If you missed yesterday’s live stream, here’s the latest AFTVnewscast episode. Thanks to everyone who viewed live and who participated by asking questions.
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Show Notes & Links
How to change the default screensaver on the Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
Daydream compatible Android screensavers
How to determine the package name of an Android App
How to set a custom Screensaver Start Time on a Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
How to set a custom Sleep Time on a rooted Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
How to customize the Boot Animation on a rooted Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
Logitech adding Alexa integration to Harmony remotes
App Deal: Retroids down from $0.99 to FREE
App Deal: pFolio for Google Photos down from $2.89 to $0.69 w/ coins
pFolio for Google Photos on Amazon
Over 100 movies just went on sale for as little as $3.99 on Amazon Video
Get a $10 Amazon Gift Card for playing Sonic Dash through Amazon Underground
Sonic Dash on Amazon Underground
Check your Amazon account for credit from Apple’s e-book settlement
Click here to check e-book credit
Amazon’s latest batch of pilot shows are now available to watch for free
Redesigned Amazon Kindle is thinner, lighter, comes in white, and still $79.99
YouTube Red takes on Amazon and Netflix, while BitTorrent takes on YouTube
How to install TWRP custom recovery on a rooted Fire TV 1
How to block software updates on the Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
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According to what you mentioned about blocking updates on dns. I blocked updates for the top 4 sites you mentioned and my FTV 1st gen device still updated to the latest firmware. At the time I was on 5.0.5 and was waiting for the rbox release of the roms. Now I’m asking this; is anyone working on a FTV 1st gen rooting method for version 5.2.1.0?
Sorry to hear that. I’ll test to see if anything has changed as far as update domains. We usually don’t hear about people working on a rooting method. It just appears randomly when new exploits are discovered.
I blocked the 4 address’s on my netgear router and my fire tv 2 still updated -_- i only had it 2 days so i sent it back and got another and routed it and blocked it that way :D so far so good.
Most likely your router is incapable of blocking HTTPS requests, which is what the Fire TV uses to download updates. You’ll need to block using method 4 in my guide which uses OpenDNS.