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Hulu on Kindle Fire

I wanted Hulu on my kindle fire without paying for hulu plus so I found a hacked apk from the xoom and thought I would share the wealth. This apk makes it so that while browsing your Kindle looks like a windows computer and will allow access to flash apps that normally are only available to a PC. Works like a charm! Hulu looks really good and no sync issues. I haven't tried youtube yet, but I assume it works the same. I searched hacked flash apk in google and clicked a link to the xoom forums. I loaded the apk on my kindle and installed it.

link? i don't have issues with youtube, just hulu.
nvm, hulu works with dolphin browser, just flash didn't work with the firefox browser.

How did you get Hulu and Dolphin browser to work? I have a rooted device, installed Dolphin Browser form android market. Still didn't work.

ewarhol said:
How did you get Hulu and Dolphin browser to work? I have a rooted device, installed Dolphin Browser form android market. Still didn't work.
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When you set up dolphin browser for the first time it gives you an option to run your browser as android, load, mobile, or desktop. Select desktop and you should be good to go. You can also change this from the settings menu in dolphin after you installed it. I would post slink but since I'm new to xda I can't post links until I have 10 posts. I'm close now...haha. ill post a link as soon as I can. Sorry.

Well, Kindle Fire play Youtube videos fine, I have had no problem especially if you side load the youtube app, though I also got a free YouTube download from aneesoft to download videos, but to be frankly, the kindle play great and no need to do other works.
Hmm, Im curious how did you to watch Hulu plus smoothly on it??

tipzilla-
1st- If you reply to this it will be your 10th message
2nd- I did select desktop but it still would not play.

ewarhol said:
tipzilla-
1st- If you reply to this it will be your 10th message
2nd- I did select desktop but it still would not play.
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Same here. Selected desktop mode and I still get message that device is not supported. Was there something else you did?
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xolanir said:
Same here. Selected desktop mode and I still get message that device is not supported. Was there something else you did?
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Well, Hulu page loaded fine for me but I didn't try to play a video until now and I get the "platform not supported" when I try to play a video, so I guess it doesn't work after all.

On CM9 I can get the desktop version to load in chrome without android warning, but the video doesn't play. I installed flash, so thats not the problem. Wonder if its the hardware excel thats causing probs.
YouTube website works fine...

i just went to Hulu web site and KF is listed under supported devices..

I love these posts from new members that claim some app or site works on this device or that device, yet they don't post the link. Then they disappear from the thread.
I'm going to go start a new thread now, about how I found a hacked Netflix app that lets you watch anything without paying. Just don't hold your breath for a link.

It's the licensing
The way I understand it Hulu has license conflicts with some shows that preclude streaming them to a mobile device be it through their app or to an android or IOS based browser.
Those shows appear as "web only" in the Hulu+ favorites listing in the app.

True. Even on a ROKU, we get that message. The work around we use is Playon on our desktop computer. Hulu is accessed by the PC, so everything plays, then Playon shows up on the ROKU and streams Hulu (the regular free version of Hulu).
There is also a Playon app for Android, so you can watch Hulu on the Fire or any Android device. But no direct access to Hulu from KF afaik.

leebo said:
True. Even on a ROKU, we get that message. The work around we use is Playon on our desktop computer. Hulu is accessed by the PC, so everything plays, then Playon shows up on the ROKU and streams Hulu (the regular free version of Hulu).
There is also a Playon app for Android, so you can watch Hulu on the Fire or any Android device. But no direct access to Hulu from KF afaik.
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After the 14 day free trial, how much will it cost to run it?
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Ok, this I don't think will work on cm9, it may you'll have to try and report if it does. They were having an issue with flash in browser. So on miui, cm7, or maybe even rooted stock kindle. Here is the link
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-development/9658-flash-latest-hulu-hacked-flash.html
1. Uninstall your current flash
2. Reboot
3. go to the link and in the first post and download the hulified v. 11.1... apk and install it.
4. Get dolphin browser and you should be good to go.
I forgot the issue about uninstalling and then doing a fresh install. There may also arise the issue of the flash apk being a system app, in that case you will need to use titanium backup to remove it before rebooting and installing the hacked apk.
Good luck guys!

leebo said:
I love these posts from new members that claim some app or site works on this device or that device, yet they don't post the link. Then they disappear from the thread.
I'm going to go start a new thread now, about how I found a hacked Netflix app that lets you watch anything without paying. Just don't hold your breath for a link.
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Sorry for the late reply, try the method in my last post and let me know if it works.

xolanir said:
After the 14 day free trial, how much will it cost to run it?
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Hulu plus is $7.99 a month.

tipzilla said:
Ok, this I don't think will work on cm9, it may you'll have to try and report if it does. They were having an issue with flash in browser. So on miui, cm7, or maybe even rooted stock kindle. Here is the link
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-development/9658-flash-latest-hulu-hacked-flash.html
1. Uninstall your current flash
2. Reboot
3. go to the link and in the first post and download the hulified v. 11.1... apk and install it.
4. Get dolphin browser and you should be good to go.
I forgot the issue about uninstalling and then doing a fresh install. There may also arise the issue of the flash apk being a system app, in that case you will need to use titanium backup to remove it before rebooting and installing the hacked apk.
Good luck guys!
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Tried ^this method and still didn't work. Oh well.
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PlayOn is $5 a month, but if you pay a full year in advance ($40), it works out to something like $3.30 a month. Cheaper than Hulu Plus.
Plus, you get several other "channels". Of course, your computer has to be running while your streaming. I'm just mentioning it as another option.

leebo said:
PlayOn is $5 a month, but if you pay a full year in advance ($40), it works out to something like $3.30 a month. Cheaper than Hulu Plus.
Plus, you get several other "channels". Of course, your computer has to be running while your streaming. I'm just mentioning it as another option.
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Alright perfect thanks. Will look into it. My only problem is having the Pc running at all times. Knowing my kids, it would probably be turned of mid show.
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working sideloads: k9mail chrome firefox ES file/task, and more. kindle reader broken

I downloaded the fdroid apk and did adb install; fdroid runs fine. I was hoping to use it to do most of my sideloading, but the firetv has "unknown apps" disabled, and for now there's no way to change that.
so everything else below, I just went to the respective developer website and got apks and then adb install.
k9mail works great, the only issue was first launch - the screen has 2 buttons at the bottom "import settings" and "next" - the 2 buttons don't show up (i.e. the text is invisible) until you scroll down on the remote (then the button text shows up) - but after getting past that I loaded up my usual settings.k9s that I had copied from my phone, and all was well.
es file manager we all probably know pretty well. although this was the first time I noticed the "remote manager" tool, which is nothing more than an ftp server. but that's nice to remotely mess with the filesystem without having to use adb.
es task manager also works as expected.
connectbot loads, but as soon as you try a connection it dies. haven't looked at logcat yet.
jackpal android terminal works normally.
EDIT:
side loaded chrome 34.0 (.1847.114) works perfectly aside from the 1st time you run it.
(the first time, the license agreement chucks the app sideways into portrait mode. if you can manage to click the large blue button, quit, and restart, it will be back in normal/usable landscape mode. there is a checkbox above the large blue button - leave it unchecked, it's not related to the license agreement, it's about ads or agreeing to receive advertisement emails or something)
side loaded firefox beta 29.0, works perfectly.
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ipcam viewer
still waiting on mine , can anyone verify ip cam viewer sideloads and works as written ?
thanks in advance..
have verified ip cam viewer and tiny cam pro work great.

This might seem like a crazy question, but is the Amazon App Store app on there or can you sideload it? Mine is in the mail and was trying to think of things to do with it before it gets here.

MajikUF said:
This might seem like a crazy question, but is the Amazon App Store app on there or can you sideload it? Mine is in the mail and was trying to think of things to do with it before it gets here.
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It already has a very fragmented amazon store built into the launcher. I tried installing the official, but the install failed because it already exists.

MajikUF said:
This might seem like a crazy question, but is the Amazon App Store app on there or can you sideload it? Mine is in the mail and was trying to think of things to do with it before it gets here.
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it's not a crazy question - a lot of this stuff is still unclear.
the app store is there, more or less - just go into the app section of the UI, and you have your installed apps and also the available apps.
or you can do it through amazon website, here's all firetv-"compatible" apps:
http://www.amazon.com/b?node=7031433011
the sad part is, it's only about 10% of what the app store offers for e.g. kindle hardware or generic android.
if you skim through the free apps for generic android on the website, you can add all sorts of useful things. once you add it, the app page tells you which of your devices it's compatible with. anything in the amazon app store that is not included in the above link is "not compatible" with firetv.
it's kinda sorta really stupid. trying to sideload the app store app isn't going to help, either - because it will still be able to ID the device as a firetv, and it will make the same restrictions. add something free like history channel or es file explorer, and it will show up here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/your-account/myapps
but they will still never show up on your fire tv, because "not compatible" (uh huh.)
(plus, I would worry about the chance of sideloading an amazon app such as the appstore, could mess up the underlying amazon-framework. probably unlikely, but...?
this is also why I have held off sideloading the kindle software reader app.
hopefully amazon will get with expanding available apps soon, it is still early days. BUT CMON NO KINDLE READER APP WTF SPAMAZON. jeez.)

xda app works. Also got google play music to load but couldn't log in to my account.
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other random notes -
I decided to try sideloading com.amazon.kindle.apk (ganked from google play store) for the heck of it, after all.
interesting part: it does seem to have some knowledge of the underlying amazon framework - doesn't ask me for ID/pass, it already knows the device is registered to amazon.
stupid annoying useless part: none of my books show up, no matter what I do.
maybe getting the apk from amazon app store rather than from google might make a difference. I dnno.
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the built-in es media player in es file explorer, works surprisingly well - I have been using it for medium-bitrate mp4 and mkv files (over smb/cifs, no less) as a temporary solution until xbmc is working better. and it's really not bad at all!
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gmail and gvoice both worked fine in chrome - mobile webpage as well as desktop webpage.
except for: no audio from voicemail playback in gvoice.
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linphone always crashes on startup, so no luck testing there.
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generic usb cameras are correctly recognized as uvcvideo. but I was not able to get com.pas.webcam.apk or any of the generic webcam test apps to work.
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nova launcher works about as expected.
at one point I did get super-hopeful because nova has a link to generic android settings, but all it did was send me to the firetv settings area. ah well.

tarvoke said:
nova launcher works about as expected.
at one point I did get super-hopeful because nova has a link to generic android settings, but all it did was send me to the firetv settings area. ah well.
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How did you switch launchers? I couldn't find a way to get Open Launcher to work, since I can't clear the default stock launcher settings.

Luxferro said:
How did you switch launchers? I couldn't find a way to get Open Launcher to work, since I can't clear the default stock launcher settings.
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I just ran it from settings->apps. it's not really a permanent switch. I haven't tried open launcher, so can't offer much help sorry.
what I got was standard nova desktop, with no notification bar (even though by default it's enabled), and with the app tray on the right.
at that point, if you press the menu/context button on the remote, you get a list of options including nova settings and android settings (which as mention, only kicks you back to the amazon settings) wallpaper and stuff.
if you go into the app list, all you see is all your sideloaded apps. no way to get to actual amazon tv/video/games/apps, without jumping back to the amazon launcher. and then you have to run settings->apps->nova again, if you want the nova desktop again. (or simply alt-tab, if you have a keyboard connected)
and you will also see an icon for the "amazon video" app, but nothing actually happens if you try to run that one. (I'm guessing it's not exactly an app as much as it is part of the framework, or some kind of helper etc.)
I don't really recall seeing any "complete action using" dialogs like I would see occasionally on OUYA, but then I didn't play around enough to see if it was possible to make the launcher more permanent or stick better. but when I ran a sideloaded app from nova desktop, and then quit (e.g. xbmc) it would exit to nova rather than to amazon.

ahhhhhhh ok I see. just now tried open launcher for myself - ok so it won't let you run the launcher without making the switch in settings. and we have no way to get to those settings. and the 'home' button the dialog box is talking about, is a very different thing from the home button on the amazon remote.
that's really too bad, it looks like a pretty nice launcher.

tarvoke said:
ahhhhhhh ok I see. just now tried open launcher for myself - ok so it won't let you run the launcher without making the switch in settings. and we have no way to get to those settings. and the 'home' button the dialog box is talking about, is a very different thing from the home button on the amazon remote.
that's really too bad, it looks like a pretty nice launcher.
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yeah, I tried to find a way, but I don't think it's possible with the stock rom, since it lacks so many settings normally found in android. There aren't too many launchers meant for GTV type boxes, and that one seems pretty since.

bkdg100 said:
still waiting on mine , can anyone verify ip cam viewer sideloads and works as written ?
thanks in advance..
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I tried tinycam free and it works great. When I get time I'll try ip camera viewer.

Can anyone try with Sopcast app?
If it can play without hiccups sopcast streamings of 3000kbps I will definetely get one

I have tried a bunch of games sideloaded.
Working with Ouya BT controller:
GTA Vice City and San Andreas
Shadogun HD
Bard's Tale
Sonic CD
Games that load but we need touch mapping once we get root:
Shadowrun Returns
Ravensword 2
Chronotrigger
FFIII
Dungeon Hunter 4
I am loading some emulators later and I will post the results.

titooo7 said:
Can anyone try with Sopcast app?
If it can play without hiccups sopcast streamings of 3000kbps I will definetely get one
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I could only see one 3000k channel on the default server - turbosport tv.
at first it was jerky because it kept running out of buffer. (even 1500k channels did too)
but then I paused and waited until the buffer went up to 100.
after that, I have been watching the 3000k football for about 5-10 minutes so far, and not a single hiccup.
really nice hd picture, and there is no corruption, no artifacts, no weird/unsettling motion/blur.
EDIT:
oh, it definitely made the firetv warmer than usual. but it is not hot in any sense.
with normal use (xbmc, Prime TV) mine is either room temperature, or a little bit warm in the one corner where the cpu/soc is.
with this program, the entire heatsink is moderately warm.
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Has anyone tried any of the tv network apps like CBS, A&E, and others?

Spotify?
Anyone tried to sideload Spotify?

Anyone tried to side load a settings.apk?
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scottsdca said:
Anyone tried to side load a settings.apk?
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FRIGGIN CHAMPION IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.glassxe.com/2013/05/23/s...-from-the-hacking-glass-session-at-google-io/
I loaded Settings.apk and Launcher2.apk
the launcher only crashes, so don't bother.
the settings, a lot of them crash as mentioned in the article.
but so far I have a bluetooth speaker paired, connected, and WORKING - sound is coming out the BT speaker and not my TV.
even fired up PrimeTV and sound was as normal, only it was the BT speaker.
xbmc? darn right the sound is coming perfectly out of the BT speaker.
now I turned off the BT speaker, and sound is coming out the TV again. seamless as it should be.
turned the speaker back on, and it autoconnected, all fireTV audio is back on the BT speaker again.

Apps going outside the screen
I am able to load many of the apps mentioned, but most of them go beyond the screen. Is there any way to calibrate the video?

Via aptoide - Watchever, Napster, Chrome uva. on Fire TV

Hi,
i tried to install today Aptoide on my new Fire TV, and it works.
So now i have currently setup Watchever, Napster and Chrome on the Box.
A further effect is, there is an update for the App-Shop from Amazon, which deleted the App Overview and show all apps.
See the attached images.

Peter_SG said:
Hi,
i tried to install today Aptoide on my new Fire TV, and it works.
So now i have currently setup Watchever, Napster and Chrome on the Box.
A further effect is, there is an update for the App-Shop from Amazon, which deleted the App Overview and show all apps.
See the attached images.
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Hey, looks nice! What should i do to get that app overview?

Aptoide updates the Appstore and replaces it with one from a phone.
It's a bad idea if you actually use the Appstore because I've had this installed for 1 hour and I still can't find how to install the apps I own, as the library link just brings you back to the main apps window.

_Alex_ said:
Aptoide updates the Appstore and replaces it with one from a phone.
It's a bad idea if you actually use the Appstore because I've had this installed for 1 hour and I still can't find how to install the apps I own, as the library link just brings you back to the main apps window.
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Hm ok but how you see it works currently for me.
See current image

Peter_SG said:
Hm ok but how you see it works currently for me.
See current image
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Sorry for not being clear:
Aptoide works fine.
The modified App menu on the default fire tv launcher looks like your screenshot.
However, the Amazon AppStore is *REALLY* broken after you allow Aptoide to upgrade the Amazon Appstore.
I've since restored the Amazon AppStore from TiBU so no screenies for me...

_Alex_ said:
Sorry for not being clear:
Aptoide works fine.
The modified App menu on the default fire tv launcher looks like your screenshot.
However, the Amazon AppStore is *REALLY* broken after you allow Aptoide to upgrade the Amazon Appstore.
I've since restored the Amazon AppStore from TiBU so no screenies for me...
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Ahhh yes you are right, i had some "Issues" with that, even with some Apps which get "broken" .... but only this one from the Amazon Store.

SPMC On Fire TV Home Screen

Here is how I have found you can get SPMC on the Fire TV/Fire TV Stick
Install latest SPMC 13.3.3
Open SPMC at least once (you may get a OBB not found error. You will have to copy that folder from another device if you have one)
I copied mine from my Nook hd+ running SPMC
go to Amazon.com and deregister your fire tv
restart the fire tv
re register with your same account
restart the fire tv
start SPMC from the settings apps menu
close SPMC
restart fire tv
SPMC should show up in your Recent menu on the home screen
note: you may have to restart the Fire TV a few times before SPMC shows up in Recent on the Home screen
I have SPMC on the Home Screen of both my Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. I can't post screenshots but this method has worked for both
Hope this will help someone. BTW I am not rooted! On the latest firmware

Interesting work around, I wonder how that works and other methods have not. I wonder if we can get this to work with other sideloaded apps also.
Thanks for sharing this

This has been the case for me with the firetv for a long time. I don't know if all versions work, because i upgraded spmc one time and the app didn't show up anymore. The version i had was a sideloaded app that i had installed to my phone through the amazon app store. I think that right there is the main reason it works and shows up.
Thinking back, i may have upgraded the spmc from chrome when it didn't show up.
Its good to see it works on the stick too. Waiting until jan 6th for mine....

You sure got my attention! Question, please...
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I copied mine from my Nook hd+ running SPMC
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Can you elaborate on that please? How do you copy an app from the HD+ to the Fire TV?

I didn't do anything special.
I downloaded the APK from -> http://spmc.semperpax.com/ and Side loaded it to my FireTV Stick using -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736774
After using it a few times it showed up in Recent on its own.
Note: I did unplug my Stick once, but I'm not sure if it was before or after installing/using SPMC.
EDIT: I did "purchase" via Amazon's app store on the PC prior to side loading. Amazon did tell me that it wasn't compatible with my devices. I continued anyway.

Can you try this with any other sideloaded app to see if it works? Seems like if this trick worked for SPMC, it would also work for Kodi

mr3p said:
Can you try this with any other sideloaded app to see if it works? Seems like if this trick worked for SPMC, it would also work for Kodi
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It didn't work for the XBMC apk I had originally sideloaded.

KidJoe said:
It didn't work for the XBMC apk I had originally sideloaded.
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Confirmed. (XBMC/Kodi)

i sideloaded the spmc apk, after that i installed SPMC from amazon appstore,
sync on fire tv and there was SPMC in the launcher

areon said:
... i installed SPMC from amazon appstore ...
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I *strongly* suspect that makes all the difference.

How do you copy an app from the HD+ to the fire tv
wellersl said:
You sure got my attention! Question, please...
Can you elaborate on that please? How do you copy an app from the HD+ to the Fire TV?
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I used an App called Airdroid to download the SPMC app from my HD+ to my pc. then I adb copied the SPMC app to the fire tv and installed it. I then used the file manager ES File Explorer to copy the OBB to the Android OBB directory on the Fire TV.
Hope that answers your question.

t3ch42
t3ch42 said:
This has been the case for me with the firetv for a long time. I don't know if all versions work, because i upgraded spmc one time and the app didn't show up anymore. The version i had was a sideloaded app that i had installed to my phone through the amazon app store. I think that right there is the main reason it works and shows up.
Thinking back, i may have upgraded the spmc from chrome when it didn't show up.
Its good to see it works on the stick too. Waiting until jan 6th for mine....
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You may be right regarding why it shows up if downloaded from amazon app store. I could never get it to download to the Fire TV and I have no other amazon devices so I downloaded it from the Google Play Store. I think that is also why it asks for the OBB file when you run SPMC for the first time after install. What is great about this is that it does not require root. Neither my Fire TV or Fire Stick are rooted.

dk1keith said:
I used an App called Airdroid to download the SPMC app from my HD+ to my pc. then I adb copied the SPMC app to the fire tv and installed it. I then used the file manager ES File Explorer to copy the OBB to the Android OBB directory on the Fire TV.
Hope that answers your question.
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Yup. That answers it. Thanks.

*strongly* suspect that makes all the difference.
wellersl said:
I *strongly* suspect that makes all the difference.
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I think you're right but I installed my SPMC from the Google Play Store. That may be why I had to do the extra steps to get it to show up on the Home Screen. I have no way of uploading to the forums or I would give the SPMC app and the OBB files to someone else to see if they can get it to work.

areon said:
i sideloaded the spmc apk, after that i installed SPMC from amazon appstore,
sync on fire tv and there was SPMC in the launcher
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How do you do this? I admit, I am not fully sure I understand how Amazon appstore works, but I have several devices that are registered (phone, kindle tablet, fire tv, fire tv stick) and when I go to Amazon.com and search for SPMC, it shows that it is only compatible with my phone - does not give me option to deliver to my other devices.

Youd need to pull it from another device and push it over to the FireTV unless someone is kind enough to post the needed files then you just need to push them over.

MadFlava said:
Youd need to pull it from another device and push it over to the FireTV unless someone is kind enough to post the needed files then you just need to push them over.
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There is an app I saw in another thread called AGK Fire which will allow you to push installed apps to your Fire TV by simply entering the I address of the Fire TV. Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought the poster was able to install SPMC directly from the Amazaon app store, like one would normally install an app directly from Google Play store.

I just tried this trick and it works!
Thanks dk1keith
I created an Android VM with VirtualBox, loaded the Amazon app store and downloaded SPMC.
I backed up the APK file and sideloaded it to my Fire TV stick and after de-registering my device and re-registering, SPMC now shows up in the recent app list.
Other apps like ES File Explorer show up as well.
This is great as it eliminates the need for Llama for sideloaded apps.

Other apps like ES File Explorer show up as well.
binary01 said:
I just tried this trick and it works!
Thanks dk1keith
I created an Android VM with VirtualBox, loaded the Amazon app store and downloaded SPMC.
I backed up the APK file and sideloaded it to my Fire TV stick and after de-registering my device and re-registering, SPMC now shows up in the recent app list.
Other apps like ES File Explorer show up as well.
This is great as it eliminates the need for Llama for sideloaded apps.
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Wow that is really interesting. Only SPMC shows up in my recent? I may try VirtualBox to get some of the other apps on the homescreen.
Thanks for the tip!

jpage101 said:
There is an app I saw in another thread called AGK Fire which will allow you to push installed apps to your Fire TV by simply entering the I address of the Fire TV. Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought the poster was able to install SPMC directly from the Amazaon app store, like one would normally install an app directly from Google Play store.
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The FireTV isnt on the compatible list in the Amazon store so you have to pull it from another source.

few questions

I want to order 2 nexus players for someone only for Kodi.
Question#1
Is navigating using the remote working just fine like on Fire TV?(I own fire tv)
Question #2
Is there anyway to put kodi icon on the leanback launcher by google? instead of going to settings and viewing all apps ? I saw some people on youtube having Kodi on the default google launcher,I am aware I could use xbmc launcher to launch it instantly.
Thanks guys! hopefully someone can answer me by tomorrow so I can order

50 people saw this and no one can help me out before I buy it.. come on anyone lol

patt2k said:
50 people saw this and no one can help me out before I buy it.. come on anyone lol
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If you join the Beta google + group for Kodi it is in the play store to be installed on the NP and it shows up in the lean back launcher by default.
I only use the NP remote,it works fine for the basic operations.

patt2k said:
I want to order 2 nexus players for someone only for Kodi.
Question#1
Is navigating using the remote working just fine like on Fire TV?(I own fire tv)
Question #2
Is there anyway to put kodi icon on the leanback launcher by google? instead of going to settings and viewing all apps ? I saw some people on youtube having Kodi on the default google launcher,I am aware I could use xbmc launcher to launch it instantly.
Thanks guys! hopefully someone can answer me by tomorrow so I can order
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Question #1: Yes, with the current Kodi builds the remote and HDMI CEC works very well.
Question #2: With the current Kodi builds the Kodi Icon appears on the native NP menu system.
I am not in the beta program I just sideloaded the current Stable Kodi build (14.2 “Helix”). Just make sure you get the Intel (x86)Android build!

sschlosnagle said:
Question #1: Yes, with the current Kodi builds the remote and HDMI CEC works very well.
Question #2: With the current Kodi builds the Kodi Icon appears on the native NP menu system.
I am not in the beta program I just sideloaded the current Stable Kodi build (14.2 “Helix”). Just make sure you get the Intel (x86)Android build!
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Finally someone looked at my post lmao.
Great thanks what about context menu ? fire tv has the menu button does the nexus remote also has same thing ?
also I read that with the 5.1.1 android build you can't easily send ES File Explorer (many people call it EZ for some reason lol) using browser to -> nexus.
One guy wrote a tip somewhere using app that creates a server between nexus and my pc. Is there any other way ? I guess after i get es file explorer I can do whatever I want.
Thanks once again!
Sleeepy2 said:
If you join the Beta google + group for Kodi it is in the play store to be installed on the NP and it shows up in the lean back launcher by default.
I only use the NP remote,it works fine for the basic operations.
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Thanks as well for the answer. Look at my last question to the other guy if you can thanks

patt2k said:
Finally someone looked at my post lmao.
Great thanks what about context menu ? fire tv has the menu button does the nexus remote also has same thing ?
also I read that with the 5.1.1 android build you can't easily send ES File Explorer (many people call it EZ for some reason lol) using browser to -> nexus.
One guy wrote a tip somewhere using app that creates a server between nexus and my pc. Is there any other way ? I guess after i get es file explorer I can do whatever I want.
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The Nexus remote does not have a context button, and that is mildly annoying. I have a BT keyboard connected to the NP, so I can use the context button there if I need to. I looked into remapping a CEC command so at least I could use a button from my TV's remote. Looks possible, but I haven't bothered pursuing it since the BT keyboard offer me a solution.
I sideloaded ES File Explorer and since then used it's built in update feature. Recent copies of ES also show up on the NP native menu.
There are lots of ways to get content to the NP, mine gets content from my NAS via SMB. Works fine from Kodi and ES.

sschlosnagle said:
The Nexus remote does not have a context button, and that is mildly annoying. I have a BT keyboard connected to the NP, so I can use the context button there if I need to. I looked into remapping a CEC command so at least I could use a button from my TV's remote. Looks possible, but I haven't bothered pursuing it since the BT keyboard offer me a solution.
I sideloaded ES File Explorer and since then used it's built in update feature. Recent copies of ES also show up on the NP native menu.
There are lots of ways to get content to the NP, mine gets content from my NAS via SMB. Works fine from Kodi and ES.
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Hmm any other way then BT keyboard? do you think pairing fire tv stick/tv remote would do the job? I will only need it to set it up with few things.
I wouldn't want to order BT keyboard just for that lol

I use the fire TV stick remote with mine and it works fine, u just have to add a couple keymap files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59770900
If u just need it to set some stuff up u shouldn't need the keymaps as they only help with the center button

pbanj said:
I use the fire TV stick remote with mine and it works fine, u just have to add a couple keymap files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59770900
If u just need it to set some stuff up u shouldn't need the keymaps as they only help with the center button
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I will try without when I get them. I can also edit add-on settings by going to add-ons in settings so it may take little longer but maybe could be done.
These aren't for me though I will just need to set them up, fedex is delivering razer forge tv today.

any of you guys have working HBO GO app without using mouse? all I need to complete my setup is hbo go and showtime anytime (I know I can cast from my phone)