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[Kindle Fire General] XIKyotoIX:
Ok, fairly long post here, sorry. But I'm rather stuck and I figured maybe you guys who know something I didn't, since I'm pretty much a total newbie at this stuff.

I bricked my Kindle Fire after rooting it by setting the permissions on the System/App folder to be read/write for owner, and read for everybody else. After I did that, the screen just turned black, and wouldn't do anything. I turned it off, and back on, and like everybody else, it's just looping continuously through recovery screens. Unlike everybody else, I can't get my computer to recognize my Kindle fire in any meaningful way. It does in fact show up, kind of, if I switch it between enough USB ports. Then I get an E: Drive that when one tries to click on it, it says to "insert a disk into drive E:". I can see the Kindle in my Devices section of the Control Panel, but the drivers are all from 2006, and whenever I try to update any of them using the rooting method I did previously, is says that Windows has determined I already have the drivers that are most current.

This immediately becomes a problem when I try to run adb and push zergRush onto it. If I can get the E: drive to show up at all, it will tell me I don't have permission to copy zergRush. If I can't, it will show the "No such file or directory" error. In either case, when I run adb devices, I get 3E72002600000001 recovery as my only device.

This is quite maddening, as I've been working at this for five-odd hours trying to just get to the basic first step everybody else seems to get to no problem. Sorry for the lengthy post, I would just really like to fix this (it was a birthday present from my girlfriend!).

Thank you all very much for all of the time you've already put in. You guys are indeed very awesome!

I can't attach pictures. Sorry I have some that would help. PM me if you need them.

Thanks again guys!
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
If you follow the steps in the OP, no where does it mention to load a file onto your "sdcard" (aka drive E: for you). It says to push zergRush to /data/local/tmp via the command line using adb. If you do that, it will work. You'll never be able to use what you're trying to currently do as long as it's bricked.

Once you do that, you can change the permissions back on /system/app (after rooting with zergRush) by mounting the system in read/write and then running chmod 755 on /system/app.

There's been a couple other people already with your issue if you read through the posts that mentioned or someone mentioned how to solve the issue once you have temp root again.
[Kindle Fire General] andee777:
Thanks! (Sorry, new here so can't use the 'thanks' button yet)
[Kindle Fire General] JayGun:
Kernel flash recovery?

I tried flashing a custom kernel (see: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1375389 for my issue) now I can't see my Kindle in Device Manager so I can restore.

Is there something I can do to make it connect back to the PC so I can flash back the stock kernel and try this restore method?
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
flash the boot.img that came with the update in fastboot.

EDIT: However, you cannot get to fastboot with the state of your device, so you're out of luck with that. Someone did mod recovery to make the first item flash an update.
[Kindle Fire General] JayGun:
That's what I want to do, but the Kindle doesn't show up in device manager. Don't know if OP (or others) had issues of recovering a Kindle from not displaying in device manager.
[Kindle Fire General] XIKyotoIX:
Thanks for the reply. I don't think I did a great job of explaining in my post, but I did indeed try running adb and pushing zergRush.

What I write is this (I put KindleFireRoot in my C:files for easy navigation):

C:\files\

adb.exe

adb push zergRush data/local/tmp

What I get is either "no such file or location exists" or "you don't have permission", depending on if I can get the K: drive to show up at all. I'm not trying to actually do anything to the K: drive, I was just thinking this may help in diagnostics. This is the same reason I mentioned the fact that it shows up as recovery. I was hoping you guys could tell me why I couldn't push zergRush.

Thanks again!
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
adb push zergRush data/local/tmp

is not the same as:

adb push zergRush /data/local/tmp

note the /

make sure zergRush is in that directory you're running that command from. to verify, type "dir" without quotes and see if it comes up.
[Kindle Fire General] cheesethepuffman:
Hi, posting in this thread, I assume you all know my problem is the boot loop.

I encountered this when I changed my \system\app folder permissions. The screen did much what someone else in this thread mentioned. It went black, stayed there a few seconds, then started rebooting. And rebooting. And rebooting.

The best thing is that this Kindle isn't unrecognized by the computer. I was able to follow the OP's instructions to the T. The device eventually got to the point where it asked me to press the power button to confirm the factory reset.

The bar loads all the way, it shouts success, then it proceeds to reboot again. And then it loops again.

I'm really nervous now. The Kindle isn't mine, it's for my cousin. And, while she understood the risks as well as I did, I didn't expect to encounter this problem. Now I'm fighting off anxiety. Please, someone help me as much as possible. I'll provide as much more information as I can if needed.
[Kindle Fire General] XIKyotoIX:
Thanks for being so patient. So inserting the / did change things, but now it simply says "error: device offline". That seems better, but is there another thing I should do from here? My kindle fire is on and connected and on the recovery screen.

Thank you very much, you guys are lifesavers!

Thanks again.
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
Kindle Fire Stuck at reboot.

Hi guys,

can someone one guide me how to do a flashboot? A step by step? My kindle is brick after i went to change this: droidpirate.com/2011/11/20/amazon-kindle-fire-how-to-change-wallpapers/ . Can someone guide me how to have my FK back online? I have previously root it and have android market install and also Ex-Go Launcher install all with no issue. But after i try to follow on what metamorph and reboot my KF, it nv got rebooted and i really duno about how to recovery or unbrick despite reading the thread. Can someone guide me step by step?

(I don't quiet understand) This is the issue i encounter.

1. open up adb

2. follow the root procedures in the op or download super one click and press shell root (they both give you temp root)

3. take the original un-edited system file (in my case it was framework-res.apk) and put it in the same folder of your adb

4. type in

adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

This makes it so you can re write system files which are normally protected

5. finally type in

adb push Filename.apk /system/whatever dir/filename.apk

6. reboot!

I try ADB ---> it say my device is off-line? Is it correct?
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
device offline usually means you need to restart adb or unplug and replug it in (or reboot device).

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You need to just change the permissions back to 755 on /system/app (the unbricking guide needs an update note to say it only covers modifications to directories other than under /system). If you screw up system, you either need to flash a system.img someone creates for you or figure out how to undo what you did (your case would fall under the easier later method).

Several have had that issue in the thread if you do a quick search. Solution should be in the thread as well if you need more details.

essentially you would run

adb shell chmod 755 /system/app

after

running zergrush to get temp root.

then reboot.
[Kindle Fire General] cheesethepuffman:
Turns out, the answer I was looking for was on the only two pages I didn't look for. Saw someone with the same problem, like you said I would, and they ran

adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

before they ran the chmod command. Thank you. You calmed me down and pointed me in the right direction.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Yep that will fix your issue. Don't stress too much :-). Also I made sure to add these steps in the original post since it seems many people are having this same problem.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Hmm.

I may be wrong but I have a feeling you still many not be typing things correctly. Can you copy and paste exactly what you have in the cmd console?
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
2nd Step help?
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
Pls pls help....

in additional my USB is show this? Can someone pls pls assist?

PLS help? Really regret in the attempt to change the wallpaper when all is working fine. Really wanna know how to fastboot complete and shift the file in for the frame.apk
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
if you were messing with changing the wallpaper, you probably did what a bunch of other people in the thread did and screwed up the permissions on something like /system/app

Fastboot will not help you if that's the case. You'll have to change back the permission on whatever you did using "adb shell"

You can do us a favor by going through the posts that had the same problem as you and reading the replies we gave them and figuring out what you can do or what you can tell us by those replies so we don't have to repeat ourselves.
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
How to i change back the permission? Now my computer don't recognize and abd shell doesn't detect my device anymore. Can u guide me on this part first? I had read someone mention similar on changing the wallpaper thing and suggested to follow the PO and then paste the frame.apk over. However now i'm confuse do i continue to do a fastboot or paste the frame.apk as suggested previously?

As from the past entries:

1. open up adb

2. follow the root procedures in the op or download super one click and press shell root (they both give you temp root) What does it meant? In additional, from the thread i can't find any information regarding on how to shift back to where the KF can be detected when as currently it is in fastboot and it was not completed given the USB unable to detect. I have did a system restore on my computer to see if the USB work, but it failed as well.

Update on USB:

I have try to update the drive issue, but it seem like error. Can someone advice? This is just the 3rd day since i got my Kindle Fire. Sorry to trouble you guys.

(Pop up window)

The folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible sotfware driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for 32-bit systems.

(The above file is taken from KindleFireRoot, i have not change anything. The rooting part was fine, everything was day up)
[Kindle Fire General] juan1337pg:
finally i solved it!!

thx ubeeze

my proble was the permissions on system/app...thx!!!!!! finally with ur tut i solved it..iam so happy!!!!!!!

greeeets
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
What I must do to FULL system.img restore? My kindle totally DIE. Pls help!
[Kindle Fire General] loadie:
oops

rooted, go launcher, tit backup.a little different problem, i froze the stock launcher in tb and rebooted into a bootloop.i know better but.. Any ideas
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
Can anyone advice what else I can do to restore back after it stuck in fastboot? And window don't detect my kindle fire.
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
I have the same problem... fastboot <waiting for device>
[Kindle Fire General] XIKyotoIX:
I type this:

cd C:\files

dir

adb devices

adb push zergRush /data/local/tmp

Hopefully that helps. I also PM'd you a picture, so I hope that helps as well.

Thanks guys!
[Kindle Fire General] cgilstrap:
Alright I admit to being a moron without a backup, so now that we're past that here's my issue.

I keep getting hung up at the fastboot step. It hangs on <waiting for device>.

But here's why I'm trying to do this in the first place. I was trying to change the slider using metamorph and it changed a .jar file I'm thinking. When I rebooted it just sits on Kindle Fire stationary boot screen.

I can still achieve root and adb functionality. I dunno any ideas specific to this scenario? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I ran logcat and this is what loops over and over again. {most of the loop is in screen capture}

**EDIT** ok so after exploring around in adb shell and reading through the logcat file I decided to open the .xml that started all this crap in Eclipse. Long story short I ended up replacing the framework-res.apk file and rebooting to my same old system with all my fun things still on there.

Having said that, anyone know a good backup app or program I can get to backup my Kindle Fire so if in need I can just perform a recovery on it?
[Kindle Fire General] juan1337pg:
for all with the problem with fastboot...waiting for device

did u ever tried different fastboot versions? i tried the version from wikipedia link..about 900kb..had same prob..after that the mentioned download from the tut. (200kb)..i dunno what was the difference..but this worked..other not..

perhaps it helps someone..
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
That version 944kb 2008 year also didn't help. Can you give to as you worked version?
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
the one hes talking about I linked in the first post where it says Get fastboot here:

here since im feeling nice atm http://multiupload.com/TPWBYSCGM7
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
This fastboot don't work! Endless waiting for device... and all of fastboot's don't work... Seems my device already dead.

P.S when I type "adb devices" that say device found and I can see his usb ID but fastboot don't work. Can't find any device.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Then you're not in fastboot, you're just in a normal mode that lets you use adb.
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
i cant use adb because i get error what system/bin/sh no such file or directory. i try remount command and push this file to system/bin and i have error what permission denied so i cant use adb shell only adb push

how i can get my kindle to fastboot mode
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
Mine say device not found. It is in bright light and not dim. This status is in fastboot right? Is my kindle dead?
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
You're pretty much stuck then if you cant get into adb's shell, since there's no way you're going to get into fastboot without telling it to do so via adb as of right now on the kindle fire.

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I don't own a kindle, I just helped the OP (remotely) to come up with the solution to unbrick it using remote tools (because we live on opposite ends of the country). If you told it to reboot to fastboot from adb, then yes, you're in fastboot. The best way to tell is to try running a fastboot command.
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
I try my computer don't recognize my kindlefire via USB. and even when i run the command it states waiting for device.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Can you paste the exact command you are trying to run for me (or screen shot it)? Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] ramoncsw:
Okie. Here is the Screen shot i have when connecting my KF to the computer. And what i type to test ADB and Fastboot.
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
In my case adb recognize my kindle, but fastboot don't work (
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
you need a driver of some sort then most likely, but i really have no idea otherwise
[Kindle Fire General] animefun135:
How I can set permission to file without using adb shell?

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now i tried to push all /system. i have bootloop. seems my device totally dead..
[Kindle Fire General] zachm52:
I decided to download go launcher on to my kindle fire for the different inteface. After rebooting my device the app wasn't working, so i tried to manually delete the app files from my pc. I think I accidentally deleted the original launcher application files in the process. Now whenever I start up my device, both of the launchers won't work, and all that I get is a black screen. I also rooted my device but that hasn't been any help. Any suggestion on how to fix it?

Thanks,

Zach
[Kindle Fire General] UnU$UAL ROC:
Help Plz

I think my build prop permission is wrong can someone please explain what i need to do?

D:\Users\Ricardo>adb shell

cd /system/

ls -l$ cd /system/

$

ls -l

drwxr-xr-x root root 1970-01-01 00:00 lost+found

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 19:34 app

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-12-02 17:10 bin

-rw-r--r-- root root 2143 2008-08-01 12:00 build.prop

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:09 etc

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:09 fonts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:09 framework

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:10 lib

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:10 media

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:10 tts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-12-02 17:10 usr

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-12-02 17:10 vendor

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-12-02 19:34 xbin
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
did you try any of the steps in the original post?
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Your permissions look fine. Whats the problem you are having?
[Kindle Fire General] UnU$UAL ROC:
im on the recovery loop. when the bar fills up during recovery it sais error in splash/recovery
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
how did you brick your device?
[Kindle Fire General] UnU$UAL ROC:
I was trying to install market apk into the app folder, and it wouldnt go in, so i went to paste it in the folder before /app wich was /system and then it crashed, also i was using another version of root explorer and it said it was giving me permissions but it seemed like it was working intermittantly, so i am thinking something went wrong in permissions. to add to the madness, before that i bricked it because i was trying to paste a new sys folder but that didnt work outwell my screen went black but somehow i got out of it and deleted the pasted folder. thats all i know.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
show the permissions within the app directory please.
[Kindle Fire General] zachm52:
I was planning on it, do you think there is any chance it will work because without the launcher app I can't get on my device at all.
[Kindle Fire General] shug176:
Total novice here guys bricked my kindle with go launcher not sure what iv done.can someone tell me where to start iv went through the steps of rooting my device again ny instructions show in op but im stuck from this below what do i do with this is it a command prompt?if i just know how to get started i have a chance I can link my kindle to the computer no problem so just need to know where to start

Code:

adb shell

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

chmod 755 /system/app
[Kindle Fire General] UnU$UAL ROC:
Recovery loop

How do i tell adb to show me app dir?
[Kindle Fire General] speed_racer_89:
Noob needs help...

I have gone thur all the posts and haven't been able to get into the shell portion of the steps to work. I can connect to my device, drivers are ok, no errors. Another drive appears under "My Computer", the icon is shaded out and unaccessable, but there. When I go into the cmd, I can see that my device is connected, I can perform "adb reboot", device reboots, but thats it. Not able to get into the shell portion. I have also tried fastboot, not luck either.

Please help.....
[Kindle Fire General] zachm52:
I'm new to this and I don't really understand the process of where to put zergrush and fastboot or where to type in the code.
[Kindle Fire General] ratchetandclankf:
It tells me

:confused:

I am ÜBER NOVICE. Sorry about my lack of knowledge. The KF is also my first Android device.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Pretty sure you're screwed. You basically screwed up the permissions on /system/bin and that cannot be fixed. Others have done it in this thread as well if you read carefully.

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The same way you were for the other directories you listed, only with /system/app?

-----------------------------

I just wanted to thank everyone that appreciated the tutorial and the help so far that the OP and I have provided. Just wanted to post a quick note about the topic....

Kindle Fire recovery/unbricking questions that are not specific (e.g. "How do i do this tutorial to begin with because I am a total noob") I cannot keep answering (and probably not the OP). Perhaps some of the people we've helped will start to step it up more and help those that are in need. It would be nice if some more did (I know some have and I thank those that reply to those still in need). So I guess all I am asking is people, "help us help you". If you need help, be EXPLICIT (give every detail possible and not ONE LINE posts). If you want us to help you with your "noobness," help us with our "noobness" in terms of understanding what you did to your device.

Mainly it would be easier to fix a lot of issues just going on teamviewer with someone and doing it, but I don't have the time to do that. Please just read, research and attempt to do exactly what the OP and I have mentioned guys and you'll be okay. Deviate from that and you're on you're own.

This is not a rant or anything--just a way to explain that I feel we're going in circles here and it's hard to answer everyone's question appropriately (and I try to make an effort to reply as much as I can). I would love to help everyone, but it's mostly been a two person operation in this thread (myself and the OP). We're both Computer Science students and have busy schedules, but we try to make time to help out when we can :)
[Kindle Fire General] speed_racer_89:
Thanks for the reply. I ran into this problem when I was trying to copy and paste a file into the /system/app folder. I just wanted to see if there was anything else I could do, been trying to figure this out for the last couple of days.

Thanks Again......
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Since you dont have a working recovery on your device like most android devices do, not really :(

(short of begging amazon to take it back)

EDIT: actually this should fix it, if you can find one...
[Kindle Fire General] speed_racer_89:
Yup, dusting off my knees for Amazon. I actually have been using a OEM Motorola cable from my Droid-X, I ordered a new one from E-Bay today, to give it a try with a different newer cable, so we'll see how that goes. When I get it I"ll try it out with the post listed above.

Thanks Again.....
[Kindle Fire General] golym:
Thanks

Thanks,it is very useful
[Kindle Fire General] ratchetandclankf:
OK that problem's gone. Now it sits at < waiting for device >
[Kindle Fire General] kaliato:
After I installed the go launcher ex.APK, and set it to be default.

My KF stop working. I reboot it and I stop at the stage of having a flash of kindle fire.

I try the method in the first post.

After step 3,

it shows me that <waiting for device>

According to the previous post, it is beause I have done something wrong.

So I do the whole process again.

However, I fail to do so.

The logo of kindle fire is still on my screen but with flash.

cmd show me that error: device not found

and my computer mention my KF is not a workable device also.

Then, what can I do?

help me
[Kindle Fire General] ashtheabyss:
i try the same and i got "unable to chmod /system/app: Read-only file system" i think that's is my problem on the binning with i change my app folder to ready only can anybody help please
[Kindle Fire General] MayfairDROID:
The OEM Cable that came with the Droid X is not what you need. You need the Factory cable used by the factory to program the device. Search TBH Factory Motorola Cable. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=TBH+Factory+Motorola+USB First result will take you to the cable you need.