Amazon Kindle Fire Rom Install Tips
1. Learn how to use the kindle fire utility or KFU. It can do many use full things to the fire like install a custom recovery and rooting the device, also installs FIRE FIRE FIRE which gives you a boot menu.
2. Read the best Kindle Fire guide ever. Link Kindle Fire Guide For Beginners
3. How to install a custom Rom like CM10 you are going to enter a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM. then make a nandroid backup. Next Wipe data, cache, & dalvik cache. Now install / flash the rom zip and gapps then reboot, thats it.
4. Bricked your Kindle Fire? Stuck on the kindle fire screen? Buy a Factory cable from ebay which will boot you into fastboot and you will be able to use KFU to flash FFF and TWRP then restore it.
Howdy,
Thanks for all the great work you have done for us 5th gen fire users. I did the slimlp ROM with the picogapps mod you outlined in your YouTube video. Everything worked great! Only one problem though. When I register the kindle app the device never shows up on the amazon website and I cannot longer download my books like I can on my other devices
the the $35 amazon fire 5th deal, adb seems to work fine, drivers are loaded correctly on my laptop. i can traverse the tab fine via adb shell (ls -la, cd commands). the fire_root.bat script runs and does the ‘adb reboot bootloader’, and then after my tab reboots to FASTBOOT mode, my laptop disconnects and then the fastboot command from the script sits ‘waiting for device’. i dont think script is bullet proof. i have the amazon 5.0.1 fire 7 tab too.
you need to install the fastboot drivers to get this part working better
Same here…stuck at fast boot screen…can’t install a bootloader.
i have 5.1.1 on this fire i just got – i have the play store….but im unable to find a launcher that will work? does anyone know of anything i can do to set a new default launcher? i can’t seem to find a way to over right the amazon one….
Thanks. That is what I was afraid would be the case. I’ll just have to steal (or trade with) my wife’s. Hers is a Christmas present and hasn’t been hit with the OTA update yet. I’m sure she’ll understand.
Just curious though, what exactly did Amazon do in the update that caused this?
Thanks again for the reply.
Root junky, do you have the guide to install google play store on fire is 5.1.1 ?
Thanks
http://rootjunky.com/amazon/amazon-fire-7in-5th-gen/
I was happily rooting my new cheap kindle 7 5thGen, when I got stuck on fastboot like everyone else who got updated to 5.1.1. Now that this has happened and knowing that I can’t downgrade, is there anything else that works? Will CM work without fastboot??
Thanks.
at this point you are stuck until we figure out a method to unlock the bootloader. you can still install google plat store and install a custom launcher to make the device better.
Plat store?
Is that what the cool people say nowadays?
Have you figured out how to gain root access on KF OS 5.3.3.0 ? Root failed using new supertool.
no not yet hopefully something will come along soon i know a lot of people are waiting. I am sure Amazon is also waiting to patch it.
Unfortunately, there are two versions of the pre-HD Kindle Fire out there and they are very difficult to tell apart. The Kindle Fire 1 is a piece of cake to root. The KF2 is much harder. Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228539 for how to tell them apart and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100963 for how to root the KF2.
If only the KFU ACTUALLY WORKED! It never reads my Kindle, and even when I install the ADB drivers, it won’t install properly. It just keeps waiting for the device! I’ve spent FIVE HOURS trying to just get this piece of retarded shit to work for fucking Dropbox! IT should NOT be this goddamn difficult!
hi, i have a problem I did everything and it seemed like it worked but when I boot it up it gets stuck on the cyanogen logo page when booting up so did I do something wrong that cause this?? i followed this video :[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHAOQeq4O0&feature=youtu.be[/url] what can i do in this cases?
i installed “cm-10.1-20130724-1413-otter-sgt7” and gap “gapps-jb-20130301-signed” in twrp: 2.2.2.1 in a kindle fire first generation 1 v.6.3.3(2011)