So like so many other users around here, I tried to root my Kindle fire, flashing the firmware back to 5.1.2 but after using the ADB sideload command and rebooted, instead of being greeted by the generic "Fire" logo I got a black screen. I want to say it's a hardbrick but I don't believe any kind of tech is unfixable and if Amazon can fix it, so can we... Just a little unconventionally. I should also mention that as long as it's connected to a computer, the USB device icon does pop up for a fraction of a second then disappears so I'm thinking it's stuck in some sort of preboot loop. The only way for it to be shutdown was to pop the back and disconnect the battery. Is there anything I can do to bring my Kindle back from its perverbial grave? Any kind of nifty software that can breathe life into the device?
TerminusWolf said:
So like so many other users around here, I tried to root my Kindle fire, flashing the firmware back to 5.1.2 but after using the ADB sideload command and rebooted, instead of being greeted by the generic "Fire" logo I got a black screen. I want to say it's a hardbrick but I don't believe any kind of tech is unfixable and if Amazon can fix it, so can we... Just a little unconventionally. I should also mention that as long as it's connected to a computer, the USB device icon does pop up for a fraction of a second then disappears so I'm thinking it's stuck in some sort of preboot loop. The only way for it to be shutdown was to pop the back and disconnect the battery. Is there anything I can do to bring my Kindle back from its perverbial grave? Any kind of nifty software that can breathe life into the device?
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this is only for kindle fire 1 (2011)
there is a separate section for your device see
Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
for correct forum link
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I've recently rooted my kindle fire, which is running 6.3.1. I tried resetting my kindle fire by going to menu,device, and factory reset, and it obviously didn't work. I next shut down my kindle fire and went into twrp, and tried to see if i could find a button to reset my whole kindle back to how i first bought my kindle fire. After i gave up, I tried going back to the kindle fire normal home screen. Problem is, after when i turn on my kindle fire, the logo turns blue, and then it goes to the orange kindle fire logo and stays and does nothing. It just holds still like that. This happened for the past week, and I've went into twrp many times to find a button that could bring my kindle back to normal. After a while, I realized there was a way to unroot my kindle fire. I plugged my kindle fire into my computer, and this is another problem. Too unroot my kindle, I need it removable storage device, which usually pops up when you plug it into your computer. Instead it shows a usb port with a check mark and it gives you two option when you click it, opendevices or printers, or eject kindle. I want my kindle to pop up when i go into my computer so i could drag a file to it so it could be unrooted. PLease help me so it would be like that Any help would be thankful
You can mount your USB storage from within twrp.
not to be mean but you kinda need to know all this before doing anything to your kindle.I could go on but then I would sound mean
andriodproblems said:
I've recently rooted my kindle fire, which is running 6.3.1. I tried resetting my kindle fire by going to menu,device, and factory reset, and it obviously didn't work. I next shut down my kindle fire and went into twrp, and tried to see if i could find a button to reset my whole kindle back to how i first bought my kindle fire. After i gave up, I tried going back to the kindle fire normal home screen. Problem is, after when i turn on my kindle fire, the logo turns blue, and then it goes to the orange kindle fire logo and stays and does nothing. It just holds still like that. This happened for the past week, and I've went into twrp many times to find a button that could bring my kindle back to normal. After a while, I realized there was a way to unroot my kindle fire. I plugged my kindle fire into my computer, and this is another problem. Too unroot my kindle, I need it removable storage device, which usually pops up when you plug it into your computer. Instead it shows a usb port with a check mark and it gives you two option when you click it, opendevices or printers, or eject kindle. I want my kindle to pop up when i go into my computer so i could drag a file to it so it could be unrooted. PLease help me so it would be like that Any help would be thankful
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from kindle fire utility select obtain latest stock update.zip....flash it with twrp..u get stock rom, stock bootloader and stock recovery(i have never accessed stock recovery);D
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Simple scenario,
I received a kindle fire, immediately wanted root. Found kindle fire utility and ran. In the process of installing a twrp, kindle rebooted, and now will not get past Kindle Fire Splash screen. PC will not detect that a device is plugged in.
Any thoughts?
Lmcook91 said:
Simple scenario,
I received a kindle fire, immediately wanted root. Found kindle fire utility and ran. In the process of installing a twrp, kindle rebooted, and now will not get past Kindle Fire Splash screen. PC will not detect that a device is plugged in.
Any thoughts?
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I'm thinking that you just might be stuck in fastboot mode.
When you reboot, do you get different boot options at the bottom of your screen when the "Kindle Fire" splash screen shows up? If so, try scrolling through them to do a normal or recovery boot (you scroll with the power button, then stop when you get to option you want and let it boot). Hopefully, you can get to a good boot, so your KF can be detected by your PC again. But, then again, you might have successfully installed twrp and just failed on the reboot, so you might be fine.
What does the splash screen look like?
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There are no options at the bottom.. I assume they would be obvious..
The splash screen looks like the stock splash screen that looks like the normal boot.
Black background.. orangish letters saying Kindle Fire
Plug your kindle in, open kfu, ignore offline and boot status unknown, select 1 for changing bootmode, select normal, if it hangs<waiting for device> hold the power button down till the kindle turns off while connected, then power it back on it should reboot and correct the bootmode to normal.
Problem solved:
Do not use a USB 3.0 port. I guess that was prevent my PC from recognizing the device. I switched to 2.0 and PC picked it up right away. Off we go.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Lmcook91 said:
Problem solved:
Do not use a USB 3.0 port. I guess that was prevent my PC from recognizing the device. I switched to 2.0 and PC picked it up right away. Off we go.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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Correct a 3.0 usb port has issues. I have been able to get it to work but its quite dangerous when it come to flashing things like bootloaders.
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Here`s my guide that may be helpful http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923010
I have an original Kindle Fire rooted with CWM and after I did some app updates, something must have serious been affected by the changes. My Kindle Fire now immediately shuts off after first unlocking it. After shutting off it will reboot and attempt to load (shows the android robot with some blue prism thing) which will fail and show a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. I then have to hard reset the Fire to reboot it. I can get the Kindle Fire to boot back up again but only to shut itself off again immediately after unlocking.
I have attempted to restore the kindle fire through the kindle UI (when I can get it to stay on long enough) as well as restore it through the CWM prompts. Nothing seems to work.
To add insult to injury, the kindle also will not be recognized by my macbook. I have tried both through kindle and CWM mounting and have tried using multiple cords and multiple laptops. Sadly none of them will recognize the Kindle Fire so none of them will let me move an update.zip onto it.
I feel like I'm completely stuck, does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do? Also please let me know if there's any other information needed to help answer this question.
Hi!
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, SDK ADB will see the device but return a device unauthorized, and the Kindle First Aide seems that 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... I'm running out of options and don't really know what to do : (
Any ideas guys??
If that's all you did you should be able to boot into recovery, not sure what button you hit on a kf2 though to do that. You can open the device manager and plug the kindle in while it's off and see if you see an otter2 device show up briefly, if it does try to right click it and hit update drivers and install the drivers in my signature. If instead you see a adb device briefly you should be able to run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and then plug the device in while it's off and it should go into fastboot. As a last resort your option is to get a fastboot cable.
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To get to the recovery on a KF2 you click the power button while it's in the blue boot screen
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I tried to upgrade my Kindle Fire HD with the cm13 builds, but due to some reason it went to a loop where in it starts and then "Kindle Fire" logo appears and then it going in a loop again and again.
Post that I bought a Fastboot cable from Amazon thinking it will give me a solution as described in few other threads.
I connected the fastboot cable , it went into fastboot mode and then nothing happens.
Then i tried to use kindle Unbrick utility 1.1 version and tried to recover my kindle.
But to my surprise what it does is something I am not able to get rid off.
Now when I tries to start my kindle ..."Kindle Fire" screen appears once then I can see the "Fastboot logo" for few seconds........And then it went to black screen again and i cannot see anything.
Please experts whom so ever can throw some light on it...please do so as I want to recover it back...
Thanks in advance.
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Andy