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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] holeshot77:
Yeah my backup fails too. It all restored up fine until the system partition. The backup was larger than what the Rom slot allowed so it failed. So I'm now wondering if the original slot would allow for it. At the same time it's a brick I'm not really looking forward to.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] holeshot77:
So, what if I did factory reset on main partition when nothing is broke and I have Rom slot 1 and recovery working? Will I brick? A way to go back to stock?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] CmdrCrichton:
Just installed on my 8.9. Everything seems to be working so far. I'll be sure to keep you posted. Thanks OP!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Clarke33:
Same here. I'm using Apex launcher with custom wallpaper, have full play store and my shop Amazon app works with no problems. Only thing that I've noticed is, not all of the Xposed modules work 100%, but that is a very minor issue. It's pretty cool being able to flip flop between Android and Amazon with the tap of a finger.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] toz35com:
restoring to stock rom

There is a clean factory ROM floating around on these forums. That is what I started with in ROM Slot 2 in order to build my current system. I think that a factory reset would be safer than installing it, but since you have safestrap there is no telling what could happen. I think you said you don't have root on your stock ROM, if so, how did you get safestrap running? I thought you could only install it after getting root.

david

Hmmm, yes, forgot about this method. Used it once without problems.

> Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" > Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General > [HowTo] Fully restore to stock rom to fix some problem!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] AIschOr:
Hello,

i can confirm the results from fslee62 @ Post #218.

I have the same results. I dont know if i have the issues in point 4 and 5, have done no tests here.

But i have one more.

7. At booting up, as a last step, it brings "Kindle is upgrading" or something like that. It don't matter much, it just slows down booting.

Thanks to Cpasjuste. Your mod is easy to setup, and works quit well. :good:

I summary my way of installing, for the ones which struggle about how it can be done. I have the HDX8.9 !

1. Root and install Hash's SafeStrap -> (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2612772)

2. Backup Stock Rom, just for the case you will need it.

3. Create a Slot-Rom. (i used max system and data size, which was possible in SS at the moment)

4. Flash stock Amazon HDX rom to a rom slot. (download Amazons offline update file "update-kindle-14.3.1.0_~.bin" and rename to zip. Then move to sdcard and falsh/install with SS to the romslot)

5. Root the the ROM-Slot. "To root, I recommend flashing SuperSU.zip from here and flash in Safestrap to the active rom-slot after flashing the ROM: http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu" (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2612772)

6. Install Xposed Framework + HDXPosed + Flash the GAPPS zip (See at post #1 in this thread)

Thats all. I recommend to use a launcher like nova.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] tech6:
I did a factory reset using the main slot while having SafeStrap installed thinking it would reset everything to factory. It just erased everything, but SafeStrap remained installed. However, I did lose my stock backup to Rom 1, user info and any apps I had installed before the factory reset.

I did the factory reset to see if I could get rid of those ads. I tried changing the one file as suggested,but they came back despite that which is interesting. I found another way, but when it goes to sleep you get one particular wallpaper, but when rebooting you will see different wallpapers. Plus, I also have the Kindle is updating message before it will boot into the desktop. So, those are minor things to live with I guess.

Disclaimer: I'm just sharing my experience when performing a factory reset. I am in no way encouraging you to do so. If you do, you do it at your own risk. I will not be responsible for the results.

Sorry, don't mean to sound like a goof ball, but it seems like you have to say it to be safe. :) I did the factory reset with the full knowledge that I could brick my device. I did it on stock by mistake, but lived through it. :)

Good luck
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] holeshot77:
I did have root. Its gone now or partially works. Sometimes. One minute I have root next minute I don't. And when I try to update su through superuser it always fails now whereas before it would work perfect. I don't know what the deal is.

I have the stock ROM. Its installed in my first ROM slot. That's what I use. I don't really want to do anything to the stock slot in fear it breaks or something. Hard to make decisions, seems like everyone has a different story of bricking or success. Lol
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] lasset:
I used this metod to restore my HDX 8.9

Boot to stock Rom

Uninstall Recovery

Uninstall SafeStrap (maybe you don´t need to do?)

Delete files belonging to SafeStrap or TWRP at the SD-Card

Use this metodh to go back to a clean Stock Rom, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2582773

Still no new update yet so you are safe for the moment.

Works for me 3 times no problem.

But, you have to start from beginning to buildt you personal rom in slot 1 or slot ...
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GSLEON3:
Why are so many going back? Just to start over, or are there issue in the Xposed + Gapps methods? Just out of curiosity, since believe it or not, I still have not had a chance to install SafeStrap.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] holeshot77:
No kidding? Wow. My biggest issue is obtaining root on the stock ROM. Some how it doesn't work anymore. Tried hdxroot ioroot and still I can't get it to work. Its a partial root. And supersu won't update binary. Fails every time. I'm gonna do what lasset said to do and then install it all on my main partition. Sure, its risky but I hate using virtual space.

My question, is there not a way to restore my backup into the main slot? Is that the main slot isn't large enough to do so?

I guess I kinda figured since this device is similar in specs to the LG G2 it would be worked around easier and sooner like with the G2 and Loki patches. I'm not a dev so I guess not. Either way, answers and methods are still hairy.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Cpasjuste:
You should do what lasset said instead to restart properly from scratch.

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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] lasset:
When start to try to get working PlayStore, Google Apps, Gapps into my HDX8.9 I start from here,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2591547

And still use the "1. Root my Kindle Fire HDX 8.9"

from menues you see downunder when I root my HDX 8.9.

Very simple nowdays when I need to root my HDX but it was a long process to get evrything comming up running.

What do you wanna do ?

1. Root my Kindle Fire HDX 8.9

2. Remove Amazon ads on lockscreen and some Amazon applications

3. Remove signature check (Requisite for Google Apps)

4. Install Google Apps

5. Fix wallpaper

6. Quit
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] BRPW:
Hey guys.

I'd installed everything correctly; rooted, installed Xposed framework etc, all fine.

I then installed this stuff to my HDX 8.9 via safestrap. Accidently installed it to the stock ROM. I had a backup of the system + data before this, so I restored to that, before setting up ROM slot 1 and installing to there.

Only problem now is, my bars have gone! As in, my top status bar and the bottom bar (Home, options, search etc). There's just black bars at the top and bottom. I don't want to have to start again (and potentially mess my device up in doing so). How can I 'uninstall' these Gapps etc, so I just have root and Xposed active?

thanks guys, and sorry for the trouble!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Cpasjuste:
I think you should restore stock data to ROM slot, boot, reinstall xposed then reboot. May be enough.

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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] naixx:
Guys.

Is there any method t add additional google account?﻿ Or way to sign out?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] davekaz:
I did it through google + settings and add account
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] naixx:
That worked for me, confirmed!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] BroncoAG:
Installed on Stock Rom Working

For anyone who wants to know. I have a 32GB Kindle HDX 8.9. I rooted my kindle then used KindleFree to install google services. I installed the XPosed mod without safestrap and everything is working without issues. I have not had a single problem with mine. All google apps including google hangouts and google+ work. I have not tried gmail as I prefer the default mail client so I have not installed gmail and I probably wont but everything else is working.

Edit: I forgot to mention that all of the amazon services are working as well. I can download and install apps from both the playstore and the amazon store, watch movies, download books, download and listen to music and download documents. I haven't had any problems with any services for amazon or google not working. The only unknown for me is gmail but like I said earlier I prefer the default mail client so I have not tried gmail.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
so I have GAPPS running using GSLEON1's method. Everything works fine, except when I purchase books/newsstand content it never downloads, it's just forever queued.

I don't have a stock rom to restore to and the changing of build.prop is not triggering an update. Any ideas how I can get xposed framework on my kindle so it works? My understanding is the previous method moved some apk's around and installing xposed framework won't work unless I start from stock? any one have a stock rom I can restore to?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
A clean stock rom is in the op. Check the link.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
I must be blind, I don't see a link to a stock rom in the op. only to thor_gapps and xposed framework posts.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
My bad, I posted it in mine and got confused which thread I was in. It's actually in the Safestrap post by Hashcode. You can also check the thread that I started (video tutorial for gapps).
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
Will that work for 8.9" that's in your post? I should of been clear earlier.

nevermind - its only for the 7". Does anyone have the 8.9 stock rom?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
All you have to do is go into your stock slot. Make a backup. Then in rom-slot restore the backup then wipe data. That's a clean stock rom to start.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
My stock rom is not stock. I've modified it with GSLEON's root/gapps. I did it before safestrap was available/or before I knew I about it. So backing it up/restoring it doesn't help me. I need to somehow start with a stock rom so I can get xposed going.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
I don't have a 8.9 to help. But if you don't find anyone else than download the OS from the Amazon software site. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201357220. Haschode had mentioned in another thread that you can just convert it to a zip file (currently its a bin file) and should be flashable. But don't hold me to that. Good luck.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
Great advice. I tried it. apparently my device has a "newer" version than the file I downloaded. I edited my build.prop file to be a lower version, but it still say's the downloaded file is an earlier version than what's on my device and the installer quits.

Is there a different way to force this install? SafeStrap failed to install it, even after renaming it to a zip file.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Clarke33:
Hashcode has a link for the 8.9 Rom. I used it and followed the instructions carefully and everything is working great. I installed Apex launcher so when I hit the home button I have the option of using the Amazon home page or the Apex with Google. Best of both worlds.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
Oddity: the Kindle reader app (the original one from Fire HDX) *does* work... but requires a bit of workaround. You have to go to the Carousel launcher (the original Fire OS "home") then queue stuff for download there. Don't worry if the downloader says nothing is being downloaded and times out. However, if you check your notification you WILL see your stuff in the download queue. Somehow download status no longer updates home indicator.

I was about to come here to post the same thing: the Kindle books won't download. I clicked like 10 books to redownload, and it says queued, then one of them says download, but indicator never moved. Then after X minutes they all got the red exclamation mark. I was going ARGH! Then I pulled down the notification for something else, and it says: downloaded, 10 files, and I was going HUH? Then I opened it, and there are the books being downloaded.

This may be a job for the HDXposed module. :)

---------- Post added at 10:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:35 PM ----------

Your flash didn't work. Reset the ROM to stock (wipe the ROM slot, then load a clean factory ROM image) then redo everything.

I had the same problem when I did something in the wrong order. it may even be you didn't wipe dalvik and cache.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Nufacts:
First of all, Thank you! However, I followed all the steps then I did not see Google Play store until i downloaded the play store apk from Adroid Cowboy sites. I reboot after I installed the play store! ( Idid run into Authentication, when opened the play store, error but the reboot done the trick) Now everything is working and running at full speed!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
I had a simialr experience. Superuser basically was f***ed up. I wiped the entire slot and reinstalled from clean image. Then it worked.

basically after you get stock image up, make sure you get root, THEN install XPosed, THEN HDXposed, THEN the Thor-Gapps.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
interestingly enough. I took my "stock rom slot" which is not so stock, did a back up of it, then created slot-1 and restored the backup there. And I got the same results, missing home buttons etc. So I downloaded http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/apollo/apollo-amazon-os-14.3.1.0.zip and installed on a fresh slot. worked like a charm. Now I have a good clean back up.

Going to try xposed on it now. If it works with no issues, I might just nuke my real stock slot and do it all there. I'm going to hit that 4gig limit real quick with just a few games.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
There's a TON of useful Xposed modules out there, even on this tablet.

Bootmanager

Burnt Toast

GoogleS earch API (useful with Tasker and AutoVoice, custom Google Now commands!)

GravityBox

Smooth System Progress Bars

XBatteryThemer

XBlastTools

XuiMod

YoutubeAdAway

Not all featuers will work, but many will. :)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GSLEON3:
It is several places throughout the forum, but here it is again: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48917516&postcount=4

Follow those steps & I advise you to use something like Root Explorer Pro/Paid to modify. Otherwise you need to know how to chown/chmod before moving the build.prop or you will have a bootloop. Normally, I wouldn't care about the bootloop since you should be able to change ownership & group settings after moving it anyways, but some folks have ADB issues & can't seem to get the correct permissions/ownership changed afterwards. Using Root Explorer Pro/Paid & editing the live build.prop removes the need to set the permissions at all, unless you move the original file to storage.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Clarke33:
Huge :thumbup: to Cpasjuste for creating this. If I use the Amazon home screen I can still stream my Prime content or use Apex and have everything working in Play store on my 8.9. Perfect.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] GSLEON3:
You have to restart the device before it will reload the build.prop edits & recognize the .bin as a newer version.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] krypted:
How do I reset the launcher? I set to use the amazon launch always by accident.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] ptrsnshane:
Open settings, applications, manage all applications and go to current launcher app and clear defaults.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] lolwatpear:
is is possible to get the stock navigation bar/notification center?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
Got a weird one. Apparently my HDX7 booting from ROM slot 2 was somehow UNregistered (even though I know I registered after I booted into the fresh ROM install, then Xposed, then Thor-Gapps...) And I can't register as the register button does nothing.

I can wipe and start over, or I can try to debug this oddity. Which brings up two things...

1) Where's the Amazon reg info stored?

1a) is there a way to 'save' this info to be restored later, kinda like those "root saver" apps do?

2) How can I help you all to debug this? :)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
The same device can't be registered multiple times. Registration is tied to the id of the the device. So registering in a rom slot deactivate the stock one.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Sandwitches:
Huh, really? That kind of reduces the utility of this, if you've had your HDX a while before doing all of this.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
Hmmm... I admit I did switch boot config a few times... My "stock" is not so stock as I tried a couple previous hacks to get Playstore working.

My Slot 1 has play store working, but no Amazon.

I setup my slot 2 two days ago and at first, got both Amazon and Google to work. I rebooted back to slot 1 to backup all the apps so I can restore them in slot 2 with TiB.

So you're saying that would have caused my Slot 2 to become unregistered? How interesting!

So Amazon is keeping track of both serial number and the Android device ID, which changes from ROM to ROM?

But it's still the same device serial number, right?

So it can Probably be overriden, like TiBackup offers to restore your old ID?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] jimmycarolinas:
Clean Rom instead of backup stock for 8.9

Can someone point me to a clean no bloat ROM link to use instead of my backup rom for rom slot versus using my backup and flashing thor GAPPS? Are we ready to put one on the ROM page or is it not considered custom?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Android Cowboy:
Backup your stock slot then restore in rom slot then factory reset. That's basically a clean stock os.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] BobJayJr:
Worked for me too
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] kschang:
Checked the device id... TiB says it did change. So it may be possible to change it back... But how to restore the registration data?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] fslee62:
hi AIschOr, i have the same "kindle upgrading" message during booting also. in fact, it took a few minutes to get out of that. however, it did not seem to affect the running of the system once booted up. i saw quite a few HDX owners (7 or 8.9) experiencing this issue once they added gapps. i have not seen a solution yet. here is what i have learned playing with the hdx89. (1) the "kindle upgrading" only appeared AFTER the gapps zip file was flashed into the FireOS (and not before that). (2) after the initial flashing of the cpasjuste's gapps zip file, the "kindle upgrading" message went away quickly (like 30-60s). (3) however, as i installed more google apps, the time it took the upgrading message to go away at boot increased to a few minutes.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Cpasjuste:
Could someone try to "chmod -R 777 /data/dalvik-cache" as root to see if it could solve the problem ?

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[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] tech6:
I have the Kindle is upgrading message also. It takes almost one minute for my Kindle HDX 7 in to load up. What I found that helped this was not to use Gapps. What I did is on the stock rom I used a suggestion from another forum member on installing GAPPs at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2577826&page=17 Post 168.

On the Rom slot-1, I used Gapps Zip to see if I was correct in my theory and I was. I don't get it on my stock rom because I installed the Google PlayStore differently using this member's suggestion: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2577826&page=28 Post 271. What's interesting is that the Amazon ads returned only when the Kindle goes into hibernation.

However, in not installing the Gapps Zip you give up wallpapers. I can't get wallpapers to work on my stock rom since I didn't use the Gapps Zip. Wallpapers do work on my Rom Slot 1 where the Gapps Zip is installed. I get the Kindle is upgrading message and Amazon ads are back when the Kindle goes into hibernation, not on reboot.

So, I just deal with it. I'm glad to have the Playstore and the other little issues I just try not to let it bother me. :)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] davekaz:
I always get kindle upgrading and then starting applications. But everything works and the kindle is a pleasure.. I have it as my stock rom . your the best Cpasjuste.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] fslee62:
hi cpasjuste, i saw your chmod 777 suggestion early on and i tried it already some days ago. however, i did it using ES file explorer. just now, i tried it again the 2nd time via an adb shell as root under linux. the chmod -R command went as expected. upon rebooting, the same "kindle upgrading" appeared and lasted for 2-3 minutes. once booted up, i check the permissions. (1) the /data/dalvik-cache directory reverted to 771. (2) the files inside dalvik-cache now have mixed modes - some 777, some 644. is it possible this upgrading message has to do with what is ALREADY there in the internal storage partition?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] BroncoAG:
The user was trying to quote me on what he did for his. I have a 32GB HDX 8.9 that I rooted, used kindlefree to install google play services and then installed HDXposed 1.1 all without safestrap. Everything has worked fine on my tablet including all google and amazon services that I have tried. I have not tried gmail or chrome.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] BobJayJr:
Yes
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] mms2k7:
So.. new first time android and kindle user here. I just received my kindle today. After a few hours of reading, I've managed to come pretty far.

Thus far I have my stock rom backed up and I'm running flashed THOR GAPPS on romslot 1 Got everything working...but now I realized I didn't partition enough space for all my compulsive app downloading. Is there anyway to expand the partition size of my rom 1 data slot now? Since I keep getting messages that I don't have enough space to download apps.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] Maverick777:
What's the best way for me to clean up the stock rom so that it's as small as possible when I make my backup? My current backup is 3.8gb. When I installed Hashcode's OS onto Rom Slot 1 I notice it's only ~800mb. Is it fare to compare my 3.8gb backup to Hashcode's OS file?

If there's a way for me to regain 3gb of space by stripping out the stock rom and making another backup then I'd like to try.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" General] ngayhomqua:
Wifi turn on, HDX reboot

I had flashed Google Gapps + Amazon AppShop into my HDX 7" and it has worked good for 2 weeks. But yesterday, when I turn off wifi, renamed the file com.amazon.dcp.apk to com.amazon.dcp.apk.old for preventing update from Amazon, the device could not turn on Wifi anymore. Whenever i turn on wifi, the device reboot and Wifi still turned off. I worked on a ROM-1 in safetrap with thor-gapps-installer-1.zip. When I switch to Stock ROM with rooted and HDXPosed module installed, the Wifi issue did not appear. Anyone meet this problem ?