Ok guys I'm going to try and give you as much detail as possible in the hopes that you can help me fix my Kindle Fire.
I originally rooted my kindle; it started acting funny about 6-8 months later and I tried a factory reset(this morning).
Now:
Kindle is stuck in FFF loading mode; it doesn't reset or turn on or off or anything like that it just hangs there.
Kindle is unrecognizable by windows, KFU, and Kindle Unbrick Utility.
Kindle also does not have access to the recovery menu I only have a FFF screen.
Any and all help is appreciated! PS I searched and searched and searched for someone with a similar situation to mine and did not find a fix. Also I read some of the stickies.
agrier9 said:
Ok guys I'm going to try and give you as much detail as possible in the hopes that you can help me fix my Kindle Fire.
I originally rooted my kindle; it started acting funny about 6-8 months later and I tried a factory reset(this morning).
Now:
Kindle is stuck in FFF loading mode; it doesn't reset or turn on or off or anything like that it just hangs there.
Kindle is unrecognizable by windows, KFU, and Kindle Unbrick Utility.
Kindle also does not have access to the recovery menu I only have a FFF screen.
Any and all help is appreciated! PS I searched and searched and searched for someone with a similar situation to mine and did not find a fix. Also I read some of the stickies.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're looking for an all encompassing solution to your problem instead of identifying what causes each symptom.
Try to find an answer to...
What does it mean when the KF is stuck at the FFF screen?
What would cause the KF to be unrecognizable by Windows?
What would keep you from having access to recovery if you have FFF installed?
Answer those questions and your problem is easy to fix.
You should start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567
soupmagnet said:
You're looking for an all encompassing solution to your problem instead of identifying what causes each symptom.
Try to find an answer to...
What does it mean when the KF is stuck at the FFF screen?
What would cause the KF to be unrecognizable by Windows?
What would keep you from having access to recovery if you have FFF installed?
Answer those questions and your problem is easy to fix.
You should start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I found an easier solution chow!
Related
I'm afraid I might have bricked my KF
It's stuck on the bootscreen...
I used KFU and installed CWR
Using CWR I followed the install instructions for installing cm-7.2.0-RC0-blaze-KANG-20120308
After that I choose reboot into fastboot, and now it's stuck on the boot screen.
KFU doesn't see the KF anymore, and when I hold the powerbutton to boot into recovery it doesn't, it just turns off after a while...
I've browsed several threads (and might be missing something obvious, if so I sincerely apologize in advance, but I'm really lost now).
muppetmaster said:
I've browsed several threads (and might be missing something obvious, if so I sincerely apologize in advance, but I'm really lost now).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As ususal, I found the answer after posting *facepalm*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24682516&postcount=3
Use the utility and set it to boot normal with the kindle off, them it'll say waiting for device, connect the kindle turn it on and voila.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry for bothering you all, and I hope this helps someone in the future
Hello All,
A friend of mine has possibly bricked his KF - but I'm not entirely sure, as he can't adequately describe to me what he did to it (or point me to th instructions he was following). I'm trying to get it running for him again, but honestly, while I have a rooted KF running hashcode's kernal, I simply followed instructions correctly (ie: I don't have actual knowledge of the inner workings).
Here's the deal with his KF:
- Powers on, and sticks at the "kindle fire" screen ("kindle" in white, "fire" in orange)
- I can see the KF when I use the devices command from adb
I'm running the current release of ubuntu - so KFU is not an option. Please advise if you have thoughts on how I can begin to resolve this issue. And I do apologize if this has been covered, as I'm sure it has, but most posts involving restoring fuctionality seem to be using KFU/windows.
Sent you a pm I can help
Thepooch said:
Sent you a pm I can help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for helping buddy - I'll let you know when dude gets the factory cable.
celticGreen said:
Hello All,
A friend of mine has possibly bricked his KF - but I'm not entirely sure, as he can't adequately describe to me what he did to it (or point me to th instructions he was following). I'm trying to get it running for him again, but honestly, while I have a rooted KF running hashcode's kernal, I simply followed instructions correctly (ie: I don't have actual knowledge of the inner workings).
Here's the deal with his KF:
- Powers on, and sticks at the "kindle fire" screen ("kindle" in white, "fire" in orange)
- I can see the KF when I use the devices command from adb
I'm running the current release of ubuntu - so KFU is not an option. Please advise if you have thoughts on how I can begin to resolve this issue. And I do apologize if this has been covered, as I'm sure it has, but most posts involving restoring fuctionality seem to be using KFU/windows.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My girlfriends KF has done this several times. Have you tried a reset? If not, hold the power button down for 20 seconds, then wait about a minute. If the KF does not boot up automatically then turn it on yourself. hopefully after the reset it will boot up correctly. If not, maybe you will have to wait for the factory cable.
Built a factory cable, and sure enough TWRP booted up just fine. Going to revert this thing to stock and be done with it...
Hi Guys,
I've been rooting android devices for a while now, and this is the first time I've had to post up a question like this... Can't seem to get the Kindle Fire 8.9 to power on. Tried holding power down for over a minute, not dice. 20 seconds, no dice.... I've done a search and can't seem to find anyone else with a 8.9 in this situation. I reached out to SkOrPn and he mentioned for the 8.9 there is NO factory cable to push into fastboot.
Hopefully someone can shed some light?
Thanks.
mcgrathpatj said:
Hi Guys,
I've been rooting android devices for a while now, and this is the first time I've had to post up a question like this... Can't seem to get the Kindle Fire 8.9 to power on. Tried holding power down for over a minute, not dice. 20 seconds, no dice.... I've done a search and can't seem to find anyone else with a 8.9 in this situation. I reached out to SkOrPn and he mentioned for the 8.9 there is NO factory cable to push into fastboot.
Hopefully someone can shed some light?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you brick it? Sounds like you did.
seokhun said:
Did you brick it? Sounds like you did.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sure seems like I did... I was hoping someone could confirm I did or may have a solution.
If I did it's my first brick! Kind of funny actually. I bought it at best buy.... Hopefully they won't give me too much **** trying to return it.
mcgrathpatj said:
Sure seems like I did... I was hoping someone could confirm I did or may have a solution.
If I did it's my first brick! Kind of funny actually. I bought it at best buy.... Hopefully they won't give me too much **** trying to return it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you're in warranty, you're good to go. If not, you can always go the factory cable route, see the thread in my signature for the 8.9" #6 and Step 2.
mcgrathpatj said:
Hi Guys,
I've been rooting android devices for a while now, and this is the first time I've had to post up a question like this... Can't seem to get the Kindle Fire 8.9 to power on. Tried holding power down for over a minute, not dice. 20 seconds, no dice.... I've done a search and can't seem to find anyone else with a 8.9 in this situation. I reached out to SkOrPn and he mentioned for the 8.9 there is NO factory cable to push into fastboot.
Hopefully someone can shed some light?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry to tell you this but if a KFHD is not powering up even when charged, It's hard bricked, But don't panic.
May i ask what tool you used to root your device, Because it seems to me that you used Kindle Fire Utility KFU, I know this because failing the rooting process can cause a bootloop but will not hard brick your device the way it happened, Only a damaged bootloader can cause the device not to power up, KFU attempts to install FFF bootloader which is designed for the original kindle fire and will damage the bootloader of any 2nd generation device and hard brick it.
What you need to do right now
Ship your device ASAP to Christian Bryant (XDA username Prokennexusa), At
Xerocomm, Inc. - 1684 Northstar Drive - Petaluma CA 94954.
I talked to him and he said if you ship it now it'll be done by the end of the week.
Chris receives many kindles so make sure you send him an email at [email protected]
Good luck
My TWRP version is v2.5.0.0. I tried to follow a fallback procedure in thread
Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting > Restore kindle fire after twrp2.0 to factory default without firefirefire
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that other people succeeded with. Unfortunately, I can no longer boot into TWRP by holding down the power button (never goes orange anymore) or boot normally into Linux; regardless of mode, all I see is the yellow flame triangle with the "press power..." message down below.
I suspect that Justin's fallback recipe in that thread only works with certain versions of TWRP. I am not faulting anyone but myself. Being an experienced systems programmer and hardware assembler, I know that these things can happen.
Is there another way to recover from a looping TWRP that I may not be aware of? It seems that there is only one "override" button i.e. the power button.
I've taken hardware apart and assembled systems before many times so I'll not be shy about doing so with this tablet. I found very good how-tos on-line as a guide and I have good tools.
So, can anyone point me to any of the following?
1. Motherboard internal specifications with pictures (like you get when you buy a motherboard at Newegg or Amazon)
2. Hardware reset jumpers if there are any
3. Preferred methods for reloading storage
4. Other suggestions?
Thank you. Peace.
Richard
Reinstall twrp and install the new firefirefire
You could use kindle fire utility 0.9.9
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda app-developers app
Look I really need help. When I was trying to install a rom on my kindle i accidentally wiped the system. I wiped everything!!! And i'm sure of it!!! And so i looked up what to do and it said I need to Update My Kindle again so i loaded the update with twrp and I rebooted and It made it worse!!! My kindle is just stuck at the logo screen and I have no idea what to do. I've looked up unbricking tools but they always say "Device Not Found". I've alway been kind of a jailbreak/rooting person but this is new to me. Please explain as best as you can because i'm only a kid and i'm new to the whole rooting or installing android on your kindle kind of thing. I also don't know if this is the right place to post this but if it isnt please don't get mad.
Please if you can give specific instruction on what to do. If you can also please give me instructions on how to install cyanogen on my kindle so I don't mess up again.
I have the first Kindle Fire and I want to install CM11.0 on my kindle.
Read This
elmolisa885 said:
Look I really need help. When I was trying to install a rom on my kindle i accidentally wiped the system. I wiped everything!!! And i'm sure of it!!! And so i looked up what to do and it said I need to Update My Kindle again so i loaded the update with twrp and I rebooted and It made it worse!!! My kindle is just stuck at the logo screen and I have no idea what to do. I've looked up unbricking tools but they always say "Device Not Found". I've alway been kind of a jailbreak/rooting person but this is new to me. Please explain as best as you can because i'm only a kid and i'm new to the whole rooting or installing android on your kindle kind of thing. I also don't know if this is the right place to post this but if it isnt please don't get mad.
Please if you can give specific instruction on what to do. If you can also please give me instructions on how to install cyanogen on my kindle so I don't mess up again.
I have the first Kindle Fire and I want to install CM11.0 on my kindle.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Read This :good:
I Looked at it and it doesn't seem to solve my problem
serendipityguy said:
Read This :good:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I read the unbricking section of the guide and it doesn't help me very much. I think the one I need to do Is buy the special usb cable and I don't want to do that....I there another way? I'm so confused....
elmolisa885 said:
I read the unbricking section of the guide and it doesn't help me very much. I think the one I need to do Is buy the special usb cable and I don't want to do that....I there another way? I'm so confused....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I could be wrong, but it sounds like you are stuck in fastboot mode after flashing twrp. I don't think you are bricked. You can confirm this by using fastboot from your pc.
FWIW, wiping system is ok when flashing a rom - but wiping internal storage before flashing will leave you without any file to flash. Simply push the rom to the sd card on kindle (google it). You may have to reboot recovery for twrp to show the newly added file.
So bottom line - change the bootmode from fastboot to normal. Boot into recovery. Push new rom/gapps using adb. Reboot recovery. Flash new rom and gapps.
I think with so many threads like this folks are just sick of directing people to all the other multiple threads that would tell you how to fix this. Next time please use the 'search' feature (not trying to be rude here, but the first rule of XDA is to search).
elmolisa885 said:
Look I really need help. When I was trying to install a rom on my kindle i accidentally wiped the system. I wiped everything!!! And i'm sure of it!!! And so i looked up what to do and it said I need to Update My Kindle again so i loaded the update with twrp and I rebooted and It made it worse!!! My kindle is just stuck at the logo screen and I have no idea what to do. I've looked up unbricking tools but they always say "Device Not Found". I've alway been kind of a jailbreak/rooting person but this is new to me. Please explain as best as you can because i'm only a kid and i'm new to the whole rooting or installing android on your kindle kind of thing. I also don't know if this is the right place to post this but if it isnt please don't get mad.
Please if you can give specific instruction on what to do. If you can also please give me instructions on how to install cyanogen on my kindle so I don't mess up again.
I have the first Kindle Fire and I want to install CM11.0 on my kindle.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you flashed update.zip sounds to me like you have a broken or missing shell. In which cases you will need a factory cable found here post 9 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392693 . This will force it into fastboot so you can reflash fff and twrp then add a running OS.