amazon fire 7

poitinstill

picked up 2 of the 4.99 cases in argos yesterday...lady said they sold/reserved 140 in TEN minutes. Even the staff couldn't get them. at 35 euro you cant go far wrong. you can hardly get a tablet from China at those prices!

also the cases look far more than 4.99 worth

irishproduce

mrcheez wrote: »

You can contact Amazon support who can remove the ads easily.

Also when adding Google Play to the device you can clear the ads:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-google-play-remove-lockscreen-ads-amazon-fire-tablet-without-root/

Gonna get one for the 6 year old. He has no tablet so probably time to get him one for some games.
The idea of enabling a child setting appeals to me.
Does this ad business and asking amazon to remove it do anything to that child facility do you know?
Thanks :-)

Patty O Furniture

Btw: when purchasing these off Amazon,

Can you avail of:

Congratulations. Your purchase entitles you to £1.00/£2 credit to spend on movies and TV shows available to buy or rent on Amazon Video.

Or is it only available to UK?

RefulgentGnomon

Is the 7 powerful enough to run Kodi (if I manage to put it on)?
Was looking for hd8 but didn't go on sale on amazon and missed Samsung tab a 10.1 offer

RefulgentGnomon

Also which delivery provider is best if ordering it from amazon UK?

Kimbot

RefulgentGnomon wrote: »

Is the 7 powerful enough to run Kodi (if I manage to put it on)?
Was looking for hd8 but didn't go on sale on amazon and missed Samsung tab a 10.1 offer

Ran kodi no issues for me

snowstreams

I see currys are selling it today for 39.99.
Might be worth getting if you dont want to wait for delivery since Argos seems to be sold out now.

irishproduce

Would the Currys one be like the Argos one, i.e. without all the junk stuff on it?

Nidom

irishproduce wrote: »

Would the Currys one be like the Argos one, i.e. without all the junk stuff on it?

As far as I know, yep.

irishproduce

I think that I have found my fire for the little fella so!

Kimbot

irishproduce wrote: »

Would the Currys one be like the Argos one, i.e. without all the junk stuff on it?

All of them are running just the Amazon OS so no bloatware at all.

toby2111

RefulgentGnomon wrote: »

Also which delivery provider is best if ordering it from amazon UK?

Its delivery included as its over £25. I ordered last night,not in stock until Dec 9th,got email saying expected delivery Dec 16th or 17th.Maybe order it soon if you want it before Christmas.

mrcheez

jonnycivic wrote: »

All of them are running just the Amazon OS so no bloatware at all.

I think he means the ads you see when you lock the screen (which can be removed in a minute so not really a valid reason to dismiss the Amazon.co.uk-sold ones)

Kimbot

mrcheez wrote: »

I think he means the ads you see when you lock the screen (which can be removed in a minute so not really a valid reason to dismiss the Amazon.co.uk-sold ones)

Yeah they all come with those ads but are disabled pretty quickly.

Has anyone put stock Android back on theirs?

snowstreams

jonnycivic wrote: »

Yeah they all come with those ads but are disabled pretty quickly.

Has anyone put stock Android back on theirs?

And is it possible to upgrade them to Marshmallow 6.0?

ted1

mrcheez wrote: »

I think he means the ads you see when you lock the screen (which can be removed in a minute so not really a valid reason to dismiss the Amazon.co.uk-sold ones)

Even without getting rid of them they are only on the lock screen and you don't notice them.

digitaldr

jonnycivic wrote: »

Yeah they all come with those ads but are disabled pretty quickly.

Has anyone put stock Android back on theirs?

Plan to do this shortly after mine is delivered on Wednesday. Apparently latest fire OS version is a little trickier to root/flash so plan on not letting it upgrade if it's not on there already. Will post back here when it's done.

mrcheez

digitaldr wrote: »

Plan to do this shortly after mine is delivered on Wednesday. Apparently latest fire OS version is a little trickier to root/flash so plan on not letting it upgrade if it's not on there already. Will post back here when it's done.

Cool and include links to the guides you used pls

Sgt Pepper 64

dont you just ring them up and they remove the ads there and then for you?

mrcheez

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

dont you just ring them up and they remove the ads there and then for you?

chat is easier (and cheaper)

mrcheez

Here's how to ask them to remove the ads:

http://benbrausen.com/business/work-life/how-to-remove-ads-from-your-amazon-kindle-for-free

it's for Kindle, but same story

mrcheez

Anyone know if you can install Whatsapp on a Fire tablet fairly easily?

Sgt Pepper 64

got mine tonight, wow, the amazon appstore is bad. will be putting the play store on asap, very poor range of apps compared to play

Patty O Furniture

toby2111 wrote: »

Its delivery included as its over £25. I ordered last night,not in stock until Dec 9th,got email saying expected delivery Dec 16th or 17th.Maybe order it soon if you want it before Christmas.

Plenty available now at checkargos now, as i had to wait to order it again

jonnycivic wrote: »

Ran kodi no issues for me

Are there many apps in Kodi?

Sgt Pepper 64

found these articles on adding the play store without rooting it (and possibly bricking it)
http://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2016/07/02/how-to-install-google-play-on-fire-tablets-the-super-easy-way-no-pc-or-root/


if you want to root it
http://troypoint.com/how-to-root-amazon-fire-7-5th-gen-tablet-install-slimrom/


also

-Can run many 3D games surprisingly well. (Not blazingly fast on high settings like
a premium tablet would, but fast nonetheless, guess it depends on what game we're talking about
and how optimised it is.)

-Can run android PS1 emulators
quite well on the right settings. (You may need a certain plugin, if I recall correctly.)

-Can run 2D emulators like Sega Genesis.

-Can connect a cheap (£1 - £3) OTG cable to be able
to access SOME USB devices like flash drives, or an XBOX 360 controller, keyboard, etc.
(But my graphics tablet does NOT work, can't confirm if it happens with other brands/models of graphics tablets.)
My 2TB external hard drive also does NOT show up with OTG, unfortunately.

-Can run Kodi
somewhat reasonably on SD and 720p or even 1080p but it really depends on how high the bit-rate
of your video is, your internet connection speed, etc. (Loading your own videos seems to be quite fast.)
You may need to periodically clear your Kodi cache though as it gets
slow after accumulating a lot of cache files.

Suckit

I do not think i would be keen on the play store. There are other good trusted stores that i would put on well ahead of google play, alternatively you can use sites like apkleecher and get the app.
I am not worried about getting malware, others may so they might feel better if they read this. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-app-stores/

Patty O Furniture

Thanks for the helpful tips, but may i ask what's rooting, bricking it & i've heard Kodi has more uses than what it was meant for

MarkY91

I expect my delivery tomorrow. Will be putting stock mdroid on it first thing.

now online

MarkY91 wrote: »

I expect my delivery tomorrow. Will be putting stock mdroid on it first thing.

I got two for Christmas presents, can I ask how do you put stock android on them and how do you put Google play on it? Thanks

Soarer

now online wrote: »

I got two for Christmas presents, can I ask how do you put stock android on them and how do you put Google play on it? Thanks

Seconded.

The two lads love Growtopia (don't get it myself!) but it's not available on Amazon afaik.