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So i bricked my kindle fire 6.3 by restoring it using the kindle fires restore to factory reset tool thinking it would remove my root (but i was wrong) when it booted back up it was stuck on the yellow triangle with the flames in it saying press power button for recovery. also when i plug the kindle into my computer it connects for literally 4 seconds an disconnects again. like i mentioned in the title i did NOT install twrp or firefirefire. plz help ive only had it for a month and its already effed up
weberj said:
when it booted back up it was stuck on the yellow trianglel
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What do you mean by saying your KF has not FIREFIREFIRE?
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First of all, FIREFIREFIRE doesn't just magically install itself. What did you use to root the device? I'm sure whatever you used to root your device installed FIREFIREFIRE.
And your Kindle isn't bricked, it's just in the wrong bootmode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747567
Uninstall/delete and reinstall your drivers and try again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747671
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well how do i get it in the right boot mode if it wont connect to my pc?
i used kindle fire utility 0.9.5
weberj said:
So i bricked my kindle fire 6.3 by restoring it using the kindle fires restore to factory reset tool thinking it would remove my root (but i was wrong) when it booted back up it was stuck on the yellow triangle with the flames in it saying press power button for recovery. also when i plug the kindle into my computer it connects for literally 4 seconds an disconnects again. like i mentioned in the title i did NOT install twrp or firefirefire. plz help ive only had it for a month and its already effed up
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the 4sec interval signals to fastboot mode! You got to enter necessary commands during to stay in fastboot mode and flash the custom recovery TWRP and than re-install update.zip(kindle update bin renamed). consider the link below for twrp and root manual install plus relevant commanline,those commands will help to flash and boot into twrp mode after installing it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24129239
P.s.remember to point to the directory containing the fastboot and adb command files in my case c:/program files (x86)/android/android-sdk/platform-tools/ ALSo, in future to factory reset the device, install the kindle update.zip (renamed kindle update bin file downloaded from amazon kindle site)
how do i enter the commands? with a program if so give me a link to get it plz
weberj said:
how do i enter the commands? with a program if so give me a link to get it plz
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With all due respect, had you invested the time to read the threads posted earlier, the answer would be pretty obvious.
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weberj said:
how do i enter the commands? with a program if so give me a link to get it plz
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Kindly read the linked thread it covers the state stuck on yellow fire sign screen
well how do i set up an adb? i dont understand
kindle fire utility 9.5
Remove and install your drivers for your kindle fire. Than install kindle fire utility found here in xda forums. Install and run the utility select option 1 and select normal 4000 boot mode. Plug in your kindle fire and turn it on. This worked for me. Booted right up just be patient it may take a few minutes.
what are the drivers and where do i find them and how do i reinstall them?
weberj said:
what are the drivers and where do i find them and how do i reinstall them?
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<shakes head in disappointment>
With all due respect, what on earth made you think it was a good idea to root the Kindle with such an obvious lack of computer literacy? Were you aware of the risks?
Your problem is simple to fix but it requires at least some basic working knowledge of a computer. Do yourself a huge favor and Google search "Kindle Fire USB drivers" to find out. And not to be hateful but I think it's highly unlikely that many people here would be willing to go through the arduous process of explaining how to install device drivers.
I would suggest doing some research on the matter and come back with a better foundation to work from.
Otherwise I think your best bet would be to revert back to stock and forget about rooting all together (requires research).
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No never mind the previous post solved it I got the drivers right after I posted 2 days ago it is fixed and up and running now thank you for the trouble I forgot to post back :/
Ok I know tons of people think they have bricked their device, but usually it is just a soft brick....hopefully I am the same. I tried to root my kindle fire using KFU. Something happened, it didn't work. Now it just stays on the boot screen. In windows it isn't recognized, I have read the forums and know to reinstall the drivers, but I can't because Windows recognizes it as an unknown device, (code 43), so they won't install. I have tried using the unbrick utility, but it doesn't work since windows isn't recognizing the device. I have a mac too that won't recognize it, at least I don't think it does. Maybe there is a way to get the drivers installed I am missing, but I tried following all of the tutorials here, and its not wokring. Is it possible that I can still fix it, or is it done. Thanks for any help.
DIRKxxxDIGGLER said:
Ok I know tons of people think they have bricked their device, but usually it is just a soft brick....hopefully I am the same. I tried to root my kindle fire using KFU. Something happened, it didn't work. Now it just stays on the boot screen. In windows it isn't recognized, I have read the forums and know to reinstall the drivers, but I can't because Windows recognizes it as an unknown device, (code 43), so they won't install. I have tried using the unbrick utility, but it doesn't work since windows isn't recognizing the device. I have a mac too that won't recognize it, at least I don't think it does. Maybe there is a way to get the drivers installed I am missing, but I tried following all of the tutorials here, and its not wokring. Is it possible that I can still fix it, or is it done. Thanks for any help.
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Is it a 1st Gen Kindle Fire or 2nd? If it's a 2nd Gen you "might" be in trouble
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guitarman2010 said:
Is it a 1st Gen Kindle Fire or 2nd? If it's a 2nd Gen you "might" be in trouble
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Its first generation...
DIRKxxxDIGGLER said:
Its first generation...
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In most cases I've seen of Windows complaining of an unknown device, it seems to be a problem with the bootloader. The fact that you can't even get it to accept commands from the Mac leads me to believe it is the same in your case.
You'll likely need to put the device in USBboot ("shorting trick") and install a working bootloader with Firekit.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."
What Soup said will work. This is what I did, as I was having the same problem as you.
1. Turn off your KF
2. peel off back cover from KF.
3. Make sure the A side of the usb cable is plugged in to your PC.
4. Find the short spot and put something there like a small screw driver point or a paper clip.
Here's a link to the picture. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19762674&postcount=51
5. While you have your metal on the short spot turn on the KF.
6. After about 20 seconds or so Windows will now recognize it. Use KFU to put it in recovery mode, installing Fire, ETC.
Thanks guys, I'll try that when I get home from work today and report back.
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Thanks for your help, it's up and working now with stock kernel and rom. Really appreciate your help!
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Relikk356 said:
What Soup said will work. This is what I did, as I was having the same problem as you.
1. Turn off your KF
2. peel off back cover from KF.
3. Make sure the A side of the usb cable is plugged in to your PC.
4. Find the short spot and put something there like a small screw driver point or a paper clip.
Here's a link to the picture. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19762674&postcount=51
5. While you have your metal on the short spot turn on the KF.
6. After about 20 seconds or so Windows will now recognize it. Use KFU to put it in recovery mode, installing Fire, ETC.
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I having the same problem but for Kindle fire hd 7". I tried to use both stock cable and factory cable but it didn't work anyway. Any solution? please help me. Thank you
Hi. So the other day I installed TWRP on my Kindle Fire successfully. The KF was at 10.2.6, I'm not sure if that means it's a Kindle Fire 2 or not. Anyways, when I went to flash FFF, I stupidly flashed the .zip as a bootloader, thus making my Kindle Fire completely unusable. When I press the power button, nothing at all happens. Nothing I do will make the screen turn on or the power button to flash in any way. I've tried using Firekit with usbboot and the shorting trick, but that hasn't worked for me. (I just installed stock Ubuntu to a flash drive with the fk file on root, I'm fairly certain that's all that needed to be done?)
Anyways, my Kindle is unresponsove, and the usbboot trick has yet to work for me. I really want to save this guy. I've heard the KF cannot be completely bricked through software/flashing. I hope it's true! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
if that is your software version then yes you have kindle fire 2, i'd wait for someone with more experience on here to post, but it sounds to me like you are going to need a factory cable
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if that is your software version then yes you have kindle fire 2, i'd wait for someone with more experience on here to post, but it sounds to me like you are going to need a factory cable
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Thanks fro replying. I'm pretty sure a factory cable only puts it into fastboot if you have a working bootloader. I don't, so I don't think it would work.
I remember an instance where a friend of mine had a broken bootloader, and we used a factory cable to restore it, this was on the kindle fire. we had to first reflash the bootloader. I hope this is possible here.
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but you'll have to ask someone with more experience than me sorry.
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Hi. So the other day I installed TWRP on my Kindle Fire successfully. The KF was at 10.2.6, I'm not sure if that means it's a Kindle Fire 2 or not. Anyways, when I went to flash FFF, I stupidly flashed the .zip as a bootloader, thus making my Kindle Fire completely unusable. When I press the power button, nothing at all happens. Nothing I do will make the screen turn on or the power button to flash in any way. I've tried using Firekit with usbboot and the shorting trick, but that hasn't worked for me.
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I think you need a Factory cable to recover.
If you connect the Kindle to the PC and try adb devices in a terminal window, what do you see?
From the software version, you have KF2, as such you need to use the tools and ROMs from the KF2 threads. You could try to use the one click freedom boot and TWRP installer, to see if you can get that on.
From there you would probably have to push one of the 10.1 ROMs on, or the 10.2.6 recovery image, and then start again.
This seems to be happening a lot, and could be avoided if people read a bit more before using the wrong tools.
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I think you need a Factory cable to recover.
If you connect the Kindle to the PC and try adb devices in a terminal window, what do you see?
From the software version, you have KF2, as such you need to use the tools and ROMs from the KF2 threads. You could try to use the one click freedom boot and TWRP installer, to see if you can get that on.
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Howdy. I just fashioned a factory cable, just jumping +5V to pin 4, right? It seems to be doing absolutely nothing. No lights or anything are turning on. The freedom boot just spits out "error: device not found" and hangs on "Pushing Stack". Again, I was under the impression that the factory cable only made it boot in fastboot if you already have a working bootloader. I'll try loading into Ubuntu and see what it says in terminal. Thanks
EDIT: So, when I type adb devices into terminal, I get:
The program 'adb' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
You will have to enable the component called 'universe'
Could this have been my problem to begin with?
EDIT 2: Well, I installed ADB. There are no devices found when I enter that command, and the shorting trick with still doesn't work. Ugh.
jophish said:
Howdy. I just fashioned a factory cable, just jumping +5V to pin 4, right? It seems to be doing absolutely nothing. No lights or anything are turning on. The freedom boot just spits out "error: device not found" and hangs on "Pushing Stack". Again, I was under the impression that the factory cable only made it boot in fastboot if you already have a working bootloader. I'll try loading into Ubuntu and see what it says in terminal. Thanks
EDIT: So, when I type adb devices into terminal, I get:
The program 'adb' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
You will have to enable the component called 'universe'
Could this have been my problem to begin with?
EDIT 2: Well, I installed ADB. There are no devices found when I enter that command, and the shorting trick with still doesn't work. Ugh.
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Leave your Kindle plugged in for an hour using the normal cable, as it may be totally flat.
The attached diagram shows what pins need joining. If you can, make sure none of the other pins are shorting.
Hold the power button for 20 seconds, plug in your fastboot cable, power on the Kindle.
You should see some traffic lights on the screen.
If you can get fastboot enabled, you should be able to push the correct partitions back on using the partitions from the factory restore image, your backup files or from the recovery thread. Hope you get it running.
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chronicfathead said:
Leave your Kindle plugged in for an hour using the normal cable, as it may be totally flat.
The attached diagram shows what pins need joining. If you can, make sure none of the other pins are shorting.
Hold the power button for 20 seconds, plug in your fastboot cable, power on the Kindle.
You should see some traffic lights on the screen.
If you can get fastboot enabled, you should be able to push the correct partitions back on using the partitions from the factory restore image, your backup files or from the recovery thread. Hope you get it running.
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I tried the fastboot cable out on a working Kindle Fire, and it worked correctly, so I did wire it right. I did as you said, holding the power button down and then plugging in the cable, and nothing happens still on the KF2. I have access to the insides, should I unplug the battery? It should be around 85% charged. Thanks again.
Edit: BIG NEWS~ Not really. When I plug the Kindle Fire with the fastboot cable into Windows, it appears under Device Manager as "Unknown Device" with a yellow triangle, but nothing shows up on the Kindle, no lights or anything. Hmph.
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I tried the fastboot cable out on a working Kindle Fire, and it worked correctly, so I did wire it right. I did as you said, holding the power button down and then plugging in the cable, and nothing happens still on the KF2. I have access to the insides, should I unplug the battery? It should be around 85% charged. Thanks again.
Edit: BIG NEWS~ Not really. When I plug the Kindle Fire with the fastboot cable into Windows, it appears under Device Manager as "Unknown Device" with a yellow triangle, but nothing shows up on the Kindle, no lights or anything. Hmph.
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You could have tried sending it back to Amazon, but you say you have opened it.
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chronicfathead said:
You could have tried sending it back to Amazon, but you say you have opened it.
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Urgh. I closed it up. Is there any way they'd know if I'd opened it?
I'm in exactly the same boat as you, also flashed FFF (by accident) on my device. Haven't been able to fix it yet but I do have a factory cable. Also did the USB trick, but that didn't have an effect either.
chronicfathead said:
I think you need a Factory cable to recover.
If you connect the Kindle to the PC and try adb devices in a terminal window, what do you see?
From the software version, you have KF2, as such you need to use the tools and ROMs from the KF2 threads. You could try to use the one click freedom boot and TWRP installer, to see if you can get that on.
From there you would probably have to push one of the 10.1 ROMs on, or the 10.2.6 recovery image, and then start again.
This seems to be happening a lot, and could be avoided if people read a bit more before using the wrong tools.
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In my case, I did by accident because it wasn't clear to me which KF generation I had (I've bricked mine just after christmas). These forums were not really clear either, I had a Kindle Fire so I just looked for a KF guide. After I bricked it I found out my device was a second generation Kindle Fire.
plinders said:
I'm in exactly the same boat as you, also flashed FFF (by accident) on my device. Haven't been able to fix it yet but I do have a factory cable. Also did the USB trick, but that didn't have an effect either.
In my case, I did by accident because it wasn't clear to me which KF generation I had (I've bricked mine just after christmas). These forums were not really clear either, I had a Kindle Fire so I just looked for a KF guide. After I bricked it I found out my device was a second generation Kindle Fire.
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Hi, to clarify: you cannot boot into TWRP? No logos at boot at all? No boot?
I would send it back to Amazon...
Same Here..
I was thinking that all kindle fire are the same... installed fire fire fire using KFU and device got bricked....!
Hope someone here could help us get our devices up and running again...
yudanjah said:
Hi, to clarify: you cannot boot into TWRP? No logos at boot at all? No boot?
I would send it back to Amazon...
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Nothing whatsoever.
I can't really send it back to Amazon, because of two reasons:
1) I already opened up the back
2) It was gifted to me from the US, and there is no Dutch Amazon, so I'd have to send the device back to the person who gifted to me, that person has to mail it to Amazon from there, and the replacement device has to come back the same way (via that person). That's not a situation I'd like to put that person in.
jophish said:
Urgh. I closed it up. Is there any way they'd know if I'd opened it?
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I am sure they can figure it out. Can you boot into TWRP?
If so, you can still recover...
Dame problem
plinders said:
Nothing whatsoever.
I can't really send it back to Amazon, because of two reasons:
1) I already opened up the back
2) It was gifted to me from the US, and there is no Dutch Amazon, so I'd have to send the device back to the person who gifted to me, that person has to mail it to Amazon from there, and the replacement device has to come back the same way (via that person). That's not a situation I'd like to put that person in.
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Same problem dude, did you fix it?
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Same problem dude, did you fix it?
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Not yet I'm afraid. Everything I tried so far hasn't worked.
yudanjah said:
Hi, to clarify: you cannot boot into TWRP? No logos at boot at all? No boot?
I would send it back to Amazon...
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No, Absolutely nothing. I really would like to get this working.
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No, Absolutely nothing. I really would like to get this working.
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same here we need a new firekit for the kf2
Help..
any updates on the fix? I hope someone out there could help us revive our bricked kindle fire 2... :angel:
kindle fire 2
flashed wrong bootloader (fff)
no power
no lights
no adb
shorting trick is not working for me :crying:
Well I've searched the forums and I can't find anything similar, which leads me to think I'm just missing something really obvious, but this is really frustrating me so I need help.
I'm trying to use the Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 to install TWRP and FireFireFire bootloader to my first-gen Kindle, so I can install Hashcode's Jelly Bean. I think I've got the normal drivers working as it shows up as ADB: online, although Boot mode: unknown is also reported. When enter "Install TWRP" it says it's putting the kindle into fastboot mode, but my Kindle seems to have other ideas. It just reboots normally and the utility is stuck on "waiting for device".
I've read one of your fastboot guides, which said that inserting the factory cable then inserting into a computer should activate fastboot mode. Well I tried that with what I think was the original cable, and it just booted normally.
I some small experience with rooting, but basically I'm a noob. I do have some Linux systems handy if they're required.
Any help would be appreciated!
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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mindmajick said:
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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OK thank you, I didn't know that.
However I think even if I did get hold of one of these factory cables, it wouldn't help much as I need to get this program to work primarily...
any ideas what might be causing adb to be online but boot status unknown?
Personally, KFU v0.9.5 worked better for me.
Exactly the same result with that version, I'm afraid. :crying:
Are you using a USB 3.0 port? Maybe that's why. USB 3.0 is high speed, so maybe the connection got messed up...
How old is your computer?
Sent from a bird... No, a plane... Wait, It's a Kindle Fire!
I'm afraid that's not it... It's a 4 year old mid-range Win7 64 bit laptop. I did root my phone using this computer... I think I'll try using one of the XPs that I have on hand to see if that makes a difference.
Well I've tried on two XP computers and I can't even get the drivers to install.
Oops...
OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
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OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
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How'd u figure that out?
Well I saw everyone talking about software version 6, and I thought it strange that mine had software version 10. I then did some research and found that there were two kindle fires that look identical. Apparently one way to distinguish is by looking at the software version.
I recently rooted my Kindle Fire 1st generation to use Simple CM. I flashed it correctly and it worked fine, but to my surprise I recieved an iPad Mini as a gift. My parents asked for the Kindle and I said sure. Now, they wanted to go back to the original Amazon OS. So I downloaded a Kindle Fire stock zip to flash. I soon found out it was only an update... Now my Kindle successfully flashed it, I was setting it up, then it started to reboot, and it showed the launcher screen of Amazon, and then it gave me error pop-ups and it reboots after 30 seconds. I have been trying to get it to recognize on my computer but ADB and KFU aren't working the best. And now it says at 40% charge it will attempt to factory restore. (I will try soon). It repeats booting, then goes to the home screen, then it goes and shows errors and then does it again every 30 seconds. I am 13 years old and probably made a big mistake. I have read the threads on here and no solutions have worked. So I think it is bricked, and I have to give it to my parents by tonight and it has to have some sort of Amazon software or even CM. Is there anybody or anything that can help fix the Kindle Fire?
Thank you in advance, Jake.
You need to access fastboot to wipe data. You may need a factory cable.
In some cases, users have been fast enough to get into the settings and factory reset from there, so you may want to try that first.
soupmagnet said:
You need to access fastboot to wipe data. You may need a factory cable.
In some cases, users have been fast enough to get into the settings and factory reset from there, so you may want to try that first.
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Have you heard of anyone that tried that? I will definately try it being that you have 1000+ thanks on the meter.
EDIT: I attempted to factory reset but it still did the same thing..... How do I enter fastboot and detect the Kindle in 30 seconds?
I attempted to root my kindle fire with KFU and it hasn't powered on or charged since... Is it bricked or can it be repaired.... anyone?
strykrmas said:
I attempted to root my kindle fire with KFU and it hasn't powered on or charged since... Is it bricked or can it be repaired.... anyone?
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Well, that depends...
Is your Kindle Fire a second generation Kindle Fire?
soupmagnet said:
Well, that depends...
Is your Kindle Fire a second generation Kindle Fire?
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yeah it is... help... please
strykrmas said:
yeah it is... help... please
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391047
It's still a WIP, but that's the only hope you have of restoring your device.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391047
It's still a WIP, but that's the only hope you have of restoring your device.
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I'm not that skilled in soldering and besides i'm too much of a noobie to attempt that anyway... thanks for your help...