Hello Everybody
I was trying to replace my Apple iPad Mini 4 with Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8" (8th Generation) tablet.
The Kindle fire was mostly offered a satisfactory experience.
But i found the built-in speaker to be inadequate for video / voice calling apps.
The applications either always uses the internal speaker or produces no sounds when connected via Bluetooth.
Please help me to use external speaker with Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8" (8th Generation) while using calling apps.
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Is anyone familiar with the Bluetooth capabilities of the Kindle Fire HD 7" tablet? Basically, I want to side-load an app from the Google Play store so that I can sync my fitness tracker (Misfit Shine, if that matters) to my tablet. However, it will only sync using Bluetooth 4.0 LE. I have read a million posts about this, but it's unclear to me whether or not the Kindle is capable of syncing with LE if the OS is upgraded -- or if I upgrade it to Android 4.3 will it still not be able to use LE?
If it's not likely to work, then I'd prefer not to root my device. The new Kindle 6" says that it supports Bluetooth LE, but the fitness tracker manufacturers can't comment on whether or not the device will work since there is not currently a Misfit app in the Kindle store (due to the fact that the older Kindle Fires cannot use Bluetooth LE).
TL;DR - should I risk bricking my tablet to install Android 4.3 for Bluetooth LE or just spend the money elsewhere and get a newer smartphone/tablet that definitely does work with Bluetooth LE?
Since purchasing this phone I have had a problem getting sound to work while using screen mirroring. The two devices being used are the Sprint version of the 64MB Note 5, and an Amazon Fire TV stick.
Devices:
Note 5 phone is completely stock (using stock ROM)
Amazon Fire TV stick is completely stock (using stock ROM)
Note 5 has the latest available software using: Settings/System/System Update
Amazon Fire TV stick has latest available software (version 54.1.2.3_user_123067020)
Using ATT U-Verse Pace Gateway/Router for Wi-Fi network
Symptom:
When using screen mirroring, the devices pair and video is shown accurately, but sound is played severely muffled and barely audible (sounds like robots underwater, voice tone/pitch sounds very low). I paired and mirrored my old Galaxy S4 on this same Fire TV stick, and it works flawlessly with audio, though the video drops frames and seems to buffer/lag intermittently. Different video players and apps on the Note 5 phone yield the same audio problem when using mirroring.
Please offer any advice or resolution to this problem.
After doing more searching elsewhere I found a bandaid solution here:
amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/ref=cs_hc_g_tv?ie=UTF8&forumID=Fx1SKFFP8U1B6N5&cdThread=Tx39G5Z7NFWAPEX
By Jack Rozmaryn on 4 days ago
I'm having the same problem with my Fire Stick on a Note 5. The only thing that worked for me is restarting the phone.
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Restarting the phone seems to have fixed the problem. Not sure what the issue is or what causes it, but if I restart the phone it fixes itself. After contacting Amazon they couldn't provide any other info than a claim that it's a known Samsung issue and are blaming the problem on them.
I rooted my Amazon Fire, installed things from Google Play Store, and all seems well.
Except Bluetooth.
I can pair and connect to a bluetooth speaker and amplify music played on the Fire, I can pair to both an iMac and a PC and xfrer files back and forth between the workstations and the Fire tablet.
But while I seem to be able to pair to my phone (Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, 5.1.1 rooted) I cannot connect to it.
What could I possibly be doing wrong here?
Hello I have a couple fire 10 11th generation tablets on one of them I've lost the ability for voice dictation. Voice dictation is actually greyed out in the Amazon settings for the built-in Amazon keyboard. So there is no microphone available for that keyboard. I have Google Play services installed and even with the gboard it does not work the microphone is present but when pressing it it doesn't turn blue and activate. It also does not have the microphone icon in the top right hand corner always on like in the another 11th gen I have. On the tablet with the microphone icon always present in the top right hand corner the microphone works in gboard and will do voice dictation.
I've installed Google voice search and I'm able to use the microphone to search on Chrome but the microphone still does not work in gboard. That's the most important.
I've also tried Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard I can get the microphone to come on it acts like it's listening but it will not text.
I've been trying to set these up to give them away to some family members but I like to at least that function to be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I use fire toolbox v30.3 and I've tried a lot of trouble shooting turning on permissions for the microphone trying google Assistant. Factory resetting and trying again, several times. I received this tablet already updated.
Thanks
They block voice dictation until after you register the device. Since I was not registering them on amazon, they greyed out voice dictation. A thought is that they are recording you, you are agreeing to it when you register and they turn it on.
Did you solve the problem? I have an HD8 2022 and I have this problem with the microphone too, the tablet is already registered, but even so, the microphone does not work on YouTube.
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Did you solve the problem? I have an HD8 2022 and I have this problem with the microphone too, the tablet is already registered, but even so, the microphone does not work on YouTube.
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Make sure the Amazon offers it for that particular tablet. Ironically they only allow voice dictation on certain tablets, yours may or may not be one of them. Call Amazon and ask for help. They were the first to tell me to register them. Apparently I wasn't the first to call in and complain about it. I sent those tablets off to family I'm not sure if they're still working right or not. I have decided to leave Amazon's fire OS all together.
I am going to get true Android from now on and replace all the Amazon devices I have given to my family over the years. I have started with the fire sticks I'm replacing them with Walmart's brand new new $19.99 Onn 4K Android TV box. Unfortunately with the tablets it'll take me a little longer to acquire decent Samsungs for them. And if you purchased your tablet on Amazon be sure to review them poorly for them not allowing us to use Amazon devices the way we want to use them. I was liking the newest 10 inch until they decided that we were just renting the devices and change and break everything you set up through forced updates.
I flashed
cm-13.0-20160218-UNOFFICIAL-tate
and then
lineage-14.1-20180326-UNOFFICIAL-tate
on my Kindle Fire HD (2012 gen 2) and it's ok but camera doesn't work with either of these. any ideas on how to fix that?