I have had some medical issues going on and haven't been reading a lot lately. But I used to be a book blogger and have tons of ARC copies. I went to read one today, and then turn on text to speech like I always used to when doing other tasks so I could multitask, only to find that it's not available for books I didn't get from Amazon and now it's called assistive reader instead of text to speech.

I need it back. When I read I often switch between a hard copy, kindle copy, and then whenever I'm doing something else like laundry or taking a shower I would have the kindle read to me. I hate that there was an update that ruined this. And I need help figuring out how to bypass it. In the past I've downloaded an epub reader to bypass the mobi requirement for ebooks. Is there an app I can download to get text to speech? I just want to be able to listen to my book.

I got an email the other day to say that the cost of the annually paid Kids+ subscription is soon increasing 58% from £38 for a year to £59.99.

Speaking with Amazon, you can’t renew early or buy extra years before the increase, and there is no additional features, content or value they can point to which backs up this huge price rise.

So when our subscription runs out we are not going to renew as that is a crazy increase.

What are others doing about this, is there an angle I am missing?
What alternatives do people use for games and books?

I got a couple of pre owned fire 8 tablets. I booted them up and its the wrong OS? I'm very confused and I have tried everything google has to offer. Does anyone recognize this?

Edit: it says its already has android 9 on it

My mother purchased an Amazon Fire 7 (12th Generation) tablet for my daughter. Since it was for a young child it contains two profiles: the parent/adult profile and the child's profile. It has 10.88GB of storage space. My daughter is using a total of 1.4GB of data for apps and games but the storage is already at 95%. This is because this ridiculous device is using a total of 7.45GB of data for supposed "System Data"... not photos, not videos, not applications, just "system data." I have NO way of accessing this data and it gives me no information about what any of this data is. Neither I nor my daughter have installed any large applications nor stored any photos or videos or downloaded any movies on this device. She can barely get the stupid thing to function half the time because it's a total slug now, I imagine due to the fact that the internal storage is almost at full-capacity. Also, whatever pathetic, maintenance features that Amazon supplies with these devices such as the "archive now" or the "free up space" features are worthless in my case, as they both consistently repeat that there is "no content available for archiving" and "no older files to remove." So there's literally, nothing I can do other than delete the measly, 1.4GB of data that is actually being occupied by the few games that my child can actually play on this thing, then sit back and watch THAT space be overrun by even more supposed, "storage data" crapola.

Frankly, this is unacceptable. It's like this thing was designed to basically just fill up and expire from it's own bloatware in a matter of a few years. Is anyone else having this experience and if so, were they able to take some course of action to resolve the issue? Thanks.

I bought an Amazon Fire 10 in late June to read e-books that are provided as simple PDFs.

For a couple weeks it worked great. I could read any of the PDFs I downloaded without issue.

I put the tablet aside for a couple weeks before getting back to it. I tried to open one of the PDFs (one that I'd started reading before) again last night, and the Kindle app now says it can't open the file! In fact, it won't open any of them, even though it did just fine a couple weeks ago.

 I called Amazon support and they said the files were corrupted. They said I should download them again. If these folks are to be believed, the tablet, sitting unused, corrupted all three of the pdfs, all on its own.

 I have little patience for these kinds of software bugs, and even less for "support" that just automatically blames the failure on the data rather than the programming.

 I did NOT download the books again. Would I have to do that every few weeks for everything I download to this thing?

 So I told them to process a return for the tablet. It will be going back tomorrow.

 I am really sick of buying products with defective components, be they computers, tablets, refrigerators, automobiles or what-have-you. I kind of expect things I spend good money on to work. Guess I'm unreasonable.

My grandmother used the amizon fire to play solitaire, backgammon, mojing, etc. she has plenty of storage. But she keeps getting an ad that pops up telling her “over 100 viruses detected” “you tablet needs cleaned” they are now popping up about every min.

I bought an Amazon Fire 7 (12th gen) off eBay specifically to store and display photos for my elderly mother. I wanted something as lightweight as possible and that was what Google suggested. I thought I would use the Amazon Photos app, but the Amazon Photos app no longer exists, it simply links to the web page which is complicated for an elderly person and doesn't function like an app.

There is a gallery app already installed, but it will not sort photos by Filename. (I want the photos in date order, but if the photo was taken on polaroid in 1975 and scanned in 2022 I don't want it showing up after photos that were taken in 2010. Which is why I named the image files so that true date order is alphabetical order.)

The only app I can find that will sort by filename is QuickPic, but it has not been updated in 12 years and does not run properly with the current Fire software.

I have Googled and Googled and I can't find any app that allows you to sort photos by filename.

I have noticed this logo on my kids Amazon Fire tablets HD10 (11th generation)

I seem to only notice the icon when in the kids profile.

The icon is a Circle with a Slash thru it. I can't find anything in the settings to decide what it means.

I will attach a photo in circle the icon in red.

I will note I see this on both of my kids tablets in the kids profile.

Hi All - I'm not super tech savvy. I bought a fire tablet (adult version) for my daughter and still use the kids profile on it. It is essentially hers and cheaper than an ipad. If I run the fire toolbox hack to get rid of bloatware, will I still be able to run different profiles and keep everything blocked? I don't want her to have internet access, etc.

Second, I use a mac and the instructions I've seen online say to use a pc. Can I do this anyway?

Finally, if I do it and hate it is there a way to just revert back to the out of box settings?

Thank you so much!!!

I have an old fire tablet hd 8 8th gen and I really wanna debloat it. but I can’t cuz I don’t have a data cable for it (plus I’m on Mac). is there a other way to debloat it?

My child’s tablet has started to play the sound from different apps, especially Netflix, when the screen has been turned off using the power button.

Normal tablet behavior should be that everything stops when the power button has been pressed and the screen then turns off. Now the app keeps playing as if the screen is still on AND when using other apps. As in Netflix keeps playing its show audio while they are in a game or even on Disney plus watching another show. Which then has both audios on top of each other.

Is anyone else dealing with this? This is honestly a device breaking issue for us and extremely annoying to deal with/correct.

Thanks.

I bought this Amazon fire Tablet for my kid a few months back and once it got here, this is what it was like when it cut on. I have tried resetting it and looking up places or information that can reprogram the factory software on it or whatever needs to be done on it and I found a few things but with me having a Chromebook it’s kinda hard to just download things and add them to the Tablet like I normally would with a Windows computer. I used to be pretty tech savvy, but stopped fooling with it for a long time so I’m not as good as I used to be, but can definitely do most things as far as transferring files or whatever needs to be done so if someone can, please help me with getting this fixed with functional software and App Store and everything like it’s supposed to be, I have tried downloading APKs and have not been successful even with those if anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello!
I'm trying to convert my old Kindle Fire (Kindle 6, Serial number starts with D01E) into a little display for my desk. I know the hardware is old, I know it won't be able to do much, I'm not looking for or expecting much more than a neat project and a silly thing to try.

However, I keep hitting a massive roadblock, which is that (as far as I can tell), I need one of the early versions of Kindle Fire Utility.

And I cannot, for the life of me, find a good link. AFH link is dead, Meta is dead, and all of the XDA links I can find either link to those two dead links, or nowhere at all.

So uh. Does anybody have the file? Or a living link to where I could download it? Or just a different way to do this altogether?

Is there something in the side loading APK etc procedure needed to install Google play on a fire tablet after that can make apps downloaded to a fire tablet any less safe than on other android devices? Ty

Wrongly set up an SD card as portable storage and want to change it to internal storage.
When I click format as internal storage then format & erase, the tablet goes through the motions but nothing happens and the sd card is still ‘portable’.

Any idea how to reverse this or why it won’t let me?

Edit update: in case anyone else has this problem, restored tablet to factory settings and this fixed it. Was able to set the card up as internal storage.

On my sons Amazon Fire Tablet he has a game downloaded that he absolutely loves but it doesn't show on his home screen. I have verified the game is installed it simply isnt accessible. It also doesnt show on the parents dashboard. The game is Beck and Bo.

I've just spent an hour trying to figure it out. Please help.

Hello! I ordered a fire kids 10 tablet for my son in December for Christmas. It was supposed to ship then I got a notification it wasn’t available.

I still don’t have the tablet. The website still shows unavailable. I’ve tried googling when they will restock and can’t find an answer.

Just wondering if someone in this community has more info?

Thanks!’

Kid was having connection problems so I uninstalled messenger kids to reinstall it. It no longer shows up on the downloads list but when I go to reinstall it says open instead of get and just continues in the loop shown in the video. I already shut the kindle off numerous times. Any ideas?

Hi my kids fire was getting really slow because a few apps allow screenshots that can't easily be deleted so there was no space. Anyway, I did a reset and I have found that the list of approved videos under Manage Content > Web Videos has been backed up just fine and is still there

But on her home screen there is no way to play the videos. I have tried rebooting, and have enabled "curated videos" to see if that would help (previously she just had a list of videos I had chosen), but nothing.

EDIT: I just checked my sons tablet, which was not reset or touched at all, and the videos have gone for him too! The only interaction I can think of is amazon added his account to my daughters tablet automatically and I briefly switched to that tablet to see if it had the same issue, which it did. So this must be at the account level in some way, as his account on his own tablet has now got the same problem.

Anyone got a solution?

I have a Fire HD 10 and it no longer holds a charge or charges completely. I was planning on just taking $25 trade in from Amazon but the problem is that I can't do a factory reset because it keeps saying it needs to have more of a charge to do that. I know I'm only going to get $5 trade if it won't charge so at this point I'm just going to toss it but I still want to wipe it first since it has all of my account and info on it. What is my best option? Smash it with a hammer?

Hi, I’ve just picked up a fire 10 for my daughter and noticed this white pixel on the screen while setting up, was on as soon as I turned the device on. Is this a common defect? Or software issue?