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[Kindle Fire Android Development] SalsaForte:
I ran some thorough "debugging"...

The batch can't create the .android directory. I manually created it.

The dpinst32.exe language script error was fix with some XML editing. I added a 0x040C section to support Windows XP French. I found the French hex code here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/ff678781

Now, dpinst.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<dpinst>

<suppressAddRemovePrograms/>
<search>
<subDirectory>*</subDirectory>
</search>
<language code="0x0409">
<dpinstTitle>Kindle Fire Driver Installer</dpinstTitle>
<welcomeTitle>Welcome to the Kindle Fire Driver Installer!</welcomeTitle>
<welcomeIntro>This wizard will walk you through updating the drivers for your Kindle Fire.</welcomeIntro>
<installHeaderTitle>Installing the software for your Kindle...</installHeaderTitle>
<finishTitle>Congratulations! You finished installing your Kindle Fire drivers.</finishTitle>
</language>
<language code="0x040C">
<dpinstTitle>Kindle Fire Driver Installer</dpinstTitle>
<welcomeTitle>Welcome to the Kindle Fire Driver Installer!</welcomeTitle>
<welcomeIntro>This wizard will walk you through updating the drivers for your Kindle Fire.</welcomeIntro>
<installHeaderTitle>Installing the software for your Kindle...</installHeaderTitle>
<finishTitle>Congratulations! You finished installing your Kindle Fire drivers.</finishTitle>
</language>

<forceIfDriverIsNotBetter/>
</dpinst>

But, unfortunately, I still have a problem. When I run "dpinst32.exe", It says in the "status": Install failed (Unsigned).

^^^^^

I just fixed this! To install unsigned drivers we must use /LM option.

start .\drivers\dpinst32.exe /LM

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Sadly... Even with all these tweaks and manipulation: adb still does not see my Kindle Fire.

The driver seems to be correctly installed: I see the "Android ADB Interface" in the Windows devices manager, but when I either use the Kindle Fire tool or adb.exe directly, the device is never listed. :(

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Last details...

System Version is: 6.3_user_4019920

Serial Number is: D01E.......
[Kindle Fire Android Development] SalsaForte:
I messed around a bit with my 2 computer at home... Now, at he "Installing TWRP..." section of the script and I wait.

Yes! Finally Got it! With the right combination of USB cable and port! :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Did you get KFU to show ONLINE ?

If so, try unplugging your kindle, and then hard shut it down by holding the power button for 20-25 seconds.

once its off now plug it back up, hopefully it gets KFU to proceed.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] SalsaForte:
Hellfire 4.0.4 installed. :-D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jsmith432:
For me I was not getting root completely using KFU 0.9.5 with Kindle Fire Brand New with 6.3. I realized that when I tried to install market and I was getting permission denied..

"failed to copy 'apps\system\vending.apk' to '/system/app/vending.apk': Permission denied"

and I tried the manual way with root explorer and I was not getting anywhere (su was not installed).

I checked and the superuser.apk was not on /system/apps

So, to solve this issue:

1) I copied C:\Kindle Fire Utility\files\superuser.apk and C:\Kindle Fire Utility\apps\apps\system [vending.apk, etc] to the device in a folder on the sdcard

2) Installed superuser.apk it through root explorer

3) Restarted it

4) Got the root access and copied the files (using root explorer) that I put on the device (from C:\Kindle Fire Utility\apps\apps\system) [vending.apk, etc] to /system/apps (changed the permissions accordingly to the other packages already there).

And the market is working now and also the root.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pirondello:
Boot Loop with FFF loader

After successfully running ICS a couple of days on my fire, I am stuck with a boot loop (restarts after showing kindle fire with android logo)

As the FFF boot loader puts the kindle into fastboot mode for a short period (I can hear the typical windows sound if a device connects) the execution of fastboot commands is possible but I always get the following error:

...FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

My battery is completely empty and it doesn't seem to charge while in the boot loop.

Drivers are correctly installed (reinstalling is not possible because the period my pc is recognizing the kindle is just too short).

Does anybody have a similar problem and/or a solution?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] redbean25:
Did you ever get things sorted out?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
I have been wondering the same thing.

What were you trying to do b4 you got stuck there?

Have you tried going into recovery upon bootup?

Also try this:

Disconnect kindle

Power kindle down

On KFU Chose option 3.(Install Twrp)

Once KFU displays < waiting for device > Plug in your kindle

Hopefully it will now jumpstart your kindle.

Let us know how this goes.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pirondello:
Thanks for your answer!

A far as I remember, the device shut down due to empty battery, I plugged it into wall charger, it started normally but shut down suddenly after some time. Since then I have the boot loader loop.

I tried your steps, unfortunately it doen't work. The utility just "waites for the device" even though I can hear windows recognising the device.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] vertig:
No, not yet. I haven't found another cable that will work with my KF. I'm also thinking of switching to my netbook to try and get set up with KFU, since I put Eclipse back on my main laptop.

*Update*

Huzzah! On a whim I grabbed a LG micro USB cord and attempted to install my KF using Google's USB drivers from the Android SDK, and it installed as ADB Composite, and I was able to see it when I ran ADB DEVICES at the command prompt. I rebooted to see if the drivers stuck and everything seems good, so far.

Now I need to do some more reading up on how to proceed, as I don't want my next post to be "I BRICKED MY KINDLE"
[Kindle Fire Android Development] redbean25:
Excellent! Good to hear it is working out now.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pirondello:
Solved the problem!! :-) :-)

Actually, it was just an empty battery problem. Apparently the kindle doesn't charge via the USB cable connected to the PC (at least when only in the boot loop). I have some wall chargers but none of them worked (I couldn't use the original one because I live in Europe and didn’t have the appropriate adapter).

So I bought an adapter, plugged the original wall charger into the kindle and bingo, the kindle started normally. :-) :-)

This means, the boot loop wasn't actually a "real" boot loop, but only a shut down right after the boot loader started. Looks like all my usb power connectors, except the original wall charger, didn't give enough amperes to boot the kindle normally.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mocap3069:
Loop issue with ICS 4.0 Launcher

I have read and tried the various tricks stated to fix the issue with the ICS 4.0 Launcher looping on my Kindle Fire. The problem is there is nothing called kindle in my device manager on my XP or my Win7 systems. The only programs from this utlitly that are running are fastboot and adb. Either system gets stuck at Waiting for Device and will not proceed. I have not previously rooted my Kindle Fire.

Any ideas? Thank you for any help you can provide.

I tried an old Win98 trick and got the Kindle to be seen by the utility but now I am stuck at the TWRP screen.

What am I supposed to do from here?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] SalsaForte:
You must put in your Kindle fire the ZIP file of the rom you want to install then you boot in twrp to flash it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] xxxredeye:
Is anyone having trouble getting this to work? (Sorry if this has already been answered, I did my best to find it on my own!)

I downloaded v0.9.5 (and after having no luck, v0.9.4 and v0.9.3) extracted the files and clicked on the run.bat. Every time, not matter the version, the file runs, then goes through the initial bs, then the window closes. I figured it was a configuration issue, so I then clicked the install_drivers.bat, which very quickly loaded the command prompt then disappeared. I uninstalled then reinstalled the drivers multiple times as well as uninstalled then reinstalled the Android SDK tools, and still no luck. I can see it under Processes as well, but it's nowhere to be seen. I know I can run it on my work computer which is running W7. The issue I'm having is with a Vista pc.

Thank you for any help you can provide!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
ICS 4.0 Launcher looping? Not sure what you mean by that. What exactly is happening?

With your kindle fire plugged in, did you not see Android Phone in device manager?

If not, then your drivers were not installed properly. And that is the root of your issues <pun intended>.

Old Win98 Trick? What was this?

Stuck at TWRP Screen? So your in TWRP at the moment? Then choose reboot and then choose normal within TWRP.

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Vista sucks... but anyway...

Try renaming Kindle Fire Utility to KFU and then putting that folder into the root of a drive such as C:\KFU or D:\KFU and see how it goes from there.

BTW it sounds as if the file is being ran as an administrator, that is usually what will cause the ran.bat to run and then close immediately after.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] xxxredeye:
:)

Thank you so much! I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out! You rock!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jasongray:
Question:

I have successfully put CWM recovery onto the KF. Now I realised I actually need TWRP for getting the kernel 3.0 on. However it seems like for some reason the ADB driver will not activate. In the Utility menu it gives me a 'we are unable to locate your Kindle Fire' error and shows ADB as offline - see attached.

I've gone into the device manager and uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, and no luck. In fastboot mode it just shows the KF with the Android logo on top but still no active ADB. I've followed all the information I could get online about this - but feel like I'm missing something small here.

Can anybody assist?

Thanks!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jasongray:
Thanks for the help. I got it fixed now :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] vertig:
Update on my feeble attempt at rooting my kindle...

I chose option 2 to install root and it worked. Then I selected the option to install FireFireFire and my KF rebooted to the fire caution sign, which it is stuck at, and KFU script is <waiting for device>, so it seems like on the attempt to fastboot I have lost connectivity with my computer (or something like that).

So now I reading back through the thread and am trying different things to force my KF to talk to KFU again, such as command line fastboots, running multiple instances of KFU, powering down and back on, etc. I will share what I learn when I get this crazy device conquered.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mocap3069:
I ran into this issue because I misread the directions for the ICS 4.0 Launcher

and it was stuck in the Force Close issue. My Kindle fire just reboots into TWRP

2.0.0 if I touch the power button or not. There is no Normal option under Reboot

in TWRP only System and Power Off, both of which get me back to TWRP. The Kindle Fire utility cannot seem to see my Kindle any longer. Where do I get the standard Kindle Fire rom to flash if I must do that to fix this issue? I just want to

get me Kindle Fire back to factory default settings. Thank you for your reply
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
*edited to repost below*
[Kindle Fire Android Development] vertig:
That was the first thing I tried. I did it about 7 times. After that I opened up another instance of KFU and selected bootmode>recovery to see if that would start things back up, but it stuck on <waiting for device>.

When I checked Device Manager after sticking on FFF, I noticed my KF was showing as 'kindle' with an exclamation, so I was thinking because of the bootmode change, my drivers pooped out, which is very sad.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
So long as you haven't messed with your drivers up to that point, Do This exactly:

1. Unplug Kindle

2. Turn off kindle (Hold Power button for 20-25 seconds until it shuts off)

3. run KFU

4. Choose 1 (Bootmode Menu)

5. Choose 1 (Normal)

6. Once KFU displays < Waiting for device > Plug up kindle

Pray. That should turn on the kindle, set the kindle to normal and then reboot it normally.

Let us know how it goes.

At any point did you do anything to the drivers, such as force installing them, after you got twrp installed?

Plug up the kindle, Right click the Kindle! in device manager and choose Uninstall. If you see an option to (delete the driver software for this device) check that and click ok. Reboot your pc. Run the driver installation bat. and then proceed to 1. unplug the kindle and continue from there.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] vertig:
Here is what I have done so far. Hopefully this can help out someone else.

After using KFU to root, I chose the option to install FFF. My KF rebooted and stuck at yellow caution sign, and my drivers broke (according to Device Manager). After messing around a bit I did this:

1. Unplugged my KF and uninstalled drivers for 'kindle' in Device Manager.

2. Rebooted computer

3. Used KFU Install drivers bat to install drivers again, even though I had android sdk with Google usb drivers installed.

4. Rebooted computer

5. Turned on my KF and plugged into computer (still showed yellow triangle)

6. Computer autodetected and installed drivers, no error

7. Opened up run.bat from KFU

8. Even though menu showed I was OFFLINE, I chose option 1, bootmode

9. On the next menu I tried recovery which gave a <waiting for device>

10. I backed out of attempting to boot into recovery and chose a normal boot

11. After a minute or two my KF rebooted into normal mode

What I found interesting was: 1)I had Google's usb drivers installed, but was able to install KFU's drivers over that and it all worked 2)Even though KFU showed me as offline, i was still able to send commands to my KFU.

I don't have my KF running in perfect order yet, but I was able to stumble my way out of a stuck boot and get back to a usable KF. Maybe someone can learn from my mistakes. :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
One driver will install over another driver when ran the way that the KFU driver install bat is written.

I don't think KFU displays online when your kindle is in fastboot mode. KFU determines online and offline through ADB calls, which only works when the kindle is actually booted into a ROM.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] vertig:
There is still so much I don't know. :o
[Kindle Fire Android Development] leoinj:
So I tried installing TWRP 2.1.1 by copying the latest img file from team win's site, moving it to the recovery folder and renaming it to twrp.img. Installation seems to go fine and my kindle boots to the new recovery but on next restart it's back to v2.0.0
[Kindle Fire Android Development] FormelLMS:
I'm the next one who can't root the fire.

Drivers are correctly installed. It is recognized aas an ADB Device, not Kindle Fire, but KFU can't see the device an ADB is offline.

Too bad :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] redbean25:
You cannot install it that way anymore. you have to load it in fastboot with the command

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
[Kindle Fire Android Development] braiden79:
Yellow Triangle

Hi, I'm stuck with yellow triangle. This is my second kindle that I root in my computer. The first root was perfect with no problem but the second is stuck.

The driver is fine

I can enter to TWRP and install any ROM and do whatever I want, but when reboot is still in the triangle.

Also I restore the backup but still in the triangle

My steps was

Install driver, run KFU and Install de ROOT

after that is stuck in yellow triangle

I perform the bootmode and normal boot like a 100 times

Please someone with a solution

Edit: I re-flash again and wipe cache and the kindle is working well again. YEAH !!!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] FormelLMS:
Everything is working fine now!

Thank you for this great piece of software!!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] :
i tried to install a rom on my kindle. Everything went oke. But after booting it aint working anymore, but worst of all: I cant connect my Kindle anymore with ADB.

I installed the usb driver from KFU without succes... Under Device Manager the Kindle shows up as: "Amazon" with a yellow triangle, and i see a hard drive names "AM".'

Installed ADB and everything, but what i do.. i can't connect with ADB anymore, so i can't unbrick my device.

Is there someone who has an idea?

PS. I did not install TWRP Recovery. Only rooted, installed Clockwork recovery and installed the rom after wiping.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] manya2000:
Almost there

I ran the KFU 0.9.5 and it seems to work.

I get the Launcher EX but have very limited use. If I try Market, I get the error:

The application Market (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Not sure what I did wrong.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Not sure what you did, or what you were trying to do. Can we get a little more info?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] manya2000:
I am trying to get vending.apk installed and working.

I always get failed to copy 'apps\system\vending.apk' to /system/app/vending.apk': Permission denied
[Kindle Fire Android Development] codemansGT:
flashing twrp over cwm?

i have tried searching for this and haven't found anything specific, maybe im not using the right key search terms idk. anyways i used kindle fire utility to install twrp over cwm and everything installed fine, i installed twrp 2.1.1. but now when i get to the firefirefire screen and push the power button to boot into twrp it brings me to cwm. so my questions is can i uninstall cwm or erase it somehow so twrp boots or is there another solution to the problem?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] redbean25:
once again... The new version of TWRP cannot be installed as it used to be (how KFU is doing it). It needs to be installed using fastboot commands:

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

when you are in fastboot.

The method used by KFU will only boot to the twrp.img which works for that one time, but as soon as you reboot the Kindle, it reverts to the installed version which is CWM in your case. You have to flash the recovery partition. KFU wasn't update for this yet I don't believe. In fact he had reverted the version of TWRP which he was downloading so it will work.

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Your system partition needs to be mounted as writeable. It is read-only by default.

You can do this in ES File Explorer.

Mount /system as writeable

move file into /system

restore read-only status of /system
[Kindle Fire Android Development] codemansGT:
thanks redbean25 sorry to make you reiterate something that has been discussed before. i will use the adb commands to install it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] bipinsen:
Kindle 6.3

Sorry guys. New to this Kindle rooting thing. I am running 6.3 and trying to use this utility. While it looks like things go through OK, none of the file managers I'm using are allowing r/w access to the system folders. Am I doing something wrong? All I need is r/w access. What is the simplest path to that?

Thanks very much!! :D

Edit: Thanks to this excellent post, I got it working!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] manya2000:
Did all that. I keep getting the same error. Maybe because I had a failed attempt at rooting sometime ago. Maybe I should start fresh, like reset to factory setting and do it all over.

Thanks for your help.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] leviwhite9:
Error

I always get this error after startup, I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

***********************************************

* Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.4 *

***********************************************

*Donate on XDA if you appreciate my hard work!*

***********************************************

'"findstr /b /c:":menu_" "C:\Users\Levi Winston\Desktop\9.4\run.bat""' is not re

cognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

ADB Status: Online

Boot Status: Unknown

Please make a selection or hit ENTER to exit:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Try renaming the \kindle fire utility folder to \KFU and put the \KFU folder at the root of a drive so for instance it should be C:\KFU and give it a whirl.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] redbean25:
Yeah, you have a space in your path name Levi Winston....that will break it.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] leviwhite9:
Tried that, no luck...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Techlyfe:
Not sure what the issue could be. Have you ever installed android SDK on your system? And what OS are you using. Oh and could you show me the message that you are now getting after moving the KFU folder to the root of a drive?

BTW

Looks a little fishy because why is it in a folder named \9.4? When from what I have seen it initially extracts to a folder named \Kindle Fire Utility ??? I'm also guessing that if it is in a folder 9.4 then it is quite possible the 9.4 could also be breaking it. Btw why arent you using v0.9.5 if the 9.4 that is shown is actually the version number of the KFU that you are using currently.

Just start over, redownload v0.9.5 and extract it to your root directory c:\ and then rename the \Kindle Fire Utility folder to \KFU so that it looks like this C:\KFU

and then give it a shot.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] izzyq8:
Hi

After spending two days straight i think i might go crazy

The device simply will say not connected no matter what (adb status: offline)

In device manager it says android adb, i have installed the sdk. i dont know what much to do.

Please any help i can get :(
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mspallz:
kfu 0.9.5 didnt root my fire..

Kindle fire utility 0.9.5 did not root my kindle fire..

Guys here's what happened..I downloaded kfu 0.9.5(which is the latest available)....I assume that I had set up adb correctly as kindle fire utility showed adb status as online and boot status as 4000..and I selected set up permanent root...it downloaded and installed twrp itself which is working perfectly alright..then I wanted to install google play and go launcher ex..play didn't install and go launcher got installed..when I installed titanium backup and set Cpu both applications said failed to get root access..but when I selected to set up permanent root account kfu said ur kindle fire has been rooted..with great power comes great responsibility..

What did I do wrong?please help...amazon app store is not available in my region...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Kujila:
Can anyone confirm this still works on new kindle fires?

My friend ran into trouble with this utility and his kindle is bricked-bricked. As in, no power on, no power LED, no ADB, no "unknown device" no NOTHING

He's getting a factory cable soon, hopefully

So can anyone confirm that this utility is still safe? :D
[Kindle Fire Android Development] XzinteR:
It worked great on my 1 & ½ week old kindle. Haven't had any problems at all

Sent from my fax machine
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Kujila:
thanks a lot XzinteR. my friend thinks it was a data problem with his USB port or USB cable that caused the horrible bricking issue; I just wanted to see if people were still having good luck with this utility!! :D Thanks again my friend
[Kindle Fire Android Development] maw230:
So, rooted and installed latest cwm using this tool. Now, hot do I boot into recovery!

I tired using Quickboot, but no luck. Thanks.

Edit: I'm an idiot :) Found the option.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] mocap3069:
Worked great just had to tell TWRP to reboot System and then KFU saw the Kindle and told it to reboot correctly. Thank you for all your help!!