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[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
You probably installed the bootloader successfully. Turn off the device, when you turn it on, immediately hold Volume-Up (leftmost from power button) and let go once the logo turns blue. If the logo doesn't turn blue at all, it's not installed. Try again.

Check my guide to make sure you did the right thing: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2271909.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] graeme101:
Looking forward to using this app. I have one question, is it still the case that I should use twrp 2.3.3.0 or can I use twrp 2.4.4.0 now?

Thanks for your help
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
Use the TWRP 2.4.4.0 image from Hashcode's thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2128848, and plug that file into the recovery section.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] graeme101:
Thank you, that's great
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] justblinded:
help

Guys I followed the tutorial and used fire flash. I was able to get into twrp. I tried cm10's version and it wont even load the zip. I also have tried other flavors or Roms and I get a boot screen that says google with two gears that spin. Then they just stop spinning. I am not sure what that is or why its doing that. I have done custom roms on other devices and never had any issue like this. Can anyone help?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] bro1:
had the same and booted into recovery,and cleared cache etc etc
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] justblinded:
Ive done the wipe system, data, cache and then dalvik no go.:(
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
If you wiped system and reinstalled that .zip file, then it makes sense that you'd still get that screen. For one, it's a freeze, and two, the issue is with the file itself. Something's not right with the kernel for that ROM. Your only choices now are to use ADB in recovery to push a .zip file of a new ROM and flash through TWRP to test for software issues, or to use fastboot and start fresh by flashing Amazon 7.2.3, then start over. Or, hopefully, you have a backup before you flashed the file.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] bro1:
thinking about it now in recovery i selected wipe and clicked on factory reset,that did it,if it dont work do as seokhun says and start from fresh
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] mr.bobharris:
this is so sick. worked like a charm. thanks to everyone involved.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
Need TWRP to use this utility?

The previous person asked if TWRP was required to use this utility.

You replied "YES"

Did you mean that TWRP needs to be one of the options to be installed with this utility or that TWRP must already be installed to use this utility?

Based on subsequent responses on related maters, it seems that you do not need to have TRWP already installed to use this utility.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
You don't need TWRP to do the partition flashing, like boot or recovery. You do need TWRP to flash ROMs and stuff, so if you plug in the ROM into FireFlash, all it does is unzip those files and flashes the partitions inside that file.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] mr.bobharris:
i was a little scared to try this at first, the info in the thread can be confusing to some of the less savvy, but its easy and the results were worth the leap of faith. here's what i did to get to cm10.1 from 7.3.1

1. download your choice of rom, gapps, and then grab kfhd7-freedom-boot.img and TWRP Recovery here

2. open fireflash. if you see the big red warning letters about a bootloader, check the box. i assume this is important or the letters wouldnt be so big and red.

3. in the next section, click the button and select kfhd7-freedom-boot.img, then check the "apply stack override" option underneath it.

4. in the next section, click the button and select TWRP Recovery, the select the option to "disable recovery auto update" underneath it. if your recovery updates, you will not be happy.

5. click flash, install script

from here im going on memory which might be kind of foggy from all the weed vitamins i smoke take.

6. kindle does it thing then reboots, the logo changes blue, press up on the volume rocker

7. now you're in recovery. first thing i did was make a backup just to be safe.

8. then i wiped cache, dalvik cache and did a factory reset

9. then i flashed cm10.1 and gapps, rebooted and bam, dunzo.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
Or you could've just followed my thread in my signature.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] myatkaung:
My kindle see red screen. HELP!

My kindle Fire HD 7" is on version 7.3.1. I didn't check the box beside red letter because mine is not 7.2.3. Then i flash and i see red screen next reboot. Please how can i repair this. Can i repair with or without fastboot cable? I don't have a fastboot cable and i can't order it to my country Myanmar. If some body can sell or donate me a fastboot cable, i am very appreciate. Thanks in advance.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
View thread in my signature, #6.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] mr.bobharris:
yeah, i suppose that couldve worked too, if youre into well written, thorough guides. :p
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] esema1o:
Can u just make video dude thanks I wanna try this :p
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] myatkaung:
Thanks. I'll try with fast boot cable. I am making one now.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] rebelduke:
Will method work with 8.4.1?

Will this procedure work on a fire HD 8.9:? The thread title indicates it will but after viewing all 11 pages of this thread I saw no reference to 8.4.1. Will it work with this version of the operating system/ Thanks!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] ipsearch:
Hi there, will this be able to ROOT Kindle 7.4.3 ?

Cheers
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
Follow thread in my signature, it does work.

This app doesn't root the device, it flashes a bootloader and a recovery to install custom ROMs. Follow thread in my signature to root the device.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] rebelduke:
The Bin4ry script works on 8.4.1.

Thanks ipsearch! I will give it a try.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] AustinKnight45:
So will this flash TWRP recovery for a rooted 7.4.3 stock?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
Thought you could not flash update.bin with fastboot?

Good day: I thought I have been told several times that fastboot can only be used to flash partition images except for the update command?

Your post indicates that you use fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot update.bin from Amazon?

This command flashes the update binary file to the boot partition correct?

How do you know the Amazon update.bin file is just a boot partition binary?

I am confused I guess? The worst thing would be to flash a binary that is not intended to replace the boot partition?

When you download an Amazon update, is it not the entire set of images? Boot, System, and possibly other partitions?

How would one know what is in the update binary file?

I thought that to use fastboot to install multiple partition files, you needed to use this syntax? fastboot -i 0x1949 update "update.bin file"

The update.bin file will have a manifest file inside that indicates what get flashed to where, etc.?

I have never issued this command syntax because, I have not understood it and don't want to break anything.

Thanks....
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] skyrocketeer:
Same question: for amazon 7.4.2 will fireflash work?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] bryanchapman9999:
Confirmed, yes :good:
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] -INU-:
The app crash when i give root access, without rootaccess the app starts correct. Device is on 10.2.3 (komplete restore with KFFA) and rootchecker says root is ok, any ideas ?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] seokhun:
Your device is not a Kindle Fire HD. Read the title of the thread.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] CAL7:
I am struggling to flash the second bootloader, per hashcodes thread, on my KFHD89/8.4.3. ADB is good, I backup the image, new stack, etc, up to the point of going into fastboot. When it reboots into fastboot the host drivers do not see it (I have tried every combination of usb driver - google, kindle, ... - I can find).

I have tried both XP and Win 7. Will this utility overcome my driver issue, or does it need those already working to function?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] raj3366:
Beauty of this app is that you don't need to connect your kindle to the computer at all. Please follow the OP and you would be good to go. You need to select the appropriate image files and click flash - you are done.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
2nd bootloader 8.4.3

You did not provide a title; Not sure what utility you are referring to?

(Just saw the raj3366 posting so it looks like you are using or trying to use the fireflash utility?

In that case, you can ignore this post. This post is some detail on using Hashcode's manual 2nd boot process.

It does help responders if entries like "this utility" are not used. Stating "Using Fireflash" or "Using Hashcodes's 2ndboot" clarifies a lot.

For your google drivers, I have modified the android_winusb.inf file to include a series of Kindle devices.

[Google.NTx86]

;Kindle Fire Make sure to copy this to the [Google.NTx64] section as well.

%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006&MI_01

%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0008

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0008&MI_01\6

%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100&MI_01

%SingleAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0001

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0001&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0001&REV_0216&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0004&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0004&REV_0216&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0007&REV_0216&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface%	= USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0007&MI_01

Specifically, the Kindle fire HD 8.9 identifies itself as USB\VID_1949&PID_0008&MI_01\6 in USB

In fastboot, using an application called usbdview.exe, I see USB\VID_1949&PID_0008\3FB600003C002FFF

Thus, if you have the two lines with 0008 in them, these are for the 8.9 devices.

Try adding these Kindle devices entries to the android_winusb.inf file and see if the tablet acts better.

I had to uninstall my drivers in device manager, and also chose delete them from windows, then reboot windows to make sure I had the google drivers loaded. I have multiple sets of USB drivers in my windows so, I always have trouble.

Another critical thing you may have to do is enter a fastboot command first with the tablet turned off.

Once you are finished with the ADB portion of 2nd bootloader, issue fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product at the command window

You will get < waiting for device > at the command window

When you (turn the tablet on with USB connected) or (with tablet off, connect the USB to the PC), the tablet will boot up directly into fastboot and stay there. (Yellow colored fastboot mode on screen). Once in fastboot, you are all set to finish the task.

Lately, I have been having to issue the fastboot command first to trigger fastboot mode on the tablet.

The google USB drivers are from a source called Google_USB_Driver_rev4
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] CAL7:
Thank you for providing all this information. It will one day be very useful, but for now, you are right (see below) and FireFlash has worked for me. Sorry for the confusion stating my problem.

Wow! This is great and literally solved all my problems.

I just had tunnel vision and was so focused on usb fastboot methods that, even though I read through this thread at least three times, I didn't comprehend the obvious. After this comment, it all made sense. Within a few minutes I had CM10.1 flashed and running. Thank you!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] conalt:
Thanks. Followed the guides in the Development forum and this worked perfectly. :good:
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] noobapotomus:
twrp 2.6.0.0

Was able to successfully update my twrp from 2.3.x.x to 2.6.0.0 on the KFHD 8.9. everything worked perfectly. Fantastic product!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] boringfrog:
please help

I managed to get TWRP installed and running once,but after rebooting, the Kindle Fire logo does not turn blue and will not go into recovery.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] Thepooch:
This won`t install on android 4.3 it gives a parse error. I do everything manually but this could come in handy a time or two if it were updated to work with the latest Jelly bean.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] abdhasan:
Blue White Logo

I tried to install 2 bootloader + TWRP on kindle fire hd 8.9. I have followed manually these steps one by one from this thread. Everything went well until the finish step 6. Blue logo appears, and continue to stop there. I can get into TWRP by pressing the up button. But from there I could not boot into the system. I can go to fastboot mode by pressing the boot to loader. Then with my backup files, I back to KIndle stock.

Using FireFlash led me in the same situation: Stuck on Blue/White Logo. My Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is on 8.4.6 version. What is wrong? Anyone please help me. Thank You.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] stunts513:
Latest amazon update detects twrp and doesn't let you boot into stock rooted amazon, try kinology or a cm based ROM, put it on the sdcard ahead of time so you can flash it as soon as it starts not wanting to boot into the os.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] abdhasan:
Thank you very much for your explanation, it can answer the puzzle in my head the past two weeks. Does it mean, after I put another rom, I can not go back flashing amazon stock rom via TWRP ?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] stunts513:
You can still put an older version, i think it has ota's disabled, but if u need stock rooted on latest is then u can update and root it, it will get rid of twrp and 2nd boot loader. I think kinology is based on a slightly newer version though, not sure.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
Can't boot up to 8.4.6 using 7.4.3 2nd boot loader

Good morning: I am presuming you used the latest 8.4.3 version of Hashcode 2nd bootloader although you used Fireflash11 to execute the installation? You might already guess what the problem is.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2128175

I have mentioned in prior posts the case where there is a mis-match between the boot image and the system image.

You no doubt installed the kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.3.img as part of the Hashcode 2nd bootloader files yet you are running OS 8.4.6.

The tablet starts to boot up but due to the boot image and system images not matching, you are stuck.

You need to either make sure your tablet is running 8.4.3 prior to installing the 2ndbootloader or place the 8.4.3.zip OS on your tablet sdcard first.

When you boot into TWRP, you can then flash the 8.4.3.zip OS and you now have a match and your tablet will boot up nicely.

If you know how to use adb sideload or in TWRP mount the SDcard, you may be able to sideload the 8.4.3 OS zip file

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2142241

The best way to execute installation of 2ndbootloader is to place the 8.4.3.OS ZIP file onto your tablet sdcard before you install 2nd bootloader.

Once you install and then boot into TWRP recovery, you can then flash the 8.4.3 OS zip file and you will have a match between the freedom boot file and your System image and the tablet will boot up well.

Once someone creates a freedom 8.4.6 boot image, there will be a match again between the boot image and the OS that many or most people are using.

The mismatch will occur once again when Amazon updates the OS to some other version (8.4.7 for instance). Once the Amazon OS is updated and tablets get this verison, there will be a mis-match again. This scenario will continue as the freedom boot image version lags the latest Amazon OS.

Regards

Regards
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] abdhasan:
Yessss! You are rightttttt! Tonight I celebrate my independence day, a stroll from 8.4.6 City to 8.4.3 City, and to Hashcode's Cities, CM 10.1 and CM 10.2 . Thank you very much. Previously, I was walking without knowledge and without map, crashing here, crashing there.

I still have two remaining questions :

1.Why when in 2.6.1.0 recovery mode I can not mount on usb, My PC detect the KIndle, but I can not see the files on the tablet from my PC ?

2. From where I can learn the basics of android, like the bootloader, img, recovery, etc ?

From Indonesia, Thank you once again.

regards
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
No USB mount with TWRP Recovery

I am so glad you were able to get to the OS you wanted. I know so well how absolutely frustrating it can be.

However once you know a little about what is going on and more importantly why, life is so much more enjoyable.

You raise a very good question: I tried mounting USB in TWRP recovery last night myself knowing that it would not work, and it did not.

I honestly do not know why USB mount no longer works. I have tried this many times using TWRP 2.6.X, etc.

The USB mount used to work very nicely back when it was TWRP 2.4.0 and I think in 2.5.0.

None of the newer versions of TWRP seem to allow the PC to see the sdcard on the tablet.

Device manager shows and indicates all is well but, the PC shows no USB drive?

If someone out there has a different experience let us know.

Regarding the basics of Android, there are many articles on this forum done by great people.

Android is essentially LINUX

The Android tablets boot up from the ROM from a semi-hardware mode into the bootloader,

The bootloader then contains a set of instructions on how to boot up the tablet.

LINUX, Android, and Windows all do this.

The bootloader can be configured in general to boot into multiple different OS's (All listed in the bootloader config).

In the case of a simple one-OS tablet, the instructions say to load the boot image or failing that to boot into recovery.

The boot image loads, configures, mounts, etc. etc everything else including the system image.

Recovery is a little mini OS designed to give the user some emergency recovery options (Windows has recovery also- they all do).

In the case of stock Kindle, Recovery gives the user two options (Boot normally, or reset factory defaults).

The TWRP folks have written a beautiful full featured recovery OS that does so much more as you have seen.

Frankly all tablets, PCs, etc. should have such a nice Recovery OS to allow users to get out of trouble.

Some manufactures do provide some pretty good recovery tools, but, lots do not.

That is all I have.....But, there is plenty to read about all of this on this forum.

All tablets are a bit different so, it is best to stick with one (Kindle for instance) and get comfortable with it, then, branch out.

Regards
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] abdhasan:
Thanks for your help and info. Hopefully over the age of 60, I still can learn android more.

Actually. Kindle HD, device and software is great. So far, in my opinion, Kindle Reader is the best of app reader. But amazon restriction does make it less comfortable. Because of it, I root my kindle and install google play. Also I can plug good custom-rom, if I want. After that, mostly, I will stick with kindle stock . I currently have a Samsung galaxy note 10.1 besides Kindle HD. I do email, maps, navigation, facebook, bank, etc. on the galaxy.

Regards
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] stunts513:
I can throw a guess as to why USB mount isn't working, I don't know for sure if this is the case, but when I went from Amazon's os to cm 10.1, I noticed that when trying to access the device's USB storage, I couldn't, so I uninstalled the driver for the kindle portable device, then let windows search for drivers again, I think it chose a different one on cm than it did on Amazon's os. Anyways my point being if something like that is happening on twrp try doing what I did and see if it works, I would right now myself out of curiosity, but its late and I don't have access to my cable right now. This solution would make sense why it stopped working on newer versions, on the old versions the hardware id's and pid's were completely different, forcing windows to detect a new device and install the drivers for it, where as now it uses the same hardware Id and pid's as the kindle os, so it doesn't try to search for a new driver when twrp is loaded.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] galearned:
TWRP Recovery USB mount does not work

I pretty much agree. I observe that the Device manager does not show the connection as MTP but rather the older notation.

Thus, it seems there is some kind of driver issue or that TWRP is not using MTP (I suspect this is the case).

The result is that the PC cannot show the sdcard thus, nothing can be pushed from PC to tablet.

Regards
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] abdhasan:
Just uninstall the kindle driver does not work on my device. Does this have anything to do with Hasdcode's posting : Amazon Stock OS for Kindle Fire HD 8.9 - Version 8.4.3, ..."Use "INSTALL" and find the .zip file (NOTE: CM10.1 may create a "0" directory under /data/media so you may need to navigation up to /data/media and back down to find .zip)... First I was confused when looking for TWRP folder. I finally found two TWRP folder. The first in the internal storage folder, and the second in the folder "0".

I do not know android at all, just expressing my suspicion only. With bad English, sorry. :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] stunts513:
Those directories are one in the same, one is just a symlink, those shouldn't have anything to do with the problem if I am understanding you, but you can always push the file to the device if mtp isn't working.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] c_hader:
apk?

Am I missing something obvious? I downloaded the attached file and got a zip with no apk.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] Rgoyins:
The same thing has happened to me, the logo never flashed blue for me :( Have you found a solution for this?