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TWRP Recovery installation through KF Utility bricked my Kindle

Hello, brand new to the Kindle. I rooted my device just fine last night and decided to use Kindle Fire Utility to install TWRP. ADB was recognizing the device perfectly and the script seemed to be running fine until it rebooted the Kindle. At that point the script said "reboot: operation not permitted waiting for device" for an extended period of time. After waiting awhile, at this point I did something I probably shouldn't have, I unplugged the Kindle and rebooted it using the power button. It's been getting stuck at the "kindle fire" boot animation ever since. I haven't gotten a screen with a triangle and fire logo.
I tried following the instructions in the sticky but it seems adb no longer recognizes the device, so I can't push zergRush or anything past that.
Is it permanently bricked or is there a method to fix my problem yet?
Thanks for any help.
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Update: kindle was fixed by uninstalling drivers, reinstalling as android composite usb device, and switching it out of fastboot. not permanently bricked.

sounds like its in fast boot.
open the utility again, check if its in fast boot, if it is run the install command again. if u can't get it installed, use utility to change boot mode back to 4000.

I had the same problem this method worked for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20509949&postcount=245 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20421225&postcount=222

Thanks for the fast replies!
When I try to change the bootmode using the fastboot it just says waiting for device and never progresses. KindleFireUtility shows ADB Online, Boot status at 4002, and fastboot as offline. Device manager doesn't show a Kindle, just an android adb interface with a yellow ! triangle.
I did restart the PC once and the kindle a few times. No luck yet.
I installed the ADB Composite driver again for the device and got this error (attached)

I had the same issue. It turned out that I had forgotten to update my computer with the drivers needed for TWRP install after copying them to the Android and .Android folders. I was able to get to the first reboot.. waiting for device and then checked device manager when it wouldn't progress. I found that the the driver was unrecognized. After updating the drivers in device manager, TWRP completed install successfully and I was able to backup my FW6.2 and then flash CM7.

uninstall the driverand use the driverin the utility thread? someone said leaving ur kindle connected to ur pc and rebooting ur pc will reboot the kindle? if it works su with terminal and change bootmode back to 4000
sent from my kindle fire

Alright everyone, I got it working after uninstalling the driver for the Android device, shutting down, starting up again, and plugging in and reinstalling the driver, then changing the bootmode using the instructions previously posted. Thank you all SO MUCH for helping as much as you could. Now to try this again!

terracode said:
I had the same issue. It turned out that I had forgotten to update my computer with the drivers needed for TWRP install after copying them to the Android and .Android folders. I was able to get to the first reboot.. waiting for device and then checked device manager when it wouldn't progress. I found that the the driver was unrecognized. After updating the drivers in device manager, TWRP completed install successfully and I was able to backup my FW6.2 and then flash CM7.
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Now I'm wondering what you mean by making sure the drivers are installed for TWRP to install correctly. Obviously I missed a step the first time, what do I do to make sure I don't miss it again? Right now when I try to install TWRP again it says "The system cannot find the filepath specified" several times.

would recomend to use following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
download the utility and prepare according:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20574755#post20574755
change bootmode, install twrp or whatever with the utility

Got twrp on it last night successfully and flashed CM7.

My question is somewhat related to this thread...
I'm on 6.2 (wifi turned off) and was already rooted and am trying to update to the 6.2.1 secured update with root installed update found on XDA. I'm using Kindle Fire Utility v.6, and to the best of my knowledge using the drivers included with the KF Utility program.
In the utility I show...
ADB Status: Online
Boot Status: 4000
Fastboot Status: Offline
Question is I'm not familiar with fastboot and unclear if I have everything configured in order to (safely) install TWRP. In a command prompt when I type 'fastboot devices' nothing is displayed ("adb devices" shows the device). Combined with the fact I've never seen anything but "Offline" for the Fastboot Status, I'm a little concerned I'm missing a piece of the puzzle and hesitant to install TWRP until I know better.
Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

look at my post on page 1 of this thread !

@Stevebro: I believe if you are using KF Utility v.6, then you should be good to go. As long as you installed and updated the usb Drivers and then ran zergRush, you should be at the point where you can install TWRP. Just make sure you are using the latest version of KF Utility and it should go pretty smoothly.

... After you install TWRP, I'd recommend going back to your KF OS and do a Titanium Backup of your apps and then doing a TWRP backup. When you flash to CM7 you can restore all your apps easily and painlessly using Titanium backup to restore with the Batch restore option.

Couple nervous moments, reboots and switching out of fastboot mode in the utility... but it all went well. Thanks for the help!!

glad to hear everything is fine ...

Glad to hear everything worked out. I myself sat staring at the "yellow triangle" for a couple of hours. lol, but I just kept working through it and tried not to panic and I got everything working again.
I think OP should edit the first post, or get a mod to edit the title. I keep reading random posts about "lot's of people permanently bricking their Kindle Fires" while I cannot recall a single instance of someone bricking and having to return one and it is getting tiresome.

Can't go into recovery...

I'm pretty new at this and I'm having issues going into TWRP.
Whenever I try to install TWRP recovery using the KFU, It looks like it's going through the process, and I do end up seeing the teamwin logo popup and the device boots into the regular kindle interface (so it at least appears that TWRP was installed). The problem is whenever I try to go into recovery using the bootmode menu in KFU, the kindle will reboot, only it won't go into recovery and just goes back to the regular kindle interface. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. One thing I did notice from looking through tutorials, is that when you reboot the device it's suppose to go to a yellow triangle screen before going into TWRP. My kindle never does this. I don't ever see that yellow triangle screen and instead see the regular kindle fire logo before it loads the regular interface. One other thing is whenever i use the KFU, under "adb rooted:" it says no. I thought after I did the "Permanent Root with Superuser" that it was supposed to say yes. Anyways, any help would be much appreciated.

the yellow triangle is the bootloader (firefirefire) which you'r missing i think
i would take the newest KFU 0.9.2 (attention re-upped yesterday-redownload):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
reading the op (espacially the known tricks) is a good idea
i recommend to extract kfu to c:\ and rename "kindle fire utility" to "kfu" because it don't allways like the blanks in the path
if you are on windows7 you should run kfu and all other commands from an elevated command shell (as administator)
to install the correct drivers (espacially on win7/64bit) by running install_drivers.bat is also a good idea
now you are ready to use kfu and install twrp again
that's the easy way
if it don't work you can install fff (firefirefire - the yellow triangle) manually
ask again about this ...

Thanks for the reply - just got home and I'll try your suggestions.

I'm having the same problem as the OP here.
I originally rooted using BurritoRoot, which worked just fine.
When using KFU, option 5, it seems to run everything smoothly, the downloads are the correct size... But when it goes and starts rebooting at the "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING! DON'T EVEN LOOK AT IT! OR ELSE!"* screen on KFU, my Kindle boots into the standard Kindle Boot Animation, then the TeamWin splash pops up for a moment.
It then reboots back to the regular Kindle Fire boot animation and KFU says "There we go. TWRP is installed. Ter-dah!"*
When I go to restart the Kindle, however, I never get the FireFireFire icon at all. Just straight into the normal KindleFire stuff.
I decided to take a look at my device manager while my Fire is plugged in. It's listed under "Android Phone > Android Composite ADB Interface"
Perhaps this is the drivers for my Android Phone interfering with the drivers for the Kindle? Iunno. I'm pretty lost on this one.
(* Paraphrased, in my own words, of course)

the driver is the you stated is the right one for kf in normal bootmode
would retry the installation with kfu and watch the output carefully
maybe copy and paste the output for later analysis
seems to be a common problem at the time:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21316424&postcount=49

How about just download the older KU 0.9.1 that's known to work everytime. 0.9.2 had issues installing TWRP.
Once you installed it using KFU 0.9.1, you will have no proiblems getting to your TWRP recovery.

Using the 0.9.1 version did it for me. Thanks a bundle.
Now I'm drooling over ICS on the Kindle Fire. Can't wait for a stable build! +_+

Just follow this guide:
http://rootkindlefire.com/kindle-fire-root/kindle-fire-root-new6-2-1windowsmaclinux/
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

[Q] Is my kindle bricked?

So, I rooted my device, and I flashed CM7, and everything worked fine.
after running for awhile my device just went black. So when after about 15 mins, it went to the Fire triangle logo and is now stuck in this logo.
I searched and found problems like this but when I plug in my device, my computer wont recognize it...
so am i screwed? - Again, I've searched and tried many of the steps advised...

What did you use to obtain root? Do you have the KF Utilities downloaded and on your computer?
If not, here is a link: (Vashypooh gets ALL the credit)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
Mine got stuck on the triangle as well and I thought I was screwed, but more than likely you're just stuck in fastboot.
What I did was use the KFU and even though it didn't show as recognized I was able to use Option 1 - Bootmode Menu, Then Option 1 - Normal.
My Fire restarted normally after that.
Don't know if it will fix it for you, but it's worth a shot huh?

Thank you sir. After reading that I got to reboot correctly by turning it off plugging it in, and turning it off and on three times and tried the unbrick utility again and it went through. Thank you.

Glad you got it to work. Now you can get on to the fun parts.

Also for some people this might work. I unbricked my kindle. Here is how I did it
1.Download kindle fire utility
2.Unzip kindle fire utility
3.To install the driver,its easy,just plug in your kindle, when it pops up with the install wizard say pick from the location of: KindleFireUtility>drivers>kindle 4.run kindle fire utility,select 1 then select 1 again
That's it, hope it helps someone like me

[Q] Silly me, bricked my kindle fire after TWRP seemed to fail.

So, as many new KF rooters have, I seem to have bricked my KF. I rooted it just fine, but when installed TWRP through KFU .93 the process seems to have stopped. After waiting over an hour and reading countless "I've been stuck installing TWRP through KFU .93" threads, and seeing many "I switched to .91 and it worked fine" responses, I decided to give that a shot. After unplugging and hard resetting my KF, it is still stuck on the KF logo screen. No yellow box, just the logo screen.
When I plug the KF into my computer, the device is recognized and the proper KF drivers are installed, but I can't get adb to work at all. Every attempt returns a "Device not found" or a "Server didn't ACK." The device does not show up on my list of attached devices, but in Device Manager it is loaded.
I'm unsure of what the next step should be, as I can't get the hardware to respond to anything but resets, and I can't get the software to communicate with the hardware from my PC. I really don't want to admit defeat and contact Amazon.
*edit* Through more research I've made some progress. Opening KFU and selecting the bootmode option, and then when it says "waiting for device" hard resetting the KF and letting KFU change the bootmode to Recovery has done some things. I got a message saying "Failed ..." but it flashed too fast for me to read. Then, upon several restarts, I received a message saying that the KF needed to factory reset, which it is doing now.
As of right now I have a Factory Resetted, working KF. My updated question is now "Where did I go wrong?"
I assume it had to do with TWRP, as it was working until then. Should I redo the whole process using KFU .91 instead of .93? The root went of without a hitch, but the TWRP was what killed me.
Also, do I do Root THEN TWRP, or TWRP THEN Root? I guess I might need Root access to install a Recovery console, but I'm unsure.

use KFU to root, then hit up my gscript install method in the development thread. easy peasy.
but for the record, you were in fastboot, so it won't see adb commands..
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000 maybe woulda saved you. but avoid fast boot entirely, n use my gscript method.

heres how i did it
I was trying to unbridled my kindle fire all last night and about 5hours today.here is how I did it (don't get your hopes up too high,it might not work)
1.Download kindle fire utility
2.Unzip kindle fire utility
3.To install the driver,its easy,just plug in your kindle, when it pops up with the install wizard say pick from the location of: KindleFireUtility>drivers>kindle
4.run kindle fire utility,select 1 then select 1 again
That's it, hope it helps

help please!!!!!!!!!!

Long time ago i root my kindle and everything was find but i touch the factory reset bottom and i thought that i had to did the root again and i made a mistake because the root was there so when i finished to root again my kindle get stuck on the yellow triangle so..... i see that there said touch the bottom to go to recovery mode so i go there but i cant do anything there i try to do an actualization but when i put the actualization by the comuter in to the kindle fire i cant find it
i need help please
sorry for my english is bad i know but im trying to repair my kindle

To me it sounds like you Bricked your kindle, There are numerous tutorials on how to fix this. I found the easiest way was to use Kindle Fire Utility and if it says the boot mode is 4002, To switch it to 4000, And it fixed mine numerous times.

Starzie said:
To me it sounds like you Bricked your kindle, There are numerous tutorials on how to fix this. I found the easiest way was to use Kindle Fire Utility and if it says the boot mode is 4002, To switch it to 4000, And it fixed mine numerous times.
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but are you sure becuase i actualisate my kindle with the kindle fire utility and get stuck again a long time

Try this:
Open CMD > Navigate it to your ADB directory, For me I do "CD C:\KindleADB". > Type "adb devices" and post the result. If it doesn't show your device, Try typing "fastboot devices" and posting the result.