yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Did you complete step 3 and have it reboot? If you did, you will no longer be able to get into adb, because you're in fastboot. Keep going and run the commands for fastboot using the fastboot executable in the OP for windows or find the similar one for linux/osx via google.

Fastboot is a lower level program than adb. Metaphorically speaking, think of adb as the console for your phone while fastboot is the bios.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
No problem, Glad it helped!
[Kindle Fire General] baj24:
I'm having the same issue. I think I'm in fastboot but when I do fastboot -i 0x1949 -w it says "waiting for device" and then does nothing. How long should it take? THANKS!
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Should be nearly instant. If it takes longer than 5 seconds to say it's wiping data now then it's taking too long.

try:

fastboot -i 0x1949 devices

or

fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

or just reboot it yourself (i think by holding the power button for 15-20 seconds and maybe the vol down button, either just one or both, don't remember offhand).

If you're really in fastboot, then adb will not respond, so try running an adb command to make sure as well.
[Kindle Fire General] baj24:
I powered my kindle down completely and when it came back up I was able to complete the process with fastboot! Thanks everyone for helping me fix my kindle. I could hug/kiss the person who started this thread and all the awesome people in here for the advice. :) !!!!!!
[Kindle Fire General] victimofcanada:
1)I was changing out the settings files in the /system/app/ Directory.

2) ADB did work before I got bricked.

3) I am unable to complete any of the unbricking process.

4)I am using Windows 7 and am It is picking up that my kindle is attached.

P.S. Should I try this in Ubuntu maybe ?
[Kindle Fire General] JackpotClavin:
i'd try ubuntu. i have yet to have my kf recognized by windows, but always with ubuntu. you may have to do a sudo adb devices and see if it's recognized
[Kindle Fire General] ogreinside:
This just spits out the help options as if syntax was wrong.

It just says <waiting for device>. Without -i 0x1949 it returns nothing.

It responds to adb reboot, but gives the error posted above trying adb shell.

I'll try in Linux.
[Kindle Fire General] EABonney:
This just helped me tremendously! Didn't have to go through the fastboot stuff though. All I had to do was push zergRush onto my device and then shell into it, run zergRush and then I changed the permissions on my framework-res.apk file to 644 and rebooted the device. Took a little bit but I was golden again.

Thanks so much!

-Eric
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
When it spits out all the options, did one of them include an option for -i?

If not, you're running an older version of fastboot and need to update to the one in the OP (for windows) or find one for linux/osx.
[Kindle Fire General] ogreinside:
In Linux when I run "adb devices" I get this:

[~ platform-tools]$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
????????????	no permissions

And fastboot just says < waiting for device >. The -i option is listed, using -w same waiting for device message.

Also:

[~ platform-tools]$ ./adb shell
error: insufficient permissions for device
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Adb should respond eventually I would think. Maybe need to reboot the device and/or unplug/replug or restart adb itself on your computer.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Someone else had that issue in the thread. They solved it by rebooting the device/unplugging replugging I think.

edit: try another device with adb to make sure adb is actually working okay.
[Kindle Fire General] Goosteady:
Bricked and Need Help

Well the back story is, I rooted my Fire with SuperOneClick using this method. Everything was going great until I tried to change the wallpaper/splashscreen using this method, and then I was bricked (stuck at the "kindle fire" launch screen).

Following the directions on the OP, I rooted using zergRush (I don't know if this was necessary since I was already rooted using SuperOneClick, but I did it anyway), then when I go to push zergRush and run chmod755, I get the following error:

Does anyone know where I am going wrong here? I am running Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1 64bit.

Thanks in advance for the help!
[Kindle Fire General] belinathum:
Hi, my rooted Kindle Fire got bricked two nights ago. The screen froze, I powered off and when I powered on, it showed the Kindle Logo. Thereafter, the Kindle logo animated and got stuck there and does not boot up.

Thanks to reading this thread, 3 hours later, I managed to unbrick my Kindle Fire and restore it back to factory settings as good as new and it is now fully functional, so thanks a bunch!

Since my Kindle Fire was already rooted, I skipped steps 1-2. You may want to check that there's an ADB connection to your Kindle. Using cmd, navigate to where your ADB is and run the command which looks something like this:

cd \

cd Android

cd platform-tools

adb kill-server

adb devices

If successful you will get a message that looks like the following:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

5246002600000001 device

I couldn't get step 3 to work (to get to the screen where Kindle fire logo does not animate and stays that way). I did a hard reset (press power button for 20 seconds until the device powers off). I powered on and did a hard reset again while the logo was unanimated. Now when powered on again, the Kindle restarts and shows an unanimated logo and remained there.

Then I went through step 4, which does take a while for cmd to respond, so be patient. Thereafter, I followed through steps 5 and 6 and everything happened as described and my Kindle rebooted back to its factory settings!
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
You typed adb shell, which brought you into the console for the device.

Redo what you were doing without doing the adb shell command.
[Kindle Fire General] Goosteady:
Okay, that worked, but now when I'm at step 3 I am getting an "Operation Not Permitted" error when I try to reboot:

Sorry, I am inexperienced at this, but trying to learn!
[Kindle Fire General] biffbarkley:
Another Fire - In the Loop

Hey guys, thanks so much for all the assist. It looks like I've made it to step 4 (actually at the end of step 3)

# reboot

reboot

I got "operation not permitted"

I rebooted myself and I now have the kindle fire logo on reboot, but it's not animated.

I can't seem to either fastboot or adb into it now.

(As a matter of fact, when rebooting it manually and unplugging and plugging I'll get the dialog box asking as to whether I want to connect to my mac or windows - running VM - I've tried it in both OSes. and it doesn't connect.)

How I got here.

I had already root'd it and was working to get swype working, editing the settings.db - it's likely that I wasn't watching the permissions on the file and now I'm here.

Please advise.

Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] Goosteady:
To Update:

In similar fashion to belinathum, I skipped to step four and rebooted, got the same "Your kindle has detected a problem and must clear app storage.The recovery precess will erase some applications and data from your device. Apps from the appstore are stored in the cloud and can be reinstalled later. This will reset your kindle to its original factory settings. You will need to re-register your kindle prior to downloading items from your amazon account. Please press power button to proceed" message as the OP, but when it resets, I am still frozen at the (non-animated) kindle fire boot screen! Does anyone have an idea on where I am going wrong here?
[Kindle Fire General] Karoly Szanto:
KF v.0.9.1 does not work either. The main problem is: "Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?"
[Kindle Fire General] osashin:
Almost ???

Thanks mes323, finally I could do something for my kindle. i was same situation 4 days ago, then I made factory cable, now i could install TWRP. After a reboot. Yellow Triangle came up, I already success to flush rootboot.2.6.1.img but I have no idea after that. Could you give me an advice how to flash the stock??

current my situation is below

1. flashed TWRP

after install, i could only see "reboot" button on TWRP

and I reboot.

2. flashed 6_2_1rootboot.img

3. when I plug home made USB cable,

PC recognize

Fastboot recognize

adb unrecognize

C:\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

C:\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices

0123456789ABCDEF	fastboot
​

4. when I plug normal USB cable, pc unrecognized kindle.

5. Screen is always yellow triangle.

6. KFU /w home made calbe say

ADB Status Offline

ADB Rooted: No

Boot Status: Unknown

6. I can use fastboot.

I think only I need to do is flash rooted rom.

Please advice to me

Thank you.
[Kindle Fire General] googlelover:
plug your kindle in using either cable, try both, go to device manager and tell me if there is a section called android phone with android composite adb interface. If there's nothing there when you've tried both cables, look under other devices and tell me if theres anything kindle related in there.
[Kindle Fire General] Medguru:
can you please give step by step guide, how to do it. Thank you

---------- Post added at 09:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:36 AM ----------

I am on a mac and not able to anything. i tried "fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme boot mode 4000" and it says command not found

if i try to do the whole process from the start - i get to ./adb-mac root and it prompts error:device not found

please advise
[Kindle Fire General] TrevSo:
Just so I'm clear on this, is there currently any way to totally do a refresh install of 6.2.1 on the Kindle Fire? No modifying any files, just taking it back to fresh, out of the box, factory condition. I see there are various bootloaders and whatnot to achieve this, but is there any way to just wipe everything off and put the OS back on? I'd like to get a fresh start after tinkering with the Kindle Fire.
[Kindle Fire General] mark_a_l:
What state is the unit in?

If you can get TWRP loaded you can download the stock 6.2.1 bin (rename it to update.zip) TWRP can do a wipe and install it making it just like you took it out of the box. There is a youtube video showing the process. IMO it's the easiest way since it's all done on the device (once you get it prepped).

I don't have enough posts to put in the complete link. Just search on youtube for hSGcBR2fFIM

On a working unit (one that at least boots), I don't know if you can just manualy stick the update in the update folder and reboot (like a normal manual update). Not sure if it will update the same version.
[Kindle Fire General] vaporofnuance:
Woohoo .. back up and running!!!

Here's what I did. I had to resort to a factory cable.

To build it, I cut the Micro USB end off of a standard Micro USB to USB 2.0 cable. That exposed black, white, green, and red wires and carefully stripped the insulation from these using a box cutter. Then, I ordered a Motorola Travel Charger (Model #SKN6252) from Amazon for $5 to get pin 4 connected to a Micro USB plug (because I suck at precise soldering .. my hands tend to shake). It's basically a Micro to Mini USB adapter. I cut the Mini USB end off leaving the wires connected to the Micro USB end. That exposed black, white, green, red, and brown wires. I soldered white to white, green to green, black to black, and then the red wires and brown wire together.

Voila! I had my factory reset. I connected it all up, but didn't see the yellow triangle that I've heard that indicates fastboot mode. However, I went ahead and ran "fastboot -i 0x1949 -w" to see if I could force a factory reset. Sure enough .. it worked.

The disclaimer: I can't guarantee that it'll work for anybody else and any damage you do is your own.

Now, off to re-root my device because I learn so well from my mistakes. :)

BTW, these forums have saved me a lot of time and thank you for everybody who contributes: asking questing, answering questions, and daring to brick a $200 device.
[Kindle Fire General] reardan:
to no avail

I think my kindle is in the deepest part of hell.

I have searched the interwebs endlessly for the past few days and still cant find out whats wrong with my rig.

Originally, I rooted with KFU v.7 via virtual box running XP on my mac.

Then when I tried to instal TWRP, the device got stuck in fastboot.

KFU would not let me change the bootmode via my virtual box, so I booted up an old ass Dell with XP and managed to get it to boot normally with the "fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000" command line.

Once rebooted, the device had superuser and burritoroot but wasn't being recognized as rooted in KFU. Whatever... I was just happy my device was working.

Everything was fine until I was playing a game which froze my device. I performed a hard reset, it got stuck back in what appeared to be fastboot. wtf.

Then after much fidgeting in KFU, I downloaded the update.zip and the device said something about having to restore the kindle to the factory settings and to hit the power button. I hit the button and a status bar came up, finished, and said the restore was successful.

Now my device is stuck at the kindle fire boot screen with no animation.

My mac recognizes it in my system status info, but not in my finder.

Any adb processes return :device not found

i have the VID and PID in adb_usb.ini. i have the fastboot-mac downloaded and in the correct directory.

I am waiting until I get back home so I can get my hands back on a PC and try again, but I wanted to know if anyone had anything for me.

I feel like when it went through the restore cycle, it wiped everything and now i've really done it.

I have seen each problem solved individually in various places online, but I feel like my issues have compounded themselves and hurt my KF.

Also, has anyone successfully hard-bricked their devices? I feel like most have come close but I haven't seen anywhere that its really been done.

Thanks for reading,

B
[Kindle Fire General] osashin:
Device Manager status.

googlelover> Thanks for help

Here is my Device Manager status.

When I plug home made cable,

I can look "Andoroid ADB Interface" under "Android Phone".

WHen I plug normal calbe,

I can look "Unknown Device" under "Universal Serial Bus controllers".
[Kindle Fire General] mark_a_l:
It sounds like it's still in fastboot mode. Might try KF utility v.9.1 to get it back in normal mode.
[Kindle Fire General] googlelover:
Alright so it looks like using the home made cable your computer still recognizes it as adb, sounds like you just have bad drivers installed under it, reinstall the drivers you installed originally and tell me if it gets recognized in adb
[Kindle Fire General] lucien12:
i thinkk we have the same problem !

hello still bricked

windows 7

kindle 6.2.1 rooted but unable to boot any more

the logo flashes with a "normal" usb card and no boot

the logo is permanent with a "factory usb cable" i made, and still no boot

1. I turn off the KF

2. i plug the factory usb to the back of the pc

3. light green

4. logo permanent

5. no boot

6. not recognised by the Pc : unknown device, so impossible to communicate via KFU or fastboot or anything else

7. when i take the normal cable (after switching ff/on the KF), it can communicate with PC, i have the good driver. ok with ADB, but no fastboot permitted, i think i have a problem of folder permissions....

and now i don't know what to do...maybe another cable !

after several tries, sometimes i can see the adb driver when i plug my factory usb cable.

but impossible to change driver !

it says error code 10, "ce périphérique ne peut pad démarrer"

it seems i'm not so far from solution

can someone help me to get rid of that error code 10 ?

of course i already tried to remove the drivers and install new one, but without any result.

the driver i use are from KFU 9.1

they work with normal usb cable, but only with ADB, no fastboot...something strange :

i plug the factory cable

i switch off kindle

i switch on kindle

first unknown device

i just plug out and in mini usb

then it is recognised as android adb interface

but that's all

i tried KFU 9.1 and it is offline ???

very very strange

i also see the kindle in "peripheriques et imprimantes"

what do this means ???

can you help

is it a problem with the cable or something else ??

thanks
[Kindle Fire General] reardan:
I have tried using the utilities, but I can't adb into the device. I've installed/uninstalled/etc the drivers when I use virtual box. The problem is is that the device is never recognized. The script shows that its offline. fmKF
[Kindle Fire General] lucien12:
same problem here !
[Kindle Fire General] mark_a_l:
The driver thing seems to be a common problem. My driver would keep coming up with an exclamation point (in fastboot) even if I uninstalled and reinstalled them. But when I rebooted the Fire while it was already connected, suddenly the drivers worked fine. Seems like everyone has a different issue/solution on the driver thing. What seems to work for one person doesn't for another.

Also I think the KF utility may still work and is only reporting ADB off line.
[Kindle Fire General] bigdookie:
I'm stuck at the KF screen after trying to root. My PC does not show ADB Android after I rebooted and I have no (!) in my device manager. ADB devices returns no devices. The KF was connecting perfectly before but now nothing.

What can I do?
[Kindle Fire General] osashin:
finally, fix my KF

Thanks googlelover, and Thanks for all advices.

Finally, my KF works.

After install bootroot.img, I was wondering how to flash Rom. Screen looked like stuck on yellow triangle. My misunderstanding was I thought TWRP would run automatically. But actually, I needed to press power bottom during yellow triangle screen to run TWRP. After running TWRP, I switched to normal cable and adb run as root!!. I push Rom file to sdcard and flash Rom with TWRP.

At that time, kindle didn't start yet becaus of settings.db

I replaced it with backup file, and changed owner and permission to system, 660.

Then reboot kindle.

Everything worked fine!

Thanks for xda people.

extra: This is what happened and what I did.

*I can't say this is correct way, just it worked for main. and sorry my english is so bad.

01. Edit settings.db to add new input type method.

02. Copy it to /databases/ and change permission 660 with RootExplore on Kindle Fire.

03. Kindle was stuck on kindle fire logo. (I didn't have TWRP then)

04. Making Factory cable and fastboot (20 second boot)

05. Flash TWRP, Flash RootBoot

06. reboot

07. Run TWRP (press power botton for few second)

08. change factory cable to normal cable

09. adb shell run as root.

10. push rooted ROM w/ ADB. Flash ROM w/ TWRP

11. change owner and permission to system.system 660 w/ADB

12. reboot

I think the cause of stock was I forgot chagne owner of setting.db which was root.root to system.system.

Thanks again.
[Kindle Fire General] chacaldecg:
I had a permanent brick ???

Install tools Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.1 !!

install drives for windows ok!!

Install burrito root ok!!

Install permament root c super user ERRORR no install!!

Device Works!!

I have install lastet twrp is ERROR .... Reboot Errorrr Boot lopp Kindle fire freeze

!! HELP!!

Drives not detec is device! is drive windows info kindle error code 10!!

I am re-install drives 10x ! install new PC e not work drives!!

I have brick Gtablet! solution is nflash!! as Kindle fire solution drives not working ???

Help!! is error code 10 in drive not allows install new boot or restaure device!!

Sorry my English!
[Kindle Fire General] bspisak:
Can you talk to it with fastboot? What does "fastboot devices" return?
[Kindle Fire General] Zombiepiratez:
*sigh* None of these are working for me. While using the Kindle fire utility to install TWRP It froze, and now my kindle won't get past the "Kindle Fire" boot logo. Can anyone help?!?
[Kindle Fire General] Customz:
I was stuck with the yellow triangle but I managed to fix that part.

My question is when I boot up my Kindle the yellow does appear again but only for about 15 seconds and then loads the Kindle up.

What can I do about that? Do I uninstall TWRP? or is that even possible?

Sorry for the noob questions.
[Kindle Fire General] gulj0915:
"adb: permission denied."

Hi, when I ran the "adb push zergRush /data/local/tmp", the feedback is "adb: permission denied." So I stuck at the very frist stage, could you help! Thank you.
[Kindle Fire General] cryancaire:
I appologize if this has been covered already but I have searched and searched and cannot find a solution that works.

I was trying to install swype on my Kindle Fire. So i followed a method that involved modifying /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

Upon pushing the file back after making the modifications and rebooting, I now get an infinite "Kindle Fire" screen loop. I am already rooted but cannot adb into root because I cannot get Burrito root to load as I am stuck at the logo. zergRush has failed for me as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please my KF is only 5 days old and now I am devastated not to be able to use it.

PS. I have a pretty good bit of experience with adb and fastboot, as I had bricked my Evo in the past and had to recover using adb and fastboot.

Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] Muddquez:
I finally got my Kindle back from the infinite boot loop after screwing up my permissions in my /system/app folder. After reading several threads here I realized that because I have 6.2.1 ZergRush wouldn't work so in order to get into fastboot I was going to need a factory cable until i found this thread:

[fastboot] stock 6.2.1 fastboot mode without rooting or cables

Then I was able to install TWRP

[FIX] Regarding TWRP 2.0 for Kindle Fire

Then I installed a Pre-rooted stock 6.2.1 update

[Update] Pre-rooted stock 6.2.1 update (secure and unsecure boot images)

I did run into a problem installing the update because I couldn't mount my /sdcard folder but I fixed that here:

mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 on /sdcard failed: Invalid argument

Thanks to all involved in this forum there is a lot of great information here

Muddquez....
[Kindle Fire General] Karoly Szanto:
Hi,

I was in the same situation as you were: changed system/app folder permissions and got stuck on infinite boot (flashing kindle fire logo).

I've just followed the instructions to go into fastboot without a factory cable.. well it did something as now the kindle fire logo is not flashing anymore.. so I think it is not booting over and over again (might just have entered fastboot mode) :D

The problem is that I can't see the device anymore, neither with adb nor with fastoob. There is an issue with the drivers. Any hints?

Thanks!
[Kindle Fire General] Karoly Szanto:
I've managed to move forward! The kindle would not show up under fastboot devices, but the commands using fastboot worked! I managed to do everything so I flashed the latest 6.2.1 update from amazon.

After reboot, I am stuck on the "kindle fire" logo!! (twrp is gone as well). The device shows up under "adb devices" BUT "adb shell" would throw

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

From my point of view this does not look good!! I've followed the exact steps and everything worked as it did for others, except now it does not boot the OS :(

Any help? This just got terribly sad :(