Hey all,
I have a Fire HDX 7 with ggows HDX Nexus 4.0.5 installed. As the title says, the GPS is slow (takes long to find a fix, >1 minute) and LTE often doesnt work at all (randomly, sometimes airplane mode and back fixes it). As I'm using the Fire as my navigation unit with Google Maps, both these issues are quite big for me.
So my question to the Fire HDX with LTE owners: How is your GPS? Do you have cellphone data location working (doesnt seem to work for me at all)?
And what OS are you running to have good LTE?
Thanks for your feedback!
OriginalJones said:
Hey all,
I have a Fire HDX 7 with ggows HDX Nexus 4.0.5 installed. As the title says, the GPS is slow (takes long to find a fix, >1 minute) and LTE often doesnt work at all (randomly, sometimes airplane mode and back fixes it). As I'm using the Fire as my navigation unit with Google Maps, both these issues are quite big for me.
So my question to the Fire HDX with LTE owners: How is your GPS? Do you have cellphone data location working (doesnt seem to work for me at all)?
And what OS are you running to have good LTE?
Thanks for your feedback!
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The issues you mention are common to all HDX models with these HW features. LTE seems to work reasonably well with FireOS but is dodgy with custom roms (Nexus and all of the CM variants). GPS is reported slow/unreliable regardless of OS. I suspect Amazon's intent was to support location aware shopping apps vs navigation.
Davey126 said:
The issues you mention are common to all HDX models with these HW features. LTE seems to work reasonably well with FireOS but is dodgy with custom roms (Nexus and all of the CM variants). GPS is reported slow/unreliable regardless of OS. I suspect Amazon's intent was to support location aware shopping apps vs navigation.
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Thanks for your response, although it is a bummer. Anyone knows a cheap bluetooth GPS receiver I can put in the car?
Maybe I should go FireOS to at least have decent LTE. It's possible to have a custom launcher and root in FireOS, right?
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It's possible to have a custom launcher and root in FireOS, right?
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You can root most versions of FireOS (up through 4.5.3) using various tools. Using a custom launcher is more tedious as FireOS offers no mechanism for selecting the default launcher. Screen orientation and rotation are also issues. You'll need to do some research on workarounds which are launcher specific. I ultimately gave up on the custom launcher but happily ran rooted/Xposed on 3.2.6 for many months.
Gapps is also a royal PiTA under FireOS as Amazon and Google frameworks don't play nice together.
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Hello all. I've had the nexus 7 and was pleased with the consistency of the tegra 3 but it was old and outdated. Oposite of the 7, I've found that the 10 is crazy fast yet so inconsistent its ridiculous. I'll be impressed by how fast it is. Then all of sudden I'm frozen and have to hold down the hard reboot buttons. I love the nexus 10.... But the tegra is by far more consistent.... Anyone without these issues?
My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
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Hello all. I've had the nexus 7 and was pleased with the consistency of the tegra 3 but it was old and outdated. Oposite of the 7, I've found that the 10 is crazy fast yet so inconsistent its ridiculous. I'll be impressed by how fast it is. Then all of sudden I'm frozen and have to hold down the hard reboot buttons. I love the nexus 10.... But the tegra is by far more consistent.... Anyone without these issues?
My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
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Hi,
Ive never had any problems with my Nexus 10 so far. I never had random reboots (AFAIK) the only reboots I had was on Firefox Beta trying to run some flash videos but so far thats it. Its been smooth sailing for me. :good:
Since I turned off Google currents background sync and switched from chrome to AOSP browser I've found performance to be pretty much perfect. I've found a few specific apps that don't work well on the n10. ITV player is probably the worst one, just locks up the n10 and stops the lock screen from working properly, either have to reboot or start up Google now from the lock screen and kill ITV player from there. But most other stuff seems to work really well, even games like GTA Vice City run at max settings (which I know others have had problems with) without a problem.
Mine runs perfectly pretty much 100% of the time. Fastest tablet I've ever used. Pretty much flawless. I've also disabled Google Currents and I'm using Ocean Browser (which is essentially AOSP but you can install it from the Play Store and on non-rooted devices).
Quonith said:
Since I turned off Google currents background sync and switched from chrome to AOSP browser I've found performance to be pretty much perfect. I've found a few specific apps that don't work well on the n10. ITV player is probably the worst one, just locks up the n10 and stops the lock screen from working properly, either have to reboot or start up Google now from the lock screen and kill ITV player from there. But most other stuff seems to work really well, even games like GTA Vice City run at max settings (which I know others have had problems with) without a problem.
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Is there a guide to install the AOSP browser somewhere? I'd install CM 10.1 but wiping will be a pain and I don't really need any extra feature right now (I'm already rooted)
Fidelator said:
Is there a guide to install the AOSP browser somewhere? I'd install CM 10.1 but wiping will be a pain and I don't really need any extra feature right now (I'm already rooted)
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There is a flashable zip in this thread
Ditto... Since ditching Chrome for AOSP, I really have to work hard to get this thing to flinch, specifically. It did get pissed OCed to 2100; very stable from1700-2000. On craigacgomez AOSP+.
Throw cm10.1 on that puppy. Bye bye daily hangs and reboots.
I've had the same experience with Chrome
I've loaded Dolphin and Firefox and those work fine. Chrome just occasionally hangs and if I don't close the offending tab soon enough, I have to hard crash the tablet.
digitalrelic said:
Mine runs perfectly pretty much 100% of the time. Fastest tablet I've ever used. Pretty much flawless. I've also disabled Google Currents and I'm using Ocean Browser (which is essentially AOSP but you can install it from the Play Store and on non-rooted devices).
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Yup.....
None here at all, I've got both the N10 and N7.. I also disable stuff like Currents I don't use thru settings and fix permissions both are absolutely smooth and a pleasure to use
NeoMagus said:
None here at all, I've got both the N10 and N7.. I also disable stuff like Currents I don't use thru settings and fix permissions both are absolutely smooth and a pleasure to use
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I like the matching wallpapers man. Nice touch.
My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
I've so far turned the currents thing off. I really like chrome sync so I'm gonna stick with chrome... Anything else to help performance? I'm not really interested in doing any kernel installing or such.
My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
I've had 2-3 daily reboots at varying times (not just Chrome, also play store, pulling down a notification, opening google maps), but they've all gone since I changed my wireless router and disabled location requests. I'll turn location requests on in a few days and see how that affects things, I had another tablet (Archos spit spit) which used to crash a lot on a certain wireless router and never on another so I'm not discounting the wireless router being involved.
b4silver said:
I've so far turned the currents thing off. I really like chrome sync so I'm gonna stick with chrome... Anything else to help performance? I'm not really interested in doing any kernel installing or such.
My Nexus 10 is better than your tablet. Hah.
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Why? A kernel is you best fix for performance problems.
You can also not use Live Wallpaper, as that can cause lag in games.
Another thumbs up for ocean browser. I've found it to be much faster than any of the other browser's I've tried.
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Another thumbs up for ocean browser. I've found it to be much faster than any of the other browser's I've tried.
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Same I use ocean browser as well no problems.
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...You can also not use Live Wallpaper, as that can cause lag in games.
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This. I was actually pretty amazed to find this out; kind of figured the wallpaper to not impact system performance at all... when it wasn't being shown. But alas, that's not the case... Had some horrible FPS in NFS:MW, but after disabling my live wallpaper, FPS shot right up
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You can also not use Live Wallpaper, as that can cause lag in games.
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A live wallpaper is a type of service which is started when your home screen is showing. It is only consuming CPU resources until you switch to another app, as the service is halted at that time.
caveat: it's possible that some n00b developers don't stop drawing in onVisibilityChanged, if so, for shame
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A live wallpaper is a type of service which is started when your home screen is showing. It is only consuming CPU resources until you switch to another app, as the service is halted at that time.
caveat: it's possible that some n00b developers don't stop drawing in onVisibilityChanged, if so, for shame
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The Live Wallpaper I was using was Lonely Tree Live Wallpaper. If the developer isn't stopping drawing, I would hope it's a somewhat easy fix, or at least toggleable option.
Edit: I sent the developer an email, and got a response:
Some users have been reporting higher CPU usage than there should be. I think you might be right about it not shutting down properly.
I'll try to get it fixed ASAP. I think i know what change may have caused it.
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I've done as much searching on these issues and I cannot find anywhere that references my particular symptoms. I've tried both AOKP 4.2.1 latest release and supernexus 2.0, and the fact that the exact same issues happen on both roms I would assume it's either a 4.2.1 problem or just some particular issues with my device...
1.) just about every video playing app has some sort of problem. Biggest example being the Twitch tv app only playing audio, screen is black except for menu options. Trying to go back crashes the app. flash video embedded on Web pages (installed flash so regular browser supports flash) works until you try to watch full screened, which makes the browser lock up until you force the process closed. youtube, like the twitch tv app, will only show a black screen where the video should be, however everything else shows up fine (examples being menus and, most interestingly, the preview pics that appear as you scroll through the video show up, but when it buffers it's back to black screen) For the record, I had to install the fix here to get netflix to get even that far, as before it would just stick at the loading screen when trying to play a video.
2.) SwiftKey loses its languages after each reboot where typing does not bring up any predictions (boxes where they would be are blank), and the only way to get it working is to go into languages in SwiftKey settings and updating them. I saw some other places describing the same issues with jellybean but i couldn't find if there was a solution.
3.) connecting to my car via Bluetooth and listening to music (power amp currently installed), if i get a call while music is playing the device will lock up for several seconds and the only way to get everything back to normal is to turn off bluetooth once the phone actually starts responding, call the person back on the device, and then reconnect via bluetooth and continue the music only at that point.
Any help or guidance or info on any of these issues would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
if any of the issues I mentioned are discussed elsewhere that I just haven't found, would anyone be able to link me to the thread/article where it's discussed? or if there just isn't any way around it, let me know so I can just put an ics rom back on
Shaitheatery said:
if any of the issues I mentioned are discussed elsewhere that I just haven't found, would anyone be able to link me to the thread/article where it's discussed? or if there just isn't any way around it, let me know so I can just put an ics rom back on
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Why not drop back to 4.1.2 rather than ICS?
Bluetooth is a know issue with 4.2. Never seen the swiftkey issue before, but quite a few apps are not compatible with 4.2 yet.
SwiftKey is a reported bug with the gs2
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
Butchr said:
Why not drop back to 4.1.2 rather than ICS?
Bluetooth is a know issue with 4.2. Never seen the swiftkey issue before, but quite a few apps are not compatible with 4.2 yet.
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the video issue is the biggest issue in terms of affecting my day to day use, as i like to watch streams from twitch.tv as well as having netflix that works (has anyone seen or heard about the netflix issue i described? thought that was particularly weird...). I guess I could try a 4.1.2 rom before going all the way back to ics, but if it means more apps/features are stable and compatible compared to either version of jb, then that's the way i'd probably go. thanks for the replies
Shaitheatery said:
the video issue is the biggest issue in terms of affecting my day to day use, as i like to watch streams from twitch.tv as well as having netflix that works (has anyone seen or heard about the netflix issue i described? thought that was particularly weird...). I guess I could try a 4.1.2 rom before going all the way back to ics, but if it means more apps/features are stable and compatible compared to either version of jb, then that's the way i'd probably go. thanks for the replies
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Netflix bug is reported too entropy has a fix
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122ninjas said:
Netflix bug is reported too entropy has a fix
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
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if you're referring to the fix i linked in the op referencing the stuck at loading issue where the fix is to install xposed, that was the only way i even got past the loading screen initially which brought me to the issue I described. if there is another fix he provided for the issue, i'd be interested in seeing the link if you could provide.
I switched to shostock3 using 4.1.2 and everything is working perfectly fine, so I guess all the issues, officially confirmed as problems or not, are 4.2.1 related. I'd still be curious to see if any further fixes exist as I definitely liked the supernexus rom and would love to use it if I can get everything working.
Shaitheatery said:
if you're referring to the fix i linked in the op referencing the stuck at loading issue where the fix is to install xposed, that was the only way i even got past the loading screen initially which brought me to the issue I described. if there is another fix he provided for the issue, i'd be interested in seeing the link if you could provide.
I switched to shostock3 using 4.1.2 and everything is working perfectly fine, so I guess all the issues, officially confirmed as problems or not, are 4.2.1 related. I'd still be curious to see if any further fixes exist as I definitely liked the supernexus rom and would love to use it if I can get everything working.
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It's in the cm10 thread
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
I'm having similar issues:
- SwiftKey works fine
- Google+ Hangout during a call video rendering is all glitchy, often freezes and crashes.
- Skype calls work fine
- Chrome freezes and crashes often
- Gmail Reply All either adds me to CC (if not updated to the latest version) or removes one address from the list (if updated). Saw other threads on this issue but couldn't fix it.
- Automatic timezone switches to GMT
Feels like most of the google apps aren't working for me, but rather than that the rom is cool would definitely want to fix the issues.
I bought a Kindle Fire HDx on Black Friday (got a good deal).
So far I really like it, but not having my Google apps is almost a deal breaker (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Play Books, Music, Chrome, etc).
I read a few posts about how you can sideload google apps.
I did that and I was able to get YouTube, Chrome and Gmail on my Kindle Fire HDx.
But it's really buggy, Youtube won't let me sign in and I keep getting an error randomlly that the Google Play services has stopped responding.
The biggest thing is that the apps I sideloaded look super low res in the carousel next the HD icons. Is there a way to fix that?
I'm really having misgivings about this device. I really love the specs and the screen is gorgeous but not having access to all my Google stuff is tough.
I noticed there is root for 8.9. Will 7 get root access soon? Will that help with some of the issues I'm having?
Any help/advice is welcome!
Thanks!
Newerabs said:
I bought a Kindle Fire HDx on Black Friday (got a good deal).
So far I really like it, but not having my Google apps is almost a deal breaker (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Play Books, Music, Chrome, etc).
I read a few posts about how you can sideload google apps.
I did that and I was able to get YouTube, Chrome and Gmail on my Kindle Fire HDx.
But it's really buggy, Youtube won't let me sign in and I keep getting an error randomlly that the Google Play services has stopped responding.
The biggest thing is that the apps I sideloaded look super low res in the carousel next the HD icons. Is there a way to fix that?
I'm really having misgivings about this device. I really love the specs and the screen is gorgeous but not having access to all my Google stuff is tough.
I noticed there is root for 8.9. Will 7 get root access soon? Will that help with some of the issues I'm having?
Any help/advice is welcome!
Thanks!
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Google Apps are a work in progress and as you mentioned there are bugs to work out. I would recommend taking a look at this thread for the latest joint progress on them. As far as root is concerned the Kindle Fire HDX 7 has gotten root I would recommend checking out this thread for a simple utility that will allow you root access. Let me know if you still have any questions I'll be happy to help you out.
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Google Apps are a work in progress and as you mentioned there are bugs to work out. I would recommend taking a look at this thread for the latest joint progress on them. As far as root is concerned the Kindle Fire HDX 7 has gotten root I would recommend checking out this thread for a simple utility that will allow you root access. Let me know if you still have any questions I'll be happy to help you out.
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Thanks a lot. This is very helpful. I'm wondering do you know of there 's a way to make the icons in the carousel HD? Right now the google apps look super low res?
Newerabs said:
Thanks a lot. This is very helpful. I'm wondering do you know of there 's a way to make the icons in the carousel HD? Right now the google apps look super low res?
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I unfortunately don't how to make the icons HD, I have that same problem it's because Amazon expects people to just use their ecosystem apps which all have HD icons, there may be a way to modify the Amazon home launcher code to do so but that would be a lot of work for relatively little gain but might be fun to attempt.
Right now I think that if Google apps are real important to you, you would be better off with a Nexus 7. You trade the better hardware for seamless Googleness.
You have to hope that the Play Store is coming soon, but if the Amazon world isn't enough, then I would make the change to the Nexus. For me, the limited google apps with Fire OS is not a problem.
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Newerabs said:
Thanks a lot. This is very helpful. I'm wondering do you know of there 's a way to make the icons in the carousel HD? Right now the google apps look super low res?
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You could install Vire Launcher, which is one the few alternative home screens that work well on the HDX. It eliminates the carousel and uses higher res icons similar to those on a regular Android home screen. It also has its own wallpapers which work on the HDX, unlike other launchers.
zahir32 said:
You could install Vire Launcher, which is one the few alternative home screens that work well on the HDX. It eliminates the carousel and uses higher res icons similar to those on a regular Android home screen. It also has its own wallpapers which work on the HDX, unlike other launchers.
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Hi everyone. Ive installed Cpasjuste's rom and have noticed a bug. As im a noob I cant post in the development thread. When I use google maps it says the gps isnt switched on even though it is and it redirects to the settings. When i go back into maps the gps is intermittent. I wondered if anyone else had noticed this bug. Also the lock screen has a plus for adding widgets but doesnt seem to do anything. Overall the rom works brilliantly and I must thank Cpasjuste for all his time and hard work on the kindle fire hdx.
Realizing that Samsung (long ago) abandoned th P7510 (p4wifi), I rooted and installed Lollipop 5.1.1 by decatf. Fabulous! Love the speed improvements. Happy the Samsung junk is gone. The past month or so has been great UNTIL.......
I am on a cross country trip and ran out of paperback books. "No problem, I will just buy some books from Amazon and read them with the Kindle App."
Oh, s**t, the Amazon Kindle App is happy to let me buy and download ebooks, but when I try to READ a book, the Kindle App crashes and drops me back to the desktop.
Does anyone have the Amazon Kindle App working on the AOSP 5.1.1 ROM?
Can anybody suggest how to troubleshoot this problem? I have deleted and reinstalled the Kindle App. Cleared cache. The app let's me download books, but crashes every time I try to read ANY book (have tried several).
(I would have posted there, but "newbies" are not allowed to post in Development forums.)
decatf is a bloody genius as far as I am concerned. Without his ROM, I would have tossed this tablet.
kindle app update will crash on both 5.1.1 and 6.0.1 too I think.
it crashes under AOSP 6.0.1 ROM too , I just wanted to let you know that on the new version, it also crashes on some ebook title not all of them crash when opening, its almost random on 6.0 when the kindle app will crash. not sure if their going to be an fix to this problem anytime soon.
Which 6.0.1 ROM
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it crashes under AOSP 6.0.1 ROM too , I just wanted to let you know that on the new version, it also crashes on some ebook title not all of them crash when opening, its almost random on 6.0 when the kindle app will crash. not sure if their going to be an fix to this problem anytime soon.
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Where did you get a 6.0.1 ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (p4wifi)?
My impression was that decatf ran into a roadblock with Marshmallow and said, "That's all folks! Nothing after 5.1.1
I really have nothing to lose by giving Marshmallow a shot on this tablet, UNLESS..... are there other apps that you have found do not work on 6.0.1 ?
Thanks
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Where did you get a 6.0.1 ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (p4wifi)?
My impression was that decatf ran into a roadblock with Marshmallow and said, "That's all folks! Nothing after 5.1.1
I really have nothing to lose by giving Marshmallow a shot on this tablet, UNLESS..... are there other apps that you have found do not work on 6.0.1 ?
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The rom is right here, but some features are not working like for example I can't run the game Subway Surf update The last version that worked on my hardware is 1.47.1 on 11 26 2015, the Christmas version displays an message saying it does not support my Samsung galaxy tablet 10.1 it has an failure to initialize! Your hardware does not support this application, sorry!. So I can't use the Christmas update for the game its not related to the AOSP version but the game app itself is broken.
and the camera flashlight flash hardware part is not working either, it says the camera is working on the person page below but I can't get my camera flash at night to go on when taking photos.
The other thing is the crashing of kindle app when opening some ebooks, otherwise they do load.
under Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Development ï…¸ and its title [ROM][Unofficial][AOSP] Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-10-1/development/rom-android-6-0-marshmallow-t3266663
p4wifi: WIFI only tablet.
aosp-6.0-p4wifi-20151211.zip
above is the build that I tried on my tablet. I don't think the 3D hardware is working with this build because the 3D running game called Subway Surf will not play at all and Fruit Ninja Free plays but it seems to slow down at times during the cutting of the fruits. I hope its fixed in future builds, Bluetooth somewhat works for my Bluetooth soundbar hardware but you have to turn it on each time you boot the android. and the percentage text is missing from the charging mode when the tablet is turned off, it just shows the icon changing without the text.
What does seem to work is scummvm app, these games they run just fine under aosp 6.0 p4wifi , I tried a few of mine like day of the tentacle, sam and max hit the road, and other titles etc.. so if you own these Lucas Arts games they will run on this tablet with this build they seem to run fine as far as I can tell , I got the scummvm build version from the play store but you can download it from here too.
http://www.scummvm.org/
you can use the above web link to also download new builds of scummvm if you need to they seem to work fine, on the new version. so far it has not crash the scummvm app at all, so as far as I can tell it runs under android 6.0 on this tablet, not sure how long the batteries work on the tablet running these games, I have not really test it that much so I don't no how long you can play them for on it.
Subway surfers fails to run , not related to AOSP version but the update itself cause
The last version that worked on my hardware is 1.47.1 on 11 26 2015, the Christmas version displays an message saying it does not support my Samsung galaxy tablet 10.1 it has an failure to initialize! Your hardware does not support this application, sorry!. So I can't use the Christmas update.
its not related to the AOSP build but the app itself fails to run on Samsung galaxy tablet 10.1 , the last version 1.47.1 on 11 26 2015 still runs, you don't get that message above until you update the version to the Christmas one, so its been brokened since the latest release, I just check that since I downgrade the app, and now it plays again.
Older Kindle App Works as Well!
Thanks for the wonderful observation that sometimes an older version of an app will work, whereas the more recent versions do not. I went to apkmirror.com and downloaded the Amazon Kindle app from Feb, 2015. Installed it as a "foreign source", and to my surprise and amazement, it appears to open and READ A BOOK! There are several updates between Feb, 2015 and today. I could, perhaps, try them one-after-another and find the most recent app that works. But, why bother? All I have to do now is be alert and NEVER "update" the Kindle app. (That's a good question. Since I did not install the Kindle app through Android Play, maybe it will not know the app is even installed, and will never offer me an "update".)
Of course, xdadevelopers has cost Google a sale, since I now have less incentive to purchase a Nexus tablet to replace my Tab 10.1
Thanks!
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Hi
Mine crashes only on ebooks purchased after a certain date - all of them. it will still open ebooks previously purchased.
I am also running 5.1.1 on my Galaxy S4 - kindle works fine - sick of reading on the smaller screen.
thanks for the apkmirror.com hint brother
John