A while back, I rooted my mom's Kindle Fire, and installed FFF (yellow triangle logo) and TWRP onto it, I don't remember all the details. Recently, the kindle stopped working. Whenever the kindle is turned on, it stays on at the FFF logo for about 1 second, then immediately powers off. My computer never seems to see the device connect, so issuing fastboot commands seems slim, but I'm still trying. I may splice together my own factory cable and hope that works. In the meantime, does anyone know what could be causing this problem to happen out of nowhere?
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I was on the Hellfire ROM, flashed the Energy ICS CM9 3.0 ROM. I figured why not try updating to firefirefire 1.4A and TWRP 2.1.1 just to have everything new. Something went wrong during all this but I dont know what, so I used Kindle Fire Utiility to go back to TWRP 2.0. I also used the Utility to flash firefirefire, I'm guessing it's the older version? Anyways here are some issues I'm experiencing.
- The only way to get my KF to turn on is by plugging it into my PC using a USB cord or plugging it into the wall. If I remove it from the wall or my PC it will not turn on even though recovery said my battery was full. Is this Kindle issue or ROM issue? Also, when I plug the KF into my PC it goes into recovery, cant seem to get it to boot up. If I plug it into the wall it'll boot up into the Energy ROM? Is there a way to start fresh, remove twrp, firefirefire, everything?
- As soon I plug my KF into my PC it turns on but I get this splash screen with the KindleFire logo and also a green Android logo right above it. I've never seen this screen before? This screen comes on for a quick second, my KF reboots, the same screen comes up again but this time the power button is orange. My old screen just use to be a yellow triangle saying "press power button for recovery". Now I don't have that screen anymore? Just confused on whats going on?
It amazes me how many people are willing to install things on their devices knowing nothing about them.
The first thing you need to do is read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23747567 Read the whole thing and don't skip a single line. It'll save you a lot of time and energy in the future.
Then Google search "Kindle Fire software update", it's on the Amazon website.
Download the file to your computer and change the file extension from ".bin" to ".zip"
Push it to your sdcard using adb or in twrp by mounting your sdcard
Flash the update.zip in twrp
Reboot
Start all over again with a new found knowledge of how the Kindle Fire works.
I have an original Kindle Fire rooted with CWM and after I did some app updates, something must have serious been affected by the changes. My Kindle Fire now immediately shuts off after first unlocking it. After shutting off it will reboot and attempt to load (shows the android robot with some blue prism thing) which will fail and show a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. I then have to hard reset the Fire to reboot it. I can get the Kindle Fire to boot back up again but only to shut itself off again immediately after unlocking.
I have attempted to restore the kindle fire through the kindle UI (when I can get it to stay on long enough) as well as restore it through the CWM prompts. Nothing seems to work.
To add insult to injury, the kindle also will not be recognized by my macbook. I have tried both through kindle and CWM mounting and have tried using multiple cords and multiple laptops. Sadly none of them will recognize the Kindle Fire so none of them will let me move an update.zip onto it.
I feel like I'm completely stuck, does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do? Also please let me know if there's any other information needed to help answer this question.
I can not get my wife's fire HD 8.9 to boot. When I turn it on the Kindle Fire screen appears for about 5 seconds, then the Kindle Fire goes out, but the screen is still backlit.
This device is completely stock with no modifications. It did this when I turned it on one day, no previous problems.
I tried holding the power button down for up to 2 min. After I hold the button for 10 seconds the backlight goes out and the kindle is completely off. I tried letting the battery go completely dead, then charging it for several hours with no change. I tried running fastboot, but it is stuck at <waiting for device>. My computer does not see it at all. I do hear the chime that something was plugged into the computer immediately followed by the chime that it was disconnected, but nothing shows up in my computer at all.
Is there any hope for this Kindle, or is it bricked for good?
So I assume you're on windows. That beeb you hear is the fastboot mode you need to load drivers really quickly during that beeb. At that point fastboot shoukd work and you can issue a command to get into the factory restore.
I got it working again.
The problem was simple, I did not have any drivers installed on my computer for the kindle (I have never plugged it into this computer before it would not boot). I found the drivers to download here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1890413
I was then able to get it into fastboot and recover it with instructions from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011126
Before I begin, trust me when I say I have scurried through dozens of Google results, forums, blogs, YouTube videos, FAQ's and other things trying to find out how to unbrick this thing. I have a Kindle Fire first gen which I rooted using Kindle Fire Utility through superuser 3 days ago. All was well, as I had google play and an innovative new launcher. After downloading a few apps, I thought that I had finally made the Kindle the fully-functional Android tablet I had desired. However, after a few hours of seamless use, the Kindle decided to freeze on me. Holding the power button still brought up the "Do you wish to power down your Kindle?" notification, and I shut it down, planning on restarting it. However, when I turned it back on, it would not get past the animated Kindle Fire logo. The weird part was, I could still hear notification tones. I was using my phone to DM on Twitter, and when I would get a message back, I could hear the twitter notification on my Kindle. (No, I was not mistaking it for the phone). After a while, I could hear that sound it makes when the battery was about to die. I plugged it in, and after two hours I unplugged it, held the power button to shut it down, and started searching google for answers. I was advised to use the Kindle Fire Utility to launch it in fastboot mode, which only restars the Kindle with no success. I have tried all options on the KF utility, even Permaroot. If I install TWRP recovery, it gets stuck on waiting for device. On most options, it gets stuck on waiting for device. (I have tried all the unplugging, unpowering options I saw). The computer makes a sound when the KF is plugged in, but it doesn't come up on the devices with removeable storage tab. I have all drivers installed, it is ADB enabled through the device manager, I have the Java Developer Kit, as well as Android SDK. The only thing I can get any utility to do (I have tried many such as Kindle Brick, SuperOneClick,etc) is restart the Kindle as if I did it myself. It still makes all the notification tones I mentioned earlier. One thing I have noticed, though, is that when the Kindle is 10 seconds from dying, the Unlock Screen will appear with no response. I have tried several times to let it get to that point, then quickly plug it in, but no sucess. It just restarts on the same boot screen. I have no idea what to do. I'm not a developer by any means, but I'm good with following directions I'm given to mess with computers and such. I don't have much knowledge of the command prompt, either. I just made this post as a last resort. Someone please help. (Running Windows 10 techncinal preview on a Windows 8, 64-bit laptop if that helps)
Do you know which system version?
Kindle Fire Utility doesn't root the latest system version.
Guessing that you rooted older version, then Kindle downloaded and installed newer system version, it would not ask for permission.
New system version may not have installed correctly.
If system was updated, Kindle lost root.
When powered off, connect to wall charger, does it charge?
Couple of options
See if you can force fastboot mode with adb commands
Or buy a fastboot cable
Then flash fff and twrp so you can reinstall stock rom
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[6.3.3] Flashing FFF and TWRP without Fastboot Cable
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Hi! Yesterday I rooted my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with no problems. The problems came after I installed TWRP before installing Cyanogenmod and GApps. Long story short, I got those on there eventually, and when I rebooted my Kindle, it showed the Cyanogenmod splashscreen/ animation, so I thought everything went well. After about, probably, 8 minutes it flashed the Android lock screen, but that's it. So I turned it off, then on again. Now, when I turn it on, first it shows the regular "Kindle Fire" logo with "Fire" being in orange, and then changing to blue, then it just loops showing the Cyanogenmod animation, then flashing the Android lock screen for a split second, then repeating that from the Cyanogenmod animation. I can't get into TWRP when I press the volume up key IMMEDIATELY after I turn the Kindle on. But, I can get it into Fastboot mode, except anytime I do a command, it'll either say "error: device not found", or something like, or it'll say "List of devices connected" followed by the serial number, and next to that "offline". If anyone could help me with this, it would be GREATLY appreciated.
Or, is there a way to completely reset it? At this point, I honestly don't care if I end up with the Amazon OS again, I just want my Kindle back
Anything? I just want to be able to use my Kindle again... At this point I'd rather it have a full factory reset, and just start fresh, as if none of this happened, and leave it that way... :crying:
Fleetwood Mac & Cheese said:
Hi! Yesterday I rooted my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with no problems. The problems came after I installed TWRP before installing Cyanogenmod and GApps. Long story short, I got those on there eventually, and when I rebooted my Kindle, it showed the Cyanogenmod splashscreen/ animation, so I thought everything went well. After about, probably, 8 minutes it flashed the Android lock screen, but that's it. So I turned it off, then on again. Now, when I turn it on, first it shows the regular "Kindle Fire" logo with "Fire" being in orange, and then changing to blue, then it just loops showing the Cyanogenmod animation, then flashing the Android lock screen for a split second, then repeating that from the Cyanogenmod animation. I can't get into TWRP when I press the volume up key IMMEDIATELY after I turn the Kindle on. But, I can get it into Fastboot mode, except anytime I do a command, it'll either say "error: device not found", or something like, or it'll say "List of devices connected" followed by the serial number, and next to that "offline". If anyone could help me with this, it would be GREATLY appreciated.
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Are you taking care to include the "-i 0x1949" parameter in your fastboot commands? That's one of the things I would think is preventing the kindle from being recognized. Also, try downloading and installing the Kindle ADB drivers.
monster1612 said:
Are you taking care to include the "-i 0x1949" parameter in your fastboot commands? That's one of the things I would think is preventing the kindle from being recognized. Also, try downloading and installing the Kindle ADB drivers.
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Thank you! I eventually got it fixed. Now it's just looping the regular "Kindle Fire" logo in orange :/ but I'm working on getting it back to normal.