The Amazon Fire, previously known as the Kindle Fire, is Amazon’s flagship tablet product combining the best of their famous e-book reader with the standard tablet offerings we’ve become accustomed to in recent years. First released in 2011, these tablets have served in a niche space for voracious readers looking for more smart device features for their home or office. For those of you in that crowd, we’re taking a look at the most common problems with the modern range of Amazon Fire tablets. We also keep tabs on common issues for the older Kindle Fire tablets since there are plenty still out there on living room coffee tables.
A 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. 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.
Your Fire tablet indicator light turns orange while charging. If you’re still having issues then you may have to send your tablet in for service or take it to your trusty local third-party repair shop to repair a fault charge port or battery.
If you find that your tablet is not responsive or frozen, then performing a soft reset is probably your best bet. To do that, simply press and hold the power button for 40 seconds or until your device restarts. Give this a try if your tablet is acting up, not responsive, or running slowly.
If your Amazon Fire tablet won’t connect to Wi-Fi, there are a few troubleshooting steps you can take.
Some Fire tablet owners have run into issues with sudden and unexplained battery drain. There are a number of discussions on these topics within the Amazon forum. Thankfully, there are several things you can try to alleviate the problem.
Since not everyone has the most recent Fire tablet, here are a few common issues on the older range of tablets.
It seems that some people are losing their downloaded e-books after rebooting their tablet, and for others, they’re not working offline, discussed in Amazon forum threads here and here. There are a couple of different ways to tackle this.
Many of our readers have been having issues with their Fire tablets not recognizing their microSD card. Content on the microSD card may become inaccessible permanently, or simply intermittently. This issue has also cropped up at the Amazon forum.
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