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So, I've been up all night after buying this Fire trying to fix it, and I've decided to go along with my original decision to just return it. I'll rewind a bit to give you guys a play by play to show how I got to what I've determined is a FUBAR situation, and hopefully you guys can help me at least remove TWRP so I can return it without much issue.
If it's tl;dr, I bolded the main errors I got from the console and TWRP
1. I purchased my Kindle Fire from Best Buy with a 1 Year Protection plan, so in all reality, I could just break it in half and get a replacement, but I don't necessarily want a replacement.
2. I initially purchased it for my mom, but when I found out that the stock Fire OS didn't have Korean input or the option to have a Korean interface, I did a bit of research and started reading up on how to root, how to install the market, things like that. My mom's not a native English speaker, so this was an important thing for her, etc etc.
3. I read multiple guides on this forum and others, and rooted using the guide found here , since a few of the threads I was reading through seemed to point in that direction, and I had a bad experience with SOCR on my Droid X.
4. The root was successful, so I moved on and used KFU .3 to do the rest of the important bits; android market, etc etc.
5. Everything was working fine, but, after looking through it, I realized that it wouldn't work for what I needed it to, and I would have to return it, so, I attempted to unroot the tablet using TWRP's interface.
6. I cleared the cache, the devlak cache, and system wiped, then restored using the system restore point in the TWRP folder, figuring after that, the Kindle would boot up with stock OS and then I would just system restore the default way. This method got me stuck in a recovery-loop, and no matter what I did, the Fire always booted to recovery mode.
7. I figured I had bricked it, so I followed the steps in this guide, but always seemed to have problems at the step where I have to chmod 755 of the zergRush. I get "Not a directory" error, which after doing some research, I believe is on account of me no longer having rw privilege?
8. I looked around some more, ignoring that guide, and found a method to force-push the amazon update, but TWRP would no longer run the update, saying it could not Mount the SD Card due to an Invalid Argument, and I have yet to determine what that means.
9. After manually changing it to fastboot in an attempt to at least get it out of recovery mode, I have the Fire recognizable as a device in my ADB, but it is now stuck in a fastboot loop, and when I attempt to re-root it in order to give myself rw privileges again, it stalls on "waiting for device" and never gets past that point.
Update
I tried to reroot while the Fire was stuck in the Kindle Fire splash screen using the KFU tool, and used zergRush, but the error message I got was - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) - 4 times over.
What I think the problem is, is that when I wiped the cache/devlak cache/ and system reformatted, it wiped my SU privileges, and as a result, no longer allowed me to write the backup to the Fire, therefore leaving me in a perpetual state of limbo?
What I'm asking for from you is;
What can I do to fix this?
Is there any more information you need/want from me?
And finally,
Is there an easy way for me to remove TWRP from the system?
Thank you.
Hi!
There are a lot of great tips regarding TWRP and fastboot over at RootzWiki.
Some users are reporting the same fastboot loop that you currently experience. I suggest you read the thread and follow the suggestions. One suggestion which you may want to try first is the one in this post.
Thank you for the reply. I did as you suggested and followed the links and the post on the guide, and although that did change the nature of my fastboot loop, I'm still stuck in a fastboot loop.
I was initially stuck in a fastboot loop on the Kindle Fire logo, which I determined by running fastboot devices, while it was stuck on that logo, and it showed the device as being fastboot. After following that guide, and using the hard reset, then using the "How to Unbrick" in order to change back to a normal boot, I'm stuck in a fastboot loop on the TWRP splash screen of a triangle with a fire in it. I'll continue looking through the guides to see if I can solve the problem, but thank you once again, and sorry for not clarifying which type of fastboot loop I was in.
Sorry it didn't work out! However...
isjonamon said:
I'm stuck in a fastboot loop on the TWRP splash screen of a triangle with a fire in it.
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I really though the solution posted over at RootzWizi would solve this problem. Getting stuck at the yellow triangle is 'common'. I really though adding
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100&MI_01
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to android_winusb.inf would solve it. But if you are able to recognize your Fire in fastboot mode via your PC, I guess that's not where your problem is.
Is this tip to any help?
And lastly... the great Kindle Fire Utility thread is worth checking out, in case you haven't already
I hope you'll find a solution to this problem!
I've tried the tip you linked me to, and sadly it didn't do anything for me.
Moving on, though, I'm reading through the KFU thread again to see if there was anything I missed, and decided I might as well try re-flashing to CM7 to see if I can at least get it working up to a rooted/rom standpoint. I figure from there, I can at least have a working platform to factory reset from. If I can't do that... well...
Does anyone know a way to just return everything to factory settings? To just wipe everything and make it so it turns on like it's out of the box? Either through adb commands, or TWRP or anything?
Sorry for the double post, but I managed to get CM7 back up on my Fire, and managed to regain SU access. Can anyone point me to a guide to restoring it back to its former "glory" so I can return it?
Fixed it!!
For anyone interested, this is what worked for me;
From where I ended up with the problem, I followed hachiueno's advice and read through the KFU's thread as well as the TWRP thread on Rootzwiki, that led me to adding those lines to the device firmware, which I think was the first step in the solution, so...
Step 1. Add
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0100&MI_01
to android_winusb.inf , then restart your computer with your Fire unplugged.
After that, I was inspired, through reading the KFU thread, to attempt to manually install CM7 since I wasn't having much luck zergRushing on my own, so, I went to the CM7 thread and pushed the Update.zip there, and used my TWRP to install that, effectively rebuilding my filestructure, since it seems the Kindle Fire doesn't have so much as a SH folder in it.
Step 2. MANUALLY (maybe) install CM7 if you can.
Once I got CM7 up and working, using the USB mounting option, I replaced the update.zip in the sdcard folder with the Amazon 6.2 firmware downloaded from their website, renamed to update.zip, and then unmounted my fire from my laptop.
Step 3. Download the Amazon 6.2 Firmware from amazon's website (I can't post...), rename it to update.zip, and replace the CM7 mod update.zip in your /sdcard directory with it.
Then, I figured if I ran TWRP like it was supposed to run, and just ran the update.zip like any other ROM, it should fill in the blanks in the filesstructure, bypassing Amazon's own lack of certain folders, and various other things, filling in the gaps as they were. The next step might be entirely redundant, since I'm a bit clueless, and it might have been entirely luck on my part, but I initially forgot to wipe my cache, devlak cache, and system restore, so I did all that and did it again, and my wishful thinking leads me to believe that doing that saved my ass from having a crapton of errors....
Step 4. Using the install function on TWRP, install the renamed Amazon update.zip, reboot, clear your cache, devlak cache, system reformat, then reinstall the update.zip. Reboot one more time, and you should come up to the Kindle Fire splash screen. Leave it for a few minutes, and it'll be like it just came out of the box.
Thanks for all your help. I love you. Seriously. No homo. Maybe a little. I love you.
Good to hear that you managed to boot it again!
isjonamon said:
Sorry for the double post, but I managed to get CM7 back up on my Fire, and managed to regain SU access. Can anyone point me to a guide to restoring it back to its former "glory" so I can return it?
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This guide seems to be an easy solution to this. However, no one has replied any success or failure, so not sure if it's 100% bulletproof for everyone... if I were you, I would follow JackpotClavin's guide here. He's a known developer here and knows what he's doing, and many successful replies from users having used this method... so yeah, just to be 'sure' (can you ever be...?) that you won't experience any further problems, I recommend the last one.
I actually used the first guide in order to get the Amazon update, but couldn't post a reply since I'm still a noob. I had to do a few things differently, and ultimately got a few different results, but posted up my own version of the steps.
Once again, thanks for all your help!
It seems to me that the majority of problems people are having are driver related. When I was using KFU to install TWRP it stalled half way through and just said waiting for device. Just had to install drivers again and it happily completed the install.
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all u needed do initially was change bootmode it seemed. thrn u went and did all kinds of stuff that wasnt necessary.
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smirkis said:
all u needed do initially was change bootmode it seemed. thrn u went and did all kinds of stuff that wasnt necessary.
sent from my kindle fire
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I actually changed bootmodes quite frequently, following multiple threads and guides, changing from recovery, to normal, to fastboot, and back and forth when called for. Changing to fastboot stuck me in an eternal fastboot loop, changing to normal reverted me to a recovery loop, and recovery was the only bootmode I could access adb from.
Sheolrock said:
It seems to me that the majority of problems people are having are driver related. When I was using KFU to install TWRP it stalled half way through and just said waiting for device. Just had to install drivers again and it happily completed the install.
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Driver issues seemed to be part of the problem for me, but just updating the drivers didn't fix the issue entirely. I'm jealous that you got it to work with just a driver update...
Hey i believe im in the same problem but i keep reading the posts and im still stuck and i have no idea what to do im worried that i cant fix it.... Some please help me ASAP
Thanks in advance
wrong boot mode ?
with adb:
adb shell su -c "idme bootmode 4000"
adb reboot
with fastboot:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
bad drivers ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20855280&postcount=54
I have had the looping problem and none of these would fix it. I got it to work by adding those lines to android_winusb and running the run.bat, trying to make it switch to normal mode as the kindle was turning on. Somewhere along the yellow triangle when it was loading it accepted the command from KFU. Hope this helps, only thing that worked for me.
the drivers i included contain all the necessary entries in adb_usb.ini and android_winusb.inf
Please can someone help me!?
I did idme bootmode 4002 and now my fire won't boot up or show up in android adb. Any solution?
awidawad said:
I did idme bootmode 4002 and now my fire won't boot up or show up in android adb. Any solution?
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you switched it to fastboot (4002) - adb commands are not working in fastboot mode !
little guide:
driver (under android phone):
normal & recovery boot: -> android composite adb interface
fastboot: -> android adb interface
here all the possible commands to change bootmode:
with adb (secure kernel):
adb shell su -c "idme bootmode 4000"
adb reboot
or (twrp or unsecure kernel):
adb shell idme bootmode 4000
adb reboot
with fastboot:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
or:
fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x18d1 reboot
or:
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
the number is the bootmode you want to switch to:
normal boot -> 4000
fastboot -> 4002
boot to recovery -> 5001
and if you know:
normal boot -> adb commands YES -> fastboot commands NO
fastboot -> adb commands NO -> fastboot commands YES
recovery -> adb commands YES -> fastboot commands NO
then you only have to count 1 and 1 together and can master nearly each hanging situation !
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Not sure if this is totally helpful to anyone but originally I thought the thread was started with a posting of being stuck bootlooping into twrp in recovery mode with a complete loss of file structure. I had this same issue my Kindle would not start in anything but straight to twrp and if I tried to flash my CM9 ICS rom it was not there and only the twrp folder empty was. So I went to mount and mounted usb storage and moved the stock update zip file from amazon to the twrp folder and flashed that. Worked like a charm now I appear to be straight stock. I am no developer of this stuff I just am a bit of a tinkerer so don't understand all the code stuff but it starts like a normal kindle and appears totally stock. So hopefuly that helps you return your deice to stock for return or to continue wahtever modifications you intend.
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Before you get all mad at me, I know there is another thread for this. This is a method that has worked for me when all other methods have failed.
I found out about this after looking around the interwebs for a while when my Kindle was stuck in a recovery loop, or stuck at the boot logo.
Your Kindle is stuck at the boot logo? I think I can help! Follow these steps!
This is WINDOWS ONLY for the time being!
1. Download and extract Kindle Fire Utility. You should be able to easily find it on the xda forums.
2. Reboot your PC.
2.5. If you have FIREFIREFIRE, go into the drivers folder in the Kindle Fire Utility and open up adb_usb.ini. Add the following line:
Code:
0x18d1
Do not delete the other lines.
3. After the reboot, connect your Kindle via USB. Go into where you unzipped Kindle Fire Utility, and run install_drivers.bat
4. Once that's done, open up a command prompt and navigate to the "tools" folder of the Kindle Fire Utility.
You do this by using this command:
Code:
cd (File path to tools folder)
Or in my case:
Code:
cd C:\Users\ZombiePiratez\Desktop\KFire Utility\Kindle Fire Utility\tools
5. After that, run the following commands:
If you DO NOT have FIREFIREFIRE, then use these commands:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
If you DO have FIREFIREFIRE
Code:
fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x18d1 reboot
If all else fails, try these commands:
Code:
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
6. Hopefully by this point, your Kindle will be rebooting. THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE. Only people stuck at the bootlogo, or in a recovery loop.
Now, go have fun with your newly awesome and unbricked Kindle Fire!
What is firefirefire? Have yet to see a formal definition of that
androidcues said:
What is firefirefire? Have yet to see a formal definition of that
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Its a bootloader
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Thanks Man, I was messing around with CM7 and I rebooted into recovery not knowing that it would keep me in a recovery boot loop and KFU wasn't helping trying to help me.
Tierehl said:
Thanks Man, I was messing around with CM7 and I rebooted into recovery not knowing that it would keep me in a recovery boot loop and KFU wasn't helping trying to help me.
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Happy to help
Zombiepiratez said:
Before you get all mad at me, I know there is another thread for this. This is a method that has worked for me when all other methods have failed.
I found out about this after looking around the interwebs for a while when my Kindle was stuck in a recovery loop, or stuck at the boot logo.
Your Kindle is stuck at the boot logo? I think I can help! Follow these steps!
This is WINDOWS ONLY for the time being!
1. Download and extract Kindle Fire Utility. You should be able to easily find it on the xda forums.
2. Reboot your PC.
2.5. If you have FIREFIREFIRE, go into the drivers folder in the Kindle Fire Utility and open up adb_usb.ini. Add the following line:
Code:
0x18d1
Do not delete the other lines.
3. After the reboot, connect your Kindle via USB. Go into where you unzipped Kindle Fire Utility, and run install_drivers.bat
4. Once that's done, open up a command prompt and navigate to the "tools" folder of the Kindle Fire Utility.
You do this by using this command:
Code:
cd (File path to tools folder)
Or in my case:
Code:
cd C:\Users\ZombiePiratez\Desktop\KFire Utility\Kindle Fire Utility\tools
5. After that, run the following commands:
If you DO NOT have FIREFIREFIRE, then use these commands:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
If you DO have FIREFIREFIRE
Code:
fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x18d1 reboot
If all else fails, try these commands:
Code:
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
6. Hopefully by this point, your Kindle will be rebooting. THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE. Only people stuck at the bootlogo, or in a recovery loop.
Now, go have fun with your newly awesome and unbricked Kindle Fire!
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Unfortunately this will only work if your windows based computer even recognizes the kindle, which mine doesn't. Thanks tho. I've given mine to my tech geek who has access to linux based system, so hopefully he will be able to recover my brick.
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Sorry about that. I wish I could help.
I am a newbie. I recover my kf using the recovery boot with kfu and it works fine now. how could
I know if it is in the recovery boot loop? Many thanks.
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Zombiepiratez said:
Sorry about that. I wish I could help.
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Its ok. I read everywhere its impossible to brick a kindle so im hoping that's true.
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My Windows PC wouldn't recognize my KF stuck in recovery mode, either. I think it reported in as an "unknown USB device" or something. I had to shut down the Kindle and then plug the USB in, which for whatever reason got my computer to recognize it. I think it might be similar to the effect of a battery drain?
*Snip*
Double post, fail.
CiggyPipe said:
My Windows PC wouldn't recognize my KF stuck in recovery mode, either. I think it reported in as an "unknown USB device" or something. I had to shut down the Kindle and then plug the USB in, which for whatever reason got my computer to recognize it. I think it might be similar to the effect of a battery drain?
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Did it just immediately recognize it, or did you have to re-install drivers? And i'm not sure about the battery drain thing...
CiggyPipe said:
My Windows PC wouldn't recognize my KF stuck in recovery mode, either. I think it reported in as an "unknown USB device" or something. I had to shut down the Kindle and then plug the USB in, which for whatever reason got my computer to recognize it. I think it might be similar to the effect of a battery drain?
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Tried that to no avail as well.
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Zombiepiratez said:
Did it just immediately recognize it, or did you have to re-install drivers? And i'm not sure about the battery drain thing...
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I guess I should make note that by this point I'd uninstalled the driver I used. It was recognized as "kindle" once after I plugged it in while off, so then I went ahead and manually reinstalled the driver (from Jayce Ooi's site), which allowed the fastboot commands to work. Otherwise, the command would hang at <waiting for device>.
Thanks! My kindle fire was stuck at the firefirefire logo. My computer couldn't even recognize my kindle but I uninstalled the Android ADB composite interface and plugged it back in, when the kindle was off. Then I used your commands to get fastboot. I installed TWRP, now I'm stuck in TWRP and can't mount my sd... to flash any rom.
Thanks
Thanks for the info. i thought i'd bricked it and the info worked a treat. that will teach me to keep my mouth shut "of course i can root your kindle"
try fixing permissions under advanced, and then make sure only the sdcard box is marked in mount option.
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Zombiepiratez said:
Before you get all mad at me, I know there is another thread for this. This is a method that has worked for me when all other methods have failed.
I found out about this after looking around the interwebs for a while when my Kindle was stuck in a recovery loop, or stuck at the boot logo.
Your Kindle is stuck at the boot logo? I think I can help! Follow these steps!
This is WINDOWS ONLY for the time being!
1. Download and extract Kindle Fire Utility. You should be able to easily find it on the xda forums.
2. Reboot your PC.
2.5. If you have FIREFIREFIRE, go into the drivers folder in the Kindle Fire Utility and open up adb_usb.ini. Add the following line:
Code:
0x18d1
Do not delete the other lines.
3. After the reboot, connect your Kindle via USB. Go into where you unzipped Kindle Fire Utility, and run install_drivers.bat
4. Once that's done, open up a command prompt and navigate to the "tools" folder of the Kindle Fire Utility.
You do this by using this command:
Code:
cd (File path to tools folder)
Or in my case:
Code:
cd C:\Users\ZombiePiratez\Desktop\KFire Utility\Kindle Fire Utility\tools
5. After that, run the following commands:
If you DO NOT have FIREFIREFIRE, then use these commands:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
If you DO have FIREFIREFIRE
Code:
fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x18d1 reboot
If all else fails, try these commands:
Code:
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
6. Hopefully by this point, your Kindle will be rebooting. THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE. Only people stuck at the bootlogo, or in a recovery loop.
Now, go have fun with your newly awesome and unbricked Kindle Fire!
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I'm sorry but I tried all the steps above but KF's still stuck at boot logo. I flashed CM9 stock kernel 3.0 with FFF 1.4a and CWR, wiped everything and factory reset, then install...but it just hangs at the blue skating droid logo... any idea?
jamesphan said:
I'm sorry but I tried all the steps above but KF's still stuck at boot logo. I flashed CM9 stock kernel 3.0 with FFF 1.4a and CWR, wiped everything and factory reset, then install...but it just hangs at the blue skating droid logo... any idea?
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The Unbrick utility won't help in your case. When the device hangs at the boot animation or goes to a blank screen afterwards, the problem is usually one of three things.
* the rom installed is corrupted
* you didn't wipe the necessary data before installing
* you tried flashing a rom that's incompatible with the recovery you are using (I'm betting this is most likely the case)
Try installing a different rom (preferably non-ICS) to see if that fixes the problem. Of so, check to see if you're using the latest version of CWM by Hashcode or install TWRP to run ICS based roms.
Any further questions regarding this matter should be redirected to the Q&A section.
[Edit:] For some reason I thought this was the thread for the Unbrick Utility. Regardless, the solution is still the same.
You are a GENIOUS!!!
Thanks a LOT!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys I rooted my Kindle Fire with no problems.
Then I went on to what you guys know will follow after a root.
Flashing a custom recovery so that I can install a rom.
Well I followed this guide here:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12363-how-to-windows-install-twrp-20-on-your-kindle-fire/
Yes I had the recovery in the same folder etc...
After I typed the following:
adb shell
idme bootmode 4002
exit
fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
I got stuck at the Yellow Fire Triangle
I pulled open the case and unplugged the battery.
Even after that it boots right into the Fire Triangle.
I am using Ubuntu Linux.
Can anyone help me get out of this situation. Or does anyone know what I did wrong?
I herd about the kindle fire utility but im running Ubuntu not windows.
thanks guys
roketteere said:
Hey guys I rooted my Kindle Fire with no problems.
Then I went on to what you guys know will follow after a root.
Flashing a custom recovery so that I can install a rom.
Well I followed this guide here:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12363-how-to-windows-install-twrp-20-on-your-kindle-fire/
Yes I had the recovery in the same folder etc...
After I typed the following:
adb shell
idme bootmode 4002
exit
fastboot -i 0x1949 boot twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img
I got stuck at the Yellow Fire Triangle
I pulled open the case and unplugged the battery.
Even after that it boots right into the Fire Triangle.
I am using Ubuntu Linux.
Can anyone help me get out of this situation. Or does anyone know what I did wrong?
I herd about the kindle fire utility but im running Ubuntu not windows.
thanks guys
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Plug it in and type
Fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
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It says <waiting for device>
And nothing happens
I don't know if it helps but before it booted into that mode the vendor id on the usb was 1949.
Now the vedor id is 18D1
I'm not sure if that helps but that's what I have.
Thanks
Try running fastboot as root.
issue "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
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 got it working last night. The problem was that it did flash a recovery it just wouldn't boot into recovery for some reason. I kept click and holding the power button until it finally rebooted into normal mode.
Then Instead of using twrp recovery I flashed cwm and installed ICS.
Thank you all for helping me.
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glad that you got it working ...
please mark the subject of the topic (edit first post) with [Solved]
There done.
Thank u again for the help peops
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I know how to get out of it by tying fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
but when i open kindle fire utility 0.9.5 i try to install firefirefire or twrp but it just reboots and gets stuck on the kindlefire logo. what do i do. i believe i installed all the drivers just like it said
i get a online and 4000 status on the utility.
it says the img has been found in the utility
also i havent even seen a yellow triangle yet
I assume you rooted first...?
jluke86 said:
I assume you rooted first...?
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yes.
i install the google apps with the utlity and it worked fine
im not sure why i cant get into recoverymode
KFU 0.9.5 does not seem to produce the yellow triangle upon startup. The only way I could enter TWRP was to run the utility again and install TWRP from scratch. 0.9.1 does not have this problem though.
Uninstall your drivers. Reinstall them manually.
Use command prompt to enter fastboot command.
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I finally managed to unbrick my KF and reroot it a few weeks ago only for amazon to come out with 6.2.3 or whatever the new version is and of course it unrooted it.
I have a MacBook Pro so I decided to use BreakDroid to reroot my KF.
Well in the process of doing so it installed CWM which has turned into a total monster.
Now my KF will only load to either the Yellow Triangle screen or the CWM-based Recovery menu screen. I keep trying to boot it out of that mode by using
cd /Users/macuser/android-sdk-macosx/tools
./fastboot-mac -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 5002
but that just seems to take me to the red CWM menu screen.
Does anybody know how I can get CWM off of my KF for GOOD?
I swear if I see that red menu or that yellow triangle again I'm going to throw it across the room.
Help a girl out?
To change to normal boot, use 4000 or use the following fast boot commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
or
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
then fastboot reboot
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Didn't Work
I tried that...it didn't work either. It just brought me back to that stupid yellow triangle.
Since you have cwm, restore your backup or flash your desirable ROM.
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=D
You know I actually decided to do that on my own before I read your post and it totally worked! Thank you for giving me the advice though.
I am glad you got your KF working
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I tried this but it didn't seem to work for me.
One problem is when I renamed the update to "update.zip" it doesnt show up as a file I can install in TWRP. However, when I actually .zip the update then it shows up.
I used install and it says "installing" with a progress bar, but when I reboot it goes right back into TWRP recovery mode.
My kindle is fully accessible through Kindle Fire Utility, but it will only stay in recovery mode, If I try to put it back into normal mode it gives a message "The system cannot find the drive specified".
I think at some point I deleted the system files using TWRP assuming I could just flash them back. I'm guessing I was wrong at this point.
Any help would be appreciated.
all u had to do, was tap reboot system on cwm. its not twrp, it ain't broken. no adb boot mode changes. just reboot lol
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