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Hi,
I think I might have bricked my Kindle Fire HD 7". I successfully rooted it using B1nary's tool (v17) and went about trying to install TWRP. I used this guide:
gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-simple-guide-to-root-the-kindle-fire-hd-and-flash-a-custom-rom
Sorry for the lack of direct links - it's because I'm newly registered
I started having trouble around Step 2, with the adb shell commands not working. So I tried another method, and came across this one:
liliputing.com/2011/12/how-to-install-twrp-2-0-touch-based-recovery-on-the-kindle-fire-backup-restore-flash-custom-firmware.html
Stupidly, in my haste I neglected to read the fact that this tutorial is for a Kindle Fire, not the Fire HD. I got to the final step, step 11 - switched off my KFHD and now it won't start up again. I have a fastboot cable bought from eBay but I'm not sure if I've totally screwed my device or if it can be fixed. Due to the fairly incompetent nature of my fault, I haven't been able to find a solution via searching XDA or other forums, either.
Any help much appreciated.
SaigonBlaze said:
Hi,
I think I might have bricked my Kindle Fire HD 7". I successfully rooted it using B1nary's tool (v17) and went about trying to install TWRP. I used this guide:
gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-simple-guide-to-root-the-kindle-fire-hd-and-flash-a-custom-rom
Sorry for the lack of direct links - it's because I'm newly registered
I started having trouble around Step 2, with the adb shell commands not working. So I tried another method, and came across this one:
liliputing.com/2011/12/how-to-install-twrp-2-0-touch-based-recovery-on-the-kindle-fire-backup-restore-flash-custom-firmware.html
Stupidly, in my haste I neglected to read the fact that this tutorial is for a Kindle Fire, not the Fire HD. I got to the final step, step 11 - switched off my KFHD and now it won't start up again. I have a fastboot cable bought from eBay but I'm not sure if I've totally screwed my device or if it can be fixed. Due to the fairly incompetent nature of my fault, I haven't been able to find a solution via searching XDA or other forums, either.
Any help much appreciated.
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Yea, flashing anything meant for another device is almost a certain hard brick. when you plug your device into a USB port with a fastboot cable, does it enter fastboot? If it does, you can try a a system restore. If it does nothing, that's it for the device.
LinearEquation said:
Yea, flashing anything meant for another device is almost a certain hard brick. when you plug your device into a USB port with a fastboot cable, does it enter fastboot? If it does, you can try a a system restore. If it does nothing, that's it for the device.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
It does nothing. Diddly squat. Oh well, I guess I'll just chalk it up to incompetence experience....and go buy a Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 3 :-|
SaigonBlaze said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
It does nothing. Diddly squat. Oh well, I guess I'll just chalk it up to incompetence experience....and go buy a Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 3 :-|
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I like my Kindle Fire HD however I just bought a Nexus 7 Flo to get me by until the Kindle Fire HDX has some custom ROM's (if it gets some.) I'm a flashaholic and need a fresh fix lol.
I've been living (mostly) happily with my Kindle Fire HD 7" running BAM rom (the best rom ever) for a couple months now. I decided to upgrade to android 4.4. I went into TWRP to install the new rom, but it wouldn't install, so I decided to flash one of my recoveries I had made in october and it flashed it fine, but when it boots up now it won't even get to the blue Kindle Fire anymore, it's just a boot loop BEFORE it.
When I first did this I had basically no clue what I was doing so I didn't make sure that fastboot was working and it doesn't seem to be working now.
Please HELP!!!!
CalebQ42 said:
I've been living (mostly) happily with my Kindle Fire HD 7" running BAM rom (the best rom ever) for a couple months now. I decided to upgrade to android 4.4. I went into TWRP to install the new rom, but it wouldn't install, so I decided to flash one of my recoveries I had made in october and it flashed it fine, but when it boots up now it won't even get to the blue Kindle Fire anymore, it's just a boot loop BEFORE it.
When I first did this I had basically no clue what I was doing so I didn't make sure that fastboot was working and it doesn't seem to be working now.
Please HELP!!!!
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I had this happen to me recently. It's easy to fix, with the right tools. You need a Fastboot/factory cable (whatever you want to call it) that has a short from pin 1 to 4, and Kindle Fire First Aide (In the KFHD 7" General forum).
>>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.3... or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running CyanogenMod 10.2<<<
Thanks
Ph0enix_216 said:
I had this happen to me recently. It's easy to fix, with the right tools. You need a Fastboot/factory cable (whatever you want to call it) that has a short from pin 1 to 4, and Kindle Fire First Aide (In the KFHD 7" General forum).
>>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.3... or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running CyanogenMod 10.2<<<
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Thanks, was hoping not to have to buy a factory cable, but now see it's necessary.
CalebQ42 said:
Thanks, was hoping not to have to buy a factory cable, but now see it's necessary.
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You don't necissarily have to buy one--I built one myself (with a little help from my dad). All you need is a spare Micro-USB cable, a soldering iron, a small strand of wire, and a bit of battery power left on your Kindle. If you want to make the job a little bit easier, you can also get a Micro-USB breakout board from SparkFun.com. They're so much easier to solder to than a plain Micro-USB end.
Tutorial I used: http://chimerasaur.us/2012/01/making-a-kindle-fire-factory-cable/
For the breakout board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10031
hey, was able to use a single wire to temporarily turn my normal usb to a fastboot usb:cyclops:, but now what do I do?
Don't know what's happening!!
I flashed a new system, boot, and recovery, but it still will boot up into boot loop. WHAT DO I DO (I do know how to do fastboot using -i 0x1949 so I know that's not my problem I'm thinking bootloader, but am not sure)
tried flashing bootloader...
Didn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a little irritated. downloading a program(forgot it's name) that's supposed to be able to flash the proper files to recover a fully bricked device, so I'm hopeful:fingers-crossed:
CalebQ42 said:
Didn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a little irritated. downloading a program(forgot it's name) that's supposed to be able to flash the proper files to recover a fully bricked device, so I'm hopeful:fingers-crossed:
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No such tool exists for the KFHD. What ever you're about to use is gonna hard brick your tablet. Use the system restore tool for Kindle Fire 7 and run the bat tool or push the images. Read the tutorial to get some background knowledge on this.
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Already done
Ends up fixing it, bricking it again and fixing it again and am sending this from cm11 on my kindle fire
CalebQ42 said:
Ends up fixing it, bricking it again and fixing it again and am sending this from cm11 on my kindle fire
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So what was the name of the program you used?
What was suggested earlier
After posting some of my previous posts, I realized I somehow had kffirstaid and used the restore option (but I personally like to manually do the fastboot commands, so I used it mainly to download the files and do it the first time) then redid the steps in this forum to get it to reinstall twrp and then flashed cm11.
A while back after buying my kindle I decided to root it. After rooting it (like a total idiot) I tried putting on a second bootloader and running Cyanogen on it. I didn't really know what I was doing and noticed later that it wouldn't charge. It ultimately shut down and won't charge at all. I purchased a fastboot cable and plugged it in but it's not registering anything other than the batter logo (but without the charging symbol). Do I have to wait until it dies completely or is there something I can do to speed up the process?
Nobody? It won't even charge with the factory cable plugged in (or rather display that it's charging) what do I do?
So it gets to the charging logo and never gets past that? Or is it telling you to charge it. Also I don't think you can charge with a fastboot cable.
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stunts513 said:
So it gets to the charging logo and never gets past that? Or is it telling you to charge it. Also I don't think you can charge with a fastboot cable.
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Well, after letting it sit a while it booted into fastboot mode but KFFA isn't reading it to flash it and install anything. It sits at [Waiting for Device] and doesn't change.
Sounds like your drivers for fastboot aren't installed. Go into the device manger and look for a device that has a yellow triangle next to it probably called tate-pvt. Now download the drivers in my signature and extract them somewhere. Back in the device manager right click the device with a yellow triangle, hit update drivers, and point it to where you extracted mine and let it install. If you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first or my drivers won't install...
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stunts513 said:
Sounds like your drivers for fastboot aren't installed. Go into the device manger and look for a device that has a yellow triangle next to it probably called tate-pvt. Now download the drivers in my signature and extract them somewhere. Back in the device manager right click the device with a yellow triangle, hit update drivers, and point it to where you extracted mine and let it install. If you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first or my drivers won't install...
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Alright, downloading now. So you think this should fix the ADB issue?
I think so, also keep in mind you don't use adb commands in fastboot, you use fastboot commands, so if at some point kffa has a window come up about adb it's useless so kill it, I think it actually asks you a question that determines if that window comes up( like put your device in fastboot?).
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stunts513 said:
I think so, also keep in mind you don't use adb commands in fastboot, you use fastboot commands, so if at some point kffa has a window come up about adb it's useless so kill it, I think it actually asks you a question that determines if that window comes up( like put your device in fastboot?).
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So far it's working. It's reading that it's erasing user data now so I think I'm home free now. Thanks a ton!!
Now I have another problem....it won't boot back up. The kindle shut down after KFFA was done and I was given the message to hold it down for x seconds then release it for x then hold it down again, but I've done that and it won't start!
SithSerith said:
Now I have another problem....it won't boot back up. The kindle shut down after KFFA was done and I was given the message to hold it down for x seconds then release it for x then hold it down again, but I've done that and it won't start!
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Do you get any response at all from the Kindle? Are you positive you flashed the proper images for the Kindle you own.
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LinearEquation said:
Do you get any response at all from the Kindle? Are you positive you flashed the proper images for the Kindle you own.
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Yes, apparently I was doing something wrong because I just left it alone for a bit and it came right up! totally fixed now. A very big thank you for you guys offering your help!!
I will fumble and panic until I get this puppy fixed and rooted with Cyanogen Mod lik
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A while back after buying my kindle I decided to root it. After rooting it (like a total idiot) I tried putting on a second bootloader and running Cyanogen on it. I didn't really know what I was doing and noticed later that it wouldn't charge. It ultimately shut down and won't charge at all. I purchased a fastboot cable and plugged it in but it's not registering anything other than the batter logo (but without the charging symbol). Do I have to wait until it dies completely or is there something I can do to speed up the process?
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Thanks SithSerith :good:,
For posting this problem that I will soon have to address with my newly bricked kindle.
I think I may have the same problem that you had and will have wait for my cable to arrive before I make the umteen time attempting to fix the 1 gen Kindle.
I am using a iMac workstation with this application VMWare hosting a Win7 and somehow the device is not showing up after I bricked the puppy trying to install TWRP via Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.9 and I did something really stupid and needless to say spent the last 3 days researching and found the factory cable thread and ordered one.
I am waiting till it get here so that I can get past the Amazon Kindle yellow logo. The device is not seen in my mac nor the VMWare Win7.
Could please clean up your OP (Original Post) and list the steps or some bullets for others like my self can follow along with the correct way to repair the kindle.
I will fumble and panic until I get this puppy fixed and rooted with Cyanogen Mod like I wanted to ....
Thanks a bunch SithSerith :good:!
When go through a wrong process you can't hope everything will finish in a good way. Need no wrong to boot files
serendipityguy said:
Thanks SithSerith :good:,
For posting this problem that I will soon have to address with my newly bricked kindle.
I think I may have the same problem that you had and will have wait for my cable to arrive before I make the umteen time attempting to fix the 1 gen Kindle.
I am using a iMac workstation with this application VMWare hosting a Win7 and somehow the device is not showing up after I bricked the puppy trying to install TWRP via Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.9 and I did something really stupid and needless to say spent the last 3 days researching and found the factory cable thread and ordered one.
I am waiting till it get here so that I can get past the Amazon Kindle yellow logo. The device is not seen in my mac nor the VMWare Win7.
Could please clean up your OP (Original Post) and list the steps or some bullets for others like my self can follow along with the correct way to repair the kindle.
I will fumble and panic until I get this puppy fixed and rooted with Cyanogen Mod like I wanted to ....
Thanks a bunch SithSerith :good:!
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Does the tablet come on at all? Next time use Fire Flash. KFU is not for a Kindle Fire HD. I hope that the fastboot cord shows some life in your tablet because flashing a different bootloader is most often a hard brick that the fastboot cord won't help with. Hope it works out though. Here are two great posts to read to restore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271909
But this has taught me a world of patients.
LinearEquation said:
Does the tablet come on at all? Next time use Fire Flash. KFU is not for a Kindle Fire HD. I hope that the fastboot cord shows some life in your tablet because flashing a different bootloader is most often a hard brick that the fastboot cord won't help with. Hope it works out though. Here are two great posts to read to restore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271909
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Thanks LinearEquation, for the tip - - - KFU is not Kindle Fire HD - - - ( had no Idea ).
I may have implemented some Kindle Fire HD apps in effort to root this KFU device and now I am day 3 waiting for my cable.
But this has taught me a world of patients.
Thanks for the links :good:
LinearEquation said:
Does the tablet come on at all? Next time use Fire Flash. KFU is not for a Kindle Fire HD. I hope that the fastboot cord shows some life in your tablet because flashing a different boot loader is most often a hard brick that the fastboot cord won't help with. Hope it works out though. Here are two great posts to read to restore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271909
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Oh yes she fires up stuck at the Kindle Fire yellow logo . . .
Hello folks,
I posted this in the wrong forum earlier. Im a bit confused and need some direction.
I want to unleash my KF2 to full android tablet, So...I know i need to root it, I want to go with KitKat style rom but want 100% reliability (so will go with the most stable platform), I have been looking at the guides and how to pages for a week now and there is a lot on conflicting or different information. Can someone point me towards a guide or someone who can help me please.
My KF2 is stock with sideloaded apps at present its software version is 10.4.8 (which i can find no information about regarding root or other hacks)
any information will be gratefully received.
Many thanks
Andy
Anyone help out? Cheers, I'm eager to update this thing
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fordy0508 said:
Anyone help out? Cheers, I'm eager to update this thing
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root with kindle fire first aid, think it also has a option to install twrp and 2nd bootloader for you, not sure how reliable that is considering you are going to have to downgrade the bootloader and stuff, for some reason fireflash never had kf2 support added to it, which i find odd considering it uses the same method to do it, minus the fact it needs a different bootloader. Long story short, root with kffa, then either use kffa's option to install twrp and 2nd bootloader(if it has it) or use the tutorial for your device in the android development section made by hashcode. You must downgrade your bootloader though if you do it manually, just a heads up so you don't get stuck with a redscreen that only a fastboot cable will fix.
Thanks very much
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Just to summerise,
I root with KFFA,
I install TWRP,
Then a 2nd boot loader,
Then I can do custom Rom,
In a nutshell oh 1 more thing, what's the best Rom to go for and at what point do I need to downgrade my bootloader ? Cheers
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fordy0508 said:
Just to summerise,
I root with KFFA,
I install TWRP,
Then a 2nd boot loader,
Then I can do custom Rom,
In a nutshell oh 1 more thing, what's the best Rom to go for and at what point do I need to downgrade my bootloader ? Cheers
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eh its more like root. downgrade bootloader from fastboot(make sure to check md5sum or risk hard brick), install 2nd bootloader +twrp.
Lemme grab a tutorial for ya: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963
Hope this helps.
Dude you're a legend,
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So I'll need to buy a fastboot cable to do it then
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O you don't need a fastboot cable, fastboot cables are only to kick it into fastboot mode when bricked, you can get into fastboot from a working kindle with commands such as
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
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Ok mega, so just follow the guide you posted, I'll root it tonight with kffa and do some research about the rest, the root seems quite simple with kffa
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So i need a touch of help please, I have followed the steps in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
up to
"Kindle Fire First Aide Step 13 : The Kindle Fire should automatically turn on and boot regular Bootmode. If the Kindle does not turn on depress the power button until it turns on. Next select Option 15 in the Software. The Kindle will reboot and will now see a screen that says: Fastboot Kindle Fire."
So i plug my kindle into the USB slot when it is turned off and it turns on as expected, I then go to the KFFA software as instructed to select option 15 from the main menu, except the main menu doesn't 15 options,
i have
1. device diagnostics
2. kindle fire 2nd gen
3. kindle fire hd 7"
4. kindle fire hd 8.9
5. rooting/unrooting
6. backups
7. extras
8. drivers
9. device diagnosics (root required)
10. [disabled] caution: install 2nd bootloader <TWRP>
i have tried going option 15 and it just opens option 1.
Im really confused as this doesnt seem to be doing anything.
help please.......
fordy0508 said:
So i need a touch of help please, I have followed the steps in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
up to
"Kindle Fire First Aide Step 13 : The Kindle Fire should automatically turn on and boot regular Bootmode. If the Kindle does not turn on depress the power button until it turns on. Next select Option 15 in the Software. The Kindle will reboot and will now see a screen that says: Fastboot Kindle Fire."
So i plug my kindle into the USB slot when it is turned off and it turns on as expected, I then go to the KFFA software as instructed to select option 15 from the main menu, except the main menu doesn't 15 options,
i have
1. device diagnostics
2. kindle fire 2nd gen
3. kindle fire hd 7"
4. kindle fire hd 8.9
5. rooting/unrooting
6. backups
7. extras
8. drivers
9. device diagnosics (root required)
10. [disabled] caution: install 2nd bootloader <TWRP>
i have tried going option 15 and it just opens option 1.
Im really confused as this doesnt seem to be doing anything.
help please.......
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um just look through the menus for it, because i am not familiar with kffa, i do all the stuff kffa does manually in a terminal/command prompt. I can tell you how to do it manually if you want but other than that...
Cheers ....it's been about 10yrs since I did command prompt stuff, is there a guide out there ? Cheers
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Ok I give up, I've tried all night to get kffa working and not a jot of luck, I've tried the Windows 7 tutorial and got seriously confused then my computer threw a hissy fit so my toys went out of the pram. Bugger it it can stay hog tied to bloody amazon , thanks to all those who have helped me try
fordy0508 said:
Ok I give up, I've tried all night to get kffa working and not a jot of luck, I've tried the Windows 7 tutorial and got seriously confused then my computer threw a hissy fit so my toys went out of the pram. Bugger it it can stay hog tied to bloody amazon , thanks to all those who have helped me try
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you could still do it all you need to do is run a simple "adb reboot bootloader" from a command prompt while cd'd into the kffa directory. Thats the equivalent of what it wants to do.
I'll give it a go, you have been a great help, thank you, I owe you one......if you need to know anything about cars or mechanical engineering I can sort you out lol
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Sweet those are 2 fields I'm always interested in, I took a lot of autotech courses back in highschool because I have an old 75 corvette that sat in the driveway for about 10 years. Already replaced all the brake calipers, master cylinder, rebuilt the carburetor, and did the most ghetto fix to the tachometers circuit board to fix a blown circuit you will ever see. xD
I'll stop digressing before there's a huge paragraph about this, long story short it still isn't drive able yet because the transmission needs some serious fixing (some kinda vacuum issue makes the engine die when going into drive unless you rev it a lot while doing so, and occasionally it blows ATF all over the place from the dipstick/fill hole, was told by my teacher a while back it is probably a blocked vent or something, don't remember the term right now because its been awhile since I looked into it, but I digress again)
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Lol, I love the old 'vettes, being a brit most of my expertise are modern TDi engines specifically VAG group and large agricultural engines I.E. SISU power or Cummings, but i'll always try to help where i can,
im going to have another play with the Kindle Fire of annoyance tonight if i get a chance.
I'll post up my yellow triange thingy, and ill try getting into fastboot via command line *bites nails ....shaking with terror*
Still no luck with this thing,
I'm going to start again on my desktop computer where I can start from scratch.
I'll start with the SDK program, Drivers and so on, then onto Root for Windows 7 (anyone with advice - I will listen intently), then I need help to install something like CM or a new OS.
I really want to nail this tonight
Thanks for all your help folks
fordy0508 said:
Still no luck with this thing,
I'm going to start again on my desktop computer where I can start from scratch.
I'll start with the SDK program, Drivers and so on, then onto Root for Windows 7 (anyone with advice - I will listen intently), then I need help to install something like CM or a new OS.
I really want to nail this tonight
Thanks for all your help folks
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ok i'm still here to help, also now i recognize who pm'd me the other day *facepalm* sorry i've been gettign on xda like right before i fall asleep lately because of a frustrating project i'm working on thats a bit above my knowledge. Rather than donwload the big sdk, look for a tut made by me in my threads (theres not many threads i created) and it has a zip with adb and fastboot in it and thats it. Way smaller and easier to use, just extract it to a directory and then shift right click the directory and hit " new command windows here" and you can run the adb and fastboot commands. Also drivers are in my signature. They are the kind that you right click the device in the device manager and hit update driver on to use. Any questions feel free to ask.
Hello,
I recently asked about how to root the kindle fire hd 7 (2nd generation), which I got to work. I was able to root it and start messing around with it.
I wanted to flash a rom onto my kindle, but after following the steps on this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
the thread said if everything was followed correctly, then you wouldn't have a problem. I did follow everything as far as I know, but when I waited for the reboot part of installing the bootloader and stuff, it simply stayed black.
I have tried turning it on and charging it and other things, and it just doesn't come on. I figured I could reinstall the partition back to FireOS, but I can't even get to fastboot in the first place unless it's able to turn on.
Any help with this?
You probably hard bricked it, the 2013 models can't have twrp+2nd bootloader on them, the exploit isn't compatible, so if you downgraded the bootloader to one from the previous generation's kindles, then you hard bricked it.
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Is there no recoverable form of hard-brick?
XboxOmac said:
Is there no recoverable form of hard-brick?
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I don't think we have the process completed yet, but more or less it involves soldering a sdcard reader to the kindles emmc contact points on the motherboard, i think someone was mapping them out but hasnt mapped them all out yet. The process to map them out involves taking the emmc off the kindle so not too many people are into doing it. But the actual fix is not that complicated, you just have to be decent with a soldering iron, and flash the original bootloader from a linux os like ubuntu. It's been done on the kf2 and hd 8.9" models.