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The Verge has reported that a "narrow" release of the next software update has started today. I know everyone here probably has it blocked, but let us know if you get any indication of the update.
More info here.
UPDATE: Amazon is now saying the update will be released next week.
Wonder if this update blocks root... guess we will find out soon enough...
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Anyone that does not want root needs to tell us the changelog for the update when they get it.
retroben said:
Anyone that does not want root needs to tell us the changelog for the update when they get it.
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I unrooted my FTV and will wait for the update.
Yeah, I'd like to know this as well. My Fire TV is out for delivery. Can't wait to mess with it.
The Verge has updated their article. Amazon is now saying the update will begin rolling out next week.
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The Verge has updated their article. Amazon is now saying the update will begin rolling out next week.
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A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
alwaysbless said:
A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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I hope you're right! As a Prime user, the video filter would be a cool feature. It'd be nice to be able to update and re-root.
Also has the music baked in, and free time. Can apparently search by price.
As long as sideloading still works I may just go for it.
I bought the box was to be able to view Prime video content as well as local media and Netflix. Root is nice to have, but for me losing access to Prime video means the box is not doing what I bought it for. Of course, so is losing XBMC, so if sideloading breaks the box goes back and I probably pick up a TV that I can stream to via Bubble as well as use for NF and Prime - or I reconnect my WDTVLIVE and hope my bluray player eventually gets Prime. It just got the Digital Concert Hall from the Berlin Philharmonic, and that's a great, if expensive, service.
I had paid google apps working without root after sideloading enough of the google stuff to get login working.
If the update's mandatory for Prime viewing, I update. If it breaks xbmc, I return.
I imagine Prime video will still work...right?
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A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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If it is even the same exploit. This update has been coming for awhile so maybe it will just be the update they have been working on.
kairnage said:
If it is even the same exploit. This update has been coming for awhile so maybe it will just be the update they have been working on.
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Yea thats wht im saying this is almost certainly an update they have had on their road map for a while. Only potential problem I can see if towelroot use the same exploits that jcase already submitted to amazon / qualcomm for patching (he mentioned a few weeks back that a security update was coming very soon).
alwaysbless said:
A weeks time to close a root exploit that just came out over the weekend? I doubt their devs will be able to squeeze that in but maybe.
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Isn't this exploit the same as the root exploit for the Samsung S5? If so, this would make it an Android/ASOP issue, no? This could impact the time it takes for a fix to be made and trickled down to different implementations.
The towelroot exploit was a kernel bug that was disclosed at the beginning of the month and has been fixed in the kernel since the disclosure.
rbox said:
The towelroot exploit was a kernel bug that was disclosed at the beginning of the month and has been fixed in the kernel since the disclosure.
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Sure, but did Amazon have time to get that fix tested / do they have time to get that fix tested if they're releasing an update this week? Very hard to say - depends on them realizing that the Linux kernel vulnerability to a local privilege escalation meant their device was trivially rootable and having the development team chops to patch the bug themselves rather than waiting for the kernel maintainers to address it and release the source code for the fix.
I suspect that Amazon's not at the top of Google's list for private code releases
As far as the update goes: it's possible that Amazon will, at some point, stop permitting access to their content from devices running code at or below release X.
I don't know their history on this sort of thing - do the Kindle Fire devices stop having access to reading material if they get too far behind in updates?
fire tv prime broken with root
deanemj said:
I imagine Prime video will still work...right?
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It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
Madmox2000 said:
It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
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Just watched Mad Max from prime... Launched KFTV Launcher from XBMC set as my default launcher on a rooted AFTV... I'm on the latest root able firmware.
Madmox2000 said:
It's broken for me.
I rooted and lost amazon video right away. get player error.
Trying to find anybody that claims to have prime video working with rooted box, no luck.
I am thinking about unrooting now as xbmc is good, but I have been using plex for years and it is the cleanest interface for my purposes.
Anyone have prime working with root?
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2 FTV with working Prime video on the original installed firmware and the last rootable update. Just got done watching 1st season of Stargate.
Been watching The Wire/Prime on a rooted aftv. NP here.
Try shutting down XBMC/Netflix and try the prime video. Or do a full shutdown and try it first up before doing anything else. I have a movie paused on XBMC and tried a prime video and I got that error. Shut down XBMC and it started working fine again.
Not sure if the XBMC launcher messes up prime streaming due to the problem I listed above.
Edit: You can update and then reroot with TowelRoot with no issues!
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Has anyone updated yet? I am wondering if it either maintains root of if you are able to root again afterwards.
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What are the listed changes?
kickassdave said:
What are the listed changes?
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The features in this update are as follows:
Improved WiFi performance on 5GHz band
Performance optimizations for encrypted devices
Fixed intermittent charging issue
Just checked but no update available for me yet
It's available now!
Towelroot still works if anyone was wondering.
I'm getting better internet connection
Update went with a hitch. Rerooted my LTE with Towel root, no problems. They
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Rerooted
I received the update about 2 hours ago. I am on CWM. When I flashed the update I was asked if I wanted to keep my recovery and my recovery was not affected. I did however have to reroot by flashing supersu in recovery. Re flashed Viper4Android and re-enabled xposed no problem. I can not wait for Lollipop for this device. I have the Nexus 5 and gave the final Dev preview a run and it was awesome. There was a 'Miscellaneous' battery drain that I could not pinpoint so I reverted. If it weren't for that I would have kept it on my device. It will sure look awesome on this phone. I think it would be cool if there were more Nvidia green in the OS for the new colorful Lollipop 5.0.
This update broke my favourite game. It know sucks to be a shield tablet owner.
dumbdroid said:
This update broke my favourite game. It know sucks to be a shield tablet owner.
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What game?
Works great on my 32gb lte version, I recommend a factory reset after update or atleast if u are rooted with recovery clear cache and dalvic/art cache
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What game?
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Sonic all stars racing transformed
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Sonic all stars racing transformed
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I tried this game and its working fine here, try a factory reset...
I've already did that 2 times
Cars: fast as a lightning is also giving me a force close
Edit: managed to fix this one by changing language to English, not the first time i see this on a gameloft game but was working fine before the update.
Installed this update yesterday and today I'm having problems with touch screen, it goes crazy! Like detecting more fingers than the one i'm using to touch it.. LOL
Maybe a problem of the screen protector or could be a software problem??
Hello, can somebody please tell me if the bootloader is re-locked after this OTA update is installed?
Shocky2 said:
Hello, can somebody please tell me if the bootloader is re-locked after this OTA update is installed?
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None of the others did and nvidia allows you to unlock the bootloader so I doubt they'd make an effort to do that. There isn't anything to be worried about either way.
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I did the update on my 32gb lte and it broke my sounds and video playback also broke my mobile connection
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linuxct said:
Installed this update yesterday and today I'm having problems with touch screen, it goes crazy! Like detecting more fingers than the one i'm using to touch it.. LOL
Maybe a problem of the screen protector or could be a software problem??
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I haven't seen any issues myself but I wouldn't go pulling your screen protector if it was working fine with it before... I have even been swiping out my messages on the forum with my tablet and any device that had touch screen issues before would mess up doing that.
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I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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I'm running into the same problem. I just set up my nexus player yesterday, so I haven't been able to get Kodi on it at all yet. Hoping that it pops back up on the store.
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You can still sideload it.
Yea. I noticed that yesterday. Just got this on Friday and trying different roms. I can say it WAS in playstore on Friday but gone by yesterday afternoon.
Still available for the Razer Forge TV, hopefully temporary.
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I can still see it via browser on my desktop and my Moto X but it seems to be gone from the Play Store on the Nexus Player. If I try to install it to the Nexus Player from my browser, it just hangs.
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I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
use voice search. if not then sideload
Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
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Side load it....
This vid helped me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fQKBPk-EM
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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Well That video is months old but it worked for me... i downloaded the x86 version haven't had a issue. The version in that vid is like 14.0 helix were now on 15.2
odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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odd I still see it on the play store.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi&hl=en
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Yea, it came back today.
Mine never came back and I am having a problem on the x86 version (cannot connect to pvr that is on my network), gonna try the ARM version to see if that fixes it
EDIT: After uninstalling the x86 version that I loaded the other day but wasn't working with my PVR, I checked the play store and it was available on there and I installed it and it works perfectly again with my pvr
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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The one on the play store works fine for me!
Search, "XBMC"
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Theaxe said:
I loaded Kodi on Thursday and then removed to start a fresh build late Saturday night and when I went to the Play Store to load it, I couldn't find it. I screwed around for hours and subsequently beat my Nexus Player with my fists until it popped apart and bloodied my right hand, as assumed it was the device and then maybe a Google account issue. I eventually found the number for Google service and after about 20 minutes on the phone, they discovered there was an issue. The rep said he believed it was an issue with the developer and that it must've just happened because somebody else had called in to another rep about the issue while I was on the phone with him. Think the player is going to go back to the store, regardless of whether or not I damaged it permanently from beating it. By the way, Kodi IS still available on my Android tablet via the Play Store just not the Nexus Player. I might just take this as my red flag that the Nexus is going to be quirky in the future and be done with it.
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LOL! What is with people and having to have kodi? It's like, crack for media junkies! I have never used this Kodi (XBMC). What is so great about it?
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I was going to say, I checked and it is on the playstore. It says "Updated 10/27/2015". Kodi goes off the playstore for a day, this guy notices, and all hell breaks lose! LOL
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Weird that the x86 version of Kodi has issues on the Nexus Player.
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It doesn't, that bug only existed for a couple weeks. It was fixed in 15.0 beta 1 back in the early spring. You're better off using the x86 version now.
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You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
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You need to opt in for testing to install Kodi on Nexus Player - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.xbmc.kodi follow this link and opt in and all will install fine
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No, you don't. It's back in the Play Store now.
ZV9 Should be dropping soon!
http://opensource.lge.com/osSch/list?types=ALL&search=Ls992
Wonder what's in it besides security fixes?
Its about 353.7mb,but for some reason it wont download. Its downloading,just needed a restart
One thing i can tell you is that the upgrading has changed,instead of the green android showing up when its installing,its now a multi colored circle. When phone restarts from install,the final upgrade look has changed as well
Still doesn't fix messages lag since 7.0 that's highly annoying and I don't even use this line that much for it.
Also for awhile I randomly get Amazon photos has crashed, but I don't even have it installed haha
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Still doesn't fix messages lag since 7.0 that's highly annoying and I don't even use this line that much for it.
Also for awhile I randomly get Amazon photos has crashed, but I don't even have it installed haha
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I get that as well and I have it disabled
I don't think I have gottin the Amazon crash with the newest update but I well could have I have just came to except it. :/ Before the newest update it seemed to happen most for me right after plugging in the charger. And also I have all the Amazon crap disabled so it's rather odd.
Got update notification, anyone installed yet?
Any released note for it?
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Got update notification, anyone installed yet?
Any released note for it?
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Release notes, hahahahah that's funny. They don't believe those should be public. lol
Sprint just says Android Security Patches
I'm trying to understand why the Official Samsung TouchWiz Home app on the Google Play Store is not compatible with my S8+. The following article mentions that there is a new update available:
http://www.androidauthority.com/touchwiz-home-update-lag-galaxy-s8-783442/
Is this a region specific issue? Is anyone in Canada able to do the update?
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I'm trying to understand why the Official Samsung TouchWiz Home app on the Google Play Store is not compatible with my S8+. The following article mentions that there is a new update available:
http://www.androidauthority.com/touchwiz-home-update-lag-galaxy-s8-783442/
Is this a region specific issue? Is anyone in Canada able to do the update?
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I have updated it now but no changes
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Title101 said:
I'm trying to understand why the Official Samsung TouchWiz Home app on the Google Play Store is not compatible with my S8+. The following article mentions that there is a new update available:
http://www.androidauthority.com/touchwiz-home-update-lag-galaxy-s8-783442/
Is this a region specific issue? Is anyone in Canada able to do the update?
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In this case you can always use alternative site to download app
http://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/touchwiz-home/6.1.09.2/
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In this case you can always use alternative site to download app
http://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/touchwiz-home/6.1.09.2/
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Thanks for the suggestion, that is always an option. TouchWiz Home is currently behind two versions on my device. I should be getting the June security update soon. I will check to see if it gets updated then. In the mean time, I was hoping someone from Canada could confirm if they have the same issue that I have.
I'm in the same boat. Also says not compatible.
US here
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Thanks for the suggestion, that is always an option. TouchWiz Home is currently behind two versions on my device. I should be getting the June security update soon. I will check to see if it gets updated then. In the mean time, I was hoping someone from Canada could confirm if they have the same issue that I have.
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You won't get it with June update. Btw I can download it through play store using Galaxy S6 and S8 Port rom.
Mine says the same on the play store, pretty messed up. On the latest version of TW home they have fixed the horrible lag when opening and closing the swipe up or down app drawer. everything seems to run just a little bit smoother.
heres the latest apk for those who are looking for it.
The update came in and it's working now. I wonder if Samsung may have been staggering the updates or there was some kind of delay caused by the play store.
For some reason, shortly after I did the update it went back to not being compatible and it has been that way since. It appears to still be the same version that I currently have but I wonder what will happen when the next update comes.