I recently bricked my asus transformer prime by formatting data, system, and cache without checking if I had a rom on my sd card. Without the option in CWM to install from a rom real sd card I tried to install TWRP and now I have no recovery and the screen hangs at Eee Pad splash screen. I still have the ability to use fastboot. If anyone can unbrick my transformer for me I will pay you.
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I recently bricked my asus transformer prime by formatting data, system, and cache without checking if I had a rom on my sd card. Without the option in CWM to install from a rom real sd card I tried to install TWRP and now I have no recovery and the screen hangs at Eee Pad splash screen. I still have the ability to use fastboot. If anyone can unbrick my transformer for me I will pay you.
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Show me the money lol
Only joking, on the screen where the fastboot icon is you have a line in the top left with bootloader written in it and a long number at the end. It either starts with a 9 or a 10. What is it?
Sorry for the delay had to take one last final, I'm not sure the device has been on all since it will not turn off so I am currently charging it. I will let you know in 30 mins or so.
9.4.2.15
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9.4.2.15
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Ok, you are on the ICS bootloader at the moment. The first thing we are going to do is flash a version of TWRP recovery on there which will allow you to install a rom off the external SD.
Power off the prime and put yourself into fastboot mode by holding power button and volume down the same time until a few icons appear on the screen. At this point press volume down to go over to the usb icon and then press volume up. It will look like the prime has frozen. Plug the prime into pc and make sure you have the drivers installed. If you do not please install them from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426502
Next follow this post to flash ICS twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34477681&postcount=5705
Only use the file in that link to install it while on ICS bootloader. Later on you are going to flash hairybean 1.51 which will take you up to Jellybean Bootloader. If you use this file after that you will brick your tablet.
You should now be able to boot into recovery again.
Go to the second post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674827 and follow the "Upgrade Instructions for ICS"
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for all the help my tablet is back up and running,I finishing the androwook install now.
iamnot said:
Thanks for all the help my tablet is back up and running,I finishing the androwook install now.
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That will be 200 dollars please.. lol
Glad you're all back up and running mate.
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That will be 200 dollars please.. lol
Glad you're all back up and running mate.
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the guy didn't even press thanks for ya!
This kinda happened to me. Just download the program to flash TWRP. It's somewhere in XDA. I can link you when I get home. Just put it into fastboot, and USB mode and start the program, and it will flash TWRP. Then use an SD card and put the ROM on it and flash
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This kinda happened to me. Just download the program to flash TWRP. It's somewhere in XDA. I can link you when I get home. Just put it into fastboot, and USB mode and start the program, and it will flash TWRP. Then use an SD card and put the ROM on it and flash
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Who are you speaking to? lol
PLEASE HELP ME!! My prime is stock in the first screen!!
Please i need help!! my transformer prime stock in the first screen after i use the ROM Manager to go to CWM...
Wasatronic said:
Please i need help!! my transformer prime stock in the first screen after i use the ROM Manager to go to CWM...
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I blame rom manager for half of these bricks. It is letting people flash an ICS version of Cwm regardless of what bootloader they are on. Someone should speak to them.
Your tegra logo is in the bottom right meaning you are on the jellybean bootloader. You have flashed a ICS recovery on there and unless you have NVFlash backups or can get into fastboot then you are hard bricked.
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Not so recently, I messed up my Transformer Prime. I was trying to flash a new ROM so I decided to clean all the partitions, memory card, etc. Long story short, I'm nearly sure I deleted the ROM and the recovery... When I turn it on, It won't boot past the Eee Pad splash screen, and if I turn it on holding the volume down button and power button, the white text on the splash screen doesn't go past "Booting recovery kernel image". Is there any way I can fix this? I loved my Prime and I really want to fix it from it's current paper-weight position.
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Not so recently, I messed up my Transformer Prime. I was trying to flash a new ROM so I decided to clean all the partitions, memory card, etc. Long story short, I'm nearly sure I deleted the ROM and the recovery... When I turn it on, It won't boot past the Eee Pad splash screen, and if I turn it on holding the volume down button and power button, the white text on the splash screen doesn't go past "Booting recovery kernel image". Is there any way I can fix this? I loved my Prime and I really want to fix it from it's current paper-weight position.
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Download the universal naked drivers in the dev thread and see if you can fastboot to it... then you will have to flash the recovery (through fastboot) then adb and push the rom to it....then install rom through recovery... suggest you use twrp just make sure you use an older version if you haven't used nvflash.... think you need 2.1.... I have a copy somewhere here or you can probably find it in the q&a section as I have posted it there at least once.....
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Download the universal naked drivers in the dev thread and see if you can fastboot to it... then you will have to flash the recovery (through fastboot) then adb and push the rom to it....then install rom through recovery... suggest you use twrp just make sure you use an older version if you haven't used nvflash.... think you need 2.1.... I have a copy somewhere here or you can probably find it in the q&a section as I have posted it there at least once.....
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my situation is even worse. i get the twrp boot loop, but can't enter fastboot. i can only work in the twrp menu. is there a way to unbrick it?
Gage_Hero said:
Download the universal naked drivers in the dev thread and see if you can fastboot to it... then you will have to flash the recovery (through fastboot) then adb and push the rom to it....then install rom through recovery... suggest you use twrp just make sure you use an older version if you haven't used nvflash.... think you need 2.1.... I have a copy somewhere here or you can probably find it in the q&a section as I have posted it there at least once.....
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Not to sound like a noob or anything, but I'm not entirely sure how to do all of this. Could you help me or is there a guide or something?
HuskyHamburger said:
Not to sound like a noob or anything, but I'm not entirely sure how to do all of this. Could you help me or is there a guide or something?
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Look here, if you need more detail, pm me and let me know....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31616679#post31616679
Hey guys have to forgive me very tired spent last 11 hours trying to get this working again but im stuck now and im at my wits end.
the situation
Tried to downgrade my tab from a rom that could not be rooted some ics 4.0.3 build .20 i think it ended with to .15 everything was going fine until it rebooted it just sat on the eepad logo and rebooted ect.
anyway cut a very long night short i have CWM on it version 5.8.2.0 i can get to the fastboot thing but i have a problem now as there appears to be nothing on it i might of deleted somthing i dont remember to tired but theres no data on it no backups nothing.
so its just sitting in CWM atm i cant copy anything to it as it says permission denied i have no way of copying a rom over to it that i know of to get clock work mod to install it when i go to update it with a zip on the sd card the only directory that comes up is clockworkmod
is this beyond help now? or is there somthing i can do please help.
thanks.
Seyah said:
Hey guys have to forgive me very tired spent last 11 hours trying to get this working again but im stuck now and im at my wits end.
the situation
Tried to downgrade my tab from a rom that could not be rooted some ics 4.0.3 build .20 i think it ended with to .15 everything was going fine until it rebooted it just sat on the eepad logo and rebooted ect.
anyway cut a very long night short i have CWM on it version 5.8.2.0 i can get to the fastboot thing but i have a problem now as there appears to be nothing on it i might of deleted somthing i dont remember to tired but theres no data on it no backups nothing.
so its just sitting in CWM atm i cant copy anything to it as it says permission denied i have no way of copying a rom over to it that i know of to get clock work mod to install it when i go to update it with a zip on the sd card the only directory that comes up is clockworkmod
is this beyond help now? or is there somthing i can do please help.
thanks.
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I will help you when I am at pc later. Get me this info ready please. Power off prime. Hold down volume down and power. When the icons appear for fastboot etc look at the top left where the writing is and at the end of the line with bootloader in it is a long number. Does this number start with a 9 or a 10?
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I will help you when I am at pc later. Get me this info ready please. Power off prime. Hold down volume down and power. When the icons appear for fastboot etc look at the top left where the writing is and at the end of the line with bootloader in it is a long number. Does this number start with a 9 or a 10?
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Thanks Flumper and thanks for the reply forgive my late reply i have been asleep just got up walked in the front room theres my broken prime
anyway the number at the top starts with a 9
9.4.2.15--20120221 A03
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Thanks Flumper and thanks for the reply forgive my late reply i have been asleep just got up walked in the front room theres my broken prime
anyway the number at the top starts with a 9
9.4.2.15--20120221 A03
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Sounds just broke not bricker.. if flumpster can't get ya goin then your bricked.... i think its is fixable.
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Thanks Flumper and thanks for the reply forgive my late reply i have been asleep just got up walked in the front room theres my broken prime
anyway the number at the top starts with a 9
9.4.2.15--20120221 A03
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Ok, you are on the ICS bootloader at the moment. The first thing we are going to do is flash a version of TWRP recovery on there which will allow you to install a rom off the external SD.
Power off the prime and put yourself into fastboot mode by holding power button and volume down the same time until a few icons appear on the screen. At this point press volume down to go over to the usb icon and then press volume up. It will look like the prime has frozen. Plug the prime into pc and make sure you have the drivers installed. If you do not please install them from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426502
Next follow this post to flash ICS twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34477681&postcount=5705
Only use the file in that link to install it while on ICS bootloader. Later on you are going to flash hairybean 1.3 which will take you up to Jellybean Bootloader. If you use this file after that you will brick your tablet.
After you have TWRP installed put a rom Hairybean 1.3 onto the external sd and then go into twrp and select wipe. Factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik and wipe system.
Press back and click install.. Now click the external button to select external sd card and click on the hairybean 1.3 rom.
Follow all instruction in the following post to install 1.3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674827
Once you have done them all and have now installed Hairybean 1.3 and the new Jellybean twrp and it is all running fine then please feel free to update to Hairybean 1.4.
Hi flumper thanks again for your help..
Im up to the part where i have TWRP installed from you link above, I have downloaded HB 1.3, and i'm a little bit unsure of how to get the rom to the external sd card, I have mounted the external SD-card in TWRP, but adb devices does not list my pad as connected, how do i push the rom over to install? Not sure how to proceed your warning about bricking it has scared the poop out of me
again i can't thank you enough for the help you have provided me.
=== Forgive me i have re-read you post, following instruction's for the 1.3 HB install now will get back to you.
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Hi flumper thanks again for your help..
Im up to the part where i have TWRP installed from you link above, I have downloaded HB 1.3, and i'm a little bit unsure of how to get the rom to the external sd card, I have mounted the external SD-card in TWRP, but adb devices does not list my pad as connected, how do i push the rom over to install? Not sure how to proceed your warning about bricking it has scared the poop out of me
again i can't thank you enough for the help you have provided me.
=== Forgive me i have re-read you post, following instruction's for the 1.3 HB install now will get back to you.
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I think you have worked it out by now but just put your external sd card into a card reader on your pc and copy it over then put it back in the prime.
Make sure you delete that zip from installing twrp earlier and never use it again.. There will be another one included in the HB 1.3 zip that you extract and flash for a different twrp at about step 8.
flumpster said:
I think you have worked it out by now but just put your external sd card into a card reader on your pc and copy it over then put it back in the prime.
Make sure you delete that zip from installing twrp earlier and never use it again.. There will be another one included in the HB 1.3 zip that you extract and flash for a different twrp at about step 8.
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Okay Flumper, just a small problem i have encountered i have followed the instructions, I have the 1.3 HB install over on my external SD, I can install it but the first part, wipe all the cache ect but i keep getting errors unable to mount system, unable to mount data, should I just try and install your HB 1.3 or am I going to brick it even more? oh and i don't think the boot loader is unlocked well i don't think it is.
it is unlocked Flumper, i have installed the rom and its booting i did notice a failed to mount /staging at the end but everything installed ok moving on with the install.
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Flumper your a true boffin! its installing now and will update to 1.4 when its done its working now and i thank you VERY much for your help and support i have popped a £50 donation to red cross to support the people after Sandy and will continue to use your rom.
Thank you so much again and everyone here at XDA.
Karen.
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it is unlocked Flumper, i have installed the rom and its booting i did notice a failed to mount /staging at the end but everything installed ok moving on with the install.
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Flumper your a true boffin! its installing now and will update to 1.4 when its done its working now and i thank you VERY much for your help and support i have popped a £50 donation to red cross to support the people after Sandy and will continue to use your rom.
Thank you so much again and everyone here at XDA.
Karen.
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Just a side note I never no which kernel to use and 1.4 has 7 of them which do you recommend?
Seyah said:
Just a side note I never no which kernel to use and 1.4 has 7 of them which do you recommend?
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Glad you got it all working mate. I recommend clemsyns 1.7 kernel.
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Just a side note I never no which kernel to use and 1.4 has 7 of them which do you recommend?
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i went with the 1.7Ghz OC kernal good bye Asus bloatware.
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i went with the 1.7Ghz OC kernal good bye Asus bloatware.
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I gotta stop calling people mate lol. I just presume most of the people I respond to are men, my bad
flumpster said:
I gotta stop calling people mate lol. I just presume most of the people I respond to are men, my bad
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Don't worry about it Flumper, i'm used to it lol
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Don't worry about it Flumper, i'm used to it lol
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Keep an eye on the androwook thread. 1.5 will be out next week as we are beta testing it now. It includes the latest patch from asus that came out about 2 weeks ago and other fixes/improvements.
Now that you are on the jellybean bootloader you might want to try a custom twrp I made. It will probably have a more logical layout for you as you've never used twrp before. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34359560&postcount=5497
Flash in fastboot the same as before.
P. S. It's Flumpster with an st
flumpster said:
Keep an eye on the androwook thread. 1.5 will be out next week as we are beta testing it now. It includes the latest patch from asus that came out about 2 weeks ago and other fixes/improvements.
Now that you are on the jellybean bootloader you might want to try a custom twrp I made. It will probably have a more logical layout for you as you've never used twrp before. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34359560&postcount=5497
Flash in fastboot the same as before.
P. S. It's Flumpster with an st
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Lol so it's, my mistake Flumpster i'm going to do that now.
*Huggs FlumpSTer for all his help and his alter ego Flumper
My system directory seems to be missing. I've installed teamwin Recovery but am unable to mount the system drive. When I install the latest Cyanogen Mod nightly it appears to install but won't boot. All I've got is Recovery and Fastboot. Help!
So, I had it booting momentarily. Once I had it going I figured I would attempt to load Clockwork Mod Recovery and give it another go. Now I can't even get to the bootloader. Please tell me this isn't bricked!
DustL82 said:
So, I had it booting momentarily. Once I had it going I figured I would attempt to load Clockwork Mod Recovery and give it another go. Now I can't even get to the bootloader. Please tell me this isn't bricked!
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We don't have enough information. What rom was you on? When you say you had it booting momentarily to where? What Cwm did you flash and how? What happens when you hold down volume down and power together from being off?
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We don't have enough information. What rom was you on? When you say you had it booting momentarily to where? What Cwm did you flash and how? What happens when you hold down volume down and power together from being off?
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Here is the whole sequence of events...
1) I was on complete stock updated to the latest Asus OTA
2) I used the Asus unlock tool to unlock the bootloader
3) I wanted to gain root access so I tried the freshroot method here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929189. This didn't work and it made my system directory not be found via fastboot.
4) I attempted to load CW Recovery 5.8.3.4 for the TF201 but it wouldn't open so I went with TWRP 2.3.1.0 (both were loaded via fastboot)
5) Once TWRP was working I flashed stock Asus version 10.4.2.17(US) and was able to boot into the welcome screen
6) I still wanted root and I noticed that my recovery image was no longer loading so I attempted to once again push CW Recovery via fastboot.
7) At this point the tablet turns on to the Asus splash screen and in the top left says "The Device is Unlocked". Holding Power + Volume Down lands me in the same spot.
Thank you again for the help!
DustL82 said:
Here is the whole sequence of events...
1) I was on complete stock updated to the latest Asus OTA
2) I used the Asus unlock tool to unlock the bootloader
3) I wanted to gain root access so I tried the freshroot method here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929189. This didn't work and it made my system directory not be found via fastboot.
4) I attempted to load CW Recovery 5.8.3.4 for the TF201 but it wouldn't open so I went with TWRP 2.3.1.0 (both were loaded via fastboot)
5) Once TWRP was working I flashed stock Asus version 10.4.2.17(US) and was able to boot into the welcome screen
6) I still wanted root and I noticed that my recovery image was no longer loading so I attempted to once again push CW Recovery via fastboot.
7) At this point the tablet turns on to the Asus splash screen and in the top left says "The Device is Unlocked". Holding Power + Volume Down lands me in the same spot.
Thank you again for the help!
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I have a really bad feeling about this. Can you show me where you got that Cwm from please?
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I have a really bad feeling about this. Can you show me where you got that Cwm from please?
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Yes, I downloaded the Asus Transformer Prime Recovery image from clockworkmod.com/rommanager.
DustL82 said:
Yes, I downloaded the Asus Transformer Prime Recovery image from clockworkmod.com/rommanager.
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I really have a bad feeling about this mate. The version you mentioned earlier came out at the end of may. Jellybean didn't come out until July. I don't think they released a version since then that supports the Jellybean bootloader and if you flash an ICS recovery onto a Jellybean bootloader you will hard brick your device.
If you cannot access the icons by holding down power and volume down for about 5 seconds while you are powered off then I am afraid it is hard bricked and will have to be returned to asus and have motherboard replaced.
I know it's no conciliation but there are posts everywhere saying not to use CWM on prime
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I really have a bad feeling about this mate. The version you mentioned earlier came out at the end of may. Jellybean didn't come out until July. I don't think they released a version since then that supports the Jellybean bootloader and if you flash an ICS recovery onto a Jellybean bootloader you will hard brick your device.
If you cannot access the icons by holding down power and volume down for about 5 seconds while you are powered off then I am afraid it is hard bricked and will have to be returned to asus and have motherboard replaced.
I know it's no conciliation but there are posts everywhere saying not to use CWM on prime
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Unfortunately there is at least one post out there saying it will work. On that note, know of anyone who needs some spare parts?
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Unfortunately there is at least one post out there saying it will work. On that note, know of anyone who needs some spare parts?
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It can be repaired by asus. Ask them how much to fix. If it's too much these will sell on eBay as people want them for the screen etc.
Hey all,
I was flashing a new rom and ran into some issues.
I have the new rom on the SD Card, but when I go into TWRP (2.2.0) and go to install,
I can not access the SD card. It shows in the tree, but it is not showing anything on it. I have accidently removed my backup by doing a wipe on everything. Am I done and have to replace it ?
zosopage said:
Hey all,
I was flashing a new rom and ran into some issues.
I have the new rom on the SD Card, but when I go into TWRP (2.2.0) and go to install,
I can not access the SD card. It shows in the tree, but it is not showing anything on it. I have accidently removed my backup by doing a wipe on everything. Am I done and have to replace it ?
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You should be ok at the moment but we are going to take this one step at a time.
I need to know what bootloader you are on before we progress.
Power off the machine and hold down power down and volume down the same time for about 10 seconds until the icons appear on your screen (usb icon, wipe etc) look up the top left of your screen and there will be text with a long number at the end, it will either start with a 9 or a 10. What is this number?
Also what rom do you want to put on ?
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You should be ok at the moment but we are going to take this one step at a time.
I need to know what bootloader you are on before we progress.
Power off the machine and hold down power down and volume down the same time for about 10 seconds until the icons appear on your screen (usb icon, wipe etc) look up the top left of your screen and there will be text with a long number at the end, it will either start with a 9 or a 10. What is this number?
Also what rom do you want to put on ?
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I was running cm10 for a helluva long time, but was doing this energy one. states bootloader 2.10 e?
zosopage said:
I was running cm10 for a helluva long time, but was doing this energy one. states bootloader 2.10 e?
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Hmmm that is not really what I was after.. Let's try another way as I think you will be on ICS bootloader if running an old version of CM10,
Switch on machine and tell me where the Tegra logo is. If it down the bottom center it is ICS bootloader, if it is down the bottom right it is JB bootloader.
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Hmmm that is not really what I was after.. Let's try another way as I think you will be on ICS bootloader if running an old version of CM10,
Switch on machine and tell me where the Tegra logo is. If it down the bottom center it is ICS bootloader, if it is down the bottom right it is JB bootloader.
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Powered by Nvidia Tegra, bottom center
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Powered by Nvidia Tegra, bottom center
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Ok, you are still on ICS bootloader.
First of all I would do the nvflash process if you haven't before. http://androidroot.mobi/t3_nvflash/ This can only be done while on ICS and once you have backed up the files created during the process you can never fully hard brick your device.
Then to get you up to the new rom.
Grab the ICS TWRP UPDATER.zip from this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34477681&postcount=5705 You will extract the zip file and run the bat file and follow the onscreen instructions to flash it. You will only ever use this once and will allow you to put the Jellybean bootloader and rom onto the external SD to flash it. Never use the file again once you have flashed the Jellybean bootloader as it will brick you. You will flash a JB version of TWRP after the JB bootloader has been installed.
After that is installed you want to go to post 2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674827 and follow the insructions for "Upgrade Instructions for ICS"
If you wanted to install energy rom instead of Hairybean just replace the hairybean 1.51 rom in the instructions with energy rom and do the same.
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Ok, you are still on ICS bootloader.
First of all I would do the nvflash process if you haven't before. http://androidroot.mobi/t3_nvflash/ This can only be done while on ICS and once you have backed up the files created during the process you can never fully hard brick your device.
Then to get you up to the new rom.
Grab the ICS TWRP UPDATER.zip from this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34477681&postcount=5705 You will extract the zip file and run the bat file and follow the onscreen instructions to flash it. You will only ever use this once and will allow you to put the Jellybean bootloader and rom onto the external SD to flash it. Never use the file again once you have flashed the Jellybean bootloader as it will brick you. You will flash a JB version of TWRP after the JB bootloader has been installed.
After that is installed you want to go to post 2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674827 and follow the insructions for "Upgrade Instructions for ICS"
If you wanted to install energy rom instead of Hairybean just replace the hairybean 1.51 rom in the instructions with energy rom and do the same.
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Thanks for the help. I am trying to get into fastboot USB and the prime jst sits there. I am wondering if I don't have the drivers correct for windows XP. any idea where to get those?
zosopage said:
Thanks for the help. I am trying to get into fastboot USB and the prime jst sits there. I am wondering if I don't have the drivers correct for windows XP. any idea where to get those?
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When you click up on the USB icon and it says entering fastboot mode and freezes that is normal. That means you are in fastboot.
Look in device manager and see if you have any exclamation marks by anything, if you do then you don't have the drivers installed.
Get them here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426502
Thank you so very much. You saved me tremendously. The ROM is being installed right now and seems to be going fine. And as a plus, I have a pretty cool Recovery now...I was originally thinking that I was going to have to figure out how to explain to the wife that I broke my tab and was going to have to get a nexus 10...
UPDATE, ROM installned and booting right now...now to restore all my apps...
A great learning experience....
Z
zosopage said:
Thank you so very much. You saved me tremendously. The ROM is being installed right now and seems to be going fine. And as a plus, I have a pretty cool Recovery now...I was originally thinking that I was going to have to figure out how to explain to the wife that I broke my tab and was going to have to get a nexus 10...
UPDATE, ROM installned and booting right now...now to restore all my apps...
A great learning experience....
Z
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I'm guessing you installed my custom TWRP that looks like JB
Glad you got it all sorted mate.. Enjoy
flumpster said:
I'm guessing you installed my custom TWRP that looks like JB
Glad you got it all sorted mate.. Enjoy
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thanks... now I feel like an idiot as I installed a rom that you are not part of... now that I figured out that 2.12.12 means DEC 2, 2012.. I am going to try the one that you are connected with... thanks again!
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zosopage said:
thanks... now I feel like an idiot as I installed a rom that you are not part of... now that I figured out that 2.12.12 means DEC 2, 2012.. I am going to try the one that you are connected with... thanks again!
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It doesn't matter which rom you install mate. I knew you wanted to install Energy rom when you started and it makes no difference to me.
Energy and Hairybean are both great roms and both based off stock just that Hairybean looks more like stock and Energy is themed.
Try them both and find which one suits you best
Unbrick Prime
It sounds like you have some good help here and hopefully you can get through this problem.. I just wanted to drop my two cents. Good thing to remember is to be on the latest Recovery (as you mentioned TWRP, make sure its always the latest esp. when flashing JB ROM's). Also if you can't unbrick it, head over to this thread here and here where I personally had a lot of assistance unbricking my Prime from a hard brick using nvflash. Good luck.
Hello guys. First of all I want to apologize for my English , and the second thing is that I need your help. A couple days ago I tried to flash a custom rom with data2sd to my prime and I've made a mistake that bricked my tablet. I have updated the bootloader to 4.2.1 and I've installed an incompatible TWRP by mistake Now my tablet does not boot OS...only TWRP. The major problem that whatever I try to it gives me that E: unable to mount data(also cache, internal storage, staging) looks like my internal memory failed..and my sdcard is recognized as "system" folder in TWRP file manager. I can access bootloader but there are only 3 icons( recovery, Cold boot, wipe) but no fastboot. Can somebody help me solve this problem?:crying:
motorom said:
Hello guys. First of all I want to apologize for my English , and the second thing is that I need your help. A couple days ago I tried to flash a custom rom with data2sd to my prime and I've made a mistake that bricked my tablet. I have updated the bootloader to 4.2.1 and I've installed an incompatible TWRP by mistake Now my tablet does not boot OS...only TWRP. The major problem that whatever I try to it gives me that E: unable to mount data(also cache, internal storage, staging) looks like my internal memory failed..and my sdcard is recognized as "system" folder in TWRP file manager. I can access bootloader but there are only 3 icons( recovery, Cold boot, wipe) but no fastboot. Can somebody help me solve this problem?:crying:
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With the 4.2.1 bootloader you are in fastboot as soon as those icons appear. You do not need to select anything.
Most people who have done what you have done are hard bricked but try and fastboot the correct twrp back onto the device.
It normally says sending and then writing but freezes straight after and you can't continue.
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With the 4.2.1 bootloader you are in fastboot as soon as those icons appear. You do not need to select anything.
Most people who have done what you have done are hard bricked but try and fastboot the correct twrp back onto the device.
It normally says sending and then writing but freezes straight after and you can't continue.
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I've founded a tool WSG_UnBricker_V1.0.3 and I tried to use it. The result is not good at all. Power+ vol.down gives me the menu with the 3 icons but when I'm pushing one of them I'm getting a error "unrecoverable bootloader error(0x00000000)" this is it you think? Garbage is the best place for my Prime now?
motorom said:
I've founded a tool WSG_UnBricker_V1.0.3 and I tried to use it. The result is not good at all. Power+ vol.down gives me the menu with the 3 icons but when I'm pushing one of them I'm getting a error "unrecoverable bootloader error(0x00000000)" this is it you think? Garbage is the best place for my Prime now?
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You have now killed it completely. I said to try and fastboot the correct twrp as that was your only chance.
Don't thow it in the garbage!
I have the same issue. First, did you enable nvflash? And if so do you still have your backup files? If you said yes to both of these questions you can still save your prime using Craig gomez's nvflash unbrick tutorial. I recommend you use the linux version's automated restore.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/35086-guide-nvflash-general-users-guide-unbrickrecoverdowngradeupgrade-tf201/
Good luck!
blade2k11 said:
I have the same issue. First, did you enable nvflash? And if so do you still have your backup files? If you said yes to both of these questions you can still save your prime using Craig gomez's nvflash unbrick tutorial. I recommend you use the linux version's automated restore.
Good luck!
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thank you for trying to help me but it looks like my Prime is bricked forever...I'm new in this things and I didn't enable nvFlash before messing up my device, and of course I don't have the required files to unbrick it. I will wait a little bit maybe a solution will appear after a while...if not then my Prime will be sold for parts on ebay(( I still can't believe that I killed it by making a stupid little mistake...