Using the method of holding volume down and power, I can get to the recovery menu - but it automagically selects the RCK option and I get the dead droid with red triangle. Am I borked? I couldn't NvFlash since I was updated to the latest JB (thought it would fix things).
I'm not sure if I'm just doing things wrong, borked, or need to keep trying. Any advice is appreciated.
DinkMcDinkleman said:
Using the method of holding volume down and power, I can get to the recovery menu - but it automagically selects the RCK option and I get the dead droid with red triangle. Am I borked? I couldn't NvFlash since I was updated to the latest JB (thought it would fix things).
I'm not sure if I'm just doing things wrong, borked, or need to keep trying. Any advice is appreciated.
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Can you still boot into Android, and are you rooted? This could be a chance to find out if mmcblk0p3 is also used on the TF700 for bootloader commands.
DinkMcDinkleman said:
Using the method of holding volume down and power, I can get to the recovery menu - but it automagically selects the RCK option and I get the dead droid with red triangle. Am I borked? I couldn't NvFlash since I was updated to the latest JB (thought it would fix things).
I'm not sure if I'm just doing things wrong, borked, or need to keep trying. Any advice is appreciated.
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You have no opportunity to push vol down to get to the usb and then push vol up?
sbdags said:
You have no opportunity to push vol down to get to the usb and then push vol up?
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You have to hold vol down to get to the boot menu, but then use vol up to select the usb option and vol down to select. No matter how quickly I react by letting go of vol down, it automagically selects RCK. Unable to get to USB.
_that said:
Can you still boot into Android, and are you rooted? This could be a chance to find out if mmcblk0p3 is also used on the TF700 for bootloader commands.
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Not rooted, unfortunately. I hadn't heard of voodoo root and figured it would be just as easy to root after the upgrade to JB. So I'm actually trying to root now. I'm trying to get CWM on. Hoping I can do so through command prompt (i.e. adb and fastboot.exe in windows 7 cmd prompt) but adb so far hasn't recognized my device.
Even using adb reboot bootloader it still automatically is selecting the RCK. What the f.....
DinkMcDinkleman said:
Even using adb reboot bootloader it still automatically is selecting the RCK. What the f.....
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Try volume up instead of volume down to select or to boot into recovery (button vol- and vol+ are reversed).
buhohitr said:
Try volume up instead of volume down to select or to boot into recovery (button vol- and vol+ are reversed).
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Wow...I feel...idiotic. Thank you.
DinkMcDinkleman said:
Wow...I feel...idiotic. Thank you.
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It happens to the best of us! :cyclops::laugh:
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Can anyone tell me how to get into fastboot or bootloader mode?
I've tried Power + Vol down but still no luck.
I am running 1.73 and it is rooted..
Thanks..
evilbobvu said:
Can anyone tell me how to get into fastboot or bootloader mode?
I've tried Power + Vol down but still no luck.
I am running 1.73 and it is rooted..
Thanks..
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Go to Settings -> Power and disable Fastboot
Then reboot while holding Vold down and it should bring you to the bootloader. You should hold vol down until it actually gets there.
stnguyen09 said:
Go to Settings -> Power and disable Fastboot
Then reboot while holding Vold down and it should bring you to the bootloader. You should hold vol down until it actually gets there.
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Awesome.. Thanks
stnguyen09 said:
Go to Settings -> Power and disable Fastboot
Then reboot while holding Vold down and it should bring you to the bootloader. You should hold vol down until it actually gets there.
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Thank you. Needed this for some weekend tinkering!
First off, my tf700 is rooted and unlocked. Now, after I flashed the US JB update through clockwork recovery, I lost recovery as expected. But what was unexpected was that i lost recovery completely. I installed TWRP through the goo app and now i have a working recovery. Here is the kicker, when i hold vol down and power I am brought the the screen that has several icons. They are RCK, the Android, USB icon(fastboot), and wipe data. I can only select the RCK option no matter how i try to select the other icons. both vol up and vol down select the highlighted icon.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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First off, my tf700 is rooted and unlocked. Now, after I flashed the US JB update through clockwork recovery, I lost recovery as expected. But what was unexpected was that i lost recovery completely. I installed TWRP through the goo app and now i have a working recovery. Here is the kicker, when i hold vol down and power I am brought the the screen that has several icons. They are RCK, the Android, USB icon(fastboot), and wipe data. I can only select the RCK option no matter how i try to select the other icons. both vol up and vol down select the highlighted icon.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Imo,your recovery was still there after updating to Jelly Bean,but it was different from ICS (Volume down + Power get you directly to those icons) so you ended up installing TWRP.However,if your OS still starts you could try installing this recovery and maybe will help get fastboot back,even if i find it odd that recovery is working but fastboot not.
Pretoriano80 said:
Imo,your recovery was still there after updating to Jelly Bean,but it was different from ICS (Volume down + Power get you directly to those icons) so you ended up installing TWRP.However,if your OS still starts you could try installing this recovery and maybe will help get fastboot back,even if i find it odd that recovery is working but fastboot not.
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Unless I'm reading the OP of the linked thread wrong, don't you need fastboot to flash that recovery in the first place? I'm also having issues getting fastboot to work.
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androidxen said:
Unless I'm reading the OP of the linked thread wrong, don't you need fastboot to flash that recovery in the first place? I'm also having issues getting fastboot to work.
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You can also use ADB to install a recovery.
it's not that fastboot isn't working. it's just that I can't highlight it to enable it. both Vol up and Vol down select the highlighted item. which in my case is RCK. I can't select anything other then that. I'll try the ADB commands when I get home.
thanks for getting back to me
SOLVED!
Well, I managed to fix my fastboot issues. All i had to do was downgrade to the stock .30 software then update back to the 10.4.4.16 OTA. At that point, I was able to access the fastboot mode and was able to flash the latest clockwork without issue. TOTAL PITA but everything works fine. Now time to root.
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Well, I managed to fix my fastboot issues. All i had to do was downgrade to the stock .30 software then update back to the 10.4.4.16 OTA. At that point, I was able to access the fastboot mode and was able to flash the latest clockwork without issue. TOTAL PITA but everything works fine. Now time to root.
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+1
Real pain having to start over again....
UPDATE: Before you go the long route...... I left it for a while and later tried again and figured out that you can only scroll through the icons using the LEFT (volume down) button. The right button is the SELECT button, so just hit the vol-down again till you are on the fastboot icon, them the vol-up button!
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First off, my tf700 is rooted and unlocked. Now, after I flashed the US JB update through clockwork recovery, I lost recovery as expected. But what was unexpected was that i lost recovery completely. I installed TWRP through the goo app and now i have a working recovery. Here is the kicker, when i hold vol down and power I am brought the the screen that has several icons. They are RCK, the Android, USB icon(fastboot), and wipe data. I can only select the RCK option no matter how i try to select the other icons. both vol up and vol down select the highlighted icon.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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I don't even have a USB icon, how do you get that icon? I have these 3 icons:
RCK
ANDROID
WIPE DATA
Neo3D said:
I don't even have a USB icon, how do you get that icon? I have these 3 icons:
RCK
ANDROID
WIPE DATA
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JB does not have the USB icon. You are already in a fastboot mode when you boot into the bootloader. If you look at the fine prints in the upper left corner, you will see that you are in the fastboot mode..
fastboot working?
LetMeKnow said:
JB does not have the USB icon. You are already in a fastboot mode when you boot into the bootloader. If you look at the fine prints in the upper left corner, you will see that you are in the fastboot mode..
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I also have this problem and when i plug my transformer in to my win8 pc, it does not seem to appear in device manager. when i boot twrp, it appears in device manager and appears in adb devices as "recovery" but in the opening bootloader mode, it doesn't seem to appear over usb... help this poor newb!
relaps said:
I also have this problem and when i plug my transformer in to my win8 pc, it does not seem to appear in device manager. when i boot twrp, it appears in device manager and appears in adb devices as "recovery" but in the opening bootloader mode, it doesn't seem to appear over usb... help this poor newb!
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Win8 is a little tricky. You may not have a fastboot driver for your device. You could search around to see if you can find a driver for win8.. I think that sbdags has a win8 driver somewhere on his original post. Naked driver may work but you have to test it out for yourself because I don't have win8 to test, sorry... I will let you know if I can find the driver for win8.. What do you want to do with your device? You may be abe to achieve what you need with adb too, just a thought...
i had a bad kernal flash and need to get into recovery..but my power button is broken
neo_x22000 said:
i had a bad kernal flash and need to get into recovery..but my power button is broken
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adb reboot-bootloader
i can get into the bootloader screen but i cant select anything..if that helps
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adb reboot-bootloader
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how do i do that..i never did it before
You can't. Either your power button needs to be working or you phone needs to actually boot up to send it into recovery
i can get the phone to boot...i just cant get into recovery
i can get to the bootloader screen i just cant select..recovery
What I meant by boot was to actually boot up the os. Not just make it to the bootloader.
so basically im ****ed??
Unless you get the power button to work you are stuck.
bump bump...anyone got any ideas!?!?!
adb reboot recovery ? Won't that work ?
Once you get into recovery you can use the bottom four buttons to navigate through recovery. If I am not mistaken Menu to scroll up, Home button to scroll down, Search to select and Back to go to the previous menu.
Anyways you can always flash from command line using fastboot.
When your power button is broke you can't scroll and select anything in fastboot. It freezes.
You can't adb reboot recovery if the phone doesn't boot up the os. Can't use any fastboot commands either cause its stuck.
He is screwed. Getting power button to work/unstick whatever you want to call it is only way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31360698
The guy named "shadowx360" suggests a couple of things in this thread.
Good luck
Vs Nexus S4G using tapatalk2
albundy2010 said:
When your power button is broke you can't scroll and select anything in fastboot. It freezes.
You can't adb reboot recovery if the phone doesn't boot up the os. Can't use any fastboot commands either cause its stuck.
He is screwed. Getting power button to work/unstick whatever you want to call it is only way.
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If I am not mistaken he can boot into OS, He can go to bootloader but he just can't select Recovery because of the broken power button.
So using adb and fastboot shouldn't be a problem at all. As far CW recovery is concerned you can navigate without using power button as well
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If I am not mistaken he can boot into OS, He can go to bootloader but he just can't select Recovery because of the broken power button.
So using adb and fastboot shouldn't be a problem at all. As far CW recovery is concerned you can navigate without using power button as well
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problem solved...i took the phone apart and cleaned the power button with alcohol..and it worked!!
For possible future use, you can install an app called Rebooter, which can boot your phone right into recovery.
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For possible future use, you can install an app called Rebooter, which can boot your phone right into recovery.
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i have that APP...the problem was that my phone wouldnt even boot at all...it went to the google screen then to a black screen
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I was able to root, install TWRP, and permanent root using adb commands to get into fastboot and recovery. What's the proper key press combo because I cannot figure this out?
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jova33 said:
I was able to root, install TWRP, and permanent root using adb commands to get into fastboot and recovery. What's the proper key press combo because I cannot figure this out?
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1. FIRST of all, make sure that Fast Boot is off (Settings --> Power --> Fast Boot (uncheck).
2. Power off the unit.
3. While holding the volume button DOWN, press the power button. If you get the splash screen, you'll have to power off again and try again.
4. Hold both buttons for a second or two until you feel the vibration, then release the volume down button, the bootloader screen will come up.
5. Select hboot (if not already selected). Use volume button to scroll down to recovery. Press power. You will then see the splash screen (with red lettering unless you flashed an alternate hboot) and the unit will boot to recovery.
Do yourself a favor and either figure out a way to get the Advanced Power dialogue into your ROM, or download Quickboot which will do the same thing.
Oh Jebus! None of the instructions I found mentioned turning off Fast Boot. I was sitting here last night for like 10 minutes trying to get into fastboot before I was like, "adb reboot fastboot"
jova33 said:
I was able to root, install TWRP, and permanent root using adb commands to get into fastboot and recovery. What's the proper key press combo because I cannot figure this out?
Sent from your mom's smartphone
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If you have tritium back-up you can go to menu select reboot to recovery.
jova33 said:
I was able to root, install TWRP, and permanent root using adb commands to get into fastboot and recovery. What's the proper key press combo because I cannot figure this out?
Sent from your mom's smartphone
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See hgoldner's reply; very good walkthrough.
If you want to install a mod to get the Advanced Power Menu (APM) with additional reboot options, I used this.
Good luck. :good:
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If you have tritium back-up you can go to menu select reboot to recovery.
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Yeah, I was looking for the key combo though, so if I ever bootloop or break something I can just restore a nandroid
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I flashed TWRP to the device successfully, and proceeded to try to install Magisk 19.3 zip. It would begin to do a recovery bootloop. I fixed it using TWRP, and tried using the patched boot img from magisk manager instead. This is where things go wrong. After flashing boot.img, the phone refuses to boot, and asks me to do a factory reset. I did this twice, and the phone continued not to boot. I then tried installing the latest android Q factory image. The flash failed, and the phone stopped showing up when I do fastboot devices or adb devices. It is stuck in the bootloader telling me slot b is not bootable. I have tried different ports, but adb and fastboot are no longer responding.
Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start
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Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start
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Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.
skyward176 said:
Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.
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Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?
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Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?
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Holding down the volume up and power buttons just restarts it repeatedly, and each time it restarts it tells me "ERROR: Operation Denied"
EDIT: OMG fastboot works! Let's see how this goes from here. TYSM!
ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much
skyward176 said:
ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much
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Hello! I have exactly the same problem.
Can you explain step by step what you did after fastboot began to see your phone?
I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.
skyward176 said:
I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.
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Ayyy! Good job!