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[solved] Can't update.

First of all I feel bad for making a thread because I feel like the answer is out there and I just cant find it.
The unit is a TF101G and WW version B9O.
Basically I used this to return to stock http://theunlockr.com/2011/11/28/how-to-unroot-and-remove-cwm-recovery-on-asus-transformer/
This worked fine but now i can't seem to update to stock ICS the tablet does not find any updates automatically (or going into settings and forcing a search)
and when manually downloading ICS from Asus both 9.2.2.4 and 9.2.2.6, neither work.
I was originally using CWM but with no luck there i tried using stock recovery current firmware version is 8.2.3.13
I cant seem to figure this out.

Do a factory reset then update thatll do it
Hit the thanks button if i helped

You need to be completely stock for the update to go, as in no CWM and sometimes it matters which SKU you are on. You can always NVFlash stock ICS if nothing else works

Nvflash does not work for tf101G
So ive got 3 files on my microsd card now after wipingdata as ROM CHIEF suggested the orifinal file name unchanged(yes its unzipped once) the same file called EP_UPDATE.zip and the same file again called UPDATE.zip still when i boot into stock recovery it shows a progress bar for a few seconds then goes to the android and '!' sign and no combination of vol up/down power on seem to activate any controls (like it does on my phone)
Edit: I'm now trying to root VIA PERI and it does not work i get "cannot open for write access is denied" i also tried using wolfs method manually (Im pretty sure PERI just automates wolf) to flash the ICS blob directly and get the same access denied. I guess the exploit isn't working ?

What fw are you on? You need to be on a ICS firmware, yes PERI automates wolf's exploit.

Thing O Doom said:
What fw are you on? You need to be on a ICS firmware, yes PERI automates wolf's exploit.
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yeah I was on 8.2 something which i think was the problem. managed to get it to update by renaming the zip to EP101_SDUPDATE.zip. It didnt really help that i had 5 different people telling me to rename it to different things. I'm happy I got it to work in the end.
PERI saved me in the first place when i originally couldn't flash anything (CWM was from rom manager) so thanks for the nifty program.

New Infinity on ICS but says no update available.

I've searched but every thread dealing with this concerns a tablet whose update failed or rooted or something. I just bought my gf a brand new Champaign tf700, it came with ics obviously, and it says no update found when I go into settings and search for update. Tried a factory reset and cold boot... no luck finding a JB update.
How do I get this thing to update? Any easy solutions?

nonstop14 said:
I've searched but every thread dealing with this concerns a tablet whose update failed or rooted or something. I just bought my gf a brand new Champaign tf700, it came with ics obviously, and it says no update found when I go into settings and search for update. Tried a factory reset and cold boot... no luck finding a JB update.
How do I get this thing to update? Any easy solutions?
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http://support.asus.com/Download.as...&m=ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T&os=32
Steps of Update:
1. Check SW version of your Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700T*
2. Download Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700T Firmware: V10.4.4.16 Only for US SKU and Update version of SOP (From “Manual” Item)
※Firmware update cannot do *SKU conversion* and downgrade version.
Wrong SKU may cause update failure, You can only update your SW version on the Same SKU
*How to check SW version of your Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700T?
Path: [Settings]-->[About tablet]-->Build number
Example: You should be able to see the build number WW_epad-10.X.X.X_2012xxxx, where “WW” means SKU.
**Basically download the US update (Guessing since your profile says Detroit you have US version), and store the update onto your micro SD card. Then plug the micro SD into the tab and it should prompt to update. Good luck.**

Are you rooted? Do you plan to unlock? What version are you on? (.26, .30) If you are on .26, check out the thread on NVFlash in development. After you upgrade, you cannot use NVFlash. If you need to upgrade, and don't want to unlock, you should be able to go to asus direct and download the update. Check out this thread on NVFlash : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901479.
Try this one for update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803090, note, it does require root.

I just returned a prime today that I bought for a friend in exchange for a C8 infinity. Tablet didnt want to update to JB and was stuck on 4.0.3. So I used my laptop and went to the Asus support download site, download 4.1.1 US version, unzipped it and another zipped file came up, Plugged the infinity to the laptop via Asus cable, copied the second zipped file into the main directory I think it was /mnt/sdcard, Rebooted and the exclamation sign came up and installed the new 4.1.1. Then went back and deleted the file that I copied on to the main directory. Dont need an sdcard to manually update.

I just received my tf700 on Tuesday (from NewEgg) . I got two OTAs updates that afternoon - neither was JB. Finally JB came through last night. So you might have to wait a day or two. ...
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

Try registering your new tablet on the Asus website.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app

junrider said:
I just returned a prime today that I bought for a friend in exchange for a C8 infinity. Tablet didnt want to update to JB and was stuck on 4.0.3. So I used my laptop and went to the Asus support download site, download 4.1.1 US version, unzipped it and another zipped file came up, Plugged the infinity to the laptop via Asus cable, copied the second zipped file into the main directory I think it was /mnt/sdcard, Rebooted and the exclamation sign came up and installed the new 4.1.1. Then went back and deleted the file that I copied on to the main directory. Dont need an sdcard to manually update.
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This works perfectly.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

nonstop14 said:
I've searched but every thread dealing with this concerns a tablet whose update failed or rooted or something. I just bought my gf a brand new Champaign tf700, it came with ics obviously, and it says no update found when I go into settings and search for update. Tried a factory reset and cold boot... no luck finding a JB update.
How do I get this thing to update? Any easy solutions?
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1. When still on .26, install Nvflash. Look it up on the forum for the steps. It's not that hard.
2. You might be one of the people having an Infinity that apprarently is not showing up in ASUS' serial number database. This will preclude you from a) receiving an OTA (Over-The-Air) update like the one you're hunting for, and b) will prevent you from being able to unlock the device, so no custom recoveries (and therefore no backups) and no custom ROM'ing. For a lot of us, that was enough to seek (warranty) replacement.
3. If you decide to keep this 700, the procedures given for manually updating a firmware work. However, I'd sincerely recommend you reading through their main threads to really get a good feel for what to do and, more importantly, what NOT to do. There are quite few ways of updating a 700 by hand, depending on what works and your skill level.

Thanks for posting this question. I was having the same issue and now i found my answer WIN!

[Q] Request Asus to downgrade to ICS .26

Hello everyone,
Since I started using the dock, I have noticed the separation between the glass and the body has increased. I am afraid it might get worse.
I am planning on sending it back for fixing this issue and also, request Asus to downgrade me back to ICS .26 bootloader on grounds of facing many issues with JB.
Before I speak to the US customer service, I was wondering has anyone succeeded in requesting Asus to downgrade them?
My main purpose is to get back the ability to use nvFlash. The device is still locked.
Thanks.
EDIT:
I had sent my device to Asus and they flashed my device back to 9.4.5.26.
I just finished taking nvFlash backup of my device.
If anyone wants nvFlash backup, then I suggest you request Asus to downgrade your bootloader.

xxx313030 said:
Hello everyone,
Since I started using the dock, I have noticed the separation between the glass and the body has increased. I am afraid it might get worse.
I am planning on sending it back for fixing this issue and also, request Asus to downgrade me back to ICS .26 bootloader on grounds of facing many issues with JB.
Before I speak to the US customer service, I was wondering has anyone succeeded in requesting Asus to downgrade them?
My main purpose is to get back the ability to use nvFlash. The device is still locked.
Thanks.
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I don't know about talking to customer service, but I just downgraded to ICS the other day so I could root my TF700. It's incredibly easy to downgrade it yourself. It doesn't mess with your warranty or anything.

Do explain...
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T

Go to Pretoriano80's thread here to read the instructions or read below.
Go here to download 9.4.5.30 with the appropriate SKU.
Pretoriano80 said:
*** Factory Restore after a softbrick/Downgrade from Jelly Bean to ICS/Clean Factory Restore ***
When You Need This?
* if you get stuck on Asus boot screen (the one with the spinning wheel)
* If you don't like JB and you want ICS back
* if you want to get back to a clean stock firmware
Note: You need to have a working recovery (stock or custom) in order to use this method.
========= Recover /Downgrade from Jelly Bean to ICS/Clean Factory Restore with stock recovery =========
1) Download the latest firmware from Asus site (based os your SKU,eg. ww 9.4.5.26 * to downgrade from Jelly Bean you need the 9.4.5.30 firmware)
2) Extract the .zip file somewere on your desktop (the result will be another .zip file,use it for step 3)
3) Rename the extracted archive to "EP201_768_SDUPDATE.ZIP" (without the " ") and upload it to a MicroSD card
4) Insert the MicroSD card in your tablet and use this button combination to Power ON and go to recovery --> Start the tablet by pressing Volume Down and POWER togheter for 5 seconds ,a message will inform you that you have 5 seconds to enter the recovery,press Volume UP before the 5 seconds expire.
At this point the device will go in recovery and should start updating your firmware .
Note: Keep in mind that Windows doesn't show the known file extensions so most users don't have to put the .ZIP extension in the filename.
========= Recover /Downgrade from Jelly Bean to ICS/Clean Factory Restore with custom recovery =========
1) Download the latest firmware from Asus site (based os your SKU,eg. ww 9.4.5.26 * to downgrade from Jelly Bean you need the 9.4.5.30 firmware)
2) Extract the .zip file somewere on your desktop
3)Rename the file to something like "recover.zip" uploade it to the root of your MicroSD card
4) Insert the MicroSD card in your tablet and use this button combination to Power ON and go to recovery --> Start the tablet by pressing Volume Down and POWER togheter for 5 seconds ,a message will inform you that you have 5 seconds to enter the recovery,press Volume UP before the 5 seconds expire
5) From the recovery menu press Install and select the "recover.zip" file ...wait until the install process ends and then restart your device.
Note: Keep in mind that Windows doesn't show the known file extensions so most users don't have to put the .zip extension in the filename.
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Thanks for the input. I want to downgrade to .26 bootloader. Using the above method, you can only go to ICS .30. However, nVFlash doesn't work on that.
My purpose is to get back the ability to use nVFlash and as of now, only Asus can downgrade your tablet to .26 ICS.

v_droid31 said:
Thanks for the input. I want to downgrade to .26 bootloader. Using the above method, you can only go to ICS .30. However, nVFlash doesn't work on that.
My purpose is to get back the ability to use nVFlash and as of now, only Asus can downgrade your tablet to .26 ICS.
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My mistake! Hopefully you get your request granted. I don't see why you wouldn't. The TF700 is very expensive.

Help updating TF300t to 10.4.2.20

Hello,
I just got my transformer tf300t (US) yesterday. It came with 10.4.2.18 on it. It tried to update to 10.4.2.18 right away, but i had heard so much about problems unlocking the bootloader, i went ahead and an postponed the updated, and unlocked immediately. The unlock went without a hitch! I thought, great! However now I don't know how to update the firmware to 10.4.2.20, as when I tell it to check for udpates, it says that it is up to date(and from what i read this is because its unlocked).
I thought about just installing a customer recovery, and flashing a customer rom based on 10.4.2.20, but they all say in the instructions to update to the newest rom before flashing(i assume this is because the bootloader needs to be up to date?)
Any help or guidance would be appreciated, thanks!

urushiol said:
Hello,
I just got my transformer tf300t (US) yesterday. It came with 10.4.2.18 on it. It tried to update to 10.4.2.18 right away, but i had heard so much about problems unlocking the bootloader, i went ahead and an postponed the updated, and unlocked immediately. The unlock went without a hitch! I thought, great! However now I don't know how to update the firmware to 10.4.2.20, as when I tell it to check for udpates, it says that it is up to date(and from what i read this is because its unlocked).
I thought about just installing a customer recovery, and flashing a customer rom based on 10.4.2.20, but they all say in the instructions to update to the newest rom before flashing(i assume this is because the bootloader needs to be up to date?)
Any help or guidance would be appreciated, thanks!
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You have an Index for the TF300T/TG here, and you will find all you need for your TF :good:
and try this : [ROOT/ROM] Root Stock/Deodex Firmware 10.4.2.20 (US/WW) | Insecure kernel !

philos64 said:
You have an Index for the TF300T/TG here, and you will find all you need for your TF :good:
and try this : [ROOT/ROM] Root Stock/Deodex Firmware 10.4.2.20 (US/WW) | Insecure kernel !
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I went through a few hours of heartache to be able to update my tab to stock jb 4.1 about a month back, and to be honest I don't really remember how I did it, though I think it involved adb/fastboot...
I am currently running cm 10.1 off of the asus 4.1 bootloader, and I will be attempting to update to asus stock 4.2 in about 20 minutes and I will let you know my findings... but sofar, you are off in the right direction, though I might recommend the NVflash tutorial in the dev area to make sure you cant f up your tab...

Alright brother, so here is what I have got figured out since I last posted about, oh, say 8 hours ago...
Now, assuming you took my advice and did the whole lovely NVFlash Tutorial, then what I would do is go to Asus.com, pick your region, go to support, firmware, then select the 10.4.2.20 update that matches your tab's region (mine is in the US, so I picked US). Then download that sucker, go smoke a cig or two (however long it takes) or do whatever you do that will take THAT time to download the ~500mb file...
FROM THERE, assuming you are using windows (like I am, Windows 7 to be exact) use your favorite unzipping prog. to open the file, then extract the .zip within (called US_epad-user-10.4.2.20.zip) to somewhere on your interal (or I prefer external) sd card.
NOW, if you haven't done so already, you need a Custom Recovery, and I HIGHLY recommend TWRP because in my experience, it is simply more versatile that CWM (clockword mod). Again, you can find this in the Developement section of this forum...
Once you have both TWRP, and your official update file on an sd card, you are almost home free here... Alls you have to do is boot up into recovery from, say... device turned off... by first holding Volume Down then pressing and holding (at the same time) The power button until device comes on. You will then be met with a small message in the upper left hand screen saying "press Volume up to enter RCK" (or recovery) and TWRP should load from here.
Once it does, then it's easy here, first, for grins, create a backup, simply by hitting the backup button (you'll know it when you see it) that way you have a dyed-in-the-wool backup of your actual stock rom (THIS CAN BE VERY HELPFUL should you need to return or repair the tab, which Asus will no longer cover since it's unlocked, but if you got it from, say Amazon or Best Buy, you should have almost NO problems being able to do that... jejejeje) once backup is complete (should take about 3-5 minutes or so) then hit the Home softkey in the upper right corner, go to "install" then find where you put that update file that I had you extract earlier (hopefully on your external sd card for simplicity)... You are given a some-what easy to navigate file system that should help you locate it where your folder tree will be on the left window and your files within the active folder are in the right, select the file, then install...
WHEEEEE! Now let that bad boy go, when it says Success! and displays the buttons again at the bottom, then you are good to return home to the main screen (of TWRP) or to just Reboot the tab. Upon rebooting, you will first see your Asus splash screen with the device unlocked text in the upper left, following some new text saying something silly like official update ok, then the next screen will have a slightly different Asus splash with a progress bar that fills up blue as it updates/installs the system. THIS WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, and when done it will reboot again ( I believe) and then show the Asus logo with a dotted rotating "loading" circle, and this too, will take a while to finish doing what it's doing...
From here, it's just the waiting game....until you are prompted to set it up like you did the first time out of the box.
Congrats! Now you are fully up to date until Asus posts the NEW 4.2 update on the site, which is currently only available in the US via OTA update (which would require you NOT be unlocked, but who cares)
You can find info on THAT update below...
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-42-roll-out-asus-transformer-pad-tf300-begins-today-us
Other than that, once you are where you wanted to be (which was on the official JB 4.1.1 update, things will go smoothly for you, it ran real nice for me, but I don't know if it's just my Wi-Fi setup or what, but I seemed to lose Wi-Fi stability after a month or so... Asus has been known for that I hear, but then again, you might not have that issue...
At any rate, you are now able to safely flash your brains out on this tab... I was on CM 10.1 (which gives you the bleeding edge Android 4.2.2) and it works nicely, but I experienced some seriously noticeable lag on screen rotation when using the nightlies that simply just weren't there on the stock rom. Not only that but the stock rom gives you a cute feature at the bottom of the screen, in the middle of the notification/nav bar... a navigation locker (great for games, especially if you have kids or just hit the nav buttons accidently when using media).
I am currently running the newest AOKP, and it does everything that CM10.1 does (as far as I can tell) and isn't short of any features (again, as far as I can tell after about an hour of toying) that CM10.1 has...
*finally exhales* Hope this has been helpful to you... God, I know it would have been helpful to me back when I did this.

VERY IMPORTANT: as it is almost 7 am, I just realised that after you flash the official 4.1.1 update, you will need to reinstall TWRP in order to use other ROMs...too easy, doesn't take hardly any time, I just forgot to mention it... Wish you well on your new tab!

Transformer won't update

Hello everyone, this is my first question and I've been pulling my hair out trying to get my TF700 updated to JB. I've looked though all of the forums but I haven't found a very good answer for my problems. I'm unlocked but on stock recovery and .30 firmware. The issue I'm having is I can't update to JB either through OTA or with the dlpkgfile way. I've tried resetting my .30 firmware to make sure the build.prop is correct by using the SD card and power + vol down and I keep getting a signature verification failed error. Every time I try to do any updating I get an android with the red triangle exclamation point. Any help would be really appreciated, I can't get anything to work.

I hope you are aware of the fact that once unlocked, your device will not receive any OTA updates from ASUS any more. By using the unlock tool from ASUS, you have forfeited both your warranty and any future OTA updates. As such, the easiest way for you to upgrade to JB is to download and manually flash the latest firmware for your tf700 from ASUS website. Below is the all-in-one guide for the tf700, you can refer to the Clean Factory Restore section for more information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833212
Btw, since your tablet is unlocked, you should just check out the Development section of this forum to flash a custom ROM to your liking. After all, the only reason to unlock is to use custom ROMs.

C5Reeper said:
Hello everyone, this is my first question and I've been pulling my hair out trying to get my TF700 updated to JB. I've looked though all of the forums but I haven't found a very good answer for my problems. I'm unlocked but on stock recovery and .30 firmware. The issue I'm having is I can't update to JB either through OTA or with the dlpkgfile way. I've tried resetting my .30 firmware to make sure the build.prop is correct by using the SD card and power + vol down and I keep getting a signature verification failed error. Every time I try to do any updating I get an android with the red triangle exclamation point. Any help would be really appreciated, I can't get anything to work.
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You need to check your system information to verify your build, WW or US and you may want to download the right firmware again from the Asus websie. Sometime the file is corrupted or have a wrong firmware. When you get the new firmware from Asus, you need to unzip it once because there is a zip file inside another zip file. Now you can copy the Second zip file to your internal root directory on your device and reboot it. After a reboot, you will see the new firmware message notification on the lower right corner. Now you can select the message from the notification and follow the instructions from there. Good luck..