I attempted to root a Kindle Fire Running 6.2.2 but was using a version on the Kindle Fire Utility to root 6.3. TWRP installed but now I'm stuck at the yellow triangle logo.
The biggest problem is my Window 7 laptop won't recognize the Fire when I plug it in with my USB cable. Therefore, none of the unbricking, KFU, or ABD utilities/commands are getting through to the device.
Has any one encountered this before?
(I've gotten stuck in a bootloop with TWRP before on another rooted Kindle Fire and that was easy to fix.) I don't know what to do when you laptop won't recoginize the Fire as a connected device.
I've rooted another Fire (though it was running 6.3) on this same laptop so the Kindle Fire drivers were installed.
I'd appreciate any help with this!!!
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1) Unplug your kindle
2)
Microsoft said:
Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
At a command prompt, type the following command , and then press ENTER:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
Type the following command a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
start devmgmt.msc
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3) After you follow those steps, look for any android/adb devices and DELETE them from device manager
4) Re-plug your kindle fire usb into computer
5) Windows should now auto detect drivers (if you have windows 7) and you can use fastboot to reboot your device or flash files.
Thank you so much for your reply! I tried what you said.
I set my Device Manager to show hidden devices. "Android Phone" appears as a device. When I expand it, I see "Android ABD Interface". The Android Phone device displays for a few seconds and then disappears. I hear the Windows OS make a tone as it appears and disappears. If I shutdown the Kindle Fire and power it on again, the device manager does the same thing.
I should probably explain more how I bricked my Fire.
I tried to root it as I explained in my first post. It was unsuccessful. When I realized the Fire was runnning 6.2.2, I tried to upgrade the firmware to 6.3.1 from the Amazon site, thinking I'd do that and then run the rooting bat file again. I didn't think to uninstall any of the rooting software before trying the update because the root was unsuccessful.
The Fire started the update but stopped almost immediately and got stuck at the TWRP logo.
Is there any thing else I can try?
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I bet you are stuck in fast boot. Can u see it when running fast boot devices? Search as this is common... happened to me. Just need to run a com,and to change default boot mode
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Paulnsx,
Thanks for the reply.
Can you explain a little more about this >> "Can you see it when running fast boot devices"?
Where and how would I check for that? And, what is the command to change the default boot mode?
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warranty
will Amazon replace it or is it obvious you attempted to unlock the tablet? I mean is there and indication on the boot screen?
Yes, it's obvious I was rooting it. To return it to Amazon (or the retailer in my case), I need to get it to boot normally, then reset it to the factory default.
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Are you able to boot into the recovery? Also, you may be able to re install the drivers yourself. I know that I downloaded the KFU and it came with drivers and an unbrick app as well.
try the kindle fire section lots of good ppl to help and loads of info
I wish I could but as a junior member of xda, I'm not allowed to post there.
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you should be able to post if its not in the dev section
You are right. I just tried (like you suggested) and my post went right up. Yeah!! Thanks for explaining this!!
I just want it back to the original status and I get nothing.... I've been at this for 3 hours and it still won't read my kindle
Update: Finally got the usb to read and everything is recovered.
I am visiting a member of my family and their Kindle Fire "Broke". It seems as if its bricked to fastboot mode only, as when you power it on, the kindle fire logo shows up and then very quickly swaps to the Fastboot logo. Im not too big on kindle stuff so so far I havent gotten anywhere and am having trouble. They wouldnt have rooted, enabled ADB, or done anything beyond vanilla kindle stuff. ADB wont recognize the device on my computer and nothing works on the device to get it into recovery or anything besides fastboot. I am using the stock cable but I have also tried multiple cables and USB ports and restarting computer and kindle. Not sure how to proceed as it seems like theres no way I can communicate with the device.
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I am visiting a member of my family and their Kindle Fire "Broke". It seems as if its bricked to fastboot mode only, as when you power it on, the kindle fire logo shows up and then very quickly swaps to the Fastboot logo. Im not too big on kindle stuff so so far I havent gotten anywhere and am having trouble. They wouldnt have rooted, enabled ADB, or done anything beyond vanilla kindle stuff. ADB wont recognize the device on my computer and nothing works on the device to get it into recovery or anything besides fastboot. I am using the stock cable but I have also tried multiple cables and USB ports and restarting computer and kindle. Not sure how to proceed as it seems like theres no way I can communicate with the device.
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I have the same problem as most of the posts I have seen I rooted my kf that went good but I tried installing custom recovery youtube video by tekify the video clearly said for KF HD 7 {7.5.1} 2012 models well i have that so I did everything right to tee
and followed everystep but when come time to reboot into recovery my device turs on and shows kindle fire screen orange fire not blue and just lights up those two words there is no wavy like ripples when it would boot before like something going across the kindlefire logo if you know what I mean blinks on and off for ever the only way to stop it is to hold the power down for 10 seconds then it shuts off and when it goes off it has a white line go through the middle of the screen like an old television when you would turn them off the white line that goes horizontal through the screen so when I plug the usb cable in through the pc it turns on but right back to blinking endlessly so I got one of the cables talked about on here and it came and does show fastboot
little swirl when pluged in and my device manager in my pc says kindle fire then under it says android composite but when I rooted the kf and installed the drivers and stuff the device man said android phone first then under it said android compositethen further down the tree in other devices said kindle fire then under it android composite something when i plug it in to pc with the fastboot cable just says kindlefire android composite i tried the kffirstaid but when it says to unplug the fastboot cable and plug in the usb one and reboot as soon as i switch them it powres back on with the same kf logo on and off wont recognize it without the fastboot cable it was fully chrged when i tried custom recov so i dont know what to do next I did do a full back of kf in the firstaid program when i rooted it and a back up of the three image files so in the back up folder to firstaid are those and then in the kindlefireback up folder there are several things in there xloader recovery img kernal efs dfs bootloader etc so is there any hope for this yet Is there some thing else I can try to do a real novice {noob} or i was just willing to pay some one to fix it if it was worth it what i gather is i think is that adb is not recog thanks for allowing me the question oh and when I plugged it in on a diff computer with just the fastboot cable windoes was searching for drivers came up tate pv -08 or something like that if that helps maybe not pv but for sure tate then something and the -08
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I have the same problem as most of the posts I have seen I rooted my kf that went good but I tried installing custom recovery youtube video by tekify the video clearly said for KF HD 7 {7.5.1} 2012 models well i have that so I did everything right to tee
and followed everystep but when come time to reboot into recovery my device turs on and shows kindle fire screen orange fire not blue and just lights up those two words there is no wavy like ripples when it would boot before like something going across the kindlefire logo if you know what I mean blinks on and off for ever the only way to stop it is to hold the power down for 10 seconds then it shuts off and when it goes off it has a white line go through the middle of the screen like an old television when you would turn them off the white line that goes horizontal through the screen so when I plug the usb cable in through the pc it turns on but right back to blinking endlessly so I got one of the cables talked about on here and it came and does show fastboot
little swirl when pluged in and my device manager in my pc says kindle fire then under it says android composite but when I rooted the kf and installed the drivers and stuff the device man said android phone first then under it said android compositethen further down the tree in other devices said kindle fire then under it android composite something when i plug it in to pc with the fastboot cable just says kindlefire android composite i tried the kffirstaid but when it says to unplug the fastboot cable and plug in the usb one and reboot as soon as i switch them it powres back on with the same kf logo on and off wont recognize it without the fastboot cable it was fully chrged when i tried custom recov so i dont know what to do next I did do a full back of kf in the firstaid program when i rooted it and a back up of the three image files so in the back up folder to firstaid are those and then in the kindlefireback up folder there are several things in there xloader recovery img kernal efs dfs bootloader etc so is there any hope for this yet Is there some thing else I can try to do a real novice {noob} or i was just willing to pay some one to fix it if it was worth it what i gather is i think is that adb is not recog thanks for allowing me the question oh and when I plugged it in on a diff computer with just the fastboot cable windoes was searching for drivers came up tate pv -08 or something like that if that helps maybe not pv but for sure tate then something and the -08
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Hi Everyone, can you kindly help me regarding this. I was recommended to ask for assistance from @ggow @draxie or @Davey126
I just was able to root my Kindle Thor and open up google play store yesterday, thanks to the help of Yousucks2, see belows Posts 83 to 90 of page 9
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ki...artially-fire-os-to-proper-rom-t3421623/page9
My problem started on page 10 from Posts 91 to 94 (which I will summarize here)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ki...rtially-fire-os-to-proper-rom-t3421623/page10
---- After rooting and being able to use Play store on my Kindle Fire Hdx 7 Thor, I was trying to access a game that was region locked, I tried several things and apps like VPN changer, then it led me to this app, Region Changer that was asking for root access, which I allowed. It was a last ditch effort and I shouldn't have used it and I should have just given up trying to access that game.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.TigerHuang.RegionChanger&hl=en
After using the app and allowing root access, I chose korean and while it was changing my settings to korean (I thought I could just change it back to English later, after I'm able to access the game) It froze my kindle for 5 minutes and I couldn't move anything, so i rebooted my device.
Kindle stuck at Kindle Fire logo with the “Kindle” word being white and “Fire” word being orange.
According to yousucks "Looks you soft bricked the tablet, the root access you allowed, probably change it some UI elements, and thats why the OS refuse to starts and stays on a loop"
I recommend you ask for assistance to @ggow @draxie or @Davey126 , they have high tech tknowledge levels to help you in this case , but you need explain what you did exactly ,and have the necessary tools and knowledge to apply the procedure (if be possible)
Open a new thrad asking for asistance.
Can someone help me or walk me through the procedures of unbricking this tablet, i remember doing Adb some time ago when modding my Fire Stick Tv.
Any help will highly be appreciated, Thank you.
More relevant info needed
Interestingly enough, it matters less how you got into this state,
than what we have to work with. And, your post is a bit short on
those details. I understand your device was rooted. Other than
that, I'm guessing that it was stock FireOS (locked bootloader, no
TWRP)? Can you confirm? If so, what version?
And, the most important question(s) of all: how does the device
show up when connected to your computer (via USB)? Does it
respond to adb commands?
Hi draxie, device was just rooted the other day and was running on fire os 4.5.5.3
I haven’t use any twrp on it
I still haven’t connected it to my computer via Usb since I’m awaiting instructions on how to access it using adb commands
I just read this
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ho...use-abd-the-android-debug-bridge-utility/amp/
Do i need to install adb on my computer or the command line will do?
Sorry first time for me doing this can you guide me, the last time i did something similar was modding fire stick tv using command line and following instructions online
Thorhdx said:
I just read this
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ho...use-abd-the-android-debug-bridge-utility/amp/
Do i need to install adb on my computer or the command line will do?
Sorry first time for me doing this can you guide me, the last time i did something similar was modding fire stick tv using command line and following instructions online
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https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html
here is the adb and fastboot only if you dont want to install the whole package
if your phone could be detected we will see what can we do from there
Hi draxie, thanks, i unzipped the file from your link and installed all the exe on it. I was getting these
https://ibb.co/nxJtaR
https://ibb.co/cS5vpm
There must be a problem on my installation? Since it’s also showing on my friends kindle 5 & 7 the same thing “list of devices attached” even though they’re not soft bricked and usb debugging was allowed on those tablets
Sorry i read wrong, it was hope who sent that link, thank you hope
Thorhdx said:
Hi draxie, thanks, i unzipped the file from your link and installed all the exe on it. I was getting these
https://ibb.co/nxJtaR
https://ibb.co/cS5vpm
There must be a problem on my installation? Since it’s also showing on my friends kindle 5 & 7 the same thing “list of devices attached” even though they’re not soft bricked and usb debugging was allowed on those tablets
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did you try to do a factory reset ?
i guess doing that must reset the values changed by the app.
When I couldn't shut down the kindle, and it was stuck on the logo for more than an hour, i tried holding the power button around 10 seconds, and that could have done a factory reset of the device?
I figured what was missing when adb wasn't listing devices when testing kindle 5 & 7, i was missing the usb drivers for the laptop to recognize the kindles, so i installed it and both kindle 5 & 7 were recognized when typing "adb devices" on command prompt
But it still doesn't recognize kindle fire hdx 7 thor, and when i type adb devices it shows "list of devices attached" only and I get a notification everytime I plug it says "USB device not recognized" and everytime I try to install driver it says driver is up to date
I read this post #19 on this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2200750&page=2
"if your issue is not hardbrick, which mean that you tablet can power up and display something on the screen then you have a chance to get it fixed, just look for the thread here and you will find a way to fix it."
I hope there's still a way to make this work
VID/PID??
Thorhdx said:
When I couldn't shut down the kindle, and it was stuck on the logo for more than an hour, i tried holding the power button around 10 seconds, and that could have done a factory reset of the device?
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Nope.
Not that it would help, but FYI: stock recovery
can do a factory reset, but that normally only
wipes your user-specific data. And, from what
you described the issue is probably a botched
build.prop in your /system partition (which is
NOT touched by a factory reset).
If you like you could try to enter stock recovery
by fully powering off the device (hold the Power
button until the screen goes black). And, then
holding the Volume-Up button and pressing
(and holding) the Power button until the grey
Kindle Fire logo appears.
Thorhdx said:
I figured what was missing when adb wasn't listing devices when testing kindle 5 & 7, i was missing the usb drivers for the laptop to recognize the kindles, so i installed it and both kindle 5 & 7 were recognized when typing "adb devices" on command prompt
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Are you using the official Amazon drivers?
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-set-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing.html
Some people had better luck with other drivers
(which I cannot recall as I don't use Windows).
Thorhdx said:
But it still doesn't recognize kindle fire hdx 7 thor, and when i type adb devices it shows "list of devices attached" only and I get a notification everytime I plug it says "USB device not recognized" and everytime I try to install driver it says driver is up to date
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Could you _PLEASE_ check in Device Manager what
VendorID and ProductID your unrecognized USB device
reports to your system (assuming it enumerates)?
Hi Draxie, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here are the images of the kindle fire, it seems that there is no vendor id and product id showing up in the details when I go into properties.
https://ibb.co/hmHVPm
https://ibb.co/c9RPjm
https://ibb.co/joRDc6
https://ibb.co/mEMqPm
I also cannot install the driver that I downloaded before and also from the link you sent.
https://ibb.co/iRJyAR
https://ibb.co/izNEjm
Thanks for the instructions regarding stock recovery, should I try it?
Thorhdx said:
Hi Draxie, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here are the images of the kindle fire, it seems that there is no vendor id and product id showing up in the details when I go into properties.
https://ibb.co/hmHVPm
https://ibb.co/c9RPjm
https://ibb.co/joRDc6
https://ibb.co/mEMqPm
I also cannot install the driver that I downloaded before and also from the link you sent.
https://ibb.co/iRJyAR
https://ibb.co/izNEjm
Thanks for the instructions regarding stock recovery, should I try it?
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My point in doing factory reset was that: if the app changed only values in /data partition then this might allow you to boot up correctly
Rather than that you will have to flash stock frimware
No computer expert, eh? (-;
Thorhdx said:
it seems that there is no vendor id and product id showing up in the details when I go into properties.
https://ibb.co/mEMqPm
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In the dialog shown in the image above,
could try to select some _other_ property
(like VID / PID) beyond 'Device description'
from that drop-down menu?? (-;
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-Hope- said:
My point in doing factory reset was that: if the app changed only values in /data partition then this might allow you to boot up correctly
Rather than that you will have to flash stock frimware
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Personally, I doubt that changes in /data would stall
the startup process at such an early stage, but if the
data on the device is of no significant value (and/or
backups were taken), then it may be worth a try to
see if a factory reset helps.
@-Hope-: could you HIDE or otherwise tone down
your substantial signature? It hurts the eye... (-;
draxie said:
In the dialog shown in the image above,
could try to select some _other_ property
(like VID / PID) beyond 'Device description'
from that drop-down menu?? (-;
---------- Post added at 18:16 ---------- Previous post was at 18:09 ----------
Personally, I doubt that changes in /data would stall
the startup process at such an early stage, but if the
data on the device is of no significant value (and/or
backups were taken), then it may be worth a try to
see if a factory reset helps.
@-Hope-: could you HIDE or otherwise tone down
your substantial signature? It hurts the eye... (-;
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I do too but its worth a try
A last resort would be getting stock to be flashed
Removed the signature:laugh:
Hi Hope, Draxie,
Sorry I didn't get it about the VID/PID beyond device description lol know i understand went to plug the kindle and it wasn't as the same as before showing kindle on portable devices, this is what is showed
https://ibb.co/hp6wVR
Weird because it was showing kindle earlier, i tried to reboot device holding power button for 10 seconds and even rebooted PC, anyway since no kindle was shown on portable devices like before, i just got it from a pop up that showed regarding an unknown device when I plugged in the kindle
https://ibb.co/dbr24m
And there was no VID/PID I saw on the drop down list beyond device description
https://ibb.co/kg5OAR
https://ibb.co/dBVOAR
I doubt the kindle is the G because when I plugged the kindle earlier it showed G and Kindle separately
This was it earlier
https://ibb.co/hmHVPm
Regarding the G
https://ibb.co/dm3bVR
https://ibb.co/h6EiAR
https://ibb.co/fstX4m
https://ibb.co/bRsQPm
Is this the VID/PID below in between No connect sound and Class Long name
https://ibb.co/kxSs4m
I'm just checking so later when I'm able to go on the drop down list for the Kindle I got the correct values, the question is why is the kindle not showing on portable devices compared to now.
Also before I do a factory reset by:
fully powering off the device (hold the Power
button until the screen goes black). And, then
holding the Volume-Up button and pressing
(and holding) the Power button until the grey
Kindle Fire logo appears.
Is there a risk I may hard brick the device if I do a stock recovery? Or not really?
Also I know it's not the G:\ cause even when I unplug the kindle the G:\ is still showing
I'm still trying to make the kindle show in device manager in portable devices, will update you when it shows up there.
Also I just remembered - when I plugged in the kindle earlier to find it in device manager, there was no more battery, and while it was plugged in the USB it showed the red no battery sign, and while it was plugged in the USB port it charged the kindle and when it powered up it was then I saw it in the device manager
https://ibb.co/hmHVPm
But now even if I plug or unplug it, no kindle it showing on device manager
I probably should let the battery die and repeat the same thing, so I can get the VID/PID for the Kindle beyond the device description
Or should I do a factory reset now, no risk of hard brick?
Thorhdx said:
I probably should let the battery die and repeat the same thing, so I can get the VID/PID for the Kindle beyond the device description
Or should I do a factory reset now, no risk of hard brick?
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do not do a factory reset it seems to be a bad idea , trust me
What was the phone's frimware version? <=1314.3.2.6.*?