Hi there!
My friend gave me a kindle fire.
I wiped everything (Backed up ofcourse first) and installed JB.
Now i got a new phone, so i returned the fire but yhere a problem: my friend like the JB, but hes unable to find/read some books he used to read on stock firmware.
Any solutions here? We tried the kindle app from market, but he says its not even close to original one and books still missing.
Were a few of them prime books? Prime is only for Kindles. and we're a few from oother apps? that happened to me, but you can look on Amazon to see which books you actually bought from Amazon.
Devices:
Kindle Fire with AlienDroid primary and Modaco secondary
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I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I had a hard time searching for an answer.
There aren't too many people out there looking to put apps designed for Kindle's UI on Jelly Bean.
I'll keep it brief:
- Rooted my GF's Kindle Fire
- Plan on flashing JB rom
- Want to port paid Amazon Kindle fire apps onto JB
For example: She purchased the game of Life app for her Kindle through Amazon's app store. If JB is flashed, will I be able to download that same app directly from Amazon's website onto her JB flashed Kindle? I don't know what compatibility issues I could run into, nor the easiest way to do it if at all possible.
Can I make an .apk and side load them onto JB? Amazon's Fire UI is built off Android 2.3 (GB), correct? Her Kindle is running 6.3.1.
Figured I'd ask before flashing the JB Rom... I backed up everything on her Fire, I just didn't want to go through the hassle of re-doing something if I didn't have to
Anyway, you guys are brilliant here - thanks for any help I might receive.
Techno Tonis said:
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I had a hard time searching for an answer.
Anyway, you guys are brilliant here - thanks for any help I might receive.
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It is hard to say for 100% about that specific app (Game of life). You can install the Amazon App store on Jelly Bean and you can install all the apps you have purchased onto any flavor of Android. It is already known that the Amazon Prime Video app will only run in a non rooted ROM based on the original install. If the app is one that is labeled as a "Kindle Table Addition" it may not run if your JB rom has been changed to represent as a Nexus or other tablet to gain more Google Play store exposure.
danscxda said:
It is hard to say for 100% about that specific app (Game of life). You can install the Amazon App store on Jelly Bean and you can install all the apps you have purchased onto any flavor of Android. It is already known that the Amazon Prime Video app will only run in a non rooted ROM based on the original install. If the app is one that is labeled as a "Kindle Table Addition" it may not run if your JB rom has been changed to represent as a Nexus or other tablet to gain more Google Play store exposure.
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This is what I was afraid of. I don't want to repurchase that app $5... Are there any apps available through Amazon's App Store that will allow me to create an .apk of that app so I can try and see if it works sideloading it onto JB?
Techno Tonis said:
This is what I was afraid of. I don't want to repurchase that app $5... Are there any apps available through Amazon's App Store that will allow me to create an .apk of that app so I can try and see if it works sideloading it onto JB?
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You could use Titanium backup to backup the app and restore it onto JB. If you already Rooted the KF you should have no problem loading TiBu.
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Another option you could try would be to dual boot between a JB rom and MoDoCo. MoDoCo has a alternative install version and you could dual boot between JB and MoDoCo (A rooted and tweeked version of the original KF install). I did this for a long time so that I could still use the Amazon Video player. I got tired of playing with JB and went back to a single install of MoDoCo with a new launcher. Once you get past the Amazon launcher and you have played with JB long enough to be content the Fire works pretty decently.
You wouldnt have to if you sign into the same amazon acount. i have some apps like quickoffice pro ($15)on my stock kf, then i rooted it flashed jellybean, then installed amazon appstore signed into my account, and quickoffice pro was there in my downloaded apps
right, but in this case I believe the question is about kindle fire specific apps. The ones in the Amazon App Store that are labeled "Kindle Fire Edition"
danscxda said:
You could use Titanium backup to backup the app and restore it onto JB. If you already Rooted the KF you should have no problem loading TiBu.
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Wow, why didn't I think of trying that... I should have.
I got impatient and installed JB. KF edition apps are not compatible.
I made backups of all the data that was on prior with TWRP... Is there a way to make a .apk with any of that data without re-installing KF?
danscxda said:
Another option you could try would be to dual boot between a JB rom and MoDoCo. MoDoCo has a alternative install version and you could dual boot between JB and MoDoCo (A rooted and tweeked version of the original KF install). I did this for a long time so that I could still use the Amazon Video player. I got tired of playing with JB and went back to a single install of MoDoCo with a new launcher. Once you get past the Amazon launcher and you have played with JB long enough to be content the Fire works pretty decently.
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I'll try dual booting with MoDoCo - how easy should it be to restore data with TWRP? I'm so used to CWMR that everything feels foreign.
So now i guess I plan on installing MoDoCo, restore the data from KF, side load TiBu, make backups of KF edition apps, boot into JB and restore KF apps there - is that sound logic, guys?
That process should work to get the apps installed on jb but there is still no guarantee that they will work. Try it and let us know how it turns out
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Sure enough if you just back up your app before you upgrade, then you can install them on JB. I just did it for three different kindle only apps. The odd thing is when I tried to install them through the app store, I was blocked. Now why would amazon deny a piece of revenue?
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MikeGolfW said:
Sure enough if you just back up your app before you upgrade, then you can install them on JB. I just did it for three different kindle only apps. The odd thing is when I tried to install them through the app store, I was blocked. Now why would amazon deny a piece of revenue?
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ok. I am kind of in the same boat as you. I changed to jellybean using Twa_Priv's CM10 MOD back in August, and for a while I was able to use KF-specific apps. I switched a lot between jellybean and stock, because there were some things that I liked about the Stock firmware. Anyway, I quit that, restored to factory, and installed the latest build at the time of Twa_Priv's ROM. I did not cloak it to resemble the Google Nexus or anything else, yet now I have a different amazon appstore, and it won't let me get KF apps. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of going back and using Titanium Backup to save any KF apps.
what do I do?
Have the girlfriends KF rooted and running Hells ICS rom. Everything was working beautifully but now using the kindle fire app from the google store it will only read her books from the cloud it wont load them into the KF. Is there any way to get it to store her books to the KF like it used to, short of going back to the stock KF rom? Changing the build props and loading the original KF reader apk maybe?
i have a kindle fire hd 8.9 and it started running real slow and freezing up. so i did a factory reset and it still seems to be running stupid? anyone have any idea why that would be? virus? one of my apps? aside from factory reset is there a better way to do a complete reset to the way i bought it?
I also had same kind of problems, please read
Yes, i know... it runs super-slow at times..... i have a cm11.0 (kitkat) based rom installed on my kindle fire hd 8.9!
It now runs superb.... okay, if u want the fire os then u have to root it to get speed.. but if still not then custom rom is the only way....
Don't worry, amazon warranty is not needed, i also never needed it... kindle fire hd 8.9 is superb tablet if unlocked to full potential....
So i have some links for u-
Youtube (best way)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUW6KARo8Y4
TWRP 2.6.3.1 (after youtube for installing cm11.0)- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2218802
CM 11.0 things (after youtube if u want)- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543481&nocache=1
its easy, but never ever sikp even one step or ur kindle fire hd 8.9 is gone, otherwise it is very good and non-buggy!
DON'T WORRY
Clarification question: can this be done with the kindle fire HDX? Any reason that you know of where this would not work?
The hdx has no custom roms yet because the boot loader is locked and we haven't gotten around that yet, also it uses a different method to root it, so in short that tutorial won't work on a hdx, its more likely to brick it.
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My 7 HD would run very slow a lot of the time. I downloaded Greenify:root from the play store and side-loaded it. I learned the slowness was always caused by one or more non-kindle services or apps (ones I side-loaded like the google authentication service. Greenify:Root let me force most of them to sleep, which usually solved any slowness immediately. On occasion I had to force the google auth. service to sleep manually, but again the problem always was solved this way. Your kindle has to be rooted to use this great free program.
Good-luck!
For starters, I apologize if any of this sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about because frankly, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Recently (this Christmas) my mother got me a Kindle Fire HD 8.9". I decided to follow a guide from a youtube user and put a second bootloader (twrp) and CM 10.1 on my Fire, only to find that half of the apps didn't work. I couldn't watch youtube videos or netflix, or even read books through the kindle app.
This made me angry because here I am freaking out trying to get my Kindle back to factory defaults so I can enjoy it again.
I've looked at countless guides on how to do this, but none were clear and all of them required big downloads that I'm not even sure would work.
Basically, I wiped the CM android os with TWRP, and I'm at the TWRP screen.
I downloaded the 8.4.6 amazon kindle update from the Amazon website and adb pushed it onto my sdcard. This didn't work; the Amazon update file I downloaded was a .bin, so I converted it to a .zip which apparently made my Kindle unable to open it and update.
I am able to get my Kindle into fastboot mode, but I have no clue where to go after this. Can someone please help? I just want my Kindle back the way it was.
Thanks
Use kindle fire first aid to restore it, though I have no idea what you are talking about with cm 10.1, sounds like you downloaded the wrong gapps because the stuff you mentioned works fine on cm 10.1 for me, you could also try cm 11 since it's newer.
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semettler said:
For starters, I apologize if any of this sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about because frankly, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Recently (this Christmas) my mother got me a Kindle Fire HD 8.9". I decided to follow a guide from a youtube user and put a second bootloader (twrp) and CM 10.1 on my Fire, only to find that half of the apps didn't work. I couldn't watch youtube videos or netflix, or even read books through the kindle app.
This made me angry because here I am freaking out trying to get my Kindle back to factory defaults so I can enjoy it again.
I've looked at countless guides on how to do this, but none were clear and all of them required big downloads that I'm not even sure would work.
Basically, I wiped the CM android os with TWRP, and I'm at the TWRP screen.
I downloaded the 8.4.6 amazon kindle update from the Amazon website and adb pushed it onto my sdcard. This didn't work; the Amazon update file I downloaded was a .bin, so I converted it to a .zip which apparently made my Kindle unable to open it and update.
I am able to get my Kindle into fastboot mode, but I have no clue where to go after this. Can someone please help? I just want my Kindle back the way it was.
Thanks
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You can't push an Amazon OS onto TWRP to flash it. It don't work like that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543481
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
Hello everyone. I've got an old Fire 8.9" tablet I'd like to repurpose for one of my kids. My thought process is I can get more entertainment apps and games via the Google Play store vs. what Amazon offers, so I figured either put a ROM on and get more of a stock (albeit older?) Android experience or somehow figure out how to get the Play store on the tablet? The tablet seem to be too old for the Fire Tool Box to work, so the first thing I did was root. Success! .... Now what?
Sorry to ask such a beginner question, but a lot of searches both on this forum and the web in general are returning old results with busted links, and I'd like to make sure I'm doing this process how it should be done TODAY, not just in 2013, etc. My Kindle is currently running Amazon 8.5.1.
Please and thank you!
bicbuck said:
Hello everyone. I've got an old Fire 8.9" tablet I'd like to repurpose for one of my kids. My thought process is I can get more entertainment apps and games via the Google Play store vs. what Amazon offers, so I figured either put a ROM on and get more of a stock (albeit older?) Android experience or somehow figure out how to get the Play store on the tablet? The tablet seem to be too old for the Fire Tool Box to work, so the first thing I did was root. Success! .... Now what?
Sorry to ask such a beginner question, but a lot of searches both on this forum and the web in general are returning old results with busted links, and I'd like to make sure I'm doing this process how it should be done TODAY, not just in 2013, etc. My Kindle is currently running Amazon 8.5.1.
Please and thank you!
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Hey, now you're rooted you can either flash cyanogen 10/11/12/13/14.1
Ot you can flsh another custom rom
Bear in mind this device is really old now and will be really slow + support for the roms etc is almost non existent
Fire tool box isn't compatible with the Jem (as you know) but you can debloat stock rom using the pm disable - k - - user 0 "com.nameofpackage" commands
I always recommend staying with stock rom and root/debloat device but in this case (Jem) I would say temasek 13.1 build is best with playstore
Regards
If you need any help pm me, I have kindle first aid, all the stuff required to unbrick, update, return to stock rom on my cloud if you need it.