Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “đŸ”´LATEST FIRESTICK UPDATE – WOLF LAUNCHER IS BACK !”.
So it’s July 2023 and you’ll just finally Fed Up Now of these large home screen adverts. All of this sponsored content. All of these promoted applications. What can you do? Well, as you know, Amazon are really clamping down on blocking any process that allows us to use a custom launcher even some of the new things that were worked on in the last couple of months.
Amazon essentially just created a block list, and they said that if your custom launcher or your launcher manager or any of these custom applications are on your device, they just periodically go ahead and disable them. So, even if you do get the process working after a couple of hours, you may notice that your custom launcher again stops working. So what can we do well in this article today, let me show you a new method which will once again allow you to use a custom launcher on your fire.
Stick Fire TV fight, TV Cube and this new process will ensure that Amazon will not be able to Blacklist these custom launchers. Once again, I don’t want to go into too many details for obvious reasons, but if you watch this video to the end, you can once again enjoy a custom launcher and not see any of those Amazon adverts. Any of that sponsored content and really just take control of your fire stick Fire TV once again, so please do take a moment to hit that like button make sure you hit that subscribe button. So with all of that being said, let’s get if you’re new to the channel and you want to stay up to date with the latest tech tutorials, the latest fire stick Android and Android TV tips and tricks. Then please do subscribe and hit the like button. It’S a small click from you, but it makes a big difference to me.
Thank you, okay, so, for this process to work, we just need to get the latest version of launcher manager, which you may already have on your device and also the wolf launcher or really any custom launcher that you, like once you’ve installed both applications. I’Ll show you the changes that you need to make on launcher manager to ensure that your custom launcher stays on your device now to get both applications. We can just make a quick connection to my website, which is just techdoctoruk.com or you can always type in the short code.
534. 0. 2 – and, let me just say all credit is due to the people on XDA. Those guys have done all of the leg work. They’Ve done all of the testing, all of the troubleshooting and they’ve come up with these were crowns to get this working on all of our devices, I’m just presenting their information, so you guys can follow along now. If I go over to the hamburger menu and click on that and click on tutorials and we’ll see fairly near the top, there should be a launcher manager 2023, which I’ll then be updating with the steps needed for this video. So I can now scroll down and what you’re looking for here. So the version I recommend is the launcher manager. 1.1.8.
So you can get that from here and you also have the wolf launcher. If you need it now, my device, I already have the wolf launcher installed, so let me know just download launcher manager. Let me click on that.
I can then scroll down and you’re looking for the green download button. So, let’s click on that now give that a second and this will download that version onto my device. I can now click on install give that a second and that’s.
I can now click on done. So all we’ve done on this device on this new device is install the wolf launcher and also install launcher manager. I can now press the home key I’ve gone ahead to my settings and just confirmed in Wi-Fi TV in the developer options and I’ve ensured the ADB debugging is enabled, as that’s required, for this process to work. Once I’ve confirmed that I can now press the home key, I can now go over to my app Library, click on that and, let’s now start launcher manager for the first time, which is this icon here. Let’S click on that, so there’s going to be about three or four things that we’re going to click on in here or make some changes, and one of the steps will actually require me to type out a fairly long command and in my case I’m going to Use my iPhone, but you can use your Android phone as well, just install the Phi TV application and that will allow you to use a virtual keyboard on your phone.
You can then either type out a command or you can even copy and paste the command directly to your fire stick, and I will demonstrate that in just a second okay. So the first thing we’re going to do is click on launcher options. Let’S click on that and we can see the old method doesn’t work if you have the latest update, but I’m going to scroll down and where it says the new method uses ADB to open the launcher, I’m going to use that so where it says disabled I’m Going to press select there, let’s do that once this may kick me out. Okay, that looks okay. Now it says the home button hook is off.
I’M going to press the select button. Okay, so I can like restarted itself. So, let’s now go back in So launcher options, let’s scroll down where it says home button hook says: state is disabled. Let’S click on that again we can see off.
So I can now press the select button and now it says on. If you do see an ADB prompt, you can click on always allow and click on. Ok, so mine now says on for that, and also for the second option, I’m going to click select again, and it also says on for that now. So we have two ons here, that’s all done.
I can now press back. I can now go back into the launcher options. This time, I’m going to keep scrolling down. We can see this now says enabled and where it says the custom launcher.
I’M going to press the select button here and instead of having the active launcher as the launcher manager, I’m going to press the select button here and I will now scroll down to my custom launcher and of course you can install any custom launcher that you like. But in this example, I’ve installed the wolf launcher. I can now press the select button here and now it says: wolf launcher is now the custom launcher find out press back.
I just confirm that everything is working right now. If I press the home button, we can see on my 4K fire stick Max it instantly more or less instantly takes me to a custom launcher. Let’S now do these extra steps to ensure that this custom launcher does not get blocked, does not get disabled and we can continue using it on our device. Now, if I go back into the launcher manager, so the first thing we’re going to do in here is we’re going to disable the sleep. So if I now scroll down, we can see in other settings.
I can click on that and where it says screensaver. Let’S click there now we can see on mine, I’ve already set it to zero, but what you want to do is basically disable the sleep, so your device won’t go to sleep previously. We noticed that if your device was to go to sleep when you’d wake up the device, it would again revert back to the stock launcher. So to avoid that happening, I’m going to set mine to zero. That’S now done. I can now press back now.
The last thing – and this is really the the key part of this process – is to add in a custom command or script or a line which is basically a bunch of commands which will ensure that this process keeps on working. So I can click on ADB Commands. I can now click on the Plus on the top right.
Okay, so we can now give a name to this script or command I’m going to call mine R9. You can call it wherever you like. Let’S click on next and you now need to enter in this command, which I will show on the screen.
As you can see, the command is quite long. So, let’s now open up the MiFi TV application on my smartphone. This is available both for iOS devices and Android devices.
Let’S now click on my device. What that base means now is from my phone. I can press left and those commands are sent to my fight TV stick and you can also do a copy and paste. So the command will be listed on my website, just underneath the download option. So I can now copy that on my phone, let’s now go back to launcher manager.
Let’S go back to other settings, go back into the ADB Commands and you can see now guys when I type something on my phone on the keyboard. That’S now sent to my fire stick. So I can now just go over to my website on my phone and I can now copy out this command. Okay, clicked on copy.
I can now go back to the keyboard window. Let’S now long press now we see the ABS option to paste this. If I can click on that paste and there’s that become on there guys so that command is now gone in, we can now click on next. That’S the command there.
Now I can also select the option execute on boot, which is very important if your device restarts. We need to ensure that these commands keep on running just to ensure that our custom launcher keeps running and doesn’t get blocked anymore. So I click on that and click on, Save and that’s pretty much it guys so because of the command blog, those commands will be run on my device periodically and because of that, that will ensure that nothing can hopefully block my custom launcher from working. Whether Amazon tried to do something or my device restarts, those commands will just ensure that anytime, I press the home button on my device. I will always see a custom launcher, giving me once again a really fast fluid experience. I can quickly move around.
I can click on things without seeing any of that sponsored content without seeing any of those large adverts. I can once again take control of my device and it doesn’t matter even if I reboot it, which I will just show you now. So, let’s press the play and select buttons together, give that a second and let’s see now what happens when my device restarts okay, so my device has just restarted and there you have it guys. So without me touching anything my device booted into the custom launcher and everything is now once again working exactly how it should and I can go ahead and enjoy this custom launcher with Amazon. Trying to block this on my own personal device that I purchased so really appreciate your support.
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