Kindle Fire: Out of the Box

Chapter 2. Set Up Your Fire

Now that you know how to use it, it’s time to charge it up, get online, and connect with Amazon.

Charge the Fire

Your Fire should arrive with enough juice to start poking around immediately, but you’ll probably want to give it a full charge before you get caught up in a good book, movie, or any other of the many distractions you’re bound to find along the way. Charging is pretty straightforward: just insert the USB side of the adapter to the base of your Fire and connect the other side to a wall socket.

Note

Third-party USB charging cables and devices, including car chargers and power converters, should also work.

While charging, the power button will appear orange. When fully charged, it will turn green, and the battery indicator in the Home screen (described in Status bar) will be filled. It takes about four hours to reach a full charge, which should last up to 8 hours of reading or 7.5 hours of watching video.

Note

To extend the life of your charge, turn of your wireless connection, as described in Wi-Fi. Web browsing, downloading content, or running other connected apps will drain your battery more quickly than the promised 8 hours of up time.

Get Connected

For the Fire, “getting connected” doesn’t require physically connecting to a computer or anything else. In fact, while a computer is certainly helpful for adding to and maintaining your content libraries, you don’t need one at all to “connect” to Amazon content and anything else you might be searching for. ...