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Optimum App

I was hoping to load the Optimum app on my Fire TV, to see if I could watch TV from it. I tried installing the version from Google Play, but it launched in portrait mode, then said "this display is not supported" and exited.
I was thinking the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app might work, but I can't find the apk.
Has anyone gotten this to install successfully? If not, would anyone be able to help me fine the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app and I'll try myself?
Thanks!

robneal81 said:
I was hoping to load the Optimum app on my Fire TV, to see if I could watch TV from it. I tried installing the version from Google Play, but it launched in portrait mode, then said "this display is not supported" and exited.
I was thinking the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app might work, but I can't find the apk.
Has anyone gotten this to install successfully? If not, would anyone be able to help me fine the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app and I'll try myself?
Thanks!
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Shoot. I wanted to know this as well.

robneal81 said:
I was hoping to load the Optimum app on my Fire TV, to see if I could watch TV from it. I tried installing the version from Google Play, but it launched in portrait mode, then said "this display is not supported" and exited.
I was thinking the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app might work, but I can't find the apk.
Has anyone gotten this to install successfully? If not, would anyone be able to help me fine the Kindle Tablet Edition of the app and I'll try myself?
Thanks!
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brie987 said:
Shoot. I wanted to know this as well.
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http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-force-all-sideloaded-apps-into-landscape-mode-on-fire-tv/

Y314K said:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-force-all-sideloaded-apps-into-landscape-mode-on-fire-tv/
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I tried to force landscape, but it still didn't work.

You can get Optimium 4.1 on aptoide and it is in landscape, but since the Fire TV uses HDMI it considers it an external display and Optimum does not support external displayes. So it does not work, and if you look at the list of apps that do work and do not work on the Fire TV, Optimum is on the list of apps that do not work on the Fire TV.
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Had to write another post, cause I do not wanna be stuck on 666 post. Optimum does not work on any device that uses an external dissplay, including the laptop version. Kinda sucks, but a lot of apps are still like that. I remember for the longest time Crackle and Netflix would not let you use an external display, and I think the other companies that still restrict you from using external displays will never change their policy, cause if they haven't done it yet they probably never will. The companies that still block external displays are almost always media streaming companies, cause they wanna lock their stuff down, cause they are afraid you will share it with another person, which keeps them from getting tat persons money too. If someone elses eyes are on what your eyes are on, its bad for their business.

Optimum 4.1 just got updated as of today, Need update
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GnexManVSR said:
Optimum 4.1 just got updated as of today, Need update
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Does it work with Fire TV or no? I would like to know before I grab one of the fire TV. Thanks

From what I'm seeing, they only got it for the Kindle Fire

http://apkforkindle.com/Optimum_APK-for-Kindle.html
I can verify that it works great on the newest Amazon Firestick!!! Starts off in portrait, but when you click on a show to watch, it automatically converts to landscape. You do need a bluetooth keyboard with a mouse pad to move the little circle and to choose what you want. You can actually move the mouse to the right side of the screen and click on "quick guide" and you can see what's on and double click what you want to watch. It's not perfect. The quality is a little below what you would normally get with a cable box, but it works. It also pauses for about 13 seconds in the beginning, but then works great. After about an hr, a pop up comes up asking if you are still there. You just need to click on yes with your wireless mouse pad and the video will continue.
Hope this helps.

mgoldie1 said:
I can verify that it works great on the newest Amazon Firestick!!! Starts off in portrait, but when you click on a show to watch, it automatically converts to landscape. You do need a bluetooth keyboard with a mouse pad to move the little circle and to choose what you want. You can actually move the mouse to the right side of the screen and click on "quick guide" and you can see what's on and double click what you want to watch. It's not perfect. The quality is a little below what you would normally get with a cable box, but it works. It also pauses for about 13 seconds in the beginning, but then works great. After about an hr, a pop up comes up asking if you are still there. You just need to click on yes with your wireless mouse pad and the video will continue.
Hope this helps.
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Any update on this, kind of tempting over running a long HDMI cable. I just wish the app supported some other device with an output. Wouldn't let me quote you unless I took out URL.

Show Box App

Show box is sideloaded on both my Fire HDX tablet and my Fire TV but it only works on the tablet. When I open it up in Fire TV I can see the list of videos but when I click on them it always states "Video not available". Is there a way to overide this block? It also blocks Bluestacks via my computer.

ihadtoregister said:
Show box is sideloaded on both my Fire HDX tablet and my Fire TV but it only works on the tablet. When I open it up in Fire TV I can see the list of videos but when I click on them it always states "Video not available". Is there a way to overide this block? It also blocks Bluestacks via my computer.
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I'm not familiar with Show box specifically, but a different video app that I sideloaded and was trying in the past thought there was no connection and displayed errors even though the Fire TV was connected via Ethernet. Switching to a wifi connection made the videos play. Just a thought and something to try.

the wifi / wireline support in the firetv is unusual in android devices. More common in emulators and in some phone deployments, though.
There's a slide presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/gxben/elce-2012-dive-into-android-networking-adding-ethernet-connectivity that I think may have some interesting suggestions for how to keep wired connections as sole connections - but wireless support was hardcoded into android as of the time that presentation was written...
the patch referenced in the talks is at https://github.com/gxben/aosp-ethernet for ICS and JB.

This worked for me to trick the Xfinity apps into thinking my wired connection was wifi:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.lemonsqueeze.fakewificonnection
It does need a rooted FireTV and Xposed installed as well.
Enjoy!

Possible wired / wireless requirement fix
Spelvin said:
This worked for me to trick the Xfinity apps into thinking my wired connection was wifi:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.lemonsqueeze.fakewificonnection
It does need a rooted FireTV and Xposed installed as well.
Enjoy!
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changing the title to make this easier to see - I don't know yet but think that Xposed module may be able to help people support quite a few of the apps that are making trouble b/c they want a wireless connection and most of us who can are using ethernet on our firetvs.
Nice find!

Thank you
I'm going to see if this works because i'm having the same problem with Xfinity stating that it can only connect via wifi connections and I'm using the ethernet that's tethered to a USB Pdanet+ connection. I can no longer use Wifi as my mobile provider has blocked it.
Spelvin said:
This worked for me to trick the Xfinity apps into thinking my wired connection was wifi:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.lemonsqueeze.fakewificonnection
It does need a rooted FireTV and Xposed installed as well.
Enjoy!
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Oh no the module has messed up my FireTV
Update: I had to quickly open up Xposed (before getting thrown back to my the Photos menu) and deselect everything in the Fake Wifi Module but Xfinity and Show box. Xfinity works now. I'll check Show Box in a bit. Thanks
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Unfortunately after I installed and checked the lemon fake wifi connection my FireTV box will not let me go into my settings. It keeps on reloading itself or going to photos every time I try to go into the settings menu. How do you uninstall using the cmd prompt?
Spelvin said:
This worked for me to trick the Xfinity apps into thinking my wired connection was wifi:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.lemonsqueeze.fakewificonnection
It does need a rooted FireTV and Xposed installed as well.
Enjoy!
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ihadtoregister said:
Update: I had to quickly open up Xposed (before getting thrown back to my the Photos menu) and deselect everything in the Fake Wifi Module but Xfinity and Show box. Xfinity works now. I'll check Show Box in a bit. Thanks
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Unfortunately after I installed and checked the lemon fake wifi connection my FireTV box will not let me go into my settings. It keeps on reloading itself or going to photos every time I try to go into the settings menu. How do you uninstall using the cmd prompt?
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I installed this earlier and havent had any similar issues

ihadtoregister said:
Update: I had to quickly open up Xposed (before getting thrown back to my the Photos menu) and deselect everything in the Fake Wifi Module but Xfinity and Show box. Xfinity works now. I'll check Show Box in a bit. Thanks
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Unfortunately after I installed and checked the lemon fake wifi connection my FireTV box will not let me go into my settings. It keeps on reloading itself or going to photos every time I try to go into the settings menu. How do you uninstall using the cmd prompt?
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Uninstall via adb:
Code:
adb uninstall package_name
or use the -k option to keep the apps data and cache:
Code:
adb uninstall -k package_name
You can get the package name by running this on the apk file:
Code:
aapt dump badging /path/to/apk_file

I'm having a different problem with showbox on my fire TV, I side loaded the app and it works it plays the videos fine but the problem I'm having is after playing for so long they start freezing on me. I'm thinking I might need to install a different video player

I use the showbox video player included in the app because it will continuously play episodes. I have not noticed any freezing that you are mentioning, is it high quality, big movies or everything?

i've loaded showbox and tried it with and without the wifi faking module posted and all i get is no internet connection msg. i've used the wifi faking app to use xfinity tv go.

stanggman75 said:
I use the showbox video player included in the app because it will continuously play episodes. I have not noticed any freezing that you are mentioning, is it high quality, big movies or everything?
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it seems to only happen when i stop a movie or tv show or if its been playing for to long. I'm running the latest update of showbox
im going to install MxPlayer and see what happens from there.

I use MX player
kratos313 said:
it seems to only happen when i stop a movie or tv show or if its been playing for to long. I'm running the latest update of showbox
im going to install MxPlayer and see what happens from there.
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I use mxplayer with showbox and always works great ....I also use videomix app

How to navigate ShowBox?
Please help me to find out how to navigate ShowBox on Fire TV?
Do I need to buy a special controller?

ursa08 said:
Please help me to find out how to navigate ShowBox on Fire TV?
Do I need to buy a special controller?
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Either plug in a usb mouse or buy droidmote server and install in on the Fire TV and use droidmote client on your android device to control it.

ursa08 said:
Please help me to find out how to navigate ShowBox on Fire TV?
Do I need to buy a special controller?
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The k400 wireless keyboards has a touchpad, works great out of the box, or "limitless remote" app on your phone and sideloaded the server apk part on the FTV works good for free

Thank you guys! Going to try right now.

I'm getting 'dowloading data please wait...' etc whenever i try and install this on my fire tv, any ideas how to fix that?

Fire TV Stick & ShowBox
Show box works fine on the Fire TV, but has a lot of buffering issues with the Fire Stick, has anyone else experienced this?

Fire TV stick help EDIT: DONT EVER SHUT OFF BLUETOOTH AND ADB!

I'll start by saying I'm a dummy. I shut off bluetooth in the settings.apk and have no way to control the stick now. ADB must be turned off because I can't seem to control it with the utility app. Anyway to fix this? I tried using usb devices with otg y cable but it doesn't work. The device isn't rooted. Thanks.
Edit: Read some more, yup I'm screwed.

It seems like bluetooth always comes back on by itself when I turn it off. Did you reboot? Do you have XBMC/Kodi installed? Try using an XBMC/Kodi remote app like Yatse and open the settings app through Kodi with the Yatse remote and see if that works. Yatse will find your Kodi if it is on the same network and auto connect. If you don't know how to open apps through Kodi let me know.
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Oh I just remembered, the Fire TV remote app. Go to the play store on you phone and search "fire TV" the remote app should be near the beginning of the search results, install it. Reboot your stick then connect. IIt will auto find your device if its on the same network.

Thanks! I thought that was a bluetooth app.

ImaDouche said:
Thanks! I thought that was a bluetooth app.
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Nope its a wifi app. If you would have taken 30 seconds to read the app description you would have known it was a wifi app.

I'm sorry you have mental instability. I thanked you and you slammed me for an innocent mistake.
How do you go from such a helpful reply to a smashing?
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Nope its a wifi app. If you would have taken 30 seconds to read the app description you would have known it was a wifi app.
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I did not slam you at all. I simply said if you would have read the description you would have known it was a wifi app. There is no other way to say that. Its not my fault that you can not handle the truth Just because someone is honest it does not mean they are being mean. If I tell you not to touch fire because it will burn you, it means not to touch fire, and if someone tells you to read something so that you will know what it is, then it means you should read it. Thats not being mean in the least.You can take it howw you want, but I was actually being nice.

download the fire tv remote from the play store. it works over wifi not bluetooth

NinjaPerv said:
download the fire tv remote from the play store. it works over wifi not bluetooth
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That works.

Happened to a few of us before and will happen to many others in the future. The Wukong Romote(I believe it's misspelled on the playstore on purpose) app works well to provide mouse control if you happen to disable bluetooth by accident.
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Me too dudes
Like the dude in the beggining i also have no bluetooth and adb off ....ive tried wokong or cetusplay...mouse worked except clicking actions ...i also have a mouse with usb cord but amazons home screen doesn't detect it....im still able to use mostly any app except the game emulator applications....i wanted to play with the fire tv controller but nothing works....it must be a bluetooth prob cause i used fresh batteries on both game and mic control ....(because i was using recharchables) so that didnt work....app wont detect my fire tv ....fresh out the box firestick control wo t connect....any one think of a solution. Or have one....oh and i can pretty much install any app and i have a couple that could be the sokution but i just cant get a " click " one last click on the cancel/install screen of the app i want to install (mouse wont get it....it can click cancel but not install.... I guess ill be checking up to see uf anyone has ANYTHING...THANKS YALL

Fire Phone and Chromecast - anyone else having trouble?

Hi all, I just got a Fire Phone since they're so cheap and have set it up with 4.6.3 and google play, most things seem to be working fine, but I am having some issues with my chromecast. Most apps seem to work Youtube, Beyondpod, Crunchyroll, Play Music and the Chromecast cast screen all work just fine, but Netflix doesn't seem to recognize anything besides my roommates Fire Stick, and Hulu doesn't display the cast icon at all!
Netflix and Hulu are my two most used casting apps so losing them would be a big loss, has anyone else had issues or know of a workaround?

I was having a similar issue. I couldn't find anything on fixing it so I ended up just flashing CM11.
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To clarify: I'm on the 9/30 build. All casting works fine. They fixed the camera app (HDR still doesn't work) but you're still missing NFC. The mute button during calls doesn't work but there are some work arounds.

Tried using Netflix from the Google Play store rather than the Amazon App Store version? I have no issues casting to my Chromecast or my Mircast enabled TV.

I am facing the same issue with my prime video , even when I cast the screen I get the audio and the menu items around the video on the TV but the actual video still plays on the mobile.
I got so bored of it that I ordered a Fire Stick yesterday " I am planing to get a new TV so this one will go to the bedroom along with the Chromecast and Fire Stick and Apple TV will stay with the new TV)
I live in UAE so accessing the prime is a bit tricky without a paid DNS provider , so my plan is
1. Connect to VPN using Unlimited Free VPN
2. Start a download
3. Disconnect the VPN to maintain a good speed
4. Cast the download to Fire Stick
I already do the above, but on the phone without casting it.
the thing that didn't work for me with is Google Music, I couldn't find the button to cast to Chromecast ( I downloaded the Google Music app through apkmirror as it's not available in my region)

zerbey said:
Tried using Netflix from the Google Play store rather than the Amazon App Store version? I have no issues casting to my Chromecast or my Mircast enabled TV.
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I've tried using both, no luck with either
SHRAPNEL189 said:
I was having a similar issue. I couldn't find anything on fixing it so I ended up just flashing CM11.
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To clarify: I'm on the 9/30 build. All casting works fine. They fixed the camera app (HDR still doesn't work) but you're still missing NFC. The mute button during calls doesn't work but there are some work arounds.
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Does the camera work with other apps like mobile banking check deposit, or snapchat and instagram? Not being able to use the camera with those apps is the main reason I've chosen not to use CM.

Lordcoca said:
Hi all, I just got a Fire Phone since they're so cheap and have set it up with 4.6.3 and google play, most things seem to be working fine, but I am having some issues with my chromecast. Most apps seem to work Youtube, Beyondpod, Crunchyroll, Play Music and the Chromecast cast screen all work just fine, but Netflix doesn't seem to recognize anything besides my roommates Fire Stick, and Hulu doesn't display the cast icon at all!
Netflix and Hulu are my two most used casting apps so losing them would be a big loss, has anyone else had issues or know of a workaround?
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There is no workaround, it probably sees the phone as Amazon Fire and blocks it from being able to see the chromecast icon. Flash a new ROM. You almost never use Chromecast on any Amazon Fire * device with Hulu or Netflix.

Lordcoca said:
I've tried using both, no luck with either
Does the camera work with other apps like mobile banking check deposit, or snapchat and instagram? Not being able to use the camera with those apps is the main reason I've chosen not to use CM.
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I'm on the 9/30 build and they fixed the stock camera app (except HDR). Instagram and other apps I use work fine. I can't vouch for Snapchat or mobile banking since I don't use them
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hmoobguy said:
There is no workaround, it probably sees the phone as Amazon Fire and blocks it from being able to see the chromecast icon. Flash a new ROM. You almost never use Chromecast on any Amazon Fire * device with Hulu or Netflix.
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No other apps give me problems casting. I flashed CM11 (9/30 build) and everything was working fine but as of lately Hulu Plus' casting feature is intermittent. Its there and I can successfully cast something. Then later on, its missing for no reason.

SHRAPNEL189 said:
I'm on the 9/30 build and they fixed the stock camera app (except HDR). Instagram and other apps I use work fine. I can't vouch for Snapchat or mobile banking since I don't use them
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No other apps give me problems casting. I flashed CM11 (9/30 build) and everything was working fine but as of lately Hulu Plus' casting feature is intermittent. Its there and I can successfully cast something. Then later on, its missing for no reason.
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Hulu is just bad in general at times (probably lazy dev's not wanting to full fix Chromecast connection), that and HBO GO. It sometimes disconnects even on my Note 3 and LG pad and you can't do nothing but relaunch the app and find a way to kill the streaming.

Fire TV remote app and changing Wi-Fi

I'm on my way to the Outer Banks for a week at the beach. I have my fire stick but forgot my remote. I've checked stores to get a replacement remote or compatible bluetooth controller, but no luck. I have a possible solution, but not sure if it would work. Let me know what you think.
I setup the hotspot on my phone to mirror my home network. I already know I can fool my fire stick to think I'm online. Then I can use my wife's phone with the Fire TV remote app to pair with the Fire stick.
The problem comes with connecting with the Wi-Fi network when we'll be staying. It's password-protected. The remote app will only work as long as I'm connected to my phone's hotspot. Will the Fire stick stay connected long enough for me to enter the password, or will it disconnect the second I click the preferred network?
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Is there any way to manually learn the network and password before connecting to it using adb? Anybody?

Bramton1 said:
I'm on my way to the Outer Banks for a week at the beach. I have my fire stick but forgot my remote. I've checked stores to get a replacement remote or compatible bluetooth controller, but no luck. I have a possible solution, but not sure if it would work. Let me know what you think.
I setup the hotspot on my phone to mirror my home network. I already know I can fool my fire stick to think I'm online. Then I can use my wife's phone with the Fire TV remote app to pair with the Fire stick.
The problem comes with connecting with the Wi-Fi network when we'll be staying. It's password-protected. The remote app will only work as long as I'm connected to my phone's hotspot. Will the Fire stick stay connected long enough for me to enter the password, or will it disconnect the second I click the preferred network?
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Is there any way to manually learn the network and password before connecting to it using adb? Anybody?
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If you have an Android phone with IR, something like "AnyMote" should. There are several ir remote emulators.

king200 said:
If you have an Android phone with IR, something like "AnyMote" should. There are several ir remote emulators.
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Fire Stick (or Fire TV) don't work off IR. They use Bluetooth.
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if the tv you will have the firetv stick connected to is HDMI Cec compliant, make sure it's enabled on the tv, and you can use the tv's remote to operate the firetv stick.

Bramton1 said:
Fire Stick (or Fire TV) don't work off IR. They use Bluetooth.
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Your simple solution is to plug in a USB mouse to the box and click away! Hope it helps... Thx
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omniphil said:
Oh, I like the Phone Manager app will all the extra features it brings to the table, but I have to disable it because otherwise apps will get closed in the background even if I have them set as "Protected".
So if it worked properly then I would be all for it
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I don't have this issue unless I press the swipe to close (or close all) as long as I set them as protected. Imo Huawei just needs to fix/disable the swipe to close protected apps. It's also how the app is written and if it has a consistent notification setup because some apps do not get killed regardless of swiping up. Example is Alarm Clock xTreme.
The only thing I really wish I had control of in Phone Manager with Stock unrooted is Networked Apps and Permissions controls for system apps which is purposely disabled and is annoying. Perhaps AJ @ajsmsg78 will come up with a simple solution for this
In general though, it is great and I love being able to restrict permissions on the fly!
E--Man said:
Your simple solution is to plug in a USB mouse to the box and click away! Hope it helps... Thx
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Meant USB *mouse*. Post edited...
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Fire Stick (or Fire TV) don't work off IR. They use Bluetooth.
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1. Can't use a use mouse. Repeat, Fire STICK.
2. I was successful with the app. I connected to my hotspot, then used the app to connect to the beach house, and I was able to enter the Wi-Fi password with the app. Then I just had to reconnect my device to the Wi-Fi and use the app with the preferred network.
Too bad the network sucks. Who uses DSL anymore?
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I bought my fire stick all the way from American and took it with me to Jordan . I don't have the remote I only have the app on my phone . How can I switch the wifi on the fire stick to a new wifi

Bramton1 said:
1. Can't use a use mouse. Repeat, Fire STICK.
2. I was successful with the app. I connected to my hotspot, then used the app to connect to the beach house, and I was able to enter the Wi-Fi password with the app. Then I just had to reconnect my device to the Wi-Fi and use the app with the preferred network.
Too bad the network sucks. Who uses DSL anymore?
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Great thinking. Solved my problem!