Picked it up and the case looks in excellent condition, unlike my old beat up cases. It's a Moko case. That's the same brand case as on my Fire HD 8.
OK, let's set it up. Looks like the guy reset it to factory default.
Choose English (U.S.)
Log into my WiFi network.
Installing your updates...
then the screen blanked out
press the power button and the display goes back on
Register your Fire
Register your Fire using your existing Amazon account to get access to a large selection of digital content.
Email
Amazon Password
Continue
Registering your 'fire
Meet Your Fire Tablet
play the video
Restoring your Fire Tablet
if you restore to an earlier backup, this information will be restored
Device settings
Wi-Fi networks and passwords
Email settings
Bookmarks
Appls
Some settings for apps (varies by app)
Please note
If your Fire tablet is not on the latest OS version, it will update and restart your device
Your apps will download and install automatically. Date and content from the apps will be restored based on their configurations
This may take a few minutes
Mike's Fire Tablet
[Cancel Restore] / I want to set it up from scratch
Enable Location Services [check]
Backup Device to the Amazon Cloud [check]
Save Wi-Fir Password to Amazon [uncheck]
Make this Tablet kid friendly?
Your Tablet allows you to create a personalized experience for up to 4 children, including custom home screen, preferences, and content.
With child profiles and Amazon Kids you can...
Set time limits and educational goals
Discover what your child enjoys with Parent Dashboard
Add your own content to the walled garden
Yes, create a child profile
Not now*
* you can always add child profiles later in the Amazon Kids app or Settings
Not now [I'll look up how child profiles work later]
[Continue]
Set screen lock
Set a lock screen PIN or password to protect the data on your Fire
PIN (instead of password
do I have a PIN on my HD 8?
let me restart it and see...
nope, no PIN
so choose [Not Now]
Join Kindle Unlimited (3-months free)
No thanks
audible
Your first audiobook is free
Try for Free or No thanks
[No thanks]
Enjoy books alredy included in your Prime membership!
[Not now]
Get apps and games for free
[Not now]
Alexa Tutorial
[Continue]
Get started with Alexa Hands-Free
[Agree & Continue]
Try it now. Just ask.
"Alexa, what's the weather?"
79 degrees Fahrenheit
partly sunny
[Continue]
Customize Hands-Free in Settings
Hands-Free allows access to Alexa even if your table is passcode-locked. You can change this in settings.
The wake word is set to "Alexa" by default. You can change it in Settings.
Turn Hands-Free off in Quick Actions or in Settings. You can still press and hold the Home button to speak to Alexa.
[Finish]
Finally get to the Home screen
There are initial 19 icons on the screen. Four rows with five icons on each row
Shop Amazon Silk Browser Appstore Prime Video Amazon Kids+
Utilities Kindle Amazon Music Audible Freevee
Gallery Games Amazon Alexa Email Camera
Settings Amazon Photos Files Microsoft 365 (Office)
Checking Settings
Storage
Internal Storage: 54.24 GB free of 56.36 GB
Display
Sleep
After 1 minute of inactivity
let's change that to 5 minutes
Brightness level is 52%
let me up that to 60%
I'm surprised freevee is on there
when I open it up it says Prime Video is the new exclusive home for Freevee TV shows movies and Live TV
Go to Prime Video
Back to Freevee
Oops
We had trouble loading additional contents
[So I guess I can uninstall it, but there is no uninstall option]
Prime Video is already logged into my account
Microsoft 365 asks me to sign in
Kindle
Syncing your account...
[took a little while]
my Library appears, nothing downloaded yet
a couple of books showed up even though the loans expires: Year of No Clutter, How Not to Invest, The Art of Spending Money. [And I see more later.]
It shows the book in two colums, horizontally, but one colum vertically. On my Fire HD 8, it's one column both ways.
let me adjust the font size, it's a little smaller than on my Fire HD 8. It was on the fourth notch (out of 12). Bump it up to the fifth notch. Still two columns. Ah, I see I can force it to single clumn in Layout. (No matter the font size, it'll still go to two columns if that's how it's set.) The sixth or seventh notch looks about right to me.
Looking at the app store. Appstore Library. I don't see YouTube TV and only a third party version of YouTube.
Let me change the Device Name. It's currently named MICHAEL's Fire. I'll rename it for Fire HD 10 (11th generation 2021) 3/25/26
How about email? This is where my Fire HD 8 lags. I often have to exit and go back in in order to delete emails. Let's set it up.
put in my gmail first
switpe to delete [this is something I don't normally do]
swipe left on a message to delete it. you can retrieve accidentally deleted messages by tapping on Undo at the bottom of the screen.
Got the email setup. I wouldn't say it's blazingly fast, but faster than the HD 8 at least. It's functional, at least so far.
