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[Fire General] DB126:
As you can see throughout this thread many individuals have successfully installed the Google Play Store and related services on a variety of 5th, 6th and 7th gen devices including the latest HD 10. Review the OP to insure you are using the proper build(s). Those recommended for the HD 8 should be sufficient (albeit not optional) for the HD 10.
[Fire General] dgr7:
was able to install play store in primary profile, errors in secondary

Hi

thanks for your help

when writing my previous post I had only tried to install the play store in a secondary profile on the kindle I created after setting the device up first with a primary profile. i switched to the primary profile, followed play store install instructions here

Amazon Fire HD 10 with Alexa (2017) - Install Google Play Store!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPRv3DHZJI

and have the play store working on the kindle in the primary profile

when i switch to the secondary profile and try to do the same install steps I get a generic "can't install apk" error when trying to install the two Play apks

Google Play Services (from rawapk)

Google Play Store (from rawapk)

but I can install the other two google apks just fine in the secondary profile

Google Services Framework (from rawapk)

Google Account Manager (from rawapk)

anyone know why the two play apks wont install in the secondary profile?

If it's not an simple solution, I'll can just live with using the play store in the primary profile

thanks
[Fire General] DB126:
Unfortunately, the solution is not simple. There are a number of hoops to jump through with limited functionality in 'secondary' profiles. If you are comfortable sticking with the status quo that is probably the best course of action.
[Fire General] techmanc:
Hi hoping I am posting on the right thread if not feel free to move my post.

I got amazon fire 10 hd today and wanted to install google play on my tablet.

I used install info to do the install https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/

After failing at first think had not compatable version of the playstore it working and am able to some apps but it has not been added to play acct so I can send apps to it directly and I am assuming that should be working.

I did d/l the DTVN app I was hoping would work and it does as well as some other apps but I cant seem to get to of my main apps working which is swiftkey and clipper+. Clipper+ installs but it wont use the online sync function as it dont see my gmail acct so posting now for help thanks.
[Fire General] DB126:
Syncing with mother Google (ie: web accessible Play account) is a hit/miss proposition on Amazon devices. Side loading Gmail, Google app, Google Music or YouTube sometimes establishes the link. Without that link some 3rd party apps won't sync across devices. Good luck.
[Fire General] User778:
Please ignore
[Fire General] vanduc1102:
Thank man

It is 18 Dec 2017

I confirm it work for Kindle Fire HD10 - 2017 gen - FireOS 5.6

:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Fire General] litobirdy:
So there is no longer an official way to install this stuff on the kids profile? I have the 2017 amazon fire HD 8 kids edition. Mainly want Youtube Kids on kids profile. I got it all working on main profile. But for kids, I can't install the last 2 google apks.
[Fire General] woodyear99:
It works but I don't see the play store app nor any apps I install using the play store. The only way for me to open play store or apps installed with play store is to search using the search bar. Is there any way to get the apps along with play store to show on the main screen?
[Fire General] DB126:
From your description this appears to be a FireOS launcher fault vs a problem with the underlying installation. Unfortunately, I do not have a device running FireOS 5.6; others will need to fill in the blanks on addressing this annoyance.
[Fire General] sga999:
This appears to be a "new" problem. I mean, I have been on 5.6.0.0 since I got my Fire HD 10 a few weeks ago. The Play Store apps used to show on the fire launcher home screen. But there appears to be a new update which has changed things. It still says I'm on the same release, but once in awhile, I do system update, and I click to see if there's more, and there is. They don't tell me what the updates are for, but I go ahead and let them install. This change may have happened yesterday, but I can't be sure exactly when.

If you install another launcher, the installed apps will show properly there. I have not figured out how to get them to show on the fire launcher. It looks like they have changed the fire launcher's name to Home Pages. I am probably making it more confusing by telling you that. But my point is that they have made some changes, maybe to deter us from doing some things. Yet like I said, everything looks good on another launcher.

EDIT: changed the launcher's name from Home Screens to Home Pages.

EDIT2: Even more peculiar, the Fire Launcher won't even show apps installed from the Amazon App Store. Maybe this is a bug they introduced, even if we have NOT installed the Google apk's? I can't check that now, since I already have installed them. And I don't feel like doing a factory reset again, just to prove that. Maybe someone who hasn't installed the 4 apk's yet can chime in.
[Fire General] fonnae:
New for me too. Everything was working great up till a week or so.

Also for me, google keyboard became greyed out and gave some weird message about: sd card not available. I've never had an SD in.

And of course the big thing being that new apps aren't appearing on the home screen.

Also gmail is doing a force-close the second I click on any email.

Basically, the entire usability of my fire tablet went from fantastic to garbage. Here's hoping you guys can come to the rescue. I'm on fire hd 8 2017 if that helps :)
[Fire General] woodyear99:
Confirmed I can see the apps in Nova launcher. Is there a way to set it so that Nova launcher comes up when I press the home button?
[Fire General] sga999:
See a thread that has the title "New: Any Launcher, No Root (Launcher Hijack V3)". It allows you to hijack the home button.
[Fire General] Amr1th:
It works like a charm! Thanks! But can someone suggest me a suitable launcher? Fire OS is making me sick. :(
[Fire General] DB126:
Nova if you like the look of 'pure' Android. Follow guidance in this thread when installing a custom launcher (hint: you can't fully disable/replace FireOS).
[Fire General] Amr1th:
I'm so sorry, I don't seem to understand that thread. I wish there were a step wise write-up. I'm worried if I'll brick my device. Can you please dumb it down for me?
[Fire General] DB126:
Probably best to stick with FireOS for now. It's not a clean solution; hence the earlier caveat.
[Fire General] sga999:
I learned more about this problem with the fire launcher. I think it may have to do with the fact that they changed its name? I went to settings, apps and games, All, Home Pages. That's the fire launcher. I cleared its cache and data and force stopped. I'm not sure if all of those were necessary. Now apps can be installed from either the play store or the Amazon app store, and they will show on the fire launcher home screen.
[Fire General] woodyear99:
Thanks I'll give this a try later.
[Fire General] litobirdy:
So there is no longer a way to install this stuff on the kids profile? I have the 2017 amazon fire HD 8 kids edition. Mainly want Youtube Kids on kids profile. I got it all working on main profile. But for kids, I can't install the last 2 google apks.
[Fire General] ktmom:
You do realize that your last post (22 hours ago), was right in the middle of a discussion about this exact thing? Just go back and read through the thread.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Fire General] fonnae:
I restarted my tablet (although this is not the first time I've done that) but it actually seemed to fix everything this time.
[Fire General] hbrish:
I installed it successfully on my new Kindle Fire, but I can't seem to get the "Play Store" icon on my home screen or anywhere else except "Recent Apps". This is also the case for any app I download from google play store. Any thoughts?
[Fire General] litobirdy:
yes but some users have said they will be back to post results, and never have. So i was wondering if they can post their results. Child profile, youtube kids? Still no go anymore?
[Fire General] Amr1th:
I shall. But since I already have Google play store side-loaded, what happens if I directly downloaded a launcher from it on to the Kindle, like we would normally on an android phone. I have the Kindle fire HD 8, 2017 model.
[Fire General] DB126:
Without a 'hack' there is no method for making a 3rd party launcher the default choice under FireOS. Pressing the home button or taking various other actions will present the native launcher.
[Fire General] William5:
That's odd, when I first did the downloads for my amazon fire hd 10, installed, and reboot, the play store was on the home screen but grayed out, so I rebooted couple more times with no effect. so I redownloaded everything again, installed and reboot and it made google settings app grayed out. So I deleted EVERYTHING in downloads folder, reboot and everything works now.
[Fire General] sga999:
Did you see the my post #641 at the top of this page? I talked about doing a few steps to the Home Pages app which fixed the problem.
[Fire General] doslover:
Gave you thanks on your post too but just wanted to post that this worked for me as well. Granted I wish I'd tried not clearing the data first but a minor inconvenience to get it working again. Thanks again :)
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
So there's a lot of posts in this thread, and I'm far too cross eyed this morning to read through them all for my question. Hoping someone is kind enough to just tell me. I see that every APK on page 1 has a newer version available; I just got the Fire HD 10 7th gen for Christmas this morning. (MERRY CHRISTMAS, BY THE WAY! :) )

Do I stick with the versions of these files from page 1, or download the latest versions? I assume the later versions are for newer versions of Android; will the stock HD 10 work with them, or should I stay with the versions the links point to?

Thanks in advance for the kind soul who answers this question and doesn't flame me about not wanting to pore through post after post in hopes that the question was asked and answered.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I would install the ones listed in the OP, though I don't think it matters too much. Regardless they will eventually update to the latest versions once installed.
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
That's kind of what I figured, but I was hesitant about bricking my two hour old Christmas present. Don't think my wife would find that very funny. :p

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Nice, just step-by-stepped my way through the installs, Google play store working perfectly. Thank you sir!

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Spoke just a smidge too soon... Gmail crashes and burns whenever I open it. Anyone know of a fix?
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Gmail is give or take. It will either work or it won't. I would wait and monitor the 4 APKs and see when they update and try installing it again.

You wouldn't have bricked. The worst that would've happened is they wouldn't have worked. On the Kindle 8.9 they don't work, but those tablets are rootable, can have TWRP and a custom ROM.
[Fire General] DB126:
Although your question was promptly answered you'll find the search function works well and often yields near instantaneous results.
[Fire General] Bud H:
I downloaded the APK files as stated above , but when I attrmpt to install , the install button is grayed out. I tried power cycle as suggested , no help. Any ideas?
[Fire General] xanderten50:
I had this as well, after using this guide perfectly a while back on my fire 7 I came straight here again with my brand new Fire HD 8... but it won't let me install any of the apps (unknown sources has been okayed) the option is just greyed out :( has Amazon finally blocked this method?
[Fire General] Bud H:
I also had done this on two other fire tablets with no issue's. Nor this time
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Search the forums. There are several methods to fix that. Try disable blue light first.
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
I'm aware of the search; that's what brought me to this thread. Once here though, I didn't feel like reading through dozens and dozens of posts to get to my answer.
[Fire General] DB126:
The XDA internal search tool is especially effective within a thread. No need to read through "dozens and dozens of posts" to quickly find relevant information.
[Fire General] mentalcase87:
It seems I have lost the ability to manage and add accounts. I bought a hd 10 new about 2 months ago and was able to do it then. Now I am unable to do it on a 7 I was setting this all up on as well as no longer on the 10 which did previously let me. I searched a few pages back and didn't catch anyone saying this or in the search.
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
Already said twice. I think the point was made; any real need to keep going here, or can you move along?
[Fire General] DB126:
Either absorbed or not. So yeah - time to move on as illuminating the obvious is pointless.
[Fire General] Mafowler:
I have installed Google Playstore and downloaded some apps onto my Fire HD 10 from there, but they are not accessible via the homepage; instead the shortcuts appear under the "your recent items" section. Does anyone know how to add shortcuts for the Playstore and android apps onto the Fire home screen?
[Fire General] sga999:
I posted a fix for this in the thread below in Post 9 (with plenty of discussion in posts before that).

https://xdaforums.com/hd8-hd10/help/fire-10-2017-google-play-apps-wont-due-t3721053

For some reason people keep asking the same question, and others keep posting the same answer. I guess there should be a way to move the answer to that top post, but I was not the original poster, so I guess it will just keep being asked and answered.
[Fire General] mentalcase87:
Anyone know of a fix for this? Restoring the tablet won't work because I am trying to add my daughters account and the versions I have to download aren't new enough to log her in first. After I login and a few minutes it is up to date enough to add her but that function no longer works.
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
Tell ya what sparky, next time I have a question, if I don't first search exhaustively in all threads remotely pertaining to the topic of my query, and the question turns out to be easily answered by said search function, you have my express consent to smash me mercilessly about it.

The point I was making was that I made a request after a basic search, you pointed out my foible, I acknowledged it, with a brief explanation as to why I breached etiquette, and you for some unknown reason felt the need to reiterate the exact point you had already made, as though I were some sort of dullard.

As you said, your criticism was obvious. I absorbed it. I'll endeavor not to waste precious time of our fellow posters asking "already asked" questions going forward.

You're getting annoying now. How about you do you, and let me do me, and we'll agree to ignore each other going forward. Deal? God, I hate internet Nazis. Your type is exhausting.
[Fire General] DB126:
lol - played it right to script. Sure pal, sounds like a deal.
[Fire General] Edeard95:
Is there a trick to creating app icons from this method? I've got the apks and a few apps from the playstore now, but no icons are created, meaning I have to go through the playstore to open apps
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
I've told people if using Nova, to select the option to ENABLE placement of icons from the play store, to the home screen. I don't know if that will work, but anytime I've said it, no one ever said it didn't lol.
[Fire General] sga999:
See post #641 in this thread. Not sure if you are saying you do not see the icons in the fire launcher home app, which is called home pages. If so, that post may help you, but if you're using another launcher, that post doesn't apply. In that post, I said things about clearing cache and data and then force stop. I think the last is enough to accomplish it, but it doesn't hurt to do all three steps.
[Fire General] codyt:
I'm really looking for an answer to this question as well.

Is there any way to add a second Google account so that you can choose which google account you want to use for each app?

Thanks,

Cody
[Fire General] DB126:
Not really. I phrase it that way because some lengthy, convoluted workarounds have been posted that are difficult to replicate and have various shortcomings. In most cases it involves a parent looking to curate their (younger) child's app portfolio. For all practical purposes one should consider the device a one user/profile affair w.r.t. Google account and/or Play Store access.

Maybe someone has an easier approach; haven't see it yet.
[Fire General] wpbear:
I use two accounts for Hangouts. When I installed Hangouts and added a second account it worked and then showed across other google apps; google drive, calendar, play store etc.
[Fire General] Stromy93:
Been trying to setup a kindle 10 inch. Go to install the individual files and the install option won't let me select the install option. Have settings allowing outside apps to be installed.
[Fire General] JaylanPHNX:
Reboot, try again.
[Fire General] XtianDD:
Hello All!

Im trying to install the play store on a second profile in the same tablet (after i successfully installed it on the main profile 5 days ago). It´s not allowing me to install the google play SERVICES. Do you know if there is anything preventing me from doing this? any update issues? anything to do with having it already installed on the main profile (It is working fine on the main profile?

can you please help me out with a workaround?﻿

Running Fire OS 5.6.0.0 (updated the same day i installed Play store, not sure if before or after).

Google Services Running on Main Account: 11.9.51

Framework and Account Management: 5.1-1743759

Store: 8.5.39.W
[Fire General] DB126:
https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=74997964#post74997964

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75002546&postcount=131
[Fire General] XtianDD:
Hey Davey126 [MENTION=5488402]Davey126[/MENTION], sorry for the double post, i replied and then searched and found you had already answered my question. I have been looking for a workaround for this for days.

Quick question: What would happen if i uninstall the 4 google apks from the main account, and re-install them on my secondary account? would i be able to do this without problems? it wont give me issues while re-installing or functioning on the secondary?

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Hey Davey126 [MENTION=5488402]Davey126[/MENTION], sorry for the double post, i replied and then searched and found you had already answered my question. I have been looking for a workaround for this for days.

Quick question: What would happen if i uninstall the 4 google apks from the main account, and re-install them on my secondary account? would i be able to do this without problems? it wont give me issues while re-installing or functioning on the secondary? (by secondary i just mean an alternate adult profile)
[Fire General] DB126:
Suspect it will work fine provided you can disassociate the Google account from the original profile. Even that may not make a difference as Google may only consider the device vs. device+profile when installed on FireOS. Note any apps installed from the Play Store probably will not be recognized; might have to uninstall/reinstall.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
That's a tough one. As we don't technically associate a Google account with these devices, at least not that Amazon wants you to see. Download Activity Launcher and tap the pull down menu, tap all activities, scroll to settings, tap it, scroll to accounts. The only thing you can do is 1) remove most of the accounts. If you can uninstall apps still, you can uninstall the Amazon apps that are associated with the Amazon account. 2) tap the three dots if I recall, and you can stop syncing. Now with Amazon accounts, tap them and some of them you can edit and or remove.

Note though to be able to 100% disassociate a google account with these devices, factory reset. I've tried everything from the Google account page and signing out of any app I can and wiping data, and that trick listed above. There is always leftover data.
[Fire General] sexzkitten4000:
I can see that the google play store was downloaded successfully on our Amazon fire 8 kids edition, however no icon appears to click on. I can see the successful download when I go into settings, apps & games, manage all applications. It does show google account manager, google play services, google play store & google services framework......just missing the app icon so we can actually open it..... did I do something wrong or do I need to do something extra....already powered off and on the tablet.
[Fire General] JoeyDVDZ:
Here's something off script then dude. I DID pore through the 14 pages of comments because you're being SO friendly. You know what I found? MY QUESTION WAS NOT ANSWERED UNTIL I ASKED IT.

I didn't ask how to do this hack. I asked if anyone thought it was a good idea to stick with the original versions of the APK's in the OP's links as opposed to taking the latest versions offered at each post. And unless I missed it, nobody addressed that question until I asked it.

SO here's an idea; don't be such an insufferable tool to someone simply asking for elaboration on the original post, k?
[Fire General] DB126:
Found relevant posts using the keyword "version". Perhaps you used different keywords or search engine.
[Fire General] mentalcase87:
I am indeed trying to get my profile loaded up for my childs tablet. On the Fire 10 that I bought 2 months ago I was able to easily load up the second profile and it works without issue. I can no longer do that though and as far as I recall it didn't take special work. I would gladly root the thing and put a new rom on but am pretty sure from some basic reading it's too late.
[Fire General] XtianDD:
Hey [MENTION=5488402]Davey126[/MENTION] and [MENTION=8165603]DragonFire1024[/MENTION], Thanks for your help this far! Here´s an update on my situation:

I did what i was planning to do: I uninstalled all google apks from the main profile, and then installed on the alternate profile without problems. Was almost jumping out of joy, but then i went to install an app from the Play store, and.... "Download pending":crying:

I followed your suggestions to other posts on this thread regarding the "download pending" issue. Sideloaded gmail, but gmail also got stuck on retrieving emails, and play store never worked.

So then i decided to do a Factory wipe. Reinstalled all the apks again without problem. Played a video on Google, used the search engine on Google (allowed it to use my location), and went to the play store but still "Download Pending". I could really use your expertise on this situation, as now my son wants to kill me.

Please help.
[Fire General] codyt:
Well that just figures. Hangouts is the app I wanted two google accounts loaded for, but I didn't want to install it until I had the second account loaded. Guess I should have just installed hangouts first

Thanks for the help!

Cody
[Fire General] DB126:
Somewhat of a WAG but try installing the official Google Music and YouTube apps. Launch both and play a few seconds of content. The try the Play Store again. Might toss in a reboot for good measure.

Download pending is an indication the Play Store can not verify your region (location). This only needs to be done once. Why it sometimes fails remains a mystery - at least to me.
[Fire General] DragonFire1024:
Just thought of something. Download a mock GPS location app. Choose your location, activate the mock location and see if that works.