yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] microsway:
The same happened to me with 5.2.0 (Having so update blocked by jmz). Installed 4.3.0 to recover through "adb sideload update-kindle-20.4.5.3_user_453011120.bin" and following procedure for downgrading from 5.x to 4.3. After 4.3 is working you can continue with root + install 5.2.2, root, gap, ...

Don't know the cause and how to avoid it in the future.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] petrieslast:
That stinks cause I'm on vacation without my PC at the moment, and was hoping for a solution that I could still manage! Ooh well. Thank you!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] FocusMiah:
I can't figure this out.

flash the 5.2.2 update from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/fire...pture-t3141810

I know that i am probably just missing something. I boot into TWRP and 3 of the 4 files show up but the 5.2.2 update does not that i had downloaded.

Kindle hd 7 4th gen rooted and on 4.5.3 with twrp installed.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Kenwtf:
Change file extension from .bin to .zip in es file explorer. Make sure root explorer is enabled on the left side bottom of the slide out menu to do this.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] llranga:
Just to report successful upgrade to 5.2.2 + root + working gapps from 5.2.0.

1. get into TWRP - using bibikalka's 3 "dd" method in post # 2

2. upgrade process - exactly followed instructions in post # 1

3. flashed xposed and HDxposed as per Dolooper's instructions

4. i was having a doubt about 5.2.0_stock_recovery_uboot.zip should be flashed or not before reboot into recovery in last step. (since i replaced 5.2.0 bootloaders with 3 dd method). now i'm very clear that it must be used only after flashing some stuff (ex xposed, gapps ) from temporary TWRP recovery and going back to lollipop. but not in case of complete upgrade of OS like 5.2.0 to 5.2.2.

big thank to bibikalka and Dlooper for their awesome guide and great support.

thanks guys
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] yuip:
Great post! Thanks for all the clear instructions, took me a couple of hours as I am a total newb, but I am so glad cause I never used my HD6 until upgrading to lollipop and rooting :victory:

I could use some help though, I uninstalled some APK related to power management without backing them up first :mad: and the tablet does not go to sleep anymore. I tried extracting from the .bin image file and looked in files inside of that, but cannot find any APK files like I normally would for my other android devices.

Any help would be appreciated, I really do not want to have to re-flash as I got it setup exactly as I wanted.

Regards
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Nice!

If it only took you a couple of hours to follow the directions, you ain't doing so bad!

To get back to stock FireOS, your fastest option is actually to re-install 5.2.2 fully, once you get TWRP loaded first as in post #2. Lollipop is packaged in a pretty inconvenient way, it'll take longer to figure out how to solve whatever is the issue you are having.

Once you get TWRP, repeat the 5.2.2 flashing (or whatever version you already have) with Xposed and GAPPS, but DO NOT DO A FACTORY RESET !!! If you install a version of OS on top of the identical one, it does not have to recreate anything. During flash everything goes into /system partition, but your /data partition is not touched (and this is where all the settings reside). You may have to reload SuperSu and Xposed once you boot up (they sit in /system as well), but the rest is fully unaffected. All your apps will be there too, just clear dalvik and cache to be sure, and nothing else. This *upgrade* to the same version is really easy and fast, and all the user settings are 100% compatible, so you keep them all.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] FocusMiah:
Thought I had it working.

Ugh, thought I had everything working until the playstore started crashing... reset it and it is now stuck in a boot loop. When i boot into amazon recovery it says it can not mount cache. Started on 4.5.3 already rooted with king root.

Kindle hd 7 4th gen followed the steps in the tutorial had twrp installed flashed all 4 files in order and followed the rest of the steps.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
If you cannot get into recovery at all, you are probably done. At least you probably still have warranty ;)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] FocusMiah:
Lol!

I can actually get into recovery it just spams the message at the bottom saying cache could not be mounted. I am hoping I can fix it maybe through adb, I am just still pretty new to all of this!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
This is weird ... To be on the safe side, try to sideload 5.2.0 first, see if it fixes your issues with /cache. Then downgrade to 4.5.3, and root again.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] FocusMiah:
Any direction on information on sideloading 5.2.0? I can't thank you enough for your time!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
I'd imagine it's the same path as for 4.5.3 ? Please see the big thread on how to sideload 4.5.3, but give it 5.2.0 zip instead.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] FocusMiah:
Now I am getting a message saying "You need adb 1.0.32 or newer to sideload to this device."

*edit* I figured this out and updated adb.

Now I am getting this when sideloading 5.2.0

E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/dropbox_last_kmsg

E: Can't open /cache/recovery/dropbox_last_kmsg

E: Failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)

*edit 2*

With lots of reading device is rooted and on 5.2.2. However google play keeps crashing. I followed the instructions very carefully and this seems to be my only problem that I can not figure out at this point.

*edit 3*

Finally got it fixed! Was unable to load 5.2.0 but went back to 4.5.3 and rerooted! Thanks to you, and powerpoint45 I'm back up and running again!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] yuip:
took me 15min to go through that process, but I am back up and running now and will be sure to use backup any APKs before uninstalling, thanks again for your help and your excellent guide
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ahmdsamir:
Worked like a charm, even better than 4.5.*

i got this tablet several month ago and it was laying there like a paperweight because it was useless, not i use it a lot and i love it

Thank you very much
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bommel_23:
Stuck in reboot loops after flashing TWRP to boot. Has anyone got an idea to get my boot back? I only see the amazon logo than I get a reboot.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] jgNewb:
Thanks for the instructions.

In step 3, can you link to the HDXposed module? At first, I did not realize I needed to install that. I found version 1.3 in a post on this forum, which fixed the playstore issue. Having playstore would also fix having to sideload the new supersu.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] me_is_rushin:
I don't mean to derail. I'm currently running rooted Fire OS 5.0 with a June 13th build date, I think it's the dev preview. Are there any benefits to me updating to 5.2.2?

Thanks
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Amazon Music and Book apps are fixed in 5.2.2 and stock launcher icons are updated. On other hand, play store is broken, but can be fixed with HDXposed module. People are having trouble with rotation, but that might be true in both versions.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Brofreeman:
Success. 4.5.5 to 5.2.2

Worked perfectly. Best os for fire hd. Google maps had a glitch on 4.5.5 but works perfect on5.2.2. The instructions were not clear on which xposed zip and which gapps to use. Or witch xposed apk's to use and that there is 2 xposed apk's required. I eventually figured it out. Here are the links for xposed.zip and both xposed apks and gapps.zip

xposed.zip

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3471166&d=1442064943

xposed.apk

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3383776&d=1435601440

Hdxposed.apk

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2830675&d=1404399174

Gapps.zip Pico uni

http://downloadandroidfiles.org/fil...pps-modular-pico(uni)-5.1-20150315-signed.zip
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
OK, great this worked for you!!!

I thought I had the links in my post, which ones did you have to look for?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] osk4rin:
Boot loop (fire logo) kindle fire HD 7 (4th Generation)

HI master!

I recently rooted and update my kindle fire HD 7.

And I'm stuck on boot loop :(

I followed all the steps from here:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-hd/general/root-developer-preview-lollipop-os-5-t3172408/post63002321

That happened when I tried to reinstall Twrp in order to install a missing apk. (xposed zip)

So, after that I run super Super SU and flash the Twrp zip. And the tablet reboot and stuck on boot loop (fire logo)

Is there any solution for this problem?

I'll really appreciate your help

Thanks

Also I can't even access to recovery mode. So, I'm definitely stuck :( any help please master.

Thanks
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Reinstall 5.2.2?

Could you also start with Fire OS 5.2.2, to reinstall it? Settings keeps crashing for [MENTION=6967266]thomasdmd[/MENTION] (posted here), but I've been wondering myself how to do a reinstall. Is this best way, of course putting TWRP on temporarily per post #2?

I assume reinstalling OS will wipe /system so Gapps and Xposed must also be reinstalled, right?

Thanks for info! :D

(And if you have any ideas about the Settings issue, please let us know. My only guess is corrupted update bin. Far as I know there's no way to uninstall/reinstall settings apk only. thx.)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] osk4rin:
Boot loop (fire logo) kindle fire HD 7 (4th Generation)

HI there!

I'm stuck on boot loop (fire logo) did you fix the problem?

That happened the same to my kindle after flashing Twrp to boot.

Any help please? :(
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] davigar:
Is there any way to down the notification bar and not quick adjustments deployed directly?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] nfloyd77:
Please disregard.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] eukreign:
My Kindle Fire HD 7" won't boot after step 2. I'm pretty sure I installed all 4 things successful and then did Reboot into Recovery and after the tablet turned off it won't turn on again. I tried holding power button and nothing happens.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanjbarba:
Hey everyone. I was following DoLooper's guide on another thread for my Kindle HD6 and I got to the point where I was supposed to reboot to recovery (step 2 in this thread). Everything was working smoothly up to that point, but now it's just looping (black screen; Windows makes USB connect/disconnect noise repeatedly for 2+ hours). I followed the instructions closely so I have no idea what went wrong. This is also my first (attempted) root.

DoLooper recommended I keep it plugged in to power so its battery doesn't die and that I post here to ask about it. I've now done both haha.

Is it bricked for sure?

EDIT: Seems the issue I'm having is pretty similar if not identical to eukreign's
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Cattleist:
Hello everyone.. I'm in the same situation as ryanjbarba. I had followed DoLooper's guide on to root my Fire HD 7 and when I got to the point where you get prompted to install SuperSU, the tablet rebooted and has been what I'm assuming is constantly rebooting. It's been nearly an hour now since this began. I first started off by installing the ariel-20.5.2.2 update (update-kindle-devpreview_ariel-20.5.2.2_user_522041550.zip) and then I did the other 3 as a queue. I looked through the log and I didn't see any errors or complications so I proceeded onwards. After swiping right to install SuperSU, this is where I ended up, in Bootloop city. Is there anything I can do or is this tablet done for? :crying:

I'll paste the segment from DoLooper's guide where I got stuck.

C - Upgrade to Lollipop and Install Gapps and Xposed

Bibikalka's Lollipop guide has info about the upgrade (and a Thanks button we all ought to hit!)

The boots into recovery and the OS can take a long time; don't interrupt them (by trying to manually reboot, e.g.)

Turn OFF wifi and connect to computer.

Boot to recovery.

In TWRP, do following exactly:

➜ Please be careful! If you skip step a, b, or c, or one of those steps fails, you'll end up bricked.

a. Factory reset (Tap Wipe and swipe "Swipe to Factory Reset." At "Successful," tap TWRP home icon at bottom-left)

b. Install the ariel-20.5.2.2 UPDATE zip

c. Install the 5.2.0 STOCK RECOVERY ONLY zip

d. Install the GAPPS zip

e. Install the XPOSED zip

f. Boot to recovery (tap Boot, then recovery) and when prompted (top of screen) "install SuperSU?," Install it!

[long startup]
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Well, it's totally weird that this should suddenly start happening. As I asked ryanjbarba in other thread, did you get an update in last day or two? Also, did you "order" developer preview preview from Amazon (or did they OTA update you from 0S 4 to OS 5)? How long was dev preview on tablet before you started root process? Thanks.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Cattleist:
I applied for the update, and then checked for updates through my fire and it was there. I suppose it was on OS 5.01 for about an hour or 2 (I had complications with the adb driver installation for a bit) but after that, everything went swimmingly until I wanted to reboot after applying the 4 installations in twrp and supersu.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Well, probably can't make it worse, so try from computer: adb reboot recovery

If that does nothing, try: adb reboot

[MENTION=6978926]Cattleist[/MENTION]
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Cattleist:
Unfortunately, it seems that when I type adb devices, nothing is listed.

Also, when I look at my Device Manager, I see that there's an "MT65xx Preloader" with a yellow exclamation mark that pops up whenever I hear the "Device has been plugged in sound" ..or is it the sound that comes after that (the one that plays when something goes wrong)..?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Can't say about the sounds, but what you see in Device Manager is normal. I was grasping at straws. DM ADB doesn't "see" tablet when it's looping.

Try holding power and volume+ for 30 seconds. If no luck, we'll have to wait for bibikalka, but I'm pretty sure you'll have to get replacement from Amazon. These guides worked fine through October 1, so I'm mystified that suddenly people are getting bootlooped. (I'm assuming here that no one else used guide and it all went fine, which is a possibility though.) Ah, well. I'll think on it.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanjbarba:
I'm in the same boat with regards to the developer preview. I requested it, checked for updates, downloaded it, and then rooted shortly thereafter. Could this be due to the fact that Amazon is getting ready to push 5.x to everyone regardless? I remember reading somewhere on the dev preview site that there was some sort of late September cutoff. Is it possible that we thought we got the dev preview but in reality just timed it right and ended up getting the actual production version?

"To remove your device from the Fire OS 5 Developer Preview update pool, please use this form to submit your device information. You have until Sunday, September 27, 2015 at midnight PST to request a roll back."

If nothing changed in any of the apks or zip files we download, which nothing did (right?) yet we're all of a sudden having the same issue, then it stands to reason something may be different on the Amazon side that we're not aware of. Just a thought.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Wow, I am enjoying my (well deserved?) retirement from XDA, but things look like have gone to sh!t over here :(

My best guess is that it has something to do with the 5.x update from Amazon that people request before downgrading to 4.5.3. If Amazon is providing a newer 5.x. update, it can be blocking the older 5.2.2 from working after the downgrade-upgrade procedure. When it bricked before, it would at least show "Amazon" logo, but now even the logo is gone.

One would have to capture this current 5.x update, and see what's in it. It's probably updating another partition out of those that were previously untouched :

http://xdaforums.com/fire-hd/help/internal-memory-structure-hidden-t3122246

Anyway, I guess all the downgrade guides are on hold for now ...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] WalkerBR:
So, something funny happened with my Fire HD6. About a month ago, I followed this guide and successfully installed 5.2.2 with root and gapps. Play store, Titanium Backup all working flawlessly on the tablet, and the stock launcher.

Last week, or the one before, (I guess - I'm not sure about the timeline as I don't actively use the tablet during the day) I noticed that at least 3 times, the tablet rebooted at about the same time - 2pm CST - and these were long reboots, with notes that applications were upgrading.

Today, I turn on the tablet to see it completely different - Amazon launcher, lots of those amazon apps, root is lost, play store failing to connect with "Check your connection and try again".

At least google apps (Gmail, Search, G+, Chrome) still work, and the other apps I installed from play store are still here.

My guess is I forgot to disable OTA or something. Anyone also got at this point, or have any ideas/suggestions about what to do to get root back?

Edit: Looking at "System Updates", it says both "Last checked on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 1:02 AM CDT" and "Your device is running Fire OS 5.0.1 Build date Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:51 PM CDT". Go figure. Nuts.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] mhassan11x:
Same thing happened to me. I foolishly came back here and redid the whole process of downgrading, rooting, and upgrading. My Tablet is now bricked and will not turn on at all. I've charged it for hours and plugged it into the computer and it is not detected at all. I've contacted Amazon and they are sending me a replacement.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
This is a good data point!!! I wonder which partition did the new update overwrite? We could run checksum on the whole bunch of them (from within 4.5.x after a downgrade), and figure out which one is now different. I feel we might be able to restore the changed partition to the prior version, and avoid the bricking.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] ryanjbarba:
Happy to have played a part in exposing an issue to the community so others might not brick haha :)

Now to see about getting mine replaced...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] WalkerBR:
I can still adb (non-root) on Fire 5.0.1 and run commands. If that helps, just PM me what you need and I'll send you the results.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
Reading those partitions will require root, so you'd have to downgrade to 4.5.3 for that. So it's no so convenient ...
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] mhassan11x:
When the same thing happened to my tablet I was able to easily downgrade back down to 4.5.3. The issue came up after I flashed the lollipop upgrade on twrp
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] maxjunder22:
exact same thing happened to me i left my kindle fire on charge and then i turned it on and it said welcome to fire os 5 then i saw the new homescreen and i went to device options and i saw fire os 5.0.1 i lost root and google play store and i have no idea what to do
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
See answer in your other post.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] devicer:
In your opinion, is it safe to install APKs from http://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/installing-google-framework-playstore-t3216122 on now locked Fire OS 5.0.1 to restore just Play Store/Services?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] maxjunder22:
yes but i did block ota already after i installed rooted fire os 5 but it installed 5.0.1 by itself
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
Please ask in that thread. [MENTION=4267571]sd_shadow[/MENTION] is very savvy and helpful. This would be good to know.

EDIT: [MENTION=4108754]devicer[/MENTION] [MENTION=6680544]bibikalka[/MENTION] PMFJI. Spaced out and thought devicer posted in my guide so was asking me. Sorry 'bout that, but guess sd_shadow gave a good answer. Devicer: If you try this would you kindly post results for others in your situation? thx.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] sd_shadow:
Tomsgt's install gapps .bat should work fine on the HD6 & 7

It's basically the same thing as

Fire Phone - How to Install Google Play Store without root by inwisso

which should also work
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bommel_23:
I got a replacement from Amazon.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] devicer:
I used [MENTION=4267571]sd_shadow[/MENTION]'s APKs from my previous post and Play Store is again up and running; these are the steps I followed:

copied the 4 apks inside my fire hd6

with ES File Explorer I installed in sequence:

Google Play

Google Play Services (this one required manually remove installed version 8.1.15)

Google Account Manager

Framework

reboot

issue the command:

adb shell pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS

reinstalled Google Play

reboot

re-login to my Google account

From a quick check seems that all installed gapps are working fine (gmail, hangout, google+, photo, youtube, play movie, yt gaming, drive, chromecast, google app, calendar, play games, maps, earth)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] A_depressed_horse:
You can get the play store on the 4th gen without root if you have firmware 5.0.1 installed gapps and play store work perfectly just install them by sideloading these

1. Google play services

2. Google account manager

3. Google play

4. Framework

Some games will not work so you will need lucky patcher to patch license verification won't need root for this although some features require root this feature of lucky patcher doesn't

You will also need google play games to get your games to sign in to your account and sync previous data and save further data to the cloud

You can get google play games from the play store
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] maxjunder22:
thank you!!! it worked for me!!

:good::good::good::good:

---------- Post added at 09:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------

hey guys i downloaded nova launcher because i hate amazon launcher but i do not know how to make it default because when i click back it goes back to the amazon launcher. do any of you guys know how to set default launchers
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] chriscsh:
sorry, a stupid question

is that mean

if my device (HD6) in 4.5.3 rooted (never upgrade)

i still can upgrade to os 5 use this guide?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] sd_shadow:
you need root to disable amazon launcher
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] chriscsh:
oh, finally.....

hard brick my device

cant turn it on

haha
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
This works great for running TWRP on the official OS 5.2.2 release that [MENTION=7017329]Hariiiii[/MENTION] just got us!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] davigar:
+1 this tutorial works with fire OS 5.0.1 finally update?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] Trix123:
I've bricked my fire using this guide. Any way to fix it ?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] bibikalka:
The instructions have been updated for the latest Oct 2015 version of Lollipop (5.2.2u2). The "downgrade to 4.5.3/root/upgrade to Lollipop" path is good !!!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] dardack:
Do you need xposed for play store? On 4.5.5 rooted and was thinking of going to 5.2.2. I didn't need xposed for gapps previously. Thanks.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] DoLooper:
No. You don't need it nor the HDXposed module.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 General] putridfoetus:
Just rooted with this. Came from a never rooted hd 6 running 5.2.2u2. The only problem I had was that the gapps package wouldn't install, saying there wasn't enough space in the system partition. I checked with the df command from adb, and /system was 93% full after flashing the 5.2.2u2 update over rooted 4.5.3. So i just used the .bat to install the play store etc. Everything works.

Thanks!