yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Hi, Thanks for the reply. ... Not absolutely sure, but I do think I would have checked that, I'm familiar with that option.

I'm presently back on rooted Fire OS4.5.5.1. I will be trying CM12 again so will keep that in mind to be sure. .. J.

EDIT:- WHOA, what am I thinking --- I've already said the tablet is completely unrecognised (no kerplunk sound when you plug-in USB), so the option to switch from charge to MTP is never there. I've swapped cables too --- makes no difference. . J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sd_shadow:
option should be available on tablet even though not connected
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sandman512:
Besides CM, are there any ROMS that can be installed on this device? Thanks!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sd_shadow:
not yet
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Should be maybe, definitely can't access that option on tablet, I'll stick with Fire OS 4.5.5.1 it does what I want.

What I saw of CM 12 appeared smoother and more responsive, I'll try again if it's ever updated
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SuccubusInc:
I recommend staying on FireOS for the time being; the kinks are far from ironed out in spudowiar's CM12.

Also, I can taste the salt. Let's not get hostile. T'was just a misunderstanding.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
I know exactly what you mean re. this version of CM12, and hostility ???, apologies if I come across that way, certainly none meant. ... J.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sandman512:
Can someone point me in the right direction if I want to go back to FIRE OS and how to accomplish this? Thanks!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
Load up twrp

Factory reset

Enter sideload mode and then:

Follow the OP of this thread from the following instruction onward:

adb sideload update-kindle-11.4.5.5_user_455002120.bin

Complete all subsequent steps

This way you will retain root and twrp recovery with fireos installed.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SuccubusInc:
Yet another misunderstanding. I'm this way too, sometimes. I get it.

No more worries.

- - - - - - -

Our devices can be pretty potent with a combo of root tools and Xposed Framework. Lollipop isn't our number one right now. Functionality and usability is more important.

Message me for info on Xposed, if you need it. Anyone. Official Xposed doesn't work.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Galvayra:
need lil´more help here..

Hello, first of all i want you all to know how very grateful I am for this thread.. so far I had been able to install the twrp into my kindle fire hd 2013, but when it comes to the sideload part, it simply whacks out with message " * failed to read command: Invalid argument".

This is far as I was able to get. I had been able to push one experimental cm rom onto kindle but so far it had bluetooth error issue that I had been unable to get rid of despite googlefying almost whole net.. also the wifi connected but the socketing had not been working...

Is there even one viable android rom for soho kindle that works?? cu I would like to use my kindle properly.. Everytime I´ve been flashing any htc or samsung I had been succesfull even when I screwed flashing Htc advantage I had been able to revert it back but now it seems there ain´t no "nice and working" rom for soho kindle.. any suggestions??
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SuccubusInc:
All of your issues, I'm assuming, are issues with Amazon's drivers - they function properly, but only on FireOS because they are heavily modded. The bootloader has not been unlocked for very long, so no one is developing for the device (yet?). On top of that, the soho wasn't the most popular device, or any Kindles for that matter (not as much as other OEMs), so we might not see any major ROM support any time soon.

All we can do is hope for the best ,or become master techs, because not much is happening at the moment.

Staying on FireOS is the best option you have right now, and it functions fine.

As for your sideloading errors, you might have syntax or formatting errors in your commands. If you're using the ADB built into any Ubuntu distro, you need to update the binary before it will work, though if you did put the commands together correctly, TWRP would tell you that ADB is outdated. TWRP 2.8 does not support that version of ADB. If you are using Ubuntu, I can pull together some instructions for updating ADB.

Good luck.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Galvayra:
I´ve already beaten it..

Well first of all I´m running W10 Pro x64 and I don´t use fire drivers but clockworkmod drivers and not adb composite sync but google nexus bootloader driver and it works more than well since kindle is nexus´ derivation.. for the second I did use twrp 2.8.7.0 and basically you´re telling me that soho kindle I have, should run outta´ the airlock!! it´s f´cking miracle that spudowiar made this thread otherwise anyone having soho kindle would be totally ****ed up. this really sucks!!!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
I agree with these comments.

Let's face it .. It's a very limited device with no ext SD card, or OTG USB, and the 8GB model even more so.

I would never have bought this item, mine is the basic 8GB model, and it came free with a years subscription

to my morning newspaper ......... that's it's main use, family use it for occasional browsing, and I've occasionally

streamed video with it (it performs pretty good with that), but lack of storage is a big problem.

Only reason I've bothered modding it is to get rid of Amazons version of android. ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Emmes:
so can we expect, some dev is working on a prerooted Stock ROM? maybe with custom launcher and some more Mods backed in?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] SuccubusInc:
When I said drivers, I meant the Kindle's own binaries for operating its own internal devices; in this case, the Bluetooth driver and the audio driver are compatible with FireOS only, so they don't work on our AOSP alpha build we have here.

Your Windows machine setup is nothing to do with the issue. The $200 price tag for a Win10Pro key is an issue all on its own (which is why I use Crash King's Windows 7 Dark 2015 edition), but that's not what we're here to discuss.

To get the drivers working on our Kindle, someone who knows their way around kernels and firmware with their hands bound and eyes covered needs to tear apart and rebuild all kinds of blobs and stuffs.

I don't think the kernel editing type encompasses much of the general population. Certainly we have precious few working on a fix, if any.

It'd be great if this device saw the same action as the otter, or the OG Kindle Fire. That thing was a flagship of its time only five or six years ago. Two and a half years ago, this device (soho) was almost the exact same: relatively high specs and high build quality, but unpopular. It was released at a bad point, I think. The tate was the Amazon tablet to go for in late 2013 when the soho was released and even had some cameras and almost two more diagonal inches of display.

If I think about it, there is no good point anywhere around October 2013 that the soho would have had a better chance. It was just inferior to the HDX devices, or seemed so to the average consumer. It makes for a great Grand Theft Auto game station in my eyes, especially when paired with Sixaxis Controller support (over a tweaked BT connection).

Things have never been optimistic for our devices, ever, and our issues we have today are no exception.

The soho is an overlooked tablet, even by Amazon, what with the FireOS 5 letdown a little while ago. The hardware is more than capable of Lollipop and beyond. I'd say end of life software could be as high as Marshmallow, if someone at Amazon HQ tried a little harder. Just look how far the Nexus 7 2012 went, from Jellybean to Lollipop on OEM.

All told, if more had the soho, more progress would be made by the OEM in the way of support. Such is not the case.

Of course, we can only play this hand; we cannot change the life of the obscure Kindle Fire HD 2013.

Sorry about the State of the Union speech. I felt like spilling.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Well I'd hope so, but there's been no great rush since spudowiar initial effort ( Thanks for the exploit, at least we have a working recovery now)

let me ask if you were a dev, would you spend time on a pretty limited aging device ?.

Personally I can't see it happening, but do hope I'm wrong ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
I have been working on a port of Fire Nexus ROM, the only thing left to get working is Audio and possibly media playback. Everything else like wifi, bluetooth and sensors seems to be working and stable.

[MENTION=5594845]spudowiar[/MENTION] - thanks for the exploit :good:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
Hey, can you link to GitHub so i can pull changes into my CM build? Thanks!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
None of this stuff is on github. If you like I can clone your device tree into cm-12.1 and make some pull requests directly or make the commits directly to your repository - would this work for you? Don't really feel the need to duplicate efforts :)

EDIT: I might just also post the new ROM thread. Not everyone might need audio if they only wanted to read a book or something.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
I'd just like some source code (want to see how you got sensors and Bluetooth working, which source you used)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
Here you go: https://bitbucket.org/amazonfire2015/cm_device_amazon_soho
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Hi, Good to hear of your and spudowiar's efforts, myself and I'm sure many others appreciate your work. .. J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
For Git repositories like this, you should clone the repository and change the remote. Then you can pull in changes and I can pull in your changes. Great work though!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
- Yes, in hindsight I should of. It started out as an experiment.

- The audio problem looks like it's going to be tough, hopefully have a bit more time soon to look into it.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
You could still do that now. Audio shouldn't be too hard, video playback is a whole different beast.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
I have had several attempts at enabling Audio but all failed.

Got it working many times on other devices, maybe there is something in the HAL blobs which I'm not aware of. Haven't done any work on OMAP devices prior to this.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sd_shadow:
maybe [MENTION=4243514]Hashcode[/MENTION] would have time to take a look at it, or have some suggestions

He worked with many OMAP devices
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] michiil:
Awsome to see some progress (:

I am amazed how well cm runs already (: thanks for your work on this!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] michiil:
I just tired your rom (got it form your afh) and i have to say it runns pretty well. I can confirm sensors and bluetooth working.

If you would get video and audio playback working this would be an awsome tablet (:

Only Problems i had so far:

When setting up wifi the tablet crashed and i het to start it again

Is there a way to get a lockscreen wallpaper? just asking, i know it was also black in [MENTION=5594845]spudowiar[/MENTION] 's cm build..
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ggow:
I was going to release it later this evening. I've some things to look into regarding audio and video. See what happens.

Also let's not clutter up this thread, at least wait til I release it before discussing :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] doubleon:
Amazing work - very happy soho user :D

Everything went smooth, from start to finish in around 15 mins. Picture of my Fire running TWRP is attached.

Is the best way to return to stock rom(if i need to)just to side load the latest version of the amazon rom, i have a TWRP back-up but just wanted to check.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] FireHDPerson:
Folder

By folder, what do you mean? What folder would I put it in?

Thanks :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] sd_shadow:
What are you asking about?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] greg_gibbs:
Second "OEM format" command hangs

Awesome work on this guys! I'm having an issue that I haven't seen in the comments, so please forgive my ignorance if it is a know issue.

I'm trying to repair a KFSOWI that got bricked by a failed autoupdate. (I'm sure I've made things worse while trying to fix it.)

I'm using a factory cable and everything works great until I issue the second "OEM format" command in fastboot; the terminal just hangs with 3 dots and nothing happens on the device. I've waited up to a half hour and it never finishes.

At this point, I am able to boot into TWRP by manually powering the device off, unplugging the factory cable, and powering on. Then, I tried plugging the factory cable back in and even tried sideloading 11.4.5.5. It starts transferring, but stops at 39%. The error in TWRP is "Updater process ended with ERROR: 7" (I think these indicates a problem with the build.props comparison, but not sure.)

I also see errors in TWRP such as "Failed to unmount '/data' (invalid argument)" and "Failed to unmount '/system' (invalid argument)". I'm assuming i've corrupted the partition(s). Any suggestions for fixing this? I've searched the interwebs, but I've learned to be skeptical of just about everything related to Kindle Fires (other than this thread and the KFSOWI community page). Thanks in advance!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] kleverman:
Excellent tut. Installed flawless. Spud, I have one problem you may be able to help with. I need CIFS support. It appears kernel doesn't support cifs. Is there a solution to this?

edit:sorry. I forgot to mention I'd installed "cm-12-20151226-UNOFFICIAL-soho.zip" from your downloads section. It is that which I need CIFs support for.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jdp816:
Success for me, with one hiccup.

When I unzipped the exploit.zip on my Arch system it gave the files 000 permissions. When I realized that was why the fastboot flashes were failing, a quick

chmod +r *.img

let things proceed nicely.

I've only done the recovery and root with GApps so far, but I'm looking forward to doing the full CM12 soon. I inherited a couple 3rd gens and already had a Samsung cable that had the plug body broken off of the Micro USB end, so I think this was destined to happen. I modded the USB cable to Fastboot and things went fairly smoothly, esp. for an alpha project.

Nice work!

(I have pics, but my account is too new to link them. They're over on Imgur, /a/VIru0 )
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] OriginalRugsta:
Hangs On hijack.img

Hi all,

This puppy is just not playing ball. The command fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot hijack.img just hangs everytime. Anybody come across this problem before? Below is my log for doing this. I've put the hijack file inside another folder (as noted) but also done this from within platform-tools and still no joy just a blank cursor flashing at me and a fastboot screen on the kindle.

I can unplug the kindle, reboot and its perfectly fine btw. Any help appreciated

rugsta

SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
00D20708401603XS	device

SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./adb reboot
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot devices
00D20708401603XS	fastboot
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot -i 0x1949 oem format
...
OKAY [ 0.048s]
finished. total time: 0.048s
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ls -ltr
total 23904
drwxr-xr-x 14 rugsta staff 476 12 Mar 16:43 systrace
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 1060140 12 Mar 16:43 sqlite3
-rw-r--r-- 1 rugsta staff 17014 12 Mar 16:43 source.properties
drwxr-xr-x 3 rugsta staff 102 12 Mar 16:43 lib64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 13432 12 Mar 16:43 hprof-conv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 567156 12 Mar 16:43 fastboot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 222212 12 Mar 16:43 etc1tool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 54688 12 Mar 16:43 dmtracedump
drwxr-xr-x 4 rugsta staff 136 12 Mar 16:43 api
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rugsta staff 1936628 12 Mar 16:43 adb
-rw-r--r-- 1 rugsta staff 181427 12 Mar 16:43 NOTICE.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 8165376 12 Mar 17:38 twrp-osprey-3.0.0-r2.img
drwxr-xr-x 2 rugsta staff 68 24 Apr 15:52 untitled folder
drwxr-xr-x 11 rugsta staff 374 24 Apr 15:53 exploit_kindle
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ cd exploit_kindle/
SCMacAir11:exploit_kindle rugsta$ ls -ltr
total 592112
-r--r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 6523584 1 Jan 1980 system.img
-r--r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 8321152 1 Jan 1980 recovery.img
-r--r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 8393408 1 Jan 1980 exploit.img
-r--r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 848 1 Jan 1980 boot.img
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 8321152 21 Feb 06:53 hijack.img
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 31025401 24 Apr 14:36 exploit.zip
-rw-r--r--@ 1 rugsta staff 240560853 24 Apr 14:43 cm-12-20151226-UNOFFICIAL-soho.zip
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 rugsta staff 102 24 Apr 15:52 exploit
SCMacAir11:exploit_kindle rugsta$ cd ..
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot exploit_kindle/hijack.img
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] TheMadScientist:
So ive done plenty of searching. I had some version cm 12. But a lotta force closez. Su. Blutooth. All kinds. So what if any roms are available for this device.

I just restored mine tried doing it without fastboot cable. Of coarse bricked. Got my cable yeaterday now im rooted twrp. With a good working backup.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] CookieMonster12345:
I just removed the hijack file from the exploit folder and it worked
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Yes, move exploit.exe out of it's folder into root, where the other files you're flashing and you're good to go. ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] bruteforcer:
hi where is exploit.zip to download?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] OriginalRugsta:
Yeah stilll no joy.

SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot devices
00D20708401603XS	fastboot
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot -i 0x1949 oem format
...
OKAY [ 0.048s]
finished. total time: 0.048s
SCMacAir11:platform-tools rugsta$ ./fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot hijack.img
^C

Still just hangs on hijack. I've even reset to factory options. I assume this should take literally seconds? I did leave it about 5 minutes though. I'm using

Kindle Fire HD (3rd Gen) OS 4.5.5.1

Using fastboot cable

Developer options = On

Enable ADB = On

Anything that I've overlooked?

rugsta
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Hi, Don't why that's happening, only suggestion is to redownload exploit, and check MD5 info, (See screenshot)

You may well have done this of course. ... Jack.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] OriginalRugsta:
Yeah I've done that, twice. I've also uninstalled Android studio completely, reinstalled, verified adb and fastboot and finally retried on a second kindle 3gen. It still just sits there looking blankly at me! These are actually old work devices which never get used.... so as a quick check I ran the next comand which worked and obviously bricked the device!

Unfortunately after all my enthusiastic deleting of stuff I deleted the backup for that device too! Not sure if I can somehow use a backup of another device to retrieve this device but I guess I'll find out when I have five.

looks like the Kindle Fire 3Gen is the first android device to have thwarted me!

rugsta
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
You do have trouble ... again another suggestion you could have already tried , "Firerooter" from here

https://plus.google.com/communities/115612726860884592519

I've found that this doesn't work after you've installed TWRP, but since you've never got that far, may well pull you out of the Sh** ( you know what).

Nothing lost trying it, BTW I've had some hairy moments with my KFSOWI, but now believe it's a hard one to brick. ... J.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] OriginalRugsta:
Hmm yeah. I tried that. I literally dusted off my gfs windows pc but it runs xp and I'm thinking the drivers don't run on it too well so it can't pick up the device. Further googling seems to suggest no other options for a SOHO version of the Kindle, so it looks like its dead.

The other one I've upgraded to 4.5.5.1. Would be nice to get gapps on it but for all my googling there seems no definitive way to do this either so looks like I have to live with standard amazon. Ahh well I'll check back here in a few months and see if anyone else has the same problem.

Cheers

rugsta
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
There has to be an answer, I don't have it --- maybe someone else can jump in and help.

I have 4.5.5.1 rooted + gapps and TWRP with few apps, being the 8 GB model with no SD card, makes it a very limited device.

I'm just waitng and hoping ggow, spudowiar or anyone else cooks up a minimal ROM any flavour of android, just to get rid of the Amazon crud.

Hope you have some success soon, take care . ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] abnerroesch5:
Try this code for 2nd command

Try this code instead,after the initial-(adb reboot-bootloader):

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem format

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot recovery.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system system.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 continue

It always works for me

This one does not work I also get hung up at hijack.img

Don't use this one:

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem format

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot hijack.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system system.img

fastboot -i 0x1949 continue

One more thing is that a few times, once I entered the second command I had to check my kindle driver because entering code changed the way the computer communicates with the kindle. It had changed and I had to update the driver to the Android Composite ADB Interface. Then I just continued on with entering code. It may not be an issue for you but, just in case.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] rugsta:
Thanks for the alternative version, but afraid to say no joy on the "broken" kindle. On the recovery line Fastboot just sits there and looks at me, while terminal hangs. This Kindle now refuses to boot. I just get the grey Kindle Fire logo. I'm not sure of any method to reinstall back to 4.5.5.1. Then the above method may work, but right now shes dead Jim. :)

rugsta
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
I've never asked are you using a fastboot cable ? --- I use a cable every time, and never had a problem, you are warned that the no cable dodge shown on post #1 can be iffy. ... J.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
In other news, anyone want to try official TWRP on this device?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] BenDroid1:
Hey . i havent been here for a while.. Is there any fix for audio/video drivers yet?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Tell us more, and any news on ROM progress ???. ... \j.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] spudowiar:
https://twrp.me/devices/amazonsoho.html

Not much progress on ROM recently, sorry. I think other members of the community will be able to make more progress than me on the ROM.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
Tell us more, and any news on ROM progress ???. ... j.

---------- Post added at 19:02 ---------- Previous post was at 18:52 ----------

OK, Thanks for the link, I'll take a look over the week-end

Thanks too for info on ROM, we know you do your best. cheers ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jachol:
A Question

spudowiar, --- Had a few minutes spare and had a quick look at the TWRP update info.

Have I sussed this out OK, if I update via TWRP (I have 2.8.4) all I need is the recovery.img file, and can ignore the other .img files ... Right ?. ... J
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] abnerroesch5:
Did you check the driver in Device Manager?

I had the same thing happen with the grey kindle fire logo and the terminal hanging/stalling. It was the driver needing updated because when I attached the kindle and entered the code it altered the way that my kindle was communicating and I needed to reinstall the adb driver because it had reverted back to 'soho'. You didn't mention as to whether you had checked into that.

Also I was using a regular cable at that time. I wanted to see if it could be done.

I did get back into twrp by just reentering the first 3 code groups , and from there I installed cyanogenmod12 and the rest of the zips here.

I just can't remember if I had pushed the zips onto the sd card or if they were already there.

I'd try to push them onto your sd card if you can.

To be honest I had thought I'd finally, truly bricked my kindle.