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update
well my 3rd gen HDX arrived and I faffed about for an hour or more with google apps and with hacked netflix ( for full HD ) apps. No joy. Then the amazon store version of netflix started complaining about Google play services even though I'd removed all the other versions, so I gave up and factory reset it all over again to clean it.
So its going to be a pure amazon store only set up for grandchild, unless anyone has a working guide for total dummies for getting play store to work on that
FYI what I tired was trawling back the rough apk mirror versions looking for google apps for android 4, as the OS on that HDX is like android 4.1 but nothing worked. you can't install older over newer, e.g GST, Google account manager, google services... to undo mistakes, you can' easily remove the invisible "framework" apps that have no icons, and the versions that are too new fail on parse errors and do not install.
I don't want to root it. I bought it knowing this might be the case, and don't need latest news and shopping apps installed. just kids books, shows, games...
next update will probably be that the screen protectors arrived and ended up in the bin after another wasted hour.... we'll see
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