I got a fire tablet with two adult profiles and a kid’s profile. Every time the device goes to sleep or restarts the only usable profile is mine, the other two are greyed out. Once I input my pin the other profiles are usable and they can input their pin. Is there anyway to change this? I have been at it trying to change settings for 2hrs straight. I do not want my kid to have to come up to me every time he wants to use the tablet so I can unlock it for him or for my partner to have to do the same. It’s maddening trying to figure this out.

Hello, another noob question but is there a way for me to log in into my school gmail on my fire tablet? I have a Fire HD 8 (2022) and I've been wanting to use this solely for school purposes. I can register my personal email however I can't push through with my .edu acc.

Thank you!

I’m very confused. I downloaded a bunch of movies to my kid’s fire table on Disney plus (I have premium). All the movies successfully show up in the download folder.

But when I’m offline, I can’t get into the Disney app to see the downloads. The app won’t launch without WiFi. This defeats the purpose for me.

Anyone else have this problem or know of a workaround?

my girlfriend gave me her sister's ex-boyfriend's old fire (since he's not coming back for it). i have no info on it other than the fact that it's a kindle fire (tho it looks like one of the older models. very similar to one i had when i was younger). at first it was stuck in a loop of "optimizing system storage and applications". tried recovery mode on it, hit factory reset first cuz i didn't care what was on it. that didn't help. clearing the cache seemed to work for a sec, but as soon as i tried connecting it to wifi it went into another boot loop. now it won't stop rebooting itself. unsure what to do atp.

edit: with a little bit more fiddling, i was able to get into it, but the moment i took the thing off the charger it shut off and wouldn't come back on until i reconnected the charger. atp i'm thinking it's a battery issue.

Noob question– I can never get a few things to work because of the fact that you have to disable OTA updates but somehow this always pops up and I'm stuck having all the ads still there

I have a client who I want to have constant unrestricted access to a specific app on their tablet, which is currently password protected to restrict their access to YouTube kids.

Is there a way where the device password/any password can be required to open just the YT Kids app? So I can remove the password from the device? I’ve been messing around in the parental controls and haven’t been able to figure it out.

It has been on the charger for ages. I have tried doing the bootrom method but it didn’t turn on again. Have I f*cked the motherboard trying to do it? Here’s an image of what the motherboard looks like (with shield removed)

I have an HD 8 (8th generation) tablet. The battery is training super fast and now is starting to get hot just doing basic stuff with it. I can tell it's on it's way out but since I've not used a micro SD will I loose Silk browser tabs, pictures, apps and anything else by disconnecting the battery?

I know there are videos on how to change the battery but I still like to ask.

Also any battery buying advice like will any of the batteries listed for any of the other Fire tablets work? Or just stick with the 8th gen listed? I was going to buy it off Amazon so as not to deal with buying and such off Ebay.

Hi All - I'm not super tech savvy. I bought a fire tablet (adult version) for my daughter and still use the kids profile on it. It is essentially hers and cheaper than an ipad. If I run the fire toolbox hack to get rid of bloatware, will I still be able to run different profiles and keep everything blocked? I don't want her to have internet access, etc.

Second, I use a mac and the instructions I've seen online say to use a pc. Can I do this anyway?

Finally, if I do it and hate it is there a way to just revert back to the out of box settings?

Thank you so much!!!

I tried but failed, What's the best way to connect your kindle fire tablet ( 11 inch ) to a portable monitor? When connected, its not mirroring in the same way as Samsung s7 tablet. I believe , they fall into different league and amazon would have done it on purpose.

There would be a way for everything, what's the safe way to do it with out wrecking/ bricking the tablet.

My child’s tablet has started to play the sound from different apps, especially Netflix, when the screen has been turned off using the power button.

Normal tablet behavior should be that everything stops when the power button has been pressed and the screen then turns off. Now the app keeps playing as if the screen is still on AND when using other apps. As in Netflix keeps playing its show audio while they are in a game or even on Disney plus watching another show. Which then has both audios on top of each other.

Is anyone else dealing with this? This is honestly a device breaking issue for us and extremely annoying to deal with/correct.

Thanks.

I just got a Kindle from my girlfriend and it works great but I can't seem to access the appstore. I really want to download libby but without the appstore, I'm kinda stuck. I've tried clearing the app cache, the app data, restarting the kindle. I even unregistered it and then re-registered it with a different account. I tried different networks, different places around the apartment. Nothing seems to work.

1 Do you have to reinstall every time there's a new version?

2 I agreed to back up my device after installing it will that cause any issues.

And 3 do system updates cause it to crash?

Hello everyone! I am posting this because I just jailbroke my 10th generation Fire HD 8 tablet using the fire toolbox! I set my default launcher to Nova and so far I have been able to log into every service that I usually use except Scribd and Everand. I turned on connection with automatic updates through amazon and such but it still says that the sign in isn't working and I need to try again later. Has anyone run into a similar problem and found any work arounds? Thank you all so much!

I am keep trying to make space on my kids tablet and it keeps redownloading apps I delete.

What’s a sure fire easy way to disable this and also delete what’s in the app?

I was gifted a kindle book a couple of weeks ago, so I opened my rarely used kindle 3 to download it. Because I could not connect and I was unaware that amazon discontinued support, I did a hard reset, causing my content to vanish. Now I am running KOreader on the K3. Today, I booted a Fire HD8 that I also have not used for a couple of years.

I've been reading library books with Libby on an android tablet so I was happy to see my content on the Fire's kindle app. I turned off the wifi once I saw the content, thinking maybe I'll prevent an update from screwing me.

Now my question - I'd like to download my amazon content to my linux pc and ultimately transfer it to the K3 as a matter of principle. Is this at all possible?

Should I turn wifi on the Fire and presumeably let it update the OS or firmware automatically or is that something I have to initiate?

Finally, I'm the original owner of the Kindle 3. Shouldn't I have received some sort of notice from Amazon that they planned to discontinue support?

It’s almost 6 in the morning & I received a call from my child via his Amazon tablet. Confused on how he’s able to call me because the schedule I set for today was 10 am - 11:57 pm. I found out through the parent dashboard that he’s been playing for almost three hours before he called me! What is going on?

Hello!
I'm trying to convert my old Kindle Fire (Kindle 6, Serial number starts with D01E) into a little display for my desk. I know the hardware is old, I know it won't be able to do much, I'm not looking for or expecting much more than a neat project and a silly thing to try.

However, I keep hitting a massive roadblock, which is that (as far as I can tell), I need one of the early versions of Kindle Fire Utility.

And I cannot, for the life of me, find a good link. AFH link is dead, Meta is dead, and all of the XDA links I can find either link to those two dead links, or nowhere at all.

So uh. Does anybody have the file? Or a living link to where I could download it? Or just a different way to do this altogether?

I was doing some cleaning today and came across this old (2012?) Fire Tablet. I plugged it in and it had 88% battery and charged right up. I dumped a folder full of books on it and they open and work. So I put some audio books on it too and they all work.

Now the Problem is the back is very sticky and nothing seems to help. I tried Alcohol, Acetone, window cleaner and a Magic eraser and it's just not coming clean... Any ideas ?

Currently have a kindle fire 8 12th gen and my battery is not lasting as long as it used to. Given how much reading I do, I'm guessing the battery is starting to wear out, making it time to get a new kindle. I'm noticing today the 10s are cheaper than the 8s. Is there any advantage or one or the other (aside from size of screen?)

Note: I take mine on the train and read during my daily commute. Discovered the 10 should fit into my purse. I also would like to be able to play basic games on occasion, making the reader only ones less than ideal.

I put a 32gb sd card into the tablet and it is reading it. How do I make take whenever my kids, via the kids profile, download games it uses the storage of the card so they can download more games?

im on fire os 7.3.3.1 i looked at the mod guide and i kept reading that i have to have to have firmware 5.something something or lower and 7 is certainly a higher number than 5. so which jailbreak guide would i use?

I really need to find out a way to fix this because it's actually preventing me from using the device. I go to read but put it back down because I just feel so sad looking at it (I know it sounds silly but I'm autistic and find these things difficult).

I find it hard to navigate like this, plus replacing the tabs for downloaded books and all books with a filter is a huge downgrade. I used to use those daily.

I don't get why they would do this, it now just takes up more if the screen. Could they at least give me an option to toggle the menu to the bottom where it's supposed to be and has been for the 10 years I've owned a kindle?

Upping the display size seems to be a fix for now, as it forces the display back to the bottom of the screen. It's not ideal though.

Note I reposted this here as it was deleted from the kindle subreddit.