First of all, I'd like to thank you all that make this community so valuable to us. I read the forum since I got my KF, around 6 months ago, and all the tutorials are very well detailed.
Today I tried to install a new ROM on my Kindle for the first time. It all went well, and I successfully installed the stock Jelly Bean from Hashcode. But the problem now is: I don't know how to install the GApps on it.
I'm trying to use the ADB and Kindle Fire Utility but it doesn't find the device.
Anyone of you guys could give me a hand with that problem?
Thanks
Are you using twrp? You flash gapps onto it the same way you flash a Rom. Boot into twrp, go to install, locate the directory where you have the gapps.zip file stored and click on it, flash it. Then wipe cache/ and dalvik cache and reboot.
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jlshady00 said:
Are you using twrp? You flash gapps onto it the same way you flash a Rom. Boot into twrp, go to install, locate the directory where you have the gapps.zip file stored and click on it, flash it. Then wipe cache/ and dalvik cache and reboot.
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I think the problem is with the adp drivers...I can not find my device so I can restart it with TWRP.
Ok but if you have fire fire fire and twrp installed already you should be able to bout into twrp by pushing the power button repeatedly during startup until it shows you voting into recovery mode.
Make sure you have the correct drivers installed,I believe the kf should show up as composite adb interface device on your pc with the right drivers. Someone else might be able to help you more but really the easiest way to flash gapps is to do it through twrp the exact same way you flash the new Rom minus the system wipe and factory reset.
Your device is a first gen kindle I assume?
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jlshady00 said:
Ok but if you have fire fire fire and twrp installed already you should be able to bout into twrp by pushing the power button repeatedly during startup until it shows you voting into recovery mode.
Make sure you have the correct drivers installed,I believe the kf should show up as composite adb interface device on your pc with the right drivers. Someone else might be able to help you more but really the easiest way to flash gapps is to do it through twrp the exact same way you flash the new Rom minus the system wipe and factory reset.
Your device is a first gen kindle I assume?
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Yes, it is a first gen Kindle.
I'm trying to boot to TWRP pressing the power button during startup but either I'm doing it wrong or something went bad after I installed the ROM.
I also tried to install the ADB driver in another computer but after I connect the kindle the PC recognizes it only as "Amazon Kindle Fire", and not the ADB interface.
I don't know what to do. But thanks for your help!
Try using the pc that is recognizing it as a kindle fire, uninstall the kindle fire drivers through device manager and then install the Google adb drivers, then hook the kindle back up to it via usb and see if it shows up correctly then?
Is your boot screen showing kindle fire in blue and white or the stock orange or something else?
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jlshady00 said:
Try using the pc that is recognizing it as a kindle fire, uninstall the kindle fire drivers through device manager and then install the Google adb drivers, then hook the kindle back up to it via usb and see if it shows up correctly then?
Is your boot screen showing kindle fire in blue and white or the stock orange or something else?
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jlshady00, I finally managed to install it! Thank you very much for the help!
No problem hope I made it a little easier on you, click thanks on my post if I did and you don't mind. Enjoy the new Rom!
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No problem hope I made it a little easier on you, click thanks on my post if I did and you don't mind. Enjoy the new Rom!
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The ROM is indeed much better than the stock one on the KF.
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My brother just attempted to root his kindle with the kfu. He rooted his kindle, and he changed his wallpaper with kfu as well. After this, he put root check on his kindle after some issues with mounting as read write using root explorer. It turns out, his kindle was NOT rooted, after changing the wallpaper witht kfu, which NEEDS root access, and even after redoing the process of installing another root on his kindle.
What should he do? My kindle was rooted manually, but since kfu came out, no manual instructions are really available. If we have to root manually, what commands do i need to use and whatnot?
Thank you for your time. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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When I tried to lock wallpaper without root it worked
Did you try to root again with kfu
Did it install twrp and or firefirefire
did you get an ota update
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Yeah, after discovering the lack of root, we attempted to ropt it again the same way with kfu, to the same end, no root
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It installed twrp and fff, and whats ota? My memory is a bit fuzzy lol
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Ota is over the air update
What version did you try to root
What version do you have now
To check go to settings then device
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He has version 6.3.1
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Among the "Stickies" in "Kindle Fire General"...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
Uhhh, ive been to that thread literally like a hundred times before, its not specific at all...
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How recently did you try to reroot
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MLS_Dumpster said:
Uhhh, ive been to that thread literally like a hundred times before, its not specific at all...
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Are you joking?
If you have fff and twrp, you should be able to install custom roms on it now.
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Alright, good enough, thanks
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I meant, specifically for my problem, the guide wasnt that specific, i thanked you anyways because i have uses and loved that guide in the past
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Alright, good enough, thanks
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If you want to keep the stock look then you can flash MoDaCo. Otherwise there are plenty of ICS and CM7 roms you can use.
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I'm having problems getting my computer to recognize the kindle fire in fastboot mode. i have tried to root my device for around a week.
also i am getting a screen on kfu that says,
Fastboot uses a different device than ADB. You should check device manager for 'Kindle" or "Amazon"
If you see it, rerun the driver installer that came packaged with KFU
Installing FFF
<waiting for device>
Then i go to device manger and i see Kindle. after that i rerun the driver install that came packaged with kfu.
I get this error message
Cannot complete the device driver installation wizard. errors were encountered while installing the software for your devices. See the status column for more details
Sometimes it helps to run this wizard again. If that doesn't work, contact your device vendor
Driver name | status
X Google, inc (winUSB)... | Install failed (unsigned)
i run the driver installer and it still doesnt work. i've already changed the settings on my computer so it can install unsigned drivers.
I have no idea what to do.
i have an asus eee pc 1000ha with windows xp home. hope that info helped
qwety134 said:
I'm having problems getting my computer to recognize the kindle fire in fastboot mode. i have tried to root my device for around a week.
also i am getting a screen on kfu that says,
Fastboot uses a different device than ADB. You should check device manager for 'Kindle" or "Amazon"
If you see it, rerun the driver installer that came packaged with KFU
Installing FFF
<waiting for device>
Then i go to device manger and i see Kindle. after that i rerun the driver install that came packaged with kfu.
I get this error message
Cannot complete the device driver installation wizard. errors were encountered while installing the software for your devices. See the status column for more details
Sometimes it helps to run this wizard again. If that doesn't work, contact your device vendor
Driver name | status
X Google, inc (winUSB)... | Install failed (unsigned)
i run the driver installer and it still doesnt work. i've already changed the settings on my computer so it can install unsigned drivers.
I have no idea what to do.
i have an asus eee pc 1000ha with windows xp home. hope that info helped
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Installing the drivers in XP is really weird. If you have access to a Vista or 7 PC that would be the best.
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I recently had access to a Windows 7. I tried to root my kindle with kfu 0.9.6. using windows 7 did not help me root my kindle fire.
I have searched for a guide to manually root the kindle fire. i havent found one. is there a wayy to manually root the kindle fire with software 6.3.1? and install fff and twrp? i am familiar with cmd but not sdk.
Any help? Thanks
Josepho1997 said:
Try installing the drivers manually. That's what I had to do.
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How do you install the drivers manually?
veeman said:
Installing the drivers in XP is really weird. If you have access to a Vista or 7 PC that would be the best.
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On your EeePC look under devices and find a device called "Android Phone", "Kindle Fire" or something to that effect that is using the WinUSB drivers. Uninstall it and you will be able to reinstall the drivers from the KFU/Drivers folder.
Thank you so much helped out a lot
I've recently rooted my kindle fire and it has twrp and fff, I wanted to be back in stock "unbrick" so I shut down my kindle fire to go into twrp. I plugged my usb cable and sent the "unroot" file ti my kindle drive to unbrick it, but after i done that, I go to install to find the file i downloaded to i could flash it, but it wasn't there. I notice too everytime i plug in my kindle to my computer theres no "check" mark next to kindle when i plug it in. And the other problem is that I try to go back to my normal rooted kindle fire, and its stuck at the orange and white animated boot screen and it doesnt even flash. it just sits there and do nothing.
Any help would be thankful.
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Um... I didn't understand any of that. Did you rename the stock os files to update.zip? If you didn't, rename it to update.zip and then use TWRP to mount your Kindle Fire and transfer the file. Then do a wipe and flash the update.zip.
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yes, i changed the file name to update.zip and went to wipe and did a factory reset. My kindle fire can't find the file :/ don"t know why, please help
Make sure you wipe system and all before u flash
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here here I just wonder how many times androidproblems will brick his device:silly:
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here here I just wonder how many times androidproblems will brick his device:silly:
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Seriously...look at his topics
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I tried to root my Kindle Fire using KFU 0.9.6. But am unable to root, only the TWRP got installed.
In almost all the websites I found that once TWRP got installed properly then the yellow triangle will appear during reboot. But am unable to see that during reboot.
But am able to see kindle fire with blue color, instead of the ellow Triangle
could someone help me out in this?
thx in advance.
snaveenraja said:
I tried to root my Kindle Fire using KFU 0.9.6. But am unable to root, only the TWRP got installed.
In almost all the websites I found that once TWRP got installed properly then the yellow triangle will appear during reboot. But am unable to see that during reboot.
But am able to see kindle fire with blue color, instead of the ellow Triangle
could someone help me out in this?
thx in advance.
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how do you know that TWRP got installed if you can't see the bootloader icon? Maybe try a different version of KFU, 0.9.5 works for me. Also be sure that your KFU recognizes your kindle when it's plugged in. The ADB status should say ONLINE in the main menu window.
Try this video on how to root 6.3.1 it works for me perfectly fine just make sure you follow all of the steps word for word. Just go to YouTube and type in "how to root kindle fire nat3mil" I would have posted a link but I'm new so it won't let me post links.
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The yellow icon is the old version . The Kindle Fire with Fire in blue is the new version. It threw me off when I rooted mine for the 1st time too.
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UltraViolence74 said:
The yellow icon is the old version . The Kindle Fire with Fire in blue is the new version. It threw me off when I rooted mine for the 1st time too.
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Yeah, this should be the version of Fire Fire Fire (1.4a) that was installed with KFU 0.9.6. There is a slight bug in the load up that will require you to tap the power button a few times to be able to switch between loaders (Normal, Recovery, Fast). Hashcode knows of it but it's not really a priority at this point since it's not causing anyone issues getting in to Recovery. Just a couple extra taps of the power button does the trick.
If you're looking to do a full wipe of the stock rom, make sure you clear cache, dalvik cache and do a factory reset.
I got to know that its bcoz of firefirefire am unable to see the yellow triangle. Now I flashed using the prerooted stock Rom. Installed play store. Working gr8... thanks for all those replied...
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snaveenraja said:
I got to know that its bcoz of firefirefire am unable to see the yellow triangle. Now I flashed using the prerooted stock Rom. Installed play store. Working gr8... thanks for all those replied...
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Men i have the same problem you have... and im unable to fix it... can you explian to me... step bye step how to... PLEASE.....
Thanx
Rooted Amazon Kindle Fire with KFU Utility
Hey guys just wanted to give a little input. I was able to use the KFU utility ( the newest version ) and it worked just fine. I now have the Recovery installed TWRP but flashed Clockwork Recovery and all works. I'm looking to flash a 4.0 ICS version but haven't found the right source or file. Maybe I can be lead in the right direction. Thanks in advance! !!! Also uploading pic:
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I also had problems with the latest KFU. I was left with 'partially' rooted device. I installed superuser.apk after that and now it's OK. I can even temporary unroot it to using OTA RootKeeper. AFAIK the only way to watch Amazon Prime videos is to temporary unroot the device.
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Hey just wanted to reply about video player. I also was having problems playing videos after downloading videos like 3gp's and MP4's respectively. I downloaded a video player for those formats and now no longer have a problem viewing videos after download.
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AndroidLover813 said:
Hey guys just wanted to give a little input. I was able to use the KFU utility ( the newest version ) and it worked just fine. I now have the Recovery installed TWRP but flashed Clockwork Recovery and all works. I'm looking to flash a 4.0 ICS version but haven't found the right source or file. Maybe I can be lead in the right direction. Thanks in advance! !!! Also uploading pic:
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I highly suggest you do not use ClockWorkMod Recovery with the Kindle Fire. It has been known to cause the Kindle to brick. Stick with TWRP even if you don't like it.
Unable to root! Stucked on TWRPP 2.2.0 Screen with several options
Hello,
I've tried to root my Kindle fire using KFU 0.9.6)
However, when the KFU is processing the rooting, the kindle restarts and stucks itself on the TWRPP Screen with several options (Install, Backup, Restore...) and the KFU software shows a message of Please wait.
Does anyone know how to move on with the rooting?
Thanks in advanced
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25730650
Same problem except nothing shows on the kindle
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androidGuy302 said:
Same problem except nothing shows on the kindle
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Really? Nothing shows on the Kindle at all? You get absolutely no graphics of any kind whatsoever?
I believe the my computer was getting in the way of KFU but I unpluged it started up and I tried again with success
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Was attempting to re-root my Fire with KFU, however KFU chose to install TWRP first which I think prevented me from ever achieving root. So as instructed to reinstate my stock Fire out of the box I flashed the update file as I had before to unroot it which worked perfectly. However, now I am stuck at the Kindle Fire boot screen and no TWRP to boot into recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
wpmetts said:
Was attempting to re-root my Fire with KFU, however KFU chose to install TWRP first which I think prevented me from ever achieving root. So as instructed to reinstate my stock Fire out of the box I flashed the update file as I had before to unroot it which worked perfectly. However, now I am stuck at the Kindle Fire boot screen and no TWRP to boot into recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What is your boot status in KFU?
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Have you tried holding down the power button while powering up and choose boot? Need to hold down power button then when the marker is on booot release power button
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shravbits said:
What is your boot status in KFU?
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Shows offline.
wpmetts said:
Shows offline.
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Is your kindle plugged in and are your adb drivers working?
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shravbits said:
Is your kindle plugged in and are your adb drivers working?
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As far as I know...
wpmetts said:
Was attempting to re-root my Fire with KFU, however KFU chose to install TWRP first which I think prevented me from ever achieving root. So as instructed to reinstate my stock Fire out of the box I flashed the update file as I had before to unroot it which worked perfectly. However, now I am stuck at the Kindle Fire boot screen and no TWRP to boot into recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Reverting to stock, does just that. It reverts your device to the state it was in when it came out of the box, and is completely unnecessary. TRWP does not prevent "root", it simply aids in the "rooting" process, which is unnecessary in itself.
Put your device in fastboot (very likely it already is), reinstall TWRP, install FFF, wipe partitions, and flash a ROM. Problem solved.
IF any of this is foreign to you, you should do a little research before continuing and getting yourself into more trouble.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23747567
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26435498
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25730650
[Edit:] Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. There were no replies when I started writing this.
shravbits said:
Is your kindle plugged in and are your adb drivers working?
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Getting the attached error from windows..
What I think is that you are in a different bootmode, but your kindle is not showing up as a adb device. Have you tried hard resetting? But remember, unplug the USB cable, then hold the power button for 20 seconds, power back up, and then see if you can see the kindle appearing in KFU
Edit: I agree with soupmagnet. If my suggestion doesn't work then use the links he posted and follow his method
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Was finally able to pass the boot screen and was able to re-install TWRP and get it working again, but still cant seem to it rooted again.
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Was finally able to pass the boot screen and was able to re-install TWRP and get it working again, but still cant seem to it rooted again.
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::h my::
Forget about rooting it for a second. It is unnecessary. Install a custom ROM and be done with it.
Again, if you don't understand why, go back a few posts and read again.
yes flash this and move on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916
Thanks again for all the help.
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As title says. I have GalaxySBean installed.
Edit: I fixed it. I just had to mount USB storage in TWRP.
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BrownTerror said:
As title says. I have GalaxySBean installed.
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Ok.......what type of computer are you using.....that info would be helpful for those who have more knowledge
Also, what are you trying to accomplish.
Having the same issue. Tried on three laptops, two with Windows 7 and one with Windows 8. One of the laptops didn't have any ADB drivers installed perviously. Tried the drivers included in KFU, the Amazon drivers in the Android SDK, as well as a modified Google WinUSB. Getting Code 43 upon plugging it in. If I manually pick Kindle Fire from the driver list, I then encounter Code 10. Tried factory resetting the Kindle Fire. The device functions 100% other than this issue so I am very confused what the problem is. It is on the latest version,
Same Prob!
Trying to flash a ROM to my "bricked" kindle using TWRP, but my computer won't recognize my kindle at all, not even in KFU, should I try a different computer?
same issue - just rooted and flashed today, and after installing CM10.1 Jelly Bean 4.2.2, none of my computers (1 Win8, 1 Win7) will recognize it in device manager. i really don't know what to do...
as a workaround, is there another way to transfer a .apk file to the kindle without connecting to a computer? I'm just trying to get Google Play so I can operate it independently of a computer...
to Rocket Nine and further: what TWRP version are you running? what were you running before this happened? what ROM are you currently running?
siudan1977: there is already Google Play on your device, given that you also flashed a Gapps. if you didn't, download one from the place that your ROM came from, but on your kindle. not your computer. then boot into TWRP, and flash the Gapps package you downloaded.
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to Rocket Nine and further: what TWRP version are you running? what were you running before this happened? what ROM are you currently running?
siudan1977: there is already Google Play on your device, given that you also flashed a Gapps. if you didn't, download one from the place that your ROM came from, but on your kindle. not your computer. then boot into TWRP, and flash the Gapps package you downloaded.
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Thanks so much for the response! Downloaded Gapps on my kindle, but can't boot to TWRP now - other videos showed the way to cycle through options with the power button, but that doesn't show up for me - goes straight from the kindle fire logo (no text at bottom) to the CyanogenMod loading screen. any ideas what might be going on?
is your kindle logo blue and white? does it have 1.4a in the upper right corner?
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jma9454 said:
is your kindle logo blue and white? does it have 1.4a in the upper right corner?
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it is not blue and white...the amazon orange color for "fire"
incidentally, now it won't turn on even after charging....power button is green but pressing it does nothing. yikes...