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Hi, I was about to purchase an eeepad transformer for myself when one of my friends told me he already ordered me one as an early birthday present . I was overjoyed when he said it is shipping from TigerDirect right now to his house (so he can wrap it and give it to me as an official present). Anyway, back to the real subject; I was wondering a few things (this is my first native android device although I do run it on my touchscreen desktop at times).
1. Does the transformer (or honeycomb in general) come with that really cool visualizer live wallpaper which acts as a visualizer for your music playing. I remember that on android 2.2 and I thought it was really interesting.
2. I bought (and took advantage of the free app of the day) apps on Amazon app store and I was wondering if I could run those apps on:
a) honecomb
and/or
b) another android device
3. I was also wondering whether android has the ability to install a screensaver app (yes, I know that LCD screens never really burn an image into them however, I would rather see a neat little animation on the screen then nothing)
4. Last, but not least, does any android browser support Java.
-the last two points aren't that important however; if u have an answer to any of these questions, please tell me so I can know what to expect when it arrives.
Thanks very much for reading all of this
Dyskmaster said:
Hi, I was about to purchase an eeepad transformer for myself when one of my friends told me he already ordered me one as an early birthday present . I was overjoyed when he said it is shipping from TigerDirect right now to his house (so he can wrap it and give it to me as an official present). Anyway, back to the real subject; I was wondering a few things (this is my first native android device although I do run it on my touchscreen desktop at times).
1. Does the transformer (or honeycomb in general) come with that really cool visualizer live wallpaper which acts as a visualizer for your music playing. I remember that on android 2.2 and I thought it was really interesting.
2. I bought (and took advantage of the free app of the day) apps on Amazon app store and I was wondering if I could run those apps on:
a) honecomb
and/or
b) another android device
3. I was also wondering whether android has the ability to install a screensaver app (yes, I know that LCD screens never really burn an image into them however, I would rather see a neat little animation on the screen then nothing)
4. Last, but not least, does any android browser support Java.
-the last two points aren't that important however; if u have an answer to any of these questions, please tell me so I can know what to expect when it arrives.
Thanks very much for reading all of this
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1) pretty much all the default android LWPs are gone. only one it ships with it the Asus Mywater one.
2) most apps work on honeycomb, some will be very small and not fill up the whole screen. I've downloaded about 10 apps from amazon and they've all worked. and yes once bought from the amazon store they'll work on any device you own as long as your signed into your amazon account through the app. I have apps on my TF, Nexus One, and my dads Vibrant.
3) i've actually wanted this to lol. Sadly theres nothing like this yet aside from the gallery slide show, but it's still not a screensaver.
4) there are a bunch of java settings so i'm pretty sure it has java support.
neok44 said:
1) pretty much all the default android LWPs are gone. only one it ships with it the Asus Mywater one.
2) most apps work on honeycomb, some will be very small and not fill up the whole screen. I've downloaded about 10 apps from amazon and they've all worked. and yes once bought from the amazon store they'll work on any device you own as long as your signed into your amazon account through the app. I have apps on my TF, Nexus One, and my dads Vibrant.
3) i've actually wanted this to lol. Sadly theres nothing like this yet aside from the gallery slide show, but it's still not a screensaver.
4) there are a bunch of java settings so i'm pretty sure it has java support.
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wow, thanks for answering all of that. Really glad Amazon app store works fine! I will look for more live wallpapers for honeycomb in the marketplace when I get the transformer
Dyskmaster said:
wow, thanks for answering all of that. Really glad Amazon app store works fine! I will look for more live wallpapers for honeycomb in the marketplace when I get the transformer
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no problem. There are tons of live wallpapers that work in honeycomb, but as with regular phones. they mostly lag the hell out of the stock launcher.
i'm hoping that maybe when we have 12 core processors LWP's won't lag anymore lol
Looking for a tab for my wife. Not only does she get a gift, but I get something to tinker with =)
There's a nook tablet in the trunk of my car. The hardware specs were better, and with the nook color's history, well...I leaped before I looked. The bootloader lockdown makes me a sad panda.
See, I dont want a weaksauce e-reader. I want a tablet! So, with a KF, I can put CM 7 on it (is that a honeycomb build?) and I'll basically have an acceptable tablet experience.
Should I return the nook? Does CM7 run stably on this thing? Are the hardware limitations (esp the lack of sd card port) really that restricting? Should I perhaps buy an actual tablet like a galaxy tab or a xoom?
I appreciate your input!
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CM7 is not running with sound, if she can handle that....
This sounds like getting her a shirt in your size and style for Christmas, not much of a gift imo.
Get her something SHE wants, not something YOU want.
(that said, I really like my Kindle Fire. I have not rooted as I actually like the amazon interface and it does everything I want it to do by sideloading apps off of my phone through dropbox. Read all of the issues people are having after rooting or messing with this or that before you get crazy with her device)
Rooting itself is trivial...
I got one of these for my wife.... She had a real hard time using it, not because there was Any issues with the unit, actually it did everything she wanted... The trouble was when she wanted to use it, she had to pry it out of my hands.
I got my own.
While I didn't root her's before I did it on mine, that was more because she didn't need anything other than what it came with. And I wanted to make sure I was not going to mess something up.
So I did all the experimenting on mine, and after doing that, I had no issues with rooting hers to add some "extras". She just keeps it in unroot mode to do all her stuff and stays in the default UI that comes with the Kindle Fire.
At $199 (actually I got mine for $123), it is hard to justify not just getting your own and let her have the present you provided.
I think it is a way cool device... and play with (my own) all the time. She uses her's daily for ebooks, videos, netflix etc..
+1 don't buy her toys for yourself.
I got my wife a Nook Color a few months back that she uses daily. She'd call out a hit on me if I so much as thought of rooting it. I think it's still on 1.3 firmware, but I'm not going near it to find out.
Thanks for the input.
I see what you guys are saying, but it's not what you think. A lot of her family members have gotten ipads, and she wouldn't mind getting a tablet too. We mutually agreed that 500 was too much, and well, I dont subscribe to the maccult.
She always steals my phone to play games on. I have a thunderbolt, and she has an iphone 4. She once made mention that if she could get her favorite games from my phone on a tablet of her own...well, now that would be something.
Since an N64 emulator capable of playing Mario 64 (one of the allures of my phone for her) isn't included off the bat, I'm merely saying I'll enjoy doing the needed mods to this thing.
At 200 or 250 a pop, the price is right, no?
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Dannar said:
Thanks for the input.
I see what you guys are saying, but it's not what you think. A lot of her family members have gotten ipads, and she wouldn't mind getting a tablet too. We mutually agreed that 500 was too much, and well, I dont subscribe to the maccult.
She always steals my phone to play games on. I have a thunderbolt, and she has an iphone 4. She once made mention that if she could get her favorite games from my phone on a tablet of her own...well, now that would be something.
Since an N64 emulator capable of playing Mario 64 (one of the allures of my phone for her) isn't included off the bat, I'm merely saying I'll enjoy doing the needed mods to this thing.
At 200 or 250 a pop, the price is right, no?
Duely blundered from my thunderdolt
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Sideloading is enabled by default on the Fire, so you could load emulators and whatever off-market apps you like without much effort.
Definitely get the KF over the NT if you plan on toying around with it. The Fire's development has picked up in the past few days and I'm sure we'll see a fully working ROM (hopefully CM9) very soon.
I personally have an Acer A100, but got one of my less tech inclined friends to buy a Fire and let me tinker with it until I'm satisfied, then I'll turn it over. So I can definitely relate to the allure of toying around with someone else's devices.
Root it, install Go Launcher EX, install Android market, install Dolphin browser, install Swype, then unroot.
Configure go launcher ex to your taste, then make it the default desktop. Make Dolphin the default browser.
You now have a tablet with the best of both worlds, as you can access all of the Amazon content, including prime videos.
littleemp said:
Definitely get the KF over the NT if you plan on toying around with it. The Fire's development has picked up in the past few days and I'm sure we'll see a fully working ROM (hopefully CM9) very soon.
I personally have an Acer A100, but got one of my less tech inclined friends to buy a Fire and let me tinker with it until I'm satisfied, then I'll turn it over. So I can definitely relate to the allure of toying around with someone else's devices.
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This.
As a previously very happy Nook Color owner, I was hoping that the NT would get hacked, but that effort seems to have stalled and all the devs are jumping on the NT bandwagon.
Even if the NT gets hacked in 1-2 months, all the devs seem to be getting Kindle Fires now ... and I know from experience that ROM development with only 1-2 devs is not pretty (especially if they eventually lose interest in your device).
I would also get a kindle fire over a nook just because there will be ;ore developpers dedicated to the device. Although, look around the web, HP is going to sell a few touchpads for 99$ on ebay Friday, so you might check it out.
TLDR: looking for an eink device that runs a more current version of Android and that can be rooted (preferably with an XDA forum)
Hi there, I've been fooling around with my rooted Nook Touch since I was using it to read pdfs for grad school about three years ago. It's gradually stopped working the way I wanted it to - the latest being when NoRefresh stopped working and I couldn't get library books downloaded from Overdrive to work on either Aldiko or the original overdrive app. At the same time, my girlfriend, who works in publishing, has been talking about looking for a replacement for her ailing Sony E-reader from waaaay back when.
I'd like to find one or both of us an e-ink e-reader that we can root and have some hackerish fun with. I can keep tinkering with the NST, but the Android version is becoming a real bottleneck for the things I want to do, so I was wondering if anyone knows of devices (preferably with boards on XDA) that have e-ink screens but run a newer version of Android. Any suggestions?
The Nook Glowlight Plus runs Android 4.4.2 and can be rooted and there is a thread on XDA about it here.
Hi all!
I've always found this forum extremely useful, but it's the first time I find the topic I'm interested in is't already touched. Let's change that.
I want to read on my watch.
I see there are several apps to do that on Android Wear; however you have to load text files to them. Instead, most of my books are on the Amazon Kindle platform; which unfortunately doesn't seem to support wear at all, nor it supports exporting its books to anywhere else at all.
After researching, it seems I have two options:
1) buy a full Android watch-phone, like the No.1 D6
2) buy an Android Wear device and try to sideload the Amazon Kindle app
Both options come at about 100$ of cost, give or take.
Downside of full Android: they usually are made by shady Chinese companies; it's common to have them even blatantly lie on specs, so it's really a bet on the quality of what I'll get. What is sure is that most use an outdated version of Android; 4.4 is the most common and 5.1 the most recent I could find.
On the upside there is probably more choice of forms and size.
Downsize of Wear is of course that I'd have to hack it; no problem with that, but I'd like to have some idea of what are my odds of succeeding before spending a somewhat relevant amount of money. Several apps are known to work, but several others crash, and for all my searching, I couldn't find someone having attempted to sideload the Kindle app.
What do you guys think?
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What do you guys think?
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I think you have really good vision [emoji6]
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I think you have really good vision [emoji6]
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I have not, but I know what I'm doing
I didn't mention it since it's not directly related to the problem, but i plan on using the "word runner" feature of the Kindle app.
When I use it on the phone it feels like a waste... it literally only uses an area which is roughly that of a watch! Hence the idea.
There are plenty of apps doing this on Wear... but as I said, no way to get Kindle books there.
I haven't tried, but how difficult is it to hack the kindle e-book format? maybe you can bust your text free.
I will try to install Kindle on my Ticwatch E today.
I tested a few things on my Ticwatch E which is a Wear OS (formerly Android Wear 2.0) watch. I can confirm that the Kindle app does not work. You can access your Kindle books on the web with the Kindle Cloud Reader at www.read.amazon.com. I installed many web browsers on the watch, but the only one that worked was FireFox. It did not work completely. I was able to access www.read.amazon.com, but it was slow and I couldn't scroll the web page up and down. It was unusable. You can convert your Kindle books to PDFs with a program called EPUB converter. I would guess that you could succeed with the Kindle app and the Kindle cloud reader on a Chinese Android watch. I, however, think that it's not worth $100 for a Chinese Android watch (except maybe a Ticwatch 2). If those Chinese watches were about $50, I would probably get one. I am very happy with my Ticwatch E which costs about $150. Hope this helped.
Hello Guys,
I am new here and I just got an old Kindle Fire HD 10 Gift from a friend who said he doesn’t need it anymore.
So I had set it up, put my account to it and found….. It is sooo bloated with all that amazon stuff… It’s ridiculous…. I would say that I do not need like 80% of that stuff and totally miss like google mail, proper YouTube app and a lot more I have not found until now.
So I was looking now for like 3 days, whenever I had the time to search for it, if there is a custom Rom for the Kindle, or maybe root to get Google on the Kindle or how it is to be done to get apps maybe from my phone to the kindle.
Amazon made it really hard for users who are not sucked into the amazon universe to actually enjoy the Kindle, don’t they?
I have a bunch of paid apps in Google, they seem to be all useless now… what really kind of bugs me, because I had hoped to use the kindle as a comic book reader, where I use Comicat on android… no idea if kindle can even open them, but I’ll have to try.
So I would like to ask, are there some ways to root an Kindle Fire HD 10 with Fire OS 5.6.1.0 ? If so, how to do that and are there Custom Roms that would give a more basic Android feel?
I only found mostly some tutorials for 7” and 8”, but rarely for the 10” Tablet and nearly always for other Fire OSes.
So every help would be REALLY appreciated!
Follow this tutorial to get root https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/tut-fire-hd-10-7th-gen-2017-root-box-t3726443
To make it more stock like after you have rooted you can remove apps using root
You can also install google play store + apps from it by following this https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/how-to-install-google-play-store-fire-t3486603
You can also replace the default launcher with another like Nova but at the moment it uses a hack to get around a limitation even on root (Launcher Hijack)
You can also install xposed and there is modules on that which should give back some of your missing features https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/hd-10-2017-xposed-t3722252
At the moment there is no custom rom but some are in development.
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Follow this tutorial
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Awesome, thank you very much, I will check everything and hope to have the Kindle a bit more.... Userfriedly, well, MEfriendly.
It would be indeed really cool if there is at least a bit I can do. Otherwise the Kindle would become more like an Videoplayer for my Kids than anything else... this would be a bit o a waste, as the device itself seems pretty nice.
Edit: The first and third Tutorial are for the 7th Gen HD8/10 Tablets, I have the 5th Gen. Wont there be a problem??
Fathor said:
Awesome, thank you very much, I will check everything and hope to have the Kindle a bit more.... Userfriedly, well, MEfriendly.
It would be indeed really cool if there is at least a bit I can do. Otherwise the Kindle would become more like an Videoplayer for my Kids than anything else... this would be a bit o a waste, as the device itself seems pretty nice.
Edit: The first and third Tutorial are for the 7th Gen HD8/10 Tablets, I have the 5th Gen. Wont there be a problem??
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Sorry for a late reply.
I'm not sure whether it works or not on older tablets, but there won't be a problem. Try it, I'm 99% sure that your tablet will be perfectly okay even it failed, because I tried that and failed, but I'm sending this from my tablet.
Good Luck! :good: