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[Q] Help with ClockworkMod 5.5.0.4

Can someone help please? I installed CWM Recovery thru ROM Manager. Rebooted in recovery to back up my ROM and now I can't get out of recovery. Every time I select Reboot System it reboots me into recovery.

Try here (if you can use NVFlash)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1519635&highlight=boot+into+cwm

Like many others, When I saw the thread over in the Dev section about the 5.5.0.4 recovery, I jumped right in and fired up Rom Manager before reading any further in the thread.
Unlike many others, I don't get the same results. My TF101 reboots to the OS with no problem. However trying to reboot to recovery from recovery doesn't work. I have to hold the vol. down button just like a cold boot into recovery.
The only difference might be, that I had stock recovery prior to installing 5.5.0.4, due to having to recover from another soft brick condition after trying to install the CM9 Nightly that is now available over on the official Clockworkmod site. That one had failed miserably for my device.
Good luck with solving your problems with the new recovery. Wish I could explain exactly why mine seemed to work as advertised when most others didn't. But I don't know.
I do have the problem with the Removable MicroSD not being visible. Only the built in "Fake" SD Card.
Update:
I now have the reboot into recovery problem. I used the wipe data option from the VOL DWN/PWR button start up, and now have that annoying boots into recovery problem like everyone else. I hope that and the SD card problem gets fixed in the next version.

Thanks, got everything back to normal with NVFlash method I found by watching this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VMHXeYMgPy4
Lesson learned!! :/

Curious where the thread in the Dev section went to, I cant find it this morning...
Unfortunately, some of us cannot use NVFLash to fix this problem.
So, is it too much to ask that the Dev who wrote Rom Manager and CWM actually look in to this for us?
I too installed the newer CWM through Rom Manager and need to cold boot to get in to the OS otherwise it recovery boot loops.

sandiegopaneraiguy said:
Curious where the thread in the Dev section went to, I cant find it this morning...
Unfortunately, some of us cannot use NVFLash to fix this problem.
So, is it too much to ask that the Dev who wrote Rom Manager and CWM actually look in to this for us?
I too installed the newer CWM through Rom Manager and need to cold boot to get in to the OS otherwise it recovery boot loops.
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Thread was closed. I was on it this morning and wanted to post a reply saying NV Flash work for me and I couldn't because it said the thread was closed.
I read the whole thing and apart from NV Flashing the was no other solution
How do you know you can't NVFlash?

yea , this morning the thread in the Dev section went to general , and now closed.
Perhaps we should follow this until everything is clarified.
the nvflash only work for b60 and some b70 tablets , most of b70 and b80 cant be flashed with this tool

I'm working on something to fix this, but I still need a little more testing.

gee one said:
I'm working on something to fix this, but I still need a little more testing.
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ok, then waiting
any clue where to attack the problem?

Some people reported the new recovery worked when flashed over stock recovery.

any help you can supply on this would be greatly appreciated. it's very uncomfortable not being able to count on your recovery.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

robb13 said:
Some people reported the new recovery worked when flashed over stock recovery.
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too late for us

I was up until 1am following the thread and posting my process, specs.
I am even more curious as to how the thread which was still pretty calm turned in to something that deserved being deleted.
In any event, I think we all understand that what we do is at our own risk. But CWM and Rom Manager have been the gold standard of reliability for quite some time. Once something is a trusted means by which to do something its even more disappointing to see that it no longer works.

the first post was moved because it was not exactly a development post
then, in the general section, I do not know why it closed, there is no explanation

so if microsd is not recognized, i can install rom from internal, right?

gandda12 said:
so if microsd is not recognized, i can install rom from internal, right?
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Install what??
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

yeah, check out the troubleshooting thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530337

Asus tf300t(g) boot loop and stuck in TWRP wont mount, not recognized. - briked

Hello
I have an asus tf300tg and I did update to 4.2.1 JB. bootloader was unlocked before the update. Tablets started ok then I put TWRP 2.5.0 but it seemed like something was not working well because I could not see external sd card when I tried to give you wipe from TWRP, but said faild. I rebooted the tablet I entered fastboot and in this mode shows, three icons. RTK, android, and wipe again. And naturally I did wipe once, then never turned on.
Now bootloader is unlocked and starts straight into TWRP.
At first my pc (win7 64bit) Recognize that "transformes" then I searched and found "Naked drivers 0.72" in the idea of ​​connecting the tablet in fastboot and write something-anything but I DON'T HAVE SUCCES.
I installed in various ways (asus adb, google adb) of naked driver but I could not communicate via fastboot. Maybe I don't chose the right way
Does anyone else have a procedure that can be repaired?
And that since the corect connection mode that allows me to write on tablet via fastboot ?
I saw that the problem occurs in many places and forums (like here: http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/97 Note the comments) but I dont found a solutions.
BR
Mihnea
I wait with many interes your sugestions.

Sorry to say but you should have read a little more about what you were doing. It CLEARLY says over and over and in this forum NOT to use THAT wipe option.
You've just wiped all the files from your device. There are now no files to boot from.
If you can get into fastboot or ADB you may have a chance of saving your tablet. There's a very good chance that you've just bricked it though. Best of luck.
Sent from my LG-LG855 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2

wetbiker7 said:
Sorry to say but you should have read a little more about what you were doing. It CLEARLY says over and over and in this forum NOT to use THAT wipe option.
You've just wiped all the files from your device. There are now no files to boot from.
If you can get into fastboot or ADB you may have a chance of saving your tablet. There's a very good chance that you've just bricked it though. Best of luck.
Sent from my LG-LG855 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
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I dont understand ... WHY is happend that ? TWRP is sucks because I thing that soft dont have safety belt... ??? Because before to upgrate I do wipe and all was very ok .... or other is cause? I think that Asus dont put this obtion ... that people damage our tablets...
I think that good answer must be come from twrp team ???

I had also wiped my device and would have been stuck had I not had nvflash...please guys take all possible precautions before you start messing around with your devices and ensure you can go back and flash a stock ROM...now all I do is get into APX mode, fire up wheelie.exe and I unbrick my device. Did you nvflash your device before? If you can get into fastboot mode there may be some hope yet...
This is a good place to start: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1579
If all else fails, please PM me...

mihnea_gsm said:
I dont understand ... WHY is happend that ? TWRP is sucks because I thing that soft dont have safety belt... ??? Because before to upgrate I do wipe and all was very ok .... or other is cause? I think that Asus dont put this obtion ... that people damage our tablets...
I think that good answer must be come from twrp team ???
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Dude, you really didn't even get into TWRP recovery. If you would have tapped the RCK tab you would have went into TWRP. Don't go blaming it on TWRP because you failed to do your homework. I know there are probably 10 threads where people have done the same thing and tapped the wrong WIPE tab. If I can find and read them then so can you. You just failed to do so.
It really sux that you've messed your tablet up but when you've got a device that costs that much, you are supposed to do your research before trying something you know nothing about. I read through this forum for over a week before I bought and rooted mine because I wanted to make sure I knew what i was doing and didn't end up with a $300 paperweight. If I didn't know or couldn't find the answer I asked questions. :good:

wetbiker7 said:
Dude, you really didn't even get into TWRP recovery. If you would have tapped the RCK tab you would have went into TWRP. Don't go blaming it on TWRP because you failed to do your homework. I know there are probably 10 threads where people have done the same thing and tapped the wrong WIPE tab. If I can find and read them then so can you. You just failed to do so.
It really sux that you've messed your tablet up but when you've got a device that costs that much, you are supposed to do your research before trying something you know nothing about. I read through this forum for over a week before I bought and rooted mine because I wanted to make sure I knew what i was doing and didn't end up with a $300 paperweight. If I didn't know or couldn't find the answer I asked questions. :good:
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Man no longer take ptr defense that I think you're wrong ...
Look .. when I got the asus app to unlock bootloader it says clearly: If using application note is lost ... guarantee ...
But here in this case I have taken away from the site fisirele .. and nothing in there that you do not press WIPE button
* That's what ... ok there is a software bug and it's understandable ... waiting to see how to solve ...
And another thing ... I have a GSM service ... so I pass many phones and tablets by hand and install a lot and CWM and TWRP and it is the first time that happens ... so do not need me to tell me that I have not done my homework.
Then I recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab that anything is much simpler and solutions are at hand ... including bootloder destroyed ... then we rewrite bootloder JTAG on the tablet and tablet repair in 1 hour .. simple as that.
Today I gave mail to all those who produce JTAG interfaces (riff jtag, meduse jtag, vulcanobox, easy jtag) to see if anyone has any solutions for NVIDIA Tegra3 jtag, although I do not think ... but if I stick to appear instant boot tablet and restore bootloader, but many people don't have this interfeces...
BR
Mihnea

wetbiker7 said:
Dude, you really didn't even get into TWRP recovery. If you would have tapped the RCK tab you would have went into TWRP. Don't go blaming it on TWRP because you failed to do your homework. I know there are probably 10 threads where people have done the same thing and tapped the wrong WIPE tab. If I can find and read them then so can you. You just failed to do so.
It really sux that you've messed your tablet up but when you've got a device that costs that much, you are supposed to do your research before trying something you know nothing about. I read through this forum for over a week before I bought and rooted mine because I wanted to make sure I knew what i was doing and didn't end up with a $300 paperweight. If I didn't know or couldn't find the answer I asked questions. :good:
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I've also read those warnings, but if bootloader's wipe is safe with stock recovery and bricks tablet with TWRP flashed, then there is clearly something wrong with TWRP.

mihnea_gsm said:
Man no longer take ptr defense that I think you're wrong ...
Look .. when I got the asus app to unlock bootloader it says clearly: If using application note is lost ... guarantee ...
But here in this case I have taken away from the site fisirele .. and nothing in there that you do not press WIPE button
* That's what ... ok there is a software bug and it's understandable ... waiting to see how to solve ...
And another thing ... I have a GSM service ... so I pass many phones and tablets by hand and install a lot and CWM and TWRP and it is the first time that happens ... so do not need me to tell me that I have not done my homework.
Then I recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab that anything is much simpler and solutions are at hand ... including bootloder destroyed ... then we rewrite bootloder JTAG on the tablet and tablet repair in 1 hour .. simple as that.
Today I gave mail to all those who produce JTAG interfaces (riff jtag, meduse jtag, vulcanobox, easy jtag) to see if anyone has any solutions for NVIDIA Tegra3 jtag, although I do not think ... but if I stick to appear instant boot tablet and restore bootloader, but many people don't have this interfeces...
BR
Mihnea
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Man, if you would have read , you would have known not to use the wipe tab. As I said before, there are threads all over the place in here stating NOT TO USE THAT WIPE OPTION. You may have done SOME research but you didn't do enough on THIS tablet. The research on all the other devices you know about doesn't count. LOL It's TF300 series we're talking about.
Oh, and you said for me not to take offense because I think you're wrong. Bro, I don't take offense because you disagree with me. I'm just trying to get you to man up and admit that you made the mistake and didn't do enough reading. LOL
quidrick said:
I've also read those warnings, but if bootloader's wipe is safe with stock recovery and bricks tablet with TWRP flashed, then there is clearly something wrong with TWRP.
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Well, let me ask you a question. Why would you want to wipe the tablet anyways when it's not in recovery? You MUST press RCK to enter the recovery. The wipe option you guys are talking about is not even a part of TWRP recovery.

Moe5508 said:
I had also wiped my device and would have been stuck had I not had nvflash...please guys take all possible precautions before you start messing around with your devices and ensure you can go back and flash a stock ROM...now all I do is get into APX mode, fire up wheelie.exe and I unbrick my device. Did you nvflash your device before? If you can get into fastboot mode there may be some hope yet...
This is a good place to start: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1579
If all else fails, please PM me...
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in this moment I am in this point:
in this point adb recognized my tablet
C:\adb>adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF recovery
but after I want to flash blob
C:\adb>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
< waiting for device >
BR
Mihnea

Well, let me ask you a question. Why would you want to wipe the tablet anyways when it's not in recovery? You MUST press RCK to enter the recovery. The wipe option you guys are talking about is not even a part of TWRP recovery.
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a) Because it's official method to do factory reset, recommended by ASUS when you have problems with your tablet. It is working perfectly fine on stock recovery and some users are used to do this that way.
b) Because it's quite easy to do this by mistake, when you are trying to enter recovery. Please, give me fast and honest answer without checking - which button changes option, and which enters selected option?
My tablet is perfectly fine, running TWRP and custom ROM, but someone has to defend users who used wipe data.
Unless we hear sensible explanation from one of TWRP developers why this option is working fine on stock recovery and is bricking tablets on TWRP, and why it can't work correctly (or at least safe) on custom recovery, then it should be treated as a custom recovery bug.

quidrick said:
a) Because it's official method to do factory reset, recommended by ASUS when you have problems with your tablet. It is working perfectly fine on stock recovery and some users are used to do this that way.
b) Because it's quite easy to do this by mistake, when you are trying to enter recovery. Please, give me fast and honest answer without checking - which button changes option, and which enters selected option?
My tablet is perfectly fine, running TWRP and custom ROM, but someone has to defend users who used wipe data.
Unless we hear sensible explanation from one of TWRP developers why this option is working fine on stock recovery and is bricking tablets on TWRP, and why it can't work correctly (or at least safe) on custom recovery, then it should be treated as a custom recovery bug.
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Man you are right 100% wipe buton from asus MUST BE - wipe data from recovery (twrp) but I thing that twrp team is not agree with us...
Most important for me in this moment like other people I want to make table tablet alive....
BR
Mihnea

quidrick said:
a) Because it's official method to do factory reset, recommended by ASUS when you have problems with your tablet. It is working perfectly fine on stock recovery and some users are used to do this that way.
b) Because it's quite easy to do this by mistake, when you are trying to enter recovery. Please, give me fast and honest answer without checking - which button changes option, and which enters selected option?
My tablet is perfectly fine, running TWRP and custom ROM, but someone has to defend users who used wipe data.
Unless we hear sensible explanation from one of TWRP developers why this option is working fine on stock recovery and is bricking tablets on TWRP, and why it can't work correctly (or at least safe) on custom recovery, then it should be treated as a custom recovery bug.
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You guys aren't getting my point at all. I'm not saying that the wipe data option screwing people's tablets up is right. All I'm saying is that the info is here in this forum saying not to do it. Lol If the time is taken to read the info in these threads we wouldn't even have this thread. :thumbup:
If myself and all the other people have been able to find this information and avoid tapping the wrong wipe data option then so should other people. THAT IS MY POINT.
Sent from my LG-LG855 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2

At this point it really does not matter who is and who is not, right ... matter to be able to start and run ok tablets ...
So I expect all of which can give you an idea
BR
Mihnea

This is a question for developers more familiar with our partition layout. My working knowledge of android is limited, but I do have background in linux. If he can see his device under ADB, shouldnt it be possible for someone to do an adb pull of their system, data, bootloader, and recovery partitions for him to push to his?
The only reason I could think of that not working is if the wipe option deletes the entire partition table and they need to be repartitioned from scratch. Its either that or the Bootloader partition is getting wiped instead of the Data partition. Just bouncing ideas in my head here. It was on a kyocera zio and on gingerbread, but this was one way I was able to help restore a device.
NVflash seems capable of repartitioning the drive........ Does adb have commands to set up partitions as well?
One would also think odin should be able to help with repartitioning. There has to be a way.
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Ok so if you DO have fastboot, you might be able to recover. Read this post !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236885

Something new...
We all know that in the above case is bricked tablet that starts directly in TWRP ... even if we start trying to po fastboot (volume down + power) it will start directly in TWRP
Now to answer adb shell like this:
c: \ Adb> adb devices
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF recovery
But if I try to send something to it (like a touchscreen driver) see the answer and receives information
c: \ Adb> adb push 02-3011-4820.ekt / data / local / tmp /
* Daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* Successfully started daemon *
1027 KB / s (32868 bytes in 0.031s)
In other words we can send information in tablets briked .. I think now matter what name send.
I have here 2 tablets bricked (tf300tg and TF300T) and 3 functional TF300T tablet (but with broken touchscreen). The point is that I do not know what commands to send, and how to pull information from functional and tablets to the tablets who have problem
Now comes my question logic ... We can not copy anything from a 100% functional tablet and send this information to a tablet briked?? Can only boot, or recovery?

mihnea_gsm said:
in this moment I am in this point:
in this point adb recognized my tablet
C:\adb>adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF recovery
but after I want to flash blob
C:\adb>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
< waiting for device >
BR
Mihnea
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Have the same problem...
fastboot stock at < waiting for device >
my device boot/reboot or power on without any touch....always boot into recovery twrp ( but can´t mount and do nothing)
Any help?

Boot your tablets up into the selection screen where you can select to wipe data, fastboot, recovery or load OS. If you have updated your bootloader and firmware to 4.2 then the fastboot option disappears and now you are already in fastboot mode when when you load the selection screen. All you will need to do is plug the USB cable into your tablet and your computer will recognize this and load the ADB interface. Btw if your having problems with TWRP 2.5, simply flash back to 2.4.4.0.. which is exactly what I did.
I updated my bootloader and firmware to 4.2 ASUS stock and then flashed TWRP 2.5... I was having issues such as split screen, coudn't mount anything and when I loaded into recovery I was asked for password. I simply flashed back 2.4.4.0 JB TWRP.
I was back to normal.

anaschillin said:
I updated my bootloader and firmware to 4.2 ASUS stock and then flashed TWRP 2.5... I was having issues such as split screen, coudn't mount anything and when I loaded into recovery I was asked for password. I simply flashed back 2.4.4.0 JB TWRP.
I was back to normal.
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No - I think this part is wrong. Do not use JB version of TWRP with bootloader version 4.2. You must use TWRP version ending in -4.2.

bwiberg said:
No - I think this part is wrong. Do not use JB version of TWRP with bootloader version 4.2. You must use TWRP version ending in -4.2.
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OK .. to start over ... I had Asus tf 300TG firmware version 4.1.1 and I did the OTA update to 4.2.1. After that I put some revovery TWRP 2.5.0.0 (most probably was not what I had) and broke the tablet.
Now my tablet is in this variant:
C: \ adb> adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing ...
* Successfully started daemon *
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF recovery
But after I want to flash blob
C: \ adb> fastboot flash system's 0x0B05 blob
<Waiting for device>
You say that I should write: openrecovery-TWRP-2.5.0.0-TF300T tablet-4.2.blob as did the OTA update to 4.2.1 right?
* But in this moment I realize WHY I broke the tablet ... because I wrote this file: openrecovery-TWRP-2.5.0.0-tf300tg-JB.blob ...
Why I wrote this? because if you look here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/tf300t he write: If you have the 4.2 official update, choose one of the files that ends with -4.2. If you choose the wrong file you may brick your tablet.
* THIS FILE NOT EXSIT: openrecovery no-TWRP-2.5.0.0-tf300tg-4.2.blob .....exist only for tf300t not for tf 300tg
I write a post at twrp blog : http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/97
* Now see another file: openrecovery-TWRP-2.5.0.0-TF300T-JB.img .... what to do with this file?
OK and now...
What should I do? which file should I write?
And how (mode - fastboot, apx ???) should be the tablet to write the file?
And who would command if the tablet would be in that mode (fastboot, apx)
BR
MIHNEA

quidrick said:
a) Because it's official method to do factory reset, recommended by ASUS when you have problems with your tablet. It is working perfectly fine on stock recovery and some users are used to do this that way.
b) Because it's quite easy to do this by mistake, when you are trying to enter recovery. Please, give me fast and honest answer without checking - which button changes option, and which enters selected option?
My tablet is perfectly fine, running TWRP and custom ROM, but someone has to defend users who used wipe data.
Unless we hear sensible explanation from one of TWRP developers why this option is working fine on stock recovery and is bricking tablets on TWRP, and why it can't work correctly (or at least safe) on custom recovery, then it should be treated as a custom recovery bug.
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I have nothing to do with twrp and certainly am no dev.
What I do know is the partition for recovery is a limited space and there is not enough room to emulate stock recovery and still have enough space to provide for the way we use twrp.
The "factory reset" recommended by Asus is located in settings. This is "wipe data" located in the bootloader. I have not heard or read of Asus suggesting use of wipe data but I have seen factory reset.
Now I don't believe in flaming anyone!
Explaining a mistake is positive, it helps the user know what not to do in the future but only if presented properly.
I'm sure the reply came from frustration of wanting to help but understanding that recoveries from wipe data are few.
No one wants to see a brick!
Sorry for taking space without providing any help for the OP!
If anyone has any suggestions for the OP please present them.
I was so slow posting I see help has arrived.

[Q] Stuck booting

Hello, my name is Shagington
I have been slowly unlocking the potential of my tf700t, yet I have come to a point where I am stuck loading the android OS. The problem started when I installed xposed to gain the ability to modify the permission of apps. Now it just sits with the loading circle spinning around and 'round. I tried wiping from the bootloader yet the same thing happens. While looking into the bootloader more, I found twrp installed after what I thought were many failed attempts. I tried a wipe from that as well and the same thing happens. I was thinking about just flashing a stock (rooted) rom with twrp but I am afraid of getting into a worse spot than I already am in, any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Shag

You need to post your bootloader version (read the tiny script when you boot with Power and Volume Down) and your recovery version.
That will determine what you can flash or what type of repair you can try.
Do you have fastboot and adb setup on your PC?
Check if you have a fastboot connection when booted into the bootloader and adb when booted into recovery.
See if you can capture a logcat of the boot process in adb.
Then report back.
Whatever you do, do not use the Wipe Data option from the bootloader!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the quick reply berndblb, it seems im on build us 10.6.1.14.8-20130514. I just reformatted my pc to windows 10 tech preview so im not quite sure how that will work with adb but I will give it a go tomorrow. Will any custom rom work with the current build i have?
Thanks again, Shagington (Newbington)

shagington said:
Thank you for the quick reply berndblb, it seems im on build us 10.6.1.14.8-20130514. I just reformatted my pc to windows 10 tech preview so im not quite sure how that will work with adb but I will give it a go tomorrow. Will any custom rom work with the current build i have?
Thanks again, Shagington (Newbington)
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Yes, there are. You are one version behind to the latest (and last) bootloader 10.6.1.14.10. Might be a good idea to update to the latest while you're at it...
Which recovery and version thereof did you flash?
Once we are sure that you have compatible software installed you can flash a bootloader/TWRP package to get you up to date, but let's resolve your current pickle first.

berndblb said:
Yes, there are. You are one version behind to the latest (and last) bootloader 10.6.1.14.10. Might be a good idea to update to the latest while you're at it...
Which recovery and version thereof did you flash?
Once we are sure that you have compatible software installed you can flash a bootloader/TWRP package to get you up to date, but let's resolve your current pickle first.
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Thanks again for responding good sir, I am on twrp 2.8.5.0, which still loads just fine.
-shagington

When you install xposed it puts an emergency uninstall zip on the internal sdcard partition. Try flashing that from twrp to reverse it out.
Be careful with xposed it can sofbrick easily as you have found out.

shagington said:
I just reformatted my pc to windows 10 tech preview so im not quite sure how that will work with adb
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I tried the first Win10 preview, and I just had to connect the tablet and run adb.exe - it worked fine with the automatically installed drivers.

Thanks for the replies guys, I couldnt find any zips on my internal, I looked through almost every folder. After looking through the adb tutorials, it is a little to intimidating for me. Kinda sad, I was under the impression that now I have twrp I could just throw some other rom on quickly or even a download a backup from someone else with the same versions to recover and be done with it. I think im just going to leave it soft bricked for a while and use my nexus 7 for now. Appreciate the help guys, it's just a little over my head.
-Shag

First time flasher. Help needed. TF300TG

So my aging TF300TG is so slow, that i was gonna discard it for new hardware. As a last ditch effort i searched for a solution and found this forum.
But the more i read about flashing, the more worried i became. That's why i could use some help.
I have read the Beginners Guide and i've unlocked the bootloader (says "Bootloader is Unlocked" on reboot) and i've confirmed ADB and fastboot are working, by using "fastboot devices"
The next step is flashing a recovery. This is where i got scared. Posts like this warn that flashing the wrong recovery is disastrous and will likely brink my device. Also i can't seem to find a recovery that was made for the TF300TG, and i don't know if a TF300T variant will work or not. So please help me locate the best recovery.
I've read about NvFlash Flatline. What is this and should i do this before flashing recovery ? how does this prevent me from ever getting bricked ?
Some INFO that might help you. Please ask if more is needed.
I plan on using KatKiss - KatshMallow
Bootloader says "WW_epad-10.6.2.11-20131213" A03
Tablet is a TF300TG with stock android version 4.2.1 Jelly Bean
Thank you for taking the time to read, and hopefully respond to this post. I really would prefer to get it right the first time.

Took the plunge and just tried stuff without knowing if it would work, but it did. I now have a TF300TG, working as a TF300T running marshmallow.
I flashed
Code:
twrp_tf300t_kang_2.8.7.2.img
using fastboot and then followed the install instructions in KatKiss - KatshMallow post and it all worked like a charm.
Was a bit worried when formatting /DATA took 30 mins, but besides that the tablet is very fast and i've had no problems at all.

Thanks for posting this. I have a TF300TG too but never really used the mobile data capability and as a device it just never has been that useful for me, seemed good at the time I bought it . I have been looking at other options of installing linux etc but all project I could find are incomplete and dead. I thought I might be resigned to getting another device, so I was very pleased to see what you had done and have followed your lead. I am very happy with the Katkiss 6.0 ROM, it performs much better that the old Jellybean system, and using the Microsoft office apps I have everything I need to get useful jobs done easily.
Good job Brian & the KATKISS team, much appreciated!

Edit: useless post
Glad everything worked

Updating advice please ! Reroot failure

Hi everybody ! Ill try to keep it simple as I'm sure its covered somewhere but here goes ....
Ive been using my shield portable, rooted, for ages now no problems.
Like many Ive updated it in short ever since nothing whatsoever has worked properly , most annoyingly the screen doing backflips when you go near it and hundreds endless strange updates when rebooting.
Anyway I don't think you or I or any of us want to waste time trying to figure out why its done any of this but I just want to be able to fix it. I guess I'm going to have to start again somehow! its worth noting here that all my backup apps like Helium now don't seem to work.
After the update I of course ReRooted and it appears fine from boot loader , still says unlocked. but upon usage its clearly very confused about whether its rooted or not !
In short its useless. Advice please My kung Fu warriors
May your arrows fly straight and true

I have no idea about the various issues, but I would perform a factory reset, and clear cache and dalvik cache using at least 3 swipes per each function. The method of rooting I recommend is by flashing a zip of SuperSU from a custom recovery menu. CWM or TWRP are both available for the NSP. After flashing SuperSU, when you reboot and go into SuperSu you'll see that it's installed (locked down tighter) as a system app.
Downloads:
SuperSU (latest stable version) v2.65
CWM Recovery Menu (latest version) v6.0.4.4
TWRP (Modified recovery (based on TWRP v2.8.7.0)
Sorry. This is the best I can offer you right now. If this doesn't work I would reflash the stock images of whatever OTA you wanna be on. The images can be found @:
SHIELD Open Source Resources and Drivers. You'll need at least the platform-tools portion of the Android SDK (to use Fastboot to flash from recovery). A user friendly PC app that can basically do all this sort of stuff is Shield Ram v1.1. You might find that easier to use.
Oh and here's the latest Minimal ADB and Fastboot Drivers installer [v1.3.1]
If you need further help, let me know.

Hi ! Thanks for the good advice.
I should have mentioned, I'm using a Mac now.
From what I understand it's still possible , maybe
Even easier.....
Sorry to throw a spanner in your super helpful works !
Thanks again

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Marrhead said:
Hi ! Thanks for the good advice.
I should have mentioned, I'm using a Mac now.
From what I understand it's still possible , maybe
Even easier.....
Sorry to throw a spanner in your super helpful works !
Thanks again
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Yeah, pretty much the rule is generally "as long as you can still see the screen, it's probably fixable". Sounds to me like your best bet, would be to download the OTA you wanna be on, and flash a new install to your Shield. It's the quickest way from A-B. I'm about 99% sure that this would solve the problem (as long as you re-root it properly). Though if you have your reasons, you can try some of the other things first. You're welcome and let me know how things go!

So where does one get the latest OTA?
cheers

Marrhead said:
So where does one get the latest OTA?
cheers
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I did link up the main Nvidia page that would lead to the OTA images, but here's a direct link to DL just the OTAs:
Edit: you can get there through the link I included in my previous post: SHIELD Open Source Resources and Drivers. I'm having issues with editing posts, and all sorts of odd **** with the link trying to post a more direct link. It's an Nvidia site, just scroll down to Shield Portable Recovery OS Images (something like that).
Unfortunately there are only Linux and Windows downloads available. I'm not sure what your best option would be, as you have a Mac. You could contact Nvidia support, and see what they say about it. Sorry, but I don't think I can probably help much more than this.When I contacted Nvidia support about a year ago, they were pretty helpful. Hopefully you get this sorted soon. Oh and the OTAs are flashed via a terminal/command prompt. So if you can emulate DOS on your Mac (which I don't see why not...DOSbox? maybe) then that sounds to me like the solution.

Ok , hit another brick wall. Im using a windows computer now, followed all the instructions i can find, and now the bootloader seems dysfunctional.
Ive got adb and fastboot and its recognising the device but once rebooted into bootloader which loads fine, the commands say no device found and nothing works in this mode.
If i hit recovery mode then a little dead android appears! poor little guy.
I tried shield ram but it had same problems, seems to run fine but cant find shield once its in bootloader...
Ive got the image zip of the update i want to flash but no idea if im doing it right- not sure how to use it.
Help!