Not a big problem, but one that will have you pulling your hair out until you discover the obvious. If you have root and install Playstore, disable automatic updates. Playstore will auto update the Kindle system app, creating all sorts of havoc. If you purchase a book from Amazon, it will not be deliverable to your fire phone, Send to my Kindle extension in Chrome will not work in Chrome browser, etc.
Simple fix: Go to Playstore on your Fire Phone and uninstall all updates to Kindle app and then disable automatic updates in settings in Playstore.
Then WITHOUT power cord attached, (it seems to make a difference) do a hard reset to phone by holding power button down until screen goes blank and Amazon icon appears, it may take 40 seconds.
Playstore will try to auto update anything that is stock on your phone or that you chose to install from Amazon appstore, so disabling auto update will save you headaches in other ways, too!
Thanks, I'm going to check that. I had this problem and couldn't find the solution!
I did some work on one of the 2 non rooted units that I have and installed the Llama options for "sleep mode" where the unit boots to XBMC when turned on, goes to sleep after 20 minutes and if yo hit the home button it still takes you back to the FTV home page but with no activity for 15 seconds it goes to sleep again. If you hit the OK button it wakes back up in XBMC. What a great setup for a non rooted unit. Kudos to the Kodi.wikki site for the information and way to do it.
Long story short, I took my second unit and did a factory restore on it to set it up the same way. All went well, but I notice that now up at the top of the home page where the recently view items are, all of the original shortcuts are gone...Netflix, Youtube, Classic TV...... 14 or so of them in all and in thier palce now are two or three info videos including the original one you have to sit through to even get the unit working and two more new ones as well as a shortcut to Prime TV.
My question is.....is ther anyway to delete these videos and get them off my unit. They simply taKe up space and after having to watch that first one at least a dozen time now I don't even want to see a shortcut to it!!
Someone please say there's an easy way to delete them and tell me how.....
Thanks!
PS... I noticed other several subtle changes in the layout even though my firmware didn't change. I can't explain how it happened, but another change is when you go to settings, applications and manage all applications. The window with all of the installed aps used to open up to the right of the main app screen.....now it opens to the left of the main screen. Again, no big deal, but something did change today after resetting the unit and I just set it up for the first time several days ago....it's now different. I just want to eliminate those instructional video shortcuts though!
Hi! I'm hoping someone can help as rerooting and/or even backing up my data is not an option with my computer out of commission. I'm on a rooted Kindle Fire HD (the original one from 2012; this thing's so old it's got burn in problems on the screen) with firmware 8.4.3 and seem to have accidentally broken the lock screen ads. I want them back, as the placeholder is ugly and I'm one of those people who like them. Here's what happened:
Yesterday, the calendar app icon in my favorites menu (which I use as a quick way to see the date while in an app) turned into a corrupted-looking grey blob. Being sick and not thinking logically, I freaked out thinking the glitch was permanent and googled ways to fix it. One site said to go to the app manager and clear data and cache of the app called Launcher...
Not only did that not work, but suddenly my kindle went through the registration screen! But, thankfully, it already knew who I was ('this kindle is registered to [My Name], is that correct' or somesuch). It then gave me the tutorial screen like when you first register a kindle... But after that went right to my home screen with everything still set up and installed. I lost zero data that I know of and only a handful of settings-- most notably the one to turn off 'customers also bought...' on the home screen. All I had to do was set that again and it took effect. Today, at midnight, the icon for the calendar came back since it changed to display the new date. But I've got another problem I can't seem to solve.
Now, my lock screen takes a moment too long (usually no more than a second or two, thankfully, but sometimes a mini eternity) to come on, and when it does it has a generic, ugly image that says to verify my kindle is registered and connected to wifi. It is both registered and connected-- in fact, I'm using it right now to type this. I want the special offers back, but it still hasn't downloaded new ones or shown any indication that it can anymore.
I checked, and there were no system/assets and system/.assets folders, which i know are related to lock screen ad removal hacks. I added back empty folders with those names using ES File Explorer, rebooted the tablet, but it's been eight hours so far and no change. Could someone help me restore the lock screen ads? Maybe provide the relevant files/folders to put in assets if that would help and not carry a notable risk of bricking?
A very strange thing happens to me today.
My Pixel XL 128 (never rooted, with bootloader locked and running the lastest official Oreo) suffered a soft reboot when I clicked a YouTube link in the notification shade. After that, I ended up with home and recent buttons, not performing their actions. They still vibrated and the Home button kept the animation. The status bar did not showed notifications, even when they arrived (notification sounds continue to ring), and notification shade pulldown stops working. No mobile network either.
Has anyone else faced this thing?
I had to factory reset (through settings) to use my phone again.
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
Yep same thing has happened with me as well. I didn't factory reset but I did have to do a reboot for my buttons to work again. Also I get a lot of reboots when I'm using PiP for about 5 mins.
Green_Laser said:
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
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Exact same symptoms for me on a Nexus 6P with Oreo.
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
I got the same with my stock XL 128 seemed to just happen for no reason, after messing around with none of the bottom buttons working the square changed to two rectangles on top of each other as the screen went split screen again for no reason after that I could press the "recent" now split screen button to get the options up to select what I wanted on the second half of the screen when I canceled out of that everything was normal.
seems to be a problem with the picture in picture or the split screen, I don't know how I got into it or out of it but just messing around eventually did it for me. it did have me worried at first as at the time I was in google maps and couldn't get out or even use google maps, the bottom buttons reacted as if they worked but ultimately did nothing until the recent button changed.
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
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Apparently it thinks initial setup is running (or maybe it is in background). During setup it stops you from pressing home, or switching apps, or doing anything of significance. I guess running the setup to completion clears that flag.
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Same here: Needed reboot to get "recent apps" button working (although it did "light up" when i used it).
THANK YOU!
I've had a lot of Google phones issues lately and woke up to this and was getting ready to be annoyed all day. Super easy fix as I run Nova Full anyway!
Saviour
You my friend are amazing. Google were absolutely useless, this fixed the problem and introduced me to Nova, double bonus
Thank you - Just the solution that I was looking for.
Thank you! I registered at xdadevelopers just to say that. I too did not want to do a factory reset and the change User to Guest option was not available. I also tried the enable screen lock to Pattern and rebooted.
Going to Nova Launcher and following your instructions to a T fixed the issue.
Grateful for your effort and time.
ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Thank you soooooooo much for your solution which worked flawlessly and saved me a lot of hassles!!!
Same story, pixel xl 128 GB , stock, no rooted, just reboot , talk with Google , did reset, and yesterday reboot again just laid on my chair.... I don't now what is the problem ....
Pixel XL home button
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Hi, I've tried downloading Nova and Nova Prime, so desperate with this issue, I paid for it. Of course, it won't download, when I hit install, I get "install pending" or "downloading" this is going on for 4 days now. Please help!!!!
had my screen freeze again today with it being non responsive, it seems to be every time I leave chrome open and chuck it in my pocket, forcing the phone off and turning it back on fixed the problem this time, no clue what is going on with it as it only seems to happen with chrome.
You need to download the apk file through chrome, not through the google play store.
I have to say, thank you for posting that solution! I had this exact thing happen to my phone today, no idea why, but it sure was annoying!
All the same stuff happened to my Pixel XL original. Even lost "ok Google" spoken activation of assistant, and the night light failed to operate even though turned on in settings. Followed Google's advise and did the factory reset. Worked for about 3 days then bang, soft rebooted on its own while switching apps, and then all problems returned. Had the phone for just 6 months so Verizon sent me a replacement. Will see if it holds up. I told Verizon that if it fails again I want a Pixel 2!!!
Hi all
I have updated to Android 10 two days ago, and this was a bad idea to hit that update button.
First of all - I can save files to Downloads folder only by using build in miui browser, all other browsers (i checked Chrome, Brave, MS Edge) can save files to /Android/data/<package_name>, and Brave browser even can't save files, because it shows message, that "SD card storage is unavailable". It looks like third party browsers don't have access to storage, but after installing them I have granted access to memory.
Second thing is - because of problem with saving, I tried to factory reset, and after that reset many of apps was changed to worse: home screen had option to change from "standard" to "app drawer mode" but now it's only "app drawer mode" and there is no switch of this, and there is a switch for standard mode that turns on "search by swipe up" and it's turned on, but nothing is happening because of app drawer. Build in browser before reset had new "dark mode" and now it's gone. And also first issue is still in place.
Need to mention, that It's Global version, with locked bootloader - so it's not problem with any root or modifications of system.
Do any one have same issues? Or some solution for this?
Because first issue with saving from browser is for me not acceptable, and I need to fix it somehow.