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Stuck on Splash Screen

I tried to install TWRP last night. I had the img file in the same directory as fastboot, but I received an error message saying "Fastboot not found" I had followed the instructions on the TeamWin site for the Kindle. When I gave up and unplugged my Fire, it appeared fine, but then I rebooted and ever since I've been stuck on the "kindle fire" splash screen. I checked to make sure the drivers are still installed from when I rooted, they are, but my computer won't recognize my fire. I also just tried the new Kindle Fire Utility, running it with admin priveledges and I get message that Fastboot is offline and pressing 1 for Normal just tells me "Waiting for Device..... then The system cannot find the path specified". I also held the power button for 20 seconds to totally shut down and restarted, didn't help. Am I hosed?

Sounds like you are in fastboot (I can be wrong) first make sure you have fastboot installed on your computer (Guide: Link ) next is when its on the kindle splash screen run - fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img

Thank you. I may be getting closer. That did something. I saw the teamwin logo, and now I'm on the yellow triangle. I am not unplugging my Fire yet. Is there a next step? I'll continue researching, but if you can help, I'd really appreciate it

good then your basically done. Just hold the power button down when you start up the kindle until it changes colors and then you will be in recovery mode, then just hit reboot in recovery mode and your good to go.
Also the yellow triangle is the bootloader firefirefire which is bundled with TWRP 2.0

Thank you. I found the answers here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20421225&postcount=222. Rebooting my PC didn't do the trick, I actually had to shut it down for a few minutes and then I followed those instructions. All good and Twrp is verified as installed. Thanks again.

sweet, glad you got it all worked out.

Just did my first nanoid backup Takes up about 500 megs, but now I have the piece of mind! What we need now are some really good roms to choose. Maybe a replacement for Amazon video so we don't have to temp unroot! I think I've been spoiled by my EVO 3D

[Solved] Strange rebooting problem

My kindle fire is rooted and TWRP installed.
All has been fine since this was done, almost a month ago.
Suddenly, the fire keeps rebooting. Further, everytime it reboots, it gets stuck at the yellow triangle with the orange colored button.
I then have to turn it off and on and during the green button phase:
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
and then
fastboot reboot
Work fine. The fire reboots and goes to the "Kindle Fire" logo.
But immediately when the lock screen appears, the fire powers down again. To add insult to injury, it always reboots and gets stuck at the triangle.
I can only connect to the fire during the very limitted time it comes up from a hard power down and the light is green. About 10 seconds. Enough time for the fastboot commands above, but little else.
I cannot enter TWRP recovery mode, either. If I push the green button and it turns to orange, trying to go into recovery, it just hangs with the yellow triangle.
I don't think TWRP is responsible for the reboots, however. Nothing has changed with it since I installed it a few weeks ago. I never managed to get it into recovery mode, but I let it be for a while since it was booting into the system. (I was waiting for CM9 to be ready before I tackled it)
This may have been a mistake as now I have no way to interface with the device, but that's the situation.
The only thing I changed recently was intsall Titanium Backup, but I can't imagine how that would case the reboot problem? I did set it to auto backup, could that be it? (not that I can do anything about it if it was)
I also saw around that some people were having problems with constant reboots in Dec. due to WiFi issues, but supposedly update 6.2.1, which I have, fixed the issue.
Anyway, I'm quite ready to chuck stock for CM7 if that will fix it, but I don't know how to get there from here. Any help would be appreciated.
Oh, and I should mention that I am running linux, not windows, so utilities for windows won't help. Has to be a manual solution.
Tom

sound like a battery issue - tried to charge with the wall-charger for an hour or so to get it stable ?
if it will help you there is also a kfu for mac/linux:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21369040&postcount=653

b63 said:
sound like a battery issue - tried to charge with the wall-charger for an hour or so to get it stable ?
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I thought of that! I did leave it plugged in overnight, last night, but I am not wholly sure the KF will recharge when not turned on.
if it will help you there is also a kfu for mac/linux:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21369040&postcount=653
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I can't believe I missed that! Thanks so much. Maybe it will help, I'll let you know.
Tom

I cannot explain this, but I reinstalled TWRP with the utility and now all is well.
The battery is, in fact, fully charged, so that wasn't the issue.
Seems to have been connected to my boched instillation of TWRP, thought I can't imagine how or why it would take almost a month ot manifest itself.
Strange, but I'm glad it's working. Thanks for pointing out the KFU for linux!
Tom

glad to help ...
please mark the subject of the topic (edit first post) with [Solved]

Ha! I believe I figured it out.
Amazon pushed out 6.2.2 and that broke root again. Working on the fix...
Damn, I thought I had it set up not to update.
Will fix OP with solved, thanks.

[Q]KF Screen won't turn on... on Energy

So my roommate got a KF yesterday for $80, handed it off to me to root and ROM it as I'm very familiar with rooting, etc on my Android phone (Droid X) did some read-ups, rooted using KF Utility, installed TWRP, all went without a hitch. Had put him on CM7 barebones, he didn't like it and wanted ICS, so I installed Energy. Seemed to be running good, besides the usual ICS KF things I'd read (hardware accel, etc.) dropped it off with him and left for work.
He left it on the charger overnight last night, brings it down to my room this morning, and it won't turn on. If you press Power the light will stay on for about 2 seconds and go off, screen doesn't even flicker. If you have it plugged in to USB (either computer or stock charger) can't get it on at all, power light doesn't even flicker when already plugged in to USB and trying to turn on. Not even KF screen or the yellow triangle. Just nothing. If I press and HOLD power so the green LED stays on, and THEN plug it into USB, the green LED stays on without me holding power. Its the only way to get it to do it. Alas, still no screen. Tried hooking up to KF Utility, device not recognized, all boot options fail (fastboot, etc.)
Any ideas?

Goose306 said:
So my roommate got a KF yesterday for $80, handed it off to me to root and ROM it as I'm very familiar with rooting, etc on my Android phone (Droid X) did some read-ups, rooted using KF Utility, installed TWRP, all went without a hitch. Had put him on CM7 barebones, he didn't like it and wanted ICS, so I installed Energy. Seemed to be running good, besides the usual ICS KF things I'd read (hardware accel, etc.) dropped it off with him and left for work.
He left it on the charger overnight last night, brings it down to my room this morning, and it won't turn on. If you press Power the light will stay on for about 2 seconds and go off, screen doesn't even flicker. If you have it plugged in to USB (either computer or stock charger) can't get it on at all, power light doesn't even flicker when already plugged in to USB and trying to turn on. Not even KF screen or the yellow triangle. Just nothing. If I press and HOLD power so the green LED stays on, and THEN plug it into USB, the green LED stays on without me holding power. Its the only way to get it to do it. Alas, still no screen. Tried hooking up to KF Utility, device not recognized, all boot options fail (fastboot, etc.)
Any ideas?
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Did you try to press the power key for about 20 - 30 seconds and then turn it on again?

Same thing happened to me, same rom. Just turned off like that when I unplugged the charger..
I just held the power button for like 25 seconds and it restarted.
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Sound like you have one of two problems. Either you have a bad TWRP installation or your bootloader has failed.
First make sure you are in fastboot mode (i.e. fastboot idme 4002) and try installing a different recovery.img
fastboot -i 0×1949 boot WhateverRecoveryYouAreUsing.img
I suggest using ClockworkMod but that's just my opinion. If that doesn't work you may need to reinstall your bootloader.
You can get a new bootloader here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369405
unzip the u-boot.zip and place the u-boot.bin in your working directory (wherever you are running fastboot from) and type:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin (Windows)
./fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin (Linux/Mac)
see if that works for you
edit: oh and change bootmode back to 4000

Please help, anyone! |Bricked|

I would like to start off by saying that I am sorry for posting this, you must get tired of so many posts on bricked fire's. I would really love it if someone could help!​My kindle fire has been bricked for about 5 days now and I can't find anything that will unbrick it, I've tried everything within my power (I even bought a factory cable). When i power it on, it is stuck at the stock Kindle Fire logo and my computer does not recognize it at all. This happened after i tried to re-root it through the Kindle Fire Utility. Like I mentioned before, I am sorry if this post is annoying but I would REEEAALLY appreciate if anyone could help!

Do you have twrp installed
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Sounds like it is stuck in fastboot a factory cable and the correct drivers should let you change the boot mode
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wiseson said:
Do you have twrp installed
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
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I think that it installed FFF, and was trying to install twrp when it stopped working

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ztkryan said:
Sounds like it is stuck in fastboot a factory cable and the correct drivers should let you change the boot mode
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I think i did have the right drivers installed, i had the previous one installed (the guide that i used said that it would be fine). And i installed the drivers that came with the KFU

Not annoying per se, but it's in the wrong section.
What does your boot screen look like? The one that shows up as soon as you power on the KF, not when it starts loading a ROM after a few seconds.

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Dasanko said:
Not annoying per se, but it's in the wrong section.
What does your boot screen look like? The one that shows up as soon as you power on the KF, not when it starts loading a ROM after a few seconds.
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As soon as I press the power button, it shows the stock kindle fire boot logo and stays like that untili turn it off.

Plug it in with the factory cable. Make sure it shows as "Android ADB Interface" in the device manager, then flash TWRP 2.1.1 (fastboot flash recovery twrp.img - check the file's hash first), continue with "fastboot oem idme bootmode 5001", then switch to a regular cable and restart the KF (either force it off and then turn it back on, or "fastboot reboot").
If all goes well, it should boot straight into TWRP, from which you can install FFF (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632375), as well as wipe cache, dalvik-cache and factory reset. Hopefully that'll be enough to get the stock ROM back up, so long as system and boot are fine.

Help - battery ran out and has corrupted apps / OS?

Hi,
With a battery capacity of 2% I decided to carry on and listen to one more Blink 182 song, then it died halfway through. Put the phone on charge and now stuck in endless reboot loops. Normally the reboot happens during the Cyanogen splash screen, sometimes it makes it past there to an "Optimising Apps" window where it will optimise all apps, but then as soon as it says "Starting apps" it reboots.
I was on stock OS. I have had something similar happen before - always when the battery has died. Previously using the Zuk Z1 toolkit fastboot commands seems to have worked (although I'm not sure if it has ever actually reflashed it as fastboot doesn't appear to work now).
I have tried using fastboot to reflash (stock OS, later ones) - fastboot flash doesn't seem to work (device locked). Using ADB sideload I can reflash (YOG4PAS3AJ, YOG4PAS7DF, YOG4PAS9IG) , but the same ting happens - it seems when the apps are compiled and run it reboots.
All I care about is my photos and videos of my kids - have given up on the phone now (living with a broken home button is frustrating enough).
Can anyone suggest anything? If I could boot the phone up into some sort of safe mode where the apps don't run maybe it would help, but maybe there is no "safe mode" in CM 12.1? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

can you boot into bootloader/fastboot menu etc? being there connect phone to laptop/computer & see if pc shows you the phone drive so that you can copy data for now?

RZukZ1 said:
Hi,
With a battery capacity of 2% I decided to carry on and listen to one more Blink 182 song, then it died halfway through. Put the phone on charge and now stuck in endless reboot loops. Normally the reboot happens during the Cyanogen splash screen, sometimes it makes it past there to an "Optimising Apps" window where it will optimise all apps, but then as soon as it says "Starting apps" it reboots.
I was on stock OS. I have had something similar happen before - always when the battery has died. Previously using the Zuk Z1 toolkit fastboot commands seems to have worked (although I'm not sure if it has ever actually reflashed it as fastboot doesn't appear to work now).
I have tried using fastboot to reflash (stock OS, later ones) - fastboot flash doesn't seem to work (device locked). Using ADB sideload I can reflash (YOG4PAS3AJ, YOG4PAS7DF, YOG4PAS9IG) , but the same ting happens - it seems when the apps are compiled and run it reboots.
All I care about is my photos and videos of my kids - have given up on the phone now (living with a broken home button is frustrating enough).
Can anyone suggest anything? If I could boot the phone up into some sort of safe mode where the apps don't run maybe it would help, but maybe there is no "safe mode" in CM 12.1? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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You can temporarily boot twrp using fastboot.
fastboot - i 0x2b4c boot twrp.img

Tani2 said:
can you boot into bootloader/fastboot menu etc? being there connect phone to laptop/computer & see if pc shows you the phone drive so that you can copy data for now?
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I can get into fastboot menu on the phone, and it shows up as a device in windows, but not as a storage device - I don't know if this is normal?
I'll try the fastboot twrp suggestion now, but I think all fastboot commands return "device locked".
Thanks for your attention guys.

Hi,
I have tried to temporarily boot using twrp without the "-i 0x2b4c" and got the following:
FAILED (remote: bootimage: incomplete or not signed)
When I add the -I 0x2b4c switch nothing seems to happen....
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