I tried to root my 8.9 kfhd 8.5.1 from a youtube video. I got stuck on the blue kindlefire screen. Through different guides I am able to get to twrp and fastboot. I have not been able to install a rom zip on the device through a cut and paste or a push command. I have left messages in a few threads and got a little response, but nothing that got me fixed. I've working on this for 2 weeks and read dozens of threads and cannot find a solution. I guess I had adb working at one time and had the drivers installed, but I'm not sure if ADB is working and my drivers are gone. I tried this thread "Frequently Asked Questions - 2nd Generation Kindle Fires " which directed me to this thread " [GUIDE] Kindle Fire For Beginners [GUIDE] Kindle Fire For Beginn… Post #2 " where I thought following this "How do I install the ADB drivers?" would be the way to go. So I followed it to here "[Root][TWRP][FFF][CWM]Kindle Fire Utility v0.9.6 (5/09/12) [First Gen Only] " and it warns me not to use it on my 8.9. So I looked some more and found this "Let's take some of the mystery out of getting ADB working in Windows ". I think I can get through these instructions correctly, but I now not sure if I this is the proper course of action considering I can get to fastboot and twrp. I've looked for a simpler solution to fix this. I even tried the push command to try and get liquid smooth rom and gapps onto the devices sdcard with no luck.
I am a total newbee and most of the lingo goes right over my head. The following is the original log of my first rooting attempt using this
guide ......
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Home>cd desktop
C:\Users\Home\Desktop> cd kindlefire/stuff
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>adb push stack /data/local/tmp/
800 KB/s (4096 bytes in 0.005s)
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>adb shell
root@android:/ # su
su
/system/bin/sh: su: cannot execute - Permission denied
126|root@android:/ # dd if=/data/local/tmp/stack of=/dev/block/platform/omap/oma
p_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1
f=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1 <
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
4096 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (4096000 bytes/sec)
root@android:/ # mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system
mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system
root@android:/ # mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery
.sh.bak
.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak <
root@android:/ # mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system
mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system
root@android:/ # reboot bootloader
reboot bootloader
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8
-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin
< waiting for device >
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.021s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [ 0.046s]
finished. total time: 0.069s
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freed
om-boot-8.4.3.img
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'boot' (8173 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.447s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.773s]
finished. total time: 1.225s
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>49 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.3.im
g
'49' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-t
wrp-2.6.0.0-recovery.img
target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes
sending 'recovery' (8173 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.451s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.754s]
finished. total time: 1.208s
C:\Users\Home\Desktop\kindlefire\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.001s
Today I tried a factory reset thinking I could push a rom and gapps on the sdcard, but of course that didn't work either.
I don't want to ask people to rehash the same questions over and over but being this far down the road I don't know if I can start the rooting process over or just what. Any help would be appreciated.
Wes
