There is also, as far as I'm aware, no version of LineageOS that fully supports Fire hardware. I bricked an older Fire HD 8 running LineageOS (I tried to update the bootloader within LineageOS, which proved a mistake). Even if you pull it off, things rarely work 100 percent of the time, and you can still screw things up after the installation. Fire devices do not have unlockable bootloaders, and getting LineageOS installed is not for the faint of heart. Amazon periodically renames some packages, so you may have to do a more detailed web search for your exact model to find the right names.įinally, for those who'd like to try installing LineageOS, the open-source alternative to Android: I do not recommend it. The complete instructions for doing that are beyond the scope of this guide, but XDA developers, an Android developer community, has a pretty good list of apps and how to disable them. Now instead of “unauthorized” after your device, it should say just “device.” You can now run commands from your PC.Įxactly which commands you want to run depends on what you want to turn off. Tap Yes and go back to your PC and type adb devices again. That's OK, just check your Fire tablet and you should see a notification asking if you want to allow the USB debugging. You should see a Fire device listed with the word “unauthorized” next to it. To do that open a terminal window and type adb devices.

You can now connect to your tablet with Android Debug Bridge, or adb. Toggle Developer Options on and then scroll down the list of options below until you see USB Debugging and toggle that on as well. Now go back to Device Options and scroll down until you see a new menu item, Developer Options. To do that head to Settings > Device Options > About Fire Tablet and then tap the serial number seven times. You'll need to enable debugging before you connect to your tablet. Just download them for now, don't open them. Here are the apps you need with links to download them.

All of which is to say, this process is relatively safe. Once these apps are installed, they will be updated and managed by the Google Play Store, downloading directly from Google's services. APKMirror is owned by Illogical Robot LLC, which also owns the Android-focused news site Android Police. You will be downloading all of these files from. You can find out which tablet you have at: Settings > Device Options > About Fire Tablet. Different Fire tablets run different versions of Android, so the files you need to install vary according to which Fire tablet you have. Here's where it gets a little complicated. The first three are frameworks that the last one-the Play Store app-needs to function, so they need to be installed first. We need to download four applications to get the Google Play Store working: Google Account Manager, Google Services Framework, Google Play Service, and Google Play Store.

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