Change Amazon Fire Phone into an almost normal Android phone without root

With the tricks listed as below, you can change your Amazon Fire Phone to a almost normal Android Phone without the need of rooting the phone.

Please note that all the methods and resources are originally collected from the internet and tested work on the latest Fire OS 3.6.8 with my own Amazon Fire Phone. But side-loading contains potential security issue, please play with it at your own risk. No guarantee for safety.

1, Install Google Play Store

There's plenty of Youtube tutorial out there, and my attempt to install Google Play is successful as well. Find out more about my own Google Play installation details here.

Briefly speaking, all you need is 4 apk files listed as below:

Click here to download APK

1, Google Account Manager (GoogleLoginService.apk)

2, Google Services Frameworks (GoogleServicesFramework.apk)

3, Google Play Services

4, Google Play Store

Remember to go to "Settings -> Application & Parental Control -> Prevent non-Amazon app installation -> Turn Off".

I extract my GoogleLoginService.apk from CM9 GApps package. But it seems that firephone can only work with specific version of Google Services Framework. Several attempts on installing different versions of Framework extracted from CM mod failed. After briefly go through the signature, I decide to go with the Services Framework I found online. And finally, it is installing. Google Play Services and Google Play Store are not hard to get. Just install them in order, and everything works. Well, at least Gmail and Google Play works.

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