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[Q] Installing 2nd Bootloader on 8.4.3

Has anyone tried it?
I have only just picked up my KF8.9, but have successfully rooted it. However, chickened out of installing the 2ndBootloader and TWRP as it seems that some people say it still works and some people say it doesn't.
Don't want to brick my shiny new toy, and don't know enough about these devices to know if the existing guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175) is still correct for 8.4.3.
Any info appreciated.
Thanks

:good: I would like to know this also

If trying to accomplish this under Windows, the key is to have the proper USB driver for your device installed AND ADB communication working. Once I managed to confirm this, I used KF First Aide to install the 2nd bootloader + TWRP under 8.4.3 without any issues.

GenghisKhan67 said:
If trying to accomplish this under Windows, the key is to have the proper USB driver for your device installed AND ADB communication working. Once I managed to confirm this, I used KF First Aide to install the 2nd bootloader + TWRP under 8.4.3 without any issues.
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Thank you very much

GenghisKhan67 said:
If trying to accomplish this under Windows, the key is to have the proper USB driver for your device installed AND ADB communication working. Once I managed to confirm this, I used KF First Aide to install the 2nd bootloader + TWRP under 8.4.3 without any issues.
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How did you confirm that you had the proper USB driver installed?
Currently with the drivers I have:
I can see my Kindle in Windows explorer
I can see my device as an "ADB Device"
When the Kindle is off I can type "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" to put my device into Fastboot
Is that about it?
Thanks again.

GenghisKhan67 said:
If trying to accomplish this under Windows, the key is to have the proper USB driver for your device installed AND ADB communication working. Once I managed to confirm this, I used KF First Aide to install the 2nd bootloader + TWRP under 8.4.3 without any issues.
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ADB is working just fine for me under 8.4.3 but each and every time I attempt to install the 2nd bootloader and TWRP it red screens on me. Could you tell me the steps you followed with KF First Aide in order to get it to work? I can't seem to find information here at all.
Thanks,
Ray

narse said:
How did you confirm that you had the proper USB driver installed?
Currently with the drivers I have:
I can see my Kindle in Windows explorer
I can see my device as an "ADB Device"
When the Kindle is off I can type "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" to put my device into Fastboot
Is that about it?
Thanks again.
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You can install the proper USB drivers with option 12. in KFF, or manually by following instructions described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069117
You can also check ADB communication with option 11. in KFF. If a device ID is displayed, you are in business.
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Reborn627 said:
ADB is working just fine for me under 8.4.3 but each and every time I attempt to install the 2nd bootloader and TWRP it red screens on me. Could you tell me the steps you followed with KF First Aide in order to get it to work? I can't seem to find information here at all.
Thanks,
Ray
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I simply used option 41. in KFF. You need to be rooted first, use option 21. in KFF to do this. You may be prompted to manually grant permission to SU on your Kindle, so don't just run this and leave the tablet alone to go for a cup of coffee...

GenghisKhan67 said:
I simply used option 41. in KFF. You need to be rooted first, use option 21. in KFF to do this. You may be prompted to manually grant permission to SU on your Kindle, so don't just run this and leave the tablet alone to go for a cup of coffee...
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Yeah, I was rooted. Strange. Not sure why I can't seem to get it working. Thanks for the info.
Ray

Reborn627 said:
Yeah, I was rooted. Strange. Not sure why I can't seem to get it working. Thanks for the info.
Ray
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Yup same situation here

followed the same process, made sure that the drivers were correct and my device could be seen in fastboot and adb.
ran firstaid option 41
get red screen
HELP!!!!!

skippy96 said:
followed the same process, made sure that the drivers were correct and my device could be seen in fastboot and adb.
ran firstaid option 41
get red screen
HELP!!!!!
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to fix it i used a homemade factory/fastboot cable turned off the kindle and used option "25. Restore The Kindle From The KindleBackup Folder" then plugged in the kindle to the pc and said yes only to the boot partition one and it booted up fine. You would have to have made a backup to your pc first.

skippy96 said:
followed the same process, made sure that the drivers were correct and my device could be seen in fastboot and adb.
ran firstaid option 41
get red screen
HELP!!!!!
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go to fastboot mod...and flash backuped boot loader ...KFFirstAide simply dont work..use manual methods...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105

to repair it worked just fine

jmpiv4 said:
to repair it worked just fine
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same here.
i can repzair and go back to normal but every time i try to install any rom i get a red screen.
tried the redscreenfix but that doesnt work either.

maybe try to downgrade to 8.1.4 i think there is an issue with newer versions

jmpiv4 said:
maybe try to downgrade to 8.1.4 i think there is an issue with newer versions
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tried that as well but 2 things happen
1. fireflash says that its NOT 8.14
2. red screen still happens

skippy96 said:
followed the same process, made sure that the drivers were correct and my device could be seen in fastboot and adb.
ran firstaid option 41
get red screen
HELP!!!!!
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Well I am at this point myself. Just ran Option 41 and ended up with a Red Screen.
KFHD8.9
OS 8.4.3
Rooted w/ Bin4ry v30
Android SDK installed in Win7 PC; ADB communication working fine with Kindle
ADB and Fastboot were working fine per KFFirstAide
executed KFFirstAide option 41... Kindle went into Fastboot mode and then rebooted into Red Screen.
Any ideas on next steps?

tpgchina said:
Well I am at this point myself. Just ran Option 41 and ended up with a Red Screen.
KFHD8.9
OS 8.4.3
Rooted w/ Bin4ry v30
Android SDK installed in Win7 PC; ADB communication working fine with Kindle
ADB and Fastboot were working fine per KFFirstAide
executed KFFirstAide option 41... Kindle went into Fastboot mode and then rebooted into Red Screen.
Any ideas on next steps?
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I didn't have the Android SDK installed, as I used the ADB drivers provided through KFF. Perhaps going back to 8.4.1 (from backed-up .img files) or an earlier version and start from there?

GenghisKhan67 said:
I didn't have the Android SDK installed, as I used the ADB drivers provided through KFF. Perhaps going back to 8.4.1 (from backed-up .img files) or an earlier version and start from there?
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Well, I cleared the red screen. Went back to fastboot and reinstalled backup images. Now... to start over ! I'll get it soon.... if I don't run out of Scotch first.
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Uggg.... I just want cm10.1 but I have no idea on how to install 2nd bootloader and twrp without bricking I know the methods, but they don't work on 8.4.3... But everyone who tries on 8.4.3 bricks. I need help!
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[Q] how to remove custom recovery and 2nd boot loader

can someone help me remove custom recovery and the 2nd bootloader i have the stock amazon rom installed
Thanks in advance

Usually updating the stock ROM will do it, if you made backups of the partitions like the tutorials tell you to do you can simply reflash them in fastboot mode.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

stunts513 said:
Usually updating the stock ROM will do it, if you made backups of the partitions like the tutorials tell you to do you can simply reflash them in fastboot mode.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
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Never made any back ups

I told someone else to try updating to the latest amazon os using Amazon's manual update the other day to fix this but it for some reason didn't work... But if you download the latest amazon is and update it it should work, however if it doesn't and it boot loops, technically you can go into twrp and tell it to reboot to boot loader (fastboot) and pull the boot loader IMG and recovery IMG from Amazon's update zip file on your PC and flash them via fastboot. If you need me to elaborate any just ask.
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stunts513 said:
I told someone else to try updating to the latest amazon os using Amazon's manual update the other day to fix this but it for some reason didn't work... But if you download the latest amazon is and update it it should work, however if it doesn't and it boot loops, technically you can go into twrp and tell it to reboot to boot loader (fastboot) and pull the boot loader IMG and recovery IMG from Amazon's update zip file on your PC and flash them via fastboot. If you need me to elaborate any just ask.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
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do you know of any tutorials on this? i could not find anything and as u can see i dont know much about this stuff so it would be appreciated.
Thanks

Wanna mention ahead of time, i am not responsible if you hard brick your kindle by doing this, i dont like messing with the kindles bootloader unless i have to personally.
Ok follow the instruction on Amazon's Website for manually updating a kindle. This might either bootloop/go straight to recovery once you do this, if not your probably on stock unrooted without twrp or 2nd bootloader, usually you can tell pretty easily since the kindle logo would be blue if it wasn't stock, assuming that for some reason it either does bootloop/go straight to recovery or for some reason works but has twrp and second bootloader please read on.
Keep a copy of the update on your pc. Now this gets a bit more complicated because i realized the update is a bin file, but if i remember correctly it should just be a zip file, so either tell windows open with winrar or 7zip, winzip, etc, or try enabling file extensions in your folder options on windows, and changing the extension to .zip. Once you do that extract u-boot.bin and recovery.img from the recovery folder. Put your kindle into fastboot mode(hit reboot then bootloader in twrp). Now you need a copy of fastboot.exe, so use a utility like kindle fire first aid and remember to put the recovery.img and u-boot.bin into the folder with fastboot.exe. Open a command prompt and cd into the directory that the fastboot command is in (in kffa) and verify we have a connection to the kindles fastboot by running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product"(if it hangs on waiting for device, open your task manager and update the driver for the device with a triangle next to it named jem with the drivers in my signature
.) Once that command can run successfully, run these three commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
Now pray everything went well, because if your bootloader had a bad flash your going to have a hard brick. It should boot into stock os. Tada! I'm going to get soupemagnet to make sure i explained this correctly just to make sure i didn't miss something, you don't want to hard brick the kindle, that's a pain to even attempt to recover from without a major understanding of to solder and hookup an emmc to an sdcard reader.

stunts513 said:
Wanna mention ahead of time, i am not responsible if you hard brick your kindle by doing this, i dont like messing with the kindles bootloader unless i have to personally.
Ok follow the instruction on Amazon's Website for manually updating a kindle. This might either bootloop/go straight to recovery once you do this, if not your probably on stock unrooted without twrp or 2nd bootloader, usually you can tell pretty easily since the kindle logo would be blue if it wasn't stock, assuming that for some reason it either does bootloop/go straight to recovery or for some reason works but has twrp and second bootloader please read on.
Keep a copy of the update on your pc. Now this gets a bit more complicated because i realized the update is a bin file, but if i remember correctly it should just be a zip file, so either tell windows open with winrar or 7zip, winzip, etc, or try enabling file extensions in your folder options on windows, and changing the extension to .zip. Once you do that extract u-boot.bin and recovery.img from the recovery folder. Put your kindle into fastboot mode(hit reboot then bootloader in twrp). Now you need a copy of fastboot.exe, so use a utility like kindle fire first aid and remember to put the recovery.img and u-boot.bin into the folder with fastboot.exe. Open a command prompt and cd into the directory that the fastboot command is in (in kffa) and verify we have a connection to the kindles fastboot by running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product"(if it hangs on waiting for device, open your task manager and update the driver for the device with a triangle next to it named jem with the drivers in my signature
.) Once that command can run successfully, run these three commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
Now pray everything went well, because if your bootloader had a bad flash your going to have a hard brick. It should boot into stock os. Tada! I'm going to get soupemagnet to make sure i explained this correctly just to make sure i didn't miss something, you don't want to hard brick the kindle, that's a pain to even attempt to recover from without a major understanding of to solder and hookup an emmc to an sdcard reader.
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Okay, let me stop you right there. There's no need to manually flash those images in fastboot and, as you are aware, it isn't the safest option.
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.

^^ what he said, I wasn't aware the amazon zip was compatible with twrp, it has files that a flashable zip tend to have but I never looked into it. Now I know something new for future reference. xD
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soupmagnet said:
Okay, let me stop you right there. There's no need to manually flash those images in fastboot and, as you are aware, it isn't the safest option.
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.
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did what you said but install failed so pushed cynagamod to it and installed now i am stuck on kindle logo cant do nothing not even boot to twrp.

Time for a fastboot mode and kffa... If you at some point installed the drivers for fastboot then this should go smoothly, if not you will have to keep your device manager open I. With does and update the unknown jem device that's detect to the drivers in my signature. Once you do manage to make sure that the jem device is detected and has its drivers installed turn the kindle off and unplug it, then on your PC run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", once it says waiting for device plug your kindle in. It should go into fastboot mode, once there use kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

stunts513 said:
Time for a fastboot mode and kffa... If you at some point installed the drivers for fastboot then this should go smoothly, if not you will have to keep your device manager open I. With does and update the unknown jem device that's detect to the drivers in my signature. Once you do manage to make sure that the jem device is detected and has its drivers installed turn the kindle off and unplug it, then on your PC run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", once it says waiting for device plug your kindle in. It should go into fastboot mode, once there use kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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lol i am so lost.

Basically you need to get a copy of kindle fire first aid from the 7" general section of the forum(yes I know it says 7" but its more liken all second generation kf's), open a command prompt as admin, and CD into the kindle fire first aid directory, run the command mentioned in my last post and plug the kindle in while its off. If it goes into fastboot mode then great, if not you have to install the fastboot mode drivers, you must open the device manager, and when you power on the kindle it should briefly show a jem device, you have to update its drivers to the ones in my signature before the device disappears. Once that is working run the command again. and do as previously mentioned.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

soupmagnet said:
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.
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Thank you so much for this solution. Although I get my 7HD to enter fastboot mode with cable - I can't get these other solutions to work.
In TWRP I REBOOT and see RECOVERY - but when I hit RECOVERY it just boots back to TWRP. Is that all I'm looking to do before going to INSTALL the .bin file (now renamed as .zip)???? thanks much...

rightjb said:
Thank you so much for this solution. Although I get my 7HD to enter fastboot mode with cable - I can't get these other solutions to work.
In TWRP I REBOOT and see RECOVERY - but when I hit RECOVERY it just boots back to TWRP. Is that all I'm looking to do before going to INSTALL the .bin file (now renamed as .zip)???? thanks much...
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Flash from TWRP and then reboot into system. You'll need to Swipe to factory reset first.
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LinearEquation said:
Flash from TWRP and then reboot into system. You'll need to Swipe to factory reset first.
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That worked perfectly. Thank you so very much

Help me reinstall 8.4.6 fresh on Kindle Fire HD 8.9

I have read through this forum pretty thoroughly. I have tried to mess around with KFHD SRT and with KFFAide. With KFFAide it says it downloads the images necessary and then it hangs on waiting for device. The device is in fastboot, so I don't know why.
With KFHD SRT the last supported version was 8.1.4.
The only thing I did with this kindle is root it, but I want to go back to stock with a clean install. I downloaded the 8.4.6 bin but have no idea how to create a system.img. I tried doing an install from the internal storage but since it already has the same build, the kindle won't let me "upgrade my device"
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Matt

Have you tried copying the .bin to the root folder (the sdcard root, not the true root) then go to Settings -> About -> Device and click the 'Update Your Kindle' button?
mattjt21 said:
I have read through this forum pretty thoroughly. I have tried to mess around with KFHD SRT and with KFFAide. With KFFAide it says it downloads the images necessary and then it hangs on waiting for device. The device is in fastboot, so I don't know why.
With KFHD SRT the last supported version was 8.1.4.
The only thing I did with this kindle is root it, but I want to go back to stock with a clean install. I downloaded the 8.4.6 bin but have no idea how to create a system.img. I tried doing an install from the internal storage but since it already has the same build, the kindle won't let me "upgrade my device"
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Matt
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ggggeo said:
Have you tried copying the .bin to the root folder (the sdcard root, not the true root) then go to Settings -> About -> Device and click the 'Update Your Kindle' button?
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Yes a couple of times. It's not working because I am trying to update to the same firmware as is on the kindle.

mattjt21 said:
Yes a couple of times. It's not working because I am trying to update to the same firmware as is on the kindle.
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I haven't tried it myself, but KFFirstAide has an unroot option. Maybe use the factory reset in the Kindle settings?

ggggeo said:
I haven't tried it myself, but KFFirstAide has an unroot option. Maybe use the factory reset in the Kindle settings?
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We are past that..

I'm guessing either you don't have the drivers for fastboot installed or you didn't tell kffa no when it asked if u wanted to be put into fastboot. Check the device manager for a jem device with a yellow triangle next to it. If you find that while it is in fastboot mode, then download the drivers in my signature and extract them somewhere, then right click the device in the device manager and hit update drivers and point it to where my drivers are.
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stunts513 said:
I'm guessing either you don't have the drivers for fastboot installed or you didn't tell kffa no when it asked if u wanted to be put into fastboot. Check the device manager for a jem device with a yellow triangle next to it. If you find that while it is in fastboot mode, then download the drivers in my signature and extract them somewhere, then right click the device in the device manager and hit update drivers and point it to where my drivers are.
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The drivers worked, I had to do some digging on getting them to install on Win 8. But was able to get it working. Thank you!

KFFA hangs on downloading images
trying to restore KFHD 8.9 . Got it into fastboot then KFFA starts downloading images. boot.img and recovery.img are OK but after it hangs saying "1 more to download" . Now i see it already for nearly an hour !

I downloaded the 8.4.6 bin but have no idea how to create a system.img.
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That won't work. Images have to be made special for a fastboot flash. You can do a system restore and then let an Amazon OTA update get you up to date and stock.
These two links will help you restore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175

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[Q] Bootloader problem

Just putting this out, this is my first time rooting and 'trying to get android' on a device. I recently got a kindle fire 2nd generation but hated the UI and other stuff. My friend suggested me to try rooting it and turn it into an android tablet instead. Following the rooting guide in the forum, I have successfully rooted the device. The next step was installing the 2nd bootloader and TWRP. I followed Hashcode's guide
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963
but got stuck at step 4, flashing the bootloader. I have searched the thread but have not seen anyone solving the issue I'm having. Using cmd, I got the device to boot into fastboot mode and tried to type in 'fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin'. However, it returned an error: cannot load 'otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin' : No error. Can someone help me? Your help is much appreciated.
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Amazon Kindle Fire 2 on 10.4.8 (rooted and has SuperSU)
using Windows 7 as workstation
installed KFFirstAide (yes, I have tried option 40 but stuck on <waiting for device>)
Also, I have put the 'otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin', 'otter2-twrp-2.6.3.0-recovery.img', and 'otter2-freedom-boot-10.4.6.img' files in the C:\KFFirstAide folder. (I was thinking this might be the reason why it is not working but cannot be sure)

rocketfans14 said:
Just putting this out, this is my first time rooting and 'trying to get android' on a device. I recently got a kindle fire 2nd generation but hated the UI and other stuff. My friend suggested me to try rooting it and turn it into an android tablet instead. Following the rooting guide in the forum, I have successfully rooted the device. The next step was installing the 2nd bootloader and TWRP. I followed Hashcode's guide
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963
but got stuck at step 4, flashing the bootloader. I have searched the thread but have not seen anyone solving the issue I'm having. Using cmd, I got the device to boot into fastboot mode and tried to type in 'fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin'. However, it returned an error: cannot load 'otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin' : No error. Can someone help me? Your help is much appreciated.
Extra Info:
Amazon Kindle Fire 2 on 10.4.8 (rooted and has SuperSU)
using Windows 7 as workstation
installed KFFirstAide (yes, I have tried option 40 but stuck on <waiting for device>)
Also, I have put the 'otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin', 'otter2-twrp-2.6.3.0-recovery.img', and 'otter2-freedom-boot-10.4.6.img' files in the C:\KFFirstAide folder. (I was thinking this might be the reason why it is not working but cannot be sure)
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Yea you are kinda right, its because you are running the command from the system32 folder, you need to be cd'd into the folder that the files are in to run that command so "cd c:\kffaide" or w/e first and then run that command. Make sure you check the md5sum of that file before you flash it so you don't end up with a hard brick.

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Yea you are kinda right, its because you are running the command from the system32 folder, you need to be cd'd into the folder that the files are in to run that command so "cd c:\kffaide" or w/e first and then run that command. Make sure you check the md5sum of that file before you flash it so you don't end up with a hard brick.
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I have checked the md5sum of the files using a program I found here on xda. I'll try to do the cd from file right now and I'll let you know how that went. Thank you for the quick reply.

Ok, I got it up to the TWRP recovery screen. But how do I continue to flash the stock in step 4 after installing cm10.2 and gapps? Also, I do not have a factory fastboot cable.
EDIT
After installing CM10.2 and gapps, I hit reboot on TWRP and has 'unfortunately, com.android.phone has stop working' message popped up on the screen. Is it because I haven't continue to the section "Flashing back to stock" in step 4?
EDIT2 (I don't think this is related to the bootloader problem but I would like some assistance)
I rebooted again and didn't get the 'unfortunately' messages again. However, when I plug it into my computer, the device doesn't charge when it is active but charges when I put it into sleep mode. Is there any way to fix this issue?

That's because a pc doesn't put out as much amperage as a charger so it doesn't charge unless it is idle. Btw I recommend flashing cm 11, it is more up to date and has has improvements made to it that I think aren't added to cm 10.2.
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That's because a pc doesn't put out as much amperage as a charger so it doesn't charge unless it is idle. Btw I recommend flashing cm 11, it is more up to date and has has improvements made to it that I think aren't added to cm 10.2.
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I see. Where can I find CM11 and how do I flash it? Is it just:
1.put the file into /sdcard
2.reboot into TWRP recovery
3.uh, wipe memory?
4.install CM11
5.reboot
correct me if I'm wrong. I wasn't sure if these are the correct steps because there are a lot of different guides and most of them don't have the same steps.
P.S. Since the kindle only has 8gb, is there a way to free up more memory on the device other than the needed memory space for the os?

You have to factory reset to goto it. Download latest gapps as well. It should be in the development section for kf2 here on xda. Lemme find a link.
Link found!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388569
As to freeing up space all I can say is delete stuff you don't need. I don't tend to get low on my hd but the again I have a 16 gb model.
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stunts513 said:
You have to factory reset to goto it. Download latest gapps as well. It should be in the development section for kf2 here on xda. Lemme find a link.
Link found!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388569
As to freeing up space all I can say is delete stuff you don't need. I don't tend to get low on my hd but the again I have a 16 gb model.
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"Factory reset to go to?" Also, I should put CM11 zip and gapp in sdcard right?

Yes, what I meant was you have to factory reset before flashing cm 11. Kinda like how Amazon os caused a few problems if you didn't factory reset first, same applies when going to cm 11 from a previous cm os.
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Yes, what I meant was you have to factory reset before flashing cm 11. Kinda like how Amazon os caused a few problems if you didn't factory reset first, same applies when going to cm 11 from a previous cm os.
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I'm sorry if this sounds stupid but how do I factory reset my device? I've been working on rooting to installing bootloaders and finally at the point of getting android os on it non stop. Brain cells are dying rapidly...

In twrp hit wipe and choose factory reset.
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In twrp hit wipe and choose factory reset.
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Thank you so much for all the help. Everything went smoothly after your advises.
Update: It was running well for a while until when it ran out of battery and I recharged it, it won't boot into CM anymore. It just boots into TWRP recovery even if I pressed the option to reboot system and normal boot... What should I do?

Hmm could be a few things, try reflashing then ROM and gapps again, I suspect something with the boot IMG or system image is messed up. If it were the boot IMG I would think it would kick into fastboot though. Feel free to do a wipe of system, cache, and dalvik cache before you flash anything(under wipe>advanced).
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Hmm could be a few things, try reflashing then ROM and gapps again, I suspect something with the boot IMG or system image is messed up. If it were the boot IMG I would think it would kick into fastboot though. Feel free to do a wipe of system, cache, and dalvik cache before you flash anything(under wipe>advanced).
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I wiped what you said and tried to flash the rom and gapp but when booting, it will still boot into TWRP.
I'll briefly explain what I did prior to the issue.
After everything was all set up, I went to see if there were any updates which there was, the nightlies for CM 11 0518. I hit download and after download was complete, I hit the option "install and reboot". After the orange kindle fire logo came up and briefly after, the blue one, it boot into TWRP. I tried to reboot again but still no changes. So I went ahead and did a factory reset and flashed the two zip files again. The devices still boots into TWRP... I have no idea what to do afterwards and here I am requesting assistance from someone who knows things like these better.

Have you tried wiping internal storage? That's a last resort, maybe somehow your selinux xattribs got messed up. A internal storage wipe would clear them. But it will wipe your sdcard area so backup anything you want to keep over adb first.
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I haven't tried wiping the internal storage yet. How do I backup over adb? Also,since you said this might be a last resort method, if it fails, is there no other way to fix it? Not even restoring back to its out of the box state and start all over again with rooting and installing bootloaders etc?
PS. I don't know if it is related to what you are talking about at all but when I plug it into my computer, it doesn't recognize my kindle fire.

It should be recognized as an adb device when plugged in while in recovery, in which case your could run
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adb pull /sdcard/ sdcard/
And it should pull it, though that syntax may have been a little off, seems like the syntax when pulling a entire directory isn't quite the same as when pushing one if I remember right but I might be wrong.
You could technically try to restore it with kffa by reflashing to stock, but I don't advise doing that just yet because fastboot is rather limited in comparison to twrp recovery. Twrp gives you access to Linux shell commands over adb whereas fastboot does not and gives you simpler commands.
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It should be recognized as an adb device when plugged in while in recovery, in which case your could run
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/ sdcard/
And it should pull it, though that syntax may have been a little off, seems like the syntax when pulling a entire directory isn't quite the same as when pushing one if I remember right but I might be wrong.
You could technically try to restore it with kffa by reflashing to stock, but I don't advise doing that just yet because fastboot is rather limited in comparison to twrp recovery. Twrp gives you access to Linux shell commands over adb whereas fastboot does not and gives you simpler commands.
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So in short, to backup, I can just use a adb pull command?
After that, I am lost. I don't really understand what you are saying...

Yes just type
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/
and it will pull everything into the directory you are in, which gb be messy if you execute from something like kffa because vBulletin I don't believe it will create a folder called Edward and put the rules there, it will just put all the files right there so it's recommended to specify an empty directory at the end if that command. The rest of the other post was about the comparison if fastboot versus and access. Kindle fire first aid could try to restore it but if something screws up along the way you won't be able to have as much flexibility as you do with twrp to try and fix it. This is hard to explain from my phone...
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Yes just type
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adb pull /sdcard/
and it will pull everything into the directory you are in, which gb be messy if you execute from something like kffa because vBulletin I don't believe it will create a folder called Edward and put the rules there, it will just put all the files right there so it's recommended to specify an empty directory at the end if that command. The rest of the other post was about the comparison if fastboot versus and access. Kindle fire first aid could try to restore it but if something screws up along the way you won't be able to have as much flexibility as you do with twrp to try and fix it. This is hard to explain from my phone...
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So the steps are something like:
Backup with adb
Wipe internal storage
Flash the rom and gapp?
Alternative solution:
Restore the whole device
Repeat the root process
Installing the 2nd bootloader again
Flash rom and gapp
And the rest is if I were to restore the device, it is more flexible to use kindle fire first aide than to use TWRP?

odd situation, bricked kindle. need help!!

So i been trying to find the answer to my issue everywhere. everything i try fails.
So basically my Kindle fire hd 8.9 is in a constant boot loop. it goes from orange w/animation, then blue w/animation... then after a period of time it says that it cant boot gives me option to factory restore (which does nothing).
when i have it hooked up to a computer, it connects for 1 second, then quickly disconnects. In device manager it comes up as "jem-pvt-prod-04" with the yellow "!". i even tried to use the amazon drivers from another post on xda, in that split second it would appear in device manager, i would update device and point it to the driver. then i will get an error saying it encountered an error installing Android ADB interface. problem encountered while trying to add driver.
Does anyone have any tips for me. im kinda stuck here and desperate with a very expensive paperweight. very upsetting!
I never tried to root, or mod this kindle fire. this problem happened on its own. or possibly after an update of some sort.
thanks guys.

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So i been trying to find the answer to my issue everywhere. everything i try fails.
So basically my Kindle fire hd 8.9 is in a constant boot loop. it goes from orange w/animation, then blue w/animation... then after a period of time it says that it cant boot gives me option to factory restore (which does nothing).
when i have it hooked up to a computer, it connects for 1 second, then quickly disconnects. In device manager it comes up as "jem-pvt-prod-04" with the yellow "!". i even tried to use the amazon drivers from another post on xda, in that split second it would appear in device manager, i would update device and point it to the driver. then i will get an error saying it encountered an error installing Android ADB interface. problem encountered while trying to add driver.
Does anyone have any tips for me. im kinda stuck here and desperate with a very expensive paperweight. very upsetting!
I never tried to root, or mod this kindle fire. this problem happened on its own. or possibly after an update of some sort.
thanks guys.
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You're not hopelessly bricked if your Kindle still boots to the orange logo.
Might I ask what Windows version you're using? Newer versions enforce driver signatures, and that enforcement will cause failed installations in Windows 8+ unless you disable the enforcement before installing the drivers. I would also suggest installing ADB and fastboot if you haven't already done so. (Use the 15 second ADB installer - it's on XDA, and it works wonders!)
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You're not hopelessly bricked if your Kindle still boots to the orange logo.
Might I ask what Windows version you're using? Newer versions enforce driver signatures, and that enforcement will cause failed installations in Windows 8+ unless you disable the enforcement before installing the drivers. I would also suggest installing ADB and fastboot if you haven't already done so. (Use the 15 second ADB installer - it's on XDA, and it works wonders!)
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Yes, actually i am using windows 10. My thinkpad has windows 7, so i will try to do this using windows 7. i will post back with results. its funny, out of everywhere i looked nobody mentioned windows 8+ having to disable enforcement. actually it will probably just be easier just to disable the enforcement. ill give it a try and report back.

still no luck. i was able to install the driver. but it still does the same thing. only connects for 1 second when i first turn it on. idk where to go from here? any suggestions?

piffdaddy420 said:
still no luck. i was able to install the driver. but it still does the same thing. only connects for 1 second when i first turn it on. idk where to go from here? any suggestions?
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Completely turn off the kindle and unplug it from your PC if it's connected. Open Command Prompt and type fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product. Plug in the kindle when you see <waiting for device> outputted. The kindle should now boot into fastboot mode, from which point you can reflash the bootloader, TWRP, and the freedom-boot image in Hashcode's thread.
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Completely turn off the kindle and unplug it from your PC if it's connected. Open Command Prompt and type fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product. Plug in the kindle when you see <waiting for device> outputted. The kindle should now boot into fastboot mode, from which point you can reflash the bootloader, TWRP, and the freedom-boot image in Hashcode's thread.
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ok so im in fastboot mode now. i checked out that thread that you sent. but i have another problem, how am i supposed to get cm and gapps onto the kindle? is there a command i can use to put the files on the internal sd card? and i cant do the adb commands to push the stack, and do the other commands adb since i couldnt get it loaded to begin with, i am not able to enable developer mode. it would be nice if i could do those commands in fastboot mode. there has to be a way to do this....

maybe if someone can send me the stock partitions that they backed up stock boot partititons when they did it. maybe if i flashed them onto my kindle it will allow me to get it to atleast boot up so i can get into adb.
right now this is completely bricked.

can anyone help me? i just need the original boot loader, boot, recovery... basically whatever was backed up before you flashed it.
i aam looking for the original because i know mine was corrupt to begin with. my theory is if i load the original boot loaders and everything then maybe i can get into the kindle just so i can run the abd commands and then put cyanogenmod on it. unless someone has a suggestion on how i can get my device to be detected by adb ? the furthest i can get into is fastboot.

piffdaddy420 said:
can anyone help me? i just need the original boot loader, boot, recovery... basically whatever was backed up before you flashed it.
i aam looking for the original because i know mine was corrupt to begin with. my theory is if i load the original boot loaders and everything then maybe i can get into the kindle just so i can run the abd commands and then put cyanogenmod on it. unless someone has a suggestion on how i can get my device to be detected by adb ? the furthest i can get into is fastboot.
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Once you're in fastboot, you should run these fastboot commands (most of which I ripped from Hashcode's thread) to flash the bootloader, etc.:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.6.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-twrp-2.8.7.0-recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem recovery
after that, you should be in TWRP, from which point you can use ADB sideload (enable in TWRP through Advanced -> ADB sideload) to flash CM. After running ADB sideload, you need to re-enable it in TWRP for each subsequent zip you want to flash.
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Once you're in fastboot, you should run these fastboot commands (most of which I ripped from Hashcode's thread) to flash the bootloader, etc.:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.6.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-twrp-2.8.7.0-recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem recovery
after that, you should be in TWRP, from which point you can use ADB sideload (enable in TWRP through Advanced -> ADB sideload) to flash CM. After running ADB sideload, you need to re-enable it in TWRP for each subsequent zip you want to flash.
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Yes, i did all of those steps, however i never did the final step the oem recovery one...
everytime i try it now the screen turns completely red and stays there.

piffdaddy420 said:
Yes, i did all of those steps, however i never did the final step the oem recovery one...
everytime i try it now the screen turns completely red and stays there.
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That's going to be a problem... hold down the Kindle till it completely powers off. Then open command prompt, type fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product , and plug in the Kindle when you see <waiting for device>. Does this get you into fastboot mode?
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That's going to be a problem... hold down the Kindle till it completely powers off. Then open command prompt, type fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product , and plug in the Kindle when you see <waiting for device>. Does this get you into fastboot mode?
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yes it does

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yes it does
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It sounds like you've got a newer bootloader that's been patched. Go ahead and download the files from Hashcode's thread, and type in all of the commands exactly as given in step 5. Those should fix the red screen issue and allow you to boot normally (or into TWRP, from which point you can ADB sideload CM).
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It sounds like you've got a newer bootloader that's been patched. Go ahead and download the files from Hashcode's thread, and type in all of the commands exactly as given in step 5. Those should fix the red screen issue and allow you to boot normally (or into TWRP, from which point you can ADB sideload CM).
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i followed that exact, i tried it a couple times before you even mentioned it. but i did it again, i redownloaded everything and did it again. just to be sure. but it still continues to do the same thing with the red screen. it goes from kindlefire for 2 seconds then red screen comes across it and stays red. idk what to do. i am so upset.

piffdaddy420 said:
i followed that exact, i tried it a couple times before you even mentioned it. but i did it again, i redownloaded everything and did it again. just to be sure. but it still continues to do the same thing with the red screen. it goes from kindlefire for 2 seconds then red screen comes across it and stays red. idk what to do. i am so upset.
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Do you happen to have any stock OS backups? If you do, you should remain able to flash those over fastboot.
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Do you happen to have any stock OS backups? If you do, you should remain able to flash those over fastboot.
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no, i wish i did. the whole reason i started trying this was because the kindle was in a bootloop without even trying to flash it. it would go from kindlefire (orange) then blue, then it will ask me to do factory reset. and nomatter what i did i would keep going in the same bootloop.
so i turned to here for help, and following instructions now i am in this situation.
unfortunatley since i wasnt able to get into the kindle, i was never able to do any abd backups. so i just took my chances with it.
i was actually originally asking if anyone had the original files they can send me so i can try to flash those. atleast i can get it up and running because i really have a feeling this isnt working because i need to push the stack file over thru abd first.

piffdaddy420 said:
no, i wish i did. the whole reason i started trying this was because the kindle was in a bootloop without even trying to flash it. it would go from kindlefire (orange) then blue, then it will ask me to do factory reset. and nomatter what i did i would keep going in the same bootloop.
so i turned to here for help, and following instructions now i am in this situation.
unfortunatley since i wasnt able to get into the kindle, i was never able to do any abd backups. so i just took my chances with it.
i was actually originally asking if anyone had the original files they can send me so i can try to flash those. atleast i can get it up and running because i really have a feeling this isnt working because i need to push the stack file over thru abd first.
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You should be able to separately flash the system.img, boot, and recovery from this tool via fastboot. It's stock OS 8.1.4, but it should work.

monster1612 said:
You should be able to separately flash the system.img, boot, and recovery from this tool via fastboot. It's stock OS 8.1.4, but it should work.
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ok, it provided me with all the files except the bootloader. i did it step by step... but it only gave me original recovery, and original boot.img but it didnt give me the bootloader (and yes it is still turning red)

piffdaddy420 said:
ok, it provided me with all the files except the bootloader. i did it step by step... but it only gave me original recovery, and original boot.img but it didnt give me the bootloader (and yes it is still turning red)
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anyone have any suggestions or can help me with my situation?? i am wondering if maybe someone could just send me the original backed up bootloader, boot, and recovery. i tried the original ones that were posted with that srt file. but it included everything but the bootloader. which is what i need. i know that in original thread they recommended to back up your original files (i was unable to do so because my kindle woulnt boot so i couldnt use adb to back up these files).
so if someone on here can send me the original files so i can try to get my kindle booted back up. that so far is my only theory because i tried everything else. i know people with advance knowledge would be able to help me in a heartbeat. any devs out there wanna help me out? i would greatly appreciate it!

anyone?