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Best way to gift Fire TV Stick you have setup with sideloaded apps?

I bought a bunch of FireTV Sticks for Xmas gifts. I only opened one, installed update and used my Amazon account. I sideloaded a bunch of apps like XBMC, IPCamViewer, etc.
I would like to gift these but deregister my Amazon account with them. What happens to the FireTV stick when I deregister and the gift recipeint register with their Amazon account? Do my Amazon paid apps like Plex disappear? Do Sideloaded apps stay?
Thanks.

yazyazoo said:
I bought a bunch of FireTV Sticks for Xmas gifts. I only opened one, installed update and used my Amazon account. I sideloaded a bunch of apps like XBMC, IPCamViewer, etc.
I would like to gift these but deregister my Amazon account with them. What happens to the FireTV stick when I deregister and the gift recipeint register with their Amazon account? Do my Amazon paid apps like Plex disappear? Do Sideloaded apps stay?
Thanks.
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When you de-register, all the apps stay on the device. Both sideloaded ones and official amazon apps. However, none of the Amazon apps will be accessible from the home screen unless the new user's Amazon account has also purchased them. All apps from the previous account will be accessible from the Settings > Manage Apps menu.

[Q] Can You Still ACcess Amazon App Store if it is rooted?

Hello guys, I am a tech-savvy momma here and I was wondering if I can be able to access the App Store from my Amazon FTV? I wanted to get Classic TV on there so that I can install ILama so I can be able to see my sideloaded apps on the home screen. I bought my Amazon FTV from a guide that roots them for you. His account's name is under his name but if I change it to my account, it being under his account, would that mess up everything??? I need help with this asap! Thanks!

lascott7 said:
Hello guys, I am a tech-savvy momma here and I was wondering if I can be able to access the App Store from my Amazon FTV? I wanted to get Classic TV on there so that I can install ILama so I can be able to see my sideloaded apps on the home screen. I bought my Amazon FTV from a guide that roots them for you. His account's name is under his name but if I change it to my account, it being under his account, would that mess up everything??? I need help with this asap! Thanks!
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You can change the login to your name. However if he has any of his purchased app from amazon such as AirDLNA. those will have to be repurchased and re-installed on your firetv. You can surely still access the amazon app store.

That means also I'm able to still access my 3rd party apps like xbmx/kodi?

Yea! I was able to deregister from another account to mine and still had all my apps! Now I'm able to get more apps and still see my side loaded apps still on there + was able to use llama to get xbmc to show up on the hone screen using Classic TV! That's so cool! I wonder can you use another TV app to open xbmc in?

lascott7 said:
That means also I'm able to still access my 3rd party apps like xbmx/kodi?
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Even purchased apps stay, however when you change your login, the purchased app will send you a popup that you are not licensed to use the app. That's what happened with the Airplan DLNA app when I changed the login. The Sideloaded apps stay just fine, regardless of the Amazon message stating that you will loose your settings.

Deregistering - Registering

I cannot find the answer to this anywhere. So, I have set up Amazon fire TV stick, registered with my Amazon account, downloaded apps, and sideloaded apps from computer, including adding some things to kodi, and added icons. But now someone who has Amazon prime (I don't) has said I can log into their account so I can watch free prime video. My question is, if I deregister from my Amazon account on the AFT, and log into the other one, will I lose everything on the tv? I'm not worried about the apps, but the sideloading I found very complicated? I won't do it until I hear, as I'm not sure I can go through all of that again right away!!!

You shouldn't lose the apps you sideloaded. They are invisible to your Amazon account anyway.
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But you will lose the apps you downloaded from Amazon via your account.

I think he was only interested in the stuff he sideloaded.
By the way, not sure if deregistering your account effectively resets your unit. If it does, you may need to reinstall/sideload your apps. But if the apk are on the unit already, that should not be hard. You just need to install a file manager from the Amazon app store like es file Explorer.
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Amazon Fire Stick- Need to change location- Moved

I bought a firestick two weeks ago in NC. It has been great but I recently moved to NYC and the apps I have within the Firestick still think I'm in NC. How do I change this? Is this possible? I have this firestick with Directv Now. Dircetv Now is suppose to give me local channels.. Works fine on my phone but not on the firestick. How can I fix this.. Can it be fixed?

At first I was like huh?! And then I was like ahhh check your settings inside the DirectTV App. Barring that log in to your DirectTV Account (From a Web facing Client), and change your settings there, and re-sync your Accounts.

The safe option for you is to use a VPN or else you need to setup your id again with current city. Once it's done it can not be undone.

Ichijoe said:
At first I was like huh?! And then I was like ahhh check your settings inside the DirectTV App. Barring that log in to your DirectTV Account (From a Web facing Client), and change your settings there, and re-sync your Accounts.
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Here is a good VPN guide I used for the Amazon Fire TV.

Rooted Firestick is asking for Registration

I bought a firestick already rooted and now it is asking me to register with Amazon. It will not let me go to the home page anymore. When I try to register it, it will not allow me...how do i get my firestick working again?? Help!!!!!!

Easy. If you already have an Amazon account. Then log in thru that. If you don't or wish to create one anyway. Create an Amazon account thru a PC/Mac. Just use a web browser. Once you have created & possibly confirmed your account. Log in using that U/P. Nothing major.
You will have to purchase any free apps that where included/installed. For example Netflix, Youtube, Es File Explorer, Hulu, Downloader, etc. These are all Free apps for FireTV's. But the new account you are going to be using will need to have purchased what ever Free apps your FTVS/device had installed before. Those apps have not been deleted. But you need to add those apps to your "new" Amazon account if that account does not already have them as purchased (Even the Free ones must be purchased thru that account) for you to be able to access them. Any sideloaded apps like Kodi, SPMC, AppStarter, etc. Will not be affected by the change of accounts.
Once you are done purchasing your free apps. You might need to run "Settings/My Account/Sync Amazon Content" for all you Apps to show up correctly. It should do it by itself. But doing this manually is an option too.

My fire stick was uhm “clear” I guess you could say and now I have to “log” in to amazon luckily I had an Amazon account so I did that and it’s now also asking me to go to online to Amazon.com/code to get a code before I can even log on my WiFi and get this fire stick to work again what do I do