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[Q] Few Questions with ICS and Default Kindle Fire

So I really like the Android 4.0 ICS Rom that I put on my Kindle Fire.
But I also really wanted to keep some of the Kindle Fire's app such as Amazon Instant Video, and Kindle.
I know I can get the Kindle app from the Android Market, but there is no Amazon Instant Video app in there.
Is there a way that I can still get the Amazon Instant Video app while running ICS 4.0 Android ROM besides just running a ICS launcher on a Kindle Fire ROM?
If not, is there a way I can alternate between the Android ROM and the Default Kindle Fire ROM?
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Queston 2:
So I can't get TWRP to work properly. Like... It doesn't feel like it's installed. The only way I can get TWRP to show up on the boot screen, is when I manually have to each time, use the KFU, Press 3+Enter, and then reboot my kindle fire that way, and THEN it'll just load TWRP. I never see the yellow Triangle for some reason. Any reasons why?
Currently running on 6.3.1 using KFU version 0.9.6

Not that I know of
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You want prime stay stock you want ics no prime that is how it is but you can alternate from a backup of each via recovery.
Keep a backup of both stock and ics on your SD card when you want to watch prime use ota root keeper to protect root and temp. unroot on your stock side always remember to restore root and delete superuser backup when your done . Always make fresh backups before returning to the other. Always do good wipes when moving back and forth because of the difference between the two systems as this can cause problems during restore. Ultimately its as big hassle and an be dangerous if you mess up or take an ota and loose root while on stock. Problems that I have had when switching lost game data particularly glu games, kindle books, market problems, bad backups, SD card space consumption . About your twrp and bootloader issue I would use smirkits scripts to update both of them starting with twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500935 read carefully on how to apply these with root browser if you want help just ask for it in a new thread someone will be more than willing to walk you through it .

Your bootloader and recovery are the two things you don't want to make any mistakes on.

I'm pretty sure I haven't made any mistakes though. I've followed tutorial word for word, and even by videos...

What do you see when you boot your device do you see a white kindle with an orange fire? Or a white kindle with a blue fire? If you see the second one depress your power button a few times quickly till you get a tiny list of options at the bottom of the screen press your power button till it looks like --recovery-- that will put you into recovery. If you see the white kindle with the orange fire your bootloader is not installed.

Thepooch said:
What do you see when you boot your device do you see a white kindle with an orange fire? Or a white kindle with a blue fire? If you see the second one depress your power button a few times quickly till you get a tiny list of options at the bottom of the screen press your power button till it looks like --recovery-- that will put you into recovery. If you see the white kindle with the orange fire your bootloader is not installed.
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I see a white kindle with a blue fire. Why would I put it in recovery mode?

projectdefy said:
Is there a way that I can still get the Amazon Instant Video app while running ICS 4.0 Android ROM besides just running a ICS launcher on a Kindle Fire ROM?
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As it's been said before, you can only use VOD on the unrooted stock OS.
If not, is there a way I can alternate between the Android ROM and the Default Kindle Fire ROM?
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Yes, it is possible to dual boot the Kindle Fire, but I wouldn't suggest trying it without doing some research first. And considering the second question of your post, I would suggest doing a LOT of research.
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So I can't get TWRP to work properly. Like... It doesn't feel like it's installed. The only way I can get TWRP to show up on the boot screen, is when I manually have to each time, use the KFU, Press 3+Enter, and then reboot my kindle fire that way, and THEN it'll just load TWRP. I never see the yellow Triangle for some reason. Any reasons why?
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I would also suggest reading this guide to help you better understand the difference between a bootloader and recovery.
projectdefy said:
I see a white kindle with a blue fire. Why would I put it in recovery mode?
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See above

I don't have Prime but I've purchased tv shows and rented movies on Amazon and I can see them on my Kindle running ICS through the Amazon website (changing user agent to Desktop on the browser settings) It works pretty well (accessing controls when in full screen mode is a little bit hard and messy but if you don't try to go back and forth in the movie you'll be okay)
I know is not the same as the stock video player but it works

So I might be getting a K Fire today and I'm wondering if this still holds true?
I already have a Galaxy Nexus so just being able to use ICS/browsing the internet isn't a big deal for me. I plan on using the device primarily for reading and video (whichever service is best - amazon, netflix, ect.).
Is the kindle app just as good as the stock interface? Would I loose much from the transition from stock to 4.0.4? I'm guessing that ICS offers a smoother interface and browsing but is that worth the switch?

matt30 said:
So I might be getting a K Fire today and I'm wondering if this still holds true?
I already have a Galaxy Nexus so just being able to use ICS/browsing the internet isn't a big deal for me. I plan on using the device primarily for reading and video (whichever service is best - amazon, netflix, ect.).
Is the kindle app just as good as the stock interface? Would I loose much from the transition from stock to 4.0.4? I'm guessing that ICS offers a smoother interface and browsing but is that worth the switch?
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The Kindle app for Android is nowhere as good as the reader already on the stock rom. Seeing as all you're going to do is read and watch videos, stay on the stock rom or try MoDaCo.

[Q] Installing twrp & rom

Hello, everyone. I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to install twrp so I can flash my Kindle Fire with ICS.
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to figure it out for some reason, this is what I've done so far.
I couldn't figure out how to properly set up the Kindle Fire Utility so I looked for an alternative
and managed to root my Kindle Fire with "QemuRoot_v1.0". After it worked, I went back to
KFU and installed the the google apps/play store using "Kindle_Fire_Utility_v0.9.6".
So the Kindle Fire is rooted and found this guide on how to install twrp but I can't figure out
how to configure it. I have installed terminal emulator, busybox, and goomanager but didn't
see the file I needed "devs/smirkis" so I downloaded the dropbox link.
I'm not sure were I should put the zip or how to flash it, different forums suggested using
a file manager and changing the extension to .apk but it doesn't work.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Okay your headed south with this one real fast. Do you have a 1st gen. Kindle or 2nd because if it's a 2nd gen you cannot install a recovery or ics. QemuRoot_v1.0 is for the 2nd gen. Kindle small chance it could work on 1st gen. but I doubt it, which leads me to believe your kindle is 2nd gen. and your headed towards a permanent brick that there's no rescue for.

I'm gonna agree with The Pooch here, but if by a slim chance that your kindke is a first gwn, then you could just put the smirkit scripts into system/ect and try running them from terminal your self but I wpulnd recommend it because we aren't sure about your kindle yet..

Thepooch said:
Okay your headed south with this one real fast. Do you have a 1st gen. Kindle or 2nd because if it's a 2nd gen you cannot install a recovery or ics. QemuRoot_v1.0 is for the 2nd gen. Kindle small chance it could work on 1st gen. but I doubt it, which leads me to believe your kindle is 2nd gen. and your headed towards a permanent brick that there's no rescue for.
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Hmm.. I'm note entirely sure what it is. It's the 7in Display with 8Gb; was 159 and has the ads on lock screen (can't be taken away). Like I said I was only able to get QemuRoot_v1.0 to work, at the moment I have the Play Store, and a bunch of other apps like the terminal and droidwall.
I assume that the 2nd gen could be the Kindle Fire HD? Sorry about the late reply.

Yeah its 2nd gen. like I said do not attempt to flash a recovery or a bootloader to that device or it will be permanently bricked a really fine 159$ hockey puck!!!

[Q] kindle fire unrecognized in windows. adb does not work. No SO. bricked

hello.
I write this post because right now I'm desperate. my kinde fire was rooted and works great. I wanted to install an unofficial ROM and there came all problems.
first of all I want to say that I resort to this message because I've tried everything, but I did manage to save my device.
My Kindle was rooted and TWRP works well. I inadvertently left the device without an operating system. I forgot to put a rom after you wipe. After this, when the device booted, first came out the white and orange logo, then white and blue recovery and eventually returned to the first logo.
First I tried to recover it with the original firmware. I could not access the device via the file browser windows, so I copied the. zip with adb push. after several attempts I went to plan B, because I always got the same "error 7", so I tried to install the cyanogen rom, but I had the same fate.
After that, I was reading about fastboot, so I downloaded kindle fire utility. I think something went here even worse, because now TWRP gone.
I finally discovered unbrick kindle utility, but now my pc does not recognize the device. drivers are installed and kindle fire utility says "adb: online", but I can not access the device.
I searched a lot of information, but I think I am increasingly far from the solution, so I decided to write this post.
anyone can help me to recover the kindle? I'm desperate now. I'd like to have everything as before, I do not lose the root
thanks!!!

Same problem
Hi! i alredy have the same issue. I tried to change the room but something was wrong... I tried to get back and i used kindle fire utility too. I think it was the problem because now i can not turn on. did you find the way to fix it!??????? help i am desperate as you were...:crying:

KFU IS FOR KF1
(that is all)

I know...
fmkilo said:
KFU IS FOR KF1
(that is all)
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Yes i know that was a mistake... the issue here is to fix it. Some good ideas could be great!!!

i.robert, i'm follow in the same problem.
fmkilo, can you help solve it?

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"Onemelia" says that probably ours kindle are ruined... i just know that FireFireFire.bin was the mistake. However maybe we can get in to the sd memory for build everything from base. Only if the mother board is not ruined too...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010353&page=2

fmkilo said:
KFU IS FOR KF1
(that is all)
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This forum is full of people doing the same thing. Why do people keep using tools that will brick their device, even though there are other posts saying it will happen.
Frustrating.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD

chronicfathead said:
This forum is full of people doing the same thing. Why do people keep using tools that will brick their device, even though there are other posts saying it will happen.
Frustrating.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD
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chronicfathead, the problem has no solution? is there any way to recover the bootloader?

Finally, I got in touch with Amazon. I explained my problem and they will send me a new one because it was under warranty.

Finally, I got in touch with Amazon. I explained my problem and they will send me a new one because it was under warranty .
i will recieve it tomorrow
thanks very much for your help
I hope not to have problems like this in the future
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dewars14 said:
chronicfathead, the problem has no solution? is there any way to recover the bootloader?
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Hi. I was just commenting that a lot of people are rushing into doing things without reading, or even checking what model they have. Admittedly Amazon hasn't made it easy by advertising it as the Kindle Fire 2. All the recent posts in this section of the forum are from people bricking their devices, mainly because they did something wrong.
I don't know how the situation can be changed, apart from building some checks into the KF1 rooting/modding tools.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD

chronicfathead said:
Hi. I was just commenting that a lot of people are rushing into doing things without reading, or even checking what model they have. Admittedly Amazon hasn't made it easy by advertising it as the Kindle Fire 2. All the recent posts in this section of the forum are from people bricking their devices, mainly because they did something wrong.
I don't know how the situation can be changed, apart from building some checks into the KF1 rooting/modding tools.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD
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Ok. I have already received my new kindle fire 2. I was lucky it was under warranty. Now I have to return the old and noticing more if I decide to put a new rom.
thanks anyway for your help

[Q] Sorry to ask, but I need help please.

I messed up. I was trying to root my Kindle Fire to get Google apps on my kindle. I am a Paramedic and use some apps that aren't available on the kindle store. I have since bought a Samsung tab 3 for myself and I"m giving the Kindle Fire to a friend who needs one.
I used TWRP v2.1.1 and everything seemed to be going ok, that and the normal kindle loaded just fine. I didn't have a change to play with it much, I'm a noob (obviously)
Before giving it to my friend I was going to restore it to factory settings. I did so in the normal kindle load. It turned off and now I can get it to load into TWRP only. The gray screen comes up, Instal, Backup, ext. It won't, however, load into the kindle fire interface anymore. It just goes to the white and orange KF screen and gets stuck, no animation. If I run the Kindle Fire Utility on my PC I can change it to 4000 and 4002. Thats about it... None of the other things seem to work. I can click on them, and they seem to load but nothing happens. I tried to use the "Obtain stock update" and nothing happened. All I want to do is get the original KF interface back for my friend I'm going to be giving this to. Is there a simple program a noob like me can use? I have read and read here on the forums for a few days and I'm more confused now than ever. Partially because I keep getting called for 911's in the middle of reading, lol. I'm sorry to bother you all, but if you can help me I'd appreciate it. I"ve already promised this thing to her and will just have to buy another one if I cant fix it.

Gave up.
meadowsja said:
I messed up. I was trying to root my Kindle Fire to get Google apps on my kindle. I am a Paramedic and use some apps that aren't available on the kindle store. I have since bought a Samsung tab 3 for myself and I"m giving the Kindle Fire to a friend who needs one.
I used TWRP v2.1.1 and everything seemed to be going ok, that and the normal kindle loaded just fine. I didn't have a change to play with it much, I'm a noob (obviously)
Before giving it to my friend I was going to restore it to factory settings. I did so in the normal kindle load. It turned off and now I can get it to load into TWRP only. The gray screen comes up, Instal, Backup, ext. It won't, however, load into the kindle fire interface anymore. It just goes to the white and orange KF screen and gets stuck, no animation. If I run the Kindle Fire Utility on my PC I can change it to 4000 and 4002. Thats about it... None of the other things seem to work. I can click on them, and they seem to load but nothing happens. I tried to use the "Obtain stock update" and nothing happened. All I want to do is get the original KF interface back for my friend I'm going to be giving this to. Is there a simple program a noob like me can use? I have read and read here on the forums for a few days and I'm more confused now than ever. Partially because I keep getting called for 911's in the middle of reading, lol. I'm sorry to bother you all, but if you can help me I'd appreciate it. I"ve already promised this thing to her and will just have to buy another one if I cant fix it.
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I gave up going back to stock, apparently I'm not intelligent enough to ask proper questions and give proper info or nobody knew how to help. However, I was able to flash over a ROM from here, pretty easy, just not what I wanted to do. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1451747
Anyway, ty for the site and resources. Delete if you wish, I just thought I'd update in-case someone was watching with the same problem.

[Q] root utility for KFHD 7 and 8.9

A while back I found a utility for rooting and installing other features on the 7 and 8.9 HD fire. My computer crashed and I thought I had recovered everything but I can not find the utility (I do not even remember the name of it) on my PC, and I have spent the better part of an hour searching the forums and can not find anything that looks like what I remember. when the utility started it had a list of somewhere around 20 items on the main menu of it. I know it had options for rooting, backing up, installing TWRP, google framework, and a lot of other stuff as well. Does anyone know what I am talking about and where I can find it again? Thanks for the help.

klstephenson77 said:
A while back I found a utility for rooting and installing other features on the 7 and 8.9 HD fire. My computer crashed and I thought I had recovered everything but I can not find the utility (I do not even remember the name of it) on my PC, and I have spent the better part of an hour searching the forums and can not find anything that looks like what I remember. when the utility started it had a list of somewhere around 20 items on the main menu of it. I know it had options for rooting, backing up, installing TWRP, google framework, and a lot of other stuff as well. Does anyone know what I am talking about and where I can find it again? Thanks for the help.
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You have both the Kindle Fire HD 7" and 8.9?

I do not own both. I have an 8.9, but I refurbished several 7's and 8.9's for friends. I have a friend that recently decided he wanted me to root his kindle that I had repaired for him. he decided that he wanted to be able to do the things with his that I do with mine (rooted, google play, and a bunch of other stuff as well). When I went to look for the rooting script that I had used for mine I could not find it.

I asked because this is the kindle Fire 1: Q and A
the Kindle Fire HD 7" and 8.9 have their own Q and A sections
see 7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
and 8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
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I will request that this be moved to 8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
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but most likely can find the correct thread here [REF]All Things About Kindle Fire HD 8.9