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How to Root the kindle Fire 2

Alright, so I've seen alot of posts asking about a root for the kindle fire 2
We've had multiple members use this method and it seems to work absolutley fine.
Follow the steps in this thread to gain root,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893838
I was able to gain root while running ver 10.1.3 and I've seen many other members also able to do the same.
To use a launcher download the apk of the launcher you want to use, after installing move the apk file to your "app" folder found in the "system" file and change permissions for that apk to user - rw ; group - r ; other - r. Once those steps are done simply reboot your kindle and a prompt will appear asking which launcher to use.
Credits to the respective thread starters and to bodi524 for sharing the info with me.
[ list of recommended launchers ]
-Go launcher ( EX or HD )
-chameleon launcher
-lightning launcher
-nova launcher
there are a ton more to check out, just look around.

Dassen said:
Alright, so I've seen alot of posts asking about a root for the kindle fire 2
We've had multiple members use this method and it seems to work absolutley fine.
Fopllow the steps in this thread to gain root,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893838
I was able to gain root while running ver 10.1.3 and I've seen many other members also able to do the same.
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Huh. I can't get the .bat to recognize the device, despite installing the drivers and enabling ADB on the Kindle. However, when I do install the drivers, the installer looks like they install properly, yet I get a dialog that says "Drivers not installed successfully. Install manually." Or something to that effect. Thoughts?

Got the same error , I just tried re installing the drivers a couple of times and it worked, I actually got an error message while installing the drivers once that read drivers installed unsuccessfully then tried to run the bat for the luls and that's when the root worked. xD
I dont really know what the deal is with the drivers but it seems like they arent that important... try re-installing them a couple times see if that helps.

Spent too much time on it. Reverted back by the end!!

Help Me Please. I root KindleFire 2 gen
i root my Kindle Fire (2nd Generation) Software Version 10.1.3 by How to root tool Qemu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893838
but i can't copy file .apk to folder /system/app and program Root Explorer show detail /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/System (r/o) and don't have Remount as R/W button
help me please.

Can any one give a more detailed guide on how to move the .apk and change the settings to get it to work??
Would be greatly appreciated thanks!
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Now that's ****ing great.
I tried rooting it a couple times without success. It always came down to the 5073 port error and after too many restarts it is increadibly slow plus the kindle fire logo is flickering on the screen every few seconds...
Edit:
OK after painfully managing to finally get to the "reset factory settings" it is working again. But I think this root method might not be working for me with Version 10.2.1

Root Kindle Fire 2 v10.2.1
Hi, I tried using [ROOT][TOOL]Qemu automated root [09/18/2012] Got the drivers installed succesfully and then ran the bat file but does not seem to work. My kindle fire 2 version is v10.2.1 anyone had success with this one yet?
Never mind I tried with a Samsung USB cable and it worked.

I have mine rooted on 10.2.1 and running go luncher ex
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Is it possible, that Windows 8 64bit might be an issue? Installing the drivers was only possible after renaming the signed drivers by deleting the "signed_" part. the bat installer only recognizes the device after repluging it a couple times. Then I get a cmd line saying "root or "shell" but putting in the stuff from the video doesn't work.

Rooted Kindle Fire 2 fine....but
The root process went perfectly clean and it rebooted fine. Then I couldn't find instructions to install the Play Store. I finally found some that said to copy GoogleServicesFramework.apk to the Kindle and install, I did that cleanly. Then to copy vending.apk to /system/app/ and I did that and was able to change permissions to 664. I then rebooted the Kindle. It goes straight to the triangle. If you push the power button 5 times it reboots to the same thing. I did not try to flash TWRP to it because I saw some having problems with it. I have 10.2.1 on it. I have the proper drivers installed and each time the Kindle rebooted during boot the computer beeped that it recognized it. Since the triangle the PC no longer recognizes it, it does not show up in Device manager and it does not show up in explorer as connected. I think it is hard bricked but wanted to run it by everyone.
Sparkym3's root process went flawlessly on my Fire2, It only took a couple minutes to root and be booted to a working Kindle. I just screwed up the market process somehow.
Let me know your thoughts. Being that everything went so clean with rooting I have a hard time thinking it can be the drivers, cable, usb port.
I've rooted a phone and 2 tablets multiple times but never had this happen. Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is an exact description of the problem:
I get the Kindle Fire logo, sits there several seconds, reboots and the power light goes out and back on, then the logo comes up again, it flashes a couple of times then I get an orange triangle with an exclamation point inside Below that is a message stating "Your Kindle device cannot boot".
Below that is You can reset device to Factory defaults to fix this issue (all data will be deleted from the device"
<Menu options>
To reboot your device, press and hold the power button for 4 seconds and release.
To reset to Factory Defaults, press the power button 5 times in succession.
Well the 4 second thing does not work at all, more like 20 seconds. The pressing 5 times just reboots to the same problem and warning triangle. I tried fastboot commands but nothing.and my laptop no longer recognizes the Kindle and nothing is in Device Manager about the Kindle now. The fastboot command just says waiting for device. As I said above the root process went flawlessly and the Fire reboot 3-4 times and the laptop beeped each time that it saw it.
Any help is greatly appreciated
So, I'm totally lost. Maybe a frisbee at this point.

Hi
I rooted my KF and install GO Launcher with method that was discribed in first post. But this method is usless to install Google Play. How can I install GP? (Sorry for my English)

wmccombs said:
The root process went perfectly clean and it rebooted fine. Then I couldn't find instructions to install the Play Store. I finally found some that said to copy GoogleServicesFramework.apk to the Kindle and install, I did that cleanly. Then to copy vending.apk to /system/app/ and I did that and was able to change permissions to 664. I then rebooted the Kindle. It goes straight to the triangle. If you push the power button 5 times it reboots to the same thing. I did not try to flash TWRP to it because I saw some having problems with it. I have 10.2.1 on it. I have the proper drivers installed and each time the Kindle rebooted during boot the computer beeped that it recognized it. Since the triangle the PC no longer recognizes it, it does not show up in Device manager and it does not show up in explorer as connected. I think it is hard bricked but wanted to run it by everyone.
Sparkym3's root process went flawlessly on my Fire2, It only took a couple minutes to root and be booted to a working Kindle. I just screwed up the market process somehow.
Let me know your thoughts. Being that everything went so clean with rooting I have a hard time thinking it can be the drivers, cable, usb port.
I've rooted a phone and 2 tablets multiple times but never had this happen. Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is an exact description of the problem:
I get the Kindle Fire logo, sits there several seconds, reboots and the power light goes out and back on, then the logo comes up again, it flashes a couple of times then I get an orange triangle with an exclamation point inside Below that is a message stating "Your Kindle device cannot boot".
Below that is You can reset device to Factory defaults to fix this issue (all data will be deleted from the device"
<Menu options>
To reboot your device, press and hold the power button for 4 seconds and release.
To reset to Factory Defaults, press the power button 5 times in succession.
Well the 4 second thing does not work at all, more like 20 seconds. The pressing 5 times just reboots to the same problem and warning triangle. I tried fastboot commands but nothing.and my laptop no longer recognizes the Kindle and nothing is in Device Manager about the Kindle now. The fastboot command just says waiting for device. As I said above the root process went flawlessly and the Fire reboot 3-4 times and the laptop beeped each time that it saw it.
Any help is greatly appreciated
So, I'm totally lost. Maybe a frisbee at this point.
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So here's my wild ass guess (WAG). The fastboot "waiting for device" thing happened to me as well with my Fire (not a 2). My fix was getting root installed and getting it into fastboot mode on one computer then doing the fastboot commands and getting it out of fastboot on another computer.
I've seen posts where people get adb working and copy files with it, then issue a fastboot command, reboot the Kindle then fastboot can't see it anymore.
My WAG is somehow the USB drivers are confused by seeing a similar device but it's different enough for the driver to fail. The solution I've seen given to people on Windows is to uninstall and re-install the Fire USB drivers (I'm on Linux, so my solution was to install fastboot on my Powerbook and send the fastboot commands from it since it saw the device when Linux fastboot wouldn't).
These are probably just the rantings of a raving lunatic, but try to find another computer and see if you can run fastboot commands and get it out of fastboot.

Dassen said:
Got the same error , I just tried re installing the drivers a couple of times and it worked, I actually got an error message while installing the drivers once that read drivers installed unsuccessfully then tried to run the bat for the luls and that's when the root worked. xD
I dont really know what the deal is with the drivers but it seems like they arent that important... try re-installing them a couple times see if that helps.
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Sounds like you did the same thing as me. It's bugging me because I don't know EXACTLY what I did to finally get root access, I just know it worked! I had to reinstall drivers a couple of times and run the q program until it showed 'rooted'. Whatever I did, it worked and it's fun to mess with!

Kindle Fire 2
I haven't tried rooting mine yet, and with the way this thread has gone back-and-forth, I'm kinda afraid to.
As far as I can tell, there has been a lot of success on 10.1.3 and 10.2.4 using various tools.
Is there a definitive way to root 10.2.4 or do I just need to mess around with drivers and hope for the best?
Is there a way to get gapps (google play, gmail, etc.) on there safely?
I'll post again (or edit) when I get mine rooted but I'm going to hold off on getting gapps or other ROM's on it until those with better programming and troubleshooting abilities than I have a chance to figure it out.
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EDIT:
I was able to root my KFOT 10.2.4 and got Google Play, Calendar, and Gmail to work. Got ADW launcher to replace the default.
So, about a week ago, Amazon pushed an update that took my software to 10.2.6, which removed my root access and set my launcher back to their default.
The last root method that worked for me I found here.
My question is, will that method still work? (I assume it still works on the HD as well...)
On a side note, has the bootloader for KFOT been cracked yet? I'd like to get another ROM on it so I can use ICS in its full glory (if possible)
:good:
-skpacman

root it
The quickest & easiest way to root a Kindle Fire 2nd gen (non-HD/HDX) firmware 10.3.1 - 10.4.6 (if your's is lower, upgrade) ... available here :
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[Q] ADB not working

First of all, my device (Kindle Fire HD 7), is already flashed with CM11 from hashcode, has TWRP installed and all that. Devices is working perfectly fine on all front except for the ADB thing. (as far as I know)
Now, when I plug my device to my PC with a regular cable, windows recognize it as the Kindle Fire 7, that's fine and all, if I wanted to just see the SD, but I'm trying to boot it so it uses the ADB driver in order to push/pull some files into it, yet windows simply refuses to see it as such, no matter how many times I uninstall the driver and try to reinstall the ADB driver, even tried using my fastboot cable, that time Windows used the ADB driver, but couldn't see the device at all, so that didn't help.
What am I doing wrong here? I tried looking in the settings of the device to enable ADB, other than the superuser options for Apps+ADB, couldn't find anything else.(no standalone Enable ADB option, is that standard in Hashcode's firmwares? Am I missing something?)
You'd think in Fastboot mode I would be able to see the darn device.
Edit : When booting in recovery (TWRP) I can see the device with ADB, but that's the thing, that doesn't help me update TWRP to a newer version, among the other things I wanted to do.

TetraSky said:
First of all, my device (Kindle Fire HD 7), is already flashed with CM11 from hashcode, has TWRP installed and all that. Devices is working perfectly fine on all front except for the ADB thing. (as far as I know)
Now, when I plug my device to my PC with a regular cable, windows recognize it as the Kindle Fire 7, that's fine and all, if I wanted to just see the SD, but I'm trying to boot it so it uses the ADB driver in order to push/pull some files into it, yet windows simply refuses to see it as such, no matter how many times I uninstall the driver and try to reinstall the ADB driver, even tried using my fastboot cable, that time Windows used the ADB driver, but couldn't see the device at all, so that didn't help.
What am I doing wrong here? I tried looking in the settings of the device to enable ADB, other than the superuser options for Apps+ADB, couldn't find anything else.(no standalone Enable ADB option, is that standard in Hashcode's firmwares? Am I missing something?)
You'd think in Fastboot mode I would be able to see the darn device.
Edit : When booting in recovery (TWRP) I can see the device with ADB, but that's the thing, that doesn't help me update TWRP to a newer version, among the other things I wanted to do.
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Go into the settings, hit about tablet, tap the build number about 8 or 10 times, now the developer menu will be unhidden and you can enable adb.

Oh, you have got to be...
Well, I thought I was being trolled, but that did the trick. Talk about a well hidden feature, God, why...

Lmao first time someone ever said they thought I was trolling. Yea its weird that it's like that, seems to me if you know enough to flash a custom ROM on a device then the developer options would be unhidden by default because you might be using it.
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[Q] Kindle Recovery Help

*My KFHD7 will not load passed the initial, "kindle fire" logo.
*While running KFFirstAide64 runme.bat, it reads, "The system cannot find the path specified" after I try the recovery.
*In Device Manager under other devices it states, "Soho-PVT-Prod-07"; My computer is communicating with the Kindle.
*I am using a factory (fastboot) cable and my tablet is in fastboot mode as of right now.
*Last updated version known: 11.2.3.2
Is there any other program or recovery option that I can use to restore my KFHD7 to it's factory conditions? How can I get the system to "find the path specified"?

Solution!
I don't know how I missed it but here it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254

Additional Problems...
When I run the program to recover, it reads, "<waiting for device>".
*I am using "KFHD_SRTv1.3.5" SR Tool which was recommended to me.
*I've tried using different USB ports.
*Waiting for the device proves to be pointless.
*I have downloaded the ADB driver but installing it shows no improvements.
What can I do?

That is for the Kindle fire HD 2012 edition. If you flash it to your Kindle you will Brick it.
You need this program.
http://dl.kfsowi.com/tools/kindlesuite/KindleSuite.zip

Thanks for the reply
Red_81 said:
You need this program.
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I have downloaded the program and tried to restore my device but I ran into the same problem, "waiting for device". I've installed the device drivers as well. I checked on one of the other programs my ADB status and it is not on. I don't believe I can turn it on without getting passed the initial bootlogo.
Do I need the ADB enabled in order for a full recovery? How can I get my device to be acknowledged by this program when my computer is reading that it's there?
EDIT:
I need to restore my kindle.
While in fastboot mode, the logo has 3D orange font that says "fastboot" with a black background. There is nothing else that shows up. Before I tried to root there was green font in I think the top left corner; looked like a cmd prompt was running something (if I recall correctly)..

if you are in fast boot and stuck waiting for device you are probably having a driver problem like I had. I used fastboot on Linux instead of Windows and solved my driver issue that way.
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muiriddin said:
I used fastboot on Linux instead of Windows and solved my driver issue that way.
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Sorry for the late reply. I'll try out Linux OS and see what happens. I'll let ya'll know the news :fingers-crossed:
EDIT::
So my computer crashed trying to fix my kindle; hard drive malfunction of some sort. My friend put the hard drive into his computer and it erased his BIOS. We then put in an 80GB hard drive that we got for $10, re-installed windows and tried again. Hard drive crashed crashed again. Maybe when I tried to install the drivers they were installed onto my computer instead of the Kindle?
This is an on going process but I probably won't be posting again any time soon. Maybe when I actually start programming things will be a little more self explanatory.
Thanks for all your help. This is all for this thread.

Kindle Fire 2 Automatic Disaster Recovery/Return Back to Stock

Introduction​
This tool is for returning the Kindle Fire back to stock automatically. This is for Windows ONLY. If you can spare about 1 GB on your hard drive, you're good to go.
Code:
Disclaimer:
By using this tool, you accept that you're taking full responsibility if anything bad happens.
Blame any of us (me, XDA Devs, etc) and I'll ask you to read the licence agreement slowly &
carefully.
You have been warned.
Requirements​
A fastboot/factory cable (They can go for as cheap as $2)
A Kindle Fire 2
ADB and Fastboot drivers
A PC running Windows
Time
Download
Installer
Google Drive: Installer
MediaFire: Installer
Zip & & 7z files
MEGA
ZIP format
7z format
Google Drive
7z format
Rootjunky's DL Server (thanks Tomsgt.)
ZIP format
Android File Host
ZIP format
NOTICE: I am not developing this anymore. If any download links go down, I will not be able to help. Sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​

Does this work? Has anyone tried it?

Please help!!! MODS PLEASE READ !!!!
Ok Ive tried searching and Ive tried everything on this site, I have a Kindle Gen 2 I can get into Fastboot but everything else was deleted off the Kindle, EVERYTHING !!! I just want to restore it for my daughter to use in the car Windows 10 does not reconize it but it shows up in device manager as OTTER2 with no drivers when i plug it in with fastboot cable. anyone who can point me in a direction please help.

Bwangster12 said:
Does this work? Has anyone tried it?
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I know I'm over a year late in this reply, but I accidentally bricked my Kindle with the red triangle screen, but didn't have a fastboot cable, so I ordered a cheap one on Amazon which arrived an hour ago. Immediately I took it to my computer, plugged in my powered off Kindle, and it went straight into fastboot mode. I opened disaster recovery from this thread ran it with the fastboot cable plugged in, swapped for a regular cable on the step it tells you to, did the factory reset it told me to do, and sure enough my KF2 is back in the state it was fresh out of the box. I'm mostly just going to be using it for my e-books and audible purchases, but it's nice to have it working again. Going to try installing the prime video app on it since on stock it will try to use silk+flash for prime video and I'm not sure that will even work anymore. If it does, cool, but if not I should be able to install the apk for prime video as a user app without having to dig up old root methods by using the internet archive on dead links.
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Panettaone said:
Ok Ive tried searching and Ive tried everything on this site, I have a Kindle Gen 2 I can get into Fastboot but everything else was deleted off the Kindle, EVERYTHING !!! I just want to restore it for my daughter to use in the car Windows 10 does not reconize it but it shows up in device manager as OTTER2 with no drivers when i plug it in with fastboot cable. anyone who can point me in a direction please help.
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Don't know what to tell you, my dude. Worked fine with Windows 10 for me with a fastboot cable. Might have to manually download the drivers if you haven't already, but my computer straight up recognized it.
Do you have any USB2.0 ports available? I find that with older devices, 2.0 is the way to go and 3.x tends to either not detect the device or causes errors during critical data transfers.
This tool, when you get your Kindle detected, will fix exactly your problem. I'd say try right clicking the .bat file, go to properties, then in the compatibility tab make sure it's running as administrator. That insures the fastboot and adb processes will have the proper permissions to write to the Kindle. Might even work now even with it coming up as OTTER2.

Panettaone said:
Ok Ive tried searching and Ive tried everything on this site, I have a Kindle Gen 2 I can get into Fastboot but everything else was deleted off the Kindle, EVERYTHING !!! I just want to restore it for my daughter to use in the car Windows 10 does not reconize it but it shows up in device manager as OTTER2 with no drivers when i plug it in with fastboot cable. anyone who can point me in a direction please help.
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Had this problem just now actually! I went and grabbed the official driver files from amazon and installed them (can't link since I'm a new user but you'll find it if you search "Kindle Fire ADB Drivers").
Then I clicked on the device otter2-prod4 in device manager and manually assigned it to Amazon ADB Device and that solved the issue for me.
It's now discoverable via fastboot and I'm running this recovery script right now!

Help restoring rooted soft bricked Kindle Fire HD 7 back to stock.

Hello! So a couple months ago, I tried rooting my KFHD 7 (7.2.3). During the process of installing Google services, I went to restart my device and got the 'bricked' red screen. I recently got a fastboot cable online. I tested it, and the Kindle boots into fastboot with the orange lettering and the computer recognized it and began downloading the driver software. I then tried to use KindleFireFirstAide to restore it to stock software. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get anything besides the 'waiting for device' message.
I then went into my device manager to see that the driver software for the Kindle was named "Tate-PVT -8" with the message driver unavailable. I've tried reinstalling Kindle Fire drivers from Amazon, tried uninstalling the Tate driver and reinstalling. I'm unsure what to do to get it to detect my kindle. Any help is appreciated, I'm admittedly not very tech-savvy is this department, so I'm completely lost. Thanks!

Tykinator said:
Hello! So a couple months ago, I tried rooting my KFHD 7 (7.2.3). During the process of installing Google services, I went to restart my device and got the 'bricked' red screen. I recently got a fastboot cable online. I tested it, and the Kindle boots into fastboot with the orange lettering and the computer recognized it and began downloading the driver software. I then tried to use KindleFireFirstAide to restore it to stock software. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get anything besides the 'waiting for device' message.
I then went into my device manager to see that the driver software for the Kindle was named "Tate-PVT -8" with the message driver unavailable. I've tried reinstalling Kindle Fire drivers from Amazon, tried uninstalling the Tate driver and reinstalling. I'm unsure what to do to get it to detect my kindle. Any help is appreciated, I'm admittedly not very tech-savvy is this department, so I'm completely lost. Thanks!
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Do you have android-sdk installed? when that happened to me "Tate-PVT -8" in device manager I did the manual install driver option in windows and had it search KFFirstAide/ drivers folder/ in the program in the c:\kffirstaide and it installed them from that folder "Drivers" allow install of unsigned driver see if that helps