[Q] SL101 Boot loop - Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, I've searched around and tried various things and I feel like I am just regressing this thing worse and worse.
Here's what I can recall about my situation:
SL101, rooted using nachoroot and put an ICS rom on it. not sure which. worked great.
decided I would switch ROMs one day and ran into the glitch where if you install too large of a file onto the sd card it reboots in the middle and you have a corrupt ROM.
ended up wiping a lot of stuff and I was stuck with no ROM, CWM recovery, and boot loop.
trying to get back to stock and sell the thing since I left it bricked for awhile and didn't use it much before anyway. so I tried ASUS's website for their stock file and it runs in recovery and I'm back to stock recovery but still a boot loop.
Not sure where to go from here, any ideas?
TLR- stock recovery, boot loop

Did you try APX mode?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089024
Root/CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1689193

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[Q] CWM Looping On Infuse

Hello, I'm new to the forums and I feel bad I'm already screwing things up :/
Anyway on to the problem... I've had CM9 running on my phone for about two weeks now but I wanted to get rid of the rainbows in CWM and at boot. Today I downloaded Rom Manager from the market place, and when I ran it, it prompted me to install CWM recovery to my SD card, although I already had it installed I thought I'd give it a try. Bad idea, now I can't leave recovery mode, my phone will continually reboot into recovery, I've tried wiping all data and clean installing CM9 again and still nothing. I've even tried the exitrecovery.zip script to no avail
Any suggestions or ideas on how to fix it and boot into my ROM again?
Thanks!!
I would venture to say you might have to reflash...or start over from stock...
i would reload stock....then reload ics or the rom of your choice...
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm, I used Odin and flashed factory stock 2.2.1, now I'm off to getting ICS back.
Thanks again!
Does anyone know why this happens? I've noticed that anytime I open CWM and choose the boot to recovery option is when I get stuck with CWM Recovery looping. I then have to go back to stock and start over again.
I'm not entirely sure why it happens, my guess was that it puts up a bad flag not compatible with ICS that keeps it from booting that, that was why I tired the exitrecovery script, I looked through it and it appeared to me to change a flag for booting. I'm not sure why it happens but I'd say just use the reboot to recovery option that the ROM provides in the shutdown menu, I know that always works.

[Q] soft brick when I flash ANY rom/firmware

When I flash merely anything, my tablet gets stuck on the Samsung boot logo (I have waited, and waited, and waited, until the battery dies). Sometimes even installing ClockWorkMod Recovery (official) will do this. But I managed to get the latest official CWM flashed. But I can't get ANY other rom to work. Even roms I have successfully flashed before.
Note: If it flashes it gets stuck at the Samsung boot logo. But I have also had it not flash sometimes too, giving me error code 7 in CWM which is an authentication/permission/certificate problem.
I am going to try right now using Odin to flash to stock, and work from there, maybe it will completely clean out any crap in the memory.
My tablet is the P3113 model.
Ok! So after flashing stock rom, then cleaning all the cache stuff, then attempting to install CM it fails with CWM Error code 7. And when I just reboot system, it gets stuck at the boot logo. Damn, I get stuck there without even flashing!!
Well, I may have figured it out..... ummm i guess *cough! cough!* I somehow changed kernels *cough! cough!* dang, my allergies! Hahaha, anyways, I flashed a kernel compatible with stock rom and cm10.1 and it has gotten past the flash of cm10.1 and seems to be booting up right now.

Wiped system on droid maxx and can't fix it.

I accidentally (don't ask) wiped my system while trying to install cyanogenmod. After doing that CM seemed to finally successfully install but it was stuck at a bootloop. I went back into recovery to restore my backup but it resulted in an error the first time. I tried it again and it said it was successful. I tried booting that up but the boot logo looked different than before and it wouldn't boot. It wasn't a bootloop but it was stuck on the boot logo. After trying a few more different things nothing worked and I decided to flash the stock firmware back. When I tried RSDlite failed the flashing process. Maybe I don't have the right firmware for my phone or something. I can't figure it out. I'd really appreciate anyone input on this. I need to get my phone up and going again as soon as possible. It's a Droid Maxx. It's not the Dev Edition but it does have an unlocked bootloader.
Thanks
EDIT:
I tried flashing that firmware again and for some reason it worked the second time. This thread can be deleted.
If you find it wont boot past the CM bootanimation, go back to recovery and Factory Reset - that normally will get it to complete the boot process. Make a backup first so you can easily restore back if you choose. Beats RSD back to stock and starting over...
I also run an unlocked Droid Maxx, non dev, currently on AICP ROM or CM, whatever flavor I feel like and who is updating their ROM the most often.

Tablet Froze; Couldn't Boot Recovery, Couldn't Boot ROM, Kept Rebooting to Asus Logo

This isn't as much as a "help!" question because I got the tablet working again (by flashing a stock blob); it's more of an question to try find out if I can prevent this from happening again...
I was just browsing tapatalk when my tablet froze. I rebooted and saw the tablet kept rebooting to the Asus logo. Recovery didn't work (it kept rebooting after the recovery logo would appear) and the the ROM (KatKiss LP v29) wouldn't boot.
Flashing TWRP again with fastboot didn't work. I couldn't flash the ROM again or use my Nandroid... I ended up formatting recovery with fastboot, flashed a stock blob to get it working again, and then restored from there, but it was a pain.
So I'm curious if anyone can guess what may have happened and if there is any way to prevent it from happening again?

K1 - So I think I may have bricked this thing. Looking for help, if any.

Well, not fully bricked, but it's completely non-working just the same.
I've had the K1 for a few years now and have been fine with the standard, stock OTA updates. Recently though I've been seeing constant notifications that I'm short on ram and after uninstalling apps, deleting old files, it would work ok for a few days and then start complaining about low memory again. So I figured that something must be corrupt and now is a good a time as any to root and see about flashing a new rom.
I've owned many android devices over the years and have rooted and patched most of them. so I'm familiar with the tools.
This time however, I think I must have crossed something up somewhere.
What I did was this:
Grabbed the minimal ADB package and fastboot drivers.
Booted into the bootloader and ran the fastboot oem unlock. No problem.
From the nVidia site, I then grabbed and flashed the latest stock image and recovery, just to ensure I was on a clean slate. No problem.
Flashed the latest TWRP for the device. No problem.
Flashed SuperSU. No problem.
Booted into the stock system to make sure everything was still working and it was. But, this is the start of where I maybe hosed things up(?).
While running stock, I converted the SD card to internal memory, just so I wasn't having to mess with it later, not thinking that I'd have to do it again anyway after flashing a new rom.
Rebooted back to TWRP and proceeded to flash the new rom (AOSP Extended (AEX) 5.8).
I flashed it by way of the sideload method rather than from a zip file sitting on the SD card. This all seemed to work just fine.
Next I went ahead and flashed OpenGapps Mini. This resulted in an error 70 and after reading about it, it was a simple matter of going into the advanced settings in TWRP and extending the system partition. Did that and OpenGapps then flashed with no problem.
Finally I wrapped it up by flashing tegra124-tn8-p1761-1270-a04-e-battery.dtb and rebooted.
... Nothing. Now I know that when flashing a new rom, the first boot can take some time, but I let it sit for about 2 hours with no result. It didn't appear to be boot looping, but instead just stuck on the nVidia boot screen. Forced it to boot back to the bootloader and brought up TWRP. I obviously did something wrong, so I prepared to reflash the stock image.
Did the wipe, flashed the files and rebooted. Again, nothing.
This time however, not only can I not boot to the system, I now also can't get back into recovery.
No matter how many times I reboot, or attempt to reflash anything, it hangs on the boot screen when attempting to get back into recovery.
So I'm stuck. I've tried reflashing TWRP, stock recovery and stock system, with the SD card in and out, a number of times, all with no joy.
I can access the bootloader, so I can at least run fastboot commands, but that's all I can do. Without being in recovery, I can't access an ADB shell if I need to repair anything.
If you're still with me after this rambling mess, do I have any hope at all in recovering this thing?
Hi,
I think the problem is in the modified .dtb try flash the original file.
Or : https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82359331&postcount=39
greetings
kozaqu said:
Hi,
I think the problem is in the modified .dtb try flash the original file.
Or : https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82359331&postcount=39
greetings
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That got me in the right direction and I can at least get back into recovery now. Thanks! :good:
Also in the same boat
mkhopper said:
Well, not fully bricked, but it's completely non-working just the same.
I've had the K1 for a few years now and have been fine with the standard, stock OTA updates. Recently though I've been seeing constant notifications that I'm short on ram and after uninstalling apps, deleting old files, it would work ok for a few days and then start complaining about low memory again. So I figured that something must be corrupt and now is a good a time as any to root and see about flashing a new rom.
I've owned many android devices over the years and have rooted and patched most of them. so I'm familiar with the tools.
This time however, I think I must have crossed something up somewhere.
What I did was this:
Grabbed the minimal ADB package and fastboot drivers.
Booted into the bootloader and ran the fastboot oem unlock. No problem.
From the nVidia site, I then grabbed and flashed the latest stock image and recovery, just to ensure I was on a clean slate. No problem.
Flashed the latest TWRP for the device. No problem.
Flashed SuperSU. No problem.
Booted into the stock system to make sure everything was still working and it was. But, this is the start of where I maybe hosed things up(?).
While running stock, I converted the SD card to internal memory, just so I wasn't having to mess with it later, not thinking that I'd have to do it again anyway after flashing a new rom.
Rebooted back to TWRP and proceeded to flash the new rom (AOSP Extended (AEX) 5.8).
I flashed it by way of the sideload method rather than from a zip file sitting on the SD card. This all seemed to work just fine.
Next I went ahead and flashed OpenGapps Mini. This resulted in an error 70 and after reading about it, it was a simple matter of going into the advanced settings in TWRP and extending the system partition. Did that and OpenGapps then flashed with no problem.
Finally I wrapped it up by flashing tegra124-tn8-p1761-1270-a04-e-battery.dtb and rebooted.
... Nothing. Now I know that when flashing a new rom, the first boot can take some time, but I let it sit for about 2 hours with no result. It didn't appear to be boot looping, but instead just stuck on the nVidia boot screen. Forced it to boot back to the bootloader and brought up TWRP. I obviously did something wrong, so I prepared to reflash the stock image.
Did the wipe, flashed the files and rebooted. Again, nothing.
This time however, not only can I not boot to the system, I now also can't get back into recovery.
No matter how many times I reboot, or attempt to reflash anything, it hangs on the boot screen when attempting to get back into recovery.
So I'm stuck. I've tried reflashing TWRP, stock recovery and stock system, with the SD card in and out, a number of times, all with no joy.
I can access the bootloader, so I can at least run fastboot commands, but that's all I can do. Without being in recovery, I can't access an ADB shell if I need to repair anything.
If you're still with me after this rambling mess, do I have any hope at all in recovering this thing?
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I'm also sort of in the same boat i had a custom rom installed and decided to go back to stock os and now i'm stuck at either the Nvidia Logo or the Fastboot menu there's nothing else it let's me do i'd take any advice at this point. I can use Fastboot commands and I've tried Flashing Twrp.img and also flashing all the stock os which goes through with no problems i reboot the device and it's just stuck at the Nvidia logo
Ps: how did you manage to get back into recovery
Hello.
I think i had the same Problem.
I Flashed a Custom Rom, MiniGapps and the tegra...Battery file and since then i had boot loop an the NVidia Logo.
The Problem was: i flashed the tegra-Battery.ZIP file!!!
I noticed that i have to unzip it and flash teh tegra-..battery.DTP file.
since then it booted up again.
the OpenGappMini was buggy. it worked with the Nano!
Hope this helps for you as well!
OMG you guys. I did the exact same damn thing. Flashed the ZIP instead of the DTP file. 100 million thanks to you. I'm going to give it a shot now.
It worked! I wonder how many other folks didn't realize it wasn't a zip to flash to dtb and bricked their devices.

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