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Stock Kindle vs ICS Kindle App

The temptation to install an ICS rom on my Fire is too much! I'm going to do it this weekend. But before I do, I need to know, are all features of the Stock Kindle Fire available in the ICS Kindle app? Will I lose any functionality? My wife actually reads many books and magazines on it and will be mad if she can't anymore.
thanks!!

Hi,
When you upgrade to the ICS rom, it will become an android tablet. You won't be able to use amazon instant video. You will loose amazon books, magazines, music, docs, web, and all that.
However, you can download the amazon kindle app to download books (magazines I am not to sure about).

The Amazon app store does not want to install (at least on my KF). There are a lot of apps I need to re-install from the Play store, and delete the Amazon version.

I'd say, if it's not yours and she's happy with it, don't F**k with it.
But, if it IS yours and she's happy with it, still, don't F**k with it.

You will definitely loose amazon instant video (incl. amazon Prime) in case this is important to you. You'll retain the books via the amazon kindle app and also the music via Amazon's mp3 app including access to the cloud. Of course you can also use the Amazon Appstore for Android, but you might prefer to use Google's Play Store, since the apps are updated more frequently. If you need the video option, you could also try dual-boot which gives you both worlds. Videos themselves can of course be viewed without dual boot. The advantage of an ICS is OTG/mass storage, meaning that you can hook a hard disk to the kindle and view the films from there. With twa_privs ROM and the BSPlayer you will have flawless video decoding of highest quality. Check for respective threads to get the right hardware to do so. I am fine with all USB2 devices (USB stick, hard disk) formatted in fat32, but never got usb3 or ntfs to work.

[HOW TO] Install GAPPS without root

I posted how to get GAPPS working in the Fire HD 6,7, and HDX threads a few weeks ago and was informed it works on the Fire TV as well. This video will show you how you can install GAPPS on the Fire HD6, HD7, TV or HDX without root. All Google Apps should work excluding Google Search (Google search now works), Google Play Store, and Hangouts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHI7ED6pUPY
Instructions for setting up ADB on Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJlmTtLsIg
FireGapps.zip:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx_94ujbh0qoRndpejBZSnVMOGM/edit?usp=docslist_api
commands used in this video:
adb devices
adb shell
pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
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I must've done something wrong. I can't get the Play store to react. Only says it can't find a network. Everything else works well (it appears).
Note: I did this at work, which meant I couldn't have the volume up. Please forgive me if I durffed this up because of that.

jpmi23 said:
I must've done something wrong. I can't get the Play store to react. Only says it can't find a network. Everything else works well (it appears).
Note: I did this at work, which meant I couldn't have the volume up. Please forgive me if I durffed this up because of that.
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I stated in the video and thread that the Play store will not work. That would require root. The play store just needs to be installed because various google apps need the app to exist to work.

powerpoint45 said:
I stated in the video and thread that the Play store will not work. That would require root. The play store just needs to be installed because various google apps need the app to exist to work.
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Ahh! Copy that! Thanks for the work!

Please help,
Fire OS 4.5.1
cmd:
"[email protected]:/ $ pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"
"android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"
"Bad argument: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unkown permission:android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"

Wiesn 2015 said:
Please help,
Fire OS 4.5.1
cmd:
"[email protected]:/ $ pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"
"android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"
"Bad argument: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unkown permission:android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USER"
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You forgot the 'S' in USERS

:good:
Thanks

Thanks
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Thanks this solution does in fact work for Amazon Fire TV, including Google Music and Movies.
For Future reader, a reminder:
It is EXPECTED that the Google Play Store does not have a connection and you will not be able to browse app in the Google Play Store, though you will be able to use app such as Google Drive.

Fire TV Stick UK
Google play music works great.
Google play movies force closed on first attempt at playing a movie (i'll give it another go in a bit)
Edit: Gave Google play movies another go.
If you've recently watched a movie on another device - that movie will appear in the initial screen "Watch Now"
If you press that movie - you can view it no problem.
If you go into your library and choose a movie - the app closes.
Solution: If you want to watch a movie from google play on you Fire TV then watch it on another device (only a few seconds needed) first

I was hoping to get Sky Movies on my fireTV stick, but no dice. It wants com.google.android.maps. Any idea if I can install that without rooting?

SOLVED: Found the files here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=58089093&postcount=55
powerpoint45 said:
FireGapps.zip:
drive.google (...) 95eHc/view?usp=sharing
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Hi,
When I try to download the ZIP file I only get
"Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist. Make sure that you have the correct URL and that the owner of the file hasn't deleted it."
Is there a new download location?
TIA
ZD

Kenif1983 said:
Fire TV Stick UK
Google play music works great.
Google play movies force closed on first attempt at playing a movie (i'll give it another go in a bit)
Edit: Gave Google play movies another go.
If you've recently watched a movie on another device - that movie will appear in the initial screen "Watch Now"
If you press that movie - you can view it no problem.
If you go into your library and choose a movie - the app closes.
Solution: If you want to watch a movie from google play on you Fire TV then watch it on another device (only a few seconds needed) first
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Been meaning to install for a while - with Gmusic working i'll get right on it

play music not working for me - fc.
but found if you install
Accountmanager
servicesframework
playservices
google play
You can simply use bubbleupnp instead

HI dudes,
the lnk to the file does not work anymore ...

I followed the tutorial but I am not entirely sure whether the part with ADB has worked (I connected to ADB over WiFi, Amazon Fire TV Stick, 54.1.1.0_user_110031420) or not. Google Play Games and Chrome are working, but Gmail and Drive are not.
Gmail starts, but there appears a message that there is an unknown problem with Google Play Services - but if I quickly go to settings, the app does not crash until I return to the start screen/synchronise.
Google Drive crashes immediately.
Play Music works with local music (haven't tested streaming).
starfish_001 said:
play music not working for me - fc.
but found if you install
Accountmanager
servicesframework
playservices
google play
You can simply use bubbleupnp instead
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BubbleUPnP with the License? The free version worked for me without GApps.

Con21 said:
I followed the tutorial but I am not entirely sure whether the part with ADB has worked (I connected to ADB over WiFi, Amazon Fire TV Stick, 54.1.1.0_user_110031420) or not. Google Play Games and Chrome are working, but Gmail and Drive are not.
Gmail starts, but there appears a message that there is an unknown problem with Google Play Services - but if I quickly go to settings, the app does not crash until I return to the start screen/synchronise.
Google Drive crashes immediately.
Play Music works with local music (haven't tested streaming).
BubbleUPnP with the License? The free version worked for me without GApps.
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Pro version to provide access to Google music

starfish_001 said:
Pro version to provide access to Google music
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main app is not recognising the license

alucard_xs said:
HI dudes,
the lnk to the file does not work anymore ...
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx_94ujbh0qoRndpejBZSnVMOGM/edit?usp=docslist_api

Thanks !
in-apps purchase does not seem to work, is it normal ?
I can't load my zen pinball 2 tables (bought on an real android tablet) either loading download ressources for games that need download datas ...

Con21 said:
main app is not recognising the license
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odd I just installed the apks from my nexus

UK/US/JP Fire TV apps repository?

Hi - I know I can change my country on the respectively Amazon website to download the apps onto my FTV, but I was wondering if there's somewhere I can just download and sideload them?
Apps that have such geo-specific restrictions: ITV (UK), UKTV (UK), NHK World TV (JP)
Or perhaps there's a thread in here somewhere I just missed?

My experience is that's it's not that simple to rip an official Fire TV app from Amazon without having a rooted Fire TV. Sideloaded APK app versions that rely on a usb wireless keyboard / mouse or bluetooth keyboard work without issues. Tried my Android phone and Nexus 7 to get the official apk version that works with the Fire TV off those devices and sideloaded to my FIre TV, but it would always take me to Amazon underground and install it directly without leaving an APK version of it to transfer to the Amazon Fire TV.
If you want to download the apk versions of those channels from one location, you could sideload the aptoide app store, but it can be keyboard dependent as sometimes it'll use a web browser ( I've tried boat browser, firefox, maxthon...take your pick and download them through aptoide ) looking for the apk file of the app you are interested in.
If you go in another direction, you'll find the most efficient way is to install these channels through Kodi using the add-ons for the respective channel. Call Kodi a one stop shop app for all your channel viewing. It saves the hassle of downloading say the ITV apk app and avoids having to use a keyboard to make it work. Highly recommend you familiarize yourself with Kodi if you haven't already. Another official channel on the Fire TV is the MediaHHH app. It's available on the Amazon Fire TV app menu ( At least for U.S viewers ). That's basically all the U.K freeview live channels on an official app and it works perfectly well without a proxy or vpn required which you'll need if you use either the sideloaded apk version of an app or run the add-on channels using Kodi.
My observation is that if you switch say Amazon locations on your Fire TV and download a regional official APP like the BBC iplayer, you'll lose it when you log back in to your local Amazon Fire TV account, but if all you want are the apps in that location then you shouldn't have a problem as long as you add a geo-proxy to your network or VPN access added to your router.
If someone knows how to pull off a rip of an official Fire TV app without root or knows how to get a ripped version from their Android phone / tablet of an official Amazon Fire TV app, not the universal apk ver, I'm all ears on how to do it.

callanish said:
My observation is that if you switch say Amazon locations on your Fire TV and download a regional official APP like the BBC iplayer, you'll lose it when you log back in to your local Amazon Fire TV account, .
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I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.

Strange. Every time I've tried this in the past, the U.K apps disappeared ( 2 Fire TV's ver 1 and 1 Fire tv stick ), but that was a while ago. Maybe they've changed something in their firmware that allows you to do this now, because I remember hitting a brick wall a while back. and gave up Thanks for the heads up. I'll try it again and see if I can make it work now.
vulcan195 said:
I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.
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callanish said:
Call Kodi a one stop shop app for all your channel viewing..
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Perhaps you can help me - I use a LG smarphone to download apps from the Playstore and sideload to AFTV2. My issue is that since its a smartphone, the APKs it downloads is suited for a phone screen and not for the TV. Is there a way within Kodi to download different variants of the same APK. Google Playstore URL is the same on any device - except the APK that is made available on the page is dependent on the device requesting the download.
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callanish said:
Strange. Every time I've tried this in the past, the U.K apps disappeared ( 2 Fire TV's ver 1 and 1 Fire tv stick ), but that was a while ago. Maybe they've changed something in their firmware that allows you to do this now, because I remember hitting a brick wall a while back. and gave up Thanks for the heads up. I'll try it again and see if I can make it work now.
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Bear in mind that the approach I used did not involved signing out of my Amazon account. All the downloads happens with my single account (only the locales are switched).

I'm not quite sure what kind of experience you've had with Kodi, but Kodi basically is the hub. The channels aren't apps, they're addons from repositories that run content. When kodi is installed, you either rely on the repository that comes with kodi or you continue to add repositories to increase your content options. Those repositories usually come in Zip form and you can sideload them over to Kodi then install them under system / addons. Another way is to type in the URL for the repository directly. Kodi will then add the repository and after that you can install the plugins from that repository. I'm not quite sure if that even remotely answered your question, but just know that Kodi manages and automatically updates content through the repository and that content is universal, so whatever you add to kodi doesn't require an app to function, so you'll never come across a problem with installing phone vs tablet apps
Okay, if I understand you correctly you're looking for the non-phone apk version of an app. The easiest way is probably just to sideload the aptoide app on to the fire TV and download and install the apk apps from there. Aptoide can be browser dependent if it can't find a version of the app you are looking for and will open up a browser to find the apk file somewhere else for download ( In other words download a browser to the Fire TV - Boat browser for tablets is a good one ). You could try just installing the aptoide app on your LG phone and transfer the apk file to your Amazon Fire TV. I've done that before and all versions were non-phone apps. Downside with the standard APK apps on the Fire TV has always been that most of them are keyboard / mouse dependent requiring a usb / bluetooth - keyboard / mouse or app with a keyboard / touchpad that works with the fire tv.
http://www.aptoide.com/page/apps or look up the aptoide.apk file in google to download it and then sideload it. I've had no issues with aptoide and I've been using it for years.
P.S I'll look into what you mentioned. I've been signing into another Amazon account from the U.K, thus losing all my U.S apps. If I manage the settings on the same Amazon U.S account and do a country change to the U.K, maybe from there I can install the U.K official Amazon Fire TV apps directly to the Fire Tv box without losing my U.S content. That's probably where I was going wrong before.
Edit............That was the problem. The solution was not to sign out and re-sign in. As you mentioned, you just have to change the country under the same Amazon account. Downloaded U.K official Fire TV apps and running great without the need for a keyboard / mouse. Thanks for the tip.
Info for the original poster of this thread. Try this link
http://www.eyeondemand.com/2014/10/24/how-to-combine-us-uk-and-de-apps-on-the-amazon-fire-tv/
vulcan195 said:
Perhaps you can help me - I use a LG smarphone to download apps from the Playstore and sideload to AFTV2. My issue is that since its a smartphone, the APKs it downloads is suited for a phone screen and not for the TV. Is there a way within Kodi to download different variants of the same APK. Google Playstore URL is the same on any device - except the APK that is made available on the page is dependent on the device requesting the download.
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Bear in mind that the approach I used did not involved signing out of my Amazon account. All the downloads happens with my single account (only the locales are switched).
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vulcan195 said:
I know for a fact that this not true. You can go it amazon content settings and change your locale to UK. Doing so, will allow you to search and download UK apps to your Fire TV. Once done switch it back to US and you can now search for US apps. The US and UK apps reside side by side and can be launched without issues (assuming you have SmartDNS).
None of the above can be accomplished on a Roku - which is why I really love this device.
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So the technique is change the settings on the amazon website or on the ftv?

jarayn said:
So the technique is change the settings on the amazon website or on the ftv?
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You change the country settings on the Amazon Website, purchase / add the apps, then re-sync content on the Amazon Fire TV if required. One of the apps, I think it was the ITV player didn't show up immediately, but since I purchased it ( right term if it's free?? ), I could do a search on the main fire tv menu for the ITV player app and then I downloaded it. With all the U.K apps downloaded, I switched the country settings back to the U.S.

Thanks, got BBC and itv now. BBC is perfect but itv seems to require mouse still.

jarayn said:
Thanks, got BBC and itv now. BBC is perfect but itv seems to require mouse still.
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Don't know if you've tried this, but did you try deleting the app and then re-installing it. i've noticed just installing it over the one you already have won't replace it. The official itv player app doesn't require a mouse, so it must be either reinstalling the apk mouse version, or it hasn't synced the official app to your fire tv.
P.S You could try the STV ( Scottish television version of the Itv Player ) app. Pretty much the same content. One thing I noticed is you give up live content with the official ITV player, whereas you could get that with the mouse version. You can always get the live content of ITV through Kodi anyway.

Thanks, good idea. No live though is crazy, thats the only thing i would want itv for.

I don't want to install Kodi because I have no idea about the security rating of the repositories and packages. So far I only install from Amazon or Google Play (sideloaded).
I now have a single platform access to UK and US apps. Very happy. Cannot do this with any of the other devices.

vulcan195 said:
I don't want to install Kodi because I have no idea about the security rating of the repositories and packages. So far I only install from Amazon or Google Play (sideloaded).
I now have a single platform access to UK and US apps. Very happy. Cannot do this with any of the other devices.
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I agree, it's a great device and what's so great about it is just how open the platform is to allow us to do the things we can do with it. From an Ex-pat point of view, I just wanted to offer some various options that I've been using for receiving U.K content and thankfully you helped me solve one of those problems with getting the official U.K apps. If Kodi isn't your thing, then fortunately there are other ways to watch U.K content without having to go down that road. Alway good to have options, that's what I always say

The official ITV Player app on Fire TV is just a temp solution. It will soon be replaced by a new app called ITV Hub, which will have on demand and live tv for all the ITV channels

neil0129 said:
The official ITV Player app on Fire TV is just a temp solution. It will soon be replaced by a new app called ITV Hub, which will have on demand and live tv for all the ITV channels
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Good to know. Thanks for the info.

Cant download my paid apps!!?

So I bought some apps on my FireTV Stick, for example, "The Game of Life" for like $4.99. Worked great on the FireTV Stick. I ended up getting a couple of Nexus Players and sold my FireTV Sticks. Now when I go to the Amazon App Store to download that title, for example, it does NOT show up. It does show up on other devices, for example my daughter's Fire Phone that I bought her, and I can transfer that from her phone to my Nexus Player, but the controls are NOT the same. It's not the one that was optimized for a remote control. I PAID FOR THE GAME, why can I NOT download it from Amazon's App store just because I'm not running a FireTV Stick!? Is there any way I can make Amazon think I'm trying to download from the FireTV Stick so I can get that app, and a few others I bought as well? This is NOT a request about WAREZ or PIRATING! I bought these apps, I should be able to download them Any help is greatly appreciated!!!! I know that there have been mods for the Google Play store for certain hidden apps to show up, so I'm wondering if there is something like that available for the Amazon App Store... a build prop edit or something? I'm extremely frustrated about this. Thanks again for any help!!!

Download the app on another device compatible with your purchase and then side load it to your device of choice.

lightykd said:
Download the app on another device compatible with your purchase and then side load it to your device of choice.
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Yeah, I did that, with my daughter's Fire Phone, but it is NOT the same one that gets downloaded when using the Fire TV Stick because that one does not respond to a controller...

petermg said:
Yeah, I did that, with my daughter's Fire Phone, but it is NOT the same one that gets downloaded when using the Fire TV Stick because that one does not respond to a controller...
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Yeah, side loading can be touch and go but it helps given the limited options Amazon gives us. I spend most of this week trying to side load my game collection. I need a Directory Bind very badly because my internal storage is almost gone

Youtube android app without root

Is there a solution to run youtube android app on Fire TV (without root)?
I tried this https://www.androidsage.com/2016/04...tore-on-the-amazon-fire-devices-without-root/ and sideloaded latest youtube apk but i get rh-01 connection problem with playstore.

What's wrong with the FTV version of Youtube?

sneezing_corgi said:
What's wrong with the FTV version of Youtube?
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I find that fire tv stick version is very choppy and audio comes in and out of sync alot, not so much on the fire tv 4k it seems OK with that.

sconnyuk said:
I find that fire tv stick version is very choppy and audio comes in and out of sync alot, not so much on the fire tv 4k it seems OK with that.
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try and get the android tv version, will probably have more success with that.
And you probably won't every get playstore to fully work but all you really want is for it to register so play services will work and thus youtube and playmusic apps will work.

nujackk said:
try and get the android tv version, will probably have more success with that.
And you probably won't every get playstore to fully work but all you really want is for it to register so play services will work and thus youtube and playmusic apps will work.
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Thanks for reply, I have actually sorted my issues completely now, I have stopped all unnecessary amazon stuff running, huge list by the way, and have Google play all configured with android youtube and all my Google paid apps fully configured and recognising I'm signed in. Xposed setup, custom recovery, six axis with ps3 pads connected, USB OTG configured on boot with mele pro airmouse/keyboard/remote combo ? An to top it off no amazon home stuff at all, I have a launcher installed (was going to use official leaseback launcher but found it rubbish) the one I'm using is called Top TV Launcher 2.97. Very customisable and good on the eyes. Firestick is much more responsive the way it's setup now.

Nice,... I'll have to check out that launcher