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Ok, I am a nervous wreak! My 13 year old son borrowed my Kindle Fire and without my knowing, tried to root it. When I got it back and attempted to power it on, the yellow triangle with the fire symbol appeared. After waiting a few seconds, a black and gray screen with TWRP v2.0.0 appears.
He says that after he attempted the root and was unable to install the android market, he tried to do a restore under "device".
The Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) screen that appears on the device has several options that I can choose from, including: Install, Backup, Restore, Wipe, Mount, Settings, Advanced, and Reboot. I am not familiar with what information you would need to help me get my device to boot back up.
If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you so much in advance!
Kelly0247 said:
Ok, I am a nervous wreak! My 13 year old son borrowed my Kindle Fire and without my knowing, tried to root it. When I got it back and attempted to power it on, the yellow triangle with the fire symbol appeared. After waiting a few seconds, a black and gray screen with TWRP v2.0.0 appears.
He says that after he attempted the root and was unable to install the android market, he tried to do a restore under "device".
The Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) screen that appears on the device has several options that I can choose from, including: Install, Backup, Restore, Wipe, Mount, Settings, Advanced, and Reboot. I am not familiar with what information you would need to help me get my device to boot back up.
If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you so much in advance!
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Don't panic... Start reading here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
Familiarize yourself with the terminology so you know what steps you need to take. You'll eventually have to try resetting the bootmode to normal and restart the device. However, your OS may have been corrupted and you might not be able to boot back in to it. There's still no need to panic. You'll be able to get it working again. Just relax and follow along with the 1st post above. Look at the second post and just verify that your drivers are working right. Then you can try setting the bootmode back.
Kelly0247 said:
Ok, I am a nervous wreak! My 13 year old son borrowed my Kindle Fire and without my knowing, tried to root it.
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Hey when this is all over, try to go easy on the kid. His adolescent brain is too underdeveloped to fully comprehend the consequences of his actions.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
Oh my gosh, I am so ready to cry!!! All the information that I have read has really just confused me more. I asked my son what exactly he did and he told me he watched a video on youtube that required him to download the Kindle Fire Utility and install the drivers and root. He wasn't sure how to unroot it before he went into the device itself and "restore". I'm not sure if doing this caused the device to change the way it boots during restart, but I am at a lose. I am not familiar with how all this electronic software works and as sad as it may sound, I'm ready to just take away his allowance and just buy a new device.
Kelly0247 said:
Oh my gosh, I am so ready to cry!!! All the information that I have read has really just confused me more. I asked my son what exactly he did and he told me he watched a video on youtube that required him to download the Kindle Fire Utility and install the drivers and root. He wasn't sure how to unroot it before he went into the device itself and "restore". I'm not sure if doing this caused the device to change the way it boots during restart, but I am at a lose. I am not familiar with how all this electronic software works and as sad as it may sound, I'm ready to just take away his allowance and just buy a new device.
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OK... you and your son sit down together and do the following...
1) Hook up your Kindle Fire to the computer and turn it on... let it boot to TWRP
2) Open the Kindle Fire Utility with the "run" file in the Kindle Fire Utility folder.
3) Near the bottom, it should say "ADB Status: Online"
4) Press the "1" key and hit ENTER
5) At the next menu, press the "1" key and hit ENTER
6) Wait and see if it will reboot
7) If it does not reboot on its own or it says "<waiting for device>" then press and hold the power button for 20-30 seconds until the device shuts off. Then press the power button again to turn it back on.
Hopefully, this will get the Kindle Fire to boot up again normally. Once you do that, you are going to have to try and reinstall the stock software (what your Kindle Fire came equipped with when you bought it), but that's probably letting the cart get ahead of the horse at the moment.
Let's see how the above works out first.
At step 3, the ADB Status says "Offline"
After trying to reboot normally, it sticks at <waiting for device>
Kelly0247 said:
At step 3, the ADB Status says "Offline"
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Just go ahead and do what I said anyway... when it tells you "<waiting for device>" restart it using the button in TWRP or the power button like I indicated before.
Yes, I actually restarted the device and the Kindle Fire splash screen came up just as you posted the response. Will this remove the root from the device?
You have been so very patient with me. You are WONDERFUL!!!!!
Kelly0247 said:
Yes, I actually restarted the device and the Kindle Fire splash screen came up just as you posted the response. Will this remove the root from the device?
You have been so very patient with me. You are WONDERFUL!!!!!
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All you've managed to do so far was to get the device to boot normally.
My guess is that your son never got far enough to actually root the device. However, he did get it to install a new bootloader (the part with the yellow triangle that comes up when you restart it) and a new recovery (TWRP). Right now, these things are harmless and you can leave it alone for the time being.
My suggestion to you would be to just keep using it as you would normally for now. If you can't get some of Amazon services to work or you have problems with it, come back and post another question about getting it back to stock. When the next Kindle Fire update comes along from Amazon, it will reinstall everything back to stock anyway (I'm mostly certain about this, but someone will correct me if I'm wrong).
And I agree with soupmagnet... don't be so hard on the kid about his little experiment.... no harm, no foul.
I've noticed now that I am unable to view any of the files on my device after connecting it to my PC. Is there any way to correct this or would it be too much of headache for me to attempt?
Thanks again for all the help you have given.
Oh, and I didn't harm my child, but he does know that he is not allowed to play around with my electronic devices anymore.
Kelly0247 said:
I've noticed now that I am unable to view any of the files on my device after connecting it to my PC. Is there any way to correct this or would it be too much of headache for me to attempt?
Thanks again for all the help you have given.
Oh, and I didn't harm my child, but he does know that he is not allowed to play around with my electronic devices anymore.
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Something might have happened to your /sdcard (your storage space on the Kindle Fire) when your son was playing around with it. If you aren't too concerned about what's on there, you can just try formatting or erasing the contents of it. When you hook it up to your Windows machine, it might ask if you want to format it. In that case, it's very likely that you wouldn't be able to recover it even if you wanted, so I would just go ahead and format it. Another way to do this would be to reset the device to factory defaults. You would lose all installed apps, books, etc. and have to re-enter all your network and Amazon information afterwards, but the process will bring the /sdcard on the Kindle Fire to roughly the same as it was when you got it. You can find it in settings -> devices -> reset to factory defaults (this is from memory, so the wording might be slightly different). It all really depends on what you are willing to lose on the device. If you don't care... just erase it and start over.
Ok, i tried to reset the device to factory settings, but when it rebooted, it brought up the TWRP menu again. Any idea what else I can try?
I sent you a private message so you can get in touch with me for some live help if you need it.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
Kelly0247 said:
Ok, i tried to reset the device to factory settings, but when it rebooted, it brought up the TWRP menu again. Any idea what else I can try?
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If you haven't gotten things working yet...
If you are in TWRP, try the WIPE -> SD Card option to get your storage space reformatted. You can then use the MOUNT button in TWRP and it should show up on your Windows desktop again.
Then to get rid of TWRP altogether, you can download the software update from Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_k6_updatesi?nodeId=200790620
Rather than follow the instructions on that page, rename the downloaded file to "update.zip" (without the quotes). You'll get a warning about file extensions... it's OK to change the name anyway. The file icon will change to a zippered folder after this. Copy the update.zip file over to your Kindle Fire.
Back in TWRP, hit the INSTALL button. Over in the right panel, you should see the update.zip file you transferred to the Kindle Fire. Touch that file name and you'll be able to continue installing that file onto your Kindle Fire. When it's done, you can reboot from the home menu.
It will take a few minutes for it to boot up for the first time, but when it's done, you should have a fresh, completely stock sytem and you'll be rid of TWRP.
This is an update to let you know that my Kindle is now back in perfect condition. Kinfauns, thank you so much for all the information and the attempts to help me fix this problem. Unfortunately, I needed more indepth help and wasn't able to correct my issues with the steps given.
Soupmagnet: Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart for the many hours of trial and error that you spent helping me repair my device. Your patience with me was beyond belief and I will never be able to thank you enough!
You are totally AWESOME!!!!!
Please help.
I am also stuck on the TWRP screen.
When I:
1) Hook up my Kindle Fire to the computer and turn it on...let it boot to TWRP
2) Open the Kindle Fire Utility with the "run" file in the KFU folder
3) It registers "ADB Status: Online"
4) When I hit "1" for Normal it states:
"The system cannot find the drive specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
"
"
"
"
What is the drive specified it is referring to?
Thank you.
KeaDe135 said:
Please help.
I am also stuck on the TWRP screen.
When I:
1) Hook up my Kindle Fire to the computer and turn it on...let it boot to TWRP
2) Open the Kindle Fire Utility with the "run" file in the KFU folder
3) It registers "ADB Status: Online"
4) When I hit "1" for Normal it states:
"The system cannot find the drive specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
"
"
"
"
What is the drive specified it is referring to?
Thank you.
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I *guess* it refers to the external Sd Card, since I got the same error.
In your case, since Adb status is online then just open a Terminal Emulator (cmd.exe in case of Windows) and change directoy to the tools folder inside Kfu, and run the command
adb shell idme bootmode 4000
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Same Issue except I want to finish rooting it
I'm running Kindle Fire 6.3.1
I ran Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 and hit option 2, install permanent root with superuser.
The process went smoothly until i ran into this
/sbin/sh;idme:not found 808 kb/s (22364 bytes in 0.027s)
attempt to remove root check
please wait..
and it got stuck there (no screenshots...sorry)
At that time, my KF had rebooted with blue fire, then it loaded TWRP v2.20
Apparently the instructions I initially followed was for KFU v0.9.4 and I've been searching for 2 hours on what the next steps are.
I restarted my laptop (Sony VAIO VPCEA46F) and my KF through TWRP 'reboot' --->'power off'
I plugged in my KF and ran KFU now it says
ADB Status: Online
Boot Status: Unkown
And now I am stuck in TWRP Recovery with my thumb up my ass..
I know, I know... I'm a fool for not checking things before starting this process. I appreciate any help and I'll accept any and all insults.
Thanks!
Yiz
Yizzie09 said:
I'm running Kindle Fire 6.3.1
I ran Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 and hit option 2, install permanent root with superuser.
The process went smoothly until i ran into this
/sbin/sh;idme:not found 808 kb/s (22364 bytes in 0.027s)
attempt to remove root check
please wait..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31183986#post31183986
kinfauns said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31183986#post31183986
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Thanks, that helped. Ultimately my KF is rooted.
About 3 weeks ago, I bricked my Kindle Fire. It was a "spare" that I had, so I started messing around with it. Got TWRP installed, downloaded a couple of ROMS, and attempted to install them. (fortunately, I made a backup of my base Amazon 6.2)
To make a long story short, the fire got stuck. I was able to adb and various other things on this forum to keep things going, but after a while, Kindle Fire Utility (adb, nothing) could see the device. I thought for sure I had an expensive paper weight.
Enter the factory cable. Because SkOrPn was in the middle of a move, my cable didn't get here right away. Then there were some issues with my PayPal address, which SkOrPn went out of his way to fix. Today, I got the cable at my office.
Looked at the cable. Thought I had been send an unmodified cable. Saw no evidence that anything had been done to the cable. An absolutely perfect professional job.
Couldn't wait to get home. Got home. Plugged cable in Fire, then in Laptop. Nothing. Now what? I thought it was supposed to boot the bootloader? adb didn't see the device. Drivers good, it sees my other Fire. I guess I was one of those 1% that hard brick the fire with no chance of getting it back.
Did a few searched on the forum. Found how to install TWRP on my device. I thought I had it already? Ran the commands. Nothing. Switched to regular cable. Nothing. I figured I was screwed. I unplugged the Fire. connected the factory cable. Ran the command. THEN hooked up the cable. JOY JOY JOY!! i GOT TWRP loaded!!!!
Restored my previously saved image, and now I have a working Kindle Fire. NOW i'm going to install some other ROM on it.
The moral is, never give up. Buy a factory cable!!! One of the things I've ever spent $15 or so on. And I recommend SkOrPn as your source. Quality work, great customer service!!!
Step-by-step
1) Make sure you have some charge left in your bricked Kindle. (one of my mistakes
2) Download "Kindle Fire Utility" or other utility that has the fastboot.exe command available.
3) Download twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img (just google it)
4) Without connecting anything, run the command:
fastboot.exe -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
5) Connect the factory cable to your Kindle Fire
6) Connect the factory cable to you PC
7) Wait about 10 seconds.
8) DONE!!!!
Sorry for the long post. My wife doesn't understand why this would make me so excited. But you all would, I'm sure.
SteveM
a very nice post for people who have bricked their kindles and need a factory cable!
Thanks for the kind words Steve. I hope this cable gives you confidence in flashing your Kindle long into the future. Glad it worked out for you.
Oh, and you did not see any evidence of modification because I do not modify the cable, I just cut off the original micro connector and install my own, already modified of course with a resistor and all I have to do is re-solder the 4 wires back onto their original pins and then fill the entire casing with 400 degree SureBonder PDR Hot Glue (the worlds strongest known hot glue, according to them anyway lol)... That way it looks and feels like a true manufactured store bought cable. However, doing it my way is still in fact more work, but the end result clearly justifies it.
Anyway, again glad I could be of service to you and my fellow XDA friends.
Where do I run the command from?
The3rdEye said:
Where do I run the command from?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747804&postcount=3
smoen02 said:
About 3 weeks ago, I bricked my Kindle Fire. It was a "spare" that I had, so I started messing around with it. Got TWRP installed, downloaded a couple of ROMS, and attempted to install them. (fortunately, I made a backup of my base Amazon 6.2)
To make a long story short, the fire got stuck. I was able to adb and various other things on this forum to keep things going, but after a while, Kindle Fire Utility (adb, nothing) could see the device. I thought for sure I had an expensive paper weight.
Enter the factory cable. Because SkOrPn was in the middle of a move, my cable didn't get here right away. Then there were some issues with my PayPal address, which SkOrPn went out of his way to fix. Today, I got the cable at my office.
Looked at the cable. Thought I had been send an unmodified cable. Saw no evidence that anything had been done to the cable. An absolutely perfect professional job.
Couldn't wait to get home. Got home. Plugged cable in Fire, then in Laptop. Nothing. Now what? I thought it was supposed to boot the bootloader? adb didn't see the device. Drivers good, it sees my other Fire. I guess I was one of those 1% that hard brick the fire with no chance of getting it back.
Did a few searched on the forum. Found how to install TWRP on my device. I thought I had it already? Ran the commands. Nothing. Switched to regular cable. Nothing. I figured I was screwed. I unplugged the Fire. connected the factory cable. Ran the command. THEN hooked up the cable. JOY JOY JOY!! i GOT TWRP loaded!!!!
Restored my previously saved image, and now I have a working Kindle Fire. NOW i'm going to install some other ROM on it.
The moral is, never give up. Buy a factory cable!!! One of the things I've ever spent $15 or so on. And I recommend SkOrPn as your source. Quality work, great customer service!!!
Step-by-step
1) Make sure you have some charge left in your bricked Kindle. (one of my mistakes
2) Download "Kindle Fire Utility" or other utility that has the fastboot.exe command available.
3) Download twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img (just google it)
4) Without connecting anything, run the command:
fastboot.exe -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
5) Connect the factory cable to your Kindle Fire
6) Connect the factory cable to you PC
7) Wait about 10 seconds.
8) DONE!!!!
Sorry for the long post. My wife doesn't understand why this would make me so excited. But you all would, I'm sure.
SteveM
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Hi there,
Where should I run that command from??
Here´s my case, I hope you could help me..
I need urgent help. Just got my kindle todasy and went through tutorial to use the rooting utitily. My kindle got stuck at loading screen and wouldn´t shut shutdown. I waited until the battery ran out. Waited for few more minutes and plugged in the data cable. The kindle now won´t stop blinking and does not get reckgonized by the pc. I did waited for the battery goes dead again, recharged then for about 30 min and nothing has changed. The loading screen keeps blinking and nothing seems to be happening. Please advise!!
andersonrel said:
Hi there,
Where should I run that command from??
Here´s my case, I hope you could help me..
I need urgent help. Just got my kindle todasy and went through tutorial to use the rooting utitily. My kindle got stuck at loading screen and wouldn´t shut shutdown. I waited until the battery ran out. Waited for few more minutes and plugged in the data cable. The kindle now won´t stop blinking and does not get reckgonized by the pc. I did waited for the battery goes dead again, recharged then for about 30 min and nothing has changed. The loading screen keeps blinking and nothing seems to be happening. Please advise!!
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Oh boy... I'm going to hope that it was a timing issue and our posts got crossed, because I answered your question for another user just above your post.
Regardless, the answer to that question isn't going to help you. You need this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621146
Never let your battery die like you did. You can always force a shutdown by keeping the power button pressed down for 20-30 seconds.
EDIT: I'd been meaning to post this guide for a while...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
and I missed the part of your post about being "stuck at loading screen" the first time I read it. I suggest you read this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
make sure the device drivers are working (part 2) and learn some fastboot commands (part 3) so you can reset the bootmode on your device back to normal and reboot it.
kinfauns said:
Oh boy... I'm going to hope that it was a timing issue and our posts got crossed, because I answered your question for another user just above your post.
Regardless, the answer to that question isn't going to help you. You need this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621146
Never let your battery die like you did. You can always force a shutdown by keeping the power button pressed down for 20-30 seconds.
EDIT: I'd been meaning to post this guide for a while...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
and I missed the part of your post about being "stuck at loading screen" the first time I read it. I suggest you read this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
make sure the device drivers are working (part 2) and learn some fastboot commands (part 3) so you can reset the bootmode on your device back to normal and reboot it.
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Thanks for your help. I tried to run a fastboot command and get msg: ´cannot run, adbwin.dll missing´... Now I´m really not sure what it´s missing anymore..
I´m going also leave it charging for longer and it seems to be a known issue, right?
My kindle continues not being reckognized and keeps on flashing the kindle Fire/Android Logo. When I unplug it it stops flashing and I won´t get any sigh of life, even after pressing the button for longer than 30s.
I managed to find the driver on device manager and uninstalled it, thinking that maybe it would help finding the device again, but it didn´t...
Recomendations please?
andersonrel said:
Thanks for your help. I tried to run a fastboot command and get msg: ´cannot run, adbwin.dll missing´... Now I´m really not sure what it´s missing anymore..
I´m going also leave it charging for longer and it seems to be a known issue, right?
My kindle continues not being reckognized and keeps on flashing the kindle Fire/Android Logo. When I unplug it it stops flashing and I won´t get any sigh of life, even after pressing the button for longer than 30s.
I managed to find the driver on device manager and uninstalled it, thinking that maybe it would help finding the device again, but it didn´t...
Recomendations please?
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Unfortunately, if the device isn't booting up, it won't charge. Like the guide I posted above says, the device needs to load up a ramdisk before it will charge. If all you see is that KF/Android logo, then it's still in the bootloader and it's not charging your battery.
First, you'll have to get your drivers in order so you can send the device fastboot commands. I suggest you disconnect the KF from your computer and make sure it's turned off. Use the KFU driver install file and get it to install the drivers again onto your machine. I'm not sure if it will help, but it wouldn't hurt to reboot your computer after that. When it's back up and running again, open up the device manager. When you connect the KF back up to your computer, it should automatically power up again... look at what device comes up as it boots. The first thing you see (hopefully) is "Android Phone -> Android ADB Interface" appear. If you see that, you can be reasonably sure you can send it fastboot commands.
You'll have to issue the "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000" on the command line. It will tell you that it's waiting for device... The next time it loops back around in its boot up process, it will send the command and hopefully get the bootmode back to normal. Then hook it up to your stock AC wall charger and if you are lucky it should continue to boot and charge your battery.
There's a lot of "hopefully" things that have to go right for this to work. You've got a few compounded issues that are giving you problems and all of them have to get fixed for the battery to start charging again.
andersonrel said:
Thanks for your help. I tried to run a fastboot command and get msg: ´cannot run, adbwin.dll missing´... Now I´m really not sure what it´s missing anymore..
I´m going also leave it charging for longer and it seems to be a known issue, right?
My kindle continues not being reckognized and keeps on flashing the kindle Fire/Android Logo. When I unplug it it stops flashing and I won´t get any sigh of life, even after pressing the button for longer than 30s.
I managed to find the driver on device manager and uninstalled it, thinking that maybe it would help finding the device again, but it didn´t...
Recomendations please?
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To fix the "cannot run, adbwin.dll missing", shift + right click on the folder containing adb.exe and select something like "Run as Command"
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
soupmagnet said:
To fix the "cannot run, adbwin.dll missing", shift + right click on the folder containing adb.exe and select something like "Run as Command"
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
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I´m gonna try this and will post results. Thanks a lot.
kinfauns said:
Unfortunately, if the device isn't booting up, it won't charge. Like the guide I posted above says, the device needs to load up a ramdisk before it will charge. If all you see is that KF/Android logo, then it's still in the bootloader and it's not charging your battery.
First, you'll have to get your drivers in order so you can send the device fastboot commands. I suggest you disconnect the KF from your computer and make sure it's turned off. Use the KFU driver install file and get it to install the drivers again onto your machine. I'm not sure if it will help, but it wouldn't hurt to reboot your computer after that. When it's back up and running again, open up the device manager. When you connect the KF back up to your computer, it should automatically power up again... look at what device comes up as it boots. The first thing you see (hopefully) is "Android Phone -> Android ADB Interface" appear. If you see that, you can be reasonably sure you can send it fastboot commands.
You'll have to issue the "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000" on the command line. It will tell you that it's waiting for device... The next time it loops back around in its boot up process, it will send the command and hopefully get the bootmode back to normal. Then hook it up to your stock AC wall charger and if you are lucky it should continue to boot and charge your battery.
There's a lot of "hopefully" things that have to go right for this to work. You've got a few compounded issues that are giving you problems and all of them have to get fixed for the battery to start charging again.
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I tried to connect to a different pc. It does get recognized on device manager (as kindle) for few seconds and then it dissapears again...not sure what to do now in order to charge it...any suggestions?
Hey guys thanks for all the help so far, i bricked my kindle to the point of no shell after i tried to reflash the stock rom and was stuck in no mans land. So i ordered skorpn's factory cable (thanks again for sending it up north of the border) and when i plug it into the pc it loads the "kindle fire" screen ans stays there. It shows up in device manager but not when i look for it under adb devices and device won't be found in fastboot. Tried reinstalling the drivers and still no luck. Any ideas how i can get this thing back to the point of usability? Thanks for any help you have
andersonrel said:
I tried to connect to a different pc. It does get recognized on device manager (as kindle) for few seconds and then it dissapears again...not sure what to do now in order to charge it...any suggestions?
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Fix your drivers. Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747671
djsaxon said:
Hey guys thanks for all the help so far, i bricked my kindle to the point of no shell after i tried to reflash the stock rom and was stuck in no mans land. So i ordered skorpn's factory cable (thanks again for sending it up north of the border) and when i plug it into the pc it loads the "kindle fire" screen ans stays there. It shows up in device manager but not when i look for it under adb devices and device won't be found in fastboot. Tried reinstalling the drivers and still no luck. Any ideas how i can get this thing back to the point of usability? Thanks for any help you have
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First, fix your drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747671
Then:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
kinfauns said:
You'll have to issue the "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000" on the command line. It will tell you that it's waiting for device... The next time it loops back around in its boot up process, it will send the command and hopefully get the bootmode back to normal. Then hook it up to your stock AC wall charger and if you are lucky it should continue to boot and charge your battery.
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Well I gave this a shot and it said: "finished. total time: 0.080s"
but it's still just flashing the android logo with kindle fire underneath.
maw230 said:
Well I gave this a shot and it said: "finished. total time: 0.080s"
but it's still just flashing the android logo with kindle fire underneath.
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That's because you have an entirely different problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
soupmagnet said:
That's because you have an entirely different problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
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Thank you.
hey i can't doing that, when i type that code "fastboot..........img" cmd say <Waiting for devices> ?
jakelongryan said:
hey i can't doing that, when i type that code "fastboot..........img" cmd say <Waiting for devices> ?
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There are several reasons why you would get the typical "waiting for device" message, so...
...here is a step-by-step guide instruct you in getting it working properly, quickly and efficiently.
Step 1. Start a new thread in the Q&A section.
Step 2. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what your problem is.
Step 3. Explain in GREAT detail exactly how your problem started.
Step 4. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what you have done to remedy the situation on your own.
Step 5. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what the device does and everything you see from the moment you press the power button until the problem presents itself.
Step 6. Wait patiently until someone of appropriate knowledge is kind enough to lend a hand.
soupmagnet said:
There are several reasons why you would get the typical "waiting for device" message, so...
...here is a step-by-step guide instruct you in getting it working properly, quickly and efficiently.
Step 1. Start a new thread in the Q&A section.
Step 2. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what your problem is.
Step 3. Explain in GREAT detail exactly how your problem started.
Step 4. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what you have done to remedy the situation on your own.
Step 5. Explain in GREAT detail exactly what the device does and everything you see from the moment you press the power button until the problem presents itself.
Step 6. Wait patiently until someone of appropriate knowledge is kind enough to lend a hand.
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great advice and exactly what im gonna do. been searching for 2 weeks now reading and learning and still stuck so be looking out for my thread
My Kindle Fire is now maybe gone, forever!
It was a smooth and easy life for me and my Kindle Fire, we've been through root, recovery, bootloader and everthing. She was running fine, until the recent day.
I installed the 1.4 FFF from Hashcode, it was good, I loved the blue Kindle Fire logo. But then the next day I saw an update of 1.4a, so I booted into TWRP recovery and uses ADB (since I'm using Kernel 3.0 without ADB) and does the command:
adb push <filename> /sdcard
Sdcard: Read-Only File System
That was really weird, we all know sdcard is never a read-only, so I thought something was wrong here, I copy the FFF.bin file from my PC to my Sdcard using Mount USB (Still Working)
I tried the second command to install the FFF 1.4a:
adb shell
dd if=\......
And it says I/O error.
I thought I would reboot and live with 1.4 then, but when I reboot system in TWRP, the Kindle never came on again.
It was at 73% battery so there's no chance of a battery drain, but know when I press the power button, NOTHING, no green light, no backlight, it does NOTHING! When I was holding it, it was very very hot at the area around the power button, everywhere else it's cool. I hold it for 20 seconds, left it there and in the evening that area is cool again!
SO I doubt a hardware error, that separate the power button with the CPU,RAM,ROM to power it on or what--so--ever. But the Kindle was smooth until I tried to flash the 1.4a, and what was the problem with the "Read-Only SDCARD", even I can still Mount it to PC and Copy it over. What should I do, should I bring it to the Hardware Fixing Store? Or throw away my Kindle Fire!!!
Try wiping everything
Inviato dal mio Kindle Fire con Tapatalk 2
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1550999
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That's a factory cable isn't it? The problem is my Kindle won't power on, I'm doubting is hardware, will plugging in the factory cable turn on my device, now it's like a REAL BRICK, NOTHING!!!
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Yes that's a factory cable or try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
A factory cable will force your kindle to power on. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392693
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I hate to bother you like this, but even with no power button working and no backlight? I do think my case is rare, I mean it has to power on to do the commands right?I mean the Kindle is still hot while plug in and charge so I'm guessing it's energy problem? No offense so don't misunderstand this, but if the charger fails in powering on the Kindle Fire, why should the factory cable be a success? (Sorry my English is bad so it sounds offensive)
No offense taken but the factory cable acts as a short and puts your kindle in a state where you can fix the problem so keep reading on how to use this cable. you can also issue fast boot in kfu then power your device on after.
Thepooch said:
No offense taken but the factory cable acts as a short and puts your kindle in a state where you can fix the problem so keep reading on how to use this cable. you can also issue fast boot in kfu then power your device on after.
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I see now, I guess I will order the cable now! Anyway I was browsing the forum and I see a guy who has the similar problem to mine (which also helped by you!) here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1636107
So there is a problem of the Kindle leaving it can't power on and I'm not the only one that have it! What seems to be the cause and how to prevent this in the future for me and everyone else!
read my thread: bricked after installing fff1.4
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lovejoy777 said:
read my thread: bricked after installing fff1.4
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
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There were so many replies in that thread that blurry me, can you tell me how did you unbrick it??
PLEASE HELP!!!
Its not something you can explain in a few short sentences. You have to research it.
Make a usb stick that loads ubuntu, put fk at the root of it.
Take the back of your kindle off, short a certain point on the motherboard, plug your kindle into the computer and run the last command in the list for firekit.
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Make a usb stick that loads ubuntu, put fk at the root of it.
Take the back of your kindle off, short a certain point on the motherboard, plug your kindle into the computer and run the last command in the list for firekit.
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You make it sound SO easy. Where were you when Lovejoy777 needed help?
(BTW that's a joke, so don't get bent out of shape)
it turned out it was my pc that caused most of my upset. im still sorting it now. iv'e had to wipe my hard drive and start again. just updating ubuntu 11.10 (not upgrading to 12.04 as i think thats when the fun & games started)
next is sdk/adb/fastboot etc :-(
my only tip is read the top link from the first page from tom (and i mean read it) then follow it to the t (no short cuts) and your kindle will boot i'm sure
if you get stuck at a certain bit post back with some detail of where you are at in the process etc. and people will help
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
Simple scenario,
I received a kindle fire, immediately wanted root. Found kindle fire utility and ran. In the process of installing a twrp, kindle rebooted, and now will not get past Kindle Fire Splash screen. PC will not detect that a device is plugged in.
Any thoughts?
Lmcook91 said:
Simple scenario,
I received a kindle fire, immediately wanted root. Found kindle fire utility and ran. In the process of installing a twrp, kindle rebooted, and now will not get past Kindle Fire Splash screen. PC will not detect that a device is plugged in.
Any thoughts?
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I'm thinking that you just might be stuck in fastboot mode.
When you reboot, do you get different boot options at the bottom of your screen when the "Kindle Fire" splash screen shows up? If so, try scrolling through them to do a normal or recovery boot (you scroll with the power button, then stop when you get to option you want and let it boot). Hopefully, you can get to a good boot, so your KF can be detected by your PC again. But, then again, you might have successfully installed twrp and just failed on the reboot, so you might be fine.
What does the splash screen look like?
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TO BOTH:
There are no options at the bottom.. I assume they would be obvious..
The splash screen looks like the stock splash screen that looks like the normal boot.
Black background.. orangish letters saying Kindle Fire
Plug your kindle in, open kfu, ignore offline and boot status unknown, select 1 for changing bootmode, select normal, if it hangs<waiting for device> hold the power button down till the kindle turns off while connected, then power it back on it should reboot and correct the bootmode to normal.
Problem solved:
Do not use a USB 3.0 port. I guess that was prevent my PC from recognizing the device. I switched to 2.0 and PC picked it up right away. Off we go.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Lmcook91 said:
Problem solved:
Do not use a USB 3.0 port. I guess that was prevent my PC from recognizing the device. I switched to 2.0 and PC picked it up right away. Off we go.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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Correct a 3.0 usb port has issues. I have been able to get it to work but its quite dangerous when it come to flashing things like bootloaders.
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Here`s my guide that may be helpful http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923010
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
I did something very similar.
june726 said:
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
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I am having a similar issue like yours. Yesterday I tried downloading Jellybean onto my Kindle. I did all of the precautions, TWRP, KFU, etc.
And right as I thought I was done, boom, I get stuck in an infinite re boot. Every time it finally boots up it says android.process.phone for not even a full second and immediately reboots. I am not the smartest, but if someone could walk us through a way to restore our kindles or fix the problem. I would be most gracious! I am not sure what the ADB is as well. Is that what I am missing?
june726 said:
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
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Have you guys checked this out???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
lj50036 said:
Have you guys checked this out???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
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Yes, i've tried downloading that. But i can't seem to run it correctly. When i open it, it just opens a command promt and then closes immediately.
SDK
june726 said:
Yes, i've tried downloading that. But i can't seem to run it correctly. When i open it, it just opens a command promt and then closes immediately.
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OK well go get this for your PC make sure you get the one for your os....make sure you get the zip not the exe.... It will be like a 400 to 500 meg dowload....
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Controverly areadvia
lj50036 said:
OK well go get this for your PC make sure you get the one for your os....make sure you get the zip not the exe.... It will be like a 400 to 500 meg
I downloaded the sdk and i can now use adb. But, my problem now is that i cannot copy the fbmode to my kindle via adb. When i push it to a location, it says that my kindle is read only. So without the fbmode, i cannot boot into fastboot, cannot install fff and twrp and no os again. what should i do now?
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june726 said:
I downloaded the sdk and i can now use adb. But, my problem now is that i cannot copy the fbmode to my kindle via adb. When i push it to a location, it says that my kindle is read only. So without the fbmode, i cannot boot into fastboot, cannot install fff and twrp and no os again. what should i do now?
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Ok.. Well than lets see here.....When can you use adb??? I need as much info as possible... What file are you moving..... Where are you trying to move it to... Copy and paste your commands and outputs this will make it much easier for me and anyone else that would like to help....Thx lj
Phil700 said:
I am having a similar issue like yours. Yesterday I tried downloading Jellybean onto my Kindle. I did all of the precautions, TWRP, KFU, etc.
And right as I thought I was done, boom, I get stuck in an infinite re boot. Every time it finally boots up it says android.process.phone for not even a full second and immediately reboots. I am not the smartest, but if someone could walk us through a way to restore our kindles or fix the problem. I would be most gracious! I am not sure what the ADB is as well. Is that what I am missing?
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Well your problem is nowhere near the same as June's, but I'll go ahead and try to help your anyway. I've had this happen to me once or twice. My suggestion is to redownload your rom and gapps, and then try flagging them again. Hopefully that should work. There is an option in TWRP to mount your kindle on your computer.
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So far.
Guys, sorry I might not have explained the issue in enough detail. Although the information is full of things that are helpful. It didn't quite help me.
Sorry about having to deal with a compete noob here...
---I'll list my issues to isolate confusion.---
-I cannot boot ADB, I click on it, a cmd window pops up and then immediately closes each time I proceed to open it. for a start, if someone could perhaps tell me what I am doing wrong, because I know I must not be doing what all of you pros are doing.
-Although I had TWRP installed on both my pc and kindle. Whenever I boot up my kindle, I do not get the blue and gray "Kindle Fire" logo before the Orange and White logo. So that for me was very frustrating.
-The Kindle Fire Utility is not detecting my device at all. Which is worrying me to death, the Kindle Fire Unbrick utlity is not working either which is killing me inside.
-For a detailed description of what my kindle fire does when I press the power button goes as so: I press the power button, the orange and white Kindle Fire logo pops up for a few seconds like normal, then it proceeds to boot or "Attenpt" to boot the Jellybean OS, after waiting 5 minutes, the OS lock screen pops up with "android.phone.com" or "phone.android.com" pops up, for a second, then it proceeds to fully rebooting the OS for another 5 minutes. It does it indefinitely.
So does this mean my kindle is officially done for? Bricked? Or is there still hope for me. This is really depressing, I spent most of my money on this, money is tight for me right now ant I use my kindle for school and research. It is a vital tool to me. I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for all of the help so far. You guys really know what you are doing, thanks!
System deleted Need Help !!!! Please
Recently I tried to install android in my Kindle Fire HDX 7 and I install a thing called FireFireFire I think to my kindle then It messed up everything, so I don't know what to do and I wiped all my data and even the Option called SYSTEM. after that I reboot my Kindle and all I have is KINDLE FIRE on the screen that's it. I can't use my Kindle at all ,and the computer won't let me install the driver all it told me is MTP USB device.and I tired to use all kind of tool to fix my kindle and CMD told me Can't Find Device. I m really not good at android so I really need someone help me !!!
Happyy said:
Recently I tried to install android in my Kindle Fire HDX 7 and I install a thing called FireFireFire I think to my kindle then It messed up everything, so I don't know what to do and I wiped all my data and even the Option called SYSTEM. after that I reboot my Kindle and all I have is KINDLE FIRE on the screen that's it. I can't use my Kindle at all ,and the computer won't let me install the driver all it told me is MTP USB device.and I tired to use all kind of tool to fix my kindle and CMD told me Can't Find Device. I m really not good at android so I really need someone help me !!!
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Nothing here works for the HDX result=permabrick. All support for HDX is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hdx .
Phil700 said:
Guys, sorry I might not have explained the issue in enough detail. Although the information is full of things that are helpful. It didn't quite help me.
Sorry about having to deal with a compete noob here...
---I'll list my issues to isolate confusion.---
-I cannot boot ADB, I click on it, a cmd window pops up and then immediately closes each time I proceed to open it. for a start, if someone could perhaps tell me what I am doing wrong, because I know I must not be doing what all of you pros are doing.
-Although I had TWRP installed on both my pc and kindle. Whenever I boot up my kindle, I do not get the blue and gray "Kindle Fire" logo before the Orange and White logo. So that for me was very frustrating.
-The Kindle Fire Utility is not detecting my device at all. Which is worrying me to death, the Kindle Fire Unbrick utlity is not working either which is killing me inside.
-For a detailed description of what my kindle fire does when I press the power button goes as so: I press the power button, the orange and white Kindle Fire logo pops up for a few seconds like normal, then it proceeds to boot or "Attenpt" to boot the Jellybean OS, after waiting 5 minutes, the OS lock screen pops up with "android.phone.com" or "phone.android.com" pops up, for a second, then it proceeds to fully rebooting the OS for another 5 minutes. It does it indefinitely.
So does this mean my kindle is officially done for? Bricked? Or is there still hope for me. This is really depressing, I spent most of my money on this, money is tight for me right now ant I use my kindle for school and research. It is a vital tool to me. I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for all of the help so far. You guys really know what you are doing, thanks!
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Hey Phil. Doesn't look like you've posted anything else, so you probably won't see this. But oh well... Sorry your problem got left in the dust. I didn't mean for that to happen. You need to shift + right click in the folder with adb.exe and click "open command window here" and then you can do your things. As far as everything else: does your computer do anything when you plug your kindle into it?
I accidentally did this once (at least I think it's the same) and what I did was I went into ADB and side loaded a custom ROM I used CM