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Tips for Kindle Fire HD 8 dot 9
I'm owner of this device since June 2013. And I'd like to share some tips with you.
I bout Kindle Fire HD 8.9" for very simple reason - it was most cheap Tablet with full HD display resolution (1080p). Such resolution comes very handy when reading PDF files (they can't be reformatted so high resolution is absolute must).
However I later found several unexpected limitations:
- No Chrome browser available (Kindle has Amazons's browser called Silk)
- No Google Play store access - you can easily access Amazon App Store only which contains only little fraction of Android applications
- Missing many national keyboards (Czech in my case)
NOTE: some of above problem can be workarounded (for example you can install some Google Play apps to your mobile phone with Android OS and transfer it to Kindle - but it is unexpected mess.
To start exploring your Kindle device - I recommend QPython - Python on Android available from: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AP36S4Y/ (I have installed version 1.3.3)
- Launch this QPython app
- Once Python logo appears (on black background) - swipe it to left
- Than click on Console
- You should get Python Console.
How to turn Python Console to shell Console:
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If your console text start with something like:
..../qpython.sh && exit
Then you can use this simple command to get shell:
exit(1)
NOTE: exit( non_zero ) is required to skip evil
&& exit
command which would otherwise close our console -
If above thing does not work, you can try to invoke shell directly from python langugage using:
import os os.system('sh')
Once any of these command work, you can try for example:
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getting ARM CPU info:
cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l) processor : 0 BogoMIPS : 2982.32 ... (it seems that there are 2 cores?)
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Getting memory info:
cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 786084 kB ...
Ooops, you can see that this kindle has just 780MB of RAM installed
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Using package manager to list installed packages in format `PATHANE=PACKAGE_NAME:
pm list packages -f package:/system/app/AmazonJacksonApk-release.apk=amazon.jackson19 package:/system/framework/framework-res.apk=android package:/system/app/air_runtime_dcts.apk=com.adobe.air package:/data/app/com.amazon.ags.app-1.apk=com.amazon.ags.app ...
Interesting notes:
- packages located in
/data/app
directory - are so called User packages - they can be stopped, disabled or removed by user - packages located in
/system/app
are system packages - they can't be disabled nor uninstalled. If you attempt to kill them they start again (ehm)...
- packages located in
--hp
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