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[Q] Help! Stuck in Kindle Fire Recovery

I tried the unbricking guide on here but did not work. I could not get fastboot to work.
Here is the exact message I get on the screen:
'Your Kindle has detected a problem and must clear app storage. The recovery process will erase some applications and data from your device. Apps from the appstore are stored in the cloud and can be reinstalled later.
This will reset your kindle to its original factory settings. you will need to re-register your kindle prior to downloading items from your Amazon account.
Please press power button to proceed.'
After i press the power button I get a status bar indicating the restore, it then says success, then reboots and ultimately comes back to the same restore screen as noted above.
Any help is appreciated.

I have the same issue, I had just used one click to gain root access and was changing permissions to instal Vending.apk under /system/apps
A bit more information I've gathered:
* I can run adb push/shell before the Kindle Fire starts the recovery mode.
* BUT when I try to run a adb shell command I get the error
Code:
/system/bin/sh failed permission denied (13)
I've spent the best part of the day trying to find a solution to no avail. I had a good read through this post too.
I did find a couple of threads talking about a factory reset cable, I don't know if this would be any good?
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10591-kindle-fire-fastboot-without-idme/
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCpJbkGb7M&feature=player_embedded
PLEASE HELP

As soon as i get my factory cable and time I'll make a guide. But really all you need to do is flash the images from the 6.2 update via fastboot

Yeah I got to that point to where it doesn't just go into logo, but infinitely boots you into recovery mode. when you launch adb it even says its recovery mode and all the folders are hidden/missing.
Sigh, I fixed my kindle and got it working again then I broke it again by accidentally changing the entire system folder to chmod 644 haha.
Anyways so far I have found no fix around it so I just returned it and got a new one. live and learn I guess.

What did you do exactly to put it in a boot-loop? I did this once before by tampering with some system files, but i was able to push the regular one's back using adb.

I made a factory cable and managed to get fastboot working to flash over a new system image.
Does anyone have a system.img file for the Kindle Fire?
OR know another way to bring up a shell via fastboot?
I might just wait till next week and see what the status is then on the CM7 ROM.

I really need to get me one of those factory cables :S but they are sold out on black hat at the moment.

hey dk560 or JandD
how was u able to get ur kindle work again? where u get the recovery files or original files? my kindle stucks in flashin kindle fire screen over and over..
i try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356257
everything worked fine...but at the and had the same problem..i have normal acces with adb and all to the devide but iam not experienced...how i get the original files back to the kindle? Or any help what i can try? i stuck....
plz any suggestions...thx!!

I dunno. But I think I may have the same issue. Got brick while doing wallpaper n now my fire stuck at fastboot and window cannot detect n fastboot nv finish the run always in waiting for device. Does this mean the doom for my 3 dar old kindle fire?

finally i solved it!!
IF YOU THINK MODIFYING PERMISSIONS ON /system/app IS WHAT CAUSED YOU TO BOOTLOOP THEN FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356257
thats what was my problem...it worked for me..after tmp root then this steps..and finally kindle was out of bootloop...thanks!!

I have follow that link, but my kindle now seem to be in fastboot n window detect kindle fire as unknown device. In cmd, device cannot be found, and fastboot rerun say waiting for device but nv work, I try, really wanna resolve the mess I created. I try to read n understand how to resolve but my current issue wasn't mention.

I'm still stuck with a screwed /system partition on the Kindle Fire.
I tried Calvin's instructions on installing CM7. I couldn't adb push the update.zip to the sdcard as my system folder was corrupted. I did manage to flash the Clockwork program via flashing updaterecovery.img
I got excited when adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip copied over, however following Calvin's instructions for Clockwork gave me a failed to mount /sdcard error. I'm guessing the clockwork mount points are virtual mount points of some kind and not the physical device
Still seeking a system.img for the Kindle Fire. I'll give it a try building one myself I guess.
UPDATE:
This post helped on building a system.img - foiled by remote data too large problem
If a rooted kindle fire user could install mkyaffs2image and grab the system.img file for me I'd be very grateful!
"mkyaffs2image /system/ /sdcard/system.img

factory cable
I think your likely in the same boat as me - though for another reason. I can't get a shell from adb and have screwed up r/w access to /system files trying to change permissions with File Expert in order to get android market to work. Seems to be one of a couple of common themes. Anyway, as far as I can tell I'm going to have to get (or just make) a factory cable in order to throw it into fastboot so that I can boot from usb. If you'll read this entire thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20017371#post20017371 then you may get a better idea of what you're dealing with. JackpotClavin has so graciously donated his time and skills. You'll have to be patient for complete instructions but I think they'll be forthcoming soon. Me, I'm going to go ahead with the cable as there's not much else I can do without shell methinks. If I get something workable first, I'll post for all.

kfuller said:
I think your likely in the same boat as me - though for another reason. I can't get a shell from adb and have screwed up r/w access to /system files trying to change permissions with File Expert in order to get android market to work. Seems to be one of a couple of common themes. Anyway, as far as I can tell I'm going to have to get (or just make) a factory cable in order to throw it into fastboot so that I can boot from usb. If you'll read this entire thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20017371#post20017371 then you may get a better idea of what you're dealing with. JackpotClavin has so graciously donated his time and skills. You'll have to be patient for complete instructions but I think they'll be forthcoming soon. Me, I'm going to go ahead with the cable as there's not much else I can do without shell methinks. If I get something workable first, I'll post for all.
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I have the same problem. I did the same thing you did, right after I did it I realized what I had done I had an epic face palm moment. Ill try to make a factory cable from this http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html -- after I'm in fastboot I have no idea what to do. Looking foward to JackpotClavin's guide. Thanks JackpotClavin!

I came across this and couldn't find a solution to my issue. All issues seem to be different, but in my case I could have my device recognized in the Kindle Fire Utility, and it noted that I was in recovery mode. Trying to change one of the boot modes caused it to just hang at the activation screen.
While it's hanging if you just try to cancel the operation, CTRL+C, it will suddenly decide it wants to work, and then you just tell it not to stop. Then you're back in normal boot mode and business as usual.
Just thought I'd share since this was about the only thing that showed up from a series of google searches involving the words recovery loop, lol.

every time i load a rom in recovery (i do all wipes) it always boots back into recovery

Upstreammiami said:
every time i load a rom in recovery (i do all wipes) it always boots back into recovery
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428

im having trouble on getting my kindle off from the boot loop and ive read ur thread, but i cant seem to get in to fastboot nor cant i mount my kindel from TWRP so i could inject files to the SD CARD. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME????

Zenroy said:
I have the same problem. I did the same thing you did, right after I did it I realized what I had done I had an epic face palm moment. Ill try to make a factory cable from this http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html -- after I'm in fastboot I have no idea what to do. Looking foward to JackpotClavin's guide. Thanks JackpotClavin!
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emccalment said:
I came across this and couldn't find a solution to my issue. All issues seem to be different, but in my case I could have my device recognized in the Kindle Fire Utility, and it noted that I was in recovery mode. Trying to change one of the boot modes caused it to just hang at the activation screen.
While it's hanging if you just try to cancel the operation, CTRL+C, it will suddenly decide it wants to work, and then you just tell it not to stop. Then you're back in normal boot mode and business as usual.
Just thought I'd share since this was about the only thing that showed up from a series of google searches involving the words recovery loop, lol.
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Dj Skama said:
im having trouble on getting my kindle off from the boot loop and ive read ur thread, but i cant seem to get in to fastboot nor cant i mount my kindel from TWRP so i could inject files to the SD CARD. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME????
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As b63 linked you, download that utility, and then do this:
-Turn your kindle off by holding the power button down for at most 20 seconds.
-Plug kindle into your computer
-Run the unbrick utility
-Turn kindle on
-Wait for the Caution Sign with the fire logo (firefirefire logo)
-Choose first option on utility (Recovery Loop)
-Wait... (a max of 10 minutes)
This should work, if not, try to turn off your kindle on and off, and then try again.
This should work regardless if your device was found or not. This sounds like the problem I had. I wish you guys the best of luck.

emccalment said:
While it's hanging if you just try to cancel the operation, CTRL+C, it will suddenly decide it wants to work, and then you just tell it not to stop. Then you're back in normal boot mode and business as usual.
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This saved me. 2 Keystrokes...amazing

[Q] How do I know if my Kindle is bricked?

So I used to have my KF running CM7, but I wanted to go back to stock because I missed it, so I just did what I usually do, download the stock firmware, rename it to update.zip, opened up TWRP, mounted my device, copied the update.zip over and flashed it. Now whenever it turns on I get a static Kindle Fire logo, I hear the USB sound when I plug it in, I have installed the ADB drivers, and I have everything set up, I am trying to put it into fastboot, but I keep on getting "Waiting For Device". I've tried using the KF utility to no avail, and TWRP no longer shows up on boot. I'm guessing FireFireFire is gone, and, well. I have no idea what to do. Can anyone help? Thanks

You'll need to either crack open the case and do the USB short trick, or get a factory cable (easier and most recommended) to force the KF into fastboot mode.
You need to wipe cache, dalvik-cache and factory reset before flashing stock update.zip. Also, flashing stock update.zip will get rid of both TWRP and FFF, as you have already noticed.
Have a read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
And here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25730666&postcount=2, under "Reverting to stock software".
EDIT: Once (if) you do get your hands on a factory cable, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28051740&postcount=8

Dasanko said:
You'll need to either crack open the case and do the USB short trick, or get a factory cable (easier and most recommended) to force the KF into fastboot mode.
You need to wipe cache, dalvik-cache and factory reset before flashing stock update.zip. Also, flashing stock update.zip will get rid of both TWRP and FFF, as you have already noticed.
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Thanks! How will I wipe those if I literally have no interface? And where can I get hold of one of these cables? Thanks dude

You can find factory cables on amazon, ebay, etc...
There's a XDA member selling them as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731821

use pokey's firekit as described above you have to crack it open but this will work if you follow the instructions carefully.
i haven't heard of a hard bricked kindle except the emmc chip bug brick. (which if you were on twrp you will not have) so i would say you should be able to bring it back
i have personally used the firekit and rekindle lot's of times (trying to get out of mmc brick before we knew what it was) and it is a piece of magic.

Kindle Fire stuck on boot triangles

I was told to post this here:
The Problem:
I tried to take the crappy amazon software that only works in the US off this kindle fire, Installed JandyKane and Gapps with no problems (i cleared dalvik cache, regular cache, and factory reset) Also installed Clockwork Recovery (which i read somewhere that might have been the problem).
(note: I used the KF utility)
Now when i turn the device on, it shows the Kindle fire logo for a second or two, then a bunch of triangles float on the screen forever and nothing happens.
Ive tried a few unbrick utilities but it keeps saying it cant find the device. Im having troubles booting into recovery mode. (the utility says device not found)
This isnt even my Kindle Fire and its causing me so many problems >.>

Justos said:
I was told to post this here:
The Problem:
I tried to take the crappy amazon software that only works in the US off this kindle fire, Installed JandyKane and Gapps with no problems (i cleared dalvik cache, regular cache, and factory reset) Also installed Clockwork Recovery (which i read somewhere that might have been the problem).
(note: I used the KF utility)
Now when i turn the device on, it shows the Kindle fire logo for a second or two, then a bunch of triangles float on the screen forever and nothing happens.
Ive tried a few unbrick utilities but it keeps saying it cant find the device. Im having troubles booting into recovery mode. (the utility says device not found)
This isnt even my Kindle Fire and its causing me so many problems >.>
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Is this what you're refering to when you say you see floating triangles?
http://androidbootanimation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/nexus-7-bootanimation.jpg
If so, That is the jandycane/Jellybean Boot animation. On first boot that could take a few minutes before it finishes. It does, however, sound like you are having other problems... have you tried contacting the kindle using fastboot?
Also, I would highly suggest flashing TWRP (team win recovery project) rather than CWM on the Kindle Fire, on most devices I would recommend CWM but on this one it doesn't work as well and leads to problems >>
I also assume that you flashed firefirefire because you said you saw the kindlefire logo before it went to the triangles so you should be fine on that front.

nschiwy said:
Is this what you're refering to when you say you see floating triangles?
If so, That is the jandycane/Jellybean Boot animation. On first boot that could take a few minutes before it finishes. It does, however, sound like you are having other problems... have you tried contacting the kindle using fastboot?
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Yes thats it! Im going to leave it on for about 5-15 minutes and see what happens. il let you know
I have tried to boot into fastboot mode with the utility and it says cannot find the file specified.
btw: i dont think i installed firefirefire...
EDIT: Yep, after letting the animation run for 10 minutes still nothing.
Im going to try using TWRP now. Il let you know if it helped.
EDIT2: Nope im getting random errors in the command prompt. Is it 100% necessary to use this program?

Justos said:
Yes thats it! Im going to leave it on for about 5-15 minutes and see what happens. il let you know
I have tried to boot into fastboot mode with the utility and it says cannot find the file specified.
btw: i dont think i installed firefirefire...
EDIT: Yep, after letting the animation run for 10 minutes still nothing.
Im going to try using TWRP now. Il let you know if it helped.
EDIT2: Nope im getting random errors in the command prompt. Is it 100% necessary to use this program?
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If you're talking about KFU, then no. It is not 100% necessary, It is just designed to make it easier for users so they don't have to use command prompt on their own. I am uploading KindleADB from the burrito root method to help us with what you need to do. I will post a link here when it is finished uploading. Do you know how to use command prompt/adb at all?
KindleADB.zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?1fb30q3wqf95b3i
download this file and unzip and then place it on the root directory of your C:/ Drive (this is not completely necessary, it is just for convenience)
Then try seeing if your device shows up in adb by typing in:
Code:
cd /
cd kindleadb
adb devices
OR
Code:
cd /
cd kindleadb
fastboot getvar product
Either way you want it to show either a series of numbers or say something like amazon kindle or something to that degree, if it is blank or does not leave the <waiting for device> status then we will need to go in another direction. My suggestion for fastboot would be to turn the kindle completely off and then do those commands and then plug in your kindle when it says <waiting for device>... get back to me on your results and we can go from there

Did both of them. On the first part it says
List of Devices attached: (nothing shows up)
second time i did exactly what you said. it was waiting for device before i turned the kindle on, nothing happened.
EDIT: Okay I tried using the utility again, whenever i try to fastboot or boot into recovery it gives me this error
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The kindle has been told to reboot in Fastboot Mode.
Press any key to continue . . .

I'm having the same issue here.
The triangles keep turning and nothing happens.
In the KFU the devices keep showing OFFLINE and Boot Status UNKNOW.
The cd /
cd kindleadb
adb devices
don't show the device and
cd /
cd kindleadb
fastboot getvar product
show waiting for device
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I dunno what i've done, but im KFU appears Online in normal boot (4000), but the options don't work anymore.

Justos said:
Did both of them. On the first part it says
List of Devices attached: (nothing shows up)
second time i did exactly what you said. it was waiting for device before i turned the kindle on, nothing happened.
EDIT: Okay I tried using the utility again, whenever i try to fastboot or boot into recovery it gives me this error
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The kindle has been told to reboot in Fastboot Mode.
Press any key to continue . . .
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As long as you have CWM instead of TWRP, you're just wasting your time trying to install Jelly Bean. Install TWRP and try again.

same problem
I have the same exact problem with my fire, it happened two days ago but i hadn't seen anyone else with the problem. I couldn't fix it so i ordered a factory cable on ebay, I'm waiting on that now...

no fff? how about just booting to recovery and flashing a new rom after a full wipe or restoring a backup or have the normal ways of doing things just become obsolete lol I mean so you cant flash isc or jelly bean mount your sd card in recovery transfer one of a few different cm7 roms which will flash right on cwmr and your golden ...

Thepooch said:
no fff? how about just booting to recovery and flashing a new rom after a full wipe or restoring a backup or have the normal ways of doing things just become obsolete lol I mean so you cant flash isc or jelly bean mount your sd card in recovery transfer one of a few different cm7 roms which will flash right on cwmr and your golden ...
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I'm trying to but, but when I try to enter in recovery mode, i get this:
The system cannot find the drive specified.
Failed to Copy 'files\rcmode' to 'data/local/rcmode' : permission denied
unable do chmode /data/local/rcmode: no such file or directory
/system/bin/sh: data/local/rcmode: not found

recovery?
Reinaque said:
I'm trying to but, but when I try to enter in recovery mode, i get this:
The system cannot find the drive specified.
Failed to Copy 'files\rcmode' to 'data/local/rcmode' : permission denied
unable do chmode /data/local/rcmode: no such file or directory
/system/bin/sh: data/local/rcmode: not found
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i'm seeing that too when i try to change it to recovery on KFU, but now its actually showing adb online and boot status 4000 as oppposed to when it said offline and unknown for me

What are all the ways to boot into recovery mode? It wont do it with the KFU.
I understand what I need to do now, Factory reset, then install TWRP, then firefirefire, then flash the rom and Gapps?
How am i supposed to do this if i cant get into recovery mode?

Justos said:
What are all the ways to boot into recovery mode? It wont do it with the KFU.
I understand what I need to do now, Factory reset, then install TWRP, then firefirefire, then flash the rom and Gapps?
How am i supposed to do this if i cant get into recovery mode?
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First I would try using the kindle unbrick utility:
I couldn't find the thread for this so I just have it uploaded to my mediafire account: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6kxjs8kbmgn8h3l
I also found this Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility, it might actually be a newer version of the one I provided above with a Graphic UI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
If that doesn't work I would suggest trying a linux environment to contact your device, as Android is linux based and therefore can communicate with a linux machine better than a windows machine. (plus drivers are always a giant mess in windows)
Use this guide to make a portable linux box to try to save your kindle:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1670405
If all else fails, you're probably going to need a factory cable to get your Kindle back up and running:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20380015&postcount=9
Once you have this you can run commands from linux very easily to unbrick your kindle. If you need help with this feel free to PM me.

Cant mount SD card on kindle fire.

So I was messing with my kindle and it was trying to upgrade it to jelly bean and i guess i missed one of the steps and bricked it. I was going through the process of unbricking but when i was trying to do extract the update.zip folder it would not allow me to because it could not mount the SD card. All i need to figure out how to do is get the SD slot mounted. I am slowly picking up on command prompt and still trying to figure out adb shell but that is all i need help with.
I can unbrick it if someone knows how i can get my kindle to mount back to my computer!
Any advice or step by step for it would be very helpful, Thanks guys

Could you be more specific as to how your Kindle is "bricked"?

soupmagnet said:
Could you be more specific as to how your Kindle is "bricked"?
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I can only get to CWM. It does nothing but boot loop and does not go any farther then that. I can plug it into the computer and get the drivers connected and KFU can recognize it. when i put it in cwm this is the first thing i see

Forgive my redundancy but please describe the "boot loop". Does it just sit at the Kindle Fire logo? Does the Kindle Fire logo flash, or change brightness? Does it make it to the boot animation? Black screen?

soupmagnet said:
Forgive my redundancy but please describe the "boot loop". Does it just sit at the Kindle Fire logo? Does the Kindle Fire logo flash, or change brightness? Does it make it to the boot animation? Black screen?
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It will go to the kindle fire logo and then it would go to a black screen. It makes no boot animation. It will change some brightness. The words kindle fire are in white and blue. It flashes where is needs to do the boot animation and then just goes to a black screen

dontgoback4cody said:
I can only get to CWM. It does nothing but boot loop and does not go any farther then that. I can plug it into the computer and get the drivers connected and KFU can recognize it. when i put it in cwm this is the first thing i see
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The image shows a very low battery. The behavior you describe suggests a low battery. You're in a boot loop caused by no power.
Let it sit for several hours (better...over night).
Edit:...ie. let it sit with your charger attached.....
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dontgoback4cody said:
I can only get to CWM. It does nothing but boot loop and does not go any farther then that. I can plug it into the computer and get the drivers connected and KFU can recognize it. when i put it in cwm this is the first thing i see
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It might be a good idea to consider installing TWRP rather than using CWM. CWM is known to have problems with some newer ROMs.

acii22 said:
The image shows a very low battery. The behavior you describe suggests a low battery. You're in a boot loop caused by no power.
Let it sit for several hours (better...over night).
Edit:...ie. let it sit with your charger attached.....
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It might be a good idea to consider installing TWRP rather than using CWM. CWM is known to have problems with some newer ROMs.
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I have tried to install it from KFU but it is always has a problem doing so. I let it charge over night and it is still doing the same thing. Here is what is says when i try to install twrp

Replace the TWRP.img that comes with KFU, with the ACTUAL one from the TWRP website.

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Replace the TWRP.img that comes with KFU, with the ACTUAL one from the TWRP website.
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Ok i did that but it still will not let me connect the kindle to the computer it keeps giving me sdcard errors. any idea how to fix the sd card issue?

Hey were u able to fix it??
Had the same problem with mine when I used TWRP to format my SD card..but was able to solve it..
What I did was a very simple thing..got the kindle recognised as a drive..used windows partition manager to format it
It worked.. I tx the stock and installed it
Try it and let me know
Sent from my MB526 using Tapatalk 2

I had the same problem before and only had to reboot the kindle.

Nothing is working. i have given up all hope. Like this is crazy. It is screwed up for good. I cant get it to mount. If anyone wants to take a shot at it just shoot me a pm with an address and we can discuss something about trying to fix it or what the hell i did to it. Its crazy! and really messed up.

dontgoback4cody said:
Nothing is working. i have given up all hope. Like this is crazy. It is screwed up for good. I cant get it to mount. If anyone wants to take a shot at it just shoot me a pm with an address and we can discuss something about trying to fix it or what the hell i did to it. Its crazy! and really messed up.
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I have an Idea. If you have fastboot working on your computer. You could try flashing a rom from your computer by typing
fastboot -w(wipes device)
fastboot update <path to rom> (flashes rom)
If it works, you can then fix the sdcard easier with adb/shell/partition manager. Its worth a shot.
I also found this on a website
ROM update without SDcard
If you don't have an sd card, or your slot is broken you can try this trick, but you will need a custom recovery like Clockwork.
Boot up your phone to recovery. And move your rom file to the adb directory, and start a command line ( cmd )
adb shell
mount data
adb push D:\custom_rom.zip /data/
Wait until the push finised, and restart your device to recovery again with "adb reboot-bootloader"
mount data
mount /data /sdcard ( mount the data folder into your sdcard folder, so your recovery will think that you have an sdcard installed )
Locate the ROM .Zip file you wish to flash.
Confirm the flash by following the on-screen instructions (ie: pressing the trackball, pressing the call button, etc.)
If no errors arise during the flashing process then the ROM flash was successful, Reboot the device.
With some root file explorer, remove the rom file if you don't need it anymore, to free up space.
Or use adb to remove the custom recovery
adb shell rm data/custom_rom.zip

I will give it a shot. Only thing is i dont think there is even any software on here. when i try to get it into fastboot mode here is what it says.

Then you need a factory cable to get into fastboot.

dontgoback4cody said:
I will give it a shot. Only thing is i dont think there is even any software on here. when i try to get it into fastboot mode here is what it says.
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Hey i had the same exact problem and i had posted what i did to recover it.. did you try..
I know it sounds too simple.. but it worked for me
sometimes its the way you have formatted ur sd card

kishorev said:
Hey i had the same exact problem and i had posted what i did to recover it.. did you try..
I know it sounds too simple.. but it worked for me
sometimes its the way you have formatted ur sd card
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When you see the error message:
Code:
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)
It means you don't have access to the shell in order to switch bootmodes and access recovery, which is needed to fix this type of problem. The only way to change bootmodes without access to the shell, is in fastboot. Unfortunately, you need access to the shell to change the bootmode to fastboot as well...catch-22.
For this, you need a factory cable. The factory cable will tell the device to boot into fastboot without the need for a shell. Even with a factory cable, and access to recovery, you'll still likely need to either reformat, or repartition your sdcard in order to get it to mount.

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When you see the error message:
Code:
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)
It means you don't have access to the shell in order to switch bootmodes and access recovery, which is needed to fix this type of problem. The only way to change bootmodes without access to the shell, is in fastboot. Unfortunately, you need access to the shell to change the bootmode to fastboot as well...catch-22.
For this, you need a factory cable. The factory cable will tell the device to boot into fastboot without the need for a shell. Even with a factory cable, and access to recovery, you'll still likely need to either reformat, or repartition your sdcard in order to get it to mount.
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You are right..
But i too was had the same msg when i was trying to fastboot it.. but then it worked.. I had formatted it and then tx the stock rom and flashed it..
Probably i missing something here..
Anyways thnx

Can't mount SD card on kindle fire
I was in a similar situation and after reading the various forums i came across this action "hold down the power button until the kindle goes off and continue to hold for about 30 seconds I believe this resets the kindle and then tick debugging and mount usb storage the sdcard will open on your pc" and then you can go from there. Worked for me so good luck.

[Help] Reviving a dead KF

I have a KF1 I had bought off ebay to try to repair so I know I was pretty much throwing money away but it was a rather cheap buy so I went ahead and bought it. The condition was stated "Freezes" but overall physical appearance was near mint.
On receiving the KF it would not power up, no power light, no logo, no nothing. So I plugged it in let it charge for a while. Still no light or any response from hitting or holding the power button. So I thought maybe it has a bad usb connection/battery. Took it apart and got my Multimeter out and measured voltage at the battery. 3.7V while plugged in. Took the battery out and measured voltage at the charge port solder connections, can't remember what the reading was (3.7 - 4.1 ?) but I knew the port was undamaged anyway. Pulled out my factory cable and plugged it into my computer. Still nothing. No signs of life at all.
At this point I went and did some research and found the "Firekit LiveUSB kit 1.1" followed instructions and after several attempts finally got it to boot into recovery by shorting usb bootmode trick and using the "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" script. However I could not do much else. It would not mount anything. No sdcard, no cache, no system, no nothing.
I did some more research and found the How To thread for fixing failure to mount xxxxx. Followed those steps but nothing worked. when trying to run parted on /dev/block/mmcblk0 it would always say "unable to stat device" or something like that. I could not do much with the recovery that was loaded with the firekit either so I thought I would download the newest recovery and try that with the "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" script. Once I got a newer recovery up I could use the file manager and look inside /dev/block/. There was no mmcblk0 in there at all. all that was there was a bunch of "loop" files and "ram" files. nothing else.
I did some more research and found the EMMC curruption fix by Hashcode. Tried running that several times but would always have problems using the mmc_utils. It would always hang. I thought I would try anyway to leave the mmc_utils vendor 0 and vendor 4 commands running for 5 minutes each and continue with the next steps. Moving from the next steps in that forum I was not able to get into recovery. it would always stay at the TWRP splash screen (although ADB commands would still work).
At this point I was ready to give up. I shut everything down pulled the battery out and was looking to see if I could find any info on the motherboard. When I put the battery back in it booted up the kindle and got stuck in a bootloop of the Yellow triangle (FFF) then kindle logo. Before this I always had to do the usb boot shorting method to get it to boot, so at least I'm getting somewhere. I then used fastboot commands to perform oem format and flash the xloader, fff1.4a bootloader, and recovery. succeeded on all of those so I thought I had got it working. Rebooted device and it would get to the FFF1.4a blue kindle logo, I could then hit the power button and select recovery. Unfortunately it would just sit there and not do anything.
I rebooted the device and did the fastboot command to boot the recovery image. Stuck at TWRP splash just like before. Rebooted device again and this time used fastboot commands to flash recovery followed by boot the same recovery image I just used to flash the recovery. Success! was able to get into TWRP. But I'm still stuck! lol. Can't do anything with it since it cannot mount any partition. mmcblk0 or any other partition does not exist in /dev/block/. Can't even mount the sdcard yet somehow adb push xxx /sdcard works and I can view sdcard inside the file manager in recovery. Can't wipe anything, can't install anything. Always get errors. I was able to copy recovery log to sd card from the advanced menu and pull it to my computer with adb pull.
So as to the reason I'm posting this. What now? lol. I'm at a loss for what to do.

Since you apparently have access to fastboot and can flash new bootloader and recovery images, try flashing these as well and see if it makes any difference...
http://www.adrive.com/public/fAJGAH/KF1.system.boot.PAC.zip

soupmagnet said:
Since you apparently have access to fastboot and can flash new bootloader and recovery images, try flashing these as well and see if it makes any difference...
http://www.adrive.com/public/fAJGAH/KF1.system.boot.PAC.zip
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No luck. farthest I can get is booting into recovery after I do the fastboot commands:
fastboot flash recovery twrp2610.img
fastboot boot twrp2610.img
note: I have to flash recovery before being able to use the boot command, otherwise it stays at the TWRP splash and goes no further.
flashing the boot and system images report success although for some reason both boot and system images write in 1.23s exactly each and say OKAY. I cannot issue any reboot commands through fastboot, they all cause the kindle to reboot with no display. Have to hard reset to get back to the bootloader. Cannot boot the kernel either using fastboot (boot.img you gave me).
I'm not much of a Linux person at all, but is there some commands I can try to get a detail on all the hardware devices detected? Seems weird that it always fails to mount everything as well as not detecting any partitions or emmc.

Jeffjb said:
No luck. farthest I can get is booting into recovery after I do the fastboot commands:
fastboot flash recovery twrp2610.img
fastboot boot twrp2610.img
note: I have to flash recovery before being able to use the boot command, otherwise it stays at the TWRP splash and goes no further.
flashing the boot and system images report success although for some reason both boot and system images write in 1.23s exactly each and say OKAY. I cannot issue any reboot commands through fastboot, they all cause the kindle to reboot with no display. Have to hard reset to get back to the bootloader. Cannot boot the kernel either using fastboot (boot.img you gave me).
I'm not much of a Linux person at all, but is there some commands I can try to get a detail on all the hardware devices detected? Seems weird that it always fails to mount everything as well as not detecting any partitions or emmc.
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There is one option that I know of. A user in the KF2 forums was able to mount the eMMC to his Linux computer, but it's slightly more advanced than entering a few commands in the terminal. If no one else chimes in with the appropriate amount of knowledge, it may be your only option.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391047
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44873922
The motherboard is the same on both the KF1 and KF2 so the instructions for setting it up would be the same as well. Once mounted, you may have to repartition/reformat the device accordingly.

soupmagnet said:
There is one option that I know of. A user in the KF2 forums was able to mount the eMMC to his Linux computer, but it's slightly more advanced than entering a few commands in the terminal. If no one else chimes in with the appropriate amount of knowledge, it may be your only option.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391047
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44873922
The motherboard is the same on both the KF1 and KF2 so the instructions for setting it up would be the same as well. Once mounted, you may have to repartition/reformat the device accordingly.
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I have been following those threads closely for a while; will try that method once I get more practice soldering lol. I appreciate all the help.

As an update I ran the command : dmesg | grep mmc0
message returned was: mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card
I guess that means its dead? Anyone else see something like that?