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Hello,
After a failed upgrade I'm getting an error when booting the tablet. There is no actuall error just the EEE PAD startup screen, but it does not move from there.
Cold boot gave no results, wipe data gave no results, and the RCK give me a 'dead' android charater after 20 seconds.... Otherwise when trying to boot normally it is stuck on the EEE PAD screen.
Letting the battery drains was not much help either.
Thank you
Your device is bricked, and AFAIK you will only be able to unbrick it if we get an unlocked bootloader. That way you will be able to flash a new ROM through recovery with an SDcard
You've just put me off rooting my TF300.
Sorry to read about your trouble.
Why should this deter you from rooting? Just don't flash things from other devices, and you'll be fine.
Yeah just make sure to follow directions
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You've already taken the most important step - reading, reading and reading before you do anything that you're not comfortable with.
Take your time and continue reading. Find out for yourself who knows their stuff and does a really good job explaining the steps. Learning and understanding are key to not bricking your device.
I waited a couple of months before I finally took the plunge with my Droid Charge. The difference in just rooting and debloating was like night and day. As delivered by Verizon, the phone sucked. Now I love it.
While waiting for the TF300, I immersed myself into the Prime forum just to see what's up. Hit the TF300 forum as soon as created. Knew exactly what to do and not do when I received it.
There's a ton of good info here on your device, how to use it, great apps and games, and support when you need it. There's no rush as there's nothing you have to do. It really is supposed to be fun!
Thank you for the comments...
Well,
Thank you for the comments. I am not exactely a newbie. I've roote my phones many times many way. And I did the same to my Zepad before it finally broke down.
I did read the instruction and follow them carefully. Having said that my mistake was to assume that the ZT201 rom would work since the one I downloaded did not!
Now that I am fairly sure there is nothing I can do about it (except use nvflash, but I would need to find some information such as the secure boot key, etc...) does anyone know if Asus can unbrick it? Maybe I should send them the device....
maugino said:
Well,
Thank you for the comments. I am not exactely a newbie. I've roote my phones many times many way. And I did the same to my Zepad before it finally broke down.
I did read the instruction and follow them carefully. Having said that my mistake was to assume that the ZT201 rom would work since the one I downloaded did not!
Now that I am fairly sure there is nothing I can do about it (except use nvflash, but I would need to find some information such as the secure boot key, etc...) does anyone know if Asus can unbrick it? Maybe I should send them the device....
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Sorry for the misunderstanding - no slight intended. I believe we were actually responding to the post of not wanting to root.
I've been working with a tablet for 1 1/2 weeks. First ASUS device. Samsung phones are quite different (locked vs unlocked bootloaders). I'd love to help but I'm woefully unqualified. All I can suggest is looking in the TF101 and Prime forums since they're both from ASUS...
Seriously - best of luck with it.
just send it in for an RMA. that's your only hope.
demandarin said:
just send it in for an RMA. that's your only hope.
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That's what I thought (or 'feared' to be more truthful). Thanks.
Warm Regards
Reilly1812 said:
Sorry for the misunderstanding - no slight intended. I believe we were actually responding to the post of not wanting to root.
I've been working with a tablet for 1 1/2 weeks. First ASUS device. Samsung phones are quite different (locked vs unlocked bootloaders). I'd love to help but I'm woefully unqualified. All I can suggest is looking in the TF101 and Prime forums since they're both from ASUS...
Seriously - best of luck with it.
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No offense taken... You are quite right anyway, Samsung is different, the Zepad even more so. I was merely stating a fact: I may not be a pro (if I were I would not have done this stupid thing), but I do not consider myself to be a newby and I am open to suggestion to fix it, but it seems that my best shot is to return to vendor.
Thanks for the encouragement. Really appreciate (I'm having a dark moment!)
Warm Regards
Please let us know how this works out for you (hopefully for the best!)
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Will NVFlash work on this tablet??
jgaf said:
Your device is bricked, and AFAIK you will only be able to unbrick it if we get an unlocked bootloader. That way you will be able to flash a new ROM through recovery with an SDcard
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Its not bricked
Brick means it wont switch on!!!!!!
Probably soft bricked at most!
Have you ever used ADB?
Is the device rooted? Probably not going by the date?
Hey guys,
after some research I found one suggestion that I can't test yet so maybe until my battery runs out one of you can help me:
I unlocked my TF300T ICS 4.0.3 and had CWM running. Probably because of some mistakes of mine it stopped booting at some point and now I can't access recovery, Fastboot, and when I was able to get into CWM, the internal storage didn't work, which is where the NAND backup was stored. Now it only shows the flat white ASUS logo with "device is unlocked" in the corner. When I try to turn it off it automatically reboots.
ADB shell can't find the device so I'm all out of ideas, except that I just read that that once it runs out of battery life the bootloader automatically resets. Maybe that'll help.
Does anybody have any ideas as to how or if I can actually fix this mess?
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Hey guys,
after some research I found one suggestion that I can't test yet so maybe until my battery runs out one of you can help me:
I unlocked my TF300T ICS 4.0.3 and had CWM running. Probably because of some mistakes of mine it stopped booting at some point and now I can't access recovery, Fastboot, and when I was able to get into CWM, the internal storage didn't work, which is where the NAND backup was stored. Now it only shows the flat white ASUS logo with "device is unlocked" in the corner. When I try to turn it off it automatically reboots.
ADB shell can't find the device so I'm all out of ideas, except that I just read that that once it runs out of battery life the bootloader automatically resets. Maybe that'll help.
Does anybody have any ideas as to how or if I can actually fix this mess?
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I let mine discharge all the way, and then I recharged it. I can confirm that it does NOT reset the bootloader.
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I let mine discharge all the way, and then I recharged it. I can confirm that it does NOT reset the bootloader.
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Ya it didnt work for me either. So is that thing bricked or what? :/
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Ya it didnt work for me either. So is that thing bricked or what? :/
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Well, not totally. We are going to need a whole lot of help though to be able to get bootloader flashed. We can access the device via APX. I think we need the partition table information and the secure bootloader keys (which ASUS has to release to us) in order to use NvFlash to flash the bootloader. Word is that the developers who came up with this procedure for the TF201 are working on this, and have been for a couple of months. Hopefully, a bunch of people bricking their devices all of the sudden will turn up the urgency on this. I'm not holding my breath, but I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Happened to me too. I'm hoping that ASUS will fix it for a reasonable price. Otherwise I'm just going to get a Nexus 7.
Count me in on the bricked parade. Except I did mine a while back. I may be missing something but how do you get to APX mode? I just reformatted my computer so I haven't got drivers or ADB set up yet. I probably should try before asking, however I don't ever remember getting into it before.
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enomele said:
Count me in on the bricked parade. Except I did mine a while back. I may be missing something but how do you get to APX mode? I just reformatted my computer so I haven't got drivers or ADB set up yet. I probably should try before asking, however I don't ever remember getting into it before.
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You can get in to APX mode by switching it on, holding the volume up button and than use the pinhole reset while keeping the volume up button pressed. If you have it connected to your PC, it will show up. No drivers tho, so it probably won't bring you far.
The problem with waiting for an NVFLASH solution is that we probably need an adapted bootloader to start with for it to work. Since its impossible to make any changes to it without fastboot, I wonder if any solution will become availlable. I will wait another month or so, and then send it to ASUS if no solution is provided here.
I'm sure the costs for repair will be less than the $200 that the nexus costs (and to be true, although the Nexus is a great machine, it's not comparable to the wonderful TF300 )
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You can get in to APX mode by switching it on, holding the volume up button and than use the pinhole reset while keeping the volume up button pressed. If you have it connected to your PC, it will show up. No drivers tho, so it probably won't bring you far.
The problem with waiting for an NVFLASH solution is that we probably need an adapted bootloader to start with for it to work. Since its impossible to make any changes to it without fastboot, I wonder if any solution will become availlable. I will wait another month or so, and then send it to ASUS if no solution is provided here.
I'm sure the costs for repair will be less than the $200 that the nexus costs (and to be true, although the Nexus is a great machine, it's not comparable to the wonderful TF300 )
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I was quoted between $87 and $100 to "repair the OS" on my tablet. It's still at the Asus RMA center, so I have no update on what they did with it. I've been posting progress over in this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1825265&page=3
Yeah, I saw your posts somewhere else as well... All the best, I've been hearing horror-stories about having to replace the mainboard etc. That would be a bit too much, I imagine :-|
just a quick update:
i sent the transformer back to amazon and they took it back no questions asked.
phew...
Same happened to me, I sent it to Asus about a month ago, they just replayed to me with a mail, saying that is out of warranty because of the bootloader unlocked, and that is gonna cost me $122 for the mainboard, and $65 for labor, it seems that the mainboard got really bad bricked, and they are replacing it....
Really bad for me, but at least I would have it back...
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Well, not totally. We are going to need a whole lot of help though to be able to get bootloader flashed. We can access the device via APX. I think we need the partition table information and the secure bootloader keys (which ASUS has to release to us) in order to use NvFlash to flash the bootloader. Word is that the developers who came up with this procedure for the TF201 are working on this, and have been for a couple of months. Hopefully, a bunch of people bricking their devices all of the sudden will turn up the urgency on this. I'm not holding my breath, but I am keeping my fingers crossed!
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Unfortunately NVflash will only run on unbricked ICS Bootloader devices. You have to flash some files before you can use the special APX for TF300. So if you are already bricked it will not help.
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Yeah, I saw your posts somewhere else as well... All the best, I've been hearing horror-stories about having to replace the mainboard etc. That would be a bit too much, I imagine :-|
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I've just been quoted $122 + $65 + $10 shipping. Which comes out to a shade under $200 total.
End of the line, folks.
I'm not paying Asus $200 to fix a $300 tablet, and I'm basically going to be throwing in the trash at this point if I get it back.
I haven't tried the jig, but all the other symptoms such as dead screen,functionless buttons and all are there, so I think it is Hard Bricked. It's really weird what happened, I rooted my S3, it was working perfectly, then I unlocked the bootloader, it was perfectly fine even after that, then using ROM Manager I installed clockwork recovery mod, it was was working great. Then, I deleted my android market using ES File Explorer, and the guide for replacing the market told me to look for Vending.apk and then delete it, I looked but couldn't find it, so I 100% remember I tapped the search button in ES File Explorer and searched for Vending.apk, then suddenly a window popped up with names of files flashing but it didn't say searching or anything just three dots (...) and under there were two options YES and NO. I pressed No, it closed and then popped up again so this time I pressed Yes. then the names of files kept flashing and then it finished but didn't give me any search result, But my Phone memory was showing Empty, only the sd card folder was there and nothing else so I closed the app and opened it again, still the phone memory was empty, I was freaked out, so I restarted the phone and then, it never started :crying: I don't know what happened. Please help?
odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.
Really?? Can you please tell me step by step what to do?? I'm a complete noob at this!
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odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.
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My device does not go into download mode, nor in recovery, it's buttons are useless and there's a completely dead screen.
droidstyle said:
odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.
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have you tried a different battery?
I forgot to mention, it's brand new, this happened the second day I bought it. So, the battery is flawless and perfect.
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have you tried a different battery?
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No its dead for sure. He tried to unlock the us cellualr S3 which would result in a perma brick.
You don't need to unlock the bootloader of the us cellular S3. That is why everything is labeled "verizon unlock" and stuff.
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No its dead for sure. He tried to unlock the us cellualr S3 which would result in a perma brick.
You don't need to unlock the bootloader of the us cellular S3. That is why everything is labeled "verizon unlock" and stuff.
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ahh i missed that detail...yes i agree its dead for sure! jtag or new replacement time.
Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one
How the hell was I supposed to know that? The US Cellular S3 is completely identical to the Verizon one, the only difference is the carrier logo, I rooted it with the Verizon S3's guide everything went perfectly fine, so I continued to do all the other stuff. I just got it 2 days ago :crying: . Huff, I've sent it for JTAG to a friend.
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ahh i missed that detail...yes i agree its dead for sure! jtag or new replacement time.
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
How the hell was I supposed to know that? The US Cellular S3 is completely identical to the Verizon one, the only difference is the carrier logo, I rooted it with the Verizon S3's guide everything went perfectly fine, so I continued to do all the other stuff. I just got it 2 days ago :crying: . Huff, I've sent it for JTAG to a friend.
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a simple google search would of told ya that...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+the+bootloader+unlocked+on+the+usc+galaxy+s3
research then flash dont flash then research!
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Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one
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Great idea, but, I'm not in the US. I bought this phone from a guy who brought it from the US, I got it for half the price of an S3 here. So now, I don't know what to do, I gave it to friend, I hope he'll fix it, but if he's unable to can I give it to Samsung?
True, well said :'( I messed up big time.
droidstyle said:
a simple google search would of told ya that...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+the+bootloader+unlocked+on+the+usc+galaxy+s3
research then flash dont flash then research!
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Hi everyone,
I think my fiance might have hard-bricked his (new! Less than 24 hrs old!) Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. He researched, rooted, set up bit-defender and it was working fine but when he tried to copy music files onto the micro-SD, they appeared to have gone onto the hard-drive instead and made his phone uber sluggish. We had some friends over, so he dropped the issue for a while and then went back to try to fix it only to make things worse. I know there isn't enough detail there about what *else* he tried to do, but when he came to bed last night he was kicking himself for not researching it enough and mentioned that he tried taking the batter out, resetting it, taking the sim card out, resetting it, telling bit defending to wipe the phone, etc. but all it would do last night was just display the 'samsung' logo then go to black.
This morning, I found your threads and tried to do the power+down+home advice that I've seen on a few threads here but it didn't work (obviously).
I suggested using the micro-SD adapter to try to explore the files on a PC, so we might look into that later.
Is there anything else you guys would recommend? I'm thinking the only thing to fix it now is the dopey route. :silly:
-Ami
Your phone is Soft Bricked not hard bricked, otherwise it wouldn't even turn on, Use A USB JIG to force it into download mode, then reflash with Odin.
Aminarra said:
Hi everyone,
I think my fiance might have hard-bricked his (new! Less than 24 hrs old!) Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. He researched, rooted, set up bit-defender and it was working fine but when he tried to copy music files onto the micro-SD, they appeared to have gone onto the hard-drive instead and made his phone uber sluggish. We had some friends over, so he dropped the issue for a while and then went back to try to fix it only to make things worse. I know there isn't enough detail there about what *else* he tried to do, but when he came to bed last night he was kicking himself for not researching it enough and mentioned that he tried taking the batter out, resetting it, taking the sim card out, resetting it, telling bit defending to wipe the phone, etc. but all it would do last night was just display the 'samsung' logo then go to black.
This morning, I found your threads and tried to do the power+down+home advice that I've seen on a few threads here but it didn't work (obviously).
I suggested using the micro-SD adapter to try to explore the files on a PC, so we might look into that later.
Is there anything else you guys would recommend? I'm thinking the only thing to fix it now is the dopey route. :silly:
-Ami
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
Really?? Can you please tell me step by step what to do?? I'm a complete noob at this!
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If you're such a noob and unprepared for a brick, maybe you shouldn't have ventured down custom ROM/unlock avenue?
Just a thought.
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
Your phone is Soft Bricked not hard bricked, otherwise it wouldn't even turn on, Use A USB JIG to force it into download mode, then reflash with Odin.
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Yeah, this morning it won't even turn on no Samsung, no hope. Lesson learned... hopefully not a very expensive one.. :fingers-crossed:
Aminarra said:
Yeah, this morning it won't even turn on no Samsung, no hope. Lesson learned... hopefully not a very expensive one.. :fingers-crossed:
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Pull the battery, put it in and let it charge for a while couple hours. Then hold vol - , home and power. If it week go into download/Odin mode you're fine. If so then go to the development thread stickies and follow droid style guide section 6
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Great thought, but let me tell you before my Galaxy S3 I owned a Wildfire S, tinkered with it every bit, OC,Rom,bootloader and everything, before that I owned a Huawei U8150, my first android, I literally went bezerk modding that thing. So, I'm not a noob at this,I was a noob at this different Carrier different software kinda thing, I thought the phone was the same and indeed it is, but the difference is that the Verizon's Bootloader is locked. I'm well familiar with everything, I just messed up by not researching that if the bootloader was unlocked already, mainly because I was a bit too excited about getting my S3.
1ManWolfePack said:
If you're such a noob and unprepared for a brick, maybe you shouldn't have ventured down custom ROM/unlock avenue?
Just a thought.
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Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one
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Yup!
Call me paranoid, but after reading the thread on Unbricking that got bumped a couple days ago, I'm a little afraid I might one day brick my device. Even though I take all the precautions, it looks like bad luck has set upon a handful of guys, and I feel like it might happen to us all one day. I'd feel at ease, after reading that thread, however I don't have a PC and I have virtually no way of getting my hands on one!! Is there no way to do this on a Mac? Is any dev working on this or able to point me to instructions in case this happens to me? I just want to be ready..
Kinda surprised I couldn't find any threads on this.
The only way you can brick this phone is if you stupidly flash a ROM not meant for this phone. Please know the difference between soft brick and hard brick. Also there isn't any proven method to un-brick a soft bricked S 3 for the MAC. The last time I checked the MAC is a PC made by Apple running its own OS just like an iPhone is a smartphone, an iPad is a tablet and an iPod is an MP3 player but that is an whole other story.
Best response you'll get is to try using Heimdall, if it's working for our phone, if you absolutely must use Mac. Not many people have been trying that from what I see and I doubt there will be any change either. Besides that, find someone with a Windows PC and fix any issue you have.
And I completely agree with jmxc23.
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Call me paranoid, but after reading the thread on Unbricking that got bumped a couple days ago, I'm a little afraid I might one day brick my device. Even though I take all the precautions, it looks like bad luck has set upon a handful of guys, and I feel like it might happen to us all one day. I'd feel at ease, after reading that thread, however I don't have a PC and I have virtually no way of getting my hands on one!! Is there no way to do this on a Mac? Is any dev working on this or able to point me to instructions in case this happens to me? I just want to be ready..
Kinda surprised I couldn't find any threads on this.
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You could use a virtual machine that runs windows. But yes, your options are very limited when trying to work with this phone on a mac.
You need a JTAG to unbrick!
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You need a JTAG to unbrick!
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That is for hard bricking. The OP is talking about soft bricking the device there IS a difference between the two.
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The only way you can brick this phone is if you stupidly flash a ROM not meant for this phone. Please know the difference between soft brick and hard brick. Also there isn't any proven method to un-brick a soft bricked S 3 for the MAC. The last time I checked the MAC is a PC made by Apple running its own OS just like an iPhone is a smartphone, an iPad is a tablet and an iPod is an MP3 player but that is an whole other story.
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So as long as I don't flash a non VZ rom I should be good and shouldn't get a soft brick? I don't mind having to boot into recovery to fix something, but having to find a PC might cost me a day or two without a phone, and a big fight with my wife. It might be worth my money to invest in Parallels..
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So as long as I don't flash a non VZ rom I should be good and shouldn't get a soft brick? I don't mind having to boot into recovery to fix something, but having to find a PC might cost me a day or two without a phone, and a big fight with my wife. It might be worth my money to invest in Parallels..
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If you're a consistent flasher, at some point you will need to use Odin. Maybe not enough times to justify spending money to solve your problem, but you're going to have to borrow someone's PC or use windows eventually unless someone comes up with some Mac development
That sucks. If I reset the flash counter does that help prevent this at all?
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That sucks. If I reset the flash counter does that help prevent this at all?
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Resetting the flash counter is utterly pointless until you need to exchange the phone via warranty. So, no it does not.
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So there is no way to fix a soft brick with heimdall? Ive been looking everywhere for a guide or any help. Im stuck at a softbrick and have no access to a windows computer. Any advice?
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So there is no way to fix a soft brick with heimdall? Ive been looking everywhere for a guide or any help. Im stuck at a softbrick and have no access to a windows computer. Any advice?
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Download a Windows 8 or 7 trial and install bootcamp.
Surge1223
Hi there!
Okay so here's what's going on:
I had installed the Linux dual-boot ROM ontop of CromiX, and it worked fine. Both Android and Ubuntu booted without any errors.
Well, except that Ubuntu wouldn't show any websites, so I tried to fix that. Somehow while trying out a few different things, I had accidentally deleted Android, but Ubuntu still worked. But as evident here, this fix I was suggested ****ed everything up.
Whenever I boot the device, the screen stays black/turned off, but it still vibrates. That's it. I've tried booting normally and booting into recovery, but the screen stays off, so idk what's going on.
So what do I have now? I've got a tablet without Android, but with Ubuntu. I'm not sure if TWRP is still there somewhere though.
Any ideas?
(And sorry if the thread is a mess in terms of details...)
have you tried the reset button, it the little pin hole above the hdmi port? push it with a needle or something.
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kansasboy001 said:
have you tried the reset button, it the little pin hole above the hdmi port? push it with a needle or something.
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Yes, I have tried, but nothing seems to happen. I've been told that I need to hold down the power and volume down button while doing the reset, but I've only got two hands.
hello
Kosai106 said:
Yes, I have tried, but nothing seems to happen. I've been told that I need to hold down the power and volume down button while doing the reset, but I've only got two hands.
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lol, i had no idea there was a reset button, i just hold the power down.
have you tried holding the power and the volume down for 5 sec.
I have been following for a while but never post, i'm trying to get to my 10 so I can post on Dev threads.
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Plug it into your PC and see if your PC will see it at all....
chromefinch said:
have you tried holding the power and the volume down for 5 sec.
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Yes I have. I even said that in the OP.
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Plug it into your PC and see if your PC will see it at all....
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It recognizes it as "APX".
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Yes I have. I even said that in the OP.
It recognizes it as "APX".
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So its stuck in APX mode.. Do you have NvFlash enabled??
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So its stuck in APX mode.. Do you have NvFlash enabled??
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I highly doubt it.
Bump.
So it's stuck in APX mode, what do I do now? I'm pretty sure that my warranty is gone by now, since it's about a year ago since I've bought the tablet.
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Bump.
So it's stuck in APX mode, what do I do now? I'm pretty sure that my warranty is gone by now, since it's about a year ago since I've bought the tablet.
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If you only have apx and no nvflash I'm afraid you need to send it in for a repair. It'll be cheaper to sell it for parts and buy a new tab mate.
NVFLash?
sbdags said:
If you only have apx and no nvflash I'm afraid you need to send it in for a repair. It'll be cheaper to sell it for parts and buy a new tab mate.
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Do you put NvFlash on the tablet while it works? The Nvidia description just says that it's for Windows; do you have to put an Android client on the tab side first?
Mine works at the moment, I just want all of the low-level support I can get
NVflash
Wadesauce said:
Do you put NvFlash on the tablet while it works? The Nvidia description just says that it's for Windows; do you have to put an Android client on the tab side first?
Mine works at the moment, I just want all of the low-level support I can get
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Check this out https://www.androidroot.mobi/pages/guides/tegra3-guide-nvflash-jellybean/
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Damn, this seems like a lot of work for a noob like me (as in a lot of time in lower level stuff that I imagine could go wrong). Is this the bootloader that I need to upgrade the tab to CM11? Cheers
Wadesauce said:
Damn, this seems like a lot of work for a noob like me (as in a lot of time in lower level stuff that I imagine could go wrong). Is this the bootloader that I need to upgrade the tab to CM11? Cheers
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Yes - if you want to dabble with this low level stuff, you will have to invest quite a bit of time and effort to learn it. Judging by your other thread you have been quite reckless so far by my standards. Admittedly I am totally chicken when it comes to this stuff, but I do a have my NVflash blobs, I do have a working fastboot connection and a rudimentary knowledge of how to use it.
NO - the recovery mentioned there is a custom recovery for generating your NVflash blobs and for nothing else.
CM 11 is not your solution! Learning how to properly flash it or anything else for that matter is.....
Sorry, if I come on a little strong here, but you have been THIS close to bricking your tablet already. I seriously suggest you put on the brakes and do some reading.
And even if it doesn't sound like it: I mean well
thanks yo
berndblb said:
Sorry, if I come on a little strong here, but you have been THIS close to bricking your tablet already. I seriously suggest you put on the brakes and do some reading.
And even if it doesn't sound like it: I mean well
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Hahah no worries! I do need to learn this stuff, I just have a tendency of thinking I've grasped things better than I do.
I'm gonna wait a few weeks for a snapshot to come out. I still really want CM11 because I want to run 4.4, but I must admit that 4.3.1 does run pretty nicely.
Let's say I put aside the flashing for now - is there anything I should do to make myself safe? As I mentioned in another post, it seemed almost like it tried to reboot to bootloader when I just did a soft reboot. I sort of want to walk away from it for a while, but I'm afraid I might've broken something.
I really don't have any time to do any serious studying, unfortunately. My day is already full of studying other random crap - I know, that means I shouldn't have even tried rooting or flashing.
Wadesauce said:
Hahah no worries! I do need to learn this stuff, I just have a tendency of thinking I've grasped things better than I do.
I'm gonna wait a few weeks for a snapshot to come out. I still really want CM11 because I want to run 4.4, but I must admit that 4.3.1 does run pretty nicely.
Let's say I put aside the flashing for now - is there anything I should do to make myself safe? As I mentioned in another post, it seemed almost like it tried to reboot to bootloader when I just did a soft reboot. I sort of want to walk away from it for a while, but I'm afraid I might've broken something.
I really don't have any time to do any serious studying, unfortunately. My day is already full of studying other random crap - I know, that means I shouldn't have even tried rooting or flashing.
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Now that you started, you got to face the music....
With all the stuff you did I have no idea what situation you're in... and that would make me nervous.
Find out what bootloader and recovery you have and if you have a working fastboot connection.
Then we can get you to a safe place and you can take your time.
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Have you tried holding the power button down for quite a while (like 30 seconds, and through the first vibration)? Mine has done the single vibration with no screen quite a bit and a very long power button press has solved it...I'm not sure why this occurred on mine, but it hasn't done it since a wipe...
sbdags said:
If you only have apx and no nvflash I'm afraid you need to send it in for a repair. It'll be cheaper to sell it for parts and buy a new tab mate.
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Hi, sorry for the late reply. I've been busy.
Anyway, how would I know if I have nvflash enabled?
Okay I just looked it up, and I'm pretty sure that I haven't done all that, but then again, I've done a lot of things with it, so idk. Gonna check it out again once it's recharged.
And if anything, how would I go about selling it for parts? I'm from Denmark, Europe and I have never heard of a place that does that.
n0xlf said:
Have you tried holding the power button down for quite a while (like 30 seconds, and through the first vibration)? Mine has done the single vibration with no screen quite a bit and a very long power button press has solved it...I'm not sure why this occurred on mine, but it hasn't done it since a wipe...
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I'm fairly sure I've done this already, but let me recharge the tab and try again, just to be sure.