Hello, just to start out I’m not really familiar with Kindles or Android devices in general despite owning one for a few months now. A few days ago I decided to root it, and after much struggle and attempts I finally got it working. Afterwards I first got rid of the Ads, IMDB, and Cloud9 app since they were a waste of space or in the way.
Since then however I ran into a different problem. I can’t seem to open any of my books that I sideloaded onto my Kindle HD. They’re in mobi format and they show up in the books tab but whenever I click them all that happens is the picture that’s now gone after my last restart gets big like it’s about to open and then after about twenty seconds it just returns to the home screen.
I believe I deleted the wrong app in the process of trying to get rid of the bloat on the device so I tried to install Kindle from the store. The App doesn't show up but it’s installed, however it’s still not working.
Is there any way to fix this problem without doing a factory reset? If that would even fix my problem that is.
Any and all help is much appreciated.
I'd also like to add in that I have tried moving the files from the Books folder to the kindle folder and vice-versa with no luck either way.
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I had whatever, that updated to 7.3 as soon as I turned it on. Rooted fine with KF First Aide. Installed ES File Explorer, Google Play, etc. All was well. Then I read a post here how hard it was to copy/paste with ES File Explorer. I was joking about it with my husband and showing him how easy it was and copied random file... literally just randomly long pressed a file to show him the options, picked copy, and then went to another directory and *meant* to point to but touched paste instead... it was one of the Google Play files.
Kindle fire hd 7" immediately started freaking out. A mac address type error flashing so quick I couldn't do anything else. It was the same low letters and numbers you'd get with a mac address but said error and just an OK button which did nothing when you manage to tap in while flashing. Restarted, thinking if I was lucky Google Play just would't work... got the red triangle and neither option helped. So I ordered one of SkOrPn's cables which works flawlessly and boots right into fastboot. Yay for SkOrPn! Not so ya for me... (not their fault!).
It shows up as "Tate-PVT-08". I've tried every variation of driver I can find. Uninstalling all old things I can find, complete with the command line command to show ghost hubs/devices and what not and removing them and shut down/start up fresh too... no joy. Also removing and restarting between each driver try... neither of the Amazon drivers work for fastboot for me. I've tried so many things at this point my brain is fried.
So I'm hoping someone can help direct me how to fix this. . I won it in an online giveaway, so I'm not out anything, but it'd sure be nice to use it! As messed up as the Kindle crap is I'd be pissed if I bought it... but I'm majorly spoiled on Sony (Ericsson) and their "ya, play with it, screw it up, we don't care, here's how to fix it online just plug it in"... even before they had the online thing they'd let you send it back (and paid shipping both ways for it!) would reflash firmware and send it back with paper ticket that said "No problems found" lol... even on a device you actually bricked (wouldn't turn on... not the cute "brick"="I screwed it up but it's fixable" that people use now).
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Especially if you could steer me to drivers that work for 2nd generation HD 7 inch in fastboot on Windows 8. Thanks for reading if nothing else!
Try The SoupKit found here.
This is a Kinology HD using XDA Premium
Swap cables. Boot with the factory cable then switch to a normal one.
Thanks for the reply, but I've been doing that. Great advice for anyone who doesn't know though!
You couldn't have damaged anything by just copying a file unless either:
You cut the file
OR
You overwrote a system file
OR
You filled up your system partition.
If you still need help, I might be able to do some researching.
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I'd say your fast boot driver didn't install right mine showed up like that and I had to keep playing with drivers to get it to work
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Same Problem
I'm having the same problem! If you fixed it please let me know!
FIXED!!
It's fixed! You have to use KindleFireAide. Just follow all of the directions and it's perfect.:laugh::laugh::laugh::good::good::good:
Shawnsch said:
I'd say your fast boot driver didn't install right mine showed up like that and I had to keep playing with drivers to get it to work
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Thanks, I was hoping there was a better answer than just keep uninstalling/reinstalling various drivers in various ways til it works lol.
I've got a pc I haven't plugged it in to I'll try this weekend, if that doesn't work I'll do the Linux Soup Kit.
Deviantelf said:
Thanks, I was hoping there was a better answer than just keep uninstalling/reinstalling various drivers in various ways til it works lol.
I've got a pc I haven't plugged it in to I'll try this weekend, if that doesn't work I'll do the Linux Soup Kit.
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Use Kindle Fire Aide. It comes with all of the drivers.
Geckodudes said:
Use Kindle Fire Aide. It comes with all of the drivers.
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That was my first thing to try. Unfortunately one of them says stopped by user (preferred one) and the alternate won't install, gets to the end of installing and says didn't install, do manually... which has the same results. I'm getting the same results on another pc. Fun times lol.
Edit... I give up, it's Linux time. Will report back later.
My husband did the Soup kit (correct version, followed directions, etc.) with it for me while I was at work today on an pc he put Linux on (so nothing phone/tablet/adb/driver has ever touched it for anything). He's more savvy with Linux, I haven't used it much since the 90s while he regularly has it as a dual boot on his main pc. He used Ubuntu, followed the Soupkit directions and still no Linux love either.
I'm pretty much down to just sending it back, worst case they send it back and tell me I'm screwed. Both of us are so spoiled on Sony (me) and Google/Nexus (him)... that this some things only works sometimes and just keep bashing your head into the wall and something you already tried three times will work thing is out of our frame of reference (which is what it took to get it rooted lol). I've already spent more time trying to fix the stupid thing for something that shouldn't have even caused an issue than I've spent on both my Sonys combined... even though I've borked both more than once... crazy.
My only advice ... buy a real tablet lol. Luckily I won this so I'm not out anything if Amazon won't swap it... but I really like the 7" size for book reading.
I'll fix it for you...
Deviantelf said:
My husband did the Soup kit (correct version, followed directions, etc.) with it for me while I was at work today on an pc he put Linux on (so nothing phone/tablet/adb/driver has ever touched it for anything). He's more savvy with Linux, I haven't used it much since the 90s while he regularly has it as a dual boot on his main pc. He used Ubuntu, followed the Soupkit directions and still no Linux love either.
I'm pretty much down to just sending it back, worst case they send it back and tell me I'm screwed. Both of us are so spoiled on Sony (me) and Google/Nexus (him)... that this some things only works sometimes and just keep bashing your head into the wall and something you already tried three times will work thing is out of our frame of reference (which is what it took to get it rooted lol). I've already spent more time trying to fix the stupid thing for something that shouldn't have even caused an issue than I've spent on both my Sonys combined... even though I've borked both more than once... crazy.
My only advice ... buy a real tablet lol. Luckily I won this so I'm not out anything if Amazon won't swap it... but I really like the 7" size for book reading.
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If you're gonna send it anywhere, if you pay for shipping I could try to fix it. No guarantees, of course.
If you are on Windows 8 to install kfhd drivers you must advanced boot with unsigned drivers install mode active
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KindleFireGuy said:
If you are on Windows 8 to install kfhd drivers you must advanced boot with unsigned drivers install mode active
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Ya did all that fun stuff, repeatedly with various drivers with all the 20 steps in between to remove others, lol.
Husband spent quite some time with Linux and SoupKit to no avail also. He could get his phone to work (making sure he had all the rules and steps correct), but it never would do anything with the tablet.
I gave up and called Amazon late Monday. They had me turn it on and verify the red triangle screen then sent me a new one that arrived today. Take the new one out of the box and put the old one in they said. They paid shipping both ways. If they complain I'll tell them send me the old and I'll send the new one back lol (at my expense). If they want to make the thing such a mess to deal with what do they expect? They know there's a whole group of people that won't live with the crappy launcher mess they have .
Hi,
Yesterday, I carried out Firmware Update 7.4.6 to my 7" Kindle HD Fire and since then it has been behaving very strangely. Some of the symptoms of this strange behaviour are:-
1. when I open the current book I'm reading, after about 5 minutes of reading the book prematurely closes down and I'm returned to the Home Page Carousel.
2. When I open the book again I am not returned to the page I was on when it closed it self down, which means I have to scroll forwards to find the page I was reading when it closed down.
3. This premature close down happens on every occasion I open my book since the Firmware Upgrade.
4. On occasions, when it prematurely closes down and I re-open it, as well as not being on the page I was reading, but I also lose all my settings e.g. Font Size, Line Spacing and Margins.
I have tried Rebooting the Kindle e.g. holding the On/Off button down for 30 seconds and waiting for a reboot, but it doesn't automatically reboot, so I have to press on the On/Off button for the Kindle to start up again.
When it does restart, my books aren't visible on the Home Screen Carousel. I've connected my Kindle to my PC via the supplied USB cable and when I open Windows Explorer the Kindle is showing and all my books are in the Documents folder, then, after about 60 seconds of being connected to the PC, the books reappear on the Home Page Carousel of the Kindle
I open my book, start reading and the book prematurely closes down and the cycle begins again. I didn't have this problem before the Firmware Upgrade and an now wishing I hadn't bothered.
I am loathed to take all my books off and do a factory reset as that will take time, but if I have to I will.
Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be gratefully accepted.
Kind regards,
Eh I doubt a factory reset will help, I don't know if this will help you solve your problem, but if you are rooted I would look into reflashing the system image with kindle fire first aid, maybe clearing the cache and dalvik cache while your at it. From what I understand they don't have an image of the latest os, so it would be a downgrade, but I believe they left ota's active, so it should reupdate again on its own. If it happens to solve your problem on a previous os, and then when it updates again the bug comes back, then I would suggest just disabling ota's and sticking with an older os. I believe the kindle reader is a system app that they make changes to occasionally so it could just be a bug or something.
Note: this method should prevent u from losing any data, as it doesn't touch the data partition, though you may have to reregister the kindle again.
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Hey Guys,
I've got two Fire (5th Gen) 7in tablets, which are my kids. they're both completely stock, no Root at all running FireOS 5.3.2.1 and are exclusively used in the Fire for Kids app. They're kept in those huge foamy kids cases with handles and we've drummed into them that they should look after them well which they do.
However, both tablets have shown the same issue; When not in use for a couple of minutes they reboot themselves. After each reboot you can start using them fine, but after a few minutes of not being used they reboot again. So if not actively using the tablets, they will reboot continually until the battery dies.
Amazon has replaced both of these tablets. The replacements are doing the exact same thing. I suspected at this point is may be a problem with my account or profile so I factory reset and registered them on my Wife's amazon account, did not restore from backup, just had them fresh.... And the same problem happens.
Is there a known issue with 5.3.2.1?! Amazon have now processed another pair of replacements which I think is unnecessary, it seems like a software issue to me but they don't have any other suggestions. So I'm hoping some of the brains here may have seen it before!
The only idea I have left is that the "Expandable Storage" option suddenly became available around the time this started happening. Might be a coincidence but I've now factory reset one of them and removed the SD card to see if it makes any difference. Any other ideas guys?
Jay_uk1185 said:
Hey Guys,
I've got two Fire (5th Gen) 7in tablets, which are my kids. they're both completely stock, no Root at all running FireOS 5.3.2.1 and are exclusively used in the Fire for Kids app. They're kept in those huge foamy kids cases with handles and we've drummed into them that they should look after them well which they do.
However, both tablets have shown the same issue; When not in use for a couple of minutes they reboot themselves. After each reboot you can start using them fine, but after a few minutes of not being used they reboot again. So if not actively using the tablets, they will reboot continually until the battery dies.
Amazon has replaced both of these tablets. The replacements are doing the exact same thing. I suspected at this point is may be a problem with my account or profile so I factory reset and registered them on my Wife's amazon account, did not restore from backup, just had them fresh.... And the same problem happens.
Is there a known issue with 5.3.2.1?! Amazon have now processed another pair of replacements which I think is unnecessary, it seems like a software issue to me but they don't have any other suggestions. So I'm hoping some of the brains here may have seen it before!
The only idea I have left is that the "Expandable Storage" option suddenly became available around the time this started happening. Might be a coincidence but I've now factory reset one of them and removed the SD card to see if it makes any difference. Any other ideas guys?
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It sounds like the devices may be trying to auto-update and failing for whatever reason. Pure speculation as I no longer run FireOS.
Boy am I upset about this. So I get the update and I even liked it looking around at the new freed up internal storage. Well, I clean my history, run ccleaner, etc. like I normally do to restart and when I restart it will not pass the fire screen whatsoever. Now this tablet is not and has never been rooted or tampered with in any malicious way. Launcher hijack and things from this forum are the only tweeks used. It will not work.
I have tried factory reset dozens of times, restart, anything I can do from the hardboot blackscreen (I guess it is called). Somehow managed to make it run the initial setup once, ran through hours of fixing it back the way it was. Restarted it again, bricked again. I can never manage to factory reset it like normal again and I mean I've tried 30 times by now. Only "Fire" loading screen. Has anyone seen this? This is not fair.
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Boy am I upset about this. So I get the update and I even liked it looking around at the new freed up internal storage. Well, I clean my history, run ccleaner, etc. like I normally do to restart and when I restart it will not pass the fire screen whatsoever. Now this tablet is not and has never been rooted or tampered with in any malicious way. Launcher hijack and things from this forum are the only tweeks used. It will not work.
I have tried factory reset dozens of times, restart, anything I can do from the hardboot blackscreen (I guess it is called). Somehow managed to make it run the initial setup once, ran through hours of fixing it back the way it was. Restarted it again, bricked again. I can never manage to factory reset it like normal again and I mean I've tried 30 times by now. Only "Fire" loading screen. Has anyone seen this? This is not fair.
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Yes - I have (indirectly) seen this on numerous unrooted Amazon Fire devices from several generations following a major OTA update. In most cases the device is NOT recoverable unless the bootloader is unlocked (not possible on 5th-7th gen devices). Boils down to a borked update which is not totally unexpected given the manner in which they are engineered and administered by Amazon. Clearly a very high percentage work without issue. Still sucks if you're a member of the substantial minority...regardless of size. You can try giving Amazon support a call...they might throw you a coupon that can be used against a future purchase (including deeply discounted Amazon/Fire devices during "Black Friday" week).
Just an update on this...
After a few days of not being able to use it I powered it on for the umpteenth time and it properly went through factory reset mode. I was able to manually download the 5.6 update again and it is finally back to normal. Funny thing is I now have even less internal storage than before but at least it is working now. That was a huge inconvenience and I still have no clue what happened.
..even after a complete reset.
Is there anyone around that might help me figure out if it's "done for" or it can be fixed? I've tried other apps to make sure it was just the app, and also, the wifi is very good. I tried in different rooms, and the one where my router is. Very, small apartment. I've had the Kindle for about 4 years, never had an issue until a few days ago. I've only used it to read on, books from Amazon, or Overdrive libraries. Did do some searches with Silk. I did reinstall my Google Playstore that has always work great (the 4 apk files).
Would so appreciate any ideas/thoughts on what it could be that's going wrong. I select the app from the store (also tried from Amazon store) and it just keeps loading. I've set it down and let it go for a few, nothing at all, no error message, nothing Hate for it to just have gone belly up since I don't think 4 years is that long to have one.
solved: For whatever reason, it just downloaded, and installed so who knows It's working. I don't see where to mark "solved" so left this message