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Hi,
I just switched off my kindle using the power button then shutdown in Ice Cream Sandwich. My kindle now won't turn on and when plugging it in to the pc shows up as OMAP4430 and constantly connects and disconnects?
Please Help
If you hold down the power button for ~30 seconds to force it off, then press it again, do you get anything on the screen?
If not, then your partitioning or bootloaders got hosed. There might be something you can do with the USB debricker (w/o having to open it up). What were you doing before you rebooted?
Hi,
I am currently in the IRC trying to sort it out. (I have been told it is in bootloader mode and I need to install linux and try to connect to the serial console...).
I have tried hardresetting it and I dont get anything on the screen. Before I rebooted I copied some music and apps to the sdcard in Ice Cream Sandwich, then rebooted to go into recovery (However, after switching it off It didnt even start up again so I couldnt go into recovery).
Connecting it to PC shows up as an OMAP4430 USB Device, with no drivers which is constantly connecting and disconnecting from the pc.
You mentioned a USB debricker? Would this work in my situation? If I cant get it fixed with help from the guys in IRC.
Regards,
XperiaPlayer
You are in the cpu's USB boot mode. You need to send the cpu something to boot over usb or it will loop forever trying to find something to boot off flash.
Search the dev forum for "rekindle". I'd post a link if I could. Using those directions you should be able to boot TWRP over usb and get in over adb to figure out what happened. Because you're already in usb boot mode, you don't even have to open your Kindle. You will need Linux tho.
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Thank you Its working now
heeeelp
pokey9000 said:
You are in the cpu's USB boot mode. You need to send the cpu something to boot over usb or it will loop forever trying to find something to boot off flash.
Search the dev forum for "rekindle". I'd post a link if I could. Using those directions you should be able to boot TWRP over usb and get in over adb to figure out what happened. Because you're already in usb boot mode, you don't even have to open your Kindle. You will need Linux tho.
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hi i have the same problem as him. but do not know how they do it, really need help with this, please help me what to do.
Okay start by creating a live usb. When your device comes up as omapp44xx just run the script usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp and plug your device in while off when it says <waiting for omap44xx device> in the terminal. The script should run when your device boots up because it`s in this state. I don`t believe you will even need the short trick. Get a 4 gig usb flash drive.
Instructions:
1. Download this http://www.pendrivelinux.com universal USB installer
2. Download iso
3. Preformat usb in windows
4. Select try unlisted Linux iso from the very bottom of drop down in universal usb installer
5. Select iso
6. Select usb drive letter
7. Tick format
8. Create
9. Eject safely and remove
10. Shut down computer
11. Insert and power on computer
12. Select boot from usb and use..
Use this iso I made Soupkit is already ran just use the above instructions http://db.tt/CR4OaQTF Firekit is an option of Soupkit. The usb might be a little slow to boot this is normal let me know how it goes. Good luck.
omap4430 please help
any other ideas? this is not working ... please help me guys
Whats not working? When you run the script and plug your powered off kindle in what does it do? Any other ideas this is not working isn`t terribly informative.
thank you for your answer. BUT
I did everything what you wrote in there. and everything was going, I downloaded, I have ubuntu in a flash. but I do not see that your last sentence. Sorry I do not get it, sorry. this
I do not see how I do it When you run the script and plug your powered off kindle
Side note this is not for use for anything but the Kindle Fire!! I feel really bad Bono now has a really hard bricked lg optimus 3d cube I think both of us learned a hard lesson wish I knew I was dealing with a phone.
Thepooch said:
Side note this is not for use for anything but the Kindle Fire!! I feel really bad Bono now has a really hard bricked lg optimus 3d cube I think both of us learned a hard lesson wish I knew I was dealing with a phone.
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lol why would he post about his phone on a kindle page?:silly:
It's actually quite common for people to assume that a fix for an error can be universal, that often isn't the case unfortunately.
My tablet does not go to recovery mode
Hi I have a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 7 inches, I am having the same problem as the op, but I did not try to flash/root anything. I just arrived from a travel, and it look like when my tablet was on my bag the things near it pressed some weird combination of buttons, and now it does not turn on, nor my laptop recognize it. I just get a notification of omap4430 could not be installed.
So I understand that I need to turn-off my tablet before trying to enter the restore menu (power + volume up). But I dont know when my tablet is turned off, because I can not see a thing on the screen at all. I am trying to press the power button for 30 secs, and then I am trying to press the combination of button, but nothing happens. What I need to do? Do I keep trying doing the same??
thanks in advance.
Heavenly_King said:
Hi I have a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 7 inches, I am having the same problem as the op, but I did not try to flash/root anything. I just arrived from a travel, and it look like when my tablet was on my bag the things near it pressed some weird combination of buttons, and now it does not turn on, nor my laptop recognize it. I just get a notification of omap4430 could not be installed.
So I understand that I need to turn-off my tablet before trying to enter the restore menu (power + volume up). But I dont know when my tablet is turned off, because I can not see a thing on the screen at all. I am trying to press the power button for 30 secs, and then I am trying to press the combination of button, but nothing happens. What I need to do? Do I keep trying doing the same??
thanks in advance.
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Your question would be best answered in the Samsung Galaxy Tab forums.
Confused
Thepooch said:
Okay start by creating a live usb. When your device comes up as omapp44xx just run the script usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp and plug your device in while off when it says <waiting for omap44xx device> in the terminal. The script should run when your device boots up because it`s in this state. I don`t believe you will even need the short trick. Get a 4 gig usb flash drive.
Instructions:
1. Download this universal USB installer
2. Download iso
3. Preformat usb in windows
4. Select try unlisted Linux iso from the very bottom of drop down in universal usb installer
5. Select iso
6. Select usb drive letter
7. Tick format
8. Create
9. Eject safely and remove
10. Shut down computer
11. Insert and power on computer
12. Select boot from usb and use..
Use this iso I made Soupkit is already ran just use the above instructions Firekit is an option of Soupkit. The usb might be a little slow to boot this is normal let me know how it goes. Good luck.
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Since there are no lights indicating whether the kindle is off or on how do I know when i connect the device and run the script with what i think is off ( not making the disconnect and connect sound in windows) the script runs but it stays at
"waiting for OMAP44xx device..."
when i connect it in what i believe is powered on it runs the scripts and this comes back
"waiting for OMAP44xx device...
sending 2ndstage to target...
waiting for 2ndstage response...
unexpected 2ndstage response
Fixing partitions...
< waiting for device >
"
and just sits there for a while. I get no response from the kindle and I have not opened to short it yet trying everything possible to not open it
What am I doing wrong. Thanks in advance
opporlando23 said:
Since there are no lights indicating whether the kindle is off or on how do I know when i connect the device and run the script with what i think is off ( not making the disconnect and connect sound in windows) the script runs but it stays at
"waiting for OMAP44xx device..."
when i connect it in what i believe is powered on it runs the scripts and this comes back
"waiting for OMAP44xx device...
sending 2ndstage to target...
waiting for 2ndstage response...
unexpected 2ndstage response
Fixing partitions...
< waiting for device >
"
and just sits there for a while. I get no response from the kindle and I have not opened to short it yet trying everything possible to not open it
What am I doing wrong. Thanks in advance
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Is the battery dead? Could be most all power on issues are fixed by using the short trick. Considering the near unresponsive state you will need to open the back provided the device back light is not coming on. The fact that you are not getting LED indication does pose an indication that the battery could be completely dead. In which case the short trick will likely pull you through the final stages of the script. Always try charging via usb on your computer to see if you can manage to push some current to the battery and perform 2 min long press then press again for normal power on to verify it not something more near a SOD.
Good luck
THANKS
Thepooch said:
Is the battery dead? Could be most all power on issues are fixed by using the short trick. Considering the near unresponsive state you will need to open the back provided the device back light is not coming on. The fact that you are not getting LED indication does pose an indication that the battery could be completely dead. In which case the short trick will likely pull you through the final stages of the script. Always try charging via usb on your computer to see if you can manage to push some current to the battery and perform 2 min long press then press again for normal power on to verify it not something more near a SOD.
Good luck
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Thank you for the quick reply! I had left the tablet charging all night via usb to the computer so im not sure if that helps in terms of the device having powered. The device back light is not coming on and I get not LED indication. Okay I tried the 2 min long press and again for normal power still no response from the tablet I uploaded a video to youtube tittled xda456 to show exactly what is happening or if you would be willing I can show you my screen via join.me/654-762-978 The post you showed about shorting the pin the name on the chips are different. MY kindle was a 2nd gen kindle running 10.4.6
Should I just proceed to opening the kindle and shorting the pins then?
opporlando23 said:
Thank you for the quick reply! I had left the tablet charging all night via usb to the computer so im not sure if that helps in terms of the device having powered. The device back light is not coming on and I get not LED indication. Okay I tried the 2 min long press and again for normal power still no response from the tablet I uploaded a video to youtube tittled xda456 to show exactly what is happening or if you would be willing I can show you my screen via join.me/654-762-978 The post you showed about shorting the pin the name on the chips are different. MY kindle was a 2nd gen kindle running 10.4.6
Should I just proceed to opening the kindle and shorting the pins then?
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Oh noes!!! firekit is only for the fist gen. devices under no circumstances should it ever be used for a second gen device like the one you have that is likely permanently bricked.
Sigh RIP kindle.
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My Kindle Fire is now maybe gone, forever!
It was a smooth and easy life for me and my Kindle Fire, we've been through root, recovery, bootloader and everthing. She was running fine, until the recent day.
I installed the 1.4 FFF from Hashcode, it was good, I loved the blue Kindle Fire logo. But then the next day I saw an update of 1.4a, so I booted into TWRP recovery and uses ADB (since I'm using Kernel 3.0 without ADB) and does the command:
adb push <filename> /sdcard
Sdcard: Read-Only File System
That was really weird, we all know sdcard is never a read-only, so I thought something was wrong here, I copy the FFF.bin file from my PC to my Sdcard using Mount USB (Still Working)
I tried the second command to install the FFF 1.4a:
adb shell
dd if=\......
And it says I/O error.
I thought I would reboot and live with 1.4 then, but when I reboot system in TWRP, the Kindle never came on again.
It was at 73% battery so there's no chance of a battery drain, but know when I press the power button, NOTHING, no green light, no backlight, it does NOTHING! When I was holding it, it was very very hot at the area around the power button, everywhere else it's cool. I hold it for 20 seconds, left it there and in the evening that area is cool again!
SO I doubt a hardware error, that separate the power button with the CPU,RAM,ROM to power it on or what--so--ever. But the Kindle was smooth until I tried to flash the 1.4a, and what was the problem with the "Read-Only SDCARD", even I can still Mount it to PC and Copy it over. What should I do, should I bring it to the Hardware Fixing Store? Or throw away my Kindle Fire!!!
Try wiping everything
Inviato dal mio Kindle Fire con Tapatalk 2
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Thepooch said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1550999
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That's a factory cable isn't it? The problem is my Kindle won't power on, I'm doubting is hardware, will plugging in the factory cable turn on my device, now it's like a REAL BRICK, NOTHING!!!
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Thepooch said:
Yes that's a factory cable or try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
A factory cable will force your kindle to power on. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392693
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I hate to bother you like this, but even with no power button working and no backlight? I do think my case is rare, I mean it has to power on to do the commands right?I mean the Kindle is still hot while plug in and charge so I'm guessing it's energy problem? No offense so don't misunderstand this, but if the charger fails in powering on the Kindle Fire, why should the factory cable be a success? (Sorry my English is bad so it sounds offensive)
No offense taken but the factory cable acts as a short and puts your kindle in a state where you can fix the problem so keep reading on how to use this cable. you can also issue fast boot in kfu then power your device on after.
Thepooch said:
No offense taken but the factory cable acts as a short and puts your kindle in a state where you can fix the problem so keep reading on how to use this cable. you can also issue fast boot in kfu then power your device on after.
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I see now, I guess I will order the cable now! Anyway I was browsing the forum and I see a guy who has the similar problem to mine (which also helped by you!) here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1636107
So there is a problem of the Kindle leaving it can't power on and I'm not the only one that have it! What seems to be the cause and how to prevent this in the future for me and everyone else!
read my thread: bricked after installing fff1.4
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lovejoy777 said:
read my thread: bricked after installing fff1.4
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There were so many replies in that thread that blurry me, can you tell me how did you unbrick it??
PLEASE HELP!!!
Its not something you can explain in a few short sentences. You have to research it.
Make a usb stick that loads ubuntu, put fk at the root of it.
Take the back of your kindle off, short a certain point on the motherboard, plug your kindle into the computer and run the last command in the list for firekit.
tombombman said:
Make a usb stick that loads ubuntu, put fk at the root of it.
Take the back of your kindle off, short a certain point on the motherboard, plug your kindle into the computer and run the last command in the list for firekit.
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You make it sound SO easy. Where were you when Lovejoy777 needed help?
(BTW that's a joke, so don't get bent out of shape)
it turned out it was my pc that caused most of my upset. im still sorting it now. iv'e had to wipe my hard drive and start again. just updating ubuntu 11.10 (not upgrading to 12.04 as i think thats when the fun & games started)
next is sdk/adb/fastboot etc :-(
my only tip is read the top link from the first page from tom (and i mean read it) then follow it to the t (no short cuts) and your kindle will boot i'm sure
if you get stuck at a certain bit post back with some detail of where you are at in the process etc. and people will help
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I falshed the wrong bootloader to my KF. Now it won't power up with no backlight, no kindle fire logo and no led on the power button. What should I do? Do I have to pry the back cover and use the Firekit LiveUSB (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038)? Will a factory cable fix this? It seems that a correct bootloader is needed to use fastboot so factory cables will not work.
What should I do now?
UPDATE: I solved this issue using the Firekit found here and a post about usb boot in here. I tried several times until I finally succeeded. I do not unbrick it using Firekit because it seemed not to work on my computer, just showing "waiting for OMAP44xx device..".In the end I use
Code:
./usbboot aboot.bin u-boot.bin; ./fastboot boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
found in the other post. And I succeed. I summarized several points. Hopefully, these may help others unbrick their Kindle Fire like me.
To pry KF's back case open, you can use the method found here in iFixit. I do not have those tools as they do but I just use small flat-head screwdriver and one credit card to open it. Be careful when dealing with the clips, because they are easy to break (I broke two of them...).
To short the contact point, you can find the exact position in the picture (the red arrow shows the position) in end of my post or here.
I use a small knife to short it but practically anything is OK if they can conduct electricity just like other posts say. I use the knife to touch the point and the frame of the CPU (as the gray frame shows in the attachment).
After I managed to boot my Kindle into TWRP, I flash the stock ROM but when I choose to reboot, it just shutdown and I cannot power it up. But after I put the back case back, it seems that everything went on well and it is working again!
Thanks to all the people helping me. You really teach me a lot. This unbricking experience us really interesting and I believe I will learn even more from all the people on xda.
Firekit, imho.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using XDA
Firekit
Thepooch said:
Starting thread after thread isn't going to get it fixed faster either use fire kit or get a factory cable and you flashed the right bootloader incorrectly any bootloader for the kindle will work if you follow instructions
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Fyi, factory cable will not fix a bad bootloader flash. Needs firekit or some variation of USBboot.
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Hashcode said:
Fyi, factory cable will not fix a bad bootloader flash. Needs firekit or some variation of USBboot.
Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2
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Thanks, Hashcode! Using your method, I manage to unbrick my Kindle!!
freefaling said:
Firekit, imho.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using XDA
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Thank you, freefaling! Using Firekit, I saved the Kindle Fire. Thank you so much!
g0og1e said:
I falshed the wrong bootloader to my KF. Now it won't power up with no backlight, no kindle fire logo and no led on the power button. What should I do? Do I have to pry the back cover and use the Firekit LiveUSB (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038)? Will a factory cable fix this? It seems that a correct bootloader is needed to use fastboot so factory cables will not work.
What should I do now?
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Out of curiosity, what boot loader did you install, and how did you install the wrong one?
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pbailey212 said:
Out of curiosity, what boot loader did you install, and how did you install the wrong one?
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I use this command "fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot-firefirefire-1.2.zip". I should have used "fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin" where the u-boot.bin file is extracted from u-boot-firefirefire-1.2.zip. I was confused at that time and now I am clear. When I flash the bootloader using Recovery, I should flash the zip file but if I use fastboot, I should flash the bin file. Hope this may be useful to some newbies like me.
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My Kindle Fire is dead. I tried with the factory cable, with KFU, with firekit, with your method, opening the case with and without the short.
Is in a coma, black screen, no charging led lights, W7 doesnt recognize it, Ubuntu 12.04 doesnt work.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
franciscoruiz said:
My Kindle Fire is dead. I tried with the factory cable, with KFU, with firekit, with your method, opening the case with and without the short.
Is in a coma, black screen, no charging led lights, W7 doesnt recognize it, Ubuntu 12.04 doesnt work.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
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Can you give specific details as to what happened to land your kf in that state?
franciscoruiz said:
My Kindle Fire is dead. I tried with the factory cable, with KFU, with firekit, with your method, opening the case with and without the short.
Is in a coma, black screen, no charging led lights, W7 doesnt recognize it, Ubuntu 12.04 doesnt work.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
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Try Ubuntu 10.4 and see if that works. Also, provide as much detail as you can about your steps and what results you get.
franciscoruiz said:
My Kindle Fire is dead. I tried with the factory cable, with KFU, with firekit, with your method, opening the case with and without the short.
Is in a coma, black screen, no charging led lights, W7 doesnt recognize it, Ubuntu 12.04 doesnt work.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
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I found this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25703127&postcount=18
It seems it won't work without the USB Stick.
I won't even try to use ubuntu from VMWare... I'll go straight to USB Stick... Are you using it?
PS: I'll try it as soon as I have mine KF open.
franciscoruiz said:
My Kindle Fire is dead. I tried with the factory cable, with KFU, with firekit, with your method, opening the case with and without the short.
Is in a coma, black screen, no charging led lights, W7 doesnt recognize it, Ubuntu 12.04 doesnt work.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
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Can you remember the steps you did to Kindle? I mean, what tweaks did you use to cause you Kindle to be bricked? Given that your Kindle's led lights does not work, it is very possible that you flash the wrong bootloader. Maybe you should read those useful threads like Firekit and USB boot tricks once again, so that you can find more information. I use Ubuntu 11.10, not the latest version, but the Firekit seems not to work on my computer, only to find "waiting for OMAP44xx device..." on the screen no matter I short the contact or not. So I turned to the post here. I issued:
Code:
./usbboot aboot.bin u-boot.bin; ./fastboot boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
And it worked! There are some points to keep in mind. Before you do any of these steps, push the power button for 20 secs or more. Then type the commands mentioned in that post. And you short it and while keeping to shorted, you plug in the usb. If you see some text on your screen, then you succeed.
Hermano Francisco,
It's kind of tricky... to mw worked right now... I kept trying, unitl I find the right spot for the short, or the right time... My KF is working so far...
Gonna turn it off, read all the guides... and later I'll try to learn how to put market in it.
Thanks guys for help and all knowledge that you share.
Help me please
Bricked My kindle. Could Not bot up.
I am a Windows User, Tried Ubuntu for this method. But stucks at
"waiting for OMAP44xx device..."
Tried out the Shorting pin point. But no response,. "Is the adb has to set earler before to do this?" if yes please specify How to do that.
I did the Steps.
1. First removed battery wire: (Just to make it Power of if it is on)
2. Pressed Power button for 30 seconds nearly
3. Short the Pin point and Plugd in USB(I already attached One end to PC)
4. Tried out many times. But still.....
5. Before Flasing Bootloader. Kindle works well. I just gave a wrong file name. As a stupid thing. Please dont scold. Help me.
balakrishnan111 said:
Bricked My kindle. Could Not bot up.
I am a Windows User, Tried Ubuntu for this method. But stucks at
"waiting for OMAP44xx device..."
Tried out the Shorting pin point. But no response,. "Is the adb has to set earler before to do this?" if yes please specify How to do that.
I did the Steps.
1. First removed battery wire: (Just to make it Power of if it is on)
2. Pressed Power button for 30 seconds nearly
3. Short the Pin point and Plugd in USB(I already attached One end to PC)
4. Tried out many times. But still.....
5. Before Flasing Bootloader. Kindle works well. I just gave a wrong file name. As a stupid thing. Please dont scold. Help me.
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When it says waiting is when you apply the short and plug it in keeping it shorted till the script runs
Thanks for ur fast response
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When it says waiting is when you apply the short and plug it in keeping it shorted till the script runs
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Thank you for fast response. But as i noted earlier. i did Pin short only during the "Waiting for device prompt in terminal"
What should i do
If your using a 3.0 USB port it very likely will not work use 2.0 only
I hope i am using USB 2.0, My system does not 3.0 Port. Itried now also. NO use. Is there any other way available, Please say
After flashing firefirefire and twrp 2.1 to a friend's Kindle Fire, the kindle is totally unresponsive. (Yes, I believe I flashed the bootloader incorrectly. I probably flashed the actual .zip rather than a binary.)
Anyways, now:
- The power button never lights, no matter what I do. A/C plugged in, USB plugged in, after holding power button for minutes, after battery disconnected and USB connected, nothing.
- When plugged in to the USB port (Linux running), no messages appear in the syslog that indicate it even recognizes that a device has been connected
- usbboot (with the shorting trick) did not help
- disconnecting battery, then trying usbboot (with the shorting trick) does not help
For what it's worth: I actually accidentally performed the shorting trick on the wrong Kindle (mine) and effectively made it not boot. I WAS able to fix mine using the usbboot (with the shorting trick) and get it back booting. So, I know how this works. One difference I note, when I plugged in my Kindle, and tried the usbboot trick, it did not work (stuck on waiting for OMAP44xx device forever). But when I unplugged the battery, and plugged in the usb cable, at least Linux logged that the USB device was connected, and the power button flashed green, on and off. This other one does absolutely zero - nothing.
It's almost like the USB jack on this Fire is completely hosed. How could flashing the bootloader and recovery do this?
After extensive research, I'm beginning to feel like I'm out of options. The factory usb cable is the only thing I have not tried.
Thanks.
This is the thread I have been following to try to recover. It worked for mine, but not for my friends.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1636883
Update: if you want to know what i did:
sudo ./fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader ~/Downloads/Kindle/u-boot-firefirefire-1.2.zip
(Yeah, I know, just wasn't thinking.)
Update:
I just, on whim, with the battery unplugged, tried the usbboot short trick again, and it worked!
I think I'm back in business.
Update:
After several successful attempts at communication with the device, I was able to get the bootloader overwritten and twrp installed. I had to customize the "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" script to get it to go through. It kept coming back to 'waiting for device'. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. It seemed stuck. Here is my customized script. (I removed the oem format and xloader).
#!/bin/bash
FKDIR=$(pwd)
echo "Loading FFF through USB..."
./usbboot $FKDIR/aboot.bin $FKDIR/u-boot.bin
#echo "Fixing partitions..."
#./fastboot oem format
#echo "Installing x-loader..."
#./fastboot flash xloader $FKDIR/mmcblk0p1
echo "Flash FFF..."
./fastboot flash bootloader $FKDIR/u-boot.bin
echo "Flash TWRP..."
./fastboot flash recovery $FKDIR/twrp2-blaze.img
echo "Resetting bootmode to standard boot..."
./fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
echo "Loading TWRP..."
./fastboot boot $FKDIR/twrp2-blaze.img
Note: I was running this from my personal Linux (non VM linux system) as root. I just extracted firekit into my download dir and called the commands manually, since I didn't want to bother with a USB stick (since I run linux).
kcburge said:
After flashing firefirefire and twrp 2.1 to a friend's Kindle Fire, the kindle is totally unresponsive.
- The power button never lights
- When plugged in to the USB port (Linux running), not message appear in the syslog that it even recognizes that a device has been connected
- usbboot (with the shorting trick) did not help
- disconnecting battery, then trying usbboot (with the shorting trick) does not help
For what it's worth: I actually accidentally performed the shorting trick on the wrong Kindle (mine) and effectively made it not boot. I WAS able to fix mine using the usbboot (with the shorting trick) and get it back booting. So, I know how this works. One difference I note, when I plugged in my Kindle, and tried the usbboot trick, it did not work. But when I unplugged the batter, and plugged in the usb cable, at least Linux logged that the USB device was connected, and the power button flashed green, on and off. This other one does absolutely zero - nothing.
It's almost like the USB jack on this Fire is completely hosed. How could flashing the bootloader and recovery do this?
After extensive research, I'm beginning to feel like I'm out of options. The factory usb cable is the only thing I have not tried.
Thanks.
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Unfortunately a factory cable won't help, so save your money. This is caused by a bad bootloader flash. Usually from flashing a corrupt file or a .zip instead of a .bin
If you're using a VM, instead of straight Linux or LiveUSB, that could cause problems as well as the Linux version you are using. It's possible you were able to get yours to work with your current setup because the bootloader was still intact on your device.
Only you would know for sure but it's possible if the battery was low enough then it might have died while installing the bootloader, which would be the only reason you should get a factory cable.
Update:
After several successful attempts at communication with the device, I was able to get the bootloader overwritten and twrp installed. I had to customize the "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" script to get it to go through. It kept coming back to 'waiting for device'. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. It seemed stuck. Here is my customized script. (I removed the oem format and xloader).
#!/bin/bash
FKDIR=$(pwd)
echo "Loading FFF through USB..."
./usbboot $FKDIR/aboot.bin $FKDIR/u-boot.bin
#echo "Fixing partitions..."
#./fastboot oem format
#echo "Installing x-loader..."
#./fastboot flash xloader $FKDIR/mmcblk0p1
echo "Flash FFF..."
./fastboot flash bootloader $FKDIR/u-boot.bin
echo "Flash TWRP..."
./fastboot flash recovery $FKDIR/twrp2-blaze.img
echo "Resetting bootmode to standard boot..."
./fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
echo "Loading TWRP..."
./fastboot boot $FKDIR/twrp2-blaze.img
Note: I was running this from my personal Linux (non VM linux system) as root. I just extracted firekit into my download dir and called the commands manually, since I didn't want to bother with a USB stick (since I run linux).[/QUOTE]
Nice good job
This is a rather extreme example of excessive quotation of a previous post, something that seems to be endemic to this site. I have seen few if any other web forums, blogs or whatever where people habitually quote fully a long comment that was posted previously, especially when it is likely to appear on the same web page. It's generally considered good practice to quote only the particular statements you are discussing, and to refer back to the post you are discussing by giving its author's id and/or the comment number.
And there is a Thanks button, after all!
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This is a rather extreme example of excessive quotation of a previous post, something that seems to be endemic to this site. I have seen few if any other web forums, blogs or whatever where people habitually quote fully a long comment that was posted previously, especially when it is likely to appear on the same web page. It's generally considered good practice to quote only the particular statements you are discussing, and to refer back to the post you are discussing by giving its author's id and/or the comment number.
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Sorry, it won't happen again.
How to recover when a bad bootloader flash puts your Fire completely out
I had this same problem, and it came from flashing u-boot.zip instead of the u-boot.bin it contains.
Once flashed and rebooted, the Kindle Fire became completely unresponsive. No power/charge light, USB port appeared completely dead. I called Amazon support and they sent me a new Fire. But I just couldn't accept that it was unfixable, so I kept trying. And I figured it out.
Here's the procedure:
Disconnect the USB cable.
Remove the Fire's back cover.
Disconnect the battery. This step is critical! It ensures that the CPU is completely powered off.
Have your USB cable plugged into the computer, but NOT into the Kindle yet.
Ground the "USB boot" pad on the Fire's motherboard, as described elsewhere (the USB boot shorting trick). Keep it this way for the next step.
Plug the USB cable into the Fire. At this point, the Fire has been turned on in USB boot mode and is being powered exclusively by the USB port. You can now stop grounding the USB boot pad.
Now reconnect the battery. This step is critical!
Use usbboot as documented elsewhere to send a good bootloader via USB and boot with it. You should end up in fastboot mode. AND your power light should be back on, probably green! NOTE This only boots with the bootloader you sent, it does not flash it. The bad bootloader is still installed.
Now use fastboot to install a good bootloader, and a recovery if you want. Or use a firekit script...
Finally you can reboot for real. Make sure it will really reboot before you put the back cover on. You may have to change the bootmode back to 4000.
You now have a working Kindle Fire again.
Why it works. This is conjecture based on my findings:
First, as long as the battery is providing power to the Kindle, the CPU is not powered completely down, even in this case where the device seems totally dead from a bad bootloader flash. Therefore, grounding the USB boot pad does nothing, because the CPU only honors this on powerup. Disconnecting the battery and USB forces the CPU to power down. If you then ground the USB boot pad and connect the USB, the CPU powers up and goes into USB boot mode.
It's possible that if you wait a long time (maybe many days) so that the battery discharges to the point that the battery protection circuitry stops all further drain, you might get the same effect without disconnecting the battery. I didn't have the patience to test this.
Second, the bootloaders I used (two firefirefire versions) apparently check whether the battery is connected, and halt if it is not. I suspect this is true of most/all available bootloaders. So even if you get into USB boot mode and send over a good bootloader, once the Kindle starts booting with that bootloader, if it finds that the battery is not connected, it quits: it never gets into fastboot mode. Hence the "waiting for device" messages noted earlier in this thread. Therefore, as soon as you have gotten the CPU in USB boot mode, but BEFORE you've run the usbboot command, you need to reconnect the battery.
The only thing that remains is to listen to the angel choirs sing.
And wonder why you had to brick the replacement Kindle that Amazon sent--and break some of the tabs on its back cover in the process of fixing it--in order to fail at proving to yourself that you did not cause the problem in the first place. And decide whether you're glad that you now own TWO Kindle Fire's with loose back covers...
Great write up hope I never need to use it but lots of people get stuck in your situation so it should come in handy
That's basically what I did. The problems I had were:
1) not performing the short correctly
I used the wands (not sure what they are called) from an ohm meter (disconnected from the ohm meter) to make the contact with the rail. On one of the Kindles it was easier than the other. I must have tried 20 or 30 times on the one that I had the trouble with. After I had resigned that it was not going to work, I decided to try "one last time", and it worked. So, as someone else said. "Don't give up."
2) not performing the short with the battery unplugged.
I performed the whole operation of booting and overwriting the bad bootloader with the battery unplugged.
Thanks for you input.
switched off...need help
I have kf, its switched off and dont switched on, with the USBboot
Code:
./usbboot aboot.bin u-boot.bin; ./fastboot boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
kf switched on, but its loaded once to yellow triangle then switched off, then i turn on kf and no more yellow triangle.... all do in ubuntu, windows dont recognazes kf. and the firekit allows ones do one of his scripts, and that all. i stuck on firekit, whats i need flash on kf to do it works?
Hi. Thank you for your explanation, but I am having trouble understanding one part. Step 5: Ground the "USB boot" pad on the Fire's motherboard, as described elsewhere (the USB boot shorting trick). Keep it this way for the next step.
Is there somewhere I can see a picture of this or get detailed instructions? I don't want to do it incorrectly. I screwed my Fire 8.9 up after trying to root using the Bin4ry Tool and appropraite 8.9 drivers. Now I have an unresponsive Kindle Fire 8.9. It won't power on at all.
Thank you for any help.
Yeah ... I was looking for a bit more detail on that part.... I just super-bricked my Kindle Fire 7" and am hoping that this Shorting Trick works... but I also am confused at what a Boot Pad is
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Hi. Thank you for your explanation, but I am having trouble understanding one part. Step 5: Ground the "USB boot" pad on the Fire's motherboard, as described elsewhere (the USB boot shorting trick). Keep it this way for the next step.
Is there somewhere I can see a picture of this or get detailed instructions? I don't want to do it incorrectly. I screwed my Fire 8.9 up after trying to root using the Bin4ry Tool and appropraite 8.9 drivers. Now I have an unresponsive Kindle Fire 8.9. It won't power on at all.
Thank you for any help.
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Found this buried in the forums
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19762674&postcount=51
Old thread, I know, but where can I find how to do the shorting trick
Nandr0idC0nsumer said:
Old thread, I know, but where can I find how to do the shorting trick
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[INDEX] Kindle Fire Development
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[INDEX] Kindle Fire Development
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Maybe I'm being dumb but I can't find it :silly:
Nandr0idC0nsumer said:
Maybe I'm being dumb but I can't find it :silly:
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post #4 Unbricking
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61563704&postcount=4
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post #4 Unbricking
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61563704&postcount=4
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Alrighty I've gotten it recognized on my Linux PC as OMAP444x USB Device!
I haven't a clue what to do next. thanks in advance!
So I downloaded KFU to root a Kindle Fire, And when I chose root permanently with super user, the Kindle rebooted and got stuck at the Kindle Fire logo. The computer won't recognize it anymore so I can't do anything with the usb. It says unknown device in device manager. Is there anything I can do? I'm willing to buy a factory reset cable if need be.
Try the Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility
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Try the Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility
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I've tried that, but when I click the "stuck at logo" button, it says waiting for device twice, then it says that my device should be unbricked now. Unfortunately, the device remains stuck.
I think the major issue which needs to be addressed is that the computer is not recognizing it as a kindle. Once that is fixed, unbricking it shouldn't be too difficult.
Me too!
Hi,
I just joined specifically so I could post in this thread, because I have exactly the same problem - only difference is the device manager has "android adb interface", with a yellow exclamation point sign, nested under "android phone". The unbrick utility says the Kindle should be unbricked, but it manifestly is not.
Is buying a factory cable the only way to go? Is that very likely to work? Is there any chance at all I can still root it? This is actually the 2nd KF which has had the exact same issue after giving the root command in KFU...
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I sent you a PM.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
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Really? I'm not seeing it. Would I find it somewhere other than "private messages"?
If you find yourself stuck in fastboot after using kfu and it did nothing but sit and say waiting for device- After a few minutes of sitting simply just long press on the power button till it turns off -then power it back on. the instructions in the terminal literally say just that. It will then send all the required files to your kindle if you selected the permanent root option. Make sure you have allowed installation from unknown sources and have closed the usb connection application prior to making any selection.
Thepooch said:
If you find yourself stuck in fastboot after using kfu and it did nothing but sit and say waiting for device- After a few minutes of sitting simply just long press on the power button till it turns off -then power it back on. the instructions in the terminal literally say just that. It will then send all the required files to your kindle if you selected the permanent root option. Make sure you have allowed installation from unknown sources and have closed the usb connection application prior to making any selection.
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Is fastboot the mode where it only shows the kf logo? I thought that was the boot loader...or am I just confusing things?
Anyway, thanks for the info, I sincerely hope it will help someone else, but unfortunately I don't know what I could do with it now - I've unplugged it, and now the device isn't recognized by kfu or my PC - and of course, it's stuck at the KF logo. And I'm not positive, but pretty sure that once the kf froze after I issued the root command, I did power it off then back on. Seems like the logical thing to do.
This happened to me. You have to use a factory cable or USB pin short trick which I did. After that it reinstalled my drivers and I then got twrp flashed and then perfection!
***if you choose to do the USB pin trick I'm not responsible for any hardware malfunctions or anything that will make you kindle into a paper weight I'm simply saying its what I did.***
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Me too! please help!
Hello everyone! I feel like I have this exact same problem! My kindle is stuck at the blue and white kindle logo for about 2/3 seconds and then it just completely goes dark! I plug it into my computer and it doesnt even recognize my kindle anymore under my computer, nor does it show "adb android phone" on device manager.. PLEASE HELP ME!!
SUPER urgent! All help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Glad it was an easy fix chrisleealee enjoy the modified stock for awhile but when you do decide to move on here is my pick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778010 don't forget to add system to your scheme of wipes when changing systems good luck and have fun
Wrong thread. Sorry. Glad your issue has been resolved.
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Use a factory cable. It will make life easy. Sticker on that logo too, same situation. I created my own factory cable and that solved it. Hope this helps.
Also, try to check your adb drivers.