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Kindle Fire randomly shutting off

My Kindle Fire recently started shutting off. It mainly happened when I uses Silk browser. I have installed twrp after and flashed a couple of roms. CM has been the most stable but recently started turning off again. Any possible solutions? How do I get a crash log so I can get more information?

Don't know if its going to dump data in time time to trouble shoot it, but leave it hooked up to your PC with adb enabled and run the command "adb logcat" and leave It hooked up, and start using it until it shuts off gain and post like the last like maybe 10 lines of code in code brackets here. I'm doubting this is software related though, more likely to be a buggy power switch or something I would think.
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[Q] Screen becoming unresponsive.

Hey guys,
Long time lurker and follower of the site but my first post and I need some advice-
The screen on the kindle fire HD sometimes becomes unresponsive. The buttons like power and volume still work fine, just the touch screen itself seems to be the issue. It only seems to occur when memory/processor load starts to climb (like it's being dumped for space or something) and I can sometimes, SOMETIMES, hit the power button to lock it and unlock it to gain control again then I have to immediately close out of what ever app I'm in and close all running tasks.
While watching the memory available the lowest I've seen it drop to is around 125mbs and still not have an issue, or maybe it's spotty. Not fully out, but getting there.
This is also unrelated to the power issue I've seen posted, that when it's plugged in it can occur as well. Doesn't seem to care too much if plugged in or not.
This started on stock rom so I flashed it and installed cm11 which has definately improved the problem but not solved it.
So, just polling the minds of people here to see if anyone has a suggestion.

Latonya1 said:
i had same problem and what i did is i opened battery from the device and inserted its again and did a factory reset on my device
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Removing the battery on the kindle isn't an easy feat. Are we talking about the same device, or did you attempt this on a phone? Because if this worked with the kindle, I am more than happy to put the time into trying but I want to make sure.
Thanks for the reply.

dlenoxx said:
Hey guys,
Long time lurker and follower of the site but my first post and I need some advice-
The screen on the kindle fire HD sometimes becomes unresponsive. The buttons like power and volume still work fine, just the touch screen itself seems to be the issue. It only seems to occur when memory/processor load starts to climb (like it's being dumped for space or something) and I can sometimes, SOMETIMES, hit the power button to lock it and unlock it to gain control again then I have to immediately close out of what ever app I'm in and close all running tasks.
While watching the memory available the lowest I've seen it drop to is around 125mbs and still not have an issue, or maybe it's spotty. Not fully out, but getting there.
This is also unrelated to the power issue I've seen posted, that when it's plugged in it can occur as well. Doesn't seem to care too much if plugged in or not.
This started on stock rom so I flashed it and installed cm11 which has definately improved the problem but not solved it.
So, just polling the minds of people here to see if anyone has a suggestion.
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This happened to me once...however it was solved with me wiping the whole kindle in recovery(dalvick etc) and flashing the kindology rom.....good luck man :thumbup:
sent fro my rooted kindle fire hd 7 with twerp and kinology rom installed

Seems like I have had that problem before, was because I had to many background processes running. I try to keep my ram so only about 60-70% of it is in use when using it, and I also stopped using dolphin web browser, that is a nice browser but man does it use up a lot of resources. On another note I noticed one time my kindle had around a GB left on the internal storage it started getting sluggish so that's another thing to look out for, but I doubt it's the root of your problems. Kinda find it annoying that android uses as much ram as it does, its based on Linux but on a desktop is on my PC with 2gb of ram, it idles at 20% on Ubuntu(which would be like 40% on a kindle because it has half as much ram), whereas android idles at around 60%.
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itouchables said:
This happened to me once...however it was solved with me wiping the whole kindle in recovery(dalvick etc) and flashing the kindology rom.....good luck man :thumbup:
sent fro my rooted kindle fire hd 7 with twerp and kinology rom installed
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I should have read over what kinology was before flashing it.. I'm sure it's a great rom, but I'm wanting something more android-e. Went great though, as far as the install- and thanks for the tip. Worse case I'll have that file to fall back on.

stunts513 said:
Seems like I have had that problem before, was because I had to many background processes running. I try to keep my ram so only about 60-70% of it is in use when using it, and I also stopped using dolphin web browser, that is a nice browser but man does it use up a lot of resources. On another note I noticed one time my kindle had around a GB left on the internal storage it started getting sluggish so that's another thing to look out for, but I doubt it's the root of your problems. Kinda find it annoying that android uses as much ram as it does, its based on Linux but on a desktop is on my PC with 2gb of ram, it idles at 20% on Ubuntu(which would be like 40% on a kindle because it has half as much ram), whereas android idles at around 60%.
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As I've been doing a bit more testing trying to figure out what is going on, it does seem to happen more often when under 100~75mg of memory available. Idling now at 550 memory available now, thanks to a few tweaks here and there which has almost erased the problem when doing things like browsing the internet, youtube, netflix, etc. It's just happening now during games. Not as much- but still, in the middle of a game of Kingdom Rush it's a little frustrating to all of sudden have no control. And currently I've still got almost 7 gigs of space available as far as harddrive goes so that doesn't seem to effect it by much (at least for me).
Setting the I/O to noop, overclocking to 1500 (leaving the minimum to 350), and setting the zram compression to 28% were the tweaks. Also having Task Killer by rechild set to kill tasks when screen off has been a great fix when I do lose the touch pad controls as it'll free up some memory when I turn it off, leave it off for a minute, then turn it back on without really interrupting progress in several apps.
Still searching for a true, 100% fix so tips are still welcome and I'll keep everyone posted if I run across anything myself.

Device does not wake on charge

Hi,
I just installed the lp-fire-nexus-rom-ford-20161124 ROM on my 7" Kindle Fire 2015 and everything looks good so far.
However, when I plug it in the screen does not wake like my other non-rooted stock kindle fires, and cant figure out how to get it to.
I will be mounting it in my car, so would like it to wake when it detects its charging
Any ideas?
cheers.

RandmTask said:
Hi,
I just installed the lp-fire-nexus-rom-ford-20161124 ROM on my 7" Kindle Fire 2015 and everything looks good so far.
However, when I plug it in the screen does not wake like my other non-rooted stock kindle fires, and cant figure out how to get it to.
I will be mounting it in my car, so would like it to wake when it detects its charging
Any ideas?
cheers.
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Not sure how to pull this off in Nexus. CM has a toggle in system settings to control screen behavior when plugging/unplugging.
Didn't see an option in GravityBox either.

Thanks Davey. Might have to bite the bullet and start from scratch with CM then ?

RandmTask said:
Thanks Davey. Might have to bite the bullet and start from scratch with CM then
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Just tested on latest CM 12.1 build - works fine. No reboot required.
If your preference remains Nexus (nice ROM!) might try "Xposed Additions" module. It doesn't appear to have the best ratings and has not been updated in awhile but contains the functionality you seek. That said, no guarantee it will work with Nexus. I have no personal experience with the module or developer. You'll also need learn about and flash Xposed framework.

Can I easily turn the Fire 7 into Calender use only device

I was given an 8gb Fire 7 5th gen I guess from the Black Fridays deals for xmas. What I would like to do is run it mostly as a digital calender, so keep it plugged in, running and having it display the calender most of the time only. Is this something I could do with it, easily?
Ideally I'd like to be able to touch the screen to wake it up, or have the calender events running on a screen saver somehow. I haven't even taken it out the box yet, but would pay to remove ads on the lock screen if I can get something set up so it can work that way for me.
Essentially I rely heavily on calenders over all my devices, as well as reminders, so it has to be linked with a google account.

Lifeformz said:
I was given an 8gb Fire 7 5th gen I guess from the Black Fridays deals for xmas. What I would like to do is run it mostly as a digital calender, so keep it plugged in, running and having it display the calender most of the time only. Is this something I could do with it, easily?
Ideally I'd like to be able to touch the screen to wake it up, or have the calender events running on a screen saver somehow. I haven't even taken it out the box yet, but would pay to remove ads on the lock screen if I can get something set up so it can work that way for me.
Essentially I rely heavily on calenders over all my devices, as well as reminders, so it has to be linked with a google account.
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This device could be configured to perform such a role but it would take some time to set-up (including a few 'hacks') and come with several caveats. Touch wake is not an option on this device (lacks hardware support) so the display would need to be on 7x24. There's also no ambient light sensor which could be an issue depending on your environment. Reliable Google integration requires rooting and a custom ROM...more work. Really depends how much of a project you want to make of it and the level of personal satisfaction after the last 'T' is crossed.

Davey126 said:
This device could be configured to perform such a role but it would take some time to set-up (including a few 'hacks') and come with several caveats. Touch wake is not an option on this device (lacks hardware support) so the display would need to be on 7x24. There's also no ambient light sensor which could be an issue depending on your environment. Reliable Google integration requires rooting and a custom ROM...more work. Really depends how much of a project you want to make of it and the level of personal satisfaction after the last 'T' is crossed.
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Thank you for replying. I had a think about it yesterday, and just having a read around, I decided to root it to stop OTA updates as I was on 5.0.1 I think, so I did that, then the guide went on to say about flashing a rom, so I figured why not and did that too :$
After a few problems, first being that I couldn't get the flashfire to work from the rootjunky site, I found the one included with the super tool and installed that through the computer. Flashing appeared to be fine, and it loaded into SlimLP fine. But it seems google play etc didn't get installed. After a lot of head scratching and trying to install apk's etc, I figured to reflash it and see what happened. This was a little problematic as now I couldn't connect via usb to do flashfire, so I eventually copied it over via sd card, and installed the apk that way, just reflashed the OS again and a google one, and this time play is there, working.
So I now have a fire running SlimLP saying its model number: KFFOWI, Android 5.1.1. And it's lovely. I have another fire 7 that I do use as a tablet now, and I wish I could do the same to that one, cept it OTA updated on it to fire os 5.3.2.1, and I guess I can't from reading around. It's stuttery compared to the newly flashed one. Oh well. I guess now I need to investigate calender apps, or lock screen widgets to give me what I want.
Thank you for reply, I read it, then though crikey that does sound complicated, however once I looked at locking down the OTA updates to at least allow me to do it later If I wanted, it kind just followed on.

Lifeformz said:
Thank you for replying. I had a think about it yesterday, and just having a read around, I decided to root it to stop OTA updates as I was on 5.0.1 I think, so I did that, then the guide went on to say about flashing a rom, so I figured why not and did that too :$
After a few problems, first being that I couldn't get the flashfire to work from the rootjunky site, I found the one included with the super tool and installed that through the computer. Flashing appeared to be fine, and it loaded into SlimLP fine. But it seems google play etc didn't get installed. After a lot of head scratching and trying to install apk's etc, I figured to reflash it and see what happened. This was a little problematic as now I couldn't connect via usb to do flashfire, so I eventually copied it over via sd card, and installed the apk that way, just reflashed the OS again and a google one, and this time play is there, working.
So I now have a fire running SlimLP saying its model number: KFFOWI, Android 5.1.1. And it's lovely. I have another fire 7 that I do use as a tablet now, and I wish I could do the same to that one, cept it OTA updated on it to fire os 5.3.2.1, and I guess I can't from reading around. It's stuttery compared to the newly flashed one. Oh well. I guess now I need to investigate calender apps, or lock screen widgets to give me what I want.
Thank you for reply, I read it, then though crikey that does sound complicated, however once I looked at locking down the OTA updates to at least allow me to do it later If I wanted, it kind just followed on.
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Great! A couple footnotes:
- being one of the lucky few with a 5.0.1 bootloader you can boot a custom/full recovery like TWRP as a alternative to FlashFire (from fastboot ready: 'fastboot boot <image_name>')
- the build of SlimLP for this device has not seen much love since originally posted; you may want to consider a ROM that sees more frequent updates
Post back if you need/want further info on either topic.

Davey126 said:
Great! A couple footnotes:
- being one of the lucky few with a 5.0.1 bootloader you can boot a custom/full recovery like TWRP as a alternative to FlashFire (from fastboot ready: 'fastboot boot <image_name>')
- the build of SlimLP for this device has not seen much love since originally posted; you may want to consider a ROM that sees more frequent updates
Post back if you need/want further info on either topic.
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Can I do a bootloader after using flashfire? Also I considered a CM rom, vaguely recall using one for an Orange san fran years ago, but wasn't sure on latest, or best and it seems that I can't connect things like supertool through usb now, so could I do a CM rom on top of what I have already using flashfire, or would I need to do something else? I seem to remember having to do an XP machine to do the San Francisco phone way back as it wouldn't connect any other way

Lifeformz said:
Can I do a bootloader after using flashfire? Also I considered a CM rom, vaguely recall using one for an Orange san fran years ago, but wasn't sure on latest, or best and it seems that I can't connect things like supertool through usb now, so could I do a CM rom on top of what I have already using flashfire, or would I need to do something else? I seem to remember having to do an XP machine to do the San Francisco phone way back as it wouldn't connect any other way
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The CM 12.1 adaptation for this device is excellent; no worries there. I strongly recommend using (booting) TWRP for all future ROM updates. FlashFire is a great tool for those that do not have another option. You do! FlashFire will also work if you can not establish a USB connection.
If you opt to switch ROMs be sure to wipe the system and data (aka app/user) partitions before flashing the new image.

I re-did it all and now have CM 12.1 on it, however I've stalled beyond this as it's a far nicer tablet to use over my non-fiddled with Fire 7. So I'm now using the new one as my main tablet, and will stick the other one, wifi off, in the drawer and sit and wait to see if a roll back is available, or new method to root and flash comes along.

Fire Tablet Solution to Combat the Lag Scheduled Reboot

I purchased some some 7th gen fire tabs (x2 7" and x2 8") I use these as wall mounted controllers for home automation. I foolishly made my purchase off the back of a quick google for Fire tab root and making the assumption its possible after scanning the results. At this point I wasn't even sure id need to root the device.
Around the time of my purchase it looks like Amazon released an update which prevents rooting and I was 'lucky' enough to have devices with the newer firmware version. I use fullykioskbrowser on these and so far with the help of xda and other parts of the web I have disabled the lock screen giving me the ability to automate the screen turning on and off. Awesome!
My one final problem is these tablet run to almost a complete standstill! This makes them unusable until I manually take apart their beautiful wall mount and turn them off and back on again. I would like to schedule a reboot of the device enabling it to be snappy all the time.
Does anybody know how I can achieve this? Lots of the apps available including fullykioskbrowser require root. Which I obviously cannot do! (Yet? Is anybody close, working on or admitted defeat on this yet?) The apps that don't need root seem to imitate screen taps to navigate to a reboot using software but I don't think amazon have this.
Is there anything I can do to schedule the reboot of my fire tablets? Or a next best thing?