<p>I had a relatively easy time loading an ICS firmware on my Fire, but I am debating trying to use one of the stock+mod firmwares because I really do miss the Kindle app from the Fire itself.</p>
<p>Or maybe I will see if I can somehow merge that version of the Kindle app with my ICS environment.</p>
<p>Neither is likely to happen anytime soon, though, because of time constraints...</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 19, 2012 4:11 PM, "Brian W. Neu" <<a href="mailto:ale@advancedopen.com">ale@advancedopen.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I rooted my Kindle Fire, and while it's been quite a frustrating
process installing Google Market & apps on the thing because
they are labeled "incompatible", I'm still happy with the tablet. I
never watch Amazon Prime content, so I'd be perfectly fine with
installing a new ROM, but I wanted to give the devs time to work out
all the bugs.<br>
<br>
If you're considering rooting a Fire -- it would be far simpler to
just install a new ROM than to jump through all the hoops I did to
make it feel like a regular Android system.<br>
<br>
On 3/17/2012 10:26 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Just to let everyone know, my domesticate
boss, (aka wife or<br>
significant other) laid claim to the Nook that I had won at the<br>
meeting. As I wound up in the proverbial dog house due to some
other<br>
actions on my part, so I didn't feel that at the time it was safe
to<br>
challenge her claim of ownership. As a result my being able to
crack<br>
it or root it is not going to happen in the very near future. Note
I<br>
said near future, I'm known as a very persistent SOB and a
stubborn<br>
jacka$$ in my family, so it may very well happen in the future,
just<br>
can't say precisely when.<br>
<br>
Now as far as our opinion of it. The boss is thrilled with it and
is<br>
enjoying exploring it. I find the screen to be a bit ultra
sensitive<br>
for me, but then I don't do well with laptop touchpads either.
There<br>
were a couple of things that didn't seem intuitive or at least not
the<br>
way I'm used to doing on Linux desktop. I guess this old dog will
have<br>
to learn a few new tricks. I am impressed with the clarity of the<br>
screen, but am slower than *hit use the touch keyboard, and I'm
slow<br>
on a real keyboard.<br>
<br>
I had mentioned on another thread about a project that is based on<br>
OpenHardware design and OSS. The OS is a fork from MeeGo or based
on<br>
MeeGo, and I was talking to Mike W. about it at the post meeting,<br>
meeting at Melton's. So Mike W. here is the link<br>
<a href="http://makeplaylive.com/" target="_blank">http://makeplaylive.com/</a>. It is a tablet originally called Spark,
but<br>
they had to change the name to Vivaldi.<br>
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