Amazon Fire TV

mickliq · Apr 4, 2014

PHAMOS1 said:
What I use for a mouse and keyboard

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B9996LA/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Did you do anything special to get it to work, other than plugging in the mini USB dongle?

jus2sho · Apr 4, 2014

PHAMOS1 said:
I use Remote Media Center (sideloaded)to get to my network folders on the FTV. Not sure if there is an app that doesn't have to be sideloaded to do what you need tho

Great! As long as I can access and play my files on my network, no problem.

PHAMOS1 · Apr 4, 2014

mickliq said:
Did you do anything special to get it to work, other than plugging in the mini USB dongle?

Nope I just plugged it in and away we go.....

d_bot · Apr 4, 2014

Has anyone tried to side load a NES/SNES/ETC emulator?

mickliq · Apr 4, 2014

PHAMOS1 said:
Nope I just plugged it in and away we go.....

Cool, thanks!

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It would be great if someone can try sideloading the ViMu APK (from Google TV) onto the FTV and report back.

Sean09 · Apr 4, 2014

PHAMOS1 said:
I have sideloaded the following APKs so far and they work

Firefox
Remote. Media Center TV
ES File Explorer
MX Player
AirReceiver
HBO GO

What I tried but did not work
Chrome (force closes)
Dolphins (error during install)
UC Browser (orientation issues)
Avia (force closes)
Stock GS4 Browser (error during install "NO SHARED FOLDER")
XBMC Gothem beta 3(loads but when video comes on I get a green screen with sound only)

I got the APKs from backups using Titanium Back Up on my GS4.
I used the adb method on Amazon website to install.

What I use for a mouse and keyboard

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B9996LA/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Can you please elaborate on what you defince as "works"? I understood HBO Go did not work, for starters.

Should I take this to mean that Firefox is actually a functional browser on this unit without issue, and therefore can utilize it as a web browser?

PHAMOS1 · Apr 4, 2014

Sean09 said:
Can you please elaborate on what you defince as "works"? I understood HBO Go did not work, for starters.

Should I take this to mean that Firefox is actually a functional browser on this unit without issue, and therefore can utilize it as a web browser?

Works means EXACTLY what works normally means. I started the app went to Game of Thrones hit play and it came on.

On Firefox I opened it went to my hotmail. Amazon, gmail and Bing. I searched for HBO Go with google it came up and it gave the normal I need Flash player 10.2 error that the Droid browsers give without the modded FP. But the app does work. It's a YouTube video of it so don't take my word for it.

Luxferro · Apr 4, 2014

I found some interesting stuff to play with. at /sdcard/logcat.txt is a log of OS setup and the update that happens at boot, along with the URL to the bin file, which is just a zip/tar/ect.

Here's the url for anyone one who wants to play around with it, look for root exploits, ect

http://amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuit...ueller-ota-51.1.0.1_user_510055620-signed.bin

rsohne · Apr 4, 2014

Just got my Fire TV about an hour ago and can confirm that my Moga controller actually works with it.

Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

PHAMOS1 · Apr 4, 2014

From Firefox

I am typing this on my fire tv within my fire fox browser

Luxferro · Apr 4, 2014

Plugged in a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard/touchpad. alpha keys work for text entry, and arrow keys navigate. Oddly, double tap on the touch pad zooms out in netflix app... dunno the purpose of that function.

edit: can use the keyboard/touchpad combo to work HBO Go... Can only get stereo sound out of HBO Go so far though... don't see any audio settings in the app.

Montisaquadeis · Apr 4, 2014

Guys try side loading the latest Flash APK and firefox and see if they work together. No issues with the combo on my Kindle Fire HDX but I want to make sure they work on the Fire TV.

georgieff · Apr 4, 2014

TimeWarner Cable app works fine. I can watch live tv and VOD with No dropped frames.

destinal · Apr 4, 2014

Montisaquadeis said:
Guys try side loading the latest Flash APK and firefox and see if they work together. No issues with the combo on my Kindle Fire HDX but I want to make sure they work on the Fire TV.

I installed "Adobe Flash ICS 11.1.115.47" from xda and the latest firefox APK from firefox FTP site and the flash test page works and youtube is now working in Firefox (before I installed flash, loading a youtube video in Firefox would crash the browser)

Firefox on FireTV is actually probably the best web browser experience I've ever had on a set top. I have a wireless USB keyboard and mouse and even the scroll wheel works to scroll in web pages, keyboard forward and back buttons work. Zoom is slightly limited (you can double click to zoom in and out but without pinch / touch controls that seems to be it).

tensuke · Apr 4, 2014

SNES works fine with GNES, kind of a pain to get it set up but once it's working it's fine, only tried FPse for PSX and the controller is messed up, will try more emus in a bit. Loving it so far.

reddragon72 · Apr 4, 2014

For those that are trying Google products you must have google play services APK installed as almost all the google apps are tied to it.

So you will need to sideload the google play services, found all over the web, and then the google playstore and you can then start installing from google play. Should cut down on all the sideloading.

Also note that the USB port is hot but is not working for media. If any of you wish to try a a usb hard drive please install paragon first so it can add the proper info to the OS to see the NTFS drive and then mount it to wherever you want. I am not sure that it working but another person was going to try it and he never reported back.

As for XBMC please use Gotham B3 or better. The mediacodec is missing but libstagefreight should work. This is based on my LG Optimus G using the S4Pro as well.

NOTE: on another forum a guy mentioned XBMC for NEON devices ran good... no idea...

All in all I am thinking that this might be my next box. I have an older dual core MX1 that is showing it's age in video games. I have been attempting to use my old LG Optimus G for it's replacement but there are a few issue's that are holding me back from loving it as a media/gaming center device.

Montisaquadeis · Apr 4, 2014

destinal said:
I installed "Adobe Flash ICS 11.1.115.47" from xda and the latest firefox APK from firefox FTP site and the flash test page works and youtube is now working in Firefox (before I installed flash, loading a youtube video in Firefox would crash the browser)

Firefox on FireTV is actually probably the best web browser experience I've ever had on a set top. I have a wireless USB keyboard and mouse and even the scroll wheel works to scroll in web pages, keyboard forward and back buttons work. Zoom is slightly limited (you can double click to zoom in and out but without pinch / touch controls that seems to be it).

Good to hear things are working. On such a large screen there should be no reason to zoom. I also tend to use the phony addon and set it to Desktop Firefox. That tends to open up Desktop websites for me which is how I run on my Kindle Fire HDX in landscape mode.

tensuke · Apr 4, 2014

Already tried Play Services/Play Store, doesn't seem to work at all.

Montisaquadeis · Apr 4, 2014

tensuke said:
Already tried Play Services/Play Store, doesn't seem to work at all.

If its anything like the Fire HDX it won't becuase amazon has changed a number of things throughout the OS that blocks google stuff.

bkai · Apr 4, 2014

tensuke said:
Already tried Play Services/Play Store, doesn't seem to work at all.

It won't... there's no way to link your Google account to the Play Store so it simply fails to load up.

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