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Old 12-20-2011, 04:06 PM   #46
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What folder is did you put the update in? I had to move mine over to the kindleupdates folder. ES File Explorer or something similar will get the job done. Then you should have the update button available. (I did reboot mine after putting the file in the folder though, just to be sure it would be seen, but that might be an extra step that's not really needed.)
Ok, did it and the update installed.

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Old 12-20-2011, 04:24 PM   #47
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Seems to me that the "Update your Kindle" button found at "Device" in the options folder would be the logical place to update your Kindle.
That is greyed out unless you have sideloaded the update.
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Old 12-20-2011, 04:27 PM   #48
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After Barnes and Noble updated the nook tablet yesterday it can no longer side load apps. So I'm just happy amazon didn't do that.
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Old 12-20-2011, 04:30 PM   #49
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After Barnes and Noble updated the nook tablet yesterday it can no longer side load apps...
Not surprising. It was clearly an overlooked hole. That's probably the only reason they released an update so soon. Must be a record for Barnes and Noble.

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The NOOK Tablet Ver1.4.1 update provides minor system enhancements.
Silly move on their part. Hope there are enough rooters out their to keep them afloat over the next year.

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Old 12-20-2011, 04:38 PM   #50
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After Barnes and Noble updated the nook tablet yesterday it can no longer side load apps. So I'm just happy amazon didn't do that.
Agreed, while I have not felt I needed to side load many apps, I sure like the idea of being able to.
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Old 12-20-2011, 04:48 PM   #51
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The NOOK Tablet Ver1.4.1 update provides minor system enhancements.
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Old 12-20-2011, 05:22 PM   #52
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BTW, even though I think Amazon needs to add the ability to disappear the Carousel, and I think they need to address many of our complaints with the reading app, I'm still happy they are at least doing updates. B&N took forever to put out extremely lackluster updates on the NC. Apple rarely releases an update to address customer wishes--they are usually just to add features Apple wants.

Yes the Fire badly needs some firmware tweaks, but it is way ahead of the other tablets when it comes to reading. So much so that I sold my iPod touch 4G and my iPad over the weekend. (I'm now almost iOS free. I kept an older iPod touch 2G to run a Satellite tracking app that beats anything available for Android.)
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Old 12-20-2011, 09:17 PM   #53
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>>>I just read on the Amazon discussion board that you can select the download link >>>(https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindle-fire...1E_3103920.bin) from within the Silk >>>Browser on your Fire and it will download to the appropriate folder and allow you >>>install / update the Fire. No sideloading required.

No this is untrue. I tried this route and it downloads the file to the download folder, the correct folder is \kindleupdates (I think I have that directory right. I moved the file to kindleupdates and did the update but for some reason that did not work either. I just downloaded it to my computer and from there downloaded to my kindle to the kindleupdates folder and then did the update. Works great.
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Old 12-20-2011, 09:28 PM   #54
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After Barnes and Noble updated the nook tablet yesterday it can no longer side load apps...
I hope Amazon will never do that to us, or...will they?
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Old 12-20-2011, 09:50 PM   #55
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Most likely because they have it in all their commercials and use it to show off the "coverflow" feature for those that want to compare it to an iPad/iPod from Apple to say "yes ours does coverflow too", in a way....

for AZ its a "selling point" until the user finds out how annoying it is

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Big woop that it allows us to delete items from the carousel when the damn Carousel still takes up half the screen in portrait view and most of the screen in landscape view. I want that damn Carousel gone. I'm not sure why Amazon refuses to allow us the option to make it disappear.
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fire changelog

Im sure they will update the version site soon, but currently it still shows the 6.2 info :
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200790620

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What would be nice is if Amazon included a changelog. How can they expect customers to appreciate what they're doing or why they should update if they don't tell us what has changed?
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Old 12-21-2011, 09:00 AM   #57
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Finally got the update, and Android Market still works
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Old 12-21-2011, 10:11 AM   #58
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Hmmm. I'm pretty happy with the update, but then I wasn't terribly unhappy before. BTW' I agree that list view isn't new. I've been using it for a while...
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Old 12-21-2011, 10:32 AM   #59
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Just bought my new fire so this is not really a concern right now but I will no doubt need to know this for the future:

1) What web page do I go to find out the version number of the lates firmware?
2) Where do I look on thefire to see what version I have?
3) Can I manually initate an update if its needed?
4) If so how?

Mt Kindle three does this automatically for me so no doubt the fire will do likewise.
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Just bought my new fire so this is not really a concern right now but I will no doubt need to know this for the future:

1) What web page do I go to find out the version number of the lates firmware?
2) Where do I look on thefire to see what version I have?
3) Can I manually initate an update if its needed?
4) If so how?

Mt Kindle three does this automatically for me so no doubt the fire will do likewise.
jbcohen...answers to all of your questions are contained in previous posts in this thread
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