[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totallybeachin:
I haven't read this whole thread, so I apologize if this has already been asked. ( I doubt anyone is as dumb as I am, so I doubt there was a need for this question...lol)

Several days ago, I watched your video, and read your instructions for rooting and installing google play store.

All was good. Or so I thought.

When the Kindle goes to sleep or powers off or whatever, when I turn it back on, the 'buttons' along the bottom are only half there, and any 'widgets' I have on my home pages are unable to load. No matter what I do, I can not get them to load.

Also, along the bottom of the screen, the default toolbar thingy for the Kindle Fire is showing on the screen. (The bar with the Home button and the back arrow and the settings or whatever.....that little black bar along the bottom.) It's always there. But only after it has gone to sleep or powered off. It's never there otherwise, unless I hit the 'kindle app' to take me back to the original kindle screen. Once I hit the little shamrock app and go back to the android home screen, that toolbar disappears. UNTIL, it goes to sleep and I wake it back up. Then it never disappears.

Actually, it seems as if everything is fine until then.

I'm wondering, am I doing something wrong? Am I not doing enough?

What is flash a ROM and TWRP? What is bootloading/bootloader? Am I supposed to be doing that? Am I supposed to be doing anything else? Have I missed something?

After making sure ADB inteface or whatever is showing in Device manager, I ran the saferoot file, then when that was finished, I ran the Kindle Fire Utility, chose option 6, then 1 for google play. When it finished, I closed it out, unplugged the Kindle and set up (signed in to) google for the play store.

I have a bunch of 'GO' apps on there. I don't know where they came from, but I am afraid of removing them. There is a section I came across somehow that shows updates available, and some of the updates are for those 'GO' apps and whatnot, but it also says the update is not supported by my device?

I can install apps from the play store. Hit the Kindle App, it takes me to the original Kindle screen and everything seems to be functioning the same in that regard, still connects to Amazon's app store and lets me download apps from there with no problems.

But I just know there has to be something I am missing. I can change my wallpaper, but as soon as it goes to sleep, when I unlock it, old wallpaper is back. I have found threads/videos that explain how to fix that, however, when I download ES File explorer (or whatever), I am not finding any files that the threads/videos are referring to. An example of what I'm talking about. I connect the Kindle to my comp. Find an apk file I have on my laptop, copy/paste it into the folder in my kindle labeled Download. Seems like it copies just fine. Unplug the Kindle from the comp. Find the download folder on the Kindle, open it, and it's empty? Plug it back in to the computer, look at the folder from there, and the apk file is there....?

There's some other things too, that I can't just think of right now. I've just been playing around with it trying to familiarize myself with Android a little bit. No, I haven't been living in a cave, but this is the first time I have ever had my hands on an android device.

As of now, I have Reset to Factory Defaults and am back with just a plain old Kindle.

I just want to get this right and stop having to reset the damn thing.

I have a Kindle Fire (1st gen) running 6.3.3 and Windows 8.1 on my laptop

please be kind to this stupid newbie........:confused: :crying: