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I'm stuck, dunno if I am in setup... adb shell says no device found and no noise when plugging in usb so assume debugging is off.
USE THIS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256
Much easier. Thought i'd add a note here so it gets front page coverage
SavageCore said:
I'm stuck, dunno if I am in setup... adb shell says no device found and no noise when plugging in usb so assume debugging is off.
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Turn your phone off and remove PB99IMG.zip from your GoldCard. Hold vol-down + power. Wait 15 secs. Press vol-down x2, power button x1, vol-up x1. This will wipe userdata and reboot phone. Now start from step 10.
If I press search I get feedback from screen so I assume I am past setup. It's just enabling debugging now.
lollylost100 said:
First of all. Big thanks to: teppic74 and Myshkinbob
Lets get down to business:
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wow, thats great. sounds very complicated to get the correct number of scroll downs! is there no way to do the blank screen fix sooner in the rooting process instead of counting?
good luck to anyone trying this then.
You could try tapping the right bottom corner 13 times, but the correct number of scrolls is a better solution AFAIK.
Just thought i'd chip in here, if you're not sure where you are in the setup wizard, you can just restart the phone to begin it again, with...
(if bottom keys are unlit firstly)
press power short
swipe down the screen
(then)
power button long press, phone will briefly vibrate
joystick up a few times
joystick click
joystick click
That's to say, you don't need to wipe the phone in the recovery menu to restart the setup wizard, just restart it normally.
Also worth noting if i let the bottom keys go unlit, the phone was in standby, so to begin the setup wizard i had to do a short press on the power button to light up the keys, and swipe down the unlit screen to unlock the phone.
SavageCore said:
I'm stuck, dunno if I am in setup... adb shell says no device found and no noise when plugging in usb so assume debugging is off.
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These steps may be easier for enabling debugging:
1. Wait a couple of minutes (so the display would switch off normally).
2. Press power once, and swipe down the screen.
3. Press menu. Right 4-5 times, down 2 times, press. (now in settings).
4. Swipe up on the screen to scroll down to the bottom.
5. Down one, press. Now (hopefully) in Applications.
6. Down 5-6 times, press.
7. Up a few times, press.
8. Press once more to confirm debugging.
If it doesn't work, press back 5-6 times and try again, though you can skips steps 1 and 2 if you do it straight away.
(I tried simulating this a couple of times by covering the screen so I couldn't see, and it worked each time)
edit: step 4-5 isn't completely reliable. It may be better to do step 4 and then try to press the part of the screen where the option is, near the top just below the + of the vol button.
Wow! Great job!
teppic74 said:
These steps may be easier for enabling debugging:
1. Wait a couple of minutes (so the display would switch off normally).
2. Press power once, and swipe down the screen.
3. Press menu. Right 4-5 times, down 2 times, press. (now in settings).
4. Swipe up on the screen to scroll down to the bottom.
5. Down one, press. Now (hopefully) in Applications.
6. Down 5-6 times, press.
7. Up a few times, press.
8. Press once more to confirm debugging.
If it doesn't work, press back 5-6 times and try again, though you can skips steps 1 and 2 if you do it straight away.
(I tried simulating this a couple of times by covering the screen so I couldn't see, and it worked each time)
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I couldn't get into USB debugging using the instructions in the first post, but this worked perfectly. (First attempt)
Tried multiple times, different steps. Going through it with lollylost on msn.
Anyone else wanna help out? He has to go.
Edit: Error 140 on RUU!
SavageCore said:
Tried multiple times, different steps. Going through it with lollylost on msn.
Anyone else wanna help out? He has to go.
Edit: Error 140 on RUU!
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You didn't copy update.zip or didn't flash it through recovery.
After step 28, should I be able to see something on the screen? (It rebooted, but the screen is still black.) Unrevoked said the root was successful.
SavageCore said:
Tried multiple times, different steps. Going through it with lollylost on msn.
Anyone else wanna help out? He has to go.
Edit: Error 140 on RUU!
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Did you forget to apply update.zip in recovery?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
teppic74 said:
Did you forget to apply update.zip in recovery?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Think I did one step wrong so have re done but now everytime I hold back and press power it does a normal boot
Edit: Fixed, phone flashing!
SavageCore said:
Think I did one step wrong so have re done but now everytime I hold back and press power it does a normal boot
Edit: Fixed, phone flashing!
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Got there in the end then.
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Got there in the end then.
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Yup thanks alot all. If only usb debugging could be done another way this would be extremely easy. Ah well.
All went smoothly... apart from the re-rooting process!!
All of the no display bits were fine, unrevoked worked fine and I now have a clean non vodafone 1.21.405.2 but when I run unrevoked a second time to root again I have the same issue that I started with which is that my phone refuses to go into recovery!!! ODD.
Thanks so much for all the help so far, I am tempted to just apply the 2.2 update that I am prompted with now as I have no root anyway and at least then I will have 2.2 with no root!!!
Does this change how a custom ROM is installed? I'm following the tutorial here, but won't using the update.zip in that link break the screen again?
Jarua said:
Does this change how a custom ROM is installed? I'm following the tutorial here, but won't using the update.zip in that link break the screen again?
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Ignore that. Install the ROM through custom recovery (be sure to do a nandroid backup first).
I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?
use adb:
Code:
adb reboot
dswilson777 said:
I successfully rooted my phone and got to the android system recovery screen where I need to press my home button to reboot my system, well my home button does not work...
now I am stuck with a phone that I can not reboot. is there any advise to fix this or reboot without the use of my home button?
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power button doesn't work either? I thought that functioned as the 'enter' button... Imnuts' post will work for sure, but I have to ask why are you in the stock android recovery? unless you meant CWM?
Thanks imnuts, what is the easiest way to adb reboot?
My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.
dswilson777 said:
My screen is showing similar to the attached photo but the trackball statement it instead says: [Enter: Home Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
Its asking me to use the home key for my enter but my home key is not functioning. But if you know of an alternative I am happy to hear what your thoughts are.
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ADB (Android Debug Bridge, I think) is tethering your phone to your pc and pushing/pulling files or forcing commands to your phone using the command terminal... it doesn't work right away as you need the latest android sdk files, java/jdk files, and altered C:/ path directory (assuming you're running windows, I think thats how it works if anyone can help me out here )
does the power button work as a 'select' button though? also can't you just battery pull and restart the phone or does it restart right into that recovery? just an FYI that is the stock android recovery which you can't (or rather shouldn't) be doing anything in, CWM is recommended... I vaguely recall there being another button that would work like the search button but I'm not sure
Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?
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Thanks for the advise anoninja118, I appreciate the help.
So last night I tried ADB but was not successful at it, maybe ill look into that more. Unfortunately my phone does not allow the power button to work as the 'select' button. Yeah and pulling the battery leads me back to the same recovery screen. What is CWM?
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CWM is Clockwork Mod, its the custom version of that recovery that will allow you to flash files and change options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804
you can flash superuser (what gives you root access) easily in there and just reboot and presto you're rooted... I haven't seen any tutorials on how to use CWM since its fairly easy, to boot into it just hold power+volume up+home until 'Samsung' appears then let go of power and hold the other two until it comes up, then use volume keys and power button to navigate and select
Odin is required to install CWM first though and this thread gives a little info on that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160580
blazing through on my Acer A500 via XDA app
Long story sort I soft bricked my phone over the weekend and went ODIN back to stock 4.1.1 (COMBINATION_I535VRBLK3_I535VZWBLK3_381038_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5) then OTA to 4.1.2.
Now I would like to have root, unlock, and recovery again. I was following this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439 and for the life of me I cant get past step 3 and get it into recovery.. I've done this before.. but now it wont load I get the Samsung screen the unlock icon along with custom and I've tried holding the buttons down until it supposed to come up but never does.. or wait till the screen goes black and do the button combo again, but still the same result
If any of you could lend me some insight I would be grateful. I need to get off of TW and back to a nice custom ROM and Kernel
The_Southern_Oracle said:
Long story sort I soft bricked my phone over the weekend and went ODIN back to stock 4.1.1 (COMBINATION_I535VRBLK3_I535VZWBLK3_381038_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5) then OTA to 4.1.2.
Now I would like to have root, unlock, and recovery again. I was following this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439 and for the life of me I cant get past step 3 and get it into recovery.. I've done this before.. but now it wont load I get the Samsung screen the unlock icon along with custom and I've tried holding the buttons down until it supposed to come up but never does.. or wait till the screen goes black and do the button combo again, but still the same result
If any of you could lend me some insight I would be grateful. I need to get off of TW and back to a nice custom ROM and Kernel
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I think I know what your issue is, try this, hold down the vol-up + home + power until you see the Samsung logo with the recovery text int he upper left corner. Now release the power button but still hold the vol-up+home buttons until you get to the recovery screen. I had this happen once.
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I think I know what your issue is, try this, hold down the vol-up + home + power until you see the Samsung logo with the recovery text int he upper left corner. Now release the power button but still hold the vol-up+home buttons until you get to the recovery screen. I had this happen once.
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Oh never tried that... I will and let you know!
It worked!
The_Southern_Oracle said:
It worked!
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Glad to hear it!!
Hello everyone,
This is my first post here so forgive my errors (if any):
I have tried a few things on my TF700:
1. I have installed the rooting tool from asus website and after activating it,
The first boot scrren said (on top left corner) "the device is unlocked"
When running the app again it would give an error.
2. I tried soft reset - nothing there.
3. I went for hard reset - I accidently went for the left most icon....
After a little investigation on a few pages here I think it is in APX mode..???
It turns on but stays in the first screen with the white ASUS logo on screen & thats it...
Any ideas anyone???
How do I save my precious TF700??
I tried connecting to it through USB installing (Linux):
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/60-nvflash.rules <<END
# nvflash support for Nvidia Tegra systems attached to USB
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0955", ATTR{idProduct}=="7820", MODE="0660", GROUP="plugdev"
END
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With no luck...
What can I do???
Thanx...
jadeye said:
Hello everyone,
This is my first post here so forgive my errors (if any):
I have tried a few things on my TF700:
1. I have installed the rooting tool from asus website and after activating it,
The first boot scrren said (on top left corner) "the device is unlocked"
When running the app again it would give an error.
2. I tried soft reset - nothing there.
3. I went for hard reset - I accidently went for the left most icon....
After a little investigation on a few pages here I think it is in APX mode..???
It turns on but stays in the first screen with the white ASUS logo on screen & thats it...
Any ideas anyone???
How do I save my precious TF700??
I tried connecting to it through USB installing (Linux):
With no luck...
What can I do???
Thanx...
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If you use the Asus unlock tool, you should not brick your device. It looks like that you wipe your system some how. I am guessing here... Can you do some test for me? If you on the Asus screen, just press the power button for about 10 seconds until it shuts down and then keep holding the power button with the volume down at the same time until you are going back to the three icons, thanks. I just want to see if you can get back to your recovery...
LetMeKnow said:
If you use the Asus unlock tool, you should not brick your device. It looks like that you wipe your system some how. I am guessing here... Can you do some test for me? If you on the Asus screen, just press the power button for about 10 seconds until it shuts down and then keep holding the power button with the volume down at the same time until you are going back to the three icons, thanks. I just want to see if you can get back to your recovery...
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Than you for you reply...
I already tried that...it just loops the same shut down to ASUS LOGO screen with no response to the volume down button.
I also let it run out of power so to try & get it out of this loop which resembles an APX loop but in vain...it just keeps on powering up to the same state...
Will give it another go....
There isn't even a pause where I can slip the volume down button in, that is why I let it run out of power to slip the volume down button in...& that is what I am going to do now...let it charge for a short while and power it up with the volume down button (which did not work for several tries...)
jadeye said:
Than you for you reply...
I already tried that...it just loops the same shut down to ASUS LOGO screen with no response to the volume down button.
I also let it run out of power so to try & get it out of this loop which resembles an APX loop but in vain...it just keeps on powering up to the same state...
Will give it another go....
There isn't even a pause where I can slip the volume down button in, that is why I let it run out of power to slip the volume down button in...& that is what I am going to do now...let it charge for a short while and power it up with the volume down button (which did not work for several tries...)
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Just powered it up with volume down & same screen...
What can I do?
jadeye said:
Just powered it up with volume down & same screen...
What can I do?
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I believed that I can not help you any further with this issue because my knowledge is limited in this situation. I hope that somebody else can give you a good advice.. Good luck..
Hold down volume down and keep held down whilst holding the power button down for at least 10 secs. What happens?
sbdags said:
Hold down volume down and keep held down whilst holding the power button down for at least 10 secs. What happens?
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I have do this several times (but will try again) and it just powers back up to the same screen...
Did anyone refer you my suggestion of it being in APX mode??
What happens if I put a micro SD Card in the slot??
What is that left most logo on the hard reset screen?
What is that right most logo on the hard reset screen?
I know the center is the android...
HELP!!!
Where are all the experts here??
If an SD Card does function, what do I need to have on it in order to restore the state of my ASUS to functional?
Thanx to all those who are giving my POST some thought...
jadeye said:
I have do this several times (but will try again) and it just powers back up to the same screen...
Did anyone refer you my suggestion of it being in APX mode??
What happens if I put a micro SD Card in the slot??
What is that left most logo on the hard reset screen?
What is that right most logo on the hard reset screen?
I know the center is the android...
HELP!!!
Where are all the experts here??
If an SD Card does function, what do I need to have on it in order to restore the state of my ASUS to functional?
Thanx to all those who are giving my POST some thought...
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The device will enter in APX mode only with the Volume UP + Power buttons combo and to get out of that mode you need to hold the Power button for at least 10 seconds.
If you can't get to the bootloader menu (the one with the 3 icons) anymore you are out of luck and only Asus can repair your device. APX it's useful only if you have the NvFlash backup.
Inserting a microSD with an original Asus firmware is also useless if you can't access the bootloader menu because you can't boot in recovery mode.
jadeye said:
I have do this several times (but will try again) and it just powers back up to the same screen...
Did anyone refer you my suggestion of it being in APX mode??
What happens if I put a micro SD Card in the slot??
What is that left most logo on the hard reset screen?
What is that right most logo on the hard reset screen?
I know the center is the android...
HELP!!!
Where are all the experts here??
If an SD Card does function, what do I need to have on it in order to restore the state of my ASUS to functional?
Thanx to all those who are giving my POST some thought...
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Make sure you do EXACTLY what sdbags said - he IS the expert.
With the tablet powered OFF, press and hold BOTH the power button and volume down button together, for at least 10 seconds. It should bring you back to the screen with the 3 icons. RCK, android robot icon, wipe. RCK gets you to recovery mode where you can use TWRP for recovery/flash installs, etc. Middle android is the cold boot option which sometimes fixes problems like you're having. Don't do wipe unless someone like sdbags explicitly tells you.
Hope you can fix this.
jt1998 said:
Make sure you do EXACTLY what sdbags said - he IS the expert.
With the tablet powered OFF, press and hold BOTH the power button and volume down button together, for at least 10 seconds. It should bring you back to the screen with the 3 icons. RCK, android robot icon, wipe. RCK gets you to recovery mode where you can use TWRP for recovery/flash installs, etc. Middle android is the cold boot option which sometimes fixes problems like you're having. Don't do wipe unless someone like sdbags explicitly tells you.
Hope you can fix this.
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Well guys...thank you all for your help & time...
I tried everything anyone here suggested but unfortunately ended up with the same result: ASUS white logo screen.
The tablet is still under the first year time period...any suggestions as for how to get it fixed (RMA) without paying tones of money?
What should I say happened???
Guess RCK does not work on my device...(?)
Thank you all...
Did you try the middle android icon to see if that helped? You switch to the middle one by pressing volume down, then select it by pressing volume up.
The device also have a reset button (a tiny hole near the micro hdmi port),use a paperclip to press it and hope for the best.
As for the RMA ,Asus could charge you for repairing because you unlocked the bootloader but some users here on XDA also reported that Asus repaired their device for free even if the bootloader was unlocked.
Pretoriano80 said:
The device also have a reset button (a tiny hole near the micro hdmi port),use a paperclip to press it and hope for the best.
As for the RMA ,Asus could charge you for repairing because you unlocked the bootloader but some users here on XDA also reported that Asus repaired their device for free even if the bootloader was unlocked.
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Sorry guys...NOTHING WORKS!!! :crying:
:angel: Thank you all for your time & assistance...
jadeye said:
Sorry guys...NOTHING WORKS!!! :crying:
:angel: Thank you all for your time & assistance...
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im having same issue. and for me its worse because my volume rocker is broken
crappy devices by asus - NO SUPPoRT!!!
qman66 said:
im having same issue. and for me its worse because my volume rocker is broken
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Sorry to hear...I could never get it fixed and asus support does NOT EXIST!!!
I am never buying such crappy devices by asus ever again!!!
I did write the like 5 times, they do have service labs here but these service labs know much less then xda-devs...:laugh:
Pretoriano80 said:
The device will enter in APX mode only with the Volume UP + Power buttons combo and to get out of that mode you need to hold the Power button for at least 10 seconds.
If you can't get to the bootloader menu (the one with the 3 icons) anymore you are out of luck and only Asus can repair your device. APX it's useful only if you have the NvFlash backup.
Inserting a microSD with an original Asus firmware is also useless if you can't access the bootloader menu because you can't boot in recovery mode.
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I have only APX mode available and I have the NvFlash backup.. Is there any way to bring him to life? I can't enter bootloader menu or recovery.
Prizrak_M said:
I have only APX mode available and I have the NvFlash backup.. Is there any way to bring him to life? I can't enter bootloader menu or recovery.
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You can try this treat, xda-developers Asus Transformer TF700 Transformer TF700 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting i screwed up by Motawa88
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2742274
Best regards
Scenic-3
Scenic-3 said:
You can try this treat, xda-developers Asus Transformer TF700 Transformer TF700 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting i screwed up by Motawa88
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2742274
Best regards
Scenic-3
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I'm a little confused, but if I can't get access to fastboot, is it all?
Hello everyone. I have Katkiss Kitkat #19 and TWRP recovery 6.something but I can't remember which. Anyway, I use to reboot into recovery by holding down the Volume down, then press Volume up when prompted to get into recovery. Now the power and volume buttons are completely busted. I can't press any of them. And I need to go into recovery to flash the new Rom.
So, here is what I tried:
1. Rom Toolbox. I tried to "Reboot into recovery" option but it just reboots the ddevice.
2. Terminal emulator: su reboot recovery, it says reboot: no such order
3. Tried to hook it to my laptop and use ADB, but no devices attached. I have Windows 8.1 64 bit. I have Android drivers installed and in the device manager it say Asus ADB and it shows Asus in the "safely remove" but I still can't see it in the My computer. I have USB debugging on and it asked me to allow my laptop keys and I agreed. Still, ADB doesn't work.
I don't know what else can I do. I can't go into recovery, bootloader or APX mode without the power and volume buttons. Is there anything i can do, or am I stuck here?
Any help will be greatly appreciated...:crying:
There's a few different apps that let you boot to recovery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot
More
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=reboot to recovery&c=apps
When you say the power and volume buttons are completely busted, have you tried taking the plastic bezel off and pressing the micro buttons under the normal silver ones ?
*Detection* said:
There's a few different apps that let you boot to recovery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot
More
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=reboot to recovery&c=apps
When you say the power and volume buttons are completely busted, have you tried taking the plastic bezel off and pressing the micro buttons under the normal silver ones ?
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I tried the first one and six from the second link and none of them work. Actually, when I was installing Xposed, I pressed reboot, but it said Reboot: No such tool. I don't know what's going on.
The problem with the power button is that my kid dropped the tablet many times and it got so many dents, so I took of the casing (or whatever it's called0 and then straightened it out, out the buttons in their places and then glued it in place. Now it's really hard to press the power button (the one underneath) but it works. But how can I do that every time I want to power off or reboot into recovery, specially if there is a boot loop. I can't do anything except pressing the power button.
That's why I wanted an easy solution at least to reboot recovery.
May be I should take off the casing one more time and try to fix the power and volume buttons one more time.
I just want to thank you for your super fast reply and taking the time to find those apps.
Thanks a lot...
In the past, while still on stock ROM,I have been using this tool to overcome the missing "reboot to recovery" option in the regular Asus power menu: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transformer.recovery
Now I have tested it on KK #19 and this tool apparently does not reboot the tablet BUT:
when I run this tool and then reboot the tablet normally (with the power menu...) I get into recovery.
So if you are already able to reboot normally through Rom Toolbox you might try to run this one first before rebooting with Rom Toolbox.
NOTE I imagine you are perfectly aware that you are playing with fire here.
In case your tablet gets into a boot-loop while installing the new ROM, you might end up with a useless tablet. Is it really worth the risk?
Aliante said:
In the past, while still on stock ROM,I have been using this tool to overcome the missing "reboot to recovery" option in the regular Asus power menu: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transformer.recovery
Now I have tested it on KK #19 and this tool apparently does not reboot the tablet BUT:
when I run this tool and then reboot the tablet normally (with the power menu...) I get into recovery.
So if you are already able to reboot normally through Rom Toolbox you might try to run this one first before rebooting with Rom Toolbox.
NOTE I imagine you are perfectly aware that you are playing with fire here.
In case your tablet gets into a boot-loop while installing the new ROM, you might end up with a useless tablet. Is it really worth the risk?
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OK, you did it. You got me scared, so I separated the casing in the power button part and clicked on the original button with a small screwdriver and it worked. Also the volume buttons. Now I don't know what to do. May be the buttons are broken from the inside. I'll try to see if those are sold on ebay or something. If not, I'll try to attach something to them from the underside.
Anyway, I'm really grateful that you made me take this step. I'll fix it tomorrow first thing in the morning. Well, we both know I'm not gonna sleep until I get it fixed, hahaha.
Again, thanks a lot...