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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
Correct. I powered off the Kindle and disconnected it. Then I entered the command and hit enter and connected the powered off device. The Boot screen came back on, but that where it stays, and 15 min later its still "waiting for device".

Ill revisit this in the morning when my head is clearer. If you come up with any bright ideas in the mean time, Ill be happy to try them out!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
indeed good luck rest should help xda isnt going anywhere;)

Sorry typo above is fixed:-)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
nope

nope

nope

I know all the commands are good, its just not communicating to the Kindle...

Figured Id give it one more go before I hit the sack. I know this is gonna keep me awake anyway...
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660636
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
Looked promising and I almost got excited about it... until step 14, when after turning on the device after turning it off (while still plugged in)no new text was spit out in the utility and my Kindle refused to reboot...

What might be happening is that every time I plug in/ turn on from off while plugged it, windows attempts to install the driver software automatically, which may be causing the mix up at the device utility stage. Like Pugsley, after deleting the .android folder from my profile and uninstalling the ADB interface/driver, then running hardware change scan, my device is recognized as "kindle", but after turning off the device and turning it back on at the "waiting for device" screen, the device is automatically updated as Android ADB interface with errors again. Is there a way to temporarily block this auto-install? That might work...
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
In Device Manager, when I plug in my Kindle it shows up as "kindle" in all lower case letters and the generic device icon has a yellow "!" attached to it. If I uninstall it an then "check for hardware changes" it just pops right back up.

Is "disk drives" separate from the Device Manager utility? I did a search for it at the start screen and came up with nothing... If you send me those drivers you were talking about Ill give that a try. Thanks.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
Grrr! So I downloaded the driver.zip file you posted up (thank you) and double clicked the "install" file within the unzipped folder. It appears to have installed, but now every time I plug in the Kindle it goes to "unknown device", not showing up as "kindle" anymore, and no sign of "android" anything in the device manager. I haven't been doing anything differently, same USB port as before, etc. I did shut down my computer for a few hours and booted it back up just before downloading the zip file though. Must have started the whole cycle over again. I've got to go back through earlier posts and find out how I got past this issue.

I think I know what you're asking me to do, it will just take a little bit of patience on my part to get it going. Ill post my results when I do. Thanks again!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
This is rediculous! Its like theres no rhyme or reason to why it comes up as "android", "kindle", or "unknown device". It does whatever it feels like.

I did as you suggested and powered off the kindle and powered it back on without unplugging it. It still comes up "unknown device". I also tried reinstalling the original install_drivers from the kindle fire utility folder. I have installed and unininstalled the drivers more times than I can count. I have performed a system restore on 2 seperate occasions in the past 12 hours, deleted the ".android" folder from the user directory multiple times, and rebooted both the Kindle and the PC more times today than any man should in a week! (not necessarily in that order) and I seem more stuck than I ever was at this point. At least before there was an inkling of hope when the computer recognized the device as "kindle".

Its going in a box in the morning. I cant do this anymore, Im liable to fry my PC as well going at it like this much longer, and I know for a fact that no warranty will cover that mess.

Thanks all for trying to help! I have a deep respect for this community and hope to bump into you all again (preferably under less tragic circumstances).
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
So Amazon is sending me a new Kindle Fire under warranty and not charging me a dime to ship the old one back. I have no doubt that someone more knowledgeable and patient would have been able to resolve the problem, but Im not messing around with this "advanced" stuff anymore. Thanks again!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
there is actually another way instead of fighting windows fickle drivers http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1670405 I have been using pendrive universal usb installer 1 8gig scandisk usb drive and another 2 gig scandisk for adding the files to the home folder. Allow for 3 gigs of persistant on your live usb. All you need to add to the home folder of ubuntu is andadb and the adb_usb.inf from the kindle fire utility ubuntu 11.10 32 bit has been working well. Follow the rest of the instructions from the thread for setup after you have used the spare usb drive to transfer the two files to your home folder. When done with 1-4 of the setup process of andadb you will restart to set udev rules. Ctrl+alt t opens a terminal use sudo for your fastboot commands you should be fine after that.

Note: when installing adb and fastboot sdk manager takes a little time to open Im on windows 7 all I have to do to boot from the Usb is hit escape as my computer boots up then select boot options with f9 and select boot from scandisk or whatever your usb is called. Good luck:-)

Another note: I preextract any files needed in windows to put on the spare usb dont delete anything it will cause a corruption in the liveusb and you will need to start over fresh.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muffinpunch:
We didn't really get into detail about how it happened, they were more concerned about the symptoms and offered a replacement before I even got the chance to request one. All in all, Amazon is by far one of my favorite companies. They consistantly get costomer satisfaction better than anyone I've ever done business with.

In all honesty, what you have said here is well beyond my level of understanding. That sounds like another week of splitting headaches and an upset and neglected wife and kid... I really do appreciate the help though. If I have need for this type of thing in the future I'll defiantly know where to come. Thanks again.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Post your questions here :)
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[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Hello, Sir.

I'm a long time lurker and not the first time poster. Known to troll occasionally.

Does this tool kit work for backing up ICS ROMs?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
That's a fair question...there was one ICS tester who provided some valuable feedback and then fled the country.. (or the 50 states anyway) :D

I believe the ROM backup/restore will work as long as /system, /data, and /dbdata are the only places where ROM information resides.

The toolkit will not backup kernels or modems, but those are easily obtained and flashed from other sources...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Troll'r here....yes it does work for backup of what u call i c s...?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Thank you, kind sirs. :D

Since I'm not too much a noob, and you took the time to answer me, I slapped thanks on your posts because you have responded to my question.

Thank you again. Now	i just have to figure out how to get the boot animation to work. :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mhumfleet:
removal if needed

if god forbid, the user wants to remove this from his/her phone. How would that do accompllished? and how does this work with the wipe and reload? doesnt the process of flashing delete this program as well?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
not sure what you are asking...this is a zip file you run like installing a ROM

"It's a way to do many useful things in CWM recovery mode via a Touch-Enabled interface,"

>it is a tool used in CWM not within the ROM...

>if you go thru the program has a few questions or prompts to ensure you want to do what you are clicking...

>once you wipe and reload...and boot out of the program and cwm the program closes....does not del the program...it resides on your sd as a zip file like a ROM file until you go back into CWM to exe it again...

>the tool is not visible in the ROM...

make sense...?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Best way to figure out what the toolkit does is to run it from CWM and try it out. Make sure you run a config backup and a full Rom backup first thing. That way you can undo any changes you make. In the tweaks section there are also undo options for any init.d or build.prop tweaks you add.

If something seems unfamiliar (i.e. "what the heck is init.d?"), Google is your best friend. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mhumfleet:
thanks

Thanks Zen Will Do

Does anybody have some Raid? there is a bug crawling on my screen when i look at Zens Postings
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
LOL, I don't to use the computer much...due to wife...:), but when I get on here....

that bug of Zen, gets me every time...I am wiping my screen saying WTF...my boys laugh at me....:)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
The aroma tool kit resides on your internal sdcard, where you would place your downloaded program..just like the ROM or a cwm flashable. Flashing a ROM only wipe the system drive, not the 14gb internal drive where we usually store or flashable zips. Deleting it is simple: locate it and delete it. Every time you use it, you need to flash it in cwm.

Sent from USA
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Truckerglenn:
Now I have a very serious question for the Tool Kit.

When I put my phone on vibrate, it does nothing for me. I even tried clipping the phone to the front of my pants. Nope, nothing, didn't feel a thing.

Is there any way of increasing the intensity of the vibration so that I can at least feel the vibration and have it do something for me?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Howdy Glenn, How you been?

intensity of the vibration... and have it do something for me? I hear that more from her...but HUH, ok, I will let Zen take that one...LOL :eek:

kdding Glenn
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Check the following first:

1. Go to settings-->sound, enable haptic feedback, change vibration intensity (one below), then turn off haptic feedback.

2. From same sound menu, check your vibrate setting - set to always or only in silent mode. If the latter then use the down volume button to move sound all the way to zero. When it reaches zero, your phone should vibrate.

If you don't feel a vibrate from this you may have a busted vibrator (Joe? Any suggestions here? :D )

Check the notify bar to see if your sound icon shows as silent with a vibration indicator (usually a squiggly line - but this may vary by ROM).

This app appears to allow some customization of vibration based on specific contacts for SMS and perhaps inbound calls: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.base2apps.vibes&hl=en

Other than that, there may be a kernel option to change vibrate intensity. If the above don't work for you, and you do still get some level of vibrate, I'll look into it when I'm working on my next kernel update.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
ebay.....:p
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xDa.Fun:
Can we know more abt. the emergency uclb3 packaged with this toolkit? :D

Is it rooted, zipaligned, deodexed, debloated, with lidroid toogles etc?:rolleyes:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
The UCLB3 ROM included here is derived from Dman's rooted, deodexed, zipaligned base. I've updated superuser, and debloated all the crap out of it, plus a bunch of other apps that would be included in a typical rom but removed here in the interest of conserving space while staying true to the intent... something to flash in the event of an emergency - i.e. no roms on sdcard, or for devs and testers, something to flash as a "control" to compare against... i.e. flash this, apply your change to see if it causes the same behavior as on your own rom...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Truckerglenn:
Oh, I thought that since this phone had all the bells and whisles, the vibrator was for something else. Never mind.:D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
whoo... too much time sitting out in the hot sun yesterday for me... Keyed in on the "serious" but overlooked the "very" :D

Have you tried using your phone while sitting on a running washing machine?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Crinkypops:
This installer works for GB ROMs, right?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
GB - absolutely.

ICS - at present, everything but kernels and (maybe, haven't tested) tweaks, formats.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jdt352:
Backup question, kind sir. I've probably done about 3, maybe 4 complete backups with the Toolkit. But I read that it will only restore the 'latest' backup. What does the program do with earlier backups? Does it just overwrite them each time?

Tweaks.. since there is a modified tweak, a lite, medium etc tweak.. how do we know what they do, or why? And would the tweaks possibly conflict with tweaks already baked into a custom rom?

I ask because I'm trying to get my antutu scores back up from 3500's to 4000's again. ;-)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
@jdt - At present there is only the one backup and a subsequent backup overwrites any prior one. On my list of improvements is the ability to have multiple backups (say 3) that are named in sequence including the name of the ROM being backed up.

As for tweaks, for this release it's more of a POC. They are based on Adrenaline and will wipe any other Adrenline tweaks previously applied. The first one is a variant that I've been playing with and the second is Adrenaline with the journaling, zipalign, and database vacuum scripts removed (1st one doesn't really do anything, and the second two can be resource hogs). The third is all the Adrenaline scripts. None of them install the older versions of OS executables that full Adrenaline does. The scripts that are in the toolkit only delete prior scripts that start with a zero.

If you want to preserve your setup before trying these, the config backup on the "backup/restore/wipe" menu will backup your entire init.d folder, which can then be restored individually if you want to revert to where you started.

As for Antutu, the recent 2.8.x upgrade changed the scoring of DB and sdcard results (lower). As a result, the best I've been able to do is just under 4000, except for one case where I got 4068. I think that is still possible, but is somewhat random and dependent on what else the phone is doing at the time. I'd like to see a benchmark utility that presents a composite score of the best component results. This would present a better view of the maximum capability of the phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
I would add that the best boost in performance from stock, is from using the OC feature from 1200 - boosted to 1600 from sheer power.

Antutu will go from 2800-3200 to 3800-3900's.

From my experience, the tweaks may provide just a slight boost - at the cost of stability.

The performance comes at the cost of battery life.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Adding OC does provide the biggest boost to CPU and graphics performance.

The other performance boost is making sure that your file systems are formatted as ext4 rather than the default of rfs. This noticeably improves I/O performance (real life and in benchmarks). The toolkit offers an option for this as long as you are running a kernel with the 2.5.x Voodoo lagfix option. (This includes all the Infusion kernels and Entropy's DD kernel). There is a script I am looking at modifying for use with other kernels (i.e. ICS) to reformat as ext4 assuming there is a need.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jdt352:
Rom backup came in super handy today-

Last night I was playing with some tweaks trying to figure out why CPU Spy was saying my phone had never gone to sleep mode, always staying at 100mHz (Google Services, Google Contact Sync, etc). I went to bed after a few reboots, figuring I'd at least have some battery life in the morning and could address the problem.

But in the morning CPU Spy said my phone had been on OC 1600mHz (!) for the last several hours and my battery was about to die.

I shut the phone off and left it on charger..

When it was sufficiently charged I turned it back on, went into CWM and Infuse Toolkit. Luckily for me, had backed up the rom before attempting any tweaking, and in a few minutes, was up and running like before!

Thank you, mr Z!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Glad it worked out for you. I've had that max cpu issue too. It usually happens after I muck around in build.prop and then wipe caches. If you open a terminal window and run "top -m 5 -n 1" you'll probably see rild consuming around 40% of the cpu... I haven't yet figured out the root cause. Seems to be OC plus init.d tweaks plus build.prop edits, but still somewhat random.

Keep me posted if you notice any likely contributing factors....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xDa.Fun:
Failsafe uclb3 working.

BUT-

No EPM.

No14 toggles.

+ ATT bootanimation.

:p

Wait ... Jscott got some goodies :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
That's not a bad idea, Zen. You can pull those modded apk and jar from any uclb3 based ROM or jesse's pack into the base ROM to give quick recovery options.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xDa.Fun:
+10

Then You can also call it Zen's Rom or something better you think :rolleyes:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dstarr3:
Thank you a hundred thousand times for this toolkit. This is literally the perfect application for me. I can't do a Nandroid backup through CWM or anything else without recovery boot looping, so this is a huge life-saver. Thank you so much!

Do you know how similar this is to a Nandroid backup? I have AppExtractor so that I can recover SMS/MMS and other such individual things from a backup. If I point AppExtractor to the directory where this Toolkit backs up, will it be able to extract individual things like that from this backup, as well?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
The backup is in tar format. It is not created the same way nandroid backups are. I have not tried appextractor, but I'm pretty sure it won't work. You can always try it and find out.... :-)

The full backup is in /sdcard/toolkit/backup/full ...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dstarr3:
You are, in fact, correct. lol

I just went for it. I decided to test it on restoring WiFi settings, since those haven't changed. I didn't want to risk messing up something big like my SMS. :p But yeah, no go. It'll show a list of nothing when you are told to select a backup. Surprise.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dstarr3:
Although, I remember now why I thought to ask this. Nandroid Browser can open the toolkit backup file just fine. So perhaps converting from one file to the other is a really simple process. I don't see why it wouldn't be, anyway. They contain basically the same information.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dstarr3:
I just upgraded from ICS to JB and I'm thinking about reverting back to ICS. Now, I made a full backup using this toolkit before jumping to JB, but I know there's a new file system in place on JB. So would that hinder the restoration of my toolkit backup? Or would it still be as easy as ever to restore?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
This is a very interesting question, indeed.

There are several layers to unravel and several different ways of doing this.

I think the question would be, "Which way is the most efficient?"

I humbly bow to master Zen Arcade for the solution. :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Speaking of ...where be Master Zen, these days? Somewhere near Haddonfield, IL???
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
If you are running an older version of JB without MTD, you should be able to flash the ICS kernel you want, then run the toolkit, then restore.

If you are running a version of JB with MTD, I suggest you first check with Scott to see if there is a revert back to bml/stl available... This may need to be implemented at the kernel level.

From a quick read of the CM10 thread, it appears that the conversion to MTD includes or affects the /efs partition. Because of this, I believe a revert may be the only option.

Until this becomes available I recommend sticking with JB (assuming you are on an MTD version).

No change in locale... just been distracted by RL stuff. Not much time free time of late. An update to the toolkit will be coming at some point (assuming ICS and JB settle down a bit - it's hard to hit a target moving that fast). :eek: I've been playing around with some GB kernel mods for the stock-derived firmwares, but not much progress (see comment about free time above)...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
I hear you brother, on the RL. Hope nothing out of the ordinary but then what is ordinary when it comes to RL...

Yerp on the moving target, but suppressive fire works on moving targets...LOL, Take Care
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Bonder:
This is just an FYI, and its entirely possible that I messed something up or it is as designed, but I applied the level 2 Adrenaline Shot and the build.prop tweaks to my CM10 Infuse, and it did not like it. I mainly had signal issues, constantly changing from H to 3G to Edge all day, and poor signal strength. After removing the tweaks, all was good again. :good:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Zen Arcade:
Yeah, the toolkit was built before jb was out so some things may not work with cm10.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mike591:
hi can someone help me restore efs? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1858842

i just dont know where to put the efs.tar in odin...phone, csc, pit, bootloader -where does it go?

edit...nevermind someone replied to my topic :)