How to switch from a disabled FireStarter to FireStopper

Your FireStarter settings will not be transferred over to FireStopper.

So you must force quit FireStopper, and toggle ADB debugging off and on, to make other ADB connections.

HOME button single-press detection does work, but only through the ADB method.

Double pressing the HOME button will open the Fire TV’s app section, which is a new feature added with software update 5.0.5.1.

HOME button double-press detection does not work.

If the official FireStarter gets updated, FireStopper’s updater will install the new version of FireStarter alongside FireStopper, so you will then need to uninstall FireStopper.

Amazon can easily ban this app too, without needing to push a new software update, so this may just be a temporary fix.

FireStopper is just being released to get FireStarter users back up and running while sphinx02 figures out what he wants to do with FireStarter. jkchr1s has no intention to continue developing FireStopper as a separate app. jkchr1s, the creator of FireStopper, wants to make it clear that sphinx02, the creator of FireStarter, still gets all the credit and support for his great app.

Enable FireStarter by running the command: pm enable de.belu.firestarterįireStopper is the exact same app as FireStarter, just with a different package name so it bypasses the blacklist.

Enter super user mode by running the command: su.

Enter ADB shell by running the command: adb shell.

Connect to your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick via ADB.

If your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick is rooted, you can re-enable FireStarter by doing the following: Here’s what you need to know about the new clone app, called FireStopper, and the proper way to cleanly switch to using it for the time being. XDA member jkchr1s has done a great job figuring out the details of FireStarter’s removal and has released a clone app that currently works with the new software version.

Starting with software version 5.0.5.1, Amazon has started disabling FireStarter by name on the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.

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