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[Q] 2nd bootloader again? Safe to flash?

I've already rooted, installed fire flash, flashed 2nd boot loader and twrp, flashed cm11. My question is do I have to do the 2nd boot loader thing through fire flash again if I want to flash a new ROM or can I just go straight to recovery and wipe and flash?

You just go straight into recovery and flash it, ROMs overwrite the boot.IMG that gets flashed in the original process anyways and the stack override is reapplied by the ROM's update-tools script so all is good. In layman's terms, just flash the new ROM from twrp, just clear your cache and dalvik cache when you flash.
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Stuck in Orange -> Blue ->Orange ->Blue bootloop

Using 2012 Fire HD 7"
I rooted it and installed the second bootloader and TWRP 2.7.0.0 just fine, and it even booted back into the stock OS just fine
But then when I went into recovery to flash Paranoid Android and its gapps, I started running into problems.
I rebooted after that and it stayed on the blue boot logo for over 10 minutes, so I rebooted and did a factory reset wipe and tried again.
When I tried the wipe then, though, it then said that the wipe failed and that all of the partitions (data, system, cache, dalvik, etc) couldn't be mounted...
Also, I can't use USB mounting because it says that it cannot find USB volume information.
I can get into TWRP just fine, but I can't seem to flash the ROM because it always just bootloops instead after completion.
I'm not really sure what to do now. Any help?

GoodOlTarvis said:
Using 2012 Fire HD 7"
I rooted it and installed the second bootloader and TWRP 2.7.0.0 just fine, and it even booted back into the stock OS just fine
But then when I went into recovery to flash Paranoid Android and its gapps, I started running into problems.
I rebooted after that and it stayed on the blue boot logo for over 10 minutes, so I rebooted and did a factory reset wipe and tried again.
When I tried the wipe then, though, it then said that the wipe failed and that all of the partitions (data, system, cache, dalvik, etc) couldn't be mounted...
Also, I can't use USB mounting because it says that it cannot find USB volume information.
I can get into TWRP just fine, but I can't seem to flash the ROM because it always just bootloops instead after completion.
I'm not really sure what to do now. Any help?
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Sounds like your recovery somehow got corrupted. At this point I would just suggest to get a fastboot cord and factory reset. You can always tried to ADB sideload a ROM onto TWRP, but if you can't get it to mount now I doubt it will mount to flash the ROM fastboot.

[Q] Kindle Fire HD TWRP Backup restore Help

Hey guys,
I rooted my Kindle Fire HD 7" (Tate) and installed a second boot loader and TWRP recovery. I installed CM11 but actually preferred the Amazon Fire OS. I tried to restore my backup from TWRP recovery, but I think it restored the boot partition badly. It now just flashes the Orange kindle fire logo, then reboots and does the same thing again and reboots etc. etc. Is there a way I can restore a Stock Fire Os Rom from my PC now or get into fastboot and re flash the boot loader (The files are in the downloads folder)
Thanks!

Could someone please suggest something? Even telling me it's unfixable and I've got a perma-brick would be helpful. Thanks!

trimfrim20 said:
Hey guys,
I rooted my Kindle Fire HD 7" (Tate) and installed a second boot loader and TWRP recovery. I installed CM11 but actually preferred the Amazon Fire OS. I tried to restore my backup from TWRP recovery, but I think it restored the boot partition badly. It now just flashes the Orange kindle fire logo, then reboots and does the same thing again and reboots etc. etc. Is there a way I can restore a Stock Fire Os Rom from my PC now or get into fastboot and re flash the boot loader (The files are in the downloads folder)
Thanks!
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Don't worry,it's fixable. Though you'll need a fastboot cable. Then you can restore it. And I recommend using CM since Amazon OS makes problems with the 2nd boot loader.

SafinWasi said:
Don't worry,it's fixable. Though you'll need a fastboot cable. Then you can restore it. And I recommend using CM since Amazon OS makes problems with the 2nd boot loader.
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Thanks for this SafinWasi, do you know where I could get a FastBoot cable??? (I live in the UK) I know how to use FastBoot as I've had to use it before when I flashed the wrong recovery image

Just purchase a fastboot cable via eBay and use kfft restore tool

Bootloader question

I have a Kindle Fire HD 7" (X43Z60) that is stuck on the static boot logo. I have reflashed the system, recovery, and boot partitions using SRT v1.3.5 (system version 7.3.0), which seemed to work fine, but there was no change and the Kindle is still stuck on the static boot logo. I want to try reflashing the bootloader but I don't have a copy of it. Can someone tell me where I can get a bootloader for this model?
Another question. Does the bootloader version have to be the same as the system, or could I just extract a copy of it from update-kindle-7.5.1_user_5156420.bin which I have a copy of?

Did Magisk brick my tablet?

I installed magisk on my tablet and after tablet restarted, it got stuck on this recovery screen. Reboot system now gets you back on this screen. Rebooting to bootloader gets you stuck on logo screen. Factory reset did nothing as well. Does anyone have any ideas how to get out of this?

That's just the standard Android recovery. Use fastboot to flash your unpatched boot image file and you should be up and running again.

Well, that would be a problem. I don't have this tablet's boot image backed up anywhere. Is there any other way?

How did you install Magisk? If you have access to TWRP there might be a backup in /data.

I didnt use TWRP. I installed magisk manager and then there were 2 options in menu to install, magisk and something else. I installed magisk. It restarted tablet after it finished and got me stuck in the recovery screen.

So your tablet was already rooted before you tried installing Magisk.
You most likely need to somehow install the unpatched boot image to get up and running again. If you do not have access to the device firmware to extract the boot image, or can install or boot TWRP (or any other custom recovery) to possibly get a hold of the backup boot image in /data there's probably not much you can do.
Not that I know of, at least. There might be someone that knows some way around it. What is your device?

This is what I am using: https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-tw1023asc-b1p/

Since you were rooted previously, maybe try running adb as root (adb root) when you're in recovery and then use an adb shell to pull the backup file from /data (it's in a folder named magisk_backup_<sha1>). A remote possibility, but worth a shot.
You need to try to find the stock boot image file somehow...

I have more of these tablets, so I could maybe get this boot image from those? I just don't feel comfortable doing it if something could get messed up again.
Also why did this happen in the first place? Was I installing it wrong?

mistyright said:
I have more of these tablets, so I could maybe get this boot image from those? I just don't feel comfortable doing it if something could get messed up again.
Also why did this happen in the first place? Was I installing it wrong?
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If they're the same firmware version you could probably use adb shell to extract the boot partition.
Very hard to say why it failed... Possibly because you were already rooted and there was a conflict. Or maybe the device just isn't compatible.