Not able to flash or entering recovery - Amazon Fire Phone

Hey guys,
tech noob here, so please be kind with me. 2 weeks ago i bought a fire phone and successfully flashed CM 11 on the phone using this method reddit[dot]com/r/firephone/comments/4e3edh/how_to_install_cyanogenmod_or_slimkatfire_nexus/
So a few days ago i bought another fire phone and wanted to flash it too with the above method. This time it was an unused showroom device. I removed the demo mode and could also get root with king root. I also could install safestrap but i get a black screen when i try to boot into recovery mode. I uninstalled safestrap again but couldnt boot to stock recovery either. I guess the problem is, that i need to update my device which still has Fire OS 3.6. Here is the strange part: If i check via Wifi, the phone does not find any new updates. I then downloaded the new OS manually to the phone storage and the phone then recognizes the new update. But when the phone is rebooting to install it, i'am stuck on the amazon logo (I waited 1 hour). I then did a soft reset and the phone went back to the old Fire OS. Why am i unable to get into recovery or updating the fire phone? Is the demo phone locked? It had a sim lock but i also received a code to unlock the sim lock so i can use any provider. Please help me, because i want to get to CM 11 with this phone too.
Thanks for the help.

help me
I have amazon fire phone 64gb. I rooted it and installed CM11 with safetrape but after that i tried to flash custom recovery (TWRP) with flashify but after restating the phone it stucks on amazon logo not able to go into recovery mod by pressing power and vol+ button or vol-+ both. Plzzz if anyone knows how to solve this problem please help me

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Desperate Help Needed!

So I am the proud owner of a shiny, new Galaxy Nexus (GSM). Unlocked the bootloader and installed CWM recovery and was doing great. Today I decided to install the volume fix. Installed the zip through recovery, completed and rebooted. The phone got stuck in a bootloop over and over and over and over and would not boot Android at all. Did a ton of research here and everywhere and, in a panic, I booted into CWM recovery, reset the cache & did a full factory reset. NOW, the phone will not go past the Google bootscreen with the unlock symbol, no matter what I do. AND, I can't even flash the original google image because I can't get in to set USB debugging so my computer won't even recognize the phone (FYI, I'm on a Mac). I am at a complete loss and don't know what to do. If I could only get the computer to recognize the phone I could flash the original google image through Terminal, but alas, I can't. Any ideas? If I can somehow get this phone back up and running I would be eternally grateful. For now, I think I may be SOL. Thanks....
This happened to me, I was not able to solve the issue, even though I could push and pull data to and from the device via ADB. I could still not get past the google logo. I decided to lock the boot loader again and return to the store for a new device.
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hartford said:
So I am the proud owner of a shiny, new Galaxy Nexus (GSM). Unlocked the bootloader and installed CWM recovery and was doing great. Today I decided to install the volume fix. Installed the zip through recovery, completed and rebooted. The phone got stuck in a bootloop over and over and over and over and would not boot Android at all. Did a ton of research here and everywhere and, in a panic, I booted into CWM recovery, reset the cache & did a full factory reset. NOW, the phone will not go past the Google bootscreen with the unlock symbol, no matter what I do. AND, I can't even flash the original google image because I can't get in to set USB debugging so my computer won't even recognize the phone (FYI, I'm on a Mac). I am at a complete loss and don't know what to do. If I could only get the computer to recognize the phone I could flash the original google image through Terminal, but alas, I can't. Any ideas? If I can somehow get this phone back up and running I would be eternally grateful. For now, I think I may be SOL. Thanks....
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[Q] Kindle will only boot to TWRP

I'm rooting a kindle, and some weird things happened while I was rooting it, problems with rooting on Windows 8, But now that I have TWRP and FIREFIREFIRE installed, it won't let me boot to system. It flashes on and off of the shiny kindle Fire screen, then boots to TWRP. KFU says it is in Boot STatus 0x5003. Any help?
Ichigo said:
You're in the recovery boot mode. Change it to normal boot mode using kfu.
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Hello, sorry to bump an old thread, but when I tried to boot into normal boot mode, it tells me "The system cannot find the file specified." I have been stuck in this TWRP recovery mode for so long. Even when I get into Normal Boot mode, how do I get JellyBean installed so it loads that ROM? I have the Jellybean ROM files on the Kindle, which I can access via TWRP, but don't know how to install. HELP!!!
Well, right now I did a factory reset of the Kindle and I was able to get the KF back to it's defaults. I copied the Jellybean .zip file and gapps Jellybean .zip file to the root of the KF. I booted into Recovery Mode and I was finally able to see both .zip files when I clicked on Install. I thought I could do the Permanent Root now that I did the factory reset, but once I ran it under KFU, it would go through the process to install TWRP and then boot the KF into TWRP, but it doesn't look like it completed the root. How do I complete it?
In the meantime, I had went into Recovery Mode, went to Install and currently loading Jellybean onto the KF. I'm currently stuck at Verifiying partition sizes and it's been sitting there for a few minutes. How long does it take before it's updated to JB?
System Only boots to TWRP and KFU will not see kindle
I have a Kindle Fire 1... Not the HD when I got it in Dec of 2011 I got some help to get TWRP and CM7 Installed on it, and it worked great until a couple of days ago and now there is no help in the kindle fire room anymore so I was wondering if there is someone out there who would be willing to help me to get this to work again either through teamviewer or a Chat of some type, Gtalk, IRC anything at this point to get this to work again.
I have tried everything from a Hard reset, and KFU will not see it and I even tried a unbricking tool and that cannot find it either. Please help me out.
Thanks
CloudStrrife said:
I have a Kindle Fire 1... Not the HD when I got it in Dec of 2011 I got some help to get TWRP and CM7 Installed on it, and it worked great until a couple of days ago and now there is no help in the kindle fire room anymore so I was wondering if there is someone out there who would be willing to help me to get this to work again either through teamviewer or a Chat of some type, Gtalk, IRC anything at this point to get this to work again.
I have tried everything from a Hard reset, and KFU will not see it and I even tried a unbricking tool and that cannot find it either. Please help me out.
Thanks
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What exactly is going on...spare no detail...
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Stuck booting into TWRP
Hello Forum Lords, I hope that I found the proper thread for my problem.
I was simply trying to install Cyanogemod 9 on my wifes replacement KF1 after the first KF1 suffered some sore of hardware malfunction and would no longer take a charge. Somehow, somewhere I went horribly wrong this time around. I got stuck at the KF1 logo and eventually I got it to boot, but only to recovery.
My predicament is this: My KF1 is stuck booting into TWRP. Device manager on Win Vista recognizes the KF1 as Android Composite ADB Interface. When I try to use the KFU to boot the device into Normal Mode it says "cannot find the drive specified".
At the KFU starting menu, it says ADB Status: Online, Boot Status: 0x5003.
My ultimate goal is to get this thing running Cyanogenmod again. I am painfully noob at all of this. Please speak as you would to an escaped chimp who will not let go of the keyboard and mouse.
Thank you, anybody

screen stuck at black screen with amazon logo

hello i recently rooted and installed cm11 on my FP, i just did a clean system partition flash, then flashed pa_gapps. now screen is stuck at black screen with amazon logo. what should i do? i did get the phone to connect to the pc, i got it working using the stock usb cord phone came with. now the phone not connecting to pc anymore.
what can i do to return the phone to factory setting? or at least to get the cm11 running.
azheng said:
hello i recently rooted and installed cm11 on my FP, i just did a clean system partition flash, then flashed pa_gapps. now screen is stuck at black screen with amazon logo. what should i do? i did get the phone to connect to the pc, i got it working using the stock usb cord phone came with. now the phone not connecting to pc anymore.
what can i do to return the phone to factory setting? or at least to get the cm11 running.
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You mentioned clean partition flash and pa gapps but you didn't say you flash the cm11 zip. I assume you did? If not there's no os. Twrp will notify if the os isn't there but not sure about safestrap. I'd assume you need to flash it in fastboot now unless there's a button combo that can be utilized.
I'd take this to the cm11 thread. ggow might be able to assist.
KLit75 said:
You mentioned clean partition flash and pa gapps but you didn't say you flash the cm11 zip. I assume you did? If not there's no os. Twrp will notify if the os isn't there but not sure about safestrap. I'd assume you need to flash it in fastboot now unless there's a button combo that can be utilized.
I'd take this to the cm11 thread. ggow might be able to assist.
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well problem is i cant even get into safestrap recovery right now. when i hard reset the phone, try to boot it. its stuck at amazon screen. good thing right now is when i plug the phone in the pc, it makes connection. maybe i can sideload a os using the pc?
azheng said:
well problem is i cant even get into safestrap recovery right now. when i hard reset the phone, try to boot it. its stuck at amazon screen. good thing right now is when i plug the phone in the pc, it makes connection. maybe i can sideload a os using the pc?
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That probably IS a good thing. But if there's no OS installed I'd think it would automatically boot to recovery? I've only owned this phone a short time and before last week never used safestrap. Normally I'd either try to boot recovery with a button combo (haven't needed to on this phone.) Or connect via adb and use the command "adb reboot recovery".
I'd say you have a better chance or at least a quicker response if you head over to ggow's thread. Good luck
KLit75 said:
That probably IS a good thing. But if there's no OS installed I'd think it would automatically boot to recovery? I've only owned this phone a short time and before last week never used safestrap. Normally I'd either try to boot recovery with a button combo (haven't needed to on this phone.) Or connect via adb and use the command "adb reboot recovery".
I'd say you have a better chance or at least a quicker response if you head over to ggow's thread. Good luck
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thanks for the help, i think recovery went bye bye along with the OS lol
Hi,
any update on this thread? I've been stuck also. I had safestrap. I supposed to flash a cleamsystempartion but I accidentally restart it without flashing new rom and now i am stuck in Fire Phone Logo. I still can access the stock recovery tho. Please help :crying::crying::crying:
try to flash your phone back to stock rom
any solution to this problem? I am stuck with same problem.
siddharth_bhal said:
any solution to this problem? I am stuck with same problem.
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same problem here: can't start safe stripe and stuck at Amazon. tried to start the phone pressing volume up and power button, see if you can get into the build-in recovery. if it works, you can wipe the data and then use ADB sideload to flash in official rom (should be a bin file, i tried 4.6.1 version) and bring back your phone .
fire phone keep rebooting
my fire phone is keep rebooting with amazon logo up to 5 minutes and suddenly turned of i want to know the problem and how to fix it so please help me.
Have any of you guys tried the instructions in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/general/reverting-fire-phone-to-stock-t3288890
I have bricked Fire phone quite a few times and everytime I followed his instructions and the lifehacker instructions that he linked to install adb and ADB sideloaded 4.6.6.1. without any problems.
My fire keeps rebooting and gets stuck with the amazon logo on it pls i need ur help urgently
Bahdtyga said:
My fire keeps rebooting and gets stuck with the amazon logo on it pls i need ur help urgently
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U need a new fire phone, talk with amazon from your country or region or the seller from where you got fire phone!

cannot unlock bootloader/update firmware 51.1.0.1 firetv. Already Rooted.

Hi everyone. I have an old firetv that I haven't updated ever since I rooted it.
TL;DR: I would like to update the firmware to either the latest rbox custom rom or the latest official to get external USB disk functionality.
Unfortunately, I can't get past the white fire tv logo screen no matter which method I use (both bootleg rom and the official amazon update process).
adb reboot recovery => white logo. There are no USB devices attached to the firetv fyi while I'm booting.
I rooted my device using the adbfire tool and I distinctly remember I never got the clockworkmod and the bootloader unlock steps to work. I figured I don't really need that anyway, so I've been using the device just fine with Kodi. BTW, the device is not bricked. I just have to replug the power when it gets stuck on the white logo screen for it to go back to normal.
I think I somehow corrupted the recovery partition (if that makes any sense?).
Because I wasn't going anywhere with the unlock->bootleg rom process, I decided I don't care about root anymore.
I reenabled updates (pm enable com.amazon.dcp) and let the device download the latest rom though the amazon system menu. I saw the progress bar go 100% and the device rebooted... alas white logo screen. I gave it half hour then hard boot it. I'm back to my old rom... still works just fine but I need this external usb function for my vacation...
Regarding the boot unlock, the "partial unlock" steps work for me. i.e. I get "Attempting to unlock… All done!". However, the full unlock binary doesn't seem to have any affect after the autoreboot. aftv-full-unlock gives me the long random string as expected before it goes rebooting, but after it reboots and I 'adb shell', it gives me the [email protected] instead of root[email protected] (meaning the unlock didn't work).
How can I recover my recovery?
Just an update, I managed to fix this.
In my case, the aftv full unlock did not give me the root prompt (#) on adb shell. I was running 51.1.0.1.
On a whim, I decided to install the stock recovery (because I couldn't get into cwm) and try upgrading to 51.1.0.2 manually using these instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2796067
As soon as the system update finished and the firetv booted, I adb shell'd in and voila... root shell. I didn't even have to run aftv full unlock again. Apparently it was already fully unlocked, and I just had to upgrade from 51.1.0.1.
From there, I installed the latest ClockworkMod, upgraded to 51.1.4.0, installed the boot menu, then finally upgraded to the pre-rooted 51.1.6.3!

Help! Amazon Tate no OS or Recovery!

Hey, so I have two Kindle fire hd 7's and a couple years back I rooted both of them and hadn't used them in a few months. About a year ago I needed to use them because my primary device is not rooted. So I took them out and instantly got tons of Google error messages because they had not been updated in about 2 years so I went on my computer to reset and get the newest version of cm and somehow I ended up deleting twrp and cm 12 and now it will turn on but it's just the Kindle fire logo, so that's what happened to the first one. With the second one I tried to update cm and twrp. And it worked but then I think I tried to reboot to recovery from twrp and now my Kindle is stick in a twrp bootloop. I want o save these devices if possible. Is there a way to get twrp and cm back on the first one even though it's not recognized by my computer, or should I just toss it? And with the second one it is recognized by my computer I can also get it to fastboot mode. Is there anyway I can uninstall then reinstall twrp without the bootloop happening again? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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