so this is the latest generation firestick from Amazon
the latest for case date which is now running the custom launcher that we can
see here guys so lots of you are asking for this I know lots of you do Tron use
the launcher hijack but on that one as soon as you press the HOME key it
would go out the custom launcher and go back to the default launcher but as we
can see here guys I'm pressing the HOME key but we can see we're still staying
inside the custom launcher so let me just say this right now guys out of all
the tutorials I've ever done this is probably going to be the most trickiest
just because it does involve a couple of steps that you have to do on your first
take but then also on a computer now that computer will have to make a
connection to your fire stick to modify some files on here so it's definitely
not for a total beginner but hopefully I can make it as easy as possible for you
to understand so in this video today I'll show you exactly how you can
replace a default launcher what you need to install on your fire stick what you
to install in your computer then once that's installed you can choose
whichever custom launcher you want we can see this launch as a really nice
layout of course you don't see any of the atoms and adverts you have lots of
control on what you display on the home screen and it works really well so let's
jump right into it the very first thing you need to do is go over to your
settings and inside settings go over to your device my fire TV click on that go
to developer options and just make sure that these two are set to on once you've
done that go back to the home screen and we now need to open up downloader and
just navigate to this URL which is HTTP colon forward slash forward slash and
get four linked com now as soon as you type this address in this will
automatically download the latest version of falling onto your device so
let's type that in and click on go or press the play button on your remote
ok that's now downloaded let's click on install now we can now click on open
so as mentioned yesterday guys so I will now be sharing all of my applications
all of my tools all of my utilities through my brand new apk store and as
mentioned yesterday the code for my new apk store is all of the nine so I really
do hope you don't forget that ok so that's all of the nines there let's
click on next and click on continue so as mentioned the
new apk store is exclusively just for my subscribers only so if you don't have
the ping code just click on this or go to this address here okay so to get the
pin code for my apk store all we need to do is just click on the link in the
description and I'll take you to this webpage over here when you get this page
we can see it now says to you this content is to my subscribers only if you
hover the mouse over this this one now I allow you to subscribe to my channel
because once again guys the content I'm hosting on my apk store is for my
subscribers only so this is why I have to do this so all we need to do is click
on this link here this would then just confirm which account you're using for
YouTube just click on that again now within one second this will verify
that you're a subscriber and he'll then show you the pin code and that's all you
need to do okay so we inside may peek a store let's scroll down so the first
thing we need to get is actually the launcher hijack and this is basically an
apk which will allow your device to change the default launcher to something
else so let's keep scrolling down and here we can see this is launcher hijack
version 4.0 to now we can see it's called like an exclamation mark which
Connick implies there's a problem with the file but if you click on there it
says his files probably online or broken but click on dismiss and we can see when
it does a refresh it's now actually ready to download so there is a slight
bug with the software at the moment but if you just click on it once you should
now be able to download it so once it has the Downard we can click on that and
this will now begin the download of launcher highjack onto your fire stick
let's click on that again and let's click on install now we can see that's
now done let's click on done okay so we've installed the launcher hijack
let's now also install a custom launcher so we got opportunity in the Hal
launcher here let's click on that ok so when it turns into a player condom it is
now ready for installation let's click on that again and let's click on install
let's click on done and let's install one more launcher so the launcher musci
using in my demonstration is the atv launcher which is right at the top here
it is click on that as well let's click on a
play button and let's click install so in summary we've installed the launcher
hijack we've installed two custom launches how launcher and ATV launch are
now this rig is a bit tricky guys so if I just click on done let's back out of
this and let's go back to the home screen let's now go to our apps library
so the way we do that is we hold on the home button let's click on apps now
let's go to the bottom of this list by pressing left okay so there's the ATV
launcher there's a Hal launcher and this is the launcher hijack now the trouble
is guys if I try and launch this we now get an error which says accessibility
service is disabled and this is basically the issue that everybody's
having on the latest generation 4k 4 stake so how do we fix it now this one's
gonna get a bit tricky guys so we now need to go over to a computer to run
some commands but before we do that we need to confirm exactly the IP address
now forest ik is currently on so the way we do that is if we click on close
let's press home key again let's go to the settings at the top let's go over to
my fire TV and let's click on about and inside about we have Network and this
will basically tell you what IP address your fire stick is currently listening
on and we can see in my case it ends in 1 7 or so make a note of your IP address
and let's jump over to my computer ok so this is where it gets a little bit more
tricky so guys do pay attention and make sure you do watch this video to the end
because it is easy to miss that one of the steps and then you find out it's not
working so we need to do two things here guys so first you need to install a USB
driver now this driver will allow our computer to talk to our fire stick so we
need to do this first so we have the driver installed once we do have the
driver installed we then download a program called ADB
now ADB is basically Android debug bridge and it's a method of our computer
to talk to our Android box or a fire stick or really any Android device avoid
the command line now with the new changes with the 4k fire stick we do
have to make some special changes via come online for us to get the launcher
hijack working properly so let's do that now so the first
need to do is skirt the downloads page on my website and we can see we have two
things here available to download let's click on the first one first which is
the USB driver and I should start an immediate download off the driver file
have you see that's done that there once I finish is let's also download the ADB
program let's click on that as well ok so we now have to downloaded zip files
let's put them both into a folder and let me show you what to do next
ok so here are the two new files I just downloaded I'll just create a new folder
and drag them both in there so the first thing we're gonna do guys is we're going
to extract the USB Driver so if you double click on that and let's double
click on this again this will basically extract this file for you then give you
a prompt to install it now I already done it on mine bond yours it will say -
you wanna install this so you click on yes you'll then see this click on
install again and now if you see a prompt like this let's click on next
this is basically confirming for you that do you really want to install this
driver because obviously it's not a Windows sign driver it's a third-party
driver so you need to give it a confirmation that it's ok to install so
let's click on finish and we can see that now has completed so we've now
installed USB Driver on to our computer let's go back to the folder now with ADB
I'm just gonna do a right click on that and just select open in a new window
just so we can see the contents okay so there's the contents set and I'm just
gonna highlight these 3 files and then drag them out so basically we're
extracting the zip file and putting it into our original launcher folder and
that's all done now so now we've installed the USB driver and we've
extracted the adb file ready for us to use now this is where it gets really
tricky guys so you do have to be extra careful to make sure that you do type in
the right commands but I will save a copy of both commands that you need to
type in in the video description so you can copy out from there and make
sure you type them in correctly okay so as mentioned we know that my first acai
pea ends in 170 we now need to open up a command prompt so we can talk to our
firestick using the ADB command so let's do that now so we now need to open up
the command prompt which we can just find in the Start menu or if you're a
bit more advanced you can bring up the run box by pressing the win
is key and all this will then show you this dialog box here and in this dialog
box just type in CMD which is a shortcut for come on prompt and press Enter and
this is the command prompt so okay so for us to run this now we can just drag
the adb file directly into the command prompt the other thing you can do if
you're a bit more advanced is and you can actually navigate to the folder
where you've done the extraction so in my case it was on the D Drive so I can
just change directly to the D Drive go to my launcher folder which I created
and if I just do a directory command which is dir we can see there is a DB
file so I can just type in a DB here if you don't take the easy route you can
just drag this a DB file into here and let's type in connect because basically
we're saying a DB create a bridge we want to connect to something and we're
going to connect to the IP address of our fire stick so let's now type that in
so this is the IP address of my fire stick make sure you type in IP address
that your Co fire stick is currently listening on so in my case we know it
was 170 let's type that in and let's press Enter
ok we can see we now have made a connection to our fire stake we now need
to go into the sha mode so you can enter e natural commands for the launcher
hijack now the way we do that is once again we can drag in the adb command and
this time let's type in shell ok so we've now made a connection and we now
have a shell prompt or an access prompt into our fire stick so for example knife
I'll try and do an LS command which is like a list in UNIX we can now see we
have access to some of the files or maybe don't really have access because
we can see says everything is denied now if I were to route a fire stick then we
were able to have a lot more access but we can see mostly just say permission
denied but Lisa proves that we have made a connection to our fire stake and we
can now see some of the content on there and this is the key bit now guys we need
to enter in two special commands which will basically allow our fire stick to
listen up for the home press so as soon as you press the HOME key on your
fasting remote this will now intercept that request and allow our custom
launcher to takeover so instead of going back to the normal home screen for fire
stick we can actually use our custom launcher so the first command we need to
type in is this these two have to be entered in the
correct order guys so this is the first come on we're gonna type in some is
going to highlight that now and do a right-click copy on that
going to the command prompt and as soon as I do a right-click
that should automatically paste that command in for me let me do that now at
one more time okay so we can see here is the command for me to execute that now
I'm going to press the Enter key ok so we can see it did that there was no
error on the screen ok so now let's go to the second command let's copy that as
well right-click that select copy and let's do a right-click in here
okay so there we can see I've now pasted in that command let's execute that by
pressing enter okay so let's now jump back to our fire stake and see if this
has now worked okay so we're back onto our fire stake and we can see it
automatically has actually launched that launched a hijack so let's choose one of
these launches now so I'm gonna go for a TB launcher let's click on that and says
do you want to set your launcher to a tv-- launcher let's click on OK
let's press the HOME key and this is the moment of truth I just read a drum roll
and there we have it guys we are now launching a custom launcher on our 4k
fire stake and if I just press the HOME key again we can see that's not taking
us back to the normal Amazon fire TV launcher we are now staying inside the
custom launcher and that's working great now one of the first things I like to do
in this launcher is you press the context key on the remote let's go over
to launch your settings let's go to wallpaper let's click on sec ball paper
ok so I did actually download some wallpapers before so let's go to my
downloads folder let's go for clouds and there we now have a beautiful background
and we can see our launchers working absolutely fine
now let's say for example you want to change the launcher to a different one
so let's go back to launch or hijack and we can see now guys when actually start
this we get no errors so the commands run on our computer means we can now
access the accessibility service and we're not going to get that error
anymore let's try the Hal launcher so don't set your launcher to how launch it
is click on OK let's press the HOME key now and there
we have it guys we now have the Hal launcher working on our 4k firesnake
that's working absolutely fine now if you want to go back to the default
firestick launch our figure back into the nacho hijack again and we can see
hey guys when you have two options which is the custom launcher a TV and the
other custom launcher which is the how launcher but if you do want to go back
to your default launcher if you click on the three buttons on the top right and
you see where it says here hide system apps we click on that this now shows you
the default launcher which is this thing here which is Commodore Amazon TV door
launcher so you click on that now so you want to set your launcher to that click
on ok so now when we press the HOME key and there we have it guys we are now
back to our default launcher on our 4k fire stick so I really did enjoy making
this video guys because I know lots of you are having this issue trying to get
this working on your 4k fire stick so if you did find it useful then do give it a
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notification bell as always I'm here to help y'all guys so if you do have any
problems and do leave me a comment below and I'll hopefully catch up with you
guys real soon thanks
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