So this morning I rooted my spare kindle fire with BurritoRoot3 and then flashed FireFireFire with it, then like a retard I used Kindle Fire utility to install TWRP. After that I tried to boot into recovery but it refuses to. All it does is sit at the yellow triangle and refuses to actually go into recovery... I can leave it alone and it will boot into the OS but I'm trying to install ICS or CM7. Any tips on how to wipe or repair TWRP/Firefirefire? Re installing TWRP doesn't work as KFU can't do anything due to it sitting at yellow triangle.
Do you hold down the power button until it turns orange? Make sure that you do... hope this helps.
If i do that it makes the power button turn red and then screen flashes and it goes to the same screen but the screen brightness seems to be turned down. After that it just powers off. I have a second kindle fire that works flawlessly and I got ICS running on it.. this one... not so much
would try to start the twrp installation - when it says <waiting for device> power off the kf by holding pwr ~20sec - power on again - the installation should resume and finish
if not check device manager for the correct drivers - maybe this helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22342376&postcount=6
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Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
Same here.
This is the wrong forum for this. This should be in Kindle Q&A.
Thank you for redirecting me. I am a bit new to this (probably why I screwed up my device).
AdamOutler said:
This is the wrong forum for this. This should be in Kindle Q&A.
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There IS no Kindle Q&A.
Anyways, I have a similar problem in that it gets stuck at the triangle if I hit the power button, but for me, if I don't touch ANYTHING it will boot into the Kindle OS just fine.
Mine always powers up to the yellow triangle. If I just leave it there, it boots into android after like 10-15 seconds. Have you guys tried just waiting it out?
If I press the power button, it'll cycle off and on, so you have to wait even longer to get into Android. When I want to get into TWRP, I just press the power button repeatedly until it turns orange.
side comment: this waiting five minutes between posts and not being allowed to post in dev forums blows. i shoulda kept my old account.
bikeracer4487 said:
There IS no Kindle Q&A.
Anyways, I have a similar problem in that it gets stuck at the triangle if I hit the power button, but for me, if I don't touch ANYTHING it will boot into the Kindle OS just fine.
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Regardless... he posted originally in hardware hacking forum. I had this moved here.
kw1999 said:
Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
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Okay, try this:
1) Download v6 of the Kindle Fire Utility from here. (The forum thread can be found here)
2) Extract the files into a folder anywhere (but remember where, obviously)
3) Go into the folder, then into 'drivers' and open up adb_usb.ini in a text editor and add "0x18D1" (without the quotes) on a line underneath "0x1949"
4) Open up Device Manager and find "kindle". It should have a yellow triangle near it.
5) Download fastboot.exe from here
6) Open up command prompt and navigate to wherever you saved fastboot to.
7) Run the command "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
8) Power off your device by holding down the power button for ~10 seconds and turn it back on, and this time don't hit the power button to go into TWRP. It should move past the yellow triangle after a few seconds and boot into Kindle. Hope this helps!
kw1999 said:
Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
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reinstall the usb driver from the android sdk (using device manager to find the right driver in windows) and change change the bootmode back to 4000.
this hapened to me half way through installing the new burrittoroot my pc couldnt recognize the kindle anymore, had to reinstall the drivers and manually change the boot mode from command promt.
oops... bikeracer beat me to it, jst saw his post.... thats almost exactly what I had to do.
if you didn't.read.the.instructions,.like me, then you might have rebooted.without changing.the bootmode.back to 4000 so I was.stuck.in.fastboot
I had a kernel.handy so I.just typed.fastboit -I 0x1949 boot kernel.img then.once booted I immediately changed the bootmode.
I don't even try to fix the periods from.using the.stock kindle.keyboard.anymore.
bikeracer4487 said:
Okay, try this:
1) Download v6 of the Kindle Fire Utility from here. (The forum thread can be found here)
2) Extract the files into a folder anywhere (but remember where, obviously)
3) Go into the folder, then into 'drivers' and open up adb_usb.ini in a text editor and add "0x18D1" (without the quotes) on a line underneath "0x1949"
4) Open up Device Manager and find "kindle". It should have a yellow triangle near it.
5) Download fastboot.exe from here
6) Open up command prompt and navigate to wherever you saved fastboot to.
7) Run the command "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
8) Power off your device by holding down the power button for ~10 seconds and turn it back on, and this time don't hit the power button to go into TWRP. It should move past the yellow triangle after a few seconds and boot into Kindle. Hope this helps!
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Could you make a video of this for noobs like me?
i can't make a video - but i can guide you through this things
first - if you did it with kfu did you read the tricks from the first page:
Known Tricks
•If you end up stuck at the yellow triangle, in KF Utility select Boot Normal, wait for it to say <waiting for device> and then press and hold the power button 20 seconds until the fire turns off, then when its off turn it back on. This sometimes happens, I have yet to find a clean solution
•If you end up stuck with a yellow triangle, do not EVER unplug it. Leave it plugged in. Check the windows drivers to make sure it isnt showing as "kindle" again. Fastboot is different and can cause this.
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if this is not your issue lets go ahead
download the latest kfu, extract it somewhere (i would recomend to c:\), but don't run install_drivers.bat !
make shure you don't have a driver issue (check device manager for yellow exclamation mark on kindle,android phone - adb devices)
if so you have to correct you drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20855280&postcount=54
then you can do it with the tool or manually
take a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20872252&postcount=22
So I checked my Kindle Fire and it wont let me play my games. So i checked root checker and it says i dont have root acess. then i checked my device and it said its on 6.2.2 and i didn't even update it. So now I installed root again (the new version) and when I used KFU to install TWRP(the latest one). It would install then I hit reboot now its stuck at the TWRP yellow fire logo thingy. I tried unplugging and connect it now it says, "USB devices not recognized, Uknown Device"
What do i do helppp!!!! pls...
Once you get to the yellow logo press the power button again till it turns orange to get into recovery and then go from there
from the op of kfu:
Known Tricks
•If you end up stuck at the yellow triangle, in KF Utility select Boot Normal, wait for it to say <waiting for device> and then press and hold the power button 20 seconds until the fire turns off, then when its off turn it back on. This sometimes happens, I have yet to find a clean solution
•If you end up stuck with a yellow triangle, do not EVER unplug it. Leave it plugged in. Check the windows drivers to make sure it isnt showing as "kindle" again. Fastboot is different and can cause this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20945694&postcount=506
I followed the burritoroot3 guide and I've got a minor annoyance.
When I reboot the device it always comes up with the yellow triangle and "press power button for recovery."
When I hit the power button it goes to the "kindle fire" normal bootup and proceeds to boot normally.
I am rooted, the kindle appears to work fine except for this minor annoyance.
What have I done wrong? What should my next step be to flash a CM7 build?
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Ah, OK, so the yellow triangle IS the firefirefire bootloader. WHy doesn't pushing the "power" button access the bootloader then?
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Hold the power button until it turns from green to orange when the fire fire fire boot loader first appears.
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Hold the power button until it turns from green to orange when the fire fire fire boot loader first appears.
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Doesn't appear to work?
Here's what I did:
I turned my Kindle off.
Pressed "power" button once.
Boot loader appears, I again press power and hold until the light turns orange, then release
The screen goes black for a moment, yellow triangle appears, then "kindle fire" appears, then yellow triangle, then "kindle fire" and normal bootup.
Sorry, I just saw the second part of your question. I assume you have twrp installed since you used burritoroot3. Put the from zip file you downloaded into the sdcard directory of your kindle fire. Use the backup function in twrp to create a backup of your kindle fire in case the install goes wrong. After doing this go to the wipe menu in twrp do a factory reset and then go back to the main menu of twrp and hit install. Find the zip file with the the from in it you placed in the sdcard directory, select it and hit the flash button. Sorry this explanation isn't very good I'm typing on my kindle fire and this keyboard is weird.
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Wow I'm stupid i forgot buritto root doesn't install twrp, go find the kindle fire utility on this forum and in my experience use an older build like the 0.9.1 and use it to install twrp
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Allrighty, thanks to the helpful IRC folks I've got it all sorted out.
I didn't actually have a custom recovery installed.
I'm good to go now, at least as far as rooting goes...
I've checked the other two threads to know avail. My device reboots up to the yellow triangle, and then reboots infinitely. Here's my situation:
1. I think i booted into recovery using my roms reboot into recovery option.
2. My kindle fire is in a state of it can't turn on unless it is plugged into a computer/charger.
3. I don't see "kindle fire" in my devices on windows 7 and I don't see ADB composite device thing.
4. Using the install drivers.bat that is in the kindle fire utility says Driver name "Google, Inc (WinUSB) Status Ready to use.
5. I have tried the kindle fire utility to set boot mode to normal but adb and fastboot don't recognize it.
6. Also I've tried plugging into the computer with a factory usb cable and that also didn't work.
I'm wondering if i'm SOL.
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Okay, So I finally got my fire working! Charged it up through a charger for a little while. Booted into ubuntu 11.10 (32bit) with the firekit file and ran the install recovery script. It hung at waiting for device. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and tried turning it on and off and holding the power of the device for awhile and one time it just worked. Was able to reboot and boot into recovery and flash a rom.
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I've checked the other two threads to know avail. My device reboots up to the yellow triangle, and then reboots infinitely. Here's my situation:
1. I think i booted into recovery using my roms reboot into recovery option.
2. My kindle fire is in a state of it can't turn on unless it is plugged into a computer/charger.
3. I don't see "kindle fire" in my devices on windows 7 and I don't see ADB composite device thing.
4. Using the install drivers.bat that is in the kindle fire utility says Driver name "Google, Inc (WinUSB) Status Ready to use.
5. I have tried the kindle fire utility to set boot mode to normal but adb and fastboot don't recognize it.
6. Also I've tried plugging into the computer with a factory usb cable and that also didn't work.
I'm wondering if i'm SOL.
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You're fine.
First, charge the fire fully.
Second, read some of the threads in the development forum on getting it out of fastboot mode, because you are stuck in fastboot.
Third, do NOT reboot into recovery on the fire, it puts you into fastboot and....well you already see what that looks like.
Fourth, plug your fully charged fire into your computer and issue the commands to take it out of fastboot.
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the command would be:
"fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
and
"fastboot reboot"
if it says <waiting for device> power it off by holding the pwr button for ~20sec till it turns of - pwr on again - the command should resume and finish
a second pwr off/on will bring you back to normal
I can't turn the power off though. Holding it down for any amount of time won't turn it off, and I can't get the driver to install. I can't get it to recognize it as an ADB device or a kindle.
nevertheless - to stop the bootloop you will need to charge it
do you use the original wall charger ?
if not take care the replacement charger has ~1.8A
if you plug it to the charger it would be fine if you can turn it off for better charging
if you can't turn it off - leave it - try again to power off after an hour
what happens:
if you plug it to a power source it tries to start - battery breaks down - tries to start - ...
If I plug it in to any source pc or charger it turns on gets to the triangle and then reboots, and does that for as long as it's plugged in. I've had it plugged in like this for a few hours and the only way to "turn it off" is to unplug it.
yes - this is a sign for a empty battery - atm the search function is'nt working but there are ~20 threads with the same problem - it was allways the battery besides 1 or 2 where the battery was so deep empty that they had to return it
charging with the computer will not work in this situation - the computer delivers only 500ma - that is too few
you can try to switch it to fastboot mode because then it starts the bootloader and don't go further (so it uses fewer power) - this is done by issuing: "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4002" - then let it do a bootloop - it should pickup the command
The drivers won't install for the kindle fire though, I don't think it's going to work that way. I'll try it again, but I've done this like 5 times to no avail.
if the right drivers are not allready on the machine you can't install them until you get it to stable state
the only solution (besides a factory cable) to change the bootmode in this situation would be firekit - this is a special crafted ubuntu on a usb stick because linux don't need drivers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
maybe you want to give it a try ...
Okay, So I finally got my tab working! Charged it up through a charger for a little while. Booted into ubuntu 11.10 (32bit) with the firekit file and ran the install recovery script. It hung at waiting for device. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and tried turning it on and off and holding the power of the device for awhile and one time it just worked. Was able to reboot and boot into recovery and flash a rom.
good to hear that you got it working - good luck with your kf
Hi together,
thanks especially to xyz` and k4y0z for your effort and your contributions! This is amazing!
I have an Amazon Fire HD 8 (karnak) with FireOS 6.3.1.2 which I want to root, unlock and install LineageOS on.
With 6.3.0.0 on another tablet, I already performed this procedure successfully.
As k4y0z writes in https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd...nlock-fire-hd-8-2018-karnak-amonet-3-t3963496 that a hardware-change in combination with the soft-brick method could lead to a real brick rendering the device unusable, I went for the hardware method.
What I did:
1. Disconnect tablet
2. Run "bootrom-step.sh"
3. Shorten CLK to GND and at the same time connect the tablet to USB
4. I get the message to remove the short and confirm with ENTER
--> flashing occurs and I find myself in fastboot mode (the tablet also shows up when I do a "fastboot devices")
5. Run "fastboot-step.sh"
--> flashing of recovery and misc occurs, followed by a reboot
Then I see the "Amazon" logo flashing shortly and then the screen stays black. I tried pressing power and the volume-keys shortly, twice, for a long time, ... nothing happens.
If I disconnect and reconnect USB I see the "Amazon" logo flashing again. The device is not in fastboot mode, ("fastboot devices" shows no device) nor is it in adb mode ("adb devices" also shows no device).
Luckily the steps below can be performed again and the flash procedure happens again so I can always get into fastboot mode but then I'm stuck flashing the TWRP with the fastboot-step.sh...
I tried the files from karnak-3.0, karnak-3.0.1 as well as the original amonet-v2, all with the same issue.
Can anybody please shed some light here? What am I doing wrong? Is there anything else I can try or is the tablet unusable now (which I cannot believe as there is fastboot access).
I am in fact running Debian 10 on a VirtualBox on my MacBook with USB forwarding to the Virtual Machine but I'm not sure if that can be the issue as all the flashes are working just fine.
Thanks for your support!
How old is the tablet? Anything bought January or newer is potential unlock-blocked....
Thanks for your answer, Michajin.
The tablet was bought in February 2020. Does that mean I'm out of luck getting LineageOS to run on this tablet?
Would the error I am seeing fit the unlock-block? I had the feeling that all the installing went through just fine, just TWRP is not loaded correctly, right?
Thanks!
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How old is the tablet? Anything bought January or newer is potential unlock-blocked....
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Thanks for your answer, Michajin.
The tablet was bought in February 2020. Does that mean I'm out of luck getting LineageOS to run on this tablet?
Would the error I am seeing fit the unlock-block? I had the feeling that all the installing went through just fine, just TWRP is not loaded correctly, right?
Thanks!
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If the fastboot-step finishes as success you have TWRP (fastboot step is just the flashing of twrp replacing stock recovery). You should be able to hold the volume down and press the power button, this will boot the device into recovery.
Thanks, Michaejin! That did the trick. Pressing those buttons yesterday didn't help as the tablet was somehow turned on, now I disconnected and reconnected the battery and pressed VolDown + Power and got into TWRP!
Great! Thanks again!
Michajin said:
If the fastboot-step finishes as success you have TWRP (fastboot step is just the flashing of twrp replacing stock recovery). You should be able to hold the volume down and press the power button, this will boot the device into recovery.
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freddy40 said:
Thanks, Michaejin! That did the trick. Pressing those buttons yesterday didn't help as the tablet was somehow turned on, now I disconnected and reconnected the battery and pressed VolDown + Power and got into TWRP!
Great! Thanks again!
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You can also hold the power button for about 10 seconds to force a power down, so you should have to pull the cover off in case something goes wrong. Likely the device was stuck in preloader or bootrom.