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  • Page 1 Copyright © 2017 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®.
  • Page 2 Your Unofficial Amazon Fire Tablet Manual Written by Christian Cawley Published August 2017. Read the original article here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/your-unofficial-kindle-fire- manual/ This ebook is the intellectual property of MakeUseOf. It must only be published in its original form. Using parts or republishing altered parts of this ebook is prohibited without permission from MakeUseOf.com.
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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    5. Music, Video and Books on Amazon Prime 5.1 Sync Media to the Amazon Fire 5.2 What Is Amazon Prime? 5.3 Buying Movies, TV Shows, Music, and Books with the Amazon Fire 5.4 Buy and Watch Videos 5.5 Video Sync and Settings 5.6 Finding Music for Your Amazon Fire...
  • Page 4 9. Amazon Fire Security 9.1 The Lock Screen Password 9.2 Credential Storage 9.3 Changing the Device Owner and Resetting Your Amazon Fire 9.3.1 Resetting for Security 9.5 Updating the Amazon Fire Operating System 9.6 Is Your Amazon Fire Lost or Stolen? 10.

  • Page 5: Introduction: What Is The Amazon Fire

    Own an Amazon Fire tablet, but not sure what it can and can’t do? This manual outlines how to do just about anything with Amazon’s combination tablet and e-reader. The Amazon Fire is a great alternative to standard tablets and offers a gateway to the vast Amazon marketplace of eBooks, videos, music, comics, audiobooks, and physical items.

  • Page 6: Combining Amazon's Media Service With A Tablet

    (2 MP) cameras. 1.1 Combining Amazon’s Media Service with a Tablet For all intents and purposes, the Amazon Fire is an Android tablet. The difference comes from the marketplace ecosystem. On Android, you’re mostly tied to Google Play. On the Amazon Fire, it’s the digital services of Amazon.

  • Page 7: Differences Between The Amazon Fire And Kindle

    1.2 Differences Between the Amazon Fire and Kindle The Amazon Fire tablets are not Kindle e-readers. So how does the Amazon Fire really differ from standard Kindle device? Well, the standard Kindle eBook readers lack the high specification of the Amazon Fire. They’re not optimized for playing music and video, they don’t have as much storage space or a fast...

  • Page 8: Setting Up The Amazon Fire

    Wi-Fi to On. 2.1 Managing Your Account It’s easy to set up, add, or register an account for use with an Amazon Fire tablet. However, more detailed account management isn’t possible without logging into your local Amazon website. You can do this via the tablet browser, or on your desktop.

  • Page 9: The Amazon Fire User Interface

    (This might include devices attached to a Kindle e-reader app on Android.) 3. The Amazon Fire User Interface The default user interface on the Amazon Fire is very different than most Android systems. Fire OS 5 is based on Android. But instead of the familiar styling of the Android user interface, you’ll find an environment that can be scrolled and swiped.

  • Page 10: Menus, Icons And Gestures

    When you’re done checking the notifications, tap the Clear All button. Wake your Amazon Fire from sleep mode with the power button on the lower edge of the device. You can also use this button to restart the tablet.

  • Page 11: Using Search

    3.2 Using Search The Search tool on the Amazon Fire can be used in a variety of ways. Search is capable of finding books by file format, title and topic. This is done by tapping into the Search box, which will open the Search page.

  • Page 12: Copy And Paste Tools

    QWERTY keyboard, numbers can be entered by long-pressing Offering a region-based standard the key or tapping the 123!? button to the left of the Space bar, where a separate keyboard for numbers and punctuation is displayed. From here, a third keyboard of options displaying math symbols is available in the position of the left shift key, while the main alphanumeric keyboard can be reinstated via the ABC key.

  • Page 13: Installing And Launching Apps

    Using the keyboard can prove difficult at times due to the size of the Amazon Fire display. In both portrait and landscape modes, using it results in almost half of the screen being dedicated to the keyboard. To get around any problems reading the information you’re entering you can use your finger to scroll the web page or field, or simply use the close keyboard using the back button.

  • Page 14: Installing New Apps From The Amazon App Store

    4.1 Installing New Apps from the Amazon App Store To find and add new apps to your Amazon Fire, tap Apps > Store and browse the available selection. When you see an app with an interesting title, tap to open the description page. Here you will find details about the product, screenshots and reviews from other users and recommendations for other similar (and perhaps better) apps.

  • Page 15: Launching & Uninstalling Apps

    4.3 Launching & Uninstalling Apps There are several places on your Amazon Fire where you will find your installed apps. The first is the Home screen, where native and newly installed apps can be found. These can be listed By Title or by the most recently used, and the Search tool is provided to find any that you can’t...

  • Page 16: Suggested Apps For The Amazon Fire

    — keep abreast of the weather with this, don’t let your day be ruined by • rain! Evernote — the popular note-taking app is available for the Amazon Fire. • Pocket • — if you’ve ever come across an article on the web that you would like to read but don’t have time for right now, this app will help you out.

  • Page 17: Music, Video And Books On Amazon Prime

    Wi-Fi, streaming content directly to your device for your enjoyment. To enjoy this, the Amazon Fire is equipped with a media player capable of playing back music and video stored on your device and streamed to it from the web. And as an Amazon produced device, reading eBooks, magazines and comics is simple.

  • Page 18: What Is Amazon Prime

    Paste. Or you could just drag-and-drop. To enjoy your media, return to the Amazon Fire and tap the Disconnect button. You can then remove the USB cable and start enjoying the synced content! 5.2 What Is Amazon Prime? As a product that comes straight from Amazon, the Amazon Fire is designed as a media consumption device —...

  • Page 19: Buying Movies, Tv Shows, Music, And Books With The Amazon Fire

    Amazon website, opening My Account, and following the instructions via the appropriate link. 5.3 Buying Movies, TV Shows, Music, and Books with the Amazon Fire Even if you have an Amazon Prime membership, you’ll find that there are still items that you cannot enjoy for free.

  • Page 20: Video Sync And Settings

    USB cable, and sync as explained above. When syncing, be wary of the comparatively small 8 GB of storage on your Amazon Fire — don’t copy too many videos! The Amazon Fire will play MP4 and MKV format videos, along with 3GP, M4V, and WEBM.
  • Page 21 Settings. For video, you will see Disable HD purchase warning; when high definition videos are purchased on the Amazon Fire by default a pop-up window is displayed, intended to prevent accidental purchases of videos that are more expensive than their standard definition alternatives.

  • Page 22: Finding Music For Your Amazon Fire

    Just tap the square Overview button to switch apps. Of course, this isn’t the only way to enjoy music on your Amazon Fire. You also have the option of Amazon Radio, curated selections of music in almost any genre you can think of.

  • Page 23: Playing And Managing Audible Audiobooks

    5.7 Playing and Managing Audible Audiobooks One of the many benefits of Amazon’s ecosphere is the Audible audiobook range, which is available to Amazon Fire users. You’ll find it has a dedicated screen where all audiobooks that they often have introductory you’ve previously bought will be listed.
  • Page 24 Audiobooks can be easily bought from the store by tapping the item to read the description, and then tapping the Buy option. However, note that an Audible subscription affords at least one credit each month. This means that you can use your credits to buy; use the Buy for 1 Credit button to do this.

  • Page 25: A Focus On Reading

    5.8 A Focus on Reading With at least 8 GB of storage available on your Amazon Fire, you could easily spend the rest of your life enjoying books downloaded to the device. Although sporting a different look and feel to the more recognizable Kindle devices, the Amazon Fire remains at heart an eBook reader.

  • Page 26: Finding Free Titles To Read

    • PDF • MOBI • PRC As a result, you can enjoy books, magazines, and even comics on your Amazon Fire. And where appropriate, presented in full color for your enjoyment! 5.9 Finding Free Titles to Read Thanks to the endeavors of publishers and authors, many titles — good and bad — are available free from time to time.

  • Page 27: Accessing The Web On Your Amazon Fire

    6.1 The Silk Browser The native means of accessing the World Wide Web on your Amazon Fire is designed to be as fast as possible, something achieved by using the Amazon cloud servers to process some of the requested web page information .

  • Page 28: The Sub-Menu

    6.1.1 The Sub-Menu What’s in the sub-menu? The Add bookmark button is a faster way of setting the currently- viewed webpage as one of your favorites. Share page, meanwhile, enables sharing of the URL with others via email, chat, Facebook — whatever suitable apps you have installed.

  • Page 29: Configuring The Silk Browser

    Amazon Cloud 7. Parental Controls on the Amazon Fire If you’re letting children use your Amazon Fire — or you’ve purchased the kid’s version — then a strong argument against you’ll need to know about the parental controls. (Although there is letting your children loose on one of these tablets.) These can be enabled via Settings >...

  • Page 30: Amazon Fire Settings & Connectivity

    8. Amazon Fire Settings & Connectivity As you become more familiar with your Amazon Fire tablet you may decide that you want to make some changes to the way the device behaves. Although quite “locked-down” when compared to other Android tablets, the Amazon Fire has plenty of options for the average user, accessed via the hidden settings menu.

  • Page 31: The Amazon Fire Menu Bar

    8.1 The Amazon Fire Menu Bar Throughout the Amazon Fire’s user interface there are two key menus. We’ve looked at one of these in various guises throughout the guide so far; each app and book on the device has a menu across the bottom edge of the screen, used for navigating within the app and within the device itself.

  • Page 32: Battery Management

    8.2 Battery Management Like many portable devices, the Amazon Fire relies on a built-in rechargeable battery for power. When left, a full charge can last over a day, but intensive activity — using the tablet for streaming Amazon Instant Video, for instance —...

  • Page 33: Configuring Wireless Networking On The Amazon Fire

    8.3 Configuring Wireless Networking on the Amazon Fire Available in the Settings menu, wireless networking should be pretty painless to use for most users. After switching Wi-Fi On, your device should do a quick scan for local wireless networks. To join an open network (identified by a Wi-Fi symbol with no padlock), simply tap and wait for your Amazon Fire to connect.

  • Page 34: Display Settings

    Open to WPA2 EAP. When you’re happy, click Save to connect. Note that if you connect to a large number of wireless networks when using your Amazon Fire, you will eventually end up with a long list of them – this is maintained to make reconnection easy.

  • Page 35: Amazon Fire Security

    9.1 The Lock Screen Password Whenever you start up your Amazon Fire or tap the power button to “wake” it up from standby mode, you will be presented with a lock screen, complete with one of several default images that are displayed randomly.

  • Page 36: Credential Storage

    Settings > My Account. Once an account is deregistered, a new Amazon account can be entered, or setup as described in 2 Setting Up the Amazon Fire. This will then prompt the device to sync the new owner’s purchased content — books, music, videos, etc. — while the previous owner is forgotten.

  • Page 37: Resetting For Security

    Whether you intend on getting the maximum functionality from your device or you want to make sure that the new recipient has a device running the latest version of the Amazon Fire software, you should be aware of the regular Over-The-Air (OTA) updates that Amazon sends out.

  • Page 38: Is Your Amazon Fire Lost Or Stolen

    9.6 Is Your Amazon Fire Lost or Stolen? Should the worst come to worst and your Amazon Fire is sadly no longer in your possession, you should take immediate steps to disassociate your account from the device. www.amazon.com/ In order to do this, you will first need to head to manageyourkindle and Deregister your device.

  • Page 39: Tracing And Dealing With Problem Apps And Games

    10.2 Tracing and Dealing with Problem Apps and Games Many issues on the Amazon Fire can be app related. As a result, take a look at the settings for the app you suspect to be causing the problem. This is something you should first investigate by opening the app itself and checking the settings.

  • Page 40: Dealing With Synchronization Issues

    10.4 I’ve Lost My Password! Taken steps to secure your device with a lock screen password? Make sure that you don’t forget the code! Should this happen, your Amazon Fire will force you to restore the device to its default factory settings.

  • Page 41: Get Reading

    Get Reading! The Amazon Fire range is a great, selection of devices offering an alternative to the usual Apple and Android tablets. They also supplant basic E-Ink Kindle e-readers. The Fire’s size and flexibility makes it the top choice in a market where it has already seen off competitors.

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