Hi,
My stock fire tv is stuck in boot process. When I turn it on loads the b/w amazon logo and, about 30 seconds after, the colorful amazon fire tv logo comes up. And that's it, nothing else ever happens. No reboot, noloop, nothing else.
I have tried to factory reset it by pressing alt+i+print-screen hundred of times while booting with no success. I have tried with 4 different keyboard (including a logitech k400).
I have tried to connect a USB-A to USB-A cable from the fire tv and the PC and installed adb drivers (all devices are recognized by windows and display and device manager) but I can't detect the device with adb devices at any stage of the boot process at all.
Does anyone have any other possible way to un-brick it? O any other suggestion to revive it?
btw, It "bricked" itself. One day I turned on tv and I saw empty menus and nothing happened if I tried to navigate on it... So decided to reboot it and... there you go, the way it is now.
Thanks in advance.
Anybody can help please? I've got a precious brick os plastic and circuits on top my desk right now....
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I have successfully rooted my smaller Kindle Fire HD. I tried to root my 8.9 Fire HD and now I'm stuck with what I think is brick.
I started off with this link.
http://rootkindlefire.com/kindle-fi...t-kindle-fire-hd-8-9-into-pure-android-tablet.
I worked great until I got to step 20 when the device rebooted and it ran super slow and the display was not right a visible line running through the display. No apps showed up and command took more than 20 seconds to register. Unable to fixed it at this point I did a factory reset and all was good. No line through the UI and response time was back to normal. I tried couple of more times to root it and each time was meet with the same result. I left it lay for a while but took it back up again after doing some more research. I finally settled on this root solution and it worked.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jem
It worked and I was able to boot into TWRP and check its various settings then a problem occurred when I tried to move files to the device. I got message unable to mount cache. After some poking around I notice the internal storage at 0. No space for to move any files from my computer to the device. Try as I might I wasn't able to copy anything to the device. So one final time I attempted to do a factory reset and this is where things went to hell. The device rebooted but I got neither the standard Orange fire logo or the blue TWRP loading Fire Logo, all I got was a truly black screen like all the pixels where dead and no back light. The Kindle no longer shows up as a Kindle in my Device manager and its name is actually something cryptic like 'Kolwr29'. I am able to assign it the Andriod ABA Device but it cycles in/out of the device manager like its being connected and disconnected from my laptop. I've read most of the links listed as suggested on this forum but the device doesn't respond to any Fastboot commands and any command I give continually says 'waiting for device.' I've tried to do this on both my laptop and desktop but the device exhibits the same behavior. I also in desperation ordered a Fastboot cable even though I was fairly certain from what I read that it wouldn't work my Fire 8.9. Nothing same problem.
I'm at lost. The device will not respond to any commands and think I truly have a brick on my hands. I'm at the point where I'm just going to pay to replace it than wash my hands of trying to root it. We'll just live with the crappy apps from the amazon store. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated.
I've read the following posts and gone through all the steps in them but to no avail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850192&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010353
http://androidcowboy.com/2014/01/root-kindle-fire-hdx-8-9/
Before I begin, trust me when I say I have scurried through dozens of Google results, forums, blogs, YouTube videos, FAQ's and other things trying to find out how to unbrick this thing. I have a Kindle Fire first gen which I rooted using Kindle Fire Utility through superuser 3 days ago. All was well, as I had google play and an innovative new launcher. After downloading a few apps, I thought that I had finally made the Kindle the fully-functional Android tablet I had desired. However, after a few hours of seamless use, the Kindle decided to freeze on me. Holding the power button still brought up the "Do you wish to power down your Kindle?" notification, and I shut it down, planning on restarting it. However, when I turned it back on, it would not get past the animated Kindle Fire logo. The weird part was, I could still hear notification tones. I was using my phone to DM on Twitter, and when I would get a message back, I could hear the twitter notification on my Kindle. (No, I was not mistaking it for the phone). After a while, I could hear that sound it makes when the battery was about to die. I plugged it in, and after two hours I unplugged it, held the power button to shut it down, and started searching google for answers. I was advised to use the Kindle Fire Utility to launch it in fastboot mode, which only restars the Kindle with no success. I have tried all options on the KF utility, even Permaroot. If I install TWRP recovery, it gets stuck on waiting for device. On most options, it gets stuck on waiting for device. (I have tried all the unplugging, unpowering options I saw). The computer makes a sound when the KF is plugged in, but it doesn't come up on the devices with removeable storage tab. I have all drivers installed, it is ADB enabled through the device manager, I have the Java Developer Kit, as well as Android SDK. The only thing I can get any utility to do (I have tried many such as Kindle Brick, SuperOneClick,etc) is restart the Kindle as if I did it myself. It still makes all the notification tones I mentioned earlier. One thing I have noticed, though, is that when the Kindle is 10 seconds from dying, the Unlock Screen will appear with no response. I have tried several times to let it get to that point, then quickly plug it in, but no sucess. It just restarts on the same boot screen. I have no idea what to do. I'm not a developer by any means, but I'm good with following directions I'm given to mess with computers and such. I don't have much knowledge of the command prompt, either. I just made this post as a last resort. Someone please help. (Running Windows 10 techncinal preview on a Windows 8, 64-bit laptop if that helps)
Do you know which system version?
Kindle Fire Utility doesn't root the latest system version.
Guessing that you rooted older version, then Kindle downloaded and installed newer system version, it would not ask for permission.
New system version may not have installed correctly.
If system was updated, Kindle lost root.
When powered off, connect to wall charger, does it charge?
Couple of options
See if you can force fastboot mode with adb commands
Or buy a fastboot cable
Then flash fff and twrp so you can reinstall stock rom
See
[6.3.3] Flashing FFF and TWRP without Fastboot Cable
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This is the face that you're making if you're gonna reply
So...
What happened was that a while back, I accidentally flashed a bootloader for the original kindle fire. Then I rebooted. The screen went blank and then I couldn't turn it on, even with a fastboot cable. Anyone have any suggestions[insert question mark here because my shift key is broken.] Oh, and i need one that doen't require opening up the kindle.
I have
kindle fire 2
fastboot cable
a working pc
windows
ubuntu
Thx for any help.
Hi, did you end up finding anything? I'm sitting here with an opened KF2 with what seems like no bootloader, no system, nothing. Trying to figure out how to go about the shorting method.
Hi,
so my AFTV gen 1 had towelroot and SU something in the installed apps... I bought it like this and did not do the config or have any real knowledge of it. and I just wanted to return it to be a regular FireTV.
Without looking into it in detail I did a factory reset........ which I now realise was stupid.
It was fine initially and it started a software update after being reset...
now it boots up and all I see is the white amazon pic... then a green robot with spinning blue geometry in it's body - with a loading bar that gets about 1/3 across then restarts again.
I can't post a link to the photos I just took... as this is my first post
I have tried using a windows keyboard and the ALT + PrntScr + i combination during boot up to get to the console and so far this does not work.
I would love some guidance, or simply the feedback that I should give up and chuck it in the bin now!
thank you in advance,
Scott
Plug the fire TV into your computer with a USB a to a cable. Plug power into the fire TV and then run the command adb devices. Does anything show up?
Hi - thanks for your reply - I got a USB cable today... when I plugged it in I did not get any devices for 'adb devices'.
I tried fastboot and it did give a response... however the h/w is locked (did some other reading) so I can't put a new rom onto it from what I can tell.
Any ideas from here please?
thanks Scott
Hello,
I just joined the forum this morning and wanted to say hi to everyone. Hopefully someone can help me here. I have an Amazon Fire TV 2 and it has been rooted and I have Teamwin Recovery Project 3.0.0-5 on it. It has been working for years, but one day a few months ago, I switched the TV input to the Fire TV and just saw the Teamwin splash screen sitting there and blinking. I disconnected the Fire TV and connected it to another TV and it booted up normally, however, without the option to select Boot Normal or Launch Recovery. I then disconnected the Fire TV again and reconnected it to the original TV, it did not boot and got stuck at the splash screen again. Finally after numerous attempts at restarting the device, it booted (without the option to choose Boot Normally or Launch Recovery). I used the Fire TV for a month or so and have restarted it a few times and always was able to get in, but still without the option to Boot Normally or Launch Recovery.
Last night, I was watching a movie and it ended. I tried to use the back button on the remote to go back to my Emby server to watch another show. The Fire TV was not responding and I did not see the white light on the Fire TV at all, but I still had the picture of the finished movie on the screen. I pulled the power plug on the Fire TV and plugged it back it. I'm back to the Teamwin splash screen and it just sits there and blinks every few seconds or so. I never get beyond it and cannot get back into my Fire TV. The white light on the Fire TV also blinks slowly.
I saw a post about the Fire TV 1 and a new 3.0.0-7 recovery that is supposed to resolve that issue, but I did not see anything for the Fire TV 2.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks,
Chris
AFTV2 as in Model DV83YW? (found on the bottom of device).
If so, I've found that sometimes a faulty power cable can cause this kind of behaviour - try plugging the device into the wall & a computer/laptop (at the same time) with a USB-A to USB-A cable - for some reason allows the box to draw enough power to boot if the power supply is faulty.
If this doesn't work your power supply is probably fine - you could probably re-flash the pre-rooted rom and it would probably boot again, but honestyly I'd recommend unlocking your bootloader via the unlock.zip method (found here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/unlock-root-twrp-unbrick-firetv-2-sloane.4222331/) if you're running FireOS 5.2.7.2 or below, or the brick method if running 5.2.7.3 or above.
Of course, you will need to backup your /data partition via TWRP (to a external SD), but I think this is the best option for future proofing & would allow you to recover from something like this a little easier if anything were to happen to your AFTV in the future.
Thanks for the reply. Don't think it is the power cable as I have another power cable I had purchased a while back and it does the same thing with that, but I'll still try connecting it top the computer and see what happens.
I'll also try the methods you linked. Unfortunately, since I cannot boot into the Fire TV, I cannot determine what version of FireOS I'm running.
You mention backing up via TWRP, but I can't get into TWRP, that's the issue. It just sits there with there with the TWRP splash screen and it blinks. No options to boot normally or boot into recovery.
I try what you suggested and report back.
Thanks again,
Chris