Hi,
Just bricked my brand new 8.9 Kindle Fire HD while trying to install superuser.apk. Any suggestions? Anyone? Please?
It is not responding to anything.
I tried holding down the power button.. with Volume buttons.. no go. It's just dead. Nothing happens on the screen. I read in a post that the factory cable does not work for Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
Update- Still No go. Please some one out there. Help!
amit.talukdar said:
Hi,
Just bricked my brand new 8.9 Kindle Fire HD while trying to install superuser.apk. Any suggestions? Anyone? Please?
It is not responding to anything.
I tried holding down the power button.. with Volume buttons.. no go. It's just dead. Nothing happens on the screen. I read in a post that the factory cable does not work for Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
Update- Still No go. Please some one out there. Help!
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I am in the same situation, did you have any success? My device is not responding to anything after I tried to root it. :crying::crying:
You are not alone!
sashka_nem said:
I am in the same situation, did you have any success? My device is not responding to anything after I tried to root it. :crying::crying:
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Several of us junior members seem to have made the same mistake, and now have dark KF8.9s unreachable by any means. Well, since my device is now bricked, there seems little risk in trying something. I intend to crack the case, remove and replace the battery, and see if I can then communicate and activate fastboot. I have run across mentions of a hard reboot trick involving a USB short. I have not read the details, but it is my impression that this is intended simply to force depletion of the battery, and cause a hard reset. If so, I can achieve the same result with the battery. Any other ideas? A reliable way to recover from this ultimately dire situation would be EXTREMELY valuable.
I did the same and bricked my KF HD 8.9"
This KFU-version seems to be a real KF 8.9"-killer.
The device does not respond to anything, regardless what I tried. Connecting to a PC does not trigger any reaction - not at pc-side and not at kindle-side. The device is not recognized by the PC in any way. I believe that there is no USB-communication at all. I tried a factory-mode cable and this didn't work, too.
Maybe the shorting trick could work, but one would need to know. where the respective pin is located in the new KFHD 8.9
I do not believe that removing battery power helps. The shorting trick is is not a hard reset, it will force the device booting via USB.
If the KFHD 8.9 is able to do so and if the other tools like Firekit could help then - I do not know...
Any good news? I am just trying to recover from a similar situation...
Unfortunately, no success yet. Please post here if you have any success with the issue :crying::crying::crying:
If you guys were talking about Android phones I would think you'd be looking at needing JTAG repair - I'm guessing that it's not all that different for what's basically and Android tablet. Look into that ?
There's the intermediate step of trying a jig - I don't know how this would work for a Kindle Fire, or if it would work with the state that your devices are in.
If there's no way to get it to even turn on, no way to get into download mode (I'd guess it has one ?), I'm guessing a JTAG repair service is your only hope to de-brick it, since that's the last resort when a device is hard-bricked beyond any ability to even turn on.
Sorry I can't be more help, I don't really know anything about the Kindle Fire in particular - but wanted to give you some ideas based on the fact it's basically an Android tablet.
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I just read a thread on XDA dev on how to possibly fix your problem. Look for "How to unbrick Kindle Fire 8.9 without factory cable"
Got root to work on KFHD8.9 but...
kevk60 said:
I just read a thread on XDA dev on how to possibly fix your problem. Look for "How to unbrick Kindle Fire 8.9 without factory cable"
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I rooted my KFHD 8.9 and got it pretty stable. I think I used bin4ry on win 7. It was very nice.
Then Amazon, in their kindness, sent along OTA 7.3.
I had access but no root. So the first thing I did was 'adb backup -apk -shared -all -f <filename>'
I got back to root yesterday with soupkit (again) on ububtu running under vmware. I got it pretty stable. It was very nice.
But I didn't like the fact that my system partition only had 25MB free.
I read somewhere that you need a non-stock recovery to change the size of the system partion.
I had reason to trust soupkit since it got me to root. so:
[+]=========================================================================[+]
|| Root Plus for second generation Kindle Fires
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| Obtain Root, Google Play, Lockscreen Ad remover & OTA Killer
|| +
|| Bootloader and Recovery Installer
||
|| 1 - Root, install Google Play, Remove ads & Stop OTA updates
|| 2 - Root (only)
|| 3 - Install Google Play only (requires root)
|| 4 - Remove ads & Stop OTA updates only (requires root)
|| 5 - Backup stock system, recovery, and boot partitions (requires root)
|| 6 - Install Bootloader Hack & TWRP Recovery (requires root)
|| 7 - Restore saved partition images (removes TWRP, stack, etc.)
|| 8 - Uninstall Google Play only (requires root)
|| 9 - Restore ads (requires root)
|| 10 - Enable OTA Updates (requires root)
|| U - Update recovery
|| X - Unroot
||
[+]=========================================================================[+]
ADB status: ONLINE
Root status: ROOTED
Please select from the list above: 6
Your device appears to be a *Kindle Fire HD 8.9"*.
If this is correct, enter "1". If not, enter "0": 1
This may take a long time. Be patient.
Backing up the system partition. Please wait...
Then :crying: just an orange screen at power on after a brief kindle logo. OUCH!
Yes. "This may take a long time." ... He was not kidding.
ok I was rooting my kindle fire first edition and there was a power surge in the middle of it now it's stuck on the kindle fire loading screen and when I plug it into my computer it doesn't recognize it it also wont let me install any drivers for it someone please help going crazy what do I do?
I'd hard reset it.
Hello good kind hearted fellow reading this,
I was trying to root my Old NVIDIA Shield tablet LTE which I foolishly updated to 6.0 so I could remove the tegra.OTA apk and prevent the kill switch.
I first followed the instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/general/how-to-root-nvidia-tablet-android-6-0-t3280671 then lost Wifi.
I then decided to follow the instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/general/unofficial-update-original-shield-t3281541, then after step 3 where I flashed the blob.img, I rebooted the tablet as directed, but now nothing happens. It won't come on so I can proceed with the procedure, It is not recognised in ADB, It only shows up in my device manager as APX when I plug it in and shows the green/orange light which indicates charging. The screen remains BLACK>
The bootloader is already unlocked
Is all hope lost??? Is there anyway to revive this? PLEASE HELP ME...
I have read through threads which i searched for using the keyword "BRICK", but I dont seem to be able to find anything that can help.
Thanks a bunch!
Only NVIDIA can help you, once your Tablet does not boot into the bootloader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/help/help-help-bricked-shield-tablet-original-t3313428
also:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/general/kill-kill-switch-shield-tablet-xx-t3179489
njhuiz said:
Only NVIDIA can help you, once your Tablet does not boot into the bootloader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/help/help-help-bricked-shield-tablet-original-t3313428
also:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/general/kill-kill-switch-shield-tablet-xx-t3179489
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*tears*
Just call NVIDIA and talk to them. If it's only a software problem (flashing gone bad), they can fix it in 10 minutes. As far as I can remember somebody in the first thread I linked, talked about returning the tablet for repair after talking to them.
Hi there!
So I was looking around for a tutorial how to unbrick the Kindle Fire from its Blinking Logo issue, When it turns on my computer sees it with the fast boot cable (extra pin 5 shorted on Vcc I think... I bought it off ebay_). So I was looking for a step-by step tutorial how to unbrick the damn thing and I couldnt find something definite. I found one tutorial but instead of giving instructions on flashing it they start talking on how to find the cable (unless I missed something).
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418092
Also they said that it is very important which version it is. If the kindle is stuck on the flashing screen is there a way to figure it out?
Thanks in advance! Any info anybody needs let me know!
alvertosk said:
Hi there!
So I was looking around for a tutorial how to unbrick the Kindle Fire from its Blinking Logo issue, When it turns on my computer sees it with the fast boot cable (extra pin 5 shorted on Vcc I think... I bought it off ebay_). So I was looking for a step-by step tutorial how to unbrick the damn thing and I couldnt find something definite. I found one tutorial but instead of giving instructions on flashing it they start talking on how to find the cable (unless I missed something).
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418092
Also they said that it is very important which version it is. If the kindle is stuck on the flashing screen is there a way to figure it out?
Thanks in advance! Any info anybody needs let me know!
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Hello,
You may visit here [UTILITY] Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility V1.1! and read the entire thread thoroughly.
-Vatsal
Hi to all
Yesterday, I made an update of TWRP.
At the first start, the kindle was blocked at the page Kindle Fire.
Impossible to open the recovery mode, impossible to start nothing !!!!!
My computer (Windows 10) doesn't recognize it.
Can you help me, Please ????
XDA Visitor said:
Hi to all
Yesterday, I made an update of TWRP.
At the first start, the kindle was blocked at the page Kindle Fire.
Impossible to open the recovery mode, impossible to start nothing !!!!!
My computer (Windows 10) doesn't recognize it.
Can you help me, Please ????
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there is a detailed step in update/flashing twrp. i will share the post link as its a big one... https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41374378&postcount=1