[Kindle Fire Android Development] androidcues:
This post is ridiculously long and is kind of a rant... but Ive had it with all these "cant find adb in KF" posts and yes its a problem, and yes amazon devs are prob laughing at us but the answer is not on XDA forums or anywhere its not in Vashypooh's Teamviewer, its in your computer its in your Fire and you need to make it happen. Im probably going to regret posting this, but whatever, its a crap answer for a crap question.

Look - Ive messed around with just about everything from the kindle to the computer to using different computers to performing downgrades from Win8 to Win7 and trying to figure out why my Fire sometimes can be seen by adb and why sometimes it cannot...

I cant explain everything in one post its too much information but you need to mess around.

Without explaining these are the steps I took and I cant tell you which ones work because its like a very messy environment on a computer and everyones got different flavors and different variables...

try these (in no particular order) try them all at once or try them in pieces, but you need to reboot after each instance (think about your science teacher explaining why scientific experiments need to be controlled and clean and precise so as to eliminate any variables which may interfere with the end result!)

Do you have admin rights over your computer? If you dont... get it.

delete the .android file (this will have adb_usb file in it) try again. Watch for your driver action you need to know whats going on... you need to make your computer verbose so its reporting all its activity

Uninstall and delete (FULLY DELETE!) the Kindle Fire Utility if you have it.

Uninstall and delete (FULLY DELETE) the Android SDK if you have it. All of them if you have more than one.

Uninstall and delete (FULLY DELETE) any such programs you have that are dedicated to using adb.exe such as say AndroidCommander Droid Explorer or any of that stuff they are gone!

If you want to know if theres any other stuff on your computer, and dont really know how to use anything other than Windows Explorer, (shame on you) then install the greatest file finder I know - Everything.exe http://www.voidtools.com/download.php install that crap and then fix the options to "show hidden files and system files and hide nothing) and then when its set up, type in the search "adb" and "android" and "winusb" instances, then go to their parent folder and delete the whole thing, clear out your trash, uninstall all drivers, delete them, and UNPLUG all connected android devices so they dont throw stuff back into system and reboot the computer. You want a nice virgin promiscuous machine when it reboots, so you can pop its cherry with one Kindle Fire that needs to get its adb on.

install a verbose driver program (i am fond of USBDeview http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html) make sure whatever program you use is VERBOSE and reports every activity, like in the options make everyhting so that it reports, displays and hides nothing. UNINSTALL AND DELETE EVERYTHING that indicates it could be connected to 1. ADB 2. Device 3. anything freaking android. Actually, I have been so frustrated in the past that I actually uninstalled every single driver on the computer....I highlighted all my drivers and Uninstalled... and they all uninstalled.. my mouse stopped working my keyboard stopped working but screw that, shut down the computer (irrelevant to whatever winblows geeks tell you it is NOT harmful to crash-power down your windoze machine) and then upon rebooting it will install all its relevant inner drivers) which may be bad for some of you if you have a complicated setup but whatever all I wanted was to get adb working at the expense of other drivers. Everything will reinstall when its connected, thats how drivers work -- you connect it and it starts talking to windows and **** happens right there.

So, delete everything! Reboot! you need to reboot your machine after each major change, because its just to eliominate the chances of not being able to communicate if winblows needs to reboot to be fresh.

If you have deleted uninstalled all of these android-related drivers... and if you have made your machine verbose, so that its not hiding information or thinking you are not interested in whats going on in system, and then you reboot, chances are when you first plug that KF in to your system, **** will happen. You just need to make it work.

you cant just sit around for two months waiting for someone to give you the fix -- the answer is right there in your hands... you just have to make it stick. Its there. Just gotta tweak the hell out of your computer to make it happen. If it doesnt work... keep trying... try again. if that doesnt work, change something. keep on tweaking, keep on shaking the nest and itll pop in.

HOWEVER I checked out the Jayceooi website and he/she has a good case to make there -- and if "it dont work" then thats because you are not trying hard enough.

Now.. all I can say is Ive lost adb.. and Ive found it again.. and I still have it because I have not installed ANY other android related or SDK ADB related programs after I found it.... everytime I do... everytime I attach my other HTC devices, it messes up everything and I repeat the above all over again