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[Q] Installing ROMs on Kindle Fire HD 7.2.3

Is there a reliable way to backup one of these? I'd like to mess around with some ROMS, but can't find a way to backup the system files, at least at 7.2.3. I would even be willing to install a previous update if that is at all possible. Thanks!

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To doing a good an consistent backup you need to root your device. You can search on this forum how to do this.
Regarding doing a backup, once you have you device rooted you will find some apps to do this. You can read the CM10 thread and you will find an APP to backup your system.

Unfortunately, due to having a locked bootloader and no custom kernel created for the HD7, installing custom ROMs is not available at this time
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I didn't try it, but there is a tread to install a 2nd boorloader and custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848
Until I've find a way to boot into recovery I didn't try it, because so I can't restore it.
I also know, that a someone make a CM 10.1 Rom for KFHD 7 inch. But it is still in alpha.

Bootloop?
When I boot up the Kindle there are no problems, but it goes straight to TWRP recovery page instead of booting Kindle OS. The OS was 7.4.6.

That's because the is version doesn't match the freedom boot version so you have to put the ROM on ahead of time or you will have to use adb to push the image onto the device's sdcard. Here try this tutorial to get a ROM onto it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2459498
This is all due to Amazon's attempts to annoy us, the newer OS's check to see if the boot loader is the same version as the os... And since we flashed an older boot loader and used a older version of freedom boot, this happened. There is a newer version of freedom boot available inside the kinology ROM u can extract and flash if you want to boot back into stock amazon, but I would disable ota's if you do so it does get rid of 2nd boot loader + twrp if it updates.
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[Q] Downgrade TWRP 2.6.0.0 to 2.2.2.1 on Kindle Fire HD?

I have a Kindle Fire HD 1st Gen and I've been trying all day just to get rid of TWRP and get back to stock Amazon ROM. I tried flashing TWRP 2.2.2.1 zip, but apparently anything I flash there's an error and says couldn't find /sdcard/kindleupdate/whatever. I've downloaded KFU 0.9.6 and I have Java and SDK/ADB installed. When I try and install the drivers I get an error with an "X" next to Google (WinUSB). When I hit run.bat it says I'm online, but the device is unknown. My device won't go into fastboot anymore, it will just say on the prompt "kindle fire has been told to boot in fastboot mode" and then after that the kindle reboots and I get stuck with the light blue twrp "kindle fire hd" boot logo. I heard that TWRP 2.6.0.0 sucks because it won't flash the Amazon stock rom and that TWRP 2.2.2.1 can flash the stock rom. So I started searching on how to downgrade from TWRP 2.6.0.0 to 2.2.2.1, but everything involves kindle fire utility and root and all this other stuff that doesn't seem to work. I'm just really frustrated and fed up at this point. Why is it so difficult to get Kindle Fire Utility to install my drivers correctly and get into fastboot?
My main objective is to remove TWRP and just get back to Amazon stock OS so I can sell the darn thing.
Yes, I've searched on youtube and on xda on how to fix the driver issues/fastboot all day, but nothing has worked.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me some detailed steps on how to fix all of this. I wish I hadn't installed TWRP at all if I'd known it was this difficult to flash a rom.

jacobjapan said:
I have a Kindle Fire HD 1st Gen and I've been trying all day just to get rid of TWRP and get back to stock Amazon ROM. I tried flashing TWRP 2.2.2.1 zip, but apparently anything I flash there's an error and says couldn't find /sdcard/kindleupdate/whatever. I've downloaded KFU 0.9.6 and I have Java and SDK/ADB installed. When I try and install the drivers I get an error with an "X" next to Google (WinUSB). When I hit run.bat it says I'm online, but the device is unknown. My device won't go into fastboot anymore, it will just say on the prompt "kindle fire has been told to boot in fastboot mode" and then after that the kindle reboots and I get stuck with the light blue twrp "kindle fire hd" boot logo. I heard that TWRP 2.6.0.0 sucks because it won't flash the Amazon stock rom and that TWRP 2.2.2.1 can flash the stock rom. So I started searching on how to downgrade from TWRP 2.6.0.0 to 2.2.2.1, but everything involves kindle fire utility and root and all this other stuff that doesn't seem to work. I'm just really frustrated and fed up at this point. Why is it so difficult to get Kindle Fire Utility to install my drivers correctly and get into fastboot?
My main objective is to remove TWRP and just get back to Amazon stock OS so I can sell the darn thing.
Yes, I've searched on youtube and on xda on how to fix the driver issues/fastboot all day, but nothing has worked.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me some detailed steps on how to fix all of this. I wish I hadn't installed TWRP at all if I'd known it was this difficult to flash a rom.
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HD and 1st gen are different devices, which do you have?
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jacobjapan said:
I have a Kindle Fire HD 1st Gen and I've been trying all day just to get rid of TWRP and get back to stock Amazon ROM. I tried flashing TWRP 2.2.2.1 zip, but apparently anything I flash there's an error and says couldn't find /sdcard/kindleupdate/whatever. I've downloaded KFU 0.9.6 and I have Java and SDK/ADB installed. When I try and install the drivers I get an error with an "X" next to Google (WinUSB). When I hit run.bat it says I'm online, but the device is unknown. My device won't go into fastboot anymore, it will just say on the prompt "kindle fire has been told to boot in fastboot mode" and then after that the kindle reboots and I get stuck with the light blue twrp "kindle fire hd" boot logo. I heard that TWRP 2.6.0.0 sucks because it won't flash the Amazon stock rom and that TWRP 2.2.2.1 can flash the stock rom. So I started searching on how to downgrade from TWRP 2.6.0.0 to 2.2.2.1, but everything involves kindle fire utility and root and all this other stuff that doesn't seem to work. I'm just really frustrated and fed up at this point. Why is it so difficult to get Kindle Fire Utility to install my drivers correctly and get into fastboot?
My main objective is to remove TWRP and just get back to Amazon stock OS so I can sell the darn thing.
Yes, I've searched on youtube and on xda on how to fix the driver issues/fastboot all day, but nothing has worked.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me some detailed steps on how to fix all of this. I wish I hadn't installed TWRP at all if I'd known it was this difficult to flash a rom.
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What firmware are you running? This matters because in order to get rid of TWRP, you will have to flash an Amazon image via fastboot to get rid of the second bootloader. This will put you back to stock. Knowing your firmware is imperative or you can flash yourself into a hard brick.

Accidently installed corrupt rom - what do I do?

I recently bought a Kindle Fire HD 7". I have successfully rooted and installed TWRP on the device. I installed CM without any error. I later on installed another rom, which was corrupt, and now my Kindle is stuck in a bootloop. Cannot boot into recovery and cannot buy a factory cable. Is there another way to unbrick my tablet? Thank you!

Bootloader question

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

Rooted Fire 5th gen tablet, missing default recovery

Hello all,
I recently rooted my Amazon Fire tablet - everything went fairly smoothly and I was able to make the standard changes (remove ads, change launcher, block OTA, etc). I tried to flash TWRP recovery but failed at every turn; fastboot gives me "unknown command" errors, and using Flashfire goes through the entire flashing process, reboots, but still no recovery. The issue I'm facing now is that it looks like the stock amazon recovery is now missing, when I try to boot into recovery using volume down+power it just hangs on the Amazon logo, holding down power to reboot it from there will boot it back into the OS just fine. I'd rather just have the stock amazon OS with it's recovery if it's not possible to have a custom recovery/ROM. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Mochifoxtrot said:
Hello all,
I recently rooted my Amazon Fire tablet - everything went fairly smoothly and I was able to make the standard changes (remove ads, change launcher, block OTA, etc). I tried to flash TWRP recovery but failed at every turn; fastboot gives me "unknown command" errors, and using Flashfire goes through the entire flashing process, reboots, but still no recovery. The issue I'm facing now is that it looks like the stock amazon recovery is now missing, when I try to boot into recovery using volume down+power it just hangs on the Amazon logo, holding down power to reboot it from there will boot it back into the OS just fine. I'd rather just have the stock amazon OS with it's recovery if it's not possible to have a custom recovery/ROM. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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You can not install a custom recovery on this device (locked bootloader with no known exploits). Attempting to flash TWRP likely destroyed stock recovery. There is no fix. If still under warranty contact Amazon for an exchange.

Davey126 said:
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Attempting to flash TWRP likely destroyed stock recovery. There is no fix.
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You wrong
Mochifoxtrot said:
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boot it back into the OS just fine. I'd rather just have the stock amazon OS with it's recovery if it's not possible to have a custom recovery/ROM. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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After first boot with "corrupted stock recovery" (TWRP) system will try to restore stock recovery.
Try to power off tablet and boot into recovery one more time.
If it doesn't work you can flash stock recovery manually (need root).
For build stock recovery.img you need appropriate update-kindle-*.bin, another android device and some knowledge.
Or you can publish result of
Code:
@adb shell getprop ro.build.version.incremental
and i'll do it for you.

Kramar111 said:
You wrong
After first boot with "corrupted stock recovery" (TWRP) system will try to restore stock recovery.
Try to power off tablet and boot into recovery one more time.
If it doesn't work you can flash stock recovery manually (need root).
For build stock recovery.img you need appropriate update-kindle-*.bin, another android device and some knowledge.
Or you can publish result of and i'll do it for you.
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It will be great to see evidence this actually works on a 5th gen Fire. To date restoration of a borked stock recovery has proven elusive. I'd love to be wrong on this as there are a number of users who would benefit.

Davey126 said:
It will be great to see evidence this actually works on a 5th gen Fire. To date restoration of a borked stock recovery has proven elusive. I'd love to be wrong on this as there are a number of users who would benefit.
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We'll see...
We talk about tablet that can boot into Fire OS, but not into recovery, aren't it?
But even with bricked tablet (5.1.1 after FlashFire error) it work.
AFTV tools + stock recovery + magic word.

@Mochifoxtrot
Not interesting?