yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sga999:
I helped a friend with her Kindle, but I don't have any access to it now. So I won't be able to see what might be happening with the advice on that thread. You could try posting there and see what the author says about your screenshot. Are you sure all those errors aren't harmless? I mean, maybe it actually is rooted, despite the strange messages.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] RBThompsonV:
Wondering... anyone got a download link that works?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SilentlyScreaming:
Nope, the ping command has neither mucked anything up, nor is it likely to automatically indicate an issue, in your case.

When starting a command prompt, can you try this approach please, and let us know the result (this assumes you are using Vista or 7 and don't have the classic start menu in use)

Click the Start button,

Enter CMD in the box that says something like "search programs and files",

Right click the cmd.exe search result at the top,

Select run as administrator,

Click Yes,

now type in PING GOOGLE.COM

(type in EXIT when you're finished with the command prompt)

If the ping command now works, make sure you run the command prompt as an admin each time. If it still doesn't work, back to the command prompt as admin again, then...

CD\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

PING GOOGLE.COM

If ping only now starts to work, let us know, we'll try adding windows\system32 to your PATH statement.

Good luck.

---------- Post added at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 AM ----------

A download link for what?

If referring to KFFA (Kindle Fire First Aide), just head on over to its thread here. There is a new release. It is no longer hosted with dropbox.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Martovitz:
Awesome great work. Keep it up, thanks again

Remember to give THANKS when THANKS are due.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up

Thank you VERY much for the feedback. We are honored to be able to offer these step-by-step

instructions on the XDA Developer site.

The positive feedback motivates us to continue to grow our new Noob Series instruction sets.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up

urbannerdmaeio, We just finished with a customer that had your exact problem. He did everything including a Manual Driver

install. What he finally did as a "last ditch effort" was Reset the Kindle Fire HD 7" to factory Settings.

Then he followed our instructions and had it rooted in less than 10 minutes. Why don't you try a factory reset

and immediately after the reset, Turn on ADB and Installation of Programs, then Root - don't do anything else

until you completed Root. OK? Respond with the results.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] urbannerdmaeio:
OHMY!! I wish i could hug you right now,

I finally got it rooted after 3days

just had to download SDK and install the driver that way through the video and reboot pc/kindle and BAM!! ROOOOOTEED. lol

3 days of trying to figure this out, finally paid off....thank you. :laugh:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Feedback

OHMY!! I wish i could hug you right now,

I finally got it rooted after 3days

just had to download SDK and install the driver that way through the video and reboot pc/kindle and BAM!! ROOOOOTEED. lol

3 days of trying to figure this out, finally paid off....thank you. :laugh:[/QUOTE]

Good Job! The best hug you can give us is to click on the Thanks meter to the Right and

Rate the Thread at the top. I knew you could do it!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] urbannerdmaeio:
done! thank you again :D
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up

Thank you again, I hope you have a great holiday!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] santi1130:
Root Succesful Kindle Fire HD 7"

First of all, thank for all the work keep it up man!

I just got my Kindle Fire HD 7" 1 day ago and start reading and following the post instructions to get my device rooted. But i found the same problems a lots users have when you got stuck at the adb prompt and the program doesn't recognizes the device. I think this was a problem with the drivers of the kindle in my desktop computer but i got the same in my laptop.

The solution was to download the Android SDK and test if the adb.exe was able to recognize my device, and in fact the adb in the SDK found mi device once i run the command "adb devices".

Just copy the following files from the folder "platform-tools" in the SDK

adb.exe

AdbWinApi.dll

AdbWinUsbApi.dll

and then overwrite the existing ones on the:

\Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17\stuff\

\Qmenu\

then just follow the instructions as in the first thread and you will got your device rooted.

Well that's it, excuse my bad english. just want to help others as i always get from this great forum. Thanks again to prokennexusa for all the work
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
ADB Update

We are upgrading our tools now, we will post to everyone when it is OK to download the latest versions. Give us 60 minutes.

Thank you for the heads up.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Macalester:
Just checked and I have root access now so thanks so much!

My problem was I couldn't get ES File Explorer however it's available on the amazon store for free so if you're having the same problem as me and want to verify that you're rooted then download that from there and follow the rest of the walkthrough on it.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] TeXxX13:
when i ran the program it said restore do device... 10 second ... my kindle never asked me anything. then the program contined to finish ...saidwaiting for divice to show up... then after reboot alll is..done.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
ADB Update

Hmmm, do you see Superuser.apk in Apps?

If no, it did not complete.

Download the attached ADB Update

Unzip it to your desktop. Copy all 3 files to /Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17/Stuff/ and /Qemu/

Then run the utility again.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] JuannTwo3:
I am using the linux script and keep getting permission denied error. Any advice?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
ADB Security

Are you using Windows 7? If yes, this is a common error. You must open a command prompt "Run as Administrator"

Then using the "cd" "cd.." "cd c:\" etc. command you navigate to the Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17 folder executing RunMe.bat

from the Administrative command window. If you are already doing this make sure ADB is enabled on the Kindle.

If this is OK, then make sure you are using our utilities, downloaded using our links. If you take a peek in Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17\Stuff

you will see adb.exe - what is the date of the daemon? How about the one in Qemu folder? Should be 12/28/12 4:52pm.

If not go back to our links and download our utilities.

If all this is OK, then perform a factory reset on the Kindle while it is plugged into USB.

After the reboot immediately go into Device enable ADB and Security Allow install of Programs.

Then without hesitation run RunMe.bat
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Byke777:
Big thanks!

My first post or one of the first posts on this forum are going to prokennexusa, by just saying BIG THANK YOU GUYS !

I am using my Kindle Fire HD here in Romania since october, wasn't able to root it properly (or didn't wanted to use awkard methods) to simply install basic applications.

A big minus to Amazon and it's romanian customers!

So, thank you very much for making this possible. I've read all your HowTo Guides, everything works flawless now. Everything!

About the issues concerning the ADB and connectivity, I had exactly the same problems other guys had, but I managed to make it work yesterday, by doing a restart each time I've installed drivers and stuff: both on the Win7 machine and the KFHD.

Thank you guys!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ryanne81:
password

Hi! I been reading the whole pages of this thread and i notice nobody had encounter this problem

I had with my KFHD 7...It says " Please enter your device encryption password below" This was the message

i got with Runme.bat. and below the screen of my Kindle there's two option "donot restore" and "Restore my Data"

but I simply cannot choose restore coz its asking for a password which i dont have....

My kindle was bought thru Amazon Japan and has 7.2.3fw...
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] andywool:
So will this work on the Kindle 2 or not?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Luca Brasi09:
Finally!

After a few hours and countless tries, & a couple of different PC's my Kindle Fire HD is rooted, Google play store installed along with titanium backup and other necessary files. Thanks to all here for instructions and needed files, job well done!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Encryption on the SD Card

Yes, we have seen this problem. It is normally caused by encrypting the data on the

SD Card. Did you enable Data Encryption? If yes, use the data encryption

password. None of our utilities are encrypted, so the do not need a password.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Kindle Fire 2

andywool, We have not tested these utilities on the Kindle Fire 2, although

it is worth a try. These utilities do not remove anything if followed exactly as

outlined. Also, the Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17 utility is designed to

Root just about anything. Having said this, you have nothing to loose by

trying it. All that will happen if you fail, is nothing. Post your results, if

it is found to work on the Kindle Fire 2, we will post a new Thread for the

Kindle Fire 2. If you get stuck, PM us, we will give you our phone number,

offer free support through our office.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
Hey, there's no way to root this on Mac w/o using a VM is there? I have a VM, just Mac would be easier.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
When installing those drivers on my VM I get an error: "The drivers were not properly installed or the machine needs to be shut down" or something to that accord. Is that ok?

Here is what it says:

Output folder: C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers

Extract: android_winusb.inf... 100%

Extract: kindlefirewinusba64.cat... 100%

Extract: kindlefirewinusbx86.cat... 100%

Extract: NOTICE... 100%

Extract: LICENSE.txt... 100%

Extract: NOTICE.txt... 100%

Output folder: C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers\amd64

Extract: NOTICE... 100%

Extract: WUDFUpdate_01009.dll... 100%

Extract: WdfCoInstaller01009.dll... 100%

Extract: dpinst.exe... 100%

Extract: winusbcoinstaller2.dll... 100%

Output folder: C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers\i386

Extract: NOTICE... 100%

Extract: WUDFUpdate_01009.dll... 100%

Extract: WdfCoInstaller01009.dll... 100%

Extract: dpinst.exe... 100%

Extract: winusbcoinstaller2.dll... 100%

Created uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers\uninstaller.exe

Execute: "C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers\i386\dpinst.exe" /c /path "C:\Program Files\Amazon.com\Kindle Fire\Drivers"

Return code 256

Writing registry keys

Writing 0x1949 to C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser\.android\adb_usb.ini file

Fail to write file

Completed
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Grundig:
Amazon Prime wont play even after unrooting

My daughter got a kindle HD 7" replaced by Amazon. I used these instructions to root both devices and use titaniam to backup and restore all her apps.

Process worked great!! THANK YOU!!

The only problem I'm having is She can't play or stream anything throught the Amazon Video App - App Launches find and but recieve "An error occurred. Please try again." on the new kindle. On her old kindle - also rooted - I was able to use OTA RootKeeper to unroot and play videos no problem. On the new device I get the error.

When installing I

Rooted using "rooted using "Method 2"

Disabled Amazon OTA Updates

BAckuped Kindle

Insalled Play Store

Disabled d Services

Installed Halo Launcher

Installed Boat Browse, Flash Playerand Instagram

Installed Chainfire 3D

On the old Kindle I only Rooted and Installed the Play Store

Things I Tried

Rerunning install script for Boat Broser, Flash Player & Instagram

Downloaded and installed alternate Amazon Video App

Tried older version of Aazon Video App

ReInstalled Flash with latest version

Reset Device

Deleted Amazon Video App Data and force stopped

Fix System Permissions and Anomalies

Any Tips before I Completely Restore and start over. repeating installation 1 step at time to determin what broke things?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
Hey, I have the ADB composite driver ready and everything,.but once I enter 15 and go through the commands, I get this:

"/system/bin/sh: su: not found" or it just goes back to the main menu with all the different options. My KF hasn't rebooted or anything. What is wrong? Everything was downloaded from this thread.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] soupmagnet:
It means your device is not rooted. If you already tried to root, then the process obviously failed.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
Well of course it's not rooted, I'm doing it to root it? Is there anything I can do to actually root it now? Needing root to root it seems a bit redundant, eh? :p
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sonicanomaly:
Try the latest version of KFFirstAide from its thread here instead. You set it up the same way as defined in this thread. Ignore the instructions to use option number 15/16 and instead use the menu in the program. Choose the root option, then the method listed as preferred. Initiate, and follow on screen instructions. That's what worked for me.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
So I just delete all of the previous stuff? And what do you mean "method listed as preferred"? For what? Rooting? And do I put it into Fastboot before rooting or not?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sonicanomaly:
As far as I know, that should work as the only method of installation is adding KFFirstAide to the paths (which will still be needed, so shouldn't be undone) and copying the unzipped folder over to the C:\ drive. I haven't personally had to remove it myself, as I started off using the new version, so I'm not entirely sure. I would reason, however: Delete (or rename/move) the original version you installed, and unzip and 'install' the new one the same way as you got that one there. Using the instructions for installation and preparation to use KFFirstAide via this thread's original post worked for me. Be sure you delete the old desktop shortcut and create a new one the same way as described in the instructions!

After that, you go through the menu as I've shown in the screenshots attached. I did, indeed, mean preferred rooting method; it's listed inside the program, as you'll see from the images. When you're doing the process, pay attention to the prompts on the screen. At some point, your kindle will reboot and be extremely sluggish with a glitchy (flashing, odd graphical errors, etc.) screen. This is okay; have patience and give it a couple of minutes, then find in your apps section (make sure you're on device, not cloud) RootChecker. You probably won't see icons for the apps, and that's alright, just go by the title. Once you've opened RootChecker, you should get a prompt from something called SuperUser or SuperSU. Click to allow superuser/root access to RootChecker. It will then tell you that you have confirmed root. Close the app, and return to the home screen.

Now, pay attention to KFFirstAide again. It will say to press any key to continue. Do so, and it should reboot your kindle. The graphical glitches should be gone, and it should be running smoothly and now have root access.

I'm afraid I can't help if you encounter any errors along the way, only with understanding the steps I've described as that's what I did and it worked perfectly for me. This is the first and so far only time I've rooted, so I don't know how to troubleshoot. Also note that my device is the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" on firmware 8.4.3 and my computer is running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. If your device or operating system are different, the experience may vary. (Also, apologies for the awful quality of the screenshots. They're still readable, so I didn't remake them, but I've just learnt the hard way not to trust Paint to save a .jpg capture.)

Edited to add: No, you shouldn't put it into fastboot for rooting.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
Thanks a lot! I finally have root, yeehaw! I was slightly pessimistic after the Aide failed the first two times, but third was the charm. What should I do now? Flash a second recovery? :p
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sonicanomaly:
Awesome! I'm glad it worked. :D

What I did next was disable OTA updates. You can do that through KFFirstAide as well, it's under the menu item Extras when you first start the program. There's also an option to reverse it, in case you find that it disables something you actually use. Personally, I used a different method that involves ES File Explorer, but I honestly can't say whether either works because the unrooted device here hasn't gotten the roll-out of the latest update nor has Amazon posted about it on their site, yet. So it's just a waiting game. I'll probably end up using KFFirstAide's method, as well, to be safe.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what comes beyond that other than breathing a sigh of relief over having root access and no longer being locked down to what Amazon thinks is acceptable on a tablet. You can install Google Play via KFFirstAide, as well, but I don't have a Google Play account and have yet to find any apps I can't grab the .apk from the developer's site or this forum so I don't personally need it myself yet.

I'm waiting around and trying to kick up the courage to attempt a second bootloader and twrp. From what I've seen so far, that's a project and a half with a huge risk attached, so I'm not yet convinced it's worth the effort. For me, it's only something I want to do so I can get my wallpapers back.

You may want to make a backup image, though. Because I'm worried about how much space it might use and have very little available right now on my hard drive or my Kindle, I'm waiting to do that myself. So no experience on how that goes.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Skellyyy:
Just a question if you have installed the second bootloader... How long did the last boot.img take to download? The first two downloaded relatively quick,.but now the third has seemingly been still for around 20mins. I tried to do it through KF First Aide. My KF is still in bootloader, so I'm not sure what to do...
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sonicanomaly:
Unfortunately, I have no idea, but I would imagine it's a huge file. That's part of why I'm uncertain about doing the process myself as it took two hours just to download KFFirstAide on my connection. Hopefully everything's going alright. :fingers-crossed: I think that option with KFFirstAide is still in testing and has a risk of bricking. Wish I could help, but I'm out of my element there. The most I can say is try to give it more time and if something goes wrong post in the thread for KFFirstAide seeking help (it's the thread I linked you to download the latest version).
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SilentlyScreaming:
Re length of time - definitely no need to panic just yet, mine took forever, but worked out OK in the end.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] R1Mike:
My wife bought me my KFHD 7" about a week ago from Best Buy. Using these instructions and trying other options, I've gotten my KFHD rooted. Getting the ADB driver installed was frustrating and took the most amount of time to get working with Windows 7. Using "C-1) The next steps are used to Root the Kindle - Preferred Method (Automated Version)" to root my Kindle, I had no issues until "Root Step 12". Option 15 didn't work. I looked at option 16 and didn't try that step since it said it was for KFHD 8.9". Not mentioned, but after reading through the options of the program, I did try option 21 and it worked. Thanks! Since option 21 worked, do I need to go back and retry to run option 15 to fastboot? Also, my Kindle is 7.4.6, don't know if this made a difference or not in rooting it. Thanks, Mike.

After reading some more posts, I've gotten my answer. Thanks.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] hamada2004eg:
Great

I just bought my new Kindle Fire HD 7" a couple days ago, living outside the US and not supported by amazon market my tap was useless.

This is the first time i actually try rooting any device, This worked out great.

Thanks I used the KFAid to root, install google market and it is running great now.

Thanks Guys:good:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] m374llic4:
Do you have to do anything different if it is the 8gb Kindle Fire, non hd? I dont know if it is a "2" though.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] soupmagnet:
I would highly suggest that you figure out whether you have a Kindle Fire or a Kindle Fire 2 before you proceed.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] keyleroy:
USB Keyboard/Text to Speech Follow-up

Good morning Chris,

A lot of time has passed since I've been on here and my Kindle has been sitting on my office desk in my basement ever since. I know you are bombarded all day with problems so I just wanted to briefly ask if there has been a solution to the USB Keyboard and Text-to-Speech for the Kindle. On a separate note, last time I checked I lost root which means I'll have to start from scratch with re-rooted. Have the instructions changed or can I use the old instructions? Thanks for your valuable time Sir!:good:

Respectfully,

LeRoy
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] herrenfam:
I Can't Get my Kindle V.2 To Root!

I have poured over the detailed instructions graciously provided by the OP, but I can never get past the second step. This is a screenshot of what I see...

I get this screen that says I have root, but nothing happens after that, and the program you gave out to install on our kiindle's is telling me that the kindle is not rooted correctly.

Where am I going wrong? I'm following the instructions to a T (I think!)

Thanks.

Oh, PS: I have Enable ABD set to ON on my Kindle.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SilentlyScreaming:
Open an administrator priviliged command prompt

(click start, type in

CMD

in the "search programs and files" box, right click the resulting CMD.EXE result, select Run As Administrator, click Yes)

In this new window, type in

cd \KFFirstAide

(assuming you installed KFFA to c:\KFFirstAide )

type in

RunMe

now try rooting again.

If you STILL get the same error, repeat the above, but instead of

RunMe

, please type in

dir adb*.*

, and let us know if it finds any files/folders with ADB at the beginning.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jimmy.77:
Kindle Fire HD 8.9" version 8.4.6

Hi there,

Sorry to bother with a "probably-annoying-question" but... someone have rooted succesfully 8.4.6 version? My device (few days old) is an 8.4.6_user_4620220 and my last attempt to root (I followed another method, not the well explained in this thread) "failed", I mean, root option was ok, but OS responsivity was sluggish, jerky, and graphics (like unlock bar, for example) was weird, lines not aligned and so on.

Also after "unrooting" process the strange behaviours continued and only a factory reset fixed it. Now, I see a thread that talk about "sluggish" and a method to solve it, but before following the steps in this thread (more detailed and precise, so thanks for your dedication) and retry, I'm wondering if someone did it with success, just to put my mind in peace!

Thanks a lot,

J.