yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
I like skorpns lol. but thanks. plus I know who makes it
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I wish members would complain and report posts when someone hijacks a thread for nothing but advertising purposes. When I posted in this thread I asked for permission, and I had xda members consent way before hand. Not to mention I worked hand in hand with members directly to develop my cable...

Not fair at all to allow that post to stay, or any of his other blatant advertising threads... IMO
[Kindle Fire General] mistaanime:
omg..i need this...
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
I did for ya, and it's gone!
[Kindle Fire General] skrape06:
I regret that I have been away for awhile. I need to bring you to date and state that my KF is, indeed, back running great. I owe this to Skorpn's factory cable. Not only did he deliver as promised, but before I could even ask (when I had a little trouble), he was sending me a replacement "just in case". The cable is prepared professionally, it certainly does look "purdy", and - more importantly - it does work as promised! Thank you all for the patience and assistance and my sincere commendation, once again, to Skorpn for his extra efforts and kind consideration!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thanks for that.

And thanks for the kind words skrape06 it's much appreciated...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, just thought I would update everyone who is still interested in my Factory cable. Its looking like Friday will be the day I sit down and start making these again, so my plan is to bust out as many as I can and start shipping first thing in the AM on Monday. I wonder how my new mail "person" (I have to be politically correct as the new mail man is a female, lol) will work out?. I did find out that she comes earlier than my old mail person did, so that might be a little help. Monday I will just go to the post office though as I have a few International shipments to ship I believe.

NOTE: I HAVE DELETED MY ENTIRE INBOX AS OF THIS MOMENT April 11th, 2012 DUE TO A OVERLY LARGE AMOUNT OF PM'S TO SIFT THROUGH, 288 TO BE EXACT.

This action will help me better organize and control who is requesting ordering information and who is asking for advice etc. As I have stated many times i do not own a KF and do not know how to flash/unbrick the device. I just make these cables because I can. LOL

Also, I would like to apologize to everyone who wanted/needed one during my move and when I ran out of materials. The new connectors came in and WOW, the connectors are the best I have seen yet. Looks like I found the supplier I want to keep. Now, I just need to find the time to unbox my tools, setup my new manufacturing shop and bust these out as much as I can. Today I have to go back to the old apartment and clean in order to try and get back any of my deposit money, so that looks like a fun day for me... NOT!

thanks again to everyone who shows patience, and to everyone who doesn't. The support and show of confidence is much appreciated and makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.. lol

One last note, I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend.

Sincerely

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
HaHa, if you get anymore popular you're going to have to hire some employees. Supply and Demand!

I have my Skorpn jig and it works flawlessly. I had to put a giant "do not use this" flag on mine because my wife inadvertently was the first one to put it to the test. Hilarious and not, all at the same time.

She didn't see the humor in it.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
LOL, I sure hope not about the employee hiring part... I had 8 requests just yesterday alone and two more today so far which is starting to become slightly difficult to manage on a daily basis.

Anyway, wish I was there to see the wifey trying to get it into download mode. Did she manage to find the on switch? that's what my Mom was looking for on the one I gave her. lmao...
[Kindle Fire General] Thepooch:
As soon as the rush is over I'd like to get one of your jigs to have handy no rush haven't bricked my kindle yet knock on wood but so many people have recently its just crazy some I wonder if its directly related to the 6.3 update which I haven't taken and maybe never will or I dunno people miss steps some claim not to be novices it seems to be widespread at the moment. I think you will be selling alot of these good work someone should buy you a kindle :D

Edit: make yourself a donate link so your happy customers can show their gratitude:-)
[Kindle Fire General] jacewt:
I got my cable before I even thought about rooting. I'd had it for a few weeks before I dared root. I haven't used it but I am so glad to have it. With so many people having problems, I am grateful to have had Skorpn in our community being so professional. I got my jig right quick and it does look professional. I really should tag it but the branding on it makes it easy to spot and everyone in my house knows not to touch my cables :p

Thanks for this! Ironically, rooting and flashing has been a breeze, I really recommend using smirkis' scripts to install FFF and Recovery (preferrably CWM, no problems).
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I thought about putting a small 2" RED strip of shrink tubing on the device side of my cable, but never really bothered. The fact I am using a 1/4 watt 1k-Ohm resistor and have my SkOrPn LOGO on the connector pretty much makes this cable safe enough. If you somehow miss the sticker, chances are the 1k-Ohm resistor "should" protect the wrong device should you make that mistake.

I even did R&D to include a small micro momentary on/off switch so that with it in the off position it would act as a normal USB cable. The cost of the switches and of course the extra time needed to make each cable by hand just does not make the idea practical. But I envisioned inserting the cable into the KF and while holding the small switch in the momentary ON position, insert the USB into the computer, BAM fastboot, let go of switch and do your thing. Even a small led light turned on while cable was plugged in would have been cool. I just didnt know if fastboot needed the short to remain or not or if people would even pay for such a cable. Probably not on both accounts... lol

Good news, my move is now complete and Thursday (today now that I look at the clock) I will begin setting up my manufacturing shop. I should be in full production mode for my JIG's and the Factory Cables by Friday morning.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
Based on what I've seen in the bootloader source code, there's only one check for the factory cable. Once it's in fastboot mode, it doesn't look for the cable again. I think this is a useful idea. If the price difference wasn't too great, I think you'd have a market for it. I know I've had to flip cables back and forth more than a few times when I was troubleshooting some things and found it to be cumbersome after a while. You might even convince me to shell out for another cable if you made them...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I'm going to start manufacturing these again starting Friday, or later today I should say.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, some of these orders this week will be filled with 3.0ft cables by surprise, lol... I ran out of the 1.5ft cables not knowing I was going thru them so fast, however thankfully I have plenty of the longer ones since not many peeps are buying them. Last Sunday I ordered 100 more cables so it should be here any day.

All orders up to today have been shipped. Thanks again everyone.
[Kindle Fire General] scottia1:
Well I am a newb to flashing rom's but not at breaking things. I am thankful for SkOrPn and his SkOrPn Jig for saving my Kindle Fire from destruction.

As well, the inforamtion on XDA is simply the best, at least for me.

I bricked mine by installing a Base ROM using factory settings from the device, not from KFU (Lessons Learned) which results in a bricked and total corruption of the system file.

Once I received SkOrPn's cable I simply plugged in, powered down and up again, then "fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img" to get TWRP installed with temp root. From there it was a cake walk to reflash my base ROM, fully unbricking my Kindle.

Now I will read alot more and understand what it means to FULLY understand what I am being told.

Thank you SkOrPn for an excellent well contructed life saver of a cable. I would have been totally lost if not for your helpful, valuable information and product.
[Kindle Fire General] aarons510:
Cable works, but not with my bricked Kindle Fire.

I received my cable today and immediately put it to the test. I have good news (about the cable) but bad news about my bricked Kindle.

1) I have in my possession at the moment two working, restored-to-stock, KF's that I'm planning to convert to generic Android tablets for some friends. I had no trouble installing TWRP recovery on them as scottia describes. (I ran the fastboot command in Terminal on my Mac.) After showing the TWRP menus originally, they now both show the yellow triangle when they boot, and eventually boot normally when I do nothing. (I haven't tried using TWRP to install anything yet, though.)

2) I tried the same thing with my bricked Kindle Fire, but nothing happened! I tried several times, slightly varying my procedure a bit, but no luck. All that happens is that the KF screen keeps flashing the words 'kindle fire' on and off every few seconds, just as it does when plugged in with an ordinary cable. Similarly, my Mac doesn't give any sign of recognizing it in any situation, and it doesn't show any signs of life when not plugged into a power source.

Any suggestions, anybody?
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
charge it for a bit and try again later.
[Kindle Fire General] scottia1:
Mine did not show under fastboot devices but I ran all the commands anyway successfully. It is important to have a fully charged battery before doing anything even though a battery is not necessary using a fastbooot cable. I have also read that AMD setups act differently than an Intel processor.

Good Luck
[Kindle Fire General] aarons510:
Success!

That did work to get me a step farther. I was able to successfully execute the command:

fastboot -i 0x1949 boot <path_to>/twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img

But then a new problem arose. When I booted the Kindle, it would display the yellow triangle and the message, "press power button for recovery", but nothing would happen. Connection to the computer, with any cable, only allowed fastboot to recognize and interact with the Kindle. Neither adb nor the Mac's file system showed it.

However, I came across a post that suggested the command:

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000

This worked and made it possible to execute

adb push <path_to>/update-cm7-wipeall.zip /sdcard

and to boot into TWRP recovery so as to install the 'pushed' update file.

So I now have a working, formerly bricked, Kindle Fire with CM7 installed. I may take a break before doing more with it, or with the others that I have for now, but I'm happy so far.

Thanks to all.
[Kindle Fire General] scottia1:
Congrats Aaron. I am glad to know in some small way we helped each other
[Kindle Fire General] Kujila:
after a cable use (not Skorp's cable, a home-made kind) my device turns itself on when plugged into any USB cable. (Also no charging indicators when off)

Bootmode is 4000, any ideas on how to get it back to regular?

Other than that it works fine!

Made a Q&A post before I found this thread, found here.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Well I make mine at home also, lol... ;) so they are "home made"...

j/k I couldn't resist. I wish I knew the answer to your question though, but I don't. I hope someone helps you but hang in there buddy, you will get it fixed I'm sure...
[Kindle Fire General] Kujila:
thanks skorp :cool:

it still works, and according to my Q&A thread it might just be normal for it to turn itself on when plugged into USB, so I am not too worried!
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
are u willing to make otg cables?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
LOL, why in the world would you want to spend more money on OTG cables from some guy at XDA when you can get them super cheap at eBay already? I would have to charge exactly the same amount I am currently charging for my Factory Cables, just because its pretty much the exact same work involved, minus the resistor of course.

I purchased my OTG cable from eBay, yeah I didn't even make my own... lol

Hmm, maybe I could make a OTG "Y" adapter, so that we can put the KF into fastboot, AND at the same time use the "other" side of the Y for normal OTG functions... hahaha just kidding... ;) with a micro switch to switch from Factory Mode or normal USB functions....
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
From what I understand, you need a powered hub to use USB otg. Which doesn't really help if you are...well..."on the go". Is it possible to make a rechargeable battery powered otg cable to replace the need of a hub?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
All the Kindle Fire Factory Cables ordered up to yesterday have been shipped. Thanks again to everyone who supports my work.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
IN STOCK

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[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
All XDA members factory cables ordered between Friday and Monday morning have been shipped at 1500 MST on 5/7/2012. To all International buyers, please do not forget to let me know how long it took and to what country I sent it as I am trying to build a database on world wide ETA's. Thank you

I am currently out of stock again until Wednesday, however I have 10 short 1.5ft cables partly made and will not get back to work on them until Wednesday afternoon or so, depending on if I feel better. Next shipments going out will be on Wednesday morning MST about 10am. Anything later than that will have to wait until the following day when my mail man arrives again lol.

Thanks again to everyone who is supporting my work.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, I currently have TEN 1.5ft cables in stock again, however 3ft cables will take me another day or two to complete.

I am going into town tomorrow (Wednesday) to ship a few out so if anyone wants one of these 1.5ft ones please make sure to order before 10am my time MST. Thanks again...

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
just wanna say thanks again, I just used it on a brand new kindle fire and instant fastboot and instant fff/recovery. EASY! thanks again man.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
And you are welcome again lol...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Factory Cables are now IN STOCK!

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[Kindle Fire General] rjgonzalez73:
Another happy customer. My cable shipped the same day I ordered and the quality is top notch. I had a Kindle that was stuck in fastboot mode but with the Stock ROM after running into driver issues trying to root. I was able to reset the boot mode and the stock rom booted up, detected errors and reset itself to factory settings. I was able to root with another computer so this cable saved the day.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thanks for the kind words man. Glad it worked for you.

All weekend orders (Friday-Monday morning) have been shipped today Monday the 21st of May. Again, thanks to everyone and good luck.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] rationalappeal:
overnight shipping?

Can you provide overnight shipping SkOrPn at my expense? I live in New York, USA. My work phone (Razr Maxx) was soft bricked via my cat tripping on the usb cord while I was using RSD Lite!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Cats gotta love em... I sent you a PM.
[Kindle Fire General] vecdid:
just got my factory cable

Just wanted to say thank you to SkOrPn. Ordered my cable about a week ago, got my Factory cable yesterday and got a working Kindle this morning, thanks again man, quality cable for sure, well worth the $$ thanks again.

Jim:D
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Awesome news man. Hope this has made your son very happy. Glad you got it fast or at least within the standard first class time frame of 3-5 days..
[Kindle Fire General] rationalappeal:
Rod,

You're the man. The cable came this AM and I can't thank you enough!!! My cat thanks you too :)

I definitely suggest you post your services over in the Razr Forum!

Thanks Again!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
You are most welcome. Now enjoy your holiday weekend...
[Kindle Fire General] stahly:
awesome cable and super fast shipping. i ordered it middle of last week, was thinking maybe ill get it middle of this week, i had it that saturday right before memorial day. i was able to unbrick a "dead" kindle fire with this. thanks again for the cable!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Wow, great news and your very welcome.
[Kindle Fire General] chocoyo00:
I have a question for anyone that's used this cable under this circumstances:

I was rooting my kindle, got it into fbmode, then flashed the bootloader or fff image, then i proceeded to flash the recovery, and that's when it got stuck with my terminal showing "sending recovery (5568 kb)... i waited several minutes and nothing... so i ended up disconnecting the USB cable and trying to reboot it. It turned off and now it does nothing, the power button now does nothing, the charger does nothing, it's just dead, it won't turn on.

Would this cable possibly help me fix it? or does it need to turn on first to actually work?

I want to buy it but I would like some feedback first. Thanks.
[Kindle Fire General] smirkis:
maybe the bootloader flash wasn't successful. so at reboot regardless if the recovery flashed fine, it died.

usbboot it via pokey9000s firekit

this factory cable wont help with a borked bootloader
[Kindle Fire General] lovejoy777:
if you want any extra help using firekit then pm me.
[Kindle Fire General] chocoyo00:
It showed bootloader was sent ok, but it could be. I'll give usbboot a try.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
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[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
All Factory cables ordered since Monday night have been shipped. Thanks again everyone and don't forget to do a review once you get it.

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] theleb:
Any news yet?

I have exactly the same problem, did you achive a result?
[Kindle Fire General] EqualOpportunityDork:
I created an account here just to thank you. I was losing my mind trying to figure out if my cable was working properly (I was only getting the kindle fire logo and not the yellow triangle mentioned in almost every guide I've found). downloaded the TWRP image and put in the two fastboot commands above and BAM, ICS on my Fire, which is now useable, again. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I really thought I'd screwed myself by buying a cable from someone beside Sk0rPn.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I currently have 200 cables in stock, fifty 3ft cables and a Hundred 1.5ft cables. Also, I dropped the price today. See first page of thread for information.
[Kindle Fire General] Baptyzmbyf1re:
Got cable this afternoon

I was back in business within minutes of opening the bubble pack. Manged get back in to the logo freeze, hooked cable back up, got it back to normal and then twrp, fff, and ICS is running great.

Fast shipping and a hell of a lot cheaper than buying another Kindle! Thanks.
[Kindle Fire General] dvainsa:
Just wanted to say thank you!.. ordered ordered your cable on Monday and just arrived today...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Hmm, that took a little longer than usual though. Oh well glad you got it... :good:
[Kindle Fire General] tj!2k7:
Just chiming in saying thanks for all the info in this thread, and many many thanks to SkOrPn for the cable, which arrived today and got everything straightened out. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] orphagn:
Just saying thanks to SkOrPn for the cable! My Kindle was up and working within 5 minutes of getting it in the mail.
[Kindle Fire General] OH_man:
Amazing Product

I bought a factory cable from SkOrPn. (See post #9 of this thread) It came lightning fast and is professional quality. I'd HIGHLY recommend purchasing a cable from him rather than an eBay company in Hong Kong.

I bricked my wife's rooted kindle fire when I installed version 6.3.1 mostly due to ignorance on my part. I needed the factory cable to re-install TWRP and FFF. Also, I couldn't mount my sdcard so I followed these instructions from another contributor (sorry, can't remember who) :

- boot to twrp

- test adb with "adb devices"

- open shell -> "adb shell"

- issue "echo /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file"

- now the sdcard should mount to the computer

- windows will probably respond that the volume/device needs formatted before using it

- choose quick format and let it format it as fat32 block size 4096

I didn't have to format as windows requested though. Got by without it.

Thanks to all who contribute to XDA developers!!
[Kindle Fire General] underoath23:
Worked great

Got the cable, fit perfectly. Snapped in like the charger cable would. And it worked like a charm. Went right into fastboot like it was supposed too. Saved me from a bricked kindle. Thanks again. Highly recommend. Shipping was super fast from SkOrPn.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Glad it worked for you.

However, recently I noticed some users getting tight fitting cables and I discovered that there are tiny little spring like things (friction prongs) meant to hold the cable in better. However, this is causing some of the cables to be very difficult to connect to their device. The supplier says the previous connectors that were easy to push in are no longer manufactured, so we have to make do with these. Today I have started removing the tiny spring like prongs to make it easier to push into your KF, so just remember this for the future. Thankfully, I find the cable still hard to pull out of the female connector even without these friction prongs present :fingers-crossed:

Anyway, I still have plenty of these in stock through XDA PM only...
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
I have a tight fitting Skorpn cable and rather prefer it that way. It's less likely to pop out at the worst time and rendering the device useless. I think you should leave the cables as they are and let the user decide for themselves whether or not they want them modified IMHO.

On that note, your cable is by far the best investment I've made in regards to the Fire. It has made my (Android) life so much easier. As a matter of fact, tonight it just saved me once again from a completely drained battery. Keep up the good work.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I really don't know what to do soupmagnet. Some users have claimed they can not get the cable to go in at all and fear they will break their device if they push any harder. When testing them I had no such difficulty pushing them into the bench tester. Maybe I should just push the prongs in as far as they will go leaving them just barely protruding outward.

I will take your opinion under advisement and thanks for the great feedback its really appreciated... :good:
[Kindle Fire General] Thepooch:
I noticed after a few insertions it did get better.. regardless very good quality work .. thankyou
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I found a way to make these friction prongs not stick out so far. I am just taking a small screw driver and pushing them in further and it seems to be working perfectly. They now insert into my bench tester much better. Hopefully someone who gets one of them will chime in next week and let us know if its working ok on the KF better.
[Kindle Fire General] radici:
directions on how to use?
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
Power your Kindle off. Plug the cable into your computer and then your device. When the device powers up (automatically), it will be in fastboot.
[Kindle Fire General] radici:
and then I can just run KFU for root?

and shouldn't i see something on the screen when its in fastboot? :S
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thank you for helping radici.
[Kindle Fire General] radici:
so I just use this to push recovery and what's not yes? plug into computer, then device and run command while i see kindle fire flashing on screen I'm guessing. also guessing I can't use KFU with this right?
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
1) Theoretically, assuming your drivers are in good working order.

2) In fastboot, all you should see is the bootloader screen. Depending on the version it could be a yellow triangle or a Kindle Fire logo of some type.

Don't mention it.