Kindle fire utility 0.9.5 did not root my kindle fire..
Guys here's what happened..I downloaded kfu 0.9.5(which is the latest available)....I assume that I had set up adb as kindle fire utility showed adb status as online and boot status as 4000..and I selected set up permanent root...it downloaded and installed twrp itself which is working perfectly alright..then I wanted to install google play and go launcher ex..play didn't install and go launcher got installed..when I installed titanium backup and set Cpu both applications said failed to get root access..but when I selected to set up permanent root account kfu said ur kindle fire has been rooted..with great power comes great responsibility..
What did I do wrong?please help...amazon app store is not available in my region...
In the KFU thread there are a few very helpful posts to straighten this out but it requires physically moving things,changing permissions etc... without KFU magically doing everything behind the scenes.I think page 122 and 124 will be helpful and also another page later in the thread also that I forgot to write down.I'm not sure(maybe someone else can verify?) but you could try to flash one of the new Roms with the built in gapps and you'd probablly be ok that way too.
Wouldn't it make sense to ask this in the kfu thread and wait patiently for help? Or you could ask in the q & a forum. The development forum is for thread pettainkng to developing something for the kindle, such as a rom, kernel, or utility. In the future direction this to the right place and people will be much happier to help you.
Did you make sure you have su installed? You may be rooted, but without the su app so that you can give rooted apps permissions.
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mspallz said:
Kindle fire utility 0.9.5 did not root my kindle fire..
Guys here's what happened..I downloaded kfu 0.9.5(which is the latest available)....I assume that I had set up adb as kindle fire utility showed adb status as online and boot status as 4000..and I selected set up permanent root...it downloaded and installed twrp itself which is working perfectly alright..then I wanted to install google play and go launcher ex..play didn't install and go launcher got installed..when I installed titanium backup and set Cpu both applications said failed to get root access..but when I selected to set up permanent root account kfu said ur kindle fire has been rooted..with great power comes great responsibility..
What did I do wrong?please help...amazon app store is not available in my region...
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I had the same problem rooting my 6.3 KF, I could get SU installed, but it would revert back to unrooted stock upon boot. So, instead I just installed twrp using the KFU, then I flashed a custom ROM and it works perfectly. If you want to stay stock I recommend Stock+ or Modaco, although I was having some issues getting Modaco to keep root. Best of luck.
Thread reported so it can be moved out of the dev section and so you dont get flamed!
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Okay I just got a Kindle fire a week ago and I am assuming it was running the latest firmware. I rooted it with Kindle utility I found on XDA and installed twrp and added GAPp and all of that and installed Cyanogenmod 7. Everything was working fine except for 2 things, the kindle fire utility did not add Android market app and the browser kept crashing every time I'd type something in the address bar. Also play time or w/e didn't work. I do not know what I did wrong or what I missed but since I tried to UNBRICK it with XDA tools I am now stuck at cyanogenmod 7 logo. And even though I admit, the boot up logo is so sexy but it keeps replaying over and over and don't know how to fix it :/ I am asking for some help please.maybe even through teamviewer? but any and all help is appreciate it
I rooted my Kindle Fire using the Kindle Fire Utility V 0.9.9 and it was awesome but I decided to take it a step further and try to install the Cyanogenmod as well. When my Kindle was rebooting it was stuck at boot so I did a factory reset wipe in TWRP and when it rebooted it still has cyanogenmod installed, except it starts up fully now.. Only problem is with the wipe I don't have any apps. No ROM manager, No Google Play, no Kindle stuff, etc.
I guess the main thing is how do I get Google Play or some other app service to work on it? I've tried downloading the store .apk but then when I try and run it, it just flashes up and closes immediately.
Oh, fixed everything. Only problem was I didn't install from Gapps from root and so I couldn't get anything on my device. Works great now, can't believe how limited the Kindle Fire interface was.. now it's essentially just a Android Tablet.
I can only access fastboot mode because neither recovery or system will boot. I tried using Neesher's toolkit to restore, but all I get is "device waiting" If someone could help a noob out, that would be great. Thank you so much!
You might not have the drivers installed for fastboot, if there's a device I think it will be called otter in the device manage with an exclamation, use the drivers in my signature to update the drivers for the otter device, also I don't know the toolkit you are referring to, but I would suggest using kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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stunts513 said:
You might not have the drivers installed for fastboot, if there's a device I think it will be called otter in the device manage with an exclamation, use the drivers in my signature to update the drivers for the otter device, also I don't know the toolkit you are referring to, but I would suggest using kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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THANK YOU! the kindle first aid kit looks pretty serious, so I will ask another noob question, is there a way to tell if my kindle fire is 1st gen or second gen by looking at the body? I read that the first gen had an ambient light sensor and the second gen didn't, and the lockscreen was closer to the bottom of the screen on the seond gen. My KF appears to not have an ambient light sensor and has a lower lockscreen slider, so is it safe to assume it is second gen?
What software version is it running?
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What software version is it running?
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I can't tell...
If you have fastboot access them type "fastboot -i ox1949 getvar product" once you have the drivers installed, that should tell the model u have.
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stunts513 said:
If you have fastboot access them type "fastboot -i ox1949 getvar product" once you have the drivers installed, that should tell the model u have.
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It says invalid device id. I also don't know how to install the drivers you linked
Open the device manager, find the device should have a triangle next to it, might say otter idk, anyways right click it, hit update driver, and tell it to search the folder where u extracted my drivers to. On another note, if you are on windows 8 you will need to disable driver signature enforcement first.
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stunts513 said:
Open the device manager, find the device should have a triangle next to it, might say otter idk, anyways right click it, hit update driver, and tell it to search the folder where u extracted my drivers to. On another note, if you are on windows 8 you will need to disable driver signature enforcement first.
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It just keeps on saying it cannot find the drivers for my device, even when I point it to your folder.
It says otter2, so that is a second gen KF, right?
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It just keeps on saying it cannot find the drivers for my device, even when I point it to your folder.
It says otter2, so that is a second gen KF, right?
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You may want to install them with the device unplugged.
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You may want to install them with the device unplugged.
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I originally had the drivers for it installed, but I uninstalled them to try out the new drivers and even with the device unplugged, it still won't work
So maybe the vid and pid isn't in my drivers, I always add on to them when this occurs, can you goto the device manger to that otter2 device, right click it, hit properties, goto the details tab, and choose hardware id's on the drop down menu, and post back wat is on there? I will make sure it is in my drivers and update the post on the forum so your model is included.
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So maybe the vid and pid isn't in my drivers, I always add on to them when this occurs, can you goto the device manger to that otter2 device, right click it, hit properties, goto the details tab, and choose hardware id's on the drop down menu, and post back wat is on there? I will make sure it is in my drivers and update the post on the forum so your model is included.
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It gave two: USB\VID_1949&PID_000A&REV_0100
USB\VID_1949&PID_000A
OK I just updated the drivers on that post, redownload them and try it again, I didn't realize my drivers didn't have hardly any kf2 support in them until now, thanks for the hardware id's!
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OK I just updated the drivers on that post, redownload them and try it again, I didn't realize my drivers didn't have hardly any kf2 support in them until now, thanks for the hardware id's!
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Thank you!!! So now what do I do?
Tell kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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For starters, I apologize if any of this sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about because frankly, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Recently (this Christmas) my mother got me a Kindle Fire HD 8.9". I decided to follow a guide from a youtube user and put a second bootloader (twrp) and CM 10.1 on my Fire, only to find that half of the apps didn't work. I couldn't watch youtube videos or netflix, or even read books through the kindle app.
This made me angry because here I am freaking out trying to get my Kindle back to factory defaults so I can enjoy it again.
I've looked at countless guides on how to do this, but none were clear and all of them required big downloads that I'm not even sure would work.
Basically, I wiped the CM android os with TWRP, and I'm at the TWRP screen.
I downloaded the 8.4.6 amazon kindle update from the Amazon website and adb pushed it onto my sdcard. This didn't work; the Amazon update file I downloaded was a .bin, so I converted it to a .zip which apparently made my Kindle unable to open it and update.
I am able to get my Kindle into fastboot mode, but I have no clue where to go after this. Can someone please help? I just want my Kindle back the way it was.
Thanks
Use kindle fire first aid to restore it, though I have no idea what you are talking about with cm 10.1, sounds like you downloaded the wrong gapps because the stuff you mentioned works fine on cm 10.1 for me, you could also try cm 11 since it's newer.
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semettler said:
For starters, I apologize if any of this sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about because frankly, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Recently (this Christmas) my mother got me a Kindle Fire HD 8.9". I decided to follow a guide from a youtube user and put a second bootloader (twrp) and CM 10.1 on my Fire, only to find that half of the apps didn't work. I couldn't watch youtube videos or netflix, or even read books through the kindle app.
This made me angry because here I am freaking out trying to get my Kindle back to factory defaults so I can enjoy it again.
I've looked at countless guides on how to do this, but none were clear and all of them required big downloads that I'm not even sure would work.
Basically, I wiped the CM android os with TWRP, and I'm at the TWRP screen.
I downloaded the 8.4.6 amazon kindle update from the Amazon website and adb pushed it onto my sdcard. This didn't work; the Amazon update file I downloaded was a .bin, so I converted it to a .zip which apparently made my Kindle unable to open it and update.
I am able to get my Kindle into fastboot mode, but I have no clue where to go after this. Can someone please help? I just want my Kindle back the way it was.
Thanks
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You can't push an Amazon OS onto TWRP to flash it. It don't work like that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543481
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126