Amazon Kindle Fire Tips and Tricks

To remove content from your device, press and hold on the item and select Remove from Device.

Content that you have purchased will remain stored in the Amazon Cloud allowing you to download it again at no cost.

On most Android phones, when you rotate the phone when on Homescreen mode, the Homescreen stays in Portrait mode. One way around this is to install a third-party Launcher Application which allows you to customise your phone in many ways.

One popular launcher is called GoLauncher. Or alternatively, open the Android Market and search for the word Launcher.

Go to Settings – Language and Keyboard – Touch Input – Text Input – Prediction. Select On or Off

If you have purchased some eBooks through Amazon but they are not on your Kindle Fire, then there is an easy way to send them to your Kindle.

Go to the Amazon website and sign in. Then on the right hand side at the top, click on My Account.

Then scroll down and you should see Kindle Help on the right. Click on Manage Your Kindle, under Kindle Community.

Then scroll down to Your Orders and choose the eBooks you want to re-download. On the right side of that section there should be a link saying to send to your Kindle Fire. Click that and press Go.

It should only take a few seconds to send the books.

Go to Menu – Settings – Display – Brightness. Then choose the desired brightness setting. You can also select Automatic brightness to let the phone decide for you

If you have auto-brightness enabled, you can also press, hold and slide the top notification bar left and right. The brightness will increase and decrease accordingly.

If you have forgotten your custom unlock pattern, then don’t panic.

After 5 unsuccessful tries a button should appear saying ‘Forgot pattern’. Press this and you will be asked to enter your Gmail username/password.

The phone will then ask for a new unlock pattern. If you don’t have a Gmail account, then you might have to either call your carrier or factory reset your phone.

Usually when you download music from Amazon, it will ask if you want to store the music on the Cloud or on your Device.

First you need to ensure your WiFi is turned on press the Settings icon (at the top) and enable WiFi. Then to change the default save location, go back to your homescreen and press Music. Then press Menu (at the bottom) and Settings. Then press Delivery preference. Then you can choose to save purchases to your Cloud drive or your device.

To search for a word inside an eBook, there are two ways:

The first is obvious. Just press the search / magnify glass icon at the bottom of the book you are reading.

The second is slightly less obvious. Open a book, then press and hold on a word in the book. A menu will appear. Then press More and Search in book. This will show all locations in the book where that word occurs.

Open your email App and find an email from a particular sender. Instead of opening the email, press and hold on it. Then select ‘More from this sender’

To remove apps on your Kindle Fire, simply find the App you want to remove, then press and hold on it. A menu should pop up. Select Delete to remove the App