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Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

please tell me i can do something with ADB against that. my boyfriend is already annoyed at those, and i want to do something against it. no root sadly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I wish, I have not found a way yet and I work in cybersecurity. Though I have to admit I didn't give it my best at all.

One thing I would like to try soon is running FLauncher. Though I kinda doubt they will allow another launcher to be set as default. Their site offers some workarounds but "Fire OS" is a lot more locked down. For example using the normal ADB command to turn the screen upside down (needed for my projector) is not working either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Really a shame. I bought a new TV with Android OS because it isn't locked down, and gifted my BF my old Fire Stick because he got a TV with the shitty Samsung OS. Wish i could block the new ads for him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I found that the following helped: by never turning it off it just continues where it left off last time it was used. This assumes power is independent of TV.

Useful Settings This ADB command kills the sleep timer:

adb shell settings put secure sleep_timeout 0 and this ADB command kills the screensaver:

adb shell settings put system screen_off_timeout 2147460000