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It turns itself off. Takes me 3 mins of holding the button down before it turn back On
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06-15-2016, 09:58 PM | #17 | |
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Some time today my Fire 10 got the Updates Along with 10 On Deck TV shows !! for posting these guide to Stop On Deck! |
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06-15-2016, 10:09 PM | #18 |
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Anyone know How to Stop e-books from going onto the SdCard?? Mines been doing this Before this update. I went into the Book Settings there No Off switch.
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07-18-2016, 03:07 PM | #19 |
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I just received a Fire HD 6 generation 4 today. It is a used one, but the price was good. It has been a long time since I owned a Fire, or any Android device as far as that goes. I immediately checked Amazon support and it says the latest FW is 5.1.2.1. I went into System Updates and the device was on 4.5.x.x so I selected to install updates. For some reason it DLed and installed each subsequent update, so it took forever as it incrementally installed each update. When it got to 5.1.2 I thought it was done, but it found and installed 5.3.1.0. Seems kind of strange that their website lists the latest at 5.1.2.1 but apparently there is a 5.3.1.0 available.
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07-22-2016, 09:38 AM | #22 |
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I guess Amazon just doesn't update their Fire HD support pages very often. After all, 5.1.x.x is quite a ways below 5.3.x.x. Maybe they skipped 5.2.x.x, but I doubt it. So they must have let the FW update pages collect dust for quite a while.
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07-22-2016, 12:52 PM | #23 |
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So 'encryption' is back. I think they promised this about 6 months ago.
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07-22-2016, 01:04 PM | #24 | |
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I also asked about 'Firefly' (music/video/scanner identifier app) which I used to have on 4.x but is not on my device now. They had no clue what it was and kept bouncing me between AppStore support and device support. Is there anyone here with an HD6 that still has it? |
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07-22-2016, 01:30 PM | #25 |
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But no Page Flip. Did Amazon ever enumerate which Fire devices were supposed to get this feature?
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07-22-2016, 02:19 PM | #26 | |
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07-22-2016, 02:26 PM | #27 |
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On a good note: We are still able to install the Google Play app on a Fire HD 6 without jailbreaking. It still merely requires the sideloading and installing of four APK files. No telling when or if this will change.
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07-22-2016, 03:06 PM | #28 | |
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07-22-2016, 04:53 PM | #29 | |
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07-22-2016, 07:37 PM | #30 | |
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