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[Q] New Kindle not found on PC

I'm an idiot who accidentally dropped my Kindle glass-side down in a parking lot. I went to get it replaced but my brand of Kindle Fire happened to be discontinued and I had to shell out $50 for a Kindle Fire HD. My old Kindle had already been rooted so I knew finding a way to root an HD would be a pain. He's the thing, for a while my Kindle would connect like a media device to my Windows 7 PC but now for some reason the thing doesn't crop up at all. What is wrong with my brand new Kindle Fire HD and why can't I do something as simple as connect it to my PC via usb?

Nothing wrong really. At least I guess so. Same thing happened to my friend with Windows 7 Acer laptop and brand new perfectly working Kindle Fire 2nd gen. It was some weird problem with his Windows's drivers. I connected his kindle to my laptop where the drivers were ok, rooted it, installed recovery and android and after that the kindle started working with the PC once again-most probably that happened because according to the PC the android and the kindle are different devices or maybe it was because they use different drivers(but I highly doubt this). Either case this is a fix. Another one would be to reinstall your PC. There may be another fix that will make the drivers working once again but we tried many suggestions in the net and none worked. Hope I helped

Does your kindle actually show up in the device manager?

Sorry I didn't respond faster. It turned out to be faulty drivers. Now the problem is that the Kindle is refusing to root. I keep getting "Permission Denied" when I try to execute the root. The Kindle Fire HD has really annoying software and I can't do anything I want to do. Amazon can seriously suck my grapes! (And all the grapes in my house are rotten)

Xamrin said:
Sorry I didn't respond faster. It turned out to be faulty drivers. Now the problem is that the Kindle is refusing to root. I keep getting "Permission Denied" when I try to execute the root. The Kindle Fire HD has really annoying software and I can't do anything I want to do. Amazon can seriously suck my grapes! (And all the grapes in my house are rotten)
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Your grapes are rotten? You should probably have that checked out.
What are you using to root your device?

soupmagnet said:
Your grapes are rotten? You should probably have that checked out.
What are you using to root your device?
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A method I found on YouTube. It worked until the final part when I got constant permission denial messages.
I'd link you to it but I'm a new user and am not allowed to. But I can tell you it's the first result on YouTube when you search "how to root kindle fire hd". It's by a user named reverendkjr.
(Update: My sister has a classic Kindle so I'm trading with her)

New Fire Stick, Remote app on iPad cant find it

New Fire stick received today. Installed the Fire Remote app on my iPad, it just keeps searching for Fire devices and hangs forever. Both the Fire stick and iPad are on the same wifi network, and ran the latest software update on the stick. Anything I can do to get this working? Tried on my iPhone, same result.

Maybe do a factory reset on the Fire stick.
By the way, can you confirm if the new fire stick has updated specs compared to the first model?
I feel mine is too slow and want to update.

Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012) -Wi-Fi not connecting, USB device not recognized

Hi All,
So i had a Kindle Fire HD 1st Gen (2012) repaired (USB port was replaced).
Firstly, it wouldn't connect to any WiFi spot after the repair. Tried everything, including a reset to factory defaults.
Then i realized the time and date was February 2000. That looked like a root cause (i literally tried every conventional method of solving the Wi-Fi issue). I figured the guys might have disconnected the battery when replacing the port, which could reset time and date to the year 2000. Since there is no option to change time and date on a Fire, the only way was to connect it to a PC, and to try installing a time-date change app, or run the appropriate string to do it via debugging mode.
The problem is that not a single PC can see Kindle, and show "USB device not recognized" message, while all other Android devices work totally fine. The only hardware Id in Device Manager is "USB\UNKNOWN". Installing Kindle Fire drivers from Amazon manually did not help. Installing Android Studio and the relevant Android drivers via that did not help either. I had turned ADB on in Kindle settings, and tried several different USB cables.*
I can't even send a Kindle hardware report to Amazon because of that (you can imagine the amount of hours I spent with Kindle support that they asked me to send those reports to their devs after having no other ideas, which probably would not help anyway)
Do you think this is because of the new USB port? Time and date thing is really weird too. Maybe you have any ideas how i can make this work? I need Kindle to either connect to Wi-Fi, or to a PC.
Tried to connect it to both protected and unprotected networks on a variety of perfectly working routers, with a variety of security settings. Connected it via USB to Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Professional (3 totally different machines) with no luck of detecting the Fire.
Thanks in advance!

Possible to load apks to fire stick via usb (no root)?

It's been a while since i've loaded one of these and was wondering if any advancements have been made such as being able to simply load files directly to the stick 2nd gen without registering it and all that... and simply plug it directly into your computer and transfer the files. I know at one point this was possible with one of the fire boxes probably the 1st gen.

I guess i am going to ask why would you want to? it is far easier to sideload apps. Without being rooted you don't have many options. you might be able to load a flash drive with a on-the-go usb hub.

danknasty said:
It's been a while since i've loaded one of these and was wondering if any advancements have been made such as being able to simply load files directly to the stick 2nd gen without registering it and all that... and simply plug it directly into your computer and transfer the files. I know at one point this was possible with one of the fire boxes probably the 1st gen.
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Without registering a Fire TV you won't have much fun with the device. You will then regularly see hints for certain actions, which you have to click away.
Amazon already registers every device on delivery and links it to an Amazon account (even if you log out, Amazon still knows the link). The device also reports regularly to Amazon, so you will never be on the go anonymously anyway.

fire tv not updating

Hi, a while ago a friend gave me a fire tv to see if it could be fixed, the problem is that it doesn't update, I restored it from the factory but it's still the same, any help is welcome

mclarenf195 said:
Hi, a while ago a friend gave me a fire tv to see if it could be fixed, the problem is that it doesn't update, I restored it from the factory but it's still the same, any help is welcome
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Assuming the stick was deregistered from your friends account, my guess is Amazon probably blacklisted it. If a device is reported as stolen or undelivered, or the user reports it as broken and gets a replacement, Amazon will just blacklist the device and send out a replacement. You can call Amazon customer support to verify if it is or not.
These Sticks have a one year warranty so your friend could get a replacement if they contact Amazon and it isn't one of the cases I listed above.
Otherwise, if the Stick is on its original firmware (something older than PS7273) then you can try to unlock it and use it without Amazon services, or reflash the Stick with LineageOS and use the Stick unrestricted.
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Try a hotspot on the phone and connect the Fire TV stick to the hotspot from the phone. I had the same problem and with hotspot it worked.