![]() ![]() ![]() – Battery is very strongly adhered in place and difficult to remove without warping or puncturing a cell. – Fused LCD/digitizer increases cost of repair or replacement of broken glass. + All screws are non-proprietary Torx T5-no security or proprietary fasteners. + Modular design allows replacement of several individual components: Speakers, cameras, ports, and battery can all be removed immediately after opening the device without taking anything else out first. + Opening procedure makes use of plastic clips behind the display assembly-no adhesive means a fast entry without heat. Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ Repairability Score: 7 out of 10 If the tablet evolutionary tree can bend towards the Kindles, and away from the Airs, we could have it all. While this device loses points for a fused display and a stubborn battery, it’s no longer hard to imagine a thin, repairable, modern tablet. The HDX proves that a tablet can be both thin and easy to open. Thin is in-and we get that, but we also want to get in to keep these things running. The battery is held in with absolutely no adhesive. And in keeping with the unfortunate engineering we found in the 7” HDX, the 8.9” also features a fused display-one more demerit on the repairability scale. Kindle Fire HD Repairability: 7 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair) The rear case is very easy to open, granting trouble-free access to the internals. While it’s not locked under the motherboard like in the Air, the glued-in battery takes quite a bit of elbow grease, and a few iOpener sessions, to extract-a far cry from the gentle adhesive on the HD. It’s enough to make a grown fixer cry.īut the battery made us groan. Instead, just pop the top and all the (mostly modular) components are within easy reach. At only 0.3 millimeters thicker than the ultra-thin iPad Air, the HDX manages to pack all of its features into an easy-open body. Worked on my kindle, and I had the 16gb wifi on 8.5.1, so I'll look into this later, but other then that, the only other app said to occasionally work is kingroot, or root with restore by bin4ry for kindle fire hd 8. Plus, the tablet isn’t peppered with screws, brackets or midframes. The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 completes Amazon’s new e-book refresh trinity, and debunks the ubiquitous claim that thin devices come only at the cost of repairability. Dare we hope for another 8/10 repairability score? At first blush, it was looking good: Only a few plastic clips stand between fixers and their repair dreams. However, after opening the HDX 8.9”, we felt like we’d stumbled into the 2013 Kindle Fire HD. We had ours open in just a few minutes-a walk in the park compared to the +30-minute iPad Air opening procedure.Įxternally, the HDX 8.9″ is a scaled-up version of the HDX 7″, so we were expecting another labyrinthian disaster of glues, screws, and boo-hoos. The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9” completes Amazon’s new e-book refresh trinity, and debunks the ubiquitous claim that thin devices come only at the cost of repairability.Īt only 0.3 millimeters thicker than the ultra-thin iPad Air, the HDX manages to pack all of its features into an easy-open body. ![]()
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