I'm an idiot who accidentally dropped my Kindle glass-side down in a parking lot. I went to get it replaced but my brand of Kindle Fire happened to be discontinued and I had to shell out $50 for a Kindle Fire HD. My old Kindle had already been rooted so I knew finding a way to root an HD would be a pain. He's the thing, for a while my Kindle would connect like a media device to my Windows 7 PC but now for some reason the thing doesn't crop up at all. What is wrong with my brand new Kindle Fire HD and why can't I do something as simple as connect it to my PC via usb?
Nothing wrong really. At least I guess so. Same thing happened to my friend with Windows 7 Acer laptop and brand new perfectly working Kindle Fire 2nd gen. It was some weird problem with his Windows's drivers. I connected his kindle to my laptop where the drivers were ok, rooted it, installed recovery and android and after that the kindle started working with the PC once again-most probably that happened because according to the PC the android and the kindle are different devices or maybe it was because they use different drivers(but I highly doubt this). Either case this is a fix. Another one would be to reinstall your PC. There may be another fix that will make the drivers working once again but we tried many suggestions in the net and none worked. Hope I helped
Does your kindle actually show up in the device manager?
Sorry I didn't respond faster. It turned out to be faulty drivers. Now the problem is that the Kindle is refusing to root. I keep getting "Permission Denied" when I try to execute the root. The Kindle Fire HD has really annoying software and I can't do anything I want to do. Amazon can seriously suck my grapes! (And all the grapes in my house are rotten)
Xamrin said:
Sorry I didn't respond faster. It turned out to be faulty drivers. Now the problem is that the Kindle is refusing to root. I keep getting "Permission Denied" when I try to execute the root. The Kindle Fire HD has really annoying software and I can't do anything I want to do. Amazon can seriously suck my grapes! (And all the grapes in my house are rotten)
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Your grapes are rotten? You should probably have that checked out.
What are you using to root your device?
soupmagnet said:
Your grapes are rotten? You should probably have that checked out.
What are you using to root your device?
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A method I found on YouTube. It worked until the final part when I got constant permission denial messages.
I'd link you to it but I'm a new user and am not allowed to. But I can tell you it's the first result on YouTube when you search "how to root kindle fire hd". It's by a user named reverendkjr.
(Update: My sister has a classic Kindle so I'm trading with her)
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Hi all. I copied the Time Warner Cable all from my EVO over to Kindle Fire HD using Titanium backup. It works perfectly as I am able to turn off ADB. With my daughters Kindle Fire 1st Gen, I cannot seem to find a place to shut down ADB, so live TV will not steam. Any chance there is an app or something that can help me shut that down? Thanks.
hi i bought my daughter a Kindle fire almost 3 years ago for xmas. it wasnt wasnt even a year old and it stop working stuck on kindle fire boot loop. windows will not mount the kindle at all ive installed drivers the correct ones i belive and still a no go so when i run kfu it wont recognise a device either. i know in order for me to even attempt to get past the boot loop problem i have to be connected to my pc. if anyone could shed some light on how to get this kindle stuck in a boot loop mounted to my Pc running windows 7 64bit i would be so grateful. thank you in advance
zork75 said:
hi i bought my daughter a Kindle fire almost 3 years ago for xmas. it wasnt wasnt even a year old and it stop working stuck on kindle fire boot loop. windows will not mount the kindle at all ive installed drivers the correct ones i belive and still a no go so when i run kfu it wont recognise a device either. i know in order for me to even attempt to get past the boot loop problem i have to be connected to my pc. if anyone could shed some light on how to get this kindle stuck in a boot loop mounted to my Pc running windows 7 64bit i would be so grateful. thank you in advance
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How is it listed in device manager?
Not found at all
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no activity what so ever almost like it could be the micro sd cable but it is not that becuz i use it to charge my phone. could it be the drivers i downloaded iam dumbfounded
zork75 said:
no activity what so ever almost like it could be the micro sd cable but it is not that becuz i use it to charge my phone. could it be the drivers i downloaded iam dumbfounded
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Kindle USB ports are weak, can charge and not connect to data, visa versa.
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Yes it will charge. But no data link
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That was not a question, I think you USB port is bad.
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Well you are probably rite. She was younger she prolly broke it and never told me because there was no activity what so ever. Oh well thx for the help
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Also a USB cable can work on one device an not another.
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Yea I tried multiple cables. I don't know what it is lol
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hi i bought my daughter a Kindle fire almost 3 years ago for xmas. it wasnt wasnt even a year old and it stop working stuck on kindle fire boot loop. windows will not mount the kindle at all ive installed drivers the correct ones i belive and still a no go so when i run kfu it wont recognise a device either. i know in order for me to even attempt to get past the boot loop problem i have to be connected to my pc. if anyone could shed some light on how to get this kindle stuck in a boot loop mounted to my Pc running windows 7 64bit i would be so grateful. thank you in advance
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3 years ago ... likely a KF1. -- have you reviewed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2166668
Without looking it is hard to say if you are in fastboot or the kernel is rebooting.
You might take a peek at question 19.
If you have a linux box connect your kindle and type "dmesg" and look for the Amazon device that just connected. If you see it, then you have a reasonable chance of salvaging your device (sans some HW issue e.g., on the flash).
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I have a kindle fire that is broken and not worth repairing the screen (cost of parts is almost what I paid for it, so I just bought another one).
I'd like to put this old model to good use- it still works aside from the screen being dead, I can it turn on and many of the pixels activate and try to display. I'm wondering if I can use it to run Android apps remotely for testing and/or ad related apps (swagbucks, perk, etc) by sideloading them onto it. Some of them had been previously sideloaded and work like a charm.
I've seen demonstrations of remote apps like VNC working on a Kindle Fire, but I don't know how I can install it without access to the screen!
I've read about people who broke their phone screen and used ADB and/or Google Play to force installation of an app so that they could remote in via the computer. But I haven't figured out yet if this is possible on a Kindle. I wish this thing had an HDMI out or something, but alas- its the 2015 edition Kindle Fire 7. No HDMI, just a usb port and card slot. Is such a thing possible, or is this destined for the trash heap?
Dishe said:
I have a kindle fire that is broken and not worth repairing the screen (cost of parts is almost what I paid for it, so I just bought another one).
I'd like to put this old model to good use- it still works aside from the screen being dead, I can it turn on and many of the pixels activate and try to display. I'm wondering if I can use it to run Android apps remotely for testing and/or ad related apps (swagbucks, perk, etc) by sideloading them onto it. Some of them had been previously sideloaded and work like a charm.
I've seen demonstrations of remote apps like VNC working on a Kindle Fire, but I don't know how I can install it without access to the screen!
I've read about people who broke their phone screen and used ADB and/or Google Play to force installation of an app so that they could remote in via the computer. But I haven't figured out yet if this is possible on a Kindle. I wish this thing had an HDMI out or something, but alas- its the 2015 edition Kindle Fire 7. No HDMI, just a usb port and card slot. Is such a thing possible, or is this destined for the trash heap?
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This is not the 5th gen forum
ask here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/help
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Hi All,
So i recently had a Kindle Fire HD repaired (USB port was replaced).
Firstly, it wouldn't connect to any WiFi spot after the repair. Tried everything, including a reset to factory defaults.
Then i realized the time and date was February 2000. That looked like a root cause (i literally tried every conventional method of solving the Wi-Fi issue). I figured the guys might have disconnected the battery when replacing the port, which could reset time and date to the year 2000. Since there is no option to change time and date on a Fire (hello Amazon), the only way was to connect it to a PC, and to try installing a time-date change app, or run the appropriate string to do it via debugging mode.
The problem is that not a single PC can see Kindle, and show "USB device not recognized" message, while all other Android devices work totally fine. The only hardware Id in Device Manager is "USB\UNKNOWN". Installing Kindle Fire drivers from Amazon manually did not help. Installing Android Studio and the relevant Android drivers via that did not help either. Obviously, i have turned ADB on in Kindle settings, and tried several different USB cables.
I can't even send a Kindle hardware report to Amazon because of that (you can imagine the amount of hours I spent with Kindle support that they asked me to send those reports to their devs after having no other ideas, which probably would not help anyway)
Do you think this is because of the new USB port? Time and date thing is really weird too. Maybe you have any ideas how i can make this work? I need Kindle to either connect to Wi-Fi, or to a PC.
Tried to connect it to both protected and unprotected networks on a variety of perfectly working routers, with a variety of security settings. Connected it via USB to Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Professional (3 totally different machines) with no luck of detecting the Fire.
Thanks in advance!
Ening said:
Hi All,
So i recently had a Kindle Fire HD repaired (USB port was replaced).
Firstly, it wouldn't connect to any WiFi spot after the repair. Tried everything, including a reset to factory defaults.
Then i realized the time and date was February 2000. That looked like a root cause (i literally tried every conventional method of solving the Wi-Fi issue). I figured the guys might have disconnected the battery when replacing the port, which could reset time and date to the year 2000. Since there is no option to change time and date on a Fire (hello Amazon), the only way was to connect it to a PC, and to try installing a time-date change app, or run the appropriate string to do it via debugging mode.
The problem is that not a single PC can see Kindle, and show "USB device not recognized" message, while all other Android devices work totally fine. The only hardware Id in Device Manager is "USB\UNKNOWN". Installing Kindle Fire drivers from Amazon manually did not help. Installing Android Studio and the relevant Android drivers via that did not help either. Obviously, i have turned ADB on in Kindle settings, and tried several different USB cables.
I can't even send a Kindle hardware report to Amazon because of that (you can imagine the amount of hours I spent with Kindle support that they asked me to send those reports to their devs after having no other ideas, which probably would not help anyway)
Do you think this is because of the new USB port? Time and date thing is really weird too. Maybe you have any ideas how i can make this work? I need Kindle to either connect to Wi-Fi, or to a PC.
Tried to connect it to both protected and unprotected networks on a variety of perfectly working routers, with a variety of security settings. Connected it via USB to Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Professional (3 totally different machines) with no luck of detecting the Fire.
Thanks in advance!
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there is no Kindle fire HD 1st Gen
see
Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
for device descriptions and forum links
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sd_shadow said:
there is no Kindle fire HD 1st Gen
see
Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
for device descriptions and forum links
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There is. This one:
http://www.clipartkid.com/images/35...ion-16gb-wi-fi-black-great-Hx2DoL-clipart.jpg
Ening said:
There is. This one:
http://www.clipartkid.com/images/35...ion-16gb-wi-fi-black-great-Hx2DoL-clipart.jpg
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no see official names
Amazon Fire Tablet Specs https://developer.amazon.com/appsan...ications/01-device-and-feature-specifications
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no see official names
Amazon Fire Tablet Specs https://developer.amazon.com/appsan...ications/01-device-and-feature-specifications
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Kindle Fire HD 7" (2012) then, which does not change the fact that it is a first generation Kindle Fire HD, nor does it change most possible ways of fixing my current issue.
Ening said:
Kindle Fire HD 7" (2012) then, which does not change the fact that it is a first generation Kindle Fire HD, nor does it change most possible ways of fixing my current issue.
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doesn't change the fact that you are asking in the wrong forum
this is only for kindle fire 1 (2011)
there is a separate section for your device see
Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
for correct forum link
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doesn't change the fact that you are asking in the wrong forum
this is only for kindle fire 1 (2011)
there is a separate section for your device see
Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
for correct forum link
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Thanks, sorry about that.
Greetings and happy holidays, all!
I have 2 Amazon Fire TV (3rd Gen) on 2 of my televisions. Both sticks are stuck on the Amazon white logo screen that shows the 3 loading dots in the lower right hand corner. Both sticks have Terrarium installed, so I imagine that's the reason why they are brick. I'm pretty sure I used a method similar to what's in this video: youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ZORxle2YyFY&t=185s
So now I'm trying to figure out how to unbrick these devices. Thanks for the help!
nevermind, wrong thread^^ sorry
Kindly bumming. Really don't want to buy a pair of sticks if there's anyway to recover these.
WildcatTM said:
Kindly bumming. Really don't want to buy a pair of sticks if there's anyway to recover these.
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I don't no what kind of crap Terrarium installed and am not going to bother researching it, but you still should have adb access.
So I would install and set up adbLink on your PC if you haven't already, then connect to the device, and from the adbLink console;
select "Uninstall APK". Then browse the list for the suspected offending software and remove it. Using the "Filter" at the top may help, i.e. "terrarium".
Good Luck.
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I don't no what kind of crap Terrarium installed and am not going to bother researching it, but you still should have adb access.
So I would install and set up on your PC if you haven't already, then connect to the device, and from the adbLink console;
select "Uninstall APK". Then browse the list for the suspected offending software and remove it. Using the "Filter" at the top may help, i.e. "terrarium".
Good Luck.
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Thanks, mate. I'm sure I'll figure it out when I start getting into it later today, but how do I get my PC's device manager to recognize the Firestick?