[Root][TWRP][FFF][CWM]Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 (5/09/12) [First Gen Only]

ahage16 · May 17, 2012

Dasanko said:
You can easily check if root was installed properly by running an application that requires root: root explorer, titanium backup, etc...

FFF and TWRP definitely failed to install. wget also failed to fetch the files in the first place. Can you tell us a bit more about the way you're using KFU? Did you try placing it in a short path, such as C:\KFU ? Are you right clicking and "Running as Administrator"? (this can mess up the paths) Did you edit any of the files? Take a look in files/files.log as well... OR make sure KFU/wget isn't being blocked by a firewall of some sort.

You may want to just redownload KFU and start from scratch. Also, double check the drivers, even if they appear to be working right, make sure they show up like in the table here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23747671&postcount=2

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried moving it to a short path and temporarily disabling firewall before running root installer again, but it doesn't seem to be working after I tried running setCPU. Driver seems to be installed fine as well. I'll try redownloading and see if that fixes anything.

EDIT: Whenever I ran the batch file, even though I didn't right click run as administrator, it would say administrator in the title bar. I tried running it when logged in as a standard user, and the word is gone from the title bar, but the results are the same. I haven't edited any files, and this is what my files.log looks like:

updateurl|http://kindle-fire-updates.s3.amazonaws.com/update-kindle-6.3.1_D01E_4107720.bin
updatemd5|2754961C4DC2C0F37BE7B7D1206C57FF

twrpurl|http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/blaze/openrecovery-twrp-blaze-2.1.1.img
twrpmd5|2F10DFB3575C08E789745B4E883B4C55

cwmurl|http://icxperia.com/doomlord/kindle-fire/KINDLE-FIRE-UtterChaos-CWM5-touch-v01-FINAL-1_recovery.img
cwmmd5|980F152121AFD5DCD12B732669E21B09

appsurl|http://random.kennocha.com/kindle/apps/apps.zip
appsmd5|B694AC497F4AB9FFC62F124B738D9112

fffurl|http://random.kennocha.com/kindle/firefirefire/fff-u-boot_v1.4a.bin
fffmd5|D6A85FFE24EC48C132665E8D6852BF3E

Dasanko · May 17, 2012

ahage16 said:
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried moving it to a short path and temporarily disabling firewall before running root installer again, but it doesn't seem to be working after I tried running setCPU. Driver seems to be installed fine as well. I'll try redownloading and see if that fixes anything.

EDIT: Whenever I ran the batch file, even though I didn't right click run as administrator, it would say administrator in the title bar. I tried running it when logged in as a standard user, and the word is gone from the title bar, but the results are the same. I haven't edited any files, and this is what my files.log looks like:

It looks fine, I assume you've already tried redownloading KFU? Although the issue is probably in your OS.

As a get around, you can try manually downloading those files, using the links included in your files.log to get (put them under KFU\recovery) whichever ones you want to flash (and it wouldn't hurt to verify their hash later using a program for it), although at this point, I'm not so sure using KFU to flash FFF and TWRP is a good idea at all - something else may fail, and that wouldn't be a good or nice thing.

Techlyfe · May 17, 2012

ahage16 said:
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried moving it to a short path.

I'm late to the help game but what OS are you running? And what is the exact directory that you are running KFU from? When you run KFU does it show whether it is ONLINE and what the BOOTMODE is?

ahage16 · May 17, 2012

I'm pretty sure I managed to get everything working correctly, although I don't know why no one else was having problems. I tried manually downloading the necessary files, but the script still was not finding them. I noticed that it was looking for files with different names then the downloaded ones, so I renamed all the files, but then the MD5 check was failing on all of them. So I manually checked MD5, and removed that part checks it in the script, and then everything seems to work correctly. I was able to run a root only app, and I can boot into recovery. I don't know why I didn't just do this manually to begin with.

Higg777 · May 18, 2012

Any though what I should do to get root from that error? Seems like the root checker isn't allowing removal.

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Techlyfe · May 18, 2012

Higg777 said:
mv: can't rename '/system/bin/check_rooted': No such file or directory

Please wait...

Installing Superuser.apk
Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?

What exactly are you doing or more precisely what have you done already?

What ROM/Firmware are you currently running.

Have you tried Sideloading Superuser.apk?

Higg777 · May 18, 2012

Techlyfe said:
What exactly are you doing or more precisely what have you done already?

What ROM/Firmware are you currently running.

Have you tried Sideloading Superuser.apk?

Thank you for the response. I'm using KFU only. I'm on stock ROM/firmware. I tried flashing a superuser zip from recovery but that didn't take. That error comes in the batch when trying the root option. I was able to successfully flash TWRP and CWM recoveries though, so device communication seems good.

Dasanko · May 18, 2012

Higg777 said:
Thank you for the response. I'm using KFU only. I'm on stock ROM/firmware. I tried flashing a superuser zip from recovery but that didn't take. That error comes in the batch when trying the root option. I was able to successfully flash TWRP and CWM recoveries though, so device communication seems good.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552547

Since you're having issues rooting, try the manual method (you didn't mention which stock version, so I'm assuming >=6.3): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1568340

Techlyfe · May 18, 2012

Higg777 said:
I was able to successfully flash TWRP and CWM recoveries though, so device communication seems good.

Not exactly sure of the issue, it could be possible that you don't quite have root as of yet. Have you tried using an app that requires root?

Try this, sideloading the superuser.apk :

Plug up your kindle, and enable mass storage mode.

Copy the superuser.apk file that is located in KFU\files folder, onto your kindle. Disable mass storage mode and on the kindle use a file browser to navigate to the location where you copied superuser.apk. Now click the file to install it.

Wait a minute, on the stock rom, and most, if not all roms, there is an option that allows installation of non-market apps, usually located in security tab of settings. Do you have that enabled? If not, that is your issue i believe. You can't side load/install apps via adb or file browsers unless you enable that setting, if i'm not mistaken.

wayzata · May 20, 2012

Damn this is INSANELY involved beyond what I've seen on other devices.

The Kindle shows up as ADB Composite Device or something but it says device not found when I try to run the first adb command, tried adb kill-server and it still didn't work. Any ideas?

I mean honestly, are you trying to make it impossible? I've read all the guides and it's like when you get a math lecture and they basically explain 2+2=4 then the test is "If you have $10 find the mass of the sun"

Techlyfe · May 20, 2012

wayzata said:
Damn this is INSANELY involved beyond what I've seen on other devices.

The Kindle shows up as ADB Composite Device or something but it says device not found when I try to run the first adb command, tried adb kill-server and it still didn't work. Any ideas?

I mean honestly, are you trying to make it impossible? I've read all the guides and it's like when you get a math lecture and they basically explain 2+2=4 then the test is "If you have $10 find the mass of the sun"

This is the KFU thread, why would you be running adb commands?

*edit* What exactly are you doing, you don't mention whether or not the device shows up ONLINE nor do you state whether kfu displays what bootmode. I have no idea from what you (explained?) that would allow anyone to help you in the least.

DeamonFish · May 20, 2012

Not sure if it's a problem for anyone else, but it would not install TWRP for me, it would only boot from it.

Code:

	tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 boot recovery\twrp.img

Okay, so, is it supposed to only boot from it? I would have thought that you want it to run tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery\twrp.img

Anyways just thought i'd throw that out there.

Vashypooh · May 20, 2012

DeamonFish said:
Not sure if it's a problem for anyone else, but it would not install TWRP for me, it would only boot from it.

Code:

tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 boot recovery\twrp.img

Okay, so, is it supposed to only boot from it? I would have thought that you want it to run tools\fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery\twrp.img

Anyways just thought i'd throw that out there.

You are not using the latest KFU.

DeamonFish · May 20, 2012

Ah, okay. It all makes sense now

ninjames · May 21, 2012

Really not sure where to ask this, but can I get some help? Rooted today using this utility, and installed Google Play/Go Launcher

Is there any way to go back to using Kindle's native reading app? When I click on books it instead opens the mobile equivalent of the Kindle App to use. For one, it's a sloppier interface and not good. For two, I don't like clicking a book from the carousel and opening up into an app. I want to go straight to a book. In other words, I don't want anything to do with that app or Go Launcher, really.

Is there a way to go back? I can't even get the new Kindle App to recognize any of my books. Clicking on one just opens to a blank kindle screen. No idea to even sync books to that app.

Lastly, is there a way to get the Google Play store into the Kindle Launcher? This is all really confusing. I may want to go back to stock if it's taking away functionality to root it.

And I apologize because I'm sure this has been asked before ..

EDIT: Now all of my books aren't showing up at all, despite being in "Documents" on the SD Card (where Calibre placed them and where they appeared on the main Books tab since before rooting) and books won't download from the cloud when I tell them to. How do I reverse all of this and go back to how I was? Before root with the original recovery. Unless there's a way to remove all this other crap and just be rooted with the play store (ie, still using the native kindle interface that actually works ...)

EDITEDITEDIT: Wow. Alright, so I apologize once again for making this all muddled and the like. I wiped and flashed the stock rom and everything seems to be back to normal. Can't quite figure out the best way to root and get Google Play without custom launchers or ruining my actual kindle app.

Techlyfe · May 22, 2012

ninjames said:
Wow. Alright, so I apologize once again for making this all muddled and the like. I wiped and flashed the stock rom and everything seems to be back to normal. Can't quite figure out the best way to root and get Google Play without custom launchers or ruining my actual kindle app.

Rooting with KFU doesn't actually make any real changes to the stock rom outside of adding root. What you must have done before was update the kindle app in playstore with Kindle for android. That was your mistake, three apps you must not update: Kindle for android, Google Music and Google Movies. They will give you hell, (not work like you are used to them working in stock launcher) when your on a stock rom.

You can use another launcher, but in that launcher you must put a shortcut to the kindle launcher nearby to access the other functionality that you are used to.

1. Install root
2. Install google apps / go launcher
3. When done, and you get the option to select the default launcher, do not let go launcher be the default launcher. Check the "make this default" box and select the kindle launcher.
4. You should be good to go, just do not upload those 3 apps i mentioned above.

Oh and the reason the kindle for android app wasnt reading your documents folder is because it is hardcoded to check the new sdcard\kindle folder for books.

jacewt · May 22, 2012

ninjames said:
Really not sure where to ask this, but can I get some help? Rooted today using this utility, and installed Google Play/Go Launcher

Is there any way to go back to using Kindle's native reading app? When I click on books it instead opens the mobile equivalent of the Kindle App to use. For one, it's a sloppier interface and not good. For two, I don't like clicking a book from the carousel and opening up into an app. I want to go straight to a book. In other words, I don't want anything to do with that app or Go Launcher, really.

Is there a way to go back? I can't even get the new Kindle App to recognize any of my books. Clicking on one just opens to a blank kindle screen. No idea to even sync books to that app.

Lastly, is there a way to get the Google Play store into the Kindle Launcher? This is all really confusing. I may want to go back to stock if it's taking away functionality to root it.

And I apologize because I'm sure this has been asked before ..

EDIT: Now all of my books aren't showing up at all, despite being in "Documents" on the SD Card (where Calibre placed them and where they appeared on the main Books tab since before rooting) and books won't download from the cloud when I tell them to. How do I reverse all of this and go back to how I was? Before root with the original recovery. Unless there's a way to remove all this other crap and just be rooted with the play store (ie, still using the native kindle interface that actually works ...)

EDITEDITEDIT: Wow. Alright, so I apologize once again for making this all muddled and the like. I wiped and flashed the stock rom and everything seems to be back to normal. Can't quite figure out the best way to root and get Google Play without custom launchers or ruining my actual kindle app.

If you get google play, do not update the kindle app through google play. It will break your kindle app on custom rom. Do not install go launcher or any other thing. You can get google play and keep stock just the way it is.

hallstevenson · May 23, 2012

I learned not to update the Kindle app through Google's Market ! After I did, my wife wanted to know where her books were ! It made her log back in and Amazon didn't make her re-pay, but did make re-download them.

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CannibalAngel · May 23, 2012

I keep getting this error when running run.bat:

Any suggestions?

I am on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 and am right-clicking and choosing Run as Administrator.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Techlyfe · May 23, 2012

CannibalAngel said:
I keep getting this error when running run.bat:

View attachment 1078219

Any suggestions?

I am on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 and am right-clicking and choosing Run as Administrator.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Rename the \Kindle Fire Ultility folder to KFU and also put the folder at the root of a drive so that it looks like this C:\KFU or D:\KFU and try again. Usually this happens when you have characters or spaces in your username.

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