My Kindle 7 will not charge - Amazon Kindle Fire HD

Antonia, Check the attached links,about charging problems.
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12 major Kindle Fire problems and how to fix them

Battery Doesn Charge

Not charging

Kindle Fire Won Charge Fix

Amazon.com Kindle Help Forum

www.amazon.com/gp/help/.../kindleqna?ie...

Amazon.com, Inc.If you have a newer Fire you swipe down from the top of the home screen to open it. ...I can't get the settings bar to show up, because swiping doesn't work. .... Does anyone out there have any ideas on this problem? .... have erased ALL of them) still no status bars/times/access to anything. oh and mine is the kindle fire hd.

About Charging Your Kindle Fire - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com/gp/help/.../display.html?ie=UTF8...

Amazon.com, Inc.Kindle Fire 2nd Generation: Fully charges in 3.3 hours; Kindle Fire HD 7": Fully ... The battery indicator at the top of your screen should also have a lightning ... You can showthe percentage of the battery charge in the Status Bar at the ... Your Kindle Fire will not charge as efficiently when connected to a computer and in use.

Navigating Your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 - Amazon.com

sounds like you did everything right
could call amazon see if they can help
or do a factory reset to eliminate software problems you will lose all your data
then there is hardware problems dead battery that won't recharge bad cable connection inside kindle

Reset Kindle Fire When it Won Turn on or Charge

You probably broke the USB connector that is used to charge your kindle.
You could take it to a repair shop and see if it can be replaced.

Charge Unit for 2 hours then hold start button down for up to two minutes and then release start button. Keep Kindle plugged into charger while doing this. Rich

Her is a possible solution:
1. Plug into the original charger, hold the power down for a full 30 seconds, release. Let charge in this state for 12 hours.
2. Lease the device plugged into the charger, while you have the device plugged into power, press the power button for a full 40 seconds, release. Wait for 5 seconds and then press and release the power button. Did the device wake up? No, continue to step 3.
3. Plug the device into another charger, if you do not have an charger from another phone go to Staples or Radio Shack pick up a new Kindle or Universal charger, make sure you can return the charger.
4. Plug the Kindle into the new or alternate charger. Hold down the power button for 30 seconds release. Let charge for 12 full hours.
5. Unplug the Kindle from the charger.
6. Press the power button for 40 seconds - time it. Release the power button, wait for 5 seconds, then press and release the power button. The Kindle should wake up. If not, proceed to step 7.
7. If you can not wake up the Kindle from a 'hard reset' the Contact Amazon directly for a replacement.

You may need a new power cord or it is possible that your Kindle Fire's battery has died. If you noticed the battery life diminishing before it wouldn't charge this may be the case. Here is a site that has replacement batteries for the Kindle Fire:
3555A2L Battery for Amazon Kindle Fire D01400

I guess you're trying to eject the Kindle from the task bar "(safely remove hardware". Try going into Start/Computer/right click on Kindle/ select eject. This worked for me when I had the same problem.

See here: Amazon Kindle DX Support

Once you have the machine running to read anything, the Kindle user manual is a pre-installed eBook on the device and also available for free via the Kindle storefront in case the previous owner deleted it.