I have had a Kindle Fire since they day they came out. I immediately disliked the stock Rom so I ran the kindle fire utility and installed Fire Fire Fire and TWRP, rooted it, and installed CM7 Rom which has been working great. Transferred files and programs between my PC and Kindle with no issue for months. Now with all the ICS roms available and working I decided to try and upgrade to one of those and thats when everything went wrong. Its in a bootloop and the triangle appears, fades, lights up again and immediately boots to TWRP. I have flashed the entire kindle using TWRP trying to get everything off of it. Upon plugging it into my PC BRIEFLY when the triangle logo pops up I get a "USB device not recognized" on my PC. I have tried using KFUtility to reinstall drivers, tried uninstalling n reinstalling drivers but the same thing happens. I cannot use TWRP to mount at all, nothing happens. Kindle Fire UTility keeps saying adb offline, CMD adb devices also results in 0 devices found. I have tried putting it on normal boot using both ADB and KFUtility and it says "wait for device" and nothing ever happens. Any idea? Not even sure if I have a rom installed on my kindle anymore but my PC wontread it so I cannot push another image to it. Got a plane trip on Saturday and would love to have this working to kill the bordom lol. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like your bootmode is set to recovery. An easy way to fix this is download FFF1.4 to your computer and use the mount function in recovery to place it on your sdcard.
Flash it in recovery as you would a rom except don't wipe anything. When you reboot, hold the power button like you're trying to enter recovery and you'll be given the option to reset the bootmode.
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
anomiefaunus said:
Thank you so much for your advice but there in lies the problem. Inside the recovery console i choose to mount it and nothing happens. My PC will not let me access the kindle in anyway at all, either mounting the SD Card or via ADB/KFUtility.
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Generally, the only thing that would prevent adb/kfu from communicating with the device is the drivers. Make sure they're installed properly. You may have to uninstall them (delete if applicable) and reinstall them.
Follow the instructions in this guide to install and verify your drivers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
anomiefaunus said:
K heres the latest (we r making progress!)
I got my device to be detected by my PC and used KFutility to change it to normal boot. Now instead of booting into recovery everytime it boots normally.... to a black screen (guessing my rom is shot or I deleted it while playing with it). The issue is the ONLY time my PC recognizes my kindle is for a .5 second period when i first turn my KF on and the yellow triangle appears. I can use this window to change it to normal bootmode, reinstall TeamWin, stuff like that, but i cannot mount it so I can transfer or adb so I can push. You can watch device manager and it'll pop up ADB android phone or whatever it should but poof, a second later gone.
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Get your device drivers working so you can use adb. Follow the instructions in the post below...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26144447
That is excellent advice and I wish it would work but I cannot pull up ADB once in TeamWin. Keeps saying no devices. As i said my PC detects it and ADB will detect it for .5 seconds on the orange triangle. Once the orange triangle disappears and it either boots to blackness or boots to TeamWin ADB stops recognizing my device. But I will play around with your suggestions once I get off work and let you know what i find out. Thanks again for everyones support.
Frozen screen during rooting
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
peredexter said:
Hi,
I am new to the forum. I have a kF screen stuck (where it says 'kindle fire') while I was trying to root it. I tried hard reset, charging for half hour, calling AMAZON...nothing works. The screen goes off if I hold it for 20 seconds but when I put it back on same thing. I was trying to root it with 'fastboot (?). Is there anything at all I can do? Thanks.
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Don't hijack the threads please. If you have a problem or question, post it in the Q&A section.
I want to wipe everything off my Kindle including the recovery and bootloader, is there a command I can issue to do this? (I'll be using firekit /w the short trick and adb push to reinstall my rom/bootloader/recovery)
I can't even begin to tell you why that's a bad idea and completely unnecessary.
Do you mind me asking what you are trying to accomplish with this and why you think it's necessary?
I had the old version of TWRP and bricked my Kindle, I got it to load the new version of TWRP with firekit and it unbricked my Kindle. Next, I set boot mode to normal because I wanted to flash a new rom, however then I got the blinking yellow triangle of death again, I ran usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp (how I unbricked it before) and shorted it but this time it didn't work and I got the blinking triangle again. So I though if it worked before with new version of TWRP maybe if I removed it completely and the re-ran "usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp" it would unbrick my Kindle again
Sorry for the long explanation
Oh I forgot, The reason I put it back in normal mode is because I thought I fixed everything and thought the battery would begin to recharge again, so I figured just downloading the rom to kindle itself would be easier than using adb push to transfer it from my computer, but then I couldn't even get back to twrp after the first time
The blinking triangle is due to a dead battery, not the bootloader installation.
Unplug the device and hold the power button until it shuts down completely.
Plug the device into your computer's USB (2.0) port and immediately hold the power button until it shuts off again.
If you can get it to shut down without starting up again, leave it plugged in for at least half a day to let it charge.
aullys and
I'll try that, thank-you
I have successfully rooted my smaller Kindle Fire HD. I tried to root my 8.9 Fire HD and now I'm stuck with what I think is brick.
I started off with this link.
http://rootkindlefire.com/kindle-fi...t-kindle-fire-hd-8-9-into-pure-android-tablet.
I worked great until I got to step 20 when the device rebooted and it ran super slow and the display was not right a visible line running through the display. No apps showed up and command took more than 20 seconds to register. Unable to fixed it at this point I did a factory reset and all was good. No line through the UI and response time was back to normal. I tried couple of more times to root it and each time was meet with the same result. I left it lay for a while but took it back up again after doing some more research. I finally settled on this root solution and it worked.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jem
It worked and I was able to boot into TWRP and check its various settings then a problem occurred when I tried to move files to the device. I got message unable to mount cache. After some poking around I notice the internal storage at 0. No space for to move any files from my computer to the device. Try as I might I wasn't able to copy anything to the device. So one final time I attempted to do a factory reset and this is where things went to hell. The device rebooted but I got neither the standard Orange fire logo or the blue TWRP loading Fire Logo, all I got was a truly black screen like all the pixels where dead and no back light. The Kindle no longer shows up as a Kindle in my Device manager and its name is actually something cryptic like 'Kolwr29'. I am able to assign it the Andriod ABA Device but it cycles in/out of the device manager like its being connected and disconnected from my laptop. I've read most of the links listed as suggested on this forum but the device doesn't respond to any Fastboot commands and any command I give continually says 'waiting for device.' I've tried to do this on both my laptop and desktop but the device exhibits the same behavior. I also in desperation ordered a Fastboot cable even though I was fairly certain from what I read that it wouldn't work my Fire 8.9. Nothing same problem.
I'm at lost. The device will not respond to any commands and think I truly have a brick on my hands. I'm at the point where I'm just going to pay to replace it than wash my hands of trying to root it. We'll just live with the crappy apps from the amazon store. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated.
I've read the following posts and gone through all the steps in them but to no avail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850192&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010353
http://androidcowboy.com/2014/01/root-kindle-fire-hdx-8-9/
so backstory first:
mother-outlaw drops off her kindle fire..... its stuck in a boot loop ( just keeps cycling the 'kindle fire' logo)
I initially had no idea what version of anything this was but later found S/N and determined to be KF 1
I have run all the utilities KUU, KFU, Etc.... none do anything
when I plug to the wall nothing at all just loop no lights.... when I initially turn it on I get a quick flash with some illegible pixels on screen like its trying to boot but then straight to loop
when I hook to computer using an actual data cable not normal USB.... after sitting overnight the orange light will at some point during the night come on and stay on..... today I let it sit with light on for about 8 hours while gone..... and when I reboot after the light has been on it will stay on as long as connected to computer
I truely have no idea of battery state, ie if its charging, if its charged, where its at, etc
I CAN see the device and issue reboot commands etc through ADB from computer
I am not opposed to total wipe/flash if needed.... of course since this is for my computer illiterate mother-outlaw Im sure it would be better to not start over ( I have confirmed with her however there is nothing that needs to be saved on the device, its for browsing and games only)
Suggestions? Fixes?
I have read hundreds of pages on this forum and others and its all just a jumbled mess in my mind by now..... so now Im calling for HELP
Latest system version 6.3.3 doesn't work well with KFU or unbrick utility
Likely need a fastboot cable
How to flash twrp and firefirefire with a Fastboot cable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53652317&postcount=2
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Hey everyone,
I did something really stupid while trying to get a certain app to recognize a codec that it needed in order for it to work and seem to have probably bricked my phone.
Phone Details:
LGH812
Lollipop 5.0.1
rooted
I went to /system/ and renamed lib64 to lib64bak because I wanted to put some new files in there. This caused the phone screen to immediately go black and unresponsive. I took out the battery and re-inserted it. The phone boot logo with LG comes up and then it goes to a black screen with the dead android guy with red triangle and the exclamation mark. No other text is present in this screen. Stays at this screen for about a minute and reboots only to go back to the exact same screen.
Things I have tried:
1.) I tried to boot into download mode (power+volume down) still goes to the aforementioned screen.
2.) Got LGUP to recognize the com port once, but it shows up as unknown and won't let me proceed with a fresh wipe/install
3.) Tried the LG Flashing tool, couldn't even see the com port.
4.) Tried the WHQL universal drivers as well as the specific device drivers with no advancement.
What I believe is happening is that it's trying to boot properly initially, but it can't find lib64 folder so it fails to launch the os and then tries to go into recovery due to error, but fails to go to recovery also because of lib64 is missing.
If anyone has any ideas/things I can try to get it into recovery or download mode or if anyone has seen this state before and was able to fix it please let me know.
Thank you all for your time!