Hey guys I tried rooting and installing twrp on a kindle fire first generation. In the command prompt it got stuck at waiting on device and then I was just screwed. Looked for hours how to get past it, nothing, now I'm trying to use unbrick tools and the device won't be recognized , windows doesn't recognize it, so I can't uninstall and reinstall the drivers like I did in the early processes of rooting. The Android SDK manager has a confusing interface that I'm trying to figure out how to use that to get the drivers to work, and I can't figure that out either. I did this in the first place to have a better device to give to my girlfriend as a surprise, and Now I'm incredibly sad and frustrated, any help would be great.
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I've just recently rooted my CDMA Hero using the unrevoked method and I had a lot of trouble figuring it out. I some how got the adb drivers to install on my phone (I was so annoyed by the time they installed I wasn't even paying attention when they did) but now they have disappeared (I think because I downgraded the phone to get it out of a booting screen loop) and I can't get them to re install no matter what I do. Im running on windows 7 64 bit and even when the bubble pops up and says that new drivers are installing when I go to type in
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it tells me that no internal or external paths can be found. Any tips for installing these would be greatful. I want to still use adb in the future.
Yeah nevermind. I was charging my phone via computer and an installing drivers bubble just so happened to pop up after I had been tinkering with loading themes. Figured I'd go ahead and give a shot to see if it was the drivers I needed turns out it was.
No idea what really went down but I'm glad i got adb working properly lets hope it's more permanent
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Okay so I have finally come to a point where I am going to need some help On my journey to root this phone, which is my first time rooting a verizon phone, i have learned that verizon is a *****. This phone is the GN2 VRAM3 SCH-i605. I have already flashed the keis update for this back to 03/29/.2013. I basically followed the guide, and have just been effin around doing things a bit differently everytime because it usually fails right away. I have been using zadig from heimdall to replace drivers, I have a windows 8.1 computer with the full Android sdk installed, obv with adb and fastboot, and i also have a windows 7 pc with the sdk tools installed and zadig and all that stuff. I have been trying to use casual, and this bad boy has been fighting me the whole way, This is the furthest I have gotten and was wondering if anybody had any other suggestions for me to get this guy to run through successfully. Thank you very much in advance.
Hey everyone. I'm in a very big issue right now. I've searched far and wide on the internet to try to find a solution to this, but to no avail. I was recently messing around in TWRP on my Kindle Fire HD 7", when all of a sudden I went to reboot it and then just a blank red screen. So obviously I have bricked it. I know how to run the recovery program to get it unbricked, no issue. I have bricked my Kindle before in the past and was able to easily fix it by running the Kindle restore recovery program. So now when I went to my PC to try and unbrick it, I get this message "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it." So clearly the drivers aren't working. I went into the devices manager and located it under Universal Serial Bus Controllers as "Unknown Device." When I attempt to update the drivers, there is no Amazon option. I have tried uninstall and reinstalling the drivers countless times. I tried as many different driver sources as I possible could come across and nothing is working. I have used three different computers so far, and none are working. I do have a fastboot cable, which is what I'm using to do this. I can get my Kindle into fastboot but that still doesn't change the fact that the drivers aren't working. I have made a YouTube video about this. I will post the link to my video that I made so anyone can better understand this. I am desperate at this point, and I appreciate any help I can get.
EDIT: I can't post the link at this time since i'm "new and probably a spambot," so feel free to PM me and I'll provide the link.
I'm so sorry man the only advice I can give you is to try to flash a custom ROM over fastboot but that probably won't work you might be able to find a program that let's your computer find your device without it powered on or bricked. Sorry man also they are like 50 bucks on utube if worst comes to worst.
Do you think it has anything to do with something being broken internally? Because I have never had an issue with it not being recognized in fastboot.
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I don't think so the same happened to me and I just flashed a custom ROM after a factory reset and that worked also did you enable adb before this happened? Because if you didn't, your going to have to toy with twrp until you can find a custom ROM you might have previously downloaded.
Yes, I always have adb enabled. But I can't even get into twrp. It's fully bricked, it just boots up to a blank red screen.
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Ummmmm you could try sending it to amazon or a service on eBay that's kind of your last resort but still try to look for a fix I'll be looking around for a fix
I've been trying to get ABD working mainly so can downgrade my fire 5th gen from 5.1.3 to 5.1.2 but at all the tutorials i get stuck at the ABD. i made sure to download the android SDK for abd, i set the paths and open up command prompt ABD is still unknown command. so i figure try ubuntu and ofcourse that crashes saying "upgrade motherboard or use force" and havent seen any new mobo updates.
then ofcourse to top that all off every single tutorial that shows how to get ABD drivers working for the thing stop at the part after i install fire drivers and abd drivers. at a point it is still not done becuase now you have to go into device manager and do option where you can select "android phone" but what if you don't have "android phone" as an option? i thught that the android studio would add that but i guess not.
so what do you do when get at these problems? tutorials i fallowed are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/index-amazon-fire-2015-t3210485
and ugh cant find other right now but as can see nothing on what to do if get at my road blocks, i have also needed ABD for other things and it used to work fine for apk transfers on older kfhd on another PC 7 but drivers for flashing rom abd mode and just NOT installing nomatter what i do tried for whole day and a half trying to figure out this nightmare.
is for only apks?
Nightmare-Rex420 said:
I've been trying to get ABD working mainly so can downgrade my fire 5th gen from 5.1.3 to 5.1.2 but at all the tutorials i get stuck at the ABD. i made sure to download the android SDK for abd, i set the paths and open up command prompt ABD is still unknown command. so i figure try ubuntu and ofcourse that crashes saying "upgrade motherboard or use force" and havent seen any new mobo updates.
then ofcourse to top that all off every single tutorial that shows how to get ABD drivers working for the thing stop at the part after i install fire drivers and abd drivers. at a point it is still not done becuase now you have to go into device manager and do option where you can select "android phone" but what if you don't have "android phone" as an option? i thught that the android studio would add that but i guess not.
so what do you do when get at these problems? tutorials i fallowed are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/index-amazon-fire-2015-t3210485
and ugh cant find other right now but as can see nothing on what to do if get at my road blocks, i have also needed ABD for other things and it used to work fine for apk transfers on older kfhd on another PC 7 but drivers for flashing rom abd mode and just NOT installing nomatter what i do tried for whole day and a half trying to figure out this nightmare.
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for a donwgrade there is a forum for kindle fire already why not try it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/help/downgrade-fire-os-5-1-4-to-5-1-2-t3388323
good luck:cyclops:
Note: For transfer apk you can upload to google drive or dropbox from your pc and download a install from the same apk on your device.
CharlexDe said:
for a donwgrade there is a forum for kindle fire already why not try it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/help/downgrade-fire-os-5-1-4-to-5-1-2-t3388323
good luck:cyclops:
Note: For transfer apk you can upload to google drive or dropbox from your pc and download a install from the same apk on your device.
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uhh that pretty much says i have to load the firmware downgrade with ABD, and ABD is the problem idk how that helps?
Letme ask, did you install jdk and relate tools for adb like the one one will need for and android studio or some other developer tool? If not try to install it over Google you can find several related guidelines.
yea i got the ADB working on linux but not on windows still, also i can;t get the ABD drivers working because there is no "android phone" or "adb device" option in device manager which may have somethign to do with it.
well crap it just started working, but i still can't send adb commands because the drivers are not working due to not being able to continue tutorial over "device manager - select android phone or abd devices" step.
your problem sound like a driver problem but you can check the next forums:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/kindle-fire/help/index-amazon-kindle-fire-t3205350
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63635664&postcount=9
i have a sky elite 5.0LW with lollipop that wont boot past the splash screen. i have the boot.img, but i cant get the phone recognized thru windows or mac. when i connect to windows, it goes thru the process of installing drivers for it, so its recognized. but adb turns up nothing. ive read just about everything ive come across to get this to work. ive tried 6/7 cables, installed programs, installed drivers, used USBDEVIEW to delete drivers and then re-installing them. used different computers-windows and mac. im not real familiar with using mac for this. ive never had so much trouble with ADB. the phone wont go into bootloader thru the phone recovery options, it just re-starts the phone. im at a loss. im hoping someone with more experience with this issue can help me out. this has me frustrated and determined me at the same time!