I factory reset my device and re-installed Google Play Store and made a video. I hope this helps everyone. Video is below and you can get more info on rooting and other Kindle Fire instructions at Android Cowboy.
Thanks a lot. Looks very straight forward. Getting my wifes in tomorrow for mothers day, was planning on putting the play store on for her.
slopokdave said:
Thanks a lot. Looks very straight forward. Getting my wifes in tomorrow for mothers day, was planning on putting the play store on for her.
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Remember you'll need to root your device first but that's pretty easy. I have instructions and video on the site and there is info here at XDA as well.
It seems to be simple enough..still need to give it a try ...!!!!!!
It works until I restart the device and then it says Google Play Store has stopped. I will re-install it and it works until I restart it again.
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Just completed the Dexter Mod to allow Google Play on my A7.
All appears working fine, except that Google play will not allow me to purchase any apps. I get an Error ("An error occurred, please try again"), everytime I touch the price button on any app or music.
I've rebooted the device without clearing the issue.
Any ideas?
Oh yeah, this device is not on Googles list of supported devices.
Thanks
Update - Still no joy. Free aps download, but cannot buy
I decided to try to re-do the mod.
I first went to Google and deleted all my accounts.
I did the Dexter mod again from scratch and set up a new Google Acct after the reboot.
Going to Google Play updated the Android Marketplace to Play Store on the tablet.
Using Google Play I still cannot buy an app, but I can download a free one. There are only two apps listed anyway. Missle Command which I cannot buy for $0.99 and 8Track, a music app which is free and downloaded fine.
The first time I did this there were a bizillion apps available, although I could get to none of them.
Any ideas here?
***** Another Update: I discovered I can buy apps using Play Store through my PC for the A7 which upload fine, but still not directly thru the A7
Another Update: Success
Seems like after waiting a while and not using the tablet's Play Store, when finally returning, I have a full list of games and apps.
I also just successfully downloaded a free game (Angry Birds Space) directly from the A7.
This is good news!
I had read elsewhere that on another tablet (Samsung, I believe), ignoring the Play Store app on the tablet for a while would eventually alloe it to work properly.
Seems like that's the case here.
Wow, quiet group here! Lots of views on both of my current threads and not a single comment. I know everyone was just waiting for me to figure it out myself ;<)
Dexter has more than a dozen Mods for at least 3 OS on at least 6 platforms. Probably that is the reason that no one replied ??
Dan
rockethead26 said:
Wow, quiet group here! Lots of views on both of my current threads and not a single comment. I know everyone was just waiting for me to figure it out myself ;<)
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I haven't been in this forum in a while just pop in once in a while, might find better help for the a7 at tabketroms.com, but any ways have you tried clearing the cache and data of the google play store in your settings?
Thanks for the recommendation on the other site. Everything works fine, but the device is listed as not supported by a great majority of the apps. It's kind of a worthless tablet, at least it was free.
rockethead26 said:
Thanks for the recommendation on the other site. Everything works fine, but the device is listed as not supported by a great majority of the apps. It's kind of a worthless tablet, at least it was free.
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I been using the cm7 which uses a modified build.prop for the xoom, or you could easily find a modified market here on xda
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smallba said:
I been using the cm7 which uses a modified build.prop for the xoom, or you could easily find a modified market here on xda
Sent from my EVO using XDA Premium HD app
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Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll just let this one die a quiet death.
So for a long time the PS Store (if you have it, and it works) has been empty. Well I bought a Sony Tablet S back in December and jumped on the 5 free games from the PS Store at the time. So those 5 games are on my PSN account.
Well this weekend I gave up on R800x UK ROM and flashed Verizons 2.3.4.
Directly afterwards with fastboot, I booted the recoveryplay.img and ran the FreeXperia.zip, then I ran this PS Store.zip. (I do not know if you only need the PS Store APK or if you need to run this .zip file from CWM, but I ran the .zip)
Afterwards I opened the Let's Start PS Store app and downloaded the APK from the website it takes you to. Once downloaded and installed I logged in with my same account from my tablet and while the store front is indeed blank and empty when I clicked on Download List all of my previously downloaded games from my Tablet S were there!
I downloaded them all and they all work. Button controls work also. They also show up in the game launcher.
Other notes: I do have a Japanese and UK PSN. I logged into those also; I was able to download Kula World from the UK PS Store (it is the only UK game on my account that I have downloaded onto my tablet).
I also have downloaded flOw, Piyotama, Ape Escape and some other game on my Japanese PSN PS Store account but they are not available at all on the JPSN PS Store on my Xperia Play.
Can you do a video?
Unfortunately no Tablet S here, I wish we had a better solution
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Can you do a video?
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Do you want a video of the games running, or of the process?
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Unfortunately no Tablet S here, I wish we had a better solution
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Agreed, it's a lot of hoops to jump through to get some overpriced 15 year old games legitimately.
I'd like to add, the Tablet S is awesome. Dual Shock 3 support wired/bluetooth makes it the best for playing games.... no offense Xperia Play. :highfive:
In this video, I go over the camera, video playback, audio books, and a few other fun items.
Before you ask....
Yes, I loaded apk files on here that you would not normally be able to get from Amazon's Appstore. Most worked with no problems.
Nice review... the best that I have seen so far (inc the Verge etc)
Hey just wanted to say thanks for the review. I was on the fence about this and you sold me with the side loading ability. I loved the original Fire, and was looking forward to this. But after reading a few posts about it being locked, and now knowing if it will be rooted I was no longer sure about it. So side loading makes a huge difference.
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Hey just wanted to say thanks for the review. I was on the fence about this and you sold me with the side loading ability. I loved the original Fire, and was looking forward to this. But after reading a few posts about it being locked, and now knowing if it will be rooted I was no longer sure about it. So side loading makes a huge difference. Have you tried side loading the Play Store APK?[/QUOTE
The Play Store requires files to be manually placed into the /system/app folder and the permissions to be changed. That requires root. All of the other apps were either grabbed from my Nexus 7, or found elsewhere. I downloaded ES File Explorer from the Amazon Appstore, and used it to install the apks.
No PAID apps were harmed in the making of this video.
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Gam3r 4 Life said:
Hey just wanted to say thanks for the review. I was on the fence about this and you sold me with the side loading ability. I loved the original Fire, and was looking forward to this. But after reading a few posts about it being locked, and now knowing if it will be rooted I was no longer sure about it. So side loading makes a huge difference. Have you tried side loading the Play Store APK?[/QUOTE
The Play Store requires files to be manually placed into the /system/app folder and the permissions to be changed. That requires root. All of the other apps were either grabbed from my Nexus 7, or found elsewhere. I downloaded ES File Explorer from the Amazon Appstore, and used it to install the apks.
No PAID apps were harmed in the making of this video.
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Ok, thanks for the reply. Im still sold. Ill most likely be picking one up at Best Buy today. Thanks again.
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Can you side load a paid app you got from the play store and still pass the licence check?
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Thanks for the great review !
The two apps I'm most interested in getting to work on a Kindle Fire HD are Google Maps and Google Now. I know there's no gps but I assume there is some kind of wifi based location ability ? Or just tell Google Maps where I am.
I figure maps shouldn't be too hard, what do you think ? I guess Google Now might require rooting though, is that the case ?
The device itself is pretty sick. But it's still stuck in Amazon's crappy software. It's like putting rims and ground effects on a Pinto; either way, it's still a Pinto.
Thanks for the review - I would like to see how the ComiXology app works but the fact that sideloading works takes a great load off my mind.
I'm definitely going to save up for the 8.9".
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Thanks for the great review !
The two apps I'm most interested in getting to work on a Kindle Fire HD are Google Maps and Google Now. I know there's no gps but I assume there is some kind of wifi based location ability ? Or just tell Google Maps where I am.
I figure maps shouldn't be too hard, what do you think ? I guess Google Now might require rooting though, is that the case ?
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None of the Google Apps are going to work until we get root.
Be patient.
Can you tell me if Apex works if you just install the apk?
How did you get the camera launcher? Thanks
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How did you get the camera launcher? Thanks
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I obtained a camera app from the Play Store on another device, then I took the apk and installed it on my KFHD.
I rooted my NP and put Pure Nexus on it. Looks great..but I can't get Netflix to work. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and reflashing GAPPS to no avail. It opens and immediately "Sorry, we could not reach the Netflix service. Please try to restart the application (-116) . I restart it, only for the same thing to happen again. This is really very frustrating. Hoping someone can shed some light on why it's happening. Thanks.
Anyone? One of the reasons I bought a Nexus Player was for Netflix. I have it on my blu-ray player, but I can't really stand the way it looks on there.
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Anyone? One of the reasons I bought a Nexus Player was for Netflix. I have it on my blu-ray player, but I can't really stand the way it looks on there.
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I have the same issue on a tablet. I tried team blackouts latest Netflix and that one will install
Netflix just came out blocking it from the Google Play Store if they notice your device is rooted or bootloader unlocked. Currently you should be able to play, they did announce that it will BLOCK playing going forward on rooted unlocked devices. I can't believe it!
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Netflix just came out blocking it from the Google Play Store if they notice your device is rooted or bootloader unlocked. Currently you should be able to play, they did announce that it will BLOCK playing going forward on rooted unlocked devices. I can't believe it!
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Where did they announce they will block playing ? Hopefully magisk hide will fix this issue. I love watching Netflix on my tablets. I'm not going to unroot them for anything.
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Where did they announce they will block playing ? Hopefully magisk hide will fix this issue. I love watching Netflix on my tablets. I'm not going to unroot them for anything.
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Mainly heard it on All About Android. It's all over the tech news. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.en...o-longer-available-for-rooted-android-phones/
I just recently purchased an Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro (2021 release) for my son who is almost 8. I sideloaded Google Play on it so I could download the games I pay for each month or have made a one time payment for. Everything seems to be working fine except for the fact that my son has downloaded some games from Google play that have in app ads to watch to help further game play and they will not load. When you try to click the button to watch the ad nothing happens. I've tried searching for a resolution to this but I'm not finding a whole lot. I've tried to download the games that have the in app ads from the Amazon store but sadly most are not available through Amazon. This wouldn't be such a big issue except for the fact that my son has Autism level 3 and doesn't understand why the ads aren't working. Explaining it to him doesn't help because he doesn't have the ability to understand it. It's just resulting in him getting super frustrated and thinking I'm doing something to prevent his game from working. I've seen posts from people asking about this issue but no one seems to have an answer on how to fix it or if it's even fixable. Is there a way to get these in app ads to work on side loaded games? The only reason I even bought this tablet was because it gives my son more freedom to do stuff while keeping him out of the things he shouldn't be in. We had a heck of a time keeping him out of stuff on other tablets as he's able to get out of all kid launchers we've tried and other security measures. Someone please tell me there's a way to fix this!
Did you ever find an answer to this problem? I'm hoping we can get some ads on ours as well.
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Did you ever find an answer to this problem? I'm hoping we can get some ads on ours as well.
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Sorry for the late reply. No, I still haven't found a resolution to this. The in app ads work on many of the games that are downloaded but some they just won't load on. My son loves the game Sand Balls and both versions of that game we're having this problem on among some others. I have tried searching every where for a resolution to this but have only found very few mentions of it with no fix. One person said that there was no fix for it at the time they were commenting but it was an old post so I was hoping someone figured it out by now but I guess not. Have you had any luck since you replied?
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I just recently purchased an Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro (2021 release) for my son who is almost 8. I sideloaded Google Play on it so I could download the games I pay for each month or have made a one time payment for. Everything seems to be working fine except for the fact that my son has downloaded some games from Google play that have in app ads to watch to help further game play and they will not load. When you try to click the button to watch the ad nothing happens. I've tried searching for a resolution to this but I'm not finding a whole lot. I've tried to download the games that have the in app ads from the Amazon store but sadly most are not available through Amazon. This wouldn't be such a big issue except for the fact that my son has Autism level 3 and doesn't understand why the ads aren't working. Explaining it to him doesn't help because he doesn't have the ability to understand it. It's just resulting in him getting super frustrated and thinking I'm doing something to prevent his game from working. I've seen posts from people asking about this issue but no one seems to have an answer on how to fix it or if it's even fixable. Is there a way to get these in app ads to work on side loaded games? The only reason I even bought this tablet was because it gives my son more freedom to do stuff while keeping him out of the things he shouldn't be in. We had a heck of a time keeping him out of stuff on other tablets as he's able to get out of all kid launchers we've tried and other security measures. Someone please tell me there's a way to fix this!
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I had been looking for an answer for this myself as well as a way to make the Fire a bit more "regular" Android-y vs. Amazon's Android. This past weekend I put Fire Toolbox on my (Windows) computer - https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/windows-tool-fire-toolbox-v30-2.3889604/ . Through this I disabled the Amazon Appstore which helped some of my games be able to utilize the extra in-app functionality (as well as open app store page links with Google Play Store instead of opening the Amazon App Store). With that said, I checked a couple old games I used to play and one still said no ads available (though if I clicked again, I still got the reward for it) and another game that still wouldn't let me click them.
I don't know if disabling Amazon App Store would screw things up for you/your son and how you get your apps, but if not, it might be worth a try? Or, if it doesn't work, maybe there's something else that can be disabled via Fire Toolbox that can help? I haven't had much chance to dive into it yet to see if I could get those other in-app ads to work or not yet, but thought I'd pass along what I've found so far in case you're still trying to find a solution.