Nearly all of the developers I know purchased that device instead since it is easier to work with and doesn’t have anything locked down by Amazon. I think this is largely in part due to the Nexus 7 being available. I have noticed a lack of interest in original development for the Kindle Fire HD. I haven’t played around with the Nexus 7 to compare, but I imagine the two tablets are very similar hardware-wise. But after tweaking it out, like I said, it’s great. Amazon’s app store is incredibly insufficient, and Amazon censors a lot of competing apps from showing up in it (something Google rarely does). To be honest though, I hated this thing until I rooted it and installed the Google Play store. However, there is always the competition to think about, the Nexus 7. It has very nice speakers, a great GPU and CPU, and awesome battery life.
I didn’t notice any issues from either except that the bottom-row from the overlapping Kindle launcher skin pops up even when it isn’t needed, sometimes moving the screen slightly. I’ve tested out both Nova Launcher and Go Launcher on the Kindle Fire HD. Play around with the different launchers until you find one that you like, and after you do set it to the default by checking the box at the bottom of the action prompt. Once it’s restarted, tap the Home button to bring up the launcher action chooser. Now reboot the Kindle Fire HD by shutting it down and turning it back on. Within the properties set the permissions to:
Now track down the apk file that you just moved, and long-press on it to open up its Properties. Once you find the correct apk(s), move (cut/paste) it into this folder: It may prove somewhat tricky because the file name may not match up with the launcher name, so look for the matching icon instead. Don’t worry, you’ll fix that in just a second.Īfter you have the launcher installed, open up ES File Explorer and browse to the following location:įrom this folder, you’ll need to track down the launcher. You may notice that after installing a launcher that there won’t be any way to open it. If you’re looking for a good launcher, I recommend either Nova Launcher or Go Launcher. Alternatively, you could grab the APK files, but I prefer to just pull them from Play. I would strongly reccomend making a backup once in TWRP.įinally you can boot into TWRP from a powered off state by pressing the ‘Power Button’ as normal and then holding just the volume up button until you enter recovery.The easiest way to get the new launchers on your device is to grab them directly from the Google Play market. Once this has finished (DO NOT CANCEL IT) tap ‘Reboot Into Recovery’ and wait for your device to boot into TWRP.
Now at the bottom under the heading ‘Exexute’ press ‘Flash, Install Script’ Make sure to tick ‘Disable Recovery Auto Update’.
This time select the other file (‘kfhd7-twrp-2.7.0.0-recovery.img’ the number will be different depending which version of TWRP you downloaded). Under the heading ‘Recovery Partition’ once again click ‘Not Flahed’. Still under the ‘Boot Partition’ heading tick ‘Apply Stack Overide’. Select ‘kfhd7-freedom-boot-7.4.6.img’ (This is the correct one even though we are on a later version). Under ‘Boot Partition’ click ‘Not Flashed’ and find where you downloaded the files. Under the ‘Bootloader’ heading tick the ‘Flash kfhd7-u-boot-prod-7.2.3.bin’ this is required or your device will be bricked. (Settings > Device > Allow Installation of Applications).ĭownload the these three files onto your device: FireFlash.apk, KFHD7 Freedom Boot.img and either KFHD7 TWRP 2.7.0.0.img or KFHD7 TWRP 2.8.3.0.img (It doesn’t matter which one however 2.8.3.0 is obviously the latest version).
Download ES File Explorer from the Amazon AppStore (Any File Manager Will Work however this is my prefered and reccomended one).Įnable Installisation of Applications from Unknown Sources.