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[Kindle Fire General] Dave_Colorado:
At last count, I've read more than 150 posts...

So forgive me if this is answered somewhere else -- I just don't know where to look anymore.

The situation: Brand new Kindle Fire. Downloaded KFU, installed TWRP and permanent root.

Booted TWRP, tried to flash Energy.6.23.2012.Kindle.Fire.CM9.ICS.TAKE3; system said everything went fine.

Rebooted Kindle....get the "Kindle Fire" screen, then the looping boot screen (colorful, sections of a circle)....

And nothing else.

Tried FK -- I use Ubuntu all the time. FK hangs at "waiting for OMAP44XX device..."

Tried the unbrick utility -- "Device not found"

Tried KFU again -- as administrator and not. always get the "waiting for device"

Tried "adb shell" -- get "error -- device not found"

Windows sees it as an android phone- Android ADB Interface.

Ubuntu sees it as a Am File-CD Gadget, with no media detected.

Bought a Factory Cable from SkOrPn -- so far as I can tell, nothing's changed.

Tried ReKindle -- no joy.

<sigh>

I'm at a loss.

If there's a thread I missed, please feel free to flame the hell out of me -- as long as you send the link.

Do I need to crack this thing open?

<sigh>

My first venture into Android....been an IOS jailbreaker for a while now.
[Kindle Fire General] salehi186:
TWRP AND Recovery are deleted

thx about your help

:confused::confused:

but i updated original rom 6.3 so it erased twrp & recovery both of them

my device is in loop. it shown me an screen that say : wrong app data, press power to erase them ........ . after press power it shown a progress bar that means erased some thing and then reboot. again after load it shown that message & ... .

in command prompt in adb Devices

this message displayed:

adb devices

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

2XXXXXXXXXXXX recovery

but i cant access to shell comand.

is there any way to return to original rom?

for example in htc desire hd it's possible to put an update file on root of sd card and in hboot menu it automaticaly update it. as same as hd2 & some other devices.

do i need to factory cable? or is the simple way to solve this problem.
[Kindle Fire General] ErcDaMerc:
Please Help

[edit] fixed!

Hi, I used KFU to install TWRP. Then I flashed FFF. Then I wiped cache and dalvik cache and flahsed Miui. I was stuck in boot loader so I flashed miui again. This time when TWRP prompted me to wipe cache/dalvik I did. When I rebooted I saw the FFF boot screen once, then it turned off and I can't get it do anything at all now. It won't turn on. What do I do now? I'm going to try FireKit but does anyone have other suggestions?

Thank you
[Kindle Fire General] Marv.1:
Completely stuck at boot screen

It looks like in the process of booting a jellybean ROM I'm stuck at the boot screen (I let it run all night, it just loops and loops). I can't boot into recovery by pressing the power button at startup and now my computer won't recognize it. It really seems like I've lost fastboot, I've lost access to the bootloader. I've checked everywhere on the forums and it does not look like anybody has experienced my problem.

My computer does make a noise when the kindle is plugged in, but KFU won't recognize it as online.

It sounds like I have the exact same issue as Dave_Colorado above me. It's recognized but nothing will connect no matter what I do.
[Kindle Fire General] pentiumn:
Hello! I have a big problem disappeared after the firmware update disk partitions, now only boots in recovery mode CWM, in recovery mode USB device is installed but does not see the Win7 disk volume. FIREFIREFIRE 1.4a installed. Help the council. Thank you.
[Kindle Fire General] esloudan:
thank god

I thought my kindle fire was a goner. While rooting I experience a flash of a bad download and had a kindle brick. Found this post and now i have a kindle fire with glazed ice cream,
[Kindle Fire General] aioen:
Kindle Fire stuck on recovery

Hi Everyone,

I planned to root and install jelly bean on my new kindle fire. right after the part where i flashed the TWRP image then reboot, my kindle just boots up, shows up the original kindle fire logo, screen goes off, shows a dimmer version of the original kindle fire logo, then screen goes black.

I can verify on adb devices that the device is being detected although it says it is on recovery. It only accepts adb devices and adb reboot. i tried changing the bootmode by using adb shell idme bootmode 4002 so i can flash the recovery image again, but it says "idme not found". is there anything i can try before the factory cable? i'm in the philippines and wont be able to order a factory cable. :(

Thanks in advance.
[Kindle Fire General] aioen:
Unbricked! Created my own factory cable. Thanks to all that helped!
[Kindle Fire General] MoxLeader:
did bad things in twrp

So i was going to get the new jelly bean rom on my kindle fire and decided to free up all of my space, i did the usual and factory reset, cache, dalvik cache, and then i figured well i want a completely clean system and i wiped every other category, and well now im screwed because my device wont show up anywhere and it has no firmware any help would be appreciated please:)
[Kindle Fire General] did29:
Where can I download sergRush and the latest Fastboot? both links from the begining of the guide are not working anymore.
[Kindle Fire General] nguyen4062:
Offer a fee to restore my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 - device is brick i think

Hi expert,

I am interested in your recovery procedure, but i can't quit PRO to do all the instructions. I just bricked my Kindle Fire HD after i tried to ROOT it today. Right now the KF i have is disabled completely can't BOOT. I try to find a expert to restore my thing to factory or Root it correctly so i can get it back instead of throw it away.

Tell me if you can do , i send the unit to you and you can do it and send back via UPS. I pay fair price $50.

Thanks a lot.
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
Everything this thread is extremely outdated.

Try here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2166668
[Kindle Fire General] toly084:
Good time of the day for everyone. People, please, help. Almost a week I try to recover my Kindle 1 gen. The problem is.

1. SDcard cannot be mounted in the device itself (I see from the logs) also DATA partition and System.

2. Computer see the Kindle only in the Fastboot from the begining of the booting, I can also fix the fastboot mode by the command

"fastboot getvar devices". The FFF bootloader installed and TWRP recovery also. I can go into recovery. ADB command do not work, as computer do not see the device in normal mode. I think this is because that bootloader cannot mount partitions.
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
As I said in the previous post, everything in this thread is outdated. Besides, you already have this same question in another thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2180496
[Kindle Fire General] MakMetch:
Unbrick Kindle Fire HD 7

HOW I RESTORED MY BRICKED KINDLE FIRE HD 7

(the final solution)​

I initially rooted my Kindle Fire HD 7 without any problems. Removed the screen ads without a problem, but then bricked the Kindle when I tried to alter the "framework-res.apk," (wallpapers, themes) file. I tried to replace their pictures with my own pictures. After this point, I was getting a RED triangle with an exclamation point and it would only go to the "reboot" menu. I could choose to "restore" to original settings "erase everything," but it would only reboot and go to the same reboot menu. Here are the steps I took to un-brick the device:

First step,

Pray

Second step,

I ordered a "factory cable" from China on Ebay (5 ft MicroUSB Factory Cable for Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Kindle Fire HD Kindle Fire. It took a long time to arrive, just over 30 days, but when it came and I plugged it in, it immediately showed up on my "Device Manager" as "tate-pvt-08".

This was the first sign of progress, but I still needed to get the computer to recognize the device as a "Kindle" (see next step).

Third step,

I Installed the Kindle USB drivers (called - "Kindle_Fire_HD_ADB_Drivers" in order to get the computer (Windows7 [64 bit sys]) to recognize the device. After installation, it immediately showed up as "Kindle" under "Device Manager" and as an "Android" device in the sub category.

Forth step,

I ran the "Kindle Fire HD system.img Recovery Tool v1.2.3"

There are 5 options to choose from. I chose #1 ("1. Restore-su only")

I let the system run for between 5-10 minutes and it restored the original system files. Once done, I disconnected the cable from the PC and rebooted the Kindle. It started up slowly, but eventually went to the original configuration menu for initial set-up. Thankfully, it restored the original system.

Note, this is what worked for me, however, no guarantees that it will work for you. It took a lot of research and trial and error before I could get this far. There is currently very little out there by way of a quick and easy solution. I hope this helps you. I am sharing because I know the frustration involved.
[Kindle Fire General] imblessed68:
frustrated to the max

my kindle fire is rooted and stuck in boot mode. I have tried kfu brick utility and kfu utility the message im getting is can't find twrp.img plzzz help
[Kindle Fire General] crasher925:
i somehow deleted all the files in my system/bin on my kindle fire 1st gen can i get some help plz?
[Kindle Fire General] gsanchez922:
I need Help with Kindle fire hd 7/8.9

Hello I try to Unbrick my Kindle fire hd 8.9 and I did something Wrong and With the Kindle 7 I try put the 2ndBoot and I did something wrog too...I'm new in this world of kindle so my problem is the kindle do nothing when i try to put on and when i put to chaching do nothing too i wanna know if ican do something or if my kindles are died :(:(:(:(:(:(
[Kindle Fire General] resarfekim:
I have an 8.9" 3HT7G that a coworker was trying to root or flash, and now it appears to be completely dead (won't turn on). No charge light, no response from USB. Hard reset does nothing.

Any hope for resurrection?

Thanks!

mike
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
This thread is for the kindle fire 1, and mostly out dated.

See Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?
[Kindle Fire General] YamiRioru:
my kindle fire hd 6 keeps bootlooping at the amazon sign and my computer isn't picking up the device..... I messed up the system permissions.... I really don't want to set back my pc build funds on a new kindle.... please help....

---------- Post added at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:03 PM ----------

I tried using kindle unbrick utility but, its ****ing useless since it can't pick up the freaking device....
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
This thread is for the kindle fire 1, and mostly out dated.

See Fire Index: Which Amazon (Kindle) Fire Do I have?

for the correct forum link
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
hi.

when i type

fastboot -i 0x1949 -w

it says.

command write failed(unknown error)

what's wrong?

please help me.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
...I said a DIFFERENT command. If you're going to just ignore me then forget it and I'll quit helping.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
I'm in company.

I'll try it after work.

Hope it will work.
[Kindle Fire General] Goosteady:
I think this might work but I can't access the framework file inside of amazon's .bin update file. I have tries UltraISO, Magic ISO, Nero... If someone could either tell me how to access the file or just send me a copy of theirs, I would very much appreciate it.

I feel like I'm so close!
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
7zip or winrar. It's just a container file, like a tar.
[Kindle Fire General] Goosteady:
Wooooooooo!!! Your solution worked! Yareally, you are yareally the man!

After placing the framework file, I was stuck in a bootloop (but the logo was moving this time), so I wiped everything again with fastboot and after the reboot it brought me back to the kindle configuration screen.

Thanks very much for all of the help. I have learned a lot over the last few days.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Sure, no problem. Glad it worked.
[Kindle Fire General] toonakan:
worked on my mac:

I downloaded the wrong fastboot. cost me a over an hour...

got the right fastboot-mac but still wouldn't work. thought I was bricked for sure cause I couldn't get ADB. Google rescued me...I found out you have to enter the entire path to fastboot-mac (ex: /user/home/android-sdk-macosx/tools/fastboot-mac -i 0x1949 -w). weird but worked. Cost me another 45 minutes

Got to "rebooting..." and nothing happened. decided to restart the kindle after 20 minutes and viola!

Lot's of sweat on this tonight but I am so thankful for this post. have a beer on me.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
I'm glad it ended up working for you! Also, thank you for posting this information for all the mac users out there.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
I have googled many many times.

But nothing useful.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
There's useful stuff, but there are no solid answers that will tell you the exact thing wrong. It could be a number of problems that you would need to go through and try from suggestions given from google searches.

for starters:

http://www.google.com/search?client...nown+error)"&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1275819.html

Pretty much the only person that can help you is yourself (by figuring out the issue), short of returning your kindle if you can.

You also did not say if you ran some other commands to test if fastboot was working at all.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
C:\Users\Administrator>fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000

... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))

finished. total time: 0.001s

C:\Users\Administrator>fastboot -i 0x1939 reboot

< waiting for device >

help me please
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Looks like you are no longer in fastboot as far as I can tell.

Try running an adb command.

If you can run an adb command, you are no longer in fastboot.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
i tried to change another USB cable.it doesn't work.

change another USB hob ,it doesn't work.

but when i change another computer.it works.

thanks very very much!!!!

thanks god!!

I'm charging kindle fire.

hope it's well.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
does it say you should charge your kindle?

and then.you should wait while charging?

.just charge it please.

you should charge it to about 30%.

then you will can start up it.
[Kindle Fire General] Bilibong:
I bricked mine by trying to change the wallpapers. Not sure what I did with the framework.apk. I've been able to following everything so far but my device is not being picked up by my laptop. I see it listed as the H: drive but it's being read as a disk drive. I followed all the steps but nothing. So I did:

C:\KindleFireRoot\files>adb devices

List of devices attached

And it shows up blank then I tried.

C:\Program Files (x86)\KindleFireRoot\files>adb shell chmod 755

<waiting for device>

And it stays at waiting for device. From what I'm gathering other's who ran into this problem switched up computer's, should that be the next course of action I take. This is the laptop I rooted it on does that matter? Any help or info would be terrific and thank you so much for what you've guys have done so far.
[Kindle Fire General] tonyzzp:
did you see your kindle in device manager?if not.you should install the driver.

and try fastboot command.

maybe it's in fastboot mode.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Probably need to kill adb and restart it.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
You must not be in fastboot or need to reconnect/disconnect or reboot the device. If adb shows up and works, then you didnt really reboot to fastboot.
[Kindle Fire General] Bilibong:
Awesome I think I got it. Thanks so much,
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Glad it worked :)
[Kindle Fire General] filovirus:
I was able to run through the entire process to the screen that says the kindle found a problem and press the power button to erase user data and factory restore.

I have done this twice and still end up with a flashing kindle fire logo. I can adb into the fire and root with zergRush.

I initially rooted with SuperOneClick zergRush. Installed go Launcher. I seem to think the brick came when trying to update the permissions of /system/app to write the market apk. This is the only thing I can think of that caused the brick.

Here are the permissions of /system after running through ubeezee's steps.

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 system

and /system/

ls -l

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

drw-r--r-- root root 2011-11-29 12:31 app

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-16 03:03 bin

-rw-r--r-- root root 2144 2008-08-01 12:00 build.prop

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 etc

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 fonts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 framework

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 lib

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 media

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 tts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-16 03:03 usr

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-16 03:03 vendor

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-29 12:31 xbin

#

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

filovirus
[Kindle Fire General] Veritass:
THANKS SO MUCH!!! this saved me!
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
You are getting the animated kindle fire screen after it reboots from restoring or not animated? Also does it complete the whole restore process? Is your device charged up enough? Have you tried hard reset? Hold power button for ~20 seconds and turn back on. We can further investigate once if it's still having issues.
[Kindle Fire General] filovirus:
filovirus

The screen I get is "kindle fire" with the brightness gradient from right to left. I am able to get into adb still, so I know it is not in the fastboot mode.

I am able to temp root with zergRush and run the process again, which I have done without any change.

The fastboot process completed exactly like you said it would. The screen that said the kindle **** the bed and needed to delete user data came up like you said it would.

The kindle has been on USB for days and is completely charged.

I have hard reset the device multiple times without any changes.

Thank you very much for your response. This is the first android device I have bricked. My understanding is that all is not lost, so long as you can adb into the device and have root. Unfortunately this device does not restore to stock like the nook color did.

filovirus
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
No problem, and yeah android devices are pretty tough to really screw up. Try doing chmod 755 on /system/app and reboot.
[Kindle Fire General] filovirus:
At first I tried chmod 755 /system/app and got a read only fs error. I did some googling and realized I had to mount the partition with:

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

After that, chmod 755 /system/app worked and on reboot my kindle fire has been reborn. Now I can try to re-root it and get market on properly.

What did I do to the permissions to brick the kindle fire?

Thank you very much for your help!

filovirus
[Kindle Fire General] Xeddicus:
Just a guess: Did you not mount system as RW like you had to just now? I don't know if that would brick or not, just a suggestion.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Yay, glad you worked it out! :)

drw-r--r-- root root 2011-11-29 12:31 app <-- your /system/app before the fix

This means somehow the permissions got set to 644, which is read write-read only-read only. It needs to match all the other permissions, 755 which is, all perm-read execute-read execute. So basically the system dependencies couldn't see things that were inside of the /system/app directory causing your Kindle Fire to continue bootlooping.
[Kindle Fire General] Xeddicus:
Probably was trying to set 644 on the apk and did it to the directory instead.
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Yeah this may be what happened.
[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
Chances point to a probability of 100% :)
[Kindle Fire General] 7895123:
=================in root==========

ls -l

dr-x------ root root 2000-01-01 04:09 config

drwxrwx--- system system 2011-11-29 01:13 dropbox

drwxrwx--- system cache 1970-01-01 00:00 cache

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2000-01-01 04:09 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard

drwxr-xr-x root root 2000-01-01 04:09 acct

drwxrwxr-x root system 2000-01-01 04:09 mnt

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2000-01-01 04:09 vendor -> /system/vendo

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2000-01-01 04:09 d -> /sys/kernel/debug

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2000-01-01 04:09 etc -> /system/etc

-rw-r--r-- root root 4203 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.rc

-rw-r--r-- root root 840 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.omap4430.rc

-rw-r--r-- root root 0 1970-01-01 00:00 ueventd.goldfish.rc

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 system

drwxr-xr-x root root 2000-01-01 04:09 sys

drwxr-x--- root root 1970-01-01 00:00 sbin

dr-xr-xr-x root root 1970-01-01 00:00 proc

-rwxr-x--- root root 14943 1970-01-01 00:00 init.rc

-rwxr-x--- root root 11357 1970-01-01 00:00 init.omap4430.rc

-rwxr-x--- root root 1677 1970-01-01 00:00 init.goldfish.rc

-rwxr-x--- root root 90116 1970-01-01 00:00 init

-rw-r--r-- root root 118 1970-01-01 00:00 default.prop

drwxrwx--x system system 2000-01-01 04:00 data

drwx------ root root 2011-11-05 04:17 root

drwxr-xr-x root root 2000-01-01 04:09 dev

#

===========================

================in SYSTEM========

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

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-29 13:35 app

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-29 13:35 bin

-rw-r--r-- root root 2144 2008-08-01 12:00 build.prop

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 etc

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 fonts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 framework

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 lib

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 media

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 tts

drwxr-xr-x root root 2011-11-26 04:20 usr

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-26 04:20 vendor

drwxr-xr-x root shell 2011-11-29 13:35 xbin

==========================

My kindle fire still boot in logo "kindle fire" with flash light from left to right
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
You cant really assume your problem is specifically the same as someone else without any explanation and dump some info and hope for the best. Can you please explain what your problem is and what you did to brick your device. Did you do any of the how-to process? At what point did you get stuck? Or did you complete it and have a bootloop after the restore screen? We need to know as much information as possible to try and help your situation.
[Kindle Fire General] 7895123:
I had fixed my problem ! Thanks all much !

My friend had remove some apps in /system/app

The thing made device brick was "Launcher.apk"

After read all clearly, i had down file from amazon, extracted.

adb push Launcher.apk /data/local/tmp

adb shell

$su

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

#chmod 755 /system/app

#cat /data/local/tmp/Launcher.apk > /system/app/Launcher.apk

DONE ! device boot up to registing...
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
Okay, great. Glad you figured it out! :)

Thanks for posting what fixed it too for others that may have the same issue.
[Kindle Fire General] nursereese:
Thank You

This is what I was looking for thanks!
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
No problem!
[Kindle Fire General] SheepDreams:
Has anyone tried the factory cable approach yet to unbrick the device?

I find myself stuck unable to run shell commands due to /system/bin/sh failed permission denied (13) error, no fastboot installed either :confused:
[Kindle Fire General] Hoppius:
You saved me there man, thanks an awful lot.

And as a heads up, my Kindle Fire bricked when I deleted Facebook from /system/apps/ through adb shell (I, personally, dislike Zuckerberg's site). It seems that Facebook app is deemed a system file in the Kindle. Nevertheless, through the booting process explained by Ubeezee now I have a facebook-less tablet.

Cheers!
[Kindle Fire General] ubeezee:
You're very welcome!