I have set VTL Launcher as my default launcher but, recently every time I start the GTab up I get the question which launcher do I want to use as my default launcher. Any suggestions?
Did VTL come with your rom or did you install it (from market or side load). I ask because if you installed it from the market or side loaded it, you may want to try moving the .apk to /system/app. You can use a root file manager or ADB to do this, make sure the permissions are correct (same as other apps in that folder) then reboot. Hopefully it will only ask you one more time for your default launcher. Also uninstall any other launchers you aren't using and go to settings->applications->VTL Launcher and clear defaults if any are set before you reboot.
Hi all,
I bought a Fire HD 6 yesterday and this evening I followed the [Root] OS 4, 5.0.n and Install Lollipop & Gapps ("Newbie Friendly") guide and all went well. I got YouTube, Chrome and some other apps installed and set up all my email and social media accounts.
Then I thought I'd try using a different launcher so I installed Nova from the Play Store. After a bit of playing I uninstalled it.
About an hour later I powered down my FHD6 and on booting up I now get a black screen with the arrow, circle and square buttons across the bottom. The square button shows a screen saying "Your recent screens appear here". I can pull down the menu from the top and get into the settings menu but there seems to be no way to launch a launcher or any applications.
I do have adb access and Android File Transfer application on my Mac still recognises the file system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I tried manually launching the Fire Launcher with
am start -n com.amazon.firelauncher/.Launcher
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But that had no noticeable effect. I also tried installing the Nova Launcher APK files over adb and that did nothing either.
I think I'm out of talent at this point, hopefully one of you guys will be able to point me in the right direction.
idwxyz said:
About an hour later I powered down my FHD6 and on booting up I now get a black screen with the arrow, circle and square buttons across the bottom. The square button shows a screen saying "Your recent screens appear here". I can pull down the menu from the top and get into the settings menu but there seems to be no way to launch a launcher or any applications.
I do have adb access and Android File Transfer application on my Mac still recognises the file system.
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You need to enable fire launcher: adb shell pm enable com.amazon.firelauncher and reboot. That should work, but some people say they have lost the launcher permanently when they uninstall a custom one with stock disabled--so post back if further problems.
DoLooper said:
You need to enable fire launcher: adb shell pm enable com.amazon.firelauncher and reboot. That should work, but some people say they have lost the launcher permanently when they uninstall a custom one with stock disabled--so post back if further problems.
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Thanks for the response. Sadly that didn't work. Terminal confirmed "Package com.amazon.firelauncher new state: enabled" but after rebooting it's still missing the launcher.
To clarify I did install Nova Launcher but I didn't think I did anything to disable the stock one. There was no obvious option (on the device) to set Nova as default, I read some posts about commands to disable it but wasn't ready to commit so after playing with it for a bit I decided to uninstall it.
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Weirdly when I got home and it auto connected to my wifi it suddenly started chiming to tell me that I had new emails and twitter notifications. Clicking on the notifications gets me into the apps and they work fine but without a luncher it's still pretty useless. It's really odd.
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As I still have root and adb can I just pick up again from some step in the tutorial I followed the first time around?
idwxyz said:
Thanks for the response. Sadly that didn't work. Terminal confirmed "Package com.amazon.firelauncher new state: enabled" but after rebooting it's still missing the launcher.
To clarify I did install Nova Launcher but I didn't think I did anything to disable the stock one. There was no obvious option (on the device) to set Nova as default, I read some posts about commands to disable it but wasn't ready to commit so after playing with it for a bit I decided to uninstall it.
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Weirdly when I got home and it auto connected to my wifi it suddenly started chiming to tell me that I had new emails and twitter notifications. Clicking on the notifications gets me into the apps and they work fine but without a luncher it's still pretty useless. It's really odd.
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As I still have root and adb can I just pick up again from some step in the tutorial I followed the first time around?
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Convert 3rd party launcher to a system app and press home again.
paz4491 said:
Convert 3rd party launcher to a system app and press home again.
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Could you explain how I do this? This is my first android device so I'm a complete newbie here.
My GoogleFu found some articles that suggested I just need to copy the APK file to /system/app and then chmod it to 644.
I've tried doing this through adb shell as su and I get an error when I try to move the file telling me that it's a Read-only file system.
idwxyz said:
Could you explain how I do this? This is my first android device so I'm a complete newbie here.
My GoogleFu found some articles that suggested I just need to copy the APK file to /system/app and then chmod it to 644.
I've tried doing this through adb shell as su and I get an error when I try to move the file telling me that it's a Read-only file system.
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Use lucky patcher. Tap on the launcher, then tools and move to /system/app.
paz4491 said:
Use lucky patcher. Tap on the launcher, then tools and move to /system/app.
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Thanks for the suggestion but I don't currently have a launcher on the device though so I'm not sure how to install and launch an app.
idwxyz said:
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't currently have a launcher on the device though so I'm not sure how to install and launch an app.
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You don't need to make Nova a system app for it to run, only to make it use widgets. First try this and see if the Fire launcher is running after the reboot.
adb shell
su
(make sure you have # prompt and if not, post)
pm enable com.amazon.firelauncher
pm disable com.teslacoilsw.launcher
Type exit 2 times to get out of su and then: adb reboot
If Fire launcher is running, go back into su, type these commands and reboot and post the results:
pm disable com.amazon.firelauncher
pm enable com.teslacoilsw.launcher
Thanks for your help DoLooper!
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pm enable com.amazon.firelauncher
pm disable com.teslacoilsw.launcher
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On booting this briefly showed the stock launcher without any apps but then went back to the black screen with the arrow, circle and square at the bottom like before.
DoLooper said:
pm disable com.amazon.firelauncher
pm enable com.teslacoilsw.launcher
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This however brought the device back to life with the Nova launcher. I guess the question now is have I lost the stock launcher forever?
idwxyz said:
I guess the question now is have I lost the stock launcher forever?
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Maybe. Do you remember what else you did besides installing Nova? Any "unusual" apps? Any adb commands? Please look at settings>device>system updates and post the build date.
Before I installed Nova Launcher I installed:
Auto Trader
Chrome
eBay
Facebook
Hearthstone - which was pretty laggy so I uninstalled it
LinkedIn
London Tube Map
Messenger
Rightmove
Skype
Spotify
Twitter
YouTube
Zoopla
I have also just now installed BlueMail as the Amazon one won't launch anymore since it started working with Nova Launcher.
The build date shows as Thursday, 24 September 2015, 03:51 BST (Fire OS 5.0.1)
I don't remember running any funky adb commands. I tried following a post to kill the ads on the home screen but it was for an older version of Android so adb just didn't recognise the commands.
I don't see anything that might have caused the problem, unless you disabled Silk browser to make Chrome work (and I really don't think that's it). It's possible your bin file was corrupted, but if so I'd expect other stuff to be broken too.
Please get gatesjunior Debloater tool, here on xda, and see which apps are disabled. I'm going to pm you with options.
Sadly I can't run debloater as the Mac version doesn't seem to play nice with El Capitan. If I can get access to another machine at some point I'll report back what was disabled. For now though I'm just really happy that you got it working again, you're a star!
Thanks to everyone on this forum for all your knowledge and guides.
Well that didn't last long.
I just couldn't resit tinkering with it. I tried to make Nova a system app because widgets didn't work. I followed this tutorial . I followed the steps through using ES File Explorer. Copied the com file to the SD card folder, cut it to /system/app/ modified the permissions, rebooted my device and I got the Fire screen for several minutes. I did adb reboot. It rebooted, said it was installing the latest software and I'm back where I was before.
I have the black screen with arrow, circle and square. Although fortunately ES File Explorer is still open so I can access that if it helps?!?
I used ES File Explorer to copy the file from the SD Card back into /data/app/ and then deleted the one from /system/app/. I then adb rebooted and tried the pm disable com.amazon.firelauncher, pm enable com.teslacoilsw.launcher again. But no joy.
If I want to start again where should I start from as the device is still rooted?
Turn off wifi and try a factory reset. Root and gapps survive a reset. First, disable Nova and enable Firelauncher. Then factory reset, wait through VERY long restart, enable USB debugging and then reinstall superSU with this command: adb install -r filename.apk
If your bin file was corrupted, this may not fix the problem and I'll tell you what to try next.
idwxyz said:
Well that didn't last long.
I just couldn't resit tinkering with it. I tried to make Nova a system app because widgets didn't work. I followed this tutorial . I followed the steps through using ES File Explorer. Copied the com file to the SD card folder, cut it to /system/app/ modified the permissions, rebooted my device and I got the Fire screen for several minutes. I did adb reboot. It rebooted, said it was installing the latest software and I'm back where I was before.
I have the black screen with arrow, circle and square. Although fortunately ES File Explorer is still open so I can access that if it helps?!?
I used ES File Explorer to copy the file from the SD Card back into /data/app/ and then deleted the one from /system/app/. I then adb rebooted and tried the pm disable com.amazon.firelauncher, pm enable com.teslacoilsw.launcher again. But no joy.
If I want to start again where should I start from as the device is still rooted?
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I had difficulties with the fire launcher so had to get rid of it..
Since you can still access es explorer, another alternative is to install lucky patcher and launch via ADB. Copy and paste the code into ADB to launch the app.
Code:
adb shell am start -n com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.LUCK/com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.LUCK.patchActivity
Then you can convert to a system app
Please stop promoting Lucky Patcher here.
@idwxyz There's a play store app, /system-app mover, that converts user apps to system.
DoLooper said:
Please stop promoting Lucky Patcher here.
@idwxyz There's a play store app, /system-app mover, that converts user apps to system.
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Sorry not trying to promote lucky patcher but other apps failed to convert on my device.
DoLooper said:
Turn off wifi and try a factory reset. Root and gapps survive a reset. First, disable Nova and enable Firelauncher. Then factory reset, wait through VERY long restart, enable USB debugging and then reinstall superSU with this command: adb install -r filename.apk
If your bin file was corrupted, this may not fix the problem and I'll tell you what to try next.
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I turned off wifi, went to settings > reset to factory defaults. It took a while to erase and reboot. I then reinstalled superSU with that command. My device is now working fine with the stock launcher all the stock apps and the Play Store. I also checked through section D of the tutorial to make sure all the settings were still in place before switching on wifi.
Then I installed Nova and Nova Prime, disabled the stock launcher, enabled Nova and everything worked. Then I tried going back the other way, I disabled Nova, enabled the stock launcher, adb rebooted and it booted up into the stock launcher.
It all works!
I used /system-app mover to make Nova a system app and now widgets work too. Thank you so much!
As I add apps to my phone, I'd like to be able to update my preferences in Greenify. The only way I've been able to do this in the past was to uninstall Greenify - then update my preferences. Now, I can't uninstall it. Don't know why - need some direction. I must have used a setting elsewhere on my LG G4 to make Greenify not be able to uninstall. In any case, I should be able to change my prefernces without uninstalling - then reinstalling it. Please help.
What happens when you try to uninstall Greenify?
Try phone Settings - Security - Device Administrator and uncheck Greenify, then try to uninstall it.
If that doesn't work Greenify - Menu - Troubleshooting - Uninstall .
Hi folks
I have rooted my shield. I'd like to use "TV Launcher 3", and I want it to stay open when I press the home button, but it goes back to leanback. I tried "adb shell" and "pm hide com.google.android.leanbacklauncher", but I get this error: "Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Neither user 2000 nor current process has android.permission.MANAGE_USERS.".
How can I go about this problem?
keem85 said:
Hi folks
I have rooted my shield. I'd like to use "TV Launcher 3", and I want it to stay open when I press the home button, but it goes back to leanback. I tried "adb shell" and "pm hide com.google.android.leanbacklauncher", but I get this error: "Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Neither user 2000 nor current process has android.permission.MANAGE_USERS.".
How can I go about this problem?
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I see no one got back to you. I don't know for sure but if I were to guess try SU in your adb shell to gain you superuser permissions before attempting to hide the launcher. If that doesn't work, back it up and use adb shell to delete it. You can always push it back if needed.
I used 'HomeSwitcher' off the Play Store, to hide leanback and make Nova my launcher. I am running full ATV v1.3. I could not get it to work on rooted nVidia Shield OS.
You can use adb to uninstall it if your not rooted. If you are rooted just use a system app remover sideload it and use it to uninstall the lean back, make sure your chosen launcher is working properly before u remove it though to avoid problems, should a problem arise reinstalling a functional launcher can also be done by adb. I personally use hal launcher its very customizable. I suppose that home switcher app might work as well but if your rooted you pretty much can do whatever you like.