Fire Tablet Disadvantages
No Google Play
Can’t Change the Default Launcher
Lock Screen Ads
What You’ll Need to Convert Your Fire Tablet into an Android Device
1. Prep Your Fire Tablet
Before you do anything, you’ll need to enable USB debugging on your Fire tablet. This will allow you to tweak your Fire tablet via your PC. To do this, we need to enable developer options on your Fire tablet. Note: if “Developer Options” is not listed in the Settings menu, go back to the “Device Options” screen and tap on the Serial Number five or six times again. Now that we’ve enabled USB debugging, we can hop over to the PC for the next steps.
2. Install Fire Toolbox
Note: some users have reported receiving an error message when applying updates. If this happens, simply relaunch Fire Toolbox.
3. Plug Your Fire Tablet into Your PC
How to Use Fire Toolbox
Now that you’ve plugged your Fire tablet into your PC, you will see the Fire Toolbox interface. It will ask if you have used Fire Toolbox before. If you haven’t, we would recommend clicking “No, I’m a new user”. This will provide a brief walkthrough on how to use the software. The Fire Toolbox offers a bunch of options to tweak and customize the Fire tablet. We cover the four most popular ones below, but feel free to experiment with the other options as well.
Install Google Play and Google Services
Install a Custom Launcher
Disable Lockscreen Ads
Finally, we’re going to want to disable those annoying lockscreen ads. Note: If you opted for a more expensive model that doesn’t have lockscreen ads, you can skip this step. On the main menu of the Fire Toolbox, click “Lockscreen Management.” On the next page, click “Remove Lockscreen Ads -> Execute Tool.” When it asks if you really want to proceed, click “OK” and let the tool do its thing. Once the tool is finished, you will no longer see lockscreen ads on your Fire tablet.
