I have a KFHD 7" (2012 model), it's rooted, the latest TWRP is installed and I'm currently running Kinology. From time to time it seems to be unnecessarily freezing and overheating (this used to happen for a long time now, but it doesn't seem to affect its performance from what I've seen) and I'm thinking of trying something new since it's already acting up.
I am currently using the latest Kinology, after I updated it to the latest version the freezing seemed to reduce visibly, but I still want to change the ROM. I was between PAC-MAN (http://forum.pac-rom.com/Thread-4-4-PAC-man-For-the-Kindle-Fire-HD-7) and CM11 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543455).
I was going to go for PAC-MAN but I'm having some issues figuring out which the latest stable version is, since they say they have updated to 4.4 but in their downloads I can't find it in the folders with the stables. I've asked many times in their site and their thread about KFHD here in xda but I haven't received an answer yet. I could just go for CM but I have some questions about it...
So what I need the rom I'll choose to do is:
run the kindle reading app normally (I don't care about the carusel, I just want normal access to my mobi files
run games ok
not freeze for no reason (I mean, the main purpose of flashing something new is to make my tablet run faster not slower)
have the facebook messenger work properly (since I installed kinology, unless I have "chat heads" manually opened and left to run, I get no notifications about new messages)
have the wifi and bluetooth working
So I need people who have CM or PAC-MAN to tell me if either of these roms has these features. Oh, also, I've seen there's some feature they call "OTA". What is that? I think when I rooted my kindle I had to make sure to disable those so that it wouldn't get randomly updated and undo my root? If someone could explain that to me I'd be grateful!
Oh and one more thing. With custom roms such as those two, are amazon's apps installed and running in the background for no reason just like they do if you have the stock rom, or are they disabled/uninstalled...?
With custom roms there is no such thing as Amazon apps. I suggest CM because of its reputation and support. But PAC is not bad.
OTA is Over the Air upate. If you receive an OTA in a custom rom,there is no reason for you to lose root.
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With custom roms there is no such thing as Amazon apps. I suggest CM because of its reputation and support. But PAC is not bad.
OTA is Over the Air upate. If you receive an OTA in a custom rom,there is no reason for you to lose root.
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Ok, so if I want some of Amazon's apps all I have to do is download them from the appstore, right? (So relieved, I only ever used the reading app). So if it PAC has OTA, even if I install an older version (like 3.2 that I've found with certainty), it can install the latest on its own without me messing any more with the 2nd bootloader? I was hoping to try PAC before CM and to use CM only if PAC presents more issues than I can handle...
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Ok, so if I want some of Amazon's apps all I have to do is download them from the appstore, right? (So relieved, I only ever used the reading app). So if it PAC has OTA, even if I install an older version (like 3.2 that I've found with certainty), it can install the latest on its own without me messing any more with the 2nd bootloader? I was hoping to try PAC before CM and to use CM only if PAC presents more issues than I can handle...
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I seriously recommend CM. Even if you get any issues,the CM team will fix it MUCH faster than PAC. As for the Amazon Apps,I don't think all of them will be on the Play Store. But the Kindle reading app will.(I used it before)
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I seriously recommend CM. Even if you get any issues,the CM team will fix it MUCH faster than PAC. As for the Amazon Apps,I don't think all of them will be on the Play Store. But the Kindle reading app will.(I used it before)
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Hmmm, then I might try CM11 today. It's true that in PAC they probably don't update too often, they don't even seem to check if people make questions or have issues too often. I've asked about which version to download a bunch of times in many different threads that they've made, and it's been 3 weeks and I'm still waiting for an answer.
One last thing. Do most games run alright in CM or are there compatibly issues? Oh, and something more. Does the playstore see the device as a kindle or as something else?
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Hmmm, then I might try CM11 today. It's true that in PAC they probably don't update too often, they don't even seem to check if people make questions or have issues too often. I've asked about which version to download a bunch of times in many different threads that they've made, and it's been 3 weeks and I'm still waiting for an answer.
One last thing. Do most games run alright in CM or are there compatibly issues? Oh, and something more. Does the playstore see the device as a kindle or as something else?
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Yep. I enjoyed Riptide GP 2. And I don't know about the latest nightly,but Hashcode's last unofficial build had the build prop set to recognise the device as an Amazon Kindle Fire HD.
Thank you so much for asking all my annoying questions! I sat down last night and flashed CM, set up everything and so far it's running smoothly. I tried some of the games I used to play and they seem to be running alright as well. I'm having some issues with the kindle reading app though, I downloaded it and logged in but it says it can't sync now and to try again later. I will try again later and see if it gets fixed...
Short and sweet... I love and recomend CyanogenMod.I use it on my kindlefire 1, 2 and 3 and I hope to
have it on this 2nd gen HD I'm working on now. With CM the possibilities are endless and anyone can easily customize
the kindle into a lean mean tablet with ease.... Thank You CM Team!
I took the plunge last night after having many issues with my Kindle Fire HD 7 that had been rooted and had both Amazon OS and Android. It started acting crazy after the last OTA that I thought I had shut off. Anyway, I re-rooted it, installed twrp 2.7.0.0, and then flashed it with cm-11-20140414-UNOFFICIAL-tate. Everything went smoothly and seems to work great. It also seems much faster now. Once I got all my account stuff setup, I did an update that it showed as being a stable version. I am now running cm-11-20140609-SNAPSHOT-M7. All my kindle books load up and I can read them on the device or cloud and was also able to find almost all of the games that I had before on my Kindle. It just seems so much nicer and faster now!
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I took the plunge last night after having many issues with my Kindle Fire HD 7 that had been rooted and had both Amazon OS and Android. It started acting crazy after the last OTA that I thought I had shut off. Anyway, I re-rooted it, installed twrp 2.7.0.0, and then flashed it with cm-11-20140414-UNOFFICIAL-tate. Everything went smoothly and seems to work great. It also seems much faster now. Once I got all my account stuff setup, I did an update that it showed as being a stable version. I am now running cm-11-20140609-SNAPSHOT-M7. All my kindle books load up and I can read them on the device or cloud and was also able to find almost all of the games that I had before on my Kindle. It just seems so much nicer and faster now!
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I decided to try out CM as well. Installed the latest stable version and it is indeed running much faster! I've never seen the keyboard not lag and the websites taking so little to load, so I'm satisfied so far. The Kindle app doesn't seem to be working for me though... I logged in my amazon account normally and every time I try to download books I don't even see a list, it says it failed to synch. I'll probably go over to the CM thread and as them about it...
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I was able to download my books and sync initially, then when I went back I too was having sync issues. I downloaded Aptoide and it wanted to update some of my apps and the Kindle reader was one of them. After the update, it seems to be syncing and working.
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I was able to download my books and sync initially, then when I went back I too was having sync issues. I downloaded Aptoide and it wanted to update some of my apps and the Kindle reader was one of them. After the update, it seems to be syncing and working.
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So, wait Aptoide is an alternative app store, right? You're saying that if I update the kindle reader from there it might work properly right?
YuriPan said:
Thank you so much for asking all my annoying questions! I sat down last night and flashed CM, set up everything and so far it's running smoothly. I tried some of the games I used to play and they seem to be running alright as well. I'm having some issues with the kindle reading app though, I downloaded it and logged in but it says it can't sync now and to try again later. I will try again later and see if it gets fixed...
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Hi! Make sure you have the latest cm11 update settings-about tablet-cyangenmod updates
if you do and it still doesn't work please contact me and ill be will to provide further asistance1
I have the latest stable update according to my tablet, I checked. I seem to have issues with the Kindle reading app (it either doesn't sync or if I try an older version it crashes as soon as it is launched of after logging in), and it seems like Google services keep crashing randomly (I think this is the 4th or 5th day I'm running Cm but it wasn't doing so for at least the first two days). It also doesn't auto rotate although I have screen rotation unlocked, it rotates only after putting the Kindle in sleep mode and unlocking it again. I dunno if all those are related or not, if you could help me I'd really be thankful. =)
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD
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I have the latest stable update according to my tablet, I checked. I seem to have issues with the Kindle reading app (it either doesn't sync or if I try an older version it crashes as soon as it is launched of after logging in), and it seems like Google services keep crashing randomly (I think this is the 4th or 5th day I'm running Cm but it wasn't doing so for at least the first two days). It also doesn't auto rotate although I have screen rotation unlocked, it rotates only after putting the Kindle in sleep mode and unlocking it again. I dunno if all those are related or not, if you could help me I'd really be thankful. =)
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD
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Wait. Is it the M7 Snapshot?
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Wait. Is it the M7 Snapshot?
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What do you mean the M7 Snapshot? Is this related to the version I'm running? I'm sorry to say so but I need you to be a bit more analytic cause I'm pretty new to custom roms...
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What do you mean the M7 Snapshot? Is this related to the version I'm running? I'm sorry to say so but I need you to be a bit more analytic cause I'm pretty new to custom roms...
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M7 is a monthly update considered more stable than nighty. I think one of the monthly snapshots had some issues. That may be what he's refering too. I am using the nightly from 7-2 (think) and it's running great for the things I use it for.
If you want to see the Tate nightie with changelog and pick a download go here http://www.cmxlog.com/11/tate/
Go here if you want to pick a monthly or nightly to download http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=tate
The Las three numbers are the month followed by the date.
Sent from my Nexus 7 Flo running Paranoid Android 4.4.4 using XDA premium 4 mobile app
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What do you mean the M7 Snapshot? Is this related to the version I'm running? I'm sorry to say so but I need you to be a bit more analytic cause I'm pretty new to custom roms...
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Just tell me the CyanogenMod version you're running now.
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Just tell me the CyanogenMod version you're running now.
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11-20131126-UNOFFICIAL-tate
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11-20131126-UNOFFICIAL-tate
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Umm... You're running an unofficial version. Download an official nightly or snapshot from the CyanogenMod website.
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I haven't updated my SCH-I800 in a while and I notice that there is now a stable "cm-9.1.0-p1c.zip" on the cyanogenmod site but also CM10 builds (cm-10-20130714-NIGHTLY-p1c.zip) as recently as last week. The forums for the I800 aren't up right now so I thought I'd ask here if these CM10s are actually functioning well or if they have lots of missing features. And as much as I dig, I seem to only find half working ROMs or extremely experimental ones that have basic things like WiFi missing. Is there a solid stock Samsung ROM and a solid AOSP ROM that everyone uses at this mater point in this tablet's lifespan?
And is there a new method for flashing at all? Or is ODIN still the way?
Thanks!!!
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I haven't updated my SCH-I800 in a while and I notice that there is now a stable "cm-9.1.0-p1c.zip" on the cyanogenmod site but also CM10 builds (cm-10-20130714-NIGHTLY-p1c.zip) as recently as last week. The forums for the I800 aren't up right now so I thought I'd ask here if these CM10s are actually functioning well or if they have lots of missing features. And as much as I dig, I seem to only find half working ROMs or extremely experimental ones that have basic things like WiFi missing. Is there a solid stock Samsung ROM and a solid AOSP ROM that everyone uses at this mater point in this tablet's lifespan?
And is there a new method for flashing at all? Or is ODIN still the way?
Thanks!!!
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I have spent the last week or so trying to get an SCH-i800 to run something OTHER than the stock gingerbread well and just haven't found it yet. The closest I got was a build of CM9 but still have sporadic reboots.
It's frustrating since the only thing I want this to do is run some OBD apps for my car. The problem is that apps detect Gingerbread and run in phone mode vs. tablet mode, wasting a bunch of screen space.
Cubed has been pretty much the only non-stock rom that didn't have FC's and random reboots. I don't even use the cellular feature of this tablet - I'd be happy just disabling the modem entirely and running on wifi if it meant it being more stable.
I'm considering just getting a Nexus 7, but the problem is that this thing would need to live in my car and I don't feel like doing that with a new tablet which is why I was trying to get the i800 to work
Wondering if I'm the only fella with this problem:
I recently flashed CM 10 (nightly build 2013-07-21) using TWRP (I'd originally used CWM, but it corrupted my internal SD card so I wiped everything and switched and that solved the problem). I'm s-on, so I manually flashed the kernal, went into TWRP, flashed the ROM, everything's hunky-dory. Used gapps-jb-20130301 (which is the most recent version), upgraded Talk to Hangout, everything's working fine.
Except I can't seem to get a dang video Hangout to work. Every time I try I get an error saying the network connection has timed out--and I'm on an AT&T Vivid, so no using the mobile network for me to see if it's just a wifi problem. I get kind of lousy signal here at my house, so I tried it at the office and at a friend's place, and got the same result.
So two questions:
1. Am I the only unfortunate sod having this problem?
2. Is there any way to fix it?
I really, really like CM 10 (it is seriously a revelation--this was my first foray into flashing my phone, and it's gone incredibly well--dang near a religious experience after the long dark of Sense), and it's currently stable and functional enough that I'd like to keep it if possible. Is this just Hangouts being weird, the Vivid being weird (from what I can tell that's a pretty common occurrence), or what?
Any help is appreciated.
If you are on CM 10 and not 10.1 and you are using those gapps, those gapps are for 4.2.2 and not 4.1.2.. and I'm pretty sure it is 20121011 or something like that if you need 4.1.2
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If you are on CM 10 and not 10.1 and you are using those gapps, those gapps are for 4.2.2 and not 4.1.2.. and I'm pretty sure it is 20121011 or something like that if you need 4.1.2
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Sorry, I meant to say I'm using CM 10.1. I've installed the wrong gapps before and that just made everything crash all the time, forever (the keyboard in particular). Everything seems to work except for video calls on Hangouts.
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Sorry, I meant to say I'm using CM 10.1. I've installed the wrong gapps before and that just made everything crash all the time, forever (the keyboard in particular). Everything seems to work except for video calls on Hangouts.
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I have the exact same problem now. Everything works perfect except every time when I tried to start the video/voice call on Hangout it timeout/crash. Really hope this to be fixed.
!!Forgot to add it to the title, I'm talking about CM11 for KFHD7!!
Earlier this morning I found a thread saying M8 has been released for select devices. I went to CM's download page to check if it was out for KFHD 7 (tate) and found no M8, only the latest nightlies. I checked again a few times, hoping it might appear later today.
I still can't find it for tate, but when I went to Settings -> About Tablet -> CyanogenMod updates and had it check for updates, it found an update with this name: cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8. I supposed this was it, so I downloaded it and flashed it to my kindle. Turns out I couldn't open my settings in any way, cause every time I tried to launch them they kept crashing.
I downgraded it again to M7 since I might need it tomorrow, but it's bugging me. This update can't be found in CM's download page (at least I don't see it anywhere), and if the settings aren't even opening, it's probably not too stable. I don't know much about nightlies and monthlies yet, but I thought monthlies were supposed to be more stable than nightlies... Does anybody know what's up with this update?
I've had no issues with m8 as of yet. Installed and working fine, already put my DPI back to 178 and enabled my dual panes and running fine.
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!!Forgot to add it to the title, I'm talking about CM11 for KFHD7!!
Earlier this morning I found a thread saying M8 has been released for select devices. I went to CM's download page to check if it was out for KFHD 7 (tate) and found no M8, only the latest nightlies. I checked again a few times, hoping it might appear later today.
I still can't find it for tate, but when I went to Settings -> About Tablet -> CyanogenMod updates and had it check for updates, it found an update with this name: cm-11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8. I supposed this was it, so I downloaded it and flashed it to my kindle. Turns out I couldn't open my settings in any way, cause every time I tried to launch them they kept crashing.
I downgraded it again to M7 since I might need it tomorrow, but it's bugging me. This update can't be found in CM's download page (at least I don't see it anywhere), and if the settings aren't even opening, it's probably not too stable. I don't know much about nightlies and monthlies yet, but I thought monthlies were supposed to be more stable than nightlies... Does anybody know what's up with this update?
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Yes i have, settings crashes every time you open, but can be fixed if you clear data. I also had few lag problems and minor glitches and that was it. Hascode didn't realize the m8 had come out for android so i think there may be a problem.
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Yes i have, settings crashes every time you open, but can be fixed if you clear data. I also had few lag problems and minor glitches and that was it. Hascode didn't realize the m8 had come out for android so i think there may be a problem.
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Οh, so there's a fix for that. Thanks. Although I think I'll stick to a nightly, it seems like too much trouble to go and fix that when the nightly after M8 hasn't caused any stability issues to me yet.
Hi. Currently I am on jcsullins CM11-20141002 Kitkat build. I plan on upgrading to Lollipop but I am confused between the 3 builds (invisiblek-cm12, flintman-evervolv and milaq-cm12).
I frequently use the browser, YouTube and Skype (audio only) on my TP, amongst other apps. Could someone please help me select the right build? TIA.
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Hi. Currently I am on jcsullins CM11-20141002 Kitkat build. I plan on upgrading to Lollipop but I am confused between the 3 builds (invisiblek-cm12, flintman-evervolv and milaq-cm12).
I frequently use the browser, YouTube and Skype (audio only) on my TP, amongst other apps. Could someone please help me select the right build? TIA.
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I am using a recently installed Evervolv build in which everything I have tried on mine seems to be working. I have used the browser a bit. Skype runs but I haven't used it on the TP yet. On my machine it seems fine but slower that the early Jan build I put in before.
I did a friends machine with the default partitions, he did not have the OEM USB and use a thinner aftermarket he had. It installed but there were various problems.
- no camera detected
- Google play does not offer updates to the core apps (as it did on mine) as it should
- Gmail won't launch at all
I don't know if its a partition issue or corruption from the cable used. It was a complete reset and wipe of the system with WebOS gone. I didn't have time to do it all again and will look at it another time I ma down.
@Tripple-c Thanks. I think I'll go with invisiblek's CM12 build as by his post only the camera is broken. I can live with that for now. I need the mic to work which is still not 100% in Evervolv going by flintman's post.
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I am using a recently installed Evervolv build in which everything I have tried on mine seems to be working. I have used the browser a bit. Skype runs but I haven't used it on the TP yet. On my machine it seems fine but slower that the early Jan build I put in before.
I did a friends machine with the default partitions, he did not have the OEM USB and use a thinner aftermarket he had. It installed but there were various problems.
- no camera detected
- Google play does not offer updates to the core apps (as it did on mine) as it should
- Gmail won't launch at all
I don't know if its a partition issue or corruption from the cable used. It was a complete reset and wipe of the system with WebOS gone. I didn't have time to do it all again and will look at it another time I ma down.
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That issue you discribed above would only happen if you did a dirty install and didn't install gapps. The newer version backs up gapps so you only have to install. I recommend a clean install(factory reset and format system) to get the camera to detect the only way and then reinstall with gapps use the newest nightly.
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@Tripple-c Thanks. I think I'll go with invisiblek's CM12 build as by his post only the camera is broken. I can live with that for now. I need the mic to work which is still not 100% in Evervolv going by flintman's post.
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Is there a reason to update to Lollipop besides wanting to test it out? I think Lollipop itself has a lot of issues lingering that Google still needs to fix.
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Is there a reason to update to Lollipop besides wanting to test it out? I think Lollipop itself has a lot of issues lingering that Google still needs to fix.
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Well, if you look at it that way.. There was no reason for me to upgrade to KitKat! I think I just like my devices to be updated
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Well, if you look at it that way.. There was no reason for me to upgrade to KitKat! I think I just like my devices to be updated
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It's all cool. There's no harm in that. But Android 4.1 to 4.4 was fairly mild and incremental. Lollipop was a hefty change in concept and usage. I tried it on my N7 2013, and it was just harder to use. Buttons were smaller and closer together, more taps and swipes just to do something, etc. It feels like they compromised ease of use just to adhere to the material design. Seriously made me consider going to an Apple product. No joke!
Today I installed a new Sync update in my 2011 Lincoln MKS, and when I tried to pair my Nexus 6 (running the AICP ROM), the phone (or was it the car?) asked (for the first time) if I wanted the car to read my messages. I replied Yes, and it caused the phone's Bluetooth share service to force close. I had to clean flash the ROM and gapps, delete the device from the car, and re-pair the phone and the car but tell it No do not read messages. Don't know why I got the FC or why I couldn't undo the damage. Don't know what Ford/Lincoln did to Sync, but beware.
@almahix,
My stock, rooted N6 (5.1) pairs without problems with my 2015 MKC. And yes, it reads SMS messages.
Don't know if the problem is your ROM or the Sync update.
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@almahix,
My stock, rooted N6 (5.1) pairs without problems with my 2015 MKC. And yes, it reads SMS messages.
Don't know if the problem is your ROM or the Sync update.
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Interesting. I'll have to try it with stock.
Yeah let me know, now that I know there is an update I'd like to install it but want to make sure it works, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
ChristianJay said:
Yeah let me know, now that I know there is an update I'd like to install it but want to make sure it works, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
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After extensive testing today, the problem was traced back to CM 12.1 and ROMs derived thereof. AOSP based ROMs and stock do not exhibit this anamoly. Sorry for the premature alarm.
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After extensive testing today, the problem was traced back to CM 12.1 and ROMs derived thereof. AOSP based ROMs and stock do not exhibit this anamoly. Sorry for the premature alarm.
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Not premature, and no reason to apologize. People need to know.
I went for it and no problems, I'm running stock though. Great much needed update.
Unbelievable.
almahix said:
Today I installed a new Sync update in my 2011 Lincoln MKS, and when I tried to pair my Nexus 6 (running the AICP ROM), the phone (or was it the car?) asked (for the first time) if I wanted the car to read my messages. I replied Yes, and it caused the phone's Bluetooth share service to force close. I had to clean flash the ROM and gapps, delete the device from the car, and re-pair the phone and the car but tell it No do not read messages. Don't know why I got the FC or why I couldn't undo the damage. Don't know what Ford/Lincoln did to Sync, but beware.
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Man, no update for years and now this. Has of last week I tore out the sync system in my car because it was giving me problems with lollipop and text messages. I was not sure that Ford would ever update the system, it hadn't since 2012. I really thought they left us in the cold. Damn, wish they would communicate with their customers a little more and keep timely updates. Now I'm pissed but thanks for the heads up.
I only stumbled upon it by visiting the Lincoln owner's website. I had no problems with SYNC on any of my phones or Android versions with the original 2010 SYNC or the update, except the CM 12.1 issue I found.
Sent from my Nexus 6 running AICP 9.0
Not the same for me.
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I only stumbled upon it by visiting the Lincoln owner's website. I had no problems with SYNC on any of my phones or Android versions with the original 2010 SYNC or the update, except the CM 12.1 issue I found.
Sent from my Nexus 6 running AICP 9.0
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My only problem was with the sms text reader and responder program I was using. When I was streaming Pandora and a SMS would come in, the program would ask me if I wanted it read, when I responded yes, it would read the Sms. But after that when it would give up the feed back to whatever streaming service I was using I'l always get the error,
"Bluetooth sharing as stopped working. Have to reboot to have the phone function with my ole sync system.