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[Q] Google play on nook simple touch ?

I've been using my rooted nook simple touch glow for a week and have been pretty happy with it, but need to install either pocket or instapaper which are only on google play. I tried readability but it crashes on startup.
Anyone know if it's possible to install google play on the NTG running 1.1.5?
Is there any other manual way to install a google play app? I know how to install via adb, but no idea where to download the apk for an app I purchase.

If you install from this guide, at the end it shows how to enable the market / play:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1675706
Note that you cannot search the market from the rooted Nook for some reason. But there is an application that you can install to search the market. See here:
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...arket-search-and-other-tips-and-tricks-video/

seltzered said:
I've been using my rooted nook simple touch glow for a week and have been pretty happy with it, but need to install either pocket or instapaper which are only on google play. I tried readability but it crashes on startup.
Anyone know if it's possible to install google play on the NTG running 1.1.5?
Is there any other manual way to install a google play app? I know how to install via adb, but no idea where to download the apk for an app I purchase.
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I have similar problem on accessing market place, it's stated should wait for one day, it's been over a few days now problem doesnt resolve by itselt. In fact you tube ceased to work now, it was okay when I first rooted it.

Did you do steps #4 and #5 in this guide?
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...using-glownooter-includes-googles-app-market/

ladykayaker said:
Did you do steps #4 and #5 in this guide?
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...using-glownooter-includes-googles-app-market/
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Thanks for this. I thought of uninstall and reinstalling google apps and unfortunately deleted youtube altogether both the apk and reinstalled software. So I did a soft un-root again and it seems now it worked (after I had done step 4 & 5 as per your message).
Now I have market app that works, search function does not work. I will probably installed vending apk or did step 4 and 5 againg ( I think I spent more time fixing Nook touch than actually using it).
Btw, anyone knows how to make the side options on the right to appear (where one can choose home or adw launcher). For some reason it has disappearred. How do I get back from nook home reading screen to adw launcher now??

atisha said:
Thanks for this. I thought of uninstall and reinstalling google apps and unfortunately deleted youtube altogether both the apk and reinstalled software. So I did a soft un-root again and it seems now it worked (after I had done step 4 & 5 as per your message).
Now I have market app that works, search function does not work. I will probably installed vending apk or did step 4 and 5 againg ( I think I spent more time fixing Nook touch than actually using it).
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I doubt that you'll get the marketplace search working, it is a known issue. Use the alternative search application mentioned in the article.
Btw, anyone knows how to make the side options on the right to appear (where one can choose home or adw launcher). For some reason it has disappearred. How do I get back from nook home reading screen to adw launcher now??
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That is the magic buttons application it needs to be running to get the buttons. Note that when the application is running but the menu is collapsed, that it is _very_ difficult at first to find and open it. Look closely at the middle of the right edge of the screen. There should be a very faint icon there. If so, then try to press the side of the _plastic_case_ where it meets the screen by jamming your fnger right between them, as if you are trying to pry the plastic case off. That is how I hit that button!

Once you have found button savior and are back in the ADW launcher, be sure to give @jeff_kz's NookTouchMods a try. You will be able to remap one of your quicknav buttons or the 'n' long press to take you back to ADW launcher - much better than button savior!

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Once you have found button savior and are back in the ADW launcher, be sure to give @jeff_kz's NookTouchMods a try. You will be able to remap one of your quicknav buttons or the 'n' long press to take you back to ADW launcher - much better than button savior!
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Kayaker, I've looked at these mods before, but I see no canonical information explaining exactly how to modify and install the mods. Is there some thread explaining this that I've been unable to find?
Thanks!

the end of button savior
dotancohen said:
Kayaker, I've looked at these mods before, but I see no canonical information explaining exactly how to modify and install the mods. Is there some thread explaining this that I've been unable to find?
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Its a fairly recent thread - perhas you hadn't seen it yet - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991048

ladykayaker said:
Its a fairly recent thread - perhas you hadn't seen it yet - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991048
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Thanks. Actually I had seen the thread but it looks like they are referring to things previously discussed, which I could not find. Perhaps I just need to download the files and play around, it might all become obvious. I am new to rooting and to the Nook, so I am a bit apprehensive to start diving in.

[ROOT] Full WORKING Settings Access for Keyboard, IME and Bluetooth changes.

Thanks to @mastafunk for finding out the KFTV App was causing the blockage on having full settings access to change keyboards.
Now we can change our keyboards, IME input methods and have better Bluetooth functionality!
You'll need Titanium Backup Pro (Paid), the settings.apk down below and the FiredTV Launcher installed and ran once for it to be your new launcher(can be found here in the Fire TV forums).
Sideload the Settings.apk to your box.
Then open Titanium backup and click on Backup/Restore
Look for KFTV and click "Freeze"
Back Out and Install the new Keyboard, IME device or put your Bluetooth Device on pair mode.
for Keyboards and IMEs:
goto the new installed settings app and select your keyboard under Language & Input
for Bluetooth devices:
open settings and goto bluetooth

By better bluetooth do you mean less lag/delay? Or just we can pair bluetooth gamepads and keyboards more easily?
Enviado de meu GT-N7100 usando Tapatalk

LOL. You are the man. Freeze it, let us go, amazon. We want full setting control. This is a great idea, however I don't have Titanium Backup Pro yet. Just wait others to confirm it.

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billsam38 said:
LOL. You are the man. Freeze it, let us go, amazon. We want full setting control. This is a great idea, however I don't have Titanium Backup Pro yet. Just wait others to confirm it.
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You can use app freezer from the play store its free.

I just tried. It doesn't work on mine (newest firmware). The settings.apk close itself as usual, even I frozen Kftv launcher. See if any one get it working?

I was able to add both my DS4 controllers and my Bluetooth Mouse with no problems. @KillerJoeBR
I havent unfroze it yet to test if it stays, i'll check now. I'll alsol check the VPN Settings now to see if we have access to those functions. @JJ-KwiK
You may have to downgrade to the trickled down firmware before the full released one. I keep hearing there are issues. @billsam38

lilcza1 said:
I was able to add both my DS4 controllers and my Bluetooth Mouse with no problems. @KillerJoeBR
I havent unfroze it yet to test if it stays, i'll check now. I'll alsol check the VPN Settings now to see if we have access to those functions. @JJ-KwiK
You may have to downgrade to the trickled down firmware before the full released one. I keep hearing there are issues. @billsam38
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It gets into the VPN settings without crashing but wants a pin on lock screen to be set..like in standard android.. I didn't go any further cause I don't know how that would effect our boot up.. And I'm not that curious as I don't use it.. Sticks for me on the Google keyboard when I unfreeze.

If you can't select an IME from it being greyed out ,you have to re-enable the Bueller IME and reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
I enabled Game Keyboard successfully,but have not got around to testing it out.
I also went and got null keyboard to shut up the bueller appearances without disabling the apk itself.
Can someone try Game Keyboard with GTA San Andreas (Play Store) by mapping the touch positions to a K400r keyboard?

lilcza1 said:
I was able to add both my DS4 controllers and my Bluetooth Mouse with no problems. @KillerJoeBR
I havent unfroze it yet to test if it stays, i'll check now. I'll alsol check the VPN Settings now to see if we have access to those functions. @JJ-KwiK
You may have to downgrade to the trickled down firmware before the full released one. I keep hearing there are issues. @billsam38
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I was able to pair my Beats By Dre Wireless Studio Headphones. Its perfect for lecture videos like CBT Nugget and Train Signal but the delay in audio make it unwatchable for movies.

Any luck with BT keyboard pairing pins? I can't get pass the pin part. I tested the keyboard with my android phone and it paired fine.

ver2go said:
Any luck with BT keyboard pairing pins? I can't get pass the pin part. I tested the keyboard with my android phone and it paired fine.
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Looking for a solution to that myself.. BT keyboard I bought is just collecting dust. I think its something to do with HID bluetooth drivers in FTV.

Agreed, I would love to see generic BT keyboards working as well
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

ver2go said:
Any luck with BT keyboard pairing pins? I can't get pass the pin part. I tested the keyboard with my android phone and it paired fine.
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Did any of you try the instructions in the OP?
jainanshal said:
Looking for a solution to that myself.. BT keyboard I bought is just collecting dust. I think its something to do with HID bluetooth drivers in FTV.
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collindv said:
Agreed, I would love to see generic BT keyboards working as well
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
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Quick Question
So I tried this the other day, and missed the part about having FiredTV installed. This lead to a soft brick state, and caused me to lose all of my data.
My question is this, why is FiredTV essentially a dependency for this to work?
I though FTV was just a launcher application, and it should have no bearing on this working (IMHO).

firewire9979 said:
So I tried this the other day, and missed the part about having FiredTV installed. This lead to a soft brick state, and caused me to lose all of my data.
My question is this, why is FiredTV essentially a dependency for this to work?
I though FTV was just a launcher application, and it should have no bearing on this working (IMHO).
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You need to follow instructions not make your own lol. When you freeze the firetv launcher then there is no launcher available putting you in that state. Any launcher will do firedtv was just a recomendation, you can uninstall it when your done.

mastafunk said:
Did any of you try the instructions in the OP?
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I did try, but no change.
In fact, I was already able to search for bluetooth devices & change keyboards (I already tried Bluez IME & few other things earlier) without freezing KFTV. I was using XBMC as my launcher when i tried this.

mastafunk said:
You need to follow instructions not make your own lol. When you freeze the firetv launcher then there is no launcher available putting you in that state. Any launcher will do firedtv was just a recomendation, you can uninstall it when your done.
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That would explain it. It was my fault, I was skimming the instructions and thought I had it, until I bricked it.

Regrettable Fact:When the KFTV Launcher is disabled or frozen,you can not select any other launcher from the recent apps list in Alt+Tab because the option (in my case Lucid Launcher) vanishes for some reason when KFTV is disabled/frozen.

retroben said:
Regrettable Fact:When the KFTV Launcher is disabled or frozen,you can not select any other launcher from the recent apps list in Alt+Tab because the option (in my case Lucid Launcher) vanishes for some reason when KFTV is disabled/frozen.
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I have three launchers installed go,firedtv,and xbmc and run with kftv frozen and get the selector.... If you have another launcher installed press your home key on remote and if you have just one it will load if you have a few you will get a selector.. I've never set a launcher via alt+tab that would only work if you had the other launcher open pretty recent.

How to remove/hide the Navbar on Mojo?

Hey again guys. I've been doing further research and I'm positive the console I want to buy next is a Mojo.
I plan to root it as soon as I get it, so the important question is: how do I make it so the navbar doesn't show up? Apparently its always present by default, making all apps even XBMC not actually fullscreen.
Hopefully someone can tell me that. Thanks!

Satoshi Matrix said:
Hey again guys. I've been doing further research and I'm positive the console I want to buy next is a Mojo.
I plan to root it as soon as I get it, so the important question is: how do I make it so the navbar doesn't show up? Apparently its always present by default, making all apps even XBMC not actually fullscreen.
Hopefully someone can tell me that. Thanks!
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That's were I've heard your name.. on the "The Retro League" podcast lol
I haven't heard those two in ages.. wow!
I should go get me some right now lol
Cool, ha.. to your questions.
I think there's app on the app store which remove the navbar in jellybean.. not 100%
I would think CM12 would have that as an option.. again not sure sorry.
MX player does hide it but games don't.. that I recall anyway.
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I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.

Satoshi Matrix said:
I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.
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Try Auto Hide Soft Keys APP which worked fine for me on rooted jellybean. Kodi/XBMC on the Lollipop (CM12) ROM works without this app because of immersive mode which hides the navbar, so I would suggest when you get your MOJO to switch to that ROM.

I know this is probably a crazy noobish question, but is there any way to download game apks from the google play store directly to my imac? I'm pretty new to google play, and it keeps saying to sign in on the device. but thats just the thing, I don't have a mojo yet. I'm still trying to figure out if I will get one.
So what the heck? Can't I just download to my computer and then "sideload" later?

Satoshi Matrix said:
I know this is probably a crazy noobish question, but is there any way to download game apks from the google play store directly to my imac? I'm pretty new to google play, and it keeps saying to sign in on the device. but thats just the thing, I don't have a mojo yet. I'm still trying to figure out if I will get one.
So what the heck? Can't I just download to my computer and then "sideload" later?
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I'm not sure why you would need to sideload apks to the MOJO since it will be fully functional with google play after using the rooting method for jellybean. On CM12, missing apps can apparently be fooled into appearing in google play by changing the device to something else like an nvidia shield tablet using Market helper http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2146216
But there is a way to download apks to the computer if you must: try this

Satoshi Matrix said:
I wonder if there's just a script that you can edit to fix this. I just want the damn thing to not take up screen space when it's not a touch screen device to begin with.
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I'm newish to android but I think you still need to use the navbar regardless of lack of touch...
At least with jellybean, cm12 feels better integrated to android but still need to get to the all apps menu button.
I think the issue is jellybean didn't let apps remove easily, were as cm12 does.

Fire TV/Stick: Kodi on Home Screen (No Hacks no Image Replacements) Easy!

Why did I never think of it I have honestly no idea... and it works!
From comments it appears to work on 14.1 , 15 alpha. Might work even with 14.0. Might not work with XBMC because there seems that it's not in the AppSTORE.
Here is what you should do:
1. SIdeload Kodi 14.2
Q: Why? Here is why the Amazon link has Kodi 14.2 so it might not work with earlier versions.
2. (if you are a new user) do the initial setup just give it like 15 sec for it to load up.. (returning user) you should see similar thing but it would upgrade it.
3. on YOUR PC/Mac -- NOT MOBILE devices
go to this link:
http://www.amazon.com/XBMC-Foundati...6?ie=UTF8&qid=1425670241&sr=8-6&keywords=Kodi
4. Buy it with ONE CLICK <<< important! it will show your FIRE TV is not compaptible with it.
5. Go to settings on your Fire TV and go to my account (sync content)
BAM! you have now Kodi on your recents/home screen! Make sure you first sideloaded KODI
I just tested this on Rooted FTV but will work without on both Fire TV & Stick!

Nice tip. I had this working with SPMC on the fire stick for a while. Good to hear it works for Kodi now that it is available as well.

Thanks! I have 14.1 installed and it works great! Much better than messing with cms.db like I've been working on.

Besides having Kodi on the "Recent" tab, does it also show up in the "Your App" tab ?
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This is really cool. You an infact do this with any app that you have side loaded that is available from the Amazon App Store.

This would be cool if it worked but it doesn't on my Fire Stick.

Worked for me on ftv. Did the same thing with advanced task killer. Thinking about doing clean master also

MSUTigger said:
This would be cool if it worked but it doesn't on my Fire Stick.
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it should without any issues. Did you get an email from Amazon for purchasing free Kodi ?
did you also SYNC ? sometimes you have to sync few times reboot your FTV/Stick etc...
lowbee said:
Besides having Kodi on the "Recent" tab, does it also show up in the "Your App" tab ?
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It should since you actaully own the free app via Amazon Appstore. I am rooted so I barely look at this.

Did this a few hours ago and just got an email saying I received a $1 mp3 credit for my "purchase"

{ParanoiA} said:
Did this a few hours ago and just got an email saying I received a $1 mp3 credit for my "purchase"
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So you got 1$ credit for downloading Kodi? or you prob got 1$ credit for something else. Last few days there were bunch of apps that were giving 1$/credit for just downloading a free app.

No I matched up the order numbers. It was this one

I have found an easier way that puts any app on any screen, Dock4Droid.I have been using it for a couple months. I have it set up where the dock graphic is removed and it looks like the apps are floating in colored mist on the screen. The mist color can be changed to any color. I have made the icons small so that they are still big on the screen but are not distorted. Be sure to set the number of apps to appear on the dock, I think I have it set to 30 apps so that all apps opened will appear. I have hid the activation area and made the activation area 100% on the bottom right of the screen and made the activation area 0 width so that it does not interfere with apps. I have flipped it so that the last opened app is on the right side. You can also put a shortcut for any app so it is always on the dock. I have SPMC set to always appear on the dock so I can always open it from anywhere. The only downside is that any app that requires an activation area on the fire tv makes a square artifact on the top and left side edge of the screen when the cursor goes to the edge of the top and left side of the screen, but it isn't really a problem for me. The artifact happens with every app I have tried, Fancy Switcher, Sidebar etc. The dock also has App Info so that you can close apps directly from the dock. If you have an app opened, activate the dock, go to app info, the popup will appear and just force close it. To me its the fastest way I have found to multitask and force close apps on the Fire TV, cause it lets you launch any app from anywhere.

{ParanoiA} said:
Did this a few hours ago and just got an email saying I received a $1 mp3 credit for my "purchase"
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LOL, now that would be something if one gets $1 for getting Kodi. But this works fine, I did not even have to sync content. Took a few minutes and the app showed up on the home screen. I guess I can bid farewell to Llama and ClassicTV for now.

Thanks awsome trick
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It worked great for v15 alpha 2. But only in the recent list. It's something.

papars said:
It worked great for v15 alpha 2. But only in the recent list. It's something.
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Good to know I don't see a reason yet to use the v15 unless it's stable. Sooner or later it will happen. You can mix it now with aftvlauncher helper and home button will launch kodi without root,just set it to kodi to launch on home key press

Offtopic - v15 goes great, no problems on firetv. But you are right there is no point going in v15 since 14.x is perfect already.
Thanks for the tip for the home button.

papars said:
Offtopic - v15 goes great, no problems on firetv. But you are right there is no point going in v15 since 14.x is perfect already.
Thanks for the tip for the home button.
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NP enjoy!

patt2k said:
NP enjoy!
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weird...didn't work for me. Installed Kodi went to amazon link and logged in. clicked on get with 1 click. said app was purchased. went back to Fire TV and did the sync. but still not showing on home screen. I am on a rooted Fire TV.

Yep, for me too. At least on one of my fire-tv boxes anyway.
I've got three, all unrooted and all running the same version of Kodi (14.1). It worked on two of my boxes but not the third, I can't work out why not. I've unregistered it and reregistered even done a factory reset but it won't work on that box, weird?

FTVLaunchX: custom launcher, no root (replacement for LauncherHijack)

Welcome to FTVLaunchX – a simple helper application to allow custom launchers on Amazon Fire TV devices – no root required!
It is inspired by the famous LauncherHijack of @BaronKiko and tries to overcome several issues relating to it:
- Reliably intercepts any & all presses of the home button
- Starts the selected launcher on boot
- Starts the selected launcher when waking up from sleep
- Fixes the ominous missing-cursor bug in Silk
- etc.
Please find a thorough description, installation instructions as well as the source code over here:
https://github.com/codefaktor/FTVLaunchX
Get the APK: FTVLaunchX-1.0.1
EDIT: uploaded new release 1.0.1!
If you want to say Thank You or fund further development, then feel free to drop me buck or two, see https://github.com/codefaktor/FTVLaunchX#Donations
Please report back if you did test on your devices (so far tested on Fire TV Stick 2nd Gen & Fire TV Stick 4K) – I will watch this thread for any issues and/or feature requests.

Thanks for this. Works with no issues and really well on my Fires TV Stick 4K.
When I press home it opens my launcher quickly (TV Launcher 3).
When I wake the device from sleep I do see the amazon launcher for a split second (literally a quick flash).
When I reboot it takes 20-30 seconds to automatically start my launcher.
This could be because it is giving way to IP Vanish which is set to launch on startup.
As soon as IP Vanish launches, I press the back key or the home key and my launcher immediately loads.
Love your work.
Also there is another way of returning to the default Amazon Launcher. Maybe you already know it
Use the Alexa Remote (Voice) and say "Home" or "Settings".
Thanks again.

Flakie said:
When I press home it opens my launcher quickly (TV Launcher 3).
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Yes, it should be a tiny bit quicker and what's more important: way more reliable! Except for the split-second when coming out of sleep I never see the Amazon launcher anymore (I also use TVLauncher 3).
Flakie said:
When I wake the device from sleep I do see the amazon launcher for a split second (literally a quick flash).
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Aye, this is to be expected but should really just be a fraction of a second.
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When I reboot it takes 20-30 seconds to automatically start my launcher.
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Aye, I know - it's because I let the system decide on when to launch it. As you said, there may be other things also being launched and so it has not the top priority. Maybe I'll experiment with raising the priority of FTVLaunchX but I wanted to stay on the safe side for the 1.0 release.
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As soon as IP Vanish launches, I press the back key or the home key and my launcher immediately loads.
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Yes, you can also press the home key as soon as the Amazon launcher comes up and it should work - it's just the auto-start method which takes its time...
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Also there is another way of returning to the default Amazon Launcher. Maybe you already know it Use the Alexa Remote (Voice) and say "Home" or "Settings".
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Ha, I totally forgot about that one – I'll add this to the docs, thank you!
Oh, and just to clarify: do you think that we should also try to catch that and start the custom launcher when hearing "Home"? This may not be possible and IMHO it's way better to leave that as a valid exit method to get back to the original Amazon launcher...
Oh, and a big thank you for testing and replying!

Thank you so much! I finally have my cursor back in the Silk Browser because of this!

JUSTINMARMER said:
Thank you so much! I finally have my cursor back in the Silk Browser because of this!
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Glad that it works for you and you like it The main reason why I was creating it was this pesty cursor bug...
Oh, on what kind of device are you using it? Am looking for someone to test it on a Fire TV Cube with Fire OS 7 / Android 9...

Got any images we can use for an article?

MishaalRahman said:
Got any images we can use for an article?
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Here is an icon and a banner:
https://github.com/codefaktor/FTVLa...p/src/main/res/mipmap-xxxhdpi/ic_launcher.png
https://github.com/codefaktor/FTVLaunchX/blob/develop/app/src/main/res/drawable/banner.png
Can render them at any size if you need larger variants;
Or if you need a screenshot then voila: https://imgur.com/a/UethyYm

TheRealQubix said:
Glad that it works for you and you like it The main reason why I was creating it was this pesty cursor bug...
Oh, on what kind of device are you using it? Am looking for someone to test it on a Fire TV Cube with Fire OS 7 / Android 9...
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Wish I could help. I'm running several Fire Sticks. All v2 and 4k. No cubes.

TheRealQubix said:
Oh, and just to clarify: do you think that we should also try to catch that and start the custom launcher when hearing "Home"? This may not be possible and IMHO it's way better to leave that as a valid exit method to get back to the original Amazon launcher...
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Personally, I prefer it going back to the Amazon Launcher.
I have done a few installs of these and for the users it is the easiest way they can get there. The less complexity for them, the better

Flakie said:
Personally, I prefer it going back to the Amazon Launcher.
I have done a few installs of these and for the users it is the easiest way they can get there. The less complexity for them, the better
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Exactly my thought too!

TheRealQubix said:
Glad that it works for you and you like it The main reason why I was creating it was this pesty cursor bug...
Oh, on what kind of device are you using it? Am looking for someone to test it on a Fire TV Cube with Fire OS 7 / Android 9...
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I just tried it on my Nvidia Shield 2017 model and it works great. The only thing I see wrong if you want to call it wrong is, When booting it boots to the android tv screen for about 5-10 seconds but then goes to my Halauncher. Home button works great everytime. If you don't mind I will post it on the Shield tv section or you can. It would be easier for some people that don't understand adb. Great job!!!!

brick00444 said:
I just tried it on my Nvidia Shield 2017 model and it works great. The only thing I see wrong if you want to call it wrong is, When booting it boots to the android tv screen for about 5-10 seconds but then goes to my Halauncher. Home button works great everytime. If you don't mind I will post it on the Shield tv section or you can. It would be easier for some people that don't understand adb. Great job!!!!
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Good to know that it works on that device too – feel free to post it over there! (Since I don't have any experience with the Shields it's probably better since you can include some relevant instructions...)
Oh, and regarding the "bug": this is more or less by design but as I said in another reply above: I might try to experiment to make this a bit faster by raising the boot priority; something for the next release

TheRealQubix said:
Good to know that it works on that device too – feel free to post it over there! (Since I don't have any experience with the Shields it's probably better since you can include some relevant instructions...)
Oh, and regarding the "bug": this is more or less by design but as I said in another reply above: I might try to experiment to make this a bit faster by raising the boot priority; something for the next release
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Thanks again, great job.

brick00444 said:
The only thing I see wrong if you want to call it wrong is, When booting it boots to the android tv screen for about 5-10 seconds but then goes to my Halauncher.
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Ok, I've raised the boot priority to the maximum... find the 1.0.1-dev APK as an attachment.
Let me know if that reacts any faster for you on boots (though a couple seconds will probably be normal, I guess; it all depends on what other things are installed etc.).
Ping to @Flakie too.

I'm getting voiceover on official Hulu app on my v2 stick.

What launcher are available for TV stick? Any Android TV launcher?

JUSTINMARMER said:
I'm getting voiceover on official Hulu app on my v2 stick.
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Yes, that's because Hulu (and some other apps) added some weird code in one of their releases, please try the following:
Settings > Accessibility and make sure that VoiceView AND Screen Magnifier are turned off, the latter one being really important!
You can also hold Back+Menu (toggles voice view) and Back+FastForward (toggles screen magnifier) for two seconds.
If that doesn't work then head into Hulu and turn off app sounds under your profile settings.
If it is still on then go to your apps list in Settings, find the Hulu app, clear its cache AND data, force stop it and then relaunch the app. You will have to sign in again but that should really do the trick.
Please report back!

MrKaon said:
What launcher are available for TV stick? Any Android TV launcher?
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You can find some links on the GitHub page of FTVLaunchX but there are quite a few others like AppStarter, HALauncher, ATV Launcher Pro or even Kodi itself...
My favourite is TVLauncher 3 but everybody will have a different taste... you can find some of them on Aptoide, but most need to be downloaded somewhere else.

thanks for this ive got it on my 4k stick using ATV launcher and looks mighty fine !

From the description looks good. Immediately uninstalled Hijack and installed FTVLauncherX. First tried adb install -g, but adb said -g is an unknown option, so installed it directly from a dir on the stick, granted the permission via adb. Now when my Firestick 2nd starts it does start with the native Amazon Home Launcher and stays there. It switches to my launcher only when pushing the home button. I use ATV Launcher Pro.