[ROM][KFHD7][7.3.1] ♦ Kinology 2.0.1 ♦ 2013/04/20 ♦

Introducing Kinology - The Premier KFHD7 Custom ROM​

• Display density set to 200
• Lower brightness levels enabled
• Notification icons enabled instead of "My Kindle" text
• Many tablet / dual pane layouts are enabled due to the density change
• Approximate percentage (rounded to 5%) shown on status bar battery icon
• Boot animation based on "Revisiting Brownian Motion" (with permission)

• Long press the Navbar Home button to bring up Recents
• Navbar will always show the Menu button in non-Amazon apps
• Restart and Recovery options available in Power button menu
• Bluetooth sharing will accept all file types
• App suppression in default launcher disabled
• Non-Amazon account & sync settings enabled
• Advanced Accessibility options enabled (ICS-style services list)
• Select Screen Lock enabled
• Inspired by (but not copied from) 0xD34D's KFHD Extended Settings:
  • Text-to-speech options enabled
  • Data Usage, Power Usage, and Battery Info options enabled
  • Developer Options enabled

• Third-party launchers no longer need to be installed to /system
• Widget and Live Wallpaper pickers pre-installed

• Rooted with latest SuperSu from Chainfire
• All system apps are fully deodexed, optipng'd, and zipalign'd
• Most recent Amazon Kindle app updates pre-installed
• Allow non-market apps to install by default
• AOSP Keyboard and CyanogenMod DSPManager included
• Easily uninstallable third-party apps: OI File Manager, AdAway, and Adobe Flash Player (Note: Flash will also require installation of a supported third-party browser of your choice)

• Google package includes the ICS Framework, FaceLock, Gallery, Gmail, Play Store, Talk, and TTS
• Play Store apps unrestricted based on Tsjoklat's fixes
• Libs, Permissions, etc., included so that other Google apps may be installed

• Supports init.d via iridaki's install-recovery technique
• Latest busybox installed (stericson's version)
• Automatic zipalign of user apps during boot
• Automatic permissions fixing during boot
• OTA updates disabled (based on prokennexusa's scripts)
• ADB shell uses root account

• Fixed crash on Gmail notifications (this is an Amazon OS bug, not Gmail)
• Fixed non-scrollable wallpaper issue
• Fixed Lockscreen turning black at custom DPI
• Fixed potential battery drain due to searching for a cellular signal
• Show only the secure lockscreen when enabled

• Kindle Fire Tutorial
• Kindle Freetime Tutorial
• Lockscreen Ads
• Amazon Store's Market link stealer

• If you are not currently running Kinology or Stock OS with TWRP 2.4.4.0, download Kinology-step0a-boot-7.3.0-twrp-2.4.4.0.zip. This will flash four items: stock 7.3.0 xloader, stock 7.2.3 bootloader, Freedom boot/kernel 7.3.0, and TWRP recovery 2.4.4.0.
• If you want to do a clean install, download Kinology-step0b-wipedata.zip. If you want to keep your user apps and their data, do NOT include this file. Flashing this will wipe out EVERYTHING except the internal storage (sdcard). It will, however, move your currently installed apps (but not their data) to the sdcard at Kinology/AppBackup. Don't forget to delete the AppBackup folder to free up some space once you no longer need it.

• Download Kinology-step1a-amazonos-7.3.1.zip, Kinology-step1b-amazonos-7.3.1.zip, and Kinology-step1c-amazonos-7.3.1.zip.
• If you skip to step 4, you will have a stock 7.3.1 OS, unrooted, but with a custom recovery.

• Download Kinology-step2-kinology-2.0.1.zip.
• If you skip to step 4, you will have the base Amazon OS with all Kinology features, but no Google Framework or Apps.

• Download Kinology-step3-google-20130425.zip.
• This step gives you the full Kinology Experience!

• Transfer all downloaded zip files to your Kindle's storage
• Reboot into TWRP Recovery
• Choose "Install"
• Select the first zip file you downloaded
• Choose "Add More Zips"
• Select each zip file you downloaded in order and repeat until all files are queued
• Swipe to Confirm Flash
• Choose "Reboot System"

• Kinology-step0a-boot-7.3.0-twrp-2.4.4.0.zip - 9985CF40674D976B19B27FB9431EC55C
• Kinology-step0b-wipedata.zip - 83520190255803A4593B1FBF24DE99AA
• Kinology-step1a-amazonos-7.3.1.zip - BC994650E3ACECF6E70E095E257D8DCC
• Kinology-step1b-amazonos-7.3.1.zip - A277A4E953DAB5D0CF591AD16E532D15
• Kinology-step1c-amazonos-7.3.1.zip - 6179FAA72779D83B64B72DE7358D9267
• Kinology-step2-kinology-2.0.1.zip - 690077C2BCB08A0DCE72023AB618B5E1
• Kinology-step3-google-20130425.zip - 10B58F59468849D01032B7DBDFAE19E0

• The packages used for OTA updates can be enabled or disabled at boot time. Just rename the file to either "ota-disable" or "ota-enable" and reboot your Kindle. It is, of course, highly recommended to leave OTA disabled, as an Amazon-triggered updated would wipe out most, if not all, of Kinology from your device.

• By default, ADB uses the 'root' account, and then immediately drops to the 'shell' account. This custom ROM injects a version of adbd that does not drop to the shell account. To change this behavior, rename the file to either "adbd-root" or "adbd-shell" and reboot your Kindle.

• This behavior can be changed by renaming the file to either "za-enable" or "za-disable".

• See third post

• See second post

• See second post

• The Recents dialog doesn't accept touches when launched from a full-screen app. The workaround is to pull down the notification window first, then long-press the home icon.
  So far, I have been unsuccessful at finding a fix for this.
• Updating the Amazon Mobile (Tablet) app from the Play Store will cause the "Shop" link on Amazon's Launcher to stop working. There is no workaround - despite being marked as an update, these two apps are not equivalent. If you do accidentally update the app, just use Google Play Store to uninstall the update and everything will return to normal.
  This cannot be fixed due to the two apps sharing the same Android identifier.
• If no accounts have been added yet, the Accounts & Sync page is completely blank. Just press the menu button to add an account.
  While awkward, this is the intended behavior.
• If the first Google account is added by launching Play Store, you may need to wipe Play Store's data before the "My Apps" page will work properly. The workaround is to add your account through Account & Sync settings, or by launching Gmail or Talk instead.
  This will not be fixed, as it seems to be a bug in the Play Store / Google Framework interaction.
• The Amazon Accessibility options override the advanced options. For example, if you enable LockerPro in the advanced options, then change the Voice Guide setting from the main options, LockerPro will become disabled.
  This will not be "fixed." The Amazon options are left available so that the accessibility options can easily be reset to an Amazon standard configuration.
• If an app attempts to launch Accessibility options, it will FC (the intent listener is missing from Settings). You will simply need to go to Advanced Settings in Accessibility and enable the service in question manually.
  Still investigating fixes for this.
• Amazon's Keyboard options handling is absurd. For english users, "English (US)" is AOSP and "English (United States)" is Swype (similar for UK). For other languages you'll probably need to try the available options to figure out which is which - the order seems to be somewhat random.
  I may look into changing the keyboard selector, but it is not a high priority.
• Voice/Video chat functionality in Google+ Hangouts and Google Talk does not work. Attempting to use it may cause your Kindle to become unstable until rebooted (something wreaks havoc with the audio system).
  This cannot currently be fixed. Someone out there please prove me wrong!
• If there are lots of notifications, the icons will overlap the clock.
  I don't intend to fix this, as the effort involved just isn't worth it. It's also fairly common to encounter this bug in any Android ROM that uses a centered clock.
• Facelock does not work with a PIN set. It does, however, work correctly if you use a Pattern instead.
  This is probably fixable, I just need to track down where exactly in the code the PIN is overriding Facelock.

• Updated the base OS to 7.3.1.

• Updated the base OS to 7.3.0.
• Host file ad-blocking is no longer enabled by default. If you want this, enable it in the AdAway app that is now included. If you don't, feel free to uninstall AdAway.
• The status bar now shows notification icons instead of the "My Kindle" text.
• The lowest four brightness settings are now usable.
• The menu button on the Navbar should now be present in all non-Amazon apps. Some apps fail to request it, and it sometimes get confused on its own. This change does add a bit of visual clutter but should prevent all of those "where'd the menu go?" moments. Note that Amazon apps will continue to do whatever they want with the Navbar buttons as they tend to crash if they don't get their way.
• App suppression has been removed from Amazon's Launcher (Home). This allows you to launch things like Amazon MP3 or the App Store from their icons instead of from the menus. It also allows you to add them to the favorites window.
• The certificate fixing process now only happens during Kinology's install process, so apps won't suddenly stop working if they're using generic certs.
• Most recent Amazon apps integrated with the system (includes Kindle Free Time).
• Gmail, Google Play, and GmsCore updated to the most recent versions.
• Completely overhauled the installation process. Boot/Recovery are also now included.

• Modified AOSP Keyboard to have a right-side margin so that the keys are no longer under the NavBar in landscape mode
• Disabled scrolling cache for smoother scrolling
• Disabled standard lockscreen when a secure one is enabled
• Modified Bluetooth sharing to receive all file types
• Modified hosts file so that BBC iPlayer can function properly
• Fixed some missing libs that caused video to not play in Amazon Video app
• Fixed UnifiedSearch FC (it may still FC after a fresh install, but will be fixed at the next reboot)
• Modified the boot-time OTA disabler to speed up the boot process a tiny bit
• Modified the Kinology version display on the About page
• Integrated DSPManager from CM9
• Integrated latest SuperSu (1.25)
• Replaced CalendarProvider with the AOSP version to fix Google calendar corruption at boot
• Updated GApps to include FaceLock, Feedback, MediaUploader, and the latest GmsCore

• Added CM9 Keyboard
• Added Kinology version, Select Screen Lock, and Advanced Accessiblity settings

• Initial release

Hinzman420 said:

I was just wondering if you plan on a kinology rom based on update 7.4.3?

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• Updated the base OS to 7.3.1.

• Updated the base OS to 7.3.0.
• Host file ad-blocking is no longer enabled by default. If you want this, enable it in the AdAway app that is now included. If you don't, feel free to uninstall AdAway.
• The status bar now shows notification icons instead of the "My Kindle" text.
• The lowest four brightness settings are now usable.
• The menu button on the Navbar should now be present in all non-Amazon apps. Some apps fail to request it, and it sometimes get confused on its own. This change does add a bit of visual clutter but should prevent all of those "where'd the menu go?" moments. Note that Amazon apps will continue to do whatever they want with the Navbar buttons as they tend to crash if they don't get their way.
• App suppression has been removed from Amazon's Launcher (Home). This allows you to launch things like Amazon MP3 or the App Store from their icons instead of from the menus. It also allows you to add them to the favorites window.
• The certificate fixing process now only happens during Kinology's install process, so apps won't suddenly stop working if they're using generic certs.
• Most recent Amazon apps integrated with the system (includes Kindle Free Time).
• Gmail, Google Play, and GmsCore updated to the most recent versions.
• Completely overhauled the installation process. Boot/Recovery are also now included.