I followed the Bricked transformer thread for a while - and there was a file that ASUS didn't want to release which would help recover a bricked tablet last I checked.
I've seen that devices like
* N.C. is bootable from uSD card - so you could recover from a brick using CWM
* G-tab - From what I gather is brick recoverable
Has the Asus transformer shown a way to recover from bricked status yet. Or is it toast < permanently bricked > if an Android rookie takes a few wrong turns as he learns how to root - and tweak the Android ROM's and blobs.
nook-color said:
I followed the Bricked transformer thread for a while - and there was a file that ASUS didn't want to release which would help recover a bricked tablet last I checked.
I've seen that devices like
* N.C. is bootable from uSD card - so you could recover from a brick using CWM
* G-tab - From what I gather is brick recoverable
Has the Asus transformer shown a way to recover from bricked status yet. Or is it toast < permanently bricked > if an Android rookie takes a few wrong turns as he learns how to root - and tweak the Android ROM's and blobs.
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The kind of brick you're asking for is different than the brick that the OTA caused. The OTA one continually tried to load the OTA bootloader without allowing the vol down + power boot in to recovery, that is the reason we weren't able to redo the blobs or reflash roms. As long as you can boot in to recovery your device is not bricked, as you can adb if you can boot in to recovery.
In short, no we can't unbrick using APX. I haven't heard of anyone bricking beyond rescue when they failed to root, so chances are you're fine to root.
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hi everyone,
(first of all i'm sorry for the bad english but i'm not so practical...)
anyone knows if is possibile to recovery an hard bricked device?!
i explain better the situation:
i was on TWRP 2.5 touch with JB bootloader & cromi-x 4.6
in the try to install cyano10 i downloaded and installed CWM6 by rom Manager
obviously this soft bricked my device...
so, without read anything i do the worst thing possible....
a factory reset from the bootloader....
now the device only boot, locked on first screen (the one with ASUS on black background.... and in the top left margin only "the device is unlocked" script )
no adb neither fastboot avaible, only APX mode is recognized....
anyone know if is possibile to save the device from this situation?!
thanks to all
skulll88 said:
hi everyone,
(first of all i'm sorry for the bad english but i'm not so practical...)
anyone knows if is possibile to recovery an hard bricked device?!
i explain better the situation:
i was on TWRP 2.5 touch with JB bootloader & cromi-x 4.6
in the try to install cyano10 i downloaded and installed CWM6 by rom Manager
obviously this soft bricked my device...
so, without read anything i do the worst thing possible....
a factory reset from the bootloader....
now the device only boot, locked on first screen (the one with ASUS on black background.... and in the top left margin only "the device is unlocked" script )
no adb neither fastboot avaible, only APX mode is recognized....
anyone know if is possibile to save the device from this situation?!
thanks to all
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Unfortunately if you don't have nvflash files backed up there is nothing you can do other than send it back to Asus for repair. They will likely charge you for this service.
sbdags said:
Unfortunately if you don't have nvflash files backed up there is nothing you can do other than send it back to Asus for repair. They will likely charge you for this service.
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thanks for the reply
like pay how much?! if is more than 300€ i think the tablet will'came a nice paperweight....
Hello,
thank you for taking the time to read and try to help.
I got an Asus Padfone X from At&t and the refused to unlock it
Asus didnt help either.
not to bore you with details
but here is my noobish mistake tool form, i flashed the asus kernel .zip file to the bootloader using twrp.
now phone wont boot into recovery or bootloader
got the minimal tool which as you know include fastboot and ADB
but it wont detect the device ( it detected it before when i rooted the phone )
I made a backup before i flashed , but the problem i cant flash it to a device that wont go to bootloader or recovery
and wont be detected by ADB.
please guide this lost noob.
Hello Ultimician,
If your device cannot boot into recovery or bootloader it's a hardbrick. Flashing the wrong kernel will cause your device to hardbrick.
You probably still have a warranty, I'd go to your service provider and play dumb: "One day my phone just didn't turn on, I've tried everything even charging it."
If you know of someone that could JTAG your device you could go to them that might work, what the manufacture usually do is they replace the whole motherboard. ( What Samsung did when I bricked my device in any case.. )
Otherwise you could refer to these threads, be careful though they are not necessarily for your device. ( But they might be of help )
[GUIDE] Z Ultra and Z1 HARD BRICK RECOVERY
[Galaxy S III][IMPORTANT] GT-I9300 Hard Brick Fix
[GUIDE]Unbrick a Hard Bricked SPRINT Galaxy S3 (Without JTAG)
Best of luck mate!
thanksfor the swift assistance
thank you kindly
amazon offered me a refund
i will take my chances
Carefully when they send a device back to the maker they can often pull information.like last install and all of that. If you had a back up. I would try to flash the stock firmware. They are ways to do this with jig and other tools. I would try to flash stock every way I could before I take it back. I had s3 and bricked it long time ago.after many hours of reading I fixed it. Please always when flashing make sure it's for your device. Wish you luck2
Hi everybody, I have got a big problem with my ngm wilco. I'm afraid I made hardware damage. I was flashing the CWM recovery following these instructions: http://bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.it/2012/05/mt6575-flashing-tutorial.html using the ZTE V970 CWM recovery that I found in the second post in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856578. The phone was already rooted. But the application Smart phone flash tool gave me an error message while I tried flashing without the preloader (I unflaged it because the developer says that it's not necessary). I also tried selecting all the flag, but I always had error messages. Unfortunately the Wilco didn't remain in the previously status, because now it's totally bricked. It doesn't turn on; I can't use the recovery pushing the power and the volume up button; I can't flash the stock rom because the pc doesn't identify the phone. I hope that I didn't made hardware damage, because I'm afraid that the official assistance wouldn't recognize the warranty considering that I was making modding. Thanks a lot for your answers
Nobody of you can help me???
Hey guys, I've accidentally hard bricked this tablet (SGH-i497) by flashing the wrong recovery image. No download mode or recovery, black screen only. Computer only sees it as qhsusb_dload.
What I'm wondering (obviously short of a JTAG repair) is if anyone could potentially make a working backup of their model using QPST as a last ditch effort? I want to see if this can restore it, and I know it's a long shot.
Hi guys, i am new to this forum and would like some help on restoring a bricked (don't know how bad) android tablet. It first got jammed on the start screen logo because of an app that i uninstalled the wrong way. I then tried to reboot it and that is where the problem started, so I decided to try flash a nexus or TWRP or a CWM image with amd with no avail but my phone was detected. CMD kept on displaying that the size of the images were too large, but the RAMDISK.img flashed. After this I also tried sideloading the nexus 5 image, since that's all I could find in the bootloader that actually worked. Unfortunately, as soon as i copied it showed 'aborted' therefore I rebooted it and the cycle began
The battery then drained and now I can't access recovery mode or fast boot (only the menu) which eventually goes off after a few seconds, and when I plug it in, it shows the critical battery sign then tries to boot, but doesn't charge and does this repeatedly. It doesn't display the boot image at all.
It is an Alps LC 007 Tab with some MTK kernel and a custom recovery and bootloader. Is there any hope of reviving my tablet? Please help????????
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Hi guys, i am new to this forum and would like some help on restoring a bricked (don't know how bad) android tablet. It first got jammed on the start screen logo because of an app that i uninstalled the wrong way. I then tried to reboot it and that is where the problem started, so I decided to try flash a nexus or TWRP or a CWM image with amd with no avail but my phone was detected. CMD kept on displaying that the size of the images were too large, but the RAMDISK.img flashed. After this I also tried sideloading the nexus 5 image, since that's all I could find in the bootloader that actually worked. Unfortunately, as soon as i copied it showed 'aborted' therefore I rebooted it and the cycle began
The battery then drained and now I can't access recovery mode or fast boot (only the menu) which eventually goes off after a few seconds, and when I plug it in, it shows the critical battery sign then tries to boot, but doesn't charge and does this repeatedly. It doesn't display the boot image at all.
It is an Alps LC 007 Tab with some MTK kernel and a custom recovery and bootloader. Is there any hope of reviving my tablet? Please help????????
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I can access preloader with windows SP Flash Tool but nothing else? Isn't there some kind of way to flash images with the flash tool?
Please help:crying:
dothwolo said:
I can access preloader with windows SP Flash Tool but nothing else? Isn't there some kind of way to flash images with the flash tool?
Please help:crying:
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Seriously? I came to this forum with a mild situation and now I've completely bricked my mt65xx device doing things I didn't know how to do. It's been 3 days!
DAY 1
I try use adb to undo soft brick but the battery dies and I can't access the bootloader or fastboot or recovery but just the boot menu.
DAY 2
I try use the SPF tool with not much knowledge from the YouTube videos I watched and I end up formatting my device with only a backup of the system.img (which isn't even an image).
DAY 3
The device is completely unresponsive after trying over and over with a little bit more knowledge from research.
Now I'm wondering what would've happened if I got a response at least to catch my attention and stop me from doing things without knowledge of what I'm doing. I'm not forcing People to help but at least reply so that I stop. 108 views and no reply. Sorry if I sound a bit too grumpy but I am not happy. .......
dothwolo said:
Seriously? I came to this forum with a mild situation and now I've completely bricked my mt65xx device doing things I didn't know how to do. It's been 3 days!
DAY 1
I try use adb to undo soft brick but the battery dies and I can't access the bootloader or fastboot or recovery but just the boot menu.
DAY 2
I try use the SPF tool with not much knowledge from the YouTube videos I watched and I end up formatting my device with only a backup of the system.img (which isn't even an image).
DAY 3
The device is completely unresponsive after trying over and over with a little bit more knowledge from research.
Now I'm wondering what would've happened if I got a response at least to catch my attention and stop me from doing things without knowledge of what I'm doing. I'm not forcing People to help but at least reply so that I stop. 108 views and no reply. Sorry if I sound a bit too grumpy but I am not happy. .......
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Sorry for the late response ... we are trying to help, but xda is not our fulltime job. We do it voluntarily ... next to our jobs and real lifes.
As there is nothing about your exact device on xda, here are some useful threads about similar devices:
[UTIL][WIN][MT65xx] MTK Droid Root & Tools | MediaTek Android Smartphone by rua1
[GUIDE] How to 'unbrick' your Mediatek MT65xx by yuweng
[TUT] [TOOL] MT65xx ROM Porting by yuweng
If nothing of the above helps in your case, please ask in the [Ask Any Question][Newbie Friendly] by dagger thread.
Keep in mind to provide as much information as possible to get best help and advices.
Hope that you will find a way to unbrick your device.