rortiz2

Big fan

Been lurking for several months, finally made an account. Just updated my douglas to from 14 to 15 a couple days ago. Can't thank you enough for your work making this old tablet usable again.

My biggest wish would be for alarms to go off through the speakers even when headphones are plugged in. I haven't been able to do so with either of your roms.

I will continue looking forward to your updates :)
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kasumiii:
Awesome

I can confirm OBB Bug is finally gone thanks for the fix. The download in Google Chrome dont work. Camera works so far but its kinda too dark and light is to white. Its still awesome that we have a working Camera now.The Tablet is far more enjoyable with those Rom , before it was only in the eck.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
Not aure it ifs an isolated xase bit since the last update netflix is stuck on portrait mode until a video is played. When backed out from the video it reverts back to being in portrait mode.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Haven't posted on the forums in awhile but wanted to log in to say THANK YOU for this great rom! I still can't quite believe Oreo runs on my wife's 2017 Fire8 HD (Douglas), and runs really well. Really appreciate all the work.

Questions about battery/charging. The tablet seemed to exhibit erratic charging behaviour at times on the stock FireOS (charges just fine and fairly rapidly one day, doesn't charge at all the next). My hope is that the custom ROM fixes this or mitigates the symptoms somewhat. So far, it seems like it's charging steadily, albeit slowly (on a 5V 1.35 Mah charger, tested w/ multiple cables). Is this a known issue or is it likely due to the aging device/faulty charge port? Would working deep sleep help speed up charging?

Last but not least, is there a way I can donate something as a thank you for your efforts?

Thanks again!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Could be because of the latest update since I had to update libdpframework.so. However, I can't debug that since I don't own a Netflix account.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Glad to hear that you're enjoying the ROM :)

I'm not sure if that's your tablet's fault since I've never bothered in checking the charging speed. I'll try to monitor charging in my tablet as well.

If you want to buy me a cup of coffee you can do it through paypal.me/rorle :)

Regards.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
It seems camera doesn't work in Open Camera or Google Camera.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] roomer11:
Oh, when not connected via USB to any devices the option in Settings is greyed out and disabled. When I connect it to my Windows computer, the option is enabled, but when I press it it simply turns on and off immediately.

Great 16 Sept. update.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
You're right, I just checked and it automatically turns off when you toggle the USB Tethering option. This is weird since I remember getting it to work at some point. I'll try to fix this, thanks for the report.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
If you're talking about Video Recording, yeah that's expected I guess (since even the stock camera was crashing as well). If you're talking about normal pictures, then something it's wrong with your installation (wouldn't surprise me, since you already tried to change SELinux to Enforcing in the past, lmao).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
That installation was nuked before. I reinstalled it in the past and didn't bother to change selinux again. I might try to reinstall the rom because I installed the camera update via OTA
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
For those who experieced the same bug it seems to fix the problem if you go into the display setting amd fiddle around with the screen resolutions a few times between making it bi gamd small. Now landscape mode is working again in netflix!!

@Rortiz2 What would be needed to get hw video?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I see, thanks for pointing that out, I'll add a link to your post in the OP as a side-note for those who have Netflix issues (though nobody else reported such issues).

HW video requires working OMX, and working OMX requires newer kernel drivers and newer OMX libraries. To be honest, fixing OMX can be harder than fixing the camera itself. I still haven't given up with it anyway.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
That sounds like toomuch work. :) I was kinda hoping to get hw video for 720p60 videos in youtube cuz they seems to lag abit amd i am too lazy to switch it to 480 manually but i am pretty much content with the state of 15.1. Good work mate!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Yes, indeed it is. We can only thank Amazon for not updating this tablet to (at least) Android 7.1. That could have made my life easier. Anyway, I'll focus on OMX once I fix these internal storage/external SD card leftovers and that USB connection error.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
Haha carryon soldier!!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Do you guys use the "Shared Storage" (use external sd card as internal storage) option? This thing depends on sdcardFS and I'm planning to disable sdcardFS since it's causing weird issues with internal storages. Just asking to see if I should try to fix sdcardFS or I should just drop it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] federico72:
Nope, never used it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Aussi:
Great that you fixed the usage of the camera !

Will be giving this one a go in the weekend
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
Are you gonna enable ZRAM?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
ZRAM it's already enabled (750MB).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Nightstalk3rs:
Never have used this and not really planning on it. If it's causing problems, I vote for taking it out.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] dontpanic-xda:
When I go to the "Storage" tab in settings, I'm showing 16.00 GB of "Internal shared storage".

Does this mean I'm using the configuration you're referencing?

My sdcard is 32 GB, so I'm not even sure where this "16.00 GB" setting comes from. This may be something I set up back when I still had the original FireOS on it. I don't even remember.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
When this rom is finished do you plan to release an update to Lineage 14 to upgrade to Lineage 15 like an OEM?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] pom532:
I used it before on 14.1 because the apps on a second (child) profile couldn't access the sd card. I've now got the child account as the main profile and apps (netflix etc) can see the sd card fine, so I don't need it at the moment. Cheers
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
No, I'll probably discontinue lineage 14.1. Also, what are you even taking about? OEM updates aren't a thing with LineageOS.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
If you have the 16GB version of douglas then you're not using the option that I mentioned, so yeah, you don't need to worry about it.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
I was just thinking are you gonna send lineage 15 as an update to lineage 14 to get a few more people onto android 8
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
That won't work. Basically because of data incompatibility and signature mismatch (14.1 isn't signed).
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
oh
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] gqbigpaps:
Not one bit. The tablet for me is only used for streaming, considering its spec I camt imagine it being used for more that that which kimd of makes the use of external storage as internal storage moot.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Agree with others. I don't have plans to use the shared storage and am just happy with the way things are running now. Keep up the great work!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] kasumiii:
I dont understand for what the shared Storage exactly is. Can we put Apps into the SD Card ?. Since the Tablet only having 16GB it would be nice. Theres one issue if i format my SD Card as Internal Storage my PC cant see the SD Card it can only see the 16GB Storage. I currently using link2sd but i can only put the extra datas to the sd not the app itself .I believe it need sd card as internal storage or ?

By the way Magisk and superuser working fine.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Hi, a little bug we noticed recently on our HD8 2017 w/ Lineage 15.1. The screen sometimes gets stuck in portrait mode even if auto-rotate is on (which it is, as always, for our device). I saw the post about the Netflix rotation workaround, but this issue applies OS wide and for all apps. A reboot fixes the issue for awhile but it comes back. Any suggestions? If I can send logs from the device or help in any other way, am happy to. Thanks!
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] SamDungUser:
As far as I know, the rotation problems are on Android 8.1.0 and the rotation issues on 15.1 are happening to me too.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Guilttea:
First off, thanks for all your effort in doing all of this. I've benefited from your work for quite awhile now, and I'm sorry I'm only now saying thanks. If there is anything death stranding has taught me, it's the power of likes. 👍👍👍

In regards to the sd card, I don't think I've ever used it as internal memory. But I am having the rom now report to me that the sd card is corrupted now for some reason. It looks fine in twrp, it's where I've installed the rom from, twice. But once booted, nothing. I'm thinking it's maybe the format. I'll probably move everything off, format, and move it back.

Thanks also to the person on the tip about doing the fingerprint before attaching to the internet.

Thanks for all the effort, greatly appreciated in keeping this old hardware workable.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] MSandMan:
This happened to me too but in lineage14.1 say the sdcard is corrupted but work in twrp and PC

I tried fix file system in twrp but still not working I think the partition table maybe was corrupted because I wasn't using safe removing🤷🏻‍♂️.

Then just insert sdcard in my PC copy my files to it. And reputed in tablet format as internal storage copy back the data now it been like month and half and moved from 14.1 to 15.1 and still no problems without a single error.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Ok, thank you very much for your replies.

By the way, those of you who are having problems with rotation, can you confirm that this bug has appeared with the latest version? If so, it may be related to the camera sensor library (since I'm building a little wrapper now).

Thanks.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Thanks! Yes, for us the rotation issue is happening on the latest version.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
Thanks but I can't reproduce the issue, could you elaborate how to reproduce it?

EDIT: you have giza or douglas?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] mh1983:
Sorry, to clarify: we're using douglas. And haven't seen the issue return recently, though my wife typically saw it when watching a Youtube (Vanced) video and multitasking with it playing in a popup window.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Original Android Development] Rortiz2:
I just tried to reproduce the Vanced thing (multitasking) and rotation works fine for me.