Setting up echo dot speaker

[Patrick1010]

Have recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ 5G, and am trying to set up an echo dot speaker to work with it (via Bluetooth).

It wants me to sign into my Amazon account, so I can download the Alexa app from my app store. I have an Amazon account on my Windows desktop, perhaps that means I also have an app store, I don't know.

Anyway, I tried to sign into my Amazon account via the Galaxy tablet, filled in my email as requested, and it tells me that email is already in use, so I can't use it. Well of course it is already in use, it's the email I use for my Amazon account. I couldn't find a way round the tablet's refusal to accept that email.

I don't really want to set up an additional Amazon account just for my tablet, with a different email, password, and possibly ID as well. Multiple accounts etc starts to get a bit confusing.

So what should I do? Will the tablet insist on having its own Amazon account ID?

Incidentally, I also have a Poco M4 Pro mobile phone, which is partly Android, and which seems quite friendly with the tablet, though it keeps asking me to resume device setup.

[Fiona26]

Are you clicking sign in to your existing amazon account or clicking create an account? I know it's a silly question.

[Bindex]

Quick question, are you trying to sign into the Amazon App or Google Playstore? I am a little confused; I do apologize for it .

[Patrick1010]

I am trying to sign in to my existing Amazon account. I can sign in to this account very easily via the Amazon UK website (on Windows desktop / Firefox), but so far, I haven't been able to sign in to it via my Samsung Galaxy Tab.

I would prefer not to have to create a separate new Amazon account just for the tablet.

[Patrick1010]

I am trying to sign into the Amazon App, which may or may not be the same as an Amazon account, I'm not quite sure. All these Internetty things can be rather confusing sometimes, at other times they go quite smoothly and predictably.

The Google Playstore is a labyrinth to be explored possibly at some future date.

[Bindex]

You can login with your normal Amazon account, the email and password will work. You may have to accept T&C's' but it will be the same account. 

[Patrick1010]

I was eventually able to log into my normal Amazon account on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet (after about an hour of toing-and-froing with one-time passcodes sent to my Windows desktop), and I attempted to download the Alexa App as instructed by the echo dot speaker setup guide, but now Amazon (on the tablet) tells me:

"You don't have any devices connected to your account. Shop compatible devices by browsing some of Amazon's Fire TVs or Fire Tablets now."

So I don't know what to do now. Have Samsung and Amazon fallen out?

[Bindex]

Have you set up your Amazon eco and added it to your account?

[Bindex]

If you have set up, your device and wanting to use it as a Bluetooth speaker which is what I think this original post is about. This YouTube video might help you: https://youtu.be/D5yYgPV52hI?si=yJqnyf6E0H0TmjV3

[Patrick1010]

Thanks for the link to the YouTube video, that's about linking a phone to a Bluetooth speaker, but I want to link a Galaxy Tablet to the Bluetooth speaker. Incidentally, typing "Bluetooth speaker" on my Windows desktop seems to have wakened the Bluetooth speaker, it's doing its coloured lightshow. No idea how that works, my desktop doesn't have Bluetooth, and it isn't connected to the speaker, except through the mains electricity supply.

Anyway, I watched the video, and it seems similar to the steps I followed on my tablet, except they didn't work for me.

However, I managed to download the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Playstore. It seems the tablet wouldn't allow me to download it from my Amazon account, only from the Google Playstore. I guess that might be similar to the Apple setup, where they sometimes won't allow you to install apps unless you download them from the Apple Store, but I wish the tablet would have told me that in the first place, it would have saved a lot of bother.

Anyway, I seem to have half-connected the speaker, but the tablet can't recognise it. But it did seem to appear in another list on the tablet, but I can't find that now. My current theory is that the tablet takes some time to adjust to any changes, or to new boxes that I have ticked, so it is best to leave it for an hour or so, or ideally overnight.

I am not even sure what system the tablet is running. I thought it was Android, which I thought was a Google system, but maybe it is Android modified by Samsung. It seems quite a difficult system to navigate, it is almost as if there are two competing systems running.