This is why people should not make the mistake of thinking that the tablet fire is an i-pad because the kindle fire does have some restrictions on 3rd party apps. However for the price and if you are traveling a lot I think the kindle can satisfy many customer needs. The price is the tablet fire's biggest advantage over the i-pad.
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Root [1st Gen] Turn Your Kindle Fire Into a Full Fledged Android Tablet!
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aceofspades626
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If one were to think this were an ipad, they would be pretty unlikely to be trying to run android on it...
poler166
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see my post on installing the full market
Where is your other post?
Has anyone heard if you can integrate the I-pad or Tablet Fire with your TV? Another words can you use it kind of like a TV controller so to speak…I know you can do some programming with these devices I just don't know what the limitations are and would like to know before buying one.
I'm sure you got it by now but I found a workaround for this that I'll post here for future...
My wife set her account up wrong and it wouldn't download anything from the android market. She was in bed and I didn't know the password to her account and I didn't want to get her up, and she would have been resistant to me rooting her new kindle anyway so I tried a few things. What ended up working was opening up the office app on the fire, and clicking open document and browsing to the copy of root explorer I put on the sd. I clicked it and it installed right from the open dialog box. After that it was game on.
Also, no need for the home switcher app as there is an app in the drawer for the stock amazon launcher. Click it to do amazon tasks, then hit the home key that goes to go launcher by default. It works like a charm.
I'm actually pretty amazed with this little device. So far the only thing that has refused to run is launcherpro and I knew that wouldn't work before I tried it. Go Launcher is a nice alternative though and I don't mind it at all.
The unit took the 6.2.1 update the day after I rooted it and installed the market and all of the changes I made stuck even though it lost root. I really didn't need to run root again because it was doing everything but I did it anyway partly because I'm a rooting/flashing addict and partly because I thought there was a chance that a future update might break root for good and at least with twrp installed I had a chance to avoid that. I also didn't want to lose access to the system folders because I didn't know what was around the corner for this little gem.
Oh and btw, quick boot from the market works great to reboot the device, or to boot straight into recovery without having to hit the power button in the boot.
For your answer just go to the Adobe site and download the latest version of Flash from there. Even though the Kindle comes with 10.2 there is always a newer version to download from their site. I'm running all Facebook games on mine right now.
Device:
Kindle Fire CM7.2 Barebones
PowerARMv7 v3
RavenKernel
Adobe Flash Player 11.1
Now even though I'm running 11.1, back when I was running the upgraded version on my stock Kindle, I think it was something around 10.4, I can't remember to be honest. Facebook games were working fine.
Zoandroid
Android Expert
Thanks, but the REAL answer is that the
Zoandroid
Android Expert
Well said, x 2. 
It is definitely a pet peeve of mine that programmers in general, in order to release a "version upgrade", deliberately hide and/or remove things to which we grew accustomed in the current version in use. Micro$oft has been doing it for years, as well as a great many other software vendors. If I wanted to be "protected from myself" by having things like Flash disabled, I don't think I would be using Android OS, which is for many of us the current flagship of freedom from such oppression. Yet, it is looking more each day like "everyone" in the electronic vendor arena is headed toward becoming an Apple wannabee. I don't think Android's tremendous success was in any way built upon such an idea. Indeed it is the exact opposite. So they should be giving us MORE freedom in new upgrades, not taking it away, if they intend to keep the trend growing.
Micro$oft sure isn't getting it with their current Metro interface. They'll come to regret it once it is too late. Then they can release another clandestine admission just like the one they officially told Maximum PC in an interview, when they admitted Vista was "the most botched OS launch they ever had".
If these folks like Amazon would just look at the real reasons people root devices, they might actually find a way to capitalize on it.
It is definitely a pet peeve of mine that programmers in general, in order to release a "version upgrade", deliberately hide and/or remove things to which we grew accustomed in the current version in use. Micro$oft has been doing it for years, as well as a great many other software vendors. If I wanted to be "protected from myself" by having things like Flash disabled, I don't think I would be using Android OS, which is for many of us the current flagship of freedom from such oppression. Yet, it is looking more each day like "everyone" in the electronic vendor arena is headed toward becoming an Apple wannabee. I don't think Android's tremendous success was in any way built upon such an idea. Indeed it is the exact opposite. So they should be giving us MORE freedom in new upgrades, not taking it away, if they intend to keep the trend growing.
Micro$oft sure isn't getting it with their current Metro interface. They'll come to regret it once it is too late. Then they can release another clandestine admission just like the one they officially told Maximum PC in an interview, when they admitted Vista was "the most botched OS launch they ever had".
If these folks like Amazon would just look at the real reasons people root devices, they might actually find a way to capitalize on it.
Exactly my point that I was stating but in a longer and more drawn out form of itWell said, x 2.
It is definitely a pet peeve of mine that programmers in general, in order to release a "version upgrade", deliberately hide and/or remove things to which we grew accustomed in the current version in use. Micro$oft has been doing it for years, as well as a great many other software vendors. If I wanted to be "protected from myself" by having things like Flash disabled, I don't think I would be using Android OS, which is for many of us the current flagship of freedom from such oppression. Yet, it is looking more each day like "everyone" in the electronic vendor arena is headed toward becoming an Apple wannabee. I don't think Android's tremendous success was in any way built upon such an idea. Indeed it is the exact opposite. So they should be giving us MORE freedom in new upgrades, not taking it away, if they intend to keep the trend growing.
Micro$oft sure isn't getting it with their current Metro interface. They'll come to regret it once it is too late. Then they can release another clandestine admission just like the one they officially told Maximum PC in an interview, when they admitted Vista was "the most botched OS launch they ever had".
If these folks like Amazon would just look at the real reasons people root devices, they might actually find a way to capitalize on it.
The whole Apple Jailbreaking ordeal is getting way to ridiculously stupid with everyone wanting to do it because they don't have a Droid OS type of phone on their hands. Its basically saying that your putting what Android does stock on their phones and have done for years. Ever since the first iPhone Jailbreak was announced everyone with an iPhone had to do it because it made their phone cooler and they wanted to be just like a Droid without having to go out and buy another and have to switch providers back when Droid was only available on Verizon. This whole jailbreak scene and Apple's new iPad "3" which bare had made any durastic changes since the iPad 2, is just total ridiculousness. I mean apple is trying way to hard to make it as the top spot in the whole Mobile Phone/Tablets/Computer market that they are getting cheaper by making a product with no real big update to it, and then slapping on the next number in the sequence when they could just put out an update for it. Android will be and has been the company to offer free mobility and capabilities to a tablet or phone to date. Its the easiest market to date to make ROMs for and easiest way device to root/jailbreak. Where as the iPhone/iPad/iPod you have to download like three different programs and then wipe your memory off your phone just to be able to jailbreak it. Its ******ed. I'm an Android geek at heart and always will be.How was that snarky exchange? We were only stating true facts and opinions. Is that not allowed in this government anymore?
Zoandroid
Android Expert
I apologize if I said anything out of line.
Getting back to our discussion, what drove home the principles you nicely summed up, regarding the apparent Apple business model, for me was when I saw the price tag of the iPad 3 in an article. I can't imagine shelling out nearly a thousand dollars for a tablet.
Getting back to our discussion, what drove home the principles you nicely summed up, regarding the apparent Apple business model, for me was when I saw the price tag of the iPad 3 in an article. I can't imagine shelling out nearly a thousand dollars for a tablet.
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I'm sorry too btw.
Anyways, back to where we were. Exactly my point, the way that Apple advertises their products is actually pretty ingenious, don't get me wrong, but the price tag on the final product is just way to much. The iPhone's are priced very reasonably but the amount of their iMacs and their iPads is just way to ridiculous. I could go out and spend about the half that and get a better tablet/laptop and it'll be a better system. Now I'm not saying that Macs aren't good for anything, where they are the top ranked photo/video editing computer and are ready right from the factory is really good, but making it to where I'd have to drop $1,000-$2,000 over the price of a top of the line Aesus or Alienware laptop is ridiculous. I went into build my own just the other day to see if the prices had dropped any, what I find out....they didn't! OMG, that's a shocker! A full upgraded desktop iMac is around $7,000. I'm ashamed!