Hello. First of all, forgive me for my terrible english.
Short version: USB Debugging is disabled, no one remembers the unlock pattern to stock lock screen, stock recovery is missing (which mean the factory reset and RCK is not working at all) and (
to make it funnier) bootloader is locked. How can I 1) Unlock the tablet and turn on USB Debugging or 2) Flash stock ROM or at least stock recovery?
Long version: Some years ago, when I was a kid, my parents bought this tablet for my younger sister. It worked great until my dad broke up the screen. I don't remember how he did that, but he did it nonetheless. He bought new screen and then he broke up digitizer (great job dad) and then he lost probably digitizer frame or something like that, no matter. Broken tablet lied down somewhere for years. Since then I grow up, I finished midschool and now I am close to finish college (IT, mainly programming :3). Some days ago all missing parts was somehow found and I am trying to fix that wonderful piece of technology (because it is almost new). The problem is (or rather it is the beginning of problems), my awesome dad bought wrong version of digitizer (G03 instead of G01), and the touch screen is not working. Its fine I said, not knowing what should I do now. I found that this problem can be solved by flashing new driver for touchscreen. Great! But the USB Debugging was disabled. So I needed to enable it, without touchscreen to fix the touchscreen, great! Then the next problem has appeared. How could I control a tablet without touchscreen. I solved that by buying not-a-cheap-usb-otg-adapter-o-thing which is necessary to connect usb mouse. And of course there is another problem. Pattern on lock screen. My sister forgot the pattern so this is dead end for me. I wanted to recover any potential photos on this thing but at this moment I said "**** it, lets do this the simple way". I turned off tablet by changing position of funny hidden switch on motherboard to off and back to on. I hold power with vol down, then I saw a menu with three icons and last of them was "Wipe data". I selected this option only to see lovely red text "unrecoverable bootloader error". This is the moment where I really don't know what to do next. I cant flash stock ROM because of locked bootloader. I also can't turn on USB Debugging because of pattern on lockscreen. I cant remove that pattern, because wipe data doesn't work.
The things I tried:
Multiple fancy patterns with hope I guess correct.
Multiple ways to remove lockscreen
Flash stock rom by "fastboot flash system blop" anyway
Flash TWRP by "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" anyway
Flashing stock ROM by RCK option anyway
Unlocking bootloader by options meant for other devices like "fastboot oem unlock" and that kind of things
Of course I can't unlock bootloader by Asus app (locked screen) or remove pattern by ADB.
Is there any options that I could try before throwing this amazing tablet to trash? Once again, forgive me for any mistakes, my English should be better if I want to be a programmer
Thank you very much for any kind of help!
Try the steps in this post to install latest factory/stock ROM
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44244313
Key steps:
- download correct stock ROM (SKU) for your device from Asus website
- enter fastboot mode
- install appropriate drivers for your OS
Hope that works out for you.
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Thank you very much for response. I have no idea why this worked this time. I tried this method at least 10 times step by step. At least tablet is now alive and unlocked .
However now is problem with touch screen. Touch firmware version is: ELAN-0000-0000 which is obviously wrong and updating firmware by touch_fw_update just gives bunch of errors:
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Tablet is flashed using US firmware. Maybe I should flash WW version which I'm going to try next and I will see what happen.
There is always an option that touch screen is physical damaged somewhere and just won't work.
Anyway, thanks again for help with solving one problem!
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Hi all,
my A510 was half-bricked since I run the wipe option of CWM (version 5.8.4) last month. It can not boot to system, just hang at 'Iconia tab' logo if I power it on.
I tried to flash the stock recovery back, and flash the update.zip from SD. Every time it just stuck in 1/4 of the progress bar. (even change the zip or SD card)
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Then I chose to install the new CWM for A700 ( version 6.0.1.1 ) and success to enter it. All the options can be run without any stuck, except for the wrong picture. I didn't know what to do, so i did all the wipe and format options.
Then it's getting more terrible, it stuck in Acer logo (first screen) after boot, nothing went further.
Last night I tried the SD flash again. I flashed all the roms from this thread, (I tried all the roms and failed to flash any last time)
To my surprise, one of the rom (1.060.00_EMEA_CUS1) can be flashed!
At first it stuck at 1/4 of progress bar as usual, then after a while it went to the 9/10 very quickly!
It reboot a few secs later and I saw 'updating EBT' at the upper left. Then it reboot again.
At the second-time reboot, I didn't see the 'bootloader unlock mode' shown in first sreen anymore, so it seems I made it?:cyclops:
Then I knew I am wrong, it also hang at 'Iconia tab' logo at last. :crying: oh, come on!
I didn't give up and continued to flash other roms. But i was too tired to sleep.:angel:
When i opened my eyes, i saw my tab entered the system finally!
No, wait! What is it?
title: 'XXXX unsuccessful'(my bad, i can't remember the first word)​content: 4 lines of words, about to tell u the tab need to be reset.
So I hit the 'reset tablet' button at lower right corner, then it reboot to recovery immediately. I saw the whole progress bar became very active and went backwards, and i waited it for half an hour, but nothing changed.
'coz that was midnight, i plugged the charger and went to sleep.
When I get up, it just hang there. damn it.
Anybody know what to do next?
p.s. My tab is EMEA-DE version.
Thanks and Regards,
Jokerzlh
Sorry, but I can't help you...
I just wanted to say this was a very entertaining story. You cracked me up. Good luck with your 510. Keep us updated.
ExtremeRyno said:
Sorry, but I can't help you...
I just wanted to say this was a very entertaining story. You cracked me up. Good luck with your 510. Keep us updated.
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Thanks, it's an entertaining story indeed, but not a happy ending at last.:crying:
If I save my tab oneday then i'll share the method immediately.
jokerzlh said:
Thanks, it's an entertaining story indeed, but not a happy ending at last.:crying:
If I save my tab oneday then i'll share the method immediately.
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Try this can't hurt anything else.Screwed mine up tried hard reset seems it wasn't doing anything for like 15 minutes then felt it vibrate then booted up back to factory. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747802.
jessejames44 said:
Try this can't hurt anything else.Screwed mine up tried hard reset seems it wasn't doing anything for like 15 minutes then felt it vibrate then booted up back to factory. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747802.
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Never try the factory reset when the tab was unlocked, rooted and CWM installed.
help please
I have the exact same problem . I can flash update.zip for WW.GEN1 version successfully but it stops at "Iconia Tab" logo . does any one knows how can i fix this ?
yoooohooo
jokerzlh said:
Thanks, it's an entertaining story indeed, but not a happy ending at last.:crying:
If I save my tab oneday then i'll share the method immediately.
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hi jokerzlh . i unbricked me tablet . :victory: do this step by step :
1. flash the working rom for yours "EMEA_CUS1".
2. Switch off
3. Press Vol-up 'one dot' + Power
4. If display goes on: Release power but hold vol-up
5. Toggle Lock switch (On>Off>On>Off)
Screen will display:
Erasing Userdata..
Erasing Cache..
then it will pass Iconia Tab Screen and will enter OS...
Waiting for your feedback...
I have a Verizon HTC One M8 that can still power on, but will only go to the black screen with an HTC logo in the center and a triangle with an exclamation mark in each of the four corners. This happened while returning my phone to stock. My computer disconnected from the phone half-way through pushing an RUU flash. The cable wasn't unplugged, the computer just made the disconnect sound and the flash stopped. The phone is not recognized as an adb device, but it is recognized as a fastboot device. This gives me some hope that the phone can be recovered, but any attempt to flash an RUU gives me the error: cannot load "file-name". Any suggestions?
Just to help out anybody trying to figure this out:
The phone will not enter recovery
The phone enters something akin to the recovery page if I disconnect it from the PC, but the only option is RUU and pressing the power button will not do anything (picture attached)
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Once you see the triangle you hold volume up then tap power. Try rebooting your PC, pushing that file takes some ram and a reboot will fix it, also try using the adb and fastboot files from dottats s-on ruu thread. Its in the first post i believe and modify your commands to look like this "HTC_fastboot oem rebootRUU" (without the quotes) ect.........itll help the ram issue. Thanks @dottat for showing me this. Try that and report back.
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Once you see the triangle you hold volume up then tap power. Try rebooting your PC, pushing that file takes some ram and a reboot will fix it, also try using the adb and fastboot files from dottats s-on ruu thread. Its in the first post i believe and modify your commands to look like this "HTC_fastboot oem rebootRUU" (without the quotes) ect.........itll help the ram issue. Thanks @dottat for showing me this. Try that and report back.
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Interesting, I didn't even know there was a version of adb specifically for HTC phones, though, I actually did this to my phone before that thread was ever made (never got around to trying to fix it until now). I'm at work right now, but I'll try it when I get home and update, thanks for the tip!
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Interesting, I didn't even know there was a version of adb specifically for HTC phones, though, I actually did this to my phone before that thread was ever made (never got around to trying to fix it until now). I'm at work right now, but I'll try it when I get home and update, thanks for the tip!
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And if you run into any issues hit me up... i can help you out remotely.
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And if you run into any issues hit me up... i can help you out remotely.
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Just got home and ran the RUU with the HTC fastboot and it worked! At least I'm assuming so, I'm at the Verizon splash screen right now. Thanks so much for your help guys (and to HTC)!
Funnily enough, the soft brick worked out for me. If I hadn't bricked it I would have sold it months ago. I'm on a Droid Turbo now and I think I like the M8 better. So thanks again and I'll update if for whatever reason it's still messed up.
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Just got home and ran the RUU with the HTC fastboot and it worked! At least I'm assuming so, I'm at the Verizon splash screen right now. Thanks so much for your help guys (and to HTC)!
Funnily enough, the soft brick worked out for me. If I hadn't bricked it I would have sold it months ago. I'm on a Droid Turbo now and I think I like the M8 better. So thanks again and I'll update if for whatever reason it's still messed up.
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Awesome man, glad you got it working. Also you can try a factory reset after ruu if you've flashed a bunch of Roms and have iffy data
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So first of all, I apologise if another thread has been created. I have looked around and have seen nothing similar to my situation. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me out.
I rooted my SM-G920P device and trid to install the TWRP Recovery. I'm currently on 5.1.1.
It didn't work and I ended up with the start-up screen saying:
SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 Powered by Android.
At the top left it says: Recovery is not seandroid enforcing.
I have tried flashing twrp 2.8.7.1 with ODIN and I end up with the following screen.
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The touch screen does not work so I am unable to swipe.
This is the issue I am having.
If I can get my phone back to normal functionality, I would really appreciate it.
Many thanks in advance.
Hi teekeiwong,
Press and hold "Volume Down" + "Home" + "Power" until phone reboots. When you see boot screen, release power key but keep holding volume down + home until you get to download mode. Release all and press volume up to agree to enter download mode.
Download this on your pc and open up Odin.
Connect your phone and add your downloaded file to the "AP/PDA" button in odin. Make sure ONLY F. Reset Time and Auto-Reboot are checked. If anything else is checked then uncheck it before starting.
Click start and wait for it to finish, might take a while for your phone to boot first time after flashing
AFTER you are back to stock, take a GOOD look over here and you might just get a working root & custom recovery
Hope this helps!
- Renolz
Thanks Renolz.
I've been searching forums all over the place. I'll give it a try when I have a bit more time on my hands.
Thanks again.
Also I have another queestion which I hope you will be able to help me with. On my phone when I go to Settings - About Phone, the model number is SM-G920F. However when I go into Download mode I see that the model number is SM-G920P.
What am I supposed to go with?
Also after flashing the Noble ROM to convert my S6 into an S6 Edge Plus, I lost the baseband. I no longer can gain any signal to make calls nor texts. Would you have any idea how to go about this?
Thanks again
Same Issue...
teekeiwong said:
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So first of all, I apologise if another thread has been created. I have looked around and have seen nothing similar to my situation. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me out.
I rooted my SM-G920P device and trid to install the TWRP Recovery. I'm currently on 5.1.1.
It didn't work and I ended up with the start-up screen saying:
SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 Powered by Android.
At the top left it says: Recovery is not seandroid enforcing.
I have tried flashing twrp 2.8.7.1 with ODIN and I end up with the following screen.
The touch screen does not work so I am unable to swipe.
This is the issue I am having.
If I can get my phone back to normal functionality, I would really appreciate it.
Many thanks in advance.
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OMG I am having the same problem, I'm about to read a see if theres a solution. But if you see this before I post a solution, Please post it here. So I can see. I really need help. We are/had the same exactly problem.
Hi,
A few days ago I tried to update my SM-P900 tablet after 3 or more years without updating. I tried to flash this ROM (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...7-1-xsm-p900-unofficial-cyanogenmod-t3524788/), but it didn't boot. I flashed the recommended bootloader and recovery with Odin, but I'was not able to boot. Somehow, neither booted Lineage 13 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/rom-cyanogenmod-13-0-android-6-0-1-t3366834) nor Resurrection (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...lopment/rom-resurrection-remix-5-8-2-t3563635). The only ROM I managed to get working is CM 12 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/rom-cyanogenmod-12-lollipop-5-0-1-t2971945/). I thought that the problem was the bootloader, and someone suggested that I flash a more recent (at least lollypop) bootloader. According to Phone INFO, my bootloader version was P900XXUANI1. I tried again and again to flash the BL_P900XXU0BPA1.tar.md5 file, but, despite Odin showing the PASS! message, Phone INFO kept showing the same bootloader version. After that someone recommended that I flash the most recent stock image, so that I get a recent bootloader, that is what I tried to do.
I downloaded the file Samsung_SM-P900_(P900XXS0BPL2_P900OXE0BOI1_Russia_v5.0.2)_by_ (FirmwareOS.com) from a sammobile kind of site. What I look for is that ...BPL2 version that seems to work for other people. But after flashing it, the tablet doesn't boot and I can't access download mode. The only thing that i get to boot is the stock recovery, but it doesn't have the flash img option nor the reboot in Download mode that TWRP had. The only options I got are "Update from external storage" and "Update from ADB". Either of them don't let me flash a full factory image nor, apparently, another bootloader or custom recovery. When I try to flash it I get "E: footer is wrong \n E: signature verification failed" and if I do it via ADB, the error shows right away after a 0% transfer.
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EDIT: Other symptoms I found are:
- I can't manage to power off the tablet using just the buttons: it always reboots unless I select the Power off option in the recovery. Also if the tablet is connected by USB to the charger or the computer it always try to boot.
- When the tablet is connected via USB and I try to power it off, the tablet reboots and shows a battery symbol, but is gray and kinda strange.
I'm pretty desperate now. This is my wife's tablet and I tried to update it so that it was more secure. I'm screwed.
Any ideas? Is this fixable?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Did you try to download the stock rom which consists of several parts with the samfirm software?
For that you have to check the binary box in SamFirm and to insert device type and region.
Flashing that might work better.
I forgot to update the thread. I managed to fixed the tablet. It turns out the tablet hadn't enought battery to enter download mode and I was messing up with the Vol Up and Vol Down buttons. Really embarrasing. Hahaha. After fully charging the device and pressing down the proper buttons, I managed to enter in Download mode and flash a new image.
So my litlle brother played with my phone .When it was doing a software update and somehow turned it off.And now when i try to turn it on it shows me some green dots and then shuts down.
When i am charging it it also shows green dots .If someone could help me thanks in advance.
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download mode or recovery mode doesn't work, it keeps turning on with the green dots on it
I'm afraid that Samsung Support is now your only option, seems like You've tried everything you could do on your own without voiding the warranty. As last resort, try extra dry it since it was in fact left unattended, then try download mode once more after.
NetBos said:
I'm afraid that Samsung Support is now your only option, seems like You've tried everything you could do on your own without voiding the warranty. As last resort, try extra dry it since it was in fact left unattended, then try download mode once more after.
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Yep, best suggestion for now
Can someone explain what the "green dots" mean?
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Can someone explain what the "green dots" mean?
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something to do with corrupt drivers, look at the picture and you will see some green bars
Hold volume up and down plus side key together will take your to download mode don't plug in USB cable
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Hold volume up and down plus side key together will take your to download mode don't plug in USB cable
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you can't enter download mode without plugging in an USB cable...
my best suggestion is to try to go on download mode and reflash the software using the NAND erase function (refer to my post https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ts-functions-explained-noob-friendly.4540331/ )
if you don't succeed, search up "Test Point a32 5g"
Bro, I had the same problem, but mine got bricked when updating via Smart Switch( PC ). The app said it was a new firmware version to be updated, I thought: "Oh, nice, let's update it!", but, bro, it was bad thing, it got a error that something went wrong in the update, so, it was not starting;
Couple of things to know:
The Knox will just get tripped if you flash another recovery, eg: TWRP; to root you need a custom recovery, then we can say that root trips the Knox;
My A326B was OEM LOCKED, and there is no way to unlock it when you don't have access perfectly to android visually saying, you can relax about you data because the encryption of Knox does a good job on protecting your files;
When I tried flashing normally it got the message of failure to write in download mode and so in ODIN as well.
Before doing that consider going to a Samsung Support. Or just ignore this message.
After trying many methods, in case you have some problems in entering the bootloader mode, you can use the "Samsung 300K Tool.exe", it helped me entering my A326B to bootloader mode. After doing many stuff, and many times trying to install the system again, I realized because of the text saying about the bootloader, so a downloaded the exact same version of the firmware, in my case, from Brazil, and I just put in ODIN one file, the BL one, that is, the bootloader one. I got surprised when my smartphone just had awaken from a long journey of trying to relive it and I got impressed, even if all that messy things a tested my data was intact, so, my smartphone booted up working perfectly.
Where to find the firmwares? https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
if not, just copy the name of the firmware search it on internet, find somewhere to download.
Try to remember what was the last version( month ) that was installed before the installation or the one that was getting installed.
There's is also a windows app( FRP HIJACKER clicking in softbrick fixer choosing some model there) that can unbrick, or even try, or make you little more towards the door of getting out of this problem. Unfortunately, I could not notice, I was worried that time trying to relive the smartphone and so I don't know if by using this app will trip the Knox.
There's something you must know, I don't know where, when your smartphone got interrupted in installation, in which part of the installation.
Anything I can help you, i'm here.
I didn't know that time that by flashing a custom recovery would trip the Knox, saddddd, but I've learned more things.
Samsung Health, Samsung Pass, Samsung Pay, Samsung Secure Folder, and other apps that use Knox Security Technology will not work if Knox get tripped, and It seems like that google pay don't work with in rooted in this smartphone, even if you use Magisk Zygote.
I said bootloader mode in the post, but it was downloader mode.
Samsung just won't update this guy( A326B ) to Android 14.