just as the title says! its my moms. any help or links to get help would be nice. most of the stuff i find is able to turn on or must be rooted.
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just as the title says! its my moms. any help or links to get help would be nice. most of the stuff i find is able to turn on or must be rooted.
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ok well in either situation your going to need a fastboot cable/adapter, i recommend getting the blackhat adapter mentioned in hashcodes 2nd bootloader + twrp tutorial. Now for the other thing i need to know, is this a 2012 or 2013 model? (2013 has no front facing camera)
It does have a front facing camera. Can you give me a link? First time looking in the Kindle fire section.
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It does have a front facing camera. Can you give me a link? First time looking in the Kindle fire section.
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Ok lemme grab 2 links you will need.
The thread i was talking about it this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
I personally recommend a custom rom over amazon os so that tutorial could be useful to you in the future should you decide to flash a custom rom on it. There's a link towards the top that goes to the site where you get the fastboot adapter.
Alright and secondly you will need this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
Read its instructions or you might have issues. Also when you plug in your kindle with the fastboot adapter it will show up as a tate device in the device manager, download the drivers in my signature and extract them somewhere on your computer, then in the device manager right click the tate device and hit update drivers and choose a place to search for them and choose where you extracted my drivers and it should install the drivers. If you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first though. Once drivers are working you should be able to restore with kffa.
well i ordered the fastboot adapter and it does go into fastboot mode but i have tried a few utilities and they all seem to blow right threw the process. its like it seeing the phone but not doing anything. the only thing i can think of is USB debugging was not turned on and that may be why i cant get it to act right. of course i cant turn it on cause i'm stuck at the logo so is there a way around that or is there a program like Samsung has called Odin that i can use to flash stock everything on?
Nonono. Adb has nothing to do with fastboot. Adb commands can't even be used with fastboot, only fastboot commands can. Try opening a command prompt that's cd'd into a directory with fastboot in it (kffa or SRT) and run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", if it reports back something then we can establish that fastboot is atleast working.
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Nonono. Adb has nothing to do with fastboot. Adb commands can't even be used with fastboot, only fastboot commands can. Try opening a command prompt that's cd'd into a directory with fastboot in it (kffa or SRT) and run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", if it reports back something then we can establish that fastboot is atleast working.
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ok sorry but i havent played with the kindle much as far as rooting, or with command prompt on any device so im kinda lost on what to do and not sure what kffa or srt is.
joeyx2 said:
ok sorry but i havent played with the kindle much as far as rooting, or with command prompt on any device so im kinda lost on what to do and not sure what kffa or srt is.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
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Kffa was one of the links I sent you.... download and extract it. Shift + right click it's folder and hit New command window here. Then run that command I mentioned.
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i did what you said and at first i didn't but eventually got the command you told me to put in to recognize and read something tate in the command window but i did not see tate in device manager and the utilities still blows though really fast and dont work. im on vista so do you think that is the problem? this is really pissing me off that i cant get this figured out. im about to uninstall everything and delete everthing and start over.
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i did what you said and at first i didn't but eventually got the command you told me to put in to recognize and read something tate in the command window but i did not see tate in device manager and the utilities still blows though really fast and dont work. im on vista so do you think that is the problem? this is really pissing me off that i cant get this figured out. im about to uninstall everything and delete everthing and start over.
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well the good news is that means fastboot is working, it only is called a tate device in the device manager initially, once you isntall th edrivers it will show up a s a adb interface which is confusing becuase you don't use adb with fastboot. Anyways you should be able to attempt manualyl flashing the device from that command prompt now using certain commands like
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fastboot -i 0x1949 flash <partition name> imagename
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fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system system.img
it could be that kffa failed to retreive the files or something so it dint flash, sometimes its download links don't work, try srt i think linear posted the link to it, it might actually work out of the box.
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Hello.
After hours of struggling and Googling (and reading mostly from this forum) I managed to root my KFHD 7.4.6 using bin4ry method. I have two questions about where I'm at right now.
Question 1: While struggling to get adb to recognize my KF, I realized that the problem was quite simple: after installing the special adb drivers, I would plug the Kindle back in and Windows would recognize the device and install the Microsoft drivers - completely ignoring the driver I had just installed. The only way I managed to get around this was to quickly interrupt Windows 7's driver installation and tell it to NOT install drivers from Windows Update.
However, I'm sure there must have been a more elegant way of accomplishing this. What would have been the correct way to do this?
Question 2: Now that adb finally recognizes the KF, and the KF shows up as "Android Composite ADB Interface" in device manager, I want to put Android 4.2.2 on the KF - so CM 10.1. I'm doing preparatory research so I can learn about what I need to do. The big concern for me now is that my KF version is 7.4.6. There seems to be relatively little information about this, and I've seen it explicitly indicated in a few places that only versions before 7.3.something have the exploit available. Does this mean I must first downgrade from 7.4.6? I've had trouble pinning resources down that would help me answer this question - so if anyone has any solid tips about this, I'd appreciate it! I'd really rather not brick it :silly:
Thanks! :good:
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Question 2: Now that adb finally recognizes the KF, and the KF shows up as "Android Composite ADB Interface" in device manager, I want to put Android 4.2.2 on the KF - so CM 10.1. I'm doing preparatory research so I can learn about what I need to do. The big concern for me now is that my KF version is 7.4.6. There seems to be relatively little information about this, and I've seen it explicitly indicated in a few places that only versions before 7.3.something have the exploit available. Does this mean I must first downgrade from 7.4.6? I've had trouble pinning resources down that would help me answer this question - so if anyone has any solid tips about this, I'd appreciate it! I'd really rather not brick it :silly:
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I just found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271909
So the answer to my question appears to be "YES", correct? It appears that I need to flash back to 7.2.3?
Question 1 still remains unsolved.
Well you could downgrade it, I don't know if the latest update causes problems, but the thing that needs downgrading isn't the os, its the bootloader. I suggest the fireflash method in seokhuns tutorial, the one you linked. Just make sure to check the first box at the top in fire flash or you will have a red screen brick, which requires a fastboot cable to fix. Also I have never heard of windows update having drivers for the kindle, I mean I usually hit skip anyways, I believe the more elegant solution may have come with kindle fire first aid, not positive though.
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Thanks!
I'm having another little inconsistency now.
I disconnect and power off my KF.
I run in cmd: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
It says < waiting for device >
I then plug in my (powered off) KF, and it boots up NORMALLY, and fastboot doesn't return the expected tate-xxx.
Any ideas why?
My ADB is seeing the device. (ie. adb devices is returning one device).
Your fastboot drivers aren't working.
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Your fastboot drivers aren't working.
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Indeed. Can this be solved by wiping existing drivers and reinstalling Amazon's USB drivers from sdk/extras/amazon ?
EDIT: I've attempted reinstall twice with no improvement. ADB works, fastboot won't.
Um I thought that command only worked on a 8.9" kindle to get it into fastboot.try this instead:
Adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
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Um I thought that command only worked on a 8.9" kindle to get it into fastboot.try this instead:
Adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
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Interesting. I tested that. adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader" does indeed put my device in fastboot mode, and fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot takes it out.
Interesting. Seokhun's tutorial seems to indicate that fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product should do it as well... so it seems that my fastboot drivers are... kinda half working? Or something?
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Interesting. I tested that. adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader" does indeed put my device in fastboot mode, and fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot takes it out.
Interesting. Seokhun's tutorial seems to indicate that fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product should do it as well... so it seems that my fastboot drivers are... kinda half working? Or something?
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That option may have been removed in later versions of the bootloader. Some have had success with it while others apparently haven't. If the reboot command works, your drivers should be working properly.
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That option may have been removed in later versions of the bootloader. Some have had success with it while others apparently haven't. If the reboot command works, your drivers should be working properly.
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Sounds good, thanks. I'm following that tutorial even though it's for 7.4.3, and I'm on 7.4.6. I hope that doesn't cause any issues - but 7.4.6 looks like it's pretty new, so I don't see other options.
Ok - I've followed the aforementioned tutorial precisely up to step 4. When I try to boot the kindle up, it shows orange logo, then blue logo, then looks like it's trying to boot normally, then sends me into TWRP.
Is this what is called "boot loop"?
At this point my PC doesn't see the sdcard so I can't get CM/Gapp copied over.
Would it be safe to push CM & Gapp to the sdcard using adb, then resume with TWRP?
EDIT: Still can't boot into the system. Just sideloaded CM 10.1 ROM onto the sdcard. Safe to continue with Step 4, wipe stuff, and install the CM rom?
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EDIT: Still can't boot into the system. Just sideloaded CM 10.1 ROM onto the sdcard. Safe to continue with Step 4, wipe stuff, and install the CM rom?
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This ended up working.
However, now with CM 10.1, my PC isn't recognizing the device for MTP. It still does recognize it as an ADB device, but ADB doesn't see it.
Odd that MTP isn't working, u can always switch to pptp mode if that helps, but everything goes to the dcim folder on the sdcard.
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Odd that MTP isn't working, u can always switch to pptp mode if that helps, but everything goes to the dcim folder on the sdcard.
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Got it working. Basically just uninstalled the existing drivers and reinstalled standard drivers. Works like a charm. I love CM, this is great! Thanks all, for the help!
I'll worry about getting adb going again later.
I'm trying to flash my rooted Fire HD running 7.4.3 using Hashcode's method but I can't seem to get fastboot to work. I powered off the device, put in the command "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and then plug the device back in. The device boots itself back up automatically, and boots straight to the stock ROM. I did some forum diving and found the command "adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader" This command will cause the device to boot to the fastboot screen, but when I put in the "fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot" command, nothing happens. The terminal hangs at <waiting for device> and the Kindle doesn't respond at all.
It seems my fastboot drivers are working, but the device doesn't respond to any fastboot commands. Am I missing something here?
If your drivers were working for fastboot, and you entered a fastboot command in fastboot mode, it wouldn't hang at "waiting-for-device".
Of course there are exceptions, like a faulty USB cable, or using a USB 3.0 port. But, considering you are able to successfully send adb commands, I'm willing to bet that's not the case
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If your drivers were working for fastboot, and you entered a fastboot command in fastboot mode, it wouldn't hang at "waiting-for-device".
Of course there are exceptions, like a faulty USB cable, or using a USB 3.0 port. But, considering you are able to successfully send adb commands, I'm willing to bet that's not the case
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So how can I fix it? The only fastboot drivers I could find are bundled together with the adb drivers, which I already have installed.
I believe @stunts513 may be able to help you with that. I'm sure he'll be chiming in at any moment now...
Ok, I got it into fastboot again with the reboot bootloader command, and it shows up as Tate-PVT-08 in Device Manager, and is indeed saying that the driver isn't installed. However, when I hit "Update Driver" and point it to the folder where the driver is installed, it tells me that no driver could be found.
Hehe, sorry I'm late I just woke up about an hour ago. Here try the drivers from this post and see if you have any luck: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44446906
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Hehe, sorry I'm late I just woke up about an hour ago. Here try the drivers from this post and see if you have any luck: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44446906
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Well, there's some progress. The driver wizard at least attempts to install the driver, but after a few seconds I get this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27976682/201308.16 143541.png
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Well, there's some progress. The driver wizard at least attempts to install the driver, but after a few seconds I get this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27976682/201308.16 143541.png
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What version of Windows are you using?
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What version of Windows are you using?
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Windows 8
Have you disabled driver signature verification?
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Have you disabled driver signature verification?
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Perfect! Installed the drivers
Hey all
My kindle Fire HD 8.9 is stuck in demo mode.
Please tell me their is an idiots guide to Flashing it back or any bloody operating system cos im tearing my hear out with it..
I can do ANYTHING on the actual Unit itself the demo mode has it completely locked down Its basicaly just a slide show you cant do anything..
I have a factory cable and im not an idiot I could really use a step by step guide does anyone know of one?
Please help guys or its getting thrown of the window lol.
Use a normal cable, and run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" while the device is powered off and not plugged in, then once the command prompt says waiting for device, plug you kindle in, it should boot into fastboot, from there I believe you can use kindle fire first aid to restore it to a normal amazon os. If once in fastboot you have issues with drivers, try using the ones in my signature.
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Use a normal cable, and run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" while the device is powered off and not plugged in, then once the command prompt says waiting for device, plug you kindle in, it should boot into fastboot, from there I believe you can use kindle fire first aid to restore it to a normal amazon os. If once in fastboot you have issues with drivers, try using the ones in my signature.
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Hi Stunts,
Thank you very much indeed for your reply and for trying to help me
I wonder if you could dumb that down a little bit more for me.
Im assuming the command you gave me is to be used with abd ?
But I cant seem to get it to work... I downloaded the Dev kit from android and whenever I click on what im assuming is the ABD exe it just does nothing
I need a little more hand holding lol
Much appreciated though buddy.
Noodles.
OK you can't just click that, its a command line program. Do you know how to use the windows command prompt?
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OK you can't just click that, its a command line program. Do you know how to use the windows command prompt?
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Yeah I remember vaguely from years ago.
Also use dosbox sometimes so i get the general gist of it yeah.
ok so basically you need to open a command prompt, and cd into the directory fastboot and adb are in, if you don't have fastboot in the same folder as adb in your android sdk, u probably have to update it first, or just get on of the utilities from the forum that comes with it. anyways once you cd into that directory, unplug your kindle, and turn it off then run this command in command prompt: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
now after it says waiting for device, plug your kindle in, i believe it will automatically power on, if it doesn't then hit the power button, it should boot into fastboot mode. From there you can use the kindle fire first aid program to flash the stock rom onto it. Kindle fire first aid is in the 7" general forum (they really should rename it, its more like kindle second generation general forum). I would post a link but i'm on my pc, yea i know that sounds weird but its much more of a pain to do that on my pc when i have as much junk up on it right now as i do, maybe i'll edit the post in a few from my kindle, i'm trying to mod the systemui and framework...
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ok so basically you need to open a command prompt, and cd into the directory fastboot and adb are in, if you don't have fastboot in the same folder as adb in your android sdk, u probably have to update it first, or just get on of the utilities from the forum that comes with it. anyways once you cd into that directory, unplug your kindle, and turn it off then run this command in command prompt: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
now after it says waiting for device, plug your kindle in, i believe it will automatically power on, if it doesn't then hit the power button, it should boot into fastboot mode. From there you can use the kindle fire first aid program to flash the stock rom onto it. Kindle fire first aid is in the 7" general forum (they really should rename it, its more like kindle second generation general forum). I would post a link but i'm on my pc, yea i know that sounds weird but its much more of a pain to do that on my pc when i have as much junk up on it right now as i do, maybe i'll edit the post in a few from my kindle, i'm trying to mod the systemui and framework...
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Hi stunts,
Thanks again for another reply
Ive managed to get in to adb and used the command u gave me.
It says waiting for device so i plugged the kindle in (powered off) The kindle turns itself on and just goes straight to demo mode CMD sits and waiting for device
The kindle always seems to install itself on my computer as a portable media device is this a problem?
I did down load the USB drivers in your signature and tried to update to them but the system says they are up to date.
I also tried to uninstall the kindle and reinstall it with your drivers and it still goes to the one windows already has for it.
Well that's odd, that should have worked on a 8.9 inch model, um I don't think fastboot cables work on 8.9 inch models, but that command should work when used like that. A few months ago I found a thread just like yours, I'd have to do some digging to find it. I will see if I can find it.
Edit: found it, you shouldn't need a fastboot cable if its a 8.9" model, read through the entire thread it may have some insights for you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096555
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stunts513 said:
ok so basically you need to open a command prompt, and cd into the directory fastboot and adb are in, if you don't have fastboot in the same folder as adb in your android sdk, u probably have to update it first, or just get on of the utilities from the forum that comes with it. anyways once you cd into that directory, unplug your kindle, and turn it off then run this command in command prompt: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
now after it says waiting for device, plug your kindle in, i believe it will automatically power on, if it doesn't then hit the power button, it should boot into fastboot mode. From there you can use the kindle fire first aid program to flash the stock rom onto it. Kindle fire first aid is in the 7" general forum (they really should rename it, its more like kindle second generation general forum). I would post a link but i'm on my pc, yea i know that sounds weird but its much more of a pain to do that on my pc when i have as much junk up on it right now as i do, maybe i'll edit the post in a few from my kindle, i'm trying to mod the systemui and framework...
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Well that's odd, that should have worked on a 8.9 inch model, um I don't think fastboot cables work on 8.9 inch models, but that command should work when used like that. A few months ago I found a thread just like yours, I'd have to do some digging to find it. I will see if I can find it.
Edit: found it, you shouldn't need a fastboot cable if its a 8.9" model, read through the entire thread it may have some insights for you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096555
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Yeah Ide already had it the problem im having is exactly the same but the thread doesent end in a solution.
They found a solution' did you read the second page, more than one person was able to do it, using different methods. This is a weird round about method but you could look into it, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39133145
Read the second page of that thread though it has some helpful posts.
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Amezon Fire HD Demo reset
Try this I hope it will work, type on search bar " :demo" and enter/go, then you can see more option include all reset. It is work for me.
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Try this I hope it will work, type on search bar " :demo" and enter/go, then you can see more option include all reset. It is work for me.
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Don't waste your time with this suggestion. You will need kindlefirefirstaide. There is an option to restore it to stock. You will need to modify the batch file to fix the Dropbox links. All the info you need is in the kffa thread.
Bought a Demo'd Fire HD 6 from Radio Shack during their "Going Out of Business Sale". After tons and tons and tons of reading, and attempting to reflash the boot, I just ./adb reboot recovery, and the Fire wiped clean. Performed a full factory recovery install, and proceeded to register it with Amazon. I have no intention of installing any custom ROMs on it, so now I have a fully functioning Fire for $30. :laugh:
To get rid of demo mode Amazon Fire phone
You can just hold volume up and power while device is off then toggle to wipe data factory reset and demo mode will be gone
I flashed a rom not compatible with my device and it bricked it. I later got a fast boot cable and after some research tried to fix it but just made it worse. When I connect it to the the computer it gose to the kindle logo to the fast boot logo to a black screen on the fast boot logo it connects to the computer but then at the dark screen it deconnects. Can someone please help me fix this?
OK so it will briefly go into fastboot mode and is detected by the PC in fastboot mode but then keeps rebooting? I can only assume something is messed JP with either the boot.IMG or bootloader, the good news is it might be fixable, the bad news is if what I want to recommend doing fails you could be left with a hard brick depending on what you flash. I suggest using Ubuntu 13.10 since I thinks its got a faster response time and no issues like installing the fastboot driver when the device is only briefly showing up (as opposed to windows). Then after installing the android-tools-fastboot package from apt or w/e I would recommend attempting to just flash the bootimg of a ROM meant for your ROM, like the freedom boot image or a cm boot.IMG. if you can get it to say flash success full after plugging it in when it says waiting for device, you may have some good results. Since this occurred after a ROM flash attempt I'm thinking this is more likely the bootimg rather than the bootloader. As a test run you could try "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and see if you can get it to respond. Bootimg bricks are a bit foreign to me, I've heard people say they have hard bricked kindles with bad bootimg's, but that confused me all the note since the bootloader loads either fastboot or the boot.IMG, not to mention I built a ROM and in the testing stages had issues making a suitable bootimg for the kindle and it just made the kindle pop into fastboot mode.
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OK so it will briefly go into fastboot mode and is detected by the PC in fastboot mode but then keeps rebooting? I can only assume something is messed JP with either the boot.IMG or bootloader, the good news is it might be fixable, the bad news is if what I want to recommend doing fails you could be left with a hard brick depending on what you flash. I suggest using Ubuntu 13.10 since I thinks its got a faster response time and no issues like installing the fastboot driver when the device is only briefly showing up (as opposed to windows). Then after installing the android-tools-fastboot package from apt or w/e I would recommend attempting to just flash the bootimg of a ROM meant for your ROM, like the freedom boot image or a cm boot.IMG. if you can get it to say flash success full after plugging it in when it says waiting for device, you may have some good results. Since this occurred after a ROM flash attempt I'm thinking this is more likely the bootimg rather than the bootloader. As a test run you could try "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and see if you can get it to respond. Bootimg bricks are a bit foreign to me, I've heard people say they have hard bricked kindles with bad bootimg's, but that confused me all the note since the bootloader loads either fastboot or the boot.IMG, not to mention I built a ROM and in the testing stages had issues making a suitable bootimg for the kindle and it just made the kindle pop into fastboot mode.
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Can you list out a series of steps for me to follow so that I can try it out. If not my kindle doesn't work anyway so o well but please list out some steps and I will try that out.
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OK I' assuming that at this point you never see the blue logo when you try to boot normally. Go grab copy of system restore tool for your kindle and stick it on a flash drive if you have one, we only need the bootimg it includes. Go grab a Ubuntu 13.10 live CD and either burn it to CD or make a bootable usb. Now boot into Ubuntu live os and copy the boot.img from SRT to the desktop. Now launch a terminal and run these commands:
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sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
cd Desktop
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot boot.img
At this point you should be able to plug the kindle in with a fastboot cable when it says waiting for device and see if fastboot will successfully flash the boot partition.
I hope this will fix it, normally such behavior would make me think that the bootloader needs reflashing but a ROM flash shouldn't have touched the bootloader itself so I'm inclined to think its a bad boot image. Also not positive if that apt-get command has the correct package name, I don't have my laptop booted into Linux right now so I can't check, if it says something like "package not found" then tell me and I will look it up, might also be in a repo that's not defaultly enabled on Ubuntu.
Yay I retyped this post, if it doesn't post again I'm going to throw this kindle...
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OK I' assuming that at this point you never see the blue logo when you try to boot normally. Go grab copy of system restore tool for your kindle and stick it on a flash drive if you have one, we only need the bootimg it includes. Go grab a Ubuntu 13.10 live CD and either burn it to CD or make a bootable usb. Now boot into Ubuntu live os and copy the boot.img from SRT to the desktop. Now launch a terminal and run these commands:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
cd Desktop
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot boot.img
At this point you should be able to plug the kindle in with a fastboot cable when it says waiting for device and see if fastboot will successfully flash the boot partition.
I hope this will fix it, normally such behavior would make me think that the bootloader needs reflashing but a ROM flash shouldn't have touched the bootloader itself so I'm inclined to think its a bad boot image. Also not positive if that apt-get command has the correct package name, I don't have my laptop booted into Linux right now so I can't check, if it says something like "package not found" then tell me and I will look it up, might also be in a repo that's not defaultly enabled on Ubuntu.
Yay I retyped this post, if it doesn't post again I'm going to throw this kindle...
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Can you link me to the system restore tool kit I can't find it . Also it said package not found, PLEASE HELP.
Checked on Ubuntu package list and the name was that, still haven't been in Linux to verify it.
Heres the tool, if your on a 7" then this should be what i was talking about: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
I will have to check what repo that package is from, because I remember Ubuntu doesn't always have all the default repos enabled, might have to enable it in the manager, would be simpler if it came with synaptic still...
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Checked on Ubuntu package list and the name was that, still haven't been in Linux to verify it.
Heres the tool, if your on a 7" then this should be what i was talking about: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
I will have to check what repo that package is from, because I remember Ubuntu doesn't always have all the default repos enabled, might have to enable it in the manager, would be simpler if it came with synaptic still...
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Thank you soon much I will definitely try it out. What is a repo package though and how do I install it to read the command for the fast boot download.
OK put simply ubuntu uses a very nice package management system called apt, it basically connects to repositories set in a file that have tons of precompiled programs and such for that specific version of Ubuntu or more broadly Linux. It retrieves some manifest of all the packages in each repo, each package has a specific name. If you want to use a better interface try typing this, "sudo apt-get install synaptic" then run "sudo synaptic" and you can search for fastboot in the nice visual package manager. Sorry I haven't been in Linux, I have left Firefox running with a form for a job application up waiting for some info I need and I don't want to reboot and have to fill it out again. I will boot my desktop up into Linux tomorrow if I can, I may be going out to do something though.
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ok i finally rebooted into linux, it turns out teh package is indeed called android-tools-fastboot, so that being the case open up the settings app and click software and updates and everything on the first tab under downloadable from internet should be checked with the slight exception of source code which for me has a line through it when you try to check it off, it should as k you to reload, you can do that or run "sudo apt-get update" again. As long as this is the 13.10 version of ubuntu then it should have that in the repos, i don't think it was in the repos before 13.10.
Thank you so much, what you said worked with my friends kindle who had kinda the same thing happen but the problem with mine is that it can't stay connected to the computer. It connects but then unconnected like 2 seconds after and it can't stay connected or I could fix it . Any suggestions?
Pray that what you did works on his, though I would ask what did he do that made his do that? Because if you can get it into fastboot even briefly, as long as the PC has the fastboot command already running so it says "waiting for device" it should attempt it. Depending on what he did is oukd recommend what I told you, its either the bootloader or the boot image, I don't go for bootloader unless I have to because an incomplete flash on that would be far worse, though the bootloader is quite a bit smaller than the bootimg last I checked so it would take less time to flash. Also is his also the 7” HD?
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My friend booted into recovery and it bricked it to the logo but what you said worked. With mine my family's getting a new computer so when when we do I will definitely try it out and let you know how it works. And again thank you so o much.
Very good news, what you said worked, my kindle fully connected to the computer in fast boot mode. I was able to install the abd composite drivers to my kindle and it runs fast boot commands. IT is stuck on the fast boot symbol and was wondering if you had a way to reset the kindle, a factory reset that wipes it clean or anything that would make the device work again. Thank you for all your help so far, it is greatly appreciated.
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Very good news, what you said worked, my kindle fully connected to the computer in fast boot mode. I was able to install the abd composite drivers to my kindle and it runs fast boot commands. IT is stuck on the fast boot symbol and was wondering if you had a way to reset the kindle, a factory reset that wipes it clean or anything that would make the device work again. Thank you for all your help so far, it is greatly appreciated.
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You want to flash factory images through fastboot.
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You want to flash factory images through fastboot.
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Can you please link me to a website where I can download these images and list some steps for me to follow to flash those.
Kindle fire first aid does it for you as well as SRT, kffa is in the 7" general section. I think I should add links to this stuff in my signature... Maybe I will add them tomorrow.
Edit: here's the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
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The title says it all. I was following this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2409435
Followed everything it said.
It stated "If not, wipe all above except for your internal storage (/sdcard) and flash the zip file you downloaded earlier then afterwards, wipe your Internal Storage (/sdcard)."
I asked "Just to be completely clear, if I download the zip to my device, I wipe EVERYTHING BUT the internal storage, then I can flash it, and then wipe JUST the internal storage?"
Instead of waiting for an answer, I just did it. As you can imagine, I have a brick now. No TWRP, no recovery mode, just the static orange "Kindle Fire" logo forever. Nothing happens at all when plugging it into my pc, doesn't even recognize any device being plugged in. Called Amazon, and since it's past the one year warranty mark they won't replace it.
So, I guess I just need someone else to tell me that all is completely lost and there is nothing more I can do so I can move on and stop worrying about it and get some sleep.
That's completely fixable, you just need a fastboot cable to kick it into fastboot mode so you can reflash it. I recommend the blackhat adapter that hashcode mentions in his twrp + second bootloader tutorial.
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That's completely fixable, you just need a fastboot cable to kick it into fastboot mode so you can reflash it. I recommend the blackhat adapter that hashcode mentions in his twrp + second bootloader tutorial.
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Cool! Thanks for that. I was under the impression that since my pc didn't think anything was even being plugged in that a fastboot cable wouldn't work. I'll definitely try this out!
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That's completely fixable, you just need a fastboot cable to kick it into fastboot mode so you can reflash it. I recommend the blackhat adapter that hashcode mentions in his twrp + second bootloader tutorial.
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Well, got a fastboot cable. It origionally showed up in device manager as an unknown device "tate-pvt-08", so I installed the kindle hd adb drivers, and now it appears in the device manager as Kindle Fire - Android Composit ADB Interface, but when I use adb devices in the cmd window, it always returns "List of devices attached" followed by a blank line.
Tried adb kill-server, and android update adb, but so far no luck. almost seems like there's no device info left on my kindle. Any clue as to what I can do?
BTW, tried this on 2 pcs, first Windows 8, and then Vista
adb commands don't work with fastboot mode, only fastboot commands work with fastboot mode. Ex: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
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adb commands don't work with fastboot mode, only fastboot commands work with fastboot mode. Ex: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
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That makes sense. Thanks for the help/patience.
Now at least I know what to do. I'm currently following this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254&highlight=network+error and at the end of the download, I had a "network error" Currently trying to not scream and destroy things. Trying again from IE instead of chrome, but man <200 KB/sec dl speeds are going to drive me insane.....
If I take anything away from this experience, it's have the right tools, and always make backups.
I'm back in business in factory w/root. now I can sleep again.