So I bought the Kindle Fire, thinking it would be locked down, with no sideloading capability, but I figured for $200 it would be a decent deal. It is.
However, thanks to XDA, I am going to be getting a lot more out of this thing! I followed the instructions of how to root on Mac, and then installed the Market. GMail didn't want to work at first, but running Docs and Music, it seems to work fine. Speaking of Music, I have finally found a use for it! Now, I can have my iTunes library on the Kindle Fire. Sure, it won't work without wifi, but my music alone is ~35GB, and I have my 64GB iPhone 4S on me at all times if I'm away from home anyways, so no big deal there.
Continuing on with the Kindle, I got Dropbox, Enngadget, and Mozy off of the market, and a bunch of the Google Apps from a file linked here. I found that for some reason, the Android Market doesn't allow the NYTimes app, or Google Earth, to be installed on the Kindle Fire. That didn't stop me, however, and after getting an old NYTimes APK that couldn't be updated, I finally found the latest one, and got that going.
I also installed the root/unroot program to get Amazon video working.
In conclusion, this thing is pretty awesome now! Even though I have to use an alternate launcher to get to the Market, I have kept the default interface as the default, and the apps show up in the stock app shelf, just like they belong there. Everything works 100%, AFAIK!
GSMinCT said:
So I bought the Kindle Fire, thinking it would be locked down, with no sideloading capability, but I figured for $200 it would be a decent deal. It is.
However, thanks to XDA, I am going to be getting a lot more out of this thing! I followed the instructions of how to root on Mac, and then installed the Market. GMail didn't want to work at first, but running Docs and Music, it seems to work fine. Speaking of Music, I have finally found a use for it! Now, I can have my iTunes library on the Kindle Fire. Sure, it won't work without wifi, but my music alone is ~35GB, and I have my 64GB iPhone 4S on me at all times if I'm away from home anyways, so no big deal there.
Continuing on with the Kindle, I got Dropbox, Enngadget, and Mozy off of the market, and a bunch of the Google Apps from a file linked here. I found that for some reason, the Android Market doesn't allow the NYTimes app, or Google Earth, to be installed on the Kindle Fire. That didn't stop me, however, and after getting an old NYTimes APK that couldn't be updated, I finally found the latest one, and got that going.
I also installed the root/unroot program to get Amazon video working.
In conclusion, this thing is pretty awesome now! Even though I have to use an alternate launcher to get to the Market, I have kept the default interface as the default, and the apps show up in the stock app shelf, just like they belong there. Everything works 100%, AFAIK!
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Umm, the Fire never was locked down, if you just allow installation from unknown sources, you can sideload most apps.
turtlebits said:
Umm, the Fire never was locked down, if you just allow installation from unknown sources, you can sideload most apps.
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Correct, but it was much easier to get the APKs and keep them updated through the Market than via side-loading.
However, when buying it, I thought that it would be a totally locked down experience- I didn't think we'd see side-loading at all without some serious hacking, or the ability to run just about anything while keeping the Kindle experience and ecosystem.
Desperately looking for the latest nytimes apk
where is the said link to download the apps?
The latest versio of NYtimes i found is 1.6.8, which is not good enough.
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GSMinCT said:
Even though I have to use an alternate launcher to get to the Market
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You sure about that?
My son has a Fire HD 8 tablet that thanks to you all, I have installed LineageOS 7.1.2 on. It runs great now, but we'd like to install an application that is only available in the Amazon App store and designed to run only on stock FireOS. I think the app would run perfectly fine on the tablet with Lineage installed, but unfortunately the Amazon App store no longer recognizes the tablet as a Fire tablet and therefore blocks our ability to download the app.
Is there some sort of workaround that could be tried here? I've read about people modifying build.prop to spoof the device type and run "unsupported" apps, so perhaps that is the route we'd take here? I'm just sort of stumped here and really don't want to go buy another fire tablet just so we can run stock fire os for his game.
The apps in question are the Osmo kids learning series. Any help would be very much appreciated.
*edit - i have searched for .apks of the app online that would allow me to manually install, but i have been unable to turn any up.
ChrisULM said:
My son has a Fire HD 8 tablet that thanks to you all, I have installed LineageOS 7.1.2 on. It runs great now, but we'd like to install an application that is only available in the Amazon App store and designed to run only on stock FireOS. I think the app would run perfectly fine on the tablet with Lineage installed, but unfortunately the Amazon App store no longer recognizes the tablet as a Fire tablet and therefore blocks our ability to download the app.
Is there some sort of workaround that could be tried here? I've read about people modifying build.prop to spoof the device type and run "unsupported" apps, so perhaps that is the route we'd take here? I'm just sort of stumped here and really don't want to go buy another fire tablet just so we can run stock fire os for his game.
The apps in question are the Osmo kids learning series. Any help would be very much appreciated.
*edit - i have searched for .apks of the app online that would allow me to manually install, but i have been unable to turn any up.
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Get Amazon Appstore for Android on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get/amazonapp
apologies if this is in the wrong section, I wasn't sure where to post this.
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I just ordered an amazon fire hd 10(2019 version) and there's a couple apps I want on it that are not normally available, such as youtube, and microsoft edge(hate google chrome, have even less love for firefox), with edge wanted for the simple reason of it having a built in adblocker.
I've been running into differing and sometimes even outright contradictory sets of installation instructions, and wish to have the RIGHT set of instructions in front of me before I actually have the device and start monkeying about with it.
I've no desire to brick it by being a moronic dodo...hence me seeking out the experts here.
Use this tool: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/windows-tool-fire-toolbox-v15-0.3889604/post-78664542
Yes, pretty much the opposite of what everyone else is asking for.
I bought the Fire HD 10 without ads, and some of the games I play require adverts for certain features to work. I didn't think it'd cause issues like this, I just assumed I would avoid all the built in ones.
Is there a way of enabling the usual Google adverts you get on most android devices, without reverting to the built in Amazon adverts?
I've installed Play store and the bits that were needed to get that working.
So after my grandchildren signed me up to Amazon Prime without my knowledge on my kindle fire, I decided to use the kindle toolbox on their brand new fire HD 10 tablets (11th generation).
I completely debloat all the Amazon software (after enabling dev options menu), install google play services, waited a minimum of 10 mins as advised before trying google play and I also installed evie launcher – all of this was done using the toolbox v27.
The problem is when I try to log my kids into their new tablets using their own gmail accounts, I keep getting the ‘something went wrong’ screen and all I can do is try again, but it keeps on failing.
I’ve tried not removing amazon software and then adding google play, but that doesn’t work.
The only thing that does work is if I login to play store using my account.
My thinking is this must be a family link / permissions thing because they’re all under 8 years old.
The really confusing thing is when I did this same thing on my kids Huawei T30 tablets, it worked fine, no problems???
So, it’s either some security setting in the fire tablet, or because these fire tablets have a newer version of android than the old and no longer working Huawei tablets (Android v6).
Anyone got any ideas how I can login my kids into their own play store on their own fire hd 10 tablets using their own google accounts, without creating child profiles and without leaving my account logged in on their tablets for them?
The only thing I can come up with is to change their d.o.b. in their google accounts, log them in, then change it back, but I suspect this won’t work long term.
I really need to understand what’s causing the problem first.