[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hax0rz jim duggan:
ladies and gentlemen. i start this thread after months of being at my witt's end with my first generation kindle fire.

upon recieving my fire last december as a christmas gift from my father in law i coundn't wait to jump at the chance to root it and see what she can REALLY do. burritoroot at the time was the tool of choice to do it, and so i climbed about the band wagon. When the fire's software updated automatically it locked me out of root access (auto update was not a welcome surprise for an avid jailbreaker) i reluctantly picked myself out of the silicone mudd that the laughing folks at amazon had thrown me in while stealing my lunch money and wiped the sweat from my brow and returned to google to get myself back where i belonged, rooted, and easily enough, burrito root2 had dropped just in time to let me dance about with glee in the wonderful world of roothood once again until of course another update.

my bloodthirst for rooting had begun to wain as the new update left all me favorite tweaks still available even without having to get my hands dirty with root access. (google play and my custom skin with the eye candy of ice cream sandwich remained leaving me satisfied)

a few months went by and a stood mild mannered not willing to delve deeper into system files until the filthy root lust reared its ugly head again. this time flaunting a new shiny toy in front of my keen childlike eyes. Free. In-App. Purchases. I smoothly popped open my laptop in hopes to find burrito root three to give me that hot fix i needed. much to my dismay the rules had changed. doing this job would require a whole new batch of tricks. so i took the bait and downloaded KFU .0.9.6 and grabbed my usb cord in hopes that in a few minutes i'd be back balls deep in the 6.3.1 system files of my kindle fire. but of course this would not be the case. after installing the proper drivers to make device manager say what it is supposed to say, KFU wouldnt even notice my kindle was online on my windows 7 64 bit laptop. running as admin yielded different results, as it said adb was online but when asked to do anything it said it couldnt find the hard drive in question. nor the specified path. whats more it behaved the same way without the kindle even connected.

i went to bed to watch netflix on the device and decided to try again the next day. this time with my windows 7 64 bit desktop computer that i had used to root the item before (as well as a motorola backflip that i used for work at the time, but that is another tale.) i downloaded another copy of KFU .0.9.6, decompressed its files and placed it in drive C like a good boy. plugged the usb cord in and crossed my fingers. without a doubt things were working differently. not necessarily smoothly. but differently. kfu was reading the fire and so i chose option 2. the screen went black.

and i waited. and waited. my impatience got the better of me and i decided to start over thinking that things had frozen and become unresponsive. only to find my kindle would only boot to the unfainting orange and white kindle fire screen. frustrated i read as many forum support pages as my brain would allow. for weeks i did this until i found myself getting to frustrated knowing i'd have to finally resort to the inevitable. buying a factory cable.

so when i had some free cash on paypal i went to ebay and found one fro a chinese seller for 8 bucks shipped. eagerly i waited for a week until final arrival. i plugged it in just waiting for all my troubles to just vanish. nothing. i cant find it doing much of anything different. kfu is of course finding adb offline, and windows device manager is calling the device the same thing but stating the obvious (this device doesnt seem to start up properly) on a whim today i plugged it into my laptop. similar story. for about three minutes or so while it just sat rebooting itself every 10 seconds or so before i did more than plug the thing in. that changed when i hooked it up to a charger though. i'll keep you posted though.

my question though is where exactly am i going wrong? is the factory cable supposed to do something different right away? maybe i shouldve bought a factory cable from here to debunk that theory... i will of course appreciate any help i can get with this. luckily my wife's kindle still works so we arent completely tabletless. but being in maintenance by trade i know that $200 is a little steep for a masonry brick.

any wise guides apreciated.

-HJD