[Q] Kindle Fire Unbrick Help

[Orome12]

Hello all! I currently need help unbricking my Kindle Fire 2nd Gen. My kindle is stuck in the "Kindle is Upgrading" screen after rooting it and accidentally messing up the default launcher. I'm trying to factory reset it, but I can't figure out how. Since my Kindle is in this state of upgrading, my computer won't recognize it, even with EVERY driver that you're supposed to install installed (And yes, I've tried uninstalling every driver and reinstalling them all). I bought a fastboot cable, but of course I can't really do anything with it because I can't install a recovery or even get to the android recovery without it being recognized on my computer. When I plug in my Fastboot cable, it just says "Fastboot" and has a red light and a blinking green light. Is there any way to externally reset it? I tried opening it up and finding a little pin sized hole to reset it, but mine didn't have it like their's did. I really need help, my family is poor and I use this for many things and we can't replace it. Please help!

 

[phiftyopz]

Hello again.
In your last forum thread, you stated that you got the ADB/fastboot drivers to work on your computer. If that is true, download the latest firmware from amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201016370
Move that to your platform-tools folder. Press shift+right-click and click open command window here then boot your kindle to fastboot mode and type fastboot -i 0x1949 flash system <insert update file name here>.bin and press enter. It should now reinstall Fire OS 10.5.1 to your kindle, but you aren't done just yet...Unfortunately, I can't remember the fastboot command to wipe the dalvik cache (someone please reply with the command, you will be thanked!). After you wipe the dalvik cache, type fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot and unplug the fastboot cable right when your kindle's screen goes black. It should now take several minutes to boot to Fire OS, so be patient! If it has been 10 minutes and your kindle hasn't booted, try to flash the OS again but don't wipe the dalvik cache (since we already wiped it). If it still doesn't boot, then something has gone horribly wrong with your kindle, I'm afraid, but reply if this happens, as there is one thing we can still do.

Hope this helped,
Nick


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[ibooth2004]

Root Obtained

Thanks for this, after hours of searching through different threads and forums I have finally rooted my old KF2.