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Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017)

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  • Marshal
  • NuU
  • 21 Feb 2024

l personally l have noticed that your tablets are good at streaming movies gaming how ever
On your app store there are lean majority of your games are made by unity and is not a good
Company

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    • Vals
    • 3qE
    • 22 Jun 2023

    I have one and is still working,battery is ok,but is slowly in work

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      • Bill
      • 3vB
      • 11 Feb 2023

      I've got two of this, people had no more use of it. Both where dead and don't start.

      I try to charge with a 500 mA and later 1 A charger, no result. Later I take a 2 A (Huawei) charger. I hear a sound, progress bar shows 1 line and then it goes to kind of green arrow. No more progress bar, just black screen. I let it on the charger for about 45 minutes.

      Then I took the charger full off. After start button press it started. Both show a start menu of Amazon Kids and are full of parents and kids accounts. Most of the Apps say: Your Licence expired. The charge level of both are around 25% and hold it for days.

      The model number printed on back of both is SX034QT, Europe edition.

      Questions

      1. Charging is 2 A not to much, on the back it says 5 Volt, maximum 1 A!!!

      2. is there any side where I can look up how many ram is installed on SX034QT?

      3. I want to give Lineage OS a try, is there a step by step instruction special fore Fire? Or goes it like smartphone installing? I tried already the ‘wipe cache partition’ with success.

      If I can bring it to higher Android level through Lineage, may be I give it to charity. A tablet what lacks GPS is not for me.

      So, any help is welcome

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        • Anonymous
        • XZn
        • 27 Dec 2022

        It need more modifications it can't handle games like roblox,Minecraft. And some games are premium this fire like solar smash and etc and this etc games are free in Android so and play store is also premium pls free the play store and the games so your money production will more increase.

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          • Whuffle
          • XKZ
          • 05 May 2022

          Anonymous, 15 Jan 2022You can actually use the brick method to flash twrp on to t... moreYou're a champion. Thanks! I'm repairing an old one and will attempt this.

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            • Anonymous
            • vGc
            • 15 Jan 2022

            Anonymous, 16 Apr 2021I've had this tablet for nearly three years at this po... moreYou can actually use the brick method to flash twrp on to the tablet, and then basically install whichever custom ROM you want (I am using Lineage os 15.1 which is based on Android 9 and the tab works great. I was also able to root it by flashing Magisk onto it). If you want to go even deeper into customisation, you can actually use Kernel Auditor and change your CPU Properties like the cpu governor to either increase performance or gain battery life

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              • Anonymous
              • KIB
              • 03 May 2021

              Anonymous, 16 Apr 2021I've had this tablet for nearly three years at this po... moreYou said you had little cause to complain, yet so many complaints :)

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                • Anonymous
                • smQ
                • 16 Apr 2021

                I've had this tablet for nearly three years at this point, and I've had little cause to complain. Software wise, Fireos can be irritating, but this can easily be circumvented by side loading the Google playstore.

                The tablet's main limitations are in its hardware, which I would describe as barely sufficient for 2021. I never had any complaints back in 2018 about performance, but I couldn't recommend this model to a modern day consumer in good faith. Keeping multiple apps open can cause problems, and simple screen animations can be sluggish at times.

                Aside from its lacklustre internal chipsets, the tablet has a relatively dim screen that doesn't hold up well in direct sunlight, and a set of speakers that don't really work well in any environment other than a quiet room, although they are fine in most situations.

                  I've bought cheap used one with touch screen not working, opened it and cleaned contacts, it took a 15 minutes and now it works good.
                  After installing google play everything runs great. Battery is great. Sound is good. No complains.

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                    • Rafael
                    • 6XN
                    • 13 Apr 2020

                    http://imgur.com/a/ZEwIqyS

                    This tablet actually has 2GB of total RAM, although system + native apps running in the background drop that to ~1.1GB (you see less than that free in the screenshot because of the apps I'm running). Probably why Amazon announces it as 1.5, but still, I bought it expecting to have 600-700MB free for my apps, so that was a nice surprise.

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                      • CianReviewz
                      • kZW
                      • 18 Jul 2019

                      This is a good tablet for what you pay

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                        • Snakehead657
                        • q1t
                        • 27 Mar 2019

                        Although not mentioned in the info here this does have usb otg. It can access a mouse, keyboard or usb sticks. If powered however, it can access a 2 tb hard drive. I tried it with both a seagate expansion and a backup plus slim and it works fine. Other than that great tablet.

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                          • gossamer
                          • 3HZ
                          • 03 Mar 2019

                          frooglemeister, 20 Dec 2017How do you side load Google Play on to this tablet?deviously

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 3HZ
                            • 03 Mar 2019

                            cHEAPER THAN MOST. sTUCK WITH AMAZON APPS that cant be removed. ( I shuffe=led them intov a folder called ****). you CAN get the google play store app on it by several ( Highly dubious) methods. (my grandkids did mine, Mi'lud, not guilty). Battery life is v. good, I get 6 to 8 hrs video, 3-4 days on standby. Size is best compromise between 7 inch and 10 in tabs. Stick 64-128gb sd card in it (takes up to 256), and load it up, either from pc, or via pc to add./remove. Oh yes,finally, get a decent file manager on it, easy to become lost ....cheers frm the UK

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                              • Don_Memo_123
                              • Ghw
                              • 28 Feb 2019

                              Anonymous, 21 Feb 2019I want to buy Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017). If any body faced ... moreI have had this tablet since November 2016. It was a great tablet for the price. It is still a good tablet for music and video streaming and ocasional web browsing. I wouldn't suggest anything else on it, if you want to have a leasant experience. Even though my kindle is not rooted, I sideloaded the Google Play store and several other android apps.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • XSD
                                • 21 Feb 2019

                                I want to buy Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017). If any body faced any Problem on this tablet. please suggestion me.

                                  Does usb work on it? i know it works on the 7 inch?

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                                    • Zen liam
                                    • jyE
                                    • 02 Sep 2018

                                    Screen flickering problem...update pls.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • Ku1
                                      • 18 Aug 2018

                                      Have any protection in the display?

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                                        • Y73
                                        • 02 Jul 2018

                                        Dam! Got it to shop quicker than the 7" in started with. I dunno if I justify the Prime membership.....BUT...I get excellent prices in a sort of "shopping desert" in a 100K pop. US Midwest town.
                                        I could play 2 viddies off the sd card back to back....g00d battery....pic fine on a plane seat tray or in a waiting room etc.

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