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Hello,
I have an Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and today I followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105
Everything went well, untill I arrived at step 3. This is were it went wrong:
Check that "disable recovery auto update" box, leave everything else alone, unplug the cable, and hit flash (the first option). You will see a progress window, and just hit OK. Then, turn off the device. Now, when you turn it on, immediately hold down the Volume Up button (leftmost from the power button) before it turns blue, an once it does, count to three in your head and let go. Be patient because you'll be stuck on the blue logo for a minute or so, then you'll see the TWRP splash logo. Once you're in TWRP, you're done. Just hit reboot, and everything's finished. Now you can browse the 8.9" Development forum for custom ROMs.
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After rebooting my device in TWRP, it gets stuck at the Kindle Fire logo in blue/white. (Click here for logo)
and my device is not recognized by my PC anymore.
The next step should be to load a .zip file from a custom rom on to the SD card. But since my PC doesn't recognize my kindle anymore, I can't do that.
I am still able to acces TWRP and I can still load in FastBoot Mode. But to be honest, I have no idea what to do now, since I am new to these kind of things. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Btw, my problem seems to be about the same as this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2330669
But I didn't want to hijack this persons thread..
colalime said:
Hello,
I have an Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and today I followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105
Everything went well, untill I arrived at step 3. This is were it went wrong:
After rebooting my device in TWRP, it gets stuck at the Kindle Fire logo in blue/white. (Click here for logo)
and my device is not recognized by my PC anymore.
The next step should be to load a .zip file from a custom rom on to the SD card. But since my PC doesn't recognize my kindle anymore, I can't do that.
I am still able to acces TWRP and I can still load in FastBoot Mode. But to be honest, I have no idea what to do now, since I am new to these kind of things. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Btw, my problem seems to be about the same as this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2330669
But I didn't want to hijack this persons thread..
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So yes post #3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2330669 tells you how to get adb working then
Code:
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/
Hello, sorry for my bad english.
Im a noob and have been looking and trying different things for days now and can't fix my KFHD8.9", I would greatly appreciate any help. Sorry if this have been asked, but ive tried everything and nothing seems to work or match the same problems.
I rooted my kindle fire hd 8.9" (8.4.6) and tried to install the 2nd bootloader + twrp (to eventually install CM10.2) using this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105), but stupidly, I didn't back up on step 2. I attempted to flash the bootloader using fireflash and, as long as I could make it I did everything that was needed. I rebooted and pushed the volume up while booting, and it went to the blue logo and then into fastboot screen and then stoped there.
My pc (Windows 8) didn't recognized the device while in the fastboot screen as a kindle but as a portable device called "jem-PVT-prod-04"
I rebooted my KFHD pressing power button, and when starting again, I saw the orange logo, then the blue logo and it just got stuck there.
So now I just can get to the fastboot screen (by pressing volume up while its booting) or get stuck in the blue kindle fire logo if i dont press anything.
I would like to add also that while on the fastboot screen , My PC wont communicate with my device. I have the Android SDK installed and could use ADB before this happened.
I have tried the commands -i 0x1949 getvar product and -i 0x1945 reboot as suggested on many posts, but both of them stays in "waiting for device" for ever.
Then i tried using Kindle Fire First Aide as suggested on other posts but after downloading everything it gave me an error about something not matching with my device and what i was trying to do.
In top of that, somewhere I got the impression that I just got stuck in the middle of the procedure and that I could still install TWRP or flash a rom,
So now I don't know if my device is bricked, or stuck in the middle of the procedure or what, but if anyone could help me get back to the stock firmware or to twrp or something other than this two screens (blue logo or fastboot screen) it would be spectacular
thanx in advance.
I'm having the same exact issue more or less, but I can't pass the orange Kindle logo. My computer will recognize the Kindle for about all of 2 seconds, but only as Jem_.... then disconnects so I can't enter fastboot or move forward at all. I'm hoping that someone can help with this.
You have to install the driver for the jem device with the drivers in my signature before fastboot commands will work. Try holding volume down instead of up, it should go into recovery instead of fastboot if I remember right.
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Recd msg alert stunts513 to the error while using wallpaper fix 2.1
I am having a terrible time with this Kindle HD 2nd generation table I tried to root. I was following this guys post on You tube and got it rooted but something when wrong when I tried installing the 2nd bootloader and twrp. I ended up stuck with a blue kindle logo. I tried turning it on with the volume button pushed to the left and it went from orange to blue and then to the twrp recovery menu. That was a few days ago, Its been stuck in that mode ever since, there are no back up folders and I think was making the problem worse, as it seems I could do the adb push and now I cant, well at least i couldnt before running your wallpaper fix 2.1 I ran it once and it wouldnt take I dont remember the error, but my table was at the blue logo screen. I remembered reading about running something while you powered the device on because there was an few seconds of access to something, I cant remember so I tried that and unknown to me It appears from these notes i found that I suscessfully installed it - then tried again -then something about the backup??? I am going to cut and paste it here and not do a thing until I hear from you, as I dont want to mess it up. I didnt know the fix worked cause i was watching the command screen and not the side of the file where i have your tool on my desktop.
Here is everything from that run. in the attached file
OK so lemme get this straight, you are stuck in twrp without adb access? Also I will have to double check on my PC but when I download that file its not a PDF but a text file and its HTML with a 404 error message in it when I view it on my kindle.
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OK so lemme get this straight, you are stuck in twrp without adb access? Also I will have to double check on my PC but when I download that file its not a PDF but a text file and its HTML with a 404 error message in it when I view it on my kindle.
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Yes somehow I have twrp and I think when I first got into the bootloop I had adb access but in fumbling around trying to fix it I lost adb access.
If I turn the kindle off, and then push power and do nothing it powers up with the yellow logo and in 4 seconds that log turns blue and it stays that way until i turn it off. In this state checking device manager it shows the device as an android phone, Android ADB interface. If I unplug the device the device manager no longer shows it - If I power up the device and while the logo is still yellow push the volume button to the left it boots to twrp
I re did the notes in a new pdf file I hope you can access them now. I tried looking at them from my post on my pc and got that same access code error. I cant win on this thing tonight,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly
John
The tutorial at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105 tells you, in step 4, to place a custom ROM on the Kindle before you reboot into twrp. You then install that from from within twrp and then you get past the blue logo. If you didn't put the custom ROM on your kindle and adb isn't working then you need to install the abd drivers from stunts513's forum signature then do the twrp adb sideload.
Relevant sections from the tutorial:
Once you have the .zip files for the ROMs with GApps (Google apps, like Play Store), place them on the sdcard, and turn off the device. Turn it on, hold Volume-Up before the logo turns blue, and enter TWRP. Once there, immediately do two things: make a backup, and after that, wipes: system, factory reset, cache, and Dalvik cache. After these two things are done, go ahead and flash the .zip file, and wait for it to finish. After it finishes, go ahead and again, wipe cache and Dalvik cache, then reboot. After you rebooted, wait 5 minutes, then reboot again, and you're all done!
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6. Wiped /sdcard, can't reboot from recovery: You thought you had the ROM file on the sdcard, but you didn't, and wiped everything, so without a ROM image, you can't boot into system.
Solution: Put the ROM file where your ADB binary is (usually inside platform-tools folder in Android SDK directory) and rename it rom.zip. On the device, boot into TWRP, select Advanced, then ADB Sideload. Connect device to PC. From here, run "adb" and hit Enter to check for your binary version, if it's anything lower than 1.0.3.0, you need to update the binaries by re-installing the latest Android SDK. Once the device is in sideloading mode and is connected to the PC, type "adb sideload rom.zip" and hit Enter. Now you'll find the ROM on the sdcard, flash, and you're done.
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Hope this helps... someone.
pitcrawler said:
The tutorial at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105 tells you, in step 4, to place a custom ROM on the Kindle before you reboot into twrp. You then install that from from within twrp and then you get past the blue logo. If you didn't put the custom ROM on your kindle and adb isn't working then you need to install the abd drivers from stunts513's forum signature then do the twrp adb sideload.
Relevant sections from the tutorial:
Hope this helps... someone.
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Your post fixed my bricked tablet, THANK YOU SO MUCH. There is so much info that its confusing for a noob like me - I followed the directions you posted and I am in. thank you, thank you, thank you
Jdoki said:
Your post fixed my bricked tablet, THANK YOU SO MUCH. There is so much info that its confusing for a noob like me - I followed the directions you posted and I am in. thank you, thank you, thank you
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Yeah, I know there's a lot of information. It took me a long time and a lot of research before I attempted it as a noob myself. An important thing is to follow the tutorials word for word and skip nothing, and cross your fingers.
Got fastboot comunication between PC and KFHD
stunts513 said:
You have to install the driver for the jem device with the drivers in my signature before fastboot commands will work. Try holding volume down instead of up, it should go into recovery instead of fastboot if I remember right.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
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Thanx a lot for the quick response! :good: I was finally able to install your great drivers. I had to be quick as you said in some other posts, because the pc only detects it for a little while, when the logo it's still orange on the kindle, I think. After that, and while on fastboot screen, my device manager would detect a Jem-something device, but could not install any drivers on it. So I had to install the drivers really fast while in the orange logo, oh, and had to disable the drivers signature check on windows 8 also.
Now I can use fastboot commands to reboot the kindle, but I can still only get to the blue logo or the fastboot screen.
I guess this means I now can use the kindle first aide to go back to stock and try again for the TWRP and 2nd bootloader. I'll post if I can't make my kindle boot normal again later.
Do you know if this was my kindle being bricked or was it something else?
Thanks a lot again, I was very worried that i wasn't getting anywhere. .:laugh:
Stuck on blue logo!
Hi!
I'm having a similar problem... I recently got a second hand Kindle 2nd Generation already rooted with Cyanogenmod 10.1.3.otter2 on it. Google Play and some other apps where having issues, so I decided to downgrade. After testing a couple of different ROMs, I got stuck on the blue logo, an infinite booting screen. Funny enough, I think the mistake was to install a Fire first generation ROM into a 2nd generation. Anyway, long story short, I've tried everything, Kindle First Aide (won't help because it seems that all the options need me to be in the desktop of the tablet and I can't get there), SDK ADB will see the device but return a device offline... I'm running out of options and don't really know what to do!
Any ideas guys??
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Hi!
I'm having a similar problem... I recently got a second hand Kindle 2nd Generation already rooted with Cyanogenmod 10.1.3.otter2 on it. Google Play and some other apps where having issues, so I decided to downgrade. After testing a couple of different ROMs, I got stuck on the blue logo, an infinite booting screen. Funny enough, I think the mistake was to install a Fire first generation ROM into a 2nd generation. Anyway, long story short, I've tried everything, Kindle First Aide (won't help because it seems that all the options need me to be in the desktop of the tablet and I can't get there), SDK ADB will see the device but return a device offline... I'm running out of options and don't really know what to do!
Any ideas guys??
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You need to push a ROM onto TWRP. You should still be able to access TWRP. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2459498 be glad you did not hard brick it.
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
I did something very similar.
june726 said:
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
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I am having a similar issue like yours. Yesterday I tried downloading Jellybean onto my Kindle. I did all of the precautions, TWRP, KFU, etc.
And right as I thought I was done, boom, I get stuck in an infinite re boot. Every time it finally boots up it says android.process.phone for not even a full second and immediately reboots. I am not the smartest, but if someone could walk us through a way to restore our kindles or fix the problem. I would be most gracious! I am not sure what the ADB is as well. Is that what I am missing?
june726 said:
Hi, i accidentally deleted everything, including my OS while trying to restore my kindle to its original state. Your help would be appreciated!
-its stuck in the KF logo (white and orange, meaning original bootloader)
-I cannot access TWRP
-when i try to use KFU, it says ADB status: online ; boot status : unknown
-when i try to install TWRP via KFU, it gets stuck in " waiting for device" ( i guess i cant go into fastboot mode)
-i'm not accessible to a factory cable because im not from the us
Help me please
Thank you!
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Have you guys checked this out???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
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Have you guys checked this out???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
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Yes, i've tried downloading that. But i can't seem to run it correctly. When i open it, it just opens a command promt and then closes immediately.
SDK
june726 said:
Yes, i've tried downloading that. But i can't seem to run it correctly. When i open it, it just opens a command promt and then closes immediately.
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OK well go get this for your PC make sure you get the one for your os....make sure you get the zip not the exe.... It will be like a 400 to 500 meg dowload....
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Controverly areadvia
lj50036 said:
OK well go get this for your PC make sure you get the one for your os....make sure you get the zip not the exe.... It will be like a 400 to 500 meg
I downloaded the sdk and i can now use adb. But, my problem now is that i cannot copy the fbmode to my kindle via adb. When i push it to a location, it says that my kindle is read only. So without the fbmode, i cannot boot into fastboot, cannot install fff and twrp and no os again. what should i do now?
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june726 said:
I downloaded the sdk and i can now use adb. But, my problem now is that i cannot copy the fbmode to my kindle via adb. When i push it to a location, it says that my kindle is read only. So without the fbmode, i cannot boot into fastboot, cannot install fff and twrp and no os again. what should i do now?
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Ok.. Well than lets see here.....When can you use adb??? I need as much info as possible... What file are you moving..... Where are you trying to move it to... Copy and paste your commands and outputs this will make it much easier for me and anyone else that would like to help....Thx lj
Phil700 said:
I am having a similar issue like yours. Yesterday I tried downloading Jellybean onto my Kindle. I did all of the precautions, TWRP, KFU, etc.
And right as I thought I was done, boom, I get stuck in an infinite re boot. Every time it finally boots up it says android.process.phone for not even a full second and immediately reboots. I am not the smartest, but if someone could walk us through a way to restore our kindles or fix the problem. I would be most gracious! I am not sure what the ADB is as well. Is that what I am missing?
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Well your problem is nowhere near the same as June's, but I'll go ahead and try to help your anyway. I've had this happen to me once or twice. My suggestion is to redownload your rom and gapps, and then try flagging them again. Hopefully that should work. There is an option in TWRP to mount your kindle on your computer.
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So far.
Guys, sorry I might not have explained the issue in enough detail. Although the information is full of things that are helpful. It didn't quite help me.
Sorry about having to deal with a compete noob here...
---I'll list my issues to isolate confusion.---
-I cannot boot ADB, I click on it, a cmd window pops up and then immediately closes each time I proceed to open it. for a start, if someone could perhaps tell me what I am doing wrong, because I know I must not be doing what all of you pros are doing.
-Although I had TWRP installed on both my pc and kindle. Whenever I boot up my kindle, I do not get the blue and gray "Kindle Fire" logo before the Orange and White logo. So that for me was very frustrating.
-The Kindle Fire Utility is not detecting my device at all. Which is worrying me to death, the Kindle Fire Unbrick utlity is not working either which is killing me inside.
-For a detailed description of what my kindle fire does when I press the power button goes as so: I press the power button, the orange and white Kindle Fire logo pops up for a few seconds like normal, then it proceeds to boot or "Attenpt" to boot the Jellybean OS, after waiting 5 minutes, the OS lock screen pops up with "android.phone.com" or "phone.android.com" pops up, for a second, then it proceeds to fully rebooting the OS for another 5 minutes. It does it indefinitely.
So does this mean my kindle is officially done for? Bricked? Or is there still hope for me. This is really depressing, I spent most of my money on this, money is tight for me right now ant I use my kindle for school and research. It is a vital tool to me. I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for all of the help so far. You guys really know what you are doing, thanks!
System deleted Need Help !!!! Please
Recently I tried to install android in my Kindle Fire HDX 7 and I install a thing called FireFireFire I think to my kindle then It messed up everything, so I don't know what to do and I wiped all my data and even the Option called SYSTEM. after that I reboot my Kindle and all I have is KINDLE FIRE on the screen that's it. I can't use my Kindle at all ,and the computer won't let me install the driver all it told me is MTP USB device.and I tired to use all kind of tool to fix my kindle and CMD told me Can't Find Device. I m really not good at android so I really need someone help me !!!
Happyy said:
Recently I tried to install android in my Kindle Fire HDX 7 and I install a thing called FireFireFire I think to my kindle then It messed up everything, so I don't know what to do and I wiped all my data and even the Option called SYSTEM. after that I reboot my Kindle and all I have is KINDLE FIRE on the screen that's it. I can't use my Kindle at all ,and the computer won't let me install the driver all it told me is MTP USB device.and I tired to use all kind of tool to fix my kindle and CMD told me Can't Find Device. I m really not good at android so I really need someone help me !!!
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Nothing here works for the HDX result=permabrick. All support for HDX is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hdx .
Phil700 said:
Guys, sorry I might not have explained the issue in enough detail. Although the information is full of things that are helpful. It didn't quite help me.
Sorry about having to deal with a compete noob here...
---I'll list my issues to isolate confusion.---
-I cannot boot ADB, I click on it, a cmd window pops up and then immediately closes each time I proceed to open it. for a start, if someone could perhaps tell me what I am doing wrong, because I know I must not be doing what all of you pros are doing.
-Although I had TWRP installed on both my pc and kindle. Whenever I boot up my kindle, I do not get the blue and gray "Kindle Fire" logo before the Orange and White logo. So that for me was very frustrating.
-The Kindle Fire Utility is not detecting my device at all. Which is worrying me to death, the Kindle Fire Unbrick utlity is not working either which is killing me inside.
-For a detailed description of what my kindle fire does when I press the power button goes as so: I press the power button, the orange and white Kindle Fire logo pops up for a few seconds like normal, then it proceeds to boot or "Attenpt" to boot the Jellybean OS, after waiting 5 minutes, the OS lock screen pops up with "android.phone.com" or "phone.android.com" pops up, for a second, then it proceeds to fully rebooting the OS for another 5 minutes. It does it indefinitely.
So does this mean my kindle is officially done for? Bricked? Or is there still hope for me. This is really depressing, I spent most of my money on this, money is tight for me right now ant I use my kindle for school and research. It is a vital tool to me. I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for all of the help so far. You guys really know what you are doing, thanks!
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Hey Phil. Doesn't look like you've posted anything else, so you probably won't see this. But oh well... Sorry your problem got left in the dust. I didn't mean for that to happen. You need to shift + right click in the folder with adb.exe and click "open command window here" and then you can do your things. As far as everything else: does your computer do anything when you plug your kindle into it?
I accidentally did this once (at least I think it's the same) and what I did was I went into ADB and side loaded a custom ROM I used CM
Hey guys, before I begin, yes i read the '[HOW-TO] Before asking for troubleshooting help...' page as well as the '[GUIDE] Kindle Fire For Beginners' page, and am still in need of a bit of assistance due to my hilariously lacking knowledge of the workings of electronic equipment. :silly:
I just dug my kindle fire out of my dresser drawer where it has been sitting due to being 'bricked' for quite some time (stuck at the boot logo - white kindle text and orange fire text shimmering on a pure black background - holds a charge but is indefinitely at this screen). It is completely stock, having not downloaded or installed any ROMs or any other software, and initially began experiencing this problem the morning after running it out of battery while downloading a few books and games one night. I promptly plugged it in, went to bed, and woke up to it in this state that next morning.
I have tried downloading Kindle Fire Unbrick V1.1 by ZombiePiratez and running that to fix it, but it does not recognize my kindle fire. So, i downloaded Eclipse ADT with Android SDK for windows and followed some instructions i found for getting it to recognize my kindle as "Android Composite ADB Interface" in hopes that then the unbricking tool would recognize it and work its magic for me. But it didnt. I imagine this is because the process that I followed is flawed.
My question is, if i were to buy a "factory cable" would I be able to unbrick my kindle fire without having to do any of this command promp shamanism thats clearly over my head? Kinfauns states in his guide that "With a factory cable, unbricking just comes down to "plug it in and flash new stuff" in almost every bricking situation." But what does 'flash new stuff' mean; should I have picked that up from the guide as well? Or could I just use the factory cable in conjunction with ZombiePiratez unbricking tool to get back to the factory settings?
Thanks in advance for any pointers
See my How to flash twrp and firefirefire with a Fastboot cable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53652317&postcount=2
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Hey @sd_shadow !
Thanks for the link to that, the videos you've created make it possible for even someone with my level of tech knowledge to work through this problem. Immensely better than trying to follow a written guide
Anyway, I finally got my fastboot cable and followed the steps in your videos to the tee, however I'm still encountering one small problem. When I get to the point where I'm installing update-kindle-prerooted.6.3.3.v1.zip in TWRP by swiping across the screen, it runs until it gets to the line thanking paulobrien and two others but then promptly freezes (or so i assume since it doesnt continue on and the loading bar halts in its tracks). I decided after a few tries to just hold the power button to get it to shut off and then booted the kindle in normal boot mode - and it worked! - despite not being able to complete the process as shown in your video. But this concerns me, as I do not have any of the additional apps shown in your video (not that this truly matters to me) and under settings -> device it shows that I am running version 6.3.1_user_#####. So I have two questions:
1) Did the fff and twrp processes work, but the 6.3.3 update fail thus enabling me to use my kindle as a v6.3.1 device again?
2) Will it harm my device in any way (e.g. re-bricking) if I just call it good and use it as it is now?
Thanks for all the help so far :highfive:
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Hey @sd_shadow !
Thanks for the link to that, the videos you've created make it possible for even someone with my level of tech knowledge to work through this problem. Immensely better than trying to follow a written guide
Anyway, I finally got my fastboot cable and followed the steps in your videos to the tee, however I'm still encountering one small problem. When I get to the point where I'm installing update-kindle-prerooted.6.3.3.v1.zip in TWRP by swiping across the screen, it runs until it gets to the line thanking paulobrien and two others but then promptly freezes (or so i assume since it doesnt continue on and the loading bar halts in its tracks). I decided after a few tries to just hold the power button to get it to shut off and then booted the kindle in normal boot mode - and it worked! - despite not being able to complete the process as shown in your video. But this concerns me, as I do not have any of the additional apps shown in your video (not that this truly matters to me) and under settings -> device it shows that I am running version 6.3.1_user_#####. So I have two questions:
1) Did the fff and twrp processes work, but the 6.3.3 update fail thus enabling me to use my kindle as a v6.3.1 device again?
2) Will it harm my device in any way (e.g. re-bricking) if I just call it good and use it as it is now?
Thanks for all the help so far :highfive:
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1 yes installing TWRP and FFF reset boot, and allowed 6.3.1 to boot normally
2. the only problem should be that, when connected to wifi, update will redownload and try again once a day or so
Kindle will reboot to TWRP, but update should fail, if that does not bother you it is fine
3. what twrp version did you install? says in twrp if you are not sure
I installed TWRP v2.7.1.0-blaze because that is what you used in the video, even though i had read that 2.2.2.1 may be preferable for stock unrooted kindle fires. I did this so that I could follow your video exactly without having to change any steps except for switching otter to blaze in the cmd promt code I inputted.
Also, as I write this, Ive realized that I still may have made a mistake and installed one of the alternate test files for the 6.3.3 prerooted update and not the complete file itself, so ill get back with that info.
Yeah, i installed the alternate test file the first time :silly:
Went back through and followed your instructions to the 'tee' again and its up and running.
I do have one more question though; when I am using the device I dont get very far before selecting an application or making another command causes the screen to go black, only displaying the time and settings option at the top and the home button, back button, search button, etc at the bottom - none of which respond when selected. This happens with both the go launcher and the kindle launcher, and each time the only way I can stop it is resetting the device... Any suggestions to counteract this?
I have successfully rooted my smaller Kindle Fire HD. I tried to root my 8.9 Fire HD and now I'm stuck with what I think is brick.
I started off with this link.
http://rootkindlefire.com/kindle-fi...t-kindle-fire-hd-8-9-into-pure-android-tablet.
I worked great until I got to step 20 when the device rebooted and it ran super slow and the display was not right a visible line running through the display. No apps showed up and command took more than 20 seconds to register. Unable to fixed it at this point I did a factory reset and all was good. No line through the UI and response time was back to normal. I tried couple of more times to root it and each time was meet with the same result. I left it lay for a while but took it back up again after doing some more research. I finally settled on this root solution and it worked.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jem
It worked and I was able to boot into TWRP and check its various settings then a problem occurred when I tried to move files to the device. I got message unable to mount cache. After some poking around I notice the internal storage at 0. No space for to move any files from my computer to the device. Try as I might I wasn't able to copy anything to the device. So one final time I attempted to do a factory reset and this is where things went to hell. The device rebooted but I got neither the standard Orange fire logo or the blue TWRP loading Fire Logo, all I got was a truly black screen like all the pixels where dead and no back light. The Kindle no longer shows up as a Kindle in my Device manager and its name is actually something cryptic like 'Kolwr29'. I am able to assign it the Andriod ABA Device but it cycles in/out of the device manager like its being connected and disconnected from my laptop. I've read most of the links listed as suggested on this forum but the device doesn't respond to any Fastboot commands and any command I give continually says 'waiting for device.' I've tried to do this on both my laptop and desktop but the device exhibits the same behavior. I also in desperation ordered a Fastboot cable even though I was fairly certain from what I read that it wouldn't work my Fire 8.9. Nothing same problem.
I'm at lost. The device will not respond to any commands and think I truly have a brick on my hands. I'm at the point where I'm just going to pay to replace it than wash my hands of trying to root it. We'll just live with the crappy apps from the amazon store. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated.
I've read the following posts and gone through all the steps in them but to no avail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850192&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010353
http://androidcowboy.com/2014/01/root-kindle-fire-hdx-8-9/