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#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE HOW TO#
#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE INSTALL#
#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE ANDROID#
#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE MAC#

Press and hold the power button for 40 seconds or until your device restarts.

Disconnect your device from charging equipment, such as the power adapter and cable. If you’re using a wireless charging dock or mat, remove the tablet.

After making sure that your tablet is not in an environment that’s too hot or too cold, try the following steps to resolve your charging issues.

#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE HOW TO#

Issue: MicroSD card not recognized or not workingĪ quick skim of the Amazon Help Forums shows that one of the most popular help topics is how to get your Fire Tablet to charge.

Glitch: E-books disappearing or not working.

#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE MAC#

If you need to do something like this on your own Mac or PC, I hope these brief notes are helpful. In summary, those are the steps I remember taking so that I can transfer and use large audio and video files with a microSD card, a Kindle Fire HD 10, and a Mac. Knowing that once you set this up, it seems to transfer all future files to the external storage.Knowing what it means to transfer files from the Kindle Fire internal storage to the microSD card.Knowing that you need to enable the file transfer in the USB notification on the Fire Kindle nothing about that is obvious.The hard parts to this recipe seem to be: Once you get through the initial setup process, the drag-and-drop stuff between the macOS Finder and the Android File Transfer app seems to be consistent. (In Unix parlence, it seems like Amazon creates a symbolic link from the internal storage to the SD card.) Discussion

#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE ANDROID#

Once you do this the first time, it appears that the Movies directory in the Android File Transfer app always points to the microSD card. This seems to move all data to the external microSD card, but again, at the time of this writing I don’t see any other options. Choose whatever the option is called to move data from internal storage onto the microSD card.Go into the Settings app on the Kindle Fire 10.Then drag the files you want to transfer from the Mac Finder over to the Android window.Īt the time of this writing I don’t see any way to get directly to the microSD card, so what I did was: In the Android window, move to whatever directory you want to work in, such as the Movies or Music directories. Once that’s installed, start it up, and then you should have (a) one Android File Transfer window open, and (b) a macOS Finder window open.

#HOW TO MAKE A SD CARD WORK IN AN OLDER KINDLE FIRE INSTALL#

Here you’ll need to install the Android File Transfer app, if you haven’t installed that already.

I don’t have mine plugged in right now, but you need to tap whatever the option is named that allows data transfer (this is a hugely important step).

On that menu, tap the “USB”-related notification.

After doing this, scroll down from the top of your Kindle Fire screen to see the system drop-down menu.

After doing this, I connected the Fire to my Mac/macOS system.

Hopefully in the future the Fire will support more filesystems, but that’s how it works today.

At the time of this writing, if you choose the other more flexible option, the Fire will format the card using the old 1980s-style MS-DOS FAT filesystem, which has a lot of limitations, especially when dealing with large files.

I chose the option to format the card as additional internal storage.

I shut down the Kindle Fire tablet, and placed the card inside the tablet.

I turned off this Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet.

I bought this SanDisk 512GB MicroSDXC card.

The notes are cryptic, but hopefully they’ll make sense to me in the future, and may make sense to you as well. These are some very brief notes on what I just did to get a 500GB microSD card to work with an Amazon Kindle Fire 10, so that I can store some very large files on that microSD card inside the Kindle Fire 10.