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[Q]Help think i'm bricked!

Hello,
Need some help! or maybe got to find $400 for a new transformer if it's bricked .
Seem to bee stuck on and Eee Pad start up screen. I can boot up with volume down and get to a Droid lying on it's back with a red exclamation mark by using the up volume or to wipe data or Andoid with letting it start up holding down volume. But never any further
Basically I was trying to downgrade and to .17 and it seems to not have liked me I guess! Still not sure when I went wrong.
Is this bricked or is there something I'm missing? Thank you in advance for any help or info even if it's bad news I guess!

What method did you use to downgrade? Do you have and SD Card on the device with a blob file?

I have an Sd card in the device but i put the blob file in the root directory of my tablet, is that where I went wrong? Can I put a new blob on the SD card or did I mess that part up?
I used the 2nd method of Wolf's ultimate flash and downgrade guide.

andreas009 said:
I have an Sd card in the device but i put the blob file in the root directory of my tablet, is that where I went wrong? Can I put a new blob on the SD card or did I mess that part up?
I used the 2nd method of Wolf's ultimate flash and downgrade guide.
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Hmmm what was the last step you tried of Wolf's method? Remember it takes like 10 mins for it to completely downgrade. Did you use the one click version of wolf's downgrade? If you connect the tablet to your PC does it get recognized while it is stuck on boot? If you are able to access the internal sdcard try removing the blob file and rebooting.

So the last step I reached was step 9 for below
8. Once rebooted you will see ASUS EeePAD flashing progress bar. Be patient and wait till the end.
9. Tablet will reboot itself and start loading new system. (as it is first boot it may take few minutes)
10. Be happy from your new firmware.
I have left it for way over 10 minutes and it still stuck on the Eee Pad screen.
The main sticking point is that it doesn't recognize that anything is plugged in on the computer so I can't change or remove the Blob file which is why I think I bricked it. Without having access to the Tablet not sure how I can do anything.
Is there any different ways to boot it except with the volume down option?

Hmmm I guess you could try to see if adb recognizes the tablet while it is in the loading screen. I'm not an expert on adb though.
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Potentially F'ed TF300T

I was wiping my tab getting ready to sell it to my cousin. I was in recovery TWRP 2.22 I think. I walked away when my 4 yr son got a hold of it. I came back to see he wiped everything meaning the system. So tried to recover from my nandroid back up but it was gone with everything on my internal SD. I tried mounting the tab to my PC to transfer the old ROM back on but it wouldn't see it with any drivers I've tried. I also tried putting it on my microSD that was in there and it's also not being seen by TWRP 2.22.
I tried to fastboot flash the OEM JB ROM on it when all else failed in TWRP recovery. That didn't work. I tried flashing a CWM recovery to see if it would work better than the old TWRP I had. But after flashing that, my tab won't boot to fastboot and goes in a constant boot loop lol. SMFH at this madness. When the until turns on, it shows the device is unlocked. If I hold the vol down, it will say it's going to recovery then restarts every time no matter what. All I want to do is see if this is even remotely possible to recover from. If not this joint is going on Feebay to game some cash back. So if anyone has any good idea's. I'm open to whatever. What's he worst that can happen. My tab becomes an even bigger bricked unit lol.

Anybody know what options I got? I've read through many threads and none seem to have the answer I'm looking for.

So you extracted the blob file from the Asus official firmaware and flash system blob in fastboot? And that failed?
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larryv1979 said:
So you extracted the blob file from the Asus official firmaware and flash system blob in fastboot? And that failed?
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Yeah I tried that about 40 times. On 3 PCs with the Asus transformer pad usb drivers on all. I could fastboot TWRP latest recovery then it caused my tab to go into a endless boot loop. I can't get into fastboot mode no more.
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Does it get recognized by the PC? Check Device Manager and see if its recognized. If it is and it has an alert (meaning it needs troubleshooting) right click the device update driver and when it asks you select the option where you search manually through a list of drivers. In there try looking for android ADB driver should be one of the first, install it and try again.

It shows up as Asus ADB Interface. But as soon as I attempt to get the to get back to fastboot or even recovery it reboots. So I think the system is dead because nothing I've read seems to be related or can help this system out.

Don't know if this will help, but have you tried the hard reset button?

Where's that? I know that's a potentially a [email protected] question but I didn't realize there was a hard reset button.

JayWheelz said:
Where's that? I know that's a potentially a [email protected] question but I didn't realize there was a hard reset button.
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AFAIK its the small hole under the microsd slot.
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I tried that hard reset button and it doesn't help. But I managed to put the tablet in a state where it's recognized by my PC looking for a APX driver. Then I found a Asus APXusb driver but still don't know what I can do from here. After installing the driver. I still can't fastboot or adb to the device. So again I think this tab is a brick.

[Q] Can't get pass Splash screen Help Please

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

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

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

Seems like that pesky /misc partition is causing problems. Glad you got it sorted out though.
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[Q] Nexus 5 Mysterious Stuck on boot animation

Hi Everyone!
Really new to xda so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this at (sorry). I have a nexus 5 that after I (purposely) rebooted, is now just stuck on the boot animation, (it was not updating to 5.1.0 or 5.0.1). I tried leaving it on but it just kept spinning until the phone died. I can access fastboot, and recovery, have tried wiping cache, and factory resetting multiple times. Nothing has happened. I have gotten adb and fastboot on my mac, and downloaded a factory image from google to try and reflash, but ./adb devices doesn't show anything, even though the phone is connected in fastboot mode. (On the google website it says drivers shouldn't be an issue?). My nexus 5 is running stock, was unlocked before but now still unrooted, its the US version and I have tried connecting to the computer with multiple micro-usb cables (including the one included in the box). What should I do? Or how do I get my nexus 5 to show in ./adb devices?
I'm stumped, any help would be greatly appreciated , thanks!

hanssw said:
Hi Everyone!
Really new to xda so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this at (sorry). I have a nexus 5 that after I (purposely) rebooted, is now just stuck on the boot animation, (it was not updating to 5.1.0 or 5.0.1). I tried leaving it on but it just kept spinning until the phone died. I can access fastboot, and recovery, have tried wiping cache, and factory resetting multiple times. Nothing has happened. I have gotten adb and fastboot on my mac, and downloaded a factory image from google to try and reflash, but ./adb devices doesn't show anything, even though the phone is connected in fastboot mode. (On the google website it says drivers shouldn't be an issue?). My nexus 5 is running stock, was unlocked before but now still unrooted, its the US version and I have tried connecting to the computer with multiple micro-usb cables (including the one included in the box). What should I do? Or how do I get my nexus 5 to show in ./adb devices?
I'm stumped, any help would be greatly appreciated , thanks!
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As long as you're able to charge the phone still while it's off you'll have some options.
When you do factory reset, does it complete the process and reboot on its own??
Just saw this thread. You might want to try it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2957801
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Mojar7070 said:
As long as you're able to charge the phone still while it's off you'll have some options.
When you do factory reset, does it complete the process and reboot on its own??
Just saw this thread. You might want to try it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2957801
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Yes it does does complete it, I reset it from recovery, so it completes and when it restarts its still stuck on the loop again for another hour. I'm downloading the file, hopefully it works
EDIT: Already completed the flash using the tool, but the first boot didn't work, reformatting again after the flash.
EDIT 2: Reboot doesn't work after the reformat after the flash.

hanssw said:
Yes it does does complete it, I reset it from recovery, so it completes and when it restarts its still stuck on the loop again for another hour. I'm downloading the file, hopefully it works
EDIT: Already completed the flash using the tool, but the first boot didn't work, reformatting again after the flash.
EDIT 2: Reboot doesn't work after the reformat after the flash.
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Have you tried flashing through fastboot?? I'll be honest I'm not to knowledgeable on fastboot, maybe someone else would like to chime in for that.
I've used wug fresh nexus tools but you'll need the phone to boot up properly to get into developer settings to turn on USB debugging.
Sorry if I can't help any further.
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Nexus 5 boot stuck
Bro just try to write the following Command in cmd in the platform devices folder
'fastboot devices' instead adb devices. copy the stock image to the Platform-tools folder and just flash it via fastboot commands. mine was stuck in boot animation and did the same

TWRP frozen and phone repeatedly rebooting unable to connect Ulefone Power 2

Hi
I have a Ulefone 2 with an unlocked bootloader and a modified ROM. TWRP 3.1 is installed which I got from needrom.com. Everything was going smoothly until a few days ago when it stopped fast charging and started charging really sloooow. So I decided to backup and reset and flash the ROM again. I did the reset and it booted in to TWRP recovery and froze. I can't push any of the on screen buttons or move the slider. When I turn the phone off it just goes into reboot again after 5 seconds and back into TWRP. I have tried booting into bootloader but no joy. It just reboots, TWRP and that's it.
I have loaded all of the necessary drivers on to my laptop, tested them on another 2 MTK based phones and it recognizes them but won't recognize my phone. I've tried ADB, Fastboot, and just about everything else that I can think of. I am at my wits end on this and I don't want nor can I afford a new phone so I am getting pretty desperate at this stage. I've tried using SP Flash Tool to wipe the phone and start afresh but again the phone isn't recognized. So any help would be appreciated.
Is there anyway of getting the phone recognized so that I can override or wipe TWRP and wipe the phone and put on a clean install? I've spent ages on every site that I can find but my problem seems to be unique as I can't find any solution to it.
If anybody can help me out I'd be really grateful.

Panther69 said:
Hi
I have a Ulefone 2 with an unlocked bootloader and a modified ROM. TWRP 3.1 is installed which I got from needrom.com. Everything was going smoothly until a few days ago when it stopped fast charging and started charging really sloooow. So I decided to backup and reset and flash the ROM again. I did the reset and it booted in to TWRP recovery and froze. I can't push any of the on screen buttons or move the slider. When I turn the phone off it just goes into reboot again after 5 seconds and back into TWRP. I have tried booting into bootloader but no joy. It just reboots, TWRP and that's it.
I have loaded all of the necessary drivers on to my laptop, tested them on another 2 MTK based phones and it recognizes them but won't recognize my phone. I've tried ADB, Fastboot, and just about everything else that I can think of. I am at my wits end on this and I don't want nor can I afford a new phone so I am getting pretty desperate at this stage. I've tried using SP Flash Tool to wipe the phone and start afresh but again the phone isn't recognized. So any help would be appreciated.
Is there anyway of getting the phone recognized so that I can override or wipe TWRP and wipe the phone and put on a clean install? I've spent ages on every site that I can find but my problem seems to be unique as I can't find any solution to it.
If anybody can help me out I'd be really grateful.
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You might have to try a method that boots and restores the device from external sdcard.
The method to do so and the software/files needed varies from one device to the next so I don't know if this method works on your device or what software/files you need but its worth searching.
Try a Google search for:
"Unbrick (your model number)"
Or
"Boot from sdcard (your model number)"
Or
"Flash from sdcard (your model number)"
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Thanks for that Droidriven, I'll give that a go tonight.
Droidriven said:
You might have to try a method that boots and restores the device from external sdcard.
The method to do so and the software/files needed varies from one device to the next so I don't know if this method works on your device or what software/files you need but its worth searching.
Try a Google search for:
"Unbrick (your model number)"
Or
"Boot from sdcard (your model number)"
Or
"Flash from sdcard (your model number)"
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Panther69 said:
Thanks for that Droidriven, I'll give that a go tonight.
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Tried all of your advice but no joy. I tried to boot from internal SD and also external as well. I've tried to attach a mouse and also a keyboard. Still no luck If I could even get the device to turn off I probably could get it working again but every time I power down it just restarts and goes into TWRP again. It won't go into fastboot or bootloader and I can't remove the battery. I waited until the battery was fully drained, plugged it in with SP tools running but the moment any juice went into the battery it booted up into TWRP! Unless something turns up I'm going to have to just bin it.

Panther69 said:
Tried all of your advice but no joy. I tried to boot from internal SD and also external as well. I've tried to attach a mouse and also a keyboard. Still no luck If I could even get the device to turn off I probably could get it working again but every time I power down it just restarts and goes into TWRP again. It won't go into fastboot or bootloader and I can't remove the battery. I waited until the battery was fully drained, plugged it in with SP tools running but the moment any juice went into the battery it booted up into TWRP! Unless something turns up I'm going to have to just bin it.
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Maybe you can convert the stock firmware file into a TWRP flashable.zip then flash it in TWRP. Depending on what part of the firmware got corrupted, that might fix it.
Converting the firmware is kinda complicated and it requires using linux or Cygwin on Windows.
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