yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire General] GBH2:
+1 on stickying this thread. I have just been pointing people having the same basic problems here. This thread (especially the OP) seems to be helping a lot of people who need help "filling in the blanks".

Good job [-_-]!
[Kindle Fire General] BeerRunJoe:
I have also directed many of my friends to this thread and they have also gotten through their minor problems. It is kind of funny because a lot of my friends tell me I think my kindle is bricked I just laugh say I doubt it and send them here. Can you also make a guide about going from cm7 back to a the amazon rom please. I put cm7 on my kindle and did not like it so I flashed badk and hit reboot and now I just keep booting up in recovery is there a way to get out of that?
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
Yes this will work...

1.Plug in USB cable to Kindle Fire on TWRP Recovery mode.

2.Bring up Command Prompt.

3.Key in adb shell.

4.Key in idme bootmode 4000.

5.Finally, key in reboot.

There you go..!!!
[Kindle Fire General] MrFrankfromCM:
Great tutorial setup. Rooted, installed Android Market as mentioned without any issues. Have not installed the Recovery yet though.

Thanks for this thread.
[Kindle Fire General] BeerRunJoe:
Once again you helped me to achieve what I thought might not be possible when im able to hit thanks you will be the first person I look for. Thanks for taking the time to help [-_-]
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
Good to hear everything worked for you as well!
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
Yes sir No problem. Hope you all had a good start to the New Year!!
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
If there is a moderator that could sticky this thread I see people asking for fixes for the same problems that can easily be fixed if they just read through this tutorial.
[Kindle Fire General] qipainter:
help

I cuerrently rooted my kindle with your video. It was very simple to follow. Now when.I am trying to install android marketplace I cant get my r/w to change to r/o so I am.unable to paste. Can somebody please help? Thanks
[Kindle Fire General] msantarc:
Help! I've tried to post at WebChat, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm trying to use vashypoo's Kindle Fire Utility (BTW, great utility) to install TWRP. I've gotten to the screen where it says: "The device is now restarting to install TWRP. Do not press any key until you hit reboot on TWRP on Kindle. When you see the yellow triangle you are safe to continue." My problem is that my Kindle seems to be stuck on the Kindle Fire flash screen and never completes the boot. What should be my next step given the scary " Do not press any key until you hit reboot on TWRP on Kindle." warning?
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
I think you need to try to be a little more clear... Did you get twrp already installed or are you saying it downloaded and you are stuck at waiting for device....?
[Kindle Fire General] lovemyevo3d:
THANKS for all the valuable advice
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
No Problem and You are wlecome...

Just to let everyone know I am doing my best to keep you all updated with new roms and methods that come out on this thread as well so be sure to stay tuned. I just added MIUI rom install and custom partitioning to the guide today also with a easy to follow video tutorial.
[Kindle Fire General] isaacmc:
Hello,

I followed the instructions on the videos to root and install TWRP. Now I'm stuck at the FireFire triangle and cannot update/reinstall the driver. Everytime I open the location of the driver, I get the message "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware."

Does anybody know a fix for this?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility V0.1

just found in the dev section - could save a lot of handwork:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1428428
[Kindle Fire General] isaacmc:
Wow. That solved my issue, in addition to using the drivers from the Kindle Fire Utility. I was using the one from the .android folder.

Thank you!
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
good that your up again and the tool helped !

the tool is in an early stage but it has potential !
[Kindle Fire General] !Raven:
I'm trying to backup the KF partitions using procedures located in the FIREFIREFIRE thread in the development forum.

Running: adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Returns:

I would really like to backup the partitions before any modifications. Any insight? Thanks a lot!
[Kindle Fire General] benjaminw:
Many Thanks

Thank you for putting this info together. I probably would have returned my KF from Santa if the root/ROM process wasn't so easy to follow thanks to the OP (and all the many clever contributors).
[Kindle Fire General] evilsock:
on the verge of a breakdown here someone plz help. i havent installed adb shell on this pc yet so im doing so now, normally i need the drivers, but i cant find drivers for the KF . can someone help? i havent even pluggedd it into the pc yet, will it install them if i do that?

edit, ive installed adb shell , im at the step where i edit the "Path" in system settings, control panel. but when i type adb shell in the run box it says windows cannot find adb make sure i typed it correctly, god i would pay someone if they would be willing to call me and walk me thru this. ive done it all before but its been a while, im on vista btw

edit, got a cmd box open and adb shell says its not recognized as a command

edit edit.ok now i figure out i need to ass the platform tools thingy, i installed them but what exactly do i add to the path line now?

ok scracth all that, i figured most of it out but now, when im at the update driver part in 1st video it says its not compatible with my device, to make sure its for windows 32 systems....

what now?

ok i guess it worked, i had some files already from adb on my transformer, whew. sorruy about flipout
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
I am taking it that you got it all figured out?? If not pm me and I will help you on irc or teamviewer...
[Kindle Fire General] iesvs:
Aww, crap.

I rooted my KF using KFU, have had read/write access for days, installed the Google Market etc. etc, but when I try to install TWRP it gives an "Error 3" along with a couple of lines about not being able to mount some folders. KFU says I'm in bootmode 4000 and that adb is not rooted. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
First off you should do a screen shot on your pc of what exactly kindle fire Utility is saying. So that I can see the problem first hand, Make sure that the Kindle Fire Utility version that you are using is version 0.9.1... There was a problem with twrp in earlier versions. If that does not seem to be the problem and the problem is when you are trying to install twrp you do not have root permissions this is what you can do:

I do understand that you may have had read write access for days bt when you go to install twrp for some reason you have to run burrito root again to grant access because your permissions were taken away...

• I have noticed that some people have problems getting stuck around 2:32 into the video where twrp is downloading and getting ready to install. If this happens to you and it is constantly “waiting for device” You may need to hit disconnect on your KF and run burrito root on your Kindle again, click “agree”,then click “You Rock”, Then click “root”. Once you do so you must re-open adb shell by opening a command prompt and typing the following:

cd c:\KindleADB to get into adb shell

adb devices to make sure your kindle is connected properly

adb root to get proper permissions

• Once you have done this re-open the run bat in KFU v0.9.1 and select option 5 again and it will install the twrp with proper root permissions.

If you are running windows and you want a much easier way of doing it rather than doing this manually you can try option 3 with this:

Update January 7th 2012 This is a program to fix boot loop Problems easily (For Windows Only)

I noticed that many people are still having problems with getting stuck in a recovery boot loop, firefirefire boot loop (Yellow Triangle), Or even the kindle fire boot loop. This is a program to fix it automatically like the kindle fire Utility. I believe that it was made by Zombiepiratez, and he made this to change all of the headaches that many people are having with bootloop problems, proper file permission problems, and bricking problems, so be sure to thank him if this helps you. Once again this is a batch file made only for windows so for those of you that are not on windows, I will leave the common manual fixes below. Here is the link to his thread and download for the Fire Utility Unbrick:

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1428428

If all of this does not work and you cannot post a screen shot pm me and I will look at it for you over irc or teamviewer...
[Kindle Fire General] iesvs:
IT WORKED! FINALLY! Yeah, I followed your instructions and it's working like a charm. THANKS SO MUCH. I've been trying to figure this out for a few days.
[Kindle Fire General] umarsl:
A really helpful guide thanks for all your work bro ;)
[Kindle Fire General] iesvs:
Hey, before I install CM7 I just wanted to know: If I backup /sdcard and the system partitions via TWRP and copy to my laptop, that's everything to back up, right? I just want to make sure I'm not leaving anything out.
[Kindle Fire General] -Zeta-:
This is a very good post, thanks a lot buddy!
[Kindle Fire General] MrFrankfromCM:
Finally got pinned! Thanks Mods!
[Kindle Fire General] jayman350:
thank you for this guide, it was very helpful getting me rooted and ready to go with the android market.

I don't think I'm going to be flashing a custom rom (yet) as I don't mind the Amazon UI that much. This will all probably change once ICS is fully operational.
[Kindle Fire General] sahankrups:
kindle fire bricked!!

hey guys, i just got my kindle fire yesterday and did the mistake of trying to unroot it...god why am i so stupid..so of course now its bricked!!! jus stuck at the boot logo "kindle fire" nothing else.

I have read this walkthrough and dozens for others for hours and tried everything but nothing works, the problem i think is that my windows is not recognizing the device at all!! in each utility like the KFU or the kf unbrick utility it says error: device not found...i think once or twice last night when i was pluggin it in and out of my pc it was recognized as a ADB andoird device or something but that was it, not nothing recognizes it ive tried it on 2 pcs, linux etc its just recognized as a unknown device on windows and nothing on linux (ive tried the linux unbrick guide too). everytime i try to install the correct drivers for the KF it tells me that its not supported or something that it needs to be 32 bit etc...

can someone please help me with this issue? ive read all over the place and found no solution so i decided to buy u guys with this. any help is largely appreciated....thx guys, i want my KINDLE BACK:'(:'(
[Kindle Fire General] bowenac:
Did you try to power it off by holding power button for like 30 seconds, then powering it back on. Before you unrooted it I assume you had twrp installed?

Do you have the driver file called android_winusb.inf? I know this sounds silly but I would unhook it, restart pc "yea I know famous restart..." but it worked for me the other day when it was not being detected, device manager was wigging out. Then plug the kindle back in and see if it will show up. Let me know if you need the android_winusb.inf file...
[Kindle Fire General] iesvs:
Well, I reverted to stock to get my copy of Dead Space from Amazon to transfer over to CM7, and after rooting again I went to install TWRP. I reset root permissions via BurritoRoot, then ran option 5 again in KFU as instructed. This time there's no triangle, but the Teamwin logo scrolls up for a second then goes black, back into the stock interface. Any ideas? At this point I can still revert to factory defaults any time, so I guess it's not hopeless yet. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
redownload the newest kfu - vashy re-upped 0.9.2 i think 2 times because of a failure in twrp install

0.9.1 is also reported to be ok http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21225063&postcount=606

allthrough 0.9.2 should be fixed now
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
Are the steps and videos in the original post still current? I am thinking of taking the plunge and rooting a stock 6.2.1 KF. I would like to install GMail as well as maybe change the launcher.

THANKS
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
would think so - they are maintained by the op - espacially since it's a pinned thread
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
Thanks, just wanted to check before I stuck my hand in the blender... ;)
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
KF Rooted, thanks to all those involved. I haven't installed market yet, will work on that this weekend. I want to install the google framework mainly to get a fully functioning gmail.

One minor thing, I installed the ICS 2.4 Launcher, very nice....but it doesn't seem to remember my wallpaper settings. After the device is turned off and back on in ends up with one of the delivered Kindle wallpapers. I'll do some searches on that.

Thanks again for the feedback earlier.
[Kindle Fire General] MrFrankfromCM:
Follow the steps to the tee and you'll be fine. Great thread too. I am running the ICS ROM from zone and it is so sweet!
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
Market working for those following along at home... :)

After installing market and having that working my text plus was bombing out. I tried clearing the cache and data, still had an issue. Removed it and installed it again from Amazon's app store and it is working fine.

Again, thanks to the original poster for posting the video links.
[Kindle Fire General] scrols:
I'm always getting "cannot load recovery\recovery.img" message, and its messing with my KF. Fortunatelly I am able to recover boot to 4000, even though KFU says ADB Status: Offline and Boot Status: Unknown. I don't want to try this once again, because I'm affraid that eventually I'll brick my tablet. Any ideas? Do I even need TWRP now, if I'm not going to change ROM's and mess with deep settings of KF?
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
I thought similar, if I don't plan on changing Roms should I install TWA?
[Kindle Fire General] scrols:
So if noone knows hot to resolve my problem, maybe some hint on how to download recovery.img manually? Unfortunatelly I cant post in dev forums, asking for help.
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
place the kfu in something like c:\kfu\

it does'nt like blanks in the pathname

if you want to do manually:

http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img

get into fastboot:

adb shell "idme bootmode 4002"
adb shell "reboot"

and in fastboot:

fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
[Kindle Fire General] scrols:
Downloading manually and renaming recovery.img did the trick. Got TWRP running:-) ty for help.
[Kindle Fire General] evilsock:
ok i rooted fine, but i know it wont let me watch amazon vids now, but after i try, i reboot and it lets me. but i also loose root in the process.

i thought there was a fix but i cant seem to find it.

does anyone have a link to where i can keep root AND watch amazon vids?

edit, found the workaround
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
What was the workaround? I found OTA rootkeeper does the trick.
[Kindle Fire General] Etam1tlu:
KF ICS ROM 1-19/1-20 Market issue

Hi all,

I was reading since days in different postings if someone has the same issue, but could not find any solution. Hope you have any idear, so thanks in advance:

KF with ICS ROM V 1-19 and since today 1-20 is running perfect, so thanks for the done work, really fantastic job to the devs.

BUT, with the posted market gapps_ics_4.0.3_v10.zip I have with both ROMs the same issue, login is working, searching is working, downloading (e.g. kindle app) is starting but nothing else is happening (error message 495, could not download kindle app) same with other apps as well.

Any idear where or what I did wrong or how to fix it? Installed as the ROM by TWRP flashing from internal SD card partition + wiping before and after each ( so before and after ROM and before and after gapps)

Thanks and regards

Etam1tlu
[Kindle Fire General] [-_-]:
I have been on vacation for the last few weeks, I apologize to everyone that may have asked for help and did not recieve it while I was gone. I intend to visit this thread frequently again now that I am back and look forward to releasing a few things that I have been working on while I was gone...
[Kindle Fire General] OneManWolfPack523:
Good guide! Nice job.
[Kindle Fire General] OneManWolfPack523:
Not to blow your spot but ICS is far from perfect my friend. Yeah the sound works better. The video is working in low quality form as well. With that said it is still very glitchy and not a daily Rom homie.
[Kindle Fire General] MrFrankfromCM:
No ROM is perfect, not even CM. Every User has their own needs, so this ROM could be someone's daily. It was for me even on the previous version. I don't watch much vids but wanted audio. It's a very good ROM at this stage.
[Kindle Fire General] chamala2000:
I did root my KF and thinking of loading TWRP2.0 to install some new Rom, but what's the deal with the Fire Fire Fire software? Do I have to load that 2?

I also saw ClockWorkMod for KF, It works great on my rooted EVo but any idea how it performs on KF and if it's better that TWRP?
[Kindle Fire General] Guardsix:
I Think I'm Rooted?

Well, I went through BurritoRoot3 and I believe I got everything done. I appear to be rooted with Superuser. I'm too new at this to know what else I should have. I applied the full Android Market and can access that just fine on my KF. I've even managed to fix my wall paper so it stays the way I put it!

Now, here finally is what I need to know. When I completely shut down my KF and start it up again, I get a yellow triangle with a flame. I just let my KF sit there and eventually it boots up like normal.

Is this normal after rooting??? I don't want to do anything further until I find out what I'm doing is right. I think I need to do the TWRP 2.0 thing but I'm trying to make sure I'm really done rooting.

Thanks for any help.
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
That is perfectly normal, you did good:-)
[Kindle Fire General] Pkt_Lnt:
The yellow triangle with the flame is the bootloader, FIREFIREFIRE, and if you press the power button after it shows until the button turns orange, you will probably find that TWRP is installed as well. Try it.
[Kindle Fire General] aidanklenk:
can not install TWRP

when running KF utility, i hit 5, then enter.

it continuously says <waiting for device>

I tried what it says in the first post, but it says

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Klenk>cd c:\KindleADB

c:\KindleADB>adb root

adbd cannot run as root in production builds

c:\KindleADB>

am i doing something wrong? nothing is working to let me install TWRP.
[Kindle Fire General] Guardsix:
You sure? Obviously I really don't know what I'm doing, so just pushing any button makes me kind of nervous!

Next question...What is TWRP and why wouldn't I know it's already loaded?

And finally...I can't seem to get any calendar widgets to show my Google calendar info. I had to create another Google account some where right after root because it wouldn't accept my current log-in. Is that a problems?

Thanks for the help.
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
updated kfu for use with br3 ? http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21749205&postcount=792

if it stays on <waiting for device>

or

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20945694&postcount=506
[Kindle Fire General] ectabyte:
Thanks for the guide, got this all running last night.
[Kindle Fire General] Guardsix:
So, I pushed the button when it was orange and nothing happened! I tried it twice and still nothing. The screen goes dim a little and eventually "KINDLE FIRE" comes up and it boots as normal.

I guess then that TWRP isn't loaded and I have to load it myself, right?

What is FIREFIREFIRE (it was loaded, I think)and how do I access it and use it or do I?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
simply redo the twrp installation ...

firefirefire (fff) is the custom bootloader (the yellow triangle)

it makes it possible to boot to recovery (twrp)
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
Did you install FFF with Burrito 3? If so, I don't think B4	installs tarp.
[Kindle Fire General] Guardsix:
Ok, thanks. I sucked it up and did install TWRP 2.0 per this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKZLMaRSgc

It was pretty easy to do even on my MacBook with virtual Windows 7 setup.

The author of the video, nat3mil, has got some other videos on how to install CyanogenMod 7. Since I'm feeling brave and apparently have a backup, I'm going to install that now.

Thanks for your help.
[Kindle Fire General] cloud71:
Wont go into Recovery

Hello to all, Ok I did the burritoroot3 which worked like a charm, I also clicked the flash button when it asked me to either do that or exit.

now when the kindle fire boots up I see the fire logo, it says to press the power button, and thats what I do till the power button turns orange, but I cannot get it into recovery.

I have also pushed the button repeatedly till the button turned orange still wont go into recovery. all the while im doing this the fire logo just keeps looping.

When I just let the kindle boot up without pushing anything the fire logo shows up 2 times then the kindle logo 2 times then it will boot normally.

Ok I believe I did everything right but I just cant get it into the firefirefire recovery.

What else do I have to do to get it into recovery.

Thank in advance for the help

God Bless
[Kindle Fire General] ontwowheels:
I don't believe the burrito3 app installs TWRP, the custom recovery tool. It only installs firefirefire, the custom bootloader which is what you see.
[Kindle Fire General] Guardsix:
TWRP 2.0 doesn't get installed with BurritoRoot3. I had the same situation.

Find this guy on YouTube - nat3mil. He has a whole group of videos, including how to install TWRP 2.0. It's easy, so don't do anything else until you get this done! The BACKUP, BACKUP,BACKUP!
[Kindle Fire General] cloud71:
Ok thankyou all very much for replying, was getting nervous thking something was wrong,

Now that I thk about it I see that the firefirefire is the front end to be able to get to a recovery that will be installed.

nat3mil video is what I used to do the burrito3 root.

I will attemp the twrp install today sometime. Toes and fingers crossed

God Bless
[Kindle Fire General] beriksso:
Disable Amazon artifacts

After rooting the Kindle and installing the standard Android interface and Market I would like to permanently disable the Amazon services (like Amazon Video on Demand, Appstore etc). Is there an easy way to do that ?

Beginner questions - What controls which classes zygote restarts and not ? Is there a (CLI) utility to use ? I can see that zygote process restart classes from /system/app as soon as I kill the processes but deleting or renaming the classes seems to disable them - until a reboot of course.

Thanks for sharing your insight !
[Kindle Fire General] alternativeaura:
All i get is <waiting for device> indefinitely and it wont let me type the second command
[Kindle Fire General] k4955:
I am also in the same situation for the last 2 days. Did you get any help from any one?
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
would try to let it sit on <waiting for device> and then press and hold the power button 20 seconds until the fire turns off, then when its off turn it back on - it should pickup the command at some point and finish the command - another power off and on should bring you back
[Kindle Fire General] elbarto7:
guys I am now in the last stage of rooting w/c says firefirefire 1.2, should I intall it(firefirefire bootloader) or should I exit? TIA
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
that is the most important one - just do it !
[Kindle Fire General] JAVI_er:
Kindle fire utility v.0.9.3

I cant install the drivers adb interface...a windows appear with its not compatible with the lenguage...

Can some help me ?:confused:
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
change the country value in the file /drivers/dpinst.xml from 0x0409 to your country value (eg 0x0407 for gemany)