[Q] Wiped Kindle No OS

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 6, 2014

So I've been scouring threads for the past 2 days or so, and haven't found exactly what I'm looking for.

I have a first gen Kindle Fire that I got from my cousin's Fiancee. It had CM 10.2 on it (flashed with TWRP) and when it was going to be flashed back to stock, it was fully wiped. Both caches, system, sdcard, the whole shebang. I installed the Android SDK Tools with the Google USB Drivers and everything, but my problem is the computer won't recognize the device. When I turn it on, it flashes for maybe half a second in the Device Manager and then disappears. TWRP is still on the device, but I can't get the computer to recognize and keep it active long enough for me to even push a ROM to it with ADB. I've tried mounting it with TWRP and nothing happened. I followed the jayceooi dot com guide on how to install the ADB USB Driver before and managed to click fast enough to get the Hardware ID before it disappeared from the Device Manager, and I got a completed message saying that it installed the drivers, but the device still disappears. I've also tried SoupKit and couldn't get anywhere with that either. So let's see:

Fully wiped Kindle Fire with no OS
TWRP still on device
Computer won't recognize device for more than a second
Mounting the Kindle via USB in the Mount section of TWRP doesn't do anything
Installed ADB USB Driver with correct Hardware ID
Ran Ubuntu LiveUSB to try SoupKit, Kindle doesn't show up still through ADB or fastboot.

I'm not sure what to do now. All of the threads I've found so far people have fixed it by Mounting or something like that, but I'm kind of stuck here. Any help would be appreciated. A step by step on some things to try would be huge.

Thanks in advance!

sd_shadow · Apr 6, 2014

Which TWRP version? TWRP 2.6.3.1 or likely TWRP 2.5.0
Which windows version 7, xp...

boot twrp> connect usb

In TWRP 2.6.3.1
Mount>check sd card>click mount USB storage

Then check drivers
start>control panel>hardware sound>devive manager>
if you see Kindle divers wrong
should see
Android phone> click on it>
Android Composite ADB Interface> properties>driver Tab

on my Win 7 pc it looks like this

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 6, 2014

sd_shadow said:
Which TWRP version? TWRP 2.6.3.1 or likely TWRP 2.5.0
Which windows version 7, xp...

TWRP 2.6.3.1 and Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit.

I booted into TWRP and plugged in the USB, checked sdcard and mounted, and nothing. If I let the Kindle try to boot normally, it gets the the blue and white Kindle Fire screen and freezes at Booting... and it shows up in the Device Manager then, but only for a second, and then it goes away. I got a quick screenshot you can see here:

You can see a screenshot at i dot imgur dot com / 5X8Qheu dot png

I didn't have the ADB Interface entry at the top, it just had an entry that said "Android" with "Android ADB Interface" nested in it. Yours says composite, mine didn't. But if you look at the screenshot, you can see that it's not listed in the Device Manager. When I checked the driver details it all showed the same as yours. If I boot into TWRP I can't get anything to work in the Mount section. I've tried checking all of the boxes and checking only one individually, etc, and it doesn't make a difference. It did the same thing when I tried SoupKit, it would be available as a device for one second and then it would go offline again.

I'm out of ideas, and I'm guessing I'll need to get a fastboot cable.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

tried kindle fire utility?

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casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
tried kindle fire utility?

Sent from my Amazon Otter using Tapatalk

Yeah, it can't do anything because it says the Kindle is offline. Any time I try to do something like adb devices or fastboot devices nothing shows up. It doesn't make sense to me since it shows up for a second and then disappears. It's only enough time to execute maybe one command, and it's not long enough to push a whole ROM.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

your image

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casuallysmashedtopieces said:
Yeah, it can't do anything because it says the Kindle is offline. Any time I try to do something like adb devices or fastboot devices nothing shows up. It doesn't make sense to me since it shows up for a second and then disappears. It's only enough time to execute maybe one command, and it's not long enough to push a whole ROM.

you have selected reboot to bootloader in twrp and pc did same thing?

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
you have selected reboot to bootloader in twrp and pc did same thing?

I just tried that it stays now. ADB still shows no devices but fastboot devices shows

0123456789ABCDEF fastboot

Can you push files to the sdcard with fastboot?

Edit: I was told to flash the recovery with recovery.img from the stock ROM, I did that and now I can't boot into TWRP. It shows the white and blue splash screen and if I choose Recovery for boot it goes to the white and orange splash screen and freezes. I don't know what to do from here.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

I'm trying a few things

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
I'm trying a few things

Scratch that, I managed to get the TWRP 2.6.3.1 recovery image and flash the recovery back to that, so I can get into TWRP again. I tried to flash the update.zip itself but it gave me the errors "archive does not contain android-info.txt" and one other.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

need openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.1-blaze.img to install stock kindle update.zip

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
need openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.1-blaze.img to install stock kindle update.zip

Okay, I flashed that image and booted into it to make sure it was all good. It was, so I rebooted into the bootloader and I'm waiting. I have the stock ROM renamed to update.zip but I don't know how to get it to the Kindle.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

casuallysmashedtopieces said:
Okay, I flashed that image and booted into it to make sure it was all good. It was, so I rebooted into the bootloader and I'm waiting. I have the stock ROM renamed to update.zip but I don't know how to get it to the Kindle.

what I did
in Twrp 2.2.2.1>mount>mount system>mount usb storage
on pc> format kindle>copy update.zip to kindle
in twrp>unmount system>TWRP main menu>install>update zip (it was in sd card)
wipe data/cache>reboot
I didn't wipe data and got a
"kindle has detected a problem and must clear apps...."
press power button
got an automated data wipe
auto reboot
Kindle booted in stock after a couple of mins
good luck

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don't need to format if pc can copy files
if you can't mount system, try the rest cache, data, sd card

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

You say format Kindle. I unchecked everything but System when I mounted it, and it showed up as a Removable Disk. What do you mean by format Kindle? Right click > Format?

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

yes only if windows can't open it

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casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
yes only if windows can't open it

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

Sorry my internet went out for a bit. I got everything transferred and the install is going, but it's been kind of stuck at the last little bit for a while. How long should the install take? There's about a pinkie nail's width left on the progress bar in the Installing update section. Been there about 15 minutes.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

only 5-10 mins
which update did you use? did you verify size or md5 checksum?

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casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
only 5-10 mins
which update did you use? did you verify size or md5 checksum?

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

Size looked good, didn't check md5 since I don't know the what the hash is for the stock firmware. It's still stuck there, what should I do?

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

casuallysmashedtopieces said:
Size looked good, didn't check md5 since I don't know the what the hash is for the stock firmware.

two ways to check
download twice, and compare
or see my mirrors
update-kindle-6.3.2_D01E_4110520.bin http://d-h.st/qlg
and
update-kindle-6.2.2_D01E_3205220.bin http://d-h.st/e9X
download rename update.zip
md5 checksums on download page
see my Verify that your downloads are complete with MD5/SHA-1 Hash Checksums

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casuallysmashedtopieces said:
It's still stuck there, what should I do?

is there a cancel option?

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if not may need to force a power down, and start over

casuallysmashedtopieces · Apr 7, 2014

sd_shadow said:
is there a cancel option?

No there wasn't. It was just frozen so I had no choice but to hard reset and now it boots to the white and orange splash screen and freezes. I'm assuming no more TWRP, and this just got a lot more complicated.

sd_shadow · Apr 7, 2014

does it show up in device manager?

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