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I've looked around the forums and I am not finding instructions on how to unbrick a Kindle Fire that has ClockworkMod installed. I installed ClockworkMod and installed a late ICS build with kernel 3.0 and the Fire is stuck in an infinite boot loop with the Kindle Fire/Android mascot logo.
I can get into ClockworkMod but re-flashing with the CM9 that I have doesn't do anything to fix it.
I know that if I were able to put the stock Kindle firmware on that /sdcard volume I can fix this but how do I do this with ClockworkMod?
I've tried all the unbricking utils (even the Java front-end) and they act like they're fixing things but they all make no changes.
I do have the correct drivers and can send adb commands to fastboot, normal boot, recovery boot, so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing how to unbrick a Kindle that is using ClockworkMod.
Thanks in advance.
aegrotatio said:
I've looked around the forums and I am not finding instructions on how to unbrick a Kindle Fire that has ClockworkMod installed. I installed ClockworkMod and installed a late ICS build with kernel 3.0 and the Fire is stuck in an infinite boot loop with the Kindle Fire/Android mascot logo.
I can get into ClockworkMod but re-flashing with the CM9 that I have doesn't do anything to fix it.
I know that if I were able to put the stock Kindle firmware on that /sdcard volume I can fix this but how do I do this with ClockworkMod?
I've tried all the unbricking utils (even the Java front-end) and they act like they're fixing things but they all make no changes.
I do have the correct drivers and can send adb commands to fastboot, normal boot, recovery boot, so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing how to unbrick a Kindle that is using ClockworkMod.
Thanks in advance.
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When you say "infinite bootloop" do you mean the device turns on, shows the boot logo, then reboots?
If so... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
Also CWM will not work with the latest versions of ICS, you need to flash TWRP.
I recommend people copy both the Kindle standard image as well as the customized image to the /sdcard volume. That way if you're stuck with a bricked Kindle at least you can re-install the original Kindle image and get back to where you were before.
I ordered a factory cable to get it to boot into factory recovery mode, which I know works in all cases.
In the meantime I'm going to attempt to try the steps in that post.
After that I'll try to mount the original Kindle system image from a USB drive (using the USB boot feature of CWM) and then try to install it from there and then go back to TWRP or FireFireFire.
I've successfully used FireFireFire before, but using CWM bricked my Kindle hard. I'll update this thread when it's working again.
Thanks for the info.
Okay, I successfully unbricked it.
It wasn't so much a hard brick or a soft brick but more of a firm bricking.
I went into CWM and told it to mount the USB volume. The 5 gigabyte drive appeared on my computer and I formatted it.
I took the Amazon stock update and changed its file extension to zip.
I then copied it from the computer to the mounted volume.
I chose the zip for installation and then installed it from CWM.
After shutting down and rebooting a few times it worked.
I didn't even have to do any ADB tricks. This is because I had a working CWM boot image.
Now it's off to more hacking!!
I am having the same problem... how did you get into clockwork? it doesnt stay on long enough for me to connect it to the KFU
I did the same thing. You'll need to go into CWM and mount it as usb storage and then it will show up on your desktop as a disk drive. Format it from there to wipe out the crap that's hanging it up and then reinstall either your rom or stock amazon rom.
HaNNibalHector said:
I am having the same problem... how did you get into clockwork? it doesnt stay on long enough for me to connect it to the KFU
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I am int he same boat. How did you or can I get into Clockwork
I'm not very knowledgeable about CWM but I do have an idea. Try turning off kindle by holding down power button, plug kindle in to computer and turn it on. Open KFU, if it says that adb is online, then you have your fix. Just set the boot mode to recovery and you should boot right in to cwm.
can someone help me remove custom recovery and the 2nd bootloader i have the stock amazon rom installed
Thanks in advance
Usually updating the stock ROM will do it, if you made backups of the partitions like the tutorials tell you to do you can simply reflash them in fastboot mode.
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stunts513 said:
Usually updating the stock ROM will do it, if you made backups of the partitions like the tutorials tell you to do you can simply reflash them in fastboot mode.
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Never made any back ups
I told someone else to try updating to the latest amazon os using Amazon's manual update the other day to fix this but it for some reason didn't work... But if you download the latest amazon is and update it it should work, however if it doesn't and it boot loops, technically you can go into twrp and tell it to reboot to boot loader (fastboot) and pull the boot loader IMG and recovery IMG from Amazon's update zip file on your PC and flash them via fastboot. If you need me to elaborate any just ask.
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stunts513 said:
I told someone else to try updating to the latest amazon os using Amazon's manual update the other day to fix this but it for some reason didn't work... But if you download the latest amazon is and update it it should work, however if it doesn't and it boot loops, technically you can go into twrp and tell it to reboot to boot loader (fastboot) and pull the boot loader IMG and recovery IMG from Amazon's update zip file on your PC and flash them via fastboot. If you need me to elaborate any just ask.
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do you know of any tutorials on this? i could not find anything and as u can see i dont know much about this stuff so it would be appreciated.
Thanks
Wanna mention ahead of time, i am not responsible if you hard brick your kindle by doing this, i dont like messing with the kindles bootloader unless i have to personally.
Ok follow the instruction on Amazon's Website for manually updating a kindle. This might either bootloop/go straight to recovery once you do this, if not your probably on stock unrooted without twrp or 2nd bootloader, usually you can tell pretty easily since the kindle logo would be blue if it wasn't stock, assuming that for some reason it either does bootloop/go straight to recovery or for some reason works but has twrp and second bootloader please read on.
Keep a copy of the update on your pc. Now this gets a bit more complicated because i realized the update is a bin file, but if i remember correctly it should just be a zip file, so either tell windows open with winrar or 7zip, winzip, etc, or try enabling file extensions in your folder options on windows, and changing the extension to .zip. Once you do that extract u-boot.bin and recovery.img from the recovery folder. Put your kindle into fastboot mode(hit reboot then bootloader in twrp). Now you need a copy of fastboot.exe, so use a utility like kindle fire first aid and remember to put the recovery.img and u-boot.bin into the folder with fastboot.exe. Open a command prompt and cd into the directory that the fastboot command is in (in kffa) and verify we have a connection to the kindles fastboot by running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product"(if it hangs on waiting for device, open your task manager and update the driver for the device with a triangle next to it named jem with the drivers in my signature
.) Once that command can run successfully, run these three commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
Now pray everything went well, because if your bootloader had a bad flash your going to have a hard brick. It should boot into stock os. Tada! I'm going to get soupemagnet to make sure i explained this correctly just to make sure i didn't miss something, you don't want to hard brick the kindle, that's a pain to even attempt to recover from without a major understanding of to solder and hookup an emmc to an sdcard reader.
stunts513 said:
Wanna mention ahead of time, i am not responsible if you hard brick your kindle by doing this, i dont like messing with the kindles bootloader unless i have to personally.
Ok follow the instruction on Amazon's Website for manually updating a kindle. This might either bootloop/go straight to recovery once you do this, if not your probably on stock unrooted without twrp or 2nd bootloader, usually you can tell pretty easily since the kindle logo would be blue if it wasn't stock, assuming that for some reason it either does bootloop/go straight to recovery or for some reason works but has twrp and second bootloader please read on.
Keep a copy of the update on your pc. Now this gets a bit more complicated because i realized the update is a bin file, but if i remember correctly it should just be a zip file, so either tell windows open with winrar or 7zip, winzip, etc, or try enabling file extensions in your folder options on windows, and changing the extension to .zip. Once you do that extract u-boot.bin and recovery.img from the recovery folder. Put your kindle into fastboot mode(hit reboot then bootloader in twrp). Now you need a copy of fastboot.exe, so use a utility like kindle fire first aid and remember to put the recovery.img and u-boot.bin into the folder with fastboot.exe. Open a command prompt and cd into the directory that the fastboot command is in (in kffa) and verify we have a connection to the kindles fastboot by running "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product"(if it hangs on waiting for device, open your task manager and update the driver for the device with a triangle next to it named jem with the drivers in my signature
.) Once that command can run successfully, run these three commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
Now pray everything went well, because if your bootloader had a bad flash your going to have a hard brick. It should boot into stock os. Tada! I'm going to get soupemagnet to make sure i explained this correctly just to make sure i didn't miss something, you don't want to hard brick the kindle, that's a pain to even attempt to recover from without a major understanding of to solder and hookup an emmc to an sdcard reader.
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Okay, let me stop you right there. There's no need to manually flash those images in fastboot and, as you are aware, it isn't the safest option.
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.
^^ what he said, I wasn't aware the amazon zip was compatible with twrp, it has files that a flashable zip tend to have but I never looked into it. Now I know something new for future reference. xD
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soupmagnet said:
Okay, let me stop you right there. There's no need to manually flash those images in fastboot and, as you are aware, it isn't the safest option.
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.
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did what you said but install failed so pushed cynagamod to it and installed now i am stuck on kindle logo cant do nothing not even boot to twrp.
Time for a fastboot mode and kffa... If you at some point installed the drivers for fastboot then this should go smoothly, if not you will have to keep your device manager open I. With does and update the unknown jem device that's detect to the drivers in my signature. Once you do manage to make sure that the jem device is detected and has its drivers installed turn the kindle off and unplug it, then on your PC run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", once it says waiting for device plug your kindle in. It should go into fastboot mode, once there use kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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stunts513 said:
Time for a fastboot mode and kffa... If you at some point installed the drivers for fastboot then this should go smoothly, if not you will have to keep your device manager open I. With does and update the unknown jem device that's detect to the drivers in my signature. Once you do manage to make sure that the jem device is detected and has its drivers installed turn the kindle off and unplug it, then on your PC run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", once it says waiting for device plug your kindle in. It should go into fastboot mode, once there use kindle fire first aid to restore the system partition.
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lol i am so lost.
Basically you need to get a copy of kindle fire first aid from the 7" general section of the forum(yes I know it says 7" but its more liken all second generation kf's), open a command prompt as admin, and CD into the kindle fire first aid directory, run the command mentioned in my last post and plug the kindle in while its off. If it goes into fastboot mode then great, if not you have to install the fastboot mode drivers, you must open the device manager, and when you power on the kindle it should briefly show a jem device, you have to update its drivers to the ones in my signature before the device disappears. Once that is working run the command again. and do as previously mentioned.
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soupmagnet said:
To revert to stock (safely), download the appropriate software update for the device from Amazon (onto the device itself), rename it from update.bin to update.zip (very important), factory reset in recovery (extremely important), then install the update.zip in recovery.
Upon rebooting, there will no longer be a 2nd bootloader or custom recovery, and everything will have been reverted back to pure stock.
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Thank you so much for this solution. Although I get my 7HD to enter fastboot mode with cable - I can't get these other solutions to work.
In TWRP I REBOOT and see RECOVERY - but when I hit RECOVERY it just boots back to TWRP. Is that all I'm looking to do before going to INSTALL the .bin file (now renamed as .zip)???? thanks much...
rightjb said:
Thank you so much for this solution. Although I get my 7HD to enter fastboot mode with cable - I can't get these other solutions to work.
In TWRP I REBOOT and see RECOVERY - but when I hit RECOVERY it just boots back to TWRP. Is that all I'm looking to do before going to INSTALL the .bin file (now renamed as .zip)???? thanks much...
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Flash from TWRP and then reboot into system. You'll need to Swipe to factory reset first.
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LinearEquation said:
Flash from TWRP and then reboot into system. You'll need to Swipe to factory reset first.
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That worked perfectly. Thank you so very much
Hi all, I'm hoping to get some help or advice. I have a 1st gen Kindle Fire. When I received it, it had the stock bootloader installed and appeared to be stuck in fastboot mode. I performed the following steps:
1. used a factory cable to get access to fastboot
2. used soupkit (in Unbuntu 10.10) to flash FFF 1.4a and TWRP 2.2.2.1. Both flashed successfully.
3. turned the Kindle off (holding power for 20 secs)
4. switched over to a normal USB cable
5. powered up and issued 'fastboot getvar product' to stop FFF in fastboot
6. ran 'fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000' to reset to normal bootmode
7. 'fastboot reboot'
8. in FFF chose recovery (power led turned orange and FFF says booting)
9. stuck
I've tried reflashing FFF and TWRP several times, redownloaded and check MD5 (all ok). No matter what I do it seems this KF refuses to move past the bootloader.Any help or ideas? Thanks for your time.
freyp2 said:
Hi all, I'm hoping to get some help or advice. I have a 1st gen Kindle Fire. When I received it, it had the stock bootloader installed and appeared to be stuck in fastboot mode. I performed the following steps:
1. used a factory cable to get access to fastboot
2. used soupkit (in Unbuntu 10.10) to flash FFF 1.4a and TWRP 2.2.2.1. Both flashed successfully.
3. turned the Kindle off (holding power for 20 secs)
4. switched over to a normal USB cable
5. powered up and issued 'fastboot getvar product' to stop FFF in fastboot
6. ran 'fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000' to reset to normal bootmode
7. 'fastboot reboot'
8. in FFF chose recovery (power led turned orange and FFF says booting)
9. stuck
I've tried reflashing FFF and TWRP several times, redownloaded and check MD5 (all ok). No matter what I do it seems this KF refuses to move past the bootloader.Any help or ideas? Thanks for your time.
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Maybe try different versions of FFF and/or TWRP? You can also try the KFU tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
still perplexed
Thanks Scoobio, I did try that too. So far I have successfully installed 3 versions of bootloader (FFF 1.4a, FFF with yellow triangle, and also stock from Amazon). All three install successfully. Unfortunately all three have the same symptoms. I am able to execute fastboot commands to flash images, getvar, etc, etc, and they complete successfully. However anytime I "ask" or "let" the bootloader try to boot system or recovery it hangs. FFF 1.4a hangs, previous "yellow triangle" version of FFF hangs, stock also hangs - always at the same point. The screen never flashes like it does when the recovery or kernel first loads. So I don't think its making it that far.
I've tried with factory cable, regular usb, no usb at all. Always hangs on boot. I also tried running KFU in Windows (same problems), SoupKit (same problems), and FireKit (same problems). Last thing I tried was usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp. It also ran successfully but still same problem.
At this point I don't care so much about fixing the kindle as much as solving the riddle. I'd like to figure this out just so I know...you know I can't let the machine win. So I'm wondering if it could be bad memory blocks or something else missing...will update if i discover anything further. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Oh and...I am able to reset bootmode back to normal or recovery or fastboot...always completes the command successfully but never makes a difference.
I've been trying to root my Kindle Fire running 6.3.3. I bought a fastboot cable and got it to boot into fastboot mode to flash TWRP and firefirefire. I ran the commands and TWRP failed but firefirefire installed. Now when the kindle boots I get the firefirefire bootloader but it cant boot into the recovery because the TWRP never installed. Also, I can't get it to fastboot anymore, not even with the cable. Can anyone please help me get TWRP installed? I've read many forums and tried about everything I found.
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I've been trying to root my Kindle Fire running 6.3.3. I bought a fastboot cable and got it to boot into fastboot mode to flash TWRP and firefirefire. I ran the commands and TWRP failed but firefirefire installed. Now when the kindle boots I get the firefirefire bootloader but it cant boot into the recovery because the TWRP never installed. Also, I can't get it to fastboot anymore, not even with the cable. Can anyone please help me get TWRP installed? I've read many forums and tried about everything I found.
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FFF bootloader supports fastboot commands, but the flash command is now
fastboot flash recovery file name
ie drop the -i 0x1949
Code:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-otter.img
because the fastboot mode window is short
with kindle connected to pc, power off kindle, enter commands, then power on kindle
sd_shadow said:
FFF bootloader supports fastboot commands, but the flash command is now
fastboot flash recovery file name
ie drop the -i 0x1949
Code:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-otter.img
because the fastboot mode window is short
with kindle connected to pc, power off kindle, enter commands, then power on kindle
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I've been trying this for about 30 minutes or so with no luck...I even downloaded a different version of the twrp image. Do I have to wait for the fastboot screen to start the command or do I start the process before powering on the device? I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong here.
kas782000 said:
I've been trying this for about 30 minutes or so with no luck...I even downloaded a different version of the twrp image. Do I have to wait for the fastboot screen to start the command or do I start the process before powering on the device? I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong here.
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Should be able to do it either way but I press enter, before the power button
This will not work if drivers are not correct
could try
Code:
fastboot devices
as a test should get something like
Code:
123456789 bootloader
back in command prompt
I finally got it to work and I can't thank you enough. You were right. I knew my computer recognized the device with adb in normal boot but my computer wouldn't recognize the device in fastboot mode until i reinstalled the android driver while it was in fastboot mode. Now I have a custom ROM running Google Play apps! Again, thank you!
Hey, I don't know if this will help others, but I had a hell of a time trying to get my kindle to recognize while in the bootloader/fastboot mode... It frustrated me so much that I had to write about it.
I recently switched to Windows 10, so it seems like my computer is relearning drivers and stuff...
My kindle was fine when on, and I could issue adb commands from the main screen, but when in fastboot mode, I couldn't get it detected. I knew the drivers were an issue, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I looked at Amazon's support pages, went through the SDK route, tinkered with the adb.ini and so forth... to no avail.
Post after post said that the easiest way to install the drivers was through the Kindle Fire Utility, but for some reason, the drivers in the .bat file kept failing and would not load. It took a good few hours to figure out the solution.
When I asked the Web why the drivers kept failing, I came across a post that said Windows was actually blocking unknown drivers from loading onto my system. I really wish Windows had told me that instead of just saying "Fail"...
I had to hold down the shift button and click restart on the start menu, and when the computer restarted, I when through: troubleshoot -> advanced options -> startup settings and clicked on Restart. It eventually gave me the option to disable that signature verification [F7]
My explanation is crude, because I want you to look it up properly. Just search for "disable driver signature enforcement" and you should be fine.
Hope this helps others out. I may have to revisit my own post just to see how to do this again.
Hi, I was running CM11 on a rooted Kindle Fire HD 8.9 happily but decided to take the CM12 nightly and it's not gone well.
It installed but wasn't running correctly, here's where I made my mistake. Instead of waiting until I had a PC to hand, I did a factory reset on the kindle itself (i'm an idiot!).
Now, the kindle will start up into fastboot mode and take some commands but that's it. No recovery, no adb.
I have the android SDK installed along with google usb drivers and the amazon kindle usb drivers. The device appears on the PC (no yellow triangle, I'm running windows 8.1 and the driver is signed).
With fastboot, I can flash a boot and recovery image but I can't then restart the device in recovery mode or standard boot.
a fastboot reboot stays in fastboot mode. any volume and power button combinations won't take it into recovery.
i tried fastboot oem unlock but that doesn't get a response from the device.
I have the kindle SR tool utility (v 1.3.5). It can flash the images to the device but any attempt to reboot will always take it back into fastboot.
I've read countless articles but I'm now stuck. Have I killed my fire?
Thanks, Mike
"fastboot -i 0x1949 oem recovery" should reboot your kfhd into recovery. From there you can wipe system, recovery and data and re-install recovery, cm11 and gapps assuming the zip files are still on your device. Or you can erase and re-flash everything using fastboot commands. If all else fails you can first return it to stock KFHD OS using the system recovery tool. All you need is to get it into fastboot mode which it sounds like you can.
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Hi, I was running CM11 on a rooted Kindle Fire HD 8.9 happily but decided to take the CM12 nightly and it's not gone well.
It installed but wasn't running correctly, here's where I made my mistake. Instead of waiting until I had a PC to hand, I did a factory reset on the kindle itself (i'm an idiot!).
Now, the kindle will start up into fastboot mode and take some commands but that's it. No recovery, no adb.
I have the android SDK installed along with google usb drivers and the amazon kindle usb drivers. The device appears on the PC (no yellow triangle, I'm running windows 8.1 and the driver is signed).
With fastboot, I can flash a boot and recovery image but I can't then restart the device in recovery mode or standard boot.
a fastboot reboot stays in fastboot mode. any volume and power button combinations won't take it into recovery.
i tried fastboot oem unlock but that doesn't get a response from the device.
I have the kindle SR tool utility (v 1.3.5). It can flash the images to the device but any attempt to reboot will always take it back into fastboot.
I've read countless articles but I'm now stuck. Have I killed my fire?
Thanks, Mike
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In my situation (Kindle fire HD 8.9 amazon OS 8.1.5) after install TWRP 2.6.0.0, the device is not loaded (always orange logo kindlefire at all) me helped Wipe> format data, after I then sent image cm-11 for devices, `adb push cm-11.zip /sdcard/`, and wipe cache and install cm-11 are successful.
Installing TWRP only for fastboot mode, in the fastboot mode `adb` command dont work, only `fastboot...........` command.
I hope something helped.