[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k3u::straylight:
Hello XDA!

I've been lurking here for about six months waiting for CM9 w/ HWA to drop for my kindle fire since christmas, and I have to say now that it's here: :eek:

Huge thanks to hashcode for getting Kernel 3/HWA working, and NRGZ28 for the wonderful Energy ROM!

I would be posting this as a reply to their respective threads, but I am classified as a xda noob, so here I am.

Issues Surmounted:

KF Utility: Weird errors about disk being full

Turned out this is a conflict with cygwin, there was another find.exe on the %PATH%. Fix: Replace all references to find with absolute path.​

Post-flash infinite boot animation

First time I tried, the KF got stuck in a boot animation loop for about 15 minutes, I reflashed the same file and it only looped for about 60 seconds, followed by glorious CM9​

KF not listed under `adb devices`

Even if your driver appears to be working in Device Manager, it could be the wrong driver! I kept installing the 'Android ADB Interface' driver, but I didn't get anywhere until I changed to the 'USB Composite Device' driver after which a 'Android Composite ADB Interface' magically appeared and I regained adb control!​

Android Keyboard has stopped

adb install [go keyboard apk]​

WiFi not receiving an IP

RTFMFTW: fix-mac.sh!!!​

Flaky WiFi Disconnecting

Used 'CPU Tuner' to set governing profiles that maxed at 1008 MHz instead of 1200 MHz. Not exactly sure if this was the cause, but the wifi seems much more stable now and I get better battery life! Win Win!​

I'm hoping some of ^those^ might help somebody get going a bit faster.

Issues Outstanding:

Netflix

I can run the app but when I start a video it buffers and then shows a lovely black screen and sits there. As anyone else had/resolved this issue? I've read that other people have problems with the netflix app force quiting, but this seems to be a separate issue.​

No awareness of Battery Charging State in ICS

Although the OS doesn't seem to know when charging is happening, it certainly is happening, and I seem to be getting accurate battery percentages so this is functionally a non-issue. (I know this is a known bug, but I wanted to report that it wasn't as painful for me as some had been saying).​

Random Reboot

This only happened once, not sure if it's going to be an ongoing thing but the kindle seemed to just reboot abruptly without being told to despite it not being actively fondled at the time​

WiFi Geolocation

I enabled this in settings but Google Maps doesn't get any geo info at all​

My kindle is now able to successfully play a 720p x264 MKV natively with hardware acceleration

playing directly from a mounted CIFS share over WiFi

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THIS IS INSANELY AMAZING.

I did have to enable software decoding for the audio, but who cares, IT WORKS!

I used CifsManager & MX Player, and am hoping to find a SSHFS client for when I'm not on my LAN.

Is the source for EnergyROM available somewhere?

I'd really like to take this great ROM and start tweaking it.

I'm want to extend the range of the brightness slider in settings to go all the way down to 1 instead of stopping at a min of 30.

Right now I am using RootDim[Root] to acheive the desired effect (dim the actual backlight, not the colors), but it's far from elegant.

Has someone already done this? If so I'd like to hear about it, and if not I want to try and contribute.

THANKS XDA, the CM9 guys and specifically the devs who tweak/compile/package/distribute these ROMs so generously.

You've made my wildest (affordable tablet based) dreams come true.

TLDR: Everything important is made of diamonds; can I get the source for EnergyROM?

:D

k3u::straylight