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[Kindle Fire General] MSSSOUZA:
Hello, after rooting my Kindle Fire, my kindle fire got stuch on the

TWFR screen... I accidentally choose the option "install fast boot" and, after that, my kindle fire got stuck on the Kindle Fire logo (that says: Kindle Fire with the android logo)... nothing happens then... and tried many times turning on and off, but nothing... I only got the logo... Did I brick my Kindle Fire? can anybody please help me?

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Hello

Finally got back to TWRP. But now, how can I get my Kindle back? I can use KFU again... but, what should I do? if I run KFY I got: adb status: online and boot status 4000. If I try to boot my Kindle fire, it goes to Kindle Logo, then the logo desapears and the only thing that remains is the words "Kindle Fire". I can get back to TWRP, pressing the Kindle Fire button, when it starts... but what shoud I do next? should I install a new image? but when I manually try to copy a image to Kindle folder in my Windows Explorer, the only thing I see is the empty TWRP folder and it is write protected; I cannot copy any file. Do you have any idea? thanks in advance.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
Well... I could, but there are at least a couple of reasons why I probably won't...

1) SBlood86 already has a pretty good one (you've already found it) and there's not that much for me to add to it.

2) Linux users are much smaller in numbers and as a whole tend to be a lot more self-sufficient than their Windows counterparts. I'm not saying this as some sort of criticism of you, but my general impression of the computing world at large. I've written my guide to be useful to as many people as possible and to those who really need the technical guidance... and for both measures, that's going to be Windows users.

I hope that's a satisfactory answer.

There's no "install fastboot" anywhere in any tool, KFU, TWRP, or otherwise because that just doesn't make any sense. I don't know what you did, but it sounds like you've broken your system software. You'll have to flash a new one. As for your mounted storage space, you're probably going to have to reformat it so you can get a custom ROM file or a stock update zip file on there to flash. Search for thread that explain how to get your Kindle Fire back to stock and follow those directions.

If you can't figure it out, I suggest you post a question in the Kindle Fire Q&A section of the forum to get additional help.
[Kindle Fire General] Peteh1:
Thank you

This is a great guide for a Noob....thanks a lot.

I need to read a lot more before I get my hands dirty but I did notice a lot of the guide seems to be Windows specific. If I'm a Mac user and want to Root the device & install a ROM is there differences I need to be aware of?

Thanks,

Pete
[Kindle Fire General] rolandroland:
Unknown Device

I loaded the driver and adb worked fine to put in the commands i needed and then boot it into fastboot. However once in fastboot it's not coming up as Kindle with an exclamation mark but as Unknown Device, and when I try to manually install the usb driver Windows is preventing me saying it isn't compatible even though I am trying to choose the driver manually. Can't seem to find something in the thread related.

So what am I missing? Thanks.
[Kindle Fire General] dmarvp:
Thank you very much for this guide! Now I have a kindle fire with ICS and I couldn't be more happy !:D
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
Although my primary machine is a Mac, I've never really used it for Kindle Fire stuff. I've only used Windows and Linux. The fundamentals aren't going to be different from OS to OS as far as the command line tools go. The directory paths and such will be different and perhaps the names of adb/fast will be different (e.g. I've seen "fastboot-mac" mentioned in place of "fastboot"), but the options and the general approach will be the same.

Are you sure you are looking at the right device? I would take a look at the properties list of the "Unknown Device" and get the Hardware IDs list. Post a question in the Q&A section and you'll get some help there.
[Kindle Fire General] potestasx:
Factory Cable + KFU

Thanks for the guide! After much searching and reading on this forum, trying everything mentioned and none of it working, the above section got me down the right path to finally get my KF unbricked.

I want to explain how my kindle got bricked, what type of brick symptoms it had, and how I got out of it.

(State of the kindle before brick)

- Rooted

- TWRP 2.0.0 installed

- FireFireFire installed (changed boot screen from triangle to Andy+"kindle fire")

- CM9 2-24 ROM running

How I got my kindle bricked...

My plan was to wipe everything and revert back to stock kindle 6.3.1 but keep root. Via TWRP, I flashed 6.3.1. Wiped the cache/Dalvik, and rebooted.

How did I know that my kindle was bricked?

- I was stuck at the stock "kindle fire" boot screen. No letter animation. No change after several minutes. The screen would come up at 100% brightness, go blank for a few seconds, and then come back at a lower brightness and hang.

- Doing the standard kindle reset (hold down power button for 20 secs and power back on) did not change the state.

- At one point I left it alone and still no change after an hour.

- Connected to my computer, recognized as an unmounted disk

- ADB could not find the device

- KFU could not find the device

- KFU could not change bootmodes

- Kindle Unbrick Utility (V1.1) did not work (All optioned errored or hung indefinitely)

How I unbricked my kindle...

I had two things that were absolutely necessary:

- a factory cable (homemade, straight wire connecting pin 1 to pin 4)

- Kindle Fire Utility

I read through several sets of instructions and tried all of them, but here is the collection of things that ultimately worked for me:

- Make sure that the kindle is powered off.

- Connect the factory cable to the kindle.

- Connect the factory cable to a computer (Win 7 x64 in my case).

This is where I saw changes to the behavior. The splash screen stayed up (did not go blank for a few seconds as mentioned before) and the device was now recognized as an Android ADB device (verified in the Windows Device Manager, though it shows up as a Samsung device).

- Run Kindle Fire Utility (I used 0.9.5). KFU did not show my kindle as available, but it worked anyway.

- Select the option to install TWRP.

- I got an error that the bootmode couldn't change to 4002 (might be because it should already be in 4002 because of the cable), but the install worked and the device rebooted.

This got me back to the yellow triangle splash screen.

- Unplug the cable.

- Turn off the kindle.

- Power back on.

- Press and hold the power button again until it turns orange.

This got me back to TWRP where I could flash a different rom.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
Awwww... I thought we had the makings of a first post success story, but then you said KFU...

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart."

I'm happy that you got enough useful information to get your situation fixed up, but you are right there... on the verge of achieving fastboot/adb glory. You just need to spend another 15 minutes on post #3. Then you won't have to do that odd dance with KFU and have it continually stomp on your toes. It's up to you though... I'm not going to send you out fishing.
[Kindle Fire General] potestasx:
@kinfauns

"It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says..." ;)

You're right, you had it all right there in #3. I got stuck in hyperlink land trying to figure out how to make/obtain a factory cable and forgot to come back and continue the guide.

p.s., I would have quoted your prev. post but XDA isn't letting me, because "To prevent spam to the forums, ALL new users are not permitted to post outside links in their messages. After approximately eight posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thanks for understanding!"
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
Heh heh... awesome response. That made me laugh.

I'm glad you got something useful out of my guide. Cheers!
[Kindle Fire General] bltusr:
at last somebody has done something to educate. a very typical finding on tech forums is the rarity to of that 'patient guy' who writes a tutorial. commendable :)

keep up the great job
[Kindle Fire General] vintxi:
Thank you very much for this guide!

You are some kind of monster explaining how to understand everything to get started into de kibndle fire mod world.

If i've dicovered it before I wouldn't have suffered so much to root and flash my kindle to a new ROM.

I wondered if you have a list or if you know one or some ROMS that fits perfect into de kindle fire. If you can tell me with a personal message I will be very happy. :D.

Thank you very much for all your help.

Best regards!
[Kindle Fire General] kfsohn:
Thanks for the great guide. This is really helpful for someone who came from an IOS environment which is quite different.
[Kindle Fire General] BoulderGeek:
Way to quote the whole OP!

:rolleyes:

Thank you, kinfauns, for an exceptionally well-written and beneficial set of How To guides.

I'm no stranger to the command line, but it was my first introduction to the unique world of the Kindle Fire's requirements.

I didn't use KFU, just the command line examples you gave, modified for pathing. All worked great. No brickage, just a fast KF.

Interestingly, as well, I didn't need to sideload the Superuser.apk the way others had to. I was expecting the need to, however, su seems to work fine as is. no idea.
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
Superuser.apk maintains a database of which programs you allow access to the su binary. With su, you are technically rooted but without superuser.apk there is nothing to protect you from other programs acting maliciously towards your system.
[Kindle Fire General] leroy641:
great guide!!!! thnx
[Kindle Fire General] jspradling7:
Thank you for the great write up. I have two KF's and managed to get one stuck at the FFF 1.3 logo screen and I didn't understand what was wrong with it. A nicely written funny thread pointed me over here while I was trying to find out how to fix my problem.

Even after using ADB in the past to root other devices I didn't understand the differences between ADB and Fastboot. So while my KF was sitting in fastboot mode I was frustrated at why my computer showed 'unknown device' and ADB couldn't see it. If my computer could see my other KF why the heck couldn't it see the 'broken' one?

Anyway, I typed 'fastboot devices' instead of 'adb devices' and looky there! From there it was quick to boot into recovery and flash a backup. Thank you.

In short the most valuable part of your write up to me was explaining enough about ADB and fastboot to help me understand when I should be using which. : ) Not only did that help me fix my KF problem but it will help in the future as I mess with other devices. Good stuff.
[Kindle Fire General] Hotdiggitydog:
Great guide, helped explain what was needed to root and to resolve my ADB issues!

Excellent!
[Kindle Fire General] bearswatchin:
Wonderful!

Thanks to the great guide and a factory cable, I now have my Kindle Fire working again.

Keep up the great work, all XDA developers, guide/howto authors and generally helpful people.

bearswatchin
[Kindle Fire General] Alessioromatm:
I posted on wrong topic.
[Kindle Fire General] dspiemaker:
thanks for the guide

Just wanted to thank kinfauns for the guide. I managed to root mine first try following the steps. I did have some glitches but they were covered here and I was able to make it work. I burned up a few brains cells doing it though.

thanks so much for the awesome help.

Thanks to potestasx too for the bricking story and humor from you both.
[Kindle Fire General] BorrowADolla:
Any chance we can get this as a PDF? The guide doesn't make any sense when I read it from my XDA app. Apparently XDA app doesn't let you see bullets? :confused:

You haven't had to do any revisions to your posts recently so maybe it won't create any additional work for you. I don't mind creating and uploading the pdf. I will probably do it for myself anyway.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
I certainly don't mind you doing that for your personal use, but I'm not so keen on the idea of you uploading PDFs of it. I'd just rather not have potentially stale copies floating out there if I do have to make revisions. Besides, most of it requires the use of a computer anyway.

I actually didn't know XDA/Tapatalk had a problem with bullet points. Maybe I'll go through it and change it so it's more readable for those who want to read it that way. Thanks.
[Kindle Fire General] TheBeak:
this starts super basic - really shows how far XDA has come in the last couple of years.

The site is far more beginner friendly. (when I first started lurking here, you really had to learn as you went, this sort of guide is really nice)
[Kindle Fire General] BorrowADolla:
Don't need it for myself ATM as I'm now fully rooted thanks in part to you. That's a good point though as people/websites might just hot link to the file.
[Kindle Fire General] jwc.:
thanks

thanks for the well written guide.
[Kindle Fire General] ipskang:
kinfauns , Man very well written guide dude!! Awesome work done...

I followed step by step and job is completely!!

Highly recommended guide for every Kindle Fire User
[Kindle Fire General] Frankenberrie:
Great writeup... thanks, was very helpful
[Kindle Fire General] xari228:
Ditto!

I was really nervous about trying my hand at installing a new ROM, but your guide held my hand through the process, no sweat.
[Kindle Fire General] prasadjachak:
thank you

THank you...its great post..understand lot...
[Kindle Fire General] ortrigger:
Thanks for the post about fastboot options. Thought I had bricked my kindle but luckily, with that I was able to fix it.
[Kindle Fire General] stojanovicnikola68:
Thanks for this article! It helped me a lot!

Now I'm planning to root and install new ROM to my KF. And first what I itend to do is to install drivers and then I would like to install FFF. Is this possible, could I flash FFF without doing anything previosly? I wish to do this at first place because it would be complicated for me to get a factory cable if anything goes wrong.

And one more question:

When you guys do modifying your device, do you use KFU or do you do that job manually?
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
This...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638452

is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to install a ROM for the first time on your device. Most people use KFU, but I prefer to use the command line. Whichever route you take, putting the device into fastboot mode for the first time will be the riskiest step of the entire process. This is also outlined in the guide above.

Preferably, you'll want to install TWRP first and then use it to install FFF. You can try to install FFF first, but you still need to put the device into fastboot mode to do that.

Use the Q&A forum for questions or when you need to get help with your device. There are many people hanging willing to help.
[Kindle Fire General] runnerman4:
Newsstand

If I root will I lose access to things like Newsstand subscriptions?
[Kindle Fire General] davewilliam:
Thanks for the guide!! It's helped me tons!
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
I never spent very much time with the kindle fire in a rooted configuration, so I don't know about the newsstand features. I only know for certain that video on demand will be disabled for rooted devices. You're much more likely to get a complete answer in the Q&A section... Give that forum a try.
[Kindle Fire General] ortrigger:
You can still download any apps that might be in the newsstand but if it's an amazon specific subscription then I would guess that it would be gone.

sent from my Kindle Fire running hashcode's jelly bean rom
[Kindle Fire General] stojanovicnikola68:
I have one problem. I've rooted my KF and I have installed TWRP and FFF. Drivers are ok, and "adb devices" command gives me back "*number* recovery". But when I issue "adb shell idme bootmode 4000 (or 4002)" command, it says "/sbin/sh: idme: not found". Why?

I solve this by changing bootmode via TWRP or by pressing power button during FFF, but I don't know why adb command doesn't work. Where am I wrong?
[Kindle Fire General] ortrigger:
That happened to me a while back. I believe that I disconnected and reconnected and it was fixed. You could also try reinstalling your drivers.

sent from my Kindle Fire running CM10 Jelly Bean
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29186989&postcount=157
[Kindle Fire General] t3chfr3ak:
My computer wont recongnize the device but it knows that somthing is pluged in because it has the safely remove hard drive.

what should i do?????????????

no recovery

no custom boot loader

stock firmware

not sure if rooted because it froze when installing firefirefire.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
USB mass storage is handled by a different device driver. You need to have the adb and fastboot drivers installed on your computer. Proper installation of these drivers is covered in post #2 of this thread. I suggest you follow those instructions and make sure those drivers have been installed properly. For more information, read and search through the Kindle Fire Q&A forum. If that doesn't help you, post a question in that forum.
[Kindle Fire General] ortrigger:
+1 you can learn how to fix almost any problem you run into in this forum or the q&a .

sent from my Kindle Fire running CM10 Jelly Bean
[Kindle Fire General] kennguyen_bkpro:
Thanks. My KF has ever been bricked. And I unbricked it successfully by my Factory Cable that was made by my self. I was very happy and now, I am never afraid of bricking it :))

If your kf was bricked and you cant fix it, may be contact me :)
[Kindle Fire General] rottsrgr8t:
kindle beginners guide

Thank you for this great guide. I love my stock Kindle Fire but after using my son's rooted KF am dying to root mine. (Not to mention I am obsessed with getting into how things work!)

I am so thankful for xda. Ive been using this site since the Samsung Jack was introduced and never had bad advice. Thank you.
[Kindle Fire General] eswno:
Thanks..
[Kindle Fire General] zenEd:
this is a great guide, while i already have some knowledge about the Kindle Fire, this explains a few things that i did not know.

also have a question, dont know if this is the best place to post it, but have not found it specifically addressed anywhere else.

i need to upgrade my Kindle's TWRP from 2.0 to 2.2 and was wondering if the upgrade can be flashed from inside TWRP recovery "install"? I have seen other methods of upgrading TWRP described, but was wondering if this will also work? thanks for any ideas on where i can out.
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
I believe someone has created a flashable zip of it, but I don't recall where I saw it. Another option is to use smirkit. I'm sure you can do some searches and locate it pretty easily.
[Kindle Fire General] dumber89:
this is truly a must-read document for Kindle user. I just bought my KF 1 weeks ago n by following ur guides, I finish updating it to the latest CM10 JB. Thanks a lot to developers and Android guru :fingers-crossed: This also my 1st experience on Android since my obsolete Nokia Symbian.

It's great to be a member of this forum! :victory:

<just wonder why so many similar questions in Q&A... they should hv read this>
[Kindle Fire General] Cyberxdadevelopers:
This great guide has helped me understanding so much more about my kindle. I found my way into rooting the device, lost my fear of installing new ROMS and thus enjoyed the world of CyanogenMod. Any newcomer who carefully reads this thread should be able to do the same without risk.

Congratulations!
[Kindle Fire General] fmilovanov:
Please, help to unbrick my Fire

Hello - as I was looking for a way to unbrick my Kindle Fire, I found this thread to have the most comprehensive whats and whys - that's why I've decided to post here.

Here is the story. A have rooted my Kindle some time ago with Kindle Fire Utility (KFU), put TWRP (2.0) on it and installed some ICS. I remember that adb (and - I believe - fastboot) saw it w/out any problem. Today I've tried to install JB, found that it needs TWRP 2.2, so I tried to install it. But this time I tried to do it manually (forgot about KFU) from TWRP Kindle Fire Page:

teamw.in/project/twrp2/79

Unfortunately, I did not realize that fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.0-blaze.img should be run from a command line, so I run it from adb shell (I was connected to Kindle at that time!!), got some error and restarted Kindle. Eexpectedly, I got stuck on yellow triangle.Took be a bit to find how to recover from it - but nothing work: both KFU as well as command line fastboot hang with < waiting for device > message.adb shell gives me error: device not found, adb devices shows empty list.

I went to device manager and found unknown USB Device, looked at the ID - it's 18D1 now. Okay, I've added this ID to android_winusb.inf file (in both KFU folder and Android SDK folder), but neither adb nor fastboot (of course I used -i 0x18d1 as param) still don't see it, adb devices still shows empty list.

Don't understand what's going on and how to recover from this :confused:
[Kindle Fire General] ortrigger:
Fmil...

Power your kf off completely. Open kfu, choose to install latest fff and run the command. It will say that it's waiting for device. At this point, power your kf on. The command will run and then when it's done, shut out down again. When you boot, hit the power button like you're entering recovery and you should see an option to reset boot mode. Hit that and you should be up and running again. If not, post back and we'll try and help you get it sorted out.

sent from my jelly beaned Kindle Fire
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
0x18d1 is the FFF bootloader. The device is very likely in fastboot mode...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1668159

You don't need to use the "-i 0x18d1" switch with FFF because fastboot already recognizes that vendor ID, but you'll need to sort out your device driver issues before any of that will work.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2

Since you've already attempted to edit the INF file, I suggest you download everything again and start fresh.

Finally, this thread shouldn't be used for catch-all help requests. That's why the Kindle Fire Q&A forum exists...

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1561

Read the KFFB guide again and the two documents I referred to above, try to get your computer to recognize the KF and send fastboot commands to it. If you continue to have problems, post in Q&A after reading this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1644970
[Kindle Fire General] fmilovanov:
ortrigger - thanks for the quick response. I did exactly as you said, but "Install latest FFF" never restored from < waiting for device > - waited for almost 5 minutes :(

I've tried KFU with options from "Bootmode Menu" before with the same level of success - somehow, all these tools (adb and fastboot) do not see my KF any more :crying:

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kinfauns - sorry for posting here, as you can see I'm newbie here... will read all your documents and post in that other topic. Thanks for your help! :cowboy:
[Kindle Fire General] cyclone866:
awesome guide! very informative and easy to understand. I got myself a bricked KF at the moment so reading up on all this rooting/unbricking lingo helps a lot. now onto seeing if i can get this thing unbricked...