I had a friend over and was updating his kindle fire hd to a new rom. I had not worked with it for about 6 months and forgot what recovery was on it. So I used flashfire. Big mistake, it erased everything and did not flash the rom. So I am stuck at white Amazon. I can boot stock recovery, fastboot and white amazon. In fastboot it lets me send but will not write. It tells me writing not allowed on kindle and cmd prompt. Been messing with for 15 hours now.. Tried everything, is the no write in fastboot a block I can pass or did I brick it. I would normally just flash recovery through fastboot, but when it tries it wont allow the flash.
Thanks ahead of time, I a super frustrated need to walk away fr a half hour
I can also sideload per stock recovery if that helps
I find these forums unlike they were it's surprising no-one has said I'm screwed at least and if not then what to do.
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I swear I looked far and wide but this appears to be different from the usual "bootloop" questions. Apologies if not.
I flashed a bad ROM, and the device won't boot all the way into the OS. Just sits at the ROM logo for hours.
I previously installed FFF 1.4, so I do get the blue KindleFire logo momentarily, but any fastboot commands I try to send to it just come back with "waiting for device" and then "ERROR: Unable to create a plug-in (e00002be)". I've got TWRP installed and backups galore but I cant figure out how to get to it. I do have a fastboot cable.
Totally at a loss as to what to do. I feel like there's a really simple fix I'm missing, but I've poured through pages of Kindle Fire posts and everyone seems to be having a problem with the KindleFire logo screen and pre-getting all the way to recovery and ROMS installed.
Any help would be much appreciated dudes, you guys always get me sorted out. Thanks!
It sounds like you need the fastboot drivers loaded. Does it appear in device manager when it is plugged in and in fastboot mode?
It comes up under Other Devices: Kindle
Well, now I've got it coming up under Kindle Fire: Android ADB Composite Device. But at no point, apparently does it enter fastboot mode and I can't get any commands to work. Just scoots right through both KindleFire logos and then on to the ROM logo ad infinitum.
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?
History of the issue at hand:
I was running a new rom that was marshmallow based. It was running fine but lost root privileges so I attempted to boot into recovery and install the stable version of SuperSU for the device. I wiped the dalvik and cache and rebooted through TWRP recovery and the system went into a bootloop. Solution: Read XDA forums to find a way to fix the device. Went on ebay and bought a fastboot cable, waited 3 weeks, cable comes in and gets me to fastboot mode, but I am running Windows 10, creating a new problem. Solution: Partition the HDD on my computer and install Windows 7 Professional. This now fixed the driver issue. Plugged in the cable, with the new drivers installed and voila - Fastboot mode.
Seems pretty easy right? Wrong. After trying several utilites, I still cannot seem to get the Kindle to get out of the current situation it is in.
The device was rooted with the 2nd bootloader added over 2 years ago. Every ROM I have ran has been successful. Every time a new ROM was used or tried a backup was done and the device wiped properly before install. I made sure that every ROM was for my specific device (Tate).
Here is what I can do:
If I power on the Kindle, it briefly shows the logo, then the fastboot logo and goes blank
If I power on the Kindle by plugging in the factory cable and quickly entering any command (it is already typed) like "fastboot erase cache" the system will remain in fastboot with the fastboot logo on the screen. My sdk does recognize the device and states it is in fastboot.
From here I have no idea where to go. I can type any command I like, such as erase cache, recovery, system or any multitude of things and the command prompt takes it time to show the device is working on the command. However, the device remains unresponsive and has the same issues when attempting to reboot. When flashing anything the target size of the device remains unchanged at 1006632960 bytes, which seems to tell me that device is receiving the command but not writing anything to the device. This probably also means that anything that is on the device causing it to continuously bootloop or fail is not being erased or properly formatted.
All I have is fastboot and time. Time to scratch my head and wonder if the device is truly and totally bricked. i am under the assumption that if I have a working fastboot that I should be able to at least accomplish something. Even if it means reverting it to bare bones stock and starting the whole process over. I will be happy to answer any questions you all have regarding the system via here or PM.
Please assist this old man and thank you in advance for your time.
Give it a try
While I wasn't in the same weird brick scenario as you. My device would show up on my pc as fastboot and or regular adb. But, I would get no video. The solution which I have no idea why worked was to pop the back cover off. Then disconnect the battery from the mobo. Wait a few seconds. Connect it back to the mobo. After that video showed back up. Then proceeded on my way.
Not sure if what I did will help you. But. Then again I didn't think simply disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it would solve video issues.
You definitely do have a weird brick scenario. Good Luck!
Hi, I tried to install Cyanogenmod 10.1 on my KFHD8.9, but bricked it in the process. When I turn it on it shows the normal orange kindle fire logo, and then the screen swipes to a red screen, then swipes to fastboot. I can't boot into TWRP, or FireOS anymore. I couldn't find any threads to resolve my problem, so I decided to make one.
Here's what let up to this, step by step:
First, it's running 8.5.1
So I rooted it using the KingRoot windows application (not the .apk)
Then I downloaded TWRP recovery 2.6.0.0 (as per this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd/8-9-development/root-install-twrp-android-fire-os-8-5-1-t3278286 )
I downloaded all the other files that said were needed.
I used the FireFlash11.apk, and followed the instructions exactly.
It booted into FireOS the first time, so I reflashed TWRP with FireFlash, and successfully booted into TWRP
I then realized I didn't actually have any ROMs ready to install, so I booted back into FireOS
I downloaded the files, and tried to boot back into TWRP (This is where things went wrong)
I held down the volume up button, just like you normally would, and waited three seconds. The screen flickered, said 'badi: boot image' and for some reason booted into fastboot...?
I looked online, and found that I should factory reset it, so I tried. It seemed to be going fine, until when it shut down. After I powered it back on, my current symptoms appeared (Red screen then fastboot).
I now cannot do anything besides that, so any and all help would be appreciated. Keep in mind that I'm kinda bad at this, and have only correctly flashed a rom using TWRP once, and that was by following a different guide on a different firmware kindle word-for-word, so I'm not quite sure what everything means.
Thanks in advance!
Paradoxiality1 said:
Hi, I tried to install Cyanogenmod 10.1 on my KFHD8.9, but bricked it in the process. When I turn it on it shows the normal orange kindle fire logo, and then the screen swipes to a red screen, then swipes to fastboot. I can't boot into TWRP, or FireOS anymore.
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If you can boot into fastboot you should be ok.
Read this guide. It's old and file names may change but, the steps remain the same.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161224194648/https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jem
If you are already in fastboot then start with Step 3.
Code:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-twrp-3.0.2-2-recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.6.img
fastboot oem recovery
That should boot you into TWRP recovery.
Just incase you need some files.
Bootloader Download
Custom Recovery Download
Boot Image Download
CM-12.1-NIGHTLY 20161016-jem Download
Newer unofficial lineageOS from this thread. XDA-Link
Edit.
Corrected links.
I had a tate running candy lollipop for years, my kids had it and got a new tablet yesterday. I took the old tate and upgraded to crdroid, full wipes, was running fine. Then, me being an idiot I tried flashing magisk which resulted in the tate not booting past the yellow/orange kindle fire logo.
I had crdroid 7.1.2 and twrp 3.0 installed, cant boot to recovery, cant boot at all. Fastboot hangs on <waiting for devices> and I know I have fastboot/adb/sdk/kindle drivers etc all installed but still nothing. I dont care if I have to flash it all back to fireOS or whatever, just want it working, I did have a factory cable from 4 years ago but cant find it, probably lost...
Is there anything I can do with normal usb cables? Or do I need to order a new cable? Any key combinations to try? any simple reset tools? KFFaide doesnt 'seem' to be of any use as its asking to choose option 15 but I dont have that many options, but that is all set up correctly with the paths etc...
Cheers.
robneymcplum said:
I had a tate running candy lollipop for years, my kids had it and got a new tablet yesterday. I took the old tate and upgraded to crdroid, full wipes, was running fine. Then, me being an idiot I tried flashing magisk which resulted in the tate not booting past the yellow/orange kindle fire logo.
I had crdroid 7.1.2 and twrp 3.0 installed, cant boot to recovery, cant boot at all. Fastboot hangs on <waiting for devices> and I know I have fastboot/adb/sdk/kindle drivers etc all installed but still nothing. I dont care if I have to flash it all back to fireOS or whatever, just want it working, I did have a factory cable from 4 years ago but cant find it, probably lost...
Is there anything I can do with normal usb cables? Or do I need to order a new cable? Any key combinations to try? any simple reset tools? KFFaide doesnt 'seem' to be of any use as its asking to choose option 15 but I dont have that many options, but that is all set up correctly with the paths etc...
Cheers.
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I had this exact problem and solved it. For more context I would read some of the posts before it where I explain my problem (start with Feb 10).
https://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd/7-development/rom-marshmallow-t3315075/post75553313
Devo7v said:
I had this exact problem and solved it. For more context I would read some of the posts before it where I explain my problem (start with Feb 10).
https://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd/7-development/rom-marshmallow-t3315075/post75553313
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Cheers mate, I had already got a cable ordered as I figured there was nothing I could do with any of these 20+ usb cables I must have lying around my house
I'll wait for that to turn up and go straight to just installing the freedom boot img, hopefully it all works as the crdroid rom was surprisingly good in the half hour I was using it.
Cheers again.
IT WORKED!!!!!
Devo7v said:
I had this exact problem and solved it. For more context I would read some of the posts before it where I explain my problem (start with Feb 10).
https://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire-hd/7-development/rom-marshmallow-t3315075/post75553313
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Cheers again mate! reply to this so I can give you another 'thanks'
robneymcplum said:
I had a tate running candy lollipop for years, my kids had it and got a new tablet yesterday. I took the old tate and upgraded to crdroid, full wipes, was running fine. Then, me being an idiot I tried flashing magisk which resulted in the tate not booting past the yellow/orange kindle fire logo.
I had crdroid 7.1.2 and twrp 3.0 installed, cant boot to recovery, cant boot at all. Fastboot hangs on <waiting for devices> and I know I have fastboot/adb/sdk/kindle drivers etc all installed but still nothing. I dont care if I have to flash it all back to fireOS or whatever, just want it working, I did have a factory cable from 4 years ago but cant find it, probably lost...
Is there anything I can do with normal usb cables? Or do I need to order a new cable? Any key combinations to try? any simple reset tools? KFFaide doesnt 'seem' to be of any use as its asking to choose option 15 but I dont have that many options, but that is all set up correctly with the paths etc...
Cheers.
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I literally did the exact same thing as you. Flashed crdroid, flashed magisk later without thinking, stuck on the boot loop, unable to get into twrp recovery.
Got a fastboot cable, able to get tablet into fastboot, and followed Devo7v's instructions from the other thread that was linked, and afterwards I'm still stuck bootlooping, no access to recovery. I've tried so many different things. Can anyone help?
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Update: (sooner than I expected)
After almost giving up, came across the Ultimate Unbrick Utility on Tekify (don't have enough posts here to link directly, yet). I was able to use it to finally reset my Tate to factory settings with a fastboot cable, and correctly boot. It bootlooped once before booting correctly.
blakmarkit said:
After almost giving up, came across the Ultimate Unbrick Utility on Tekify (don't have enough posts here to link directly, yet). I was able to use it to finally reset my Tate to factory settings with a fastboot cable, and correctly boot. It bootlooped once before booting correctly.
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Sorry, I havent actually logged on here for ages so only just saw this.
Mine was just really simple, D/L these 2 files:
boot kfhd7-freedom-boot-7.4.6.img
recovery kfhd7-twrp-2.8.7.0-recovery.img
from here: https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=34232
And placed on desktop, got SDK downloaded and installed from this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaNM-lt_aHw
Kindle fire HD drivers from THIS link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1890413
And rebooted PC, opened cmd prompt and entered: fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
Plugged in turned off kindle with the fastboot cable, cmd prompt acknowledged it was plugged in
entered: cd c:\users\ROBNEY\desktop
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd7-freedom-boot-7.4.6.img [enter]
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd7-twrp-2.8.7.0-recovery.img [enter]
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot [REMOVE CABLE THE MICROSECOND THE FASTBOOT LOGO DISSAPEARS FROM KINDLE SCREEN]
Then you can reboot to twrp (hold power and volume up, let go of power when kindle logo turns blue)