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unknown boot loop/brick

Hi all,
Ran into something new and may be educational to all of you at my moronic expense.
System Config:
Rooted with twerp recovery 2.0 and i am pretty sure i am running kernel 3.0. I have the Kindle fire utility as well as the Kindle Unbrick Utility
What i did:
one of my biggest enjoyments with this community is the folks at CM, so after flashing a new CM9 rom, i believe i left the fire too long without charging her. Battery died completely.
My problem:
plug the fire into the wall: power button turns green, screen lights and yellow triangle comes on with the "press power button for recovery' phrase.. after 15 seconds (approx) power button changes to orange and the fire reboots. power button turns green, screen lights and yellow triangle comes on with the "press power button for recovery' phrase.. and the process continues over and over again.
plug the fire into USB: same thing
Tried to use KFU:
fire will not mount so obviously device will not connect.
stuck at <waiting on device>
Device will not even register on the desktop. so the driver fix that is running around as of late failed
tried to shell with ADB: fire will not mount so obviously making a connection will not work
tried KUU:<error: device not found> and <waiting on device> are the returning messages.
I believe this is beyond the soft brick realm however, if any of you super developers out there can assist, I will greatly appreciate it.
thanks in advance

sounds like a dead battery.
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smirkis said:
sounds like a dead battery.
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with that in mind, is there a way to charge the battery without having the KF power up or run through the loop it is currently in?

piperthedj said:
with that in mind, is there a way to charge the battery without having the KF power up or run through the loop it is currently in?
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attach it to the stock charger and let it charge. or as its booting up get into recovery and charge from there.
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smirkis said:
attach it to the stock charger and let it charge. or as its booting up get into recovery and charge from there.
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will it charge going through this perpetual cycle?
it seems when ever i plug anything in to attempt to charge the KF, it is vaulted into this cycle.

piperthedj said:
will it charge going through this perpetual cycle?
it seems when ever i plug anything in to attempt to charge the KF, it is vaulted into this cycle.
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Having the exact same issue and no one seems to help past this point. :/ If you find an answer would you mind shooting it my way too? I've been searching for days about this.

While it's plugged in, hold the power button until it shuts down completely and leave it alone for a while. If that doesn't work, your next step is a factory programming cable.

[Q] Kindle Fire stuck in FFF & Fast Boot mode

I rooted my KF with FFU .9.6 Everything was fine, I got AOKP M5 installed. However, it didn't seem to charge, even though the orange light was on. So it died. Now it goes from FFF to fastboot(kindle fire boot(in orange). I can't start it, or get it in recovery. I have tried re-installing drivers. I have tried Kindle brick utility. I can't seem to get it started. I have rooted previous mobile phones: og Droid, Droid X, and my current Galaxy Nexus. I have never bricked any mobile device. This Fire is driving me nuts. It is my second one. The first one would not charge, and this one does the same thing unless I wiggle the cord. Should I send it back to Amazon, they said they would replace it due to the charging issue(before I rooted it). PLEASE HELP

From your description it sounds like you need to try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25400963
Once you get everything in order, use recovery to install FFF1.4. That will enable you to charge your device in extreme low power conditions.
Also, AOKP M5 and other 3.0 kernel versions of ICS have charging issues. The charging indicator doesn't work, even if it is charging and sometimes it will only charge while asleep, but it's very intermittent. It charges fine in TWRP so if all else fails you can take that route.

I re-installed kfu .95. I re-installed FFF. This got me into recovery. Then I did a factory reset, installed AOKP M5, apps. Bingo, my fire is back from the dead. I have it charging with kindle fire wall charger. The orange light shows, but it does not say charging on the home screen.

cehrl7 said:
I re-installed kfu .95. I re-installed FFF. This got me into recovery. Then I did a factory reset, installed AOKP M5, apps. Bingo, my fire is back from the dead. I have it charging with kindle fire wall charger. The orange light shows, but it does not say charging on the home screen.
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It won't

Ok. It is really hard to get the Fire charging. I have to mess with the cord to get the orange light. Like I said this is my second one. Does anyone else have this issue?

cehrl7 said:
Ok. It is really hard to get the Fire charging. I have to mess with the cord to get the orange light. Like I said this is my second one. Does anyone else have this issue?
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Create a backup and switch to a cm7 rom to see if what you are experiencing is due to the device or the kernel. All 3.0 kernel roms have charging issues in some form or another, including the one you're describing.

Well, I figured out that under settings>device>battery shows charging, even though orange light is off. Actually when you turn on screen the led lights orange. Once the screen shuts off, the light goes off. But, is still continues to charge. Screwy.

Its charging the battery icon just doesn't indicate it but if you enable the battery bar and locate it above your nav bar and enable charging animation you will see it is charging

Dead Kindle. Does not charge or turn on. Will not connect to pc.

I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you need to use firekit.
it allows you to boot your pc of a linux usb live pen drive with some tools preloaded.
all you need is to shortout a contact inside kindle and insert usb cable into kindle at the same time.
ill post a link in a minute. just follow the instructions exactly and i'm sure it will bring your kindle back to life.
hope this helps
steve
sent from my new non bricked kindle
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link is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038

Get a new replacement one...
alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I did bricked my first Kindle, then I called Amazon (it still in warrentee), they sent me a new one next day. They tell you to send the old one back. They did not even ask me what happened. I've just said it no longer worked.

alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was in the same situation as you were, i messed up my KF but was able to revive it using the USB Firekit (link in the first reply you got), just follow it carefully. This will require you to open up your KF.
Dont despair, it will work

if you have probs with firekit.
post as much detail as pos of what you've done and where you're at in the process.
its not too hard as long as you follow the post to the T.
let us know how you get on.
cheers
steve
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I had the same problem, but I fixed it by my resolder my USB port
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alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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do you know what 3.0 kernel version you had installed. if it was #10 or lower follow the instructions below. my kf did the same thing and it's any easy fix. most likely your kf's battery is completely utterly dead.
NOTE: this may or may not work depending on what the kfu or unbrick utility did without you knowing.
1. plug your kf into the wall charger.
2. press and hold the power button until the light comes on. if this happens it will boot to a black blank screen but you will notice the backlight is on. let it sit this way overnight.
3. after it has sat overnight, unplug it from the charger and hold the power button until it powers off (light will go off as well ass back light lcd)
4. hold the power button until it comes back on. let it fully boot. you'll notice the time and date are incorrect.
5. power off again
6. download hashcodes newest 3.0 kernel #12
7. power back on and boot into recovery.
8. flash the newest kernel you downloaded
9. wipe dalvik and cache
10. reboot normally.
you'll then need to reset the date and time and you shouldnt have any problems after that.

alekslove said:
I have searched and searched for three nights already. I actually opened the kindle in fustrsation hoping it was only a lose cable or something. No luck. My kindle was running ICS and one night it turned off. I plugged it in the charger and called it a night. In the morning I turned it back on but no go. And its been like that ever since. I have no idea how to get it to connect to my laptop. I tried everything and anything I found here and elsewhere online. Everyone says to connect or put on boot mode or something. But I have no idea if the kindle is even on or not. It just has a blank screen and thats it. I tried using the various tools such as kindle unblock utility and kindle utility but there useless since I can't connect the kindle cause i don't know if its on or not. Then I tried loading the drivers that came with unbrick utility but it says something about driver is unsigned. Scoured the web for an answer to THAT dilemma and nobody has a real solution. Seems every solution starts with, "connect device in fasboot or slow boot or snail boot" but the whole point of seeking a solution as far as Im concerned is cause the device DOES NOT CONNECT OR CANT CONECT TO ANYTHING!!!! Im at my wits end. Its three in the morning and my wife is on her 5th dream...again this week!!!! Please help!!! Im willing to ship this POS out to anyone that can fix it and I will donate a g2X rooted and unlocked for your time!!!! I swear I will!!! I just want to get this over with. PLEASE HEKP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think i can help you .But i am in shanghai of China.
because this KF was made in our factory

Hold the power button for like a few mins couldn't hurt then try to power it on
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Not to mention since you have the back off disconnect the battery for awhile then reconnect and power it on
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If that doesn't work use pookeys firekit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430038
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I have it working now. But one issue. The Kindle boots up normally now first into FFF then to android. Everything seems to be working fine except my battery shows 0% charge all the time. It does not charge. I unplug it and immediately shuts down. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? By the way, thanks for everyone who helped or contributed some input. By the way if anyone wants to know the method that work led was the Firekit method using Ubuntu Linux and the short test trick. I tried it several times even had some help on Teamviewer from a very helpful member. But after trying as few commands, it finally booted to the yellow triangle and after that I went to recovery and reinstalled CM9. So yeah everything seems to work now except the battery basically acts like its not even there.

alekslove said:
I have it working now. But one issue. The Kindle boots up normally now first into FFF then to android. Everything seems to be working fine except my battery shows 0% charge all the time. It does not charge. I unplug it and immediately shuts down. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? By the way, thanks for everyone who helped or contributed some input. By the way if anyone wants to know the method that work led was the Firekit method using Ubuntu Linux and the short test trick. I tried it several times even had some help on Teamviewer from a very helpful member. But after trying as few commands, it finally booted to the yellow triangle and after that I went to recovery and reinstalled CM9. So yeah everything seems to work now except the battery basically acts like its not even there.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
Just flash FFF 1.4a, plug it into a USB Port on your computer, and take a nap. It should charge enough that you can reboot into your system and let you continue charging it normally.

same problem KHFD 8.9"
well
I didnt read everything carefully but succeded in rooting my KHFD 8.9"
then i tried to install FFF using KFU and then it restarted and i couldnt power it on
well i have tried using FireKit .. but it says waiting for OMAP device..
then i wanted to do the shorting trick !!
i have searched for two days and couldnt find any where the how to USB shorting of KHFD 8.9
please help I am getting frustrated..

kanchan.n.mahajan said:
well
I didnt read everything carefully but succeded in rooting my KHFD 8.9"
then i tried to install FFF using KFU and then it restarted and i couldnt power it on
well i have tried using FireKit .. but it says waiting for OMAP device..
then i wanted to do the shorting trick !!
i have searched for two days and couldnt find any where the how to USB shorting of KHFD 8.9
please help I am getting frustrated..
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KFU is for the original kindle fire. Go post your problem in the KF2/KFHD QA. Most likely you have bricked your kindle. And factory cables don't work on that kf.

Whew. Didn't have to do anything elaborate on mine. Someone unplugged the wall wart and I didn't notice it for a few days. Held the power button for a minute or so as suggested above. Then tried a normal power on. That worked :good: Now I have it sitting in TWRP at 1%. When it gets over 10% I'll reboot into the OS.

THANK YOU!
Thepooch said:
Hold the power button for like a few mins couldn't hurt then try to power it on
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THANKS! I thought..what the heck.. I will try what you suggested and it worked!

Stuck on initial boot screen

My wife and I bought my father-in-law a Fire TV which worked fine for some time. Then he brought it to my house because it wasn't working any more. I don't know what he did, but all it does is hang at the initial boot screen (black screen, white Amazon logo). Amazon has sent us a replacement Fire TV, but they let me keep the brick. Is there any way to recover this Fire TV? I've read through some of the threads. Tried using a keyboard to enter recovery (didn't work). Haven't tried adb (I don't have a USB-A to USB-A cable).
Thanks!

same issue
i hadn't used my fire tv for a couple months but was working flawlessly the last time I did use it and now no matter what tv I try to connect it to or how many hdmi cables I tried I can't get my fire tv to boot past the initial boot screen of the white Amazon logo it don't make it to the fire tv logo or any other screen it's just a black screen and screens all say no signal. I had rooted it back before I stopped using it with towel root and had adb enabled but after I boot it and it goes past the Amazon logo to the black screen the logo the led on the box is white then starts blinking then turns an amber color and sorta pulses or blinks differently than the while led blinked. Any help would b much appreciated I have been searching all over several forums and websites for days and nobody seems like they r having this issue so I'm totally lost

Stuck on Amazon Logo right out of the box/new
ryanrickard85 said:
i hadn't used my fire tv for a couple months but was working flawlessly the last time I did use it and now no matter what tv I try to connect it to or how many hdmi cables I tried I can't get my fire tv to boot past the initial boot screen of the white Amazon logo it don't make it to the fire tv logo or any other screen it's just a black screen and screens all say no signal. I had rooted it back before I stopped using it with towel root and had adb enabled but after I boot it and it goes past the Amazon logo to the black screen the logo the led on the box is white then starts blinking then turns an amber color and sorta pulses or blinks differently than the while led blinked. Any help would b much appreciated I have been searching all over several forums and websites for days and nobody seems like they r having this issue so I'm totally lost
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Hi, were you able to fix it, I have same issue, except mine did it right out of the box, brand new, first time plugging it in. any help will be appreciate it.
Mike Power

Unplugged HDMI and Bricked FTV2

Hi All,
I recently unplugged my AFTV2's HMDI cable and then when replugging it, i cannot get video signal back.
I try to restart, and it doesn't get past the Amazon logo. No colour logo at all. It seems bricked form unplugging the HDMI cable?
To make things worse, this is the 3rd box I have had with this problem.
Any ideas what could be causing it? It has Firestarter and KODI installed.
Thanks

Same Here
That is interesting.
About an hour ago exchanged a 3 day old Fire TV at Best Buy for a new one because of this exact behavior. I thought it was defective. It worked for a couple of days, my kid unplugged it and re-plugged it a few times because the screen had gone black, and afterwards nothing. Booted to white logo, then went straight to black screen. I could connect to it with ADB, but it would no longer output video except for the initial white amazon logo at startup.
Also was running Firestarter and Kodi, nothing else (latest firmware, no root)
b1nuzz said:
Hi All,
I recently unplugged my AFTV2's HMDI cable and then when replugging it, i cannot get video signal back.
I try to restart, and it doesn't get past the Amazon logo. No colour logo at all. It seems bricked form unplugging the HDMI cable?
To make things worse, this is the 3rd box I have had with this problem.
Any ideas what could be causing it? It has Firestarter and KODI installed.
Thanks
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galvanash said:
That is interesting.
About an hour ago exchanged a 3 day old Fire TV at Best Buy for a new one because of this exact behavior. I thought it was defective. It worked for a couple of days, my kid unplugged it and re-plugged it a few times because the screen had gone black, and afterwards nothing. Booted to white logo, then went straight to black screen. I could connect to it with ADB, but it would no longer output video except for the initial white amazon logo at startup.
Also was running Firestarter and Kodi, nothing else (latest firmware, no root)
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Have you tried entering recovery and doing a factory reset?
See this thread here

I got this type of behavior and in fact it was my TV just unplug it and plug it back

My set up was originally through an amp, but I now have it plugged directly in to the TV. It makes no difference.
I only unplugged it because I was trying to solve the issue where all the blacks are crushed.
Amazon help just keep saying they are faulty and will replace them, but when I push them to try and offer a better solution as to why it keeps happening, they just tell me it won't happen again.
Dull.
gazdaman. said:
Have you tried entering recovery and doing a factory reset?
See this thread here
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No matter how many times I try, and believe me, it's a lot of times, I cannot get it to activate recovery.
I also can't get it be seen with ADB. It's recognised on the network, but ADB can't connect.

Just to close this.
It was my AVR putting voltage down the HDMI and causing the unit to brick.
Nothing to do with the AFTV.
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