[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironrod60:
I tried to root my 8.9 kfhd 8.5.1 from a youtube video. I got stuck on the blue kindlefire screen. Through different guides I am able to get to twrp and fastboot. I have not been able to install a rom zip on the device through a cut and paste or a push command. I have left messages in a few threads and got a little response, but nothing that got me fixed. I've working on this for 2 weeks and read dozens of threads and cannot find a solution. I guess I had adb working at one time and had the drivers installed, but I'm not sure if ADB is working and my drivers are gone. I tried this thread "Frequently Asked Questions - 2nd Generation Kindle Fires " which directed me to this thread " [GUIDE] Kindle Fire For Beginners [GUIDE] Kindle Fire For Beginn… Post #2 " where I thought following this "How do I install the ADB drivers?" would be the way to go. So I followed it to here "[Root][TWRP][FFF][CWM]Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 (5/09/12) [First Gen Only] " and it warns me not to use it on my 8.9. So I looked some more and found this "Let's take some of the mystery out of getting ADB working in Windows ". I think I can get through these instructions correctly, but I now not sure if I this is the proper course of action considering I can get to fastboot and twrp. I've looked for a simpler solution to fix this. I even tried the push command to try and get liquid smooth rom and gapps onto the devices sdcard with no luck.

I am a total newbee and most of the lingo goes right over my head. The following is the original log of my first rooting attempt using this guide ......

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Home>cd desktop

C:\Users\Home\Desktop> cd kindlefire/stuff

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>adb push stack /data/local/tmp/

800 KB/s (4096 bytes in 0.005s)

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>adb shell

root@android:/ # su

su

/system/bin/sh: su: cannot execute - Permission denied

126|root@android:/ # dd if=/data/local/tmp/stack of=/dev/block/platform/omap/oma

p_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1

f=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1 <

0+1 records in

0+1 records out

4096 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (4096000 bytes/sec)

root@android:/ # mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system

mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system

root@android:/ # mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery

.sh.bak

.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak <

root@android:/ # mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system

mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system

root@android:/ # reboot bootloader

reboot bootloader

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8

-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin

< waiting for device >

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.021s]

writing 'bootloader'...

OKAY [ 0.046s]

finished. total time: 0.069s

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freed

om-boot-8.4.3.img

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'boot' (8173 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.447s]

writing 'boot'...

OKAY [ 0.773s]

finished. total time: 1.225s

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>49 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.3.im

g

'49' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-t

wrp-2.6.0.0-recovery.img

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'recovery' (8173 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.451s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.754s]

finished. total time: 1.208s

C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.001s

Today I tried a factory reset thinking I could push a rom and gapps on the sdcard, but of course that didn't work either.

I don't want to ask people to rehash the same questions over and over but being this far down the road I don't know if I can start the rooting process over or just what. Any help would be appreciated.

Wes