Hi guys,
Tried to boot into APX to update my Viewpad, and the device now will not boot. I have no idea what went wrong.
Here is exactly what happened:
Turned off the viewpad (working fine - Vegacomb)
Plugged in power adaptor
Plugged in USB
Back button held for 2 seconds, then power for 2 seconds, then released back after another 2 seconds
Laptop detected and installed APX driver
Tried to install VegaICS, but nvflash wouldn't detect the Viewpad
...which is when I detected something must have gone wrong. The backlight had come on, but is simply blank screen.
Can no longer boot into Vegacomb. Doesn't look like I can boot into APX anymore as the laptop won't detect it :/
What do you suggest
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I've heard you may be able to un-brick the 10s with running the Vegacomb installer (.exe). There's a bunch of new Windows drivers included for installing the ROM.
Take a look at the current VegaComb thread for the installer, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1221336
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Please, let us know if that helps. I may be doing some upgrades on a few Viewpad 10s in the following weeks and I'd like to be prepared in case something goes wrong...
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Used NVflash last night to install CM. Almost immediately there were problems. I was able to boot in CM recovery only once. After that, I could only get to apx mode. Tried to flash again this morning using NVflash and now my tablet won't connect to the PC at all even in apx. Can anyone help? I can't even get the PC to read the tablet at all so I can't transfer files or anything.
EDIT: Finally got into CM Recovery. Did a factory wipe and still can't connect to my PC. Please help!!!
Some severe APX loop problems can look like a completely dead tablet. The screen might not light up at all but you might still be in APX mode. Check to see if your charge light comes on when it's plugged in. If that works then hook it up to your computer and check to see if it's in APX. If it's not press the power key for 2-3 seconds and check it again. You might find that it's just being stubborn.
I'm pretty sure i have attempted every solution on here (XDA) and elsewhere to troubleshoot my problem. I am hoping it is obvious, but i've put hours into this and i could really use some help!
My tablet is (or was) a Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy 10.1
I had successfully rooted it when i first got it using Odin...i flashed a ROM...can;t remember which one (obviously a wrong one) and ever since it has been rather temperamental.
Over the course of the past week i have been to APX and back... Heimdall (which i am pretty sure i am not doing correctly) to attempting to flash firmware..stock roms etc...
I don;t know whether it is a driver issue, or if i need a stock rom or to flash firmware....but here is where i am at now.
If i try to power up normally...the Samsung galaxy tab logo bootlader flashes for a sec or two...the screen then either goes black...and repeats a few times...or sometimes it flashes the logo and the backlight stays on until i turn it off.
(Seems to be a fairly common problem)
If i hold the volume up and power together...i can get to the Odin download screen with the flashing droid and the midget droid that appears to be walking away from a trash can.
HOWEVER, when i plug the tab into my laptop (windows 7 x64) (i also have access to a (windows 7 x86) and my girlfriends xp machine. I've tried on all mostly on my x64 machine.
Heres the thing.
When i power down...sometimes just pressing the power button once or twice...sometimes, while off i hold the volume down button for a few sec..and all of a sudden the comp reads the device and i can get open ODIN...get the yellow COM thing...but never seem i always get the same error message...can not open/find com/port...
so i can get into odin on my comp with a black screen on my device...or i can get to download mode on my device and my machine wont recognize it.
I seem to have inherited a little bit of everyones problems on here...
Please tell me that there is hope for my tablet...please help? I'm sure you can imagine my frustration. TY.
joshualectric said:
I'm pretty sure i have attempted every solution on here (XDA) and elsewhere to troubleshoot my problem. I am hoping it is obvious, but i've put hours into this and i could really use some help!
My tablet is (or was) a Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy 10.1
I had successfully rooted it when i first got it using Odin...i flashed a ROM...can;t remember which one (obviously a wrong one) and ever since it has been rather temperamental.
Over the course of the past week i have been to APX and back... Heimdall (which i am pretty sure i am not doing correctly) to attempting to flash firmware..stock roms etc...
I don;t know whether it is a driver issue, or if i need a stock rom or to flash firmware....but here is where i am at now.
If i try to power up normally...the Samsung galaxy tab logo bootlader flashes for a sec or two...the screen then either goes black...and repeats a few times...or sometimes it flashes the logo and the backlight stays on until i turn it off.
(Seems to be a fairly common problem)
If i hold the volume up and power together...i can get to the Odin download screen with the flashing droid and the midget droid that appears to be walking away from a trash can.
HOWEVER, when i plug the tab into my laptop (windows 7 x64) (i also have access to a (windows 7 x86) and my girlfriends xp machine. I've tried on all mostly on my x64 machine.
Heres the thing.
When i power down...sometimes just pressing the power button once or twice...sometimes, while off i hold the volume down button for a few sec..and all of a sudden the comp reads the device and i can get open ODIN...get the yellow COM thing...but never seem i always get the same error message...can not open/find com/port...
so i can get into odin on my comp with a black screen on my device...or i can get to download mode on my device and my machine wont recognize it.
I seem to have inherited a little bit of everyones problems on here...
Please tell me that there is hope for my tablet...please help? I'm sure you can imagine my frustration. TY.
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Have you tried rhis method
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/7718-romleakodineg01-factory-stock-odin-image-vzw-lte-tab-101/
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Thanks for the quick reply. I think i did try this at one point...the problem still stands...when i am in odin dl mode on my tab...the com tab wont turn yellow and comp wont read my device.
If i do it the other way....with a black screen...it wont be able to communicate or find the port. ...but ill try again right now.
Nope....epic fail. There has to be a solution, right?
As long as you can get into download mode you should be able to fix it. Most likely the issue is not your tab but the drivers on your computer.
I spent the better part of a day frustrated trying to go from the leaked 3.2 to official 3.2 having issues similar to you with Odin. Funny thing is for me the PC somehow ended up not recognizing the tab on the USB port I used to flash on but would on others so I simply swapped Ports and continued. Little did I realize that although things seemed okay that issue was a symptom and Odin was now flashing corrupted info onto the tablet.
A simple reboot of the PC fixed things for me. That you have tried other machines though is worrisome. Still there's a chance it still is a driver issue so I would check drivers on the PC and perhaps install kies if you don't have it to see if the drivers with kies help.
Since you're on the Verizon tab flash back to stock 3.1 and flash stock recovery. Then let all the OTA updates run. After that all you need to do is flash cwm and Pershoots kernel along with superuser to be rooted. There is no better ROM for our Verizon tab than this and all wifi ROMs are incompatible with it.
Still, no luck. When i am in download mode on my tab....my computer doesn't recognize it. When I just power up and and plus it in, the screen goes black but the computer sees the device as well as ODIN. However sometimes it is recognized as APX and sometimes it is recognized as a Samsung android device... usually with one or two driver errors.
So, it seems obvious that it would be a driver issue... i've tries kies, and as many variations of drivers i can find.,.. when in APX mode i try to flash using the nvflash method in cmd or heimdall, otherwise i try ODIN and it seems to be successful until the "setup connection" point.
Is there a way (if it is even something i should do ) to get drivers on my device in its current state?
Im at a loss...i know this thing can be resurrected...everything just seems so backwards. Any thoughts?
I know that this is a very basic question, but do you have USB Debugging enabled?
George
No way to check now, as he says the tablet doesn't boot any more.
It sounds like a driver issue for sure, and to be clear here the ONLY requirement that I know of when flashing with odin on the TABLET end is for it to be in download mode waiting for usb BEFORE being plugged in. So when I say driver issue Im talking about on the PC side here. Have kies installed just to get the drivers, fire up odin and get the tab into download mode while unplugged. Plug it in and watch odin to see if the com port status lights up. If not swap usb port and repeat. Do not use a hub and ypu may want to remove unnecessary usb devices too just to see.
Hi everyone,
I just bought a TF201 with the latest update from Asus (end of past year).
As I discovered Android 4.2 has multi user support, I wanted to install it.
So, first, I unlocked the TF201 with Asus Tool => On boot screen, I can now see a white message saying something like "The device is unlocked"
Second, I used MotoChopper to root the tablet and create superusr directories.
At this step, all was fine. I was sure that the hardest was behind me.
I downloaded ROM MANAGER (Clockworkmod) on Google Play then I clicked on something like "Recovery" which asked me to reboot. I don't remember the manipulation as I was sure nothing bad could happen from a Google Play app with a so good notation.
The table never rebooted.
I stay on the Asus&nVidia Logo boot screen.
I can't turn the tablet on. Each time I try, it reboots automatically...
I can't enter recovery menu with Volume - (nothing happens at all)
The tablet isn't recognized in Windows anymore
But... if I boot with Volume +, the tablet screen keeps black (no logos) and Windows detects it as an APX device.
So, I installed naked drivers and now, Windows see an Asus Transformer Prime APX interface.
That's all for now. I don't know what to do.
Does anyone have a clue ?
ArnoStalgik said:
Hi everyone,
I just bought a TF201 with the latest update from Asus (end of past year).
As I discovered Android 4.2 has multi user support, I wanted to install it.
So, first, I unlocked the TF201 with Asus Tool => On boot screen, I can now see a white message saying something like "The device is unlocked"
Second, I used MotoChopper to root the tablet and create superusr directories.
At this step, all was fine. I was sure that the hardest was behind me.
I downloaded ROM MANAGER (Clockworkmod) on Google Play then I clicked on something like "Recovery" which asked me to reboot. I don't remember the manipulation as I was sure nothing bad could happen from a Google Play app with a so good notation.
The table never rebooted.
I stay on the Asus&nVidia Logo boot screen.
I can't turn the tablet on. Each time I try, it reboots automatically...
I can't enter recovery menu with Volume - (nothing happens at all)
The tablet isn't recognized in Windows anymore
But... if I boot with Volume +, the tablet screen keeps black (no logos) and Windows detects it as an APX device.
So, I installed naked drivers and now, Windows see an Asus Transformer Prime APX interface.
That's all for now. I don't know what to do.
Does anyone have a clue ?
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Sorry to be the one to tell you but I was in exactly the same situation as you (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304071) and after much research it seems that unless you have backed up using NV Flash you're out of luck
I was having trouble with ADB on my newly acquired ViewSonic ViewPad E100. I thought rooting it and/or installing a new OS/ROM might help.
I saw this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021203
Where someone pointed a guy to a universal root tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
I got the tool to run, and tried to use the #1 - New Standard Root - it got as far as to reboot the device.
Maybe I wasn't in trouble yet. But I waited for a bit and the device was still on the "ViewSonic" boot animation. I stupidly pulled the usb plug out to check out the device closer. It didn't boot. Then I restarted. I can no longer get farther than the "View Sonic" boot animation.
Okay, I know there's some special boot methods in Android, so I try a bunch of key combinations. Power+volume down doesn't seem to do anything [yet] but when I press Power+volume up, I get the android guy with a red exclamation in his belly:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/kcSE4.jpg
It's possible I see a flash of a better image, like this one:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...ery-rotes-warndreieck-2012-09-22-03.41.16.jpg
So no idea what to do. I figured it couldn't get much worse, so put a recovery "update.img" for a gtab on an SD card and then tried to reboot, with holding vol+power, just power, no luck with any combination.
Then I discovered 'nvflash'
http://raywaldo.com/2011/01/nvflash-for-dummies/
I think I'm following the steps right (for a gtab at least), but I can't get into APX mode. I can get *something* when I hold vol-down+power, I actually get my computer (Windows) to show me some internal storage of the device I guess... There's no way for me to install APX drivers, and I don't see the screen "flash" either, just sometimes I get USB storage attached.
Can I recover from this? Are there any more things I should be trying? Does anyone else out there have this device? Where else can I look for help? I just got this device this week and was hoping to use it for development!
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I have a tablet that looks similar to Q88 A13. CPU is wm8801, OS - Android 4.1. So I had stopped using it and left it sit for like 1 year. Now I charged it and tried to turn on, but it wouldn't get past first logo(the one that appears first, not the os loading one) and would attempt to go into recovery itself, but then the android with exclamation mark would appear for a while and then device would reboot and so on and so on...
Then I triggered a hard reset with a button combo, but it didn't really help. Tablet stopped trying to go into recovery and simply kept getting stuck at logo.
I can't access recovery, and neither ADB nor fastboot is working. PC with win 7 reports it as unrecognized device and other PC with win xp doesn't even see that anything is connected to it.
I've tried unsoldering the battery, completely discharging tablet without it, soldered it back on, but didn't help.
Help?
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Try Livesuit 1.11.
I've used it to load several ROM's
I'm currently running FaaastJB v2.5 found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2447819