I accidentally made a mistake that some have made. Have TWRP installed, followed a tutorial to flash stock, but then accidentally wiping /system, /cache, and pretty much most of the partitions.
I have the exact same problem as this fellow had in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423099
I still can run adb commands. But shell does not work( "system/bin/sh": No such file or directory) since /system is wiped.
On the thread, there are many helpful comments, most suggested using a fastboot cable and reflash a recovery. I just purchased this cable here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251124095185
And the seller informed me it only works on the Kindle Fire 2 and Kindle Fire HD. Is there anything different for the fastboot cable for the 1st generation kindle fire and the 2nd gen? Sure, you could say I should just buy another Kindle Fire, but its more the experience of unbricking a 4 year old kindle.
TLDR: Is there anything different for the fastboot cable for the 1st generation kindle fire and the 2nd gen?
Eric1084 said:
I accidentally made a mistake that some have made. Have TWRP installed, followed a tutorial to flash stock, but then accidentally wiping /system, /cache, and pretty much most of the partitions.
I have the exact same problem as this fellow had in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423099
I still can run adb commands. But shell does not work( "system/bin/sh": No such file or directory) since /system is wiped.
On the thread, there are many helpful comments, most suggested using a fastboot cable and reflash a recovery. I just purchased this cable here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251124095185
And the seller informed me it only works on the Kindle Fire 2 and Kindle Fire HD. Is there anything different for the fastboot cable for the 1st generation kindle fire and the 2nd gen? Sure, you could say I should just buy another Kindle Fire, but its more the experience of unbricking a 4 year old kindle.
TLDR: Is there anything different for the fastboot cable for the 1st generation kindle fire and the 2nd gen?
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fastboot cables are the same see fastboot cables in Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
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sd_shadow said:
fastboot cables are the same see fastboot cables in Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
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Awesome. That's what I figured. The seller claimed it only works on the Kindle Fire 2 and HD. So I thought maybe the resistance value have to be different or something.
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I have a rooted kindle fire on 6.3.1
I'm just curious, under reset options in TWRP is it possible to erase the stock amazon software or does that always stay on the kindle?
I was trying to unroot and did a reset. Now I just get stuck at the kindle fire screen. I assume I'm stuck in fast boot mode. My computer won't allow me access to the kindle for the f drive, kindle fire utility will say the kindle is online but won't recognize what mode it's in.
Sorry if this topic is repeated. I am kind of a noob.
Thanks for any help,
Eric
Issue the following fastboot command:
fastboot devices
If you get a response with your kf number, then you are in fastboot mode.
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ammubarak said:
Issue the following fastboot command:
fastboot devices
If you get a response with your kf number, then you are in fastboot mode.
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do I type in "fastboot devices" while in c:\kfu ?
I tried adb devices but the returned list is blank.
You do it at the directory where fastboot located. Check the tools sub-directory as part of kfu utility.
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ammubarak said:
You do it at the directory where fastboot located. Check the tools sub-directory as part of kfu utility.
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I get nothing in return after issuing command
If I type in "fastboot device" it gives me a screen with lots of command options
I am new to rooting and just followed a thread describing how to root a Kindle fire, 1st generation as described here with Kindle Fire Utility 0.99 on a Kindle Fire 6.3.2. Now the kindle fire shows on reboot a TWRP screen with buttons like 'Install', 'Backup', 'Restore' etc.
But now what? Is the kindle rooted? I seem to be unable to do something now with the kindle. What now to do? What are the next steps? Is something missing? Is there a misunderstanding?
For any suggestion, help, guidance I will be very helpful.
After the utility installs twrp you're suppose to flash the FFF boot loader,then flash a ROM. Im assuming you did not place those files onto the kindle prior to flashing.
In any case you fan just use the mount feature and connect it to your PC. From there put the relevant files into the internal SD.
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I got a KFHD 2G (2013) from a friend and the problem was simple: when the lock screen came up, he couldn't enter in his passcode because the keyboard wouldn't show up. There was no way to get into ADB since I couldn't get in. I tried to do a factory reset via recovery, but there is no recovery. I built a fastboot cable and tried "fastboot -w" but the partitions could not be formatted. This device seems completely screwed, I trued grabbing the factory update from amazon, but it's in BIN format and won't flash in Fastboot. Inside the BIN file, it seems to just be a recovery-flashable zip, however, it will not boot into recovery so i can't install it. Fastboot reports that two .txt files are missing. I tried extracting recovery.img from the zip and booting it as a ramdisk, however, this just causes it to boot normally. I ended up flashing userdata with boot.img as a way of formatting it, which got the keyboard back, but puts it on a screen saying "Enter password to decrypt Kindle." The password, "LOVE" is not accepted and entering 4 incorrect codes does not prompt a format. I'm at a loss here, it seems like it's just nt possibe for this thing to be screwed completely, but im out of options. what should i do?
HELP!!!
Also, I just realized this thread should be in "7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting"
Um so now it's to the point where it's asking to format it because the password is wrong so wouldn't that be the same as formatting it as you had intended on doing earlier? BTW fastboot commands on a kindle fire have to be prefixed with "fastboot -i 0x1949", also I don't know off hand if that command you were going to run is a user data wipe or a complete wipe and a complete wipe would been bad. So at this point if the lock screen asks you to format it and you don't have adb enabled then you probably will have to format it, I thought the new gen had adb access from early on in the boot process but I could be wrong, I suggest looking in the hdx section.
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stunts513 said:
Um so now it's to the point where it's asking to format it because the password is wrong so wouldn't that be the same as formatting it as you had intended on doing earlier? BTW fastboot commands on a kindle fire have to be prefixed with "fastboot -i 0x1949", also I don't know off hand if that command you were going to run is a user data wipe or a complete wipe and a complete wipe would been bad. So at this point if the lock screen asks you to format it and you don't have adb enabled then you probably will have to format it, I thought the new gen had adb access from early on in the boot process but I could be wrong, I suggest looking in the hdx section.
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sadly, no adb, its not an HDX because it's only dualcore. i now need a system.img and userdata.img.. i flashed the img from the ADK for this device and now all i get is fastboot.. i need ripped imgs from an actual device. the command i was running was a userdata/cache wipe, and i did prefix it but fastboot couldnt format the partitions because the filesystem wasnt compatible. The lock screen flat out wouldnt ask me to format, and the back button never showed up, which leades me to believe the system image was corrupt too. if anyone can give me system.img and userdata.img i would be eternally grateful! thank you for replying
Ah I knew it wasn't an hdx but they some things on that device that are similar to the hdx, like I think they disabled some fastboot commands from working and such. Hopefully someone more familiar with 2nd gen hd's can help you out more.
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stunts513 said:
Ah I knew it wasn't an hdx but they some things on that device that are similar to the hdx, like I think they disabled some fastboot commands from working and such. Hopefully someone more familiar with 2nd gen hd's can help you out more.
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so i borrowed a friends kindle and backed up his /system. i then sparsed it and it installed fine. when i booted up, i got a red flash and it threw me into fastboot. i then flashed the u-boot from the update file and now im bricked beyond all reair.. i run lsusb and get no mention of the device with my factory cable, and i cant get back in fastboot. the 2nd gen hd's suck so much..
Ouch, was his kindle a second gen HD?
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Hi, I successfully rooted my KF HD 8.9 with instructions found here
http://androidroot.org/watch_video.php?v=A7HRK4M23YG7
But am now stuck in fastboot mode (displayed on screen). I did have twrp installed and got the blue logo, but not anymore.
I tried KF First Aid, under the option “Display Fastboot Status” I get
“product JEM-PVT-Prod-04
6498000040002FFF fastboot
If you see output above it looks like fastboot is enabled”
Device Manager shows under “Kindle Fire > Android ADB Interface”
Have I bricked my Kindle?
Any help greatly appreciated
Its not bricked, though I would attempt to restore the system partition with kffa since 2nd bootloader is gone. You should be in fastboot mode so that's good at least.
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Thanks for advice, unfortunately I'm not clever enough to do that without step by step instructions, could you help me?
Thank you
phatsteve said:
Thanks for advice, unfortunately I'm not clever enough to do that without step by step instructions, could you help me?
Thank you
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Download Kindle Fire First Aid, find the option about restoring, and if it asks something about is it in fastboot already say yes(or if it asks to put it in fastboot mode say no as it should be already).
tried that exactly as you said, everything seemed to go ok, but when it rebooted it sticks on the kindlefire (orange) logo
Try using SRT instead. Ignore the adb command it lists, that's only for if you have a working kindle that can boot up fully, just stick it in fastboot again and use this utility and see if you have any luck.
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Hi, I've tried about 10 times to download KFHD_SRT_v2.0.zip which seems to be for my device, but it fails every time
with message ' the source file cannot be read'. I have downloaded KFHD_SRTv1.3.5.zip, which appears to be for the 7" kindle.
Can I use this, or will the imgs be wrong? There are 4 in the images folder, boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, and systym2.img
The 7" version is not for the 8.9 version, you would probably brick it even worse using that... The ones on that link I sent you are the compatible ones.
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that is the one I'm having trouble with, KFHD_SRT_v2.1.zip. While in Kindle Fire First Aid I checked adb and got the message 'adb drivers not installed' so removed and re-installed adb drivers from Amazon, but I still get same message.
Since removing and re-installing drivers my device in device manager now only shows as 'Kindle fire > Fastboot Mode | HD 8.9. It used to say 'ADB Interface'
My kindle has an otterX (from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671619 ) and i just get the Kindle Fire logo and press to open bootmenu. I cannot boot into revoery for some reason and upon clicking continue boot the kindle fire just shuts off. i can't figure out what i need to do to get it unstuck from this situation or if i can throw it into fastboot. when sitting in the bootmenu the kindle shows up in Device Manager as a Kindle Fire (below when Kindle Fire is clicked) and then Android composite ADB Interface. Would rekindle work? i seriously don't want this kindle to be bricked/broken.
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My kindle has an otterX (from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671619 ) and i just get the Kindle Fire logo and press to open bootmenu. I cannot boot into revoery for some reason and upon clicking continue boot the kindle fire just shuts off. i can't figure out what i need to do to get it unstuck from this situation or if i can throw it into fastboot. when sitting in the bootmenu the kindle shows up in Device Manager as a Kindle Fire (below when Kindle Fire is clicked) and then Android composite ADB Interface. Would rekindle work? i seriously don't want this kindle to be bricked/broken.
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When that has happened to me it was from a incompatible recovery or corrupt recovery.
when you see the bootloader it is in Fastboot mode.
just reflash a recovery like otterx-twrp-2.7.1.0-recovery.img
in command prompt
Code:
fastboot flash recovery otterx-twrp-2.7.1.0-recovery.img
fastboot reboot
still confused...
i am getting an error saying it cannot open the file.
did you watch my video? [YouTube] OtterX ROM/TWRP/Bootloader [2014-05-08]
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i've gotten TWRP to install. i couldn't get the otterX one i needed to install so i installed one i downloaded else where. i was originally wanting KitKat on here but don't want that fiasco to happen again. unfortunately now i cannot boot normally. just gets to the Kindle Fire Logo and restarts.
Is the bootloader set to amazon or otters partitions?
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i think it's on amazon. however upon reading some articles of what i was doing the version i have now isn't able to haandle what im doing so i have to update twrp.
You need to pick a direction otterx, or other custom ROM, or stock
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using the updated version of twrp thats compatible with installing KitKat will that be possible to leave it amazon or would i need to use otterX for CM11 KitKat?
You can install whatever you want, just need to tell me so I can give correct directions.
You need to check Bootloader settings, advanced does it say amazon or or otterx partitions
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i don't see a way to check that. im using the fff-u-boot v1.5 bootloader i believe (not to sure, pretty new to android and rooting) (with openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.1-blaze (need to update downloaded 2.8.0.2-blaze already) sorry for my being a noob with this. your helping a ton though :highfive: .
1.5 FFF is not otterx just otter
flash openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.2-blaze.img
Code:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.2-blaze.img
fastboot reboot
in TWRP Wipe/factory reset
install cm-11-20140916-SNAPSHOT-M10-otter.zip
and PA MINI MODULAR PACKAGE GApps
in TWRP
im having an issue getting into fastboot mode. i've tried restarting my kindle and running fastboot commands. the command to install the updated twrp is still saying waiting for device.
When you see Bootloader it's in fastboot mode
Could be a drivers issue.
When I flash, I usually start with connecting USB cable, then power off kindle, run commands, reboot kindle
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The Fastboot mode finally loaded. had to pull the device manager and begin process of pointing out driver and shut off the kindle and as it hit the bootloader point i had to install driver. i believe my issues have been resolved. It booted up KitKat just now. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! :victory: :highfive:
Do you have backup?
mudassirrashid said:
Do you have backup?
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Having a backup has nothing to do with the problem, that is now fixed
Haha good for you... Have nice day