Hi there,
The other day I was on TWRP and tried to flash an ASUS update file (probably didnt really know what I was doing). Anyway, the flash failed.
I then thought I ought to wipe the OS and restore to a backup. I got as far as wiping the OS when the battery died.
The next day I turned the device on and a progress bar appeared but didn't get anywhere. Frustrated, and aiming to reboot into TWRP, I turned off the tablet.
It now will not turn on.
So...Hard brick?
I will have to send this thing off to Asus otherwise.
Many thanks, reply much appreciated.
Chaza
Bump, any ideas?
chaza01 said:
Hi there,
The other day I was on TWRP and tried to flash an ASUS update file (probably didnt really know what I was doing). Anyway, the flash failed.
I then thought I ought to wipe the OS and restore to a backup. I got as far as wiping the OS when the battery died.
The next day I turned the device on and a progress bar appeared but didn't get anywhere. Frustrated, and aiming to reboot into TWRP, I turned off the tablet.
It now will not turn on.
So...Hard brick?
I will have to send this thing off to Asus otherwise.
Many thanks, reply much appreciated.
Chaza
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Bump. Any quick reply would be welcome, I think I've been a noob so sorry if this thread makes you want to smash your head into the keyboard. I hadn't flashed anything for ages so was a tad rusty.
When I plug the transformer into the computer the led on the power button comes on, but the transformer will not power on.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
chaza01 said:
Bump. Any quick reply would be welcome, I think I've been a noob so sorry if this thread makes you want to smash your head into the keyboard. I hadn't flashed anything for ages so was a tad rusty.
When I plug the transformer into the computer the led on the power button comes on, but the transformer will not power on.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
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You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
I'll give that a try
kiden said:
You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
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Hi, many thanks for the reply, I will give that a try and get back to you tomorrow.
Many thanks
tried...
kiden said:
You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
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Hi there,
I charged the tablet over night and the LED was showing as it was charging.
However, it still will not turn on.
When I connect the tablet to the computer the computer eventually recognizes that something is connected but deems it to be corrupted.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Did you boot into recovery like I instructed?
Boot into Recovery Mode. You can do this by pressing and holding down the Volume Down and Power buttons until you are greeted with a message saying “Press Volume Up to enter RCK (5S)”. In less than 5 seconds, press the Volume Up button to enter Recovery Mode.
kiden said:
Did you boot into recovery like I instructed?
Boot into Recovery Mode. You can do this by pressing and holding down the Volume Down and Power buttons until you are greeted with a message saying “Press Volume Up to enter RCK (5S)”. In less than 5 seconds, press the Volume Up button to enter Recovery Mode.
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Hi, it will not boot at all.
However, when I plugged it into the computer and did so, the computer made a beeping sound therefore recognizing a device was attached after I had pushed down the power button and volume down. On one occasion, it recognized an asus device was connected, and so I proceeded to install the correct driver and so installed 'asus bootloader' or whatever it was called. This didn't seem to change anything so I deleted the driver intending to install Asus ADB bit so I could perhaps force a boot from the computer. However, after uninstalling the driver the computer stopped recognizing the tablet beyond 'APX'.
Any ideas?
manyt thanks
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So I have my TF101, updated to the ICS release when it came out, rooted of course.
Since then it was kind of unstable. When not using the device it would appear to power off, but pressing the power button for about 10 seconds would bring it back up.
I noticed the recovery was not available after the update, but paid it no mind for that time.
Then out of nowhere the device screen will not turn on. After long pressing the power button a click noise can be heard, it's supposed to be the camera. Since it wasn't responding, I though it was bricked.
Then connecting it to the PC will let me access all the files on the device, something very weird.
I have tried various combinations of things after a very long and tedious search, nothing seems to work.
Here are the symptoms:
-The device is turned on, but no backlight or sound.
-When long pressing the power button click sound is heard.
-When connected to the PC via usb the files on the device can be accessed.
-ADB is accessible and the device can be rebooted via it.
-After rebooting the device via the power button or ADB usb comes up almost immediately, I don't think this happens when booting normally.
So basically, is the device bricked? Why can I access files from it? How can I push a working recovery for the TF101? Is it possible to flash a ROM from ADB?
I know these are a lot of questions, but I tried, and failed. Haven't found a case like this online, and my ADB experience is limited to adb shell and reboot
Thanks in advance for the help!
Hi Cronoadvan,
looks like your screen is dead, if you check q&A you see that more people have the same thing lately.
Is your device SBK1? so, are you able to use nvflash?
Cronoadvan said:
So I have my TF101, updated to the ICS release when it came out, rooted of course.
Since then it was kind of unstable. When not using the device it would appear to power off, but pressing the power button for about 10 seconds would bring it back up.
I noticed the recovery was not available after the update, but paid it no mind for that time.
Then out of nowhere the device screen will not turn on. After long pressing the power button a click noise can be heard, it's supposed to be the camera. Since it wasn't responding, I though it was bricked.
Then connecting it to the PC will let me access all the files on the device, something very weird.
I have tried various combinations of things after a very long and tedious search, nothing seems to work.
Here are the symptoms:
-The device is turned on, but no backlight or sound.
-When long pressing the power button click sound is heard.
-When connected to the PC via usb the files on the device can be accessed.
-ADB is accessible and the device can be rebooted via it.
-After rebooting the device via the power button or ADB usb comes up almost immediately, I don't think this happens when booting normally.
So basically, is the device bricked? Why can I access files from it? How can I push a working recovery for the TF101? Is it possible to flash a ROM from ADB?
I know these are a lot of questions, but I tried, and failed. Haven't found a case like this online, and my ADB experience is limited to adb shell and reboot
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Since no ASUS logo is displayed, it is likely a hardware problem. Maybe you can try to bring it into recovery mode by pressing power + vol down button.
nlheiz said:
Hi Cronoadvan,
looks like your screen is dead, if you check q&A you see that more people have the same thing lately.
Is your device SBK1? so, are you able to use nvflash?
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I am not sure, how do I check that? nvflash, at least the version I'm trying to use, won't run on win764? It's rather confusing.
tingtan said:
Since no ASUS logo is displayed, it is likely a hardware problem. Maybe you can try to bring it into recovery mode by pressing power + vol down button.
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The screen does not light up at all, and USB is accessible after around 4 secs of long pressing power and hearing the click noise(camera?) which is not normal since no device boots so fast. This tablet never did anyway, taking from 20 to 30 secs.
After USB is available I can adb shell from windows but that's pretty much it, I don't know what to do afterwards.
Cronoadvan said:
I am not sure, how do I check that? nvflash, at least the version I'm trying to use, won't run on win764? It's rather confusing.
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Check your serial number. If its below B70 you got SBK1.
Goatshocker said:
Check your serial number. If its below B70 you got SBK1.
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Yes it is, it's B50. Is that a bad thing?
Cronoadvan said:
Yes it is, it's B50. Is that a bad thing?
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Hi Cronoadvan,
thats not bad, this means that you could use nvflash to put a new image on your TF if you want to to make sure that it is working. If you use this forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558170
then it wil be stock again, and if needed you can then send your TF back for repair.
If you look and search in development you will find some ways how to use nvflash. like this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22465766
Hope this helps.....
nlheiz said:
Hi Cronoadvan,
thats not bad, this means that you could use nvflash to put a new image on your TF if you want to to make sure that it is working. If you use this forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558170
then it wil be stock again, and if needed you can then send your TF back for repair.
If you look and search in development you will find some ways how to use nvflash. like this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22465766
Hope this helps.....
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Thank you so much! That was my last resort and sadly was clueless on how to do that too!
Hopefully it's just some kind of weird software coma, but now even if it's a hardware problem there is still hope!
Thank you very much good Sir, may life repay you thrice as much
Your welcome......please read the apx and nvflash option really well. It is rather straightforward but you have to install the apx drivers correct and use power and volume + (together) to enter apx mode. Voor drivers maybe you can use this forum below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185104
it had an option for installing apx drivers for win 7 64 bit.
Hope your screen will work again, and if not you can send it back without warrant loss...
good luck!!!!!
I have flashed the CWM from TF201 by accident. Now the tablet is stuck in that CWM mode. I can't connect to usb using adb mode. Power+volume down does not work anymore. Any way I can reflash the correct CWM?
THanks
If you can boot to OS - you can use fastboot to flash any recovery.. or flash TWRP from goomanager.
upd: sry..don't see about "stuck".
abe_cedar said:
I have flashed the CWM from TF201 by accident. Now the tablet is stuck in that CWM mode. I can't connect to usb using adb mode. Power+volume down does not work anymore. Any way I can reflash the correct CWM?
THanks
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I have made the same mistake. Although I can get the device to fastboot USB mode. I have tried to use CWM with the restore I made before I put in Cyanogenmod 9, as well as putting on the Cyanogenmod experimental #2 for TF300. No error messages at all and it wipes data and cash without any problems.
But I get locked on the Asus boot screen and it does not continue ie I am stuck as well.
I have as well tried to use the TWRP 2.1.5. I get the Teamwin loggo screen, it wipes all the data and verifies all the filesystems and reboots. Still stuck.
Is the device bricked ?
upd:The TF300 can not be shutoff either. When you hold the power button the screen goes black, but after ~5 s the device is starting again and is still stuck on the Asus bootup screen.
if you reboot it holding vol down and power, can you get back into the boot menu, to reselect fastboot?
if holding the power button doesn't switch it off, what happens if you leave it to run out of batteries then do this?
then you can flash the correct recovery.img
cheedear said:
if you reboot it holding vol down and power, can you get back into the boot menu, to reselect fastboot?
if holding the power button doesn't switch it off, what happens if you leave it to run out of batteries then do this?
then you can flash the correct recovery.img
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Yes, I can get access to the fastboot and I have already tried to flash with the recovery.img. I have as well let the battery run out and tried it once more with the same result.
Still stuck on the asus bootup screen.
power
Hare,
I have same problem.tab cannot power off. Just reboots into cwm.
I was thinking to drain bat. Thanks for sharing that info.
There are a lot of topics about people who broke their devices with TF201's recovery.
Afaik, no one recovered it. Send to Asus.
So the device is bricked then :'(.
Thanks for clearing it up.
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RMA..
Guillaume,
Thanks for clarification.
I have read that ASUS wants 700USD for replacing/reflashing the bootloader. That was for the tf201. Any way to nvflash it back to factory? I don't believe that they have to change the MB.
I have no warranty left, but I don't want to be gouged by them either.
Any thoughts, info?
Hi,
I've do the same mistake, but I can use adb.
Do youhave any news about our problem?
Thanks
Midyr
unable to power off
My issue is that I have the CWM for the tf201. I did the update from the CWM app in Android. Bad idea. So now the tab does not power off s.t. I can get into the power+vol down mode. Adb does not work since I cannot ( don't know how) to make it go into the usb debugging mode. I have tried several things none of which have worked. Still stuck.
I wanted some feedback for a RMA from ASUS, posted it here but sor far no answers.
Not sure if it would really work, but on my Evo, I don't have to completely power off the phone to do the recovery sequence. I can do it during a normal reboot. There is a point just before the device starts booting again where it is technically "off", and if I hold volume down (don't even have to hold power on my Evo; volume down seems to be the only necessary button) starting at this point, the phone will boot into the bootloader.
So, next time the device reboots, just start holding volume down (possibly power also, just in case) at the "off" point.
So, been running CM10 for a long time on tab. Decided to go back to stock, and downloaded the JB stock rom. Flashed via ODIN. Everything seemed to go OK, except that after the flash the screen went black for ages, and didn't reboot. So I hard powered it off. Probably what did it, but it wasn't going anywhere for about 15 minutes, so figured it was the next step.
Now, I get the battery charging icon. The system goes through the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 white logo, the swirling then glowing Samsung logo, and then loops through that forever.
It wouldn't be such a problem if I could back into ODIN and do another flash, but I can't get into download mode (normally I do it via adb but that isn't working since there is no USB connection at all). Tried all combinations, power/up, power/down etc. It just boot loops as above. I'm pretty sure I bricked it, but just wanted some confirmation.
Been doing this on and off for a long time, and it's the first time I've ever got stuck like this.
Thanks in advance.
Plug USB charger, your device will boot into charge mode. From charge mode you can boot into recovery by keep holding VOLUME UP button and than press POWER button. Clear data and cache in recovery, reboot.
ketut.kumajaya said:
Plug USB charger, your device will boot into charge mode. From charge mode you can boot into recovery by keep holding VOLUME UP button and than press POWER button. Clear data and cache in recovery, reboot.
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Thanks, but I tried all combinations of Power/Volume UP and Power/Volume DOWN, it just goes through a normal boot cycle until it starts looping.
I guess it's possible I'm not using the right timing. I'm assuming that you hold Volume UP or DOWN and then press and hold Power until the screen goes black, and then release? I've done it like that many times, and also continued to hold everything down as the logo appears, and then system goes back to the battery charging icon as if it powers off again. I sound like such a noob when I type stuff like that!
I saw ODIN successfully write system.img, boot.img, and recovery.img, so I'm thinking any CWM recovery I had on there is toast.
sl0ttedpig said:
Thanks, but I tried all combinations of Power/Volume UP and Power/Volume DOWN, it just goes through a normal boot cycle until it starts looping.
I guess it's possible I'm not using the right timing. I'm assuming that you hold Volume UP or DOWN and then press and hold Power until the screen goes black, and then release? I've done it like that many times, and also continued to hold everything down as the logo appears, and then system goes back to the battery charging icon as if it powers off again. I sound like such a noob when I type stuff like that!
I saw ODIN successfully write system.img, boot.img, and recovery.img, so I'm thinking any CWM recovery I had on there is toast.
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You must pull usb cable before start.
You can try to re-flash.
tuxafgmur said:
You must pull usb cable before start.
You can try to re-flash.
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Well, don't I feel like the idiot!
How did I not think to disconnect the USB before trying this? tuxafgmur, your first "Thanks" has been registered, I've got it from here!
P.S. Welcome to the forum!
it sounds strange. never heard of such a strange boot problem. anyway it could be that while transferring boot.img it became damaged due to some error. i know you probably tryed but you may try and connect it to linux or mac os x in order to check if you could retrive more data about the tab. for example the mac could find if it is totally corrupted. normally when i plug my samsung devices it ask me to add the samsung-modem also if they are turned off. meybe if it happens the same to you you can try to adb fastboot it also if i doubt myself about it working, but give it a shot
i hope my bad english is not preventing you to understand what i'm saying!
give us new feedback!
Hello to everyone. I beg your help, please. I bought this amazing second hand tablet last friday. At the first attemp, and because I didn't want to read all the threads, I bricked the tablet. Yes, stupid thought, I know.
Because I wasn't happy with the result, I wiped all and delete bootloader, system, data... Everything. I know something with Microsoft issues and brave me (and silly) I thought It was similar, that I could start from outside of the tablet even if it was blank.
Anyway, the facts are:
The tablet is allways on, in APX mode. When I press down the power boton, it reboot. I know because when it's conected to my laptop, I can see the USB interface conected and the APX mode on it.
The screen is allways in black. ALLWAYS. No matter if I try to start in recovery in bootloader or any other way to start the system. Black, nice black.
Of course, no result in Power + Vol up, Power + Vol -, pressing power during 3 hours and 23 minutes... (I'm joking), but for long.
The only signal by which I know that it's not dead at all its when I conect the charger. I can see the small orange light in the power buton saying: "I'm alive"
Ok, I don't know what to do. I've read during the weekend as much as I could, tried evrything and nothing fixed. If it helps, before playing to be God, I had Android 4.0.1, I unlocked the bootloader with the apk, I installed the TWRP recovery and everything were right until I wanted to update the rom. Some mystakes that I don't remember and this is what I can tell you. Any holy soul which can help me, please? If not, can anyone help me? Thank you and I'll be looking forward your help.
evoin said:
Hello to everyone. I beg your help, please. I bought this amazing second hand tablet last friday. At the first attemp, and because I didn't want to read all the threads, I bricked the tablet. Yes, stupid thought, I know.
Because I wasn't happy with the result, I wiped all and delete bootloader, system, data... Everything. I know something with Microsoft issues and brave me (and silly) I thought It was similar, that I could start from outside of the tablet even if it was blank.
Anyway, the facts are:
The tablet is allways on, in APX mode. When I press down the power boton, it reboot. I know because when it's conected to my laptop, I can see the USB interface conected and the APX mode on it.
The screen is allways in black. ALLWAYS. No matter if I try to start in recovery in bootloader or any other way to start the system. Black, nice black.
Of course, no result in Power + Vol up, Power + Vol -, pressing power during 3 hours and 23 minutes... (I'm joking), but for long.
The only signal by which I know that it's not dead at all its when I conect the charger. I can see the small orange light in the power buton saying: "I'm alive"
Ok, I don't know what to do. I've read during the weekend as much as I could, tried evrything and nothing fixed. If it helps, before playing to be God, I had Android 4.0.1, I unlocked the bootloader with the apk, I installed the TWRP recovery and everything were right until I wanted to update the rom. Some mystakes that I don't remember and this is what I can tell you. Any holy soul which can help me, please? If not, can anyone help me? Thank you and I'll be looking forward your help.
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Are you able to access fastboot? If so, flash the STOCK ASUS 4.0.1 Rom again. The mistake I think you made was flashing a ROM not compatible with the bootloader you have. You first have to update the bootloader to 4.1.1 or 4.2.1 to flash any of the current ROMS.
No fastboot, no bootloader update.
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Are you able to access fastboot? If so, flash the STOCK ASUS 4.0.1 Rom again. The mistake I think you made was flashing a ROM not compatible with the bootloader you have. You first have to update the bootloader to 4.1.1 or 4.2.1 to flash any of the current ROMS.
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Thanks for the reply:
I can't access fastboot. The tablet does nothing, just allways on in APX, so I can't update the bootloader. Neither I can't switch it off. I've read smething about run out the battery and start a process with ODIN?
I haven't tried it before, but maybe there's a way to create a bootable SD that will automatically install one of the stock ROMs so you can start over again?
If you can't get to the bootloader/fastboot/recovery and only have APX and no back upped NVFlash files then I think you are bricked unfortunately
hi is there any solution to solve this problem, or tablet dead
I'm in the same situation! :crying:
no solution???
Same story
Same here -- black screen, PC recognizes it as an APX device, but neither fastboot nor adb seem to work.
I didn't even try to mod mine. I was just using it normally, and it crashed, and now all it does is give me a black screen. When I poke the reset button, my PC notices the device disconnection and then a minute later it re-connects, but still nothing.
Holding down volume up/down during reset does nothing. Holding down power, with or without volume buttons, for an extended period does nothing.
This looks to be like an epidemic problem for these devices. Has nobody gotten a handle on it yet?
pty
I am also in your situation.
I have a tablet with Tegra xperia 3, black screen! APX mode only!
Does not read any adb and fastboot driver!!
There are new?
Hi everyone,
for me now the same situation. Only APX aviable. no fastboot ect...
pls help me solve this issue.
Thanks a lot.
Turn on in APX-Mode. You won't see anything on the screen, the display does not turn on.
If you connect the USB cable to a Windows PC, Windows will recognize it as an APX device.
On this mode you may use nvflash tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969797.
If nothing works, you should exchange the Mainboard!
Hi!
I've read many threads and I haven't found the answer I'm looking for.
I've flashed the 5.1 update via TWRP on my tablet, and in the first boot it rapidly installed something, rebooted and never worked again. I can't use adb fastboot because my pc doesn't recognize my tablet. It shows as APX. I've tried to install the APX drivers and I can't, even after I reboot into advance settings.
Have I not read the correct post? Please help get my tablet back. I know it was stupid of me not to disable wifi before deleting the TegraOTA, I was in a hurry and forgot. Is there any hope?
Thanks for your patience.
Sounds like it took the forced update to kill it. If you can't get into the bootloader to use fastboot I don't think you'll be able to do much.
I might have done the same thing as you. If you do vol down+power does that still start up? if so this worked for me
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/help/help-stuck-nvidia-boot-screen-t3076462
I'm stuck now I'm on the stock rom and dont want to connect to wifi and get a killswitch, but I can't get a custom recover to load to change roms
Edit: When on the laying down android with "no command" if you hit the power+volup+voldown it will go into recovery settings. I guess the custom recovery isn't really flashing over.
Unplug USB cable press power for 30 seconds and then press the power and vol down should go to bootloader if your tablet didn't get kill switched. If it still doesn't boot and shows apx once connected then its been kill switched. Pressing power and vol up will place it into apx mode by default.
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