Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM is not perfect on Amazon Kindle Fire yet. So I prefer to have Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread CM7 ROM on my Kindle Fire than Android 4.0.3 ICS CM9 ROM. Luckily, there is not much custom ROM for Kindle Fire (compare to Samsung Galaxy S II). So I can test all CM7 ROM for Kindle Fire. Here is the latest CM7 ROM from XDA Developer, Takenover83 that I tested. It is a barebone version which lot of things have been removed and tweaked.
How to upgrade Android Market app to latest Google Play Store? Well, you can wait for Google to upgrade it automatically for you. Or download the latest Google Play Store apk and install it yourself. Google combines all music, books, movies, apps, and games in one place at Google Play. But features like music, books or movies are only available to certain country like US, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia. Other regions still need to wait…
How to install TWRP 2.0 Recovery on Amazon Kindle Fire? Yup, that’s the question to ask if you want to install custom ROM like CM7, CM9 ICS. Or make full system backup / restore. Team Win Recovery Project 2.0 (TWRP 2.0) is a custom recovery with touchscreen interface support is going help you do so on Kindle Fire. Okay, let’s stop the talking and follow below step by step video guide to install TWRP 2.0 Recovery on Kindle Fire. Kindle Fire Utility will do all the tasks for you…
Prerequisites
As usual, you need to have Kindle Fire adb USB driver installed. Else Kindle Fire Utility can’t talk to Kindle Fire from PC. Follow this guide to do so ~ How to install Kindle Fire adb USB driver? (Video) Do download Kindle Fire Utility if you don’t have it yet.
My HTC One X is still running software version 1.26.707.2. HTC One X 1.28 OTA update should improve battery life around 10 to 20%. However, the 1.28 OTA update is still not available in Malaysia yet. Anyway, I still manage to make my HTC One X battery to last for 3 days. On minimum usage of course…
For me, root access is a must have for Android devices no matter smartphone or tablet. Same apply to my Amazon Kindle Fire. Why? Check out this article ~ Top reasons to root Kindle Fire to know more. Having Kindle Fire Software Update 6.3 now and lost root access? No worry, you still can root Kindle Fire Software Update 6.3.
