I've been trying to fix this for 5 days now I've been reading through forums for hours and I've now come to this I need some real help...
I have a Kindle Fire HD 7 store demo model..
I'm trying to root it and get rid of the store Demo restrictions
This is as far as i could get.
I used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
To try and get back to factory settings but this didn't work.
I'm stuck in boot loop now ending in a red triangle screen telling me kindle couldn't boot correctly.
I have a fastboot cable so i can get to fast boot.
What I've been thinking is maybe I need to root first before anything in the above post will work but I'm not sure on that.
I haven't been able to discover my kindle in adb using cmd while in fastboot.. Not sure if that is possible in fastboot anyways.
So my real question is how can i either root my kindle in fastboot and flash twrp
I've tried to flash twrp a few times and it seems to have worked as far as cmd but when i get to the device nothing works.
I'm not rooted and I believe that to be the first step can anyone help me?
Please help..
If you don't have 2nd boot loader installed you can't install twrp and have it work... Also you don't need root for fastboot to work which is all that system restore tool uses.If it's in fastboot and it's a 7" model then it should have appeared in the device m,manager as a Tate device once you entered fastboot. Switch to a normal cable once you are in fastboot mode. Once that happens run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" and see if it returns anything. If things still go nowhere I suggest trying an Ubuntu live 13.10 CD/USB stick. Tell me how it goes.
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couldn't even get passed 1st step
onemeila said:
KINDLE FIRE HD ONLY!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
I put together this tool for those that have tried to modify their system unsuccessfully and bricked their device. You must be able to get your device into fastboot for this to work. The easiest way is to purchase a factory cable or make your own(a $15 purchase or a little bit of your time is better than a bricked device).
The .img's in this tool were made from a rooted device w/ the su binary in place. There is no need to re-root your device, however if you choose to erase cache and user data(not necessary but may be a good idea) you will need to re-install Superuser.apk to gain root.
Instructions:
1.) Download the version you want to use from the link below and unzip.
2.) Enable fastboot mode. Turn off your device then plug into your pc using a factory cable. If the device is recognized by adb then you can use this command:
Code:
adb shell su -c "reboot bootloader"
3.) Run the SR Tool.bat and follow the instructions. If you wish to downgrade system versions see instructions at the bottom of the post.
Downloads:
KFHD_SRT_v1.3.5- 7.3.0 (seperate option for restoring factory recovery)
KFHD_SRT_v1.3.0- 7.2.3 (separate option for restoring factory recovery)
KFHD_SRT_v1.2.3- 7.2.3
KFHD_SRT_v1.2- 7.2.1
KFHD_SRT_v1.0- 7.1.5
I apologize for the size of this tool. The .img files used are rather large. If you want to use your own backup .img then download the lastest version of this tool from here. Just place your system.img inside images folder. It must be named system for option 1 or system2 for option 2
UPDATES:
4/20/13
-separate option to restore factory recovery and boot now on v1.3.0
4/17/13
-KFHD_SRT_v1.3.5
-flashing boot and recovery images now a separate option
3/21/13
-KFHD_SRT_v1.3.0
-boot and recovery images inlcuded
-SuperSU and GoogleServicesFramework now included as system apk's
12/22/12
-KFHD_SRT_v1.2.3
-System v7.2.3
-New option for installing Googleservicesframework.apk
12/17/12
-downgrade method instructions(confirmed)
12/1/12
-KFHD_SRT_v1.2
-new system partition backups for software v7.2.1
-vending.apk to phonesky.apk for newest version of play store
Instructions for downgrading to 7.2.1:
1.) Download boot and recovery imgs(these are backus from 7.2.1) from this LINK and place in the folder where you have access to fastboot or inside the KFHD_SRTool_v1.2 folder
2.) Use KFHD_SRTool_v1.2 to flash system.img.
3.) Erase userdata and cache
4.) Open a cmd prompt from the folder where you placed the previously downloaded .img's.
Use these cmds:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot boot.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery.img
5- Reboot.
Those who deserve our thanks:
kinfauns for the how to on backing up and restoring system software.
bazm60 for confirming the method above works.
hellocali626 for bringing to my attention the need to flash boot and recovery images for downgrade.
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My kindle fire hd is just staying on the beginning fastboot screen. my computer doesn't recognize it or anything. i think i accidentally deleted almost everything on it including the whole OS by using TWRP, so if someone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
cheezer4998 said:
My kindle fire hd is just staying on the beginning fastboot screen. my computer doesn't recognize it or anything. i think i accidentally deleted almost everything on it including the whole OS by using TWRP, so if someone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like you need to install the correct drivers. Download and install the driver from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1890413
If that still doesnt work follow the directions from this one:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/48023/fastboot-not-working-for-kindle-fire-hd
My Kindle lost root.. So I downloaded and installed a super user... not sure what version off hand...
But its still not rooted.
I originally chose the option for the factory restore with root, Google Play Store, and the launcher.. And it was rooted for a couple of days.. I'm not sure if it lost root during reboot or not.
On a side note, it also no longer allows me to access storage through my PC. So I've been having to download everything straight to the Kindle.. Not sure if that matters... But I can't back it up because I can't save the backup files to my PC..
Any suggestions? Do I need to clear cache and dalvik for superuser to work? I've been hesitant to go into recovery mode..
Did it auto update to 7.5.1? That would explain why you lost root.
Red_81 said:
Did it auto update to 7.5.1? That would explain why you lost root.
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Yes! Can I downgrade? And how to stop the update?
Or better yet I'll poke around to see about rooting 7.5.1..
Its my son's, so while I've flashed my android devices a billion times, this Kindle is a whole other thing...sorry for the questions..
You can either downgrade and then block auto update (look for threads with otacerts) or root 7.5.1. I believe the binary method still works.
OK I was able to get it back to 7.3.0...and even flashed it twice and cleared cache and user data...
But now the wifi won't turn on. I tried to click on ...nothing..
Is there a wifi fix I'm unaware of?
Try pushing the recovery only to it.
Please help!
Help me.
I can't unzip any zip-files downloaded from google Drive as Links about.
As links about?
onemeila said:
Sounds like you need to install the correct drivers. Download and install the driver from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1890413
If that still doesnt work follow the directions from this one:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/48023/fastboot-not-working-for-kindle-fire-hd
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What about if i'm using a fastboot cable, and when i type adb devices or fastboot devices it still doesn't show up? I have the drivers installed for the fastboot cable but it just never shows up. I've been trying to use your tool to fix my bricked kindle that is stuck in a boot loop and has no system.img.
Recover from bootloop
As I am stuck in a bootloop, will I recover my kindle if I only restore the boot image?
Excellent resource! I now have Beanstalk Lollipop on my Kindle. Thank you!
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Kindle Fire HD 7" overhaul
I tried to post this as a reply to "how to downgrade kindle fire hd" thread but as I'm a newb here, I was redirected to this thread. So here it goes...
I have a 2012 Kindle Fire HD 7" serial starting with D025, running firmware 7.5.1. I successfully rooted the device with the bin4ry method thanks to all the helpful members here. I am interested in getting TWRP loaded as well as flashing maybe a Cyanogen ROM. I haven't looked into the ROM's too much as I'd like to get TWRP on first... baby steps haha... So I saw instructions for getting TWRP on devices with firmware up to 7.4.8 or somewhere around there but nothing higher. Next step is to downgrade the Kindle to an older firmware. I have ordered SkOrPn's Factory Cable, should be here in a day or 2.
So onto the questions:
1. In this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254 I see a list of system.img files to downgrade to. Does it matter which one I choose if I am going to be flashing Cyanogen ROM?
2. My next steps are to follow the instructions on that thread by plugging in the cable, run the adb command, run the SR Tool, follow instructions, and then on the bottom of the original post in that thread, it gives instructions for downgrading to 7.2.1. I take it those directions apply for any of the versions downgrading to?
This is where I am kind of lost as to what I am supposed to do from here. I am not sure what the SR tool accomplishes or intends to accomplish and the Factory Cable seems to be most often used as an "unbricking" device. I am not bricked, just looking to downgrade so as to get TWRP and Cyanogen. If there is an easier way for me to get TWRP and Cyanogen running without the downgrade or all this hullabaloo then I would be delightfully surprised.
So any help would be much appreciated
stuck on Fastboot
Hello, I definitely have a Kindle Fire HD 7 2012 and I do NOT yet have a factory cable, but it seems like the tool is working with my regular cable. When I use 1. Restore-Factory Rooted with SuperSU.apk my cmd screen tells me sending 'system' (907264 KB). . . OKAY (317.060s) writing 'system' . . . OKAY (72.750s) finished. total time: 389.821s
Even though I have erased cache and userdata, Factory Recovery, and Reboot normally I still am stuck on the FastBoot screen..
any suggestions ?
got Factory Cable Today still stuck in fastboot
HappyTNMom said:
Hello, I definitely have a Kindle Fire HD 7 2012 and I do NOT yet have a factory cable, but it seems like the tool is working with my regular cable. When I use 1. Restore-Factory Rooted with SuperSU.apk my cmd screen tells me sending 'system' (907264 KB). . . OKAY (317.060s) writing 'system' . . . OKAY (72.750s) finished. total time: 389.821s
Even though I have erased cache and userdata, Factory Recovery, and Reboot normally I still am stuck on the FastBoot screen..
any suggestions ?
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I got my factory cable today. I plugged it into my kindle and to my pc. I tried to run the tool to clear cache, factory rooted with SuperSU.apk, Factory Recovery, then reboot normally and my kindle is still stuck on FastBoot....
What am I doing wrong? What else can I try? Thanks in advance for any help, much appreciated...
KFHD 7'' is not a KFHD 7'' 2013 KFSOWI ... bootloop fixed
I got a bootlooped kindle from someone and thought it was a KFHD 7'' it took me forever and quite a few attempts to fix and fails to discover it is a KFHD 7'' 2013 KFSOWI which it totally different. notable markings are no camera and angled edges on the back. also if you get to the point of running fastboot you will know as "getvar product" will return "soho-pvt-prod-07" instead of "tate-xxx-xxxx-xx"
i wanted to thank Red_81 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254&page=23 who pointed me to the Kindlesuite guys which led me to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2685090&page=4 and the fantastic Firerooter tool it is super easy to use and does everything for you even has great help in it about updating the adb drivers etc.
just make sure you really have a 2013 KFSOWI version. i previously had it bootlooping, then red screen (when i used the KFHD SRT many times), and finally after trying Firerooter a couple of times got the dang thing working again. I ended up installing the 11.4.x then 11.3.x and wiping user data. I about fell out of my chair when I finally got a screen. So dont give up. I also had to get a fastboot cable.
I have bricked my Kindle Fire HD 7" 2nd Gen. The device is stuck in what i would assume is a boot loop. I am wondering if someone can confirm if the KFHD SRT is compatible with my device and could possibly unbrick it. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I could not tell what versions the kindle were supported from the original thread. KFHD SRT THREAD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254&highlight=kindle+fire+hd+7
Hi everybody
I've been running a rooted kindle fire hd for about a year with cyanogenmod and no problems. Tonight I downloaded the latest nightly update installed it with TWRP and re booted fine.
I kept getting google play services errors so decided to factory reset and clean everything up. Now I cannot get past the teamwin boot logo.
I see the orange kindlefire, blue kindlefire, then the teamwin logo flashes every 5 seconds.
Any ideas on how to recover this?
I posted this in standalone thread about a week ago, I've since bought a fastboot cable, which doesnt have any effect. I see Kindle fire on my PCs device manager so thinking there must be some sort of communication between the 2. Stuck with where to go now though. I know of at least 2 other people that have posted the same problem.
Regards
KP
Thank you for all the help in advance!
Current state of device:
Fire HD 7" factory cable plugged in stuck on fastboot screen not loop just stuck no access to ADB (device not found[debian gnome])
I was deleting my previous ROM to go back to stock. I wiped my cache, os and everything then went to go and install the stock ROM and my little one managed to power the kindle down. I turned it back on to find kindlefire logo on the screen but it doesn't go past that. I built a factory cable and now it displays the fastboot logo but nothing else, not looping just frozen on the fastboot screen. So the computer [debian gnome] can't find the device when using ADB. (ADB is working with my other devices) I tried to follow a post about using the fastboot cmd to install the system.img, recovery.img and boot.img but did not know exactly what I was doing at that point. Is it done for? or is there hope?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
There is hope. You could try following the commands in the batch file from this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
I've never tried it from Linux but so long as fastboot is working you should be able to flash the 3 images and then wipe data.
Thank you sooo much! this worked like a charm. I downloaded the img files and loaded them to the kindle via fastboot then rebooted and wala back to a fully functioning kindle. Thanks for the link!!!!
Glad to hear it helped you out.
Help me please
I have bricked my device. I can no longer get it past the bootloader Amazon image and can only get it into fastboot. Had root on device and was attempting to flash twrp so that i could install some custom roms. When flashing twrp the device restarted and has been stuck in a silver amazon bootloop. With the help of root junky's supertool i can get into factory recovery. but cannot sidload origional system back. I was gonna go back origional and re root. But can not get it out of bootloop. Tried using the system recovery thread found in second post on this thread and recieved an unsuccessful. Am i done for.... Kindle just stuck on fastboot screen now
Does your device have the front facing camera and the mini hdmi port?
Tablet had Fire OS 5.3.1 build installed.
Successfully rooted with Rootjunky supertool - after a lot of hassle with Kingroot (needed a newer version via an XDA link). Replaced Kingroot with SuperSU - and loaded Google Play - everything fine so far....
Magisk Manager app downloaded via Play store- starts to install but when tablet re-boots it's soft-bricked.
I've tried this twice now with same result.
Anyone had success with Magisk on Fire Tablet?
i'm having the exact same issue with a kindle fire hd 7". installed lineage unofficial 20170309 found on here, kept pushing me to install magisk, first time it wouldn't install, then it updated from market...installed successfully this morning and now when device is rebooting it just stays on kindle fire gold screen. volume button doesn't work to get into recovery and adb devices returns nothing. nothing in device manager to even indicate the computer is seeing the kindle fire.
bmckenna said:
i'm having the exact same issue with a kindle fire hd 7". installed lineage unofficial 20170309 found on here, kept pushing me to install magisk, first time it wouldn't install, then it updated from market...installed successfully this morning and now when device is rebooting it just stays on kindle fire gold screen. volume button doesn't work to get into recovery and adb devices returns nothing. nothing in device manager to even indicate the computer is seeing the kindle fire.
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Hi, when I bricked mine I pressed 'on' & 'Vol -' simultaneously and after a few attempts got it into recovery. From there I selected 'update using ADB' and at this point my Windows PC recognized fire tablet and allowed me to sideload the official Amazon firmware .bin file via fastboot (hope this makes some sense as I'm a bit of a noob!).
As for Magisk - probably incompatible with Fire device as suggested on this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68958498&postcount=2
But the thread's gone cold - no-one's confirmed either way.
FYI, fixed this with the following:
fastboot cable - plug in while device is off to enter forced fastboot mode
managed to get fastboot command responding after installing the android adb driver in device manager to the yellow triangle "tate" device - validate with
"fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" will validate that fastboot is responding
then:
"fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd7-freedom-boot-7.4.6.img" - reflash bootloader
"fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd7-twrp-2.8.3.0-recovery.img" - reflash twrp
just as if you were manually installing twrp for the first time
i had some other issues with kindle fire first aide where, when attempting to restore to factory, it wiped my data and cache partitions, but the above at least let me get back into twrp where i was able to reformat data/cache, flash a new system image, and successfully boot into it.
Moving away from aicp for now since that was what was pushing magisk, giving lineage a try.
Glad you got it sorted. Think I might need to get one of these factory cables just in case future 'experiments' go awry!!
Hello,
I have been trying to remove CM from my kindle tate following a guide that involved downloading the stock, renaming to update.zip and flashing from TWRP. Well it didn't work so now I am stuck at the kindlefire logo.
Luckily I have a fastboot factory cable and the kindle goes easily into fastboot. However before risking to brick it completely, I'd rather ask for help.
1) I have a linux laptop with adb and fastboot already installed, fastboot recognizes the device
2) I have downloaded the stock image from Amazon, its in a .img format, could I directly write as it is from fastboot? what is the correct command?
3) I have tried to reinstall TWRP from fastboot, but I am unsuccessful, the kindle is stuck at the kindlefire logo
What would be the best way to flash the stock rom back into my kindle and make it work again?
Many thanks
I managed to unbrick it but wifi not working...any idea?
Ok fixed it as well. I just needed the correct bootloader.
Now, the latest update breaks root and I cannot install google play.
Is there any rom that is recommended for this tablet? mean and lean..
Hi.... I managed to brick a Kindle Would you share what you did to recover yours? Thank you!