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Homestead 1.6.11

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@Sarg338 Sarg338 released this 25 Oct 16:39
· 6 commits to main since this release

Amazon's launcher can be switched off, and TV Health leaves your screensaver alone.

  • Debloat can now switch off Amazon's launcher itself, on TVs where Home would then come straight to Homestead. It is marked risky, takes two presses, and is never part of the one-press buttons or Simple mode. On Fire OS 7 the row stays locked, because Home would otherwise open nothing. Switch it back on before you uninstall Homestead.
  • A firmware update can switch packages back on. With "Warn if the system undoes Debloat" on (Settings, under System, off by default), the home screen shows a tile for ten seconds offering to switch them off again.
  • TV Health keeps a screensaver you picked. Only Amazon's ad screensaver is flagged, and "Apply all" no longer rewrites settings that are already fine.
  • TV Health now wants the animator duration at 1. Below 1, the Amazon home menu's Settings and Inputs stop working on Fire OS 8. A TV already at 0.5 is flagged, and pressing the row sets it to 1.
  • Pressing a single TV Health row no longer leaves it stuck on "working...".

Thanks to johndu30160 and giu-napoletano29.

Tested on an Insignia Fire TV Edition (Fire OS 7): the TV Health animator row, and the restore tile (appears, slides out after ten seconds, OK switches the package off again). Switching Amazon's launcher off and back on, with Home going straight to Homestead after a reboot, was tested by a contributor on a TCL Fire TV (Fire OS 14).

New to Homestead? See the 1.0 release for install steps and what has been tested.

SHA-256 of homestead.apk: ff827c3d46226dc6ebaeffc7517602d5dc51dfce017f70282500f8260d55da0e