I have looked around some and just not finding the answer to my problem
I got a new Kindle Fire, downloaded the Kindle Utility and followed those instructions. Kindle booted up and all looked good. I then dowloaded the alien rom and installed it. Now I get one of two things either it boots up and just stays at the skull screen or it will boot up and i get a black screen with backlight on. Nothing i do will work and i dont know how to access the kindle to try another rom.
NOW the bad news NO i was so excited that i forgot to backup my rom at the beginning of all this.
Please help.
Thank you
Okie_Bama said:
I have looked around some and just not finding the answer to my problem
I got a new Kindle Fire, downloaded the Kindle Utility and followed those instructions. Kindle booted up and all looked good. I then dowloaded the alien rom and installed it. Now I get one of two things either it boots up and just stays at the skull screen or it will boot up and i get a black screen with backlight on. Nothing i do will work and i dont know how to access the kindle to try another rom.
NOW the bad news NO i was so excited that i forgot to backup my rom at the beginning of all this.
Please help.
Thank you
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Boot into TWRP and do a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and then flash the rom again.
Hello veeman,
I have done that ones already but I am going to do it again now, will let you know if it works or not this time
Okay
I went into recovery mode, did factory reset three times, then did wipe cache three times, and then did wipe darik three times. After that i installed the rom again. First time it booted up it went to a black screen with what i guess you call the back light on. So i powered it off and started it again.Kindle fire screen came up and then went black again.
Okie_Bama said:
Okay
I went into recovery mode, did factory reset three times, then did wipe cache three times, and then did wipe darik three times. After that i installed the rom again. First time it booted up it went to a black screen with what i guess you call the back light on. So i powered it off and started it again.Kindle fire screen came up and then went black again.
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When you go into recovery, what color is it?
Hello soupmagnet
its black with red letters. I have downloaded the rom again and did the same steps got the samething, then i downloaded a cyanogenmod rom and it just sits at the splash screen never boots up.
Okie_Bama said:
Hello soupmagnet
its black with red letters. I have downloaded the rom again and did the same steps got the samething, then i downloaded a cyanogenmod rom and it just sits at the splash screen never boots up.
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Okay, well what you think is TWRP is actually CWM. CWM does not play nice with newer ROMs (ICS/JB). Install TWRP to fix the problem.
Okay since i cant get it to boot or anything how will i get it installed at this point
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Read grasshopper
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747567
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26435498
Rank newbie here. I did l watch the video of forum instructions for newbies and I have looked high and low for an answer I could understand. I am still stuck so reluctantly....Here we go...
I rooted my KF 2 Gen and had no problem doing so. Installed Google aps store, launchers etc. all on the stock OS.
All worked well until I got smart and decided to try a custom rom. It seemed to install fine. Asked all the options as I installed. Did I want Chrome, what launchers, etc. I wiped all the cache options and system. Went through all those screens and when it finally booted, I am stuck at the stock Kindle Fire logo in a boot loop. It will not connect to the computer. It seems to boot before it is recognized Dug on this forum, made myself a "factory cable" and it does work. When I plug it in, I get the Kindle logo a moment then a flashing gif of a stop light blinking red and green with the words. "Fast Boot" at the top of the screen. The problem is, I can not get the computer to "see" the Kindle Fire 2 Gen on this fast boot/ factory cable. I have tried switching ports, all the suggestions. The cable will launch the tablet into fast boot mode just fine however, the tablet does not connect to the computer. ( Windows XP Pro SP 3). I think I can figure out how to flash and restore on my own if I can get the tablet to communicate with the computer. I have no idea where to go now other than having a brand new paperweight. I just bought it two days prior and I suppose I could return it but the issues were caused by me so I don't feel like it's their duty to replace it.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
Go into TWRP, factory reset, and try again.
soupmagnet said:
Go into TWRP, factory reset, and try again.
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Thank you for your reply.
Sadly, the boot sequence terminates and it reboots before it ever gets to the TWRP stage.
AV8R318 said:
Thank you for your reply.
Sadly, the boot sequence terminates and it reboots before it ever gets to the TWRP stage.
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When your device boots, do you see the blue Kindle Fire logo at any point?
Got it going! Thanks to this forum!
soupmagnet said:
When your device boots, do you see the blue Kindle Fire logo at any point?
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No, Soup. I would never get to the blue logo but....
I got it flying! After I got to fast boot, I swapped the fast boot cable to a regular cable and all was down hill from there on. I'm looking at a booted tablet.
Beers on me next time I am in Austin!
Alright I'm sure you all love these posts... Well, I've been rooting for a while so I'm not really a novice, pretty embarassing this happened really.. So I'll start by saying my device was successfully rooted a little while ago. I installed one of the cyanogenmod roms at first, but the battery life was terrible so I reverted back to stock. I then decided to play around a little with the systemui to change the battery icon to something that actually displays the battery %. Worked fine for a little while, then it started to reboot everytime I turned the screen off. It started to get annoying, so I decided to revert back to my backup and the problem still continued. Then I decided to wipe everything and install the new rom just released a little while ago and as soon as it started up an app kept forceclosing so it wouldn't work. So I rebooted into TWRP to wipe and reload again but accidently formatted the internal memory. So I did some searching as mounting wouldn't work and used a tool KF2_SRT_10.2.3 to restore the files to start from scratch. I used TWRP to set it to boot fastboot and it installed without issues. Then it was stuck in fastboot, so I used the command fastboot -i0x1949 oem idme bootmode 1 while in command prompt on my computer as I couldn't obviously boot into TWRP to do it there. Then it poped up with the red triangle with the exclamation point saying something about the data is corrupt and I should hold the power button for 4 seconds to reboot or hit it 5 times to factory reset, so I hit the button 5 times to reset. Wasn't really paying attention to it at the time, then it powered down, powered back up and now it's stuck on the splash screen.
TL;DR, flashed stock system.img and recovery using KF2_SRT_10.2.3, kindle booted to error screen saying to reboot device to press power 5 times to restore, pressed power 5 times, kindle stuck on splash screen.
The splash screen blinked like it did before it booted to the screen where you choose to boot either TWRP or the system. Computer doesn't detect it. Any ideas where I can start?
And yes I'm 100% sure this is a Kindle Fire 2, came in black box and last I checked had OS 10.2.3. Hoping this can be fixed, if not I can probably get away with sending it back to amazon. I hope.....
You need a factory cable.
From there you can restore the system from fastboot.
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mindmajick said:
You need a factory cable.
From there you can restore the system from fastboot.
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Thank you kindly for your quick responce! I ordered a cable because I don't have my soldering iron with me here at school and I want this fixed as soon as possible. After doing some reading this should fix everything so no further replies are needed. Thanks!
Ok, so I decided to flash my KF with CM10. To do this I did the standard KFU superuser, installed TWRP, and fff. After I flashed with TWRP the Google apps and CM everything worked okay, but I noticed that my Google apps are nonexistent. So, I thought I would reflash with TWRP, which is where the problem lies. Whenever I reboot my device I get the KF logo, except white and blue, telling me to press power button to change boot, which I have tried but to no avail, and it goes straight to the CM10 boot. I thought okay maybe I can get around this by downloading Goo Manager onto my device to flash the GApps. This didn't work. So finally I just assumed my TWRP screwed up so I downloaded the recovery package from Goo Manager. This also didn't work. Also, KFU doesn't recognize it.
Right now I'm assuming the problem is fff because I've never seen this blue boot screen. If someone could help me just get TWRP back to working or even just stock KF I would be much obliged.
If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
votinh said:
If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
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From what Brandon is saying, I think you hit it on the head.
One note: it takes several seconds to access the recovery from the fff 1.4a blue kindle fire logo. Once that screen pops up, hold the power button for about three seconds till recovery is selected at bottom.
It doesn't appear that you actually have a problem, either, but just a misunderstanding of what your kindle should look like.
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votinh said:
If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
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When I attempt to boot to recovery I get no TWRP. The screen flashes then the normal Kindle Fire boot screen shows, then another flash and back to blue sccreen
Again, I assume you know how to do it, how to boot into recovery.
If you do it correctly and still can't get in then reinstall FFF using KFU.
If you don't know how to, then search Youtube, there's tons of videos showing how.
votinh said:
Again, I assume you know how to do it, how to boot into recovery.
If you do it correctly and still can't get in then reinstall FFF using KFU.
If you don't know how to, then search Youtube, there's tons of videos showing how.
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Except as I said earlier KFU doesn't recognize my device. I mean I'll check my drivers, but looks doubful.
brandonstrat said:
Except as I said earlier KFU doesn't recognize my device. I mean I'll check my drivers, but looks doubful.
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Did you bother to try what I suggested?
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jma9454 said:
Did you bother to try what I suggested?
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Yeah and it worked, but after restoring back to stock kf it kept sayin that process had stopped working and never allowing me to actually set the damn thing up. So reflashed CM10 and it keeps looping the boot screen, showing a quick image of the home screen then restarting the process. Long holding the power restarts the device, allowing me to get to fff but I still can't seem to get TWRP to show up unless I tell it to fast boot on the computer and since it never actually gets to TWRP or the OS I see no way to mount it.
brandonstrat said:
Yeah and it worked, but after restoring back to stock kf it kept sayin that process had stopped working and never allowing me to actually set the damn thing up. So reflashed CM10 and it keeps looping the boot screen, showing a quick image of the home screen then restarting the process. Long holding the power restarts the device, allowing me to get to fff but I still can't seem to get TWRP to show up unless I tell it to fast boot on the computer and since it never actually gets to TWRP or the OS I see no way to mount it.
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How did you restore to stock? That isn't what I told you to do...
When you plug it into the computer, what happens?
And also, when you reboot it, and you hold the power button at the blue screen with the menu at bottom, what happens? Does it cycle through three choices? If it does, wait till it selects the second one and let go.
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jma9454 said:
How did you restore to stock? That isn't what I told you to do...
When you plug it into the computer, what happens?
And also, when you reboot it, and you hold the power button at the blue screen with the menu at bottom, what happens? Does it cycle through three choices? If it does, wait till it selects the second one and let go.
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Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
brandonstrat said:
Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
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Follow what you are saying is really a headache. You keep saying you did this and did that and that and this and I'm lost. Slow down.
Go one by one, answer what jma asked.
Forget what you have done to your KF, tell us what it is like now.
1. Can you get into the recovery? I ask again 'cuz you previously claimed you knew how to, then you didn't then you did.
2. During power up, do you see Kindle Fire with blue logo?
3. Right after that do you hold the power button?
4. Do you see it cycle through the menu of 3?
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votinh said:
Follow what you are saying is really a headache. You keep saying you did this and did that and that and this and I'm lost. Slow down.
Go one by one, answer what jma asked.
Forget what you have done to your KF, tell us what it is like now.
1. Can you get into the recovery? I ask again 'cuz you previously claimed you knew how to, then you didn't then you did.
2. During power up, do you see Kindle Fire with blue logo?
3. Right after that do you hold the power button?
4. Do you see it cycle through the menu of 3?
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Alright, sorry bout that I guess
1. If by recovery you mean TWRP, then no I don't believe so
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes, but all options take me to the CM10 boot except recovery which takes me to regular stock orange kf boot for a few seconds then back to blue without the options but just boots
Hope that's a bit more clear, I guess I'm kindave panicking with my kindle being on the fritz and all. But you my good sir have been very patient and for that I thank you.
brandonstrat said:
Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
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Okay, two things:
1) The reason you keep getting stuck at the CyanogenMod logo is because you're not wiping data (factory reset) before installing the ROM.
2) I'm very concerned because it seems that you may not know what generation of Kindle Fire you're using. You are posting in the 1st generation KF forums, but by your description you seem to have a 2nd generation KF. You need to clarify which device you have before someone gives you directions that would permanently brick your device.
soupmagnet said:
Okay, two things:
1) The reason you keep getting stuck at the CyanogenMod logo is because you're not wiping data (factory reset) before installing the ROM.
2) I'm very concerned because it seems that you may not know what generation of Kindle Fire you're using. You are posting in the 1st generation KF forums, but by your description you seem to have a 2nd generation KF. You need to clarify which device you have before someone gives you directions that would permanently brick your device.
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1. That would make sense because I was I'm a hurry
2. It's first gen, I would have clarified had this not been a forum specifically geared towards first gen, but I appreciate your concern.
brandonstrat said:
1. That would make sense because I was I'm a hurry
2. It's first gen, I would have clarified had this not been a forum specifically geared towards first gen, but I appreciate your concern.
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Well, you never know around here...
Since that's the case, it seems like you have a bootloader installed on the recovery partition. Your device's original bootloader is working as it should (orange KF logo), but when you change the bootmode to recovery, it boots into what should be the custom recovery, but instead is the FireFireFire bootloader. BUT...that's a best guess based on what I can piece together from the information you've provided. (I've avoided responding to this post for exactly this reason).
The problem is, your information is all over the place and much of it contradicts itself. In one post, you say you have the blue KF logo, but then in the same post, you say don't. Then you say you used TWRP to install a custom ROM, but then you can't access TWRP? But then you say you restored the device to stock using TWRP, and yet you can't access TWRP after that.
Perhaps you could explain in a clear and concise manner what your problem is, being as detailed as humanly possible, because as it stands now, you're not making any sense.
soupmagnet said:
Well, you never know around here...
Since that's the case, it seems like you have a bootloader installed on the recovery partition. Your device's original bootloader is working as it should (orange KF logo), but when you change the bootmode to recovery, it boots into what should be the custom recovery, but instead is the FireFireFire bootloader. BUT...that's a best guess based on what I can piece together from the information you've provided. (I've avoided responding to this post for exactly this reason).
The problem is, your information is all over the place and much of it contradicts itself. In one post, you say you have the blue KF logo, but then in the same post, you say don't. Then you say you used TWRP to install a custom ROM, but then you can't access TWRP? But then you say you restored the device to stock using TWRP, and yet you can't access TWRP after that.
Perhaps you could explain in a clear and concise manner what your problem is, being as detailed as humanly possible, because as it stands now, you're not making any sense.
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Okay I'll try again, the only times I have actually been able to use TWRP is when installing it in kfu. I don't believe that it actually installed anything but it just sends it to fastboot, now I could be incorrect but what I believe is happening is the kfu is telling the kf to go to fastboot to install but TWRP is already installed because nothing ever downloads.
Is that what normally happens when you hit recovery on the fff screen? Does the TWRP require fastboot or is mine just really messed up?
brandonstrat said:
Okay I'll try again, the only times I have actually been able to use TWRP is when installing it in kfu. I don't believe that it actually installed anything but it just sends it to fastboot, now I could be incorrect but what I believe is happening is the kfu is telling the kf to go to fastboot to install but TWRP is already installed because nothing ever downloads.
Is that what normally happens when you hit recovery on the fff screen? Does the TWRP require fastboot or is mine just really messed up?
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Something about this just doesn't add up.
Try this...
1) Download the recovery flashable .zip of FireFireFire1.4a
2) Reinstall TWRP using KFU and boot into it.
3) Use TWRP to flash the recovery flashable fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip and reboot.
If the problem persists, take a video of it, and post it here so we can get a better idea of what's actually going on.
soupmagnet said:
Something about this just doesn't add up.
Try this...
1) Download the recovery flashable .zip of FireFireFire1.4a
2) Reinstall TWRP using KFU and boot into it.
3) Use TWRP to flash the recovery flashable fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip and reboot.
If the problem persists, take a video of it, and post it here so we can get a better idea of what's actually going on.
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Ok but when could I actually mount the device
brandonstrat said:
Ok but when could I actually mount the device
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Better yet, go ahead and post a video of the problem. I need to confirm something before you flash FFF.
soupmagnet said:
Better yet, go ahead and post a video of the problem. I need to confirm something before you flash FFF.
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note: the screen that flashes is from my previous rom sooo, yeah. Factory wiping is a good thing.