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I've looked around the forums and I am not finding instructions on how to unbrick a Kindle Fire that has ClockworkMod installed. I installed ClockworkMod and installed a late ICS build with kernel 3.0 and the Fire is stuck in an infinite boot loop with the Kindle Fire/Android mascot logo.
I can get into ClockworkMod but re-flashing with the CM9 that I have doesn't do anything to fix it.
I know that if I were able to put the stock Kindle firmware on that /sdcard volume I can fix this but how do I do this with ClockworkMod?
I've tried all the unbricking utils (even the Java front-end) and they act like they're fixing things but they all make no changes.
I do have the correct drivers and can send adb commands to fastboot, normal boot, recovery boot, so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing how to unbrick a Kindle that is using ClockworkMod.
Thanks in advance.
aegrotatio said:
I've looked around the forums and I am not finding instructions on how to unbrick a Kindle Fire that has ClockworkMod installed. I installed ClockworkMod and installed a late ICS build with kernel 3.0 and the Fire is stuck in an infinite boot loop with the Kindle Fire/Android mascot logo.
I can get into ClockworkMod but re-flashing with the CM9 that I have doesn't do anything to fix it.
I know that if I were able to put the stock Kindle firmware on that /sdcard volume I can fix this but how do I do this with ClockworkMod?
I've tried all the unbricking utils (even the Java front-end) and they act like they're fixing things but they all make no changes.
I do have the correct drivers and can send adb commands to fastboot, normal boot, recovery boot, so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing how to unbrick a Kindle that is using ClockworkMod.
Thanks in advance.
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When you say "infinite bootloop" do you mean the device turns on, shows the boot logo, then reboots?
If so... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
Also CWM will not work with the latest versions of ICS, you need to flash TWRP.
I recommend people copy both the Kindle standard image as well as the customized image to the /sdcard volume. That way if you're stuck with a bricked Kindle at least you can re-install the original Kindle image and get back to where you were before.
I ordered a factory cable to get it to boot into factory recovery mode, which I know works in all cases.
In the meantime I'm going to attempt to try the steps in that post.
After that I'll try to mount the original Kindle system image from a USB drive (using the USB boot feature of CWM) and then try to install it from there and then go back to TWRP or FireFireFire.
I've successfully used FireFireFire before, but using CWM bricked my Kindle hard. I'll update this thread when it's working again.
Thanks for the info.
Okay, I successfully unbricked it.
It wasn't so much a hard brick or a soft brick but more of a firm bricking.
I went into CWM and told it to mount the USB volume. The 5 gigabyte drive appeared on my computer and I formatted it.
I took the Amazon stock update and changed its file extension to zip.
I then copied it from the computer to the mounted volume.
I chose the zip for installation and then installed it from CWM.
After shutting down and rebooting a few times it worked.
I didn't even have to do any ADB tricks. This is because I had a working CWM boot image.
Now it's off to more hacking!!
I am having the same problem... how did you get into clockwork? it doesnt stay on long enough for me to connect it to the KFU
I did the same thing. You'll need to go into CWM and mount it as usb storage and then it will show up on your desktop as a disk drive. Format it from there to wipe out the crap that's hanging it up and then reinstall either your rom or stock amazon rom.
HaNNibalHector said:
I am having the same problem... how did you get into clockwork? it doesnt stay on long enough for me to connect it to the KFU
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I am int he same boat. How did you or can I get into Clockwork
I'm not very knowledgeable about CWM but I do have an idea. Try turning off kindle by holding down power button, plug kindle in to computer and turn it on. Open KFU, if it says that adb is online, then you have your fix. Just set the boot mode to recovery and you should boot right in to cwm.
I'm returning my kindle and I've restored the stock ROm but now I need to remove FireFireFire. Any help would be great!
cdsbj6508 said:
I'm returning my kindle and I've restored the stock ROm but now I need to remove FireFireFire. Any help would be great!
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Download the Kindle Fire software update from Amazon. It's a zip archive, so you can change the .bin to .zip and extract the contents. Among the contents are recovery.img and u-boot.bin. You'll need to fastboot flash both of them to their respective partitions.
For fastboot information...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668159
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747804&postcount=3
Last time I tried to root my Kindle Fire (1st Generation) TWRP's download failed. I think KFU's script puts the Kindle in fastboot before downloading TWRP or FFF. Is there another way to get TWRP, as KFU can't?
I don't use Windows, but looking at the KFU script, it seems as though it is supposed to download TWRP, rename it to twrp.img, and place it in a folder named "recovery".
So just create a folder named "recovery" and place it in your KFU folder, download TWRP from the TWRP website, rename it to twrp.img and run the script again to see if that works for you.
OK.
Before I try this again, does KFU download FireFireFire ok?
From what I've seen, it does.
I just used it today with no problems. The only problem I had was I also have an older version of KFU on and it doesn't work with 6.3. When I switched to the latest version and redid the drivers, FFF and TWRP went fine.
The present twrp download for KFU is 2.2.2.1 nothing has changed yet but that doesn`t mean that it wont soon. It appears that the new version has been fixed 2.3.1.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592681 .
Hi everyone,
I attempted, and succeeded, at installing a 2nd-Bootloader + TWRP using the complete guide found in these forums. Afterwards, I was able to boot into TWRP but the Kindle itself would not boot, just sat on the blue "fire" logo. I first tried to use the KFHD_SRT_v2.1 to recover, but that resulted in where I am now, just the standard orange Kindle Fire logo (no blue) and nothing beyond that. I then tried the Kindle Fire First Aid tool to perform a "full restore", which appeared to be successful, but again with the same result; it just sits on the standard Kindle Fire logo. I've let it sit, and waited, for upwards of half an hour after each tool, it won't budge.
At this point I can get into Fastboot using the command prompt: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
And the info does show up correctly. So I assume this means my device isn't complete shot?
After a few hours of poking around, I learned how to use various fastboot commands to push stuff into the Kindle, and it seems to respond. However, I can't, for the life of me find the stock Kindle partition files anywhere on the internet. If I understand correctly, I need the bootloader partition (.bin?), boot partition (.img), recovery partition (.img), and system (.img).
Help??
I don't recommend flashing the bootloader partition in this scenario, mainly because in doubt it is damaged and a bad bootloader flash can kill your kindle. What needs to be reflashed is usually recovery, system, and bootimg. Kffa downloads them off the net and stores them in a folder, SRT comes with them.
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stunts513 said:
I don't recommend flashing the bootloader partition in this scenario, mainly because in doubt it is damaged and a bad bootloader flash can kill your kindle. What needs to be reflashed is usually recovery, system, and bootimg. Kffa downloads them off the net and stores them in a folder, SRT comes with them.
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Thanks for the info stunts. I did try both SRT and KFFA, with the same negative result, but I did not know that kffa stores these images locally.
I went ahead and extracted the boot, recovery, and system images from kffa directories and manually flashed them in fastboot. And it worked!
Which still leaves the question as to why the tool itself didn't fix my issue when it had the resources to do so? strange, anyways thanks! :good:
I looked on all the other forums and found nothing...
ok so my friend's kindle got stuck in a bootloop somehow (i don't know how)
so they asked me to fix it since i have the fastboot cable...
it boots into fastboot perfectly so stupidly i wipe every partition without backing up
i tried to flash twrp via fastboot so now i'm stuck at the boot logo (non animated)
anyway i think what i need is system.img and boot.img i'm not sure though...
if anyone could upload those somewhere i could probably fix this thing...
EDIT: Nevermind I fixed it, extracted the system.img, boot.img, etc. from another kindle.