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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.
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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.
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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.
Hi, Im having a huge problem with my kindle fire, in an attempt to root my device, i seem to have made a mistake somewhere along the line (I actually just wanted to select one background, but i was lead to all sorts of videos on youtube showing rooting procedures and i had to have it rooted to do so, so alas i rooted). My device upon power up starts up, loads yellow triangle (firefirefire?) and goes to the "Kindle Fire" screen and stops, it cannot load any further . I have tried numerous fixes such as updating but the files cannot be copied and flashed to my device, because i cannot copy them to my device from my pc. the option to do so is just not there.
I appreciate any help I can get, do i need to finish / fix a rooting procedure or unroot or what? thanks in advance.
When you get the fff screen try holding down the power button till it turns orange that will hopefully put you into twrp from there you could do a few things but try selecting reboot see what happens . Could be that it would just send you to the back to the same screen
testing
when I go into twrp, i click reboot, brings me to screen with two options (im sure you all know this). When pressing option one, system, it closes out of twrp, loads fff, loads the "Kindle Fire" screen, and is froze...
I then powered off by holding the power button for 1 mississippi, 2 mississippi... all the way to 11 mississippi
Turned back on, fff loads, held pwr for twrp, hit reboot, chose option two, power off, and this did just as it said it would, powered off...
Sorry I sound retarded while writing this, im just trying to be thorough
P.S. i have toyed around with twrp, totally reset all data and caches, done just about everything...
Go here
...and download FFF1.4
Mount your sdcard in recovery and transfer the FFF1.4.zip from your computer. Install FFF1.4 in recovery (no wipe) and reboot.
As soon as you see the Blue kindle fire logo, hold the power button until you see options show up on the bottom. Use the power button to scroll through the options and select "Normal Boot"
that would work but...
Hard to explain my situation... anyway, when i plug in my kindle, it does not play auto play, no way to put files from computer to kindle. I have gone into my devices and cant seem to find a way to open and veiw and edit the files on my device.
NeedHelp!!! said:
Hard to explain my situation... anyway, when i plug in my kindle, it does not play auto play, no way to put files from computer to kindle. I have gone into my devices and cant seem to find a way to open and veiw and edit the files on my device.
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You have to access TWRP and select mount > mount sdcard and mount to USB
Are you saying that you tried this and it doesn't work?
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
NeedHelp!!! said:
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
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That might be that you had your kindle plugged in when you ran the bat file for the drivers and it wiped out your USB mass storage drivers in the process my suggestion is to restore your computer back to a time before you messed with the drivers and see if you can't get mass storage mounted via USB before.without your kindle plugged in run the driver install to regain adb then plug the kindle in you should have working adb and mass storage driver then
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Hopefully I won't muddy up your situation but I did the same thing myself once on the driver thing that's why I believe you can't access SD on your kindle
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And soupmagnet is right he's trying to get you out of fast boot with his suggestion the bootloader he pointed you to has that option. As long as you can access twrp and mass storage you have a lot of options on what to do next mess that up and you'll brick your kindle so take your time relax do it right. Also if you can still access twrp check your battery level there don't let it die you can still charge while in twrp I believe so if it gets low plug it in give it a rest and see if your battery level doesn't come up this will save you a bunch of heartache.
NeedHelp!!! said:
Ok so i just did what you said, loaded up twrp, went to mount sd mounted, its plugged into a working usb, and i still cannot access files from my computer i was just messing with kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i beleive, and i chose the option that said install latest version of fff, it gave me a "kindle fire" screen with the android robot above it, but when kfu gets to the end it says dont touch kindle if its frozen, but on the kindle it prompts to reboot, should i reboot, wait, or forget that and try to fix the file veiwing problem... ive tried reboot and i loose the android over the kindle fire screen which origionally replaced the yellow triangle.
EDIT: Just toyed around with KFU more and got the yellow triangle screen to be replaced by android robot over "kindle Fire" text, still no luck on installing that file
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Reading this has given me a headache so let me make sure I understand it correctly.
You tried to mount your sdcard and you say it mounted but it didn't show up on your computer? With Windows Explorer open, while switching between mounting and unmounting the sdcard, nothing happens? Nothing is being added, like "F:\" or "D:\"?
Also, you said you used the KFU to install FFF and it worked because your boot screen has changed (which by the way isn't the latest version). With that, your drivers are obviously working properly.
So make sure you have FFF1.4 downloaded from HERE, rename it to fff.zip and place it in the "tools" folder of your KFU directory along with adb.exe.
Boot into TWRP
Shift+right click on the KFU "tools" folder and select "Run in Command..."
In the prompt that opens, enter the following command:
Code:
adb push fff.zip /sdcard
Reboot your device and back into recovery. The fff.zip should be there for you to flash. Don't wipe before installing.
If successful, your boot screen will be a blue Kindle Fire logo. Then read the FFF1.4 thread OP to learn how to change your bootmode to normal.
sigh
done! fixed the problem! some of the drivers the computer needed to veiw my F: drive. but i downloaded all the files needed onto a different pc, and it worked just fine! copied amazons latest update to get out of all rooting hooplah, so im unrooted, but im happy my kindle is up and running thanks for the help
NeedHelp!!! said:
done! fixed the problem! some of the drivers the computer needed to veiw my F: drive. but i downloaded all the files needed onto a different pc, and it worked just fine! copied amazons latest update to get out of all rooting hooplah, so im unrooted, but im happy my kindle is up and running thanks for the help
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Good to know thought it was your drivers
Just to state this out i am a noob with a kindle fire i rooted with kfu 0.9.5.
my kindle is now stuck on the kindle fire logo, so let me explain from the start of how this predicament happened.
1: my kindle somehow isn't showing the books it had after a few days of using the root.
2: i tried to reset it to factory normal by using the factory reset function in the device menu, kindle still has root.
3: after i did that, the fire logo appeared and now, instead of going to kindle fire lockscreen, it goes to twrp interface.
4: at this point, being the noob i am, i use the factory restore in the twrp wipe menu, then i also wiped the system, which i think was a bad idea.
5: i went to amazon customer support, and they couldn't do anything for me.
6: i went online to this forum, which i learned of the unbricking method, and i followed the direction of king_xerxes:All you need to do is have the KFU opened to change to normal boot and at the screen where it is waiting on the device. Have your KF connected to your computer, and turned off. While you are "waiting on device" turn on the KF and it willl see it and send the command, but it will only see it for a few seconds and then you will need to reboot the KF after it has sent the command."
7: now, after it rebooted and the fire and teamwin logo came up and went, it went to the kindle fire, and it stayed there.
so, as of right now, it on there, plugged into my computer and charging, stuck on the kindle fire logo. All i want to do now is just unroot it, get my e-books back, and then i'll go from there. so, if possible, can anyone help me?
Yeah here's where you messed up you wiped system leaving your kindle without a system to boot from I believe. Here is my best suggestion but this is just to get you goin mount your SD card in twrp if you can get there. Connect your kindle to computer access your SD card contents move this to your SD card but don't put it in a folder http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 then hit the home button on the top right of twrp even though you have wiped it to death do factory/data wipe,cache,and dalvik hit the home button again this time hit install, find the rom file in the list, tap to select,then hit install flash gapps if necessary . Let it do its thing when finished hit reboot select system. Initial boot will take a bit give it time when done set up your account data hopefully. This is just temporary till you decide what to do next good luck.
electricbrain876 said:
Just to state this out i am a noob with a kindle fire i rooted with kfu 0.9.5.
my kindle is now stuck on the kindle fire logo, so let me explain from the start of how this predicament happened.
1: my kindle somehow isn't showing the books it had after a few days of using the root.
2: i tried to reset it to factory normal by using the factory reset function in the device menu, kindle still has root.
3: after i did that, the fire logo appeared and now, instead of going to kindle fire lockscreen, it goes to twrp interface.
4: at this point, being the noob i am, i use the factory restore in the twrp wipe menu, then i also wiped the system, which i think was a bad idea.
5: i went to amazon customer support, and they couldn't do anything for me.
6: i went online to this forum, which i learned of the unbricking method, and i followed the direction of king_xerxes:All you need to do is have the KFU opened to change to normal boot and at the screen where it is waiting on the device. Have your KF connected to your computer, and turned off. While you are "waiting on device" turn on the KF and it willl see it and send the command, but it will only see it for a few seconds and then you will need to reboot the KF after it has sent the command."
7: now, after it rebooted and the fire and teamwin logo came up and went, it went to the kindle fire, and it stayed there.
so, as of right now, it on there, plugged into my computer and charging, stuck on the kindle fire logo. All i want to do now is just unroot it, get my e-books back, and then i'll go from there. so, if possible, can anyone help me?
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Download the update.bin file in the link below AND CHANGE THE .BIN FILE EXTENSION TO A .ZIP BY RENAMING IT TO UPDATE.ZIP! YOU MUST DO THIS!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200790620
Transfer the .zip onto the root folder of your /sdcard folder on your kindle
In TWRP, flash the update.zip to go completely back to stock. No root, FireFireFire, or TWRP. Its like a factory reset
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Thanks shravbits just don't accidentally rename it update zip.zip twrp will not like it
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Thanks shravbits
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You are welcome!
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oh, i forgot, the kindle doesn't appear on the computer either, but weirdly when i plug it in to the computer, it makes that noise when something is connected to it. so now what do i do?
Did you mount it in TWRP? You might have to reinstall drivers..
fiddlefaddle said:
Did you mount it in TWRP? You might have to reinstall drivers..
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The computer already has the necessary drivers to mount partitions in TWRP. They're the same drivers the computer uses to mount thumb drives and external media, and they're separate from the Kindle USB/adb drivers.
so,exactly,what do i have to do now?
Boot into TWRP
Mount > mount sdcard > Mount USB storage
Transfer file from computer to sdcard
but what i'm saying is that even in twrp, it won't appear on my computer as anything.
Ignore my last post, i found out why, it turns out i was missing the composite abd interface, now to try what the earlier posts told me to do.
its working!!!!!!! thank you to those who helped!!!!!
also, another question, what is the root status of it now? i used the Update.zip method and when i looked on kfu, it said it was still had the boot status:4000,
so is it still rooted?
electricbrain876 said:
also, another question, what is the root status of it now? i used the Update.zip method and when i looked on kfu, it said it was still had the boot status:4000,
so is it still rooted?
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The boot status is just whether it is in fastboot mode or regular. Your kindle should still be rooted don't worry about it.
so, to unroot it, i need to unbrick it?
electricbrain876 said:
so, to unroot it, i need to unbrick it?
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Technically your Kindle isn't bricked. It's doing what it's been told to do, boot into fastboot mode. All you have to do is change the boot mode and it will work normally. There's no need to unroot unless you absolutely want to.
Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567
It will tell you more about the different bootmodes. I suggest reading the whole thing to get a good idea of what's going on.
electricbrain876 said:
so, to unroot it, i need to unbrick it?
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Technically your Kindle isn't bricked. It's doing what it's been told to do, boot into fastboot mode. All you have to do is change the boot mode and it will work normally. There's no need to unroot unless you absolutely want to.
Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567
It will tell you more about the different bootmodes. I suggest reading the whole thing to get a good idea of what's going on.
[Edit:] Rooting has nothing to do with how your books show up. That was an update that caused it. Blame Amazon
I have had a Kindle Fire since they day they came out. I immediately disliked the stock Rom so I ran the kindle fire utility and installed Fire Fire Fire and TWRP, rooted it, and installed CM7 Rom which has been working great. Transferred files and programs between my PC and Kindle with no issue for months. Now with all the ICS roms available and working I decided to try and upgrade to one of those and thats when everything went wrong. Its in a bootloop and the triangle appears, fades, lights up again and immediately boots to TWRP. I have flashed the entire kindle using TWRP trying to get everything off of it. Upon plugging it into my PC BRIEFLY when the triangle logo pops up I get a "USB device not recognized" on my PC. I have tried using KFUtility to reinstall drivers, tried uninstalling n reinstalling drivers but the same thing happens. I cannot use TWRP to mount at all, nothing happens. Kindle Fire UTility keeps saying adb offline, CMD adb devices also results in 0 devices found. I have tried putting it on normal boot using both ADB and KFUtility and it says "wait for device" and nothing ever happens. Any idea? Not even sure if I have a rom installed on my kindle anymore but my PC wontread it so I cannot push another image to it. Got a plane trip on Saturday and would love to have this working to kill the bordom lol. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like your bootmode is set to recovery. An easy way to fix this is download FFF1.4 to your computer and use the mount function in recovery to place it on your sdcard.
Flash it in recovery as you would a rom except don't wipe anything. When you reboot, hold the power button like you're trying to enter recovery and you'll be given the option to reset the bootmode.
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
anomiefaunus said:
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
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Generally, the only thing that would prevent adb/kfu from communicating with the device is the drivers. Make sure they're installed properly. You may have to uninstall them (delete if applicable) and reinstall them.
Follow the instructions in this guide to install and verify your drivers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
anomiefaunus said:
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
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Get your device drivers working so you can use adb. Follow the instructions in the post below...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26144447
That is excellent advice and I wish it would work but I cannot pull up ADB once in TeamWin. Keeps saying no devices. As i said my PC detects it and ADB will detect it for .5 seconds on the orange triangle. Once the orange triangle disappears and it either boots to blackness or boots to TeamWin ADB stops recognizing my device. But I will play around with your suggestions once I get off work and let you know what i find out. Thanks again for everyones support.
Frozen screen during rooting
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
peredexter said:
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
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Don't hijack the threads please. If you have a problem or question, post it in the Q&A section.
I can get around in both windows and linux. I have rooted, flashed and modded a smartphone before (Samsung Galaxy Express) successfully.
This should be an easy one for some of you to diagnose. A fresh stock Kindle Fire (6.3.2). Trying to install KFU v0.9.6 from a Win7 (also have various flavors of linux, ubuntu, arch, debian, etc available to use if need be). ran install_drivers.bat without any problems, device showed up and was recognized. Ran run.bat. put it in fastboot mode. Kindle Fire rebooted into the "Kindle Fire" White/Orange static logo and is stuck. No animation, no powerbutton response, can't turn it off, unknown device in Win7, adb and fastboot commands return no devices.
From reading the many beginner guides and unbricking posts, I was lead to believe that I needed to put this unit in fastbootmode to do any custom work with the device, and seeing that it's #1 on the menu list of the KFU I thought this was a pre-requisite before installing anything else. Apparently this is not the case. The device comes up as a USB Unknown Device (Code 43) now, and KFU can not find the device and is waiting for the device. Can't do anything. The only clue I was able to read was possibly letting the power drain. It was full charged so I will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, I figured I would hit up the forum to see if anyone has a better suggestion.
How do I get my Kindle Fire out of FastBoot Mode?
I am right there too...
BlushNine said:
I can get around in both windows and linux. I have rooted, flashed and modded a smartphone before (Samsung Galaxy Express) successfully.
This should be an easy one for some of you to diagnose. A fresh stock Kindle Fire (6.3.2). Trying to install KFU v0.9.6 from a Win7 (also have various flavors of linux, ubuntu, arch, debian, etc available to use if need be). ran install_drivers.bat without any problems, device showed up and was recognized. Ran run.bat. put it in fastboot mode. Kindle Fire rebooted into the "Kindle Fire" White/Orange static logo and is stuck. No animation, no powerbutton response, can't turn it off, unknown device in Win7, adb and fastboot commands return no devices.
From reading the many beginner guides and unbricking posts, I was lead to believe that I needed to put this unit in fastbootmode to do any custom work with the device, and seeing that it's #1 on the menu list of the KFU I thought this was a pre-requisite before installing anything else. Apparently this is not the case. The device comes up as a USB Unknown Device (Code 43) now, and KFU can not find the device and is waiting for the device. Can't do anything. The only clue I was able to read was possibly letting the power drain. It was full charged so I will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, I figured I would hit up the forum to see if anyone has a better suggestion.
How do I get my Kindle Fire out of FastBoot Mode?
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I am right there too...
I ordered a Factory Cable and it should be in any day now. . . .
That is what I am doing and crossing my fingers . . .
serendipityguy said:
I am right there too...
I ordered a Factory Cable and it should be in any day now. . . .
That is what I am doing and crossing my fingers . . .
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For anyone who has run into the same problem, this is how I fixed my problem
[1] Power off the Kindle Fire and unplug. Hold down the power button for more than 10seconds. There seems to be some variance with how long you have to hold the button down.
[2] Use the Kindle Fire Utility "run.bat" in Windows. Without the Kindle Fire device plugged in, the ADB Status will be Offline and Boot Status unknown, obviously. Go into boot menu [1] and select Normal Boot [1]. It will tell you <waiting for device>.
[3] Plug in Kindle Fire device.
[4] It should reset the Kindle Fire to normal working status.
PS. I tried the power drain, but it as soon as I supplied power back to the unit it resumed its stuck boot loop condition, so nothing changed. The reason it took so long to figure out this problem was (a) I didn't know you had to hold down the power button so long. 3-5 seconds is typical for most devices to perform a hard shutdown. (b) You have to set the Kindle Fire Utility waiting to catch the Kindle Fire device booting, if it's stuck in this condition. You can't just plug it in and run the KFU while its stuck on that screen.
Also, DO NOT SELECT [1] and FastBoot Mode on a fresh stock unmodified Kindle Fire. The other install menu selections in KFU will automatically Fastboot in order to perform what they need to do.
Hope this helps others.