SD Card on Amazon Fire?

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I won't use CCs private folder because if you uninstall CC you lose all your books, right? It never even occurred to me to try that. Now that I think back, I was annoyed that CC prompted me to use the private folder and that I had to backout one by one to get to the root and choose my own folder. Sort of like Windows insisting that I use the buried deep download directory. Both me and my husband use the desktop and I don't want our stuff all mixed up together.

Sorry you had to go through everything step by step again.

Actually I never noticed that it was CCs private folder, I just saw that it was in the Android/data folder and didn't want to put it there.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I won't use CCs private folder because if you uninstall CC you lose all your books, right? It never even occurred to me to try that. Now that I think back, I was annoyed that CC prompted me to use the private folder and that I had to backout one by one to get to the root and choose my own folder. Sort of like Windows insisting that I use the buried deep download directory. Both me and my husband use the desktop and I don't want our stuff all mixed up together.

Sorry you had to go through everything step by step again.

OK, at least I know that CC works as expected. And that folder is per user, not per machine, but that said I can't figure out how to add another user to my Fire.

You must have rooted your other devices to get CC to use other folders on the SD Card. You can do the same to your Fire 5.1.1 device with this tool. FWIW: it also can install Google Play services.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by chaley

OK, at least I know that CC works as expected. And that folder is per user, not per machine, but that said I can't figure out how to add another user to my Fire.

You must have rooted your other devices to get CC to use other folders on the SD Card. You can do the same to your Fire 5.1.1 device with this tool. FWIW: it also can install Google Play services.

I always root my devices, but the HD 8 cannot be rooted. I bought it to read the free Prime books and because it was on sale for $20 off and I got another 25% off for using my credit card offer.

Not being rooted is a pain! Mine was using 1% per hour while not in use and it was being held awake. Without root I don't think there's a way to find out why. I wiped it and only installed a few apps but it was still using a lot of battery and being held awake. I wiped again and installed only GSAM battery monitor, and it's still using 0.7% battery per hour when not in use. I have it set to turn WiFi off when not in use, but WiFi and being held awake are what the majority of battery use is from.