A friend wants to give his 72 Fire HD to his daughter and wants me to root it .However he wants all his info removed from the device
As the rooting process asks for a password do I need to wipe the tablet - factory restore - and set up an account for his daughter before I root.
or do I do it a different way.
I haven't dealt with an amazon tablet before, is it necessary to have an Amazon account if i will be rooting and running CM10.1 to the tablet as she just wants to be able to use google store and their apps and games.
Are you installing CM after you root?
If you are then you can go into TWRP and do a wipe internal storage + factory reset and you should be fine.
The only reason you would need to set up an Amazon account for her (after installing CM) is if she wanted access to Amazon services.
If you are rooting and returning the device with the stock Amazon OS, then yes you would have to factory reset and set up an Amazon account for her.
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Protomartyr said:
Are you installing CM after you root?
If you are then you can go into TWRP and do a wipe internal storage + factory reset and you should be fine.
The only reason you would need to set up an Amazon account for her (after installing CM) is if she wanted access to Amazon services.
If you are rooting and returning the device with the stock Amazon OS, then yes you would have to factory reset and set up an Amazon account for her.
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Thanks for the reply Protomartyr, I ended up setting up an amazon account for her as I had to set up a gmail email account anyway for the play store so it wasn't any great extra effort.
CM is running fine on the tablet now. The Fire was just a bit of a change from the procedures i've used previously and wasn't mine so just wanted to take a bit more care.
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Hi all,
I've rooted my Kindle Fire 7" HD but I'm unable to install any apps via the Google Play Store. SuperSU has been install successfully & I've also upgraded it to v1.3. Root Checker Basic confirms that I do indeed have root permissions. I followed the tutorials posted by @prokennexusa & the app loads up fine. But when I attempt to install anything, the Play store closes. When I attempt to reopen it, it will close straight away. I have to clear the app's data before I can load it up again.
I had done this previously on a different Kindle & all was fine so it's probably me missing a step. Anyone got any ideas on what that missing step might have been? I'm running v4.1.10 of the Play Store. Is this the latest?
Cheers for any tips you can give me,
Lee
Make sure you're using the right GAPPS for your OS. I recommend flashing Kinology ROM, as it includes GAPPS and SuperSU. It's just stock with extra features, so it works really well.
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LTheobald said:
Hi all,
I've rooted my Kindle Fire 7" HD but I'm unable to install any apps via the Google Play Store. SuperSU has been install successfully & I've also upgraded it to v1.3. Root Checker Basic confirms that I do indeed have root permissions. I followed the tutorials posted by @prokennexusa & the app loads up fine. But when I attempt to install anything, the Play store closes. When I attempt to reopen it, it will close straight away. I have to clear the app's data before I can load it up again.
I had done this previously on a different Kindle & all was fine so it's probably me missing a step. Anyone got any ideas on what that missing step might have been? I'm running v4.1.10 of the Play Store. Is this the latest?
Cheers for any tips you can give me,
Lee
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Hello everyone,
My name is Marika and I'm quite desperate! in fact, I decided to register on this forum because I can't figure out how to "save" my Kindle Fire HD 7".
I must say I am a total novice and working on a Mac, but I have access to a PC with Windows and Linux, too.
My problem is the following: I rooted my KFHD to install Google Play store and I installed Go Launcher EX and HD because I hated the carousel and wanted a nice tablet without necessarily showing everyone what was going on on my device.
I don't know if something went wrong but everything worked just fine until I noticed that even if I tried it, I couldn't update my KFHD from Amazon. I tried to ask the troubleshooting service and they told me I had to send back the device and they would send me a new one; so I tried to wipe it clean and unroot it otherwise they would charge me for the second device. The unroot part was fairly easy, and I tried to restore it to the factory settings by the default button inside the device, everything was cancelled but I couldn't update it, still, plus I noticed that the Go Launchers were still there. I re rooted it in order to try to remove the files manually but I couldn't figure out what to do, the only thing I know is that I have no "uninstall" button on these apps so I can't get rid of them, can someone help me? I would like to install Cyanogenmode now instead of those...
Thank you in advance for your time and sorry if this problem was already posted somewhere else, but I couldn't find anything similar to my case!
I'm confused, why area you trying to remove this stuff if you want to install CyanogenMod, when you install cyanogen mod it wipes everything including the os and excluding the sdcard, so there's no point in removing launchers. It sounds like you thought cm was a launcher, am I right or not understanding this right?
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actually no, I didn't think that Cyanogenmode was a launcher; I just thought that the Go Launchers would stay loaded on it anyways and that I needed to get rid of them to install the OS.
I would also like to figure out what could have happened to the KFHD to behave in a such way, because maybe there's really something that doesn't work and it's better if I get a working one while the warranty is still active, that's why I needed/wanted to do what I explained.
Thank you for your reply!
Well when flashing cm it you will basically factory reset, and the launchers that are stored in/system/apps will be wiped too, because everything in /system is deleted when you flash it. As for the updates you could always just restore a older version of amazon os and it would probably fix it, but why do you want to update the os? Most people disable updates so they don't have to keep rerooting it.
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yeah probably it's easier and better to install cm right away without any other troubles!
as the title says,need to send it back as it is having volume problems,it keeps turning itslef up.i have done a factory reset etc etc but its still the same,,,,whats the best tool now to return it completely to how it was when i got it with no trace of roms or twrp
thankyou
What I would do is use kindle fire first aid to restore it to stock, then manually unroot it by first deleting the superuser apk from the system partition, then deleting the su binary. Seem's like the updates from their site used to be flash able from twrp if you changed the extension, you could always let it ota or manually update it after using kffa to restore it, that would also take care of root.
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stunts513 said:
What I would do is use kindle fire first aid to restore it to stock, then manually unroot it by first deleting the superuser apk from the system partition, then deleting the su binary. Seem's like the updates from their site used to be flash able from twrp if you changed the extension, you could always let it ota or manually update it after using kffa to restore it, that would also take care of root.
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thnks for the info stunts
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thnks for the info stunts
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right i used kffa to restore then manually updated it with a higher version than it was,then i let it update over the air so now its on the latest amazon software,,,,,will i be good to send of to amazon now.just making sure
thankyou
It should be ready now, once a stock ota image updates the kindle it basically wipes all changes you made from the system partition.
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thanks stunks,off to amazon we go
Okay, I'm rooted, have TWRP installed and I was able to flash CM 10.2 and Gapps successfully. But after initial setup etc, when I downloaded and installed the Kindle Reader app from Google Play, it will not startup. It crashes within a few seconds.
Is there a specific version of the app I should be using? My wife will not be a happy camper if she can't read on her tablet. Odds are, I will be buying her a new one if I can't fix this.
Thank you in advance for any help given.
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Okay, I'm rooted, have TWRP installed and I was able to flash CM 10.2 and Gapps successfully. But after initial setup etc, when I downloaded and installed the Kindle Reader app from Google Play, it will not startup. It crashes within a few seconds.
Is there a specific version of the app I should be using? My wife will not be a happy camper if she can't read on her tablet. Odds are, I will be buying her a new one if I can't fix this.
Thank you in advance for any help given.
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Same problem happened to me mate. i found out that when you install Gapps, the kindle reader app, kindle photo app, and amazon appstore will not work, unfortunately. i solved the book problem by signing into my amazon account on my PC, buying the book there, then transferring it to my kindle. If you go to manage kindle, and go to "actions" on the book you buy, one of the options offers to download the book file to your PC, then transferring it to your kindle.
good luck
pastorbob62 said:
Okay, I'm rooted, have TWRP installed and I was able to flash CM 10.2 and Gapps successfully. But after initial setup etc, when I downloaded and installed the Kindle Reader app from Google Play, it will not startup. It crashes within a few seconds.
Is there a specific version of the app I should be using? My wife will not be a happy camper if she can't read on her tablet. Odds are, I will be buying her a new one if I can't fix this.
Thank you in advance for any help given.
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Have you tried updating to CM 11? Also go to settings, apps, all, scroll down to the Kindle App, clear cache and data and force stop it and then reopen it.
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Thanks for the suggestions, but I restored my TWRP backup and went back to rooted stock. The Kindle reader app works and my wife has access to the apps she wants. She' s happy so that's good enough for me.
my wife's tablet stopped working and I have a old fire 7 5th generation that my kids stopped using when they got a new tablet this Christmas. I remember than when I bought I followed some tutorial and removed the adds, installed a custom launcher the play store and root the service. l
Today when I wanted to add my wife's Google account I kept getting a login error and was not able to register the account into the device. I Google the error and it seems it might be because the tablet has an old Google play services, account manager, etc.
So my question is, can I safely download the latest apk from https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/09/install-play-store-amazon-fire-tablet/?amp
install them old on top of the ones already install, or will I break the play store, etc?
thanks for the help
pablortega said:
my wife's tablet stopped working and I have a old fire 7 5th generation that my kids stopped using when they got a new tablet this Christmas. I remember than when I bought I followed some tutorial and removed the adds, installed a custom launcher the play store and root the service. l
Today when I wanted to add my wife's Google account I kept getting a login error and was not able to register the account into the device. I Google the error and it seems it might be because the tablet has an old Google play services, account manager, etc.
So my question is, can I safely download the latest apk from https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/09/install-play-store-amazon-fire-tablet/?amp
install them old on top of the ones already install, or will I break the play store, etc?
thanks for the help
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Backup your valuable files to your SD card before you reset your Fire tablet to factory defaults and re-install all Googe services (Framework and Account Manager are same on Android version like 5.1.1).
Want to unlock and root (Ford is for Fire 7 2015 and Austin is for Fire 7 2017, follow the steps carefully)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/unlock-fire-t3899860
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Backup your valuable files to your SD card before you reset your Fire tablet to factory defaults and re-install all Googe services (Framework and Account Manager are same on Android version like 5.1.1).
Want to unlock and root (Ford is for Fire 7 2015 and Austin is for Fire 7 2017, follow the steps carefully)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/unlock-fire-t3899860
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Hi thanks for the reply.
I actually went ahead a installed the new versions of the apps in top of the old ones and it worked. I am able to add a new google account the tablet.
Any way if I actually go ahead and do the factory reset, do you do it from within the fire 7 OS?
Thanks for your help.
P.