[Kindle Fire General] nxtfari:
Hello all,

I realize that I am a noob. I realize you can see the "posts=1". I realize that you guys have probably seen the above title a million times before. Honestly though, I feel like I'm at end. I've scoured Google & xda-dev for 5+ hours now and I can't find a single answer that works. So here's my "special" problem:

Info: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit

Kindle Fire (previously) temp rooted with BurritoRoot. Installed TWRP 2.0, firefirefire, google-framework.apk, and the rest of the lot, then de-rooted.

Yesterday, I realized that the Music tab on my KF was crashing. I was literally unable to look at my music. About half an hour later, I was unable to read books as well. Thinking about it now, I'm pretty sure that it was because I had forgotten to uncheck "update automatically" for the stock kindle apps in the Android Market/Play Store, making it unusable in the stock Kindle OS. Oh well, at least the source of the problems was found.

Of course, being the happy little idiot I am, I thought I should just restore the firmware via stock OS. I could just re-root and reinstall all of my apps, right? Huge mistake. After buzzing around for thirty seconds, Kindle rebooted. Instead of launching into the stock OS for initial config though, it dropped itself into TWRP 2.0 without me even pressing the power button. TWRP, of course, kindly informs me that the entire device is blank.

I fretted for a little bit, then connected my Kindle to my computer. I already have the adb drivers installed, but Windows shows it as Unknown Device.. It also helpfully insists that it has malfunctioned and tells me to buy a new one.

I turned to Vashypoo's KFU. A bunch of threads said it was stuck in fastboot and KFU could could put it back into regular (4000) boot. However, KFU's bootmode menu is unable to find the device, which is in the TWRP menu.

I tried using command prompt to gain access.

adb shell

then

fastboot -i 0x1949 idme bootmode 4000

gives me "/sbin/sh: fastboot not found" which is really scaring me.

Back to KFU, I tried reinstalling stock firmware from there. It apparently installed fine (how?). I doubt that it did, but TWRP is showing some signs of an OS in the device (not sure if its the full OS or not). Bootmode 1 now giving me no response (!)

Since all I really need is access to the SD storage to upload the OS, I tried to reinstall the drivers. Windows implores that its "Unknown Device" driver is the correct one. Trying to choose the "Android Phone" driver sens me back to "Unknown Device" for some reason.

I went back to basics. Used the mount function in TWRP to mount USB storage. AS you can probably guess, absolutely no response from PC.

Dearest XDA-devs i reach out to you. I'm at end. I don't know what else to do. If any of you can help me, I'll be grateful. While I'm not a complete noob (know my way around computer root, experienced jailbreaker/rooter, know basic command line) I'm utterly lost at what to do know. At the risk of sounding like a pretentious prude, I'll make a list of accomplishments to help anyone else who happens to have strangely fallen down the same path I have. As always, if you ever need more details, just ask.

nxtfari​

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[X] Reason for stock app crashes (Play Store auto-updated stock Kindle apps)

[X] Reason for boot loop (I'm an idiot/Restore via stock OS)