Hope someone can help me with this. I recently acquired a used Fire TV 2nd gen. I have no history of what's been done to it. Anyway when I plug it in the Amazon logo comes up and in the lower left corner it says "UNKNOWN BOOT" and that's as far as it gets. How would I go about flashing stock firmware to it to get her back up and running again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Amazon Fire TV 2nd Gen.
warpcoil said:
Hope someone can help me with this. I recently acquired a used Fire TV 2nd gen. I have no history of what's been done to it. Anyway when I plug it in the Amazon logo comes up and in the lower left corner it says "UNKNOWN BOOT" and that's as far as it gets. How would I go about flashing stock firmware to it to get her back up and running again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am having the the same issue. Cannot figure out what to do.
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Howdy everyone,
I was trying to install a new ROM on my kindle fire using TWRP but I must have goofed and deleted something because I bricked my kindle fire. My Kindle Fire is stuck on the kindle fire logo screen and it stays there without restarting. If I hold the power button the kindle fire will eventually shut down. When I plug in the kindle to my computer, the computer reads it and I can find it on my Device and Printers applet but I cannot open in My Computer. I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium. I've tried using the Kindle Fire Utility and the Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility and nothing works.
If anybody can help me unbrick … please please please help me out. Also, if you can write it out, step-by-step that would help me out since I’m still new to rooting.
Thank you.
moviemonkeyinc said:
Howdy everyone,
I was trying to install a new ROM on my kindle fire using TWRP but I must have goofed and deleted something because I bricked my kindle fire. My Kindle Fire is stuck on the kindle fire logo screen and it stays there without restarting. If I hold the power button the kindle fire will eventually shut down. When I plug in the kindle to my computer, the computer reads it and I can find it on my Device and Printers applet but I cannot open in My Computer. I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium. I've tried using the Kindle Fire Utility and the Kindle Fire Unbrick Utility and nothing works.
If anybody can help me unbrick … please please please help me out. Also, if you can write it out, step-by-step that would help me out since I’m still new to rooting.
Thank you.
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how is it that you cannot get back into recovery do a wipe and reflash or restore a backup?
I don't know what's going on with it. I don't know what other info to tell you all but if you guys ask questions I will try to answer it to the best of my abilities. Thanks.
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I share the same problem as you, unfortunately.
I've also tried the unbrick utility, however i can not get my windows premium to recognize the device as kindle. Tried to inistall the drivers. No avail on my end for any of the solutions provided.
Tried to figure out how to install drivers as ADB composite, not sure how that is done either.
Still searching out answers, hopefully someone can give us advice and send us in the right direction.
If i find a resolution, i will post here to assist you.
Patrick
I attempted to install firefirefire on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9 while installing it, it rebooted my Kindle twice now the kindle wont come on at all, does anyone have any recommendations on what I can do or do I need to just scrap it and buy a new one? Thanks for the help in advance.
This thread should be able to help you. Sounds like the process failed somewhere and it got corrupted, but that doesn't make it a brick. Also, did you have a full charge when you started?
blacklisted.org said:
This thread should be able to help you. Sounds like the process failed somewhere and it got corrupted, but that doesn't make it a brick. Also, did you have a full charge when you started?
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Actually, installing FireFireFire in the Kindle Fire HD absolutely without question turns it into a brick.
Well I've searched the forums and I can't find anything similar, which leads me to think I'm just missing something really obvious, but this is really frustrating me so I need help.
I'm trying to use the Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 to install TWRP and FireFireFire bootloader to my first-gen Kindle, so I can install Hashcode's Jelly Bean. I think I've got the normal drivers working as it shows up as ADB: online, although Boot mode: unknown is also reported. When enter "Install TWRP" it says it's putting the kindle into fastboot mode, but my Kindle seems to have other ideas. It just reboots normally and the utility is stuck on "waiting for device".
I've read one of your fastboot guides, which said that inserting the factory cable then inserting into a computer should activate fastboot mode. Well I tried that with what I think was the original cable, and it just booted normally.
I some small experience with rooting, but basically I'm a noob. I do have some Linux systems handy if they're required.
Any help would be appreciated!
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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Sent from my Kindle Fire 2, CM 10.1
mindmajick said:
Can't help much since i don't have a kf1..
But i CAN tell you that the ORIGINAL cable is not the same as a factory cable.
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Sent from my Kindle Fire 2, CM 10.1
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OK thank you, I didn't know that.
However I think even if I did get hold of one of these factory cables, it wouldn't help much as I need to get this program to work primarily...
any ideas what might be causing adb to be online but boot status unknown?
Personally, KFU v0.9.5 worked better for me.
Exactly the same result with that version, I'm afraid. :crying:
Are you using a USB 3.0 port? Maybe that's why. USB 3.0 is high speed, so maybe the connection got messed up...
How old is your computer?
Sent from a bird... No, a plane... Wait, It's a Kindle Fire!
I'm afraid that's not it... It's a 4 year old mid-range Win7 64 bit laptop. I did root my phone using this computer... I think I'll try using one of the XPs that I have on hand to see if that makes a difference.
Well I've tried on two XP computers and I can't even get the drivers to install.
Oops...
OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
ben08112 said:
OK thanks for your input guys, you've been really helpful.
I feel really stupid now - my kindle is actually a kindle fire 2. That makes sense. For some reason I thought that a second-gen kindle fire was the kindle fire HD, and therefore mine was a kindle fire.
Sorry for wasting your time.
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How'd u figure that out?
Well I saw everyone talking about software version 6, and I thought it strange that mine had software version 10. I then did some research and found that there were two kindle fires that look identical. Apparently one way to distinguish is by looking at the software version.
Was trying to root my FTV2 using the latest instructions from AFTVNEWS. Couldn't get to install it on the first couple of tries. Now when i power on
the Fire TV i get to Amazon Fire TV screen and stays there. I cant get to the TWRP screen either so is there a way out of this or is the device bricked.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Was trying to root my FTV2 using the latest instructions from AFTVNEWS. Couldn't get to install it on the first couple of tries. Now when i power on
the Fire TV i get to Amazon Fire TV screen and stays there. I cant get to the TWRP screen either so is there a way out of this or is the device bricked.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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So based on the message you sent me, it sounds like you failed in the middle of flashing the prerooted rom and then rebooted. That'll definitely brick it. Have you tried re-running the installer? That *might* work. If not, I do have an unbrick image. But I'm not quite 100% ready with it. I may finish it tonight, it may be tomorrow. But I'd say first try running the recovery installer and seeing if that works and/or if you get errors.
Hello!
i was trying to downgrade my kindle fire in order to flash legacy OS on it, i followed each step, but when it finished it was completely hardbricked, touching buttons does nothing, i also tried unpluging the battery and it didnt work, the only signal of life is when i plug it to my computer and windows plays the "plugged device" tune.
its was running the latest version (Fire OS 5.6.3.0)
Please help me, i cant get the device back to amazon because i live in Costa Rica and is just imposible to send i back.
Black Swift said:
Hello!
i was trying to downgrade my kindle fire in order to flash legacy OS on it, i followed each step, but when it finished it was completely hardbricked, touching buttons does nothing, i also tried unpluging the battery and it didnt work, the only signal of life is when i plug it to my computer and windows plays the "plugged device" tune.
its was running the latest version (Fire OS 5.6.3.0)
Please help me, i cant get the device back to amazon because i live in Costa Rica and is just imposible to send i back.
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This is not the 5th gen forum
ask here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/help