Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “🔴NEW FIRESTICK HIDDEN FEATURE GIVES US A MOUSE TOGGLE !”.
So here we are on my brand new second generation F: stick Max! You can see I’m running fire OS version 8.1, which is the latest version, but what what happens now when I press the play button on my remote 3. 2. 1. I now have a fully working virtual mouse that I can use on my brand new fire. Stick I can move around. I can go from the top to the bottom.
I can click on things. I can select things and once again use all of my favorite applications that required a virtual Mouse. So in this article today, let me show you how you can follow this process on all of your devices and once again get a virtual Mouse working on all of them.
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So, to start this process make sure you’ve got ad debugging enabled on your device, then go to install unknown apps and make sure downloader is set to on once. You confirm that let’s now press the home button and let’s start downloader inside downloader, we can make a quick connection to my website, which is just tech.com or you can type in the short code. 53402.
Let’S type that in and click on, go – and this will take you directly to my website now when get to my website, we head over to the hamburger menu, which is the one with the three lines: click on that click on tutorials and the latest tutorial in The list will be how we can now get a fully working virtual Mouse on the newest fire OS 8 devices. Let’S open that up here, we are so how to get a fully working Mouse toggle on the fire OS 8 devices. This entire process requires three applications to be installed now: full credit to the creators of these applications. We have the first one, which is Mouse toggle, which is actually designed for Android TV, which was created by vires. We then have the accessibility, permissions manager, which was created by Swing wolf, who I’m sure, as you know, is the developer of the launcher manager all the different versions as well as, of course, the wolf launcher.
Then we have permission manager X, created by fan now using these three applications, I was able to get that Mouse. Toggle working, you just have to follow the process and make sure you complete each of the required steps in the correct order. Now, let’s scroll down here, we can see the step-by-step instructions on how to enable ADB on your device. Underneath all of that, we should have those three links to download those correct versions and make sure you download these exact versions because, for example, with permission manager X.
If you get the latest version, unfortunately, due to storage requirements or storage restrictions, the application doesn’t work properly. I had to find a much older version which actually worked with my fire os8 device. So these are three applications: Click on each of the links, for example the first one here: scroll down and click on the green download button to install it then press back then click on the second one and install it so install the three applications on your device. Once you have them, let’s now press the home key. Let’S now go over to application list, okay, so you’ve now downloaded those three applications onto your fire os8 device. You got the accessibility, permissions manager.
Here you got the permission manager X here here and finally, you’ve got this special version of the mouse toggle. Let’S open up this one first just so, we can see exactly what’s required and we can see at the top. We have four requirements which are currently not granted or not running so they’re, the four things that we have to fix before we can start using a virtual mouse or the mouse toggle on our device. Let’S fix them now. So, let’s press back so the first I’m going to open is the accessibilities permission manager, which is this one here, let’s open that up, so the first thing you want to make sure at the top. This accessibility service is enabled like so, and we now want to select where it says the mouse toggle service.
So we are basically granting access to the mouse toggle service, so can access the accessibility services on our fire os8 device. Let’S click on that! That’S now ticked. I can now click on Save. That’S now done. Let’S go now and check the mouse toggle again and we can see now it says the accessibility permissions are GR. Granted we just have to fix the other three. Let’S now do that, let’s press back and let’s now open up permission manager X for the first time. Okay, you’ll see this message here you want to click on okay, so the first you want to do is go to the top left. Let’S click on the menu scroll down, so we want to click on ADB shell, because this application uses ADB to make those required permission changes.
Let’S click on that. You’Ll then see this familiar prompt. Let’S click on always allow click on allow again that says that failed. Let’S click on okay: let’s now go back in click on that one more time, ADB, shell, we at the bottom, it says connected to ADB. Okay, once you see that that means you’re now ready to go. So all we need to do now is just find the mouse toggle and give it access to those remaining permissions. Now the quickest way to do that, if you go to the top again, let’s click on that and scroll down to where it says: exclusion, filters, click on that and select exclude system app. So this will basically filter the list of applications and just show you, the user or your own installed applications. Only. Let’S select that, let’s now press back, we can see the list is now shortened.
I can now scroll down, and this is the other SL bug where, where you’re scrolling down, you can’t actually see which application is highlighted, but if you keep pressing down basically, the last application in the list list is the one that’s currently highlighted so keep pressing down Until you see the mouse toggle so a few more times here we are so Mouse toggle for android TV. I can now press the select button. Now I can see all of those permissions that I’m able to adjust for this application and the one that we’re after is the system alert window, which is the ability to draw over applications, because for your virtual Mouse to work that virtual Mouse has to appear. On top of your other application, that’s the permission we need to Grant so now. The way we do that here is, if you press up on the remote a few times, then press right, we can now see these icons are selected on the top right.
Once you can see that you can now start pressing down, so we have the first one. Second, one: third one: when you see that highlighted you’re on the right spot, you can then press the select button once and this basically means we’ve now, given it the permission to draw over other applications. Let’S now press back, we can now press back again to exit, and this is now the moment of truth, because we’ve granted the permission and let’s see what happens now when we open up the mouse toggle, let’s open that up and we can now see everything is In green we’ve got the correct permission: we’ve got the correct access, we have the ability to draw over other applications and that service is now running. So that’s it guys.
Your virtual Mouse is now ready to go. So how do we activate it? Well, if you press down a few times here, for example, you can change the size of the virtual Mouse. You can change the icons, so you have light, you have dark, you have an orb. You got some colored one here, you got a hand, let’s go for the hand, let’s be a bit different, let’s scroll down now by default, your virtual Mouse will scroll through the edges. So if you keep scrolling to the left, it’ll then appear on the right and similarly from the top to the bottom. But if you want to turn that off, you can take this box here.
Let’S keep going down. Let’S keep going down. We can ignore these messages. Here – and this is the key part you have to now – specify which key do you want to press to invoke your virtual Mouse now? If I click on detect – and you can now basically press any key that you want to hold to bring up your virtual Mouse, so I’m going to press the play button so keep that pressed for 3 seconds so 1.
2. 3. You can see it’s detected, I’m pressing uh key number 85. It says you want to confirm that I’m going to click on, yes, says the new boss, key activation key is set to 85. I can now. Click on Save okay, says: boss, Keys 85. Let’S now press the home button – and this is now the real moment of truth – let’s now long press play 1 2 3 and we now have a fully working virtual Mouse on our fire os8 devices.
I mean this something that you guys have been asking for a long time more or less as soon as these devices were released. So many of you are asking: how can we get get a virtual Mouse working on these new devices and you can see now guys? It’S working, absolutely fine, you can move up and down. You can go left, it appears on the other side.
You can go to the top. It appears in the bottom. Let’S now actually use this in an application that requires a virtual Mouse now, a great application, for that is the Aurora store, which is basically a direct access to the Play Store where you can get all of the applications directly from there, but on your Amazon device. Now to do the virtual Mouse, I’m going to long press the play button.
So 1. 2. 3. That’S now gone okay, so we’re now inside the Aurora store. Let’S now bring up the virtual Mouse again so long press the play button, here’s our virtual Mouse! So I can now move around want to click on this file manager. I can press select, button and you’ll see this the first time because we’re using the ad version of this mouse toggle, you have to click on always allow. Now, before you can click on always allow you have to again dis disable, the virtual Mouse, so don’t press the play button that should now be disabled and you can see I can now click on always allow click on allow again that then clicks on there. So, let’s just enable that one more time so long press Play Bring up the virtual Mouse says if we’re in Mouse mode, I can now go to the top. I can click on back. That takes me back, let’s say, for example, I want to scroll down. Well, the way you enable the scroll mode is you press the activation P key once so, instead of long pressing, it just press it once it says you now got the scroll mode enabled. So when I press down on the d-pad that simulates scrolling so scrolling down scrolling down, that’s working fine, I can now scroll back up and if you want to go back into Mouse mode, just press the activation key again. So one press and we’re back into the normal Mouse mode. So again I can move around. I can now click on this TV V. Web browser just show you that the clicks are working fine and if you want you can go ahead and install this application.
If you want to, but I’m all right for now, I’m now going to press the home button and going to disable the virtual Mouse long press, the activation key. It says d-pad mode, which means I can again use my remote control in the standard way. So that’s pretty much it for this video guys. Many thanks for watching.
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