Amazon Kindle Fire – How To Install Full Android Marketplace

Published on November 19th, 2011 | by justin

Assuming that your Kindle Fire has already been ROOTED using our easy tutorial. We can now begin with side loading the Android Marketplace on your Kindle Device. Yes your Kindle Fire needs to be rooted in order to install the marketplace. You need Root Access/Superuser permissions so you can copy the Vending.APK from your data/app directory into your /system/app. Yes I know it will install normally right off of your sd-card but you will receive a force close error every time you try to download an application from the market. If your device is not rooted yet, click here.

Essentials Required:
- Root Access on your Kindle First (Read More Information)
- Market.zip – Consists of GoogleFeedback.apk, Vending.apk & GoogleServicesFramework.apk (Download via Droidpirate.com)
- ES File Manager – Can be downloaded directly from the Amazon AppStore

Installation
Step 1. Connect your Kindle Fire via USB to your Computer
Step 3. Unzip the “Market.zip” file that you downloaded from above to your computer, transfer the (3) .APK files to the root of your sd-card.
Step 4. Open up ES File Manager application on your Kindle.

Now we need to change your settings in ES File Manager, so the application knows you have Root Access. Follow the screenshots and steps below to do so.

Choose the “Menu Icon“, like shown in the screenshot above.

Choose “Settings“

Scroll all the way to the bottom to where it says “Root settings“, Make sure there is a check mark next to “Root Explorer“.

Choose “Yes“.

Choose “Allow“, if you do not see what is in the screenshot above “Superuser Request“, then your Kindle Fire has not been rooted successfully.

Press the back key so you are now back in the Settings of ES File Manager, you need to make sure you have a Check Box next to “Mount File System“, or you will not be able to see the /system/ folder, where we need to copy the (3) APK files.

Choose the Back button on the Kindle Fire so you are now at the directory where we copied the (3) APK files earlier.

Press and hold on the “GoogleFeedback.apk” file you should see a menu similar to the screenshot shown above, choose “Copy“.

Press on the “Star” / Favorites icon at the top of ES File Manager. Choose “Phone“.

You should now be in the directory like shown in the picture above.

Choose the “system” folder.

Now Choose the “app” folder.

Next press the little box at the bottom shown in the screenshot above.

Press on the icon that you copied, you will see a notification that says “GoogleServicesFramework.apk” was copied successfully. Like shown above.

You need to copy the other (2) (Vending.apk & GoogleServicesFramework.apk) files the same way you just copied the GoogleServicesFramework.apk file.

Step 5. Once all (3) files have been copied successfully to your “/system/app” directory you can now Shut Down your device.

Step 6. Power on your Kindle, once it has been fully booted up, open your app drawer and launch the Android Marketplace. Like shown below.

Step 7. You have successfully installed the Android Marketplace, you can now download applications right to your Kindle without any problems. Lots of users have been getting a Force Close error when downloading applications, this is because they did not install their Android Marketplace (vending.apk) into their “/system/app” directory.

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  • J Miller

    I was stuck after viewing several other link, This was perfect-works awesome thanks

  • Barb

    Thanks for this! So many other tutorials were convoluted. Check out KindleFireWIre’s tutorial for this and you will see what I mean. You needed to re-root the KF at the beginning of the process. It was with Super One Click which I didn’t have and after a day of rooting who wanted to bother with that. I appreciate the hard work that went into this and found it very easy. Thanks!

  • Katja

    Hi! Thank you so much for this, but I’m having some problems… when I try to copy over the files into the system/app directory, I keep getting copy file failed. Any suggestions?

  • Realistic

    I tried to get to the part where I’m at, which is the “Root Explorer” option and It’s giving me two options of two ROMs. Cyanogen Mod and HiAPK…what’s up with this?

  • Realistic

    I figured this out. You’re using a shitty file explorer. Use File Expert!

  • maluchunk

    Very happy with new and improved kindle fire…This guide on this page is totally bad ass..Good job

  • Sanjay

    Awesome !!! It worked for me!! Thanks to all those who put their thoughts here

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