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[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I do not know what causes that behavior, however I do know that on my brothers hacked factory cable, he to had similar issues. I am wondering if the resistor is a must or not. I use 1k ohm, so not sure if that has anything to do with it. My brother said he used nothing at all. The shielding on my cable is present all the way to the connector case, however I do not reconnect it to ground (assuming the outside metal of the connector is grounded) as it is a short hazard. If it is grounded on both sides before I cut the end off, it is still grounded because I only cut one end off before performing the mod. I doubt the shielding is the problem though.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I guess I better inform folks that I am out of town until sometime either Saturday or Sunday (brother thinks it's late Saturday).

I just now got the chance to check all the pm's however I am not sending out any order forms until the weekend. I do not want any orders until I can get home for obvious reasons

On another note, the USPS announced today that starting in August there will be no more Saturday delivery :eek:
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I still have plenty of these avail. If anyone wants one let me know. Read post number 9 for the information.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Today is Washingtons Birthday (Presidents Day). An Official USPS Holiday. Yes, they are closed today.

http://www.usps-holidays.com/p/2013-usps-mail-holidays.html

I drove all the way to the Post Office just to find them closed :mad:
[Kindle Fire General] NightShadow2012:
As one of Skorpn's most recent customers, I'd like to say that I fully endorse his product. He has been helpful, kind, respectful and honorable in his business dealings with me (to an extreme point, I might add!). What's more is that his product absolutely did the job in getting my Kindle Fire back up and running. It was a bit touch-and-go at first, but once I figured out what the hell I was doing, the factory cable he produced proved invaluable in resurrecting my bricked Kindle back to life. I would encourage anyone who needs one of these handy cables but is uncertain of their own skill to make one to bother this man, force him out of bed with a VERY reasonable deal and have him send one to you post haste! Without it I most certainly would've been phuqed six ways from Sunday.

Thank you, SkOrPn, for making this high-quality product available to everyone!

:good:
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
lmao, force me out of bed, hehe...

your most welcome :good:
[Kindle Fire General] NightShadow2012:
As it turns out, the tweak I was trying to perform before all this mess started ended up going through anyway. I'm stumped as to how because I'm pretty sure that I'd wiped it, but it's working exactly the way I'd originally intended, so I'm very grateful for that as well. Hooray for dumb luck day!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yay for dumb luck day... lol, glad everything is going your way now...
[Kindle Fire General] fs1023:
Hi SkOrPn

Fantastic service, cable arrived in UK in under a week.

Have not used it yet (no disrespect, hope I wont need to.....). I have installed KindleFirste Aide but I am to scared to use in case I brick it my Kindle Fire 7 HD. Though I have read many posts that your cable will save the day, I do not know how to use if it all goes pear shaped.

Many thanks for excellent service.

fs1023
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I am confident if you ever need to use it you will have guidance here and figure it out easily enough :good:

Glad it arrived so quick. Not everyone is so lucky though, some places takes weeks longer than that..
[Kindle Fire General] bdeatha:
Thanks!

thanks for the info.will this help me fix my kindle.there is a red triangle with exclamation mark telling me to restore factory settings or to reboot but i tried both of the choices it goes back into this error.what are the possible reasons for this?is it the system of my kindle fire hd?thanks for those who will help me.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
The cable will force Fastboot Mode, but it is then up to you and your Fastboot skills to flash back to stock or a custom rom setup.

So the answer is yes the cable can help you but it won't do it automatically.

Mysteriously sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] bdeatha:
Thanks!

thanks for the feedback.if ever i will have this factory fastboot cable.what am i gonna do next?is there a way to bring my kindle back to normal from where it was?i wonder if there is a fastboot cable here in the philippines.where can i get it and how?thanks!i really need to fix my kindle as soon as possible.pls help
[Kindle Fire General] Nnyan:
Got a SkOrPn cable and I'm very impressed, fast and very friendly service. Cable works no problems and I highly recommend it to everyone.
[Kindle Fire General] fs1023:
For the 'oh no i have bricked my KFHD 7!!' can you please explain what I will need to do in 'Fastboot' mode to get KFHD back to factory (or any other) working image.

I already have a factory cable.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Won't the KFFirstAid software take care of flashing back to stock for you? I thought that is what the software is for??? :confused:
[Kindle Fire General] bdeatha:
anyone here can tell me how to order fastboot cable here in the philippines?pls feedback.i really need help.thanks&GODBles
[Kindle Fire General] thelonewolf1985:
so a fast book is just a jumper from pin 1 to pin 4? do you need to break the connection from pin 1?

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[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
a Factory Cable is a cable that has a short on the micro connector from pin 1 to pin 4. it has nothing to do with the wires so all wires stay the same. there is no wire on pin 4, so jumping from pin 1 to pin 4 is fairly easy if you can safely cut into the micro connectors casing without cutting a finger off.. lol
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
@ tonimanager, please use a little common sense, if you want a Factory cable then you must accept private messages to your inbox. Turning this off in your settings and then asking me to send you the order form makes zero sense to me.

I can't send you the information because YOU turned off your receiving of private messages. :confused:
[Kindle Fire General] amirphoto:
Kindle Factory Cable Made

I managed to use my old soldering skills and build my own factory cable.

I do not recommend you to do this at home because you must have a minimum of soldering skills and got risk of easily hurt your finger and make the cable unusable by cutting tiny wires or melting the connections. I had no longer an option so I had to build it myself no way of paying to nice guys here (no legal card service providers service here) and shopping was not an option for me at all.

My Kindle HD 7" was stock on kindlefire logo at start-up (I will mention how I get to this).

Now I've got fastboot mode;), but has nothing to do with! :( seems to me none of options of kindle first aide can communicate with device (not ADB nor Fastboot ones).

please tell me which topic to read and learn to solve my problem.

here's the story of how I reach to freezing of kindlefire logo:

I used c-2 method (here) successfully and got the root checker confirmation message.

Then I used kindlefirstaide and since my initial demand for rooting was VPN , I tried install VPN menu entry. there was nothing there indicating it need such a huge download on third item, I let it to be done, but at 98% my internet connection failed to respond! the first aide said it has restored the kindle successfully,

But my Kindle stops at KidleFire logo at start-up.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
First congratulations of the factory cable build. Second, I would go to the actual KFFirstAide thread and ask your questions there. Just make a post and include everything piece of information you can, use screenshots etc and someone will reply I am sure.

Good luck and again congrats on the dusting off of your soldering skills, lol... :good:
[Kindle Fire General] point99trash2011:
Awesome cable, just arrived a little while ago, was amazed it would be coming from in the same state... totally kickass, and now I can't wait to mod my device with no fear of bricking it.
[Kindle Fire General] Nnyan:
quick update here i purchased a 3' SkOrPn factory cable and it was very well made and works like a charm. NOW having said that making your own was dirt simple even for a guy like me that has ZERO skills with things like soldering, etc... I did manage to burn off three fingers and eventually did burn down my house, but it was easy peasy! On second thought just buy the cable.

Since I bought the cable it's saved my (or my Fire HD's) bacon three times so far. Great investment in a security blanket.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
lmao :laugh:

nothing is more important than saving the bacon... NOTHING! :D
[Kindle Fire General] Nnyan:
duh, looks like my KFHD just updated to system version 7.3.0 and I've lost root/su/play. Looks like I'll need to figure out how to use the factory cable to re-root my device. /sigh. 4th save coming up.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
I am blown away that Kindle auto updates their system. It should be a user option only.
[Kindle Fire General] ebotastic:
Ordered my cable from Sk0rPn and it was in the mail and on its way to me within 1 or 2 hours!

Got it 2 days later and got my Kindle up and running within 30 minutes. Easy as pie. Thanks again, Sk0rPn. :D
[Kindle Fire General] Nnyan:
Agreed but I'll take the blame on that one, I got lazy and did't do some of the last items on my KFHD todo list (one was disabling the auto update). I do have to say that one thing I did notice on the cable is that it seems to auto-turn on your device when you plug it in. when I do a fastboot reboot I have to pull it out quickly after the fastboot screen disappears.

But that aside once again the cable came to my rescue. Now onto flashing a custom ROM.
[Kindle Fire General] PXeuda:
Got SkOrPn cable yesterday, works like a charm.

thx SkOrPn
[Kindle Fire General] Deviantelf:
Just got mine today. Awesome quality, nice service when ordering, quick to ship, and best of all the cable does exactly what it's supposed to!

Thanks SkOrPn!
[Kindle Fire General] gunner49:
Received SkOrPn's factory cable today - quality is superb! Thanks! :good:

From what I gather this is to be used in case of a brick - for rooting and flashing purposes the normal cable that comes with the Kindle

would be ok, right?

And can someone please point me to a link with instructions on how to use the factory cable please? Thanks in advance and sorry if its a

repeated question but I haven't done a lot of flashing and the Kindle seems to be a more complicated process than phones from what I read!

I just want to make sure I've got all the tools in place, should I need them :)
[Kindle Fire General] markbc01:
It's easy! All you do is turn off your Kindle Fire HD, then plug the SkOrPn factory cable into the KFTT, then plug the other end into power (or if you have a cable that is pretty and has no other usb connection, I think you just turn power on).

The KFTT with start normally for one or two seconds and then it will change its screen to a small banner saying "Fastboot" and will stop right there! :victory:

After you have put the KFTT into the Fastboot mode -you can (should) carefully remove the SkOrPn Factory cable, and then plug the KFTT into a regular USB cable attached to your computer --since the KFTT is in the fastboot mode, you won't see the normal SD drive file transfer stuff, but now --for the first time-- you can use the fastboot command to send files into the KFTT system.

Not regular data files, you really don't need fastboot for those, but those sensitive but necessary system files like "recovery," "system," "boot" and even an image of the KFTT rom. All can be loaded onto your KFTT via fastboot.

Fastboot is used:

a) in an emergency when you soft brick your KFTT, and want to load back files that were damaged when the Kindle did not do what you wanted it to do :D

b) in your spare time, when you want to root it or modify the KFTT -like adding a second bootloader and

b) to prepare it to accept flashed roms (like real android devices!)

It is a great mode to recover from experimenting --I have softbricked this KFTT about 3 times (so far) and needed the cable every time to kick it into the fastboot mode (although, there is a way to induce fastboot on the KFTT using ADB, but that is something for another post).

Also I used it tonight to load TWRP bootloader on my way to successfully loading (I hope) Kinology rom, the only rom for us right now that is not stock! :cool:

oops, here is one of many links where you might want to use the factory cable -either trying ot accomplsih the processes or trying to recover from them :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888 (first aid kit -an excellent tool)

Good Luck!

:cowboy:

edit: I originally placed three links up there, but it looks like you have a Kindle Fire 2, not a kindle Fire HD. . .so TWRP and Kinology may not work for you. However, I think the Prokennexusa FirstAide kit will be useful and at points requires the fastboot mode!
[Kindle Fire General] gunner49:
Thank you very much for the informative reply!

Much appreciated :good:
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Ok, to everyone that ordered a cable this past weekend and last Friday as well. I feel I must apologize because last Friday my Printer stopped functioning and the problem looked exactly like my Cartridge ran out of ink and of course I used all the ink in my last refilling a few weeks ago. So, I felt no big deal I would just overnight a kit even though I remember filling it recently :confused: Anyway today, the kit came in and for what ever reason, even after filling it as full as I could get it (it only took half the normal amount) all my printer is doing is slapping down a nasty black line across the page instead of printing out the Shipping labels and the instructions. I tried hours of 3 level cleaning, soaking in alcohol, test pages etc, and all I am getting is a big black line down the center of the page. Its almost like it forgot how to print after 7 years of solid error free printing.

So, not to fear I have a second printer in the house, this one is a laser printer that is NOT connected to my computer (because it does not belong to me) but someone else. It is on the other side of the house of course and requires I setup a new user account. So a few minutes ago I gave up trying to fix mine, after hours of stress, alcohol soaking, yadda yadda guides on the internet etc. I do not have everything I need printed and the new laser setup and new user account that was just created for me takes a lot of time to setup and requires me to install extra custom fonts, an app for shipping labels, google chrome, and the list goes on, dropbox etc. Also, Kathy at my Post Office does not like it when I arrive late especially with International shipments, so I must work on this tonight. Besides, its a 20 minutes drive and they are closing in 12 minutes. So, this will be the first time I have ever missed going to the Post Office on Monday (not counting the stupid holidays that have sneaked up on me in the past).

I will instead ship everything ordered as of last Friday, tomorrow on Tuesday. Sorry, I do not know what to say or how else to apologize and all I did this afternoon was kept thinking to myself that any minute I would have it fixed no problem (7 years of zero error free printing gave me the false security of thinking I could fix this myself in no time, maybe it needs a entirely new cartridge, can they even go bad?). All I can do is try and calm down and keep working on this into the evening until everything is ready to go for Tuesday.

PM me if you feel you need to yell at me... Again I am sorry :(
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
[MENTION=4348197]jdarli01[/MENTION],

How can I reply to your PM request if you are blocking people from sending you Private Messages? lol
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Lmao, I just purchased a six pack of cartridges and I dont even know if my printer is Ok or not, haha... That was stupid but all that was on my mind was never being out of backup cartridges again...

OMG, lol I just picked up my printer for the first time in years and when I did the entire paper thingy fell out of it. So, on a whim I put the suspect bad cartridge back in and its printing, albeit a little fuzzy. And just 30 minutes after placing a order for a six pack of OEM Genuine cartridges. Un freggin believable... :eek:
[Kindle Fire General] votinh:
Now, you don't have to worry about running out of the cartridge for years :)
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yeah that's what I thought to. So yesterday I checked the date code and its November 17th 2010. So I purchased a six pack thinking I would be better off having backups. Then 30 minutes or so after that purchase I wanted to clean out the actual printer so I disconnected the wires and went to pick it up and it fell into two pieces. Lol, the paper tray had come lose but I didn't notice. I didn't even know you could detach it from the main body, not mine anyway. So I blew out any dust and cat hair I could see, snapped it back together and decided to try the 2+ year old cartridge again. It printed and I am upset for not catching that sooner. Still not sure though as it was still feeding paper seemingly fine. And not sure why it failed to print for 4 days straight and now it's working, albeit a little fuzzy. I soaked the cartridge a full night in water, and then alcohol but not sure if that did the trick.

With 6 cartridges the printer should outlast me... Lol

Mysteriously sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] votinh:
Don't feel bad about the purchase, m8. Trust me, your old cartridge won't last long, just a matter of time you will throw it away and insert the new one in.

That happens to all cartridge, I think, at some point when the "low toned" message comes up, we just take the cartridge out, shake it, put it back in, last for few months then out.

Worst case, put those newly bought cartridge on Ebay :)
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Hmm, I dont think my low ink level monitoring system works. I never get a low ink message. I do get low paper or out of paper message but thats about it. The way I been monitoring my ink level is to wait until it stops printing, lol... then I pop it out and refill the cartridge and start printing again.

Yeah, I think once I get the new Cartridges I am going to toss this Cartridge the moment it stops printing again or runs out of ink. The fact is I just filled it so if its willing to try and give me some more use I will take what I can get :good:
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
3ft Factory Cables are ON SALE!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Opensystem, you don't accept private messages, so don't expect me to reply to you, lol.

Mysteriously sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] NightLord77:
the resistor is 1k 1/4w 5%?
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Yes, they all test about 990 ohm and work flawlessly for this application. I chose 1/4 watt not only because it protects better but because it still fits just fine and my fingers can shape the pins perfectly using a precision needle nose.

There is no one else in the world who is building them better and with the degree of care I am assembling them with...

Mysteriously sent from my Nexus 7
[Kindle Fire General] menawollas:
Dear Mt Skorpn

Thankyou very much for you cable.

My Kindle is now ReKindled.

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::victory:
[Kindle Fire General] NightLord77:
ok thank you. I make factory cable, kfhd7 go in fastboot with this command:

fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product

but the terminal stuck <waiting for device>

the display of kfhd7 stuck fastboot

how i can exit from fastboot now? I cannot input any command in terminal :(

EDIT

I had a problem with drivers...after reinstalled the drivers the terminal return "product: tate-pvt-08"

all ok.
[Kindle Fire General] Opensystem:
LOLFAILZ

Haha and yet here you are doing so! Sorry about that I could have sworn I had the box checked (or un-checked) properly. It was that much more embarrassing due to how you go out of your way to instruct all us tools on doing just that right on your front page :p

CANNOT WAIT for the cable. It does make it more bearable, however, knowing that when it does arrive I won't have to worry about the quality of it. I'm sure there's no worse feeling than waiting to get a cable to un-brick your device, just to have the cable fail and need to wait all over again.

However, from all I've seen, that's a wait (heh, puns) off my shoulders. Thank you again so much for your quick response to my re-request. I'll be sure to come back with an update on how it goes!
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
:good:

Haha, glad you finally found my reply here. Yeah, sometimes I write out this nice friendly PM to people only to discover a message that tells me sorry you cant send PM's to this person, gets kinda irritating when that happens ;)

Anyway buddy, I am done for the week on sending out cables, but Sunday will manufacture some more and ship out on Monday. Send me a PM again and I will reply with the info you need. Thanks again and good luck with your device.

EDIT: Err, never mind me, looks like you already ordered earlier, which means I already shipped yours this afternoon.
[Kindle Fire General] kareeme42:
Hi

Do this cable work on kindle fire hd 8.9"
[Kindle Fire General] Onoitsu2:
Short answer no. Long answer do you want a paperweight?
[Kindle Fire General] Opensystem:
The Factory Cable isn't needed for the 8.9", and no it doesn't work either. 8.9" are specially designed so that when they boot up (I believe, you can double check somewhere on XDA to confirm since I don't actually own one) that you just hold up the volume up as it boots to get it into fast-boot with no cable. So actually, it's supposed to be a lot easier with 8.9"
[Kindle Fire General] Onoitsu2:
Not quite right, they work without fastboot cable. You issue a fastboot command on computer, like wait for device. Then with the kindle powered off you plug it in. It will receive virtually any fastboot command to start up in fastboot mode.
[Kindle Fire General] Opensystem:
Fastboot on 8.9

Apparently using the App here you can enter fastboot on an 8.9 where it is not being recognized by ADB or your computer due to a bootloop or something along those lines.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2011126

And yes, if you're just trying to enter fastboot on a normal device, the command "Fastboot getvar product" and then plugging in your device should

work as well
[Kindle Fire General] soulctcher:
I just wanted to state that I ordered a fastboot cable from SkOrPn a few days ago. He shipped it out the same day via first class mail. I got it in 2 days half-way across the states. I opened up the package and the workmanship was great. The cable looks and feels top notch. I promptly fired up my laptop and was able to put my Kindle Fire HD 7 into fastboot status immediately with no problem.

Thanks for the high quality cable SkOrPn, and thanks to the XDA community for all of the awesome contributions here. I can always find what I need here. :good:
[Kindle Fire General] myatkaung:
I want a factory cable for my kindle fire hd 7". But first, do u ship your product to Myanmar? I am living in Myanmar. I have no paypal, no visa, no master. But i do have myanmar credit/debit card. But I can borrow my friend's paypal( his address in paypal is in Singapore, he made paypal while he was in Singapore, he is now living in Myanmar)so that u can bill me through his paypal and i'll have to give u my address. Thanks in advance.
[Kindle Fire General] SkOrPn:
Mail from the US usually gets stolen once it reaches Myanmar (So I read). And sometimes the customs taxes can be thousands of dollars if they feel like it that day. I know you can ship to the US and it only takes 2 weeks and almost always makes it here, but it does not seem to work the same way when shipping to Myanmar, lol. Have you ever ordered something from the US before?

If I was you I would try and build one or have one built instead of ordering from such a far away place.