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Dead Kindle. Does not charge or turn on. Will not connect to pc.

I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you need to use firekit.
it allows you to boot your pc of a linux usb live pen drive with some tools preloaded.
all you need is to shortout a contact inside kindle and insert usb cable into kindle at the same time.
ill post a link in a minute. just follow the instructions exactly and i'm sure it will bring your kindle back to life.
hope this helps
steve
sent from my new non bricked kindle
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link is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038

Get a new replacement one...
alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I did bricked my first Kindle, then I called Amazon (it still in warrentee), they sent me a new one next day. They tell you to send the old one back. They did not even ask me what happened. I've just said it no longer worked.

alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was in the same situation as you were, i messed up my KF but was able to revive it using the USB Firekit (link in the first reply you got), just follow it carefully. This will require you to open up your KF.
Dont despair, it will work

if you have probs with firekit.
post as much detail as pos of what you've done and where you're at in the process.
its not too hard as long as you follow the post to the T.
let us know how you get on.
cheers
steve
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

I had the same problem, but I fixed it by my resolder my USB port
Sent from my PG86100 using xda premium

alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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do you know what 3.0 kernel version you had installed. if it was #10 or lower follow the instructions below. my kf did the same thing and it's any easy fix. most likely your kf's battery is completely utterly dead.
NOTE: this may or may not work depending on what the kfu or unbrick utility did without you knowing.
1. plug your kf into the wall charger.
2. press and hold the power button until the light comes on. if this happens it will boot to a black blank screen but you will notice the backlight is on. let it sit this way overnight.
3. after it has sat overnight, unplug it from the charger and hold the power button until it powers off (light will go off as well ass back light lcd)
4. hold the power button until it comes back on. let it fully boot. you'll notice the time and date are incorrect.
5. power off again
6. download hashcodes newest 3.0 kernel #12
7. power back on and boot into recovery.
8. flash the newest kernel you downloaded
9. wipe dalvik and cache
10. reboot normally.
you'll then need to reset the date and time and you shouldnt have any problems after that.

alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think i can help you .But i am in shanghai of China.
because this KF was made in our factory

Hold the power button for like a few mins couldn't hurt then try to power it on
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Not to mention since you have the back off disconnect the battery for awhile then reconnect and power it on
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If that doesn't work use pookeys firekit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
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I have it working now. But one issue. The Kindle boots up normally now first into FFF then to android. Everything seems to be working fine except my battery shows 0% charge all the time. It does not charge. I unplug it and immediately shuts down. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? By the way, thanks for everyone who helped or contributed some input. By the way if anyone wants to know the method that work led was the Firekit method using Ubuntu Linux and the short test trick. I tried it several times even had some help on Teamviewer from a very helpful member. But after trying as few commands, it finally booted to the yellow triangle and after that I went to recovery and reinstalled CM9. So yeah everything seems to work now except the battery basically acts like its not even there.

alekslove said:
I have it working now. But one issue. The Kindle boots up normally now first into FFF then to android. Everything seems to be working fine except my battery shows 0% charge all the time. It does not charge. I unplug it and immediately shuts down. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? By the way, thanks for everyone who helped or contributed some input. By the way if anyone wants to know the method that work led was the Firekit method using Ubuntu Linux and the short test trick. I tried it several times even had some help on Teamviewer from a very helpful member. But after trying as few commands, it finally booted to the yellow triangle and after that I went to recovery and reinstalled CM9. So yeah everything seems to work now except the battery basically acts like its not even there.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
Just flash FFF 1.4a, plug it into a USB Port on your computer, and take a nap. It should charge enough that you can reboot into your system and let you continue charging it normally.

same problem KHFD 8.9"
well
I didnt read everything carefully but succeded in rooting my KHFD 8.9"
then i tried to install FFF using KFU and then it restarted and i couldnt power it on
well i have tried using FireKit .. but it says waiting for OMAP device..
then i wanted to do the shorting trick !!
i have searched for two days and couldnt find any where the how to USB shorting of KHFD 8.9
please help I am getting frustrated..

kanchan.n.mahajan said:
well
I didnt read everything carefully but succeded in rooting my KHFD 8.9"
then i tried to install FFF using KFU and then it restarted and i couldnt power it on
well i have tried using FireKit .. but it says waiting for OMAP device..
then i wanted to do the shorting trick !!
i have searched for two days and couldnt find any where the how to USB shorting of KHFD 8.9
please help I am getting frustrated..
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KFU is for the original kindle fire. Go post your problem in the KF2/KFHD QA. Most likely you have bricked your kindle. And factory cables don't work on that kf.

Whew. Didn't have to do anything elaborate on mine. Someone unplugged the wall wart and I didn't notice it for a few days. Held the power button for a minute or so as suggested above. Then tried a normal power on. That worked :good: Now I have it sitting in TWRP at 1%. When it gets over 10% I'll reboot into the OS.

THANK YOU!
Thepooch said:
Hold the power button for like a few mins couldn't hurt then try to power it on
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THANKS! I thought..what the heck.. I will try what you suggested and it worked!

[Q] Kindle Fire 2 bricked then died and doesnt do anything

I had tried to install recovery and boot thing and that never worked out so I tried kindle fire utility to install fire fire fire but then everything went black except for green light so then I held it down till it powered off and now it does nothing even when I try to turn it on please help or else I'm dead by my mom

There you go.
This is for the FIRST GENERATION KINDLE FIREs.
If you use any tool on this forum, your device becoming a brick was inevitable. This is not the right forum, so do not blame the developers.
Good luck retrieving it.?
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda app-developers app

I don't know how old you are or if you have a soldering iron but there is a way to fix it, I can provide the rest of the instructions he didn't add yet to flash the device. Here's the link to the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415870
But if that is way above what you can do, if it hasn't been over a year since you purchased it just call amazon and tell them it won't then on and you can send it in for a new one for free.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

My kindle is stuck at boot loop and won't be recognised by PC (kind of)!?!

Hello my device is stuck in bootloop and wont be reconised by my computer unless it is connected by a factory cable i bought from 'EarlyBird' on Amazon.
The screen turns on as well as the green light, it flickers and then goes black. This just REPEATS.
Plugged my kindle in with factory cable and showed up in Device Manager as 'otter2-prod-04'?
How can i make the kindle boot up again and work like normal?!?
Thanks.
If you need more info or can help please reply to this thread or PM me.

What did you do before this happened?
Had you been on stock or have you flashed a different ROM?
Do you see the blue Kindle logo, or does it bootloop before that?
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It is a orange and black logo saying 'kindle fire'. A light passes by it then freezes and repeats like I said in OP. I bought it broke at car boot sale very cheap so don't know background.
Sent from my C6903 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

I can send pics if need of kf? Also I'm trying out soupkit for kindle fire 2 now and see if this works. Should I use a fastboot cable with soup kit or not.

Here:

IMPORTANT!
FOR REASENS I HAVE MADE A NEW THREAD ON THIS AS FOR SOME REASENS I CANNOT SAY SO I HOPE THE XDA PEOPLE DELETE IT AS I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO
NEW THREAD:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48791125#post48791125
SOORY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!

[Q] regulary having to unplug to reset fire tv

my fire tv is rooted the problem im having is when i leave my fire tv overnight in the morning i have to completely unplug fire tv for it to reboot, if anyone has any simaler issues or knows why im having to do this i would appreciate their help. TIA

raider0 said:
my fire tv is rooted the problem im having is when i leave my fire tv overnight in the morning i have to completely unplug fire tv for it to reboot, if anyone has any simaler issues or knows why im having to do this i would appreciate their help. TIA
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Why specifically do you need to reboot? (Audio issues, freezes, ?) It might make a difference in the finding the right person to diagnose. Does it sleep or does it stay on overnight?

KLit75 said:
Why specifically do you need to reboot? (Audio issues, freezes, ?) It might make a difference in the finding the right person to diagnose. Does it sleep or does it stay on overnight?
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yes the fire tv goes to sleep but in the morning The fire tv is non responsive cant do anything with remote no lights on front and blank screen.

Try using CTRL+ALT+DELETE on your bluetooth keyboard.
I found it by accident -- it will actually reset the Fire TV instantly.

I've had the same problem on both my unrooted devices.
I usually reboot using the remote (hold down the main clicking button + play)
Is you firetv usually idle with kodi running? i always have kodi running when this happens

I don't have a Fire TV, but I have had this problem with my Fire TV Stick, which was hooked to my Samsung TV and now my Vizio TV. Every time I go to use the Fire stick, I have to unplug it from power and plug it back in. It is very annoying. I don't get any messages, just a black screen.

shawnlott68 said:
I don't have a Fire TV, but I have had this problem with my Fire TV Stick, which was hooked to my Samsung TV and now my Vizio TV. Every time I go to use the Fire stick, I have to unplug it from power and plug it back in. It is very annoying. I don't get any messages, just a black screen.
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I have the same problem. It seems to be getting worse. Pretty much everytime i use it it happens.

This happens to me as well. When plugged into my VIZIO tv, and running Kodi 17.2, the Fire TV will spontaneously enter a reboot cycle and will remain there until I unplug the power, wait 2 minutes and plug it in again. I have the new Fire TV 4k (hanging dongle), but this also happened when i had a quad core Fire TV Stick.. my original Fire TV Stick (with Voice Remote) continues to operate without issue to this day, albeit much slower since Amazon removed the Youtube app.
Oddly, the same device does NOT suffer from this issue if I plug it into my LG tv... Could it be an issue with the HDMI port (Port 1 (ARC) that I am plugged into??

Glad to know im not alone. Sometimes it will last for days, sometimes not.
I do use "advanced task killer" and "fast reboot" to kill kodi, netflix, firefox etc when Im not using them.

Guys, i used to have exact same problem and luckily was able to fix it. In my case as soon as the aftv goes in sleep mode it reboots in recovery mode . So because i have the TWRP customer recovery the box is not able to apply that update because is not the stock recovery. the only way to get it back to home GUI is to reboot the box from recovery. That was extremely annoying for me. A while ago i used to block the updates from amazon.com by using opendns, but stopped using it so the box becomes open for updates which automatically get downloaded on the box. Because im rooted there is a easy way of blocking the updates on the box itself by using Method 1 http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/. However this will stop working if you factory reset the box, if you do so you'll have to apply the blocking procedure again.
After the blocking is done just upgrade the box to the latest prerooted firmware from rbox and you're set. this is the link to the latest pre-rooted custom firmware for aftv1 https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/prerooted-stock-images-t2882337.
i hope that helps.

To add to stutunaru, Method 5 is equally important to apply through TWRP, after a fresh ROM flash and before the first full system boot.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/

Kindle fire 2nd generation red screen HELP - NON HD edition

My Kindle fire 2G was working fine and then I switch it on and am stuck at a red screen. Amazon tech support says it's broken, but I've seen people on YouTube manage to get theirs up and running again. At this stage I haven't done anything to it. I have a factory fast boot cable and when I plug it in the screen comes up with fastboot and a green blinky light. What do I do now? Forums and video tuts all have drivers and patches saying I should install Kindle Fire Utility, TWRP, FIRE FIRE FIRE etc, but these all seem to be for the 2nd Generation HD and they say in bold letters that it is only for Kindle Fire 2nd Generation HD - mine is not HD. I don't want brick it even more by installing/modding incorrectly, but I can't find any downloads that are just for 2nd generation, non HD. I'm not a computer noob, but I am clueless when it comes to Android. Any links, suggestions from here?