Originally Posted by oranges311

can someone please help me. I have no idea what a lot of what you guys are saying i have quite a bit of exp. flashing roms and such for the samsung epic but Ihave no idea what to do for this.

I have downloaded and ran the drivers.bat and my computer recognizes the and calls it Kindle in my computer but when it is not found when I do anythign on the utility but I dont know what the process is for using the utitlity is so I might be doing it wrong ive just been going straight to temp root but either way it says the device is not detected. so I went in to device manager and i see that next to kindle it has a yellow exclamation point. I have no Idea what the steps are to fix this and not even sure what the steps are to use this utility can someone pleas help or point me in the right direction

It seems there are issues with the driver installer in the current version. Try right-clicking on the Kindle, selecting uninstall, and check the box and hit Okay. Now reconnect the kindle and let it install the driver.
If this does not workI would suggest downloading an older version, say 0.6, and using the driver installer bat from there.

i dont have an option to check a box when I uninstall the driver and I tried to use version 6 and it appeared to be doing more than the latest version but it still left me with the same issue

Originally Posted by oranges311

i dont have an option to check a box when I uninstall the driver and I tried to use version 6 and it appeared to be doing more than the latest version but it still left me with the same issue

Take a look at this image:


Look up the driver details for your kindle and tell me if it looks like #1 or #2.

The on one the left is what it looks like from the property details of the device mangaer the one on the right is what it looks like if i right click and go to properties on my computer


EDIT: just realized this is what you were asking about:



is it supposed to be a usb device like that?

hi, i just got a Kindle Fire (i'm not in US) and i'm trying to root it, without access to amazon store is like an expensive digital photo frame.
I'm using Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.1 and kindle have 6.2.1 software inside.
I correctly install the driver but when i try to permanent root i got this error:

***********************************************
* Installing Permanent Root *
***********************************************

Oops... something went wrong.
We are unable to locate your Kindle Fire.
Make sure it is plugged in and powered on.

My kindle is plugged in and powered on, but when i install those drivers i can't see it in the "computer" window. From "Manage Devices" i can see this:



I read in this topic that teorically windows must see it like a "Kindle" and not like an "Android Phone", so i reinstalled the driver, i tryied to install it on other computer, but i always get this error.

What can i try? Thank you!

edit: solved using driver from this post: http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/12/29/h...-driver-video/
Link to driver: http://file.jayceooi.com/2011/12/Kindle-Fire-Driver.7z

That drivers the same as mine.

Whats happening is most people just need to uninstall the ADB Composite device if it reaches that point, and check the box to remove drivers.

Then hit scan for hardware, and it will come back as "kindle" then just install the drivers.

It can happen sometimes, its just a weird issue with windows.

would it be possible to build in a function that checks the adb shell ?
that would help the people with messed up system/bin/sh and would lower the time and effort to repair such cases in simply telling them they need a factory cable to recover.

Originally Posted by Vashypooh

That drivers the same as mine.

Whats happening is most people just need to uninstall the ADB Composite device if it reaches that point, and check the box to remove drivers.

Then hit scan for hardware, and it will come back as "kindle" then just install the drivers.

It can happen sometimes, its just a weird issue with windows.

Can someone help me with that? Ne time I uninstall it it doesn't give me an option to uninstall the driver so idk what I'm doin wrong

Originally Posted by oranges311

Can someone help me with that? Ne time I uninstall it it doesn't give me an option to uninstall the driver so idk what I'm doin wrong

it's really easy
just right click on your kindle from "Device Manager", then Uninstall and the magic popup with the infamous checkbox will appear! Something like this:



i made this example using my Vga, but the window is the same

@Vashypooh: i uninstalled checkin that box a LOT of times, but with the driver of the original package i always get the same error. With the other driver it worked on my first try!

Originally Posted by HypeZ85

it's really easy
just right click on your kindle from "Device Manager", then Uninstall and the magic popup with the infamous checkbox will appear! Something like this:



i made this example using my Vga, but the window is the same

@Vashypooh: i uninstalled checkin that box a LOT of times, but with the driver of the original package i always get the same error. With the other driver it worked on my first try!

mine looks like this:


It doesnt give me a place to check a box is it still uninstalling it all correctly?

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nvm finally got it to work using hypez drivers. what do I do to get the android app store on the kindle fire side too?