Thought I'd list a few alternatives I've used to get apps onto my fire.
My favorite is the Android pit app. It offers quite a few apps and defaults to the market for those it doesn't offer directly. On the fire the Amazon appstore opens instead, usually saying app not found. Also features app reviews, a weekly half price app (which usually had a review also) and a news rss feed that also shows directly in the app.
There's also Getjar which now supports the fire as a device. You can get the latest version of the Dolphin HD browser here.
Both of these can be found via a Google search in the browser. The Android pit site will automatically offer to download their app as long as you have the user agent set to tablet instead of desktop.
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hey guys, ios/ipad convert here.
Just wandering if now that we have root we are any closer to making apps like movie studio that is preinstalled on the xoom available for our a500's.
Also anyway to access the us marketplace? Would like to get google books but it isn't available in the uk. And in 5 weeks I'm going to the us/canada for a year, would the store determine my GPS location and give me access ro that store or does it go on account billing information?
Thanks.
here is the movie studio apk but it fails to install on the a500
I've tried Google books on my a500, books aren't available in uk yet but you can get free books. Kinda pointless. Go for kindle or even the native Lumiread.
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i want to order a kindle fire but i am not sure if it will work here in the uk as it is not for me but for a family member the person would just use the device as stock
Stock right now,the KF would not be a good choice for use in the UK. They would have a hard time accessing any media. Amazon app store and the Amazon cloud would not work.
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krelvinaz said:
Stock right now,the KF would not be a good choice for use in the UK. They would have a hard time accessing any media. Amazon app store and the Amazon cloud would not work.
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Right, in the UK you'd be unable to access the media stores. Too much conflict in copyright stuff between here and there.
I believe I heard the Kindle would burst into flames once it crossed US borders...
I'm quite sure the Kindle would work perfectly fine elsewhere.
I've been having a blast with it for over a week and haven't touched a single amazon based feature, which I believe would be the only place you'd have issues.
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I believe I heard the Kindle would burst into flames once it crossed US borders...
I'm quite sure the Kindle would work perfectly fine elsewhere.
I've been having a blast with it for over a week and haven't touched a single amazon based feature, which I believe would be the only place you'd have issues.
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Yeah, if you had media to fill it yourself and could use your cloud account for music in the UK (don't see why you couldn't) then yeah that would work. But a lot are likely buying it due to them already buying into Amazon services. If his friend was going to hack it, that's be one thing, but stock currently I'm not sure it's the best choice outside the US as none of the Amazon features work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you could find uses for it, I just think that your tablet would be a bit more crippled stock without Amazon services than other possible choices, at least currently. So I'll say it honestly depends on what your friend would get out of it.
I'm using one here in Brazil, so I guess you would have the same experience I have.
All Amazon stuff are useless, except Kindle for books (the same Android app you install in any device). You even can't install other Apps because Amazon App Store blocks everything outside US (even free apps).
The only useful thing you can do to a Fire outside the US is to install third-party apps and root your device to make it like any other Android device. And I loved it for that: a cheap Android tablet, open, unblocked, and easy to hack. Everything I wanted.
The reality is that you'll be buying an Android tablet, not a Kindle as it is in America.
I got the amazon apps to work outside the us using us address and test card.I have rooted and installed aneroid market aswell.Just waiting for touch recovery and then the fun will start.
thanks for the info i will just buy the normal transformer or a ipad
it is possibile to have Kindle Fire working fully outside US using for example unblock-us.
With fully i mean, cloud, streaming content (audio, video, books, etc), amazon app store, etc.
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it is possibile to have Kindle Fire working fully outside US using for example unblock-us.
With fully i mean, cloud, streaming content (audio, video, books, etc), amazon app store, etc.
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Yes, i can confirm. Using unblock-us is the solution, i use it in Germany and it works fine.
Anyone have any luck or even try porting the Amazon App Store? I really like their selection of free books. I feel like they have more books than Google Books does.
http://amzn.to/getappstore
Download it to your computer and sideload it, or download it to your device and install it with unknown sources enabled.
Also, a simple "it's already available for other devices" would have been a better approach.
Amazon App Store doesn't have free books, I assume you are talking about Amazon Kindle App.
Yes you are right, it's not available for all devices, but you can sideload it anyway. It doesn't have strict region restrictions as Amazon App Store has.
I have a Lumia 920 and have the Kindle app on it.
All other phones (and actual Kindles) allow for uploading of ebooks to the amazon website and then you can download them to each of the kindle devices and apps. The advantage of this is that they will sync to current read position on all devices.
BUT, the Kindle app on my phone wont allow the downloading of these files, but it will allow me to download the purchased ebooks from amazon.
Is anyone finding this problem as well?
Same problem here, I have the same problem on Wp8, Wp7, windows 8....
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It must be Windows related then, as I have come from an Android Tablet and phone and I could sync all ebooks to these devices - Oh well perhaps it might be solved in an update.
I think this is an amazon artificial restrictions on windows, did you contact amazon ?
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The Kindle app is pretty much garbage on WP. It will only sync books purchased from the Amazon website. No other books can be opened by the app. According to other users, Android and iOS versions allow this. The app needs a major update.
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The limitations on sideloading books or opening them from other locations (web, etc.) aren't actually the app's fault; WP7 doesn't allow apps to do that and even if WP8 does I'm pretty sure there isn't a dedicated WP8-only version yet. For what it's worth, the app does actually have the code to do this; there's just no way for it to tell the OS to do so.
If you have an unlocked WP7 device, you can use a homebrew app to open .mobi and .prc files and then immediately put them in the Kindle app's storage. They will work after that. Note that this doesn't yet work on WP8 because we don't have that level of access. Also note that this doesn't work on the Win8/Windows RT app, because it completely lacks the capability to open .mobi/.prc files (even though Win8/WinRT does support apps making themselves the handler for a filetype... grumble grumble).
Thanks for all the replies, at least its not just me then, hopefully they will sort this out eventually.
Probably too little, too late, but then again, maybe not, but Amazon has finally released an android version of the Amazon Instant Video app:
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/09/09/amazon-prime-finally-comes-to-android-after-all-these-years/
However, no Chromecast support. Boo!
It does work. I've installed it on both my RAZR HD and my Nexus 7. However, you must also have the Amazon store app installed as well. If on a Nexus 7, then you MUST install the non-tablet version of the Amazon store app. Until I installed the non-tablet version, it would keep telling me I had to install it and then would redirect me to the Amazon store web page.