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Sideload Apps

Will this support Netflix?
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From what I've read, even thou Amazon is directly competing with Netflix they are interested in having it on the fire. I'm kinda surprised by that. Really thou, Mine is already pre-ordered, hopefully it arrives on the 14th. First thing I will do is try to sideload Netflix, so I wil let you know for certain when I receive it.

rmcvey said:
From what I've read, even thou Amazon is directly competing with Netflix they are interested in having it on the fire. I'm kinda surprised by that. Really thou, Mine is already pre-ordered, hopefully it arrives on the 14th. First thing I will do is try to sideload Netflix, so I wil let you know for certain when I receive it.
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Thanks. Mine is supposed to be a Christmas gift so I may have to wait awhile.
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rmcvey said:
From what I've read, even thou Amazon is directly competing with Netflix they are interested in having it on the fire. I'm kinda surprised by that. Really thou, Mine is already pre-ordered, hopefully it arrives on the 14th. First thing I will do is try to sideload Netflix, so I wil let you know for certain when I receive it.
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I have mine pre-ordered as well so that would be so that would be nice to know. Doesn't it come out the 15th?
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Just today, Amazon announced that the Fire wll come with the Netflix app.
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According to the engadget review, you can sideload apps. The caveat is that they seem to not work too well.
I can't post the link because apparently I've not posted enough. It's right on their front page though.

Email yourself the dropbox apk, then you can install apk's from your dropbox (or keep emailing yourself apk's to install). Some don't work fully, Market won't at all (darn). You'll have to also check off install 3rd party apps from the device settings.
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If you grab netflix from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076150
You can install that and it's working fine for me, streaming Prince of Persia now. It was stuttering a bit but then stopped after I paused it for a few seconds to catch up with buffering (I think).

Google Apps?
Does someone have the link(s) where we can grab Google apps (Gmaps, Gmail,Gtalk, etc...)?

TheZuneLune said:
Does someone have the link(s) where we can grab Google apps (Gmaps, Gmail,Gtalk, etc...)?
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I think we might have to get these ourselves. The biggest issue that I found was that I couldn't get google maps location services to work, maps loaded but wouldn't find me when I selected to.
Update: Gmail does not work right now (has to do with the account being set). FC
Maps works but no location.

Looks as though sideloading netflix is the only option until the official Netflix app hits the amazon store at some point. Right now it isn't in there -- hulu+ is and works pretty well.

fludiddy said:
Looks as though sideloading netflix is the only option until the official Netflix app hits the amazon store at some point.
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It's there now. I just installed it.

Somebody please sideload ADW or ADW Ex and post the results.

I can confirm Netlifx is in the Amazon AppStore. You have to look for it from the device.

Also, XDA works via sideloading as you can see for those of you that don't want to re-buy the app.
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fr4nk1yn said:
Somebody please sideload ADW or ADW Ex and post the results.
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I just tried LauncherPro and ADW - They come up in a list when you hit the home button, but they force close.

lionclaw said:
I just tried LauncherPro and ADW - They come up in a list when you hit the home button, but they force close.
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I side loaded adwlauncher ex. Works fine except bottom home tray stays active. The amazon fire tray.

Go launcher, facebook app, twitter are all working for me. Of all things, I can't get the USAA app to install.
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After installing the google services framework apk from the gapps zip from cyanogens site, i was able to get google books and gmail working - gmail wont auto-check mail atm, but it works. Also, adw ex works for the most part - you have to drag application shortcuts to the homescreen by holding down on them from the drawer, as the popup to add an application seems to be broken.
Also sideloaded dropbox and netflix without issues, as well as beautiful widgets and the animation package for it - latest facebook apk was force-closing on me.

Has anyone gotten google reader? Where can I get gmail? Which gapps should I use? The tiny one?

fludiddy said:
Looks as though sideloading netflix is the only option until the official Netflix app hits the amazon store at some point. Right now it isn't in there -- hulu+ is and works pretty well.
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I downloaded the Netflix app right from the app store on the kindle. Works great!

[HACK] Enable US Play Store

Hi everyone there!
This is a tut on how to enable US Play Store on any rooted phone. This is beneficial bcz all apps are not shown on play store of countries other than US:thumbdown:
All you need is a bunch of files n bingo, all yours
1. Market Enabler.apk[HERE]
Or
Market Access.apk [HERE]
2. Tun.Ko Installer(from play store)
3. DroidVPN(from play store)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Download and install all of the three apps.
Open Tun.ko installer and wait till it completes its process. After that close it.
Now go to market enabler.apk n long press "[US] Verizon (Verizon)" n select "fake this provider now" .
Now open DroidVPN and click "Create Account" from options menu n follow the procedure to sign up. Now fill up your details in DroidVPN and click start.
Do not open Play Store now. First go to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications. Now find "Google Play Store" and select 'Clear Data' and do this for "Google Play Services" also.
Now open Play Store and feel the change.
It must look like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
NOTES:
1. After you restart your phone make sure to do all the process again or else use Market Access.apk in place of Market Enable.apk and tick mark 'set on boot'.
2. Disable all location services which use your gps and turn off gps
3. DroidVPN only offers 100MB of data transfer and blocks play store after that. To overcome this, enable it first, open Play Store and wait till it loads and them go to DroidVPN again and stop it and then exit it from options menu.
Check out this video for video tutorial.
All credits to GigaBiteHD
Extend you finger over and hit thanks if it helped!

ashish33166 said:
NOTES:
1. After you restart your phone make sure to do all the process again or else use Market Access.apk in place of Market Enable.apk and tick mark 'set on boot'.
2. Disable all location services which use your gps and turn off gps
3. DroidVPN only offers 100MB of data transfer and blocks play store after that. To overcome this, enable it first, open Play Store and wait till it loads and them go to DroidVPN again and stop it and then exit it from options menu.
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Please change the colour of this, its too bright to read.
I had to highlight it to read, Anyways nice post, please mention the source of the APKs also..
And also give credits "if" you owe one.

Adhi1419 said:
Please change the colour of this, its too bright to read.
I had to highlight it to read, Anyways nice post, please mention the source of the APKs also..
And also give credits "if" you owe one.
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All done. Thanks bro

Today morning my Play store closed automatically and reopened as the US play store. i can now download book, magazines, movies, tv shows and i haven't even rooted my device!! neither do i use a vpn.. I used a vpn yesterday thou on the desktop and accessed the play store. dunno how it affected my phone today morning.. i live in Oman. has this happened to anyone else?

nathan57971 said:
Today morning my Play store closed automatically and reopened as the US play store. i can now download book, magazines, movies, tv shows and i haven't even rooted my device!! neither do i use a vpn.. I used a vpn yesterday thou on the desktop and accessed the play store. dunno how it affected my phone today morning.. i live in Oman. has this happened to anyone else?
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Yes bro it is because you changed the ip address of your phone to a us based ip address

nathan57971 said:
Today morning my Play store closed automatically and reopened as the US play store. i can now download book, magazines, movies, tv shows and i haven't even rooted my device!! neither do i use a vpn.. I used a vpn yesterday thou on the desktop and accessed the play store. dunno how it affected my phone today morning.. i live in Oman. has this happened to anyone else?
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I am guessing you dont have the US play store, rather your country, carrier or even google has allowed these changes. It takes time for these to be allowed by different countries and carriers. Here in Canada we as well have books, magazines, movies tv shows but not music. This remains to be a feature only found in the US (NA). Do you have music?
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No worries!
mstickland said:
I am guessing you dont have the US play store, rather your country, carrier or even google has allowed these changes. It takes time for these to be allowed by different countries and carriers. Here in Canada we as well have books, magazines, movies tv shows but not music. This remains to be a feature only found in the US (NA). Do you have music?
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Google Play Store was updated not only in your country, but everywhere else.
I think you got it late, I got it a week back and it has Games, Books, Apps, etc on the Main Screen itself..
Do not worry, its an official uodate.

Adhi1419 said:
Google Play Store was updated not only in your country, but everywhere else.
I think you got it late, I got it a week back and it has Games, Books, Apps, etc on the Main Screen itself..
Do not worry, its an official uodate.
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Google doesn't releases updates in every country at the same time bro.

ashish33166 said:
Google doesn't releases updates in every country at the same time bro.
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Exactly my point.
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ashish33166 said:
Yes bro it is because you changed the ip address of your phone to a us based ip address
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mstickland said:
I am guessing you dont have the US play store, rather your country, carrier or even google has allowed these changes. It takes time for these to be allowed by different countries and carriers. Here in Canada we as well have books, magazines, movies tv shows but not music. This remains to be a feature only found in the US (NA). Do you have music?
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i didn't change any IP of my phone.. no one else herein Oman has the same play store as me. i can also access the US play store on my PC without a VPN ONLY if im logged in.. if i log out i get the normal play store with only apps like i used to get before. I'm getting everything movies, music, books, magazines etc
the prices are in $ but that's the same as before. Here in Oman everyone's play store is in $ currency

nathan57971 said:
i didn't change any IP of my phone.. no one else herein Oman has the same play store as me. i can also access the US play store on my PC without a VPN ONLY if im logged in.. if i log out i get the normal play store with only apps like i used to get before. I'm getting everything movies, music, books, magazines etc
the prices are in $ but that's the same as before. Here in Oman everyone's play store is in $ currency
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Then ur lucky
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ashish33166 said:
Hi everyone there!
Download and install all of the three apps.
Open Tun.ko installer and wait till it completes its process. After that close it.
Now go to market enabler.apk n long press "[US] Verizon (Verizon)" n select "fake this provider now" .
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When I run Tun.ko Installer and click on Install, all I get is a message saying "Cannot find a compatible tun module for your device! Please try again later..."
My device is a Nexus4. Running stock EVERYTHING.
Might the problem be my newly Android 4.3 kernel? I have another device running Android 4.2.2 and I get the same issue (that device is a CyanogenMod Nook HD+).
What am I doing wrong?

I keep getting a "Connection Timed Out" when attempting to start the Play Store after following all your steps and notes.
Any suggestions? I'm using my 4G data, is this meant to only work via WiFi or something?
VPN Connection is successfully set to New York
Market Enabler successfully set to US Verizon.
EDIT: Actually, upon reading the previous comment, going into tun.ko, i also receive the same message "Cannot find a compatible tun module for your device! Please try again later..."
My device is rooted Galaxy Note II running PacMan ROM. Android 4.2.2

iZack187 said:
I keep getting a "Connection Timed Out" when attempting to start the Play Store after following all your steps and notes.
Any suggestions? I'm using my 4G data, is this meant to only work via WiFi or something?
VPN Connection is successfully set to New York
Market Enabler successfully set to US Verizon.
EDIT: Actually, upon reading the previous comment, going into tun.ko, i also receive the same message "Cannot find a compatible tun module for your device! Please try again later..."
My device is rooted Galaxy Note II running PacMan ROM. Android 4.2.2
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suquet.paul said:
When I run Tun.ko Installer and click on Install, all I get is a message saying "Cannot find a compatible tun module for your device! Please try again later..."
My device is a Nexus4. Running stock EVERYTHING.
Might the problem be my newly Android 4.3 kernel? I have another device running Android 4.2.2 and I get the same issue (that device is a CyanogenMod Nook HD+).
What am I doing wrong?
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Sorry for not replying for long. Actually i was out for long time. Coming to the point now, guys actually Google's newer version of os like jb n ics along with the version of play store greater than 3.4.10 wont allow you to perform this trick. So it wont work. Though you can try patching the play store with lucky patcher n it works for sure
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ashish33166 said:
Sorry for not replying for long. Actually i was out for long time. Coming to the point now, guys actually Google's newer version of os like jb n ics along with the version of play store greater than 3.4.10 wont allow you to perform this trick. So it wont work. Though you can try patching the play store with lucky patcher n it works for sure
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What is the lucky patcher? Can u help me on that one? Thank man!

giro8888 said:
What is the lucky patcher? Can u help me on that one? Thank man!
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It allows you to patch things up. Like you can remove license checking process which is performed by an app which is paid n you download it from elsewhere, to remove ads from apps n all like that.
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Closed at OP request, not working on some of the latest devices.

[ROM][KFHD7][7.4.8] ♦ Kinology 3.3 ♦ 2014/03/12 ♦ Final

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Introducing Kinology - The Premier KFHD7 Custom ROM​
Standard Disclaimer: I cannot be held responsible for loss, damages, or any kind of issue whatsoever that could arise from installing this ROM. You install it at your own risk.
Kinology is the premier custom ROM for the Kindle Fire HD 7" tablet. It will not work on any other device. Kinology should be considered a "hybrid OS"; it contains Amazon's 7.4.8 ICS-based core along with Google's ICS Services Framework and application stack.
Feature list
Installation / Download
Advanced Configuration
Known Issues
History
Screenshots
3.3 will be the last version of Kinology. The 7.4.9 update does not leave enough room on the system partition for the Kinology base. Additionally, that version of the Amazon OS is using server side filtering that prevents many non-Amazon approved applications from working correctly. My investigations into the issue did not turn up an easy fix.
What's new?
3.3 - 2014/03/12
Update the base to 7.4.8 and updated included apps. See the History page linked above for further details.
3.2 - 2013/11/21
Kinology itself is unchanged for this release. Only apps have been updated. See the History page linked above for details.
3.1 - 2013/08/11
Updated the base OS to 7.4.6.
The restart/failure message when flashing the boot zip will only be shown if the recovery is actually changed.
Installers now apply ASLR correctly to all libraries.
Added Adobe Flash Player again, as it no longer causes browsers to crash.
Updated GmsCore, Hangouts, and Play Store in the Google package.
Updated Adobe Air in the Amazon Updates package.
Behind the scenes stuff:
* Added code to the make scripts to build all-in-one installation.
* Modified the make scripts so that .apks with identical code and resources always result in binary-identical files.
* Because of the previous modification, update zips can now be automatically generated.
* Many other changes to the make scripts so that they are more resilient.
3.0. - 2013/07/21
Updated the base OS to 7.4.5.
Fixed the disabled wallpaper issue in 7.4.1.
Removed text on battery icons (a percentage option was added by Amazon).
Updated Gmail, GmsCore, and the Play Store in the Google package, and added Hangouts instead of Talk.
Update SuperSU and included SuperSUNoNag.
Removed Adobe Flash Player as it is not compatible with 7.4.5.
Fixed the install process: the boot zip is now required, but it will only flash items that you do not already have installed.
Separated Amazon app updates from Kinology proper in the install process.
XDA:DevDB Information
Kinology [KFHD7/TATE], ROM for the Amazon 7" Kindle Fire HD
Contributors
JulianPaoloThiry
ROM OS Version: 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich
Based On: Amazon OS 7.4.8
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 3.3
Stable Release Date: 2014-03-12
Created 2014-10-16
Last Updated 2014-10-16

I was just cleaning up my system (Had CM10.1 on it, but was facing issues with Video chat in GTalk) to go back to Kinology 2.0.1 and was facing some boot issues. When I went back to see the potential list of ROMs to try, I noticed this thread.
Edit: Flashed it and seems to be stable so far. Still checking stability of various apps.
Edit 2: Spoke too soon. Just got a random reboot. The screen was in landscape mode and was trying to get it to portrait, it just rebooted.I did a first reboot before setting up the device as mentioned in the installation procedure.
Sequence of events before I got the random reboot: I flashed the files as per the installation procedure (verbatim), did a reboot after the first boot, set up the system, added google accounts, installed nova launcher, set that as my primary launcher, tried hangout, it hung in the Video call, force stopped it, then was editing the message here in the forum, went back to Kindle, was rotating to portrait mode, kindle rebooted.
EDIT 3: I am still getting random reboots trying to play around hangout. I will find GTalk apk from somewhere and install. I will update the status after that.

No flash, no fun . That was one of the best features in android for me, besides the roms. If it's possible, i would love to see a fix for it.
Thanks,
Grwy
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Request to package just Gtalk and allow option to users to upgrade to Hangouts
One humble request: If you could, please let the users decide if they want to upgrade to hangout. I am facing issues with that, and I was able to uninstall updates to go back to GTalk. But given that Hangouts was directly add to the ROM itself, I could not go back to GTalk by just uninstalling it in Playstore.
I will figure a way to get GTalk back. But it was easier to uninstall from play store

raj3366 said:
I will figure a way to get GTalk back.
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I can make an updater zip that replaces Hangouts with Talk. Will probably post it tomorrow sometime.

GreyGeist said:
No flash, no fun . That was one of the best features in android for me, besides the roms. If it's possible, i would love to see a fix for it.
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This bugs me a lot, too. I'm not sure if there will be a solution. Unfortunately, the crash is very low level (in the .so files), so it's very tough to even begin to know how to work around it. I certainly plan to continue working on it, though.

raj3366 said:
I am still getting random reboots trying to play around hangout.
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I successfully made a video call using Hangouts to my phone for testing and didn't get any reboots. I know that's just one anecdote, but if I recall, GTalk's video/voice didn't work very well for some on Kinology 2 either.

JulianPaoloThiry said:
I can make an updater zip that replaces Hangouts with Talk. Will probably post it tomorrow sometime.
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That would be awesome. I tried replacing the Hangouts.apk with Talk.apk in the google update zip. But the signature (SHA1-digest) had to be updated in META-INF/CERT.SF and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF files. So I could not get it working.
I had very good success rate using GTalk in Kinology 2.0. I guess my mileage varies. But having GTalk gives me the freedom to upgrade to Hangouts or stay with GTalk depending on whichever works. Again, that's just my personal opinion.
Thanks for looking into this Julian. I am sending this Kindle to my parents so that I could chat over Video call. I have to get it stabilized before that. They are not tech-savy.
So far I am not seeing any other issues. I will report back, if I run into any.
I can't thank you enough for doing this.:good:

JulianPaoloThiry said:
This bugs me a lot, too. I'm not sure if there will be a solution. Unfortunately, the crash is very low level (in the .so files), so it's very tough to even begin to know how to work around it. I certainly plan to continue working on it, though.
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Alright, thanks. I've always really liked Kinology, but the gapps and lockscreen issues were its downfall for me. Are these fixed yet? In the previous build, gapps constantly crashes (especially chrome), and the lockscreen would randomly disappear.

There is now a download available to rollback from Google Hangouts to Google Talk. Be aware that your launcher's caching may cause the icon and/or name of Hangouts to remain unchanged. Be sure to actually launch the app and check it before claiming that the rollback did not work.
Edit: Hmmmm. Hold off downloading that. I can't seem to find the voice/video options at all now.
Edit: False alarm. Turns out that Google Talk cannot voice/video chat with Google Hangouts users. So if your friends upgrade and you do not, you're SOL. There's nothing wrong with the rollback package, so use it if you like.

GreyGeist said:
the gapps and lockscreen issues were its downfall for me. Are these fixed yet? In the previous build, gapps constantly crashes (especially chrome), and the lockscreen would randomly disappear.
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... no one reported either of those issues previously...
I've used Kinology since it was released and have not seen them. I must admit, however, that I have the lock screen disabled (my Kindle never leaves the house and has a book-like cover), so I wouldn't have noticed that one.
I do use Chrome and most other Google apps, and can't recall them ever crashing. Capturing a logcat dump immediately after a crash and sending it to me is the best way to get that sort of thing identified. The only other workable alternative is to report reproducible steps that always result in a crash.

JulianPaoloThiry said:
There is now a download available to rollback from Google Hangouts to Google Talk. Be aware that your launcher's caching may cause the icon and/or name of Hangouts to remain unchanged. Be sure to actually launch the app and check it before claiming that the rollback did not work.
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Thanks a lot. That solves my problem. I will try it tonight when I get back home and update you. As long as it works with other google talk users, I am good. Is there procedure to repackage it myself? (if you update the google zip, I would not want you to re-package it every time. I would be more than happy to do it myself and share it for those who need that.)
EDIT: I just saw the size of it. I guess no re-packaging necessary. I just need to flash it as the last zip. This even more awesome. Thanks!

Launcher
How do you start up in tablet mode, not Kindle carousel?
Do you need a launcher?

Wind Dancer said:
How do you start up in tablet mode, not Kindle carousel?
Do you need a launcher?
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If you do not want to use the carousel as your default launcher then you will need to install an alternative launcher from the Play Store, such as GO or Nova. The next time you reboot (or press the home button, I think), your Kindle will ask you which launcher to use, at which time you can tell it to stop asking and just use the one you pick.

JulianPaoloThiry said:
If you do not want to use the carousel as your default launcher then you will need to install an alternative launcher from the Play Store, such as GO or Nova. The next time you reboot (or press the home button, I think), your Kindle will ask you which launcher to use, at which time you can tell it to stop asking and just use the one you pick.
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okay, thanks for the confirmation

GreyGeist said:
Alright, thanks. I've always really liked Kinology, but the gapps and lockscreen issues were its downfall for me. Are these fixed yet? In the previous build, gapps constantly crashes (especially chrome), and the lockscreen would randomly disappear.
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Odd, I never had a problems with Gaaps (Google Applications) although I have not liked chrome on any of my Android devices. . .Sorry, I can't compare with lockscreens -since I don't use one on my KFTT, but when I did it was never an issue. . . I hope this new version will be a stable, and dependable as Kinology2 -I am downloading now! (Thanks!) :victory:

Sorry to change topic but does anyone have the full build/version number for 7.4.5, it should be something like this: 7.4.5_D025_XXXXXXX
Thanks

Gilly10 said:
Sorry to change topic but does anyone have the full build/version number for 7.4.5, it should be something like this: 7.4.5_D025_XXXXXXX
Thanks
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4513120

I cat find the update file anywhere the one i found will not manually update. Could you send me the stock update file for 7.4.5. I like to be up to date as much as i can but amazon is not posting this update on there web site and my auto update is not updating to 7.4.5
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Hinzman420 said:
I cat find the update file anywhere the one i found will not manually update. Could you send me the stock update file for 7.4.5. I like to be up to date as much as i can but amazon is not posting this update on there web site and my auto update is not updating to 7.4.5
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I downloaded this 7.4.5 file but since I'm not on stock Amazon OS I can't test it to see if it'll update properly, also supposedly Adobe Flash doesn't play nice with this build.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindle-fire-updates/update-kindle-7.4.5_D025_4513120.bin

Need Google play services apk for verizon galaxy s III

I recently received a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III with android 4.4.2 from a friend, but it doesn't have Google play services, nor does it have Google play installed. I tried a factory reset but that didn't work and I found out you need a specific Google play services app or it wont work. The usb port is also broken so I cant hook it up to a computer. Please help.

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The-10th-Doctor said:
I recently received a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III with android 4.4.2 from a friend, but it doesn't have Google play services, nor does it have Google play installed. I tried a factory reset but that didn't work and I found out you need a specific Google play services app or it wont work. The usb port is also broken so I cant hook it up to a computer. Please help.
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I have several play services apk files but I'm not on the locked bootloader. Unsure if it will work, I know where to find versions if your requesting a specific one
And that's very odd that it doesn't have play installed. Most come pre installed especially on a verizon rom
From my CM11 S3

He said he rooted it before and accidentally uninstalled Google play services and that he couldn't find the right one to reinstall either, so that's why it doesn't have it on there. Also, I need the right apk for my phone because I read that you need the one with a specific three number ending in the app version, but I don't know what mine is because my phone doesn't have the app so I can't check the last three numbers and I have tried a couple apks before but they didn't work

The-10th-Doctor said:
He said he rooted it before and accidentally uninstalled Google play services and that he couldn't find the right one to reinstall either, so that's why it doesn't have it on there. Also, I need the right apk for my phone because I read that you need the one with a specific three number ending in the app version, but I don't know what mine is because my phone doesn't have the app so I can't check the last three numbers and I have tried a couple apks before but they didn't work
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Unsure how to help then
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If someone that has a Verizon Galaxy s III running android 4.4.2 Kitkat could post a screenshot of the app info of Google play services, or just post the full version number from the app info under application manager, I would probably be able to find the right apk.

I have another S3 here at my house, my gfs S3 but she has it with her, I could get that if you can wait. Your call
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I am able to wait. It's not like I'll die if I don't have google play services.

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Here is a screen shot of play services, stock 4.4.2 Verizon S3.
I may be wrong, but if you get the play store installed won't it download and install play services? Is been awhile since I've had to mess with it.
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Here is a screen shot of play services, stock 4.4.2 Verizon S3.
I may be wrong, but if you get the play store installed won't it download and install play services? Is been awhile since I've had to mess with it.
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I haven't tried installing google play store before trying to install services. Maybe it does download and install services, I'll have to try it. Thanks for the screenshot as well.

So I installed google play store 5.0.38, and when I open it the screen to either login in or create an account appears and I put in my info and hit sign in but a message appears (in attached screen shot) and i cant sign in but i can sign in to google through my browse, and I've tried my neighbors internet (with his consent) just to check its not just mine, but it doesnt work on my neighbors either. Any ideas?

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So I installed google play store 5.0.38, and when I open it the screen to either login in or create an account appears and I put in my info and hit sign in but a message appears (in attached screen shot) and i cant sign in but i can sign in to google through my browse, and I've tried my neighbors internet (with his consent) just to check its not just mine, but it doesnt work on my neighbors either. Any ideas?
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Try installing Google play services...
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ShapesBlue said:
Try installing Google play services...
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I just installed google play services (same one as roaddogg) but I am still getting the same error.

The-10th-Doctor said:
So I installed google play store 5.0.38, and when I open it the screen to either login in or create an account appears and I put in my info and hit sign in but a message appears (in attached screen shot) and i cant sign in but i can sign in to google through my browse, and I've tried my neighbors internet (with his consent) just to check its not just mine, but it doesnt work on my neighbors either. Any ideas?
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I'm not home right now, but give me a bit and I will try and pull my play services and get it to you. Not having it may be your sign in problems.
Oops, just noticed the last couple posts. I can still get you mine if you need it. Also, check and see if play services is actually running.
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roaddog665 said:
I'm not home right now, but give me a bit and I will try and pull my play services and get it to you. Not having it may be your sign in problems.
Oops, just noticed the last couple posts. I can still get you mine if you need it. Also, check and see if play services is actually running.
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Google play services is running, I'll attach a screenshot of it with this post. But if its not too much of a hassle, the apk from your phone might work.

The-10th-Doctor said:
Google play services is running, I'll attach a screenshot of it with this post. But if its not too much of a hassle, the apk from your phone might work.
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Sent you a PM.
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So thanks to talking with roaddog we were able to figure out that i didnt have them installed as system apps (I didnt know how, as i'm new to this) he told me how and once they were installed as system apps and after i rebooted, I signed in to my google account and it worked and so do all google apps!

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So thanks to talking with roaddog we were able to figure out that i didnt have them installed as system apps (I didnt know how, as i'm new to this) he told me how and once they were installed as system apps and after i rebooted, I signed in to my google account and it worked and so do all google apps!
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Glad to hear it worked out, I had a feeling you needed play services installed which is why I suggested it. Roaddog thanks for helping with all of this
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ShapesBlue said:
Glad to hear it worked out, I had a feeling you needed play services installed which is why I suggested it. Roaddog thanks for helping with all of this
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Glad to help. I've needed plenty myself and have anyways found someone on here that was willing.
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This is how to get Amazon Prime Video to work on CM12

There have been a few threads on this for the stock ROMs, but in case you're rockin' CM 12 I thought I'd chime in... It's actually pretty simple and worked flawlessly for me. will it work on CM11 ? Honestly, I don't know.
Step 1: Remove any pre-existing Amazon store apps, instant video apps from your device.
Step 2: Go to apkmirror dot com ( note: this is not a warez site to the best of my knowledge ), and look for the amazon area, Grabbing these: com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient-1.0-1-minAPI15.apk and com.amazon.mShop.android-5.2.2-502012-minAPI9.apk .
Load them up. Open the amazon instant video app, log in, select your movie and enjoy! Hope you found this useful.

This looks like what I've been looking for but I can't find these files. Suggestions?

bagsofcole said:
This looks like what I've been looking for but I can't find these files. Suggestions?
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http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/amazon-mobile-llc/amazon/amazon-5-2-2-android-apk-download/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/amazon-mobile-llc/instant-video/instant-video-1-0-android-apk-download/

Works great. Thanks.

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http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/amazon-mobile-llc/amazon/amazon-5-2-2-android-apk-download/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/amazon-mobile-llc/instant-video/instant-video-1-0-android-apk-download/
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Didn't work for me, i had to move to SlimLP. I was trying to stream amazon prime music, would't work with CM based ROMs.

bagsofcole said:
Didn't work for me, i had to move to SlimLP. I was trying to stream amazon prime music, would't work with CM based ROMs.
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Sorry to hear that; this was only to get the movies up and running.

I found an easier way:
Install Amazon App. The one for phones from an app store.
Install Aptoide and install Amazon Instant Video from there. Or Instant Music. In general, an okay app for free apps not available due to device limits.
Login to the Amazon app, then run Prime Video.
Hide the Amazon Mobile app in the launcher. If you need to use Amazon, install the Tablet version.
By the way, I got this to work for me on Cyanogenmod 11. You don't need to uninstall previous Amazon apps either if they're another fork like the Tablet version.