I came across another thread that seemed to help me a bit. Can't find it again. So, hoping someone can point me in the right direction or better yet, give me a magic solution
History - I have a kindle fire - 5th gen. Got it with 5.1.2 which upgraded automatically to 5.1.4. I sideloaded 5.1.2 and it worked just fine. However, I missed the fact that the bootloader is locked on 5.1.2 and tried to flash TWRP. I also blocked OTA updates. (Rootjunky's tool)
Current situation - I am rooted and on 5.1.2. I want to get to Cm 12.1, but I can't get into recovery at all. It is stuck on the "Amazon" logo when I try to get to recovery. It is not the blue logo - I have never seen it, but my logo's not blue. I'm able to boot normally and use the tablet without any issues.
Question - The thread I came across earlier said that a fastboot cable is the only way out. But this person seemed to be at the "blue amazon" logo. Help? Thoughts?
smvsmv said:
I came across another thread that seemed to help me a bit. Can't find it again. So, hoping someone can point me in the right direction or better yet, give me a magic solution
History - I have a kindle fire - 5th gen. Got it with 5.1.2 which upgraded automatically to 5.1.4. I sideloaded 5.1.2 and it worked just fine. However, I missed the fact that the bootloader is locked on 5.1.2 and tried to flash TWRP. I also blocked OTA updates. (Rootjunky's tool)
Current situation - I am rooted and on 5.1.2. I want to get to Cm 12.1, but I can't get into recovery at all. It is stuck on the "Amazon" logo when I try to get to recovery. It is not the blue logo - I have never seen it, but my logo's not blue. I'm able to boot normally and use the tablet without any issues.
Question - The thread I came across earlier said that a fastboot cable is the only way out. But this person seemed to be at the "blue amazon" logo. Help? Thoughts?
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bootloader was always locked, but 5.0.X allows booting a custom Recovery
if it will not boot to recovery nor rom/system, nothing can be done
fastboot cable doesn't work with 5th gen fires
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Thanks... When you say "if it will not boot to recovery nor rom/system, nothing can be done", I see a glimmer of hope. The only thing I'm unable to do is boot to recovery. I am still rooted and able to use the tablet fully. There are no issues with that.
Does that help?
smvsmv said:
Thanks... When you say "if it will not boot to recovery nor rom/system, nothing can be done", I see a glimmer of hope. The only thing I'm unable to do is boot to recovery. I am still rooted and able to use the tablet fully. There are no issues with that.
Does that help?
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Thoughts:
- you can still flash a custom ROM but if something goes wrong during the upgrade you're screwed without a recovery environment.
- recent versions of FlashFire have the ability to preserve and rewrite the recovery environment; not certain if the process works on this device and potential side effects (if any).
- several months ago another contributor claimed to have resurrected the stock recovery environment via adb which created quite a stir at the time. Have not seen much since so I suspect the solution was not generically applicable.
- I'm of the belief that most recovery access issues are actually a booting problem vs a damaged recovery partition. Your situation may be a little different as you attempted to rewrite the recovery partition by flashing TWRP.
oh well.. I'll just wait for you brainy guys to figure a way out. Not messing with the device anymore for now. Thank you!
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Hello guys. I appreciate in advance any help you can bring to this thread.
Please be aware (for my amount of messages) that i'm still a newbie. So, please don't brag or dismiss any opinions or suggestions just because... Instead, try to share your magnificent knowledge and solutions to the following problem:
I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD 7", with second bootloader and TWRP recovery. I was running a 4.2.2 version of Paranoid Android without any problem. I often update ROM's and twerks for the tablet and my SGS3, so i'm pretty much capable of solving many of problems i've faced before, but right now i'm stucked in a bootloop without knowing what to do.
I tried to update my recovery TRWP from 2.4.x version to a 2.6.x version of it (to be able to flash KK 4.4 on KFHD), i've downloaded .img from TWRP web page and flashed via "Flashify" (which i read is the 2nd easiest way to do it), but when i rebooted the device, it got into a bootloop (?). It shows Kindle Fire, first in normal letters color set white-orange, then second color set white-blue, and after it is shown a new icon that says "FASTBOOT kindle fire" in orange... And that's pretty much it. It doesn't moves forward and i can't access recovery mode by pressing power button as usual.
Do you have any ideas of what to do in this scenario? If yes, please share. If don't, thank you anyway for reading the thread.
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Hello guys. I appreciate in advance any help you can bring to this thread.
Please be aware (for my amount of messages) that i'm still a newbie. So, please don't brag or dismiss any opinions or suggestions just because... Instead, try to share your magnificent knowledge and solutions to the following problem:
I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD 7", with second bootloader and TWRP recovery. I was running a 4.2.2 version of Paranoid Android without any problem. I often update ROM's and twerks for the tablet and my SGS3, so i'm pretty much capable of solving many of problems i've faced before, but right now i'm stucked in a bootloop without knowing what to do.
I tried to update my recovery TRWP from 2.4.x version to a 2.6.x version of it (to be able to flash KK 4.4 on KFHD), i've downloaded .img from TWRP web page and flashed via "Flashify" (which i read is the 2nd easiest way to do it), but when i rebooted the device, it got into a bootloop (?). It shows Kindle Fire, first in normal letters color set white-orange, then second color set white-blue, and after it is shown a new icon that says "FASTBOOT kindle fire" in orange... And that's pretty much it. It doesn't moves forward and i can't access recovery mode by pressing power button as usual.
Do you have any ideas of what to do in this scenario? If yes, please share. If don't, thank you anyway for reading the thread.
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You can't just use anything when modding. TWRP has to come from Hashcode's thread because he modifies them for the Kindles`s. The other thing is the KFHD7 uses FireFlash. You can try flashing a Nandroid backup in TWRP or you will need a fastest cord and factory reset.
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guillemedina11 said:
Hello guys. I appreciate in advance any help you can bring to this thread.
Please be aware (for my amount of messages) that i'm still a newbie. So, please don't brag or dismiss any opinions or suggestions just because... Instead, try to share your magnificent knowledge and solutions to the following problem:
I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD 7", with second bootloader and TWRP recovery. I was running a 4.2.2 version of Paranoid Android without any problem. I often update ROM's and twerks for the tablet and my SGS3, so i'm pretty much capable of solving many of problems i've faced before, but right now i'm stucked in a bootloop without knowing what to do.
I tried to update my recovery TRWP from 2.4.x version to a 2.6.x version of it (to be able to flash KK 4.4 on KFHD), i've downloaded .img from TWRP web page and flashed via "Flashify" (which i read is the 2nd easiest way to do it), but when i rebooted the device, it got into a bootloop (?). It shows Kindle Fire, first in normal letters color set white-orange, then second color set white-blue, and after it is shown a new icon that says "FASTBOOT kindle fire" in orange... And that's pretty much it. It doesn't moves forward and i can't access recovery mode by pressing power button as usual.
Do you have any ideas of what to do in this scenario? If yes, please share. If don't, thank you anyway for reading the thread.
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You should have used FireFlash or direct ADB. For now,you can try to restore a Nandroid backup and get the TWRP 2.6.3.1 image from Hashcode's thread. And use FireFlash this time!!
I can't help but notice that he said "twerks" in his original post :silly:
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LinearEquation said:
You can't just use anything when modding. TWRP has to come from Hashcode's thread because he modifies them for the Kindles`s. The other thing is the KFHD7 uses FireFlash. You can try flashing a Nandroid backup in TWRP or you will need a fastest cord and factory reset.
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Thank you so very much for your helpful comment.
As i said in the first post, for any reason a can't access twrp recovery by pressing power button right after booting the device. I think a might need the fastboot cable.
Question: Original factory cable doesn't work in this case? y've noticed that i was triying to plug it to the pc with my samsung cable. does it make any real difference (Just comparing factory kindle cable and samsung cable)?.
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Thank you so very much for your helpful comment.
As i said in the first post, for any reason a can't access twrp recovery by pressing power button right after booting the device. I think a might need the fastboot cable.
Question: Original factory cable doesn't work in this case? y've noticed that i was triying to plug it to the pc with my samsung cable. does it make any real difference (Just comparing factory kindle cable and samsung cable)?.
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yes there's a different in KFHD factory cable and samsung cable cause factory cable are made specially for KFHD and its support good speed then samsung cable/
qoute: lol i am a newbie
A factory cable (also known as a fast boot cable) is not the cable that came with your kindle it is a cable you have to make or order.
On the micro USB side it shorts pin one and pin four.
When this cable is plugged in your kindle will boot to a screen that says fast boot and stay there. In this special mode we can use commands from a PC to change the kindles settings.
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So I followed a guide that used fireflash to flash freedom boot and TWRP. The problem is when it got to the point of backing up before I installed the system, I didn't have enough space. Not a problem right? Well in my haste I rebooted out of TWRP and now I can't get back into TWRP or obviously the system which doesn't exist.
I would have thought it would be simple to get back into TWRP and just carry on but it looks like there is no easy way to get back into it?
This is a HD7 model no: X43Z60
Does the logo ever turn blue still?
stunts513 said:
Does the logo ever turn blue still?
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No it just loops on the orange kindle fire one. It's worth mentioning that obviously it did initially turn blue to get into TWRP but after it asked if I would like to restart, it just went into the loop.
If it didn't turn blue you will need a fastboot cable/adapter to fix, I recommend team blackhats from hashcode's twrp tut.
You will have to reflash stock and go about reinstalling twrp/2nd bootloader, I think you wiped the stack override so it won't boot.
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If it didn't turn blue you will need a fastboot cable/adapter to fix, I recommend team blackhats from hashcode's twrp tut.
You will have to reflash stock and go about reinstalling twrp/2nd bootloader, I think you wiped the stack override so it won't boot.
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Thanks for the responses.
I have ordered a fastboot cable and it's nice to hear that this is still recoverable. Would you be able to point me in the direction of the best reflash stock tutorial you know of?
The tutorial I used to get into this mess used an APK to do all of the flashing / stack override methods.
That's the same method I used for flashing, it seemed to have worked for you so the method was fine. Anyways you can look in the general section fornmkindke fire first aid, or in the dev section's FAQ post for the SRT(system restore tool), either one fixes it.
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That's the same method I used for flashing, it seemed to have worked for you so the method was fine. Anyways you can look in the general section fornmkindke fire first aid, or in the dev section's FAQ post for the SRT(system restore tool), either one fixes it.
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Cheers for the help
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?
Regards
KP
kpugh162 said:
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?
Regards
KP
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i have the same problem and there seems to be no way to get the kindle in any state to do anything, all I've found out so far is that its stuck trying to factory reset and there should be a way to reverse this, i hope someone can give us a solution or i might as well call my kindle a paperweight.
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i have the same problem and there seems to be no way to get the kindle in any state to do anything, all I've found out so far is that its stuck trying to factory reset and there should be a way to reverse this, i hope someone can give us a solution or i might as well call my kindle a paperweight.
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Thanks for letting me know, I purchased a factory cable today. Seems to be recognised by my laptop, but the kindle doesnt go into fastboot. There seems to be a few people with this problem. I've not seen any help offered yet. I'm not holding out much hope, doesn't seem any way to communicate with it.
Where did you get your info?
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Thanks for letting me know, I purchased a factory cable today. Seems to be recognised by my laptop, but the kindle doesnt go into fastboot. There seems to be a few people with this problem. I've not seen any help offered yet. I'm not holding out much hope, doesn't seem any way to communicate with it.
Where did you get your info?
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i've found out a lot about bootloop issues and in most cases it seems like the first thing needed to fix the problem is a factory cable, i didn't get mine yet so i can't see if it will work but since your pc can see your kindle now you can try out kindle fire first aid 4.1.88-beta.
let me know if it works for you.
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i've found out a lot about bootloop issues and in most cases it seems like the first thing needed to fix the problem is a factory cable, i didn't get mine yet so i can't see if it will work but since your pc can see your kindle now you can try out kindle fire first aid 4.1.88-beta.
let me know if it works for you.
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I'd already tried that. Seems because the kindle is not fully booting up then kindle fire first aid doesnt recognise it. Unless what i've been sent is actually a normal usb, then I dont see any way of sorting this. I'll wait to see if you have better luck
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I'd already tried that. Seems because the kindle is not fully booting up then kindle fire first aid doesnt recognise it. Unless what i've been sent is actually a normal usb, then I dont see any way of sorting this. I'll wait to see if you have better luck
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OK I may have cracked it here. I am no expert ( I wouldnt be in this mess if I was) i was playing with the adb commands with the factory cable connected.
Typed:
ADB devices
showed a device called D025A0A024540SF0 recovery
Typed:
ADB Reboot-Bootloader
Kindle fire boots into FASTBOOT screen. YEY ME!!!
Now i'm not really sure where to go, never used fastboot before.
After using kindlefire recovery tool, doing a wipe then option 2 my kindle booted up into TWRP.
I tried rebooting from here and now I get a flashing kindlefire logo.
occasionally i manage to get it into fastboot with the factory cable, but it doesnt stay there long enough to do anything. I hoping this is maybe a power issue so I'm leaving it plugged in overnight to attempt to charge it.
hope this info helps you, I feel like I was at a point to simply re flash a rom but messed up by rebooting from twrp.
I did it!!!!
Managed to get it to stay in fastboot mode and ran kindlerecover tool again. now have a working kindle running APEX launcher. Have to read up tomorrow and get cyanogenmod back.
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OK I may have cracked it here. I am no expert ( I wouldnt be in this mess if I was) i was playing with the adb commands with the factory cable connected.
Typed:
ADB devices
showed a device called D025A0A024540SF0 recovery
Typed:
ADB Reboot-Bootloader
Kindle fire boots into FASTBOOT screen. YEY ME!!!
Now i'm not really sure where to go, never used fastboot before.
After using kindlefire recovery tool, doing a wipe then option 2 my kindle booted up into TWRP.
I tried rebooting from here and now I get a flashing kindlefire logo.
occasionally i manage to get it into fastboot with the factory cable, but it doesnt stay there long enough to do anything. I hoping this is maybe a power issue so I'm leaving it plugged in overnight to attempt to charge it.
hope this info helps you, I feel like I was at a point to simply re flash a rom but messed up by rebooting from twrp.
I did it!!!!
Managed to get it to stay in fastboot mode and ran kindlerecover tool again. now have a working kindle running APEX launcher. Have to read up tomorrow and get cyanogenmod back.
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Grats i'm glad it worked out for you man, i'll try out the same when i get my cable lol i ended up buying a new tablet thinking no one would solve this problem and now i just may have two if i get mine working also if you try loli pop again make sure you install gapps for it, that was my first mistake that led to me messing up my kindle the second being the factory reset, the devs should either disable or warn people not to try it since your screwed once you do anyways i'll give an update once i try to recover my kindle, cheers.
I currently am trying to install CM12.1 onto my Amazon Fire 7, but unfortunately, it looks like I may have messed up in the process (I am stuck with the Amazon logo re-looping every ~15-20 seconds). I am able to go into the safe recovery mode, so I assume I haven't bricked the device completely, but I was wondering, what exactly is the best way to flash CM12.1 onto this device?
There seems to be an excessive amount of information, but very little organization, so would love to hear what the "best" steps would be to get CM12.1 on this bad boy.
I don't have the device yet but from what i read you need to tell us more info like what was your amazon v. 5.0.1 or 5.1.1 and how you install cm by TWRP or flash fire
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it will all depend on the version you have, but here you will find most info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/videos-tutorials-how-to-root-flash-roms-t3254268
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it will all depend on the version you have, but here you will find most info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/videos-tutorials-how-to-root-flash-roms-t3254268
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So I went ahead and installed the original firmware (5.1.1), but now am wondering where do I go from here. I have the device rooted and installed Flashify, but I am not sure how to install TWRP for 5.1.1, as I was using Rootjunky's .bat file.
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So I went ahead and installed the original firmware (5.1.1), but now am wondering where do I go from here. I have the device rooted and installed Flashify, but I am not sure how to install TWRP for 5.1.1, as I was using Rootjunky's .bat file.
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You can't install TWRP on 5.11, if you want to flash roms you have to use FlashFire now.
This is due to the 5.11 ota update including a bootloader update which removes the ability to fastboot boot.
Just follow the instructions to install CM 12.1 and wait for it to boot.
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You can't install TWRP on 5.11, if you want to flash roms you have to use FlashFire now.
This is due to the 5.11 ota update including a bootloader update which removes the ability to fastboot boot.
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Yeah, so I just found that out few seconds ago. I tried to flash and install CM, but after the reboot, it just goes back to the FireOS "Optimizing system storage and applications..." screen, no idea what I am doing wrong...
I am also wiping everything too before I flash the CM and GAPPS zip files
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I am also wiping everything too before I flash the CM and GAPPS zip files
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I would be very careful using flashfire if your coming from fire os 5.1.1, we cannot use TWRP and a few people(myself included) have lost access to Amazon recovery, if you get stuck in a boot loop you have no way to recover your device, your best bet is to wait to see if a more secure way appears of flashing a device that has been using fire os 5.1.1.
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I would be very careful using flashfire if your coming from fire os 5.1.1, we cannot use TWRP and a few people(myself included) have lost access to Amazon recovery, if you get stuck in a boot loop you have no way to recover your device, your best bet is to wait to see if a more secure way appears of flashing a device that has been using fire os 5.1.1.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. You can most certainly reflash the Amazon firmware when you are stuck in the boot cycle by transferring the file from ADB (after holding volume down + power for more than 10 seconds), and than restart the device, and you are back to FireOS 5.1.1.
I have already went ahead and Flashed SlimLP, and so far so good, it seems fine to me, I guess I'll have to wait and see how stable it is.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. You can most certainly reflash the Amazon firmware when you are stuck in the boot cycle by transferring the file from ADB (after holding volume down + power for more than 10 seconds), and than restart the device, and you are back to FireOS 5.1.1.
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Glad it worked well for you. Not everyone has been so fortunate. One persons favorable experience does not equate to everyone. Some of those impacted are veteran users who 'lost' devices testing out code and techniques that you are now benefiting from.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. You can most certainly reflash the Amazon firmware when you are stuck in the boot cycle by transferring the file from ADB (after holding volume down + power for more than 10 seconds), and than restart the device, and you are back to FireOS 5.1.1.
I have already went ahead and Flashed SlimLP, and so far so good, it seems fine to me, I guess I'll have to wait and see how stable it is.
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If you read my post properly i said " lost access to Amazon recovery" , there is no way to transfer the file from ADB as ADB is not there, due to the fact that there is no Amazon recovery, holding volume down + power does nothing, if you look around the forum you will see this has happened to a few people myself included .
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I have no idea what you are talking about. You can most certainly reflash the Amazon firmware when you are stuck in the boot cycle by transferring the file from ADB (after holding volume down + power for more than 10 seconds), and than restart the device, and you are back to FireOS 5.1.1.
I have already went ahead and Flashed SlimLP, and so far so good, it seems fine to me, I guess I'll have to wait and see how stable it is.
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He's talking about how his device got buggered from a dirty Rom load. In his case and for a few others, they've lost the option to sideload back to stock.
Anyway here's the bare minimum process, since it sounds like you've gone through the details parts of Rom loading before.
#1 restore to stock rom 5.1.1
#2 install SuperSU/Root
#3 install flashfire
#4 install CM/SlimLP and Gapps (pico, micro, mini) of your choice, and your done.
When I put CM on my 5.1.1 Fire device, I installed flashfire.apk manually, used open Gapps pico, and the CM 12-30-2015 image.
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If you read my post properly i said " lost access to Amazon recovery" , there is no way to transfer the file from ADB as ADB is not there, due to the fact that there is no Amazon recovery, holding volume down + power does nothing, if you look around the forum you will see this has happened to a few people myself included .
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Gotcha, didn't know there was level of increments the relooping represented. Well either way, hopefully something gets developed to all the "hard-bricked" users.
(Keep in mind all of this is happening without a OS on it after the sentence where i decied to format) New to the forums and still noobish at flashing roms and the like. But here is my delima, I had a kindle fire HD that i got years ago and flashed properly with the 2nd boot loader, TWRP ( I think at the time the version was like 2.7.0.0), and Pac-Rom, well wanting to try the Cyanogenmod and other roms, being a complete idiot I decided that I would format the device completely and flash a new rom and gapps because I have just had more success flashing that way. Anyway, I finish and was looking at roms on XDA and noticed that TWRP finially got updated to 3.0 so I assumed that I would finially get mass storage support over usb, like a flash drive. well that didn't end up working still, oh well no biggie i have used ADB a few times to push some roms over. So I find out ADB had a message to the extent of when I did the ADB devices command , the device was unauthorized. So I thought crap something must have gone wrong when I was updating to the new version, so ended up fastbooting into a version of TWRP 2.8.something, and that worked but my device was still unauthorized, so restarted, and now its in some odd boot loop, like the kindle fire logo will only stay up for a few seconds then shut down immediately, and just keep repeating like that, the blue logo won't show up and I cant boot into fastboot or into TWRP.
Does anyone know what went wrong or how to fix it. Huge thanks if you can!