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Guys,
Details: Using Windows 7 64 bits, on a notebook.
Here is the full history of my brand new brick... call me stupid.
Second day with my Kindle Fire, I tryed to root my kindle fire.
Downloaded the KFU 0.9.5, instaled the drivers.
But the KFU wasn't workig... I only was getting the ADB offline status and the "waiting for device" message.
When I realized that the drivers I had were from my Motorola Milestone.
Next step: Uninstall the wrong drivers, and reinstall the new ones.
Only with this i could get the device to work with KFU.
Open the Run application at KFU folder.
Choosed option 2: Install Permanent Root with Superuser.
All worked fine until i get the message "with great powers come great responsabilityies" press any key to continue...
[EDIT: Tried to install Gapps extras... I don't remember if Kindle was dead before this or after]
The Kindle rebooted, got to the screen with the "kindle" word, and died.
Since that I'm getting no power on, no led lights, no response when connected to usb... nothing.
What should I do?
Go to Motorola Tech Support (here in my city) and try to use a factory cable?
or
I can only put my hopes on USB Boot Mode?
Guys, thanks in advance and sorry for my english, I certainly made some msitakes.
Or I can try Firekit?
That's strange, installing the wrong device drivers on your computer shouldn't affect your Kindle.
What it really sounds like is your battery died in the process of installing the FFF bootloader. How was your battery before you started? Have you tried holding the power button for 20 seconds for a hard shutdown?
As far as I know, the only thing that will cause power on issues is a broken bootloader. In which case, USB boot with firekit is your only option.
I guess I had at least 50% o battery charge, or more... I can't remember...
If I push the power button now, the Kindle will get warm, as if it was in use. And if I hold for 20s, will shut down...
I don't even started to install de fire fire fire bootloader, I installed the permanent root with super user and then went to install GApps. I guess my kindle was shutdown before Gapps install.
What should I do? Test the factory cable first?
When you say that I have to use Firekit, you are saying that I have to open my Kindle?
Left the Fire charging for at least 12 hours.
Tried to power on, to hold 20s and nothing happened.
I'll gonna try this:
Fix power on problems: If the Fire's screen never seems to turn on, you may have wrecked the bootloaders or the partitioning. Fortunately most of the time this results in the CPU falling into the low level USB boot mode. Use the "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" to rebuild the flash enough to boot TWRP. You don't need to use the USB shorting trick for this one, just power up the Kindle after running the script.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
My question is: I'm running Ubuntu within VMWare tools. Can I boot from usb stick this way?
Gonna try this before I use factory cable or open my Kindle Fire.
EDIT:
Reading the FIREKIT Topic, this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25814062&postcount=26
My issue is kind of different from his... I'm guessing I'll have to open my Kindle anyway... Started yesterday, but I was messing with the case, gonna find some proper tools
VMs will not work. You have to create a bootable Linux LiveUSB thumb drive.
DuendePaladino said:
Left the Fire charging for at least 12 hours.
Tried to power on, to hold 20s and nothing happened.
I'll gonna try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
My question is: I'm running Ubuntu within VMWare tools. Can I boot from usb stick this way?
Gonna try this before I use factory cable or open my Kindle Fire.
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If you already have a working Ubuntu installation, you don't have to make the USB stick. You can just run the fk binary in your Ubuntu setup.
kinfauns said:
If you already have a working Ubuntu installation, you don't have to make the USB stick. You can just run the fk binary in your Ubuntu setup.
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I've tried it on a VM and had it confirmed by other users that VMs aren't fast enough to detect the USB in time. From what I've seen, it has always been suggested to either use either a straight Linux install or a bootable LiveUSB.
soupmagnet said:
I've tried it on a VM and had it confirmed by other users that VMs aren't fast enough to detect the USB in time. From what I've seen, it has always been suggested to either use either a straight Linux install or a bootable LiveUSB.
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I guess it might depend on the VM, but I disagree with the generalization that VMs are too slow and have issues with USB.
The only thing I've seen is that Oracle's VirtualBox USB implementation breaks adb. I've never tried VMWare, but Parallels Desktop for both my Ubuntu and Windows setups work perfectly. Never had an issue.
DuendePaladino said:
What should I do? Test the factory cable first?
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Anybody who is going to be modifying the basic software of their Kindle, or even just root it and play around, should have a factory cable. Xda member SkOrPn makes good ones at a reasonable price and ships them quickly. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25725396&postcount=338.
(From what you wrote earlier, I presume that you don't yet have convenient access to a factory cable but would have to go out of your way to use one. If you do, in fact, have easy access to one, I can't imagine why you wouldn't try using it instead of putting a lot of effort into looking for alternatives.)
aarons510 said:
Anybody who is going to be modifying the basic software of their Kindle, or even just root it and play around, should have a factory cable. Xda member SkOrPn makes good ones at a reasonable price and ships them quickly. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25725396&postcount=338.
(From what you wrote earlier, I presume that you don't yet have convenient access to a factory cable but would have to go out of your way to use one. If you do, in fact, have easy access to one, I can't imagine why you wouldn't try using it instead of putting a lot of effort into looking for alternatives.)
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Without a working bootloader, a factory cable is useless.
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Without a working bootloader, a factory cable is useless.
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All the scene leads to this... USB Boot.
About the USB stick, I was making some confusion about it.
But, I´ll gonna make one stick right now.
Guys,
I made the usb stick... just figuring how to open the kindle fire, without ruining the case.
But I guess today I'll made the short trick.
Question: I'll keep the 6.3 stock room that i tried to root? Or I'll have to download another ROM?
Is there any know issues about firekit compatibility with ubuntu 12.04?
Like this here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25918331&postcount=10
I WON!!!!
I'M BEOWULF!!!!
Serious now...
Firekit method, with short trick... keep trying... until you find the right spot for the shor... and will work
EDIT:
THANK YOU GUYS!!!
I wouldnt be that happy without your help and your knowledge... You're the real Beowulf!
Alright folks, I would like to start off with a little introduction:
I'm extremely new to the rooting scene, i've been jailbreaking iphones and ipods since day one. That being said, I probably should have spent more time researching this technique before I went through with it.
Fast forward to today:
I tried rooting my device awhile back, wasn't a 100% successful and I really didn't have the time to work it out. I did have FFF installed and the next window (which i'm not exactly sure what it's called, which allowed me to boot in various moods and such)
Earlier today I got stuck in a boot loop, where my kindle would turn off as soon as i restarted it, and after i selected normal boot mode. I decided it would be a good idea to try a different boot option, so i tried the FF boot, which completely ruined my day.
My current situation is as follows:
I'm currently stuck on the first FFF screen (yellow triangle, with the green light on), i can do nothing else from that screen except hard (cold) reboots. When i plug my kindle in (Mac, windows 7, windows XP), the device is not recognized and i get zero response. I've tried a decent amount of suggestions on this forum, including Kindle fire unbrick (Which can somehow see that there adb is installed, but the bootmode is unknown)
Help out of this current situation would be wonderful. I'm really in a jam here.
Sounds like you are stuck in fastboot and you might have a dead battery too.
You should read this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
1st post for background information, 2nd post for making sure your device drivers are loading/working, and the 3rd post for fastboot and adb commands. You'll probably need to use fastboot to change the bootmode back to normal.
This one...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
address dead battery problems. You might be affect this by this one as well.
Thanks for the reply,
I read pieces of the first one before I posted on this thread. The KF was 100% charged and i only used it for about 15mins before the whole crashing problem occurred, so i highly doubt it's a low battery issue.
The screen that i'm stuck on is actually the recovery screen. After reading the article in it's entirety, i'm still not exactly sure what to do. My problem is that i cannot get my kindle fire to be recognized as any type of USB device on any type of computer. Wouldn't that issue need to be addressed before i can go about doing anything else? Or will drivers see what my computer think is not there?
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Thanks for the reply,
I read pieces of the first one before I posted on this thread. The KF was 100% charged and i only used it for about 15mins before the whole crashing problem occurred, so i highly doubt it's a low battery issue.
The screen that i'm stuck on is actually the recovery screen. After reading the article in it's entirety, i'm still not exactly sure what to do. My problem is that i cannot get my kindle fire to be recognized as any type of USB device on any type of computer. Wouldn't that issue need to be addressed before i can go about doing anything else? Or will drivers see what my computer think is not there?
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What do you mean by recovery screen? Because your first post said FFF and that's your bootloader. If the yellow triangle boot logo comes up and that's all that the display does (doesn't go black and redisplay the boot logo), then it's in fastboot mode. Windows should give you an indication that it's connecting with a series of 2 connection beeps (low->high tone) without a following set of disconnect beeps (high->low tone). The device manager will show something new in the list (this is covered in post #2 in the first URL I pasted for you).
Yes, you need to get something to get recognized by your computer then you need to install the proper drivers for it. Look at post #2 again, and see if you can figure out what device is appearing in the list and get the drivers loaded for it. If you get absolutely nothing, there's something wrong with the bootloader, your USB cable, USB port, or computer in general and it's a bigger problem.
If nothing happens on your computer, find another one and hook it up there. You might also look at this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
and see if Linux can help you.
I'm sorry, I was mistaken. I am stuck in Fastboot mode, The one with the yellow triangle. I get zero indication from Windows device manager list, or beeps (same on my mac). I have tried 3 different cables, so i highly doubt that's the problem either.
My next step is the linux distro, which i will get back to you with when I get everything installed. My only concern is that the linux distribution isn't going to recognize the USB either (seeing as 2 other operating systems haven't) and that there's something inherently wrong with my kindle. In which case i'm ****ed? or is there any chance that amazon will take it back?
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I'm sorry, I was mistaken. I am stuck in Fastboot mode, The one with the yellow triangle. I get zero indication from Windows device manager list, or beeps (same on my mac). I have tried 3 different cables, so i highly doubt that's the problem either.
My next step is the linux distro, which i will get back to you with when I get everything installed. My only concern is that the linux distribution isn't going to recognize the USB either (seeing as 2 other operating systems haven't) and that there's something inherently wrong with my kindle. In which case i'm ****ed? or is there any chance that amazon will take it back?
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Windows will be the only one that of the three that will beep at you. There's a better chance of you getting something done with Linux, but it's starting to sound like a bootloader problem to me. There's another user with a similar problem to yours and he's basically where you are now. Both of you might have to open up the case and get it to USB boot mode where you can upload a bootloader to it through USB. Try Firekit and see if it gets anywhere.
I know this has been covered thoroughly in this forum multiple times, and I have really tried to read as many threads as possible before asking.
I rooted my device months ago and finally got a Nexus 7 and want to give my KF to my kids but wanted it stock first. I must have done something in TWRP that removed my bootloader.
I have tried the unbrick tool, I ordered a factory cable from Skorpn (awesome work btw) and by using KFU, my PC can finally see my Kindle.
The problem I'm having is that none of the commands are working and it looks like the bootloader is either bad or completely gone.
It used to turn on and the logo stayed bright. After I used the factory cable it now turns on, blinks, and goes dim.
All the drivers loaded correctly and KFU see's it online.
When I try to reinstall TWRP through KFU it downloads, but is stuck at waiting for device.
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* Activating Fastboot (4002) *
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2433 KB/s (510876 bytes in 0.205s)
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
The kindle has been told to reboot in Fastboot Mode.
< waiting for device >
After reading further, I think I formatted too much and wiped the SD card partition. It doesn't seem like there is a bootloader at all.
Did I miss something in all the reading?
Thanks.
So after doing even further reading I found
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
I connected the factory cable and the logo is now staying brightly lit, so I assume it's in FB Mode.
I downloaded TWRP based on the link and FFF, but now I don't know what to do with them.
I went to ADB's site and installed SDK, but I'm not sure how to get the cmd portion to sideload TWRP and then FFF.
I'm doing my best to following along in the instructions and went to the ADB site and installed SDK.
I saved it to my C drive but when I try to do the following, along with "adb devices,
c:\Android\android-sdk-windows>
I get:
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Update:
NVM, I had it in the wrong directory.
Once I got that figured out, I did an "adb devices" and no devices came back. Of course I have the factory cable connected and I'm not sure if that matters.
Update:
Ok, now I used a standard USB and it sees my device, but now the logo went back to going dim after reboot.
So it looks like my problem is fairly common, however forum searches don't seem to be helping.
It looks like I wiped too much in TWRP.
Now that I finally figured out ADB, I'm confused about the factory cable.
When it's connected ADB does not see my device but the logo is lit bright yellow. When I use a standard cable ADB sees the device but the turns on and goes dim but the logo is still there.
I've downloaded the ZIP files for TWP and FFF, but I can't seem to figure out how to side load them no matter what I do.
I'm about to give up on this.
I decided to go the Soupkit rout and installed ubuntu 11.10 and got my PC to boot to USB.
I followed all the directions but my device is always offline. The only thing I can think of is that the 3rd step says to reboot, when I reboot Soupkit is gone and I have to download it again. When I download it, I save it, drag it to the desktop and extract it there and then run in terminal, use option 1 and then option 2.
I realize forums contain a ton of duplicate posts but I really tried to research and follow all the guides before posting.
Does anyone have any advice?
Update:
Realized I forgot to add persistence to the LiveUSB drive. I'm going to try again.
Copcheck said:
I'm about to give up on this.
I decided to go the Soupkit rout and installed ubuntu 11.10 and got my PC to boot to USB.
I followed all the directions but my device is always offline. The only thing I can think of is that the 3rd step says to reboot, when I reboot Soupkit is gone and I have to download it again. When I download it, I save it, drag it to the desktop and extract it there and then run in terminal, use option 1 and then option 2.
I realize forums contain a ton of duplicate posts but I really tried to research and follow all the guides before posting.
Does anyone have any advice?
Update:
Realized I forgot to add persistence to the LiveUSB drive. I'm going to try again.
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Let me know if this soup kit route works. we have the exact same problem going on here... ill live install ubuntu as well, Ill try my hand here shortly, and give you feedback on my testing.
leroy329 said:
Let me know if this soup kit route works. we have the exact same problem going on here... ill live install ubuntu as well, Ill try my hand here shortly, and give you feedback on my testing.
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No luck with adding persistence.
I get everything to to boot in Linux, followed all the instructions, but Soupkit still does not see my Kindle.
I've tried my factory cable and a regular cable. No luck
Some has changed though because now my Kindle logo light is solid bright whereas before it would blink and dim.
Good luck to you!
Well I've had a great dialogue with myself, but I fixed it by accident.
You guys do awesome work and I know its frustrating when people ask repeat questions. I thought I had truly given it my best shot before asking, but in the end it was an accident that seem to have fixed it, that and Skorpns factory cable LOL.
Right before I got ready to pitch it in the trash I figured I would try KFU one more time even though it wasn't seeing my Kindle. Device manager saw the ADB drivers in Android device though.
I plugged in the factory cable
Launched KFU
KFU said "offline"
Tried various options until I finally saw the install permanent root with superuser (option 2)
That did the trick
I then unplugged my factory cable from both the PC and KF and booted the KF into recovery
Plugged in a standard USB
I downloaded a ROM (Hashcodes and GAPPS) and side loaded them
That did it!
I'm not sure how or why since it said it was offline but it fixed it.
Can anyone shed light on why KFU said offline but it still took a root?
Also, regarding the factory cable, I read a ton of material on when to use it and why, but not really how. What I mean is when to plug in and when to revert to the standard cable. If I missed that, my apologies.
Copcheck said:
Well I've had a great dialogue with myself, but I fixed it by accident.
You guys do awesome work and I know its frustrating when people ask repeat questions. I thought I had truly given it my best shot before asking, but in the end it was an accident that seem to have fixed it, that and Skorpns factory cable LOL.
Right before I got ready to pitch it in the trash I figured I would try KFU one more time even though it wasn't seeing my Kindle. Device manager saw the ADB drivers in Android device though.
I plugged in the factory cable
Launched KFU
KFU said "offline"
Tried various options until I finally saw the install permanent root with superuser (option 2)
That did the trick
I then unplugged my factory cable from both the PC and KF and booted the KF into recovery
Plugged in a standard USB
I downloaded a ROM (Hashcodes and GAPPS) and side loaded them
That did it!
I'm not sure how or why since it said it was offline but it fixed it.
Can anyone shed light on why KFU said offline but it still took a root?
Also, regarding the factory cable, I read a ton of material on when to use it and why, but not really how. What I mean is when to plug in and when to revert to the standard cable. If I missed that, my apologies.
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wow im def. gonna try this seeing how we have similar issues with my kindle fire being recognized with a reg usb and online in kfu but with a boot status of unknown and then not seeing it and status being offline when i plus in the factory cable. also with the regular cables it boots to the cm10 boot logo and then with the factory cable it stays at the kindlefire orange and white cable. only thing im confused on is where you say you
"I then unplugged my factory cable from both the PC and KF and booted the KF into recovery"
how did you reboot to recovery? or this was automatic after option 2? thanks and its awesome you were pretty much able to figure this out on your own. i feel i wont have the same luck
Remi85 said:
wow im def. gonna try this seeing how we have similar issues with my kindle fire being recognized with a reg usb and online in kfu but with a boot status of unknown and then not seeing it and status being offline when i plus in the factory cable. also with the regular cables it boots to the cm10 boot logo and then with the factory cable it stays at the kindlefire orange and white cable. only thing im confused on is where you say you
"I then unplugged my factory cable from both the PC and KF and booted the KF into recovery"
how did you reboot to recovery? or this was automatic after option 2? thanks and its awesome you were pretty much able to figure this out on your own. i feel i wont have the same luck
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When I unplugged the factory cable from the PC and the KF, I could have done 1 of 2 things. Powercycle the KF and hold the power button down to get into TWRP or use a regular USB to side load a ROM and then load it.
Good luck to you, I hope you get it figured out.
Remi85 said:
wow im def. gonna try this seeing how we have similar issues with my kindle fire being recognized with a reg usb and online in kfu but with a boot status of unknown and then not seeing it and status being offline when i plus in the factory cable. also with the regular cables it boots to the cm10 boot logo and then with the factory cable it stays at the kindlefire orange and white cable. only thing im confused on is where you say you
"I then unplugged my factory cable from both the PC and KF and booted the KF into recovery"
how did you reboot to recovery? or this was automatic after option 2? thanks and its awesome you were pretty much able to figure this out on your own. i feel i wont have the same luck
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If you're getting the Kindle Fire orange and white, you haven't installed the new bootloader. Rerun KFU with the Kindle in Fastboot (using Cable) and select install FireFireFire. This will give you the bootloader to reboot to recovery.
Edit: You might as well reinstall TWRP while you're at it, just to be safe.
So I was trying to change my son's Fire 2 over to the new Kit Kat OS, and as I was downloading the necessary files to my computer, I thought I would wipe everything, since he had managed to pretty much fill it with junk, (he's 8). I have TWRP, (2.3.3.0) installed, and used that to wipe everything, including the internal storage and the format data wipe. I have done this with my Fire 1 with no issues, but this time I ran into a problem. TWRP works fine, but now windows won't recognize the tablet. When I go to mount the usb storage to copy the os files over, windows 7 cant load the device drives, and in my device manager it shows the Amazon Kindle fire 2 with the yellow exclamation mark next to it, saying that the drivers for this device are not installed. I have the SDK installed, and I have gone through and re installed the device drivers several times, and also uninstalled the kindle from the device list in manager. Nothing is working. I have attempted fastboot, but when I do try, it gets stuck at the "press the button menu" for TWRP, and after running the fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product command, it tells me it sees an Otter2-Prod-04.
Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions on how I can get into the usb storage so I can load the OS info? Thanks for any help.
Dead?
Well, I rebooted from TWRP and it just went black. No light when the cable is plugged in, (factory cable), no twenty second reset working, nothing. IS it safe to assume I now have a pretty paperweight, and I should be looking into getting my son another tablet?
xanthian23 said:
Well, I rebooted from TWRP and it just went black. No light when the cable is plugged in, (factory cable), no twenty second reset working, nothing. IS it safe to assume I now have a pretty paperweight, and I should be looking into getting my son another tablet?
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Leave it on the charger overnight. Keep trying 20 second reboot. If you can get back into recovery you can adb sideload a rom into the device.
You've never been able to USB Mount this device from recovery.
Good luck. No reason it should be bricked....
How did you try to get into fast boot? You need a fastboot cable. This device is NOTHING LIKE the kf1.
Edit: also need to be sure exactly which kf2 you have.
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mindmajick said:
Leave it on the charger overnight. Keep trying 20 second reboot. If you can get back into recovery you can adb sideload a rom into the device.
You've never been able to USB Mount this device from recovery.
Good luck. No reason it should be bricked....
How did you try to get into fast boot? You need a fastboot cable. This device is NOTHING LIKE the kf1.
Edit: also need to be sure exactly which kf2 you have.
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I have the standard cheap Kf2, no HD, just the upgrade from the first from last year, (2012), they were selling around Christmas last year. I have tried getting it to start back up, but with no success. I don't even understand why it shut down like that. I hadn't done anything to it other than reboot, which I had done successfully several times before. As for the fastboot, I may be incorrect. I ran the adb command: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product in CMD, and then plugged the kindle in and booted up. It showed it was an otter4 or something like that, which I thought meant it was in fastboot. At that time I was using my S4 usb cable. I'm sure I can sort out ho to sideload a rom via adb if I can ever get it started back up again. I had thought about opening it up and unplugging the battery and then re-plugging it back it to try to reset it, but I doubt it will help. Would getting a fastboot cable possibly make it start back up? If anyone has any suggestions on how I can get this thing started up again I would greatly appreciate it. I fell like crap for bricking my kids kindle, he's 8, so it's really important to him. It'll take me several months to save up to buy another one, so if I can get it running again, that would be awesome.
Here's a bit of an oddity, and maybe this spells some hope for me yet. So I plug the KF2 into the computer with the factory cable, hold down the power button for twenty seconds, let go, and then hit the power button again, for about a second, and windows makes the usb device plugged in sound, followed by a usb rejected or not recognized sound. It repeats this over and over for about thirty seconds or so and then stops. So there is something going on with the kindle, and its not flat out dead, or at least it seems. Is this a good sign? Does this help anyone to figure out what I might need to do?
So just to be sure that I was using a fastboot cable, even though I believe that my samsung s4 cable is fastboot capable, and I'm pretty sure I am using the factory cable, (it's not marked so I can't be 100% sure), I built my own fastboot cable, via instructions on how to do so on xda. (found HERE) It's doing the same thing with windows making the usb device inserted / recognized sound, followed by the usb device error sound. I'm guessing that this is a bad thing, am I correct?
One more bit of information to add to the list. I attempted to do the fastboot mode again,and decided to watch my device manager. Whenever windows chimes off that it detects a usb device, something called OMAP 4430 pops up for about a second before disappearing when the error sound comes on. I'm going to try and get a driver for that, just to see what happens. Maybe it'll help. I doubt it, but you never know until you try...
This just keeps getting weirder and weirder. So I installed the omap driver for windows and android, and now windows recognizes the device, but only for about a second. It just keeps cycling through the usb connected sound, recognizing the omap device, and then the usb disconnected sound, as though the device were being plugged in and then unplugged about every second for roughly thirty seconds. I'm starting to think there is something seriously wrong, which bites. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
That's a hard brick' we can't use the usboot/aboot utility to fix the device like you can on other omap devices because we need a certain signed file to fix the boot loader. Only amazon has that file and they aren't giving it out. There is a way to recover your device from a hard brick but you need to be good with a soldering iron and have a USB sdcard reader, the kind that kinda is like a flashdrive rather than the multi type readers and some really small wire. Kurohyou wrote a tutorial on how to fix it in the kf2 dev section, not sure if he ever added the part in on how to reflash the boot loader from Linux, but if you take this route and try to fix it I wouldn't mind helping.
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stunts513 said:
That's a hard brick' we can't use the usboot/aboot utility to fix the device like you can on other omap devices because we need a certain signed file to fix the boot loader. Only amazon has that file and they aren't giving it out. There is a way to recover your device from a hard brick but you need to be good with a soldering iron and have a USB sdcard reader, the kind that kinda is like a flashdrive rather than the multi type readers and some really small wire. Kurohyou wrote a tutorial on how to fix it in the kf2 dev section, not sure if he ever added the part in on how to reflash the boot loader from Linux, but if you take this route and try to fix it I wouldn't mind helping.
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OK, I have both a tf - micro sd card usb card reader, and a full sd card usb card reader. I'll have to go digging for them in the morning, but I think I can find them. I'm also really good with a soldering iron, (used to be a vcr / tv repair technician), It took me roughly two minutes to do the homemade factory cable. So I am game, especially since at this point I really have nothing to loose by trying. Would you mind posting a link to where the tutorial is? I'm going to go looking for it, but just in case I can't find it, a link would help. And thank you so much for this suggestion!
OK, I found the tutorial on how to wire everything up and what's needed. I'll have to go get some small wire and a better tip for my iron, but aside form that, the wiring and soldering seems simple enough. My problem is going to be dealing with linux. I know Windows backwards and forwards, but I have a pretty limited knowledge of linux, aside from a few things we did in school to cover general PC repair. I can get it up an running, which I will do tomorrow, but I may need some help sorting out what to do with it once I have the board lined up and ready to roll, which will have to wait till next week when I get back from a work trip. Do you know if kurohyou offers repairs? If it's not too expensive, I would be willing to pay for the fix.
He might repair it, he just made a solderless repair tool to repair them. But like I said I'm more than willing to help with the Linux side, I'm a PC tech myself and use Linux primarily, you can basically burn an ubuntu live CD or put it on a USB stick and boot into the entire os without having to install it, from there's its as simple as plugging the device into the PC, and seeing what device path it assigned to the kindle's emmc, and running a dd command to flash the boot loader back onto the device.
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... you can basically burn an ubuntu live CD or put it on a USB stick and boot into the entire os without having to install it, from there's its as simple as plugging the device into the PC, and seeing what device path it assigned to the kindle's emmc, and running a dd command to flash the boot loader back onto the device.
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Yeah, I've ran a live usb version of unbuntu a few times, and in the past I have had the full version on my system, but I rarely ever used it, so I got rid of it. I have an extra 600 gig's of space just sitting around on my laptop, so I will install a full version, and get off my lazy rear and start learning linux. This should be a good first lesson. I can't do any of this until next week though, so I will be pm'ing you once I've gotten everythig hooked up and ready to go. Thanks again for the help.
I had a question about the repair though. I went through the discussion, and I may have just missed it, but did he ever figure out how to get the OS up and running? From what I could tell, he was still working on it, and hadn't managed to get a working rom loaded. I probably just either missed it, or didn't understand one of the post's.
Hi there
I have an Amazon Fire TV 2 (4K) which I have rooted with rbox's pre-rooted ROM with custom recovery etc. All has been going well and I have been working on perfecting my Kodi install when this morning I snagged the power cord and the Fire TV fell about two foot off my sofa on to my carpeted floor. I honestly didn't think there would be a problem, but the unit restarted and got stuck on the white Amazon logo.
I left the unit completely unplugged for an hour and tried again, but it was still stuck on the white Amazon logo. I still have recovery so I immediately backed up my system in full onto my microSD card, then tried wiping just the cache (to make my life easier if this worked). The process seemed to work except for a message in red which said "unable to locate boot partition", but sadly when I rebooted I was still stuck on the white Amazon logo. I then tried a full factory reset, which ran without error, but still left me stuck on the Amazon logo. I then flashed the pre-rooted ROM (sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4), which also seemed to work, but still resulted in me being stuck on the white Amazon logo.
Is it possible that some small part of the machine broke in that short, fairly soft fall? Or is there something else I can try via TWRP?
If the hardware is at fault, I would prefer not to return it to Amazon rooted and with the stock firmware installed, so would I be able to wipe it 100% if necessary. I do hope it doesn't come to that, but if anyone has any ideas, I would be very (very) grateful.
Peter
In the last sentence I meant to say, "I would prefer not to return it to Amazon rooted and with the custom recovery installed..." Just in case that was confusing. Still keen to find an answer if anyone can help!
Left the Fire TV unplugged all night. No difference today. Looks like I'll have to return it to Amazon with the glaringly obvious recovery mode staring them in the face when they come to test it out. I just hope they don't balk on issuing a replacement. It would have been nice to be able to try out a few more methods before giving in, but I see my post has not rung a bell with anyone.
Now that you've flashed a pre-rooted rom over your old one, can you unplug everything (including sd card, hdmi cable, power, ethernet) and leave them unplugged for an hour or so, then try again?
Thank you for your response. I shall certainly give that a shot and report back afterwards.
Hello again. I left my Fire TV completely unhooked from all peripherals for well over an hour, but still stuck on gruesome white logo. For good measure, I tried reinstalling my backup. Ran without issue, but still stuck on logo. Then reflashing pre-rooted ROM, but again stuck on logo.
Is it possible that a tiny memory module of some kind was dislodged in the fall? It seems so strange that it still powers on and I can still reinstall from SD card etc.
I would much prefer to exhaust all options if possible. Unless there is a foolproof way to confirm hardware failure.
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Hello again. I left my Fire TV completely unhooked from all peripherals for well over an hour, but still stuck on gruesome white logo. For good measure, I tried reinstalling my backup. Ran without issue, but still stuck on logo. Then reflashing pre-rooted ROM, but again stuck on logo.
Is it possible that a tiny memory module of some kind was dislodged in the fall? It seems so strange that it still powers on and I can still reinstall from SD card etc.
I would much prefer to exhaust all options if possible. Unless there is a foolproof way to confirm hardware failure.
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Anyone have any further thoughts?
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Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/firetv-2-unbrick-image-t3313349
Thank you, sir. I'll be honest I came across that article on my travels in search of an answer, but assumed it was for people who didn't have recovery. I shall certainly give it a shot and let you know my results.
Good morning. I was too tired to try this out last night.
Having read through the entire FireTV 2 Unbrick Image thread it is not 100% clear exactly what steps I should take to run the process. Once I unzip all the files do I simply drop them all in the root folder on my SD card (in the Fire TV)? And do I then attach the Fire TV to my Windows PC via USB?
Lastly, if I already have recovery, do I really need to go through this process, which may very well lead to further issues, only to get me back to square one and the recovery I already have?
I'm so sorry to have to pester people about this, but without your help I would be lost.
OK, my brain is waking up. As far as the files go, I just put the unbrick.img on my SD card, then run the remaining files on my Windows PC and connect my Fire TV via A-A USB cable. OK, I can do that.
But does it all just lead to the same recovery?
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Good morning. I was too tired to try this out last night.
Having read through the entire FireTV 2 Unbrick Image thread it is not 100% clear exactly what steps I should take to run the process. Once I unzip all the files do I simply drop them all in the root folder on my SD card (in the Fire TV)? And do I then attach the Fire TV to my Windows PC via USB?
Lastly, if I already have recovery, do I really need to go through this process, which may very well lead to further issues, only to get me back to square one and the recovery I already have?
I'm so sorry to have to pester people about this, but without your help I would be lost.
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Read step 2 here (http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-root-the-amazon-fire-tv-2/) to prepare your computer/laptop and firetv unit then download the following:
•FireTV 2 Recovery Installer
•FireTV 2 Recovery
•Unbrick Images (md5sum: 5e774497b3bad5c47d1c744410f6db12)
Extract all 3 zip files to the same directory. Follow link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/firetv-2-unbrick-image-t3313349
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OK, my brain is waking up. As far as the files go, I just put the unbrick.img on my SD card, then run the remaining files on my Windows PC and connect my Fire TV via A-A USB cable. OK, I can do that.
But does it all just lead to the same recovery?
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READ POST: "Extract all 3 zip files to the same directory." and yes it will
I truly appreciate your help.
OK, so I have placed the file "ramdisk-recovery.cpio.lzma" on the microSD Card and returned the microSD card to the Fire TV. I ran "unbrick_firetv2.bat" on Windows, then connected my Fire TV to my PC via A-A USB cable. Windows recognised that there was a device, but did not successfully load any drivers ("Device driver was not successfully installed - MT65xx Preloader - Device Unplugged") and the Command Window in Windows simply states "Waiting for preloader" and nothing else happens.
I already have ADB drivers on my machine which was working with my Fire TV before the problem began (15 Seconds ADB Installer 1.4.2), so how can I get my Fire TV to communicate with my Windows PC in order to initiate the process? Or is the trouble I am having indicative of a hardware problem?
I await any and all input.
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Good morning. I was too tired to try this out last night.
Having read through the entire FireTV 2 Unbrick Image thread it is not 100% clear exactly what steps I should take to run the process. Once I unzip all the files do I simply drop them all in the root folder on my SD card (in the Fire TV)? And do I then attach the Fire TV to my Windows PC via USB?
Lastly, if I already have recovery, do I really need to go through this process, which may very well lead to further issues, only to get me back to square one and the recovery I already have?
I'm so sorry to have to pester people about this, but without your help I would be lost.
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1) create a folder on your desktop
2) unzip all three files in this new created folder
3) connect your firetv through an A-A cable without power cord connected
4) Run unbrick_firetv2.bat for Windows or unbrick_firetv2.sh for Linux or OSX
5) power on your firetv unit
6) let the process run
Note: you need to install the proper drivers before you do any of above steps. Follow step 2 in this link: http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-root-the-amazon-fire-tv-2/
Hello again. I did all the steps outlined above. The main factor I was missing was installing the MTK65XX Preloader USB VCom drivers.
This proved to be the usual despairing pain, but I got there in the end, installed the unbrick image, then reconnected the Fire TV and booted into recovery without issue. I then flashed the pre-rooted ROM without issue, but - so very sadly - I am still still stuck on the white Amazon logo.
Can I safely assume now that my unit is simply broken? If so, how can I delete all signs of the recovery and root, so I might say to Amazon it didn't start after a factory refresh?
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Hello again. I did all the steps outlined above. The main factor I was missing was installing the MTK65XX Preloader USB VCom drivers.
This proved to be the usual despairing pain, but I got there in the end, installed the unbrick image, then reconnected the Fire TV and booted into recovery without issue. I then flashed the pre-rooted ROM without issue, but - so very sadly - I am still still stuck on the white Amazon logo.
Can I safely assume now that my unit is simply broken? If so, how can I delete all signs of the recovery and root, so I might say to Amazon it didn't start after a factory refresh?
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Have you used unbrick.img or unbrick+ramdisk.img? BTW what version of prerooted img did you use? Maybe that is the cause, could be corrupted.
I used "unbrick.img" because I have a microSD card and it took half an hour as opposed to two. The pre-rooted image I used was "sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4", which I have had in a folder on my PC for over a month and have used successfully several times before so I don't think that is the issue.
If there are no other options, I think it's time to get a replacement, but how do I wipe recovery and root so I don't have to explain myself to Amazon?
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I used "unbrick.img" because I have a microSD card and it took half an hour as opposed to two. The pre-rooted image I used was "sloane-5.0.5-rooted_r4", which I have had in a folder on my PC for over a month and have used successfully several times before so I don't think that is the issue.
If there are no other options, I think it's time to get a replacement, but how do I wipe recovery and root so I don't have to explain myself to Amazon?
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Try the long way.......it is just two hours.
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Try the long way.......it is just two hours.
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I do appreciate you trying to help, but this all so tricky and time-consuming. I already had recovery, I then installed recovery again with the unboot image. What difference could installing recovery the slowest way make?
OK, I am trying the long way now. I suppose I said I wanted to exhaust the possibilities.