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[Q] Am I doing something wrong?

I purchased a factory cable from this forum. I followed the 3 instructions. Nothing. I had already installed the KindleFireUtility 0.9.6. I installed the drivers for my computer - success. I ran the KFU program. My computer states it installed the drivers and adnroid ADB interface successfully. I am getting nothing. I still have the KindleFire logo. I really don't know what else to do other than mail my KF to someone kind enough to unbrick my KF. I looked into all the questions and answers and tried to follow them. No success. Prior to all of this I rooted it successfully as per instructions. I installed the TWRP. I then installed an ICS ROM which made my KF VERY slow. I tried to uninstall. It then got stuck on their logo. I forgot exactly what I did and now it it stuck on the KF logo. I thought that when I plug in the factory cable, a certain screen would pop up and then would be able to follow everything else. I am in no way saavy in reading all these suggestions here only to get myself so confused. s even shocked that I was able to ROOT it and then put in a ICS ROM. Bottom line, I am just absolutely STUCK!!! Can someone guide me to a specific thread here on this forum to follow exactly and specifically what to do and what to expect to see as I am trying to unbrick my KF, or someone I can mail this to... ; ). I live in the Sacramento (California) area. I am THAT desparate!!!
-AOKP ICS ROM
-6.3.1 version
-TWRP
thanks... Ed

Your factory cable works just as intended. It puts the device in fastboot mode (stuck at Kindle Fire logo). If you were stuck at the Kindle Fire logo to begin with, there was no need for a factory cable in the first place.
You need to change the bootmode from fastboot (4002) to normal (4000). Read the first three posts of the Kindle Fire for Beginners guide for help in fixing your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567

Kindle Fire 2 problem that I made worse

Hey guys, let's start with the basics.
1st . I am an idiot who managed to brick his kindle and then made the things even worse by trying to fix it
2nd. I am a noob so you most probably will get frustrated by my idiotic questions-please don't be mad at me I'm really trying to calm myself and fix it
so here is what happened:
1. I rooted my kindle fire 2 and installed android 4.2.2 with few apps
2. I tried installing Chainfire3D pro 3.30 and this prevented me from booting in Android but I still had recovery
3. I ran the recovery and enabled fast boot
4. I used this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035047 and clicked option 2
5. I disabled the fastboot and rebooted
6. Instead of booting into newly installed Amazon os it keeps trying to boot,displays the boot logo for few secs and then the screen goes black and starts all over again
So 2 simple questions: can it be fixed?do I need some special cable in order to fix it-I read this somewhere
Edit : I'm still reading any possible source I could grasp my hands on,so now almost 100% sure that it I need fastboot cable and that it will fix my problem. Am I right? If so where is the best place to order one- I'm currently living n UK if this helps you to guide me to someone/somewhere I'll get it faster.Also is there a way to create one myself?(I guess no but have to ask)

I got my fastboot cable from Honk Kong - It was like 6 $, I got it in 10 days and was able to fix all the mess.
You can close and delete the topic if you want

[Q] Kindle Fire 8.9 Stuck on static boot screen.

Hello,
I have recently attempted to install the 2nd bootloader, TWRP, and CM-10.2 mods on my Kindle FIre HD 8.9 and ended up with a bootlooping brick. Being as inexperienced as I am, I took the risky road and did not back up my device before attempting this... Lesson learned (Spent days on this problem when a back up takes minutes...) Currently, I can access fastboot and flash files but nomatter what I end up with a similar result of a static boot screen (Orange). I have tried KFHD System.img Restore Tool (Here) many times on different machines. I have tried KFFirstAide and it refuses to let me download from the server and thus aborts re-flashing the kindle. I have tried manually flashing 8.1.4 system, boot, and recovery images again with no results (As well as cleared the cache and userdata each time). I have downgraded the bootloader to 8.1.4 using the file given in Hashcode's Guide to install TWRP (Here). I have flashed these files from a Windows, a Mac, and now a Linux PC. Currently the Kindle is staring at me with a Kindle Fire Orange static boot logo. It is recognized by a computer for about 1-2 seconds after I first hit the power switch(I can catch it in fastboot here). Then it disappears and sits idly at the boot logo. Sometimes it reboots and then repeats the process, sometimes it just stays this way until I turn it off via hard reset.
I check the MD5 sums on each of the files and none of them have been corrupted while downloading. So now after looking through every forum I can bear, I come here. Am I missing something simple? Or is my device a devil spawn that refuses to return to stock images?

Hmm, off flashing from fastboot should typically work, since you were attempting to flash cm 10.2 I have to ask something because I am slightly uncertain of this myself, but did you ever get twrp running at one point before all this happened, and second if so did you ever wipe any of the partitions or try to flash the ROM?
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

Unfortunately no. I was never able to get into TWRP as the blue logo has never appeared. Directly after my first attempt at this I rebooted and got the red screen or wall of fire. I "fixed" that by reflashing stock boot, bootloader, recovery, and system image partitions to 8.1.4. Yet instead of a working device I now have either a boot loop or a fixed orange logo. I have gotten the device into stock recovery once (haven't been able to reproduce this result) but it shutdown while the process was underway(About half way??). I have also gotten the device to boot into a animated logo that then proceeded to a data corruption screen, but before I could even read the entire message the device shut off and began another set of boot loops. It looked like a amazon stock os prompt screen. Before this even began I had a normal Kindle fire that I had rooted. I forget what software version it was on before all of this unfortunately.

Sounds like the system image is slightly corrupted or something if the os had that kind of error about data corruption but you said the md5's march so that is weird. You try reflashing the boot partition again since reflashing system didn't work? This is frustrating, mainly because with out adb access from a decent recovery I have no Linux commands to work with, if worst comes to worst I think there's a way to reform at the system partition from fastboot but I wouldn't go for that just yet, I don't know the command offhand but if you did the wrong one I think there's a way it would clear all data on all partitions which would be very very bad. I'll ask hashcode what he thinks cause this is weird.
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I have tried flashing all partitions before. Will try again soon. Also, I have another piece of information as well even if it isn't relevant. I originally bricked my Kindle at first, flashed the wrong bootloader. So I bought a for-parts Kindle (Same model) that had a busted screen and took out its motherboard and placed it into my device. Then I rooted the stock os on the new MB and the rest of the story is already in this thread. It still charges and fastboots but nothing other than a static orange boot screen so far. Thank you for helping me out on this; really hope that this can be fixed.

Thinkwithportals said:
Hello,
I have recently attempted to install the 2nd bootloader, TWRP, and CM-10.2 mods on my Kindle FIre HD 8.9 and ended up with a bootlooping brick. Being as inexperienced as I am, I took the risky road and did not back up my device before attempting this... Lesson learned (Spent days on this problem when a back up takes minutes...) Currently, I can access fastboot and flash files but nomatter what I end up with a similar result of a static boot screen (Orange). I have tried KFHD System.img Restore Tool (Here) many times on different machines. I have tried KFFirstAide and it refuses to let me download from the server and thus aborts re-flashing the kindle. I have tried manually flashing 8.1.4 system, boot, and recovery images again with no results (As well as cleared the cache and userdata each time). I have downgraded the bootloader to 8.1.4 using the file given in Hashcode's Guide to install TWRP (Here). I have flashed these files from a Windows, a Mac, and now a Linux PC. Currently the Kindle is staring at me with a Kindle Fire Orange static boot logo. It is recognized by a computer for about 1-2 seconds after I first hit the power switch(I can catch it in fastboot here). Then it disappears and sits idly at the boot logo. Sometimes it reboots and then repeats the process, sometimes it just stays this way until I turn it off via hard reset.
I check the MD5 sums on each of the files and none of them have been corrupted while downloading. So now after looking through every forum I can bear, I come here. Am I missing something simple? Or is my device a devil spawn that refuses to return to stock images?
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"I have recently attempted to install the 2nd bootloader, TWRP, and CM-10.2 mods on my Kindle FIre HD 8.9 and ended up with a bootlooping brick."
I have the same problem but when I try fastboot mode the computer wont even find the device

Alrighty, well. I woke up this morning and decided to re download all of the system, boot, and recovery image files. I flashed them to the device and it again boot-looped for about an hour. I set it up next to me and started reading through the forums for repair via soldering eMMC to SD card reader. I look down and what is starting back at me? A fully working Kindle waiting in initial setup for input... Yet within about a minute it is back into the old boot looping game again. Hardware problem? A short maybe???

possibly or maybe it has a bad emmc chip.
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Hm, well I think I might just give up on this MB then. I am considering looking into my hard-bricked motherboard and using Kurohyou's pin-out. Even if my soldering skills are a bit rusty.
Thank you anyway for your help. I will report my progress in the other thread from here on out.

Careful not to melt the contact pads, I just ruined one of my Xbox 360 controllers today unsoldering a trigger, cheap parts.... Long story short controller falls in dogs water bowl, circuit board goes in rice, rice gets stuck under a trigger, I ruin controller unsoldering trigger... Least I have 4 more. But anyways yea careful, I suggest at least an st7 tip and not to let it get to hot, read someone else managed to melt a contact on a kf2 I think it was.
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[Q] Flashed a new rom and erased twrp by mistake, no os no twrp

Hi,
This has not been a good month for me. I have falshed several roms in the past to my kindle fire and my HTC One with success, never encountered any problem. However, this month I managed to brick, both my kindle and my HTC. I finally ubricked my HTC One and I hope to get some guidance to unbrick my kindle fire 1st generation.
My kindle used to have Cyanogenmod and I was trying to update it since my battery was lasting that much. I first made a backup, just in case something went wrong. However, when erasing cache and dalvik I also by mistake erased the backup and suddenly I had no OS (however, I still had twrp). Then I thought making my kindle stock again and then rooting again was a good idea but it wasnt, since running a .zip file which had Amazon stock softwear erased twrp and I am now stock in the kindlfire white and orange logo.
What I have tried.
My computer runs windows 8.1. However, since windows 8.1 was not compatible and probably is not comaptible with anything, with hboot 1.44 (which my HTC One had) I created a bootable usb running ubuntu 12.04 (which thanks to the gudinace of nkk17 I was able to ubricked my HTC). Before today, I tried ubricking my kindle with windows 8.1 and I actually got to the point where the kindle was recognized by windows (for a second I thought I was going to acheive something) as a Kindle, however I was not able to send commands (did read several forums, treads and information about commands in windows, but had no luck).
I hope ubuntu helps me unbrick my kindle (of course with the help and guidance of xda members).
Having said the above, my kindle currently turns on but is stuck in the kindle white and orange logo.
I have runned several commands in ubuntu, but my devices is not listed. I did order a factory cable, however since I am loacted in Mexico it is going to take some time to get it and hope to fix it before that.
Can anybody helpme please (I have read multiple threads starting from the beginers guides but have had no sucess). Help will be most appreciated.

Tots85 said:
Hi,
This has not been a good month for me. I have falshed several roms in the past to my kindle fire and my HTC One with success, never encountered any problem. However, this month I managed to brick, both my kindle and my HTC. I finally ubricked my HTC One and I hope to get some guidance to unbrick my kindle fire 1st generation.
My kindle used to have Cyanogenmod and I was trying to update it since my battery was lasting that much. I first made a backup, just in case something went wrong. However, when erasing cache and dalvik I also by mistake erased the backup and suddenly I had no OS (however, I still had twrp). Then I thought making my kindle stock again and then rooting again was a good idea but it wasnt, since running a .zip file which had Amazon stock softwear erased twrp and I am now stock in the kindlfire white and orange logo.
What I have tried.
My computer runs windows 8.1. However, since windows 8.1 was not compatible and probably is not comaptible with anything, with hboot 1.44 (which my HTC One had) I created a bootable usb running ubuntu 12.04 (which thanks to the gudinace of nkk17 I was able to ubricked my HTC). Before today, I tried ubricking my kindle with windows 8.1 and I actually got to the point where the kindle was recognized by windows (for a second I thought I was going to acheive something) as a Kindle, however I was not able to send commands (did read several forums, treads and information about commands in windows, but had no luck).
I hope ubuntu helps me unbrick my kindle (of course with the help and guidance of xda members).
Having said the above, my kindle currently turns on but is stuck in the kindle white and orange logo.
I have runned several commands in ubuntu, but my devices is not listed. I did order a factory cable, however since I am loacted in Mexico it is going to take some time to get it and hope to fix it before that.
Can anybody helpme please (I have read multiple threads starting from the beginers guides but have had no sucess). Help will be most appreciated.
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I have never heard of some commands.. I will have to give them a try... Thx for the great work

Kindle Fire (OTTERX), No Recovery, No OS, Can't even get Fastboot to work

So, I have this Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011), and lately I got this urge to customize it and install some further version of Android. Though, with ups and downs I managed, I was pretty much not satisfied with the stability of the customs ROMs.
It was then that I thought the stock firmware was the only best choice for an outdated device like the Kindle fire. So I made my mind to revert back to Stock, wherein I screwed up real bad, left no stone unturned, yet I'm stuck in the rut.
Need Your Help
Let Me Walk you through it all so you'd get a hint where and how I screwed up
1. Rooted the Kindle Fire 1, and installed TWRP 2.2.2.1
2. Tried Installing Custom ROMs, but there was nothing much available for the Stock Bootloader.
3. So opted for the OtterX Bootloader, as they had a variety of ROMs, for which a newer version of TWRP is required, 2.7.X.X, I believe.
TECHNICALLY, EVERYTHING WAS FINE UP TILL HERE
This is where I screwed up while trying to do a roll back..
1. While I was supposed to replace the OtterX Bootloader with the Stock one, I accidentally flashed TWRP 2.2.2.1, first.
2. Clearly, I couldn't boot up into recovery since then, cuz the 2.2.2.1 might be specifically designed for the AMAZON STOCK BOOTLOADER.
3. Before all of that I had wiped away the OS from the device, so I'm stuck here with no OS n no recovery, either.
4. Thought ADB and Fastboot could help, but I kinda remember I screwed up with that too (don't remember exactly what I did).
So this is the current situation
1. NO OS
2. NO RECOVERY
3. I can only setup the fastboot mode, but windows says, it doesn't recognize the device (probably something to do with the drivers, but I've literally rubbed my ass off finding the particular drivers, but to no good)
IF ONLY I COULD SOMEHOW GET FASTBOOT TO WORK, I'D BE GOOD BY MYSELF, I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT ALL, BUT CAN'T, JUST CAN'T

JayZ996 said:
So, I have this Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011), and lately I got this urge to customize it and install some further version of Android. Though, with ups and downs I managed, I was pretty much not satisfied with the stability of the customs ROMs.
It was then that I thought the stock firmware was the only best choice for an outdated device like the Kindle fire. So I made my mind to revert back to Stock, wherein I screwed up real bad, left no stone unturned, yet I'm stuck in the rut.
Need Your Help
Let Me Walk you through it all so you'd get a hint where and how I screwed up
1. Rooted the Kindle Fire 1, and installed TWRP 2.2.2.1
2. Tried Installing Custom ROMs, but there was nothing much available for the Stock Bootloader.
3. So opted for the OtterX Bootloader, as they had a variety of ROMs, for which a newer version of TWRP is required, 2.7.X.X, I believe.
TECHNICALLY, EVERYTHING WAS FINE UP TILL HERE
This is where I screwed up while trying to do a roll back..
1. While I was supposed to replace the OtterX Bootloader with the Stock one, I accidentally flashed TWRP 2.2.2.1, first.
2. Clearly, I couldn't boot up into recovery since then, cuz the 2.2.2.1 might be specifically designed for the AMAZON STOCK BOOTLOADER.
3. Before all of that I had wiped away the OS from the device, so I'm stuck here with no OS n no recovery, either.
4. Thought ADB and Fastboot could help, but I kinda remember I screwed up with that too (don't remember exactly what I did).
So this is the current situation
1. NO OS
2. NO RECOVERY
3. I can only setup the fastboot mode, but windows says, it doesn't recognize the device (probably something to do with the drivers, but I've literally rubbed my ass off finding the particular drivers, but to no good)
IF ONLY I COULD SOMEHOW GET FASTBOOT TO WORK, I'D BE GOOD BY MYSELF, I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT ALL, BUT CAN'T, JUST CAN'T
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have you looked at my thread
Started a Thread [How To] Fix OtterX Install Errors, Partition sizes, Unable to Mount System... with some possible fixes for those having issues since converting to OtterX, with pushing files, failure to mount system errors when installing Lollipop Roms...
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