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[Q] Anyone having trouble installing apps from the Amazon app store?

Is anyone else experiencing issues installing apps from the Amazon app store? My wife and I both picked up 16 GB Nook Tablets for Christmas last year and loved them. These were our first foray out of the eink ereader realm and we were immediately hooked. Skip ahead a year and I think I'm going to pick up the new Nook HD+ and she has already picked up a new Kindle Fire HD 8.9".
She likes everything about her new toy with the exception of what a pain it is to install apps from the Amazon app store. She can connect to the store and search through the apps with no problems. It's just when she goes to install an app that everything bogs down and the little circular, rotating, "I'm working" icon appears and then it just hangs there. Forever. Eventually an error pops up and she'll have to try again. She'll have to try this two or three times, often with a reboot or two thrown in for good measure, for every single app she wants to install.
It doesn't appear to be a connection issue. She can browse the Internet just fine, and quickly. She's tried from home, from our local public library, from a local McDonald's and from a local Starbuck's. She's had the same results everywhere she's tried.
We're hopeful it's just a bad Kindle Fire and exchanging it for another will fix the problem. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced an issue like this or if it is something common to the Kindle Fire.
Any information or assistance would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
- Byron

I spoke with my wife again. I was mistaken on what exactly the issue was. I thought the issue was installing apps. The issue is actually with loading the app store. Take my original problem and replace it with "the app store won't load" and you pretty much have the problem.
- Byron

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bfollowell said:
Is anyone else experiencing issues installing apps from the Amazon app store? My wife and I both picked up 16 GB Nook Tablets for Christmas last year and loved them. These were our first foray out of the eink ereader realm and we were immediately hooked. Skip ahead a year and I think I'm going to pick up the new Nook HD+ and she has already picked up a new Kindle Fire HD 8.9".
She likes everything about her new toy with the exception of what a pain it is to install apps from the Amazon app store. She can connect to the store and search through the apps with no problems. It's just when she goes to install an app that everything bogs down and the little circular, rotating, "I'm working" icon appears and then it just hangs there. Forever. Eventually an error pops up and she'll have to try again. She'll have to try this two or three times, often with a reboot or two thrown in for good measure, for every single app she wants to install.
It doesn't appear to be a connection issue. She can browse the Internet just fine, and quickly. She's tried from home, from our local public library, from a local McDonald's and from a local Starbuck's. She's had the same results everywhere she's tried.
We're hopeful it's just a bad Kindle Fire and exchanging it for another will fix the problem. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced an issue like this or if it is something common to the Kindle Fire.
Any information or assistance would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
- Byron
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I suspect there is a problem with the MarketIntentProxy.apk or ApplicationsProvider.apk service which is located in /system/app/
Have you tried to clear the Cache and Data in the Appstore? Pull down the upper bar, choose More, then select Applications, then Installed Applications. Scroll down until you see Appstore. Select Appstore and Clear Data. Restart the Kindle and try again. Anything?

Do you also have Google play store on the kindle. I found that play store updating the kindle app native to the fire will make the store portion of it not work. Reinstalling from Amazon and disabling auto updates on play store solved that for me. It's not exactly the same idea but that might be your problem.
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Amazon App Store Error
Did any of this help? What was the exact error your wife was seeing?
Did you try a system Restore?
Or did you decide to have it replaced?

[Q] Google Sky Map not working?

Anyone able to get the Google Sky Map app working on a new Kindle HD 8.9 with firmware v8.1.4?
I just tried to run the app and all it shows is a black screen. Cannot see the stars nor planets, etc.
All the menus are there and show up when the screen is tapped. But the stars do not show on the screen.
I tried manually setting my Location in settings but it will not accept any entries saying "unable to set location your network may be down" or something like that.
So has anyone recently got this app to run to show the stars and planets, etc. on the Kindle HD 8.9?

KFHD 8.9" 16MB V8.1.4
Doesn't work for me either. There's an initial 'flash' of the star display on startup but the black screen sticks once the app is fully initialized.
The "SkEye" astronomy app available in the Kindle store works well, however.

Google play installed on 7' fire tablet, cannot access pre-purchased apps

Like the title says , no root, just a standard fire 5th gen tablet with the play store installed, it logs into my google play account just fine, it sees all the apps that I've bought and installed on my phone, my payment options, whole nine yards. But every single app that had to be purchased is being treated as if I haven't purchased it., despite being listed in the "my apps" tab. Is there a way to correct this? I really want to try playing baldur's gate on my tablet, but I'll be damned if I am going to pay $10 AGAIN.

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Like the title says , no root, just a standard fire 5th gen tablet with the play store installed, it logs into my google play account just fine, it sees all the apps that I've bought and installed on my phone, my payment options, whole nine yards. But every single app that had to be purchased is being treated as if I haven't purchased it., despite being listed in the "my apps" tab. Is there a way to correct this? I really want to try playing baldur's gate on my tablet, but I'll be damned if I am going to pay $10 AGAIN.
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this has been reported a few times
cause Unknown, for most paid apps install normally
Could try a different version of play store?
reboot the fire?
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Tried rebooting, no luck. Can I update the play store? If so, how?

As an update, just leaving the tablet alone for a while after installing google play, it updated on its own, and now the problem is solved. WOOHOO BALDUR'S GATE!

Cloning built in Kindle app

Hi all,
New Kindle owner here, and a very resourceful Android/iOS nerd.
My question is simple-- has anyone had success in cloning the built-in "Amazon Kindle" system app?
I'm looking to use multiple Kindle accounts. One is my US account (Prime account; where I have most of my audiobooks) and one is my JP account (where I have most of my Kindle books).
From what I recall on my TF300T tablet, the Google Play store edition of this app takes your Amazon login directly from the main screen when you first open it. In contrast, the Amazon Kindle system app on Fire devices takes your login from the account you use in Amazon's version of the Settings app.
I've tried using an app from the Play Store called "App Cloner" and have purchased the full version. I tried cloning the "Amazon Kindle" app twice with different configurations, but have not played with it much more. Most I've tried is removing permissions from it, in an effort to block it from automatically taking my US login from Settings.
I'm afraid that the remedy to this may be to download the Play Store version and clone that one instead. Problem is I lost my TF300T, and the Play Store on my Kindle reports it's already installed. (Interestingly enough, Google Play doesn't recognize Audible as already installed-- making a second copy of Audible easy to obtain)
Anyone have luck with this? Would love to figure out how to make this possible and write up a guide for it.

I'd like to know this too. I bought a kindle on someone elses amazon account so their account came attached. I removed it, but then that family member asked to read their kindle on my fire. So I couldn't add the account back for 6 months. So I was hoping to just remove the default one and add the regular version from the play store but it doesn't function for some reason. I would love to be able to log into a different kindle account just for the book store. I've had a bad time switching ROM and had to get a new one so I'd like to just avoid changing the OS for now.

Well, I have some good news and bad news regarding the subject. But, overall I would say it's progress none the less.
I *DID* find my TF300T, so I was able to download the Play Store version of the Kindle app and successfully clone it. I also managed to successfully install the cloned app. Unfortunately this is as far as I got.
When I launch the cloned app, the splash screen loads very briefly and the app crashes. I will test installing the cloned app on my TF300T and see if it opens cleanly on that device.
If it works on the TF300T, then there is something on the Fire 7" that prevents the clone (or even just the stock app) from operating correctly. I will post back (or edit my post) with my findings.

Cannot install certain apps from Google Play Store on AOSP rom

I successfully rooted and hacked my Fire 7 5th Gen tablets to an AOSP rom, following the talesofatech.com article titled "Kindle Fire 7″ 5th Gen: AOSP ROM" (sorry my account is too new to post links).
There are certain apps that I cannot install -- particularly, Google Calendar and Nest. After the installation process reaches 100%, I get an error that says "Can't Install app. Try again, and if the problem continues, get help troubleshooting. (Error code: -505).
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can get around this? Thanks.

darby123 said:
I successfully rooted and hacked my Fire 7 5th Gen tablets to an AOSP rom, following the talesofatech.com article titled "Kindle Fire 7″ 5th Gen: AOSP ROM" (sorry my account is too new to post links).
There are certain apps that I cannot install -- particularly, Google Calendar and Nest. After the installation process reaches 100%, I get an error that says "Can't Install app. Try again, and if the problem continues, get help troubleshooting. (Error code: -505).
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can get around this? Thanks.
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Pretty common issue. You can try sideloading your apps.

I just tried sideloading, and it worked. Will slideloaded apps be able to update through the Play store?

darby123 said:
I just tried sideloading, and it worked. Will slideloaded apps be able to update through the Play store?
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I don't believe consistently so. For example, I have Plex purchased through Amazon. It never updates through Google Play. Maybe I'm wrong, but I swear I've had sideloaded apps get updated, but then some don't.

After I sideloaded Calendar, it shows up in my play store as an installed item.
I sideloaded Google News, Nest and GroupMe, and they both still say "Your device isn't compatible with this version", but they work perfectly fine otherwise.

darby123 said:
After I sideloaded Calendar, it shows up in my play store as an installed item.
I sideloaded Google News, Nest and GroupMe, and they both still say "Your device isn't compatible with this version", but they work perfectly fine otherwise.
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Hopefully most of your apps should be okay then.
I wonder if calendar will update automatically. I had also earlier sideloaded the calendar and saw that it shows up as installed. But I don't know whether it will autoupdate. That being said, yes it's a little inconvenient, but not a big deal. For me, I don't plan on using the tablet for much of anything other than videos (Plex, Amazon Prime, Dish Anywhere), so calendar and a couple of other items is all I need and most of my apps loaded okay through the Play Store.