Hi Guys. First off, what an awesome community! I check in often and enjoy learning new stuff about my device. I'm not really having issues with the root itself. Since I got the fire back in December my roots have gone flawlessly and I've fully enjoyed the freedom of a rooted KF.
I am noticing that I'm losing access to the Amazon Store newsstand. It wouldn't be so much of an issue if my wife didn't use it to access her mag subscriptions. It's telling me error "Cannot Update Library. Unable to Access Internet." when I try to open Glamour app for example. I am connected to the web of course. Her other subscriptions are not showing up either in her list of subs.
Also, (ive tried reinstalling a couple times, lame! losing all my UI setup of golauncher as a result. lol) when using GoLauncher, the Home/Back bar is persistent and doesn't go away. When I activate the stock Kindle UI though, the bar hides itself as it should.
Any suggestions as to why the newsstand subscriptions wont show/internet error/go launcher stuff?
Hey, thanks for everything! I re-rooted after 6.3 using KF tool and root explorer tells me i have access. Am able to switch to/from R/O & R/W.. KF tool tells me its rooted. I am able to use everything normally, just these two glitches.
Thanks !!!!!! Great job with the forums and site, im hooked up device hacking now and i appreciate the forum for this type of stuff! peace!!!
now if i can only master the english language
i guess i should rephraise the question..
now im noticing after flashing that suddenly my wife's books/magazines and tv shows will completely disappear from the device? any idea how to prevent this from happening?
Hey, a lot of problems with opening tabs on the kindle fire stock look is having to due with the changing of the app in the system file. Using root explorer or similar, go into system/app and reinstall kindle for otter, and or any other app that could have the slightest relation to the newsstand.
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I was trying to identify which of those could be related...I will follow your lead... ducks I want to keep root but lose access to her puchssed videos (big surprise) and all subscriptions...since 6.3 (Moravia mod) I could not access ant mag suns at all...keeps being broke by whet I assumming is some check script by amazon
Thats a bit more advanced than i know how to fix haha, once yoh try my method, if it doesnt work, i wont know what else to do. Good luck mate
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Once, I had similar problems.
I lost access to all my books at one point, plus the kindle asked me to re-register the device. The kindle market looked totally different as well - all this while i was UNrooted.
It turns out, after I rooted and installed the google market/ framework, (and unrooted), the market took it upon itself to update all my apps including audible and the kindle fire app.
This pretty much neuters anything you had installed as 'yours' from amazon. If you have google play installed, check these apps in the my apps section and uninstall any updates. This will fix the issue.
Also as others have said, root will disable amazon videos, I dont know if it has the same effect on purchased books.
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straylight said:
I lost access to all my books at one point, plus the kindle asked me to re-register the device. The kindle market looked totally different as well - all this while i was UNrooted.
It turns out, after I rooted and installed the google market/ framework, (and unrooted), the market took it upon itself to update all my apps including audible and the kindle fire app.
This pretty much neuters anything you had installed as 'yours' from amazon. If you have google play installed, check these apps in the my apps section and uninstall any updates. This will fix the issue.
Also as others have said, root will disable amazon videos, I dont know if it has the same effect on purchased books.
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Hey Bruddah!! Good call. I turned off the update and reinstalled otter for kindle and resynced and voila! Started syncing and downloading my wife's subscriptions from amazon! Kudos bro!!
I flashed ICS (for me) and then flashed back to my wife's kindle kfu rooted 6.3 (229 i think) and the subs were broken again but all i needed to do was reinstall that apk and it was back. nice work thank you very much. you deserve a beer
also as long as i unroot with rootkeeper and restart i can run amazon video too. very nice.
Been trying to work with this Kindle Fire for a while now. I have the 1st Gen model and seem to have gotten somewhere although I don't know where.
I've searched numerous sites and looked at numerous threads on this site but still can't get any more progress.
I'm using a Mac which seems to make things a little more difficult in terms of finding a fix. I've tried BreakDroid and a few other ways but still can't get anything to come together.
When I turn it on I have the option of choosing the boot menu with the blue lettering. Doesn't matter what I choose, it's booting normal or it will reboot a few times until it boots normal.
When I'm working with terminal I can't get the device to be recognized.
I type "adb devices" and nothing shows up at all as being connected.
Pretty much close to just calling it quits so hoping someone can give me some help.
Thanks.
Cheeseboots said:
Been trying to work with this Kindle Fire for a while now. I have the 1st Gen model and seem to have gotten somewhere although I don't know where.
I've searched numerous sites and looked at numerous threads on this site but still can't get any more progress.
I'm using a Mac which seems to make things a little more difficult in terms of finding a fix. I've tried BreakDroid and a few other ways but still can't get anything to come together.
When I turn it on I have the option of choosing the boot menu with the blue lettering. Doesn't matter what I choose, it's booting normal or it will reboot a few times until it boots normal.
When I'm working with terminal I can't get the device to be recognized.
I type "adb devices" and nothing shows up at all as being connected.
Pretty much close to just calling it quits so hoping someone can give me some help.
Thanks.
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I`m not a Mac person so not familiar with working on this with your OS but you could mail it to me and I would be happy to fix it.
Ok, so in a matter of 12 (or so) hours I have had a virus completely take over my Kindle. I recently got it rooted (I am totally new to all of this, so I didnt know to install root protection or anything like that for that matter)
I was looking on a third party app market (i forget which one) when I get a notification saying candy crush and some other apps need to be updated. I decide to update candy crush at about 10pm last night. After it started downloading I got a weird feeling about the app. One of the permissions was weird, it had no explanation of what it did and then there wasnt an easy way to cancel the download, also the download itself was also taking a really long time.
The permission was something like permissions/grant access/cd2a or something. I tried to look it up while the app was downloading, but nothing came of it.
A few hours later I was looking through ES File Explorer and noticed weird files in there. The first one I noticed was called "Dont Panic" with nothing in it, from then I realized there were files all over my kindle that I didnt put there. Random files with html/xml text were all over, I asked my boyfriend who knows more about this than I do to take a look and try to decipher what was going on. He went into the system tuner app I had on it and saw that every single app (whether it be system or user or lower) on my device was accessed and had something done to it. We even saw a few different series of pre written scripts and instruction manuals of how to embed task commands, among other things.
We deleted everything we could, stopped all the tasks that were going but had no idea what to make of it all. We spent most of the time trying to figure out the root of the virus to no avail. They turned the wifi off and on, they de and re-registered my kindle, I now have parental locks I have no idea the password to...whatever the virus is took over my operating system.
We did a factory reset on it hoping that might do something, or that we had deleted enough of the virus for it not to be able to work, but nope.
I followed the step by step instructions that are in the other forum kindle fire first aide, hoping it may bootload into a different software version the virus doesnt know, but when i hooked it up to the computer it just turned on like normal. Hooking it up to the computer i realized it has a whole different operating system and completely different serial number, on the kindle it says the normal system version and serial number.
I dont know, this thread is getting long and i dont have a lot of technical details. basically, the kindle still turns on and acts like it functions, but its just a shell operating system. I deleted a huge zip file off it (it should still be on my computer :/) when i hooked it to my computer hoping that was it, but it didnt do anything.
It can go online, but cant download apps because any log in for amazon you use doesnt work. It also seems that I have no permission or access to anything on it when its hooked up via usb cable. i dont even think the kindle fire first aide recognized it as the kindle device when I tried to bootload it.
I dunno. This is my last ditch effort to see if theres anything i can do to get any operating system onto my tablet.
I have my kindle...I have my computer theres tons of software out there...this cant just be it can it??? there has to be a way to get it back! i dont care if its a kindle or not.
Oh, and i didnt have any important files on there, so im not worried about that aspect, I just dont want to lose my tablet.
Please help!!!!!
That's odd. For it to be able to de- and re-register your kindle, the "virus" must have been specifically tailored to take over kindles.
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Wait. Do you realize that you are posting in the Kindle Fire HDX section and not the Kindle Fire HD Section?
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Did u do the factory reset from the settings or recovery mode?
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Just reflash the system partition using kindle fire first aid in the kindle fire general 7" section. That should fix it I think considering the factory reset should a have cleared /data. You may have to search for it since its a separate sub forum than hdx.
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r3pwn:
It seemed like they were remotely accessing my device and we could see the files change but by that time it was too late.
when we were looking at the system tuner event logs we could see that each app had been accessed and altered individually.
I didnt realize I posted in the Kindle HDX forum, my bad. If someone can move this, thats fine? I dont know if i can do that.
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stunts513:
When I connect it to the computer it comes up as a 'media device' named Kindle.
This is what is under the properties
Model Name: Kindle (Can be typed in)
Manufacturer: Amazon
Firmware Version 1.0
Serial Number:B0C9100424730E5D
Powered Source: Battery
Then it shows 12.0 GB free of 12.7 of Internal Memory.
Within that there are a few files (named android, book, image cache, music movies, audible, pictures, etc) with basically nothing in them.
Two pictures of the cover of the oxford dictionary that i noted.
This is definitely not right...
I think those files and folders come stock with android, I have those folders on mine, though I did flash to cm but the sdcard I believe had those before.
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I think those files and folders come stock with android, I have those folders on mine, though I did flash to cm but the sdcard I believe had those before.
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They arent the stock files. The kindle or virus seems like its hiding the operating system. did you read my post? When I connect my kindle to the computer all i can see or access is what my kindle is calling the internal memory. what i can see on my internal memory is about 10-15 files that are generically named and empty other than one that has two pictures of a cover of an oxford dictionary. does that sound normal? i cant register my kindle, the whole thing that i have as far as a UI is not actually amazon, it re routes me to amazons so called websites that you can tell are not authentic.
also, i have no access to the parental controls. i just cant even get into them at all.
I suggest just to reflash the system partition if you think it has a virus or something, it would return to stock rooted and should be virus free, if u wanna factory reset it before hand and wipe all the data u can do that too, also I recommend installing something like avast antivirus, though I recently got rid of it to free up about 100 mb of ram if I remember right. Kinda curious how you got a virus, the only virus I have ever even detected was a rooting exploit for gingerbread, so technically it was a false-positive.
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Do the factory reset by recovery cos the one from settings isn't good at all
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shadow3445 said:
I could help but I need the password to your account and email, so I. Could tell you about your kindle fire hdx 8.9. I used to work at the Amazon kindle specialists. Please introduce your self and send your information to [email protected].
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Really? You are like a couple of years late...Anyway, don't give away your email and password to strangers guys.
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My daughter's Kindle Fire 2 HD keeps getting this message. It is rooted using Kindle Fire First Aide (though I don't know where to find the most current version). I just re-rean the root process this morning as it didn't help. I don't know what the "timely" process is or how I get rid of it. Although I'm a fairly savvy computer user, these tablets seem to confuse the heck out of me!
Thanks for your help!
Hi all. New to the forums. Stumbled on it while doing a general google search. Am I confused or is the fire tv powered by android? I mean that is what I am understanding by it being a topic on this website. Anyway, I have a fairly new 75" samsung tv UN75J6300 and I am trying to put an amazon fire tv box on it. I loaded kodi onto the box and instantly began testing. While flipping through various menus, I noticed that the screen went black for 2 to 3 seconds and then returned as if nothing ever happened. I haven't sat through a lengthy session to say whether it happens again or if that is it and its over. Though, I am leaning toward the event continually happening. I kind of scoured this site, as well as a few others and Im at a bit of a loss here since some are talking about one issue and then the more I dig, I see there could be multiple reasons for this.
One issue I am reading is saying that the firmware update to the fire tv is making this error. I then read that it is a (forgive me if I don't get the acronym right) hdcp is happening which if I understand correctly is a way for amazon to check to make sure you're not using pirated software or something to that effect.
Any help on this would be great and a word of warning... I am not too tech savvy. I know just enough to get me in trouble (sd flashing, software loading, etc...)