You may lose Fastboot and ADB access if it is not flashed correctly (and maybe even if it is)
You may lose functionality to receive OTA updates from Amazon
You will be able to flash custom ROMS and kernels using TWRP
Neither I or Team Win are responsible for anything that you flash on your devices. You do this accepting the risks
Hello, I'm Pyrostic and I volunteered to test TWRP 2.0 for the Kindle Fire. I hope the following tutorial helps you:
READ EVERYTHING and at least until page 3 and the last few pages in this thread before you continue.
Download the following file and place it in the location of your "fastboot" file. (mine is located in platform-tools because I figured it would be easier to start commands for ADB and Fastboot from the same prompt)
your command window should state that it is <waiting for device> (if it doesn't instantly reboot itself). If the device doesn't reboot immediately hold the power button on the bottom of your device until it turns off. Then power it on. You should see some on screen signage and then the installing of TWRP 2.0 and the FIREFIREFIRE Bootloader.
AFTER it is done and the REBOOT option shows up. Open up a command prompt from your platform-tools folder.
Okie.. so I am struck for last four-five hours. I think, I flashed the old recovery image and then when I rebooted after finishing the install, it is just struck at this yellow triangle. I tried everything I could find but none of them is working. Windows is not recognizing Kindle Fire, it is listed as unknown device in device manager and I tried use the driver which I used at the time of rooting but windows does not accept them. Fastboot keeps waiting for the device.
Although I am fairly handy at all these things, but as I am not a dev thus not able to figure this one out. Any help would be appreciated.
It would be helpful if you provided a recap of what this is, what it does and why you might want to do it.
Having the instructions is fine, but a lot of people will see this and think they need it, when they really don't know what they are doing. Including ALL the info to accomplish this might reduce the number of questions.
o What should be done before attempting this (backups, copies of data, commands that should be run/captured)
o Where to get the Fastboot command
o MD5sum of the image file to validate you have the right one.
o Ramifications of doing this (effects OTA's from Amazon??), allows you to make system level backups etc...
I'm stuck at the yellow triangle as well. No adb or fastboot. I'm just posting to let others know. I'll keep checking back for solutions. It'll be great to get ics up and running! Also, thanks to the devs for the hard work.
I just did the above install, everything finished ok , but when I rebooted its stuck at the yellow triangle screen (at the bottom it says "press power button for recovery") and it just stays there. When I hold power button till it shuts off and power on it comes back to that same screen.. Whats going on ? Thanks.
Well this is interesting... I got TWRP installed, and after doing so I went to reboot the device from inside of cyanogenmod and I told it to reboot into recovery.. it did I made a backup and I thought all was well until I went to reboot it and now no matter how I reboot it, it goes back to TWRP recovery. I mean I assume I am still ok as I have a recovery and a backup..... But how in the world do I get it to boot back into the os ?
Also if none of the above is working. Try the following:
1. Reboot your PC. The reason is that it still thinks your Android device is still connected (you'll see this in Device Manager).
2. Once rebooted, connect your Kindle again via USB. You'll probably hear 3 tones (which means it recognized a device, but didn't load any drivers). In device manager, you'll see a device just called "kindle" with an exclamation point by it. At this point, you'll need to install drivers for it again. Pick "Browse my computer for driver software" BUT don't browse, just click on "Let me pick from a list...", and select "Android Phone" and then pick the newest "Android Composite ADB Interface" from the list. I think you may have 4.0.0.0 or something similar (you may have only a 2.x version possibly depending on which drivers you loaded to root your phone).
3. Once you've done that, you'll need to run the following:
Also if none of the above is working. Try the following:
1. Reboot your PC. The reason is that it still thinks your Android device is still connected (you'll see this in Device Manager).
2. Once rebooted, connect your Kindle again via USB. You'll probably hear 3 tones (which means it recognized a device, but didn't load any drivers). In device manager, you'll see a device just called "kindle" with an exclamation point by it. At this point, you'll need to install drivers for it again. Pick "Browse my computer for driver software" BUT don't browse, just click on "Let me pick from a list...", and select "Android Phone" and then pick the newest "Android Composite ADB Interface" from the list. I think you may have 4.0.0.0 or something similar (you may have only a 2.x version possibly depending on which drivers you loaded to root your phone).
3. Once you've done that, you'll need to run the following:
Thanks for the quick response.. I'm back in to CM7 now thanks... Question though will I have to do that everytime I go into recovery and is it safe to use this to flash gapps as I forgot to with my inital install ?
Well after a little scare, this works absolutely fantastic , I was able to boot into recovery, do a backup and from the recovery menu boot into the kindle os.. I will donate for this,, thank you guys for you help...
I'm currently stuck in fastboot and cannot get drivers to install. kindle shows up as unknown device, if i try to update driver is get errors (Code 43). tried adding vendor id 18d1 to usb.ini and lines to winusb.inf and still cannot get driver to install. appreciate any help i can get.
got it working, wish i followed these instructions from the start...
Thanks a ton Pyrostic and Team Win! I just restored my Fire to stock and it worked like a charm. I did have to set the bootmode manually to get out of recovery, but that could have been because of something I did. At any rate, it's time to overclock this thing and bless it with some ICS goodness.
Glad you got it working. As for the lines for the .inf, if it happens again (and let's hope it doesn't), get the VID and PID from the device manager.
Okay, so my kindle fire is stuck at the yellow triangle screen and when ever i try to install the drivers in device manager, the light on my kindle changes from green to orange and than the kindle disconnects from the computer. Does this need that I need to charge my kindle and retry this or do I have a serious problem?
Sounds like you missed the part to set your idme bootmode back to 4000 while on the "reboot" screen during flashing. Not a serious problem, people have recovered from it.
The drivers you are wanting to install aren't those that have been installed already, you actually have to append a new device code. Try 0x18d1. If that doesn't work try also what rwphwp mentioned in his post here. Just remember, it may be a combo of things to get it back up and running.
During testing of this recovery, I soft bricked more times than you could think of. Some of them were so scary, I would lose fastboot and adb. luckily they werent gone for god, but simply the device codes have changed.
Sounds like you missed the part to set your idme bootmode back to 4000 while on the "reboot" screen during flashing. Not a serious problem, people have recovered from it.
The drivers you are wanting to install aren't those that have been installed already, you actually have to append a new device code. Try 0x18d1. If that doesn't work try also what rwphwp mentioned in his post here. Just remember, it may be a combo of things to get it back up and running.
During testing of this recovery, I soft bricked more times than you could think of. Some of them were so scary, I would lose fastboot and adb. luckily they werent gone for god, but simply the device codes have changed.
Thanks man. I'll try it when I get off of work tonight at nine. I'll let you know how it goes!
Edit-Okay so I tried adding the new device code. Saved the android-winusb files and then plugged my kindle in. Nothing happened. It still continues to show the device for a second or two then the light changes again and It disappears from Device Manager.
Thanks man. I'll try it when I get off of work tonight at nine. I'll let you know how it goes!
Edit-Okay so I tried adding the new device code. Saved the android-winusb files and then plugged my kindle in. Nothing happened. It still continues to show the device for a second or two then the light changes again and It disappears from Device Manager.
Okay so I left it on the charger when I left for work. I now came home to it booting on and off constantly. I think the battery died and I cannot charge. It looks like it is time to send it back to Amazon.
I followed the directions in this thread as well as a few others, and got to the point where it made me reinstall TWRP, and ended up getting past the Triangle Fire loop, but after that point, I get stuck in a Kindle Fire fastboot loop. Any chance I could get some help? Sorry if this question's been answered, I've been up all night trying to fix this, and may have missed a post containing that one command that would make all of my problems go away...
I'm having a slightly different problem than most people with the yellow triangle.
I accidentally hit "reboot" on the screen after installing TWRP, without going into adb shell first.
Now I'm stuck on the yellow triangle, only pressing/holding the power button does nothing. I can't turn it off or reboot it.
In this mode, if I plug it into my computer, it immediately says "USB Device not recognized". It shows up in Device Manager as "Unknown Device". Any attempt to use "update driver" and pointing it to my usb_driver directory ends up with it saying "Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date". And it's still just "Unknown Device".
Maybe I could do something if I could reboot it, but I don't have the tools to crack it open and take out the battery. My current plan is to let the battery drain overnight
EDIT: For anyone else having this problem, draining the battery did help. After the battery drained and I turned it back on, the problem acted like everyone else's problem. When I plugged it into USB, it was reported as a "kindle" with no drivers, as opposed to "Unknown Device". Then I just followed everyone's help here.
So, I accidentally followed the CM7 guide on xda which directed me to another website which had me install TWRP using the dd method, and now I can't get it to boot into TWRP, and I can't seem to use any of the methods described here to reinstall TWRP. Right now, the device will power on with the yellow triangle, and then into the OS if I don't hit anything. If I hit the power button while it is booting, to enter recovery mode, it just stays on the yellow triangle and never progresses past that screen. Any way I can revert to before the dd phase so I can try this again?
ok so i have the lastest kf update (6.2.1) and i have rooted it using the burrito root. when i try using the kindle utility and press option 7 to install twrp i get: <idme> invalid permission reboot: operation not permitted < waiting on device >
yupp. stuck at the yellow triangle. let the battery drain thinking maybe it'll reboot once i plug it back in. no. turns off, turns on, yellow triangle, turns off, turns on, yellow triangle..over and over again. anyone know of a fix?
I am currently stuck in bootloop of "Kindle Fire". I treid to hard reset but it just does it again. During the attempted install I got <waiting on device> So I "cntrl+C" then unplugged and rebooted manually. Any solutions?
Finally got it. After restarting it I manually powered down the system and started it back up and it installed fine. Now my next question is the firefirefire shows up twice. Once than the system blanks for a second and it pops up again. Is this normal?
After replacing my bricked KF, I decided to take things a little slower this time around. I used the KF Utility v.9.1 to install TWRP. After reading some of the problems people were having, I was keeping my fingers crossed. But of course I ran into the driver issue. I had the exclamation point by my Kindle device. So I tried reinstalling (from the KFU package), but it said the drivers were already up to date. Then I unistalled and reinstalled them. But I got the 'There was a problem, blah, blah...code 10'. So I took a chance and just powered down the KF and when it restarted, the drivers worked fine <whew>. After TWRP installed (woo hoo, half way there) I once again had the same driver issue during the reboot phase. So once again, I just powered down the KF and when it started back up the drivers were ok and everything completed (and I got a few more grey hairs).
Ok, now I have a question as I can't really seem to find a good user guide for TWRP on the KF. At this point I am not really interested in loading ROMs (not yet at least). I just want to avoid bricking my unit again and have a way to recover if I do. So I clicked on the backup button and it by default three options were checked - system, data, and something else. That completed fine.
So my main question is, should I manage to scew up permisions or something again, will simply clicking 'restore' fix it? And did I backup what I needed, or should I have selected anything else?
My secondary question is should I have some sort of other stock restore image sitting on the KF in case I need it? I see the KF Utility has an option to get the stock update and creates the update.zip. Do I just stick that on the Fire in case I need it? And if so, where should I put it?. The KF utility also created an update_extract folder and I have no idea what that is for.
<edit> found a video to show how to use TWRP to put the Fire totally back to stock. So my secondary question is answered.
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