[Q] Problem with my Kindle - No status bar or system bar

ViperExhibit

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Apr 11, 2012
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Hi. I decided to root/ install a custom ROM on my Kindle 2 for the first time yesterday and everything went great. The root went well and the ROM (Powerpoint's ROM) was working great. I was messing with some of the settings last night and I messed something up with the Treybuchet launcher (it had to do with the grid size on homescreen) to where it kept closing everytime I tried to open it so I downloaded a few other launchers and it fixed the issue. Well, I liked the Treybuchet launcher so I decided I wanted to just reflash the ROM so it would be fixed.

So I went to the recovery menu and selected Wipe Cache, Dalvic Cache, Factory Reset, and then System and then installed the ROM file and GAPPS. Then I went back into the Wipe menu and decided to wipe Internal Storage because all my old files from my Kindle Fire were still there and I wanted them wiped.

So then I clicked restart and everything was going well when I got into the Google setup menu. Everything looked good and I entered in all my info. Then I got to the homescreen and the first thing I noticed was that the homescreen was black. There was no wallpaper set and it was just black. I could still see the default apps and the dock. So I clicked down and went into the wallpaper menu and tried to select one but it didn't change it.

And then after a minute, I noticed that there was no status bar or the bottom bar with the home button, back button, and app switcher. So whenever I clicked into an app, I was stuck in it until I rebooted the device. So I can't really do anything on my device right now because I have no back button or status bar or anything.

I've since reflashed a bunch of times and redownloaded the files and tried it, but nothing is working. I'm still missing the status/bottom bar and I'm thinking it may have had to do with my initial problem with Treybuchet.

I've also tried going into the Play Store to try to download a launcher, but for some reason my Play Store isn't downloading any apps either so I can't do that either. And plus I wouldn't know how I would be able to switch to the launcher without a home button anyways.

Can anyone help me please with this?
 

ViperExhibit

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Apr 11, 2012
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West Palm Beach
Sorry for making my OP so long.

Basically what I'm saying is that when I reinstalled one of the ROMs, my status bar and system bar are not there anymore and I'm not sure what to do now. Has this happened to anyone else?
 

mammenj

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Sorry for making my OP so long.

Basically what I'm saying is that when I reinstalled one of the ROMs, my status bar and system bar are not there anymore and I'm not sure what to do now. Has this happened to anyone else?
Yes, same thing happened to me as well. Now I wiped everything and it has no OS :mad:

Today I will try side loading the cm10 again and see what happens:eek:

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mammenj

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I was able to get it working by pushing the ROM and gapps through adb.
Once I got the zips in sdcard, installed it normally from trwp.

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Xeferil

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Jan 30, 2013
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Same problem here

Hi,

I have the same problem here with my kindle fire 2
I tried to root with Root many android utility and several times it didn`t work. At some point in one of the restarts, the kindle started updating and then it booted to a black screen where there's not a menu or status bar and nothing can be done. Any time I try to do something, it shows the screen to connect to amazon account but as I haven't and can't configure wifi connection, I can't do anything.
So basically, the kindle starts but nothing can be done and the menu and status bar are not present :(

I've tried to re run the utility but when there's time to appear the restore screen on my kindl, nothing happens and the utility gets waiting forever as it states.

Anyone knows and can help me to fix the kindle???

Thanks!!!
 
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