It's more than a technical work and you may get your Kindle Fire bricked — a terrible situation in which you can't do anything for the Kindle Fire. So I come up with another safe and easy way of turning Kindle Fire into Android tablet — installing an Android launcher! With this method, you can experience most Android features and can shift to original Amazon launcher freely. Now just follow the tutorial below and make your Kindle Fire an Android tablet.
It provides many custom options to allow you to make your own tablet. Skip all the welcome note and then tap the home icon at the bottom left corner of the screen and you will meet a notice like this:. Just skip the greetings and then the Kindle Fire will turn back to the new home screen. You can see your Kindle Fire has turned into Android tablet! Tap the app icon and you can see all the apps. Slide to browse more apps.
The original apps like Amazon Kindle, Amazon Shop and Amazon Appstore are now separated out and each of them has an icon like the picture shows. Once you tap the Amazon Kindle icon, it just has no response and the Kindle Fire get stuck unless you tap the home screen icon. This is a big pity but other Amazon apps can run smoothly. If you want to read e-books, just tap the "Kindle Launcher" to turn back into the original Amazon launcher. Or you can install a third party e-book reader.
Perhaps this is the main defects of a third party launcher I've tried other launchers and the Amazon Kindle remains not responding. You can easily order the apps as you wish.
Just hold any app, you'll see all the app icons are swaying. Hold the app and drag it to anywhere you want on the screen. You can also drag it to the main home screen, not just in the app list only.
Tap the top right of the screen and call out the management menu. You can manage the apps in various methods. Kindle Fire doesn't support multitasking — you can't see the running process, let alone close the process or shift from another process.
Tap the "Running" icon on the top left of the screen and you can see all the process running at present. The right side is the RAM condition. If you find your Kindle Fire very slow, just hold the app and tap the red icon to close the process then the memory will be released.
The contents above are the 6 tips for you to increase Kindle Fire battery life. I hope these would help you. Although the GO Launcher provides wallpaper options, you can't replace the wallpaper indeed. In fact, all third party launchers can't do this job on Kindle Fire. This is because Amazon has made some limitations. If you want to change the wallpaper, you must root your Kindle Fire first. For more details, please refer to this article: How to change Kindle Fire wallpaper.
Although it has some bugs like you can't open Amazon Kindle or change wallpaper, it provides most Android features that you can experience them in a simple way. This guide is writen for Kindle Fire users or lovers. A cool trick for you. We also gathered top 10 kindle fire cool tricks , see the full list? Trick 2 How to Root Kindle Fire. Trick 4 Cool Apps for Kindle Fire. Trick 8 Print from Kindle Fire. Trick 9 Transfer files to Kindle. Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since , loves everything about eBooks and eReaders.
He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you. I've wanted to turn my Kindle into a full Android. I've already rooted and have Google Play. The app updates are still showing for the Amazon and not Google. Shop now. You don't need to buy a separate e-book tablet such as the Amazon Kindle to read your favorite e-books.
The Amazon Kindle app comes pre-installed on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 so you can read e-books and periodicals just as easily on your Tab 2. Open the Amazon Kindle app by tapping the Apps icon on the home screen and then tapping the Amazon Kindle icon in the Apps screen as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Tap the Amazon Kindle icon to open the Kindle app.
The Kindle home screen appears. The Library area on the left side of the screen see Figure 2 shows the Downloaded Items category selected. This category displays a list of all items you've downloaded from the Kindle Store on the right side of the screen. Tap on a category name in the Library area to view items contained within the category on the right side of the screen. The number of items in each category appears to the right of the category name.
When you start the Kindle app for the first time, you'll see that all the categories have no items in them. Start shopping for e-books in the Kindle Store by tapping the Kindle Store icon in the menu bar shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 The Kindle Store icon has a shopping cart on the right side of the menu bar. The Browser app opens, and the screen displays a tab with the Kindle Store website so you can begin to shop in the store. As you can see in Figure 3, the web page is divided into four sections:.
Figure 3 Type a search term such as an author name or title in the Search box, and then initiate the search by tapping the Search button. When you find an e-book and tap on the book title, the e-book information appears on the screen, as shown in Figure 4. You'll see the average rating for the e-book based on its customer reviews five stars is best, one star is worst and the price of the e-book.
Figure 4 Scroll down the e-book information page to read a description of the book, read customer reviews, and receive related book suggestions from Amazon.
If you want to purchase the e-book, then tap the Buy Now with 1-Click button in the green box on the right side of the window, as shown in Figure 4. After you go through the process of placing your order, you can switch to the Kindle app and check to see if the items you ordered have been downloaded to the app. If the e-book downloads to a different device instead of to your Galaxy Tab 2, you can change this by tapping Your Account in the menu bar to the right of the search box and then tapping Manage Your Kindle in the drop-down menu.
In the Your Kindle Library page shown in Figure 5, the list of e-books you ordered appears on the page. Figure 5 The most recent book you ordered appears at the top of the list of e-books you've purchased. Tap the Actions button at the right side of the e-book entry in the list. In the drop-down menu, tap Deliver To My in the pop-up menu. Tap the down arrow to the right of the box to open the selection menu at the bottom of the screen. Figure 6 If you decide not to deliver the title to a new location, tap the Close X button at the right side of the Deliver Title window's title bar.
Tap the destination device to which you want to download the e-book and then tap the Done button. The device appears in the Deliver To box within the Deliver Title window.
Tap the Deliver button to deliver the book to your Galaxy Tab 2. You can download and keep the borrowed e-book for as long as you want, but you can only download one e-book per month. You must return the borrowed e-book before you can borrow another one.
This offer is only good for people who purchased a Kindle tablet from Amazon. If you have a Kindle tablet, then the Amazon Kindle Store will recognize this and will allow you to borrow the e-book. On a Tab 2, you have no choice but to buy the e-book. The book cover appears on the right side of the screen and a download icon appears in the lower-right corner of the book cover, as shown in Figure 7. Figure 7 The download icon has a down arrow surrounded by the outline of a cloud.
Tap the cover to download the e-book and open the first page. Tap the Dismiss button to close the window.
You can view the table of contents as well as introductory text about the book by swiping from left to right on the screen. Move to the next page in the book by swiping from right to left on the screen. When you see a chapter or section of the book that you want to view, tap the name of the chapter or section in the table of contents.
Tap on the center of the page to open the Kindle menu as well as the Location slider bar, as shown in Figure 8. Figure 8 The bookmark icon looks like a pennant and appears below the menu bar on the right side of the screen. In the gray Kindle menu bar at the top of the page, tap on one of the three icons that appear from left to right at the right side of the menu bar:.
After you tap the icon, the bookmark icon turns blue that signifies that the page is bookmarked. Remove the bookmark from the page by tapping the bookmark icon again. A list of pages with bookmarks and any notes appears on the screen. You can return to reading the page you were on by tapping the Back icon in the Notification bar. In the location slider bar, the current location is indicated by a blue dot on the bar. The last page in the book is the percent point.
Hold your finger on the button and then slide from left to right to move between pages in the book. When you release your finger, the page that corresponds to your location in the document appears on the screen.
Just below the Kindle icon at the left side of the menu bar, tap Back to return to the page you were viewing before you moved to the current page. You can return to the home page by tapping the Kindle icon on the left side of the menu bar.
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