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[Q] help save my transfomer

so i have a b90 tf101 with .21 which was previously rooted with vipermod. I wanted to avoid flashing cwm until ics came out to keep it as stock as possible for upgrade.
So i was trying to figure out ubuntu installer, and it wouldnt work for some reason, so i figured i might try to reinstall busybox. Anyway somewhere along the line my wifi stopped working it gets stuck on obtaining ip, then i tried factory reset, and wiping all data to fix that issue (didnt work). I then noticed i somehow lost my root access. so i tried rerooting and it keeps saying -exec 'system/bin/sh' failed: no such file or directory.
So i guess my best option is to try to get this thing flashed with stock firmware using stock recovery if possible, and would love an explanation of how to do that (searched for miles online and couldnt find anything about how to use the stock recovery) or if anyone has any other advice it would be much appreciated
Thanx

Bigmanslim said:
so i have a b90 tf101 with .21 which was previously rooted with vipermod. I wanted to avoid flashing cwm until ics came out to keep it as stock as possible for upgrade.
So i was trying to figure out ubuntu installer, and it wouldnt work for some reason, so i figured i might try to reinstall busybox. Anyway somewhere along the line my wifi stopped working it gets stuck on obtaining ip, then i tried factory reset, and wiping all data to fix that issue (didnt work). I then noticed i somehow lost my root access. so i tried rerooting and it keeps saying -exec 'system/bin/sh' failed: no such file or directory.
So i guess my best option is to try to get this thing flashed with stock firmware using stock recovery if possible, and would love an explanation of how to do that (searched for miles online and couldnt find anything about how to use the stock recovery) or if anyone has any other advice it would be much appreciated
Thanx
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Well, if you still have cwm and can get to it...you're good. just download the super wipe lite file from the revolution hd thread...download a ROM such as revolution hd...put both in external sd...go to cwm recovery...flash the wipe script...then flash the rom.
Then just wait till ics is out...then flash a custom ics ROM...instead of trying to go stock again and messing things up...cause i bet that there will be a root stock ics rom within hours of release.

thats my problem i never installed cwm. cant i flash a stock rom using the stock recovery? do you know anything about the wifi issue? if not how can i get rid of superuser so i can rma?

Bigmanslim said:
thats my problem i never installed cwm. cant i flash a stock rom using the stock recovery? do you know anything about the wifi issue? if not how can i get rid of superuser so i can rma?
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After you have download the file from Asus, make sure to extract the files from within. Put it on the root of your sd card.
Power off the TF.
Push and hold Vol down plus power button
As soon as you see words scrolling at the top left corner
Push Vol up immediately (within 5 sec) to get into recovery mode.
Hopefully it read the update file and flash it.

sry hopefully this is the last question. when i extract the file there is a folder called asus inside it with another zip inside that and a blob with some files inside that. Which should i put on the sd card. and by sd card do you mean the internal memory or microsd.
thanks a million for the help

IIRC, after you extract there's an Asus folder, in that folder is an Update folder.
It's the zip inside the Update folder that need to go on the external micro sd card

as a side not the reason that the ubuntu installer id not work is that you have a b90 which it clearly states ubuntu does not work on becasue of sbk2

i could be wrong but im pretty sure it just visualizes ubuntu and doesnt actually install it. anyway thanks for all the help guys it turns out to flash the stock firmware you just put it in the microsd and press the tiny exclamation mark next to the clock on the stock rom. took me forever to figure out, but it fixed everything. I got wifi working, then re-rooted, then flashed team-rogue recover (thanks for that one baseballfanz) as rom manager said it wasnt compatible with tf101, but do u guys know if there is any way to get regular cwm, and finally flashed krakd.
Thanks again to everyone,and let me just say this is one of the most helpful forums i have ever been on

Bigmanslim said:
i could be wrong but im pretty sure it just visualizes ubuntu and doesnt actually install it. anyway thanks for all the help guys it turns out to flash the stock firmware you just put it in the microsd and press the tiny exclamation mark next to the clock on the stock rom. took me forever to figure out, but it fixed everything. I got wifi working, then re-rooted, then flashed team-rogue recover (thanks for that one baseballfanz) as rom manager said it wasnt compatible with tf101, but do u guys know if there is any way to get regular cwm, and finally flashed krakd.
Thanks again to everyone,and let me just say this is one of the most helpfull forums i have ever been on
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sorry i was not sure if you were talking about native ubuntu or choroot ubuntu. choroot should run fine

Bigmanslim said:
but do u guys know if there is any way to get regular cwm, and finally flashed krakd.
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Not sure what the "regular cwm" is but you should be able to flash krakd rom with the team rouge cwm recovery.
The only other recovery I recommend would be Roach's 3.2.0.1 version.
Both version can be found here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22359727&postcount=218

HELP stuck in bootloop

hey guys im new to the whole rooting thing. i recently decided i wanted to try to do it on my own. i successfully switched the phone to s off. Here is the link to the tutorial i was following ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1192300 after getting s off it said to download Download recovery v5.0.0.8. but the link that was provided wasnt working so i had to find another one. i must of got the wrong one or done something wrong because when i put the img file on my sd card and put it in the phone and loaded up hboot, it asked me to update i said yes it updated then i clicked reboot and now im stuck in reboot.
what can i do to get out of this whole and in the right direction, if someone can help me itd be greatly appreciated, thanks.

When you flash something in hboot it should have a list of what it's updating. Therefore it should have only said recovery because that's all you were flashing. If this is the case, and you can get to hboot, try reflashing the recovery again, but redownload it from somewhere else. This sounded better in my head lol. But good luck anyways. I'd link you to a correct file but I don't have my laptop.
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First remove the existing pmg58.img file from your SD card using a PC/micro SD adapter or another phone.
Second, you can download the recovery from rom manager in market (assuming your phone boots).
Sent from my Pyramid-T

negative i deldete the pg158 file off of the sd card tried to boot up still bootlooping

fixed the problem please delete the thread

Rooted phone, hit factory reset on phone and now I'm stuck in loop

Hello I rooted my Inspire last Feb. I have installed several Rom's. Today I picked up a new phone for myself, HTC Vivid and was going to give the Inspire to my wife. Just didn't want her to be able to see all the different stuff I had on the Inspire. To make a long story short, I had a brain fart and without thinking went into factory reset and reset my rooted phone (I know dumb). Now I'm stuck in a loop, how do I correct this problem?
I have pulled the battery to get out of the loop and held down the volume and pushed the power button to get into bootloader from there I went into recovery and checked my sd card and there is no Rom. Help please.

If you can get into recovery, then download a rom to pc, connect phone to pc, mount sd card, transfer, wipe, flash.
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scrappy1959 said:
Hello I rooted my Inspire last Feb. I have installed several Rom's. Today I picked up a new phone for myself, HTC Vivid and was going to give the Inspire to my wife. Just didn't want her to be able to see all the different stuff I had on the Inspire. To make a long story short, I had a brain fart and without thinking went into factory reset and reset my rooted phone (I know dumb). Now I'm stuck in a loop, how do I correct this problem?
I have pulled the battery to get out of the loop and held down the volume and pushed the power button to get into bootloader from there I went into recovery and checked my sd card and there is no Rom. Help please.
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Scrappy, now you know it, never do a factory reset on a custom rom...you will get stuck with no rom at all.
Boot in hboot and choose recovery. If you still have CWM recovery you can flash a custom rom from the sdcard (you will need a sdcard reader) but first make a full wipe to have a clean flash.
If you want to rever to stock ruu, then flash the official at&t GB RUU (is an .exe file) from fastboot (boot in hboot, choose fastboot and plug the phone till u see fastboot usb in red), then run the file.
The file u can get it from www.htc.com go to support and find downloads in the Inspire 4G section.

Yes pretty much what the above member said. Just pick a Rom there is a member by the name of gene pool that has a revert back to stock like out of the box kind revert its the dev thread for the inspire
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using xda premium

@glevitan: what I said was correct or was I a tad off? I got a bit confused with your reply
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Teichopsia said:
@glevitan: what I said was correct or was I a tad off? I got a bit confused with your reply
Sent from a dream
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Yep, that is correct..but if he wants to flash a custom rom. If he actually wants to revert to stock and keep S-OFF he has to flash the RUU...:fingers-crossed:

glevitan said:
Scrappy, now you know it, never do a factory reset on a custom rom...you will get stuck with no rom at all.
Boot in hboot and choose recovery. If you still have CWM recovery you can flash a custom rom from the sdcard (you will need a sdcard reader) but first make a full wipe to have a clean flash.
If you want to rever to stock ruu, then flash the official at&t GB RUU (is an .exe file) from fastboot (boot in hboot, choose fastboot and plug the phone till u see fastboot usb in red), then run the file.
The file u can get it from www.htc.com go to support and find downloads in the Inspire 4G section.
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OK, I did a complete wipe, I am going to get the sd card reader. Just for the heck of it I mounted the sd card and looked to see what files (data) is on the card and all that is there is the 4ext recovery. Everything else is gone.
I am running up to walmart to get the sd card reader. If you wouldn't mind, could you please give (I feel stupid asking this) a step by step or provide a link on exactly how to this is done with the card reader.
Right now when attach my Inspire to the PC it won't even recognize it as a disk. So that is kind of throwing me for loop. I already have the ROM on my PC it is a rooted version of the original Gingerbread RUU.
Thank you so much for your help. :good:

scrappy1959 said:
OK, I did a complete wipe, I am going to get the sd card reader. Just for the heck of it I mounted the sd card and looked to see what files (data) is on the card and all that is there is the 4ext recovery. Everything else is gone.
I am running up to walmart to get the sd card reader. If you wouldn't mind, could you please give (I feel stupid asking this) a step by step or provide a link on exactly how to this is done with the card reader.
Right now when attach my Inspire to the PC it won't even recognize it as a disk. So that is kind of throwing me for loop. I already have the ROM on my PC it is a rooted version of the original Gingerbread RUU.
Thank you so much for your help. :good:
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Scrappy, do the following..get the sdcard reader and just paste the ROM in the root of it....then put the sdcard in the phone and boot in hboot and then choose recovery...
the: 1) just wipe data / factory reset 2) wipe cache / dalvik
Install from sdcard....enjoy...if you can't do it just send me a PM and we can arrange to fix it...

glevitan said:
Scrappy, do the following..get the sdcard reader and just paste the ROM in the root of it....then put the sdcard in the phone and boot in hboot and then choose recovery...
the: 1) just wipe data / factory reset 2) wipe cache / dalvik
Install from sdcard....enjoy...if you can't do it just send me a PM and we can arrange to fix it...
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All is good, all working, wife is happy , you saved my butt.
Thank you so much.
Now I'm trying to decide if I want to keep the HTC Vivid or go with the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket (can't afford the Galaxy S III or the HTC One X). Have you checked out either phone and what is your opinion of them, to me the Vivid almost seems to much like the Inspire, except a lot faster. I have read and watched so many reviews of both phones but I am almost tempted to try The Skyrocket just for something different. Either way after rooting my Inspire I'm sure whatever I end up keeping, it will be rooted. Just looking for your thoughts on those two phones.

scrappy1959 said:
All is good, all working, wife is happy , you saved my butt.
Thank you so much.
Now I'm trying to decide if I want to keep the HTC Vivid or go with the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket (can't afford the Galaxy S III or the HTC One X). Have you checked out either phone and what is your opinion of them, to me the Vivid almost seems to much like the Inspire, except a lot faster. I have read and watched so many reviews of both phones but I am almost tempted to try The Skyrocket just for something different. Either way after rooting my Inspire I'm sure whatever I end up keeping, it will be rooted. Just looking for your thoughts on those two phones.
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I am glad You could sort i out. To me the Samsung Is better but both are great phones....i am ON galaxy note now and Samsung seems to be be great so far

I would try to grab a note over a skyrocket, but that's just me
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Can my Nexus be fixed?

Hello all
I suspect that either my Nexus has a hardware fault (internal memory) or I bricked it somehow.
For the past few weeks the phone has been getting stuck on the google boot screen quite a lot - It takes several attempts
to start up each time so I've been trying to keep the battery from running down.
The other day while I was attempting to switch roms I put the stock img on my SD card but when I went to flash it CWM
couldnt mount my (internal) SD Card. Senior forum member Caliban2 suggested that it could be my recovery so I installed CWM 6.0.0.7 non-touch using fastboot and, like magic, the phone started up -though I suspect this may have been luck.
I rebooted the phone out of curiosity and it got stuck on the google boot screen - no amount of battery pulling and restarting could coax
it back to life, so I went into CWM again to discover that it could not mount the SD Card, I was getting the 'cannot mount' and 'E:Unable to open ums lunfile(no such file or directory)' error messages. My windows 7 PC could see the phone but said that their was non memory inserted. Out of curiosity I installed CWM 5.0.2.0 but that produced the same results.
So now my phone appears dead, is the internal memory or something related to it is broken? I have seen things on here about using an unbricking tool in Debian Linux or flashing stock using odin but I confess that I have not tried these solutions and don't fully understand them (yet).I wussed out and dropped the phone into a local repair workshop, I imagine they will be trying these same steps themselves and they say it will take them a few days to get back to me.
My problem is that I need a phone for work and I gave my backup phone (HTC Hero) to my dad recently. Should I just take the plunge
and go out today and buy a new phone? Or is there a reasonable chance that these guys can fix my nexus s, or that I might be able to?
I'm a relative 'noob' at this so I thank you all for your advice in advance, it's much appreciated.
Derek

Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.

Thanks, will do. It's in the shop at the moment, I suspect this is probably what they're doing now.
Perhaps subconsciously I'm just looking for someone to tell me it's irreparable so I can rush out
and pick up a Galaxy Nexus.
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Hey Harbb
Just wanted to give you an update on this, got it back from the shop who said they would need to send it to Samsung for a hardware repair, didn't expect it to work but fastbooted the stock bootloader, radio and image to the device and it's now working!
I've already moved onto a Galaxy Nexus on contract but at least now I can make a bit of money back off my old phone.
Thanks again for the advice
Derek
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Asus TF101 - Recovery - Stuck on Boot

Hi
I bought some electronics at an auction and there was a Asus TF101 included in the lot. After reading about the unit I thought it would be great for personal use. I ordered a charger online an I tried it but it gets stuck at the boot screen. If I try switching it off it just switches back on. I think this is a botched root job but I don't know what the previous owner did. I doubt it is hardware related though. It has Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.1.3 installed and can boot into the recovery but honestly I am a bit lost at what to do next.
Attempts to wipe the data etc to reset the device has all failed. It seems it needs to be flashed so any help will be appreciated. While I am at it I was thinking of going for one of the newer roms here on XDA available for the device.
Update: I wiped the user data and got the unit reset but now it boots straight into the clockworkmod app
Thanks!

Johandj73 said:
Hi
I bought some electronics at an auction and there was a Asus TF101 included in the lot. After reading about the unit I thought it would be great for personal use. I ordered a charger online an I tried it but it gets stuck at the boot screen. If I try switching it off it just switches back on. I think this is a botched root job but I don't know what the previous owner did. I doubt it is hardware related though. It has Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.1.3 installed and can boot into the recovery but honestly I am a bit lost at what to do next.
Attempts to wipe the data etc to reset the device has all failed. It seems it needs to be flashed so any help will be appreciated. While I am at it I was thinking of going for one of the newer roms here on XDA available for the device.
Update: I wiped the user data and got the unit reset but now it boots straight into the clockworkmod app
Thanks!
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Since you have Clockwork installed and recovery is booting, look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/eee-pad-transformer/development/rom-t2942560
See the install instructions, upgrading to TWRP and flashing rom and other components.

mb_guy said:
Since you have Clockwork installed and recovery is booting, look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/eee-pad-transformer/development/rom-t2942560
See the install instructions, upgrading to TWRP and flashing rom and other components.
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I did see that and I have done some more reading since I posted here. Will I be able to upgrade from Clockwork to TWRP 2.8. if the unit doesn't boot?
Also I got an error saying that the sdcard cannot be mounted. I know this is the internal storage and not the actual sd card.

Johandj73 said:
I did see that and I have done some more reading since I posted here. Will I be able to upgrade from Clockwork to TWRP 2.8. if the unit doesn't boot?
Also I got an error saying that the sdcard cannot be mounted. I know this is the internal storage and not the actual sd card.
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I believe I flashed mine that way. If you have just wiped storage that is the normal error. I would give it go

mb_guy said:
I believe I flashed mine that way. If you have just wiped storage that is the normal error. I would give it go
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That one worry less, was worried something hardware wise was faulty.
This may sound like a stupid question (definitely newbie question) but if I cant access the internal storage how am I going to copy TWRP onto the internal storage and run the install from clockwork?

Johandj73 said:
That one worry less, was worried something hardware wise was faulty.
This may sound like a stupid question (definitely newbie question) but if I cant access the internal storage how am I going to copy TWRP onto the internal storage and run the install from clockwork?
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Sorry it has been a long time since I used Clockwork, but does it not see the external removable sd card? Or try the adb push method if the CM version will support.
https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tf101

No after some blood sweat and lots of foul language I got 4.4.4 loaded just to dicover the lcd has a nice shade of green ..... So LCD = another $30... lol I am so deep in...... Anyway started a new thread just to check if anybody else had the same problem and whether in fact it is the LCD that faulty
Oh just For info... I used EasyFlasher to get TWRP 2.6 onto the Unit with a very nice step by step guide for a newbie like me here
:http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...t/31927-frederuco-s-guide-root-rom-tf101.html
I then Used Kisskat 4.4.4 here at XDA forums to flash the Unit. Lollipop was not happy with the older version of TWRP