09-16-2012, 03:00 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Fire HD and Personal Documents
I'm asking this in advance to all you new owners out there who own the new Kindle Fires to help me out pretty please.
If some kind soul could post a shot of the docs tab as well I would appreciate it. Last edited by Blossom; 09-17-2012 at 01:24 AM. |
09-16-2012, 03:49 PM | #2 |
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Syncing
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09-16-2012, 07:55 PM | #3 | |
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When talking to Kindle Support they said the Kindle Fire is suppose to only to sync to another Kindle Fire. I can only sync from Kindle Fire to Kindle but not Kindle to Kindle Fire. There is a thread on this somewhere in here about this issue that was never fixed. I like to know if the new Kindle Fire has fixed this issue among the other problems I mentioned. |
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09-16-2012, 08:19 PM | #4 | |
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Syncing to and from server.
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When pressing the sync button on the Kindle Keyboard, one must be sure the WiFi connection bars show first. They take a few seconds to show up. If one tries to sync it before the WiFi bars show, the Kindle Keyboard freezes. |
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09-16-2012, 08:29 PM | #5 | |
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09-17-2012, 01:26 AM | #6 | |
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Wow just read on the Amazon help page that the new Kindle Fires have access to the Cloud drive!
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09-17-2012, 06:43 PM | #7 |
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Except for the downside -- there are reports of sideloaded apps not installing. Hopefully root will be possible even if custom ROMs are not.
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09-17-2012, 08:31 PM | #8 |
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Not an issue with me. I don't use apps much but the personal documents covers and sync issue if not fix is a deal breaker for me.
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09-19-2012, 06:24 PM | #9 |
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I've side loaded non-Amazon books using ES Explorer - that load into the Documents section [I never got around to tweaking the metadata] - and the covers show up on the carousel just dandy. And on the Documents tab too.
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09-24-2012, 08:13 AM | #10 |
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Update on covers:
When I downloaded non-Amazon books from Dropbox into Documents, they initially displayed covers both on the Carousel & in Documents. Then some of them vanished and were replaced with a generic white cover with "Kindle" in orange type - in both locations. Shutting down the Fire and restarting restored the covers. So apparently the covers "timed out"? Or the intermittent bug is still there. |
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And ... the Special Offers that you sign up for are listed on the Documents tab.
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I've never had sideloaded books via dropbox or USB lose their cover. The only problem with sideloaded is they don't sync. |
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09-25-2012, 08:48 AM | #13 |
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Update: after shutting down/rebooting the FireHD, the book covers are still on the carousel, but the Documents tab displays only the generic white cover.
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09-25-2012, 03:54 PM | #15 |
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I will try to Sync tonight - are you interested in syncing side-loaded books/documents between an Eink Kindle to the FireHD?
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