I rooted (or at least I thought I did) and checked in a root file browser to see if I could change files. No luck. So I tried rerooting. Now my Kindle Fire is bricked and stuck at the boot logo. I also accidentaly uninstalled the Android ADB drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Did you try the 20 second hold
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If you used KFU, then you might be in luck. Hold you power button down for like 10-30 seconds. That should turn it off. Then, if you see a yellow triangle or a kindle fire symbol hold down the power button. If it is a yellow triangle hold down until the power button turns orange. If it is kindle fire with "fire" in blue hold down the power button until you enter boot mood menu. Next, select recovery (if it is Fire in Blue). If it was a yellow triangle then you would be in recovery after my second step. If you make it to recovery, select wipe, then select factory reset, After that is done reboot system. You should then be unbricked.
If you do not see the triangle or the "fire" in blue. Then you may have a problem. If this happens, go into KFU and install adb drivers. Then, plug in your KF(kindle fire should just be booted up how you normally would) and restart KFU. If it says adb status online, go into boot mode. And go into recovery. This will also get you into the recovery. If this works follow my previous steps about doing a factory reset.
Let me know if this worked.
(sent from my kindle fire)
gregory99mar said:
If you used KFU, then you might be in luck. Hold you power button down for like 10-30 seconds. That should turn it off. Then, if you see a yellow triangle or a kindle fire symbol hold down the power button. If it is a yellow triangle hold down until the power button turns orange. If it is kindle fire with "fire" in blue hold down the power button until you enter boot mood menu. Next, select recovery (if it is Fire in Blue). If it was a yellow triangle then you would be in recovery after my second step. If you make it to recovery, select wipe, then select factory reset, After that is done reboot system. You should then be unbricked.
If you do not see the triangle or the "fire" in blue. Then you may have a problem. If this happens, go into KFU and install adb drivers. Then, plug in your KF(kindle fire should just be booted up how you normally would) and restart KFU. If it says adb status online, go into boot mode. And go into recovery. This will also get you into the recovery. If this works follow my previous steps about doing a factory reset.
Let me know if this worked.
(sent from my kindle fire)
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I don't have access to a Vista/7 computer ATM. Any ideas? Oh and I don't have TWRP or any other recovery menus installed. They didn't install even though I had the .img file.
TheZeldaLova said:
I don't have access to a Vista/7 computer ATM. Any ideas? Oh and I don't have TWRP or any other recovery menus installed. They didn't install even though I had the .img file.
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Alright, so take it you did not root with KFU. The only idea that comes to mind is, (asuming that you are on a Mac) run a virtual device of windows 7 or vista on you Mac. Use KFU to install drivers, and boot up you KF. Re-open KFU and see if says adb online. If so, attempt to flash twrp using FKU. This will bring you right into the recovery. The recovery might not even stick but you only need to get into it once.
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Alright, so take it you did not root with KFU. The only idea that comes to mind is, (asuming that you are on a Mac) run a virtual device of windows 7 or vista on you Mac. Use KFU to install drivers, and boot up you KF. Re-open KFU and see if says adb online. If so, attempt to flash twrp using FKU. This will bring you right into the recovery. The recovery might not even stick but you only need to get into it once.
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Nope. I'm on Windows. I just used a friends computer with Vista ( I have XP ) Thank you though. I'll use a Virtual PC like you said.
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Alright, so take it you did not root with KFU. The only idea that comes to mind is, (asuming that you are on a Mac) run a virtual device of windows 7 or vista on you Mac. Use KFU to install drivers, and boot up you KF. Re-open KFU and see if says adb online. If so, attempt to flash twrp using FKU. This will bring you right into the recovery. The recovery might not even stick but you only need to get into it once.
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All I did was flash TWRP, Them it booted normally. I don't know but whatever. And thanks for the help!
You welcome, Glad I could help.
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Hi, Im having a huge problem with my kindle fire, in an attempt to root my device, i seem to have made a mistake somewhere along the line (I actually just wanted to select one background, but i was lead to all sorts of videos on youtube showing rooting procedures and i had to have it rooted to do so, so alas i rooted). My device upon power up starts up, loads yellow triangle (firefirefire?) and goes to the "Kindle Fire" screen and stops, it cannot load any further . I have tried numerous fixes such as updating but the files cannot be copied and flashed to my device, because i cannot copy them to my device from my pc. the option to do so is just not there.
I appreciate any help I can get, do i need to finish / fix a rooting procedure or unroot or what? thanks in advance.
When you get the fff screen try holding down the power button till it turns orange that will hopefully put you into twrp from there you could do a few things but try selecting reboot see what happens . Could be that it would just send you to the back to the same screen
testing
when I go into twrp, i click reboot, brings me to screen with two options (im sure you all know this). When pressing option one, system, it closes out of twrp, loads fff, loads the "Kindle Fire" screen, and is froze...
I then powered off by holding the power button for 1 mississippi, 2 mississippi... all the way to 11 mississippi
Turned back on, fff loads, held pwr for twrp, hit reboot, chose option two, power off, and this did just as it said it would, powered off...
Sorry I sound retarded while writing this, im just trying to be thorough
P.S. i have toyed around with twrp, totally reset all data and caches, done just about everything...
Go here
...and download FFF1.4
Mount your sdcard in recovery and transfer the FFF1.4.zip from your computer. Install FFF1.4 in recovery (no wipe) and reboot.
As soon as you see the Blue kindle fire logo, hold the power button until you see options show up on the bottom. Use the power button to scroll through the options and select "Normal Boot"
that would work but...
Hard to explain my situation... anyway, when i plug in my kindle, it does not play auto play, no way to put files from computer to kindle. I have gone into my devices and cant seem to find a way to open and veiw and edit the files on my device.
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Hard to explain my situation... anyway, when i plug in my kindle, it does not play auto play, no way to put files from computer to kindle. I have gone into my devices and cant seem to find a way to open and veiw and edit the files on my device.
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You have to access TWRP and select mount > mount sdcard and mount to USB
Are you saying that you tried this and it doesn't work?
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
NeedHelp!!! said:
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
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That might be that you had your kindle plugged in when you ran the bat file for the drivers and it wiped out your USB mass storage drivers in the process my suggestion is to restore your computer back to a time before you messed with the drivers and see if you can't get mass storage mounted via USB before.without your kindle plugged in run the driver install to regain adb then plug the kindle in you should have working adb and mass storage driver then
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Hopefully I won't muddy up your situation but I did the same thing myself once on the driver thing that's why I believe you can't access SD on your kindle
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And soupmagnet is right he's trying to get you out of fast boot with his suggestion the bootloader he pointed you to has that option. As long as you can access twrp and mass storage you have a lot of options on what to do next mess that up and you'll brick your kindle so take your time relax do it right. Also if you can still access twrp check your battery level there don't let it die you can still charge while in twrp I believe so if it gets low plug it in give it a rest and see if your battery level doesn't come up this will save you a bunch of heartache.
NeedHelp!!! said:
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
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Reading this has given me a headache so let me make sure I understand it correctly.
You tried to mount your sdcard and you say it mounted but it didn't show up on your computer? With Windows Explorer open, while switching between mounting and unmounting the sdcard, nothing happens? Nothing is being added, like "F:\" or "D:\"?
Also, you said you used the KFU to install FFF and it worked because your boot screen has changed (which by the way isn't the latest version). With that, your drivers are obviously working properly.
So make sure you have FFF1.4 downloaded from HERE, rename it to fff.zip and place it in the "tools" folder of your KFU directory along with adb.exe.
Boot into TWRP
Shift+right click on the KFU "tools" folder and select "Run in Command..."
In the prompt that opens, enter the following command:
Code:
adb push fff.zip /sdcard
Reboot your device and back into recovery. The fff.zip should be there for you to flash. Don't wipe before installing.
If successful, your boot screen will be a blue Kindle Fire logo. Then read the FFF1.4 thread OP to learn how to change your bootmode to normal.
sigh
done! fixed the problem! some of the drivers the computer needed to veiw my F: drive. but i downloaded all the files needed onto a different pc, and it worked just fine! copied amazons latest update to get out of all rooting hooplah, so im unrooted, but im happy my kindle is up and running thanks for the help
NeedHelp!!! said:
done! fixed the problem! some of the drivers the computer needed to veiw my F: drive. but i downloaded all the files needed onto a different pc, and it worked just fine! copied amazons latest update to get out of all rooting hooplah, so im unrooted, but im happy my kindle is up and running thanks for the help
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Good to know thought it was your drivers
I have had a Kindle Fire since they day they came out. I immediately disliked the stock Rom so I ran the kindle fire utility and installed Fire Fire Fire and TWRP, rooted it, and installed CM7 Rom which has been working great. Transferred files and programs between my PC and Kindle with no issue for months. Now with all the ICS roms available and working I decided to try and upgrade to one of those and thats when everything went wrong. Its in a bootloop and the triangle appears, fades, lights up again and immediately boots to TWRP. I have flashed the entire kindle using TWRP trying to get everything off of it. Upon plugging it into my PC BRIEFLY when the triangle logo pops up I get a "USB device not recognized" on my PC. I have tried using KFUtility to reinstall drivers, tried uninstalling n reinstalling drivers but the same thing happens. I cannot use TWRP to mount at all, nothing happens. Kindle Fire UTility keeps saying adb offline, CMD adb devices also results in 0 devices found. I have tried putting it on normal boot using both ADB and KFUtility and it says "wait for device" and nothing ever happens. Any idea? Not even sure if I have a rom installed on my kindle anymore but my PC wontread it so I cannot push another image to it. Got a plane trip on Saturday and would love to have this working to kill the bordom lol. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like your bootmode is set to recovery. An easy way to fix this is download FFF1.4 to your computer and use the mount function in recovery to place it on your sdcard.
Flash it in recovery as you would a rom except don't wipe anything. When you reboot, hold the power button like you're trying to enter recovery and you'll be given the option to reset the bootmode.
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
anomiefaunus said:
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
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Generally, the only thing that would prevent adb/kfu from communicating with the device is the drivers. Make sure they're installed properly. You may have to uninstall them (delete if applicable) and reinstall them.
Follow the instructions in this guide to install and verify your drivers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
anomiefaunus said:
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
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Get your device drivers working so you can use adb. Follow the instructions in the post below...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26144447
That is excellent advice and I wish it would work but I cannot pull up ADB once in TeamWin. Keeps saying no devices. As i said my PC detects it and ADB will detect it for .5 seconds on the orange triangle. Once the orange triangle disappears and it either boots to blackness or boots to TeamWin ADB stops recognizing my device. But I will play around with your suggestions once I get off work and let you know what i find out. Thanks again for everyones support.
Frozen screen during rooting
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
peredexter said:
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
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Don't hijack the threads please. If you have a problem or question, post it in the Q&A section.
Back story: I purchased a used Kindle Fire on Ebay about a week ago, not knowing that it had been rooted. I was looking for a standard Kindle fire for my son so he would stop using my tablet (lol) and the parental controls are better and more books and so on... none the less when I got it I noticed that it booted differently (I had a kindle fire prior) and it booted into Android. I have had problems with trying to be able to get my computer to recognize it. It looks for missing drivers and I have been all frustrated, but figured that we would just have to download off of it, well, we went on a trip this past weekend (11 hours) and my son wanted to watch a movie, turned it on and it wont boot past the yellow triangle now. I have tried a hard reboot, I have tried to turn it on and hold it and watch for the orange light to no avail. The light is either green or its powered off.
I don know what to do at this point? I cant hook it to my computer (wont even recognize as an F drive or mass media) and I cant boot past the orange triangle. Yes, I am a newb (apologies) but a very frustrated one if that counts?
Sadly I think the thing is bricked and I will take a $150 hit (ugh)
No worries, your Kindle isn't bricked, it's just stuck in the wrong bootmode, which is easy to fix if you know what you are doing.
I could give you links to various guides and tutorials but it seems that it would be a lot to handle all at once for someone who knows nothing about Android and probably has no intention to.
Changing bootmodes is very easy, but getting everything set up to change bootmodes can be tricky, especially on Windows. It seems to me that you want the device back to stock (not rooted, stock bootloader, etc.), which may be a little less troublesome for you in the long run.
Hold the power button for 10-15 seconds to ensure it is completely powered off, then turn it on again.
When you see the yellow triangle, hold the power button until it turns orange and release. That should get you into the custom recovery that has been installed. When it boots into that recovery, describe what you see (i.e. recovery version, color scheme, etc.)
Yes, you would be correct in that I just want it stock, sure Android is great but my son is 4 and he just needs the basics for his books and angry birds lol. So, I attempted what you said, powered off all of the way and turned back on, as soon as I see the yellow triangle I hold the button and it wont turn orange, it will just power back off. I used to be able to touch the screen when the yellow triangle came up and it would take me into some menu (TWRP?) but it wont do that anymore either, its just remains either off or on the yellow triangle.
soupmagnet said:
No worries, your Kindle isn't bricked, it's just stuck in the wrong bootmode, which is easy to fix if you know what you are doing.
I could give you links to various guides and tutorials but it seems that it would be a lot to handle all at once for someone who knows nothing about Android and probably has no intention to.
Changing bootmodes is very easy, but getting everything set up to change bootmodes can be tricky, especially on Windows. It seems to me that you want the device back to stock (not rooted, stock bootloader, etc.), which may be a little less troublesome for you in the long run.
Hold the power button for 10-15 seconds to ensure it is completely powered off, then turn it on again.
When you see the yellow triangle, hold the power button until it turns orange and release. That should get you into the custom recovery that has been installed. When it boots into that recovery, describe what you see (i.e. recovery version, color scheme, etc.)
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Well you're going to need a few things first.
The Kindle Fire Software Update
The Kindle Fire Utility
And you need to get a custom recovery. TWRP is kind of on the fritz right now so getting it from the TWRP website is probably not your best option. You can still find a working one with the smirkit but you'll have to extract it yourself. It will be titled "recovery_twrp_2.x.img". COTR will work just as well but be sure you get the .img
Extract the KFU and run the install_drivers.bat
Place your custom recovery.img in the Kindle Fire Utilitiy's " tools" folder
Shift + Right-click on the Kindle Fire Utilitiy's "tools" and select "Open command window here". In the window that opens up enter the following commands:
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fastboot flash recovery name_of_recovery.img
fastboot oem idme bootmode 5001
fastboot reboot
I'll leave it at that until you can confirm you have recovery installed and you're booted into it.
I would if I could... lol... I can not get my computer to recognize the Kindle as either a kindle or a mass media drive... when I plug it in it will say that I need kindle drivers (which I am told there is no such thing as) and it does not show up as a drive either. I am to the point that I am about ready to throw it on craigslist for 50 bucks, take the 100 plus loss and start all over with a brand new one... damn you ebay! Lol
soupmagnet said:
Well you're going to need a few things first.
The Kindle Fire Software Update
The Kindle Fire Utility
And you need to get a custom recovery. TWRP is kind of on the fritz right now so getting it from the TWRP website is probably not your best option. You can still find a working one with the smirkit but you'll have to extract it yourself. It will be titled "recovery_twrp_2.x.img". COTR will work just as well but be sure you get the .img
Extract the KFU and run the install_drivers.bat
Place your custom recovery.img in the Kindle Fire Utilitiy's " tools" folder
Shift + Right-click on the Kindle Fire Utilitiy's "tools" and select "Open command window here". In the window that opens up enter the following commands:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery name_of_recovery.img
fastboot oem idme bootmode 5001
fastboot reboot
I'll leave it at that until you can confirm you have recovery installed and you're booted into it.
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Save yourself the trouble mail it to me I will fix it then you reimburse me the return postage or better yet I can show you how to fix it without even mailing it . 150 for a first gen kindle is pretty high you kinda already got taken.
[email protected] said:
I would if I could... lol... I can not get my computer to recognize the Kindle as either a kindle or a mass media drive... when I plug it in it will say that I need kindle drivers (which I am told there is no such thing as) and it does not show up as a drive either. I am to the point that I am about ready to throw it on craigslist for 50 bucks, take the 100 plus loss and start all over with a brand new one... damn you ebay! Lol
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Pay attention to what I said previously...
soupmagnet said:
Extract the KFU and run the install_drivers.bat
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Clearly, there are drivers for the Kindle Fire and they are needed to fix your device.
I think I am officially over this thing... I downloaded the drivers and went to plug in the kindle fire to the computer and now its just looping the triangle... it turns on for a second and then off and on and off and so on... UGHHHHHH....
soupmagnet said:
Pay attention to what I said previously...
Clearly, there are drivers for the Kindle Fire and they are needed to fix your device.
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You let the battery die. I won't go into how it happened but to get it to charge, you need to...
With the device turned off, Plug the device into USB and hold the power button until it shuts off again. If you can get it to stay off, leave it plugged in for about half a day and turn it on again.
SO recently i tried to root my kindle using one of the guides unfortunately i somehow messed up during it or something, but the problem i have now is whenever i turn my kindle on it has the yellow triangle with a fire logo in it and at the bottom it says "press power button for recovery". Simple enough only the second problem is i do not have TWRP or anything like that so pressing the power button literally does nothing. Unfortunately as well when i plug it into the USB it will identify that something is connected but it won't install it to the pc because it cant find some hardware or something. So i cant get it to start up or connect it to the pc and am desperately looking for a solution. Thanks to anyone who can help.
First off. Do you have a first gen kindle fire?
6.3.x or 10.x.x?
If you have a first gen,
Download this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192818
Choose bootmode menu, and choose fastboot.
Hold down the power button for 10-20 seconds till it turns off.
Connect your kindle to your computer.
Does KFU find the device? If so, good. You will be taken to the main screen at that point I think.
Choose to install recovery (TWRP).
That should be it. Post here if there's any problems.
Sent from my muffin-ated Kindle Fire with Tapatalk HD.
Just because I am a Senior Member doesn't mean anything.
I do not count myself any higher than anybody else.
jma9454 said:
First off. Do you have a first gen kindle fire?
6.3.x or 10.x.x?
If you have a first gen,
Download this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192818
Choose bootmode menu, and choose fastboot.
Hold down the power button for 10-20 seconds till it turns off.
Connect your kindle to your computer.
Does KFU find the device? If so, good. You will be taken to the main screen at that point I think.
Choose to install recovery (TWRP).
That should be it. Post here if there's any problems.
Sent from my muffin-ated Kindle Fire with Tapatalk HD.
Just because I am a Senior Member doesn't mean anything.
I do not count myself any higher than anybody else.
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Attached is a picture of what my kindle screen looks like. I tried resetting it, plugging it into the computer, etc. but this screen never changes. Also on my pc it doesn't recognize it as a kindle, it recognizes it as an unknown device. So I can't put any files onto my kindle at the moment because my PC keeps telling my me driver is not working or something. I attached files showing what my pc says as well. Also I apologize for the bad quality of the pictures i don't own a very nice camera at all so I apologize in advanced for that. The last 3 are readable the 1st one is basically just a yellow triangle with a fire symbol in the middle and it says "press power button for recovery" but nothing happens when i press the power button, and the 2 photo is a little bit blurry but all it says is:
Unknown Device
Device Type: Universal Serial Bus controllers
Manufacturers: (Standard USB Host Controller)
Location: Port_#0009.Hub_#0002
Device Status:
Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
The "press power button for recovery" can be confusing if you don't know what's going on. That version of FireFireFire sits in fastboot mode for...I think...8 seconds before it will recognize the power button. You can repeatedly press the power button until the LED turns orange to see if that gets you into recovery. If not, you're probably looking at something like usbboot to replace your bootloader. You need to replace your bootloader anyway, but hopefully you'll be able to flash a new one in recovery instead.
soupmagnet said:
The "press power button for recovery" can be confusing if you don't know what's going on. That version of FireFireFire sits in fastboot mode for...I think...8 seconds before it will recognize the power button. You can repeatedly press the power button until the LED turns orange to see if that gets you into recovery. If not, you're probably looking at something like usbboot to replace your bootloader. You need to replace your bootloader anyway, but hopefully you'll be able to flash a new one in recovery instead.
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Repeatedly pressed the power button for about 30 seconds with the same result, green light still, and no screen change. So it looks like its this usbboot, how would i go about doing this in order to replace my bootloader?
KindleFail said:
Repeatedly pressed the power button for about 30 seconds with the same result, green light still, and no screen change. So it looks like its this usbboot, how would i go about doing this in order to replace my bootloader?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405052
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038&highlight=firekit
Since you will need Linux anyway, you might as well download and install SoupKit. It comes with Firekit and will probably make your life easier in the long run.
What guide did you use exactly? I can see if we can update that guide to use the latest FFF because that is a very old alpha version that has had many issues with the yellow triangle in the past. I'm surprised its still floating around here.
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Stuck at boot logo
Hey all,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post but I didn't want to make a new topic and this seems to be in the area of what is wrong with my kindle... I tried the new KFU v0.9.9 on my first gen KF running 6.3.2. I have rooted it before (not on 6.3.2), but unrooted and restored to factory settings because I thought I was going to sell it. However, the plans fell through and I am keeping it so I wanted to re-root and all that jazz....
My question is, how do I get it boot past the boot logo? I used the KFU, but firstly when it prompts it says:
'findstr' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
So none of the commands pop up, however they are still there... For example, i followed:
"Choose bootmode menu, and choose fastboot.
Hold down the power button for 10-20 seconds till it turns off.
Connect your kindle to your computer."
And I can get to fastboot, but it says there is no device connected to my computer. If you need more details on the problem I'll be glad to give them to you. Hopefully someone checks this thread again
Thanks
What version of Windows do you have that doesn't have 'findstr'?
What do you see in your device manager while the device is plugged in?
soupmagnet said:
What version of Windows do you have that doesn't have 'findstr'?
What do you see in your device manager while the device is plugged in?
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I'm running a 64 bit version of Windows 7 professional.
There's nothing in the device manager when I plug it in.
Hello, sorry for my bad english.
Im a noob and have been looking and trying different things for days now and can't fix my KFHD8.9", I would greatly appreciate any help. Sorry if this have been asked, but ive tried everything and nothing seems to work or match the same problems.
I rooted my kindle fire hd 8.9" (8.4.6) and tried to install the 2nd bootloader + twrp (to eventually install CM10.2) using this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105), but stupidly, I didn't back up on step 2. I attempted to flash the bootloader using fireflash and, as long as I could make it I did everything that was needed. I rebooted and pushed the volume up while booting, and it went to the blue logo and then into fastboot screen and then stoped there.
My pc (Windows 8) didn't recognized the device while in the fastboot screen as a kindle but as a portable device called "jem-PVT-prod-04"
I rebooted my KFHD pressing power button, and when starting again, I saw the orange logo, then the blue logo and it just got stuck there.
So now I just can get to the fastboot screen (by pressing volume up while its booting) or get stuck in the blue kindle fire logo if i dont press anything.
I would like to add also that while on the fastboot screen , My PC wont communicate with my device. I have the Android SDK installed and could use ADB before this happened.
I have tried the commands -i 0x1949 getvar product and -i 0x1945 reboot as suggested on many posts, but both of them stays in "waiting for device" for ever.
Then i tried using Kindle Fire First Aide as suggested on other posts but after downloading everything it gave me an error about something not matching with my device and what i was trying to do.
In top of that, somewhere I got the impression that I just got stuck in the middle of the procedure and that I could still install TWRP or flash a rom,
So now I don't know if my device is bricked, or stuck in the middle of the procedure or what, but if anyone could help me get back to the stock firmware or to twrp or something other than this two screens (blue logo or fastboot screen) it would be spectacular
thanx in advance.
I'm having the same exact issue more or less, but I can't pass the orange Kindle logo. My computer will recognize the Kindle for about all of 2 seconds, but only as Jem_.... then disconnects so I can't enter fastboot or move forward at all. I'm hoping that someone can help with this.
You have to install the driver for the jem device with the drivers in my signature before fastboot commands will work. Try holding volume down instead of up, it should go into recovery instead of fastboot if I remember right.
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Recd msg alert stunts513 to the error while using wallpaper fix 2.1
I am having a terrible time with this Kindle HD 2nd generation table I tried to root. I was following this guys post on You tube and got it rooted but something when wrong when I tried installing the 2nd bootloader and twrp. I ended up stuck with a blue kindle logo. I tried turning it on with the volume button pushed to the left and it went from orange to blue and then to the twrp recovery menu. That was a few days ago, Its been stuck in that mode ever since, there are no back up folders and I think was making the problem worse, as it seems I could do the adb push and now I cant, well at least i couldnt before running your wallpaper fix 2.1 I ran it once and it wouldnt take I dont remember the error, but my table was at the blue logo screen. I remembered reading about running something while you powered the device on because there was an few seconds of access to something, I cant remember so I tried that and unknown to me It appears from these notes i found that I suscessfully installed it - then tried again -then something about the backup??? I am going to cut and paste it here and not do a thing until I hear from you, as I dont want to mess it up. I didnt know the fix worked cause i was watching the command screen and not the side of the file where i have your tool on my desktop.
Here is everything from that run. in the attached file
OK so lemme get this straight, you are stuck in twrp without adb access? Also I will have to double check on my PC but when I download that file its not a PDF but a text file and its HTML with a 404 error message in it when I view it on my kindle.
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OK so lemme get this straight, you are stuck in twrp without adb access? Also I will have to double check on my PC but when I download that file its not a PDF but a text file and its HTML with a 404 error message in it when I view it on my kindle.
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Yes somehow I have twrp and I think when I first got into the bootloop I had adb access but in fumbling around trying to fix it I lost adb access.
If I turn the kindle off, and then push power and do nothing it powers up with the yellow logo and in 4 seconds that log turns blue and it stays that way until i turn it off. In this state checking device manager it shows the device as an android phone, Android ADB interface. If I unplug the device the device manager no longer shows it - If I power up the device and while the logo is still yellow push the volume button to the left it boots to twrp
I re did the notes in a new pdf file I hope you can access them now. I tried looking at them from my post on my pc and got that same access code error. I cant win on this thing tonight,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly
John
The tutorial at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105 tells you, in step 4, to place a custom ROM on the Kindle before you reboot into twrp. You then install that from from within twrp and then you get past the blue logo. If you didn't put the custom ROM on your kindle and adb isn't working then you need to install the abd drivers from stunts513's forum signature then do the twrp adb sideload.
Relevant sections from the tutorial:
Once you have the .zip files for the ROMs with GApps (Google apps, like Play Store), place them on the sdcard, and turn off the device. Turn it on, hold Volume-Up before the logo turns blue, and enter TWRP. Once there, immediately do two things: make a backup, and after that, wipes: system, factory reset, cache, and Dalvik cache. After these two things are done, go ahead and flash the .zip file, and wait for it to finish. After it finishes, go ahead and again, wipe cache and Dalvik cache, then reboot. After you rebooted, wait 5 minutes, then reboot again, and you're all done!
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6. Wiped /sdcard, can't reboot from recovery: You thought you had the ROM file on the sdcard, but you didn't, and wiped everything, so without a ROM image, you can't boot into system.
Solution: Put the ROM file where your ADB binary is (usually inside platform-tools folder in Android SDK directory) and rename it rom.zip. On the device, boot into TWRP, select Advanced, then ADB Sideload. Connect device to PC. From here, run "adb" and hit Enter to check for your binary version, if it's anything lower than 1.0.3.0, you need to update the binaries by re-installing the latest Android SDK. Once the device is in sideloading mode and is connected to the PC, type "adb sideload rom.zip" and hit Enter. Now you'll find the ROM on the sdcard, flash, and you're done.
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Hope this helps... someone.
pitcrawler said:
The tutorial at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105 tells you, in step 4, to place a custom ROM on the Kindle before you reboot into twrp. You then install that from from within twrp and then you get past the blue logo. If you didn't put the custom ROM on your kindle and adb isn't working then you need to install the abd drivers from stunts513's forum signature then do the twrp adb sideload.
Relevant sections from the tutorial:
Hope this helps... someone.
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Your post fixed my bricked tablet, THANK YOU SO MUCH. There is so much info that its confusing for a noob like me - I followed the directions you posted and I am in. thank you, thank you, thank you
Jdoki said:
Your post fixed my bricked tablet, THANK YOU SO MUCH. There is so much info that its confusing for a noob like me - I followed the directions you posted and I am in. thank you, thank you, thank you
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Yeah, I know there's a lot of information. It took me a long time and a lot of research before I attempted it as a noob myself. An important thing is to follow the tutorials word for word and skip nothing, and cross your fingers.
Got fastboot comunication between PC and KFHD
stunts513 said:
You have to install the driver for the jem device with the drivers in my signature before fastboot commands will work. Try holding volume down instead of up, it should go into recovery instead of fastboot if I remember right.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
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Thanx a lot for the quick response! :good: I was finally able to install your great drivers. I had to be quick as you said in some other posts, because the pc only detects it for a little while, when the logo it's still orange on the kindle, I think. After that, and while on fastboot screen, my device manager would detect a Jem-something device, but could not install any drivers on it. So I had to install the drivers really fast while in the orange logo, oh, and had to disable the drivers signature check on windows 8 also.
Now I can use fastboot commands to reboot the kindle, but I can still only get to the blue logo or the fastboot screen.
I guess this means I now can use the kindle first aide to go back to stock and try again for the TWRP and 2nd bootloader. I'll post if I can't make my kindle boot normal again later.
Do you know if this was my kindle being bricked or was it something else?
Thanks a lot again, I was very worried that i wasn't getting anywhere. .:laugh:
Stuck on blue logo!
Hi!
I'm having a similar problem... I recently got a second hand Kindle 2nd Generation already rooted with Cyanogenmod 10.1.3.otter2 on it. Google Play and some other apps where having issues, so I decided to downgrade. After testing a couple of different ROMs, I got stuck on the blue logo, an infinite booting screen. Funny enough, I think the mistake was to install a Fire first generation ROM into a 2nd generation. Anyway, long story short, I've tried everything, Kindle First Aide (won't help because it seems that all the options need me to be in the desktop of the tablet and I can't get there), SDK ADB will see the device but return a device offline... I'm running out of options and don't really know what to do!
Any ideas guys??
EricMitjans said:
Hi!
I'm having a similar problem... I recently got a second hand Kindle 2nd Generation already rooted with Cyanogenmod 10.1.3.otter2 on it. Google Play and some other apps where having issues, so I decided to downgrade. After testing a couple of different ROMs, I got stuck on the blue logo, an infinite booting screen. Funny enough, I think the mistake was to install a Fire first generation ROM into a 2nd generation. Anyway, long story short, I've tried everything, Kindle First Aide (won't help because it seems that all the options need me to be in the desktop of the tablet and I can't get there), SDK ADB will see the device but return a device offline... I'm running out of options and don't really know what to do!
Any ideas guys??
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You need to push a ROM onto TWRP. You should still be able to access TWRP. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2459498 be glad you did not hard brick it.