How to Change Your Kindle Fire Wallpaper
Amazon has restricted the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD’s backgrounds only to the preloaded set of images found on the tablet.
This eventually prevents all Kindle users to use their own or preferred Kindle Fire wallpaper. But the good news is that experts and Kindle Fire tablet users and fanatics have devised ways or workarounds on how to change your Kindle wallpaper.
During your first use or initial registration of the Kindle Fire tablet, the default backgrounds or wallpaper pictures on Kindle Fire will eventually be the advertisement feeds coming from Amazon and the Amazon store. Learn more about removing Kindle Fire ads from your Kindle tablet.
This already provides the basic explanation why Amazon has limited the ability to change Kindle Fire background. If you want to personalize your tablet’s wallpaper or background, you have to disable this advertisement feeds first through your Amazon account.
The settings to unsubscribe or to turn it off are located on your online account and not on the settings of the tablet. If you fail to disable these feeds, your efforts to change your tablet’s wallpaper would be useless. The bad news is that you will have to pay a fixed fee to unsubscribe to this feeds.
As mentioned above; although it’s limited, it’s still possible. Currently, there are two alternative methods or ways you could use to change that wallpaper; by rooting your tablet and the use of an application that will allow you to customize those pictures on Kindle Fire. Learn how to side load apps on Kindle Fire.
The first option you could use to be able to customize your wallpapers is to root the tablet and its operating system. Rooting is the process of acquiring access to the tablet’s operating system to add, remove, or modify any or all of its features and functionalities. Hence; if Amazon limits or prohibit you to change Kindle Fire background, rooting could be used to remove that limit or prohibition. Rooting is usually done by technicians or experts. But recently, there are now apps or programs which could be installed on the tablet to gain access and modify most of its features.
It is worthy to note that this method of changing the Kindle Fire wallpaper is considered illegal since you are accessing and modifying the operating system or the core files and programs of the tablet without the express approval or authority of Amazon or of Android.
Instead of rooting your tablet, the simpler way on how to change your Kindle Fire wallpaper is to use an App that is capable of overriding your tablet’s default wallpaper setup. There are a number of these Apps available from the Amazon App store like the Rotating Wallpaper App. Using these Apps is quite simple:
First you have to ensure that the Amazon advertisement feeds serving as your Kindle wallpaper is already deactivated from your main Amazon accountYou then need to download and install the wallpaper app you have purchased.If you are to use images located on your other devices like the computer, laptop, or smartphone, you have to process or prepare them first before transferring these files to your Kindle Fire tablet.The final steps and settings needed to change the pictures on Kindle Fire wallpaper will be done through the wallpaper app.Home > Kindle Fire Tricks And Tips > How To Change Your Kindle FIre Wallpaper
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