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[Q] ADB Way into recovery, bootloop

Okay so I flashed a rom and im stuck in a bootloop, but I cant get into recovery to restore a nandroid. My power button receded so as soon as I put in a battery it immediately turns on. But if i go into bootloader, not the power button nor the volume keys will work. So I cant get into recovery that way. Is there any other way like with adb in bootloader? Or am i screwed lol.
Thanks in advance for help, I could really use it.

adb reboot bootloader
adb reboot recovery
It should be obvious what they do. Bootloader won't do you much good without a power button.
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estallings15 said:
adb reboot bootloader
adb reboot recovery
It should be obvious what they do. Bootloader won't do you much good without a power button.
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I tried running adb in the bootloader but it wont connect to my phone. What exactly should I be typing to connect it? Its plugged in with a usb cord. Sorry, obviously im a huge newb

perhac89 said:
I tried running adb in the bootloader but it wont connect to my phone. What exactly should I be typing to connect it? Its plugged in with a usb cord. Sorry, obviously im a huge newb
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if you are in bootloader mode, make sure the phone says FASTBOOT USB somewhere on the screen when connected to the computer.
then type
Code:
fastboot reboot (whatever it is you want to reboot to)
adb only works in recovery or android itself.

saranhai said:
if you are in bootloader mode, make sure the phone says FASTBOOT USB somewhere on the screen when connected to the computer.
then type
Code:
fastboot reboot (whatever it is you want to reboot to)
adb only works in recovery or android itself.
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Then only thing Im getting is Hboot Usb Plug, not Fastboot Usb
Edit: Okay now I have Fastboot USB showing, but cmd doesnt recognize fastboot, nor will it connect to my device

Just boot the phone in the regular way.
While it boots, in bootanimation or even a bit before that, execute "adb reboot recovery".

Jack_R1 said:
Just boot the phone in the regular way.
While it boots, in bootanimation or even a bit before that, execute "adb reboot recovery".
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All Im getting when I do this is error device not found

Bump.
I can't get it back into fastboot usb either, I think the power button fixed for a second before and selected fastboot.

Do you have a warranty on this phone?
If not, you may want to open it where you can access the power button more easily.
Before you do that though, get it caught in a bootloop and try adb reboot recovery. Reboot and try again at a different point. It should work eventually. Persistence might pay off.
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perhac89 said:
All Im getting when I do this is error device not found
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Since you're in the bootloop, your device is connecting and disconnecting. See when it connects (easily recognized Windows "USB device connected" sound), then execute "adb reboot recovery" until the command catches or the phone reboots. Attempt several times.
If it won't work - open the phone and fix the button.

I bricked my KF PLEASE HELP

I installed the drivers and everything worked fine. I then rooted it. No Problems. Then I go to install a recovery with Kindle Fire Utility. I press 5 and then enter. It said it installed it and would restart. It restarted into the yellow triangle and now it says device not recognized. I tried to run the Unbrick utility but my PC no longer recognizes my KF. Please help, I bought it today and immediately started rooting. I rooted my Evo without a problem but Idk what to do.

Read through the Unbrick Utility thread. The answers are there.
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borborpa said:
Read through the Unbrick Utility thread. The answers are there.
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Ok, I have it unbricked. I just need to figure out how to get it to recognize my device

rkeenan said:
I installed the drivers and everything worked fine. I then rooted it. No Problems. Then I go to install a recovery with Kindle Fire Utility. I press 5 and then enter. It said it installed it and would restart. It restarted into the yellow triangle and now it says device not recognized. I tried to run the Unbrick utility but my PC no longer recognizes my KF. Please help, I bought it today and immediately started rooting. I rooted my Evo without a problem but Idk what to do.
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your KF is OK. Configure your PC to use android composite driver to get adb working and use the following commands:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
or
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
then fastboot reboot
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Yeah, I had just regular ADB drivers before and then I saw in the unbrick thread to use ADB composite. That fixed all of my problems. Thank you. I now have ICS on my KF

U should chang the bootmode to 4000
better use the factory cable

I closed the command prompt while installing TWRP. Please help me.

First off, I am very much an iOS person, so Android is very new to me. Bear with me.
My brother got a Kindle Fire today, and naturally I told him he should root it, etc. I rooted it and was installing TWRP 2.0 with Kindle Fire Utility. Unfortunately, silly me accidentally closed the CMD window, resulting in...bad things. It won't boot, the computer will not recognize a USB storage device, and it is stuck on the Kindle Fire logo. KFU does not see it either.
Please someone help. Bro will be pissed if I broke his Fire day one...

Uninstall/reinstall device drivers and try again.
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soupmagnet said:
Uninstall/reinstall device drivers and try again.
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How?

kona314 said:
How?
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oh my
http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/12/13/how-to-install-kindle-fire-adb-usb-driver/
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soupmagnet said:
oh my
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Yeah, I figured it out, I just came back to edit the post haha.
That did nothing.

OK so you've uninstalled and manually reinstalled your drivers, right?
Are you using KFU or just command prompt to change your bootmode?
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soupmagnet said:
OK so you've uninstalled and manually reinstalled your drivers, right?
Are you using KFU or just command prompt to change your bootmode?
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Neither one even recognize a Kindle.

OK, so command prompt it is.
Turn your Kindle off.
In your command prompt type (don't enter)...
fastboot devices
Plug your Kindle into the computer. It should turn itself on.
Wait about 3 seconds and hit enter. It should return a string of numbers.
Then type...
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
Then restart (hold power button for 30 sec.)
If you don't get a string of numbers it is usually indicative of a driver issue. In which case....Uninstall and manually reinstall your drivers and try again.
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soupmagnet said:
OK, so command prompt it is.
Turn your Kindle off.
In your command prompt type (don't enter)...
fastboot devices
Plug your Kindle into the computer. It should turn itself on.
Wait about 3 seconds and hit enter. It should return a string of numbers.
Then type...
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
Then restart (hold power button for 30 sec.)
If you don't get a string of numbers it is usually indicative of a driver issue. In which case....Uninstall and manually reinstall your drivers and try again.
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I did not get a string of numbers. I tried reinstalling the drivers earlier... Would it make a difference now? And does the fact that I'm using drivers from the KFU have anything to do with that?

Windows is a real pain sometimes when it comes to adb drivers. Try rebooting your computer and check to make sure your device manager says [Edit:] "Android ADB Interface"
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Quick heads up, when you killed the command prompt in the middle of installing twrp 2.0 you probably just ended up leaving the kindle in fastboot mode (which is usually shown by getting stuck at the firefirefire bootloader) basically you need to plug your kindle into the computer and cd to where the adb is in your android folder like you did when you were installing twrp and punch in the command to change the boot mode back to 4000 (normal boot). In fastboot you won't get recognized by adb but when you punch in the command it will go to the kindle because fastboot is actually sort of like adb where there is a file called fastboot in the same directory on your computer that adb is in that lets you interface with your kf.
So basically plug the kindle it, cd to android/android-sdk/platform-tools/ and enter in:
fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
or
fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot -i 0x18d1 reboot
or
fastboot -i 0x18d1 oem idme bootmode 4000
fastboot reboot
One of those should work. Don't worry about adb not recognizing the device, in fastboot mode you won't see it under adb. But the computer sees it regardless.
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It just occured to me that maybe you were only using the kfu and not the android sdk if not you should look into installing the android sdk and not rellying on the kfu, while it is useful these situations are easier to deal with when you have complete adb access through android sdk, google the android sdk and install it.

If "fastboot devices" doesn't recognize that a device is connected, no amount of other fastboot commands will work; in which case it's usually a driver issue.
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In you command prompt when you type
dir
...do you see fastboot?
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I tried a different computer...same issue.
The fastboot commands did nothing, stalled on "waiting for device."

soupmagnet said:
In you command prompt when you type
dir
...do you see fastboot?
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I did, see above post.

Well the next thing for you to do is get a factory cable as that's the best way to unbrick a brick. And sorry I guess I missed the fastboot post in the thread, I had an issue where I got stuck in fastboot and the method I posted worked but I guess your issue is different than the one I had.

isaiahhhhh said:
Well the next thing for you to do is get a factory cable as that's the best way to unbrick a brick. And sorry I guess I missed the fastboot post in the thread, I had an issue where I got stuck in fastboot and the method I posted worked but I guess your issue is different than the one I had.
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You're fine.
By factory cable do you mean a USB cable from Amazon? If so, that's what I'm using... How do I unbrick?
If I'm horribly wrong, please explain.

isaiahhhhh said:
Well the next thing for you to do is get a factory cable as that's the best way to unbrick a brick. And sorry I guess I missed the fastboot post in the thread, I had an issue where I got stuck in fastboot and the method I posted worked but I guess your issue is different than the one I had.
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Even with a factory programming cable which will put you in fastboot mode anyway, if there is a problem that is keeping the device from being recognized in the first place, it wouldn't do you any good.
So let's stop and start all over with the basics and try to eliminate any possibility of mistakes.
First, get rid of KFU. Uninstall and delete BOTH the adb_usb.ini and android_winusb.inf drivers. Download and install Android SDK. Configure and and install the android and adb drivers that come with the SDK using the tutorial posted here. http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/12/13/how-to-install-kindle-fire-adb-usb-driver/
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It's funny.. this is such a simple process, yet it stumps almost everyone on these boards.
It is simply a driver issue. But it is not something you can just explain to people bow to do. It has been my experiance that even when you give a step by step people will not follow it correctly.
However.. I will attempt to at least get your driver issue solved.
First.. open device manager, device manager can be accessed from windows 7 by clicking the start menu and typing device manager.
Once device manager is up, plug in the kindle, wait for device manager to show something. You will see , unknown device, android phone, kindle fire or something similar.
Next, find the folder you downloaded with the kindle fire drivers. They are just adb drivers, but you will need to know their location. If device manager does not show "adb composite device" then you need to do the next steps.
With the driver folder located, right click on the device in device manager associated with your kindle. Click properties, click update driver, click choose driver location manually, browse to that driver folder, here you will have to uncheck the box that says display compatible devices. You should see "android composite device" as an option. Select.it and continue the install.
If you did that correctly, you should now see the fire as an adb composite device in device manager. It will now take fastboot commands.
If when you plug.in your kindle, your hear the USB connect sound, your kindle.is.not.bricked , you just need to get the right driver on it, and that is all user error when it is not done right.
I will update this thread with some screenshots for you , and verifiy my steps. I'm writing this on my phone while in bed and I stilll need coffe
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Serinety said:
It's funny.. this is such a simple process, yet it stumps almost everyone on these boards.
It is simply a driver issue. But it is not something you can just explain to people bow to do. It has been my experiance that even when you give a step by step people will not follow it correctly.
However.. I will attempt to at least get your driver issue solved.
First.. open device manager, device manager can be accessed from windows 7 by clicking the start menu and typing device manager.
Once device manager is up, plug in the kindle, wait for device manager to show something. You will see , unknown device, android phone, kindle fire or something similar.
Next, find the folder you downloaded with the kindle fire drivers. They are just adb drivers, but you will need to know their location. If device manager does not show "adb composite device" then you need to do the next steps.
With the driver folder located, right click on the device in device manager associated with your kindle. Click properties, click update driver, click choose driver location manually, browse to that driver folder, here you will have to uncheck the box that says display compatible devices. You should see "android composite device" as an option. Select.it and continue the install.
If you did that correctly, you should now see the fire as an adb composite device in device manager. It will now take fastboot commands.
If when you plug.in your kindle, your hear the USB connect sound, your kindle.is.not.bricked , you just need to get the right driver on it, and that is all user error when it is not done right.
I will update this thread with some screenshots for you , and verifiy my steps. I'm writing this on my phone while in bed and I stilll need coffe
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Hmm... Windows tells me that it won't update the drivers because the ones I have are the same or better...

Help! My kindle fire is bricked!

okay so i installed cm9 on my kindle fire so then i started screwing around with twrp
so then i dont know if my battery was near 0 percent because this was along time ago but on kfu it wont recognize the adb. Any Thoughts?

Not to be rude, but could you explain that again? Only this time make it somewhat intelligible.
I'm just saying...
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Beeyoth said:
okay so i installed cm9 on my kindle fire so then i started screwing around with twrp
so then i dont know if my battery was near 0 percent because this was along time ago but on kfu it wont recognize the adb. Any Thoughts?
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Do you have FFF installed?
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Beeyoth said:
but on kfu it wont recognize the adb. Any Thoughts?
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What do you mean kfu won't recognize adb? If you mean on kfu, the status is coming up as offline? Did you try :
(i) check device status in kfu after leaving it connected to the pc on usb for some time
(ii) on/off a few times and then check
(iii) try setting boot to Normal and reboot
(iv) install drivers again and try
If you meant that adb itself is not found, may be you deleted the small adb.exe by mistake

If you have the adb tools installed, have you tried fastboot to see if it recognised? I found that when I bricked mine, KFU did not see the device (i.e. adb devices showed nothing), but fastboot devices did work and I was able to push FFF and recovery to it. There are a few good posts on the process in the forums....good luck!

If it wont come on at all or is turning on and turning off quickly you'll need to charge it for a day from your PC or from the wall to get enough charge for it to boot up. Happened me twice this week.

give fastboot a try. if not, keep it plugged in for a while and try again later. a little patience can go a long way. worst comes to worst, a factory cable should do the trick.

Kindle HD 7 Demo

HI
I have a demo kindle fire hd 7 which i'm trying to flash as into a regular kindle.
Ive read a lot through the forums posted here, and have not come up with any success.
I do have a fastboot cable which does put my device into fastboot mode but when I open adb -devices it doesnt show up.
Ive read through this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096555 and have tried to get my device as an Android ADB Composite interface, but when i updating the driver to google\usb_driver, it says its not compatible with my device.
Ive pretty much given up, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what I can do.
I have done this before with my regular kindle fire which was also a demo, and thought it would be as easy with the kindle fire hd, as to which i was wrong.
I ordered now a kindle fire 2 demo which hopefully will work as easy as the first.

Just to update
I did manage to get the device listed as Kindle Fire with Android ADB Interface listed as the driver.
I then boot up with a fastboot cable, it does put the device into fastboot with it listed as Kindle fire in device manager and ADB Interface as the driver,
But still when i run adb devices it wont show up

Try running fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
If it returns with tate something your In luck
You don't use adb commands when its in fast boot, u use fastboot commands
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Whats demo kindle fire hd
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I'm guessing a store model that just runs a demo showing things it can do.
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firedire said:
Just to update
I did manage to get the device listed as Kindle Fire with Android ADB Interface listed as the driver.
I then boot up with a fastboot cable, it does put the device into fastboot with it listed as Kindle fire in device manager and ADB Interface as the driver,
But still when i run adb devices it wont show up
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You know, adb cmds won't work with fastboot.
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hd 7 demo fastboot
stunts513 said:
Try running fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product
If it returns with tate something your In luck
You don't use adb commands when its in fast boot, u use fastboot commands
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Ive connected with a fastboot cable ran cmd fastboot devices and nothing shows,
I did do fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product and got something with tate but thats it.

to update: I followed this guide,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128848 jbut does not work

KFHD System.img Restore Tool
anyone have any ideas

OK because you linked to that 2nd boot loader tut I'm confused how far u have gotten, have you flashed a stock kindle os to it yet?
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If you can enter fastboot you can follow KFFirstAide here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096888
Select "Completely Restore the KFHD 7 X.X.X" and agree, you will then be returned full automatically a completely stock Kindle on an hour or so... Don't mistake the options as that utility is planned for the Kindle fire 2, the Kindle fire HD 7 and the Kindle fire HD 8.9....
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On the other side, where did you ordered your Kindle demo and how much did it cost to you?