Hello,
I have a Philips 50PFL5766/F7. If I go into settings and select reset (there is no physical reset button on this unit), it doesn't actually reset the tv. Once it reboots, the personal Google account is still there. The TV doesn't boot into Android TV at all, only to an HDMI source. The TV attempts to process a Google update (989MB) on startup but it seems the file is too big or it's corrupted and fails to complete. I've tried deleting individual apps to make room to process the update but on reboot, they reappear. It's as though the OS and data are locked and read-only.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi all,
I am trying to update my 10.1 tab 3 device through the relevant entry in settings, but I get an error about my "device is modified".
I hard reseted the device, and I am still getting the same error. What can be happening?
Maybe you have root your tablet or install new recovery ?
Press and hold power, home, and volume down. You will see a warning screen then press volume up to enter Odin mode on the tablet and check the binary number. If its not 0 your device is modified and you can't update it. You must restore the original Samsung firmware without Root or something else on your device.
No, I have not rooted my tablet. I have only isntalled a few apps from the play store.
I tried to hard reset a few times without any success. I think that erasing everything from the sd card, solved the problem (after a hard reset).
I don't know why, and which app has placed what on the sd card.
I had really few apps, kindle, skype, oasvn, and some apps related to night sky maps. And the official vnc viewer app.
Hi
My fire tv updated today and now, from within the FTV menu > apps, all I see is a bunch of app icons rather than the amazon app library carousel. From here I can open my sideloaded apps but not the amazon apps. When I try to open these I get 'An error occurred trying to authenticate your account'. Everything else works fine. Amazon customer care say to factory reset. Restoring a backup with adb unfortunately fails as does installing apps over adb. Has anyone come across this ?
I've tried the usual:
force stop, clear data, clear cache, cold restarts, warm restarts,
I've also tried:
switching on/off adb and usb debuging, deregistering and registering.
Any ideas?
Hi all,
I have recently upgraded my FireTV 1 to the latest Prerooted stock image as per this forum page: https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/prerooted-stock-images-t2882337
Software Version: 51.1.5.3_user_515040320
I upgraded from FireOS 3 so did the TWRP recovery first.
I also installed the su /sdcard fix as outlined in the forum page as well.
Everything installed correctly, and the FireTV boots correctly to the main screen. I am experiencing problems however:
The Home, Your Videos, Movies and TV Shows screens never load, just stay black with the three small dots bottom right of screen animating.
The Apps and Settings screens work as expected.
Connection to the Internet works, Netflix and YouTube apps work as expected, as does Kodi and others.
Individual application updates work, and are automatically triggered as expected.
I have no DNS/IP filtering setup in my router or hosts file on the FireTV
I have blocked updates from running with the following command: pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota
Any advice on getting the rest of the interface working would be greatly appreciated.
fionn.colvin said:
Hi all,
I have recently upgraded my FireTV 1 to the latest Prerooted stock image as per this forum page: https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/prerooted-stock-images-t2882337
Software Version: 51.1.5.3_user_515040320
I upgraded from FireOS 3 so did the TWRP recovery first.
I also installed the su /sdcard fix as outlined in the forum page as well.
Everything installed correctly, and the FireTV boots correctly to the main screen. I am experiencing problems however:
The Home, Your Videos, Movies and TV Shows screens never load, just stay black with the three small dots bottom right of screen animating.
The Apps and Settings screens work as expected.
Connection to the Internet works, Netflix and YouTube apps work as expected, as does Kodi and others.
Individual application updates work, and are automatically triggered as expected.
I have no DNS/IP filtering setup in my router or hosts file on the FireTV
I have blocked updates from running with the following command: pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota
Any advice on getting the rest of the interface working would be greatly appreciated.
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Since you are not blocking updates thru OpenDNS or thru your Router then my only advice is to do a cache wipe thru TWRP. Also make sure you don't have any VPN apps running. And also go into Settings/My Account & choose Sync Amazon Content & reboot.
Connect a keyboard to your FTV.
Then choose Launch Recovery.
Then go into WIPE & Choose Advanced Wipe.
From Advanced Wipe choose both "Dalvik / Art Cache" & "Cache" (This is not a Factory Reset).
Then Swipe to Wipe & restart your FTV.
It will take no more then 10 minutes to reload & everything should be unchanged (Apps, Settings, etc).
Then redo the ADB Method 1 FireOS 5 update blocking command. Just to make sure it is still blocking updates.
Use the "Troubleshooting" part of this guide for visuals:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-installupdate-a-package-using-twrp-on-the-amazon-fire-tv/
If this doesn't work. Then maybe you will need to do a Factory Reset & reflash the whole PreRooted ROM.
Thanks for the advice.
Followed the steps suggested with the same results.
Would rather not factory refresh, however will do that if there re no other suggestions to try.
PS. I've also got a Fire Stick not rooted with latest firmware that works as expected, so shows there are no network reasons for it to not work on the FireTV
fionn.colvin said:
Thanks for the advice.
Followed the steps suggested with the same results.
Would rather not factory refresh, however will do that if there re no other suggestions to try.
PS. I've also got a Fire Stick not rooted with latest firmware that works as expected, so shows there are no network reasons for it to not work on the FireTV
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You can try both forgetting the Wifi info & logging out & in of your Amazon Account.
Also restart your modem & router. And make sure you turned off both Featured Content.
Any chance you tried to debloat your device?
Guess you can try reflasing the PreRooted ROM without doing a Factory Reset. Only the same Dalvik & Cache. You would keep the same Apps installed. But you probably still need to reinstall the XPosed Framework. And update SuperSU. From what I remember.
After trying a number of different things I ended up performing a factory refresh following the guide from aftvnews
After doing that, blocking updates, re-installing the su sdcard patch, and then all my apps and settings everything is working as expected.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Happy to have everything back to normal again.
fionn.colvin said:
After trying a number of different things I ended up performing a factory refresh following the guide from aftvnews
After doing that, blocking updates, re-installing the su sdcard patch, and then all my apps and settings everything is working as expected.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Happy to have everything back to normal again.
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Glad to hear everything has been resolved. :good:
...and FACTORY RESET fails
Hi all,
We have a gen 1 firestick - I did have Kodi installed but NO ADDONS we just used it as for playing home media and photos from the NAS etc. so just Kodi ITV player, youtube via firefox, etc etc. Amazon Prime...
All was fine until a few days ago when I noticed things not working right. It failed to install an ITV hub download and Kodi stopped.
When trying to install an app, it said downloading and then came up with an error such as this:
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It's been installed a while so I thought I would factory reset it.
I did the reset through the menus. It had the reset message on screen for a few minutes then went to black screen. So after 1/2 hour I cycled the power. The white amazon logo came up and then I get the account login screen after 5-10 minutes. I have to then pair the remote - but this won't work unless I take the (brand new duracell) batteries out of the remote for 10s then hold home to force the pair.
The firestick then automatically logs in to my router (though I haven't given any passwords etc.)
I set up the account as normal and I can use BBC iPlayer for example and all seems fine but any app I try and install just fails to install - it gets to the 'downloading icon' then says that the download failed.
If I cycle the power it goes back to the 10 mins white logo and setting up the account all over again.
I tried a second network and a different amazon account and it's the same.
Tried lots of factory resets but always the same outcome.
I do notice that the stick reports 3.19GB of memory used !
I suspect that somehow some files are corrupted on the stick and something is stopping it from doing a proper factory reset so I thought (from reflashing phones in the past) I would try and boot into recovery and try and to a reset from there instead.
I can adb to it,
I managed to boot to recovery but it just gives me a load of this failed and that failed messages at the bottom of the screen.
Any suggestions of how I could force a proper reset or what might be going on would be very gratefully received.
Thanks in advance ?
Hi,
I'm facing serious problem with freeze and reboot frequently :crying:
My Gemini PDA is Japanese keyboard layout and 4G+WiFi type.
I tried to do following action for checking what root cause is.
- I removed microSD card and SIM card
- I rebooted by manual and connect to WiFi network.
But nothing was changed.
I also tried a soft reset from "backup and reset" -> "data reset" in Android OS settings but nothing was improved.
Does anyone have similar or same problem like me?
One more thing:
Planet Computer support suggested me full factory reset.
But I could not find how to do it. I tried it by pressing both ESC(power) button and side button simultaneously
but there is no available command like full reset.
Any suggestion or information is welcome!
Best regards
Akira
additional info.
I tried to find when freeze problem happens as following.
1) Input method conflict
1st time, I installed Google Japanese language input and activate both Google's and Gemini keyboard input. This may make conflicts and freeze problem was happened.
I disabled Gemini keyboard input and leave Google's input as active.
It looked reducing the error rate but not fixed yet.
2) Evernote app
When evernote app syncs with cloud 1st time, freeze problem happened. This happens only once.
3) Playing movie file from google photo app
Some times happens.
4) initial setting up
So I did reset of my data and apps on Android OS.
But reboot problem might be getting worse.
Inputting my google account like "[email protected]" but frozen and reboot happened before inputting "@" character.
I tried to find root cause by removing SIM card but the problem happened again.
I asked my Japanese Gemini users if they are facing similar problem but no one faced the problem.
reflashing image but nothing changed
Hi,
I got suggestion from Planet Computer's support team that flashing image might fix the problem.
I tried it but nothing was improved.
I already sent the result to team. I hope they will pick my pda up then replace it.
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By the way, it does not need install flash tool driver if you use Windows10.
Just launching Flash tool works without installation of the driver.