Amazon Kindle Fire Tips and Tricks

From your homescreen, press Music – Menu – Settings. Then press Lock screen controls. Ensure that a tick is in the box. Then go back to your music library and play a song.

To test it, press the Lock button on the side, then press it again to Unlock. You will need to move the slider once and this will display the music controls.

To unlock the screen properly, press Unlock at the top right of the screen.

From your homescreen, press Settings – More – Kindle Keyboard. Then change the Sound on keypress option to turn sounds on or off.

From the homescreen press Apps, then find the Email App and press it.

Choose the email account you want to create. Then enter your email address and password and press Next.

You should then be asked to create your display name. This is the name that people see when they receive an email from you.
You will also be asked to create an optional nickname. This is useful if you have multiple email accounts and want to label each one differently.

You can also tick Import Contacts which will pull Contacts from your email account onto the Contacts of the Kindle

In the Calendar App there is no Year view along the top of the App. You can however use pinch to zoom gestures to zoom in and out of Month and Year view however.

This is useful if you want to quickly jump backwards or forwards through a few months at a time.

Go to From your homescreen, press Settings – More – Display – Screen Time Out.

Then chose the screen time out duration.

First you need to download the Kindle for PC App which can be found here: www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc

Install the software and then register with your Amazon account. Once it is set up, you can simple go to the Kindle Library and press ‘buy with once click’. The book will then be downloaded to the Kindle software on your PC

Unlocking can bring many important benefits and can save you a considerable amount of money.

We provide a comprehensive phone unlocking guide which explains what unlocking means, why you should unlock, and the safest and cheapest place to get it done.

Simply go to the menu at the top of this page and select: Phone Guides – Unlock Your Phone Guide.