So I managed to brick my rooted Kindle Fire 2nd Generation after trying to install a rom with TWRP app. Anyways, I have a fastboot cable, and the correct drivers and Android SDK, but when I plug in my cable, turn off the device (holding button for 20 seconds), then turn back on, it still goes to red screen immediately after the brief kindle fire logo, exactly the same without fastboot cable. What am I dong wrong?
Would really appreciate any help .
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Jacoobyman
You sure the fastboot cable works? If it does I would keep the device manager open and see if it is briefly being recognized as a adb device or not. If it briefly detects it then I would attempt a "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", then plug the kindle into fastboot cable while off and see if that works, and yes I know that is typically meant for a 8.9" model but if its a weird circumstance then it couldn't hurt to try.
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You sure the fastboot cable works? If it does I would keep the device manager open and see if it is briefly being recognized as a adb device or not. If it briefly detects it then I would attempt a "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", then plug the kindle into fastboot cable while off and see if that works, and yes I know that is typically meant for a 8.9" model but if its a weird circumstance then it couldn't hurt to try.
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No it does not detect it at all in device manager. not even briefly. :/
That sounds bad, I don't trust windows too much for debugging but I'm guessing Linux would say the same thing, what were you trying to flash that caused this?
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My kindle fire is stuck in a boot loop (i think) it just keeps saying "Kindle Fire" then restarts then says the same thing and does this for ever in this state the computer doesnt find the device. I have a fastboot cable and it does put the device in to fastboot. Then I switch the fastboot cable with a regular kindle cable then it finds the device as otter2-prod-04. This all happened when I was trying to put twrp on it. And I think I rooted it.
If it shows up now as otter on your PC you just need to use fastboot to reflash the system image. If you are have an exclamation mark in the device manager you need to install the adb drivers for it when its in fastboot mode.
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Thanks for the reply but another problem that i forgot to mention is that neither adb nor fastboot find the device.
Check the device manager for an an exclamation mark then also, what fastboot command are you running? If you don't run the command with -i 0x1949 it won't detect it. So for a test try running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product".
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when I run that command it only says <waiting for device>. And also in device manager it has a exclamation mark.
Then u need to tell it to install the adb drivers for the device with the exclamation mark. That would be the reason the fastboot command isn't working. If u have rooted it then you should have the appropriate drivers laying around somewhere for adb mode. If not send either rpost back or pm me, and I will link u to my drivers I customized for kindles, though I am unaware if they will work with kf2 as is because I don't have its pid, only the vid may be the same, if that's the case I can always fix it and reupload it.
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stunts513 said:
Then u need to tell it to install the adb drivers for the device with the exclamation mark. That would be the reason the fastboot command isn't working. If u have rooted it then you should have the appropriate drivers laying around somewhere for adb mode. If not send either rpost back or pm me, and I will link u to my drivers I customized for kindles, though I am unaware if they will work with kf2 as is because I don't have its pid, only the vid may be the same, if that's the case I can always fix it and reupload it.
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I also have a kindle fire second generation. But it's in a different bootloop, with the first bright white and orange kindle logo repeating every 10 seconds or so. Nothing else. No adb, no fastboot. Not recognized by the computer at all! Could you please help?
Sounds like you will need a fastboot cable to attempt fixing that.
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I also have a kindle fire second generation. But it's in a different bootloop, with the first bright white and orange kindle logo repeating every 10 seconds or so. Nothing else. No adb, no fastboot. Not recognized by the computer at all! Could you please help?
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You need to get a fastboot cord. There is some great info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271909
Hi All,
I'm looking to purchase a 8.9" Fire HD that will only power on to the kindle fire screen.
I've rooted other KFs in the past and have a fastboot cable.
Would it be worth the risk to take a chance that I can salvage this Fire?
thanks
Well I thought I'd throw some output here for you, on the 8.9" models you don't use a fastboot cable to fix it, usually they are fixable just by letting it install the fastboot driver when it briefly pops up on the computer, then running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and then plugging the device in while its off. I have seen a few damaged bootloaders out there, but I doubt that would be the case, you just have to have patience when trying to fix it. If the fastboot drivers aren't wanting to install you can just boot the latest Ubuntu live distro and install the fastboot command from the repos and it will work automatically without the driver problems. Sorry this is more of a tutorial than an answer but it kinda goes into play of what you were asking.
All in all I say go for it if it's for a decent price.
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Unluckly i bricked my kindle fire hd 8.9.Now when i press the power button,after the yellow kindle fire logo flash,it will stuck on the red screen.And when i connect it to the PC,i got the red screen again.By the way,when the yellow kindle fire logo shows up, the PC could recognize the tablet but in less than 1 second the red screen will come out and the tablet will be disconnected from the PC as if the USB cable is pulled out.(i could hear the sound of disconnecting USB device.)
I also made a fastboot cable but it truned out to be invalid.Did i hard-brick the tablet? Is there any possibility to unbrick it? (I'm not a native speaker so sorry for my poor English)
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Unluckly i bricked my kindle fire hd 8.9.Now when i press the power button,after the yellow kindle fire logo flash,it will stuck on the red screen.And when i connect it to the PC,i got the red screen again.By the way,when the yellow kindle fire logo shows up, the PC could recognize the tablet but in less than 1 second the red screen will come out and the tablet will be disconnected from the PC as if the USB cable is pulled out.(i could hear the sound of disconnecting USB device.)
I also made a fastboot cable but it truned out to be invalid.Did i hard-brick the tablet? Is there any possibility to unbrick it? (I'm not a native speaker so sorry for my poor English)
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These don't use fastboot. Use the regular USB and Has codes thread for 8.9" tablet for instructions to factory reset. Red screen on this is lack of bootloader.
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These don't use fastboot. Use the regular USB and Has codes thread for 8.9" tablet for instructions to factory reset. Red screen on this is lack of bootloader.
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Once the tablet is connected to the computer it will fall into red screen and become invisible to the computer in 1 second so the computer is not able to recognize the tablet.How can i install the necessary drivers?
BTW,you mentioned the instructions to factory reset,could you give me the link of the thread?
I would suggest using a Ubuntu 13.10 live CD in your case since you never installed the fastboot driver previously. Makes things a lot simpler since you won't need to install drivers, only the fastboot command. Should be able to install it from the Ubuntu software center, just search for fastboot.
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I would suggest using a Ubuntu 13.10 live CD in your case since you never installed the fastboot driver previously. Makes things a lot simpler since you won't need to install drivers, only the fastboot command. Should be able to install it from the Ubuntu software center, just search for fastboot.
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I have opensuse installed in my PC but that doesn't work either. Connect the tablet with the computer and the red screen shows up then the connection breaks and the tablet become invisible to the PC,just the same situation as it is in windows.
Yes but here's the thing, it's supposed to do that. You basically run in a terminal "fastboot -i 0x1945 getvar product" and after it says waiting for device you plug your kindle in while it's off. That way once its detected for a brief moment it sends the command and goes into full fledged fastboot. Never had an issue with it in Linux before, then again I have never red screened my kindle and mine's a 7" model so a fastboot cable would have worked on mine.
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Yes but here's the thing, it's supposed to do that. You basically run in a terminal "fastboot -i 0x1945 getvar product" and after it says waiting for device you plug your kindle in while it's off. That way once its detected for a brief moment it sends the command and goes into full fledged fastboot. Never had an issue with it in Linux before, then again I have never red screened my kindle and mine's a 7" model so a fastboot cable would have worked on mine.
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Thank you for you reply.I'd like to know if I could use this method in opensuse?
Should be able to as long as the kernel supports the device, anything modern should. I had native drivers in 10.04 of Ubuntu so it's safe to bet you have the kernel drivers. If you can't get it to work in suse, just try a live distro like I said, though I don't think there's a need to, but I have never tried suse before, I stick to Debian based distros.
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Should be able to as long as the kernel supports the device, anything modern should. I had native drivers in 10.04 of Ubuntu so it's safe to bet you have the kernel drivers. If you can't get it to work in suse, just try a live distro like I said, though I don't think there's a need to, but I have never tried suse before, I stick to Debian based distros.
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I tried thay in suse but it didn't work.I think when the yellow kindle fire logo shows up the tablet is in fastboot mode but I'm just wondering why the tablet can't stay in fastboot after the screen truned into red.
Because it's not supposed to... The 8.9" models don't work with a fastboot cable so instead they made it so it will briefly appear as a fastboot device when the boot loader initializes, and if a command gets passed to it while its briefly like this it gets told to go into full on fastboot mode. That red screen you're seeing is not it trying to go into fastboot, its just a messed up bootloader, but it should still be intact enough to reflash the bootloader to fix this. Weird to suggest this at this point but maybe try using an Ubuntu live CD and see what happens... I don't know why suse wouldn't work but maybe give it a shot.
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Because it's not supposed to... The 8.9" models don't work with a fastboot cable so instead they made it so it will briefly appear as a fastboot device when the boot loader initializes, and if a command gets passed to it while its briefly like this it gets told to go into full on fastboot mode. That red screen you're seeing is not it trying to go into fastboot, its just a messed up bootloader, but it should still be intact enough to reflash the bootloader to fix this. Weird to suggest this at this point but maybe try using an Ubuntu live CD and see what happens... I don't know why suse wouldn't work but maybe give it a shot.
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So your suggestion would be
step1，Download a Ubuntu live CD image file，write the image into a usb disk，and reboot into the live CD.
step2，Open a terminal，input the fastboot command，then connect the tablet to the PC when the terminal says"waiting for device"
step3，Then the tablet should stay in fastboot and it is now possible to fix the bootloader and system with fastboot command.
Did I understand that correctly？
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Because it's not supposed to... The 8.9" models don't work with a fastboot cable so instead they made it so it will briefly appear as a fastboot device when the boot loader initializes, and if a command gets passed to it while its briefly like this it gets told to go into full on fastboot mode. That red screen you're seeing is not it trying to go into fastboot, its just a messed up bootloader, but it should still be intact enough to reflash the bootloader to fix this. Weird to suggest this at this point but maybe try using an Ubuntu live CD and see what happens... I don't know why suse wouldn't work but maybe give it a shot.
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And since my tablet is dead now， is it possible to install the fastboot driver in windows without the tablet？
It would be very difficult' unless you can get the driver into the driver cache but I haven't looked up how to do that, also on Ubuntu you will have to install the fastboot command, it should be in the Ubuntu software center, I'd give u the terminal command but I don't know the package name offhand.
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Just out of curiosity have you tried KFFirstAide?
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Hey all, I have a kindle fire 2 that I have been trying to restore and reset using kindle first aide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
I purchased a factory cable from skorp and when I plug my KF2 in with it, it simply says "kindle fire" on the screen. It is listed in device manager as Android Phone, and it says the Android ADB Interface is working properly. Yet when i type "abd devices" in cmd prompt nothing shows up, and when I try to use the first aide tool it says its waiting for a device.
Does anyone have any ideas on what may be wrong with it?
Can you verify that pin 1 and four are shorted on the micro USB side?
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Can you verify that pin 1 and four are shorted on the micro USB side?
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Yes they are, I tried the cable on my mom's kindle as well and the screen said kindle fire fastboot on hers. Device manager recognizes hers the same way it recognizes mine though.
If it was in fastboot mode then "adb devices" wouldn't show anything. When in fastboot mode, use fastboot commands, try this out:
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fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
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Yes they are, I tried the cable on my mom's kindle as well and the screen said kindle fire fastboot on hers. Device manager recognizes hers the same way it recognizes mine though.
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Try upgrading the factory amazon firmware first to repair fastboot on the device. I've had this happen before on a customers kindle. I was able to just grab a rootable amazon firmware update, update it, then continue to root, twrp and flash with a new rom.
I have a first generation Kindle Fire, I have a functioning fastboot cable and have flashed a bad rom. When the android rom loads, it constantly gives this error that pops up after you dismiss it. That's beside the point however. When the fastboot cable is plugged it, the kindle goes into fastboot and I see the kindlefire logo. I believe this is what fastboot is and I have tried to use KFU but it reads that it is not connected. Then I put Ubuntu on a flash drive and tried using Soupkit. However, it still did not connect to the Kindle Fire. Any suggestions? I may have made an simple error but any input is greatly appreciated.
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I have a first generation Kindle Fire, I have a functioning fastboot cable and have flashed a bad rom. When the android rom loads, it constantly gives this error that pops up after you dismiss it. That's beside the point however. When the fastboot cable is plugged it, the kindle goes into fastboot and I see the kindlefire logo. I believe this is what fastboot is and I have tried to use KFU but it reads that it is not connected. Then I put Ubuntu on a flash drive and tried using Soupkit. However, it still did not connect to the Kindle Fire. Any suggestions? I may have made an simple error but any input is greatly appreciated.
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Did you install the drivers for your kindle fire?
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I have a first generation Kindle Fire, I have a functioning fastboot cable and have flashed a bad rom. When the android rom loads, it constantly gives this error that pops up after you dismiss it. That's beside the point however. When the fastboot cable is plugged it, the kindle goes into fastboot and I see the kindlefire logo. I believe this is what fastboot is and I have tried to use KFU but it reads that it is not connected. Then I put Ubuntu on a flash drive and tried using Soupkit. However, it still did not connect to the Kindle Fire. Any suggestions? I may have made an simple error but any input is greatly appreciated.
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In Linux you should just be able to install fastboot from the terminal.... Just open your terninal and type fastboot if it is not installed it will tell you
the command to install it... Let me know if this helps....Thx lj
After the kindle boots into fastboot, use a normal USB cable
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