Have made a short tutorial https://tinyurl.com/yx96hkuj about sideloading to Android TV with some links that hopefully might be of interest.
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I am a new owner of an Acer a100(16GB) (currently 1.018.05_COM_GEN2) Android v3.2 and wanted to introduce my self and offer my assistance with A100 development in any way.
I'm an Android noob, but I use Linux and have done some shell scripting(Perl, Bash, Sed, Awk, a little javascript), and I am in the process of learning Java. I have also modded other devices before like PS2, PSP. So I am looking forward to learning more about Android and since I have an a100 this seems like a good place to spend some time.
So far I have just rooted my device via the Terminal Emulator method(I do have Eclipse IDE with Android SDK, ADT installed and working and should be setup help compile), got superuser, busybox, titanium, Avast installed. I also made a backup of my recovery image with dd in a shell, and did the AND to WIN hex edit(w/ Bless) of libflashplayer.so for Flash 11 so I can watch hulu, etc via Dolfin HD. I also made a Bash(run via Terminal IDE) script to re-apply the modified file after a shutdown which for now I have installed into /data/data/com.spartacusrex.spartacuside/files/bin (aka: ~/bin).
I will probably post my hulu script and lib file with some instructions later. It's basic but effective script that does some file checks and error correcting before it catenates the source file and redirects to destination. Later I may add a few more checks like making sure its running as superuser, and some post file mod checks.
Im still trying to figure out what else we can do, and how to do various things within Android at this point. So far its a fun little setup.
I wanted to say THANKS to everyone here. This place is a great resource. Special thanks to everyone that has been working on the Development end. I look forward to trying to make my self useful.
Welcome Hope you enjoy this device as much as I do.
As far as helping development, you should really check out the bypassing the bootloader thread in this forum, that's where the brainstorming is taking place atm.
Yes, we are *trying* to bypass the bootloader somehow, Crossix is getting a working kernal going while others are looking into methods of applying a work around. Your help will be much appreciated. Welcome to the Forums, and as stated above, the A100 is a great device that has a lot going for it if we can get some work done on it.
As far as helping development, you should really check out the bypassing the bootloader thread in this forum, that's where the brainstorming is taking place atm.
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Yep I have been reading it and looking around trying to get an idea of what the typical solutions/workarounds are used on other Android devices.
I don't think I have access yet to the developer area yet.
Welcome to the a100 forums, it's always nice to have another dev working on this thing!
Development forums require 10 posts to be able to use them, so just remain active in general/QA and you'll have access in no time.
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hello I hope someone can help me
I am looking for a guide on how to load mame + rom browser collection onto my fire tv stick
the videos I have seen all look like the host is using kodi, but on their PCs
a simple step by step guide would be really helpful
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itsamomentintime said:
hello I hope someone can help me
I am looking for a guide on how to load mame + rom browser collection onto my fire tv stick
the videos I have seen all look like the host is using kodi, but on their PCs
a simple step by step guide would be really helpful
itsamomentintime
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Not to play XDA police, but is talk of games roms allowed here? If it is, sorry for the interruption...
I have just this week Purchased and Fully Rooted my New AMAZON FIRE TV BOX (with help of XDA's excellent guide).
I have been itching to get Real Racing 3 installed/sideloaded and working correctly on it.....i managed to Sideload it onto the FIRE TV BOX earlier today..but when i'm about to start the game it FORCE CLOSES !!
- If Anyone knows of a FIX for this, or has a GUIDE on how to get it running properly....i would really appreciate it if they would like to help.
(* I have my box FULLY ROOTED with rBox's Pre-Rooted Rom and custom recovery, which i'm kind of hoping will HELP ??!!)
if anyone has any other COOL suggestions or guides on what to do next after FULLY rooting FIRE TV 2nd Gen Box, please feel free to add those too
((already know everything about KODI and SPMC and its Addons, Builds, Wizards etc....so Don't Really need tips on that ))
(hope thats ok XDA Admin(s) ?)
Hello!
I'm trying to uninstall the package(s) that has/have to do with the startup screen where you are asked to select the language and wifi network followed by updates check and I managed to do this by using this guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/disable-bloatware-2nd-gen-fire-tv-stick-t3674629
It uninstalled a lot more than I needed and I am trying to follow it step by step, package by package.
The ideea is, though, to get an index of the amazon packages so to see exactly what I am uninstalling and what not, since some of these are not really self-explanatory.
I found this index https://developer.android.com/reference/packages but it seems to lack all amazon apps.
So is there any way to find and index or at least to understant what each of these packages do?
Thank you! :fingers-crossed:
andreizet96 said:
Hello!
I'm trying to uninstall the package(s) that has/have to do with the startup screen where you are asked to select the language and wifi network followed by updates check and I managed to do this by using this guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/disable-bloatware-2nd-gen-fire-tv-stick-t3674629
It uninstalled a lot more than I needed and I am trying to follow it step by step, package by package.
The ideea is, though, to get an index of the amazon packages so to see exactly what I am uninstalling and what not, since some of these are not really self-explanatory.
I found this index https://developer.android.com/reference/packages but it seems to lack all amazon apps.
So is there any way to find and index or at least to understant what each of these packages do?
Thank you! :fingers-crossed:
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This list is not exactly related to Fire TV but to Fire OS as a whole. However, the most important Fire TV packages are included. It's a start to read something into it.
rainman74 said:
This list is not exactly related to Fire TV but to Fire OS as a whole. However, the most important Fire TV packages are included. It's a start to read something into it.
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Looks good. I'll get back to working on it after 16th of this month and I'll come back and let you know if it helped. Hope all this work could help me to make a tutorial for what I am doing now, I think it would be helpful for other people. Thanks for your help!
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Looks good. I'll get back to working on it after 16th of this month and I'll come back and let you know if it helped. Hope all this work could help me to make a tutorial for what I am doing now, I think it would be helpful for other people. Thanks for your help!
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If you can't find any information about some special packages, I can try to answer that. Just send me a list with the packages you didn't find out about (max. 10).
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If you can't find any information about some special packages, I can try to answer that. Just send me a list with the packages you didn't find out about (max. 10).
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Thank you so much! I have managed to find a post on github with what looks like the packages organised in categories, but I cant find the link anymore. Will update this answer if I find it.
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if anyone here has some saved or has links of older FW for Fire TV 4k stick can you please send them to me?
specifically looking for some on OS5 but any older firmware you could send me link to would be really helpful
Links have to look like this
https://d1s31zyz7dcc2d.cloudfront.net/***/update-kindle-mantis-***.bin
There's these OS6 links https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ficial-cloud-front-direct-links-only.4088247/
Maybe this is useful? idk https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201452680