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I want to try different rom on TP. I need to factory reset in order to install a different rom.
I downloaded a lot of books from Kindle app and Zinio. I'm wondering if there is anyway to back up the books.
zrzhu said:
I want to try different rom on TP. I need to factory reset in order to install a different rom.
I downloaded a lot of books from Kindle app and Zinio. I'm wondering if there is anyway to back up the books.
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Don't know about Zinio but for Kindle the main content is kept on the SD card under a top level folder called Kindle and also a folder under sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle. A reset should leave those alone but you might want to back them up. In addition the databases that tell the Kindle app what you have downloaded are in the normal app databases place which would be backed up by a app backup application like Titanium. So if you have backed up your apps then a restore after the reset then the app should be able to find all your kindle stuff.
Unless you're doing something out of the ordinary, there's no need to back them up. They reside on the server and are automatically associated with your respective accounts. When you change ROMs (or even from Android to iOS or whatever), you just install the correct app, log in, and re-download whatever you want to have locally. I've noticed that the Kindle app will sometimes realize that it thinks you have it downloaded because of another installation, so it'll prompt you to remove and re-download, but you still get it in quick order. This has worked fine for me with Kindle, Nook, Zinio, Google Books, and really every other similar app I've tried.
SCWells72 said:
Unless you're doing something out of the ordinary, there's no need to back them up. They reside on the server and are automatically associated with your respective accounts. When you change ROMs (or even from Android to iOS or whatever), you just install the correct app, log in, and re-download whatever you want to have locally. I've noticed that the Kindle app will sometimes realize that it thinks you have it downloaded because of another installation, so it'll prompt you to remove and re-download, but you still get it in quick order. This has worked fine for me with Kindle, Nook, Zinio, Google Books, and really every other similar app I've tried.
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I understand I can redownload them from the server, but I just don't want to spend extra time to download them. Thanks.
For me, if I flash a new ROM, Amazon shows me as using a newer device within the Kindle app. So I have to redownload most of them all the time anyway - unless I'm just doing an upgrade to the ROM itself. So if you're planning on changing ROM's, know that you probably are going to have to get them again. You can try to back it all up using something like Titanium, but know that it may not work. I say may.
Just backup the kindle app+data and restore it on the new rom. Theres plenty of apps that you can use like app extractor, rom toolbox, nandroid browser, etc.
ve6ay said:
For me, if I flash a new ROM, Amazon shows me as using a newer device within the Kindle app. So I have to redownload most of them all the time anyway - unless I'm just doing an upgrade to the ROM itself. So if you're planning on changing ROM's, know that you probably are going to have to get them again. You can try to back it all up using something like Titanium, but know that it may not work. I say may.
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I don't know. I have all my books and I didn't use the backup files.
One thing you can do it, after installing Kindle app, rename your device to the name you used last time.
I am new to this, with a B&N Nook HD+ tablet.
Let me just say, this is a terrific place with lots of knowledgeable people in Android and Nook.
I rooted my tablet, and love how it all works.
There is one nagging issue I have. It seems that B&N appeared to install 2 apps that I keep deleting, but they keep re-appearing.
Spotify and Crosswords.
I do not want these apps and wish they would stop installing themselves.
I used SQLite to set in the databases, install foreign apps, and also the other setting to not over the air, install Nook updates.
I tried to find a setting in the various databases to tell the Nook to stop installing these free apps, but cannot find it.
Does anyone know how to stop the Nook from installing these free apps?
I suspect at some point BN might install some free app automatically that might attempt to unroot this device.
Thanks,
Rob
rplourdejr said:
I am new to this, with a B&N Nook HD+ tablet.
Let me just say, this is a terrific place with lots of knowledgeable people in Android and Nook.
I rooted my tablet, and love how it all works.
There is one nagging issue I have. It seems that B&N appeared to install 2 apps that I keep deleting, but they keep re-appearing.
Spotify and Crosswords.
I do not want these apps and wish they would stop installing themselves.
I used SQLite to set in the databases, install foreign apps, and also the other setting to not over the air, install Nook updates.
I tried to find a setting in the various databases to tell the Nook to stop installing these free apps, but cannot find it.
Does anyone know how to stop the Nook from installing these free apps?
I suspect at some point BN might install some free app automatically that might attempt to unroot this device.
Thanks,
Rob
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Get the free Gemini Application Manager on Play Store and block the apps. It adds them to a database that says to ignore them. But that won't help with new apps.
Edit: Gemini gave the warning that ics might be able to override this setting. It did. The app came back. And I did what you did and could find no databases to stop it.
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Per my new announcement here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34478962#post34478962
I am closing this thread. Please follow the "Request a new forum" link, and let the staff know a board for the HD is needed.
Per the NEW announcement,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34819554#post34819554
I redeclare this thread open...
Solution
Been meaning to track this down for years and finally got around to doing it. The sneaky app that's doing the reinstalls is com.bn.bnappinstaller
Use your app of choice to freeze this (on the off chance you want to have this bloatware factory run again in the future)
That's it, you can uninstall with wild abandon and they will never come back
Displacer said:
Been meaning to track this down for years and finally got around to doing it. The sneaky app that's doing the reinstalls is com.bn.bnappinstaller
Use your app of choice to freeze this (on the off chance you want to have this bloatware factory run again in the future)
That's it, you can uninstall with wild abandon and they will never come back
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I was relieved to find this because my husband's HD is "running in the red" because of apps like Spotify, Hulu+, etc., which come unbidden "from the cloud". He'd like to have room for apps of his own choosing (not to mention space for the OS to do its thing...).
But....I tried this and it didn't work. They are back again
I am a noob and was wondering if there is anything less dramatic than a full system restoration that I can do to make my kindle fire hd to download and run apps again…
I don’t think I’ve hard or soft bricked my rooted kindle fire because I can I can still turn my device on , browse the internet, and open my app draw to see a few apps. With that said I can’t download anything that is not already on my kindle and I no longer have a file explorer to look at system files. The only apps I can open are the kindle store, a downloaded “free your kindle” app, and a launcher from the free your kindle app. I know I still have root access because my superuser still appears to be still working. If i try to open any other apps, the screen turns black and flashes back to the home screen.
(where the problem started)-
I rooted by kindle fire hd 8,9 , successfully downloaded Google play store and got the apps I wanted. Then I got paranoid or greedy, and deleted some of the of the Amazon apps (not sure which ones). Next I ran a “free your kindle app” and the Google play store stopped working. I got really mad and decided to start over by resetting the device to factory settings. The reset successfully deleted all of my applications and I no longer have access to a file explorer, and must have deleted something else because I can no longer download an app store to get the file explorer as I no longer have access to the Google play store. Is there a way I can get system access again?
Sorry if I missed the answer to this in a different thread, Thank you for making this site and contributing her knowledge.
trapier said:
I am a noob and was wondering if there is anything less dramatic than a full system restoration that I can do to make my kindle fire hd to download and run apps again…
I don’t think I’ve hard or soft bricked my rooted kindle fire because I can I can still turn my device on , browse the internet, and open my app draw to see a few apps. With that said I can’t download anything that is not already on my kindle and I no longer have a file explorer to look at system files. The only apps I can open are the kindle store, a downloaded “free your kindle” app, and a launcher from the free your kindle app. I know I still have root access because my superuser still appears to be still working. If i try to open any other apps, the screen turns black and flashes back to the home screen.
(where the problem started)-
I rooted by kindle fire hd 8,9 , successfully downloaded Google play store and got the apps I wanted. Then I got paranoid or greedy, and deleted some of the of the Amazon apps (not sure which ones). Next I ran a “free your kindle app” and the Google play store stopped working. I got really mad and decided to start over by resetting the device to factory settings. The reset successfully deleted all of my applications and I no longer have access to a file explorer, and must have deleted something else because I can no longer download an app store to get the file explorer as I no longer have access to the Google play store. Is there a way I can get system access again?
Sorry if I missed the answer to this in a different thread, Thank you for making this site and contributing her knowledge.
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Restoring a system.img would be the easiest and most straightforward way to fix your device. Is there a reason you're trying to avoid this?
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You deleted critical system files and then reset your device which deleted the rest of the apps that had a chance at helping you. The only answer is to restore with one of the tools found here in these forums.
Please visit the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
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soupmagnet said:
Restoring a system.img would be the easiest and most straightforward way to fix your device. Is there a reason you're trying to avoid this?
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I think I was just nervous frorm reading the threads were ppl hard bricked their device doing this wrong. I also tried this restoration process sevral times but must have done someng wrong because I coudn't get my device in fast boot (adb issue?) , thanks for the advice! I can stop waisting my time looking for a way around it,
ps-your contributions are helping are helping familes stay togather. I use my kindle to help with critical documentation in family preservation in a agecny that cannot afford more expensive tablets. I get paper work down on time and the money saved goes to poor familes in need
trapier said:
I think I was just nervous frorm reading the threads were ppl hard bricked their device doing this wrong. I also tried this restoration process sevral times but must have done someng wrong because I coudn't get my device in fast boot (adb issue?) , thanks for the advice! I can stop waisting my time looking for a way around it,
ps-your contributions are helping are helping familes stay togather. I use my kindle to help with critical documentation in family preservation in a agecny that cannot afford more expensive tablets. I get paper work down on time and the money saved goes to poor familes in need
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here are all making the 200 kindle an 400 tablet xD. all devices with a little work are better
Hello guys! I have rooted my kindle fire HD with your help and after few months (of happy user) my browsers (Dolphin or Mozilla) do crash regularly ... I seen that my available RAM is close to 50-100 MB and I'm wondering if this is the case. My question is "what more programs can I uninstall from it" ? Do we need all the Amazon things? Thanks !
Ram isn't the area that the programs are stored on, ram is random access memory, programs do operations in it and cache data to it, if you want to free up ram, just force close some apps, or do what I do and use go task manager and hit general kill.
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Sorry forgot to mention that I do use a kill app... When I do so, the browser seems to work in better way. Thanks for your reply!
I bought a 2015 Amazon Fire Kids' Edition and a 32GB SD card for my son for Christmas. I followed the directions here to upgrade to 5.1.1 and maintain root and the 5.0.1 bootloaders, set up Google, etc. We decided to use the one year of Free Time that came with the tablet to make things simpler to set up and maintain, at least initially. However, my son keeps having to download apps, even ones he frequently uses, all over again. There is plenty of space on the SD card, and there appears to be plenty of space on the internal memory too.
I haven't been able to find a lot of discussion of this issue online, and I'm not sure if that's because it is normal and everyone thinks it is ok, or if it is because (especially on XDA) everyone is using some other setup.
Are other folks having this issue? Is there any way to force it to store the apps on the SD card and not constantly download apps that were already installed?
Since this isn't my device I don't want to spend a lot of time messing with it. I just want it to work without complaints. Even my wife is ticked that Free Time works this way!
if you have FireOS, have you tried contacting Amazon? Just wondering... Otherwise mention which ROM you are running.
I have the exact same issue on both my kids tablets. Apps have to be downloaded again very often, they still show as installed in settings. It even does it on apps downloaded from the normal appstore when they are added to the kids area, but the same apps run with no issues when not on a kids profile so I know they don't need to download extra data or update to run. Have you come across anything that is causing this? I'm going to try speaking with Amazon tomorrow. Both mine are unrooted stock.
I have two tablets and having issues with one of them at the moment. Originally I left one stock (kids subscription) and set the other up with slim rom, but ordered a third (another with the kids sub) and gave away the one with slim rom. The one with fire OS has only the lock screen ad remover and OTA blocker mods. It has an 8GB SD card but constantly running out of space, I can't even uninstall apps to make space now, so frustrating.
I thought the 1yr subscription to all the kids content would be great but its no good if you cant actually play or use them. The best thing I done was change the one to slim rom, didn't have one issue, had access to everything on play store and you could still set up parental controls.
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Do you still get access to the kids content that comes with the subscription?
I got a Fire tablet forma the kids thought the Free time thing was great, but every time an app is launched it seems to be downloaded again. This is frustrating. I also searched but didn't find much on the topic. Any news on what causes this? I have moved all apps to the SD, maybe that's part of the cause?
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glock24 said:
I got a Fire tablet forma the kids thought the Free time thing was great, but every time an app is launched it seems to be downloaded again. This is frustrating. I also searched but didn't find much on the topic. Any news on what causes this? I have moved all apps to the SD, maybe that's part of the cause?
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Possibly. If the migration method did not utilize symbolic links good chance relocation is the culprit. Move one or two back to internal storage and see what happens.