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Stock Recovery zip

Hi, am looking for the stock recovery file/zip p[ease.

The stock recovery is contained in the full firmware download (inside the blob), available on the Asus support site.

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The stock recovery is contained in the full firmware download (inside the blob), available on the Asus support site.
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Thanks.

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The stock recovery is contained in the full firmware download (inside the blob), available on the Asus support site.
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I got the firmware and extracted the blob, but I only have fastboot, how do I flash it to get stock recovery back?
I tried this:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash staging blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
but nothing works, except I lost /system partition now (I was able to boot Android before). Any help appreciated.

3c said:
I got the firmware and extracted the blob, but I only have fastboot, how do I flash it to get stock recovery back?
I tried this:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash staging blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
but nothing works, except I lost /system partition now (I was able to boot Android before). Any help appreciated.
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Sorry, if that doesn't work I have no more idea how to fix your locked tablet, if you don't have the blob for wheelie and nvflash.

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Sorry, if that doesn't work I have no more idea how to fix your locked tablet, if you don't have the blob for wheelie and nvflash.
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Thanks anyway for helping. All I could figure out is that the blob doesn't actually get written to any partition. I've seen some users be successful doing that (what you suggested), so I'll keep trying, maybe reverting the driver. Wondering if using naked driver works well for such method.
In any case, thanks, and I'll post a reply if I can make it work.

3c said:
Thanks anyway for helping. All I could figure out is that the blob doesn't actually get written to any partition. I've seen some users be successful doing that (what you suggested), so I'll keep trying, maybe reverting the driver. Wondering if using naked driver works well for such method.
In any case, thanks, and I'll post a reply if I can make it work.
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Try this, download stock recovery here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pdipp4h2qyqka63
then execute this:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.blob
boot directly into recovery and see if you have recovery back.

buhohitr said:
Try this, download stock recovery here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pdipp4h2qyqka63
then execute this:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.blob
boot directly into recovery and see if you have recovery back.
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Big progress: blob flashed without a glitch. I was happy until I tried to reboot with fastboot: tablet frozen! Reboot, still no recovery
I guess this is it. Got a nice folding brick now! Will try RMA, but from Cambodia not sure it's worth it. Maybe next month when I'm in France.
Can't believe this happened while tablet is locked! Now I hate Asus for this.

3c said:
Big progress: blob flashed without a glitch. I was happy until I tried to reboot with fastboot: tablet frozen! Reboot, still no recovery
I guess this is it. Got a nice folding brick now! Will try RMA, but from Cambodia not sure it's worth it. Maybe next month when I'm in France.
Can't believe this happened while tablet is locked! Now I hate Asus for this.
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I have asked you to flash the recovery zip, but once done you should boot directly into the recovery, don't boot up. Let me know if you still can fastboot the recovery to your device, but once done, hold the power until device turn off, then right away hold both power button and volume down button to boot into recovery. If you could do this we still have hope. Once in recovery let me know we can proceed to next step.

buhohitr said:
I have asked you to flash the recovery zip, but once done you should boot directly into the recovery, don't boot up. Let me know if you still can fastboot the recovery to your device, but once done, hold the power until device turn off, then right away hold both power button and volume down button to boot into recovery. If you could do this we still have hope. Once in recovery let me know we can proceed to next step.
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I cannot actually do anything past flashing a blob. the tablet is "frozen" from the moment it enters fastboot, then after flashing any blobs, any further fastboot command are "non-responsive", here is the actual output. At the end the reboot command succeeds but nothing actually happened on the tablet. Still showing the 4 icons (RCK/Android/USB/WIPE) and the top white text. Tried with original Asus driver, with Google driver and now naked driver. no difference, can only be the tablet ;(
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices
015d2a5088641a08 fastboot
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.blob
sending 'recovery' (6260 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.862s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.432s]
finished. total time: 4.297s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.642s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot continue
resuming boot...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.569s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.549s
EDIT: Kinda lame I'm sure, but desperate as I am, I tried that too:
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 boot recovery.blob
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 6414336 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.857s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: ()
finished. total time: 1.861s
I suppose I need a kernel blob... But I couldn't find any stock to flash? Would you also happen to have that handy too?

3c said:
I cannot actually do anything past flashing a blob. the tablet is "frozen" from the moment it enters fastboot, then after flashing any blobs, any further fastboot command are "non-responsive", here is the actual output. At the end the reboot command succeeds but nothing actually happened on the tablet. Still showing the 4 icons (RCK/Android/USB/WIPE) and the top white text. Tried with original Asus driver, with Google driver and now naked driver. no difference, can only be the tablet ;(
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot devices
015d2a5088641a08 fastboot
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.blob
sending 'recovery' (6260 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.862s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.432s]
finished. total time: 4.297s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.642s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot continue
resuming boot...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 0.569s
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.549s
EDIT: Kinda lame I'm sure, but desperate as I am, I tried that too:
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 boot recovery.blob
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 6414336 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.857s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: ()
finished. total time: 1.861s
I suppose I need a kernel blob... But I couldn't find any stock to flash? Would you also happen to have that handy too?
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Seems like when you flashed the blob file it wipe out everything. But I tried to boot into recovery so it's a good sign that your tablet is not brick ....yet!!
Here is the stock kernel I created for you http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?16fji3z1nghr6th
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash boot boot.blob
Possible we may need the bootloader too, but will see.

buhohitr said:
Seems like when you flashed the blob file it wipe out everything. But I tried to boot into recovery so it's a good sign that your tablet is not brick ....yet!!
Here is the stock kernel I created for you http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?16fji3z1nghr6th
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash boot boot.blob
Possible we may need the bootloader too, but will see.
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I guess I'm ready for bootloader flashing. Either it bricks it for good or it works or else
Nothing has changed. Just to give you more info, booting RCK, results in booting failed - unrecoverable bootloader error (0x000..).
Booting android: cold-booting linux - signature match. Then screen is frozen, but Windows 7 recognize the tablet fine. As if a kernel was there, right?
So I tried flashing boot.blob and recovery.blob and the JB update blob to system again, but it hangs at the end, still have to reboot manually. It's like fastboot is not actually flashing anything, writing in below output is abnormally low or could it be that fast!?: It's the same time for boot, recovery of a 800Mb system file!?
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.329s]
sending 'system' (800199 KB)...
OKAY [141.653s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.932s]
finished. total time: 146.920s
But the behavior of the bootloader seems quite strange, all this hanging at end of flashing, could this be a corrupted bootloader or worse a corrupted partition table?

3c said:
I guess I'm ready for bootloader flashing. Either it bricks it for good or it works or else
Nothing has changed. Just to give you more info, booting RCK, results in booting failed - unrecoverable bootloader error (0x000..).
Booting android: cold-booting linux - signature match. Then screen is frozen, but Windows 7 recognize the tablet fine. As if a kernel was there, right?
So I tried flashing boot.blob and recovery.blob and the JB update blob to system again, but it hangs at the end, still have to reboot manually. It's like fastboot is not actually flashing anything, writing in below output is abnormally low or could it be that fast!?: It's the same time for boot, recovery of a 800Mb system file!?
C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.329s]
sending 'system' (800199 KB)...
OKAY [141.653s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.932s]
finished. total time: 146.920s
But the behavior of the bootloader seems quite strange, all this hanging at end of flashing, could this be a corrupted bootloader or worse a corrupted partition table?
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Let try the bootloader http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?u6bwnaao6khcdaf

3c said:
Then screen is frozen, but Windows 7 recognize the tablet fine. As if a kernel was there, right?
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Define "Windows recognizes the tablet". If you have ADB access, you should be able to recover.

buhohitr said:
Let try the bootloader http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?u6bwnaao6khcdaf
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Actually how do you flash bootloader? I did this: fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash bootloader loader.blob ?
But anyway, I just read fastboot doesn't flash anything when device is locked! So this piece of s**t doesn't flash but will erase any partition you wish! How's that for a crappy software! I wish I never tried to update to JB!
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Define "Windows recognizes the tablet". If you have ADB access, you should be able to recover.
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No ADB, just the name of the tablet appears in Device Manager, sort of the SD card access, but no actual access. I updated the driver manually and was proposed some MTP device. No adb or fastboot when this is available.
Here is the input from another thread: I copy it because I believe the information is very important and identify another way to brick the TF700:
Pretoriano80 said:
ICS bootloader had the fastboot option disabled if the device's bootloader was still locked and the USB icon wasn't showing at all.
With the JB bootloader Asus made the USB icon available even if the device was locked so you can access fastboot mode but you can't flash anything (yes,it doesn't make sense, but this is Asus).
Anyway, if you are able to boot in recovery you should be able to restore you device easily,just follow my guide from the general forum.
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That's exactly what's happening! I can go in fastboot, but it doesn't flash anything! Though it erase any partition you wish! How smart is that? So I have one thing to say to locked owner: never go in fastboot, ever, it's useless and can actually brick your tablet!!!
I bricked the tablet on my own sure enough, but without this ridiculous fastboot I wouldn't have been able to mess up the tablet in the first place! Sorry for those who love their tablet and Asus, but I find their strategy ridiculous. Except if it's main goal is to make money on RMA.
Thanks Asus for this nice brick!

3c said:
But anyway, I just read fastboot doesn't flash anything when device is locked! So this piece of s**t doesn't flash but will erase any partition you wish!
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I'd still expect the locked bootloader to flash correctly signed blobs. But who knows what Asus were thinking...
One more idea you can try: Get the 10.4.4.23 dlpkgfile and extract the blob from there.
This blob contains the 10.4.4.23 bootloader, stock recovery and stock kernel, and an orignal Asus signature. My WW version is 13573093 bytes, so it is much smaller than the full firmware blob - try to flash that via fastboot, maybe you are lucky and it works.

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I'd still expect the locked bootloader to flash correctly signed blobs. But who knows what Asus were thinking...
One more idea you can try: Get the 10.4.4.23 dlpkgfile and extract the blob from there.
This blob contains the 10.4.4.23 bootloader, stock recovery and stock kernel, and an orignal Asus signature. My WW version is 13573093 bytes, so it is much smaller than the full firmware blob - try to flash that via fastboot, maybe you are lucky and it works.
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Will do, thanks. How would you flash such blob? Onto "staging" or "system"? I've seen users flash the JB update blob to system and be successful. Also seen some posts mentioning staging?

3c said:
Will do, thanks. How would you flash such blob? Onto "staging" or "system"? I've seen users flash the JB update blob to system and be successful. Also seen some posts mentioning staging?
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I don't really know - all I know is:
- TF700's fastboot implementation only supports blobs, no raw partition images
- blobs are usually always written to the staging partition first, then the contained partition images are flashed to the correct partition(s) by the bootloader
I've seen both variants of the fastboot command, so maybe the target partition doesn't matter when sending blobs. I'd try staging first.

Unrecoverable bootloader error but not Bricked!

So I unlocked my tf300t and flashed cwm to recovery.
Everything seemed to go fine.
When I would go into cwm it was not able to mount or access any other part of my tab. I figured ok erase/format the recovery partition and try TWRP. So I booted to the bootloader, using fastboot I erased recovery but now whenever I go to flash a new recovery my bootloader either freezes or I get an Unrecoverable bootloader error 0x00000000 (not sure if thats the right amount of zeros but there are no other digits in the error code.) I can access fastboot and adb but it doesn't seem like I can flash using fastboot and I just don't feel comfortable trying with adb. Also I can access fastboot only from the bootloader screen and adb only after I boot into my current rom (stock 4.2.1)
I guess my questions are this:
How can I format my recovery or flash a new recovery?
Were the mount issues I originally encountered going to be solved with a new recovery?
Please help!

Have you tried installing stock rom (from Asus support page) using Fastboot? It should also put stock recovery in your tablet.
Not sure if it is going to work, but it's worth trying though.

1st this is not for the dev section. You should ask questions in the Q&A section.
Go to Asus and dl the latest Stock. Unzipp it 2 times. You should have a blob file now in the extracted folder. put this blob in your fastboot folder.
Open cmd and type:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash staging blob
let it run. It seems that nothing is happening for about 5 Minutes. The whole thing can take up to 20 Minutes, so just stay calm and wait till its finished.
Now you should be back to full Stock with Stock recovery.

mikaole said:
1st this is not for the dev section. You should ask questions in the Q&A section.
Go to Asus and dl the latest Stock. Unzipp it 2 times. You should have a blob file now in the extracted folder. put this blob in your fastboot folder.
Open cmd and type:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash staging blob
let it run. It seems that nothing is happening for about 5 Minutes. The whole thing can take up to 20 Minutes, so just stay calm and wait till its finished.
Now you should be back to full Stock with Stock recovery.
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I had this problem too. But on 4.2.1 you can push file blob, and then it's can't run because stock recovery dead.

Were you able to fix the stock recovery issue?

cdguider said:
Were you able to fix the stock recovery issue?
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Thant i would like to know aswell
Pls

No, I was not. I also have the unrecoverable bootloader error but I have a working device. I downloaded the latest firmware, followed the steps through fastboot and the same thing keeps happening where as soon as you try to enter a command through fastboot the green box stops flashing over rck and even though the cmd prompt window tells you something is going on nothing happens on the tablet end. It freezes. hard reboot and you end up back with a normal working device, no changes and a corrupt bootloader.

lomoski said:
No, I was not. I also have the unrecoverable bootloader error but I have a working device. I downloaded the latest firmware, followed the steps through fastboot and the same thing keeps happening where as soon as you try to enter a command through fastboot the green box stops flashing over rck and even though the cmd prompt window tells you something is going on nothing happens on the tablet end. It freezes. hard reboot and you end up back with a normal working device, no changes and a corrupt bootloader.
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I have same issue.. has anybody managed to get a fix for this?

I've same problem, how can i fix it?
i've a working device but without recovery mod! I can't flash anything via fastboot because it freezes, i always have "Unrecoverable bootloader error" when press RCK.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks in advance

mister363 said:
I've same problem, how can i fix it?
i've a working device but without recovery mod! I can't flash anything via fastboot because it freezes, i always have "Unrecoverable bootloader error" when press RCK.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks in advance
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I was having this problem earlier - a new bootloader came out when they went to 4.2, but most of the instructions online don't reflect this. You need an updated recovery image, which usually has the name recovery-jb.img instead of recovery.img. When you're searching make sure the instructions mention 4.2 and jelly bean.
However, I've only managed to get one step further - have now get into clockworkmod recovery, but as with the OP I then couldn't mount anything inside CWM. I tried another instruction set which involved unzipping the ROM and using adb to push over the .blob. This hasn't worked and I have now got a pretty much bricked device - it either bootloops on the asus splash screen, or loads into CWM.
I've found that even when youre in CWM you can type "adb reboot-bootloader" into the terminal, which forces the RCK/android/wipe data page and fastbook to appear. I've also tried to download the latest stock firmware from ASUS, unzipped it to get the stock .blob out and into my fastboot directory, then run "fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash staging blob" in the terminal, as per mikaole's suggestion. This takes a while to push over the 80mb .blob, but after it says it's staged it says "done" then nothing happens and it's still bricked. hmm.

No one's figured this out? I tried flashing the blob file and my system won't boot at all

My solution
I have the same on my TF300t and A700 - but it seems i just managed to get my TF300t back
i tried all fastboot (reflashing recovery, boot, system etc) no dice - especially since writing system was done after 3 secs all the time.
Here how i restored my TF300T JB
download your appropriate lates firmware from Asus (WW, US etc.) and extract the zip twice so you have your blob file
install your device drivers if needed (i used Google SDK ones) (and as a Tip Win8 sucks for Fastboot stuff so try to get Win7 Vista XP for this)
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
(the folowing i did at least 10 times already but didn't erase misc)
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
* it also took a lot longer as it should:
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.695s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [133.121s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [153.973s]
finished. total time: 288.789s
im now setting my tab up to get back to CM (which initially caused this sh1theap due to autoupdate error, same as my A700 got bricked )
hope i could help you out!
cheers
-Buster

IT WORKS!!!
Buster99 said:
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
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Thank you very much. It works beautifully.

Buster99 said:
I have the same on my TF300t and A700 - but it seems i just managed to get my TF300t back
i tried all fastboot (reflashing recovery, boot, system etc) no dice - especially since writing system was done after 3 secs all the time.
Here how i restored my TF300T JB
download your appropriate lates firmware from Asus (WW, US etc.) and extract the zip twice so you have your blob file
install your device drivers if needed (i used Google SDK ones) (and as a Tip Win8 sucks for Fastboot stuff so try to get Win7 Vista XP for this)
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
(the folowing i did at least 10 times already but didn't erase misc)
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
* it also took a lot longer as it should:
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.695s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [133.121s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [153.973s]
finished. total time: 288.789s
im now setting my tab up to get back to CM (which initially caused this sh1theap due to autoupdate error, same as my A700 got bricked )
hope i could help you out!
cheers
-Buster
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Now i' m busy because of my Job. But next week i want try your method.
I hope it work for my device!
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Buster99 said:
I have the same on my TF300t and A700 - but it seems i just managed to get my TF300t back
i tried all fastboot (reflashing recovery, boot, system etc) no dice - especially since writing system was done after 3 secs all the time.
Here how i restored my TF300T JB
download your appropriate lates firmware from Asus (WW, US etc.) and extract the zip twice so you have your blob file
install your device drivers if needed (i used Google SDK ones) (and as a Tip Win8 sucks for Fastboot stuff so try to get Win7 Vista XP for this)
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
(the folowing i did at least 10 times already but didn't erase misc)
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
* it also took a lot longer as it should:
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.695s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [133.121s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [153.973s]
finished. total time: 288.789s
im now setting my tab up to get back to CM (which initially caused this sh1theap due to autoupdate error, same as my A700 got bricked )
hope i could help you out!
cheers
-Buster
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Did your tablet seem to freeze after flashing via fastboot? When I push blob, the console shows that it wrote, but then fastboot on the tablet freezes & I have to manually reboot, putting me right back to the drawing board.
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Until now my device freezes. Fastboot seem to work but nothing happens. :banghead:
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P05TMAN said:
Did your tablet seem to freeze after flashing via fastboot? When I push blob, the console shows that it wrote, but then fastboot on the tablet freezes & I have to manually reboot, putting me right back to the drawing board.
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nope. do you use the original cable on usb 2.0 and connected to your pc not a usb hub? should work. if not try a diffrent pc - sometimes usb chipsets make problems.

Buster99 said:
nope. do you use the original cable on usb 2.0 and connected to your pc not a usb hub? should work. if not try a diffrent pc - sometimes usb chipsets make problems.
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I get invalid argument to all of the erase attempts and the minute I try to push the blob the flashing green icon in fastboot mode on the tablet stops. The command windows says the flash went fine but the tablet is unresponsive and must be reset. Infact any fastboot command that pushed something to the tablet causes it to look up ( indicated by the green flashing RCK icon freezing on whatever phase of green it had at the time)
E:\asus>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system e:\asus\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.975s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [134.565s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.040s]
finished. total time: 138.583s
I think its time to bin this doorstop and break something new

d3fiant said:
I get invalid argument to all of the erase attempts and the minute I try to push the blob the flashing green icon in fastboot mode on the tablet stops. The command windows says the flash went fine but the tablet is unresponsive and must be reset. Infact any fastboot command that pushed something to the tablet causes it to look up ( indicated by the green flashing RCK icon freezing on whatever phase of green it had at the time)
E:\asus>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system e:\asus\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.975s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [134.565s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 2.040s]
finished. total time: 138.583s
I think its time to bin this doorstop and break something new
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Mine does this same thing.....think it's done for?
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Buster99, your instructions saved my device. I missed erasing /misc even though you put it in the directions and my tablet's back! I owe you.

HELP unrecoverble bootloader error

After trying to flash TWRM img from flashify I get an "unrecoverable bootloader error 0x00000000" I have tried to flash CWM by the same method, with no avail, PLEASE HELP. I can acess CM11 though,and root is still good. the only thing not working is recover

kansasboy001 said:
After trying to flash TWRM img from flashify I get an "unrecoverable bootloader error 0x00000000" I have tried to flash CWM by the same method, with no avail, PLEASE HELP. I can acess CM11 though,and root is still good. the only thing not working is recover
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I'm sorry I don't have time to post links right now but try to download and install flashboot. If you get that far, you can then download almost any recovery solution and see if you can flash it. I believe the command will be:
Code:
Fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery <file location>
Please read up a bit before you try this. It should flash just the recovery so it shouldn't intefer with the OS or root. Please use caution and read, read, read on the topics (fastboot, TWRP, CWM.)
-Tony

This is the ONLY solution for this problem, worked great for me.
My solution
I have the same on my TF300t and A700 - but it seems i just managed to get my TF300t back
i tried all fastboot (reflashing recovery, boot, system etc) no dice - especially since writing system was done after 3 secs all the time.
Here how i restored my TF300T JB
download your appropriate lates firmware from Asus (WW, US etc.) and extract the zip twice so you have your blob file
install your device drivers if needed (i used Google SDK ones) (and as a Tip Win8 sucks for Fastboot stuff so try to get Win7 Vista XP for this)
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
(the folowing i did at least 10 times already but didn't erase misc)
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
* it also took a lot longer as it should:
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.695s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [133.121s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [153.973s]
finished. total time: 288.789s
im now setting my tab up to get back to CM (which initially caused this sh1theap due to autoupdate error, same as my A700 got bricked )
hope i could help you out!
cheers
-Buster
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[Q] Stuck in TWRP (Bricked?)

Hi Guys,
Yesterday I installed the new TWRP 2.7.1.0. and that is when the problems started. Everytime when i loaded TWRP my screen got messed up and i got a split screen (At that time my ROM worked). So I tried to get back to a older TWRP, after a couple of tries i finally installed 2.4.4.0. But then I couldn't acces my internal memory nor my sdcard through TWRP(The ROM still worked fine). So i tried CWM, other TWRP's, still the same issue. To keep the story short, I eventually pressed on the WIPE button in Recovery ... And now I am stuck in TWRP. I can't load any zip files.. Is there any hope?
Tab: TF300T

A small update. After some trial and error i got my rom running again and i can also get in to recovery (Power button + volume down). Now I have erased the old TWRP with "fastboot erase recovery". But now I can't install a new recovery? I tried flashing a recovery and I am getting the messages "sending recovery ok", "writin recovery ok". But i don't see the loading bar on the tab...

I feel lonely here hehe.:laugh:
I resolved the issue and got my tablet running again, with the following steps:
Download your appropriate lates firmware from Asus (WW, US etc.) and extract the zip twice so you have your blob file
http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=ASUS+Transformer+Pad+TF300T&os=8
Install your device drivers if needed (i used Google SDK ones) (and as a Tip Win8 sucks for Fastboot stuff so try to get Win7 Vista XP for this)
If the PC doesn't recognize your tab, then try installing the universal naked drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263822
Guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2139767
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
* it also took a lot longer as it should:
C:\>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.695s]
sending 'system' (800935 KB)...
OKAY [133.121s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [153.973s]
finished. total time: 288.789s
All credits to - Buster http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44244313&postcount=12

Bootloop! Unable to flash stock rom or lock bootloader (Help)

Hi. I can't get passed the google splash screen on a Nexus 5 D821 and could use some help.
Here are the facts:
* The owner of the device told me it bricked after an update.
* The Bootloader is unlocked. When i tried to lock i got the following message:
Code:
fastboot oem lock
...
OKAY [ 0.041s]
finished. total time: 0.041s
But it wasnt persistent. When given reboot comand the phone switched OFF instead. I turned it on to bootloader again and it was still unlocked.
* I tried flashing stock rom LRX22c manually after a failed attempt with the flash-all script. I got the following error for bootloader, radio, boot and recovery:
Code:
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
* I tried erasing cache and flashing userdata but the after over 60 minutes waiting i came to the conclusion that i wasnt going anywhere and just rebooted the phone.
*The only thing im actually able to flash without an error message is system.img:
Code:
fastboot flash system ~/Downloads/hammerhead-lrx22c/image-hammerhead-lrx22c/system.img
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.127s]
sending 'system' (981472 KB)...
OKAY [ 30.934s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 62.705s]
finished. total time: 93.767s
* I tried booting TWRP, but i was unable to mount the file system (perhaps because i wasnt able to flash it. i used "fastboot boot twrp.img").
Are phones technically able to get to splash screen or bootloader with a damaged NAND or EEMC chip? Im starting to consider the possibility of a hardbrick. Why would i be able to write system.img if that was the case though? Any help is welcome
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alright so im pretty sure its a hard brick. The emmc is dead. its a shame :/ guess ill just try to sell it for parts. I would delete this thread because its pretty useless, but i have created my account a few days ago, and i ddont know how to.

You've only flashed the system img?
Do all the img's one by one. Recovery, boot, system, radio, userdata. Then fastboot reboot
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Ben36 said:
You've only flashed the system img?
Do all the img's one by one. Recovery, boot, system, radio, userdata. Then fastboot reboot
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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I have tried all of the imgs in their respective order. they all failed. i got the error
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FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
. system.img was the only .img i was able to write, and i was wondering why. Also, when i try fastboot reboot the phone switches off. It doesnt reboot.