My kf was previously rooted at 6.2.1. I haven't played with it much considering it kind of did what I wanted, although it lost root a while back. I am now trying to reroot after getting the latest 6.3 upgrade. I downloaded the 0.95 KFU but it won't run. It starts, but the window disappears after about 5 seconds. I tried 0.91 and it went through the whole cycle but of course didn't work. I have downloaded everything I know to do and .95 won't run. I even dis the whole SDK thing all over again. Any help is appreciated.
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My kf was previously rooted at 6.2.1. I haven't played with it much considering it kind of did what I wanted, although it lost root a while back. I am now trying to reroot after getting the latest 6.3 upgrade. I downloaded the 0.95 KFU but it won't run. It starts, but the window disappears after about 5 seconds. I tried 0.91 and it went through the whole cycle but of course didn't work. I have downloaded everything I know to do and .95 won't run. I even dis the whole SDK thing all over again. Any help is appreciated.
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Are you running the latest version of Java and do you have the newest SDK? Also try Kindle Fire Utility v.0.9.4
My suggestion, from seeing countless members running into problems with the KFU, is root your device manually. It's a little more work but there's less chance of failure IMO.
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thanks
I got it working. For whatever reason, I ended up replacing the older KFU version which was located it the root of the main drive with the new version. The new version was in the desktop. I have no idea why it wouldn't have worked, but as soon as I moved it, it ran, and there was no issue with getting rooted. Thanks for the help.
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Okay I have been searching for hours, trying to root my kindle Fire. I installed the drivers as showed. Im showing up in device manager under android phone / android adb interface. When I run the kindle fire Utility It comes up and says ADB status Online, Boot status unknown. I have tried plugin right into the back of the computer with the USB cord thinking it was the hub from comments i read in another thread but no luck. I have also reinstalled the drivers several times, at one point restarting after every step and still no luck. Any help on this please?
You might have a kindle fire 2. Check your firmware revision in device info or about device or whatever its called in settings. If its 10.something you probably have a 2. It has a faster processor and more ram but it has a locked bootloader that no one has said they are actively working on as of yet. Hopefully someone will pick it up soon. It can be rooted and have Gapps installed but no custom recovery which means no custom ROMs. If you develop or know someone, give it a shot. I know there are at least a few people eager to have a full tablet.
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You might have a kindle fire 2. Check your firmware revision in device info or about device or whatever its called in settings. If its 10.something you probably have a 2. It has a faster processor and more ram but it has a locked bootloader that no one has said they are actively working on as of yet. Hopefully someone will pick it up soon. It can be rooted and have Gapps installed but no custom recovery which means no custom ROMs. If you develop or know someone, give it a shot. I know there are at least a few people eager to have a full tablet.
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Thanks for the reply I never did get it to change, I went ahead and took a chance and rooted it anyways with the tool, everthing worked perfect. I now have it running android 4.1
Hello all --
I rooted my KF 6.3.1 using Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.6, back in July 2012. I successfully installed and used Superuser, Google Play, GameCIH, SD Maid, and a couple other things. All of these worked flawlessly; all confirmed upon opening that I had root.Things were fine until sometime in November.
Then, for no apparent reason, one day I went to clean up my Kindle using SD Maid, and it warned me that I didn't have root. All other apps gave similar warnings. I had also lost the blue and white bootloader screen that gave me boot options. My Fire did not download an update, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why I would have suddenly lost root for no apparent reason.
I didn't have the time to fix it then, but I do have the time now, and the lack of root is really getting on my nerves. I tried re-rooting using the same utility I used the first time -- and before starting I had a Boot Status 4000 -- but it failed, giving me an error message saying that it already found the files that it was trying to install.
When I went to reboot the Kindle, I got the bootloader screen with options, but after the thing finished booting, all my apps still say I don't have root.
Any idea what's going on here?
Late November, early December Amazon pushed out an update to 6.3.1, so if you are running Stock and you were just rooted, this is most likely the case. That update removed root, and did some other stuff, I think; I can't remember. How should you go about fixing this? Search for posts related to this in mid-to late-December. I didn't run into this so I don't know the solution. If you haven't found anything by tomorrow morning, I will find the relevant forum to point you to.
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This just happened to me tonight e i suppose ill have go kfu again when i get a chanceno root /fff /twrp all gone, although i still have all the files well i was gonna keep amazon but anymore, i dont want auto updates eguess when i fix this ill put a nee rom and call it a day
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I got fff /twrp back , no root , in twrp my backups are listed but not visable in the folder that I need to restore(in other words the folder itself is blank) ,so is there a way to inject root? Oh Ill keep plugging until I get it!
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So long Amazon , I had a copy of CM10 in a folder and decided to just go that route instead of hasseling with amazon I dont read enough to worry about it!
Anyone else here get the 8.4.5 update? I got it about 3-4 weeks ago and just a couple of days ago, got 8.4.6. Sent a message to Amazon to see what was fixed/added, but didn't get any information yet.
Wondering if it would effect rooting/installing CWM or CM mods.
try Bin4ry v31
hello friends,
There are already reports back whether rooten, playstore and 2nd Bootloader & TRWP with current software version 8.4.6 is still possible or has someone already tried successfully?
mfg
J-P
ver 8.46 has stolen root from my KFHD 8.9
I was running happily with ver 8.43 and had OTA blocked (?) but 8.46 got through and I can't get back to Root using any tools I've managed to find.
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I was running happily with ver 8.43 and had OTA blocked (?) but 8.46 got through and I can't get back to Root using any tools I've managed to find.
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me too！
I was running 8.46，and I've searched everywhere about root！
Help me pls！
Facing the same issue!
Running 8.4.6 and the usual methods to rooting don't seem to work. Is there a work around to this?
tufeikai said:
me too！
I was running 8.46，and I've searched everywhere about root！
Help me pls！
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Running 8.4.6 and the usual methods to rooting don't seem to work. Is there a work around to this?
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I just used the method from this and it worked fine to get root.
"this" method worked for my Kindle too
Used the same method, first under Linux, which would not work, then fell back to Windows 7 which also failed saying "couldn't find specified paths".
Connected Kindle to PC before starting next run and all worked perfectly.....full ROOT and no data loss, all apps working again.
Thanks to all...
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I just used the method from this and it worked fine to get root.
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Tried this one a few times, the computer pings the 4.2.2.2 address just fine, I installed the drivers and ran the software. when it asked me to plug the kindle in, I do so, and it continues its business , but the computer starts installing new drivers during this time.
The prompt window says that the kindle will reboot into recovery, it doesn't and in the end, it says that the kindle will reboot, but nothing happens...
I messed up. I was trying to root my Kindle Fire to get Google apps on my kindle. I am a Paramedic and use some apps that aren't available on the kindle store. I have since bought a Samsung tab 3 for myself and I"m giving the Kindle Fire to a friend who needs one.
I used TWRP v2.1.1 and everything seemed to be going ok, that and the normal kindle loaded just fine. I didn't have a change to play with it much, I'm a noob (obviously)
Before giving it to my friend I was going to restore it to factory settings. I did so in the normal kindle load. It turned off and now I can get it to load into TWRP only. The gray screen comes up, Instal, Backup, ext. It won't, however, load into the kindle fire interface anymore. It just goes to the white and orange KF screen and gets stuck, no animation. If I run the Kindle Fire Utility on my PC I can change it to 4000 and 4002. Thats about it... None of the other things seem to work. I can click on them, and they seem to load but nothing happens. I tried to use the "Obtain stock update" and nothing happened. All I want to do is get the original KF interface back for my friend I'm going to be giving this to. Is there a simple program a noob like me can use? I have read and read here on the forums for a few days and I'm more confused now than ever. Partially because I keep getting called for 911's in the middle of reading, lol. I'm sorry to bother you all, but if you can help me I'd appreciate it. I"ve already promised this thing to her and will just have to buy another one if I cant fix it.
Gave up.
meadowsja said:
I messed up. I was trying to root my Kindle Fire to get Google apps on my kindle. I am a Paramedic and use some apps that aren't available on the kindle store. I have since bought a Samsung tab 3 for myself and I"m giving the Kindle Fire to a friend who needs one.
I used TWRP v2.1.1 and everything seemed to be going ok, that and the normal kindle loaded just fine. I didn't have a change to play with it much, I'm a noob (obviously)
Before giving it to my friend I was going to restore it to factory settings. I did so in the normal kindle load. It turned off and now I can get it to load into TWRP only. The gray screen comes up, Instal, Backup, ext. It won't, however, load into the kindle fire interface anymore. It just goes to the white and orange KF screen and gets stuck, no animation. If I run the Kindle Fire Utility on my PC I can change it to 4000 and 4002. Thats about it... None of the other things seem to work. I can click on them, and they seem to load but nothing happens. I tried to use the "Obtain stock update" and nothing happened. All I want to do is get the original KF interface back for my friend I'm going to be giving this to. Is there a simple program a noob like me can use? I have read and read here on the forums for a few days and I'm more confused now than ever. Partially because I keep getting called for 911's in the middle of reading, lol. I'm sorry to bother you all, but if you can help me I'd appreciate it. I"ve already promised this thing to her and will just have to buy another one if I cant fix it.
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I gave up going back to stock, apparently I'm not intelligent enough to ask proper questions and give proper info or nobody knew how to help. However, I was able to flash over a ROM from here, pretty easy, just not what I wanted to do. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1451747
Anyway, ty for the site and resources. Delete if you wish, I just thought I'd update in-case someone was watching with the same problem.
Hello All XDA members,
I have a Kindle HD 8.9 and as the warranty passed off, at the same time Christmas is nearing...I decided to install CM KK on my sons kindle as i don't have enough money to give a present to my son.
I've done all that is given here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963.
Problems I've faced are as the thread didn't mention to root I was trying some codes without that but some how figured that i needed root to proceed..Simultaneously rooted my kindle rebooted and then proceeded with the codes i.e backup of system img and all the steps that were given.
I has all the downloaded files in download directory so the stack push didn't work first then i moved all the required files to C> ADB folder and everything worked but before figuring it out i googled stack file push failure and came across a guide that has the stack push directory to data/temp (I see that this was later edited here)
However i retried with the push to the location that is currently mentioned now and it worked (So the stack file is at 2 locations now)
Proceeded with all next steps and stuck at flashing bin file in fastboot, realized the downloaded file was .bin.html i renamed it to bin and flashed
Everything was done as mentioned except something that needed to be understood and done by logical thinking like removing .html and flashing .bin.
After all this when the kindle was supposed to reboot it didn't and its completely dead now... I have done all that was mentioned and have said all the errors or misses that i has above ..now is it that the kindle is dead brick forever ?
I cant trust how can that be because i really know how cautious i was and i did almost every thing as mentioned..
Saddest part is that now I've messed up my sons kindle which i thought of Flashing CM KK and giving a little gift as i'm not capable of providing any gift now ..I've messed his kindle as well now
I'd be really glad and thankful if some one can help me out in this situation and recover kindle.
Again i'd like to mention I've done as mentioned please trust me and still have the image backups, i read that the back up can be reflashed but as there is no commuication via ADB or flashboot i don't thing that can be done now .
Why did this happen what can be possible reason ?
Sounds like you may have accidently saved a webpage instead of the .bin file, that's why it had the .html on the end. If you tried to flash this to the bootloader then unfortunately you have bricked it
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Sounds like you may have accidently saved a webpage instead of the .bin file, that's why it had the .html on the end. If you tried to flash this to the bootloader then unfortunately you have bricked it
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No if that was the case then why will the file bo .bin.html ?
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No if that was the case then why will the file bo .bin.html ?
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It shouldn't have .html on the end. Check the md5 sum for the file and make sure that it is the same as it should be, you should ALWAYS do this when messing with the bootloader
Maybe you flashed wrong images.
I just went to the link of the guide that you followed in flashing a second bootloader and recovery. The instructions are for a Kindle Fire 2/ Otter2. Its a different device from the KF HD 8.9. So.... if you did flash the images from that link, it will lead to a bricked device no matter if you followed the instructions to the letter. Maybe you can sell it on ebay or Craigslist for parts. Just a thought...
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I just went to the link of the guide that you followed in flashing a second bootloader and recovery. The instructions are for a Kindle Fire 2/ Otter2. Its a different device from the KF HD 8.9. So.... if you did flash the images from that link, it will lead to a bricked device no matter if you followed the instructions to the letter. Maybe you can sell it on ebay or Craigslist for parts. Just a thought...
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I actually plan on doing this for a similar reason. My sons kindle battery life is appalling as it drains faster than before and charges slower, plus kindle updates are lacking badly and some things don't work anymore.
I hope you can fix it somehow.
Happy new year.
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Hello All XDA members,
I have a Kindle HD 8.9 and as the warranty passed off, at the same time Christmas is nearing...I decided to install CM KK on my sons kindle as i don't have enough money to give a present to my son.
I've done all that is given here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963.
Problems I've faced are as the thread didn't mention to root I was trying some codes without that but some how figured that i needed root to proceed..Simultaneously rooted my kindle rebooted and then proceeded with the codes i.e backup of system img and all the steps that were given.
I has all the downloaded files in download directory so the stack push didn't work first then i moved all the required files to C> ADB folder and everything worked but before figuring it out i googled stack file push failure and came across a guide that has the stack push directory to data/temp (I see that this was later edited here)
However i retried with the push to the location that is currently mentioned now and it worked (So the stack file is at 2 locations now)
Proceeded with all next steps and stuck at flashing bin file in fastboot, realized the downloaded file was .bin.html i renamed it to bin and flashed
Everything was done as mentioned except something that needed to be understood and done by logical thinking like removing .html and flashing .bin.
After all this when the kindle was supposed to reboot it didn't and its completely dead now... I have done all that was mentioned and have said all the errors or misses that i has above ..now is it that the kindle is dead brick forever ?
I cant trust how can that be because i really know how cautious i was and i did almost every thing as mentioned..
Saddest part is that now I've messed up my sons kindle which i thought of Flashing CM KK and giving a little gift as i'm not capable of providing any gift now ..I've messed his kindle as well now
I'd be really glad and thankful if some one can help me out in this situation and recover kindle.
Again i'd like to mention I've done as mentioned please trust me and still have the image backups, i read that the back up can be reflashed but as there is no commuication via ADB or flashboot i don't thing that can be done now .
Why did this happen what can be possible reason ?
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As stated by Max above, if you flashed those images from that thread you linked to in your post, then those are the incorrect files for your device. and would have definitely bricked it! assuming you do have the FFHD 8.9 inch. but you still may be able to unbrick it. are you positive of which kindle device you have? if you are positive that it is indeed a KFHD 8.9, do you know which version it was on before you started the OP?
Mike
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As stated by Max above, if you flashed those images from that thread you linked to in your post, then those are the incorrect files for your device. and would have definitely bricked it! assuming you do have the FFHD 8.9 inch. but you still may be able to unbrick it. are you positive of which kindle device you have? if you are positive that it is indeed a KFHD 8.9, do you know which version it was on before you started the OP?
Mike
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Thanks a lot friends, i surely have a jem and i tried to read ad do things intended to do for jem only (seems strange to me that link i posted is for otter though i cross checked many times not to flash other device images but may be messed up in enthusiasm)
Never mind i eventually had to end up selling this on craiglist as a friend mentioned and got a working one from ebay ( to my shock it's reported as lost and stolen) looks i have great bad luck...
Now the kindle is just nothing unless i have cm in it but i will need all you guys help so that i dont end up like before
So please help me out with links so that i do all things correctly ...please i don't have any money now to loose or fix this ...
Thanks in advance
Edit : i tried to root kindle but was not able to, its on the highest or most up to date version of fire os as per amazon
I tried to root with restore by binary, cant see superuser in app drawer, able to see it in system/apps via root explorer
Tried to install firefire.apk it shows no root & root explorer doesn't rename system apps to .bak.... So i believe i cant root..
Please @11fan help me out now i need only cm on kindle thats fine for me.......
I'd be gratful to you for the help
Let me see if I got this correct, you sold the bricked kindle with the incorrect images on it on craislist? You Bought another kindle off eBay that has been reported stolen/lost? That sounds like some of my luck! So you got another kfhd 8.9? And you are for sure!? If so, go to about tablet in settings and see which version its currently running, also turn ON USB debugging and set it to allow 3rd party app installs in security settings, then get adb and fastboot working and we will go from there.
Mike
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11fan said:
Let me see if I got this correct, you sold the bricked kindle with the incorrect images on it on craislist? You Bought another kindle off eBay that has been reported stolen/lost? That sounds like some of my luck! So you got another kfhd 8.9? And you are for sure!? If so, go to about tablet in settings and see which version its currently running, also turn ON USB debugging and set it to allow 3rd party app installs in security settings, then get adb and fastboot working and we will go from there.
Mike
sent from my jem running CM11 using TapaTalk
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Done all that mate and yes im sure its Kindle Fire HD 8.9 running os 8.5.1
Edit : After trying to root with binary tool and qemu tool (scripts) the device became extremely laggy
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Done all that mate and yes im sure its Kindle Fire HD 8.9 running os 8.5.1
Edit : After trying to root with binary tool and qemu tool (scripts) the device became extremely laggy
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yes the lag is known issue after/when trying to root using some of the ways posted! if you can get through the lagg long enough to get an app on it i would recommend using an app called keyrootmaster you can get it here http://download.apks.org/?server=14&apkid=com.zhiqupk.root&ver=1.3.6 this is what i used and several other posters i know of, THE ONLY BAD THING IS the app is written in Indonesian language, BUT it works and after about 3 taps you got root! if you are going to CM or some other rom it shouldn't matter about the language anyway as all of that app will be gone and superuser is baked into CM anyway. see if you can get that app, get it rooted and let me know and i will try to help you get TWRP and CM installed. I hope this helps out some!
Mike
11fan said:
yes the lag is known issue after/when trying to root using some of the ways posted! if you can get through the lagg long enough to get an app on it i would recommend using an app called keyrootmaster you can get it here http://download.apks.org/?server=14&apkid=com.zhiqupk.root&ver=1.3.6 this is what i used and several other posters i know of, THE ONLY BAD THING IS the app is written in Indonesian language, BUT it works and after about 3 taps you got root! if you are going to CM or some other rom it shouldn't matter about the language anyway as all of that app will be gone and superuser is baked into CM anyway. see if you can get that app, get it rooted and let me know and i will try to help you get TWRP and CM installed. I hope this helps out some!
Mike
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Yes please help me with TWRP / CWM. Please & I want to install CM on it now
Did you get it rooted?
Mike
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Did you get it rooted?
Mike
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Yes
Hello @11fan
Edit : got it rooted, TWRP installed, made a nandroid backuo & tried to flash CM (chkd MD5 as well) but CM boot screen stayed for so so long...so I rebooted the device to TWRP and did a full wipe as well as format data...now have no os installed, cant mount as usb storage to copy nandroid...kooks like i've messed again....
Praying to God that I have some way again to restore...
Edit 2 : sorted via adb sideload
Glad you got it....i was going to tell you that the LONG cm screen on first boot is normal! I just loaded cm12 on mine last night and first boot took about 8 minutes, maybe longer as I forgot to time it!
Mike