OK. I used to have a PDF reader on my old phone. Last November I got an Aristo with Android 7.0 installed.
When I went to open up a PDF file, I was offered the option to use Kindle, since that was all that I had at the time and it was time-critical information so I just used Kindle. But I don't like it for a number of reasons but mostly, It is slow.
Now I want to use another app to open it, but AMAZON KINDLE refuses to relinquish control. I go to the
setup -> General -> Apps -> Amazon Kindle.
The only option of any consequence here is "
Open by Default" which says "
No defaults set. I click on it and there is a "
Clear Defaults" button which is faded out and unclickable.
If I start the other app and open a PDF file, it's fine. But if I just click on the PDF file, Kindle starts up -- takes forever -- and opens, categorizes, and massages the file uselessly.
I have no other apps installed at this time to open the PDF file. I have uninstalled Kindle, and get the "no app to open this file" (even though I have installed a file manager that could handle it previously) If I reinstall a new app, it's fine. If I reinstall Kindle, it takes it right back and insists it is the app to open the PDF file.
I hope this is enough info. I have tried the Kindle forums and get no response from the community. I call Amazon on the phone and get transferred and put on hold until my phone rings and I take another call and then amazon hangs up.
Thanks
I just want to use another app without jumping through the hoops to open PDF File.
So can you tell us a bit more about your device or setup? Because I just tested this, and for me it worked as expected:
* install Kindle app
* open a pdf - it asks what app to use, I select Kindle
* open another pdf - it asks again. This time I tell it to always use Kindle
* open a third pdf - it doesn't ask, just uses Kindle
* go to Settings > Apps, select Kindle, there are defaults set. Clear defaults.
* open a fourth pdf - it asks which app to use.
So it's not that the (5 year old) solution above is incorrect, but that your problem seems to have a different pathology, and hence probably a different cause. So that's what we need to work out, why your Kindle app is automatically opening PDFs without the default being set.
How do you open the PDFs? What other PDF-readers do you have installed? What happens if you install a new one (or uninstall and reinstall an old one)?
I ask these questions because of the way Android handles "intents". With no default set it should give a list of all apps capable of handling an intent (i.e. a particular action). If it doesn't, might it be that the app you are using to open the PDF is itself choosing to open it using Kindle, rather than go through the OS? Alternatively, adding a new app which can also handle the intent should prompt the system to ask again next time you try to open a PDF, even if a default is set.
