They mostly pointed to changing the base Kindle device name, which as I said doesn’t help.īut today I was insistent. Remember, Kindle displays the FreeTime-defined device name during FreeTime sessions. And changing the actual device names, while possible, doesn’t help as much because these device names are visible within FreeTime. And the device names are all over the place within FreeTime because I didn’t know how Kindle determined the device names. I have six children, five of them with tablets. Unfortunately, the FreeTime Kindle settings are hidden by the FreeTime application, out of reach. The Kindle sets the device name that FreeTime displays within these settings. FreeTime is akin to a second, higher level runtime, with distinct Kindle settings. Second: Changing the actual device name through Amazon doesn’t make a difference because the device name the tablet displays within FreeTime isn’t the real device name.

If FreeTime runs for the first time on a second device, and the profile selected is “Bob,” then the device would thus be christened, “Bob’s 2nd Fire.” When you load another profile afterward, the device name will still say “Bob’s 2nd Fire,” even if the child’s name is “Lisa.” (Sorry, Lisa.) So if “Bob” were the name of the child’s profile, the device would thus be christened, “Bob’s Fire.” And there was no apparent way to change that.įirst: FreeTime is a cloud service, so if you have multiple Kindle Fire Kids devices, profiles are available on all devices. The moment FreeTime would run for the first time on the tablet, the software would set a device name based on the profile selected at the time. But one annoyance I had was that the device name that the device would display within FreeTime was a calculated value.

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