Category: android

Enable Android Phome’s “System UI Tuner” for Battery % Display and More Features

Need to adjust the battery icon on your Android phone to show the actual percetage display on it? Stock Android phones don’t always have the System UI Tuner option displayed by default on the Settings option.

To display the battery percentage just follow these steps to turn on the System UI Tuner function:

1. Pull down the notification menu then press and hold the setting’s gear icon for a few seconds.
2. Then a menu notification asking you that  tells you your indicator that the System UI Tuner has been enabled.

Or check out How To Geek’s instructions here.

SIMPLE STEPS TO INSTALL GOOGLE PLAY STORE ON KINDLE FIRE

I highly recommend using this tutorial on installing the Google Play Store on your Amazon Kindle Fire by Saint, Inc.

Note: I recommend installing the latest version of the Google Play Services and Google Play Store APKs as those I bypassed the original linked files and went with the last versions and the install went well and I didn’t have to event reboot.

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire: 3 Steps

Downloading Google Play Store APK Files

Step 1:  Head over to your Settings, then Security. Enable Apps from Unknown Sources.

Why should you enable this?
Well, you’re going to need this for the next step as you’re going to install the APK files to get the Google Play Store.

Step 2:  Now, Open your Silk browser on your tablet, and then head over to this very page and download each of the 4 APK files below.

I have tested and tried these links (Updated 23 March 2017)

(If you do find that any of the links are not working for you then just comment down below and I’ll help you)

Google Account Manager APK

Google Services Framework APK

Google Play Services APK

Google Play Store APK

To download each APK file, just click on the link, and then scroll down where you’ll see Download APK. Click that.

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire

Note from jake
Don’t worry if you see any pop-ups that appear to say that type of File can harm your device. (It won’t)
Just go ahead and Tap OK whenever it appears.

Installing Google Play Store APK Files

Once you have downloaded all the APK files,

Step 1:  Close out of your Silk browser and open up the built-in file manager app, Docs, that you have on your Fire tablet.

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire

Step 2:  Select Local Storage

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire

Step 3:  Next Click your Downloads folder.

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire

You will find all your APK files will be here in this folder.
All you have to do is simply tap on one to begin installing it onto your kindle fire.

Note from jake
Make sure that you install the APK files in the same exact order that you downloaded them from above.

Google Account Manager APK   → Google Services Framework APK  →  Google Play Services APK  →  Google Play Store APK

Install Google Play Store on Kindle Fire

Step 4: On the next screen, go ahead and confirm the installation by tapping on Install at the bottom.

You can actually see to your upper left hand corner that it says which APK File that you’re installing.
Again make sure to install all the files in the right order.