I'm tired of searching Google for answers and not finding them. So the problem is my Kindle Fire won't connect via USB to my PC, it will charge on it though. Now, this is where MY SITUATION IS DIFFERENT. Yes that is all caps for people who want to skip over these crucial details.
Kindle Fire was rooted, now it is not.
I do not have a Kindle Fire or Amazon device under device manager
Installing the adb drivers does nothing
I see nothing when Kindle Fire is plugged in to PC other than it is charging, NO MATTER HOW I DO IT
I feel like I'm forgetting some of the other more common answers that don't apply to me. Basically, I want to connect to my Kindle Fire to my PC but I have nothing on the PC end to recognize the Kindle Fire. It was rooted using the Kindle Fire utility 0.9.6, I unrooted using said utility as well and had to go and manually delete something IIRC so that it would boot normally into Kindle Fire, but it also not takes a lot longer to boot than it did out of the box. Is it possibly still rooted?
ALSO, Kindle Fire utility 0.9.6 can't find the Kindle Fire either.
What do I do?
Dou you have custom recovery installed?
I don't believe it did, or does. Whatever KFU put on it as standard is what it had on it. The most frustrating part of it is I don't have anything in Device Manager for it. No android phone, no Kindle/Kindle Fire, or Amazon, nothing. Installing the drivers does nothing, I even did a factory reset on the Kindle Fire and got nothing. I'm lost on this and I really want to put some books on my Kindle Fire so I don't have to read them on my iPhone.
When you boot your device, what does the boot logo look like (images, color, etc.)?
Kindle Fire logo, then blinks back on and glazes over from right to left and stays there for a while before turning on.
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Orange and white Kindle Fire logo? Since you didn't specify I'll just assume that is correct.
Drivers are most likely the reason your computer won't detect the device correctly. Unfortunately with Windows, there is about a hundred solutions to this problem and none of them are effective enough to be called a real fix.
If you have a flash drive, you can set up a Linux LiveUSB and run SoupKit so you can issuee adb and fastboot commands, without dealing with Windows based driver problems and you can work to get to the root of your problem more effectively.
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Orange and white Kindle Fire logo? Since you didn't specify I'll just assume that is correct.
Drivers are most likely the reason your computer won't detect the device correctly. Unfortunately with Windows, there is about a hundred solutions to this problem and none of them are effective enough to be called a real fix.
If you have a flash drive, you can set up a Linux LiveUSB and run SoupKit so you can issuee adb and fastboot commands, without dealing with Windows based driver problems and you can work to get to the root of your problem more effectively.
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Yes, orange and white Kindle Fire logo. Any links to Linux LiveUSB, SoupKit and how to use them? I am a noob at a lot of these things.
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yes here`s some info http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882565
Thanks, is there an easy to understand quick guide on adb commands? I'm ping to pick up a small storage flash drive tonight for Linux LiveUSB.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
Thank you very much, will mess with this later, waiting another hour for the Apple Store to open to get my iPhone 5.
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All right, do I need to download and install android sdk for Linux? Using terminal and looking for adb devices using the Linux LiveUSB with SoupKit didn't find any adb devices with the Kindle Fire plugged in. So I assume I need to download sdk to install drivers?
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All right, do I need to download and install android sdk for Linux? Using terminal and looking for adb devices using the Linux LiveUSB with SoupKit didn't find any adb devices with the Kindle Fire plugged in. So I assume I need to download sdk to install drivers?
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If you used the preconfigured iso no other steps are needed. Adb and fastboot are already setup. Time to consider your cable and or USB port that you are using.
Might be cable, plugged it into another computer (running windows) and it didn't see it.
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Yeah, it was the cable, I'll have to go pick up one for myself.
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So as the title suggests I have a bit of problem.
Problem: Kindle fire (gen1 6.3.2) won't show up on adb or as a connected device (Windows 7, previously worked fine)
How I got there.....
So I ran KFU 9.8+ so I could root and install JellyBean
It was
< waiting for device >
trying to install fff
and it was taking a long time so I closed the window to try again.
This left my kindle in fastboot.
After trying KFU again it wouldn't recognize the device.
So I used fastboot and booted into twrp off of my computer.
From there I got to the regular twrp screen, and decided it would be a good idea to root my device from twrp.
So it booted up and I got a notification to finish the root process, which it prompted me to download SuperSu.
It booted up and tried to install the update.zip which failed and booted up normally.
So now I can't connect over adb, and windows 7 doesn't recognize it at all.
I'm trying to find a way to get firefirefire on it so it won't fail when it tries to root itself.
I did a system restore on my kindle, notification still pops up.
I tried booting it into fastboot with KFU, without luck.
As of now the kindle boots pretty much normally and works fine except for connecting over usb.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
What i would do of i were you is uninstall everything on your computer that is related to the kindle. Do you have another computer you can this Kindle on to make sure that it isn't a driver instead of your computer.
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What i would do of i were you is uninstall everything on your computer that is related to the kindle. Do you have another computer you can this Kindle on to make sure that it isn't a driver instead of your computer.
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Oddly enough my kindle shows up just fine on my mac, and a win7 desktop.
Although on the windows machine there was a problem installing drivers, but it still popped up as a removable drive.
Do you think i'd be able to run KFU on it again without any hiccups?
Also along with that, how long should I let it run?
Is this a 5 minute procedure or like 30min?
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Oddly enough my kindle shows up just fine on my mac, and a win7 desktop.
Although on the windows machine there was a problem installing drivers, but it still popped up as a removable drive.
Do you think i'd be able to run KFU on it again without any hiccups?
Also along with that, how long should I let it run?
Is this a 5 minute procedure or like 30min?
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You can check to see if ADB sees the device. If it does then you should be able to use KFU. It's been a while since i used the KFU as i have been rooted for a few months and have forgotten what it has inside it.
I will recommend to always check your adb and make sure it works because from ADB you can tell the device to do a variety of different things. This came extremely helpful when i was working on my gf's Insprie 4G and i by accident froze the device.
Also, this procedure is really fast. I've rooted a bunch of devices and they all take no more then 10 mins. Unless you have an HTC device and have to get the bootloader unlock from HTC (as in the Inspire).
Ok. Let me preface this with I know that there are many different forums/posts/discussions/whatevers concerning that the first generation Kindle Fire gets stuck in a bootloop. I have scoured the web and tried every solution I could find. The most recent one was using the soupkit to try and fix it. I even bought a factory cable to attempt to gain access to fastboot mode for the soupkit. With a normal USB cable, the soupkit recognizes the kindle fire with adb access. When I connect the factory cable, however, neither fastboot commands or adb commands work. The kindle fire has no animation at all and just stays at the white and orange kindle fire logo, regardless of a cable plugged in. The battery is charged, as indicated by the LED light and the fact that it will stay on when not connected to a power source. The kindle has been in this state for month, but if I recall correctly it was running Jelly Bean. Then, I was trying to get back to the stock Amazon OS. I flashed their files, but apparently that just bricked the kindle fire. Sorry for such a long post, but anything is worth trying at this point. I have access to all operating systems as far as computers go (Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows XP) Thank you in advance.
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I think you tried to flash the stock firmware for the 2nd gen kindle fire. for the original kindle fire the firmware will always be in the 6.x.x range. for the second gen it will be in the 10.x.x range. I'm sorry to say though i'm not going to be any help here because i haven't ever hit a brick on my kindle (just on my Optimus V). If you look in the general section i think there is an unbrick utility though. Post results.
I do remember someone said that when they used kfu on xp it works fine. You may want to use it so that you can restore as kfu gas the ability to restore it.
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Use Linux and this to correct your boot mode http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850038 xp flat sucks when it comes to easy driver installs.
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Use Linux and this to correct your boot mode http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850038 xp flat sucks when it comes to easy driver installs.
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Oh I'm sorry I meant Windows Vista not XP
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I am brand new to rooting so please excuse the noob naiveté. I rooted my original version Kindle Fire with the stable version of Cyanogenmod 10.1.3. Everything went well until I tried to connect my Fire to my Windows 7 computer via USB cable. The computer will not connect to the Kindle Fire. When I go to the Device Manager I see the Kindle Fire listed as "Kindle" but I cannot communicate with the device. As per some other suggestions on the web I uninstalled the Kindle driver and tried to let Windows 7 install the correct driver. This has not worked. I tried to uninstall the current driver and use an older driver from Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.6 (I originally used version 0.9.8) but this too failed to be reconized and connect. Can anyone help me get my computer to recognize my Kindle Fire so I could transfer files? Thank you all in advance.
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You should get a notification on the kindle when you plug it into the computer, you'll have to tap the notification to bring up a screen with the android guy and a button that says something along the lines of enable file transfer or enable usb our something, been a while don't remember lol, anyway click that and you should have it pop up on the pc for file share
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Arg. I did something really dumb by accident. I wiped the OS off my Kindle Fire HD and now I can't load a new rom. I need some help.
I am able to boot into TWRP, but I can't mount the usb. My computer won't recognize the kindle fire so that I won't be able to load a new ROM. I checked the Device Manager on my Win7 machine and it doesn't look like the pc recognizes the USB drivers.
What are some things I can do? What drivers do I need?
Help would be great.
psun03 said:
Arg. I did something really dumb by accident. I wiped the OS off my Kindle Fire HD and now I can't load a new rom. I need some help.
I am able to boot into TWRP, but I can't mount the usb. My computer won't recognize the kindle fire so that I won't be able to load a new ROM. I checked the Device Manager on my Win7 machine and it doesn't look like the pc recognizes the USB drivers.
What are some things I can do? What drivers do I need?
Help would be great.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd/8-9-inch-help
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