[Scan-DC] What is the purpose of this sensor or antenna?

[Blair Thompson]

Sometimes I can, and sometimes I can't.

I can't go to the Google Play store, as the site will not recognize a Kindle Fire as an Android device. There is a way, which I've seen on the web, to jailbreak a Kindle. I might try that with a second KF that I have, but I don't want to find out that, oh, you have THAT model KF. Sorry, you've lost all your data.

At work, my (IT's) Dell laptop (running Windows 10) recognized that the thing at the other end of the USB cable was a Fire, but when I went to open the device, I found that the file was empty. I think this has a lot to do with Amazon's introduction of the Amazon Photos site. This is a new app, which I did not go about installing by myself. I think it went in automagically with an OS upgrade.

I can uninstall apps, but I hope I don't lose all the photos in the process. 

What I can do is to move the photo to the inboard microSD card and then put the microSD card in a card reader and then put the card reader in the laptop's USB port. Either that or I can send it via Bluetooth to a Samsung Android tablet I have and move it over to the laptop. At that point, I can load it on Imgur of one of those other picture hosing sites.

Meanwhile, the printers are down. 

Thanks for writing.
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On Mon, 2/18/19, Iain McFadyen <mcfadyenusa at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] What is the purpose of this sensor or antenna?
 To: "Blair Thompson" <b_thom at rocketmail.com>
 Date: Monday, February 18, 2019, 6:22 AM
 
 
         Can
 you install Android apps on a Kindle Fire?
 I have an app called 'Image
 Compressor' by LIT. It works fine, though there are some
 stupid errors in the app, such as spelling mistakes in the
 menus. On the MAIN menu of the App, it says "Compress
 photos in PREFECT quality"  :-)
 Open the app, select 'compress
 photos 'scroll down through the photos in the menu, tap
 to select the photo, set the compression % level, click the
 check mark in the top right, and the new version of your
 photo is stored in a new folder "LitPhoto" on your
 device. this folder then appears on several menu lists such
 as in 'Gallery', where it now says 'recent',
 'downloads', 'LitPhoto', and so can be
 easily found after the compress is finished.
 Alternatively, on Samsung Android
 phones, the Photo Editor Pro allows photos to be
 compressed.
  
 Iain