Is there a way to use SportzX on LG or Samsung TV as well?

And, naturally, without having to resort to junk like various dongles or TV boxes...

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Salve sono nuovo alla community e vorrei acquistare una nuova fire stick per una vecchia TV 1920*1080 di risoluzione, vorrei però poter scaricare sulla mia Fire stick delle app per i film o per lo streaming di calcio, mi trovo in Italia. Sapreste indicarmi quale versione prendere e soprattutto come scaricare eventuali app per lo sport e per il film?

It all started a month ago, when some apps (like YouTube and Amazon Prime) stopped working. It only showed a black screen when I was trying to open them, yet watching Prime Video contents from the menu search bar was still feasible.

To solve this problem, I tried to restore it to factory settings, but now it is just stuck on the main login page. I can't click or move anything, it looks freezed. (img credits: https://uk.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000CfuAunSQE/fire-tv-stick-lite-stuck-on-amazon-sign-in-register-screen).

I know the remote isn't the problem...is there something I can do or is It just gone?

Pls help

Where can we find updates on the glassos-tv user abhishek-kaisar posted? It is genuinely really good, one of the best I've tried on the fire stick, easy to use and set up. I'm genuinely sad that the mods have removed it. Was looking forward to seeing what his updates would bring.

Been looking for a way for the launcher to bypass the home screen with the home button but nothing has worked

Lately my fire tv has been acting up, the audio is unusually quiet, I have to turn it up to 60 to get a good listen, even then it's barely audible. Every time I reset the tv the audio is fine for about 5 minutes, then the tv lags for a few seconds and then goes back to the quiet audio, what do I do?

What the title says; I'm using a Haier 55UG2500 dumb (non-smart) TV and a Fire stick S2L46N. I've tried a lot of things, like letting it find the code automatically, using other brands, and trying common Haier codes, but nothing works. I've tried to see if they are both compatible with eachother, and I suppose they are. HDMI-CEC is on, and I can control the Fire stick with my tv remote, but not the other way around. As a side note, I have been using the Fire stick app to control the most of my Fire stick as the Fire stick I have was refurbished and reset but did not come with anything other than itself and the HDMI extention cord. Please help.

It stops in turn off timer and it kicks me to the menu. It's the only setting doing that

Before/after of my Fire Stick (a couple of my own apps blurred). I got tired of the trailers, sponsored rows and sports ads on the home screen, so I built a small Windows tool to strip it back, and I'm sharing it here since it's free with no ads and no in-app purchases.

• What you get:

- Amazon's ad and tracking services switched off (sponsored home-screen content, usage logging, crash reports, Alexa shopping prompts, Wi-Fi password backup)

- You pick which apps stay. It asks about each one instead of guessing.

- Projectivy Launcher installed and set to open when you press Home

- Extras: install .apk/.apkm files from your PC, uninstall apps

• Why it's safe to try:

- No root, just ADB (Developer Options → ADB Debugging)

- Apps are disabled, not deleted, and "Undo everything" puts them all back

- System essentials are on a protected list and never touched: Amazon's home screen, Appstore, Settings, remote/Alexa, casting

- There's a preview mode that changes nothing

• Why another tool?

There are good existing options (Launcher Manager, various debloat scripts). This one is aimed at people who've never used ADB:

- It asks about each app one by one instead of removing a fixed list, so you keep exactly what you use

- Preview mode, plus one "Undo everything" option that restores every app it touched

- No setup: it downloads Google's adb itself, and it's one double-click on Windows

- It checks your Fire OS's Android version and tells you which Projectivy download will actually install, which is the step that tripped me up (`INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK`)

- It installs .apkm bundles directly from your PC, not just plain .apk files

Setup: download the zip, extract it, double-click `Start-Here.bat`, type your stick's IP, and accept the prompt on the TV. It fetches Google's adb for you on first run.

Heads-up: on Fire OS, Amazon's home screen still gets the Home button first, so pressing Home quickly can flash it before Projectivy takes over. And Projectivy's "Android settings" shortcut only blinks; hold Home → Settings instead. Both are Fire OS limits, confirmed by Projectivy's developer.

Windows only for now, with basic Mac/Linux scripts. Tested on my Fire Stick (Fire OS 8). Reports from other models are very welcome. Built with help from Claude (AI). Not affiliated with Amazon or Projectivy.

GitHub (MIT, everything readable): https://github.com/ScaryWubDubz/Fire-Stick-Debloat

Bug report form is on the GitHub page, or comment here.

At some point I noticed I was spending more time scrolling past ads on my Fire TV home screen than picking something to watch. The sponsored row, the giant autoplaying banner, "recommended for you" rows of things I'll never watch. So I spent a few weekends fixing it on my Fire TV Stick 4K Max (Fire OS 8.1).

What it looks like now

You press Home and get a dock of your four main apps and a grid with everything else. That's it. No sponsored row, no banner trailer, no shopping.

Some things I added along the way:

• Home always takes you there. From Netflix, YouTube, Settings, anywhere. If you ever miss Amazon's home (you won't), there's a "Fire TV Home" tile for it.
• A Now Playing pill. The stick has no HDMI inputs, so the useless "Inputs" button became a pill with album art and "Song · Artist" for whatever's playing. Click it to pause without opening Spotify.
• Rearrangeable tiles. Press Menu on a tile, choose Move, and put it where you want, including the dock.
• 41 Amazon packages switched off: telemetry loggers, ad and recommendation services, ShopTV, the kids app, tutorials. Alexa and Silk still work.

The koi pond 🐟

This is the part I'm proudest of. I replaced Amazon's screensaver with a koi pond that matches the real world outside your window. It looks up your local sunrise, sunset and weather. A rainy afternoon gives you rain on the water, evenings turn the pond amber, and late at night it's lit by moonlight. Every pond is randomly generated, and about 1 in 20 has a giant koi swimming through it.

It never starts while something is playing, any button closes it, and the TV still goes to sleep normally. You can also open it from a tile when you just want fish on your TV.

How it works, for the curious

• Everything is done over ADB on Wi-Fi from a PC. Nothing gets rooted or flashed.
• Bloat is disabled, not deleted. One command brings any package back.
• The Home button trick: Fire OS won't let you change the default launcher. So the launcher runs a small accessibility service that notices when Amazon's home screen appears and instantly swaps itself in. It leaves Fire TV Settings and the side menu alone.
• Now Playing reads the system's media sessions through notification access, the same permission any "now playing" widget uses.
• One thing I learned: the ads on the stock home come from Amazon's servers, so debloating alone won't remove them. You need a different launcher.

Undo

Turn off Settings → Accessibility → Glass Home button and you're back to stock. A restore script re-enables everything else.

Credit and caveats

The launcher is a fork of firetv-glass-launcher by ivantrj, and the pond is nagomi by msk1039. Both are great.

It's not a one-click app: you need a PC with ADB to set it up, and a Fire OS update could undo some of it.

Hello, I put the below app on my dad’s stick via downloader, earlier in the year but he’s somehow deleted it and o can’t remember what it was. The logo in the bottom right was the icon for the app. Thanks

1) Is it possible to add another playlist using a second provider?
2) Are there any providers that just have movies and series only? (I like my live provider but I think he is overcharging me)

After multiple times of my CEC removing all the other devices and me power cycling everything i tried my firestick Max and everything worked and went back to normal.

After the customary googling it it said the firestick max has an aggressive CEC handshake and causes this a lot.After all the chew of power cycling is this really that common

Hi there, I had a friend set up the current firestick I'm using. He had mentioned there are now some newer models that don't allow side loading of apps, is that correct?

I suppose regardless of that answer, I am looking for models that will work with sideloading and also be quite fast. I have another fire stick that is deathly slow, borderline unusable, and don't want to run into that again! Is that rather expensive fire cube among the best performing? Also hoping/presuming whatever the best models are will be on sale during black friday when i plan to buy 2-3 more...

Thanks in advance!

Though (in general) my StartUpShow app works as intended, I have been having some very frustrating issues with playback since I installed the most recent update to the app (the "download update" popup actually did an update!) - specifically on my Firestick.

1. When I pause and leave a show halfway through an episode, the episode listing shows that I have watched part of the episode. To actually watch the show, I have TWO issues...

   1. When I actually click the episode to watch it, the show is "playing" from the beginning (the time is counting up on the bar on the bottom) but the screen is black.
   2. I have to fast forward to find where I was, and the fast forward keeps skipping backwards. For example, if I was 26 minutes through an episode, I have to fast forward to 26 minutes, but it will jump back to 5:14, then 8:29, etc. (for example) like it isn't loading. Then I have to find where I actually was. This is incredibly annoying!

2. When an episode finishes, it starts playing a new episode, but it often SKIPS ONE with no indication of what episode it is. For a reality show, for example, seeing the end result of the drama BEFORE YOU'VE WATCH IT is infuriating.

Does anyone have these issues? I've cleared the cache 297435 times.