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Manual JB update. Soft-bricked my TF300T?

Hi ppl!
First, my device failed to get the OTA Update because I deleted some system apps (see my original post).
Then I found this post where another user restored original APKs in /system/apps and managed to manually update to JB by downloading the dlpkgfile in this post.
So I proceed, restored my /system/apps (with 755 permissions), rooted with OTA RootKeeper and SuperSU, placed the dlpkgfile and command files, restarted to fastboot (Power+Vol Down) and entered Recovery mode.
The green android with the blue progress bar went for over 10 minutes, then ... the android with the RED TRIANGLE appeared
After a minute or so the device restarted, an ASUS logo with a blue progress bar ran, but then it got stuck in the ASUS logo.
I'm still able to restart to fastboot (Power+Vol Down), where a message appears:
Code:
Android cardhu-user bootloader (1.00 e) released by "US_epad-10.4.2.9-20120809" A03
, and where I have 4 choices:
1. RCK: Recovery mode, when I select this the Red Triangle appears again.
2. Android: Normal android boot, gets freeze right away
3. Fastboot USB download protocol: Tried using ADB, but don't really know what it is. Here's an image of how the device appear in my Windows PC
4. Wipe Data: Already done this, seems to wipe user data, but still gets stuck on ASUS logo
Some pictures I took of my device: http://imgur.com/I13ou http://imgur.com/Jezpn
I also tried downloading .30 firmware from ASUS website and placing the Zip contents in my SD card, then booting recovery but no luck.
It's pretty awful that everything went so bad, I'm hoping there is a solution.
Anything would be really appreciated!!!
Thanks!

benoror said:
Hi ppl!
First, my device failed to get the OTA Update because I deleted some system apps (see my original post).
Then I found this post where another user restored original APKs in /system/apps and managed to manually update to JB by downloading the dlpkgfile in this post.
So I proceed, restored my /system/apps (with 755 permissions), rooted with OTA RootKeeper and SuperSU, placed the dlpkgfile and command files, restarted to fastboot (Power+Vol Down) and entered Recovery mode.
The green android with the blue progress bar went for over 10 minutes, then ... the android with the RED TRIANGLE appeared
After a minute or so the device restarted, an ASUS logo with a blue progress bar ran, but then it got stuck in the ASUS logo.
I'm still able to restart to fastboot (Power+Vol Down), where a message appears:
Code:
Android cardhu-user bootloader (1.00 e) released by "US_epad-10.4.2.9-20120809" A03
, and where I have 4 choices:
1. RCK: Recovery mode, when I select this the Red Triangle appears again.
2. Android: Normal android boot, gets freeze right away
3. Fastboot USB download protocol: Tried using ADB, but don't really know what it is. Here's an image of how the device appear in my Windows PC
4. Wipe Data: Already done this, seems to wipe user data, but still gets stuck on ASUS logo
Some pictures I took of my device: http://imgur.com/I13ou http://imgur.com/Jezpn
I also tried downloading .30 firmware from ASUS website and placing the Zip contents in my SD card, then booting recovery but no luck.
It's pretty awful that everything went so bad, I'm hoping there is a solution.
Anything would be really appreciated!!!
Thanks!
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You don't have a recovery to boot into
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OK, I found this tutorial about flashing ASUS firmware with fastboot: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-restore-asus-transformer-tf300t-back-to-stock/
The problem is that the following commands:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system US_epad-user-9.4.3.30.zip
both produce the error: "Signature mismatch"
I guess it's becaus my fastboot is newer version, since it was actually installed during the JB update, but I'm trying to flash a older .30 firmware.
I gues I will have to wait ASUS releases the new firmware for manual flashing it.
Just guessing...

benoror said:
OK, I found this tutorial about flashing ASUS firmware with fastboot: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-restore-asus-transformer-tf300t-back-to-stock/
The problem is that the following commands:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system US_epad-user-9.4.3.30.zip
both produce the error: "Signature mismatch"
I guess it's becaus my fastboot is newer version, since it was actually installed during the JB update, but I'm trying to flash a older .30 firmware.
I gues I will have to wait ASUS releases the new firmware for manual flashing it.
Just guessing...
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Thank you for posting this. I wanted to try something like this with the new boot loader that came with jb but it appears flashing the older firmware will not work.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app

funnel71 said:
Thank you for posting this. I wanted to try something like this with the new boot loader that came with jb but it appears flashing the older firmware will not work.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app
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You're welcome. So, do you have a clue on how to restore my older bootloader soy I can get back to .30 stock?

benoror said:
You're welcome. So, do you have a clue on how to restore my older bootloader soy I can get back to .30 stock?
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That is exactly what I'm wanting to know if it's even possible. If I can safely downgrade, I can re-root, but I'm limited on what I can do with a locked bootloader.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app

peopole!!! new firmware is out!!!
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/TF300T/US_epaduser_10_4_2_9_UpdateLauncher.zip
here is a direct download link!!! US version only!!!
PS: im pushing using
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
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[blob extracted from the above zip]
okay asus animated boot is up and i seem to successfully unbrick my device!!!!
Screens http://imgur.com/a/D7wqI

kindrudekid said:
peopole!!! new firmware is out!!!
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/TF300T/US_epaduser_10_4_2_9_UpdateLauncher.zip
here is a direct download link!!! US version only!!!
PS: im pushing using
[blob extracted from the above zip]
okay asus animated boot is up and i seem to successfully unbrick my device!!!!
Screens http://imgur.com/a/D7wqI
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I don't know you mate..
But I'm so happy for you!! Glad everything worked out well! Cheers!!

Same Here!!!
Flashing the new ASUS firmware unbricked my device!!!!
Please mark this topic as SOLVED
ASUS should really make this process easier.
Thanks for all the support!
Greetings.

soft bricked?
I dont see how this is solved......I have seen some people comment they have no fastboot or recovery,
I tried to do manual update in cwm and when I rebooted with adb all I have is asus boot logo, it also does not say I have an unlocked bootloader,
I have no fastboot no recovery no adb connect all I have is asus boot logo.......volume+-power does nothing vol down + power also does nothing.
how do you flash new firmware without adb or any type of recovery?

uelabs said:
I dont see how this is solved......I have seen some people comment they have no fastboot or recovery,
I tried to do manual update in cwm and when I rebooted with adb all I have is asus boot logo, it also does not say I have an unlocked bootloader,
I have no fastboot no recovery no adb connect all I have is asus boot logo.......volume+-power does nothing vol down + power also does nothing.
how do you flash new firmware without adb or any type of recovery?
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I have the same problem!!
please need help on this!!

AFAIK you should still have access to fastboot, I'm newbie and never messed up by unlocking the bootloader

It worked!
Thank you so much! I had this same problem with mine and couldn't find an answer anywhere until I found your post.

hmm, I lost my tablet for nearly a month then updated CM10 when prompted having connected to my new wireless. This of course (since the Oct update) put the ROM out of kilter with the bootloader. I didn't have an old ROM on the SDCARD, and old CWM so I couldn't mount an external to get a rom on. I tried pushing a rom to the SD with adb but the drivers weren't going in right and I just couldn't get any joy. I followed this thread to fastboot the current stock JB on in the hope that it would give me a fresh start but it's hanging now at the second (glossy) ASUS logo. I really don't know where to go from here. Is it possible there was a problem with the write?

erasing the memory from the boot menu worked!

biscuits said:
erasing the memory from the boot menu worked!
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Can you tell me how you erased memory from boot menu - or maybe i understand this in different way.
I have only bootloop and it boots to CWM where i cannot mount any SD card - not internal not external.
Also Vol down + power doesnt work - there is no option to enter fastboot mode....device just bootloops and then enters CWM...
Tried to push through adb but there is no SD card to copy files. Tried different methods but cannot mount any storage...
Thanks JB update

kindrudekid said:
peopole!!! new firmware is out!!!
here is a direct download link!!! US version only!!!
PS: im pushing using
[blob extracted from the above zip]
okay asus animated boot is up and i seem to successfully unbrick my device!!!!
My fastboot is working but it seems that i cannot write anything on my internal sd card.. When i run fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
My PC shows no erros - it does all the steps. But my tablet freezes and that it - it never unfreezes, i need to power it off.
But fastboot and abd commands work - like reboot or boot into bootloader.
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[Q] Please help - ASUS Transformer Infinity TF700 Brick

Hi there so, I received my ASUS Transformer Infinity yesterday and I managed to root and unlock successfully. However, after downloading ROM Manager I stupidly clicked flash CWRM it did it's thing and I thought, well, it was successful so let's try and boot into it to flash a custom ROM I had downloaded. From ROM Manager no dice, tried getting into recovery manually and it worked. However, it was clearly stock recovery. New to Android slates I clicked the volume buttons a couple times to try and see how to move the cursor... this of course wiped my device. At this point, I was pretty sure I was done for, after this completed I rebooted again and low and behold cannot get into the device on normal boot. Tried rebooting, nothing. Tried the keyboard dock, same deal. Stuck on ASUS screen and I never get the spinning wheel. Tried to get back in recovery and I get stuck at loading recovery kernel image. BRICK. The only thing I can do is get into APX recovery but as I understand there is no use for this mode yet on the TF700? Please help! My last option is to RMA to Newegg, if I do this what should I say? I feel being honest is the only way to grantee a repair. How much would this cost out of warranty?

GRIM1337 said:
Hi there so, I received my ASUS Transformer Infinity yesterday and I managed to root and unlock successfully. However, after downloading ROM Manager I stupidly clicked flash CWRM it did it's thing and I thought, well, it was successful so let's try and boot into it to flash a custom ROM I had downloaded. From ROM Manager no dice, tried getting into recovery manually and it worked. However, it was clearly stock recovery. New to Android slates I clicked the volume buttons a couple times to try and see how to move the cursor... this of course wiped my device. At this point, I was pretty sure I was done for, after this completed I rebooted again and low and behold cannot get into the device on normal boot. Tried rebooting, nothing. Tried the keyboard dock, same deal. Stuck on ASUS screen and I never get the spinning wheel. Tried to get back in recovery and I get stuck at loading recovery kernel image. BRICK. The only thing I can do is get into APX recovery but as I understand there is no use for this mode yet on the TF700? Please help! My last option is to RMA to Newegg, if I do this what should I say? I feel being honest is the only way to grantee a repair. How much would this cost out of warranty?
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I am having the same issue. Just rooted today. Please help!

dpadaddict said:
I am having the same issue. Just rooted today. Please help!
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Are you able to get into fastboot? If you press and hold power and volume down until you get the option to press volume up to boot to recovery, but don't press voume up, then you will boot into the bootloader screen, with fastboot as an option.
At this site you will find the correct twrp (choose Download - Recovery Image / Fastboot Method) and instructions to flash:
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/105
Instructions for fastboot and adb you'll find by searching around.
Hope that helps!

fordwolden said:
Are you able to get into fastboot? If you press and hold power and volume down until you get the option to press volume up to boot to recovery, but don't press voume up, then you will boot into the bootloader screen, with fastboot as an option.
At this site you will find the correct twrp (choose Download - Recovery Image / Fastboot Method) and instructions to flash:
Instructions for fastboot and adb you'll find by searching around.
Hope that helps!
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I wish I could... The message I receive is as follows when I do that:
The Device is UnLocked.
Android cardhu-user bootloader <2.10 e> released by "US_epad-9.4.5.26-20120720" A03
Booting recovery kernel image
And nothing ever shows up. Just the ASUS logo.

Did you solve your problem? I'm having the same issue and tried to install custom ROMs without solving the problem

reboot the device! (power and vol down for 5 sec)
hold vol down at the ASUS screen, but don't go to recovery, just wait until you see a 3 different logos on your screen.
An Android, a Wipe and a USB Icon
go between theese logos with vol down choose USB Icon with vol up!
Now you are in Fastboot mode and with your PC you can flash another recovery image.
But by the way!
WHY THE HELL DID YOU UNLOCKED YOUR DEVICE IF YOU ARE TOTALLY NEW TO ANDROID?!
You don't need this if you are new to android, even root does a good deal for first serious steps!

kabauterman said:
But by the way!
WHY THE HELL DID YOU UNLOCKED YOUR DEVICE IF YOU ARE TOTALLY NEW TO ANDROID?!
You don't need this if you are new to android, even root does a good deal for first serious steps!
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Hey, we were all new to Android at some point! That's how you learn though, by doing this sort of stuff. Nothing wrong wth trying! Just need to be careful and read alot. But, you have to start somewhere!
I'm sure that he was reading all of the "Jelly Bean ROM's are so awesome" posts and wanted to see for himself, that's all....
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2

jtrosky said:
Hey, we were all new to Android at some point! That's how you learn though, by doing this sort of stuff. Nothing wrong wth trying! Just need to be careful and read alot. But, you have to start somewhere!
I'm sure that he was reading all of the "Jelly Bean ROM's are so awesome" posts and wanted to see for himself, that's all....
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2
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I never said I was new to Android. I was new to the ASUS stock tablet recovery orientation (its landscape as I found out). Hence, hit up twice, wiped data. I am by no means new in general. I did not fix the problem. I requested an RMA with Newegg and it was approved I said the issue with it was bad screen bleeding (no lie but it is normal for this tablet but bad was exaggerated) In any case! RMA approved should be getting my new unit Tuesday!

unlocked and RMA because of your own stupidity?
ok do it..
have you tried it with fastboot?

fix
GRIM1337 said:
Hi there so, I received my ASUS Transformer Infinity yesterday and I managed to root and unlock successfully. However, after downloading ROM Manager I stupidly clicked flash CWRM it did it's thing and I thought, well, it was successful so let's try and boot into it to flash a custom ROM I had downloaded. From ROM Manager no dice, tried getting into recovery manually and it worked. However, it was clearly stock recovery. New to Android slates I clicked the volume buttons a couple times to try and see how to move the cursor... this of course wiped my device. At this point, I was pretty sure I was done for, after this completed I rebooted again and low and behold cannot get into the device on normal boot. Tried rebooting, nothing. Tried the keyboard dock, same deal. Stuck on ASUS screen and I never get the spinning wheel. Tried to get back in recovery and I get stuck at loading recovery kernel image. BRICK. The only thing I can do is get into APX recovery but as I understand there is no use for this mode yet on the TF700? Please help! My last option is to RMA to Newegg, if I do this what should I say? I feel being honest is the only way to grantee a repair. How much would this cost out of warranty?
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Just follow this method and you will be fine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755576

kabauterman said:
unlocked and RMA because of your own stupidity?
ok do it..
have you tried it with fastboot?
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If you had my OP in its entirety, you would know that is impossible. :/ Unfortunately, after the data + cache wipe two things happened that I do not understand. 1. The device wouldn't boot (this shouldn't happen unless all partitions were formatted which the device did NOT report it did), 2. This is the really strange part, recovery no longer existed after JUST WORKING - even after my mistake with ROM manager stock recovery remained until the wipe and then I received the message mentioned in my OP (namely: Booting recovery kernel).

GRIM1337 said:
If you had my OP in its entirety, you would know that is impossible. :/ Unfortunately, after the data + cache wipe two things happened that I do not understand. 1. The device wouldn't boot (this shouldn't happen unless all partitions were formatted which the device did NOT report it did), 2. This is the really strange part, recovery no longer existed after JUST WORKING - even after my mistake with ROM manager stock recovery remained until the wipe and then I received the message mentioned in my OP (namely: Booting recovery kernel).
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Any resolution to this other than the RMA?

HelgesenJ said:
Any resolution to this other than the RMA?
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Please don't tell me you have used ROM Manager recently. : S Are you having the same issue?
APX available, or not (as with the OP)? NvFlashed? What have you done, or tried to do, yourself?
Moar. Info.

MartyHulskemper said:
Please don't tell me you have used ROM Manager recently. : S Are you having the same issue?
APX available, or not (as with the OP)? NvFlashed? What have you done, or tried to do, yourself?
Moar. Info.
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One more who used ROM manager recently and now I have a nice tray for serving beers :crying:
I'm having the same issue with APX available by powering on the transformer holding volume+up but with no nvflash backup.

I don't understand why people keep using ROM manager to install recovery, this is a death wish to your device. If they read all the "How to" posts, none of them instructed to use rom manager to install recovery, so I don't know where they got this idea from???? beat me!!!
GRIM1337, you need RMA to send out for repair. Sorry but there's no hope to recovery this.

Didn't use ROM Manager
Updated to JB (from rooted ICS), then tried to unlock and flash recovery: Bootloader is still locked, recovery and system partitions are simply gone!
All I can access is fastboot now, but as bootloader is locked, I cannot flash any custom image/blob or whatsoever.
Can someone generous post their stock recovery or help me flash the JB update ZIP again?
I extracted the blob, but I'm not sure how to flash it? I suppose it contains all the partitions I would need to flash! But how to flash them?
I tried this:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob
Fails after having downloaded the 800Mb blob, the exact same way it fails flashing a custom kernel!?
sending 'staging' (800199 KB)...
OKAY [145.978s]
writing 'staging'...
FAILED (remote: (InvalidState))
finished. total time: 205.000s

3c said:
Updated to JB (from rooted ICS), then tried to unlock and flash recovery: Bootloader is still locked, recovery and system partitions are simply gone!
All I can access is fastboot now, but as bootloader is locked, I cannot flash any custom image/blob or whatsoever.
Can someone generous post their stock recovery or help me flash the JB update ZIP again?
I extracted the blob, but I'm not sure how to flash it? I suppose it contains all the partitions I would need to flash! But how to flash them?
I tried this:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob
Fails after having downloaded the 800Mb blob, the exact same way it fails flashing a custom kernel!?
sending 'staging' (800199 KB)...
OKAY [145.978s]
writing 'staging'...
FAILED (remote: (InvalidState))
finished. total time: 205.000s
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How did you get into fastboot mode for your device??

buhohitr said:
How did you get into fastboot mode for your device??
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Well that one's hard: With ICS bootloader, there was like no fastboot mode!!! On the bootloader menu I could only confirm recovery or cancel to boot as usual!!! WTF? But then once with JB bootloader, the menu allowed me to select a different option: a new one had appeared showing a USB logo too! Can't tell if I simply missed the option or proper steps in ICS bootloader though.

3c said:
Well that one's hard: With ICS bootloader, there was like no fastboot mode!!! On the bootloader menu I could only confirm recovery or cancel to boot as usual!!! WTF? But then once with JB bootloader, the menu allowed me to select a different option: a new one had appeared showing a USB logo too! Can't tell if I simply missed the option or proper steps in ICS bootloader though.
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ICS bootloader had the fastboot option disabled if the device's bootloader was still locked and the USB icon wasn't showing at all.
With the JB bootloader Asus made the USB icon available even if the device was locked so you can access fastboot mode but you can't flash anything (yes,it doesn't make sense, but this is Asus).
Anyway, if you are able to boot in recovery you should be able to restore you device easily,just follow my guide from the general forum.

Re: Help needed i will try
OK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IS WIPED THE OS FROM THE UNIT...AND LEFT THE BOOTLOADER FILES...SO THERE ISNT
ANYTHING TO BOOT TO AT THE MOMENT... I DID THIS LAST WEEK... IT WAS A BIT SCARY AND FRUSTRATING UNTIL
I FIGURED OUT HOW TO FIX IT.. ITS NOT HARD. ILL PUT DOWN HERE WHAT I DID...
1. DOWNLOAD THE GOOGLE NEXUS 7 TOOL KIT... ( this is a very good rescue tool )
2. RUN IT... INSTALL THE DRIVERS... REBOOT IT ALL AND START THE TOOL KIT AGIAN WITH YOUR TRANSFORMER
CONNECTED TO USB...
3. YOU SHOULD SEE THE SERIAL NUMBER OF YOUR TABLET AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE IN THE TOOLKIT...
IF SO..YOUR ALMOST DONE !
4. THERE ARE MANY CHOICES..SOME WORK SOME DONT ON THE TRANSFORMER...
5. I CHOOSE THE ROOT OPTION...
6. NOW..WHEN IT GETS TO THE PART WHERE IT SAYS ARE U IN FASTBOOT MODE.. SAY NO !!! THAT WILL ACTUALLY
PUT IT IN FASTBOOT AND THEN PROCEED AS DIRECTED ON THE SCREEN TO ROOT...
THATS WHAT I DID...CAUSE I NEEDED ROOT AND I HAD A STUCK BOOT LOOP JUST LIKE YOU.....
BASICALLY YOU NEED TO ROOT IT AGIAN AN THEN REBOOT AND TRY TO GET INTO CWM..OR HAVE IT REINSTALL CWM...TO FLASH A ROM...THAT WORKS..

My Asus TF300T Is Completely Dead!

I had upgraded to 4.2 firmware (WW_epad-user-10.6.1.8) using the second method described on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2187982. This worked well and everything was working until I messed up today D: I was trying to flash SuperSU using TWRP but it couldn't recognize my Internal SD Card so I thought there might be something wrong with my installation. When I entered the bootloader I noticed the message: Key driver not found.. Booting OS. I don't know what this means. I did not read the first thread in the General section and tried to do a restore using the 4.2 firmware package. I used the "fastboot flash system blob" command and this time everything was messed up. The blue bar that appears on installation is no longer appearing and I have an "unrecoverable bootloader" error. Nothing I did worked! What should I do?? Please provide me some simple steps. I used these commands before flashing system blob...
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
This was a very stupid move on my part but I thought this would allow a clean install D: D: Please help!

gee man you completely wiped the sucker, you may be bricked =(. i would start by trying to fastboot flash the patched version of twrp. unless you can boot into twrp already then try to flash the asus package again thru twrp. also, could twrp see your internal sd before you bricked?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app

markymark567 said:
gee man you completely wiped the sucker, you may be bricked =(. i would start by trying to fastboot flash the patched version of twrp. unless you can boot into twrp already then try to flash the asus package again thru twrp. also, could twrp see your internal sd before you bricked?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app
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No, that is the reason why I wiped everything (stupid move I know)...TWRP was screwed up to begin with. I flashed 2.5 JB version and it couldn't detect my internal SD card. I made sure it was the right model and everything so TWRP messed me up. I don't know how to flash a working version of TWRP since I don't know what version works with 4.2 tf300 firmware.

sonar2854 said:
No, that is the reason why I wiped everything (stupid move I know)...TWRP was screwed up to begin with. I flashed 2.5 JB version and it couldn't detect my internal SD card. I made sure it was the right model and everything so TWRP messed me up. I don't know how to flash a working version of TWRP since I don't know what version works with 4.2 tf300 firmware.
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there is a modded 2.4.4 version i believe that sees all correctly. the post on how to root and update describe and link it. but being now you flashed the wrong one. you cant mount anything to flash correct one. i think you are s.o.l. i hope iam am wrong. good luck.

kaos420 said:
there is a modded 2.4.4 version i believe that sees all correctly. the post on how to root and update describe and link it. but being now you flashed the wrong one. you cant mount anything to flash correct one. i think you are s.o.l. i hope iam am wrong. good luck.
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I'm not sure how to flash it...I tried fastboot flash recovery twrp.blob (2.4.4.0 v4.2). It just freezes although the cmd says it was successful

I keep getting a bootloader error (0x0000000) everytime I try and enter RCK, Android, Wipe Data... Is there a way to reinstall the bootloader? WW_epad 10.6.1.8

No mate
As of now there's no solution to that.
Do ppl ever read before they flash? I've never seen as much bricks as I've seen on this device since the new 10.6x.x Asus bootloader... it's a shame
Read read read, understand understand understand, then read more. I almost feel sorry for you guys who are "just flashing away"

FML :crying::crying:

sonar2854 said:
I keep getting a bootloader error (0x0000000) everytime I try and enter RCK, Android, Wipe Data... Is there a way to reinstall the bootloader? WW_epad 10.6.1.8
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Bump!
I have a couple of questions.
I would like to know about your bootloader (how many icons and which ones) and whether you can still get into twrp.

tobdaryl said:
Bump!
I have a couple of questions.
I would like to know about your bootloader (how many icons and which ones) and whether you can still get into twrp.
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Okay, so when I press Volume Down + Power, I enter the bootloader. The bootloader has three icons: RCK, Android Logo, Wipe Data. I have no access to TWRP since there is a unrecoverable bootloader error 0x0000000 when I try to enter RCK.

sonar2854 said:
Okay, so when I press Volume Down + Power, I enter the bootloader. The bootloader has three icons: RCK, Android Logo, Wipe Data. I have no access to TWRP since there is a unrecoverable bootloader error 0x0000000 when I try to enter RCK.
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The odds are slim but let's try a couple of things.
From power off, hold power and volume down, release when you see the icons. You should see the entering fastboot message in the upper left.
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot bootloader
if that fails
Power off and use the same procedure.
fastboot reboot bootloader
Tell me the result.

tobdaryl said:
The odds are slim but let's try a couple of things.
From power off, hold power and volume down, release when you see the icons. You should see the entering fastboot message in the upper left.
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot bootloader
if that fails
Power off and use the same procedure.
fastboot reboot bootloader
Tell me the result.
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Okay, I tried both and it doesn't work without adding a hyphen in between reboot and bootloader so reboot-bootloader. Otherwise, with the hyphen added, both work.

sonar2854 said:
Okay, I tried both and it doesn't work without adding a hyphen in between reboot and bootloader so reboot-bootloader. Otherwise, with the hyphen added, both work.
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Sorry for that mistake. Now try rck and let's see if the bootloader is now accepted. If we are lucky the result has changed.

tobdaryl said:
Sorry for that mistake. Now try rck and let's see if the bootloader is now accepted. If we are lucky the result has changed.
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Eh...I don't really know how to explain this but this is what happened. Once the bootloader rebooted after entering the CMD command, I pressed volume up to access RCK and there was a "blink" and there is now a green glowing square around the Android Icon. I cannot move the volume up or down (it is frozen on the Android Icon with the green square glowing), so I don't know what that "blink" was. If i try to press volume up now there is the bootloader error again.

sonar2854 said:
Eh...I don't really know how to explain this but this is what happened. Once the bootloader rebooted after entering the CMD command, I pressed volume up to access RCK and there was a "blink" and there is now a green glowing square around the Android Icon. I cannot move the volume up or down (it is frozen on the Android Icon with the green square glowing), so I don't know what that "blink" was. If i try to press volume up now there is the bootloader error again.
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Download the 10.4.2.20 stock firmware. Unzip once and rename the resulting zip EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip. Place this on your external sdcard and boot into your bootloader. Volume up on RCK.

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Download the 10.4.2.20 stock firmware. Unzip once and rename the resulting zip EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip. Place this on your external sdcard and boot into your bootloader. Volume up on RCK.
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Um, I don't have an external SD Card? The only SD Card I have is the Internal Storage

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Um, I don't have an external SD Card? The only SD Card I have is the Internal Storage
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Uh!
Tell me what 2.5 JB version is.
Unzip 10.6.1.8 stock firmware twice and place the blob file into the directory with adb and fastboot. Boot into the bootloader and don't press anything.
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
if the command fails try again without -i 0x0B05

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Uh!
Tell me what 2.5 JB version is.
Unzip 10.6.1.8 stock firmware twice and place the blob file into the directory with adb and fastboot. Boot into the bootloader and don't press anything.
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
if the command fails try again without -i 0x0B05
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When you say 2.5 JB version...are you talking about TWRP? I don't think TWRP is on the tablet because I can't access it. All I saw was a blink when I pressed volume up on RCK, not TWRP? I have tried flash system blob before I posted here and it did nothing. There is no progress bar when fastboot flashing =/ I think it froze. Yup it froze, just tried to do fastboot reboot-bootloader and it said failed. Also, after the system was done writing, after 2 seconds it said complete so it didn't work.

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When you say 2.5 JB version...are you talking about TWRP? I don't think TWRP is on the tablet because I can't access it. All I saw was a blink when I pressed volume up on RCK, not TWRP? I have tried flash system blob before I posted here and it did nothing.
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I understood about twrp and flashing system blob but I thought we had been able to get stock recovery working instead of twrp.
I 'm sorry that is all I have with no sdcard and no adb.

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I understood about twrp and flashing system blob but I thought we had been able to get stock recovery working instead of twrp.
I 'm sorry that is all I have with no sdcard and no adb.
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I have never used the stock recovery so what is it supposed to look like? Is it that dead Android with the battery because that didn't show up? I will try and get an external sd card tomorrow and try it if you think it might work. I have the 4.2 bootloader so are you sure that I should put Version V10.4.2.20 and recover using that version? Anyways, if it ends up not working, I would just like to say thank you very much for trying.

(Q) Boot Loop fix

Well my dumb fast moving self has backfired once again. While using chain fire 3D I have now got myself stuck in a boot loop. I have tried wipe data both from menu and from paperclip. I have tried getting latest firmware from asus site and using RCK but for some reason it just shows me a dead DROID. So any tips would be great I can't send it back because it's unlocked and rooted. So if anyone knows of a way to get RCK or the wipe data's to work I would be forever in your debt

Sevyth said:
Well my dumb fast moving self has backfired once again. While using chain fire 3D I have now got myself stuck in a boot loop. I have tried wipe data both from menu and from paperclip. I have tried getting latest firmware from asus site and using RCK but for some reason it just shows me a dead DROID. So any tips would be great I can't send it back because it's unlocked and rooted. So if anyone knows of a way to get RCK or the wipe data's to work I would be forever in your debt
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You have to flash TWRP recovery via fastboot. BUT, be sure to flash the correct version of TWRP. Flashing the wrong TWRP recovery blob can brick your tablet.
Since, you did not mention the firmware version running on your tablet, we can only guess...
If you were on Android 4.0.x (also known as Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS), you need to flash TWRP blob with "-ICS" suffix. For example, openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-tf300t-ICS.blob.
If you were on Android 4.1.x (also known as JellyBean or JB) before ASUS firmware version 10.6.1.8, you need to flash TWRP blob with "-JB" suffix. For example, openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-tf300t-JB.blob.
If you were on ASUS firmware version 10.6.1.8 (Android 4.2.1) you need to flash openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-tf300t-4.2.blob.
If you were on ASUS firmware version 10.6.1.15.3 (Android 4.2.1) you need to flash openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-tf300t-4.2.blob.
And, if you have TF300TG model, get the TWRP blob with -tf300tg-. Once again, flashing the incorrect TWRP can brick your tablet. So, please be extra careful.
To download the necessary TWRP recovery blob files, and for the instructions on how to flash it to your tablet, visit the TWRP official website for TF300T(G) here: http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/97
After flashing the correct TWRP recovery, you can now launch the TWRP recovery via RCK. From there, you can flash ASUS stock firmware to fix your bootloop. I would recommend following method 3 outlined in the GUIDE found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2187982

How is this supose to work if my RCK always shows a dead DROID. And how do I get fast boot to work when fast boot freeze when I click the usb icon

"If you were on Android 4.1.x (also known as JellyBean or JB) before ASUS firmware version 10.6.1.8, you need to flash TWRP blob with "-JB" suffix. For example, openrecovery-twrp-2.4.4.0-tf300t-JB.blob."
I believeThis is the Firmware i was On but im still not sure how to get fastboot to work. or RCK
EDIT: Seems that Link you provided to learn how to put the recovery on is out of date,
EDIT II: "You will need fastboot for this method. Download the above file, check the md5, rename to twrp.blob and put the file in the same directory as your fastboot.exe (unless you have /platform-tools in PATH then you can flash from anywhere). Turn off your device and boot to fastboot (power on while holding volume down, then select the usb icon and hit volume up to confirm). The device will now be in fastboot mode. Plug the device into your computer. Run the following command via the command line:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery twrp.blob" - Will ya translate to english , And as I said when i go into fastboot mode and click the USB icon it freezes.
EDIT III: 10.4.2.20 is my model # i belive
EDIT IIII : Downloaded fastboot But cant run it . i open fastboot and it just closes. Any ideas?

I'm stuck on the nvidia boot screen.

hey guys! I've been lurking for a while now, but I think I may have broken something, but was wondering what to do now.
I unlocked the bootloader in fastboot, installed TWRP, factory reset, and then flashed cyanogenmod nightly via twrp.
.... and it just stayed on the NVidia logo for over an hour when I tried to boot.
so at this point I wanted to make sure I didn't break something, so I wiped every partition via twrp (except recovery) and then used fastboot to reinstall the stock image..... and nothing. I can't get the tablet to boot anything.
... what do I do next? I can reliably get into TWRP and fastboot.

Did you wipe system before flashing?

Natebluehooves said:
... what do I do next? I can reliably get into TWRP and fastboot.
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If you still have twrp - you didn't flash stock.
Downloads and instructions:
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
Download, unpack, install adb & drivers, copy imgs and blob to /program files/minmalAdb...
Open flash all.bat(as txt) and retype commands from keyboard.
"fastboot devices
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"...etc.

dzidexx said:
If you still have twrp - you didn't flash stock.
Downloads and instructions:
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
Download, unpack, install adb & drivers, copy imgs and blob to /program files/minmalAdb...
Open flash all.bat(as txt) and retype commands from keyboard.
"fastboot devices
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"...etc.
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I re flashed twrp after it failed to boot. think of it like a safety blanket. I did actually flash over recovery/system/staging/etc, but it wouldn't boot. it just sits there.
it's worth mentioning this is the k1 tablet. not sure what that changes.

With twrp you can restore only backup.
Stock - fastboot & pc.

dzidexx said:
With twrp you can restore only backup.
Stock - fastboot & pc.
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okay perhaps I was not clear....
IN THIS ORDER:
I was on stock update 4.4 on the K1 shield tablet
I decided I wanted to run cyanogenmod, so I unlocked the bootloader (fastboot oem unlock), and then flashed CWM (fastboot flash recovery "insert file name for cwm here".img
I couldn't boot into recovery for some reason. it just hangs on the nvidia screen forever when I choose recovery from fastboot
I now install TWRP (fastboot flash recovery etc etc), this works, and I use twrp to install cyanogenmod. won't boot.
I try a few other roms like AICP, still won't boot. just gets stuck forever.
At this point, I figure i'm doing something wrong and i need my tablet to work for this coming week (i use it at work), so I "fastboot flash system/staging/recovery/etc" from the nvidia package. THIS DOES NOT WORK. AT THIS POINT I NO LONGER HAVE TWRP, AND CAN NOT BOOT.
I can install TWRP to get that functionality back, but at this point I can't get the tablet to boot into anything but bootloader or TWRP if i install it. anything else leaves me stuck on the nvidia logo forever.
this is a brand new nvidia tablet K1 as of about a week ago. no issues until i unlocked the bootloader.
Also, I really need to know, and nobody anywhere is answering this for some reason: are roms for the original shield compatible with the K1? As i understand it, the k1 is nearly identical in hardware (missing the stylus sensor, but not much else), but I seem to be the only person having these problems.

edisso10018 said:
Did you wipe system before flashing?
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yes. am i not supposed to do this? is a dirty flash recommended for some reason?

Natebluehooves said:
yes. am i not supposed to do this? is a dirty flash recommended for some reason?
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Nvidia shield k1 tablet had 1.4 & 1.5 updates(november).
You flashed wrong firmware.
You have to download and flash 1.4 firmware(recovery image) from:
https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload#?search=SHIELD%20Tablet%20K1&tx=$additional,shield

dzidexx said:
Nvidia shield k1 tablet had 1.4 & 1.5 updates(november).
You flashed wrong firmware.
You have to download and flash 1.4 firmware(recovery image) from:
https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload#?search=SHIELD%20Tablet%20K1&tx=$additional,shield
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ok. grabbed it, flashed everything including recovery, aaand.... it's just frozen on the bootloader screen saying cold booting Linux. it's been here for a while. same issue as previously.
edit: looked at the old file I was flashing, it was 1.3.
my previous tablet I worked with was an original shield, so that's why I had the 4.4 update in my head.

I think that you flashed(yesterday) twrp with multiboot option.
Reflah it, uncheck multiboot and try "optimized stock".

dzidexx said:
I think that you flashed(yesterday) twrp with multiboot option.
Reflah it, uncheck multiboot and try "optimized stock".
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I can't find any multi boot option in twrp...

I have the same problem with the cold booting linux, did you solved it?

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I can't find any multi boot option in twrp...
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I have this same issue lol can't boot into anything!