Hi,
I try to use the Kindle Fire Utility to install TWRP and FFF (in order to install CM10) on my kindle fire. However, no matter what I do after saying "The kindle has been told to reboot in Fastboot mode" and rebooting the utility gets stuck at "<waiting for device>". The kindle is just rebooting normally. One related thing is maybe that KFU says "fail opening shift: No such file or directory".
I would appreciate your help a lot. I am searching for 2 hours now the internet and at xda-developers but I coudlnt' find anything.
Thanks a lot
mx
If this is a first gen Kindle Fire:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668159
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923010
Everything you need should be in these as long as your Kindle is first gen. and your drivers are good.
Thanks but unfortunately it's second gen.
Thepooch said:
If this is a first gen Kindle Fire:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668159
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923010
Everything you need should be in these as long as your Kindle is first gen. and your drivers are good.
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Then you're posting in the wrong forum the one you need is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1782 many of the methods for the first gen kindle are quite dangerous for you if not all of them.
Thepooch said:
Then you're posting in the wrong forum the one you need is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1782 many of the methods for the first gen kindle are quite dangerous for you if not all of them.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. Does that mean I can't use any of the ROMs in the kindle fire forum?
Everything here will give you a fancy little hockey puck pretty much. Sorry.
Thepooch said:
Everything here will give you a fancy little hockey puck pretty much. Sorry.
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Out of curiosity, how can I tell for sure if I have a 1st or 2nd Gen. KF? I just bought it today, so I would guess it's a 2nd Gen., but there's no guarantee that it isn't one that's been sitting on a shelf for months.
My guess is it's second gen. considering Amazon stopped the selling of first gen device months ago the only way to acquire one now is if you need a first gen. device replacement.
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My kindle has no rom or recovery on it, and it is stuck in fastboot. ANY help is appreciated.
Same problem
I have the same problem with my Kindle Fire!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
Thanks, but ...
Thank you for the answer.
But my main problem is, first time, when i used KFU and installed fastboot, the reboot prozess started, but nevermore ended.
I see just the Kindle Fire logo on the screen, and nothing happens. I turn it off (long power button press), and i it on ... Kindle Fire logo nothing else.
The thread what you recommended don't help me, because i can't attach my Fire to my PC. (ADB driver installed and worked well last time)
Sorry for my poor english.
idocica said:
Thank you for the answer.
But my main problem is, first time, when i used KFU and installed fastboot, the reboot prozess started, but nevermore ended.
I see just the Kindle Fire logo on the screen, and nothing happens. I turn it off (long power button press), and i it on ... Kindle Fire logo nothing else.
The thread what you recommended don't help me, because i can't attach my Fire to my PC. (ADB driver installed and worked well last time)
Sorry for my poor english.
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You'll find, when you read the thread posted above, what the "stuck at Kindle Fire logo" means, along with what would cause adb and fastboot to fail connecting to your computer. You may have to read more than two paragraphs though.
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YOU were right
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm idiot.
A lot of thanks, thanks, thanks!
Hurray, hurray, hurray!
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Dear Sirs,
I install the TWRP on my kindle fire, and wipe all the recovery and so on, son i need your help to fix it and reinstall 6.3 os for amazon and then root again.
DHH said:
Dear Sirs,
I install the TWRP on my kindle fire, and wipe all the recovery and so on, son i need your help to fix it and reinstall 6.3 os for amazon and then root again.
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Sorry, what you said doesn't make a whole lot of sense because you've attached a photo of a recovery screen that you claim to have wiped... and that's not even TWRP you have in your photo, that's CWMR. Maybe you'd like to go back a few posts and read the guide in the link that was provided earlier.
Then, you'll need to describe what you have installed on your device, what appears to be broken, and exactly where you are getting stuck int he process of reinstalling the Kindle Fire software.
I may have messed this one up big time.I have read other threads and they aren't helping. I attempted to root my kindle fire using the kindle fire utility. Something weren't wrong about the time it was installing firefirefire. Now it's not accepting fastboot commands or adb for that matter. It just says <waiting for device>. This is all rather sad to me. I'm like a child who has broken his favorite toy. If someone with a little more skill could help me, that would be wonderful.
Factory Cable
So a factory cable has failed to work as well, although that may be from bad build quality.
Provide more info please http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644970
Afterburner anonymous said:
I may have messed this one up big time.I have read other threads and they aren't helping. I attempted to root my kindle fire using the kindle fire utility. Something weren't wrong about the time it was installing firefirefire. Now it's not accepting fastboot commands or adb for that matter. It just says . This is all rather sad to me. I'm like a child who has broken his favorite toy. If someone with a little more skill could help me, that would be wonderful.
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This is a typical problem with the way Windows handles
drivers. For some reason, when switching from normal to fastboot mode (necessary for firefirefire), the drivers stop working and need to be reinstalled. Sometimes it works smoothly, but most of the time, getting the drivers to work in fastboot mode seems impossible. Just keep working at it
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So a factory cable has failed to work as well, although that may be from bad build quality.
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A factory cable simply puts the device in fastboot mode, which it's already in.
josepho1997 said:
Do a hard reset on you kindle fire whiles its plugged in. Then update the drivers again. Now open up another KFU run.bat and select 1(bootmode) and 1(normal). Now your Kindle Fire should finish rooting.
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TKS Man!
FFF now works in my kindle.
I followed the directions for rooting my KF 10.2.6 from Patel989's 1/30/2013 post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2125628
It worked fine. Happy day!
Then I loaded TWRP using KFU and powered it off to see how TWRP worked.
It will not power on again.
I assume it's toast, true?
If so, where did I go wrong?
Still learning the hard way,
SJ
sjargo said:
I followed the directions for rooting my KF 10.2.6 from Patel989's 1/30/2013 post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2125628
It worked fine. Happy day!
Then I loaded TWRP using KFU and powered it off to see how TWRP worked.
It will not power on again.
I assume it's toast, true?
If so, where did I go wrong?
Still learning the hard way,
SJ
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Why have you used KFU?
This post explains how to get TWRP installed on a Kindle Fire 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36888389
This is from the 2nd to last page on the KFU post.
If it is a 10.x.x version, then you have a Kindle Fire 2nd generation. Do not attempt to use this utility. It will brick. Go to the KF2 forum.
Don't want to be harsh, but the reason people keep bricking their devices, is because they don't read enough before doing something. The creators of these tools could help the situation by adding a model check before the tool runs.
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chronicfathead said:
Why have you used KFU?
This post explains how to get TWRP installed on a Kindle Fire 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36888389
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I'm a dumb noob and didn't do enough research, I suppose. I didn't realize it was a KF 2 until today when I asked about the device on the KF forum and was sent to this one. I thought a KF 2 would say it was version 2 somewhere, perhaps on the box, so I assumed it was a plain KF.
In any case, did KFU poison it?
And if so, is there a way to kick start it?
Thanks,
-SJ
i bricked my kfhd and i havent unricked it yet
Well I've searched the forums and I can't find anything similar, which leads me to think I'm just missing something really obvious, but this is really frustrating me so I need help.
I'm trying to use the Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 to install TWRP and FireFireFire bootloader to my first-gen Kindle, so I can install Hashcode's Jelly Bean. I think I've got the normal drivers working as it shows up as ADB: online, although Boot mode: unknown is also reported. When enter "Install TWRP" it says it's putting the kindle into fastboot mode, but my Kindle seems to have other ideas. It just reboots normally and the utility is stuck on "waiting for device".
I've read one of your fastboot guides, which said that inserting the factory cable then inserting into a computer should activate fastboot mode. Well I tried that with what I think was the original cable, and it just booted normally.
I some small experience with rooting, but basically I'm a noob. I do have some Linux systems handy if they're required.
Any help would be appreciated!
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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mindmajick said:
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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Sent from my Kindle Fire 2, CM 10.1
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OK thank you, I didn't know that.
However I think even if I did get hold of one of these factory cables, it wouldn't help much as I need to get this program to work primarily...
any ideas what might be causing adb to be online but boot status unknown?
Personally, KFU v0.9.5 worked better for me.
Exactly the same result with that version, I'm afraid. :crying:
Are you using a USB 3.0 port? Maybe that's why. USB 3.0 is high speed, so maybe the connection got messed up...
How old is your computer?
Sent from a bird... No, a plane... Wait, It's a Kindle Fire!
I'm afraid that's not it... It's a 4 year old mid-range Win7 64 bit laptop. I did root my phone using this computer... I think I'll try using one of the XPs that I have on hand to see if that makes a difference.
Well I've tried on two XP computers and I can't even get the drivers to install.
Oops...
OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
ben08112 said:
OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
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How'd u figure that out?
Well I saw everyone talking about software version 6, and I thought it strange that mine had software version 10. I then did some research and found that there were two kindle fires that look identical. Apparently one way to distinguish is by looking at the software version.
Hello. A friend of mine gave me his Kindle fire 2nd Gen thats stuck at the Kindle Fire logo. He rooted it and did fire fire fire and has version 1.4a on it and also TWRP. I can get into TWRP, I can use it as a usb device and send files to it through TWRP but have had no luck in fixing it. I bought a Fastboot cable (factory cable) and it will NOT go into fastboot no matter what I try (Kindle Fire triangle). Im beating my head against the wall on whats wrong with this thing and have read so much my eyes are gunna explode. I have tried every fixit prog out there. ADB commands....it doesnt even see the device. I just want to flash this thing back to stock and from all the reading I have done a fastboot cable is key. But it doesnt work. ANyone have some time to give me some help with this???? I would appreciate it greatly.
PS. I have tried All/Most of the fixit progs out there...KFHD, Kindle unbrick utility, etc
lackdog said:
Hello. A friend of mine gave me his Kindle fire 2nd Gen thats stuck at the Kindle Fire logo. He rooted it and did fire fire fire and has version 1.4a on it and also TWRP. I can get into TWRP, I can use it as a usb device and send files to it through TWRP but have had no luck in fixing it. I bought a Fastboot cable (factory cable) and it will NOT go into fastboot no matter what I try (Kindle Fire triangle). Im beating my head against the wall on whats wrong with this thing and have read so much my eyes are gunna explode. I have tried every fixit prog out there. ADB commands....it doesnt even see the device. I just want to flash this thing back to stock and from all the reading I have done a fastboot cable is key. But it doesnt work. ANyone have some time to give me some help with this???? I would appreciate it greatly.
PS. I have tried All/Most of the fixit progs out there...KFHD, Kindle unbrick utility, etc
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd
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