yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire General] Opensystem:
/agree

This is pretty much the post I came here to make, almost word for word. The package even came with a personalized(ish lol) note saying good luck! I mean, how much better can you get?

These cables are better quality than anywhere else you will find, and the money goes to the person who deserves it. Thanks SkOrPn, and seriously if anyone out there is thinking of making one or buying elsewhere....just don't. Just don't.
[Kindle Fire General] myatkaung:
Thanks for your reply. I am trying to make one myself now. I am practicing soldering. I use samsaung usb cable because it is easy to open. Yes, if i order something over sea, custom takes taxes very large. Some items are taken away because they feel like it. Even the shampoo, soap and make-up cream! I had to tax 20% of cost when i order kindle fire hd" from Singapore. My kindle cost $300 when it came into my hands. Thanks the customs didn't take that too.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
If you need help making your cable just private message me and I will give you my email address. I can try and make a video on some of the steps. Also keep in mind I am busy a lot of the time and may or may not be able to reply instantly, but I do try...

Mysteriously sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] myatkaung:
Thanks i'll give it a try and ask for your advice. Thank you again for giving me your time.
[Kindle Fire General] Anubisx2k7:
Factory Cables still in production

Does anyone know if Skorpn is still producing these cables?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Until I announce otherwise, I am still making them. Or until I am dead...
[Kindle Fire General] Anubisx2k7:
Well lets hope neither happens :) You are doing a great thing for us screw ups!
[Kindle Fire General] TheNinja370:
Thanks for shipping mine out so quickly. My Kindle Fire HD 7 has risen from the dead. Thanks again!
[Kindle Fire General] ipirija:
Can I use this cable for Huawei ideos S7 slim.

ThX
[Kindle Fire General] devilxmax:
If kindle usb connection goes undetected

Will this work if kindle goes undetected (with out a ding sound, and device manger entry) via normal usb cable connection?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Send me your device and I will be happy to answer that question for you... Lol

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] NooBOnTheBlock:
I got it thanks but that's just fast boot finding my device....now is there a command I could use to reboot it to normal mode
[Kindle Fire General] wire55:
Yea i was thinking about buying one but i am 13 yrs old with no way of paying for one and my parents would probably kill me if they found out i bricked my kindle fire because they think it still works. been using bluestacks to help them play their dinosaurs game. so idk what to do.
[Kindle Fire General] Opensystem:
Hey just a former purchaser of one of these cables from SkOrPn, I just.wanted to drop by and promote this wonderful product. Cheap, professional quality, and between that cable and kindle fire first aide assuming you're on the KFHD there hasn't been a brick I couldn't overcome

To the above poster - just tell them you want them to order it as a precaution, and that it will improve your kindle. Neither are lies :cool:

Either way, beats them finding out anyways before you get the drop on it. Definitely go through SkOrPn - took two days for mine to arrive. And it would survive WW 3. Alternatively, buy a pre-paid atm card and create a PayPal account with that to buy the cable yourself on the DL

Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Running Cyanogenmod 10.1
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I wanted to say thanks for the great feedback, it's really appreciated.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] tnstatc:
SkOrPn cables rock!

Ordered my cable from SkOrPn Sunday, and it made it all the way across the country to New York by Thursday. A quality product in all respects; doesn't even look like someone's opened it up and worked on it. The cable worked like a charm for installing CM10.1 on my Kindle Fire HD.

Thanks, SkOrPn!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Haha, that is because I never opened it up to begin with. What I do is, I cut the original micro-usb ends off, throw them in the trash and install my own micro-usb connectors from scratch. It is the only proper way to do this, that way I know for fact all 5 solder joints are healthy and correctly soldered. Sometimes my work might look a little messy from hot gluing, and sometimes the little legs do not fully snap closed, but so what, lol the hot glue is all that is needed to keep this thing solid. I am not looking for a cable design award, I am just wanting to make sure peeps have a trusted cable that will work when they need it.

Glad you like it and glad it got there so quick. Sometimes NY gets them in 36 hours from me, but not sure why that is. In fact, during that last Hurricane that went through the state you guys still got my cables in less than 48 hours, the same time it takes me to mail something to my neighbor across the street. New Yorkers must be special, haha... That's is what my GF would tell me anyway... ;)

SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] XiangYu11:
SkOrPn, please tell us that you will never die :crying:
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Lol, I will never die before its time. Hows that? ;)
[Kindle Fire General] hokie83:
THANKS!

I received my cable quickly. Plugged it in, drivers installed automatically. Now instead of "unknown USB device", device manger says I have an Android Phone with ADB drivers. Yay.

I don't have a working Fire yet, but this is the first step.

Thanks SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
[MENTION=5388418]chucktnm[/MENTION], you have your settings wrong. It says you do not accept private messages so I am not allowed to reply to you.

The error message I get when trying to reply to your PM is quoted below.
[Kindle Fire General] KennyRick:
SkOrPn - you ROCK!!!! :) :) :)

SkOrPn,

I ordered your wonderful, magical factory cable about a week or so ago. When I received it, I rushed to plug it in and restore my Kindle Fire via your hard-wired factory cable. Well, it booted my Kindle to fastboot mode, but when I tried to restore it, root it, etc., via KFU 0.99, it just kept saying "waiting for device".

Well, long story short, after days of trying out different fixes via Windows (Kindle Unbrick UtilityV1.1, KFU 0.96 and KFU 0.99) and thumb-drive Linux (Fire Kit 1.1 and SoupKit), I was at my wits' end. Each solution would end me up with "Waiting for Device", "permission denied" and "no such file or directory" when writing to certain files/folders on the Kindle.

It seemed like something wasn't right with the device drivers and how the Kindle wasn't reacting properly to ADB/Fastboot commands.

After yet more research today, I added a few different hardware device ids (0x0e79 and 0x006) into the adb_devices.in file (along with the 0x1949 that was already there).

ADB devices came back with the device with the normal USB cable plugged in.

I plugged in your cable and fired up KFU 0.99 along with the Kindle. ADB functioality didn;t seem to be working, but I expected that because the device is in Fastboot mode. I tried the option to install FFF and TWRP. Shazam. It burped past the ADB section of that and went right into the fastboot part where it rewrote the different parts of the OS and recovery.

I am now back to stock ROM 6.3.2 with FFF 1.4 and TWRP 2.6 loaded.

Not sure what went wrong to start off with, but I am back in operation thanks to you and your wonderful factory cable.

Thanks again, and have a great night! :D
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I am not sure either. When you plugged the factory cable in and it booted to Fastboot, did you immediately unplug the cable and use the cable that came with the device? I don't think the Factory cable works with fastboot commands, only to launch Fastboot. I may be wrong though as I have never had a Kindle to try myself...

Glad you got your device working though, congrats.. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] markbc01:
You're right as usual! The factory cable is only used to put the kftt into the fastboot mode. After that we need to use the regular usb cable to do all of the file work! :)
[Kindle Fire General] bstylz911:
anyone have the cable and in las vegas? lmao ill buy it from you asap!!!!
[Kindle Fire General] acplayer:
I'm pretty new to this, I just received my cable.

So if I understand correctly, once I plug my factory cable to enable fastboot, I unplug my factory cable and plug in the regular USB cable then start my recovery process with KFFAIDE?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yes that is the recommended way to do it and possibly the only way. Let us know how you fare.
[Kindle Fire General] acplayer:
Thanks for the reply!

I've looked at so many threads and nothing says anything about unplugging the factory cable and swapping it for the regular USB cable to restore my bricked kindle.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
LOL that's why I said possibly. If only I had the device in question I could answer with extreme confidence. However many of the developers and experienced users have told me this enough times that I am sure it works best that way. You can try it with the factory cable still connected I think but the original cable is a much higher quality cable and since fastboot stays running when you remove the cable I would prefer to use the better cable for fastboot commands.

Let me know how it works out
[Kindle Fire General] markbc01:
SkOrPn is right --even though he doesn't own a KFTT! (Kindle Fire HD 7")

With practically all Factory Cables or Jigs, the process is to plug it into to the target device, then plug the other end into the computer or charger and watch the device turn on in the Fastboot mode. Some types are a bit different -you plug them in and

then turn on power. Same effect.

If you look at the KFFA thread I know there are some posts in that thread that remind people to unplug the Factory cable and then switch to the regular usb cable. I have made that mistake myself --even after I knew better!

1. So, use the Factory cable to put the device in the Fastboot mode (on some phones it is called the download mode), then

2. Swith cables so that your regular usb cable that can be used for data (some are power only!) is plugged into the device and also the pc/mac.

3. run the KFFA program -but make sure you've got the right driver for fastboot loaded (the KFFA thread has tons of info and help on this). Or, if you're using linux or mac, just open an xterm window and make sure you are in the directory of adb and fastboot commands and go to work ;)

when you are done using the fastboot cable -after the KFTT is in the Fastboot mode, you can put it away since you will not need it . . . until NEXT TIME (and there always is a next times :eek:

Good luck

(wow! this thread is sooo far away from my normal stomping grounds :))

Thanks again SkOrPn your cable is perfect! and dependable
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
And thank you for helping me there Mark (I hope I got your name correct, lol). It is well appreciated to make things clear by users who regularly use the Factory Cable and the Kindle. Thank you. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] thewams:
Another Plug

Skorpion, apologies for taking SO long to post this, but just wanted to add another thumbs up for the factory cable. It rescued me from a boot loop on my Kindle Fire HD 7" when nothing else would work. Now I've got a Kindle Fire HD 7 w/ Cyanogenmod 10.2. Worth every penny.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Thank you for the comment and congrats on the success. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] herrenfam:
SkOrPn -

Yesterday, I was wading through hundreds of XDA pages, and came across your order form for a factory cable. I don't want to bug a busy man, but did you receive my request? I'm in desperate need of the cable to restore my kindle (at least the advice that I've been given.) Will your cable help me restore my device (KF 2) to factory condition with the aide of a program such as qemu, KFFirstAide, and such? My problem is that I can't get my computer to recognize any of my three kindles, even through 2 are still rooted. I've tried installing every ADB file I've found here. Thanks for any info you would like to share, and thank you for your time.

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SkOrPn -

Yesterday, I was wading through hundreds of XDA pages, and came across your order form for a factory cable. I don't want to bug a busy man, but did you receive my request? I'm in desperate need of the cable to restore my kindle (at least the advice that I've been given.) Will your cable help me restore my device (KF 2) to factory condition with the aide of a program such as qemu, KFFirstAide, and such? My problem is that I can't get my computer to recognize any of my three kindles, even through 2 are still rooted. I've tried installing every ADB file I've found here. Thanks for any info you would like to share, and thank you for your time.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
There is nothing in my inbox from you so no I did not receive your PM yet. Try again
[Kindle Fire General] Jaredw89:
Speedy Delivery!

I'm just sending a thank you to SkOrPn for the factory cable. Shipment came well packaged and in good condition. I received the cable in 6 days from the time I placed the order and had no problems flashing several roms to the Kindle Fire HD that very same evening. Interestingly, I was just about to ditch the Kindle and buy a different device but now thanks to SkOrPn and Hashcode my Kindle is now running CM11 kitkat and feels like a completely new machine. You guys are doing a great job in helping to extend the life of these devices. I would definitely recommend buying from SkOrPn if you're needing a factory cable.
[Kindle Fire General] mikeg0687:
Thanks SkOrPn

SkOrPn --

Gotta say THANKS for your work. Glad I stumbled across this thread when looking for a solution. Your cable brought my Razr back from accidental soft brick hell and quickly got the phone back up and running again through fastboot. Now I can confidently continue flashing!

A+ quality
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
You guys are most welcome and I am happy to have helped you save your devices. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] gransar:
Hi!

This is the best idea I have so far. Let me just make sure how it goes:

You get a convertor and cut it to connect wire 1 and 4 ? that should

be very easy to do.
[Kindle Fire General] gransar:
inside Micro-B plug

Hi!

This is the best idea I have so far. Let me just make sure how it goes:

You get a convertor and cut it to connect wire 1 and 4 ? that should

be very easy to do.

I tried to strip the cap to soldier but ended up disconnecting it

completely. http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Does anyone know where each pin goes?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, using your pictures that you attached the pin-outs are as follows.

a = pin 1 = Red

b = pin 3 = Green

c = pin 5 = Black

d = pin 2 = White

e = pin 4 = No USB wire attached (This is where you create a short to pin 1 red) This pin is for sensor readins, like for a charger or for a docking station. Data cables do not have them as it is not used for data. This pin senses the 5v from pin 1 and tells the device to boot to Fastboot mode. Simple as that...

So pin 1 should have the red wire soldered, but you need to also solder on a small wire going from the pin 1 (not the wire itself) to the pin 4. I create this short before I solder on the actual wires. If you need pictures let me know and I will break out my camera and try and make them for you. Good luck...

Rod
[Kindle Fire General] gransar:
oh the pins we weave

Thank you so much Rod. You truly are a brick-slayer!

I ended extracting one of the pins fiddling when soldier had dried and then got a samsung cable. Unlike what I'd heard there was no labeling inside and to make it worse pin 2 and 4 was hidden. So went back and grabbed the cheap cable again and I followed your instruction.Finally from the tip of pin 1 made a short to the tip of pin 4 which is I think what you meant (instead of shorting from the middle of the wire). Then everything started crashing around me (including image attachment of xda) and I uploaded the images here:

http://www.gransar.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMAG0738.jpg (crossroads)

http://www.gransar.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/handusb.jpg (pin 2)

http://www.gransar.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pintip.jpg (short to pin1)

Afterwards I covered everything up with a special sealant and it's waiting to dry and ready for testing tomorrow.

http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/highfive.gif
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
You have to be very careful when using a cheap Radio shack iron. Heat can cause the pins to shift inside their connector and possibly cause a short you do not want to have. I have not seen this but I am sure it is possible. Thanks for the pics.

Maybe I should post one of mine not encased yet ;)
[Kindle Fire General] emmetmyers:
Yes

That is the same micro usb end i use for repairing usb cables and making high amp charge cords. the best end there is and with all 5 pins :)
[Kindle Fire General] KentDA:
Ordered my cable last thursday. Got the notice the money was processed and shipped. No problem. Few days. All is good. Then I get a notice it has been cancelled. So I pop on to see if Sk0rPn is aware of it. He is, and he's trying to fix it. It was an ongoing issue he'd been having for a few days, and not something that he could control. So he continues to work on it, and has to perform some software necromancy to get it shipped.

Obviously he's annoyed and frustrated throughout all of this, but his responses are calm, relaxed, professional, but still personable. I've done customer service in the past, and when you're dealing with ten tons of rot, it can be a challenge to stay professional. He does however.

So, it ships and it arrived this morning. Plugged it in, installed updated drivers, and voila! I can boot to TWRP (now downloading a ROM for it).

As to the cable itself ... if I didn't know better, I'd say it was MADE in a factory, not in some guy's personal computer lab. I kid you not, it looks that professional.

So ... can I give more than two thumbs up for him?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Sorry about all that. For two straight days the PayPal+USPS Ship Now feature was broken on most, if not all modern day browsers, including Chrome which is what I use. I tried both Firefox and IE11, but it was also not working. It took two days for the techs to tell me that the older Internet Explorer 8-10 on Windows 7 or older would possibly work according to reports they have heard (because IE8 has serious security issues, and thus was working, go figure lol, the one time when a terrible flaw in security actually helps you). It was then when I realized I had my old Asus Netbook, still loaded with Windows XP and the original IE8 that came with it, although the battery was dead as a nail.

Amazingly, IE8 on WinXP was working with their shipping label website, I just had to figure out how to connect the printer to the Netbook. On the third day all modern browsers were finally fixed, but it was not the browsers themselves that was the problem, it was something wrong with the USPS servers/firewalls that were preventing the labels from being presented on newer browsers. I spent countless hours trying to print only to continuously get the blank white page error. The actual website itself was working for downloading labels as PDF's but it was not giving me the option to use First-Class Mail, only priority and express which are much more expensive shipping products. So I was forced to use PayPal, and well it would not give me a label, only a white page with nothing on it to print, lol... That's when IE8 saved me...

Pain in my you know what, but I got it done. I hope the delivery didn't take too long. Again sorry about that...
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
[MENTION=2040665]budies3[/MENTION]

I can not send you anyting via PM because you have opted out of receiving them. Until you change your message settings there is nothing more I can do. Sorry man... :good:
[Kindle Fire General] budies3:
[MENTION=500006]SkOrPn[/MENTION]

I can not send you anyting via PM because you have opted out of receiving them. Until you change your message settings there is nothing more I can do. Sorry man... :good:[/QUOTE]

I thought I changed and saved it... It looks saved this time. Sorry.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I thought I changed and saved it... It looks saved this time. Sorry.[/QUOTE]

Thanks buddy, let me try again.
[Kindle Fire General] melder52:
This is TOTALLY what I was missing .. I've spent part of the day hacking together a factory cable and didnt think it was working because I couldn't get KFF to recognize the Kindle using the hacked factory cable I made LOL!

Once I finally read this far into the post (yeah I should've read more but 50+ made me just try stuff), I am restored to a working Kindle Fire!! I had the same problem with adb shell not working because I had wiped system in TWRP and that apparently blew out the stuff in /system that it needed. I had given up months ago on this ever working again but decided to try again today. Thanks so much!! This and the post here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21391952 got me restored. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] fufkin:
I used a factory cable to get into fastboot mode after bricking my KF (red screen).

I flashed the FFF bootloader with

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin

Then tried to boot into recovery with

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 5001

Now I just get a totally blank screen. :(

If I turn off the kindle and plug in the factory cable again, the screen stays blank (no more booting into fastmode). Any fastboot commands I run are stuck on <waiting for device>.

Any ideas? I've read endless things about fixing problems with a factory cable, but can't find anything about the factory cable itself no longer working.

Thanks for any responses. Hope this is the right thread.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Probably not the right thread, but I can say this. It is NOT the factory cable that stopped working (there is nothing inside that can stop or start, its just a shorted cable), it is the device that stopped responding to the physical command of the factory cable. I think there is a thread that might help here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888

At least I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of people save there device by visiting that thread. Let me know how it goes with your research.
[Kindle Fire General] fufkin:
Thanks man, I'll check out that thread.

Sorry, I didn't mean I thought the actual cable had broken, just that using the cable to get into fastboot was no longer working.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Lol, yeah I know what you meant, and that is very common to say, even I say it like that, but I still feel the urge to make sure people know cables do not just stop and start or go bad. I manufacture these for people and it is extremely rare for a cable to just go bad. 99.9% of the time it is the device, or even the port that fails first.

Let me know what you discover and if the device is truly bricked or not. Thanks :good:
[Kindle Fire General] Bhamilton0347:
I need to know which is pin 5, pin 4, and which one is ground. prntscrDOTcom/4mnisc The picture is very bad, I know. Please tell me which is which, I bricked my KF2 and need a fastboot cable. Ty, Ben
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
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[Kindle Fire General] vip991988:
does it work with lg g pro e988 ? THANKS
[Kindle Fire General] sd_shadow:
Very unlikely, factory cables aka fastboot cables work with Motorola and kindle fire devices.
[Kindle Fire General] budies3:
It worked great for me:)

I just wanted to chime in, and say thank you for the help (It was sometime ago).