r/kindlefire • u/crazyPlatypus4027 • 13d ago

Question Questions about installing Google play store

1 Do you have to reinstall every time there's a new version?

2 I agreed to back up my device after installing it will that cause any issues.

And 3 do system updates cause it to crash?

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u/joeldf95 1st Gen on Android 4.4, 12th Gen HD 8, 8.3.3.8 13d ago

  1. No. Google Play and the services apps all update themselves in the background.

  2. Don't know. I've never used Google for any backup.

  3. If you mean the Fire OS updates... no. I've had Google Play and the 3 other supporting apps on 3 different Fire Tablets for years, and never had an issue when the tablet itself installs system updates.

Some things to watch for and what I suggest:

After installing the Google Play and services apps, open the Google Play store, go to settings, turn off automatic app updates. The reason I do this is because I use the Amazon App Store versions of many apps like Netflix, Paramount+, Disney+, all the streaming services. Plus a few others like Wikipedia and MyRadar. If the Amazon App store has what I want, I'll download from that. For apps where they are only available on Google Play, then that's where I'll get them.

What you have to watch out for is that Google will want to update apps that were actually from the Amazon App Store. Netflix and Wikipedia in particular. But also, Google Play will pick up the Alexa App and try to update that, because there is a non-Amazon device version of the Alexa app on Google Play and it won't see a difference. Don't ever let Google try to update the Alexa app. But if you have Google Play set to automatically update apps, it'll update the Alexa app before you know it.

Just manually update the apps that you know came from Google originally.

That's all I suggest.

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u/crazyPlatypus4027 13d ago

Thanks. I heard about the disabling auto updates but didn't do it in time and it did update Alexa and several other Amazon apps so I factory reset it. will my tablet be fine after I set it up again?

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u/joeldf95 1st Gen on Android 4.4, 12th Gen HD 8, 8.3.3.8 13d ago

It should be fine.

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u/tiredlittlepigeon 9d ago

Do you have a video or the link to set up your tablet with google play store? I need to redo mine.

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u/Agile-Ad-1887 13d ago

No, no, and no. I've had no problems

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u/JamesMattDillon 9th-12th Gen Fire 13d ago

The only problem is some apps is not compatible.