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[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermanJPL:
yes, the system file is the biggest one...:D

after download, enter to send to Kindle.....,

when sending done, there is the Question: erase cache and user data.... but i always have problems, nothing happens,

when i cut the usb cable, i get the Information too many links....

u can try it without erase ....

ending Fastboot with 20 sec push the on/off button, sr tool or kffirstaide ....

and ! if something going wrong, try it again ....:good:

mfg

J-P
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kodie.:
thanks for the help

if nothing happens when i initiate the "erase cache and user data"

can you use the SR tool to perform the erase cache and user data function?

and why is it important to perform such a function?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermanJPL:
sorry,

I'm also be a absolut Noob,... many thinks i find out by try...

ok, now i'm going offline, have a nice night, till tomorow...

mfg

J-P
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kodie.:
thanks a lot for your help

can you just use the SR tool to run the "erase cache and user data" function?

"ending Fastboot with 20 sec push the on/off button, sr tool or kffirstaide ...." I don't understand this part
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermanJPL:
hi kodie,

sorry for the bad explanation, but my English is not so good ...

I wanted to say is that the function "erase cache and user data" did not work for me, unfortunately I do not know why.

Maybe it will work here with you. nothing happened to me, and when I unplug the USB connection, the message appears fail, too many links.

the "erase cache and user data" is necessary to get a clean system.

mfg

J-P
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flatlands:
I has the exact same problem after my kindle received the OTA update. Get KindleFireFirstAid or SR tool. I assume you have the latest fastboot drivers. I too, when trying to flash cm.10.1 had the red screen issue. My main qualm was that i wasn't running this line of script even after i loaded the 8.1.4 bootloader on the device. I thought i didn't have to run it because i had the 8.1.4 bootloader.

This line

This is crucial. Also, i'd recommend kindlefirstaid because it has the option to disable OTA updates.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermanJPL:
I have the problem with all versions of the Kindle KFFirstAide tool.

I have not yet understood the manual installation, because I had the root instructions from another German forum and am there proceeded completely different.

I do not know where the files

1.Stack override file: http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/jem/stack

2 [04/02] kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.3.0.img (USED ONLY THE FIRST TIME - zip files will have Their Own boot.img 's from now on.): Http://goo.im/devs / Hashcode/jem/kfhd...boot-8.3.0.img

3 [04/02] TWRP Recovery 2.4.4.0: http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/jem/kfhd...0-recovery.img

to save ......

I think I'll reset my laptop and start from scratch with the instructions from xda. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a step by step instructions for the Kindle 8.9.

mfg

J-P
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tilman1703:
dropbox dont work :( what can i do?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Red Screen

I need to try this tonight, is dropbox back online? (or can I get these files needed from anywhere else?):cowboy:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermanJPL:
I just tried it, dropbox is back online.

mfg

J-P
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Doesnt matter cant get the kindle intobfastnoot only red screen
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamu2000:
Hello,

I encountered the same red screen problem the day before yesterday. Finally I solved that and installed cm10.1 successfully.

I used the Kindle Fire Toolkit to fix the problem. That toolkit was downloaded from Chinese forum and it was all in Chinese. I think there should be an English version of that toolkit. If you couldn't find that I can send this Chinese version to you and teach you how to do it.

This toolkit should work but I can not guarantee you.

Good luck.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Sounds like a "plan" of some sort, tried to get the toolkit that needs to be run via Linux up and going yesterday but failed to get my Ubuntu box working properly. (seems to have a few hardware bits missing!):(

Is the Chinese toolkit run via a Windows interface or some sandbox type? Is it using it's own drivers or using the "normal" USB drivers installed? (I'm guessing that is why my fastboot is not working in Windows due to the USB drivers in WinXP)

I will try anything at this stage, surprised I've not been killed by the wife! :angel:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamu2000:
It can be run in windows xp or windows 7. And normal kindle fire USB driver works ("Android Composite ADB Interface" as shown in Device Manager)

But before you use that toolkit you have to make sure your kf can work in fastboot mode. There is tutorial in the forum about how to enter the fastboot mode.

If you want that toolkit, how to send you that?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
I've tried many links on here to get the phone into fastboot mode, can you link to the one you used? If I need that working then I'm probably going to get stuck with <waiting for device> message and then Kindle will be stuck on the red screen again. I've got the correct "usb" drivers (I think) but have no way of proving/knowing this. I could get the Kindle into fastboot by running the command "adb shell su reboot bootloader" when the kindle was booted properly, and it shown under adb devices, now I can't since it's not getting that far. That lead me to believe I had working USB drivers (since I could send these commands). Maybe I'm wrong?

Can you link to the chinese forum to download these files?

Cheers

A.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamu2000:
Here is the link to help you enter the fastboot mode without FASTBOOT CABLE: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2128175

Here is the link of the introduction and tutorial: http://www.padest.com/thread-65675-1-1.html

Here is the link to download the soft: http://www.padest.com/down_163.html

But you have to register and pay one "pad" (forum points) to download that.

By the way, I just found you are not the original poster?

Good Luck
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Cheers for the reply, the above link regarding fastboot doesn't actually tell you how to get into fastboot only directs to the sdk for android. I was hoping for something that shows the Windows drivers used version and where to get them from (guessing that's what's "wrong" on my Windows install.) . I've already tried the SDK with a few different drivers, followed some kindle support on Amazon, downloaded some other "kindle" type drivers also. Think I'm stuck with this red screen for a while until I can get another host system to test this on, since it does not seem to work with any type of vmware systems. Typical, used to have 4 laptops here with different O/S to play around with and no only have one working left! :(
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yamu2000:
I just downloaded the sdk from the link. And do as follow:

"With the Kindle powered down, type the following command into a cmd/terminal window on your PC (should return with: < waiting for device> ):

fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product

Then connect USB to the Kindle and reboot. It *SHOULD* show a Fastboot screen and your terminal window should show something like:

product: Jem-PVT-Prod-04"

With the yellow "fastboot" shown on the screen, I fix the problem successfully by the toolkit.

I'm not sure if you have tried this. If you tried and that doesn't work. I suggest you buy a fastboot cable. :highfive:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Yeah tried that and it didn't work. It does work to manually enter this command from the adb once the kindle is up and running. I thought it was "bad" to use one of the fastboot cables? (could cause permanent damage to the device?):(
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudeepr71:
I had the same issue. Turned on the Kindle, but it would always go straight to a red screen. Adb and Fastboot did not recognize the device.

Here's what I did to fix my Kindle:

1. You don't need any special cables.

2. Install KFFirstAide as described here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37278819&postcount=193

3. I clicked step 16 - Fastboot with alternative method

4. Once I got the Kindle in Fastboot, I picked option 7 - Restore Kindle

5. I decided not to wipe cache

Be careful using KFFirstAide, it's fairly straight forward... but make sure you follow all of the instructions carefully. I also tried rooting my device with KFFirstAide, but it went back the red screen, at which point I had to restore it again.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
:cool:

will give this a try now, have the kffirstaide so easy to see if the dropfox files will make any difference...

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 PM ----------

:mad: well that didn't work, still not fastbooting. Tried it on a clean laptop too, one thing do I need to install the sdk from android for this or is the toolkit independent? could a different usb cable have different result?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudeepr71:
Sorry, I actually posted the wrong link. Follow this link with the directions exactly:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
have tried that in the past (that's how I got the aide software in the first place...) Will however do it on this clean laptop that I've now got tonight. :good: might just need to get a factory cable. I read the part about the bootloader might have been damaged.

"Yes, we found a way to enter Fastboot on a healthy Kindle or one whose Bootloader is still acknowledges boot commands. Our experience shows most of the Kindles that require recovery have a sour Bootloader, this being said, you need to own a Factory USB Cable if you plan to perform risky upgrades on the Kindle. Example, we can recover from a Bootloop but we can not recover a Kindle that does not boot without a Factory USB Cable. The Factory USB Cable is an absolute necessity for most Kindle developers. Send us a PM and we can get you an original Factory USB Cable built by XDA user SkOrPn.

"
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudeepr71:
I thought I read a factory cable might damage a kindle fire 8.9. Once you get the Kffristaide on your new computer, try running the "fast boot alternative method." Turn off the device, plug it into your computer and then select the option. Also, you'll want a good charge on the device beforehand.

What were you trying to do before this happened?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
tried this again on a fresh system following the notes to the letter, even renamed the shortcut as described on the desktop! :rolleyes: Not working still hits the red screen.

What I originally was trying to do was following this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2277105

After this step red screen of death :(

cd C:/KFHD8Backup

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot stock-boot.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery stock-recovery.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system stock-system.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

:eek:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
:cyclops: anyone?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skippy96:
i had the same issues so i had to download the files from the post : Please Explain Red Wipe Screen

followed he instructions with those files and was able to get back to a usable kf!!!
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toobii:
Can you tell what firmware version the KFHD had and what image versions where used?

Have a red screen with 8.4.3 and don't know if I can flash lower version images w/o damaging the device.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Can you link to that post? Can't find that by searching for that.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
tried that same result still red screen doesn't find the device I'm guessing and just shoots off to the red screen of death :crying: must be the longest bricked red screen in history! It's like it's not even getting time to get any feeds to the kindle to stick it in fastboot mode. Would someone advice if there is still an option to use the cable to get into fastboot! :good:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brandonrz:
Don't get a fast boot cable, this is easily fixable, just give me a sec, I'll help. I ran into this also. Are you running command prompt as admin, because you said the commands went sticking.

---------- Post added at 06:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:49 PM ----------

What are you talking about, we all have the English toolkit?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
The path to the toolkit wasn't in the command window, so had to type in direct path to the commands (what image to use eg). I ran the command prompt as admin, at a loss how to fix this... how long does it normally take for Kindle to enter the red screen? Mine takes a very quick second.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greek2me:
It's been a while, but I remember that I was able to fix this by using one of the restore operations in KFFirstAide. You can also just flash all of the partitions using fastboot.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Can't get to fastboot...
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greek2me:
Have you tried entering the fastboot command before turning on your device?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Yeah, it's stating "waiting for device" turn on device and it goes to the red screen and never "connects" to the PC (Laptop)

I've re-installed the SDK for Android on a new laptop to work a bit on my OUYA, I managed (after a while) to get the adb working. So I'm guessing I've got a "functional" ADB drivers for USB and also proper INI file for OUYA at least, I've then tried to add the 0x1949 into the adb_usb in hope it'll all work wonders when I now try say command: fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot (even if it just proves it connects and reboots the Kindle), it doesn't and just sits there waiting for the device. Is there something else different between the kindle and say OUYA for it to work? Wish I had a fresh Kindle so I could actually "know" that my drivers, settings, usb cable are all working properly. I'm REALLY stuck with this red screen any help would be greatly appreciated! :crying:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beatmastermcfly:
look in this thread - stunts513 has a tweaked set of adb drivers in his sig that helped me get out of the exact same situation yesterday. use those.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
worth a shot, anything is at this stage! Only thing is that I do not get the bing bong that Windows see the usb device connected so cant install any drivers. might be able to do the ubuntu live cd, anyone know if it will just work out of the box then without any additional software installs?:angel:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Eh well depends on how u define out of the box, if u have the Linux binaries on standby on say your windows partition to use for reflashing the bootloader, then yes it would out of the box. No drivers needed at all.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
I'm suck a thicko... :p

I ordered a cable fastboot type before leaving for Sweden. Came home and there it was, tried the unbutu live cd but didnt work, didnt give it time either really. Stuck the fastboot cable in sure enough went straight to the Fastboot screen! :victory:

Had a quick look at this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2277105

Ran this command to verify the kindle version:

fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product

Hmm it returned:

Tate-PVT-08

That states is a Kindle 7" and not a 8.9"... :eek: wife told me she had a 8.9 and never bothered actually checking it! So it's a 7" not a 8.9" :silly:

Now to get this to some sort of working order again! :victory:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Good thing you noticed this before flashing the boot loader. Would have been hard bricked if you had tried to fix it with the wrong boot loader.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Cheers, lucky lucky :)

Went ahead and followed this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2271909

Got to the stage to pick my custom rom and get it flashed and noticed then the b_oody kindle had decided to run some sort of recovery script and install the latest version of Kindle from Amazon :( back to trying to root the device again, which does not look to promising!
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Well you can always put it back into fastboot and downgrade the os to a prerooted version, and not connect to WiFi until your done flashing it and such, also a note if you manage to reroot it on latest os, make sure you have your rom on it before you flash twrp or it might boot loop thanks to Amazon's latest update...
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
:victory: turned off the wifi and did the root steps on the thread I posted, got CM10.1 on it and might look and putting the Tablet UI on it (want to wait a while and let the new tablet work a bit :D)

Thanks for all the help in the thread even though it was my fault from the beginning thinking this was a 8.9! :cool:
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellagio:
Hi,

I'm having the same problem here. My Kindle Fire 8.9 turns to red screen after booting up. I have tried the SR Tools, KFFirstAid, command prompt "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", but it turns to red screen so fast. I cannot get into the fastboot, it just stucks at "waiting for device". Windows recognizes the device as "Lab126 Jem-PVT-Prod-04" for about 3 seconds then disconnect.

I also tried to install stunts513's custom driver but it disconnects too fast for me to do anything.

Please help :(

Thank you.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
If u cannot get the driver to install fast enough, either order a fastboot cable, or try doing the same thing in Linux, from a Ubuntu live CD, Linux loads the driver up immediately without having to install anything, though u will need the Linux binary for fastboot handy, soupkit may also be useful.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellagio:
Thanks for your quick reply.

I also tried the fastboot cable (from Amazon) and ubuntu. None of them works :(. I haven't tried soupkit yet but I noticed the warning that it does not work on 2nd generation devices. Not sure what will happen if I try it :(
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
O if its not a second generation tool then stay away from it, my bad, first gen tools can sometimes hard brick your kindle if you don't know what your doing. Also what do you mean fastboot cable from amazon, because I use the word fastboot to not confuse people by saying factory cable, and the cable that your kindle came with is not a fastboot/factory cable. Also with any good cable you should be able to run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" from a terminal after cding into a directory with the Linux fastboot binary, or just installing the android package from the repos which is a lot bigger so I typically wouldn't do that.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellagio:
The cable I bought from Amazon is called: EarlyBirdSavings 3ft USB to Micro USB Factory Cable for Amazon Kindle Fire Motorola Xoom Phones

I'll try different cables to see one of them works.

In Ubuntu, I downloaded the android-sdk and ran fastboot from the sdk. I'm not sure about the Linux fastboot binary. Can you walk me through that?Thanks.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
If u installed the android SDK from Ubuntu then that had the fastboot binary in it, if you open a terminal and run the previously mentioned command it should work, just run the command with your kindle off and unplugged, then plug it in when the terminal says waiting for device, it should then go into fastboot.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Do you know anyone that own's a kindle? Might be worth asking them if you can borrow their device to install the drivers in Windows? I was going down that route but had it fixed beforehand :)
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellagio:
I finally got the kindle into fastboot and recover it.

I kept running the fastboot command on the terminal but it just stuck on waiting for device. Then I tried to login as root and ran the command again, and it worked!

Thank you very much, stunts513 and andlid.

I really appreciate your help.:)
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andlid:
Sweet well done :) on and upwards!

(I didn't help much though ;)
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
Oh yea I should have mentioned that... Sorry about that. I haven't had to use the fastboot command before myself, but sometimes the adb command requires root, should have taken that into account.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electrocusionist:
Red screen, can get into fastboot, but "cant load 'images/system.img': no error"

Hi all,

I have a KFHD 8.9, and I've been trying to root it and install play store, all that good stuff. I eventually did succeed on rooting using this thread, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2271909, but I must've messed up somewhere in Step 3: Installation, and now have a red screen.

So I've been doing a fair bit of reading, and my knowledge is minimal, and KFFirstAide and SR Tools seemed to be the best bets. I just want to confirm something before going any further, KFHD 8.9 doesn't require a fastboot cable, does it? For example, the switched-off device does go into fastboot mode when using the code "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product" (in admin cmd).

So I tried using SR Tools, 1.2.3 and 1.3.5 on separate occasions, but both times, when I try the first restore option, it replies with:

"target reported max download size...

error: cannot load 'images/system.img': no error"

When I tried to erase cache and userdata, cache is erased in 47 seconds but the Tool hangs on "erasing userdata".

Do you guys have any idea what I might try next, because I'm a little lost atm. Thanks a lot.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
I would redownload the system restore tool, sounds like a bad image, and no you don't need a fastboot cable. You can also restore with kffa, but to fix that red screen you have to reflash the boot loader, was unsure if you had done that part yet.