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In Despair, desperate help needed!!!

Hi all, I am completley new to all of this side of technology, and rooting my kindle fire seemed an easy task, and it probably is but i think i have well and truly messed it up and any help will make me a happy man again!!!
I carried out the procedure using the KFU, at first my device was not online, so i used the method described via device manager which worked fine, the device was online and i carried out the permanent root with super user, everything went fine, i then went on to install from the extras the google play bit.
This is where things have gone wrong i think, as now the kindle will turn on but it gets stuck on a screen with kindle fire written across it the fire bit is an orange colour, i can get it to boot into twrp screen via the recovery boot aswell.
But everytime i try to connect to the KFU its always say offline no matter what i do. Is there a way to start over agan????
Like i said im new to all of this and have read a few how to's and explanation threads but i get easily confused, lol!!!!
Cheers

You can try clearing the cache/dalvik cache using TWRP and rebooting, but that probably won't help. If you are prepared to lose all of your settings, installed apps, etc. do a factory reset in TWRP and reboot. It should complete the boot process then. Otherwise, you're looking at reflashing the stock software and starting over... in which case, I recommend you just flash modaco and be done with it.
Whatever the case may be, learning about how your device works will help you out in the long run...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547

Go back to the Kindle fire utility and press option 1(bootmode) then normal boot (4000) no matter if it says offline it will still work m8.:good:
Give it a shot

[Q] Kindle will only boot to TWRP

I'm rooting a kindle, and some weird things happened while I was rooting it, problems with rooting on Windows 8, But now that I have TWRP and FIREFIREFIRE installed, it won't let me boot to system. It flashes on and off of the shiny kindle Fire screen, then boots to TWRP. KFU says it is in Boot STatus 0x5003. Any help?

Ichigo said:
You're in the recovery boot mode. Change it to normal boot mode using kfu.
a.k.a. Josepho1997
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Hello, sorry to bump an old thread, but when I tried to boot into normal boot mode, it tells me "The system cannot find the file specified." I have been stuck in this TWRP recovery mode for so long. Even when I get into Normal Boot mode, how do I get JellyBean installed so it loads that ROM? I have the Jellybean ROM files on the Kindle, which I can access via TWRP, but don't know how to install. HELP!!!

Well, right now I did a factory reset of the Kindle and I was able to get the KF back to it's defaults. I copied the Jellybean .zip file and gapps Jellybean .zip file to the root of the KF. I booted into Recovery Mode and I was finally able to see both .zip files when I clicked on Install. I thought I could do the Permanent Root now that I did the factory reset, but once I ran it under KFU, it would go through the process to install TWRP and then boot the KF into TWRP, but it doesn't look like it completed the root. How do I complete it?
In the meantime, I had went into Recovery Mode, went to Install and currently loading Jellybean onto the KF. I'm currently stuck at Verifiying partition sizes and it's been sitting there for a few minutes. How long does it take before it's updated to JB?

System Only boots to TWRP and KFU will not see kindle
I have a Kindle Fire 1... Not the HD when I got it in Dec of 2011 I got some help to get TWRP and CM7 Installed on it, and it worked great until a couple of days ago and now there is no help in the kindle fire room anymore so I was wondering if there is someone out there who would be willing to help me to get this to work again either through teamviewer or a Chat of some type, Gtalk, IRC anything at this point to get this to work again.
I have tried everything from a Hard reset, and KFU will not see it and I even tried a unbricking tool and that cannot find it either. Please help me out.
Thanks

CloudStrrife said:
I have a Kindle Fire 1... Not the HD when I got it in Dec of 2011 I got some help to get TWRP and CM7 Installed on it, and it worked great until a couple of days ago and now there is no help in the kindle fire room anymore so I was wondering if there is someone out there who would be willing to help me to get this to work again either through teamviewer or a Chat of some type, Gtalk, IRC anything at this point to get this to work again.
I have tried everything from a Hard reset, and KFU will not see it and I even tried a unbricking tool and that cannot find it either. Please help me out.
Thanks
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What exactly is going on...spare no detail...
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Stuck booting into TWRP
Hello Forum Lords, I hope that I found the proper thread for my problem.
I was simply trying to install Cyanogemod 9 on my wifes replacement KF1 after the first KF1 suffered some sore of hardware malfunction and would no longer take a charge. Somehow, somewhere I went horribly wrong this time around. I got stuck at the KF1 logo and eventually I got it to boot, but only to recovery.
My predicament is this: My KF1 is stuck booting into TWRP. Device manager on Win Vista recognizes the KF1 as Android Composite ADB Interface. When I try to use the KFU to boot the device into Normal Mode it says "cannot find the drive specified".
At the KFU starting menu, it says ADB Status: Online, Boot Status: 0x5003.
My ultimate goal is to get this thing running Cyanogenmod again. I am painfully noob at all of this. Please speak as you would to an escaped chimp who will not let go of the keyboard and mouse.
Thank you, anybody

[Q] HELP! Bricked Kindle Fire

I think my 1st gen KF is stuck trying to boot to recovery. I was trying to restore back to stock from CM10.1. Downloaded the Amazon update 6.2.1 bin file, renamed it to update.zip, booted into TWRP recovery, tried to flash and it failed (several times). After some research, I found that the fix for this was to downgrade TWRP to v2.2.2.1 (I was on 2.6.0.0 or something like that). I tried several methods for doing that and it wouldn't take, even though it looked like flashing the TWRP v2.2.2.1 finished successfully. So finally I found a method (thanks to XDA's wonderful developers) to install CWM. Finally was able to get it to boot into CWM recovery, tried flashing the update.zip again, and all went through successfully. However, when I rebooted it was stuck at the Kindle Fire logo screen. Tried rebooting several times...nothing. AFter more research, found that the bootmode was incorrectly set so I tried to change the bootmode to recovery (which failed miserably)...now I'm stuck on the Kindle Fire logo screen. Seems like it is trying to boot to stock recovery but can't get there. Now none of my computers will recognize it at all. Is there anything I can do to unbrick this? I've tried just about every method I can get my hands on but without the computer recognizing it, not sure what else I can do.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. This is my 8-year old son's Kindle!
Thanks,
caseym

caseym said:
I think my 1st gen KF is stuck trying to boot to recovery. I was trying to restore back to stock from CM10.1. Downloaded the Amazon update 6.2.1 bin file, renamed it to update.zip, booted into TWRP recovery, tried to flash and it failed (several times). After some research, I found that the fix for this was to downgrade TWRP to v2.2.2.1 (I was on 2.6.0.0 or something like that). I tried several methods for doing that and it wouldn't take, even though it looked like flashing the TWRP v2.2.2.1 finished successfully. So finally I found a method (thanks to XDA's wonderful developers) to install CWM. Finally was able to get it to boot into CWM recovery, tried flashing the update.zip again, and all went through successfully. However, when I rebooted it was stuck at the Kindle Fire logo screen. Tried rebooting several times...nothing. AFter more research, found that the bootmode was incorrectly set so I tried to change the bootmode to recovery (which failed miserably)...now I'm stuck on the Kindle Fire logo screen. Seems like it is trying to boot to stock recovery but can't get there. Now none of my computers will recognize it at all. Is there anything I can do to unbrick this? I've tried just about every method I can get my hands on but without the computer recognizing it, not sure what else I can do.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. This is my 8-year old son's Kindle!
Thanks,
caseym
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I'm having exactly the same issue on my Kindle Fire. I just recently got it from a friend; it seemed to be bricked, but the friend stated that he had never tried modifying the stock OS. I was able to use KFU to install the most up-to-date version of TWRP, but not FFF; I wanted to get it to stock before doing any additional hacking. That version of TWRP booted without any issues.
As OP mentioned, the most up-to-date version of TWRP has issues with installing the current version of the Amazon software. So, I tried downloading a copy of TWRP 2.2.2.1 (attached) and used KFU to install it, by extracting recovery.img, renaming it to twrp.img, and dropping it in KFU's /recovery/ folder.
Since then, I've seen the same symptoms as OP. The Fire boots to the Kindle Fire bootscreen, with no animation. It's not detected at all by any computer I attach it to. Windows doesn't chime or show it in Device Manager and KFU and adb don't see it. I also tried setting up FireKit, but none of the tools in that package are able to see it.
I'm going to test to see if this persists after depleting the battery for a while. I do not have a fastboot cable to test with, but I'm open to opening the case if you guys think that'll help get it back up and running.

Update; I was able to use the shorting trick to put it into OMAP boot mode and install FFF and TWRP, as well as reset the boot mode using Firekit. Firekit also installs TWRP 2.0, which is able to restore the stock Kindle Fire firmware.

haikuginger said:
Update; I was able to use the shorting trick to put it into OMAP boot mode and install FFF and TWRP, as well as reset the boot mode using Firekit. Firekit also installs TWRP 2.0, which is able to restore the stock Kindle Fire firmware.
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OK...can you explain what you mean by the "shorting trick"? The battery on mine has been dead for about a day and a half. I had the case open the other day but didn't really do anything. What do I need to do?
Thanks,
caseym

caseym said:
OK...can you explain what you mean by the "shorting trick"? The battery on mine has been dead for about a day and a half. I had the case open the other day but didn't really do anything. What do I need to do?
Thanks,
caseym
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First, get the Kindle charged. Then, boot to Ubuntu and set up FireKit (link above). Then, with the back cover off, hook the Kindle up to the computer. It'll power up, but hold down the power button to shut it off immediately.
Once you've done that, run the "usb_install_fff_twrp" script from Terminal. It'll say that its waiting for an OMAP device. Here's where the shorting comes in. Short the pad circled in the picture in this post to the metal frame around the CPU:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19762674&postcount=51
Then, keeping it shorted, press the power button.
Firekit should see the device over USB now, and write the appropriate settings. Once booted to TWRP, you should be able to install the stock firmware from /sdcard/.
It might take a couple tries, but keep trying. I used a continuity tester with an LED in it to make sure I had shorted that pad correctly.

haikuginger said:
First, get the Kindle charged. Then, boot to Ubuntu and set up FireKit (link above). Then, with the back cover off, hook the Kindle up to the computer. It'll power up, but hold down the power button to shut it off immediately.
Once you've done that, run the "usb_install_fff_twrp" script from Terminal. It'll say that its waiting for an OMAP device. Here's where the shorting comes in. Short the pad circled in the picture in this post to the metal frame around the CPU:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19762674&postcount=51
Then, keeping it shorted, press the power button.
Firekit should see the device over USB now, and write the appropriate settings. Once booted to TWRP, you should be able to install the stock firmware from /sdcard/.
It might take a couple tries, but keep trying. I used a continuity tester with an LED in it to make sure I had shorted that pad correctly.
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Well it worked the first time. I was able to get it to boot and the FireKit utility installed TWRP and I was able to flash the stock rom. After doing that, I disconnected the USB cable and the KIndle immediately shut off and I can't get it to turn back on. What did I do wrong?! Is it fried or something?
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caseym said:
Well it worked the first time. I was able to get it to boot and the FireKit utility installed TWRP and I was able to flash the stock rom. After doing that, I disconnected the USB cable and the KIndle immediately shut off and I can't get it to turn back on. What did I do wrong?! Is it fried or something?
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I'm afraid I've got nothing for you at this point. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I can sound off.

[Q] Need to get back to stock, no TWRP or recovery.

I'd like to preface this by saying I read the FAQ and did some searching here, but couldn't spot anything that sounded like my problem. I've half got an idea of what to do, but I'm quite confused and feel like some stuff needs clarifying. I apologize if this is more common than I realize, cause if it is I'm sure y'all are sick of answering questions like this.
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I got a used Kindle Fire from a friend that came with CM10 on it. I wanted to use it for reading, but the Kindle android app was recently broken by Amazon so I reluctantly reverted it back to stock (I really liked having a tablet, but I've got a phone for that stuff and I needed an e-reader). The very next day they fixed the app so I decided I should load CM10 back onto the Kindle. Now, I flashed CM10 onto my phone last year and it was a painless process so I figured it'd be the same here. Somehow in the process I completely messed things up.
From stock FireOS, I used Kindle Fire Utility to flash TWRP on my Kindle, then from there installed CM10 again. What I didn't know, was that CM no longer comes with gApps preloaded. I had no clue, as when I flashed it onto my phone it had all the gApps on there. So I google it and find out I need to flash gApps on there. Here's the problem: I can't boot this thing into recovery. Somehow TWRP was lost in the process. I enabled developer options in the settings, then enabled the option to choose reboot into recovery in the power menu but when I choose it, it just reboots into CM10 again. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to revert back to stock or flash gApps in if I can't get to TWRP again.
It's clear this has gotten way over my head.
Summary:
* Have a kindle w/ fresh install of CM10 on it.
* No gApps and can't boot into recovery.
* I think TWRP might be gone somehow.
* I want to either return to stock or get TWRP back safely and gApps flashed on here.

You need to boot back into Kindle Fire Utility and install the boot loader FireFireFire to boot into recovery.

themetalman said:
You need to boot back into Kindle Fire Utility and install the boot loader FireFireFire to boot into recovery.
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I can't seem to get KFU to recognize my plugged in Kindle. IIRC when I first used KFU, when it recognized the Kindle it displayed "ADB Status: Online" and "Boot Status: 4000". Now it's ADB Offline / Boot Unknown.

I've been told elsewhere that I need to locate a stock recovery image and load it up using terminal emulator since it appears my recovery was broken. Where might I find one for my Kindle? I perused the various stickied threads / guides around here but did not see one.
e: Would it be against the rules re: buying/selling if I offered whoever helps me get this fixed $10? Haha.

TheSMP said:
I've been told elsewhere that I need to locate a stock recovery image and load it up using terminal emulator since it appears my recovery was broken. Where might I find one for my Kindle? I perused the various stickied threads / guides around here but did not see one.
e: Would it be against the rules re: buying/selling if I offered whoever helps me get this fixed $10? Haha.
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I have used the download and the bottom of this page to repair a bricked kindle fire.
Link: http://n2aos.com/
Then go back into kindle utility and reinstall TWRP and firefirefire.
You might also want to look at this site. He has great tutorial videos. Link: https://sites.google.com/site/tomsgt123/all-videos/kindle-fire

[Q] Kindle Fire 1st gen Stuck at Boot Logo

Hey Everyone,
I have been using these forums for the last year and a half and It has helped me a whole bunch to successfully root all of the android devices my family has. I have however ran into a problem with a 1st gen Kindle Fire. It is stuck at the orange and white kindle fire logo. So a little background, I have rooted this Kindle in the past and succeeded in flashing Cyanogenmod's jb. I changed it back to the old Kindle interface so that my sisters can use it for reading but they wanted to use it for games. I decided that I should just change it back to jb since I would have to go through the trouble of flashing google play. Now, here's when things go wrong.
I started by using KFU 0.9.6 since I was lazy and didn't want to go through my old method. I granted SU and also installed TWRP and FireFireFire. now, I found a rom by Cyanogenmod cm10.1.3otter and decided to flash it onto my device. Everything went fine but it wouldn't boot past the Cyanogenmod boot screen. So I put another rom on (cm10.1.2) and flashed that. It worked and i started using it under the assumption there was nothing wrong. I later discovered when entering the internet password that my keyboard was not working and nothing would allow it to work. I then decided that I would get the kindle rom back on and factory reset and wipe the device. When I flashed the Kindle rom and restarted it, It got stuck and would not boot past the Orange and white kindle fire logo. After 2 full charges and 48 hours, it is still stuck. I tried to check if the kindle showed up under ADB devices and it does but when I run adb shell(for one of the guides) it comes up with "no such file or directory." When I run KFU, adb is online but boot status is unknown. When I try to run any of the tools in KFU, waiting for device is shown and does not go away despite disconnecting and reconnecting/ power on and off.
I have been looking nonstop for the past two days without any help. I have tried to follow many of the guides online, but I never succeed. Can someone please help me solve this problem, I am completely stuck.

jaredahuey said:
Hey Everyone,
I have been using these forums for the last year and a half and It has helped me a whole bunch to successfully root all of the android devices my family has. I have however ran into a problem with a 1st gen Kindle Fire. It is stuck at the orange and white kindle fire logo. So a little background, I have rooted this Kindle in the past and succeeded in flashing Cyanogenmod's jb. I changed it back to the old Kindle interface so that my sisters can use it for reading but they wanted to use it for games. I decided that I should just change it back to jb since I would have to go through the trouble of flashing google play. Now, here's when things go wrong.
I started by using KFU 0.9.6 since I was lazy and didn't want to go through my old method. I granted SU and also installed TWRP and FireFireFire. now, I found a rom by Cyanogenmod cm10.1.3otter and decided to flash it onto my device. Everything went fine but it wouldn't boot past the Cyanogenmod boot screen. So I put another rom on (cm10.1.2) and flashed that. It worked and i started using it under the assumption there was nothing wrong. I later discovered when entering the internet password that my keyboard was not working and nothing would allow it to work. I then decided that I would get the kindle rom back on and factory reset and wipe the device. When I flashed the Kindle rom and restarted it, It got stuck and would not boot past the Orange and white kindle fire logo. After 2 full charges and 48 hours, it is still stuck. I tried to check if the kindle showed up under ADB devices and it does but when I run adb shell(for one of the guides) it comes up with "no such file or directory." When I run KFU, adb is online but boot status is unknown. When I try to run any of the tools in KFU, waiting for device is shown and does not go away despite disconnecting and reconnecting/ power on and off.
I have been looking nonstop for the past two days without any help. I have tried to follow many of the guides online, but I never succeed. Can someone please help me solve this problem, I am completely stuck.
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You must enable adb on cm10 for one and the driver has to be modified for the pc to detect it due to pid and vid changes in cm10.

Thepooch said:
You must enable adb on cm10 for one and the driver has to be modified for the pc to detect it due to pid and vid changes in cm10.
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I am aware of that however, I cannot boot to cm10. If i could boot to cm10, I would know what to do but right now I am still stuck at the kindle fire logo.