Hi All,
I just used kindle fire utility to root my Fire. I installed ClockworkMod Recovery (this is what i use on my galaxy nexus). I then wiped data, cache, and davlink and installed CM9 Reloaded 1.2h. My fire then went into a boot loop where the kindle fire logo came up for 3 secs, then turned off, repeat. I then unplugged from my comp and tried again. now the logo comes up for 3 secs then goes to black screen. but i think the kindle is on bc when i plug into my comp it makes the usb connected sound. battery is fully charged. not sure what else to do. cant boot into recovery bc i cant connect to kindle fire utility...
any ideas?
-Thanks
bobojones said:
Hi All,
I just used kindle fire utility to root my Fire. I installed ClockworkMod Recovery (this is what i use on my galaxy nexus). I then wiped data, cache, and davlink and installed CM9 Reloaded 1.2h. My fire then went into a boot loop where the kindle fire logo came up for 3 secs, then turned off, repeat. I then unplugged from my comp and tried again. now the logo comes up for 3 secs then goes to black screen. but i think the kindle is on bc when i plug into my comp it makes the usb connected sound. battery is fully charged. not sure what else to do. cant boot into recovery bc i cant connect to kindle fire utility...
any ideas?
-Thanks
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Code:
Kernel 3.0 (v1.2H) - Bugs:
- Only flash in TWRP
- Black screen for awhile on boot, wait it out
- Notification graphic glitch (my error, being fixed in v1.3 and v1.3H)
- Wifi - Works once; when you disconnect, you have to reboot to reconnect
- Sometimes weird bars appear on the screen (not too noticeable)
- Can't mount storage when not in TWRP
whoops...
doh! anyway to recover? if not no biggie i have a BB warennty ill run over and get a new one and do it right this time.... im retarded... thanks for the info!
bobojones said:
doh! anyway to recover? if not no biggie i have a BB warennty ill run over and get a new one and do it right this time.... im retarded... thanks for the info!
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That kind of attitude is what makes warranties more expensive for everybody and forces manufacturers to lock down their bootloaders so modifying devices is near impossible.
If you didn't install FIREFIREFIRE alongside CWMR, then you need to buy a factory cable (search for it) so you can get the device into fastboot mode. Then you can flash TWRP and install the ROM you want.
I'm sure you'll be going to Best Buy anyway.
You are correct sir! To bb i go!
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I was running the cm10 build on my rooted kindle fire. its a kindle fire 1st generation. i was searching google for and android 4.2 rom for kindle fire, downloaded and flashed it. then when i rebooted, its not working anymore. it turns on normally and shows the blue kindle fire logo from FireFireFire. it says press power button to change oot options, like we normally do. i let it boot normally, and the rom gets stuck on the bootscreen. so i thought i needed to reflash and factory reset, so i force shut it down and turned it on again. this time, i held the power button to say Recovery. it says booting and the power button turn orange. but then it just gets stuck there. it wont boot into recovery. it just sits there all day with the orange light and the words booting. i cant boot into anything. Anyone Please Help Me... Happy Holidays...
Well for one I haven't seen a 4.2 available for the kindle fire so I am pretty sure your system is broken. Flashing it may have affected the other partitions in some way the one I would be concerned with is the recovery partition which you need access to in order to fix it. Your best bet now is soupkit, first to get some communication with the device, secondly to reflash recovery or force it to recovery bootmode. Here's where to start http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850038.
one thing though
My Kindle Fire Has A Damaged Charger Slot, Where You Have To Put Pressure And Bend It Forward To Make It Charge. And I cant Move it When Its Charging My USB isn't doing well either, I Haven't Been Able To Connect My Kindle Fire To My PC In Forever! However, Thanks. If You Know A Way To Get The USB Port On The KFire Replaced Please Let Me Know please.
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My Kindle Fire Has A Damaged Charger Slot, Where You Have To Put Pressure And Bend It Forward To Make It Charge. And I cant Move it When Its Charging My USB isn't doing well either, I Haven't Been Able To Connect My Kindle Fire To My PC In Forever! However, Thanks. If You Know A Way To Get The USB Port On The KFire Replaced Please Let Me Know please.
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Use tape to hold it in place then maybe you can at least get it fixed so it runs.
Tried that so many times...
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Use tape to hold it in place then maybe you can at least get it fixed so it runs.
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Sorry for the delay, Christmas stuff. I have tried for days trying to make a contact between the port and the serial bus. it hasnt worked. the best i could do is get it to charge, but it wouldn't do the same with the usb. im using an android phone usb, chich is VERY thick. mabye i should use the stock usb and give that a shot. i will let you know. :good:
stock usb failed
i used to stock USB to charge my kfire. after charged, its still in the boot loop as expected. i tried to get connection to the device my using my new usb and wiggling it back and forth. the kf utility still wont recognize my kindle no matter what i do. all i can get it to do is turn on to the bootloader. so to make a long story short, i have a boot loader which cant boot into anything. PLUS, i tried soupkit. wouldnt do a thing. i even tried the kfire unbrick utility. none of them can get a connection with my device.
Ok, so I decided to flash my KF with CM10. To do this I did the standard KFU superuser, installed TWRP, and fff. After I flashed with TWRP the Google apps and CM everything worked okay, but I noticed that my Google apps are nonexistent. So, I thought I would reflash with TWRP, which is where the problem lies. Whenever I reboot my device I get the KF logo, except white and blue, telling me to press power button to change boot, which I have tried but to no avail, and it goes straight to the CM10 boot. I thought okay maybe I can get around this by downloading Goo Manager onto my device to flash the GApps. This didn't work. So finally I just assumed my TWRP screwed up so I downloaded the recovery package from Goo Manager. This also didn't work. Also, KFU doesn't recognize it.
Right now I'm assuming the problem is fff because I've never seen this blue boot screen. If someone could help me just get TWRP back to working or even just stock KF I would be much obliged.
If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
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If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
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From what Brandon is saying, I think you hit it on the head.
One note: it takes several seconds to access the recovery from the fff 1.4a blue kindle fire logo. Once that screen pops up, hold the power button for about three seconds till recovery is selected at bottom.
It doesn't appear that you actually have a problem, either, but just a misunderstanding of what your kindle should look like.
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votinh said:
If I understand you correctly, I then think you have no clue what TWRP or at least FFF is about. I hope I am wrong.
Alright, after installing FFF, you will DO SEE the Kindle Fire logo with blue (the Fire is in Blue) and it will ask you to press the power button to get into either normal boot, recovery boot and one more which I forgot. That's what it should be. I don't know what your problem is.
Anyway, from that Kindle Fire blue screen, press the power button and select boot to recovery to get in TWRP.
I might speak entire wrong here, though.
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When I attempt to boot to recovery I get no TWRP. The screen flashes then the normal Kindle Fire boot screen shows, then another flash and back to blue sccreen
Again, I assume you know how to do it, how to boot into recovery.
If you do it correctly and still can't get in then reinstall FFF using KFU.
If you don't know how to, then search Youtube, there's tons of videos showing how.
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Again, I assume you know how to do it, how to boot into recovery.
If you do it correctly and still can't get in then reinstall FFF using KFU.
If you don't know how to, then search Youtube, there's tons of videos showing how.
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Except as I said earlier KFU doesn't recognize my device. I mean I'll check my drivers, but looks doubful.
brandonstrat said:
Except as I said earlier KFU doesn't recognize my device. I mean I'll check my drivers, but looks doubful.
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Did you bother to try what I suggested?
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Did you bother to try what I suggested?
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Yeah and it worked, but after restoring back to stock kf it kept sayin that process had stopped working and never allowing me to actually set the damn thing up. So reflashed CM10 and it keeps looping the boot screen, showing a quick image of the home screen then restarting the process. Long holding the power restarts the device, allowing me to get to fff but I still can't seem to get TWRP to show up unless I tell it to fast boot on the computer and since it never actually gets to TWRP or the OS I see no way to mount it.
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Yeah and it worked, but after restoring back to stock kf it kept sayin that process had stopped working and never allowing me to actually set the damn thing up. So reflashed CM10 and it keeps looping the boot screen, showing a quick image of the home screen then restarting the process. Long holding the power restarts the device, allowing me to get to fff but I still can't seem to get TWRP to show up unless I tell it to fast boot on the computer and since it never actually gets to TWRP or the OS I see no way to mount it.
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How did you restore to stock? That isn't what I told you to do...
When you plug it into the computer, what happens?
And also, when you reboot it, and you hold the power button at the blue screen with the menu at bottom, what happens? Does it cycle through three choices? If it does, wait till it selects the second one and let go.
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How did you restore to stock? That isn't what I told you to do...
When you plug it into the computer, what happens?
And also, when you reboot it, and you hold the power button at the blue screen with the menu at bottom, what happens? Does it cycle through three choices? If it does, wait till it selects the second one and let go.
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Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
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Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
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Follow what you are saying is really a headache. You keep saying you did this and did that and that and this and I'm lost. Slow down.
Go one by one, answer what jma asked.
Forget what you have done to your KF, tell us what it is like now.
1. Can you get into the recovery? I ask again 'cuz you previously claimed you knew how to, then you didn't then you did.
2. During power up, do you see Kindle Fire with blue logo?
3. Right after that do you hold the power button?
4. Do you see it cycle through the menu of 3?
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Follow what you are saying is really a headache. You keep saying you did this and did that and that and this and I'm lost. Slow down.
Go one by one, answer what jma asked.
Forget what you have done to your KF, tell us what it is like now.
1. Can you get into the recovery? I ask again 'cuz you previously claimed you knew how to, then you didn't then you did.
2. During power up, do you see Kindle Fire with blue logo?
3. Right after that do you hold the power button?
4. Do you see it cycle through the menu of 3?
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Alright, sorry bout that I guess
1. If by recovery you mean TWRP, then no I don't believe so
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes, but all options take me to the CM10 boot except recovery which takes me to regular stock orange kf boot for a few seconds then back to blue without the options but just boots
Hope that's a bit more clear, I guess I'm kindave panicking with my kindle being on the fritz and all. But you my good sir have been very patient and for that I thank you.
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Well I did do what you told me to do I reinstalled TWRP and fff and tried to install gapps. Well long story short nothing happened. So I did do what you told me to do. Anyways, the only thing that happens when I hit recovery is it strangely goes to the normal orange kf boot for a couple second, back to blue kf boot but with no boot option and back to annoying CM10 boot loop I previously described.
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Okay, two things:
1) The reason you keep getting stuck at the CyanogenMod logo is because you're not wiping data (factory reset) before installing the ROM.
2) I'm very concerned because it seems that you may not know what generation of Kindle Fire you're using. You are posting in the 1st generation KF forums, but by your description you seem to have a 2nd generation KF. You need to clarify which device you have before someone gives you directions that would permanently brick your device.
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Okay, two things:
1) The reason you keep getting stuck at the CyanogenMod logo is because you're not wiping data (factory reset) before installing the ROM.
2) I'm very concerned because it seems that you may not know what generation of Kindle Fire you're using. You are posting in the 1st generation KF forums, but by your description you seem to have a 2nd generation KF. You need to clarify which device you have before someone gives you directions that would permanently brick your device.
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1. That would make sense because I was I'm a hurry
2. It's first gen, I would have clarified had this not been a forum specifically geared towards first gen, but I appreciate your concern.
brandonstrat said:
1. That would make sense because I was I'm a hurry
2. It's first gen, I would have clarified had this not been a forum specifically geared towards first gen, but I appreciate your concern.
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Well, you never know around here...
Since that's the case, it seems like you have a bootloader installed on the recovery partition. Your device's original bootloader is working as it should (orange KF logo), but when you change the bootmode to recovery, it boots into what should be the custom recovery, but instead is the FireFireFire bootloader. BUT...that's a best guess based on what I can piece together from the information you've provided. (I've avoided responding to this post for exactly this reason).
The problem is, your information is all over the place and much of it contradicts itself. In one post, you say you have the blue KF logo, but then in the same post, you say don't. Then you say you used TWRP to install a custom ROM, but then you can't access TWRP? But then you say you restored the device to stock using TWRP, and yet you can't access TWRP after that.
Perhaps you could explain in a clear and concise manner what your problem is, being as detailed as humanly possible, because as it stands now, you're not making any sense.
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Well, you never know around here...
Since that's the case, it seems like you have a bootloader installed on the recovery partition. Your device's original bootloader is working as it should (orange KF logo), but when you change the bootmode to recovery, it boots into what should be the custom recovery, but instead is the FireFireFire bootloader. BUT...that's a best guess based on what I can piece together from the information you've provided. (I've avoided responding to this post for exactly this reason).
The problem is, your information is all over the place and much of it contradicts itself. In one post, you say you have the blue KF logo, but then in the same post, you say don't. Then you say you used TWRP to install a custom ROM, but then you can't access TWRP? But then you say you restored the device to stock using TWRP, and yet you can't access TWRP after that.
Perhaps you could explain in a clear and concise manner what your problem is, being as detailed as humanly possible, because as it stands now, you're not making any sense.
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Okay I'll try again, the only times I have actually been able to use TWRP is when installing it in kfu. I don't believe that it actually installed anything but it just sends it to fastboot, now I could be incorrect but what I believe is happening is the kfu is telling the kf to go to fastboot to install but TWRP is already installed because nothing ever downloads.
Is that what normally happens when you hit recovery on the fff screen? Does the TWRP require fastboot or is mine just really messed up?
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Okay I'll try again, the only times I have actually been able to use TWRP is when installing it in kfu. I don't believe that it actually installed anything but it just sends it to fastboot, now I could be incorrect but what I believe is happening is the kfu is telling the kf to go to fastboot to install but TWRP is already installed because nothing ever downloads.
Is that what normally happens when you hit recovery on the fff screen? Does the TWRP require fastboot or is mine just really messed up?
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Something about this just doesn't add up.
Try this...
1) Download the recovery flashable .zip of FireFireFire1.4a
2) Reinstall TWRP using KFU and boot into it.
3) Use TWRP to flash the recovery flashable fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip and reboot.
If the problem persists, take a video of it, and post it here so we can get a better idea of what's actually going on.
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Something about this just doesn't add up.
Try this...
1) Download the recovery flashable .zip of FireFireFire1.4a
2) Reinstall TWRP using KFU and boot into it.
3) Use TWRP to flash the recovery flashable fff-u-boot_v1.4a.zip and reboot.
If the problem persists, take a video of it, and post it here so we can get a better idea of what's actually going on.
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Ok but when could I actually mount the device
brandonstrat said:
Ok but when could I actually mount the device
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Better yet, go ahead and post a video of the problem. I need to confirm something before you flash FFF.
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Better yet, go ahead and post a video of the problem. I need to confirm something before you flash FFF.
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note: the screen that flashes is from my previous rom sooo, yeah. Factory wiping is a good thing.
Hi,
I am new to xda and would like to thank everyone for their help in advance.
I have a fire phone that does not go beyond the fire screen. The phone becomes extremely hot and is stuck at that point. I tried calling amazon and since I deregistered the phone they can't do anything to help me. I don't have the developer mode enabled so wasn't able to use ADB. When I turn on the phone, it still makes sounds/vibration when i plug and unplug the charger, press the home button. Also, I can see internal storage when I connect the phone to a computer via USB.
I already tried to wipe the cache, factory reset the phone etc from recovery with no avail. Has anyone had this problem and has it been solved?
Thanks again for you time.
megaaadi said:
Hi,
I am new to xda and would like to thank everyone for their help in advance.
I have a fire phone that does not go beyond the fire screen. The phone becomes extremely hot and is stuck at that point. I tried calling amazon and since I deregistered the phone they can't do anything to help me. I don't have the developer mode enabled so wasn't able to use ADB. When I turn on the phone, it still makes sounds/vibration when i plug and unplug the charger, press the home button. Also, I can see internal storage when I connect the phone to a computer via USB.
I already tried to wipe the cache, factory reset the phone etc from recovery with no avail. Has anyone had this problem and has it been solved?
Thanks again for you time.
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ethereal123 had a similar problem booting up Fire OS. The problem was fixed by reinstalling Fire OS. See my post to ethereal123, starting at 1 through 6. If that doesn't work, and your phone is still under warrenty, you should call Amazon back and get your phone replaced.
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ethereal123 had a similar problem booting up Fire OS. The problem was fixed by reinstalling Fire OS. See my post to ethereal123, starting at 1 through 6. If that doesn't work, and your phone is still under warrenty, you should call Amazon back and get your phone replaced.
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Thanks a lot jack9955! Solved my problem. Thanks !