new kindle fire app downloads Upgrading To A New Kindle Fire: How To Copy Content From An Old Fire To A New One. In my previous post, Surviving A Kindle Fire Factory Reset – With (Most) Of Your Stuff Intact , I outlined a step-by-step process for backing up your Kindle Fire before performing a factory reset, then restoring that content after the reset. Now that the new Kindle Fire models are upon us, I’m getting this question pretty frequently: can the same method be used to transfer content from an old/pre-existing Kindle Fire to a new one? The answer is: yes, but with some tweaks to the process. When I got new Fire I was able to test this out for myself, so I can confirm that it works. A Step-By-Step Process For Relocating To A New Kindle Fire. The steps below, and screenshot, are from going through this process with a Kindle Fire HD model. The process is essentially the same for all Fire models, but folder names and locations on different generations of Fire tablets may differ slightly. In step 2 below, you may have to click around a bit for different Fire models to find the content folders, but the bottom line is that you’re finding the content folders and backing them up, then copying that content to your new Fire. Note that there is no guarantee this process will preserve all of your progress in all of your apps, but it’s the only way to ensure the maximum that’s possible will survive. Some apps are designed in such a way that user data files are tied to a specific device and aren’t supposed to be copied anywhere else, but this is increasingly rare since consumers want to be able to access their stuff from multiple devices. When I went through the process outlined below, in the end I found that every instance where I lost app progress was due to user error. Yes, even the DMM makes a user error now and then! I’d forgotten that anytime you delete app, music* or video content from your Fire, your bookmarks and progress are deleted, too. When you delete something (other than Kindle books and Audible audiobooks, which you can sync to Amazon’s Cloud to save your progress) from your Fire, Amazon’s system is set up to assume you’re done with it—at least, for the time being—and therefore you will no longer need the bookmarks or progress data. *Exception for “My Music Library” – if you have a “My Music Library” set up in Amazon’s Cloud, and you typically stream your music from the Cloud instead of downloading it for offline listening, the Cloud will “remember” where you left off last time you were listening. So when I opened up The Curse puzzle app and found myself right back at the start of the game, at first I thought my progress had failed to copy. Then I remembered that I’d deleted the app from my Fire months ago, and re-downloaded it later but had yet to re-open it since then. But the point is, when you’re all done with this process, if you find you’ve lost some app progress it was probably due to either a previous deletion of the app or a failure to backup properly. That last one shouldn’t happen to you, if you follow the steps in this post. 1. First, delete as much as you can from your existing Fire. If you’re like me, you’ve got all kinds of apps you never use anymore, books you’re finished reading, and more stuff on your existing Fire that doesn’t really need to be copied to the new one. Delete as much of that stuff as possible, because it will make the rest of this process go MUCH faster and easier. Any content you delete from your Fire remains in the Cloud on Amazon’s servers, so you can always re-download it later if you change your mind. But don’t forget: DO NOT delete any apps or games where keeping your progress is important to you, because deleting the app/game from your Fire will also delete your progress. To delete, tap and hold on the icon for the item to be deleted and select “Delete From Device” from the pop-up menu. Note: not everything that appears in your carousel has actually been downloaded to your Fire, and the “Delete from Device” option only shows up for stuff that’s has actually been downloaded to your Fire. To save yourself the bother of tapping on everything you see to check for this, just go into the various content menus (e.g., Books, Videos, Apps, Games, etc.) and tap the “Device” link to limit your view to stuff that’s been downloaded. 2. Manually sync your existing Fire to the Cloud. Amazon’s digital ‘ecosystem’ is set up such that ‘where you left off’ bookmarks and custom bookmarks you’ve created in Kindle books and audiobooks are stored in the Cloud automatically—but only when there’s an active Wi-Fi or cell connection. This is also true of some Amazon apps—apps that are created and maintained by Amazon, like the Audible app and the Kindle Reader app, so we’re not talking game apps. To be sure all your markers will be stored to the Cloud (and therefore, will be in place on the new Fire), turn on your Wi-Fi or cell connection and manually sync to the Cloud. To manually sync most of your bookmarks, swipe downward on the home/carousel screen to open the Settings menu and tap the Sync icon. If you have any audiobooks with bookmarks and are copying content from a first or second-generation Fire, there’s an extra step. In my experience, on a first or second-generation Fire, Audible audiobook bookmarks will only reliably sync if you perform the sync from within the Audible menu. On your Fire, open the Audible app and sync using the app’s Sync icon. On Fires from 2013 or later, the app is integrated right into the operating system so there is no separate sync function just for audiobooks. 3. Connect your existing Fire to your computer via USB . In File Explorer, Finder, or whatever your computer uses for browsing files and devices on your computer, locate and open the Kindle Fire folder. In Windows 7, you can go to Computer > Kindle Fire. You should see a folder listing that looks something like this: 4. Backup your content and data. Create a folder somewhere on your computer’s hard drive called KFBackup or something similar to hold your backups. Now copy (do NOT cut and paste, COPY) the following folders (those that exist – you may not have all the same folders, depending on what content is on your Fire) to your backup folder: Alarms, Android, Audible, Books, Documents, Download, Movies, Music, Pictures. Do not copy the other folders , as they are system folders that may contain new files in the newer-model Fire. Note that if there’s a type of content you know you don’t have on the Fire, you can skip that folder. For example, I know that I’ve never set alarms on my Fire so I don’t need to backup that folder because there’s no personal or custom data in it. Similarly, if you’ve never watched a movie on your Fire, you can skip the Movies folder. 5. Detach your old Fire from your computer . First, eject/detach your Fire from your computer. Depending on your computer / operating system type, you may have to right-click on the Fire’s icon in your Finder/File Manager and select ‘eject’ to safely remove it. 6. Register your new Fire. Make sure it’s fully charged, then start it up and follow the prompts to register your new Kindle Fire to your Amazon account. 7. Re-download key apps. Some apps, like many game apps from EA Games, rely on data stored on the developer’s servers to run, they aren’t actually fully installed on your Fire. While such apps may store small bits of data on your Fire, the majority of your game content and progress are stored online and ‘fed’ to your Fire when you start up the app. The app will need any of those data bits that ‘live’ on your Fire, but the app may have to be re-downloaded, too. Some apps of this type are easy to spot because they require the user to be logged in to an online account in order to run properly, but you may have opted to let some connect automatically using your Facebook, Gmail or other accounts. Therefore, rather than try to remember or figure out which ones have to be re-downloaded, just play it safe by re-downloading ALL apps that are very important to you. To re-download , on your new Fire go to the Apps and/or Games page by tapping the appropriate menu link (game apps will be on the Games page). Tap the Cloud link to view all the apps stored to your Cloud. One by one, long-tap on the icon for each desired app or game and select ‘Download’ from the pop-up menu. While you aren’t strictly required to let one download finish before starting another, in my experience each new item you add to the download queue slows everything down so in the end, it’s faster to download them one by one. 8. Re-download desired Kindle books, audiobooks, music, etc. from the cloud. On each content page on your new Fire (e.g., Books, Audiobooks, Video, etc.), follow the same process detailed above to re-download your desired content from the Cloud. Your bookmarks will come too, since you manually synced from your old Fire in step 2. 9. Connect the new Fire to your computer to restore your backed-up files and data. This can be a tedious process if you’ve got a lot to copy, but try to stay focused as you do it. You don’t want to accidentally copy App files from your old Fire into the Video folder on the new one, so pay close attention to what you’re doing here. With the new Fire connected to your computer, open one Finder/File Explorer window with the new Fire’s content listed in it, and another with your KFBackup (or whatever you named it) folder open in it. Size the two windows so you can have them open side-by side at the same time. For each folder you backed up, follow these steps to restore the backup to your Fire: a. Open the desired content folder in the Fire window (e.g., Alarms, Books, Movies, etc.). b. Open the corresponding folder in the backup folder window (e.g., if you opened ‘Alarms’ in the Fire window, open ‘Alarms’ in the backup window). c. Copy all the contents from the backup window to the new Fire content window. — ***IMPORTANT NOTE ***— DO NOT copy the Android > Data > Amazon folder from your backup. When copying everything from your backup after the reset, skip the Android > Data > Amazon folder. That folder contains the unique identifier as assigned by Amazon when the old Fire was originally registered, and when you registered the new device it was assigned a new unique identifier. This means you cannot simply copy the entire Android folder over from your backup, you must copy the subfolders / files individually from within the Android directory of your backup. If there have been significant operating system changes between the old Fire and the new one , some of the backed up content may not function properly on the new device. Therefore, if you’re transferring from an old Fire to a new one and the new one is a different model than the old one, it’s safest NOT to copy the following system folders or files to the new device: Android > Data > Amazon. Android > Data > com.amazon.kindle. Android > Data > com.amazon.kindle.UnifiedSearch. Android > Data > com.amazon.photos. Android > Data > com. amazon.venezia. Also note, in the Android > Data > com.amazon.venezia > files folder, there’s a subfolder called “apks” and several individual files. These “apk” files are save and data files from apps. Copy the backup files from within the “apks” folder to the new device following the above directions, but don’t copy anything else from the Android > Data > com.amazon.venezia folder. When you’re warned or prompted about overwriting files, click ‘Yes’, ‘OK’, or whatever is the correct response on your computer to approve overwriting content in the new Fire window, unless the file you’re being warned about is a ‘token’ file. ‘Token’ files, which are system and Amazon registration files, will have the word “token” mentioned somewhere in the pop-up warning text or the file name itself, so be on the lookout for these as you go through this process and be sure to select “No” in the “Overwrite Y/N?” pop-up dialog. When I went through the process there were only two. If you make a mistake and happen to overwrite them, don’t worry. The worst that will happen is that you’ll be prompted to re-register your new Fire the next time you want to use it, and re-registering to the same Amazon user account as before does not affect content already stored on the Fire in any way. 10. When you’re done copying the backup files and data, again detach the new Fire from your computer just as you did in Step 5 above. 11. Turn on the Fire and check to verify your files and content are there. Do this by opening a book you were reading / movie you were watching / MP3 you were listening to, to see if it opens where you left off. Check your progress in game apps you’ve been playing. If nothing copied over, you may have made a mistake somewhere along the line and may want to try repeating the process. If there are just a few items that appear to have lost bookmarks or app progress, it’s probably not worth the bother. 12. Delete the KFBackup (or whatever you called it) folder from your computer. If you ever have to do a factory reset or migrate to another new Fire in the future, you’ll want to start with a new backup folder. If the device doesn’t appear to be functioning properly after following this process, either something went wrong during your copy from backup step, or the device you’re copying files to is too different from the old one to use the backed up files. In that case, unfortunately, you can only repeat the factory reset and start over from scratch: re-download the content you want from the Cloud (NOT your backup), and make peace with the fact that you’ve lost some app / game progress. In the case of games, the developer’s website may have special directions for how to transfer save files from an old device to a new one. This is true of the My Singing Monsters app, for example. If you want to try every possible way to restore your app/game progress, try Googling the name of the app to locate the app website or developer’s website. If you find a site, go the Help or Technical Support area and search on “transfer [app/game name]” to find any instructions the developer may have. Remember: there’s no guarantee that everything will survive being copied over so don’t be surprised if a few things were lost, but this method gives you the best chance to preserve the maximum amount of files and content. If you are confused about any part of this process or still have questions, please use the comment form below to ask for clarification. Be sure to list the specific make of both your old and new Fires (e.g., First Generation-2012, Second Generation-2013, Third Generation-2014) as well as the specific type (e.g., HD, HDX, or just Kindle Fire). If you’ve got a touchscreen device, you’ve GOT to have a stylus. 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We know many of you are wondering if it’s possible to install Google Play on Kindle Fire devices, and the answer is yes, as your Kindle is an Android device too. Today we will show you how it’s done without needing to root your tablet. Warning: Just keep in mind you will need to do a bit of tinkering on your device to install Google Play on Kindle Fire tablets. Though the process isn’t extremely complicated, you want to make sure you know what you are doing and keep in mind only you will be responsible if anything happens to your device in the process. Take your time and do your research before doing this. How to download and sideload apps on your Amazon Kindle Fire. You might want to consider simply sideloading Android apps on Kindle Fire tablets. This method doesn’t exactly require installing the Google Play Store, making it a simpler alternative. Sideloading Kindle Fire apps essentially means installing them manually. The main downside is that your sideloaded apps won’t be automatically updated (unless you have the Google Play Store installed). Regardless, it is a helpful method to know and you need it to install Google Play on Kindle Fire tablets. First, you need to enable app installation from unknown sources: Open the Settings app on your Amazon Fire device. Select Security & Privacy (some models may label it Security ). Hit the Apps from Unknown Sources option. Some people see this as a toggle; flip it on. Otherwise, select the browser you will be using to download and install your files. Alternatively, you can use the Files app or any other file manager app. Sideloading apps on your Amazon Kindle Fire: Find and download the APK file for the app you want to install. You have to get them from a third-party website, so you should be careful. We like websites like APKMirror for their reputation and security measures, but you should still be careful and stay safe. You can also download your APK file from a PC and transfer it using a USB cable. Open the APK file and you will be asked if you are sure you want to install the app. Hit Install . Let the installation process finish and then hit Done or Open . The app you installed is now ready to be used. How to install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire devices. Sideloading is helpful, but there is nothing like the comfort of using the Google Play Store and letting it handle all the hard work, as well as the updates. If you want to get the Google Play Store on Amazon devices you need to sideload four Kindle Fire apps first. Download and install these: (7th-gen and older devices require this one) Google Services Framework: Once everything is installed simply restart the tablet. Go ahead and open the Google Play Store app. You will be able to log into your account and start downloading apps using the Google Play Store. Enjoy! How to install Google apps on Kindle Fire HD or HDX. One of the main reasons to root your Kindle Fire is so you can install the Google Play Store and have access to apps that can't be found in the Amazon Appstore. But if you're worried about voiding the warranty or dealing with the rooting process in general, you can sideload apps. The cool thing about this technique is it doesn't require you to root the device first. Here's how to get most of the Google apps on your Kindle Fire HD or HDX. For this article I'm using the latest 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX, which runs Amazon's customized version of Android 4.2. This should work the same on the 8.9-inch version too. Keep in mind that when sideloading these apps, not all of the features will work correctly. For instance, on the Google Search app, the Google Now cards don't load like they would on a Nexus 7 or other Android device. All of the APK (the Android application format) files offered here are free, malware free, and free to distribute. What is sideloading and how do I do it? Sideloading is the term used to describe installing an app on your Android device from a source other than an official app store. Basically, what you're doing is transferring an APK file from your computer to your tablet or smartphone and installing it directly. Since the Kindle Fire runs a forked version of Android, this is a common practice to get the apps you like on the device. Before you can sideload an app on the Kindle Fire HD or HDX, you need to enable the feature that allows you to install apps from unknown sources. To do that, go to Settings > Applications and make sure "Apps from Unknown Sources" is turned on. Enable installation of apps from unknown sources. Next, download this zip file and extract its contents to a convenient location on your computer. The zip file includes the four essential apps you need to install first. These are the four Google APK files you'll need to install first. Connect your Kindle Fire to your computer using the included micro-USB cable and transfer the four APKs you just downloaded to your Kindle's Download folder. Transfer Google APK files to the Download folder on Kindle Fire HDX. Make sure you have ES File Explorer on your Kindle Fire. It's free and available in Amazon's Appstore. This will give you access to the APKs you transfer to your tablet. You'll find the files in Local > Home > Download . ES File Explorer allows you to access the Kindle Fire Download folder. Now perform the following steps in order: Tap to install Google Account Manager and reboot the tablet. Tap to install Google Services Framework and reboot the tablet. Tap to install Google Play Services and reboot the tablet. Tap to install Gmail and reboot the tablet. Install the required Google apps on the Kindle Fire. Installing Google apps. After those four apps are installed, open the Gmail app (you'll find it listed under the Apps section on the Kindle Fire) and sign in with your Google account. After signing in at the screen shown below, you'll be kicked to the web version of Google to sign in again. Sign in with your Google account credentials. When you're signing in, you'll see various messages about different Google services stopping. You can just tap through them. This is one of the caveats with sideloading Google apps and running them – the apps will still work, it's just kind of annoying having the occasional alert pop up like the one in the screenshot below. Google processes will stop, just tap OK to continue on. Once you're signed in, you'll be able to run the Gmail app on your Kindle Fire. Here's an example of it running on my Kindle Fire HDX. Gmail app running on Kindle Fire HDX. Now you can continue to sideload the Google apps you want to use following the same process as above. Transfer them to the Download folder on the Kindle Fire, just like you did with the first set of apps. Copy Google apps to the Download folder on the Kindle Fire HD or HDX. Open ES File Explorer, open the Download folder, and tap to install the Google apps you want. For best results, I recommend installing one app at a time and rebooting after each one. Use ES File Explorer to Install Google apps. Just click on the following apps to download the APK file and sideload it on the Kindle Fire. In my tests, each of the following work with little to no bugs: Chrome, YouTube, Google Search, Google Music, Google Play Movies, Gmail, and Newsstand. Running the official Google Music app on Kindle Fire HD and HDX. Summing up. You can find other Google app files in Android forums or an APK repository site like Android Drawer. A word of caution about sideloading apps: Ensure you're getting them from a trusted and secure source. Some apps – especially the ones that claim to give you paid apps for free – in the shady markets contain malware that will wreck you device. We don't condone sideloading paid apps, and in the end it will just get you into trouble. But as long as you're careful and download the apps from a trusted source you should be ok. While some of the app features don't work the same as on a typical Android device, and the error messages that pop up are a bit annoying, it isn't a deal-breaker. As long as you're able to overlook those caveats and live in the Google ecosystem, sideloading the apps is something you should definitely try. Amazon Kindle App For PC – Download Kindle For Windows 10/8/7. Kindle is an app developed by Amazon to provide more knowledge to people by giving them free e-books in the app Kindle. Yes, it has everything like newspapers, great books, and magazines, etc. Now you can read the books anywhere you want, and whenever you have free time, you can open this and start learning new things. View of reading can be set by you and also modify it. Do you want to download Kindle for PC/Laptop? So that you can read them more comfortably because of the large size of the screen. In this article, I will show you how to download Kindle for Windows 10/8/7 on a laptop/PC . Come after my simple and easy steps in this article to download the Amazon Kindle app for PC/laptop . Download Kindle For PC/Laptop On Windows 10/8/7. To download Kindle on a laptop, you are desperate to download the software used to get Kindle on a Windows laptop. BlueStacks is one of those softwares, the technical name for this is Android emulator. You can download this here, and I’m assuming you that there is no need to pay for this, and it takes very little time to download. Click on the button which is exposed below . To continue to the remaining part, you have to install BlueStacks. If you come upon any errors in the installation process, look into>> error-free installation of BlueStacks. Now see Kindle installation phenomena. You may also read: Download WhatsApp for Windows 10. How To Install Kindle For Windows 10/7. BlueStacks have to be opened, which you can find on the desktop. If you do this, see the next exciting part. Best Media Player: Download QuickTime for Windows laptop Most users playing the game: Plants Vs. Zombies 2 for laptop/PC. To install the Kindle app on your PC/laptop, check out these steps. Run the software BlueStacks and go to search Type ‘Kindle’ and then click on “Search play for kindle.” Few other apps will be notified to you. Choose the first app and click on install. Later some time the installation will be completed You are in a hurry to open the app. Look into all apps and use Kindle, which will be there. 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A 2010 Pew study found that Americans sent over 188 billion text messages – monthly. Because texting is so popular, many non-phone devices are now capable of sending and receiving text messages. In the Amazon Kindle family of devices, the Kindle Fire is able to send and receive texts in a number of ways. Basics of Texting. Texting refers to the use of the Short Message Service (SMS) protocol to send short messages between phones. The maximum length of a text message is 160 characters. If a message is greater than 160 characters, it will be broken into two parts and sent as two messages. In order to text on your Kindle, you must use an app or Web service that employs the SMS protocol. Texting Apps. One of the easiest ways to send and receive texts on the Kindle Fire is through the use of an app. Once installed, the app can send an receive SMS messages as if it were a cell phone. Some of the free texting apps for the Kindle Fire include textPlus, TextNow, and Skype. Skype is free to download, but SMS use can incur a charge if you are texting a phone instead of another Skype user. In order to successfully send a text, all of these apps require that you be connected to the Internet through either a Wi-Fi connection or the 3G network. Texting from a Web Browser. It is also possible to text from a Web browser in a variety of ways. Because the other Kindle family devices have experimental Web browsers, you can text from any Kindle using these methods. Once connected to the Internet on your Kindle, you can direct your browser to an online texting service. Joopz, txtDrop, and TextingHome are among the free ways of texting from an Internet browser. In addition to these services, you can send text messages to a phone from your email account. In order to do this, you must know the texting domain of the recipient's cell phone provider. Lastly, you can send text messages through a Google Voice account. The Google Voice service gives you a unique phone number, and all of your texts sent from a Google Voice account will appear to come from this number. Problems with Texting from a Kindle. Aside from the need to be connected to the Internet, there are a number of possible problems with sending texts from your Kindle. First, most of the methods of texting from a Kindle will send messages that appear to come from a different source than your phone number. Therefore, the recipient may not know who is sending the text, and may ignore it or misinterpret it. Second, some apps and services will not allow you to send texts to an international number, or may charge a fee for doing so. Lastly, while texting from a Kindle is relatively easy, cell phones have character limits on the length of messages. Messages received on a cell phone are broken into parts if they are too long. Therefore, if the recipient only has a certain number of text message allotted per month, you may consume their allotment by sending lengthy texts.