Hi guys I just had a quick question. I was wondering if the fire needs a specific ADB version. I have quite a few Samsung devices and I already have Samsung ADB drivers installed so I'm wondering do they use General adb drivers or does Samsung do something different that will make the fire not work with them. Would appreciate any clarification. Thanks
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I've tried various drivers suggested in this forum but have had best results with Amazons own fire drivers. Can't post links but if you search "connect kindle fire for testing" you will find it.
Thanks for this Idea..
I was having trouble getting my new Fire 5th gen bought on Black Friday deal. The Drivers from were not being installed, something being corrupted or tampered with.. I even downloaded from 2 different sites.
Then i tried Samsung and Vuala! it worked. Thanks.
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I'm planning on buying a Kindle Fire HD. I'm very new to this rooting thing and makes me wonder 1. Is it safe and 2. is it easy?
I would like to know how can i root/unlock the KFHD so i can install Google Play store, sideload apps and be able install .apk files to it.
Please advice. Thanks.
gino_76ph said:
I'm planning on buying a Kindle Fire HD. I'm very new to this rooting thing and makes me wonder 1. Is it safe and 2. is it easy?
I would like to know how can i root/unlock the KFHD so i can install Google Play store, sideload apps and be able install .apk files to it.
Please advice. Thanks.
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As far as I know, the "Unlocking" part of your statement is not currently possible. Also, yes, rooting is safe and extremely easy.
Please advice on how to root the Kindle Fore HD?
gino_76ph said:
Please advice on how to root the Kindle Fore HD?
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Rooting is only safe and easy when you know what you're looking for. Visit the thread in my signature.
I got the kfhd7 for Xmas. I got on these forums and within days easily and safely rooted it. And there is a tool to unroot it as well in case you ever have to send it back to amazon. Good luck.
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For me the Kindle Fire HD 7 has always been the biggest pain in the ass to root of any Android device I've ever owned. Despite getting the ADB drivers installed (the instructions never remind me to disable driver signing in Windows, wish they'd include that detail for us Windows 8 users), I still always hit a brick wall trying to get the Kindle to show up in ADB devices or getting the rootqemu.bat file to work. I usually have to mess around for 2 or 3 hours banging my head against a table and reading about everyone else's failures before I figure out what went wrong.
Also the rooting threads seem to indicate only two ZIP files are need (ADB drivers and the RootQemu files), and installing the SDK is not required. But seems like I always end up having to install the SDK anyway.
seokhun said:
Rooting is only safe and easy when you know what you're looking for. Visit the thread in my signature.
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Rooting is pretty straightforward and safe nowadays as long as you take your time and follow the instructions. It's when you start trying to install custom ROMs that the risk occurs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42277275
This link is for the kindle first aid kit which is an all in one tool kit. It's great and should have you rooted in no time. Good luck!
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I've tried kffa and the newest binary and neither of them worked, they didn't even recognize my device was plugged in.
Thanks for helping! (That's if I get helped)
That means your drivers aren't installed or you didn't enable USB debugging... Check your kindles security settings and see if USB debugging is on, if not turn it on. Then check your device manager for a device with a yellow triangle next to it, once you see it download my drivers from my signature and extract them somewhere, right click the device with a triangle, hit update drivers then point it to where you extracted mine.
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I'll try your driver.
Forgot to mention, if you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first. If this applies to you then look it up on Google, I Don,t know the exact process offhand, just the gist of it.
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stunts513 said:
Forgot to mention, if you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first. If this applies to you then look it up on Google, I Don,t know the exact process offhand, just the gist of it.
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It says that the best driver for it has already been installed and I tried uninstalling it and everything, but it doesn't seem to want to install.
stunts513 said:
Forgot to mention, if you are on windows 8 you will have to disable driver signature enforcement first. If this applies to you then look it up on Google, I Don,t know the exact process offhand, just the gist of it.
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Ok, I got it to install but they still don't reconize my device.
So now there's a android adb connection in the device manager right? I forget the exact name as I use Linux and don't have to worry about driver issues. Try this, find the folder in binaries foot where adb is, right click that folder while holding shift and hit "open new command promoted here", once that is up, type "adb devices" and see if it lists a device, its usually reports back what I think is your serial number then says device. Tell me if it says that or if there's nothing listed.
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stunts513 said:
So now there's a android adb connection in the device manager right? I forget the exact name as I use Linux and don't have to worry about driver issues. Try this, find the folder in binaries foot where adb is, right click that folder while holding shift and hit "open new command promoted here", once that is up, type "adb devices" and see if it lists a device, its usually reports back what I think is your serial number then says device. Tell me if it says that or if there's nothing listed.
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*In a shameful voice* I forgot to unzip the binary file, my file manager would run RunMe.bat without having to unzip it.
Questionar said:
I've tried kffa and the newest binary and neither of them worked, they didn't even recognize my device was plugged in.
Thanks for helping! (That's if I get helped)
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Can I ask you something?, how you are rooting your device? You are downgrading the firmware through the KFFA? and then applying the root patch?
Sorry if this a stupid question, I'm new at this and I have lots of questions
Thanks in advance
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Can I ask you something?, how you are rooting your device? You are downgrading the firmware through the KFFA? and then applying the root patch?
Sorry if this a stupid question, I'm new at this and I have lots of questions
Thanks in advance
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You can root it the same way you usally do. You don't have to downgrade anything.
Hello XDA Community,
I just ordered and received my fastboot cable for my 2013 Kindle Fire HD 7" (Soho) hoping that I would be able to backup the original ROM and flash it to run CyanogenMod, because the Amazon Kindle OS is really lacking. I would also like to have root again since root has been removed after the auto update from 11.3.1 was pushed upon me even know I modified my hosts file (also I just noticed today they just updated the OS again to 11.3.3).
I have been looking around the Internet for a tutorial on how to flash my version of the KFHD, but the only version I can find a tutorial for is Tate. I am also unable to get my ADB server to recognize my Kindle when using the fastboot cable. With the Kindle completely off I hook up my fastboot cable and turn on the device and it is not recognized, and the Device Manager lists the devices as "Soho-PVT-Prod-07". I uninstalled and re-installed the Kindle Fire Drivers and using my regular cable the Kindle is recognized just fine within Windows.
Any assistance would be grand and appreciated!
Thank you all!
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Hello XDA Community,
I just ordered and received my fastboot cable for my 2013 Kindle Fire HD 7" (Soho) hoping that I would be able to backup the original ROM and flash it to run CyanogenMod, because the Amazon Kindle OS is really lacking. I would also like to have root again since root has been removed after the auto update from 11.3.1 was pushed upon me even know I modified my hosts file (also I just noticed today they just updated the OS again to 11.3.3).
I have been looking around the Internet for a tutorial on how to flash my version of the KFHD, but the only version I can find a tutorial for is Tate. I am also unable to get my ADB server to recognize my Kindle when using the fastboot cable. With the Kindle completely off I hook up my fastboot cable and turn on the device and it is not recognized, and the Device Manager lists the devices as "Soho-PVT-Prod-07". I uninstalled and re-installed the Kindle Fire Drivers and using my regular cable the Kindle is recognized just fine within Windows.
Any assistance would be grand and appreciated!
Thank you all!
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There are no custom ROM's for the SOHO. Attempting to flash one for Tate will more than likely brick your device. There is a root topic on XDA though.
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LinearEquation said:
There are no custom ROM's for the SOHO. Attempting to flash one for Tate will more than likely brick your device. There is a root topic on XDA though.
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Thank you for the reply. I have been viewing the thread and trying to restore my Kindle back to the 11.3.2.1 using Gran PC's utility, but when it attempts to Install the OS I get the Red Triangle with an Exclamation Mark. Even if I can just get my Kindle back to 11.3.2.1, root, and install Google Apps I will be happy.
Hi guys,
I usually don't ask stupid questions on forums but meanwhile I have no idea what to.
I got my Kindle Fire HD 7" (newest version) from amazon.
Now I tried to install CM11 but I stuck at the ADB connection.
I meanwhile tried it under OS X Mavericks and Win8. Always the same.
I already know that I installed the adb and the fastboot correctly. Because if I plug in my Nexus 4 its recognized.
The ADB on the kindle is activated. But it doesnt appear in the terminal.
Kindle FW 11.3.2.2
Would be happy if someone could help me.
Don't proceed further, that is a 2013 kfhd, you can't install ROMs on those, you will brick it. There's only root access for that device, but you will need a fastboot cable for the rooting process last I heard.
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Hi,
is there a way to root my Kindle Fire HD 7 11.3.2.2 on OS X Mavericks.
I can't find instructions and downloads for hot-to anywhere? :roll eyes:
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hi guys,
I usually don't ask stupid questions on forums but meanwhile I have no idea what to.
I got my Kindle Fire HD 7" (newest version) from amazon.
Now I tried to install CM11 but I stuck at the ADB connection.
I meanwhile tried it under OS X Mavericks and Win8. Always the same.
I already know that I installed the adb and the fastboot correctly. Because if I plug in my Nexus 4 its recognized.
The ADB on the kindle is activated. But it doesnt appear in the terminal.
Kindle FW 11.3.2.2
Would be happy if someone could help me.
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The only ROM available for the 2013 KFHD is the kindle water one AFAIK
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The only ROM available for the 2013 KFHD is the kindle water one AFAIK.
I just got my son a KF HD 7", I don't believe it's the HDX. All I want to do is install Google Play so I can install a bunch of the games he already purchased from a previous tablet. I tried following the thread from the FAQ: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069329 and also searched around for other threads, but I have had zero luck.
All was going well until I tried downloading KFFirstAide from the thread, the download kept getting interrupted, I was able to find KFFirstAide elsewhere on RootJunky's YouTube channel.
Then I had issue with the drivers, I finally got the drivers working from a post on gizmag.com using what seemed to be the HDX drivers, I was able to see it in Device Manager properly under Kindle Fire\Android Composite ADB Interface, but when I did a test in KFFirstAide for ADB it said "NO DEVICE FOUND! Please ensure ADB is ON and proper drivers are installed." ADB is turned on and it looks like the correct drivers are installed.
Am I just wasting my time right now? Is there no way to root/install Google Apps on this newer OTA update? If there is an easier way that I missed please let me know. Thanks in advance.
OK there's a small bit of info needed to know if what you are doing is the correct method. Is this the 2012 kfhd or the 2013. The 2013 kfhd doesn't have a front facing camera.(2013 doesn't mean hdx either)
Edit: my bad forgot about the title! That's a 2013 kfhd, don't use kffa with it its not meant for it. That tablet is rootable but not rommable(with the exception of a ROM that came out that uses the stock kernel. I remember hearing youncan install Google play services! Think their was a issue with them and it may have been since fixed but don't quote me on that. The 2013 models aren't my specialty.
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Thanks stunts513, the KFHD that I got him doesn't have a front facing camera. It's weird though, I see forums about KFHD 1st Gen and 2nd Gen but after looking on Amazon's KFHD developer forum it sounds like we have a 3rd Gen KFHD??
I was already aware of how to enable ADB but when I saw the link on developer.amazon.com I realized I probably have a 3rd Gen KFHD. The following is cut from the Amazon forum:
Enable ADB on your Kindle Fire tablet by doing the following.
Note: The following instructions do not apply to Kindle Fire (1st Generation), where ADB is enabled by default.
1.On your Kindle Fire tablet, go to Settings.
2.On a third-generation Kindle Fire tablet, tap Device.- or - On a second-generation Kindle Fire tablet, tap Security.
3.Set Enable ADB to On, and then accept the pop-up warning message. Note: As a security precaution, you should set Enable ADB to Off when you are not trying to connect to the Kindle Fire tablet to your development computer.
The Device tab in Settings is where I go to enable ADB. You don't by any chance have a link to where I can find how to Root and install Google Apps on my KFHD version do you? Or should I be searching for "Root 2013 Kindle Fire HD"?? Thanks!
Last I checked you are going to need a fastboot cable to root that kindle. Here's the rooting method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544736
If you get a fastboot adapter I recommend the blackhat ones, they are reputable, I have been seeing a few people buying fastboot cables and getting a standard microusb cable lately. If that rooting method doesn't work you can always downgrade the os and root the older version.
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