Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: W7LPNRICK on July 29, 2012, 12:47:01 AM
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I went from the original Kindle after 2 years of reading books & keeping PDF's & study references handy, to the Kindle Fire. I was pretty happy at first, then I started finding out what it would & wouldn't do. Amazon/Kindle or Google didn't want to or couldn't agree upon a way to get Google play apps onto this hybrid android...try as you will, it seems there's no way to get onto Google Play until this...
http://liliputing.com/2011/11/how-to-root-an-amazon-kindle-fire.html (http://liliputing.com/2011/11/how-to-root-an-amazon-kindle-fire.html)
It even says on the Google Play site "If your device is unsupported, there's nothing you can do about it". It takes some time & patience, but I now have a "Normal Android" which also has boot options, recovery, Go Launcher EX, boots very fast now, I have options to shut down running back-ground programs, & I can use all those popular free Google apps, except GPS stuff...no chip, darn! but their MapQuest app triangulates your approximate position from available WiFi towers without logging on to them. All this & I can still go back to my kindle Launcher & read my books & use their apps too. Hope this is good info to you techi Types. :salute :old: