id: fireos-amazon-aftn
title: "Amazon Fire TV, 3rd gen (AFTN Pendant)"
contributors:
  - adi-c
platform: fireos
status: tested
tested_on: "Fire TV 3rd gen (pendant), Fire OS 6.2.8.0 / NS6709: debloat, lockdown, DNS filter and Keeper launcher; verify.sh passed"
models:
  - AFTN
adb:
  port: 5555
  transport: wifi
  first_connection_prompt: "Allow USB debugging? — must be accepted on the TV with the remote"
developer_mode: >-
  Settings > My Fire TV > About > click the device name 7 times, then My Fire TV > Developer Options > ADB debugging: ON
ip_location: "Settings > My Fire TV > About > Network"
prompts:
  - name: USB debugging authorization
    blocks_automation: true
    fix: "tick 'Always allow from this computer' and press OK with the TV remote"
data:
  packages: data/fireos6/packages.txt
  protected: data/fireos6/protected.txt
  never_disable: data/fireos6/never-disable.txt
  user_apps: data/fireos/user-apps.txt
  settings: data/fireos/settings.txt
  settings_restore: data/fireos/settings.restore.txt
launcher:
  mechanism: usage_stats_keeper
  package: tv.dumbtv.home
  reason: "Fire OS 6 refuses third-party accessibility services (A11yAuthorizer); the Keeper reads UsageStats and calls moveTaskToFront, skipping the 5 s app-switch delay"
  fallback: "holding HOME opens Fire OS's quick menu; Options > Open Amazon's home screen pauses the Keeper"
quirks:
  - "Fire OS 6 refuses third-party accessibility services; HOME is managed by dumbtv home Keeper via GET_USAGE_STATS and moveTaskToFront"
  - "no cmd package install-existing: system apps are only disabled, never uninstalled"
  - "no RUN_ANY_IN_BACKGROUND app-op; RUN_IN_BACKGROUND ignore blocks background starts only"
  - "always_on_vpn_app is dropped at boot; the DNS filter starts from its own boot receiver once it has been opened"
  - "com.amazon.vizzini re-enables itself at every boot"
notes: "Fire TV 3rd gen (pendant 2017), Fire OS 6 (Android 7.1.2, sdk 25, kernel 3.14.29)"
verify:
  blocked: data/blocklists/verify-blocked.txt
  allowed: data/blocklists/verify-allowed.txt