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[INFO] Kindle Fire 6.2 Software Update (29Nov11)

So, it appears my Kindle Fire just updated itself on it's own! No warning, it just did it! I caught it as the progress bar was about 50% across the screen.
Confirmed 6.2 Software Update via Amazon Support Site
Here is what I know:
1. It removes root functionality, including the SuperUser.apk
2. It removes the Google Market app (some people say theirs is still working after update, so it could be how it was added/installed) and some of the other Google sync apk's that reside in /system/app (probably because that whole directory gets overwritten).
3. It overwrites the framework-res.apk file, so any customizations that were made to it (battery charge icon, custom wallpaper etc.), will be wiped out.
4. If you removed built-in apps like Facebook and IMDB before the update, they will have re-appeared again.
With some testing from Veritass (someone brave enough to try re-rooting again after the update), it is now pretty much back to normal. The steps I took to get there were:
1. Re-root using the standard SuperOneClick method we are all used to
2. Re-added the following apks in /system/app and applied the correct permissions:
- Vending.apk
- GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk
- GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
Everything else was still working BEFORE I re-rooted, as the GoogleServicesFramework.apk remains intact and running. This includes, but is not limited to Gmail, Maps, Calendar, YouTube, Translate, Finance.
So, all is well again, and it didn't really mess up too much (that I can see). A minor inconvenience for no particular gain as far as I can see.
NOTE:
1. Amazon Video still doesn't work when rooted
2. The stock Carousel app still won't allow you to remove apps (not that I care about that myself, but you'd figure that a fix was imminent as this was a major gripe for a lot of users!)
3. Auto brightness is still not enabled
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Thanks: Veritass

same here. without any question it runs the update.

I just went and checked mine, didn't update... still 6.1.

6.1 here as well; although, I will not be surprised if there are a lot of updates over the next couple months. It's interesting it auto updates because of the rooting implications, though.

I left mine alone for about 10 minutes after i checked earlier for the update. Now its been auto-updated. I lost root access and i keep getting android market has quit errors. Great.
Can i just reroot? or what now?

mdizzle9 said:
6.1 here as well; although, I will not be surprised if there are a lot of updates over the next couple months. It's interesting it auto updates because of the rooting implications, though.
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6.2 is coming, it's confirmed on their website (I updated my OP). But, yes it's worrying to those who have rooted (especially as it breaks it). I can't see any particular reason for the update either. The much touted Carosel fix (i.e being able to delete items from it) is not present.
I'll do some more digging....

As far as i can tell the updated did nothing except kill the root...

Mherder said:
I left mine alone for about 10 minutes after i checked earlier for the update. Now its been auto-updated. I lost root access and i keep getting android market has quit errors. Great.
Can i just reroot? or what now?
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If you are brave! Personally, I would wait for some of the more experienced devs to give it the once over first.

idk if mine updated yet but if it did ill try SOC(super1click) to re root it when i get home (in about 30 min) Idc if i ruin my fire i payed 15$ for it

Veritass said:
idk if mine updated yet but if it did ill try SOC(super1click) to re root it when i get home (in about 30 min) Idc if i ruin my fire i payed 15$ for it
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Thanks for being the guinea pig! Let us know how it goes. I'm not quite as brave, although if someone else confirms it works, I'll be the first one to do it afterwards!

Same here, locked the screen and then noticed the progress bar appear after a few moments. That's frustrating to say the least!

im on my way home right now. Will Post when Im done testing SUPER1CLICK

I haven't tried to reroot, but I have checked, all my extra apps and the Android Market Place are working fine. I actually had root switched off so I could use the Amazon Video service so it's not a big loss for me. Hopefully it still works for anyone rooting for the first time.

I wonder if anyone had OTA rootkeeper on then updated and could reroot.
Mine is still 6.1 however.

update is installing will attempt root.

From what I'm seeing, it pretty much did a rip and replace of /system/app (and probably a ton of other stuff). So, all the customization and Google apps that were installed in /system/app are now gone (this includes the market).
I'm hoping that it will all be replaceable!

Someone may want to figure out how to block updates as the Fire is set to automatically download an OTA update and apply it if the device goes to sleep.

this just irks me....

Scared to connect mine to wifi now! I just did a temp unroot, but if the update is stripping Google apps, then maybe I need an backup of them too.
Now would be a great time to get a working recovery with backup capability ..
sent from phone, sorry for typos.

rooted with S1C it worked for me. No problems i tested root explorer super user and a screen shot app all of them got Root access. mounted root as rw. must reboot after root. for access to SD card. Installed Market no problem I say its a GO!
Installed all Google apps no problem No force closes no nothing

ubuntu touch - WIP Download available - updated 03/23

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VERY work in progress. Wifi works flakily use an open network to play with the keyboard tends to freak out when typing in a network password.
This is a PREVIEW of what this platform will become. It is not finished. Many apps are just placeholders. The good news the system image is built and you can just plug in new ubuntu images as they become available.
to install latest daily (as of 03/23/13)
Reboot into Recovery
Backup! - expect everything to be deleted if you do not.
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset) This is required!
Flash system image
Flash Ubuntu image
Flash Layout fix
Reboot
To reverse the process use adb reboot recovery - or hold power off button till it shuts down then restart in recovery - yes it's obnoxious but the reboot and power off commands are absent from ubuntu still. Once back in recovery wipe and flash a replacement android rom and you'll be back to normal.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS DO NOT FLASH THIS IF YOU CAN'T RTFM.
kernel source: https://github.com/RobotApocalypse/kernel_acer_a500

I be following your progress then good work !

I figured you would do this but I still can't find a good reason to run it. Nothing works (which is the nature of this not your fault). lol

blazingwolf said:
I figured you would do this but I still can't find a good reason to run it. Nothing works (which is the nature of this not your fault). lol
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yeah I have issues ... it will get better as they improve userland. They're moving to a raring base soon and hopefully some of the blanks will be filled in
*fixed layout

randomblame said:
yeah I have issues ... it will get better as they improve userland. They're moving to a raring base soon and hopefully some of the blanks will be filled in
*fixed layout
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After this gets to a more stable state for the A500 would someone be able to port it to the A200?

wifi is up

Raw speed
Hey Randomblame,
You keep me amazed by the speed at which you are able to get these new iterations running on our 2 year old machine. If anything it has re-validated to my what a good purchase the A500 was. Its developers like you that have made me a huge open source convert and I look forward for t he day when OS's will be device agnostic.
Thanks again for the effort behind this port and hope to see the platform emerge.

OP updated with download links and instructions.

Can I Dual Boot?
I would love to use it and still have my Android
BTW,
Grat work!
TY!

Godmik said:
Can I Dual Boot?
I would love to use it and still have my Android
BTW,
Grat work!
TY!
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I wouldn't recommend it this uses a massive chunk of the /data partition and its not really something to be used as much as it is something to be toyed with

randomblame said:
I wouldn't recommend it this uses a massive chunk of the /data partition and its not really something to be used as much as it is something to be toyed with
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can we repartition fs to use separate /data for android and Ubuntu?

He does it again, that ol' randomblame! So, any cautions on backing up and restoring, or is it just like an other Android ROM? I assume there's always APX mode to fall back on in case of catastrophe.

Good job! randomblame:good:
Unfortunately, my tablet is damaged.

pjsports said:
Good job! randomblame:good:
Unfortunately, my tablet is damaged.
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So's mine bud kids are heartless lol I need to install a touch recovery my volume buttons are done for. Its a pretty easy process I can walk you through the build if you want.

randomblame, I'm developing for another Tegra 2 device, and I"m stuck at a black screen. How long did yours take to boot? Was there any other changes you made?

I'm stuck on the black screen too

Luckily Ubuntu touch still supports adb and logcat for debugging - a black screen isn't exactly something I can trouble shoot read your logs I'm sure the issue will become apparent.

well...
Is it fast and smooth enough to have some FUN with it?
Anyway, Good Job on porting ubuntu touch on our a500! I was really eager to hear about your excellent jelly bean port, so I downloaded it and
flashed it immediately.

randomblame said:
Luckily Ubuntu touch still supports adb and logcat for debugging - a black screen isn't exactly something I can trouble shoot read your logs I'm sure the issue will become apparent.
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No connection It doesn't recognize it. Would love to read my logs, lol.

I'm already restoring my backup...
sry
but, I'll follow your progress
and again
Thank you!

Bridge work on the stock rom faulty machine!!

and after I rebooted again, then add 1 to the error as shown below :
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I have tried reset and run 2 lines are not save me!

help me
help me

vdsno1 said:
help me
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Hey, I'm not positive what your post is asking for, but I think its for the stock rom, is that correct? If so, pm me and I'll send you my stock backup. It may have some extra "stuff" you don't want, but it's all I've got.

thanks yu
S_transform said:
Hey, I'm not positive what your post is asking for, but I think its for the stock rom, is that correct? If so, pm me and I'll send you my stock backup. It may have some extra "stuff" you don't want, but it's all I've got.
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thank you for your enthusiasm and now I can not get into TWRP hashcode of you can help me how to restore it or not!

vdsno1 said:
thank you for your enthusiasm and now I can not get into TWRP hashcode of you can help me how to restore it or not!
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Do you have adb still? if you do it may be fixable, but if not it may be impossible. I had to get a replacement from Amazon after a build.prop bricked me and I lost adb. Do you know why it stopped booting correctly?

thanks
S_transform said:
Do you have adb still? if you do it may be fixable, but if not it may be impossible. I had to get a replacement from Amazon after a build.prop bricked me and I lost adb. Do you know why it stopped booting correctly?
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I am not sure whether the current adb because when I connect my laptop hdx, I see it still looking for the driver jumps until hdx was standing at my screen was taken at # 1 is my laptop can not find that driver again so I was not sure adb

vdsno1 said:
I am not sure whether the current adb because when I connect my laptop hdx, I see it still looking for the driver jumps until hdx was standing at my screen was taken at # 1 is my laptop can not find that driver again so I was not sure adb
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In order to get it working you may have to manually assign it to the device. Try going to devices, right click on the kindle device and go to properties. Switch to properties and go to the one that doesn't have an assigned driver, if there is one. Hit properties, then change settings on the window that pops up. Go to driver, update driver, browse my computer, and then pick from a list. If you have the adb drivers installed, go to kindle fire, or amazon, or something like that, and then click adb interface. If it lets you do that then you should be able to get adb working. Hopefully this is useful.

S_transform said:
In order to get it working you may have to manually assign it to the device. Try going to devices, right click on the kindle device and go to properties. Switch to properties and go to the one that doesn't have an assigned driver, if there is one. Hit properties, then change settings on the window that pops up. Go to driver, update driver, browse my computer, and then pick from a list. If you have the adb drivers installed, go to kindle fire, or amazon, or something like that, and then click adb interface. If it lets you do that then you should be able to get adb working. Hopefully this is useful.
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I did as you said is absolutely not found 1 hdx devices and adb does not work I still do not know how to do it again!! can anyone help me not

help me help me

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help me help me
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First of all, you need to stop posting this EVERYWHERE. There are many warning about messing with the HDX posted & you chose to ignore them.
Secondly, if you want help, be concise. All I see is "bridge doesn't work". Your picture does not show up, if that is what it is, so I have no idea what you are referencing. I have no idea what your setup is, or whether you have read any of the posts talking about loss of ADB. You need to slow down & take a breath.
Do you have the entire Android SDK installed? Have you tried getting ADB connection from the Android SDK home/main directory? Once I lost ADB access, the only way I could conenct after restoring was from my installed SDK directory, which for me is C:/Android. For you it depends on where you installed it, but you need to try from there or the platform tools folder.

thanks
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First of all, you need to stop posting this EVERYWHERE. There are many warning about messing with the HDX posted & you chose to ignore them.
Secondly, if you want help, be concise. All I see is "bridge doesn't work". Your picture does not show up, if that is what it is, so I have no idea what you are referencing. I have no idea what your setup is, or whether you have read any of the posts talking about loss of ADB. You need to slow down & take a breath.
Do you have the entire Android SDK installed? Have you tried getting ADB connection from the Android SDK home/main directory? Once I lost ADB access, the only way I could conenct after restoring was from my installed SDK directory, which for me is C:/Android. For you it depends on where you installed it, but you need to try from there or the platform tools folder.
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yes thank you for sharing .... I will not post any more awkward!
- Can you tell me in detail how do you save your machine is compatible or not?

vdsno1 said:
yes thank you for sharing .... I will not post any more awkward!
- Can you tell me in detail how do you save your machine is compatible or not?
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FIrstly, do you have the Android SDK installed? You need to do that to have the latest version of the platform tools & you need to follow those instructions so that you can call those tools from any folder, by adding them to your environmental path. There are already a hundred tutorials on installing the SDK, so I am not going to list every step. Start here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html
Then, once you are done, follow up with the info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842969
That will get you to a point of readiness & understanding to begin trying to recover. LMK when you are done.

Just updated to OOS 9.0.3 I need help now...

As the title says, I just updated to OOS 9.0.3 and it's so different from the old one i'm really scared to try anything and risk to brick the phone...
I have several problems with the phone (nothing too scary thankfully) and I was thinking some of you could help here.
1) Nova Launcher isn't working properly. When I try to see the apps menu (where all the apps icons are displayed) it just doesn't show up, instead i just see the background and the apps can be seen just a bit in the upper part.
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However, I can touch the screen and the apps open where the icons should be... I tried to update nova, but the apk gives me the "app not installed" error and I'm not sure why.
2) Not rooted. I want to root the phone. I had it rooted before the update, but considering the last time i tried to root the phone without looking exactly what to do all my memory got wiped, I need to know exactly how to install Magisk and TWRP without bricking the phone or deleting anything... I have a method already that works, but I'm not sure with this now.
3) Is it possible to change the "recent app" orientation to vertical instead of horizontal? Also, is there an easier way to lock and unlock a recent app?
4) Is there a way to link Do Not Disturb to the slider?
5) Xposed is not installed. To be honest I forgot how to install that one, has it changed with this new OS update?
I might have more questions, but that's all for now, I updated like an hour ago, so I haven't been able to try it out more
thank you

Alright, I can try to help with some of your issues, but not all.
Don't worry about the new stuff, you'll get used to it quickly. Some things are still a bit "under development", but mostly is very usable. You'll not break anything and as long as you can boot into fastboot, your phone will be alright.
I cannot help with Nova launcher, I'm not using it.
If you have your bootloader unlocked, then just flash the newest Magisk zip, and you're good to go. Just to be safe, download the MagiskManager app and also the uninstaller zip, so if you end up with a bootloop, you can uninstall it.
I don't think that you can change the recenets, but I might be wrong. If you click the 3 dots in the top right corner of the app, you can lock / unlock it.
I was wondering about the same. I tried to link the DND to the slider with Tasker, without luck so far.
To my knowledge, there is no stable version of Xposed for Pie just yet. There's a beta or alpha build which is somewhat working though.

xchikyx said:
As the title says, I just updated to OOS 9.0.3 and it's so different from the old one i'm really scared to try anything and risk to brick the phone...
I have several problems with the phone (nothing too scary thankfully) and I was thinking some of you could help here.
1) Nova Launcher isn't working properly. When I try to see the apps menu (where all the apps icons are displayed) it just doesn't show up, instead i just see the background and the apps can be seen just a bit in the upper part.
However, I can touch the screen and the apps open where the icons should be... I tried to update nova, but the apk gives me the "app not installed" error and I'm not sure why.
2) Not rooted. I want to root the phone. I had it rooted before the update, but considering the last time i tried to root the phone without looking exactly what to do all my memory got wiped, I need to know exactly how to install Magisk and TWRP without bricking the phone or deleting anything... I have a method already that works, but I'm not sure with this now.
3) Is it possible to change the "recent app" orientation to vertical instead of horizontal? Also, is there an easier way to lock and unlock a recent app?
4) Is there a way to link Do Not Disturb to the slider?
5) Xposed is not installed. To be honest I forgot how to install that one, has it changed with this new OS update?
I might have more questions, but that's all for now, I updated like an hour ago, so I haven't been able to try it out more
thank you
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Please take some time and search the OP5 sub forum, you'll find a lot already
Your start is here(installation along with twrp and root) : https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/official-oxygenos-4-5-2-7-1-1-ota-t3627003

thank you both

Help with this alps 825X_Pro device

OK, I just received this device:
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which is sold under various names from vendors @AliExpress.
I'm trying to match this unit with one of the threads here and it seems like no one is dealing with it, but I may have missed some relevant posts, can you please help me with that? Or maybe you know about other forums where they discuss the unit...
The device has several issues (bottom line: do not buy it, the hardware is okish but the software is horrible) and I'd really like to explore ways to customize it but I'm not even able to connect to it via adb, let alone become root or install a custom firmware...

Seem like no one heard of it. Bad luck.
I'm trying to gain root access and fix some of the bull***, but I'm running short of options.
What I know so far:
Invoking "su" from the command line (or via adb) returns a "not allowed" message;
I have no firmware to patch with magisk;
the amazing temp root does not work, the device is patched.
What else could I try?
I may try the MTK Droid Tools, but I think they use the same exploit used by the amazing temp root so I guess this is not a solution. Moreover they need Windows and I can't connect to the unit with adb in windows, only with Linux (heavens know why, the Universal ADB Drivers says it's all "ok" but adb does not see the device).

Did you get anywhere with it? I just got 825x_pro for my R56 Mini.

Nowhere. There seem to be some info in the 4pda.ru forum (in russian) but I did not dig deep into into.

What's your factory setting password? 1812 takes me to factory settings and 8877 takes me to another menu which I can use to go to engineer mode

How and where to use these codes

Fake device tester says that it is android 9 instead of 10

amit1976 said:
Fake device tester says that it is android 9 instead of 10
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What tester? Have you got a link so I could check mine please?
Have you found where to put these codes?

brodzik said:
What tester? Have you got a link so I could check mine please?
Have you found where to put these codes?
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There are many apps on playstore , i used fake device test by appsolutely unique

amit1976 said:
There are many apps on playstore , i used fake device test by appsolutely unique
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I just installed it and the app doesn't open, I mean the screen blinks like it's just about to start and then it goes back to home screen, any ideas?

Does anyone happen to know if there is custom rom that will work on this device please?

brodzik said:
What's your factory setting password? 1812 takes me to factory settings and 8877 takes me to another menu which I can use to go to engineer mode
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Where to use the codes?

I got alps 825x_PRO. 10.1" It can't remember settings, video out is not working, lights are not working. Need reload firmware. So far I got 8888, 8877, 8878, for settings. But it won't remember. If anyone can help me where to get firmware. Seller Ossuret Factory Store is bad. Sending videos of different models and useless solutions. Refused to give me the firmware.

tefracky said:
Where to use the codes?
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Hi,
You have to go to:
- The settings
- "Car infotaiment" and click in the high right corner on the "cogwheel" and you get a little window where you have to type the numbers (example: 5678; 8888, ....etc ) And you get the hidden menu !

brodzik said:
I just installed it and the app doesn't open, I mean the screen blinks like it's just about to start and then it goes back to home screen, any ideas?
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Yup this was my experience of "Fake Device Software" Could it mean it is fake? I downloaded another and found the device advertising it's self as Android 10 but with an API level of 28 which relates to Android 9 or wear devices so ???