[Q] Can't get pass Splash screen Help Please - Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've been searching for 3 days now, and everything I've found has not worked. I am using twrp, and have tried flashing three different roms. Everything in fastboot and twrp runs fine, but as soon as I get to the asus boot screen (I've seen it to be called the circle/ring of death) it freezes, then reboots. I've tried re flashing back to stock rom, upgrading firmware/ downgrading firmware, different twrp versions, stock recovery, hitting my head on the tablet. I don't know what else to do.
My tablet was version 4.2.1 I used the boot unlocker v_8. Tablet was rooted and working for one day, then over night this began.
If someone could please point me in the right direction, or is this just a case of my tablet being done for?

Fox5.56 said:
I've been searching for 3 days now, and everything I've found has not worked. I am using twrp, and have tried flashing three different roms. Everything in fastboot and twrp runs fine, but as soon as I get to the asus boot screen (I've seen it to be called the circle/ring of death) it freezes, then reboots. I've tried re flashing back to stock rom, upgrading firmware/ downgrading firmware, different twrp versions, stock recovery, hitting my head on the tablet. I don't know what else to do.
My tablet was version 4.2.1 I used the boot unlocker v_8. Tablet was rooted and working for one day, then over night this began.
If someone could please point me in the right direction, or is this just a case of my tablet being done for?
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Do you have valuable data on the tab? If yes, I'd suggest you copy them off your internal storage to your external Sd card with TWRP, then erase everything per buster99's script (search for the name); flash stock rom via fastboot. You don't need to reset the tab by poking the hole since you apparently can get to fastboot without issue.
DO NOT touch the wipe data icon on the boot screen! Do everything with TWRP only. If you choose to do it via SD card, remove the card before rebooting to see what happens. It has occurred to me that leaving the card inside might cause problems. Good luck.

graphdarnell said:
Do you have valuable data on the tab? If yes, I'd suggest you copy them off your internal storage to your external Sd card with TWRP, then erase everything per buster99's script (search for the name); flash stock rom via fastboot. You don't need to reset the tab by poking the hole since you apparently can get to fastboot without issue.
DO NOT touch the wipe data icon on the boot screen! Do everything with TWRP only. If you choose to do it via SD card, remove the card before rebooting to see what happens. It has occurred to me that leaving the card inside might cause problems. Good luck.
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I copied anything I wanted saved, but I did not do a legitimate backup of software files.
I have pressed the wipe data icon on the boot screen under the confusment of the many different posts. What step does that leave me at?
EDIT:
So crazy Buster99 fastboot flash did it. Sucks because I tried that before but I guess I may have missed one line of the reflashing script. Well thanks, after three days I've finally been put in the right direction.

Seems like that pesky /misc partition is causing problems. Glad you got it sorted out though.
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[Q] Help needed URGENTLY

I tried searching the threads in regards to my problem but could not find an exact similar issue.
OK, here's my problem. Running Clockworkmod recovery with the new touchscreen ability, and all was running fine while in ICS 4.04. Its the Xoom mz604 wifi only model. I then installed the WINGRAY rom (Yes, BEFORE I read about the loss of ability to read from the SD port. So, now, I can still boot into recovery, but it obviously wont mount my sd card, and I can't uninstall the pre sd error fixed wingray rom, so all it will do is stay in the motorola screen ad infinitim. I have tried full factory reset, everything, but nothing works. I cant \even do a restore from my backups, because they are on my SD card.
Please, PLEASE, all you brilliant people out there HAVE to have heard this happening, and hopefully have a solution for me.
You can email me direct if it makes communication easier for you at [email protected].
Any suggestions whatsoever would be VERY much appreciated, and I am thankful for your time and knowledge.
Jason:crying:
Can you flash back using Odin?
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Flash Rogue Recovery, reboot into recovery, and then you should be able to flash things from your sd card.
Worst case: use LAIOT and the images from http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/ to reset back to a stock image, put the image you want to flash in the right place, and go from there.
Edit:
Just realized that you won't be able to get Rogue recovery where you need it, you can however fastboot flash the old CWM which should work as well for most things.
Thanks
Veilshatter;
thanks for the advice but that would do not good as I have to be able to boot first to use.\
airesch;
attempting your suggestion through the SDK. That seems to be the only way I could get around this. I will let you know.
Thanks.
Really Screwed now.... I think.
OK, after flashing the CWM through fastboot, which seemed to work fine, now once I reboot, it still endless cycles on the moto logo, and if I try to UP+Power, all it shows is Starting RSD mode 3, and I can't do anything. Can't boot with DOWN+Power either.....
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
MZ604

TF101 in boot loop

Guys, wondering if someone could give me some direction to restoring my TF101 to working conditions.
I have a rooted TF101 that was running 9.1.2.27.
This setup has been running great since .27 (not done OTA, Found here) came out, so I haven't bothered upgrading recently.
Fast forward to this week and it seems the Tablet started locking up at some point in the last couple days I hadn't used it. This would cause a battery drain until the device turned off. Upon rebooting I could get into the OS for maybe a minute before it would freeze again.
I decided to wipe the device, I went into CWM Recovery and wiped all caches and then tried to wipe all data/factory reset. It is at this time I get the following error:
Error removing /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db-wal!Error formatting /data!
Try starting back up and get a boot loop.
Upon reflashing the ROM, I find the TF101 in constant boot loop not making it 8 seconds into the bootup before rebooting.
I can still get into recovery so I try various kernels and roms with no success. Through searching I find CWM 6.0.1.4 and load it. Everything loads normally and I can now wipe data/factory reset, wipe all Cache even format all parts. I try to flash every ROM I can get my hands on from stock to older roms that I have ran succesfully to EOS Nighties, Every rom goes into Boot Loop after about 10 seconds.
Any Idea on where to go from here? I have been reading threads for hours now with no solution.
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This question should be in the QA section...
But your stock ROM was ICS and the newest EOS nightlies are based on JB which have different partitions. If you flash back and forth with ICS and JB you could be running into problems there.
Have you tried the option in CWM called "Fix Permissions"? This is supposed to reset the permissions correctly for the system apps area I believe which helped a lot of people with force close issues. It's worth a shot.
Are you installing ROM's from external SD card or the Internal SD card? That shouldn't matter but I have always stuck with the External SD card.
One thing you could also try is to wipe the big 3 several times a piece before installing the ROM. I found it had made some ROM's load better when I encountered a few issues. Also, stick with one ROM either ICS or JB. Going back and forth will cause problems.
Also, I remember that from ICS to JB, some ROM's required the ROM to be installed twice literally after it installs install it again or some ROM's may reboot themselves back into recovery to complete the install.
Try that with the ROM you pick to get things back on track.
There is also some "Super Wipe" scripts floating around but I believe they were for a specific ROM and I think it was ICS based. You should be able to search XDA for that here in the Dev section.
TomTcom said:
This question should be in the QA section...
But your stock ROM was ICS and the newest EOS nightlies are based on JB which have different partitions. If you flash back and forth with ICS and JB you could be running into problems there.
Have you tried the option in CWM called "Fix Permissions"? This is supposed to reset the permissions correctly for the system apps area I believe which helped a lot of people with force close issues. It's worth a shot.
Are you installing ROM's from external SD card or the Internal SD card? That shouldn't matter but I have always stuck with the External SD card.
One thing you could also try is to wipe the big 3 several times a piece before installing the ROM. I found it had made some ROM's load better when I encountered a few issues. Also, stick with one ROM either ICS or JB. Going back and forth will cause problems.
Also, I remember that from ICS to JB, some ROM's required the ROM to be installed twice literally after it installs install it again or some ROM's may reboot themselves back into recovery to complete the install.
Try that with the ROM you pick to get things back on track.
There is also some "Super Wipe" scripts floating around but I believe they were for a specific ROM and I think it was ICS based. You should be able to search XDA for that here in the Dev section.
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The ICS to JB isn't the issue as the issue started happening randomly with a ICS Rom that has been working for 4+ months when it has never had anything put ICS (well HC when I got it last year). Trying the JB rom was a near last ditch effort
I tried Revolutions superwipe several times, didn't help.
I probably completely screwed it up now in frustration. Tried to load the stock rom and now Recovery is screwed and it is boot loop so I don't think I can connect it to the computer now.
Hosed you think?
So now the question is, with a Tab that won't stay on longer then 8 seconds and no longer has a recovery, is there any other hope? I'm guessing bricked.
Firehawkns said:
So now the question is, with a Tab that won't stay on longer then 8 seconds and no longer has a recovery, is there any other hope? I'm guessing bricked.
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You held down pwr + volume down when turning on and no text appears at the top left?
If not follow this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688012&highlight=nvflash
or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688447&highlight=bootloop
Firehawkns said:
Guys, wondering if someone could give me some direction to restoring my TF101 to working conditions.
I have a rooted TF101 that was running 9.1.2.27.
This setup has been running great since .27 (not done OTA, Found here) came out, so I haven't bothered upgrading recently.
Fast forward to this week and it seems the Tablet started locking up at some point in the last couple days I hadn't used it. This would cause a battery drain until the device turned off. Upon rebooting I could get into the OS for maybe a minute before it would freeze again.
I decided to wipe the device, I went into CWM Recovery and wiped all caches and then tried to wipe all data/factory reset. It is at this time I get the following error:
Error removing /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db-wal!Error formatting /data!
Try starting back up and get a boot loop.
Upon reflashing the ROM, I find the TF101 in constant boot loop not making it 8 seconds into the bootup before rebooting.
I can still get into recovery so I try various kernels and roms with no success. Through searching I find CWM 6.0.1.4 and load it. Everything loads normally and I can now wipe data/factory reset, wipe all Cache even format all parts. I try to flash every ROM I can get my hands on from stock to older roms that I have ran succesfully to EOS Nighties, Every rom goes into Boot Loop after about 10 seconds.
Any Idea on where to go from here? I have been reading threads for hours now with no solution.
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Try using NV flash to go back to stock if you can get into APX mode.
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morphuex said:
You held down pwr + volume down when turning on and no text appears at the top left?
If not follow this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688012&highlight=nvflash
or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688447&highlight=bootloop
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Yea, I can do the power + vol down and then up and get the recovery android guy, then he goes on his back and a red exclamation comes up (which I believe means no recovery mode installed
I can also do the pwr + vol down and then wait 5 seconds and get the wipe device or android options, but it won't let me choose anything, 10 seconds later it reboots.
clouse2013 said:
Try using NV flash to go back to stock if you can get into APX mode.
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Will try tonight, but I believe all of those involve the computer having time to recognize the device, which it doesn't stay on long enough for the computer to recognize is and it won't seem to connect USB when the android guy is up.
nice rom! going to check this out tonight, thanks!
So I got into APX mode, windows shows no drivers, but it does show in devices. Trying NVFLash it says it is doing something, but nothing on the TF changes. Is there another step I am missing?
Firehawkns said:
So I got into APX mode, windows shows no drivers, but it does show in devices. Trying NVFLash it says it is doing something, but nothing on the TF changes. Is there another step I am missing?
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Have a search for universal naked driver in the dev section, that should sort the drivers out I believe then you should be good to go.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514942&highlight=naked+driver
There you go
pops106 said:
Have a search for universal naked driver in the dev section, that should sort the drivers out I believe then you should be good to go.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514942&highlight=naked+driver
There you go
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Thanks for the info, truly! I had searched for Drivers, but not naked.
That worked and it allowed me to use Easyflasher to get CWM back on.
Now I am back where I started, I have tried loading several Roms. Everyone hangs up about 15 seconds into first boot while the setup splash screen is on (for example the dotted circle on stock Asus rom or the simon says color circle like the JB rom or what ever it was in the ICS rom I was using. Something in the tab is stopping it from booting on up.
But I can now format everything and wipe data. I can connect APX mode. Anything else I can try from there. Starting to seem like something Hardware is busted.
Firehawkns said:
Something in the tab is stopping it from booting on up.
But I can now format everything and wipe data. I can connect APX mode. Anything else I can try from there. Starting to seem like something Hardware is busted.
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Did you fix permissions while you were in recovery? It's a long shot but that may help. You may have a folder that's chmod'ed incorrectly. If so that'll prevent the system from being able to write or read to that folder making it impossible to install to, or run from it. Fix permissions, re-flash and reboot.
I know TomTcom mentioned it already. I don't see if you tried it in your replies though.
grgmre said:
Did you fix permissions while you were in recovery? It's a long shot but that may help. You may have a folder that's chmod'ed incorrectly. If so that'll prevent the system from being able to write or read to that folder making it impossible to install to, or run from it. Fix permissions, re-flash and reboot.
I know TomTcom mentioned it already. I don't see if you tried it in your replies though.
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Yea, I tried that first. Sorry forgot to mention.
Are you able to flash the stock firmware using Easyflasher?
cabraswell said:
Are you able to flash the stock firmware using Easyflasher?
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yes, I am able to flash to stock rom I got from Asus and the one I took for Rooted with stock on the forum. The flash, and it gives you the initial progress bar on first boot, then reboots at the end of the progress bar and goes to the Asus with the moving circles for about 5 seconds then keeps rebooting from there.
In a PC world I would wonder Ram issues, Over heating, or insuffecent power supply at this point. Not sure what to think here.
Is there a way to use TWOP and delete everything you see on the system and then reflash?
Firehawkns said:
yes, I am able to flash to stock rom I got from Asus and the one I took for Rooted with stock on the forum. The flash, and it gives you the initial progress bar on first boot, then reboots at the end of the progress bar and goes to the Asus with the moving circles for about 5 seconds then keeps rebooting from there.
In a PC world I would wonder Ram issues, Over heating, or insuffecent power supply at this point. Not sure what to think here.
Is there a way to use TWRP and delete everything you see on the system and then reflash?
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In Addition, I have tried several times using TWRP to format Data and it fails. Could this be a clue?
Firehawkns said:
In Addition, I have tried several times using TWRP to format Data and it fails. Could this be a clue?
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Have you tried using nvflash that blasts everything, takes you back to as clean as clean can be.
I am starting to think hardware though but if you can sit in recovery of adb / apx mode without issue then maybe it is a software thing.
No probs wiith the drivers by the way, its not really the right website for searching for the word naked.... dam don't can't won't imagine what you could of found with the members in here...
SUCCESS!!
I am not totally sure what finally worked as I just kept trying to reset/wipe/format/ and reflash, but this last time finally worked it seems. I have the stock Asus rom back on and going through setup.
I do find that if I try to put EOS on it just sits at the color things that show loading and never moves forward, so I just put the stock rom back on for now. Try to get Root back on for Titanium backup and enjoy the tablet again and worry about JB later maybe.
Firehawkns said:
SUCCESS!!
I am not totally sure what finally worked as I just kept trying to reset/wipe/format/ and reflash, but this last time finally worked it seems. I have the stock Asus rom back on and going through setup.
I do find that if I try to put EOS on it just sits at the color things that show loading and never moves forward, so I just put the stock rom back on for now. Try to get Root back on for Titanium backup and enjoy the tablet again and worry about JB later maybe.
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I'm glad you finally got it fixed. I had some issues a while back (two weeks after I bought it) and I panicked and caused more trouble. Finally after stepping away from it for a day or two and a wife encouraging me I was able to get it going again...but my gut was in knots for that day or two.
Tablet after redoing the original root does not go over the system.
Not have access to ADB DEVICE or by Windows or the Linux Ubuntu, no longer accepts update totally blocked.
Ask help for those who have been through this problem.

Can't Mount SD Card

I was running CM10 on a rooted TFT101. I was having some WiFI connectivity issues so I decided I would try out a new rom. I used Titamium Backup and backed up all my needed files to my Mico SD card. Once backed up, I rebooted into CWM v6.0.1.3. I went to do a factory reset prior to flashing the new rom. The tablet just froze. I rebooted the tablet back into CWM. I tried to again do a factory reset and again the tablet just froze. I tried to boot back into CM10 and I just sits and spins and never actually boots into the OS. I decided that I would just go ahead and just flash the new rom and do a factory reset after the fact. I placed the new rom on the micro sd card and booted back into CWM. I attempted to install zip from SD card and now I get e:can't mount /sdcard/. I have tried 3 different micro sd cards and nothing. I have formatted each to fat32 and not one of them is recognized. All 3 are recognized by windows.
Since I can't boot into the OS...and I can't load a new rom....I am dead in the water. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.
Lethe6 said:
If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.
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Thank you Lethe6. I saw that option and wondered if that might help me. I will try it out today.
One quick question. If I flash back to stock I am guessing I will just need to reroot once I am able to boot it back up?
Thank you again for your assistance.
Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!
Lethe6 said:
Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!
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Go figure. I went to fix the issue last night per your instructions and I was sitting at the Google login screen for the the new rom I loaded. What ever issue I was having corrected itself. That never happens. I guess I shouldn't complain =)
Thank you again for your assistance Lethe6!

Soft Bricked and have been stuck for a week plus!

Hey Guys,
So I have been all threw the forum over the past week plus trying to find a solutions and have tried the majority of the ones on the site. Here is what happend:
HOW I GOT HERE:
I was running a CM10 nightly build from 01/15/2013 that was installed via CWM. I had been running it for about a week. When I went to bed I set my phone on the nightstand. About 2 hours into sleep the phone rebooted as I eventually woke up and noticed it thinking it was just the phone wonking out. When I up fully 6 hours later the phone was still rebooting. Since then when ever I cut on the phone it will no get passed the Google logo with the padlock. I can boot into fastboot and recovery. I am running the latest CWM 6.0.2.5.
PHONE VITALS QUICK GLANCE
Android ROM version: CM10 01/15/2013 Nightly Build
Baseband: D720SPRLC1
Bootloader: D720SPRKC5
Recovery: CWM v6.0.2.5
WHAT I HAVE TRIED
Restoring from backup
My first fix was to flash three different roms via recovery (doing full wipes each time)
Then I tried flashing a new recovery
Formatting /system, /cache, /data, and /boot and then flashing a new rom
Then I focused on trying to get the USB storage to mount so I tried using adb shell to repair the file system and that worked
Then I tried new roms and things got REALLY weird. When I would place a rom on “sdcard” it would be available to flash. When I flashed it though it would not take and upon returning to recovery it wouldn’t be there or when I mounted the storage again. After about 10 times of this I figured let me make sure I am not crazy and try the following.
Format the internal storage. In windows when I tried this windows would show that the device formatted and was empty one I dismounted after putting items on it and go back to storage by both remounting it or by recovery the old data would come right back. In Ubuntu when I tried formatting it both via disc recovery and gparted they both said the device was empty but that they were unable to create a partition.
So then I went down the path of all of the debricking tools out there including the one from AdamOutler's (I think it is called ressurector), ODIN, and the Nexus Root Tool all with varying results.
Ressurector kept saying injection failed
ODIN just does not work on the nexus s from what I can tell (spent a day researching and no one seems to give a definitive answer on this one)
And Nexus Root Tool attempts to flash back to stock but runs into an error with the baseband.
So next I decided to try and flash back to stock using the Google images. Using Ubuntu I ran the flash-all.sh that comes in the zip and kept running into the baseband issue.
So next I found OldBlue910’s post with all the OTA updates and I went after trying to use that to fix my phone. Thanks to the amount of instruction he gives I got a lot further and got the flash-all.sh in his stock zip to give me a better error message telling me which baseband I needed to have to go back to stock which when I double checked he includes in the zip. The problem is when I try to flash that radio fastboot tells me I was successful but the bootloader still reads as D720SPRLC1 and does not change regardless of what I do. When I try flashing the stock images again after flashing the radio I receive the same errors.
So now I think I have hit the real brick wall and unless someone has any advice I will need to go and buy a new phone. Hoping you guys can help. I figured if you guys can figure out a hard brick then this is still doable, I have just exhausted my own realm of knowledge.
Please and thank you’s to anyone with advice.
Could you get any lights ON? The buttons or the screen?
lights are on
Yes during the boot loop the Google logo comes up, then the screen goes black, then the Google logo comes back, and finally in about 20 seconds the lights come on. Once that happens after about 4 minutes the process starts all over again.

[Q] Stuck on boot Asus spinning wheel

First I'd like to thank the mods and everyone who contributes to this forum. It's an invaluable resource. Now to my problem.
Asus Tf700 is unlocked and rooted on latest TWRP recovery, which does work. However, after making a backup with the new TWRP version, the tablet is stuck on the boot screen (spinning wheel). Last week I flashed a JB ROM, didn't like it, so went back to ICS with the .30 firmware. Flashed it using old version of TWRP from micro-SD card. Device has been working fine since then. I tried reflashing the .30 kernel again using the same method. It installs kernel, but no luck, still stuck on boot screen. Then I tried TWRP restore, using the new restore file. It restores, but goes to the boot screen and just spins. Any ideas? nvFlash is unavailable to me. What else can I do? Should I try a factory restore in TWRP? I'll keep messing with it later today, but any suggestions are appreciated.
When you install a stock rom, doesnt it install back the stock recovery? I would try reflashing twrp and installing cleanrom, keep it as stock as possible and see if it boots.
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Rom: CleanRom 3.4.4
A spinning Asus wheel is always recoverable.
You have some incompatible rom / kernel / bootloader / data combination I suspect. It's easily done.
I'd make sure you are on a more recent version of TWRP - something like 2.3.1.0 or 2.3.3.0 that supports ICS and JB. It's very dangerous leaving such an old version of TWRP if you go to JB.....
Personally I'd update TWRP to 2.3.1.0 and then install the latest JB file from the Asus website to start with.
missiveusa said:
First I'd like to thank the mods and everyone who contributes to this forum. It's an invaluable resource. Now to my problem.
Asus Tf700 is unlocked and rooted on latest TWRP recovery, which does work. However, after making a backup with the new TWRP version, the tablet is stuck on the boot screen (spinning wheel). Last week I flashed a JB ROM, didn't like it, so went back to ICS with the .30 firmware. Flashed it using old version of TWRP from micro-SD card. Device has been working fine since then. I tried reflashing the .30 kernel again using the same method. It installs kernel, but no luck, still stuck on boot screen. Then I tried TWRP restore, using the new restore file. It restores, but goes to the boot screen and just spins. Any ideas? nvFlash is unavailable to me. What else can I do? Should I try a factory restore in TWRP? I'll keep messing with it later today, but any suggestions are appreciated.
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1. What bootloader are you on currently? (See 4)
2. By flashing the ".30 kernel" I assume you mean flashing the .30 stock ROM, am I right?
Your device went into a hung boot after making the backup, so I'm not really surprised it does exactly the same when you restore that backup. Have you tried flashing .30 stock ROM again?
3. Which recovery do you currently have? As Tylorw1 said, if you flash a full stock ROM, you'll reflash everything, up to and including the bootloader and recovery.
4. If you still have fastboot available (pick the USB symbol instead of RCK after POWER+VOL_DOWNing), you might want to try to reflash either TWRP or CWM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926286 for the latter; I have VERY limited experience with the former and you may well have more than me ).
Updating your bootloader just to be sure is recommended, as most current ROMs will not boot properly without it.
Has the fiddling brought any new points of view, or new discoveries?
Update
Just got in from work. Of course can't do anything else but try to get this unworking device to boot. Not in panic mode yet, as I assume if I get to the spinning wheel, there is hope for recovery.
Just flashed back to the stock ROM, which indeed restored stock recovery. Still would not boot past Asus wheel. Now I will attempt to install the latest TWRP version using fastboot, then try to flash new ROM. Panic is slowly creeping in, but I think I just need to keep at it. How should I proceed once latest version of TWRP is installed? Backup? Flash? Android is new territory for me, a bit rockier than Windows. If this were a laptop on Windows 7 I'd be up and running already . Thanx for the replies and any help.
OK. I used stock recovery to to a system restore. That worked, but of course all user data and apps are gone. Assume root access is also history, so it's just a matter of getting root access and restoring apps. I made a backup to SD card using Titanium Backup. Can I restore from here using the backup file, or should I just stop complaining and be happy I got the damn thing to boot?!!! No big deal really: I'm back to STOCK .26, virgin device (except for being unlocked). Guess I'll get root and move on. Thanks. Great work here. I've learned a lot browsing these forums. Maybe one day I'll graduate from N00B status!
missiveusa said:
Just got in from work. Of course can't do anything else but try to get this unworking device to boot. Not in panic mode yet, as I assume if I get to the spinning wheel, there is hope for recovery.
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Agreed.
Just flashed back to the stock ROM, which indeed restored stock recovery. Still would not boot past Asus wheel. Now I will attempt to install the latest TWRP version using fastboot, then try to flash new ROM. Panic is slowly creeping in, but I think I just need to keep at it. How should I proceed once latest version of TWRP is installed? Backup?
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No use -- it won't boot.
Flash?
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CROMI, redownload, hash check.
Android is new territory for me, a bit rockier than Windows. If this were a laptop on Windows 7 I'd be up and running already .
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I know exactly what you're talking about. Was there once as well, and still it is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
Thanx for the replies and any help.
OK. I used stock recovery to to a system restore. That worked, but of course all user data and apps are gone. Assume root access is also history, so it's just a matter of getting root access and restoring apps. I made a backup to SD card using Titanium Backup. Can I restore from here using the backup file, or should I just stop complaining and be happy I got the damn thing to boot?!!!
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I would not take the chance, and just leave it as it is.
No big deal really: I'm back to STOCK .26, virgin
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<< and still complaining?
device (except for being unlocked). Guess I'll get root and move on. Thanks. Great work here. I've learned a lot browsing these forums. Maybe one day I'll graduate from N00B status!
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Maybe...
J/K!
You've done great, and I am happy to hear you got it up and running. I started out answering before reading your post in full, assuming it wasn;t fixed yet. Left the comments for reference (and fun, or mockery... -- good job, see you around!
same issue
Hi,
I have a same issue. I still was using the original ROM of ASUS. Now JB.
The device was once rooted in ICS, but that was lost when going to JB. And I did not yet try to reroot it. I was running JB already several months.
The device is unlocked, but I did not install a custom boatloader yet.
This week I was working in the car. Using the 3G connection of my phone and shared it via bluetooth to my pad to access my mails.
Suddenly the pad rebooted, and it never got further than the ASUS screen with the spinning wheel.
I can boot in recovery mode (power and V-), but then I cannot use my V+ buttom. I can only select the RCK, but unfortunately, It's not succesful. I first get the android with open lid and the spinning ball, but after a few seconds it changes to the android with the open lid laying on his bag with the red triangle on it. And it stays like this forever.
I cannot seem to enter fastboot mode (power and V+)
any suggenstion? All data can be erased. No problem as long as the tablet is working again.
TeTTiweTTi said:
Hi,
I have a same issue. I still was using the original ROM of ASUS. Now JB.
The device was once rooted in ICS, but that was lost when going to JB. And I did not yet try to reroot it. I was running JB already several months.
The device is unlocked, but I did not install a custom boatloader yet.
This week I was working in the car. Using the 3G connection of my phone and shared it via bluetooth to my pad to access my mails.
Suddenly the pad rebooted, and it never got further than the ASUS screen with the spinning wheel.
I can boot in recovery mode (power and V-), but then I cannot use my V+ buttom. I can only select the RCK, but unfortunately, It's not succesful. I first get the android with open lid and the spinning ball, but after a few seconds it changes to the android with the open lid laying on his bag with the red triangle on it. And it stays like this forever.
I cannot seem to enter fastboot mode (power and V+)
any suggenstion? All data can be erased. No problem as long as the tablet is working again.
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When you hold down vol- and power button to boot into stock recovery, then when you see white text on the screen, let go both buttons, then hitting the Vol down button to move the highlighted to USB icon, can you try that?
Edit: if that's working move the highlighted to the "WIPE" icon, then hit Volume up twice, this will perform factory reset and wipe all your data and reset your device back to factory setup. You will see the Android spinning for awhile then your tablet will reboot and you will have to do the setup again, just like when you just brought the device.
buhohitr said:
When you hold down vol- and power button to boot into stock recovery, then when you see white text on the screen, let go both buttons, then hitting the Vol down button to move the highlighted to USB icon, can you try that?
Edit: if that's working move the highlighted to the "WIPE" icon, then hit Volume up twice, this will perform factory reset and wipe all your data and reset your device back to factory setup. You will see the Android spinning for awhile then your tablet will reboot and you will have to do the setup again, just like when you just brought the device.
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Thanks for your help. I can boot into stock recovery. But I could move to the USB icon or the the Wipe Icon previously. Now I was able to select the Wipe Data Icon and currently I'm at the virgin "Welcome" screen again.
I don't understand why now it's working and previously not. Did I switch the v- and v+ button? If that's the case, I'm even a bigger idiot then I thought :silly:
Anyhow, All well that ends well.
Stuck on spinning wheel as well
sbdags said:
A spinning Asus wheel is always recoverable.
You have some incompatible rom / kernel / bootloader / data combination I suspect. It's easily done.
I'd make sure you are on a more recent version of TWRP - something like 2.3.1.0 or 2.3.3.0 that supports ICS and JB. It's very dangerous leaving such an old version of TWRP if you go to JB.....
Personally I'd update TWRP to 2.3.1.0 and then install the latest JB file from the Asus website to start with.
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Hi sdbags! Thanks for all the work that you have put in to make this rom!
I am stuck on the spinning wheel as well. I installed cromi x last week. The tab was working okay. Very laggy, was very disappointed. I guess I did something wrong? Last night I used lagfix and rebooted. Since then the tablet has been stuck on the spinning wheel stage. I am pretty sure I installed the latest version of TWRP and checked I had the latest bootloader. Can I check these things now? Also if they are outdated how I do I update them if my tablet wont boot up?
Thanks!
TransformingPad said:
Hi sdbags! Thanks for all the work that you have put in to make this rom!
I am stuck on the spinning wheel as well. I installed cromi x last week. The tab was working okay. Very laggy, was very disappointed. I guess I did something wrong? Last night I used lagfix and rebooted. Since then the tablet has been stuck on the spinning wheel stage. I am pretty sure I installed the latest version of TWRP and checked I had the latest bootloader. Can I check these things now? Also if they are outdated how I do I update them if my tablet wont boot up?
Thanks!
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Lagfix takes a good 20 mins to complete, even though it says it has finished after 5. I wonder if you rebooted too early. If you have sync off it can cause corruption on the data partition which might be your issue.
The fix is to format data from the twrp wipe menu and reflash. You will lose Everything on internal so back up in twrp first please.
Sigh - all for naught
stuck on spinning cyan screen
i rooted the tf700t and installed twrp, flash cm 10.2 rc 1, then rebooted and now it is stuck on boot screen. now i find i cant get back to stock recovery or twrp to correct the issue or bootloader. anyway that my tablet isnt totalled?
tcemle said:
i rooted the tf700t and installed twrp, flash cm 10.2 rc 1, then rebooted and now it is stuck on boot screen. now i find i cant get back to stock recovery or twrp to correct the issue or bootloader. anyway that my tablet isnt totalled?
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Why can't you go back? Vol down and power doesn't work?
CM requires you to be on the 10.6.1.14.4+ bootloader first. Also a wipe before installing is mandatory.
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Why can't you go back? Vol down and power doesn't work?
CM requires you to be on the 10.6.1.14.4+ bootloader first. Also a wipe before installing is mandatory.
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i have tried several times to use the vol- and power buttons but it doesnt seem to work. i press them and then i feel like its trying but doesnt go anywhere just stays on the black screen. adb recognizes the tablet but says it is offline because the boot screen is stuck. it usually only took a few seconds for it to go to the fastboot screen but nothing now. any ideas, if i get to the fastboot i can correct the problem.
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i have tried several times to use the vol- and power buttons but it doesnt seem to work. i press them and then i feel like its trying but doesnt go anywhere just stays on the black screen. adb recognizes the tablet but says it is offline because the boot screen is stuck. it usually only took a few seconds for it to go to the fastboot screen but nothing now. any ideas, if i get to the fastboot i can correct the problem.
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Hmm that sounds like apx mode to me. If you didn't save nvflash backups I suspect it has bricked
I just updated to KitKat via this threat: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52214068
I noticed that the tablet was running excessively slow and so I decided to do a Factory Reset from within the tablets Setting. Now it's rebooted and it's sitting at the Android and the spinning thing in it's chest for more than 5 mins. Does it normally take this long?
stuck itwrp 2.7.0.0
Hey guys
Long time reader 1st time asking for help. Had tf700t unlocked, rooted and running cm 10.2.1 with twrp 2.6.3.1. Tried several times to load cm 11 and met only with failure. Read a post to try twrp 2.7.0.0. Loaded twrp 2.7.0.0, via goo, backed up everything and tried to flash cm 11. Tablet stuck in wipe mode for 90 minutes. (didn't even get a chance to load it!) I stopped it and re-started into twrp 2.7.0.0. Tried to recover and got pictured error, basically stating that at the wiping data point - E:Unable to mount '/data'. Tried to flash new rom and get the same thing. I can get into recovery but that is about it..............spock help me
gothamhill said:
Hey guys
Long time reader 1st time asking for help. Had tf700t unlocked, rooted and running cm 10.2.1 with twrp 2.6.3.1. Tried several times to load cm 11 and met only with failure. Read a post to try twrp 2.7.0.0. Loaded twrp 2.7.0.0, via goo, backed up everything and tried to flash cm 11. Tablet stuck in wipe mode for 90 minutes. (didn't even get a chance to load it!) I stopped it and re-started into twrp 2.7.0.0. Tried to recover and got pictured error, basically stating that at the wiping data point - E:Unable to mount '/data'. Tried to flash new rom and get the same thing. I can get into recovery but that is about it..............spock help me
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TWRP 2.7 does take a long time to wipe. You shouldn't have interrupted it. Now you probably have a corrupted data partition and you will have to format it. That will erase all your data, but if the nandroid you made was successful, that should not be a problem.
stolen
berndblb said:
TWRP 2.7 does take a long time to wipe. You shouldn't have interrupted it. Now you probably have a corrupted data partition and you will have to format it. That will erase all your data, but if the nandroid you made was successful, that should not be a problem.
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1st of all thank you, unfortunately the nandroid bu was on a laptop that was stolen. Anything else I can do?

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