Hi,
about 3 weeks ago I came across a kindle fire hd 7 tablet at the value world thrift store for $8. I purchased it without testing it at all. once I brought it home, I plugged the device in to find that it would not boot past the kindle fire screen (fire is in orange). I attempted booting recovery, download mode, fastboot, bootloader with the buttons before doing any research but nothing happened. After looking around online I found out I could unbrick this device with a cable I would have to purchase off eBay. I purchased the cable and it came a week later.
I charged the device overnight that day when I went to be to ensure the device was 100% charged, so when I attempted the restore I wouldn't run into a low battery issue. after the device was charged up it was back on the kindle fire screen still waiting to be restored. i searched everywhere and came across tons of dead link, but eventually found the restore tool that was called Kindle Fire First Aide . after forever I setup the program properly and that included the drivers ( had to use adb composite), environment variables (path to the tool), Java development kit and running the bat file as admin. once I got that setup I ran the bat file and then I got more errors which all seemed to be dead link problems.
when that happened I decided to attempt a manual restore via fastboot through cmd commands. I didn't know about " -i 0x1949 " at first so I ran into waiting for device errors. after learning that about that from editing the bat file in the first aid kit I was able to complete a system, boot and recovery image flash. after flashing I cleared user data and cache manually also. Then I ran a reboot command and the device screen went flash and would reboot over and over about 15-30 times before coming to a stop and not bootlooping anymore. I found out this from leaving the cable in the tablet after running the reboot script, my windows laptop would make the sound notifying me over a new device being plugged in. when that happened I decided to open the device manager so I could see if it was unknown or anything. it didn't show anything at all. windows prompted me with an unknown device error also on every boot loop reboot. after that occurred I assumed the script was wrong but that wasn't possible because the device did the reboot. so I looked for another restore tool.
I ended up finding another tool called Kindle Fire Hd System restore tool. that tool was a lot more easy to use than first aid tool kit because they put way too many options in the program. making it so the program had to be set up one way and one way only. I tried the system restore tool and it resulted in the same error, the device would reboot with the boot loop when I tried to boot into normal mode and when I didn't and manually powered down and back on. the device would be stuck on the kindle fire screen again for hours until it would die.
at this point I don't know what to do, I have tried to boot into recovery and looked into more options. maybe I didn't try everything I should have but I feel like I cover all the ground properly. I tried to flash twrp and the freedom boot image but those didn't work either. it could be possible that twrp did install and the volume button it damaged so I can't boot because of that.
if anyone has an idea or tip let me know. please and thank you. going through all this trouble was fun, to be honest, but now after investing so much time, i would really like to use the tablet with a custom ROM. if there is a hardware issue or you think there could be another problem preventing it from ever booting again. please let me know! thanks again
first aid restore tool: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38409721#post38409721
KFHD Restore tools: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
adb fastboot drivers: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42407269#post42407269
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I was following the steps in the Bootloader & Recovery thread, but I don't have a factory cable and was using my USB. During the flashboot steps, I ended up using KFHDBackup for fastboot. Step 5 was going fine until I entered "fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot", then my device went red. I'm fully borked, aren't I. If I turn it off and back on again, for a microsecond I can see KindleFire, then it goes to a full red screen. Any advice would be great, but I have that feeling that I may have done my device in. :crying:
UPDATE: Ordered a fastboot cable from ebay, ran the tool from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254 . Chose option 2. After first boot I was in recovery, selected factory reset. Kindle back up and running.
UPDATE 2: After restoring, got the 7.3 firmware update. The Bin4ry exploit will still root. Reinstalled Google play, leaving it that way for now.
UPDATE 3: With hashcode's updated bootloader and recovery, I was able to install them. Rooted kindle now running Kinology.
I should add...
I can no longer communicate between my device and PC. adb commands aren't working.
irish_711 said:
I can no longer communicate between my device and PC. adb commands aren't working.
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well. adb wont work, YOU NEED FASTBOOT. the first time i said that it wasnt needed, but now, i know it can save your life! and your $$$
If you have made a backup, now that reflash your backup files and it will be work well.
SAME HERE PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!! DONT USE KF First Aide tool!!!
I WAS BACKING UP MY KINDLE FIRE WITH KF First Aide AND TO MY HORROR IT HAD INSTALLED THE ORIGINAL KINDLE FIRE 2 OS INSTEAD OF MY 7" KINDLE FIRE HD OS I DID NOT COMMAND KF First Aide TOOL TO DO THIS AND I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN'T. I SELECTED FOR IT TO BACK UP MY ORIGINAL OS TO THE BACK UP FILE. NOW ALL IT DOES IS BOOT DISPLAYS KINDLE FOR A SECOND THEN GOES BRIGHT RED AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO GET IN TO FAST BOOT MODE FROM HERE!!! I AM VERY ANGRY AT THE THE DEVELOPER OF KF First Aide TOOL!!! CAN SOMEONE HELP ME AND THE PERSON ABOVE AS IT HAS CLEARLY DONE THE SAME THING TO HIM. MY QUESTION IS IF YOU COULD SO KINDLY HELP ME....HOW DO I GET IN TO FAST BOOT MODE WHEN YOU CAN NOT ENTER THE OPERATING SYSTEM CAN YOU DO IT MANUALLY OR NOT?........
I HAVE MANAGED TO CAPTURE THE KINDLE LOGO IN THE 1 SECOND IT IS DISPLAYED AND A PICTURE OF THE RED SCREEN
IF THAT HELPS
ANY HELP WOULD BE AMAZING I AM DO UPSET AND FRUSTRATED
I apologize for yet another of these types of posts as I know there are a ton because I've been searching through them for a few days now. I can't seem to find a solution to my problem that works so hopefully someone can point me to the correct thread or help me directly. Here is my problem:
I have a Kindle Fire HD 7". I had successfully rooted the device, but then I went and screwed all that up by trying to mod it to get the android market (I, as a noob, changed a system value I shouldn't have - oops). After that, my kindle was/still is stuck on the System Recovery screen. The one where you can choose to reboot or erase all/reboot. Tried both, didn't work, got a factory cable from Skorpn (thank you!!).
I can now get my kindle to to show 'Fastboot Kindle Fire' on it's screen, but my computer doesn't recognize it as a Kindle. It shows it as 'Tate-PVT-08'. I found some threads on here about that and downloaded the drivers/installed them. The computer still does not recognize it as anything other than the tate thing. Grar. I have the android sdk stuff and the KFFirstAide. I'm using Windows 7 OS if it matters. But I do not know how to proceed without getting the dumb computer to recognize my device, so please help me out if you know how to do this. I'm about ready to throw the darn thing into the street and run it over multiple times with my jeep! It's been unusable for 6 months now! And yes, I'm a pathetic noob, and a girl to boot so keep that in mind... I apologize.
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I apologize for yet another of these types of posts as I know there are a ton because I've been searching through them for a few days now. I can't seem to find a solution to my problem that works so hopefully someone can point me to the correct thread or help me directly. Here is my problem:
I have a Kindle Fire HD 7". I had successfully rooted the device, but then I went and screwed all that up by trying to mod it to get the android market (I, as a noob, changed a system value I shouldn't have - oops). After that, my kindle was/still is stuck on the System Recovery screen. The one where you can choose to reboot or erase all/reboot. Tried both, didn't work, got a factory cable from Skorpn (thank you!!).
I can now get my kindle to to show 'Fastboot Kindle Fire' on it's screen, but my computer doesn't recognize it as a Kindle. It shows it as 'Tate-PVT-08'. I found some threads on here about that and downloaded the drivers/installed them. The computer still does not recognize it as anything other than the tate thing. Grar. I have the android sdk stuff and the KFFirstAide. I'm using Windows 7 OS if it matters. But I do not know how to proceed without getting the dumb computer to recognize my device, so please help me out if you know how to do this. I'm about ready to throw the darn thing into the street and run it over multiple times with my jeep! It's been unusable for 6 months now! And yes, I'm a pathetic noob, and a girl to boot so keep that in mind... I apologize.
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User stunts513 has a driver install package in his signature & profile that you can use to get your drivers working properly. If that doesn't work, you may want to try other, non-Windows based options.
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User stunts513 has a driver install package in his signature & profile that you can use to get your drivers working properly. If that doesn't work, you may want to try other, non-Windows based options.
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Thanks for the pointer - I think it got me a tiny bit further. After finding the package and 'fixing' drivers - woo-hoo - my computer is saying that the device is working properly now, I can see it as 'Kindle Fire' in my device manager. However, it still is showing up as 'Tate-PVT-08' under Devices and Printers, and it cannot be found (isn't communicating) with ADB. I feel like I'm missing something so small to be able to move forward and reflash this thing - it's so incredibly frustrating to not be able to find it. :/
I also have tried editing the adb usb file to include the 0x1949, having gone through the adb kill/start-server commands several times, which hasn't changed anything. Is there anything I am missing to get windows and adb to communicate with it? Or is my only option at this point trying 'non-Windows based options'?
You don't use adb commands with fastboot, you use fastboot commands. I think at this point you said you have kffa, so try getting it to reflash the system image. I don't know the option number though.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
stunts513 said:
You don't use adb commands with fastboot, you use fastboot commands. I think at this point you said you have kffa, so try getting it to reflash the system image. I don't know the option number though.
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Sooo, I feel even stupider now. I do have KFFA, so I tried to reflash the system image. It went through and gave me a success, although it did have an issue with erasing user data and cache. It said to disconnect from the computer/usb and power down, then restart. I did that and was super hopeful - it went through the boot screen a few more times than normal... but then BAM. Right back to the Kindle Fire System Recovery screen that it can't get past. Ugh. I must have really screwed something up on it.
Hmm. I just did some more digging on fastboot commands and found the fastboot mode guide on here. Going through that, I checked my hardware IDs, and one of the numbers are off, which according to the guide means that my Kindle isn't in fastboot mode (and this is while using the fastboot cable). If I use a regular USB cable, it doesn't show up at all anywhere. The more I research, the more confused I get. Everything seems geared towards fixing your device if it is stuck in a bootloop (mine goes through that and sticks at the recovery screen) or being able to get it into fastboot, which I cannot seem to do even with the cable. I guess I'm going to try to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for it again, but I'm starting to believe that whatever value I changed while in super user mode before my problems began are going to make it impossible to fix...
The hardware I'd should be 0x1949, and at this point I'm guessing maybe something is wrong with something in the data partition or you have a bad kernel. I don't know how to wipe the data partition from fastboot though. I don't know if kffa reflashes the boot partition, but you could always try that since a system reflash didn't work, or you could try reflashing the system image again, there's another tool in the android development section called kindle fire system restore tool, maybe it will work better for you. Here's the other tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
Ignore the part about that adb command, that's only for of your kindle can actually boot up.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
Nikaroo said:
Hmm. I just did some more digging on fastboot commands and found the fastboot mode guide on here.
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Be very careful of what guides you use around here. Some of them (fastboot guide in particular) are made with the original Kindle Fires in mind, and can lead you to do irreversible damage.
I'll try that in the morning... I spent most of my day at this and need a break! Thank you so much for trying to help me out. I really appreciate any and all pointers.
Hello,
While trying to upgrade kindle fire HD to Jellybean , I bricked my device. Now , when I switch-on it turns on but the screen shows black with backlight on. Sometimes , it shows lines on the screen but no logo or anything like that. The problem occured when I had installed Jellybean and then it never booted again.
I have factory cable now but don't know where to begin. Can anyone redirect me to any post which gives complete procedure how to unbrick the device?
Can I directly install jelly bean during this process.
Many thanks for your time and support.
Wajih
wrehman said:
Hello,
While trying to upgrade kindle fire HD to Jellybean , I bricked my device. Now , when I switch-on it turns on but the screen shows black with backlight on. Sometimes , it shows lines on the screen but no logo or anything like that. The problem occured when I had installed Jellybean and then it never booted again.
I have factory cable now but don't know where to begin. Can anyone redirect me to any post which gives complete procedure how to unbrick the device?
Can I directly install jelly bean during this process.
Many thanks for your time and support.
Wajih
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Plug it into the your computer and then your KFHD. Fastboot should come on the screen. Now you know fastboot should be working on tablet. Now unplug and press the power button and hold for 30 seconds until the tablet powers off.
Now you want to head on over to the KFFA thread and read it a couple times. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888 Kindle Fire FirstAide will restore your tablet to stock (provided there are no major issues.) I would choose full restore to 7.2.3 because Hascode has a matching boot.img to make flashing a custom rom/twrp much less of a headache. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848 All the way down to number 4. Not step 4 of number 2, but number 4. This is if you are going to flash the rom. Otherwise, use his thread to get a rom installed.
First though, after a full restore, go ahead and root and and remove OTA from KFFA as well. This will be done with the USB cord.
Now back to the rom install. should you want to use FireFlash and flash use the boot.img explained above and use the TWRP image he has too as it is optimized for KFHD 7. Make sure to drop the rom on the root of your SD card before flashing it in case you bootloop into TWRP. This way you have something to flash.
LinearEquation said:
Plug it into the your computer and then your KFHD. Fastboot should come on the screen. Now you know fastboot should be working on tablet. Now unplug and press the power button and hold for 30 seconds until the tablet powers off.
Now you want to head on over to the KFFA thread and read it a couple times. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888 Kindle Fire FirstAide will restore your tablet to stock (provided there are no major issues.) I would choose full restore to 7.2.3 because Hascode has a matching boot.img to make flashing a custom rom/twrp much less of a headache. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848 All the way down to number 4. Not step 4 of number 2, but number 4. This is if you are going to flash the rom. Otherwise, use his thread to get a rom installed.
First though, after a full restore, go ahead and root and and remove OTA from KFFA as well. This will be done with the USB cord.
Now back to the rom install. should you want to use FireFlash and flash use the boot.img explained above and use the TWRP image he has too as it is optimized for KFHD 7. Make sure to drop the rom on the root of your SD card before flashing it in case you bootloop into TWRP. This way you have something to flash.
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I tried to use the tool . After installing the tools and setting. I connected cable between KFHD and PC and I could see fastboot on the screen. After that I open KFFA tool and choose the options for recovery.However, once the message "daemon started successfully" , nothing happens.
What to do?
I waited for sometime but it seems nothing happens.
wrehman said:
I tried to use the tool . After installing the tools and setting. I connected cable between KFHD and PC and I could see fastboot on the screen. After that I open KFFA tool and choose the options for recovery.However, once the message "daemon started successfully" , nothing happens.
What to do?
I waited for sometime but it seems nothing happens.
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The restarting your PC and run KFFA again.
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wrehman said:
I tried to use the tool . After installing the tools and setting. I connected cable between KFHD and PC and I could see fastboot on the screen. After that I open KFFA tool and choose the options for recovery.However, once the message "daemon started successfully" , nothing happens.
What to do?
I waited for sometime but it seems nothing happens.
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same thing happens to me.
my computer also says usb unrecognized.
Okay so hey guys, so first off I've searched all over the forums for a potential fix with no such luck so i'm finally making a post seeing if anyone has a fix.
So the issue, my Kindle Fire HD 7"(2012 version) is rooted, TWRP is installed, and i tried flashing Cyanogen mod 12.1(clean flash, not a dirty flash), everything went fine until CM 12.1 started booting up. At this point the little blue android head loading comes up before the screen transitions to a "optimizing apps 1 of 95" window, when that gets done it goes back to the blue android head before transitioning to another "optimizing apps 1 of 16" window, once that completes it just alternates between the CM blue android logo and another "optimizing apps 1 of 16".
I have tried turning off and booting in TWRP recovery mode by holding the up volume button until the blue fire logo displays and then letting go(even tried holding it and not letting go) but it just waits 15-20 seconds on the blue fire logo before transitioning again to the CM blue android boot up logo and beginning a boot loop again.
I also have tried ADB to get into recovery mode but my kindle is unauthorized, it's recognized when i type in the command "adb devices" it's just not authorized. Apparently to authorize it, when you try to get adb to recognize it and it says it isn't authorized, a prompt on whatever device you are using comes up once you unlock the screen asking whether or not you want to authorize said device with said computer. I know this because that's what came up on my phone when i tried to get adb to recognize it, once i accepted it it became authorized and i could use commands with it such as simply rebooting it. I have yet to find a way to authorize my kindle through the terminal rather than through the device itself.
I have not tried the kindle fire first aide as the link for that .zip file on this site takes me to a file storage website that says the shared file or folder link has been removed, so if anyone knows where that .zip file is and thinks it will solve me issue, link me to it please.
I also have not tried Kindle Fire Utility as to my knowledge that tool is for original Kindle Fires only, if that is wrong and it will work just as well for Kindle Fire HD 7"(2012 version) then sorry for my noobness in that aspect.
If no one knows of or has a potential fix i can still buy a fastboot cable and figure out how to fix it through there, i was just wondering if there was any alternative method before i bought one.
Thanks to all who will contribute to me fixing this problem! -Mayhem
EDIT-Solved, not entirely sure how but managed to finally get into TWRP and re-flash everything
This might help you out http://forum.xda-developers.com/kin...ix-fastboot-mode-using-factory-cable-t3168767
didn't work for me
xlr8edmayhem said:
Okay so hey guys, so first off I've searched all over the forums for a potential fix with no such luck so i'm finally making a post seeing if anyone has a fix.
So the issue, my Kindle Fire HD 7"(2012 version) is rooted, TWRP is installed, and i tried flashing Cyanogen mod 12.1(clean flash, not a dirty flash), everything went fine until CM 12.1 started booting up. At this point the little blue android head loading comes up before the screen transitions to a "optimizing apps 1 of 95" window, when that gets done it goes back to the blue android head before transitioning to another "optimizing apps 1 of 16" window, once that completes it just alternates between the CM blue android logo and another "optimizing apps 1 of 16".
I have tried turning off and booting in TWRP recovery mode by holding the up volume button until the blue fire logo displays and then letting go(even tried holding it and not letting go) but it just waits 15-20 seconds on the blue fire logo before transitioning again to the CM blue android boot up logo and beginning a boot loop again.
I also have tried ADB to get into recovery mode but my kindle is unauthorized, it's recognized when i type in the command "adb devices" it's just not authorized. Apparently to authorize it, when you try to get adb to recognize it and it says it isn't authorized, a prompt on whatever device you are using comes up once you unlock the screen asking whether or not you want to authorize said device with said computer. I know this because that's what came up on my phone when i tried to get adb to recognize it, once i accepted it it became authorized and i could use commands with it such as simply rebooting it. I have yet to find a way to authorize my kindle through the terminal rather than through the device itself.
I have not tried the kindle fire first aide as the link for that .zip file on this site takes me to a file storage website that says the shared file or folder link has been removed, so if anyone knows where that .zip file is and thinks it will solve me issue, link me to it please.
I also have not tried Kindle Fire Utility as to my knowledge that tool is for original Kindle Fires only, if that is wrong and it will work just as well for Kindle Fire HD 7"(2012 version) then sorry for my noobness in that aspect.
If no one knows of or has a potential fix i can still buy a fastboot cable and figure out how to fix it through there, i was just wondering if there was any alternative method before i bought one.
Thanks to all who will contribute to me fixing this problem! -Mayhem
EDIT-Solved, not entirely sure how but managed to finally get into TWRP and re-flash everything
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How did you do it?
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!