I feel slightly retarted at the moment, whenever I boot my kindle, I get a yellow caution sign. I try to press the button, but when i do, the screen goes blank for a second, then the sign comes back up, if i hold the button for longer thought, the kindle shuts off completely. Is there a secret art to doing thus?
Ethanzh said:
I feel slightly retarted at the moment, whenever I boot my kindle, I get a yellow caution sign. I try to press the button, but when i do, the screen goes blank for a second, then the sign comes back up, if i hold the button for longer thought, the kindle shuts off completely. Is there a secret art to doing thus?
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Once you see the triangle tap the button once (I have a habit of taping it a few times lol ) once the screen turns off and back to the triangle let it do its thing its just switching over to recovery their is a 10 second delay
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After the yellow triangle appears, I press and hold the power button until it turns from green to orange (device unplugged). I ignore the screen flickers. So far that's worked 100% of the time.
I usually just keep pressing it until the recovery loads.
TWRP recover boot
Ethanzh,
I just wait about 3 seconds and start pressing the power button until it turns orange.
Thanks,
JohninLex
ive tried all the above suggestions, but it still jumps straight to the kindle fire screen...
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Here's how I got out of fastboot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533020
And here's instructions from the person that developed the program I used to root my Kindle in the first place:
mount the latest KindleWater .dmg then open the terminal and type the following commands
Only run the commands in bold.
first command start
/Volumes/KindleWater/.files/android-sdk/platform-tools/fastboot boot /Volumes/KindleWater/.files/cwmtouch.img
end
second command start after it boots to recovery
/Volumes/KindleWater/.files/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb reboot
end second command
My escape was slightly different that what northmendo says to do (his didn't work at first), but I used his first command line in the "fastboot" terminal and it worked perfectly.
I hope this helps.
Ethanzh said:
ive tried all the above suggestions, but it still jumps straight to the kindle fire screen...
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Sound's like you used burrito root? It doesn't install a recovery. When the kindle fire screen flickers, thats the stock recovery.. Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500935 and install clockworkmod recovery
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I followed the above link and installed the recovery, it works noe, many thanks!!!
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i tried installing twrp via kindle fire utility v 3, and after installing it and rebooting, it remains frozen at the triangle fire screen, saying press power button for recovery. i press it, and nothing happens. it reamains stuck like that. i long hold power button to shut it down. after i boot it up again, same thing happens. what should i do?
There are other threads that have discussions about this, updates and more.
Current version of that utility script is v.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889
Fire utility option 1 and option 1, if it doesn't work try v2, v3 didn't work for me, I had to use v2.
Good luck
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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
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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isaiahhhhh said:
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...
So I rooted via KindleWater on a Mac, and it supposibly installed the fire fire fire bootloader (the yellow triangle at boot), but whenever I press the power button during boot, nothing happens, how do I fix this??
Thanks
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Try holding it down until the LED turns orange. See if that does it.
Will do, ill report back!
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All it did was shut-down the Kindle ;-(
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Did you install recovery module such as cwm. You have to have bootloder and recovery installed to go to recovery when you press a power during booting.
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Ethanzh said:
So I rooted via KindleWater on a Mac, and it supposibly installed the fire fire fire bootloader (the yellow triangle at boot), but whenever I press the power button during boot, nothing happens, how do I fix this??
Thanks
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Do you get the firefirefire logo at all when you boot up?
If so, then a momentary hold on the power button should cause the power button light to go from green to orange, and then just wait and it will load into Clockworkmod Recovery (CWM)
If you are not getting the firefirefire logo at all when you boot up, my recommendation is to re-do the kindlewater installation and then reboot your kf. You should get the triangle yellow logo when the reboot kicks in... it sits there a few seconds then passes through to the regular boot, highlighted "kindle fire" text bootup image.
If you wait to press the power button until the "kindle fire" text shows, it's too late to go into the recovery mode.
hope that helps.
if you used kindlewater you don't have a cwm I don't think. it roots, and installs fff, but unless you did the extra steps of downloading it manually then you have a stock kindle recovery.
head over to my gscript thread to install cwm.
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I get a firefirefire thing but when I hold the power button it just turns off
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As posted above you also need some custom recovery like CWM or TWRP.
Otherwise you cannot benefit from FFF
Stuck in TWR
So my kindle keeps booting Team Win recovery now. I am at the point where it installed the firebootlaoder but it didn't go right. Anyone have any suggestions?
Edit: the device was grabbed by another process, killed that process. Able to open an adb shell and ran this "idme bootmode 4000"
back on the road
I have tried at least 10 times with no results. I power down the device, hold both volume buttons and the power button, and nothing. I do get a vibrate after about 2 seconds, but nothing on the screen and then it vibrates every 6-7 seconds until I let go of the buttons. Kind of disappointed as I was all nice and comfortable on the couch, ready to use the Nexus 10 toolkit to do the all-in-one.
Anyone else experience this problem?
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jmcharles said:
I have tried at least 10 times with no results. I power down the device, hold both volume buttons and the power button, and nothing. I do get a vibrate after about 2 seconds, but nothing on the screen and then it vibrates every 6-7 seconds until I let go of the buttons. Kind of disappointed as I was all nice and comfortable on the couch, ready to use the Nexus 10 toolkit to do the all-in-one.
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Try releasing then power button (but hold the other two) when you feel the first vibration. I've found that holding the power button can make a continuous reboot happen.
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Tried that, but no luck. I also went a different route and tried to do it using mskip's toolkit in original android development. After installing the drivers and choosing the options to boot into fastboot, the device vibrated once and nothing showed up on the screen. BUT...when I refreshed the main menu the toolkit recognized the device as in fastboot mode. Really weird happenings with this, and starting to be concerned that my device has some issues. What point is a Google device if I can't unlock or root it?!
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I've had the best luck holding the vol up/down button down first, then while that's down, pressing and holding power until the fastboot menu comes up.
Well, I am at a complete loss. Is this cause for replacement?
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Hold all three buttons at the same time and wait for the vibration and release. It should work.
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Ok, so, I'm not sure what to make of the recent events. Bottom line, I was booting to fastboot mode, but the screen was just blank. I followed the instructions via the toolkit just by selecting the buttons and hoping it was making the correct selections in fastboot mode. Now unlocked, rooted, and a happy man! Still not sure why the fastboot menu would not show up though.
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jmcharles said:
Ok, so, I'm not sure what to make of the recent events. Bottom line, I was booting to fastboot mode, but the screen was just blank. I followed the instructions via the toolkit just by selecting the buttons and hoping it was making the correct selections in fastboot mode. Now unlocked, rooted, and a happy man! Still not sure why the fastboot menu would not show up though.
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I cant get the toolkit to recognize my tablet in fastboot mode. Is there a soluton to the black screen?
If the toolkit does not recognize the device in fastboot, then there's a good chance you didn't install the drivers correctly. Did you follow the directions correctly to get the toolkit to recognize the device?
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jmcharles said:
If the toolkit does not recognize the device in fastboot, then there's a good chance you didn't install the drivers correctly. Did you follow the directions correctly to get the toolkit to recognize the device?
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I got my device unlocked and the device did install the drivers. However, the problem was not that. But here's the thing, my N10 never showed me the fastboot menu. But connected to the PC it does show its connected. I never saw the screen that confirms "do you want to unlock the bootleader" (it goes completely black and vibrates every 5 seconds).
Workaround to unlock: For anyone with this problem, I just had to "guess" that menu (I think its clicking the vol button down once and then the power button). For me it bootlooped. so I pressed the Vol+ and power and in fastboot I booted to stock recovery, from there just wipe factory settings, and voila.
Weird tho that my fastboot screen was completely black
El Niche said:
I got my device unlocked and the device did install the drivers. However, the problem was not that. But here's the thing, my N10 never showed me the fastboot menu. But connected to the PC it does show its connected. I never saw the screen that confirms "do you want to unlock the bootleader" (it goes completely black and vibrates every 5 seconds).
Workaround to unlock: For anyone with this problem, I just had to "guess" that menu (I think its clicking the vol button down once and then the power button). For me it bootlooped. so I pressed the Vol+ and power and in fastboot I booted to stock recovery, from there just wipe factory settings, and voila.
Weird tho that my fastboot screen was completely black
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This is exactly how I had to do it. It's a 50/50 shot, since I think the options are yes or no. Apparently the problem is a little more common, as evidenced by this thread I started in Android General, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2018777
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I am stuck at the flashing X....with the toolkit. Kinda at a lose right now.
mike02vr6 said:
I am stuck at the flashing X....with the toolkit. Kinda at a lose right now.
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Reboot into boot loader, choose recovery, press all three buttons at top at same time if you don't have options to select, then factory reset. This will solve your boot loop.
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The post above is correct. Same thing happened to me. Just factory reset and you should be good to go
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