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[Kindle Fire General] aprsguy:
I too have ordered one of SkOrPn's factory cable. Shipment was fast and arrived within 4 days via USPS. Cable is robust and well put together. I had my bricked KF unbricked within 5 minutes of using the cable. So if you have any need for a factory cable for your kindle fire you can have no fear with SkOrPn's factory cable!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thank you aprsguy, happy it worked for you. :)
[Kindle Fire General] IdrisBengoch:
Just a quick note to say that I availed myself of SkOrPn's cable services, and would highly recommend them to anyone. Got me unbricked in a minute or two, and now I'm back having fun, getting awfully close to bricking it a few times more.

Yes, yes - now that I have the cable, I guess it's much harder for me to technically claim a "bricking" from now on.

Edit: UK delivery was no problem, and it came at least as soon as I expected it (a damn sight faster than it was getting the Fire itself to the UK anyway).
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I just got an email from someone who needs help with their Factory Cable. Below is the direct Quote.

If anyone has any ideas for them to try I would appreciate it. Thanks.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
yes - the battery is empty !!!

charge it with the wall charger for some hours

try to power it off on the wall charger by holding the power button for ~20sec to allow the kf to charge
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Could they have a bad battery possibly?

EDIT: This is why I have a separate wall charger for all my devices.
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
don't think so - defect batteries are quite rare - there are a lot of threads from people that had this issue - was allways the same - empty battery - charging allways solved the problem

the repeatent on/off is typical - what happens:

kf tries to start - battery breaks down - kf tries to start - battery ...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ahh Ok cool, if he does not see this then I will reply to his next email with this information. Thanks bud...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
UPDATE:

My customer in Bangkok Thailand just received his Factory Cable. I shipped it on Feb 6th, and he received it early on the 15th I believe (according to his email). So, what's that? 8 or 9 days or so? Well USPS states 5-10 days to any country so I guess that works out about right then.

Thankfully it revived his KF without issues. w00t

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
great work as usual skorpn!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thank you smirkis.

Well two more kindle user's are happy to report the cable worked great. But unfortunately one of our kindles here is being shy again (or stubborn lol) and not accepting the Micro connector. This is the first device to have such a inconsistent port like this. After thousands sold for Samsung devices and not one report of a tight fit its weird that I have had so many not fit the Kindle after only 50 sold.

Has anyone else noticed if the fit is simply to tight?
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
too tight? no, its snug tho. nothing a giggle can't handle. I've used it on 4 different kindles. they've all been snug, but went in
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
it's tighter than the usual micro usb cables (eg nokia) but it fits in

therefor i allways handle it on the plug - never ever on the cable (like described by SkOrPn)

had to look twice at first use if i'm plugging in the right direction

if your shure about the direction use a bit of force - the second time plug in is way easier
[Kindle Fire General] k4955:
@SkOrPn; @b63

B63 Thanks for your recommendation to get the factory cable from SkOrPn, which I did and I got the cable yesterday. As instructed plugged into my Kindle Fire first and then the my laptop. In one shot I got the fastboot and now I am a happy camper.

SkOrPn-Special thanks for making those cables and making them available for user like me. It is a solid cable and the packing & delivery are truly remarkable.

Once again thank you for saving my KF.
[Kindle Fire General] danblackracing:
So I have a question. What is the difference between the cables from shop.teamblackhat.info and SkOrPn? Or are the one in the same?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
25 :D

10 char
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Well peeps it looks like audiomixman can't get his KF into fastboot either.

Is there a guide I can copy / paste in all the pm's I keep getting by chance? I don't know how to use this cable but people keep asking me how to use it and I don't have the time to reply to everyone. Be easier if I could just paste the instructions lol.

Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] danblackracing:
I'd be willing to write one as soon as I can get me hand on a cable. I think I have a unique case that might similar to the few whom are having trouble. My KF is actually NOT rooted at the moment, with a KF logo, and shell is gone. If I can restore this thing I think Ill be KF God, LOL!

I did quite a bit of work before I pulled CM7 off (which it toasted there after). Once I get it back running I'm going to post all I did on my blog on my website.

SkOrPn do you have cables available
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yes, I have like 7 left here at the moment, and 60 more on the way from Monoprice later this week. They did not sell as good as I had hoped but good enough to continue restocking the materials to make them. I am not interested in ripping people off so I only ask for $14.95 and I will pay for the shipping out of that myself.

If you can produce a really fantastic guide, and or fool proof how-to I can paste into any emails or PM's I receive I would be willing to refund you fair and square. I just feel bad telling people to look elsewhere when they ask me questions like that, but I cant be giving out advice unless I know 100% what I'm talking about. I'm a computer enthusiast, Samsung and HTC smartphone geek, and just dont know much about the KF or Motorola for that matter.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
You must insert cable, then switch off kindle by pressing button about 20sec and press once again, kindle will be in fastboot.

test with "fastboot devices" and "fastboot getvar product"

After kindle will be in fastboot, with Kindle Fire Utility install TWRP recovery and with recovey install prerooted stock or CM7 firmware.

this assumes that the correct drivers are installed

watch device manager, has to be "android adb interface" under "android phone"

if not update the drivers:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22342376&postcount=6
[Kindle Fire General] altitude909:
A stock kf will NOT be under fastboot devices, you will only be able to confirm its in fastboot with the getvar command
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
agreed - to make shure it's the same procedure for all bootloaders (also the stock bootloader) the sentence should be:

don't make sence to verify twice (just copied and pasted from elsewhere)
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Hey guys I have 60 more cables on the way. This time I ordered 30 of them to be twice as long at 3ft lengths. The next size up from 3ft is 6ft and I think that's too long for our needs here.

So I will have 37 1.5ft cables and 30 3ft cables in stock here soon ;)
[Kindle Fire General] Emelianenko:
I'd be very interested in ordering one of your cables when they're in stock again!
[Kindle Fire General] xray11:
I'de Be Interested In One Too PM Me When They Come in Stock
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
A stock kindle, only requires -i 0x1949 so..

Power off first, plug it in the device, than the computer. It will power on in fastboot automatically.

Now cd to the right directory fastboot is in

For me, its CD c:/sdk_tools

Than, check for ur device.

Fastboot -i 0x1949 devices (stock boot)

Fastboot devices (firefirefire boot)
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I have 100 in stock now, 1.5ft length.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Hey guys, I got a fire user here with a dead battery. He says cm9 does not support offline charging and his Fire is bricked. Will my cable help fix his KF?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
charging has nothing to do with the rom !

if you plug it to the wall charger then you can turn it off and it's charging (hard power off)

had a case where he was using a too weak charger - it never began to charge

took a more powerful one and it began to charge

the original one has 1.8A - i'm using one with 1A - i think that is the minimum
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Hmm now I am thoroughly confused lol. Damn it wish I could afford a fire so I would know what is going on. I have no clue what to tell him now. His battery will not charge and his kf is dead, so he says.

I will just tell him to refer to the KF section for questions.
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
i'hv read one post where someone mentioned charging with a factory cable should resolve charging problems - but i doubt

if i look at the spec of the factory cable - why should it ?

would guess:

- weak charger

- bad contacts or cable

- or realy a defect battery
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yeah your guess is much better than mine at this point. The KF does not come with its own charging system?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
yes it does - but it is a usa device only - therefor has a us charger which don't fit in the wall socket outside the us

if you'r in europe or elsewhere you can

- use a adapter

- or an other usb charger (this is for most people easier as getting an adapter)

... but they forget to look at the specs of the original charger
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, that makes sense now. I did not know it was a USA only device. I find that to be rude of Amazon imo. lol
[Kindle Fire General] Sblood86:
Ok, clearly y'all are discussing my issue as I messaged SkOrPn last night; I think I'm missing something reading through some of this though. I've tried getting it to charge off of the Amazon provided charger and several other chargers (I have something like 6 laying around here)

I'm curious about the statement "charging has nothing to do with the rom"; particularly dubious to that statement as charging is handled by the ramdisk. I can site several examples of devices not charging in off-line states with 3rd party ramdisks.

The kindle is less than 3 months old so I seriously doubt it's a defective battery. Reading up on factory cables for other devices they are known to resolve similar issues. Does anyone actually know if a factory cable will force a boot into fastboot mode if the battery is dead?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I have read that the Factory Cable will give you fastboot even without the battery in the device. But again I do not own one so I do not know whats what. lol
[Kindle Fire General] Sblood86:
Exactly what I read; thank you for the confirmation at least. If that is in fact the case that should resolve my issue as having the device in fastboot will cause the ramdisk to not register as being in an off-line mode and should than accept a charge (in theory). Just to give y'all an idea my cell phone doesn't accept off-line charging either as it has a mangled boot loader on it that I like the functionality of too much to replace just for offline charging (in that instance it's an easy fix; for one thing I can remove the battery lol).
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
the cable puts the device in fastboot mode for shure - i own one of his cables

but i think you will have to use it with a usb charger cause the usb on a computer delivers max 500ma

furthermore i don't understand what the charging has to do with the ramdisk cause i can plug it to the wall charger and then power it off by holding the power button for ~20sec till it turns off - it is still charging

hopefully you can clarify this for us and others with charging problems ...

btw. i think it's allways a good idea to have such a cable (bulletproof jacket before shooting)
[Kindle Fire General] Sblood86:
Aye I'm going to test the theory regardless; trying to get my roommate to bring me a soldering iron (he's a mechanic has one at work) mine is apparently fubard might finish mutilating the cable I destroyed last night later. I'll be honest I don't know a whole lot about the ramdisk or why different ones cause offline charging not to function; it's a particularly common issue among non-cm supported devices running cm7 though. Up until fairly recently the optimus v/s did not have offline charging supported with cm7 for this exact reason. My cell phone is an optimus s; it's running an old team hydro boot manager that was since deprecated because Drew was having issues making it support offline charging so I'm all but certain it's related I just don't know the complete details. As for charging the device in fastboot mode I agree running it off the pc usb won't draw enough power but I don't need it talking to a terminal anyway so I'm hoping I can trick it with one of my other chargers. I'll let y'all know when I know more in the meantime SkorpOn you can expect to hear from me at some point; even if my cable works it's gonna be a fabricated piece of junk (I'm horrible with a soldering iron; scary as I used to be a low voltage installation tech lol)
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
LOL, yeah that is the main reason (besides a little $) I do this for the Kindle folks. I have a several hundred dollar iron, and nearly 30 years using them and currently unemployed with plenty of extra time on my hands. And since I am already making Samsung JIG's and have the materials at hand I might as well do this mod also. haha

Well my cables came in today so I have plenty of these again. Almost ran out today. So back to work I go...

@ Sblood86, when/if your ready to order just reply to my last PM with your location and I will reply with my order information. Thanks and let us know what you discover on the battery charging issue. I to did not have off-line charging with CM7 at one point, but that issue was resolved a long time ago when Cyanogens team fixed it this last fall, for my Samsung Vibrant anyway.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
these cables don't charge your device. it will try to boot but might stop due to a dead battery.
[Kindle Fire General] Sblood86:
thank you for the info... I'm hoping whether it will init a charge or not it will at least boot successfully, if so flash a kernel with a different ramdisk and I'm home free, as I said before though, still need a soldering iron
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Watching a Tear Down video at YouTube today I just realized this Fire does not have screws situated under warranty void labels, it simply snaps together and can be taken apart with a simple case removal tool. Hmm, makes one wonder if the battery can be charged over night by bypassing the electronics? Still looks like a difficult job as one would need to pierce the proper wires coming off the battery.

http://youtu.be/MGLn1TVAITQ

Ok on second thought maybe not such a great idea... lol

EDIT: After watching that again, it looks like the battery has an exposed ground point connected to that large ribbon. If that's the case, a simple alligator clamp could provide the negative side of the charge at least. Still not sure about the positive side though.
[Kindle Fire General] Emelianenko:
Just wanted to let everyone know I received my SkOrPn cable today, and it worked flawlessly!

To give a little backstory, I had rooted my Kindle Fire but never installed TWRP or firefirefire or whatever. I was attempting to modify the permissions of my /system/apps directory when I ran into what looked like a brick.

After some poking around on these forums I found out that I needed a factory cable to fix the problem. Further poking and I found this thread and was able to get in touch with SkOrPn and order one of these beauties.

I plugged the cable into my Fire first, and then into my PC. I didn't know it, but the device was actually in fastboot mode from the getgo.

The problem I initially ran into was running the "fastboot getvar product" command did not show my kindle. However, typing "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" worked, and I was able to see my device!

After that I was able to install TWRP on the device with the command "fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img".

Upon installing TWRP, the device rebooted into TWRP. I was then able to mount the device as a USB drive.

I followed the instructions in another thread on these forums to get a stock update, copied the update.zip file to the root of the Kindle Fire SDCard, and then restored my Kindle Fire back to the stock Amazon image.

My Kindle Fire is now unbricked and running just like it was when I first got it! I will be more careful about my rooting adventures in the future, but for the timebeing I wanted to thank SkOrPn for his amazing cable which allowed me to avoid having to replace this device.

I had called Amazon and they quoted a $100 replacement fee. For $15 I was able to fix the device on my own and I learned a lot in the process!

Thanks a lot SkOrPn and everyone else on these forums, you've saved me a lot of trouble and grief!

I saw mentioned earlier in the thread that other people were having trouble getting into fastboot. I was not sure if I was in fastboot myself as I just had a normal Kindle Fire logo.

To these people I would recommend after you connect it properly and it shows up correctly in Device manager to try:

fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product

Until I specified the id with the -i 0x1949 it was not showing up.

Good luck to everyone.
[Kindle Fire General] vertig:
I received SkOrPn's cable today, but will not be able to mess with bricking/unbricking my Fire for a couple more weeks.

Thanks to SkOrPn and all the others who have contributed hints and tips. I will continue to read up so that my chances of messing up are minimized when I finally root.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
vertig any chance you can at least make sure the connector fits your kf now?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I now have Factory Cables back in stock for the Kindle Fire. Price includes USPS First Class shipping usually by next day. See ad on first page of this thread for info...
[Kindle Fire General] Sblood86:
Ladies and Gentlemen; it's alive!

Plugged in the factory cable to the kindle (dead battery, not accepting charge do to cm9 ramdisk issues) plugged into the PC > kindle booted properly into fastboot > flashed a stock boot image and unplugged the device > plugged into a standard cable and watched it boot back to the firefirefire bootloader and looped (showing charge but unable to sustain itself) allowed the device to loop for about 40 seconds while sitting on the charger than called a boot to recovery by long pressing power > initiated a restore back to my previous working rom as the stock boot image would definitely cause issues w/ cm9 lol > rebooted device and allowed it to finish charging.

Thanks for all the help.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Wow congrats Sblood86, very good news. So this cable is also a good idea for KF's that are battery drained as well and not booting up?
[Kindle Fire General] vertig:
I checked the cable and it seems to fit fine.
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
Glad to see your device up n running again! So even tho it doesn't charge, it as till boots it into fastboot, awesome and great to know.
[Kindle Fire General] superbomb17:
Hello,

I'm a new member and Unsure if you recieved my PM, please tell me if not.

I have a few questions:

1. Will this work W/O FireFireFire Bootloader?

2. In my case i screwed up the /system/Build.prop, I have a backup of this and simply need to overwrite the broken file with the working one, is all this possible with your method?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I can't answer these questions because I do not know. I just make the modified cable that's all, lol.
[Kindle Fire General] Emelianenko:
Yes, it will work. I didn't have firefirefire installed or the recovery thing. It was basically a stock BurritoRoot.

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I need to break the 10 post threshold so I can post links, but there is a very helpful youtube video as well as a guide on these forums that will help you in that regard.
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
yes on 1

u should be able to fix ur issue with just adb.
[Kindle Fire General] superbomb17:
Hello,

I now have my cable from SkOrPn, great shipping!

I followed the steps and my computer recognized the device, but i get no response from fastboot or ADB :( Am I doing something wrong?

just so you know, my device is in a boot-reboot cycle..

Ah, I figured it out, the device has no charge AT ALL and won't accept a charge. I think I'm screwed D:
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
he had the same:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23034046&postcount=246
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Wish these batteries could be purchased seperately along with a charger for its connector. lol
[Kindle Fire General] superbomb17:
sadly I didn't install FireFireFire bootloader, which I greatly regret now :(

ALSO:

After talking to a Amazon support rep, I flatout told them my devices was bricked and not charging, they are saying it's a battery issue and will be sending a new one :O

EDIT:

and thanks SkOrPn, The cable seems very nice and extremely fast shipping, the reason it didn't work was no issue related to your cable, so 5/5 anyway! :D
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Your very welcome...

Oh and no worries the only issues so far have only been fitment into the KF port. So, they are sending a new battery? Or new KF? I assume the latter as I doubt they expect someone to crack open a non serviceable device and replace the battery yourself lol.

Let us know what happens.
[Kindle Fire General] wert102:
I made one! Will it work?

Hey guys, so I read a lot of reply's threads, etc... and I finally made my own Factory Cable. Can you please tell me if there is anything wrong with this cable that needs to be fixed. I still haven't plugged it in yet because I'm making sure this is good, with all your advice. I was super careful with soldering, etc.

I soldered the tiny cables here, is this fine? As you can see, I didn't use a resistor.

[Please check Attachment 2.]

Also, here, the cable had these metal wires wrapped around the whole cable when I started stripping the cable. Is it okay to just pull them back like that and let them stay there?

[Check Attachment 4]

Final cable, it is real short, on accident, I cut a lot of wire at start, but this length is fine for me.

[Check Attachment 3]

And I put a lot of time and tried to make this cable neat, even though it's naked. :D Please respond.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
yeah its fine but why so much exposed wire? The wires plastic/rubber coating should have been all the way to the sparkfun board, for the white, green, black and the ID red at least imo.

You living dangerously without any protection, no shielding and no resistors. Other than a possibly few sparks here and there it should work.
[Kindle Fire General] wert102:
response

Well, there is lots of exposed wire because like, right underneath the rubber coating, you see the wires all wrapped around the whole. Pic 4. I thought maybe that stuff could accidentally touch other wires and cause a short or something? Do you have any advice on how to improve what I currently have?

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Also, with the resistor, can you send me a link to any website that sells them. Like a good one. Sorry, I'm not that good with electronics. Well, I mean like this wiring, soldering stuff, otherwise, I'm really good with technology.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I purchase my resistors from a local electronics supply shop Walker Electronics...

http://www.digikey.com will have resistors, but its better to purchase small quantities from a local shop like Radio Shack IMO.
[Kindle Fire General] wert102:
What resistor should I get, with like what specifications?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
1/4 watt 1k-ohm thru hole type
[Kindle Fire General] altitude909:
Go for 1\8 watt 5%, anything bigger will be cumbersome to work with. I didn't bother with one and mine works fine. Its only there for some current limiting protection, not needed to put it into fastboot.
[Kindle Fire General] wert102:
anything else?

thank you very much. is there anything more that you guys would recommend doing to my cable? and I'm making a second one, I have another breakout board. maybe any thing i should fix than what i did wrong with this cable?