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[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
umm..i just started looking in to the kinlde fire..so pardon my noobness here...

So..u can install the market and google apps without doing all that rooting and adb stuff......i want to root, but do not want to loose the prime videos etc....

I read about that and I thought..What the hell!!!...that's like jailbreaking the ipad and it disabling itunes...diable one of the main features on the device...what is amazon thinking...is beyond me...

Anyway, i am hoping to side load go launcher and the other android apps i am pulling off my smartphone...not sure what will work and what won't...need root if i want to block adds...grrr..
[Kindle Fire Android Development] feistygoat10:
Use can use voodoo ota root keeper to temporarily unroot and it allows you to veiw prime videos. And restore the root access when you need it. You can download it in the Google play store or by searching it in this forum.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] melmantheman:
Or you can get adb working, then just use this utility to get the apps without rooting and you dont have to worry ;)

I did and i haven't regretted it a second. Play Store makes kindle fire a real powerhouse
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
My kindle fire is showing up as a portable device in device manager...I installed the drivers from this utility, but it wont show up as android adb..nor will the utility see adb status online...I even folled a youtube video on how to do this..but I am stuck.

I assume to connect the usb cord with the kindle on...which means it just mounts the storage drive...is there some special option or way of booting the thing in to this fast-boot mode to enable adb?

Edit: Ok..tried a different computer..I see Android ADB interface in device manger, but the utility still says adb off line....help??

EDIT: When i run the .bat as Adminstrator...it shows adb status as online, but boot status as unknown...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vashypooh:
I have updated TWRP to 2.1 now. The next time you launch KFU it will automatically pull down the latest URL and MD5 and you will be good to go.

Enjoy! It looks like it is a MUCH nicer piece of software this time around.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] TKruzze:
I'm having the strangest occurrence. I ran KFU and selected latest TWRP recovery. It flashed fine - it even showed version 2.1.0 on the screen after flashing. I select Reboot (as instructed) and the system boots fine. However, next time I enter recovery. I'm back in TWRP 2.0.0. This has happened 3 times now.

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[Kindle Fire Android Development] Savok:
Same thing here, I'm only showing 2.0.0 in recovery.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Vashypooh:
Interesting. If I can get the wife to give me her kindle I will investigate it further. It should work no problem since its the same install process with this version of twrp, all i did was update the MD5.

If you can, try deleting the recovery folder in your KFU folder, and then try it again.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nckfrs:
i would just like to thank this guy for helping me with cannot find file adding the ini file with hardware ids fixed my issue and was rooted with recovery and rom in minutes (:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] TKruzze:
Did as you suggested... no help. Then (it gets even stranger!) I decided to install CWM. CWM installed fine. I was able to boot into CWM recovery multiple times. I then flashed TWRP again - same result - it did the initial load into TWRP no problem - it showed version 2.1.0. I then selected Reboot > System. Next time I booted into recovery.... back to CWM!. Something ain't working right.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nckfrs:
just rooted my fire tonight everything went smooth now im in twrp trying to flash roms and get unkown md5 error, what can i do to fix this? any ideas twrp 2.1
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Neuralgia:
Ok, guys, I'm totally lost here. I've rooted lots of devices, but for some reason, this one, which should be easy as pie with KFU, is giving me a headache.

I installed the ADB drivers, and everything went great. I connected my Fire and ran the KF utility (0.9.5).

I installed TWRP 2.1.0, and the Utility tells me everything went great... that I just need to press REBOOT. And that's where I'm stuck.

I never get that option. I'm inside TWRP's main menu, and that's it, and on the bottom right I have the REBOOT option (button), but it takes me to a sub menu (with SYSTEM, POWER OFF, RECOVERY and BOOTLADER buttons), it doesn't reboot the fire... meaning I never get the yellow triangle :(

I've tried quite a bit of things, and now I'm thinking this might be a problem with the ADB drivers.

I had an HTC phone (Inspire 4G) with drivers installed, so I uninstalled them (rebboted after that)... I also had Kies and Samsung Drivers removed all the (my phone is a Galaxy SII) (alse rebooted after this).

Now, my device manager shows the following drivers associated with my kindle:

As you can see, it's using Samsung drivers.

When I realized this, I removed all the drivers, restarted and used the install_drivers.bat, and I still keep getting the Samsung driver.

Is this what's giving me problems? Or is it something else and I'm lost?

KFU tells me adb is ONLINE, I can even make backups from the TWRP, but I never get the yellow triangle. I even tried to install ROMS, but they always fail.

Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] tokyostomp:
so i just got off of cm9 and i went back to stock 6.3.

i used this to root, install twwp and superuser.

i am running into an issue those. I installed the extras (get calendar, g+, etc)

HOWEVER i am missing market/playstore
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
To all those seeing the TWRP 2.0.1 still, try deleting the twrp.img from the KFU\recovery folder. After I did that, a new file was downloaded upon running the TWRP installer again. Also, Make sure you are using the latest KFU (0.9.5).

Old twrp.img is about 10,642 KB or 10.3MB

New twrp.img is about 4,842 KB or 4.72MB

Holy ****! You weren't lying! WOWWWW I think I have a favorite recovery on my fire now... File browser! Multiple Zip recovery! just to name a few...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
ADB no worky..nothing worky

I have spent hours trying to get ADB to work...nothing...I have tried the android SDk method...and some other manual approaches...this utility was supposed to have the drivers and everything i need. Even saw a video of it on youtube....well it won't work for me...

I install the drivers, and the KF shows up in device manager as android composite ADB interface, then i run the .bat file...and it says ADB status offline, boot status Unknown...trying to select change boot mode says Opps something went wrong.

If i run the .bat as Admin, it gives a waring message pop up..Windows cant find /wget.exe...(the file IS there)...then the cmd loads and shows ADB statues Online, but Boot mode as Unknown,,select change boot mode, gives error can fine file specified, Kindle told to reboot, but nothing happens, even after manually rebooting the KF.

Not sure what to do now...the drivers already have the code added to them..and i have done the un-install/re-install dozens of times...even used different computers..win 7 x32 and x64..same results...

6.3 is quite new..so maybe there is still bugs to work out...i read alot of people are having trouble with any of these things...certainly not as easy as my samsung fasciante..
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
When you run a .bat file as an administrator it changes the path that commands are launched from so instead of windows looking in the KFU folder for the KFU\tools\ folder it instead tries to locate the \tools folder in the folder that the actual cmd.exe is launched from which is C:\windows\system32 folder. So of course, files will not be found under such situations.

Question:

Q: Where exactly is your KFU folder located on your hard drives?

Q: Are you also seeing UAC popup boxes?

A:Try moving your KFU folder to the Main Drive directory

So instead of having it at C:\users\"myaccount"\Desktop\KFU Move it to C:\KFU and launch it from there and see how that goes. Especially if it's nestled within folders containing spaces for names. or if you have another hard drive or partition, try moving it there and away from your system partition.

Batch scripting can be very fickle, for instance, if there aren't certain variables "quoted" off and you have the KFU folder as a subdirectory of a folder with spaces within the name, certain scenarios will throw a red flag and mess up the script entirely. <<--- Just an example with batch scripting in general and not necessarily true with KFU or at the least not that I have noticed.

Also Win7 Is not WinXP and is very annoying when it comes to file permissions and access, Among other things. Another issue is some anti-virus programs can be interfering with the running of files. Like avast lately has been ticking me off with it's auto Sandbox feature, had to disable that because it wouldnt allow real system access for files being run that it didnt recognize, such as adb and such.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] TKruzze:
I restarted my system, placed KFU folder in the root directory, made certain recovery folder was deleted. SAME THING. After installing TWRP, it shows 2.1.0 on the initial boot screen. After selecting Reboot > System, it boots back into my ROM just fine. However, when I enter recovery it's back to CWM. It's like TWRP was never installed - but I know it was because I saw it!

The file in my recovery folder is named: twrp.img, size is 4,958,208 bytes with an MD5 hash of: 181acb70e4e65ca87cca78574e3c2dac
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
Yes...I have it on C:/kfu. I have run this on my test system that has no av installed and uac disabled...same results...

Edit..I just tried this on Win Xp..same results...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Your recovery md5 matches mine so that isn't the issue.

Have you guys tried deleting the KFU folder entirely and starting fresh by re-downloading it? I would try that as a last ditch effort. Maybe the previous download of KFU was corrupted somehow?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
Yes a few times..still having issues.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Are you having adb issues also or is your only issue with applying the twrp recovery?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nckfrs:
cant load recovery

i was able to get firefirefire running and then flashed recovery then from recovery flashed cm9. but after reboot i can no way get back into recovery ive seen to press the power button till orange when booting and to repeatedly press it to no avail only way is to use kfu and flash twrp again. aslo when i run permanant root with twrp i get a weird error about a folder called check_rooted in the system folder, yet it finishes fine and boots recovery just cant load recovery again thanks, in advance guys
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Reboot the kindle. Or hold the power button for like 25 seconds until it shuts down. After the kindle reboots, wait like 3-4 seconds and then hold the power button on the bottom, it will turn orange, let it go, and the kindle will reboot, you will see the same screen again, but it will go into recovery after 5-10 seconds.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
ADB issues..I can't get past loading the run.bat...So I can't flash anything at all.

Is there a certain mode or way of engaging Fastboot or something?...cause All the instructions and videos I have watched for this tool, just say to install driver, plug the kindle in to the usb...launch run.bat...i do that and it shows up as the android adb under Android phone in device manager, and the kindle mounts the usb storage...but the utility says offline for adb and unknown for boot status...no matter what I have tried...and i have tried probably everything.

Kindle is running version 6.3
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Well damn, All this helping and never realized that i had the same issue once i actually tried to go into recovery... Despite installing Twrp through KFU and actually seeing twrp v2.1 upon reboot, After all was said and done and I actually just entered Twrp I seem to be stuck at v2.0.0...

My thoughts:

This line right here which i think is supposed to do the magic

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 boot recovery\twrp.img

doesnt actually install twrp image but actually boots the kindle from the downloaded img almost as if it's being booted and ran from memory and not from what is actually on the kindle system, so whatever the previous img was on the actual system is what boots after KFU is done with the script.

Oy Vey... I have been digging into the KFU script for about 8 hours now... and am noticing some funky things going on, not so much a KFU problem but possibly an adb/fastboot issue... But i'm making headway :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dutchryan:
Help Needed!

I'm familiar with rooting devices and have had no problems with my Epic 4g, my Epic 4g touch, or my droid razr. I've only rooted one tablet, but the hp touchpad was a peace of cake. Then I bought a kindle fire for my cousin's birthday and wanted to turn it into a ICS tab. I found this utility and assumed it would be easy, but I'm not having any luck whatsoever.

I've downloaded and extracted the utility. I've downloaded the drivers. I even re-installed ADB for windows on my computer. But, when I open the KF utility, it does not find my KF. It doesn't seem to want to do anything actually. FWIW, my KF came installed with 6.3.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kinfauns:
Your thoughts are absolutely correct.

2.0.0 was distributed as a boot image with an embedded recovery image, so the correct way to install 2.0.0 was to 'fastboot boot' the boot image. This in turn started up its own little install process to flash the recovery image found inside.

2.1.0 is now distributed as an actual recovery image and not a boot image. Vashypooh will have to alter KFU to accomodate this format. Without any changes, TWRP 2.1.0 will simply load into memory and while you can use it there, it will not have been flashed to the device. The next time you restart the KF into recovery, it will load up whatever you had on the recovery partition.

With all that said, there are currently some problems with the new 2.1.0 version and during my testing, it would not flash 3/4 ROMs I tried with it. I'd suggest everybody just stay with 2.0.0 for the time being. If you want to flash it to your device despite the above warnings, you can use "fastboot flash recovery twrp-fire-2.1.0.img" to get it onto your device.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
If you still had traces of all those other htc products still on your comp, then i would start looking there as the root to your current evils. And what do you mean by you re-installed adb for windows on your computer?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dutchryan:
I went to the website and downloaded the ADB for windows installer and installed it. How would I get rid of the HTC traces?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Step 1. I would uninstall all that adb stuff that you can.

Step 2. Plug the kindle up

Step 3. Open up device manager, if you see "Android Composite ADB Interface"

right click it and go to uninstall, Should popup a windows for you to confirm

Before clicking "OK" put a check mark in the box that says

"Delete the driver software for this device" and then click ok

Step 4. unplug the kindle

Step 5. Locate and delete the .android folder usually in c:\Users\"Current User"\.android

Step 6. Run the Install_Drivers.bat

Step 7. Plug up kindle

Step 8. Start Run.bat

Step 9. Cross Fingers

Step 10. Pray

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What I ended up doing was along this line, after i realized how the KFU installed cwm.img,

Editing the KFU run.bat and changing

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 boot recovery\twrp.img

to

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery recovery\twrp.img

But it is not recommened for the faint of heart or those who lack the skillz

This way seemed to get my kindle stuck in fastboot mode.

I pretty much just

Step 1. Turned my kindle off

Step 2. Ran another Run.bat even though the other one was still stuck at please wait.

Step 3. Crossed fingers

Step 4. Watched as my kindle Rebooted and the script finished up correctly!

After my kindle rebooted back to system, I rebooted it and went into recovery and Walaah! TWRP v2.1.0

AGAIN,***Not recommened for everyone to do until KFU it is fixed properly.***
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
Same thing here...simply not working..

---------- Post added at 03:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:13 PM ----------

Tried that on 4 different computers..32 bit and 64 bit...even on a fresh windows install...have tired with all the adb and android skd stuff and a system without..just not seeing the kindle..

Sorry folks...maybe Amazon disables ADB or something recently. I am seeing many forums fill up with these sort of issues.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kinfauns:
If you are knowledgeable enough to read through the batch file, you should just be running fastboot and adb commands on their own. That's probably heresy to say in the KFU thread though.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Agreed but i'm also fairly new to the whole adb thing, Got my first HTC Device, EVO 3D, Early november of last year. Going through his script has helped me understand alot of things I didn't understand completely b4. I'm a whiz at batch scripting so I understand what's happening and when, But i'm now learning what adb and fastboot are capable of. Plus once you get the hang of batch scripts it helps when doing the same tedious tasks over and over. I have already rooted 12 kindle fires, just family alone!

Ok Changing:

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 boot recovery\twrp.img

to

tools\fastboot flash recovery recovery\twrp.img

and also changing

::Our TWRP reboot to normal trick. This should make the stuck in Triangle go away, permanently.

::Also requires no user interaction anymore.

:twrploop

tools\adb shell "idme bootmode 4000" 2> nul

if not %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto twrploop )

to

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

tools\sleep 5

Should fix any fastboot issues.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nckfrs:
this is what i did to get it to recognize my kindle

go to C:\Users\nick or what ever your account is named then click on .android open the folder

right click and create a text file.

make sure you can see your file extension and rename the text file to

adb_usb.ini

now right click edit

and add

0x1949

0x18D1

save and try again you should be good to go
[Kindle Fire Android Development] bjg020683:
Is kindle showing up on device and printers? I'm sure it is. Okay click on kindle and then hardware. If you have...1.Amazon Kindle USB Device. 2 Android Composite ADB interface 3. E:\ 4. USB Composite Device 5. USB Storage Device. If you do have this I assume you downloaded the android sdk. Perfect...use 0.9.4 to install root. I used 0.9.4 because this was the only way I could get adb status to say online and boot status to say 4000. If both are there click 2 and install root. Now go back to kfu 0.9.5. And adb status should say online and boot status should be 4000. If this is the case click on 2 on kfu 0.9.5 and it will install root again as well as twrp. If it doesn't install twrp just click 3 and install twrp by itself. It worked for me. Goodluck
[Kindle Fire Android Development] bjg020683:
Thanks techlyfe deleting the old twrp.img worked perfectly. Upgraded to 2.1 successfully
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Unfortunately, BJG, try rebooting after it was installed and go into recovery, is it 2.1.0 or is it the prior recovery that you had b4?

Seems in order to get recovery to stick you have to either wait for KFU to be updated or look back to recent posts to find out what needs to be changed to make it install properly.

Deleting twrp.img, to get the new update, only solves 1 part of the puzzle.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] bjg020683:
Your correct it Didn't work after reboot. Thanks for the quick response.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] ChodaBoyUSA:
Thanks! *sniff* I love ya man!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
didn't work fro me.

---------- Post added at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:42 PM ----------

just tried that too..still says offline.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] nckfrs:
for all of you not finding the fire try as i stated before but dont use the kfu drivers let windows pick up the adb drivers. windows 7 not sure on other versions

this is what i did to get it to recognize my kindle

go to C:\Users\nick or what ever your account is named then click on .android open the folder

right click and create a text file.

make sure you can see your file extension and rename the text file to

adb_usb.ini

now right click edit

and add

0x1949

0x18D1

save and try again you should be good to go

also the installer of twrp is broken you will have to fastboot install it until kfu is fixed
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
EDIT: I think it was my dam usb cord...i was using the micro usb cord that i use on my phone...then i unwittingly connected the fire to another micro usb cord i had connected(use for my camera) and it now works..ADB status good.....well..solves that problem...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
I used 0.9.5 to install twrp...it installed v2.1.0 fine...booted right into it...was able to do a backup..

I then did the root, which works fine..but How do get in to recovery..something about pressing the power button...I am not seeing the yellow triangle at boot, just the kindle logo.

I selected boot to recovery mode in FHU..it cycled a few times..then booted back to the os...so I guess the recovery image isn't sticking...no big deal right now..i guess i can just flash it every-time i wan to use it...

I am trying to install the google apps from KFU..it installed most of them..but i saw permission denied errors for the system stuff...what do I do now?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Neuralgia:
That's exactly where I'm at.

Using KFU 0.9.5, I can boot into TWRP 2.1.0, I created a back up, and even loaded one... BUT, I never get the option to REBOOT after installing TWRP.

SO I never get the yellow triangle.

Without this, when I try to load a new ROM I get a FAILED mssg.

It seems adb is working OK (online, 4000), so I have no clue of what I'm doing wrong.

PS: In my case, I can't even ROOT even though it tells me it worked ok.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] speedingcheetah:
root worked for me..i had to side load the superuser.apk though...and set the option in the app to allow instead of prompt.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] kinfauns:
I tried to explain the problem earlier today...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24732291&postcount=1298

Basically, the format of the TWRP distribution image has changed dramatically from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 and KFU does not yet account for these changes. As a result, KFU's assumptions about how to install the 2.1.0 version is entirely wrong. KFU's installation method for TWRP must be fixed. In fact, if you used KFU to "install" 2.1.0, it didn't even get flashed onto your device. It just loaded into memory temporarily and it will not be there after reboot. IMHO, KFU should just revert back to 2.0.0 until 2.1.0 gets some bug fixes. Right now it fails to install most ROMs I've tried.

Oh, and one more thing... 2.0.0 also installed FIREFIREFIRE 1.0 with TWRP at the same time. 2.1.0 no longer does this... You will have to install FIREFIREFIRE separately.... preferably before TWRP so you have a fallback plan if something goes wrong.