Kindle fire hd 3rd generation root 4.5.5.3 android#
Third Party Android ROMs for the Kindle Fire HD After this it became a good enough device for testing the occasional website, but I never really did much else with it. Most importantly, I installed a firewall called NetGuard and turned off network access to everything but the apps I needed to use. I replaced Amazon’s Silk browser with Firefox Focus. While it meant trading Amazon for Google in some ways, I installed the Google Play Store on the Fire in order to add apps outside of Amazon’s very limited app store. I registered the tablet with a new Amazon account tied to a new email. They also sell a cheaper version with ads that appear on the lock screen and while they happily remove them if you just chat with support and say that you were offended by an ad, the whole package is a rather creepy.Īt the time I did what I could to mitigate the data collection. Amazon also syphons as much data as it can from you and your device, encouraging you to login with an Amazon account and using a default web browser called Silk that relies on cloud integration to try to offset the slow on tablet performance. Everything about the interface and operating system (a modified version of Android called FireOS) is design to get you to purchase products from Amazon. When purchased, the Amazon Fire HD low cost is subsidized by its total integration into the Amazon ecosystem. Outside of the speed, I had a lot of privacy concerns. Given the low price and the hardware, I wasn’t entirely surprised to learn that it was pretty slow, making me wonder how people are able to use such a device for daily browsing. I’ve always found it easier to test on a physical device, so the Fire HD was a cheap way to do that.
A few years back I purchased an Amazon Fire HD in order to have a tablet sized device to test websites on.
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