Hi all,
So my transformer is bricked... completely been trying hard reboot, APX mode, holding power button, HDMI output the list goes on.
My only final resort is what I've read is draining the battery down and trying to recharge it? (Just need some confirmation here please if possible).
I've kept it in the dock, what I've noticed is, in the morning it was green LED now its gone to the amber so something is draining the battery I"m hoping I can get this down to 0.
How long do you guys think with both dock + pad and most likely on standby. Not too sure of the issue here
Anyway, I'm really reluctant to send this back to Asus RMA because in short:
1. First time I sent it, it got returned like a squeaky box. Every where you held it you heard a creak like it was about to snap. They didn't fix some things, and more dust ended up in my camera lens... + had to pay postage..
2. Half fixed, came back with wrong firmware (TW --> US). Could never update ever again, so microsd card updates FTW. No way was I planning on spending an extra month sending my TF back and forth... I paid extra to get the first batch B40 lol.. They replaced everything inside my TF motherboard, screen, Inside LED!?, buttons. Close to the works..
This happened right after I upgraded to ICS, it was the US stock rom booted up fine. my apps were updating, and as everyone else was saying about how some apps caused ICS to slow down I wasn't aware so I thought I would shut it down and power it back up. Since then it's not been able to come up ever again... Any suggestions?
What do you think?
Thanks in advanced.
One other thing, could someone check.. when tablet is docked and OFF. Do the usb ports still work?
Right now, when docked but "bricked" I can still charge my phone via USB.. If someone could test this that would be much appreciated as that could at least eliminate that my TF's battery is dead, right?
get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
bigblondewolf said:
get it off the dock, hold volup+pwr, count to six and leave it for a couple of days. You can test if it's empty when you plug it in your pc via the cable. If you get the device plugged sound it means there's still juice there - unplug and press again volup+pwr. when you unplug it from the pc the tab shuts itself down.
if you don't volup+pwr before you plug in the usb it won't turn itself on. but it turns off automatically at unplug, as I said.
after the battery is down, plug the tab to the charger. I don't have the dock so I can only speak about the tab itself. Don't know why, but it works for me everytime. Hope it fixes yours, then, if possible, root and flash something.
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Hi there,
Thanks, I'll that a try.
It's definitely charging and discharging, the battery brick is warm.. I've never had to connect my tablet to a windows PC. Today I did, it didn't make a sound.. Do I need to fully charge to be able to turn it on?
Normally not. I plug mine to the charger, I don't remember if it stats or I have to press power, when it boots the battery stays at 0% for several minutes.
Sorry for the late reply, did you manage to wake it? It's a long procedure of waiting mainly and can get annoying.
I'm still trying, earlier you had a thread about it poping up through the computer. What was the command you used in Linux?
Windows gives me nothign even when there was power in it.
Thanks.
Thank you sooo much!! It finally has powered back on, I hope this doesn't happen again.
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This morning, I had noticed my G Tablet had been running sluggishly. So I thoight it was just that wakeup bug, but then when I shut it off and tried to restart it, I saw nothing on the screen - at all. I could not even get it into APX mode to see if using nvflash would somehow bring it to life. But I did notoce one thing. When the adapter was plugged in, the charging light would flash red. Is there anything that I can do? I dont want to return it, seeing as theyre in stock virtually nowhere.
My evo does something very similar when it turns off because the battery is 'totally' dead. When I plug it in, the charging light flashes until there is some minimal charge on the battery (maybe enough to turn it on), then the light goes solid and my evo charges normally.
Try plugging it in and just letting it charge, then see what happens.
Have you contact viewsonic support? You have 30. Days replacement warranty
I think it's frozen. I've had the same thing happen to me. If so, then you have two options:
1- Open up the back of the device and hit the reset button on the system board. Yes, there's a button in there for some bizarro reason. I assume this is not really an option for you, but wanted to mention it.
2- Leave the device unplugged and wait for the battery to completely drain (this takes about 24 hours). Once it's drained, plug it back in and hit the power switch and it should start up fine.
When this happens, the long press on the power doesn't seem to fix it. Our device really need a reset button on the outside of the device. Ugh.
Tried the opening thing - It doesn't work. So today I sent it back to Amazon for a refund. You know damn well I'm gonna buy myself another one! I'm mad though, it cost me $399 before, and now it went up to $419.
Sears.com has it for $379.
ETA: A little googling might yield a coupon code.
So there is another thread sort of like this a bit below this one, but it's not quite the same situation, so I figured I'd make my own thread. My gf's tf101 has been working fine for the last couple of months, and then a couple of days ago, she found that as soon as she unplugged the tablet, it would shut off instantly. Once it's plugged back into the charger, it will boot and work fine. But, it will only work at all when plugged into the charger. When removed, no matter how long you hold the power button down, it won't turn on. I tried plugging it into the computer, and when I press the power button, it will flash the boot screen for about half a second, and then dies again. Keeps doing that, and will not stay on. Any suggestions, before an RMA? Anything to try?
Thanks.
What is the battery level showing when it is plugged in and on? Also check it with the Dual Battery Widget to see what that reports for battery charge/
I would back up all the data and apps, back up any important files and try a factory data reset. If that does not help, I would send it in for repair.
Ok, I was thinking about trying a factory reset next. The tablet shows 99% battery life left.
My Asus Transformer on ICS was rooted and fine. Then after the latest update the other day, I noticed yesterday that I lost root. Then today I powered it off and now it won't turn back on at all. Connecting it to the dock shows no sign of life. Plugging it in on it's own to both a PC and wall outlet and still no signs of life. ADB doesn't detect it. Windows doesn't detect it. Holding down the power button forever doesn't do anything. Power button and volume down doesn't do anything.
Do I have any other option other than sending it for repair/warranty? I've tried searching on here and Google and everything just says to boot into recovery. But that's not doing anything for me.
Please help.
Thanks.
ThaiM said:
My Asus Transformer on ICS was rooted and fine. Then after the latest update the other day, I noticed yesterday that I lost root. Then today I powered it off and now it won't turn back on at all. Connecting it to the dock shows no sign of life. Plugging it in on it's own to both a PC and wall outlet and still no signs of life. ADB doesn't detect it. Windows doesn't detect it. Holding down the power button forever doesn't do anything. Power button and volume down doesn't do anything.
Do I have any other option other than sending it for repair/warranty? I've tried searching on here and Google and everything just says to boot into recovery. But that's not doing anything for me.
Please help.
Thanks.
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It may have gotten "undercharged". When that happens it will take forever to show signs of life after its plugged in. Try leaving it plugged into the wall outlet overnight and see if it fixes it.
joshcrumley100 said:
It may have gotten "undercharged". When that happens it will take forever to show signs of life after its plugged in. Try leaving it plugged into the wall outlet overnight and see if it fixes it.
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I was thinking the same thing. My Nook Tablet recently had this happen and I thought the thing was completely toast. I figured I'd give it one last shot and just plug it in for a while and like a 1/2 hour later, it suddenly woke up.
Hope the situation works out the same for you OP.
I've had it plugged in overnight and still nothing at all.
Now thinking about it, the reason it was shut it off (by my wife) was because it was glitching. It was playing music in the background from a game that wouldn't shut down. I'm guessing it was stuck in memory or something. So I'm wondering if this game or whatever is still somehow running and the device isn't actually completely shut down. I'm gonna do the opposite and leave it unplugged for the day. Let the battery completely deplete, hopefully shutting down fully and killing that process. Worth a shot.
try pressing power and vol down for like 30 seconds. Another thing I've seen people do is try plugging it in and holding power for 30 seconds. Also try plugging into computer totrickle charge for a bit. Hope any of this helps.
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Dreamboxuser said:
try pressing power and vol down for like 30 seconds. Another thing I've seen people do is try plugging it in and holding power for 30 seconds. Also try plugging into computer totrickle charge for a bit. Hope any of this helps.
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Tried those already with no luck, but thanks for the suggestion.
I've tried holding the power button for minutes at a time too. Power and volume down for minutes at a time. Plugged in and not plugged in. With and without memory card in while plugged in and not plugged in.
Update: I think there is some merit to my theory. Left it unplugged for a full day and then plugged it in and after a few tries it BOOTED! Working just fine ever since too and the strange thing is, the battery barely depleted at all.
So something was possibly running that was preventing it from fully shutting down? I don't know. Strange.
Had the same issue over the weekend
I wish I had seen your post prior to calling ASUS for support, I went through all the troubleshooting steps you suggested, had no luck. I did not wait long enough to let the battery fully discharge to see if that fixed it and my TF 101 is now on route to TX for warranty repair (I am hoping that I now may end up with a tablet with a few more of the issues ironed out also). But if not, but the time I get it back I will probably flash it with a custom ROM (probably Revolver), that may be out of Beta by that time.
We shall see.
I do apologize for filling up this forum with yet another "Did I brick..." question, but I'm really at my wits end and need some guidance.
This morning I decided to update my kernel to ElementalX 5.0. Prior to this I was using the 4.5b kernel and had no issues, but I wanted to move to the stable release and hadn't had any issues in the past. I have ViperXL 3.2.3 installed on this as well. I have yet to apply S-Off as I haven't had any real issues at the time and wanted to wait for the weekend when I had enough time to dedicate to the process (life is hectic blah blah blah).
I downloaded and installed the 5.0 kernel as I had previously, making a nandroid prior to the install. I decided to try some of the overclocks/undervolts that everyone raves about so during the install I chose the 2.1GHz overclock (because I can always step it down if it gets flaky, right?) as well as overclocking the GPU and undervolting to 850. I also went with zRAM as usual. After this was done and the phone rebooted twice (a common occurrence) I was brought to the window where Android was optimizing my apps. After that completed, I was brought to my home screen where I saw the clock and everything else. It looked like yet another successful install....and then the phone went black. Since then I have been unable to get it to boot. Pressing and holding the Power + Volume Down does nothing. I've held it for over a minute and no blinking capacitive lights or anything. The charge light does not come on when it's plugged in and, while my computer first tried to install the drivers when I plugged it in, I received an error saying the device was unplugged and no matter what I do I cannot get it to try to install again. Device Manager doesn't show it as being plugged in and it no longer comes up in Windows Explorer. Prior to the install the batter was at 83% and I have had it plugged in now for almost 20 minutes and still the charge light has not illuminated.
I never thought it would be possible to kill this phone, but I think I successfully did. Does anyone have any insight, suggestions, or helpful pointers. Yes, I know this was a risk I took doing this and I am not going to bemoan the fact that I did this to myself...I just really want to know if it's possible to resurrect this phone.
HTC OneXL
Hboot 1.14
S-On
Leave it plugged in to a wall charger for a while
a box of kittens said:
Leave it plugged in to a wall charger for a while
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So do that as opposed to plugging it into a PC? Asking since I don't have a cube with me at the moment and will need to run home at lunch to grab one if the case.
Yes into the wall charger...and hold power for thirty seconds does anything light up?
As for my own experience I have had trouble getting my phone to reboot or get into the bootloader when it plugged in. The charger seems to keep the phone turned on while it charging. Try unplugging it from the charger and try again.
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This happened to me too, but I got it to reboot by holding down the power button. What's happened is that the phone thinks the battery is dead. When it comes back up, you'll probably show 1% charge. Somehow or another, the battery monitor data gets corrupted. I think it's related to the general battery data bug that's plagued this phone from the beginning.
Your phone clearly can't handle 2.1 and undervolting (I increased my voltage to run 2.1). Bump up the voltage when you get it back up.
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So do that as opposed to plugging it into a PC?
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Definitely. The wall charger is much faster than USB from a computer.
IT LIVES!!!!
I ran home and grabbed my wall charger and brought it back to work. I plugged the phone into the charger and let it sit. After about 2 minutes, the charging LED lit up. I gave it about 15 minutes and then tried to power it on but it was no go, turning off the charging light and not doing anything, so I let it charge for another 30. When I thought it should be good and ready, I decided to go ahead and attempt to boot into the bootloader, as my fear was that the undervolt and massive overclock would most likely bring me back to square one. Holding down Power and Volume Down, I said a silent prayer to the device gods.....and the capacitive buttons began flashing.
Once I got into the bootloader, I quickly booted into TWRP, cleared cache and Dalvik, and then reinstalled ElementalX 5, this time choosing the stock voltage and not overclocking the GPU. I kept the overclock at 2.1 because, like I said before, if the phone is flaky, I can dial back the speed and restore functionality. I like the idea of having the option to go balls-to-the-walls if I WANT to, but not necessarily will I go that route.
After the lengthy kernel install and the normal 2 boots, I was met with my beautiful Viper lock screen. Thank you guys so much for the insight into needing to charge from the wall instead of the PC. I never imagined the computer would refuse provide a charge to it if it was completely dead (or the phone thought it was completely dead...once I got into TWRP it stated battery life was 86%). I am calibrating the battery now as I just realized it hasn't been done in probably 6 ROM installs.....derp!
Since this issue is resolved now, the thread can be closed. Thanks again, all!
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I never imagined the computer would refuse provide a charge to it if it was completely dead
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USB charging might still work, it would just take a lot longer. Some folks have had to plug there wall charger for hours or overnight, even on the wall charger, to get their phone booted again. So the wall charger is just better since its faster.
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USB charging might still work, it would just take a lot longer. Some folks have had to plug there wall charger for hours or overnight, even on the wall charger, to get their phone booted again. So the wall charger is just better since its faster.
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And it may have, but the thing I noticed in the 90 or so minutes it was connected to my work PC was that the phone was the coldest it had ever been since I got it, meaning that the usual warmth caused by charging was not present at all. I did notice in Device Manager that when I plugged in the phone, it would register the phone as an HID (Human Input Device) and then it would disappear, only to reappear again and then disappear once more. This would happen non-stop until I disconnected it, so perhaps that's why it didn't charge at all during the time it was plugged into the computer? In any event, good ol' wall current supplied the juice necessary to bring this sucker back to life, so I'll file this info in my memory banks and make sure I have a wall charger at my desk from now on.
Hi
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Basically my xoom seems to be suffering from a problem that quite a few people seem to have had. It locked itself one day when it hadn't been used for a couple of minutes and that was it. Tried the holding of power button + up put it on charge and left it with the green light on for 3 hours still nothing.
tried disconnecting the battery and left it disconnected for a day to see if that worked- Nope
tried a new battery - nope
Tried new top part of case with power switch and volume buttons - nothing
As a last resort I bought a factory reset cable - plugged in and plugged into charger as well and after holding the vol up+down for 20 seconds and then holding the power with them it suddenly sprang to life.............
Now its working fine while all plugged in but the moment I pull the usb cable out its off.
So is this pointing to the battery? ( I have replaced it but its not a Motorola original)
Could it be a charging problem, Although its showing as charging (I haven't pulled the cable yet when fully charged as its still charging but it was at 61%)
or is this something else.
Thanks for any help that anyone can give me
Sorry to hear of your problem, but you may get more responses if you specify which model you have.
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Sorry to hear of your problem, but you may get more responses if you specify which model you have.
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lol I spent so much time trying to make sure I remembered everything tried that I forgot the basc info
Its a mz604 wifi only UK xoom
Fingers crossed someone might have an idea?
OK, I may have had some success!
I managed to get it booted up again on the cable and did a battery re-calibration. Pulled the cable out and it powered off again straight away but.................... When I pressed the power button it has booted up and seems to be running fine again.
I'm going to run the battery fully down and then see what happens after a charge so fingers crossed may be good news.
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OK, I may have had some success!
I managed to get it booted up again on the cable and did a battery re-calibration. Pulled the cable out and it powered off again straight away but.................... When I pressed the power button it has booted up and seems to be running fine again.
I'm going to run the battery fully down and then see what happens after a charge so fingers crossed may be good news.
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The battery re-calibration is only an Android OS issue, and shouldnt be doing anything like this. It gets reset every time you unplug your device from being fully charged.
This almost sounds like a defective battery or a loose battery connection inside. Its possible that unplugging and plugging the battery back in fixed the issue.
Best of luck to getting your tablet back up and running.