Hey all first post here, anyhow I have a Kindle Fire that seems irreparable the USB port is not responding to charges and the device altogether wont start, I looked in inside without touching anything and it seemed fine. it was working two days ago now nothing, any suggestions comments to help I read on the net this does happen with this device,
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in a dark room if you plug it in does the screen light up a little bit?
Try plugging in, then pressing power button for about 15-20 seconds, then leave it in overnight and see if that helps
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I have a Kindle Fire that I have successfully rooted and using CM7.
I let the battery completely discharge and since then the device has been stuck in what appears to be a boot loop at the fire fire screen (I have a video of the problem but because this is my first post I am not able to post links, you could find it by going to graham dot doel dot org forwardslash kindlefire)
It won't turn on unless a usb cable is plugged in. When the usb cable is plugged in the apparent loop starts.
This is what I have tried:
1. trying to charge the device.
2. trying a hard reboot. Holding the power button for 20 seconds, doesn't make any difference.
3. connecting via adb, the device isn't seen.
4. Making a factory cable and trying to connect via that, but no joy there, the device isn't detected by the computer (windows or linux)
Could anyone make any suggestions about how to unbrick this device, I have searched high and low and have found nothing that helps or works.
Thank you
the repeatent on/off is typical - what happens:
kf tries to start - battery breaks down - kf tries to start - battery ...
the only solution i know is to charge with the wall charger for some hours (over night)
but if you plug it to the wallcharger it turns on
so press and hold the power button till it turns off to allow the kf to charge
Thanks. Pressing the power button seems to have no effect what so ever. Do you have any other suggestions?
i meant to hold the button till it turns off -> ~30sec
that it is off when on the wall charger
don't know an other solution - worked for a lot of others
I have tried this. the power button doesn't respond. plugged in or not.
Hello !
Same problem for me ... I let the battery completely discharge and since then the device has been stuck in what appears to be a boot loop at the fire fire screen... I plugged it (in the wall) pressing and holding the power button till it turns off to allow the kf to charge but there nothing ie no orange/green light... Do you have an idea?
Same problem here...
Here is my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22685015
Since it is quite obvious to me the device will never work again due to this POS battery, does any one want to buy it for parts? Or can Amazon repair it, even though its rooted with a custom ROM and recovery?
I have found a solution!
The problem was a power problem. I tired a different more powerful charger and It gave me enough power to turn the unit off and let it charge up.
Hope that works for others.
just for information:
the original charger is 1.8A - you should use one with nearly this power
i use a 1A and it's working fine - nevertheless i think that is the minimum
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b63 said:
just for information:
the original charger is 1.8A - you should use one with nearly this power
i use a 1A and it's working fine - nevertheless i think that is the minimum
please mark the subject of the topic (edit first post) with [Solved]
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Just wanted to indicate my experience:
1.0A Charger = Boot Loop
1.3A Charger = Booted!
Yay!
have a headache from reading ... and re-reading...
Nestor94 said:
Hello !
Same problem for me ... I let the battery completely discharge and since then the device has been stuck in what appears to be a boot loop at the fire fire screen... I plugged it (in the wall) pressing and holding the power button till it turns off to allow the kf to charge but there nothing ie no orange/green light... Do you have an idea?
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I have this exact same problem on my stock KF. Powers on with wall charger plugged in (no light green or red), immediately shuts down when unplugged. Been through all of the forums guides KFFB and the linked ones by Kinfauns I purchased a factory cable attempting to make it fast boot on computer, no power at all. Doesn't appear to have any effect
b63 said:
the repeatent on/off is typical - what happens:
kf tries to start - battery breaks down - kf tries to start - battery ...
the only solution i know is to charge with the wall charger for some hours (over night)
but if you plug it to the wallcharger it turns on
so press and hold the power button till it turns off to allow the kf to charge
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I am at my wits end . Is there some type of battery failure that would account for being on charger for hours and not keeping the charge? or since it does boot up would it still be the software not in fastboot to allow a charge??? I plug in the wall charger, press button until it shuts off, and left it for several hours ( one last time going to try longer than overnight)
I installed the AOSP JELLY BEAN 4.1.1_r1 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765288) the other day and it was working fine. The problem is, I used it too much and the battery died on me. Fine. So I plugged it in to my pc via usb to charge it up. The Kindle fire boots to the TWRP triangle and then instantly shuts off. Well I thought maybe the battery is just really drained so I left it plugged in and went to work. Got home and it was still doing the same thing; boots to the TWRP triangle and then instantly shoots off and repeats. I unplugged the usb and tried using the outlet charger; same thing. Disconnected and tried to turn it on and nothing happens.
Figured I maybe bricked it somehow (even though i didnt update, delete, wipe anything). So I tried using the unbrick command lines...nothing. Tried the KFU cant find my device since it shuts off every 2secs.
I cannot figure out whats going on. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Plug it into the charger and hold down the power button until it shuts off. Then wait for a 2-4 and check back on it.
Once it boots back normally make sure to update FFF and TWRP.
That didn't work. I plugged it in with the ac adapter and it wouldn't allow me to turn it off (i plugged it in then tried to turn it off). I let it sit for 8hrs and still boots up to the TWRP logo and instantly turns off and wont even turn on without it being plugged in. Thanks
Hold the power button down for 1 min it should shut off
it still does not work
Please post here some detailed instructions to turn on this device.
I'm tired of holding on and buttons in different combinations.
Sorry for bad English
If you have fff 1.4 a there really is no magic combination just simply power it off and plug it in via usb to your computer. If you do not have fff 1.4a then look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
Did u leave it to charge overnight.. cos i also had the same problem, which i primarily due to low battery charge..
Connect it to the charger and let it charge if possible overnight.. then try switching it on.. it shd definitely work
Read the below link.. u will get an idea as to why it is happening
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
I recently installed Alien Droid for kf2 on my kf2 and everything was going smoothly so I doubt it was that, but I woke up this morning to a kindle fire that wouldn't turn on at all, the screen doesn't flash or anything and it just stays blank. I've done the hard reset where you hold power button for 20 seconds and still nothing. The battery indicator light comes on when I plug it in and it will turn off when I do the hard rest. Could this have anything to do with maybe the battery dying overnight?
While it's plugged in to the computer (given time to boot normally), are you able to communicate with the device via adb?
Nope, I've also left it to charge for about six hours. Now when I try to press power button it flashes green but the screen does nothing
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I would suggest checking to see if it can be detected by Linux (lsusb). If not, your last available option may be to try and usbboot. I can't imagine what would cause the device to act such a way, but guess it's still remotely possible that the bootloader or bootloader partition got corrupted.
Hopefully, you're not looking at a bad eMMC.
I have a suggestion that your kindle has a bsod (black screen of death) hold the power button for 20 sec. and then press it another 3 sec. hopfuly i am right and your kindle will turn on. have this bsods 1-2 times per day.
It absolutely sounds out of power.
I know when my kindle isn't charged the light blinks like that. Maybe if the above suggestions don't work.. Try another charger
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I just realized you have a kf2 and not a kf1, so usbboot is obviously not an option for you. Disregard my previous statement.
You' already tried the hard shutdown and you say you've let it charge, but have you tried letting it charge while completely powered down?
Outside of that, I wish I had a better suggestion for you. It's definitely an odd situation.
Cross-posting this from r/NextbitRobin
So Tuesday night before bed I went to check my phone (which had been on the charger for the last couple hours and so was at >95%) and noticed the volume button was not responding. I figured something buggy was going on, sometimes I need to reboot my phone every couple of days to get it to work properly (especially if it had run down into low power mode before recharging), so after unplugging it from the charger, I held down the power button, selected reboot, and clicked okay. The phone then proceeded to shut down, but not start back up.
When I tried to start it up again by holding the power button, I got no response initially. Then I was able to get it to buzz/vibrate, but the screen never came on.
I tried holding down the Vol- button and the power button together for 20 seconds to force a reset, and it vibrates a couple of times, but nothing happens.
If I plug it into a charger, I don't see any LEDs illuminate, and it just vibrates approximately every 3 seconds (not continuously, it seems to have some semi-random pattern). If I unplug it, the vibrating stops, but I still can't get it to turn on. It does not seem to make a difference if I am using a wall charger or trying to charge it off my laptop.
I have not rooted the phone or installed any custom ROMS, and have had it since I bought it on Amazon in June of 2017.
Any ideas what might be the issue? Any tips for reviving my phone?
This doesn't seem to match anything I have been able to find with some basic google searching.
Edited to add that I also tried removing the sim card and starting it up without one, but that did not appear to make a difference.
Update: I left it plugged into a wall charger for about 18 hrs and when I came back there was no change in behavior.
This many sound repetitive but lets first get the obvious out of the way so that we are sure you tried the most basic things for sure.
Is there an issue with the cable not able to charge the device? Can you try changing the cable?
Power + volume down for 30 secs / 1 minute / few minutes. This usually helps, sometimes more than 30 seconds for some reason. Try doing it while plugged in.
When you connect to the laptop what happens? Does it power on for a minute or vibrate?
Do you have adb installed on your computer? does you device get detected on your laptop?
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This many sound repetitive but lets first get the obvious out of the way so that we are sure you tried the most basic things for sure.
Is there an issue with the cable not able to charge the device? Can you try changing the cable?
Power + volume down for 30 secs / 1 minute / few minutes. This usually helps, sometimes more than 30 seconds for some reason. Try doing it while plugged in.
When you connect to the laptop what happens? Does it power on for a minute or vibrate?
Do you have adb installed on your computer? does you device get detected on your laptop?
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Tried charging it with both the OEM cable as well as an amazon basics USB-c cable (both of which had been used to charge the phone successfully in the 24 hrs before it went wonky), no noticeable difference in behavior.
Held the power + volume down buttons for 180 seconds, did not boot. Repeated this with it plugged in (wall charger) and it still did not boot.
When I connect it to my laptop, I get the same behavior of vibrating as when plugged into a wall charger, but it does not boot or power on, nor does the laptop detect the phone in any fashion. I do not have adb installed on my laptop.
Anything else I can try, or is the phone a write-off at this point?
First step to solving any device issue is to somehow boot it and get in any mode possible. Since you can't do that I can't think of any other way to get it working.
I'm having the same issue, phone is not giving me any signs of life...frustrated at the moment
It's a total long shot, but try carefully cleaning out your charge port with a needle or a small pin and a little bit of alcohol. I pulled quite a bit of pocket lint out of mine and it works fine now. It didn't look like it was that dirty, but I pulled out a large ball bearing sized amount.
Other than that the only other thing I can think of is that your battery might be shot. It might have been taking enough of a charge to try and turn on, but not enough to do so.
Right so I know this is a long shot and the Otter2 kf2 is pretty old but I had it running cyanogen mod with twrp I'd ran an update and now it won't even turn on I plug it into my laptop and it just keeps connecting and disconnecting saying device cannot be recognised also when plugged in the power button nolonger lights up either it did have 50% battery at the time so it's not dead any ideas? Tried holding the power button down for 30 seconds and nothing I'm guessing it's bricked it's self is there away to fix it? Tried a fastboot cable off ebay and nothing