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[Q] Can someone please provide the .apk files for Amazon Market and BN reader?

I'm in Afghanistan and unable to download from the Market, in fact it's totally blocked and I don't see anything. My web browsing works fine over wifi.
Can someone please post the .apk files for Amazon Market and BN reader? Thanks.
-Grateful,
Helmand Province, Afghanistan

I am sorry noone has replied to you yet. I just saw someone post a link on this subforum to the nook for android apk file, a mediafire link I believe. If you mean Google marketplace then look for "gapps" and that should get you going. I don't know alot yet, but it could be a non-US IP issue for which there seems to be a windows program to take care of, hotspot is in the name, sorry to be vague.

I also had a tough time finding it but here's what I got for the BN reader which I recall I also found here in xda...
Then I saw a link for the amazon app: just google amzn.to/getamazonappstore
Disclaimer: use at your own risk.

Callibre and Non Drm on Nook Simple Touch.

1st of all i am not US resident. One of my releatives is going to buy Nook touch register it and then send it to me. So buying is out of the question.
Obviously i won't be able to shop. So my qustion is that does Nook simple touch will be able to read other books(meaning downloaded from other sites) and will i be able to use Calibre. i am asking coz on the wiki page of Nook simple touch says. It doesn't support Calibre.
So you think, it will work with many books available on internet.
you can check wiki page of nook touch
thank u very very much.

Yes: The Nook2 is supported by Calibre
Yes: Nook2 will work with most e-books available
Being a non-US citizen myself I'm buying most of my books from Kobobooks, no problems at all.
BTW, buying and registering a Nook2 as a non-US citizen is not a problem.
Buying e-books from B&N is another matter tho..

@ron87
thank u very much.
i guess its a go now.

Calibre works fine. I'm also in Canada here and had no problem with the Nook. I registered it myself, and can download free Nook books. I also buy my books primarily from Kobo. The Kobo app doesn't work though. If you don't want to use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer your DRM books, what I do is this.
1: Download and install Alidiko
2: Register Aldiko with your Adobe ID
3: Go to Kobobooks.com with your non stock browser
4: Find the book, and click to download the ePub. It won't give you the ePub but some DRM file that's meant to be opened in Adobe Digital Editions.
5: Choose to open that file with Aldiko, and blamo your DRM book will download.
You'll have to use Aldiko to read it.

guitar_east said:
Calibre works fine. I'm also in Canada here and had no problem with the Nook. I registered it myself, and can download free Nook books. I also buy my books primarily from Kobo. The Kobo app doesn't work though. If you don't want to use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer your DRM books, what I do is this.
1: Download and install Alidiko
2: Register Aldiko with your Adobe ID
3: Go to Kobobooks.com with your non stock browser
4: Find the book, and click to download the ePub. It won't give you the ePub but some DRM file that's meant to be opened in Adobe Digital Editions.
5: Choose to open that file with Aldiko, and blamo your DRM book will download.
You'll have to use Aldiko to read it.
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You know i really don't know alot about digital book readers (this is my 1st, i prefer hard copies but now days digital ones are very easy to find so.....).
BUT
don't i have to be a US citizen in order to install Nook apps. I mean my ip have to be from USA. (or atleast thats what i've heard & red)
p-s: thanks

Matt_Loomes said:
You know i really don't know alot about digital book readers (this is my 1st, i prefer hard copies but now days digital ones are very easy to find so.....).
BUT
don't i have to be a US citizen in order to install Nook apps. I mean my ip have to be from USA. (or atleast thats what i've heard & red)
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No, you can install whatever you want on your rooted N2
But, you do need to be inside the US (IP-wise) and have a US credit card if you want to buy e-books from B&N.
That's not a big deal tho, most of us just get them elsewhere. I buy most of mine from KoboBooks.

Kindle Fire in Australia

[UPDATED!]
Thread for Aussies to share Kindle Fire experience. I want eventually to have an ICS rom on this, but I'm no Dev so will need to share learnings.
Goals:
1. DONE - Order Kindle Fire using US Freight Forwarding company (I used www.shipito.com ) and Australian Credit Card
2. Set up and use Amazon.com US services
HELP - my broadband modem is locked so I cannot setup VPN on it - other options being investigated:
a - get VPN & working tun.ko on Fire for VPN on the device (best option)
see How to access android.net.vpn.SETTINGS?
and Kindle Fire tun.ko
b - get adhoc networking working so can run VPN on PC/laptop and then share adhoc wireless network
see [Q] Kindle won't pickup adhoc wireless my phone will??
and [Q] Will Adhoc WIFI be possible with software patching?
c - use a special wirless router to flash VPN on it e.g. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1494723
3. DONE! - Root (Dev forum thread
4. Install Google Apps (Dev forum thread)
HELP - Market loads but fails when trying to download any apps.
5. Install alternate launcher
6. Ummm... clockwork recovery and cyanogenmod 9 ICS eventually...
e.g. ROMs and DEVs compilation thread
EDIT - Other goals yet to be achieved
Add your own books to the Kindle
From the Use Kindle Fire in Europe thread:
mils69 said:
Here's my experience using the various Amazon 'services' from abroad - on the road for work, vacation or whatever.
Amazon Kindle - VPN into either US or UK IP ranges and then I can purchase books. Kindle app on Android doesn't seem to care where it is once book has been purchased.
Amazon MP3s - VPN into either US or UK and then I can purchase (and upload to Amazon Cloud player).. haven't tried playing MP3s with the cloud player as I have Google Music. Once disconnected from the VPN Amazon download app doesn't seem to care where I am when I download the actual MP3s.
Amazon Prime - Free Subscription to Amazon media library. Seems to be fine (on my PC) once I use an VPN. Haven't tried it on my Sensation.
Amazon AppStore - can't get it to work outside the US for love or money.
Assuming the products on the KF would behave in a similar fashion I can't see myself buying one any time soon, which is incredibly frustrating.
Hope this helps,
mils
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How do I VPN to a US IP?

I’m currently waiting for my kindle to arrive, I´m based in Spain and will be using unblock-us
I currently use this on my apple tv and ipad to view content from both the US and UK that is restricted to me here, this is a big step up from a VPN, it changes your DNS and not your ip address, it works at the same speed as your connection so streaming content via this will see no slowdown which I have always found happens using a VPN.
I’ve been using it for the last 3 months faultlessly but have not tried it on Amazon prime although I really don’t see why this won’t work.
Try it for free with the free months trial and please report back

Progress updated in first thread.
#1 - Root. This was very straightforward following the linked thread.
#2 - File explorer - had difficulties here, I ended up learning how to take an app off my phone (e.g. rootexplorer-1.apk from /data/apps) and install it on the fire using adb on my PC i.e. "adb install rootexplorer-1.apk".
I could get any number of apps off my phone using this method (e.g. homeswitcher & go launcher I really want!) but really I won't feel happy unless I can do this using the market
I tried following the link in my first post to get the market working, it opens but fails on trying to install any apps. Will give this another go later, but am concentrating on getting Amazon US services first.
On this note I have signed up to www.hidemyass.com for VPN as it seemed a good deal and I saw it before the above post about "unblock-us". So I have VPN on my PC, laptop, my android SGS phone and my wife's iPhone4, for about $70/year. Unfortunately our broadband wireless router is locked so I cannot set up VPN on it, so I am looking at options per my first post ie:
a - get VPN & working tun.ko on Fire for VPN on the device (best option)
see How to access android.net.vpn.SETTINGS?
and Kindle Fire tun.ko
b - get adhoc networking working so can run VPN on PC/laptop and then share adhoc wireless network
see [Q] Kindle won't pickup adhoc wireless my phone will??
and [Q] Will Adhoc WIFI be possible with software patching?
c - use a special wirless router to flash VPN on it e.g. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1494723

Kindle fire tried in Aussie land
I have got an amazon kindle from ebay and have successfully done the following
1. Rooted ...(Superoneclick)
2. Google market and youtube installed(needs market 3.3 and vendor.apk files
3. Installed go launcher
4. installed voodoo ota rootkeeper (for prime trailers to hide the su binary)
now waiting for custom ICS rom and recovery bootloader....
will try unblock-us to see if I can bypass the us restriction for amazon market store and video . Anyone tried this as I have heard we cant bypass this due to the credit card associated to amazon account. We need to have an us address associated with the card. One way to bypass this would be to get someone in US to post a Visa/matercard gift card so we can input that credit card in amazon.... anyone have any ideas ???

My Kindle arrived an hour ago here in Spain.
I have an Amazon account with my Spanish credit card and used a random us address.
I now have Amazon prime working nicely with the help of unblock-us which was straight forward, I also quickly installed ice cream sandwich launcher and will shortly root to add android market
So far everything works well with everything working just like being in the US

Kindle Fire - market app bombs
I followed all the instructions, rooted the kindle fire.
Installed the google pack, rootexplorer, go launcher, and vending apk.
Installed perfectly BUT it opens for a second, tried to display the terms of agreement then shuts down.
I tried to get around it by installing the market opener apk, same deal opens for one second then closes (as if something forces it shut).
Can someone please help.
Thanks

duquesa said:
My Kindle arrived an hour ago here in Spain.
I have an Amazon account with my Spanish credit card and used a random us address.
I now have Amazon prime working nicely with the help of unblock-us which was straight forward, I also quickly installed ice cream sandwich launcher and will shortly root to add android market
So far everything works well with everything working just like being in the US
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Which address did you change and how?

Australian VPN On Kindle Fire
Hello everybody,
I have Kindle Fire and I am using Australian VPN with Superb VPN Services on it. I am very satisfied. Speed is fine and connection is reliable.

AnthonyBell said:
Hello everybody,
I have Kindle Fire and I am using Australian VPN with Superb VPN Services on it. I am very satisfied. Speed is fine and connection is reliable.
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How did you manage to set it up? Through the router (VPN method mentioned earlier) or directly on your Kindle? In which case it would be amazing

AnthonyBell said:
Hello everybody,
I have Kindle Fire and I am using Australian VPN with Superb VPN Services on it. I am very satisfied. Speed is fine and connection is reliable.
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Hi Anthony, you mention Superb VPN Services. This looks like the right site:
superbvpn.com/android-vpn-service
It is a subscription service at $3.49/m. Is that what you used?
The site has an issue at the moment and I can't get to the purchase page.
Please confirm how you set this up.
Cheers.
Edit: I just found another option that has worked for a couple of AU users on this Whirlpool thread:
forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1819810
UnblockUs has a free trial for one week then it is $4.99/m
unblock-us.com
I will give this a try and see how it goes.
Cheers.

Kindle Fire in the UK. What you need to know.

So I received my Kindle Fire for Christmas, and I'm in the UK. My uncle from the US brought it over for me, and I hope this post will clear up any speculation about what will and will not work on your Kindle Fire in the UK.
1. Apps: Apps need a US credit card, or you cannot download from the Kindle Store. This was not really an issue for me, as I rooted my Fire, installed the Market, and can download from there, not to mention sideloading APK file apps, which I was able to do without rooting
2. Silk: Works fine, uses EC2 cloud like it should
3, Book Store: Haven't tried it, but I was able to download books I had purchased previously for my old Kindle
4: Prime: You get a month's free of Amazon Prime, I wasn't able to stream videos from it, and I don't really care, I don't want to pay 70 dollars + a year for it.
Everything else works fine, and I really love it. The only other issue, was during the set up, there is no option to select the UK time zone, so you have to change it manually from the settings later. Oh, and all the temperatures in the weather app are in Fahrenheit. But it works like a charm. Got lots of working apps, Minecraft, Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, and I'm using Calibre library to convert my PDFs into .MOBI format for reading on the Fire.
So all in all, it works pretty well in the UK actually! Hope this clears everything up for people in the UK thinking of getting it somehow. If I've missed anything please tell me!

Would also like to use the Kindle Fire in the UK but without rooting.
You mentioned being able to sideload apps ... but in order to do so, don't you need to download a file manager from the Amazon store (which a UK person cannot do)? and / or use an Android phone to backup an app?
I tried to download free apps from Amazon but even that is not possible and I don't have an Android phone .... is there any other way to sideload??
regards ....

hightime707 said:
Would also like to use the Kindle Fire in the UK but without rooting.
You mentioned being able to sideload apps ... but in order to do so, don't you need to download a file manager from the Amazon store (which a UK person cannot do)? and / or use an Android phone to backup an app?
I tried to download free apps from Amazon but even that is not possible and I don't have an Android phone .... is there any other way to sideload??
regards ....
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Before rooting I was able to sideload by downloading directly using the Fire, then using the browser, going into the menu, and seeing my downloaded, from that file list you can launch APKs.

I'm using it in the Czech Republic and I can confirm that all the things mentioned by "georgeos" are valid.
If anyone is interested, here are some of my own findings:
- Books - you can purchase books from Amazon as long as you have a valid card number. You're eligible to borrow some of the books in the store with Prime subscription (limited to one book a month).
- Newsstand - same as above - you can check most of the magazines with a 14 day free trial subscription.
As far as the sideloading goes, it's pretty simple even without access to the App Store.
First you need to turn on installation of applications from unknown sources. Then use the browser to look for an .apk file of your preffered file manager (I used ES File Explorer since it was free and came highly recommended). Once the download is completed tap the status bar to show the recent notifications, then tap the downloaded .apk file to start the installation.

Shtroodle said:
As far as the sideloading goes, it's pretty simple even without access to the App Store.
First you need to turn on installation of applications from unknown sources. Then use the browser to look for an .apk file of your preffered file manager (I used ES File Explorer since it was free and came highly recommended). Once the download is completed tap the status bar to show the recent notifications, then tap the downloaded .apk file to start the installation.
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Ah yeah, sorry, forgot to mention that. But it is best to root the device, and install the Android Market, makes getting apps easier if you don't want to pirate the APKs, or if you're looking for the latest version of a free one, and it's always difficult to find a latest version APK. Also the Market shows ONLY the apps compatible with the device, so you don't have to go through the pain of downloading the APK and then it not working and having to uninstall it and delete it.

Hi - I've been searching around for about half an hour or so but can't find an "idiot's guide" (for that is what I need) on how to make my US Kindle Fire compatible with the UK app store.
I've asked Amazon directly a number of times but they refuse to help. I'm close to selling up and buying a UK one, so would really appreciate if anyone knew if there was a way to do this.
Many thanks in advance.

Purchase kindle fire games with gift card from Asia
please some one help me. yesterday i have purchased a amazon gift card of 10$ and added to my amazon account but when i try to purchase any kindle fire game it says that its only valid for US residents. what should i do any proxy server, vpn connection or could anyone purchase for me if i give you my login id.
Any HELP Please.

[Q] Trouble accessing market

Hi guys i just bought a Kindle fire i live in Trinidad when i put in my details and i try to download angry birds (free app) it tells my my credit card is non us how could i get around this
Thanks in advance

The KF is only supported for the US market by amazon so far.
Even downloading fee apps uses an account linked to a credit card and that card needs to be US Based.
You will also have issues most likely with the IP you are using as they check for that for streaming.

is there anything i could do ? i just want market access dont really care for amazon apps
krelvinaz said:
The KF is only supported for the US market by amazon so far.
Even downloading fee apps uses an account linked to a credit card and that card needs to be US Based.
You will also have issues most likely with the IP you are using as they check for that for streaming.
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sicctt said:
is there anything i could do ? i just want market access dont really care for amazon apps
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Use a US based credit card.
OR
Root your device, load Android Market and use that.