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Originally Posted by jj2me
I haven't tried this, but this seems like it might work.
A post by Clark Kromenaker on this page says
Note what's in bold above. He only said it worked for the "Kindle Fire," so you can't be sure it'll return the device id for the Fire 6.
On a Windows PC:
You'd need the Android SDK (Software Development Kit), which needs the Java Platform (JDK) if your PC doesn't already have it (you'll get a popup upon first opening the SDK if you need to install the JDK).
This page leads you through things.
Jumping ahead to preview your goal, scroll down that page to the screenshot of the cmd.exe black window, and you see the results of the "adb devices": a device id (presumably) with most of it blocked out in red.
A caution is that he calls it the "serial number" just below that cmd.exe black window.
Here's another page from Amazon detailing the instructions, including using Mac OS X. It also refers to the "adb devices" return as a "serial number." You can check it against the serial number displayed in the Fire 6's Settings, and hopefully it'll be different. |
I was able to get the valid android device for my old Nook HD that was used to buy the apps but even though it was accepted on the pages I tried it appears it's impossible to download paid app Apks to a laptop. Without another android device it's impossible to get them.
I love my Fire but I just find myself more than a little frustrated about the lack of decent apps so long term it's going to be an issue. I bought the Fire for two reasons, text to speech and Calibre Companion. I got the 16GB but even so I'm very reluctant to load tons of apps and for Calibre Companion I've now got a process that sends the metadata with an empty file so I'm not using up the storage with all my books. I only have 6 Kindle books downloaded anyway.
Without the paid apps I had on my Nook the Fire as it stands will do what I bought it for but there's no way the ecosystem of the Fires is good enough to be a proper tablet. The apps just don't exist on the Amazon App Store so I doubt I'd actually buy another one.
And I'm still contemplating another android tablet with expandable storage.