[Help!] Bricked Kindle Fire/ Won't even start

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After I rooted my kindle and installed adw.launcher everything was going fine. I rebooted my kindle and out of nowhere it refuses to start. Absolutely nothing shows up at all. The screen doesn't come on, the logo, nothing. The battery was at 75% when it was working. Even when I plug it in the orange charge light doesn't even come on. I need help badly and I would prefer not to have to send it in to get a replacement. The entire reason I created this xda account was to fix this. Please I need help.

That doesn't sound good. Press and hold the on button for like 20 seconds and see if anything happens.

Originally Posted by jaredkzr

After I rooted my kindle and installed adw.launcher everything was going fine. I rebooted my kindle and out of nowhere it refuses to start. Absolutely nothing shows up at all. The screen doesn't come on, the logo, nothing. The battery was at 75% when it was working. Even when I plug it in the orange charge light doesn't even come on. I need help badly and I would prefer not to have to send it in to get a replacement. The entire reason I created this xda account was to fix this. Please I need help.

Try the Hard reset option as explained by GBH2 and if it doesn't help, then please list down what exactly did you do to root your device, stock FW version etc.



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I have already tried the hard reset but to no avail. I have no idea what happened to it. I think I will just have to get a replacement. I followed instructions off of mobilemag and of course I can't place the link in this post.

I literally just had same issue... holing power button for 20+ seconds did the trick here.

Running CM7 w/ MAC address fix.

mine's bricked too

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I also have a bricked Kindle and not sure what to do about it.

I had my KF rooted and working. Then, I followed these instructions to get a better keyboard. In short, I edited one row of the secure table in settings.db, trying to enable Hackers Keyboard. I followed the instructions very carefully, including changing permissions. When I rebooted, it stuck at the kindle fire logo, and it is still stuck there.

I can connect via adb, but can no longer burrito root. Can't run 'su'. I'm searching these forums trying to figure what to do next.

do you have twrp available ?
if not you could follow this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1414832

fixed

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Thanks. I found that thread via http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...356257&page=61 and it saved the day.

I was able to fastboot, twrp, and eventually solve my problem.

I had updated settings.db, then used `adb push` to put it in the right place. Then, I chmod-ed it as the instructions warned. However, it was owned by root not system! With twrd, I was able to get back into adb. Chown-ing and chgrp-ing that file to system solved my problem.

(Unfortunately some of the other stuff I did along the way broke a few apps... anyway I'm happy to have a working KF again.)

good to hear !!!

Did you ever get your KF to work? I can not get mine to turn on after KFU 0.9.5 used to do perm root. Now nothing works at all