So I bought a 8.9 KFHD Demo unit. I gained access to fastboot through command prompt and have all the drivers installed. Stupidly, I used the KFHD System.img Recovery Tool for the 7 inch model on it and subsequently it boots up and says Kindle Fire for a few second, a red screen washes over, and then it says fastboot and stays that way. I then proceeded to erase cache and used the KFHD System.img Recovery Tool for the 8.9 inch version, the one I have. Sadly, it proceeds with the recovery but my kindle is still stuck booting into fastboot mode. Anyone have any ideas? Or did I break it for good.. Thanks for any help
You try "fastboot -i 0x1945 reboot"?
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You try "fastboot -i 0x1945 reboot"?
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I think you meant 1949, and yah it just reboots it and it boots into fastboot mode, plugged into my PC or not.
Edit: I also saw your other post in a similar thread about restoring stock boot loader but requiring the check of md5sum... was going to try that but wanted to ask if I am checking that the md5sum of the stock bootloader is the same as the one i am downloading?
Well that's one way to look at it because they should be identical if its the same version boot loader, but the md5sum is supposed to match the md5sum listed on the download. Also yes I made a typo in the previous post, thanks for pointing that out. You can also try something like "fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 1". For the record I don't remember which idme number is normal boot on the 2nd gen devices. The original kindle fire's had a different set of numbers for idme, but I believe the 2nd gen kf's use 0-3, so you might have to try a few numbers to get it right. I looked it up somewhere before and I believe found which one was supposed to me normal boot, but I don't believe i can look far enough back in my posts to find it via the xda app I'm using.
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You try "fastboot -i 0x1945 reboot"?
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Well that's one way to look at it because they should be identical if its the same version boot loader, but the md5sum is supposed to match the md5sum listed on the download. Also yes I made a typo in the previous post, thanks for pointing that out. You can also try something like "fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 1". For the record I don't remember which idme number is normal boot on the 2nd gen devices. The original kindle fire's had a different set of numbers for idme, but I believe the 2nd gen kf's use 0-3, so you might have to try a few numbers to get it right. I looked it up somewhere before and I believe found which one was supposed to me normal boot, but I don't believe i can look far enough back in my posts to find it via the xda app I'm using.
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Neither 0-3 do anything, on my kindle. Although, each one says finished in the cmd prompt. Should I go ahead and tr flashing the stock loader on? or should I of done that before trying your line of code.
You didn't necessarily need to flash the boot loader beforehand, and did it reboot after issuing the command I mentioned? If not did u try a simple fastboot reboot afterwards like I Initially said to do? You just need to be careful if you are going to flash the boot loader, like I said make sure to check the md5sum and of course make sure its the boot loader for your model.
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None of those commands did anything but I did do the reboot command and it rebooted back into fastboot mode. I guess I will try to flash the stock bootloader now...
So after trying different recoveries I have gotten my kindle out of fastboot but now it is stuck on the Kindle Fire System Recovery screen asking me to reboot or reset to factory defaults because it failed to boot(neither option fixes it). I tried the KFHD System.img Recovery Tool to no avail. Not sure what to do now. Do i need to flash the complete stock OS to it?
I used KFHD First Aide to get to this point. After I use it though, on the recovery screen I get a bunch of errors saying it can't mount cache. On the KF First Aide bat file prompt it says it erased cache, then attempted to format it but it's not automatically formatted as the file system type is not supported. I am wonder is these things are related.
Try running kffa one more time, it usually goes to recovery when something is messed up with the system partition, so try another reflash.
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Same thing happens. Says it didn't automatically format userdata or cache and then when the kindle boots it goes to recovery and the errors says" E:Can't mount /cache/recovery (Invalid argument)
because kffa downloads the files it flashes do you think those were corrupted? It only downloads them once so when i run it again its flashing same files.
Ah well that could be the case, but this error seems to be an issue with mounting the recovery partition which is weird because recovery seems to work fine, at least I think its trying to mount recovery, though that is in the cache path so I have no idea. Might have to ask soupmagnet about this.
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So after trying different recoveries I have gotten my kindle out of fastboot but now it is stuck on the Kindle Fire System Recovery screen asking me to reboot or reset to factory defaults because it failed to boot(neither option fixes it). I tried the KFHD System.img Recovery Tool to no avail. Not sure what to do now. Do i need to flash the complete stock OS to it?
I used KFHD First Aide to get to this point. After I use it though, on the recovery screen I get a bunch of errors saying it can't mount cache. On the KF First Aide bat file prompt it says it erased cache, then attempted to format it but it's not automatically formatted as the file system type is not supported. I am wonder is these things are related.
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hi I have the same problem you once had I have kindle fire hd 7 I two am in this boot then red screen then stuck in fastboot how did you fix this any help would really help me many thanks
You should try reflashing the bootloader, just make sure you grab the right bootloader for your device and check its md5sum against then one listed on the download. If you don't check the md5sum you are liable to hard brick it. From there it should be as simple as flashing the rest of the partitions from fastboot and hoping it works.
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I used KFU to root and install FireFireFire (first) then TWRP, after installing the latter, I noticed that the Android above the "Kindle Fire" logo was gone, is this normal. I apologize in advance if this is a repost.
Are you able to use the power button to enter recovery? If not, use fastboot to install FIREFIREFIRE.
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin
"u-boot.bin" being the name of the version of FIREFIREFIRE you want installed. You must be in fastboot mode with both "fastboot" and "u-boot.bin" in your present working directory (dir).
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consider the thread as stated making sure no steps were missed and if Rom boot fine into android OS no issues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24129239
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consider the thread as stated making sure no steps were missed and if Rom boot fine into android OS no issues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24129239
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I used the Kindle Fire Utility to install both TWRP and FireFireFire, I decided to install the "ReloadedRom", it went well until I took the device out of the charger after leaving it overnight. I noticed that half of the screen had pinstripes and the other half was fine. Another question, is how do I get into fastboot? I am familiar with installing roms and such, so I do have a decent background. Thanks in advance!
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I used the Kindle Fire Utility to install both TWRP and FireFireFire, I decided to install the "ReloadedRom", it went well until I took the device out of the charger after leaving it overnight. I noticed that half of the screen had pinstripes and the other half was fine. Another question, is how do I get into fastboot? I am familiar with installing roms and such, so I do have a decent background. Thanks in advance!
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With FIREFIREFIRE installed you can enter the fastboot command (in your command prompt) with the device powered down. When it says <waiting for device> turn the device on and the command should run when FIREFIREFIRE goes into temporary fastboot mode.
Otherwise:
adb shell idme bootmode 4002
adb reboot
To change it back:
fastboot idme bootmode 4000
Be sure to <shift + right-click> on your KFU/tools folder and select run from command prompt to use fastboot
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I was able to get into fastboot, but what next? Also, what is wrong with the screen?
I tried the Reloaded rom today and it seems like the rom itself is the culprit. I was having the same kind of screen problems before I switched back to Hashcode's rom. There have been others here with the same exact problem and they all were using Reloaded.
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Also, what is wrong with the screen?
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Update to hashcode's #7 kernel
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Hello, I have a rooted Kindle Fire (with bootloader) and tried to return it to original Amazon Stock OS.
I tried the steps specified on this page androidcowboy.com/2013/06/how-to-return-kindle-fire-hd-to-stock/
After this steps:
"Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the Kindle Fire SRT Tool and double-click on “SR Tool” file. Choose option 1 for “Restore-Factory Rooted with Superuser.apk”. Be patient as it’s very important. The file transfer can take up to 5 minute with no progress notification. If you interrupt the process in any way then you will BRICK your device. After the transfer is done then choose option 4 to “Erase cache and userdata”. Once it’s finished then choose option 6 to reboot."
It rebooted and seemed to be stuck at the white and orange Kindle Fire logo screen. I can turn it off and on by holding the power button, but my computer cannot detect it as a portable device or ADB. But I can enter fastboot mode by plugging the USB while it is turned off, so I don't think it's hard bricked.. I hope so.
Any thing wrong that I have done? Sorry I'm a noob when it comes to this. Help please?
Btw, my Kindle Version 8.4.1
Is it boot looping on the animated kindle logo or the static image one? Cause either way I'm guessing something went wrong with the flash, you should probably reflash the boot and system images, try using kindle fire first aid if the SRT doesn't work, I believe it has a stock rooted image flashing option like SRT. BTW don't confuse boot with bootloader, boot is where the kernel is stored. Just pointing this out because if you don't need to flash the boot loader then u shouldn't, if it corrupts you have a hard brick.
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Is it boot looping on the animated kindle logo or the static image one? Cause either way I'm guessing something went wrong with the flash, you should probably reflash the boot and system images, try using kindle fire first aid if the SRT doesn't work, I believe it has a stock rooted image flashing option like SRT. BTW don't confuse boot with bootloader, boot is where the kernel is stored. Just pointing this out because if you don't need to flash the boot loader then u shouldn't, if it corrupts you have a hard brick.
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I do have KFFA, which option should I choose? And mine is stuck on a static image one.
Weird sounds like it doesn't want to even try to load the os, maybe some things wrong with the kernel, anyways I haven't ever used kffa, but there should be an option somewhere to restore system image. You will first need to get the device into fastboot mode, just open a command prompt and CD into the kffa directory, I should have a fastboot command, and run this: fastboot.exe -i 0x1949 getvar product
Then plug your kindle in with the power off. If for some reason it doesn't work, which it should because you seem to have flashed something from fastboot before, then u will just have to update a driver before it disconnects.
Edit: OK fixed sorry for the thread mix up.
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I have a KFHD 8.9 with the same problem as the OP. It's stuck on the static (orange) Kindle Fire logo. I have working drivers and I am able to get it into fastboot using "fastboot.exe -i 0x1949 getvar product". The problem is, I don't know any of the history of how it got this way. I have repaired a lot of Generation 1 KF's and I thought I would get started on the Gen 2's so I bought this on eBay this way. I didn't realize how much more risky it was to work on the Gen 2. I also have KFFA working but I can't figure out how to get the stock image onto the KF so I can flash it back to stock. When I go into fastboot mode and use KFFA to reboot to normal more it just stops on the static Kindle Fire logo. Also, I can't get ADB to work at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
There's an option in kffa to restore the system partition, should be a fairly obvious choice, if you can't find it try the kfhd system restore tool
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There's an option in kffa to restore the system partition, should be a fairly obvious choice, if you can't find it try the kfhd system restore tool
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Well I tried KFFA Option 7 - Completly Restore the KFHD 8.9 8.1.4 (Fastboot) but it didn't work. There is a problem in RunMe.bat with the wget command when trying to download the .img files from dropbox:
Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com|174.129.21.126|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify dl.dropboxusercontent.com's certificate, issued by `/C=US/O
=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3':
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to dl.dropboxusercontent.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'
Unable to establish SSL connection.
So then, I Downloaded the KFHD_SRT tool and managed to restore the system partition but it still would not boot. Then I saw down at the bottom of the instruction page that to downgrade to 8.1.4 you also need to restore the boot and recovery partitions. After I did that -- PRESTO! my KFHD 8.9 booted up and is now working.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE HELP!!!!! I will be sure to click the "THANKS" button.
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I have a KFHD 8.9 with the same problem as the OP. It's stuck on the static (orange) Kindle Fire logo. I have working drivers and I am able to get it into fastboot using "fastboot.exe -i 0x1949 getvar product". The problem is, I don't know any of the history of how it got this way. I have repaired a lot of Generation 1 KF's and I thought I would get started on the Gen 2's so I bought this on eBay this way. I didn't realize how much more risky it was to work on the Gen 2. I also have KFFA working but I can't figure out how to get the stock image onto the KF so I can flash it back to stock. When I go into fastboot mode and use KFFA to reboot to normal more it just stops on the static Kindle Fire logo. Also, I can't get ADB to work at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey, I got same problem, after I install a bootloader for my KFHD 8.9, the original Kindle OS was unable to boot up, I got 8.4.6 when I recived my KFHD, Is the problem of OS ?
Sorry, but after re-reading my post I realized that I probably gave bad instructions. Mods please delete this post...
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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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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
Hi folks. I've been studying the forums for a few days now and can't resolve my issue. Hoping you will tolerate a noob dilemna.
I have a KF 8.9 HD running CM 10.1 and play store with no issues. Runs flawlessly. In my attempt to try out the CM 10.2 I wiped out the internal memory, cache etc.
I'm using Windows 8.1 to communicate with the KF.
I can only see the Kindle and use the ADB commands if I boot into TWRP. It reports the number and recovery when I run ADB devices in an admin command window. I'm unable to use the ADB commands when the KF is running the 10.1 OS desktop. Windows device manager reports it as MTB USB Device instead of the ADB Composite Device I get when it's running in TWRP. No matter how much tinkering and uninstalling KF drivers, I can't get it to see the KF.
I've also downloaded KF FirstAide.I get all of the menu options but it hangs whenever I try any options. For example, it hangs after reporting daemon started successfully when I try to use the safe diagnostics. I can't get it to communicate with the KF.
I'm in need of restoring this KF 8.9 HD to Amazon stock OS. I've ordered a new one and will be passing this one on to someone that's looking for the Amazon stock system. Otherwise I'd leave it as it since CM 10.1 is running.
Really appreciate the help you can give me.
You have to enable adb in cm 10.1, click on the build number about 10 times under "about tablet" in settings, that should enable the developer menu in settings so you can enable adb.
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You have to enable adb in cm 10.1, click on the build number about 10 times under "about tablet" in settings, that should enable the developer menu in settings so you can enable adb.
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Thanks Stunts. That should get me closer to figuring this out. The {} Developer Options are now visible on the KF. Root access is set to Apps and ADB. Uninstalled KF Win 8.1 device drivers again and rebooted both KF and computer. Still doesn't see it in Win 8.1 when I use ADB Devices (doesn't report any devices).
The Windows driver is still reporting MTB USB Device. When I try to update the driver using androide_usb.inf windows reports there is no compatible software driver in that folder.
I'll keep messing with the Developer Options on the KF. Any other suggestions?
Stupid question but did you check the box to enable adb? I didn't see that said you did only something else so I thought I'd ask. Also the MTP device is desperate so you shouldn't have to update it with the adb drivers, it should be a desperate device usually under its own android debugging category if I remember right.
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Stupid question but did you check the box to enable adb? I didn't see that said you did only something else so I thought I'd ask. Also the MTP device is desperate so you shouldn't have to update it with the adb drivers, it should be a desperate device usually under its own android debugging category if I remember right.
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I gave up on getting it to work in Windows 8.1. There must be something about the way it handles the drivers that prevents the device being seen when CM10.1 is running. Very frustrating. I must have tried 100 different variations but I can only get it to see the KF in Portable Device Player, not the Android Composite Device it sees when I'm running in TWRP mode.
I ended up using my daughter's netbook which is running Windows 7. Installed Java Developers Tools, KF First Aide. I can now see finally both the device as the portable media player and the Android Composite Device. Yeah!
One last problem to overcome. I want to wipe the KF clean and install the stock Amazon system. KFAide now communicates with the device in CM10.1. I was able to do a backup but it still hangs when I try to restore the stock system.
Is there a place a can get the stock image files for KF 8.9 HD? 8.1.3 or 8.1.4 should be fine (I don't remember which I was running before installing CM10.1). Ideally I want to transfer the stock images to the SDCard directory and then use TWRP to reinstall. Sound reasonable?
If you want full unrooted stock just download the latest update from Amazon's website for your device, put it on the kindle's sdcard and change the extension to .zip, and wipe the system, and do a factory reset then flash the amazon update, it should remove twrp and 2nd boot loader as well
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If you want full unrooted stock just download the latest update from Amazon's website for your device, put it on the kindle's sdcard and change the extension to .zip, and wipe the system, and do a factory reset then flash the amazon update, it should remove twrp and 2nd boot loader as well
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Thanks again Stunt. Want to make sure I do this correctly.
Do I just check off wipe system in twrp or other items like internal memory etc. I'm thinking just system.
Is the factory reset from within twrp?
Finally, do i flash while in fastboot mode?
Sorry for all the questions. Appreciate the help
When you hit wipe I believe there is a factory reset button, and after that you would do another wipe and check system, then install the amazon update zip file from within twrp, not fastboot.
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Ruacasa said:
Thanks again Stunt. Want to make sure I do this correctly.
Do I just check off wipe system in twrp or other items like internal memory etc. I'm thinking just system.
Is the factory reset from within twrp?
Finally, do i flash while in fastboot mode?
Sorry for all the questions. Appreciate the help
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Crap! Now it hangs on the Kindlefire screen (orange color not the blue rooted color).
I can use KDFirstAide to get it back in fastboot mode. I tried the various options to restore su, erase cache and user data etc, but nothing. It continues to hang at the KindleFire screen
Any suggestion? Are there any Fastboot commands I can use to restore and use twrp again?
You need to run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" with the kindle unplugged and off then plug it in when it says waiting for device, that should put it into fastboot so kffa can restore the system.
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You need to run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" with the kindle unplugged and off then plug it in when it says waiting for device, that should put it into fastboot so kffa can restore the system.
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Tired it and ran KFF. KFF prompts me that the Kindle Must be Powered on to the Desktop to do a restore of the system. Can't get to the desktop at this point. If I select no at the desktop prompt it starts the deamon and hangs at that point. Probably because it's trying to use ADB which is not active in Fastboot mode.
I was successful in using KFF to do a backup restore, but it is still hanging on the KindleFire screen.
The only thing I can do right now is get to Fastboot mode using the KFRecovery utility and Enabling Fastboot to get to Fastboot mode.
Something didn't restore right then, have you tried kindle fire system restore tool? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
Is fastboot mode working as far as you know from running the command I mentioned? It should report something back with jem in it .
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Something didn't restore right then, have you tried kindle fire system restore tool? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
Is fastboot mode working as far as you know from running the command I mentioned? It should report something back with jem in it .
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Fastboot is still working. I did run that command you posted: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product. It reported Prod: Jem-PVT-Prod-04.
I have tried the Recovery tool you linked to but it hangs when I try to restore the system (using any of the options)
Update: I was able to get KFFirstAide to complete it's recover using 8.1.2 option. I got a full red screen then it booted to the Fastboot Mode Screen. I feel I'm getting closer. I held the power button for 20 seconds, then release for 5 and power up again. It's still going into Fastboot Mode. Any advice?
Try restoring the system one more time, if that doesn't work you might have to reflash the boot loader. You can try "fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot" or "fastboot -i 0x1949 OEM idme bootmode 1" possibly followed by the first command. I have my doubts that command will work though and I'm not positive if system is 1 or not because the numbers used to be different on the original all and I'm not too familiar with the numbers on the hd models, but I think its 1.
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Try restoring the system one more time, if that doesn't work you might have to reflash the boot loader. You can try "fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot" or "fastboot -i 0x1949 OEM idme bootmode 1" possibly followed by the first command. I have my doubts that command will work though and I'm not positive if system is 1 or not because the numbers used to be different on the original all and I'm not too familiar with the numbers on the hd models, but I think its 1.
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Thanks for sticking with me Stunts. I tried reinstalling it already. Tried both variations of the fastboot commands you listed. Is it possible the second one is missing an argument? When I enter it by itself it comes back as listing all of the fastboot options (I usually get that when I type something wrong).
So it sounds like I just need to get out of the Fastboot Mode. It always shows a full red screen before entering Fastboot Mode
Odd, I suggest reflashing the boot loader then, download the boot loader for your device here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175
Its the 8.1.4 boot loader listed, make sure you check that the md5sum matches what's on that page or you could hard brick it.
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Odd, I suggest reflashing the boot loader then, download the boot loader for your device here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175
Its the 8.1.4 boot loader listed, make sure you check that the md5sum matches what's on that page or you could hard brick it.
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Downloaded and installed new bootloader. No errors but no improvement. Cycles KindleFire (orange) then Full Red Screen Then Fastboot Mode.
I also reinstall using KF First Aide- Completely Restore The KFHD 8.9 8.2.1 option again.
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Fastboot is still working. I did run that command you posted: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product. It reported Prod: Jem-PVT-Prod-04.
I have tried the Recovery tool you linked to but it hangs when I try to restore the system (using any of the options)
Update: I was able to get KFFirstAide to complete it's recover using 8.1.2 option. I got a full red screen then it booted to the Fastboot Mode Screen. I feel I'm getting closer. I held the power button for 20 seconds, then release for 5 and power up again. It's still going into Fastboot Mode. Any advice?
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A red screen is not good. Try Kindle Fire HD System Restore Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
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A red screen is not good. Try Kindle Fire HD System Restore Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
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Appreciate the help. I tried that recovery tool a few times. Just curious, which option should be selected in that tool? I think I tried them all already, but which one should be used to completely restore? Option 1 enables fastboot (got plenty of that...lol). Option 2 restores SU. Option 3 restores SU and other stuff i don't recognize. Option 4 had google stuff I don't recognize. But I did try all of them.
I got a KFHD 2G (2013) from a friend and the problem was simple: when the lock screen came up, he couldn't enter in his passcode because the keyboard wouldn't show up. There was no way to get into ADB since I couldn't get in. I tried to do a factory reset via recovery, but there is no recovery. I built a fastboot cable and tried "fastboot -w" but the partitions could not be formatted. This device seems completely screwed, I trued grabbing the factory update from amazon, but it's in BIN format and won't flash in Fastboot. Inside the BIN file, it seems to just be a recovery-flashable zip, however, it will not boot into recovery so i can't install it. Fastboot reports that two .txt files are missing. I tried extracting recovery.img from the zip and booting it as a ramdisk, however, this just causes it to boot normally. I ended up flashing userdata with boot.img as a way of formatting it, which got the keyboard back, but puts it on a screen saying "Enter password to decrypt Kindle." The password, "LOVE" is not accepted and entering 4 incorrect codes does not prompt a format. I'm at a loss here, it seems like it's just nt possibe for this thing to be screwed completely, but im out of options. what should i do?
HELP!!!
Also, I just realized this thread should be in "7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting"
Um so now it's to the point where it's asking to format it because the password is wrong so wouldn't that be the same as formatting it as you had intended on doing earlier? BTW fastboot commands on a kindle fire have to be prefixed with "fastboot -i 0x1949", also I don't know off hand if that command you were going to run is a user data wipe or a complete wipe and a complete wipe would been bad. So at this point if the lock screen asks you to format it and you don't have adb enabled then you probably will have to format it, I thought the new gen had adb access from early on in the boot process but I could be wrong, I suggest looking in the hdx section.
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Um so now it's to the point where it's asking to format it because the password is wrong so wouldn't that be the same as formatting it as you had intended on doing earlier? BTW fastboot commands on a kindle fire have to be prefixed with "fastboot -i 0x1949", also I don't know off hand if that command you were going to run is a user data wipe or a complete wipe and a complete wipe would been bad. So at this point if the lock screen asks you to format it and you don't have adb enabled then you probably will have to format it, I thought the new gen had adb access from early on in the boot process but I could be wrong, I suggest looking in the hdx section.
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sadly, no adb, its not an HDX because it's only dualcore. i now need a system.img and userdata.img.. i flashed the img from the ADK for this device and now all i get is fastboot.. i need ripped imgs from an actual device. the command i was running was a userdata/cache wipe, and i did prefix it but fastboot couldnt format the partitions because the filesystem wasnt compatible. The lock screen flat out wouldnt ask me to format, and the back button never showed up, which leades me to believe the system image was corrupt too. if anyone can give me system.img and userdata.img i would be eternally grateful! thank you for replying
Ah I knew it wasn't an hdx but they some things on that device that are similar to the hdx, like I think they disabled some fastboot commands from working and such. Hopefully someone more familiar with 2nd gen hd's can help you out more.
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Ah I knew it wasn't an hdx but they some things on that device that are similar to the hdx, like I think they disabled some fastboot commands from working and such. Hopefully someone more familiar with 2nd gen hd's can help you out more.
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so i borrowed a friends kindle and backed up his /system. i then sparsed it and it installed fine. when i booted up, i got a red flash and it threw me into fastboot. i then flashed the u-boot from the update file and now im bricked beyond all reair.. i run lsusb and get no mention of the device with my factory cable, and i cant get back in fastboot. the 2nd gen hd's suck so much..
Ouch, was his kindle a second gen HD?
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