Just rooted my Kindle Fire and installed google apps and go launcher all using the Kindle Fire Utility. Everything is running fine but I am having trouble getting my ebooks that I upload from my computer to show up on my Kindle. They showed up before I rooted in the 'Books' section but now I can't access them even though they're on there.
I've tried quite a few different methods and i can't get ebooks to show up in the stock launcher with my Fire rooted. I just use the Kindle app from the Market with Go Launcher and place the books in the kindle folder.
Thanks, installing from the market and moving the ebooks to the kindle folder worked perfectly.
use calibre and u shall have no probs then
movieaddict said:
use calibre and u shall have no probs then
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I've tried several different methods using Calibre and I can not get them to show up in the stock launcher book shelf at all.
airmaxx23 said:
I've tried several different methods using Calibre and I can not get them to show up in the stock launcher book shelf at all.
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Try putting them in the sdcard/kindle folder and ONLY place the .mobi file (the book file) into this folder. Then reboot and open the kindle app and enjoy your books. You are welcome in advance.
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Hi all, I have read a lot about missing apps in the market, but it seams to me that there is an unusually high number missing from my rooted Kindle....
Could someone please confirm if the following apps are also missing from their market?
Be Weather
Weather Bug
Go Launcher EX
Dolphin Browser HD
Weight Watchers Mobile (the official app)
I see themes for a lot of these, but not the main apps.
Also, I tried the fix.apk file that I have used on my phone, but it didn't get me what I was hoping for. Thanks
Don't have a fire yet, but can confirm from a few other places that these were removed from the Amazon marketplace for the Fire. You can still sideload them though. Seems this was done a few days ago once everyone started posting that this was a way to get rid of the carousel.
I noticed that, too. There's obviously some sort of filtering going on.
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dspcap said:
Hi all, I have read a lot about missing apps in the market, but it seams to me that there is an unusually high number missing from my rooted Kindle....
Could someone please confirm if the following apps are also missing from their market?
Be Weather
Weather Bug
Go Launcher EX
Dolphin Browser HD
Weight Watchers Mobile (the official app)
I see themes for a lot of these, but not the main apps.
Also, I tried the fix.apk file that I have used on my phone, but it didn't get me what I was hoping for. Thanks
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Not on mine either. Perhaps since the Fire isn't one the "compatible" list they are not even available to download.
MichaelVash7886 said:
Don't have a fire yet, but can confirm from a few other places that these were removed from the Amazon marketplace for the Fire. You can still sideload them though. Seems this was done a few days ago once everyone started posting that this was a way to get rid of the carousel.
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I have side loaded done apps, but note all work. Thanks
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Thanks everyone sounds like the market is also very limited.
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i have go launcher ex and dolphin hd running right now. I did sideload them, i just did it when i was sideloading all the google apps and such. You might do some apk searches on the web. Otherwise it may take a couple weeks for them to be available for the fire (widgetlocker has already updated for the fire, for example).
The Android Market does not contain all of the available apps. It only contains apps that are compatible for your device. So if you have a Kindle Fire it will only show you apps they are compatible with the KFire. That does not mean that you cannot sideload those apps from the Internet.
But, not all sideloaded apps work though.
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When I first got my Kindle, I was able to download Go Launcher Ex from the App Store, then when I had a friend get it, it was gone. Ended up sideloading it, but yes, there appears to be a filter.
It really would be quite awesome if there was a way to override this filtering in the android market for those that are rooted. I would love to take my chances.
Google Voice App Receives, but no way to send texts
I read through all FOUR pages of the Kindle Fire forum but did not see anything about this.
I have successfully installed (side loaded) Google Market and Maps on a rooted Fire. I also installed Google Voice (all apk's from my EVO).
GV runs and displays incoming texts, but there is no way to write or send a text. When you click on a text conversation, it opens but there is no text box to write in.
Clicking menu does not give a "compose" option.
Since GV sends texts over the Internet, I am puzzled why this does not work.
I downloaded another texting app and that one does work, but it gives you yet another "phone" number, which just confuses my contacts (they dont know who is texting them).
Anyone got GV working?
Hi guys,
So here's the deal. I have GO Launcher EX installed on my kindle fire and I have set up everything to where I want it to be now. I got calibre and transferred my books into the KF.
Now on the Launcher's main page, I'm trying to open up the "Amazon Kindle" app to read my books but the only way to make this work is to open up the old launcher and open the book. Then, with it open that is the only way I can have the Amazon Kindle app to do anything at all. If I do not open the book beforehand, the app does nothing when I select it.
My question is. Is there a way to browse my collection of books on the GO Launcher itself or a different app for it?
Probably not the most elegant solution...but on my wifes KF, she prefered the GO Launcher interface to the original KF one so we downloaded the Kindle app for Android from the market, installed it, logged into our Amazon account and checked our registered devices for the market version (the KF also still shows as a registered device and the market app shows below that in the 'Registered Kindle Reading Apps' section) and now when she purchases a book she has it sent to the Kindle for Android app on her KF instead of the KF device itself.
I don't know how the market app compares to the KF native app but she's happy so I am too (at least for now).
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Hi guys,
So here's the deal. I have GO Launcher EX installed on my kindle fire and I have set up everything to where I want it to be now. I got calibre and transferred my books into the KF.
Now on the Launcher's main page, I'm trying to open up the "Amazon Kindle" app to read my books but the only way to make this work is to open up the old launcher and open the book. Then, with it open that is the only way I can have the Amazon Kindle app to do anything at all. If I do not open the book beforehand, the app does nothing when I select it.
My question is. Is there a way to browse my collection of books on the GO Launcher itself or a different app for it?
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I have had issues as well. Rooted and using ADW, the Kindle app would do nothing when pressed. After a while, it just starts to work but only opens the current book I am reading. Have to go back to the original launcher to see all the books. Strange.
Could someone please post the stock music, and book apps that are on the default KF OS? i would like to use them on cm7.
I dont know about the others, but the book app on the stock fire is useless on CM7. you cant change books using that app. You are best off just downloading the kindle app from the market.
what do you mean you cant change books? like your just stuck in one book?
all the book changing is done from the launcher on the stock Fire kernel. yes, you are stuck in one book.
oh ok thnx, do you know where i could find the music app?
i know that that one works
I have some .pdf, and .epub e-books on my computer that i want to put on my phone and read via google books. And I kno that G-Books reads both .pdf and .epub, but I am not sure what folder I am supposed to drop the files into. I was looking through the files on my phone using Root Explorer and I cant find anything for google books. And I also opened google books and was hoping to find some type of option that lets me select files from Internal Storage and/or External SD-Card, but the only option i could find was where to store the books, which I have set to SD-Card, but I still cannot find any folder pertaining to G-Books. So Can someone help me out and tell me how i can get these books i put on my phone (I put them in my Internal Storage) to show up in G-Books.
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It looks like you can only use Google Books for content obtained via the Google store. Look in the market for a separate reader for your files.
yah google book need to buy from google services
Updated to ics on my tf101 and my Google books app won't connect to server? Any know what's up here"
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Thanks for post. It’s really informative stuff.
I really like to read.Hope to learn a lot and have a nice experience here! my best regards guys!
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Updated to ics on my tf101 and my Google books app won't connect to server? Any know what's up here"
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Don't hijack threads. Make your own.
Yea ! Don't hijack my thread, like he said, go make your own. If you can't play nice then go home hahaha. Seriously tho. I hate it when people do that. Good looking out Cajun
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Try GoBook. It's in the market. I use all of GO products.. Good stuff.
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I am rooted and familiar somewhat with TB . I have a hide my text app from the market which works well and even hides the icon, but it still shows up under the market as installed. I tried destroying market link but no luck.
Anyone know what I can do here?
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Try uninstalling it via the Play Store instead of doing it directly via the phone.
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I don't really understand exactly what you're trying to do, but what I think you're saying is that even though you've uninstalled the app it's still showing that you have installed it in the past, so you want to remove your history of having installed it?
Try going to the Play Store, then click the upper left icon to bring up the side view, then go to 'My apps.' Once there to to the 'all' tab and search for the app you want removed from your installation history and press the x on the right side.
Thanks guys... But sorry I wasn't clear. I want to keep the app, it was free, but not have it show up on the play store as being installed
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Thanks guys... But sorry I wasn't clear. I want to keep the app, it was free, but not have it show up on the play store as being installed
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I think I did what you said in your original post. If you go into Titanium Backup and then click on the app you want to hide, then go to the special features tab, then under "play store/market" click detach from market. The first time I tried it it actually didn't work... So I tried rebooting the phone and it still showed up, however, after going back to Titanium backup and toggling between attach and detaching from the play store/market it seemed to work. Try messing around with it a little more and see if it works.
EDIT: My mistake, it still is showing up in the all tab of google play, but not the installed tab... I'll keep messing with it.
Alright, guys (@Jaeryl, @Josh McGrath), here's my recommendation.
Instead of using Titanium, try copying the actual .apk of the text editor app from /data/app to the external sdcard. Then, go into Google Play on your PC and completely delete that text editing app. Refresh your device so that the app is also removed from there.
All you have to do now is go back to where you copied the .apk, install it, and voilá - your app is effectively eliminated from the Play Store, but is also still installed, just like you wanted.
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Alright, guys, here's my recommendation.
Instead of using Titanium, try copying the actual .apk of the text editor app from /data/app to the external sdcard. Then, go into Google Play on your PC and completely delete that text editing app. Refresh your device so that the app is also removed from there.
All you have to do now is go back to where you copied the .apk, install it, and voilá - your app is effectively eliminated from the Play Store, but is also still installed, just like you wanted.
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I was actually about to suggest this... if you can't figure out how to do is you can always uninstall the app then just download an apk of the app online. I read that if you install it as an apk it won't be associated with the play store and thus won't show up.
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I was actually about to suggest this... if you can't figure out how to do is you can always uninstall the app then just download an apk of the app online. I read that if you install it as an apk it won't be associated with the play store and thus won't show up.
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That's exactly right.
See, Google Play can't and doesn't detect every app on your system, just the ones that came from the store itself that are being synced to all your devices. Think about it this way - a Nook Touch device uses the Barnes and Noble bookstore, and when you buy a book from the bookstore, B&N remembers it anr syncs it to all of the devices hooked up to your account.
However, if you download a PDF or ePub book from the Internet and sideload it onto your Nook, B&N doesn't know or care about it - all they care about is the products you purchase from them. And this means that that sideloaded book will not appear on your B&N account, nor will it be synced to your other devices.
Hopefully that little analogy helps you understand it a bit better.
Josh McGrath said:
I am rooted and familiar somewhat with TB . I have a hide my text app from the market which works well and even hides the icon, but it still shows up under the market as installed. I tried destroying market link but no luck.
Anyone know what I can do here?
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From Google Play store, tap and hold on the app you seeing as installed, you will see remove or delete option there. Remove it, so you would never see that app again in installed list.