bazz26 wrote: » 8gb version down now to 44.99 in Argos, 16gb version is 59.99 and get the black folio case half price @ 5.49 if you buy it with the tablet.
muffler wrote: » Not sure of the details or what benefits, if any, will be available to Fire 7 owners (and others) but Amazon Prime is available to ROI customers now. Just got the tail end of that in business part of the lunch time news on RTE
Soarer wrote: » Right guys. Need to get these things sorted before the big man Saturday night. Do I go with georgiecasey's or Akrasia's version of things?
georgiecasey wrote: » i've bought 4 of these for my nephews/nieces and rooted them all and flashed stock nexus7 firmware using kingroot. so it's just like you bought a tablet from Google and has the play store. it was a bit of a pain alright findind information the first time so give us a reply if anybody has problems this is THE guide i followed on how to do it:https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2016/05/install-better-custom-rom-amazon-kindle-fire/ there's a rake of other guides and threads on xda-developers and they all left out information, i went through a lot of them. so start on that guide
Akrasia wrote: » There are a few youtube videos you can watch, but here's basically what I had to do. 1. download the zip file AmazonFire5thGenSuperTool.zip from my link above 2. Extract it somewhere convenient on your hard drive 3. plug your fire into the usb port of your laptop and let windows automatically install the drivers 4. double click the 'Auto.bat' file it will run a quick check and it should list your device as a code number before going to a menu screen type 1 and press enter in this sub menu click 3 to test if the Device drivers are successfully installed on your laptop. If the tests pass, great, otherwise, you can use options 1 and 2 in the previous menu to install them First, install the play store using option 2, if that works then you're probably gonna be smooth sailing for the rest of the process then go ahead and root your Fire using the AmazonFire5thGenSuperTool Open the auto.bat file and select option 6 'Root your Amazon fire 5th gen' Select option 3 and hit enter this will install kingroot onto your fire NOTE, your fire will bring up an error message saying that this is dangerous software and can not be installed. You can overwrite this message by scrolling down the page and clicking continue anyway Once kingroot is installed, open it and you'll see an ad telling you to install some other piece of software, just close kingroot and open it again, and the option to root your device will be there. I takes a while to run, but a percentage indicator will roll up towards 100. If the device reboots, just launch kingroot again and again until it reaches 100% After that you go back to your computer and press any key on the command console and it will remove kingroot and install Supersu to make the root permanent. You'll need to confirm root access on the tablet every time you use it to make changes to the tablet, just click ok to the messages on the tablet. When SuperSU is installed the device is rooted you'l be able to use the amazon fire supertool to run option 3 to block OTA updates (stops Amazon reverting back to their settings) Option 7, to bring back the standard Android look and feel with the NOVA launcher and option 8 to remove the lockscreen ads Now that your tablet is rooted, you can remove all the bloatware, but be careful to not delete any system processes Thats it. you should be good to go. There's a chance that the root won't work on your version of the software, if that's the case, you'll need to sideload version 5.1.2 of the OS before rooting, but that's not too hard to do and if you need help, just ask you'll need to have the google Adb shell software on your computer It's really easy to install using this toolhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979 run the tool, install adb, just download the earlier version of the OS to 5.1.2 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/index-amazon-fire-2015-t3210485/post62986665#post62986665
mrcheez wrote: » I'm in the same situation (have to finally setup the tablet before 25th)... TLDR for this thread... so maybe a link to the specific posts with all the best info would be handy pls
georgiecasey wrote: » lol i'm the same myself, been hassled all week and finally getting around to rooting 4 tablets from Santa today! my link and Akrasia's instructions are pretty much the same until the end, when he says install the nova launcher where as i prefer flashing the complete Nexus stock ROM with flashfire to wipe the slate clean of any amazon crap.
mrcheez wrote: » OK so Akrasia = keep Amazon stuff alongside Google stuff Yours = just have Google stuff ?
JimsAlterEgo wrote: » for basic use is it ok to leave as is?
irishproduce wrote: » Hang on a second, if I just give this to the small fella out of the box, he won't be able to watch youtube videos?
mrcheez wrote: » I'm probably going to go with the "lite" approach and keep Amazon, but also install Google Play Store Better to be safe in case I want to integrate with Echo Dot, or Fire TV etc
Bob Z wrote: » Is it worth getting even as a backup if you already have one?
Keith186 wrote: » It's back to full price now I think so I wouldn't bother.
mrcheez wrote: » Dang, I've got version 5.1.3 .. you have to downgrade to 5.1.2 before doing any of the snazzy Google Play installs right?
writhen wrote: » I got two of these for a 5 and a 7 year old. I was going to root and install a custom nexus rom but after playing around with them I have installed the play store, You Tube Kids, some free games from the amazon underground appstore and set up the Amazon parental controls. The parental controls are excellent. This will do nicely for them given their ages.
Supercell wrote: » Got one of these on the Black Friday sale, installed Cyanogenmod on it and the Google playstore, fantastic little device, thought it would be slow but is very nippy in use. Going to be one of the presents for the kiddies on xmas day.
