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So guys I feel so very stupid right now because I completely did this to myself and I realized what I did after the fact and now I am stuck with a KF that is booting up and then crashing and rebooting after about 20-30 seconds.... I decided that I wanted to have a stock ROM on the fire backup up if for some reason I wanted to go back to that UI. I made a nandroid and then flashed the 6.3.1.zip file that i downloaded from amazon's website. Have you spotted the mistake already? that's right, i forgot to wipe the cache and system and now I have a broken KF.... does anyone know what I can do to recover from this horrific boot loop? perhaps a hard reset of some sort that will erase everything so I can start from scratch? or at least have a stock fire?? thanks in advance for any help, such a n00b mistake....
If you think it helps, I CAN access the "SD" memory but I haven't had success with ADB

If you can reach the sdcard then you should have adb..... AFTER reinstalling the drivers.. try that..

fiddlefaddle said:
If you can reach the sdcard then you should have adb..... AFTER reinstalling the drivers.. try that..
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Disconnect KF, shut it off, reinstall driver and finally connect the KF to the computer.
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fiddlefaddle said:
If you can reach the sdcard then you should have adb..... AFTER reinstalling the drivers.. try that..
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Two odd things: I rooted the kindle using this computer, so you would think that the drivers would be fine but for some reason it is not working. I ran the install_drivers.bat from KFU and it installs fine but then if i go back to device manager it says that these drivers "WPD FileSystem Volume Driver" is installed and when I try to install the adb drivers it says that the best driver for the device is already installed which is the WPD FileSystem Volume Driver and if I try to uninstall the drivers, it seems like it doesn't do anything at all. I will uninstall the drivers, disconnect and then reconnect the kindle and then it shows up with the same drivers again! any suggestions? I would really like to be able to use my kindle again...

nschiwy said:
Two odd things: I rooted the kindle using this computer, so you would think that the drivers would be fine but for some reason it is not working. I ran the install_drivers.bat from KFU and it installs fine but then if i go back to device manager it says that these drivers "WPD FileSystem Volume Driver" is installed and when I try to install the adb drivers it says that the best driver for the device is already installed which is the WPD FileSystem Volume Driver and if I try to uninstall the drivers, it seems like it doesn't do anything at all. I will uninstall the drivers, disconnect and then reconnect the kindle and then it shows up with the same drivers again! any suggestions? I would really like to be able to use my kindle again...
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Uninstall the drivers from device manager first, then run install_drivers.bat
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Thought I saw someone else with this problem a bit ago. Found this link. Maybe it will help a bit.
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/Microsoft-WPD-FileSystem-Volume-Driver-bootup-ftopict347023.html

pbailey212 said:
Uninstall the drivers from device manager first, then run install_drivers.bat
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It's very strange, the install_drivers.bat seems to be installing drivers for a device that it is not associating with my kindle so every time I try to uninstall, it just comes back. It's really strange too because ALL of my computers are doing this... would I be better off if i tried from a linux machine rather than windows? from what I've gathered this default driver is a windows/microsoft substitute for mass storage that it doesn't know what else to do with. Is it possible that even though android is clearly running (even though it is only for a little while) that it is unable to communicate with the computer at all?

this is mostly a bump, not sure if it will work but I still haven't had any luck. I was grounded on my XP machine when it wouldn't install the drivers because they were unsigned... saw a tutorial on how to fix that but it was very confusing and unclear. But if anyone has had this problem or has ANY suggestions I am all ears. The kindle was a christmas gift from my parents and I really wish I had just left it alone now. ("if it ain't broke, don't fix it")

It is really much harder on xp to sort out the driver issue acesss to a machine running at least windows 7 would help you out alot. Otherwise go through the process of downloading the Java development kit and using sdk manager to acquire the platform tools for android 2.3 make sure you grab the Google driver this one is signed .

I have no problem putting the jdk and sdk on my personal computers but the xp machine is my mom's so I'm not going to put those on. I thought there would be no problem if i could have used the install_drivers.bat but that turned out to be a bust. Besides that, I wasn't able to find the kindle in the device manager...

nschiwy said:
I have no problem putting the jdk and sdk on my personal computers but the xp machine is my mom's so I'm not going to put those on. I thought there would be no problem if i could have used the install_drivers.bat but that turned out to be a bust. Besides that, I wasn't able to find the kindle in the device manager...
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Your last sentence tells me that you might not be sure what you are looking for in the device manager.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2

kinfauns said:
Your last sentence tells me that you might not be sure what you are looking for in the device manager.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2
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I really appreciate your help. I've actually been trying to use your guide to see if there was anything I missed. Unfortunately I've not had very much luck. Honestly I've gotten to the point that I would be willing to pay someone if they were confident that they could fix it and I would even pay the shipping both ways. I just want to try to use a linux box to fix it and if I am still unable to communicate with the device through ADB I would be willing to employ anyone from these forums with enough knowledge that they are confident that they could fix it to do it for me. As long as the price was reasonable, of course, keeping in mind that I could buy a refurbished one from amazon for $160 so paying 70-100 would be outlandish... I bought a new HDD for my pc so I could boot linux (I hate dual boots) and after that comes and I still have no luck I will be seeing if anyone would be interested. It's probably a great learning opportunity as well and would be a great addition to the forums if we know what to do when something like this happens.
What OS were you basing this guide from out of curiosity?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26491884

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26491884
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Thank you so much, this will certainly come in handy! I've actually used Ubuntu 11.04 before and I really liked it aside from a few bugs that I didn't feel like dealing with that eventually led me to switch back to windows. So, hopefully this will be the end all in terms of android/kindle fire issues.

okay so, I finally got a hard drive today for my laptop. Booted up Ubuntu 12.04 and used andadb.sh to install all of the necessary software. However, I am not able to connect to my kindle through adb, even on linux. Is there something I may have done wrong somehow? I used the adb_usb.ini from KFU, I don't know for sure that was correct but soup didn't put a link up on his guide so I made an educated guess. I am amazed that nobody has had this problem before, it seems like a very easy mistake to make, at least it was for me! as always, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Try sudo fastboot devices

I'm sorry is this a command? I'm not very familiar with linux you might need to hold my hand on this one. and I tried to adb devices and nothing was listed, will using sudo fastboot devices make a difference? again, sorry for the ignorance, I will try it, I am just addressing concerns.

What bootloader are you using just give me a refresh of your situation so I don't have to read I'm at work but I can still help ya.

okay so basically I don't have a bootloader or recovery because I was planning on rerooting after reinstalling the stock amazon android, only problem is that I forgot to wipe before installing the OS and now I have a Frankenstein amazon gingerbread which is competing with the ICS i had previously installed on the device and continues to crash after about 20 seconds being on and reboots. I am able to access the sd memory, even when it is rebooting but I haven't had any successful connection using adb. If I had, I would imagine I could just reflash twrp and fff and I would then wipe and install a ROM and be good to go but as of now I just have a constantly bootcycling KF that for some reason has no precedent for repairing.

Shutdown and reboot the phone

[Q] Another Possibly Bricked Kindle Fire 1st Gen.

Okay, so I've searched this entire day, literally like the past 13 hours has been spent searching xda kindle fire forums, and googling the hell out of the internet searching for a fix to a situation like mine but have gotten no where! So, if I have somehow missed another thread that has this figured out I am apologizing now, but like I stated before I have tried and tried searching before deciding to post this. Now, moving on to the issue.
My Kindle Fire is stuck at the boot logo. It seems to be in fastboot mode, (4002), but will not go any further. If it is hooked up to the pc, which I'm running Windows 7 64 it will sound as though it connects, the screen will show the kindle fire logo (orange) really brightly btw, then go black with a disconnect sound on the pc then quickly show the logo again, this time dimmer and the reconnect sound on the pc sounds again.
What I did to cause this. I had a Custom CM7 rom on this (I don't remember which), and had this rooted and customized since last January. I remember that TWRP never would come up right (I don't know which version again) unless I reinstalled TWRP everytime I wanted to install a new rom on it using KFU. This time was no different, except I made a stupid mistake. I was trying to reinstall the stock rom 6.3.1 which I downloaded directly from Amazon, put it in the sdcard directory using TWRP and didn't rename it completely, instead only chaning the end to .zip, and not renaming the whole thing as update.zip (not sure if that makes a dif). Anyway, I did a delvik/cache wipe (not a factory reset) and attempted to run the install of the factory rom. Everything seemed fine until it came to the boot logo, and nothing else.
What I've tried so far. I have tried all of this on two seperate pc's using windows 7 64. I have tried the unbrick utility making sure I had the latest and greatest, making sure I tried every which way it has to unbrick it to no avail. I have tried the KFU, again the latest and greatest trying everything IT has to see if any of it would make a difference to no avail, even chaning the bootmode but no matter which mode I try, the Kindle will reboot but stay stuck regardless of whatever I tried after the reboot. I have tried using command prompts to bring up ADB Shell but again, when I run ADB devices it will show up, and the drivers hardware ID's are correct according to all the forums with the drivers listing the Kindle as an ADB android device but when I try to run a shell command it says that no such directory is found or something of the sort. If it doesn't say that than it will simply state that it is waiting for the device, and I do try to disconnect then reconnect the cable at this time, even rebooting the Kindle but it never moves past "waiting for the device". I have tried shorting it by opening the case and putting something metal to the one point and the metal border but the most that did was turn the device off! When I try to turn it on again it simply stays on the boot logo. I have tried the factory cable, and still nothing works! I have changed the script for the driver to make sure it recognized the Kindle but that didn't work either.
I am at the end of my rope here, and I am begging for someone to simply help me who may know exactly what I am going through that knows what to do! I am sorry for the lenghty post, but I figure certain questions will be asked if not for my detailed accounts of what's happened and what I have done to this point. Thank you to anyone reading this and thanks to anyone who replies, you have my gratitude!

Try Soupkit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850038 it will rule out all the formalities of drivers. My guess is that your shell is missing or broken so that factory cable will come in handy. If you want to do without the whole setup try my iso post 7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413358 if you desire assistance I would be happy to help.

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Thepooch said:
Try Soupkit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850038 it will rule out all the formalities of drivers. My guess is that your shell is missing or broken so that factory cable will come in handy. If you want to do without the whole setup try my iso post 7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413358 if you desire assistance I would be happy to help.
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Thank you so much for replying so quickly! I have seen you reply to others, and I was actually dreading posting due to some unruly replies I have witnessed to people like me. But you are always helpful and I appreciate that! I'll try setting up ubuntu (I'm assuming that soupkit only works with that, correct?) and I'll read your post and let you know what happens. Thanks again!

mikeydjs said:
Thank you so much for replying so quickly! I have seen you reply to others, and I was actually dreading posting due to some unruly replies I have witnessed to people like me. But you are always helpful and I appreciate that! I'll try setting up ubuntu (I'm assuming that soupkit only works with that, correct?) and I'll read your post and let you know what happens. Thanks again!
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If you use my iso Soupkit has already been ran just follow my instructions for creating it . If you choose to do the setup on your own use linux mint mate 13 32 bit or precise pangolin ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 32 bit. 32 bit works on both 32 and 64 bit machines.

Trying Ubuntu 11.10
Thepooch said:
If you use my iso Soupkit has already been ran just follow my instructions for creating it . If you choose to do the setup on your own use linux mint mate 13 32 bit or precise pangolin ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 32 bit. 32 bit works on both 32 and 64 bit machines.
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I tried using ubuntu 12.04, but the live usb application wouldn't recognize the .iso I got from pbay. It did see the 11.10 version so I went with that instead. Man! Why did I ever not use Ubuntu before!!! Really nice os. Anyway, with that being said, I downloaded SoupKit while on ubuntu like you instruct in your post, but when I click on install.sh I am seeing that it says Soupkit is already installed. So I don't see the prompt to run in terminal. Do I have to uninstall or delete the current occurrence of soupkit on this ubuntu install? Or do I continue on with the setup.sh file located in the soupkit folder? Also, I plugged my fire in while on ubuntu and I don't see a prompt for it to install any drivers, nor do i know how to located usb connected devices (Too used to Windows I guess, lol). Thanks again for you help, and hopefully I'm not sounding like a total noob!

Yeah sorry 11.10 is funky with soupkit during testing I really had to cheat to get a proper install try going with my prefab iso its far more simple and stable enough. I know the download is large that is because of it's own prepacked casper r/w. Drivers do not install on linux rather it is setup as udev rules that configure for a specific device lets just say it's different to avoid going into to much detail. Yes setup.sh is the next run if it doesnt run in terminal but that's not the proper way to run soupkit stick with the distros I recommend. If it doesn't find the distro in the dropdown try unlisted iso if you can`t find the iso when attaching start to fill the name of the iso in it will begin to auto complete.

Ubuntu 12.10?
Thepooch said:
Yeah sorry 11.10 is funky with soupkit during testing I really had to cheat to get a proper install try going with my prefab iso its far more simple and stable enough. I know the download is large that is because of it's own prepacked casper r/w. Drivers do not install on linux rather it is setup as udev rules that configure for a specific device lets just say it's different to avoid going into to much detail. Yes setup.sh is the next run if it doesnt run in terminal but that's not the proper way to run soupkit stick with the distros I recommend. If it doesn't find the distro in the dropdown try unlisted iso if you can`t find the iso when attaching start to fill the name of the iso in it will begin to auto complete.
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I'm downloading ubuntu 12.10. Not sure if this will make a difference, but I will try anything at this point! Will this make a difference?

mikeydjs said:
I'm downloading ubuntu 12.10. Not sure if this will make a difference, but I will try anything at this point! Will this make a difference?
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It will make a difference in how soupkit setup runs if it doesn`t run correctly it causes issues you want it to be as stable as possible. Make sure you drag the slider to add at least 1300 mgs of persistent for saving data between reboots. Once you get this done I can assure you its one of the finest tools to ever grace your kindle Soupmagnet went all out on its creation make sure you stroke his thanks button.

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Thepooch said:
It will make a difference in how soupkit setup runs if it doesn`t run correctly it causes issues you want it to be as stable as possible. Make sure you drag the slider to add at least 1300 mgs of persistent for saving data between reboots. Once you get this done I can assure you its one of the finest tools to ever grace your kindle Soupmagnet went all out on its creation make sure you stroke his thanks button.
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Ok, so I'm currently running ubuntu 12.10 from the usb stick and I tried double clicking on the install.sh again with the same result! Do I have to install ubuntu in order for it to run properly? I keep getting the message when I open install.sh that soupkit is already installed and that I have no need to install it again. Am I doing something wrong here?

Try my iso post 7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413358.

mikeydjs said:
Ok, so I'm currently running ubuntu 12.10 from the usb stick and I tried double clicking on the install.sh again with the same result! Do I have to install ubuntu in order for it to run properly? I keep getting the message when I open install.sh that soupkit is already installed and that I have no need to install it again. Am I doing something wrong here?
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Yeah, I need to fix that...delete your /bin/SoupKit folder and try again.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."

soupmagnet said:
Yeah, I need to fix that...delete your /bin/SoupKit folder and try again.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."
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Lemme know when your ready for more testing .

[Q]Kindle Fire Help

I have scoured through pages and google searches for many related subjects and not one has been able to help me thus far.
I have a kindle fire that I rooted and put TWRP on it and android 4.1, a few months back.
The power port is damage so keeping it plugged in can be a challenge but it still works, anyways I digress.
I erased the entire SD apparently and that included my backups.
I can only boot into TWRP and normally that wouldn't be a problem except I can't connect my kindle through ADB commands and it doesn't show up on my computer. I have drivers installed and I have been trying so many different things so if you find something similar to what I'm talking about please let me know as I would love to have this kindle running again.
Many thanks in advance,
-TehRobot.

Mount the sdcard to USB in TWRP.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."

Ok I tried all the check boxes for mounting, of course mounting the SDcard... but the computer won't recognize the kindle to be even there.
I was running 4.1.0 on c9 and erased the SD card.. After that it wouldn't show up on my computer.
So TWRP is my savior except I can't put any files onto it to flash.. :
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Does anyone think I should buy a factory cable or breakout board, I think that's what it is called, to try and force the kindle into recovery, then perhaps it would show up on my laptop.
Because I figure if it showed up before, and after the accidental wipe it no longer did I would have to imagine it's the kindle itself.

I don't think that's it, if you're in TWRP you're already in recovery. Have you tried the Linux method in the soupkit sticky thread?
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Tehrobot said:
Ok I tried all the check boxes for mounting, of course mounting the SDcard... but the computer won't recognize the kindle to be even there.
I was running 4.1.0 on c9 and erased the SD card.. After that it wouldn't show up on my computer.
So TWRP is my savior except I can't put any files onto it to flash.. :
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Does anyone think I should buy a factory cable or breakout board, I think that's what it is called, to try and force the kindle into recovery, then perhaps it would show up on my laptop.
Because I figure if it showed up before, and after the accidental wipe it no longer did I would have to imagine it's the kindle itself.
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SoupKit will fix your mounting issue OR look for a sticky in the KF General forum that explains how to do it manually.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."

soupmagnet said:
SoupKit will fix your mounting issue OR look for a sticky in the KF General forum that explains how to do it manually.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."
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Thanks, going to put Mint 13 on my laptop and get started. I will report back after I get this kindle working again!

soupmagnet said:
SoupKit will fix your mounting issue OR look for a sticky in the KF General forum that explains how to do it manually.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."
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Ok, so I have a partition on my HD with linux mint running on it with all the updates installed.
-DL soupkit.
read the readme.
It wont run in the terminal no matter what I do..
It does however show up in my Home/bin/soupkit.
I tried getting it to run in the terminal manually but to no avail.
I am only a breadth above novice with linux so bear with me please as I am trying to be as specific as possible with the problems I am encountering..
( I had it running in the terminal like normal but it kept asking for a sudo password that wasn't my password, but that was before I fully installed It, I thought I could make it work off the Demo version before full installation was completed.)

Tehrobot said:
Ok, so I have a partition on my HD with linux mint running on it with all the updates installed.
-DL soupkit.
read the readme.
It wont run in the terminal no matter what I do..
It does however show up in my Home/bin/soupkit.
I tried getting it to run in the terminal manually but to no avail.
I am only a breadth above novice with linux so bear with me please as I am trying to be as specific as possible with the problems I am encountering..
( I had it running in the terminal like normal but it kept asking for a sudo password that wasn't my password, but that was before I fully installed It, I thought I could make it work off the Demo version before full installation was completed.)
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In terminal, are you entering "soupkit.sh" ?

Yes, I followed the instructions as closely as possible.
It wouldn't open, it would say it installed properly but wouldn't run.

Tehrobot said:
( I had it running in the terminal like normal but it kept asking for a sudo password that wasn't my password, but that was before I fully installed It, I thought I could make it work off the Demo version before full installation was completed.)
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A couple things to note:
In demo (Live) mode, there is no sudo password, you just press enter. Also, in Live mode, nothing gets written to disc, especially if you are running Live from a CD.
If you want to run Live rather than actually installing Linux to your computer, you need to do so from a USB drive with "persistence" (Google it)
I understand this is new to you but all of this information is in the SoupKit thread. Pay close attention to the information you find there, and if there is something it that you don't understand, try to research it to the best of your abilities.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."

soupmagnet said:
A couple things to note:
In demo (Live) mode, there is no sudo password, you just press enter. Also, in Live mode, nothing gets written to disc, especially if you are running Live from a CD.
If you want to run Live rather than actually installing Linux to your computer, you need to do so from a USB drive with "persistence" (Google it)
I understand this is new to you but all of this information is in the SoupKit thread. Pay close attention to the information you find there, and if there is something it that you don't understand, try to research it to the best of your abilities.
"That's a special kind of stupid. The kind that makes me laugh."
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No I understand, I had it installed from the windows.exe it gives. You just finish installation whence you log into mint. Anyways,
I was trying to get around having to use a USB, that's all. I will get a bigger USB and try that, I did read the guide pretty closely and I'm sure I can do it, I was just trying to go without USB.
Thanks for all your help though its been a hell of a lot easier.

[Q] need to get out of fastboot

Hello again, I am having a bit of trouble as of right now and i would like some feedback, now a little back story, I used to be into rooting and such, always dong it for my friends and i was quite good. Then came my hiatus of about a year or so and now im back and i guess i dont remember exactly how to do this and i have screwed up a friend of mines kindle
My dilemma
I have gone in with the rooting process with kfu and i went and changed the drivers to adb and then i went into bootload and changed it to fastboot, and i have forgotten that windows frowns upon such a thing and now the kindle is stuck in a bootload at the stock booting screen of the white and red "KindleFire" and every time i connect it i get and error message saying that the device isnt recognized by windows and it is probably malfunctioning (which we all know it isnt) and i want to change it back to normal bootload but kfu wont recognize it either because of windows. I have tried to re-install the drivers to get it to be recognized as an android device again but alas that dosent seem to work either. So it would most appreciated if i could get some help on this one.
well this post can be ignored because i figured it out

If its a windows problem try running a VitualMachine of a linux distro and try using fastboot there. Or create a live usb of a linux distro and temporarily run linux on your pc.
I used this to get Ubuntu on my laptop. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

tobiascuypers said:
If its a windows problem try running a VitualMachine of a linux distro and try using fastboot there. Or create a live usb of a linux distro and temporarily run linux on your pc.
I used this to get Ubuntu on my laptop. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
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well i would like to avoid to using linux but if i really have to i will

is there any possible way to do it without linux

Help Troubleshooting bricked Kindle Fire 1st Gen Please Advice

Hey guys my name is Vito, even though this is my first post I have been reading Xda developers forums for a while. More than a year ago I bricked my first generation Kindle Fire and ever since been trying to unbrick it. These days i have a new version of kindle fire but from time to time i get back into trying to fix the old tablet without succeeding. I've read many threads on this forum in regards to Kindle Fire trouble shooting and used the search button dozens of times so i hope i don't repeat an existing threads. I am posting here as my last resort to try to trouble shoot the problem and get some experienced advice to hopefully fix the tablet because i failed trying to fix it on my own.
My kindle fire 1st gen has been rooted, it has FireFireFire bootloader v1.4a and working TWRP v2.2.2.1 also I got factory cable and otg cable, and USB debugging Disabled, No ROM,
How I bricked it: One day i was playing with an operating system tuning application and after pressing auto tune kindle fire either froze or shut down and when i power it back on it would just freeze on "booting, with blue kindle fire logo". That's where i made a few mistakes i believe, instead of researching xda developers forum thoroughly i went into TWRP and wiped cache, dalvik cache, factory reset, and unfortunately system (ROM) however i did not wiped the external storage so that still there. Also USB debugging was disabled on my kindle fire at the time i bricked the device.
What I tried to fix it: I tried to install and re install many different kindle fire drivers for windows on at least 4 different computers and operating systems ( XP, WIN7, WIN8 ) but my kindle fire would not be detected and adb would not work, also tried going trough guides on installing Android SDK and getting ADB working but now i know that i wont be able to get ADB working without having USB debugging enabled.
So i ended up with only one option Fastboot. I tried installing Ubuntu on one of the computers with soupkit but linux would not recognize kindle fire being connected, it would always say waiting for device, same thing would be if i log on to ubuntu from flash drive boot.
Also when i type # lsusb command in ubuntu command prompt it gives me all usb ports and connected devices but kindle fire does not get detected in any mode while my new kindle fire does get detected in ubuntu once connected.
When i get into fastboot mode and i type # fastboot getvar product every time i get < waiting for device >.
So that's about it, all the above i tried and re tried hoping to get it going but im either doomed or im just doing something wrong or missing something all the way which is possible. I would really appreciate anyone's help and feedback on this post and would really love to just try to figure this thing out.
Thank you.

Vito,
I am new and far from an expert, however, I just discovered if you have TWRP, there is an option to mount the sdcard space and copy files. Not sure about the version you have but give it a try:
- Connect USB to PC
- Boot on TWRP
- Mount sdcard
- copy ROM (make sure you use one that works with your TWRP version and whatever other software is there)
- install ROM
Like I said, far from expert, but I believe all you need is a ROM.

pokeys fire kit should sort it. im back in 2 hours. i can help you then
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shabuboy said:
Vito,
I am new and far from an expert, however, I just discovered if you have TWRP, there is an option to mount the sdcard space and copy files. Not sure about the version you have but give it a try:
- Connect USB to PC
- Boot on TWRP
- Mount sdcard
- copy ROM (make sure you use one that works with your TWRP version and whatever other software is there)
- install ROM
Like I said, far from expert, but I believe all you need is a ROM.
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Thanks for replying, my TWRP version has that option to mount sdcard but unfortunately it does not work, if only it did

lovejoy777 said:
pokeys fire kit should sort it. im back in 2 hours. i can help you then
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Hey Lovejoy777, thanks for the help, I will send you PM.

it does not mount it? Or it does not show on Windows? If it is the Windows part, you probably need the drivers. I used Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.9.zip.
This also helped me after rooting my device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2308295
and sorry, this is where my expertise ends