Tried to search around the forum, can't seem to find how to fix this issue.
So my friend's tablet SGPT111MY/S (Malaysia/Singapore variant I assume?) have not check the region file yet. It basically boot up and stuck at SONY logo with error code (0x00030100).
I am able to boot into recovery.
- Moving selection is possible, but power button to select is impossible (Just no respond).
My recovery is (Rev. 36, BL: 0x00000008, EC: unknown, master)
I am also able to adb this device during recovery, but AFAIK there is no .zip installation using adb other than sideload and I think sideload is blocked.
Tried to "adb reboot bootloader/download", it says blocked.
Not sure why would SONY block this device whereas all the SONY phone is unlock-able at website.
Thanks in advance.
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I was trying to install Cyanogen Mod using the steps on their site(cant post the link because I am under 10 posts)
When i got to these steps 6 and 7 under installing recovery is when my TF201 appears to have become bricked
6. Flash recovery onto your device by entering the following command: fastboot -i 0xb05 flash recovery your_recovery_image.img where the latter part is the name of the file you downloaded.
7. Once the flash completes successfully, reboot the device into recovery to verify the installation.
Note: Some ROMs overwrite recovery at boot time so if you do not plan to immediately boot into recovery to install CyanogenMod, please be aware that this may overwrite your custom recovery with the stock one.
I had just run the command in step 6 and rebooted the device as described in step 7. Now my device cant even reboot. I cant get it into recovery or fastmode because holding the volume and power button does not do anything, the tablet just stays stuck on the boot menu. I had unlocked the tablet with Asus' tool earlier today so I can see the "The Devices is Unlocked." message at the top left. Any help would be much appreciated if it is possible to fix this issue without sending it to ASUS(because they will probably end up charging more than the tablet is worth in repair fees).
Some information: Before all this it was running Stock Jelly Bean 4.1.1
thanks
some more info.
I can see an APX device with a yellow exclamation mark under "Other Devices" in windows Device manager. Fastboot and ADB do no recognize any devices
Hello friends,
I was using a General Mobile etab4 tablet,
rooted,
bootloader locked,
not backed up, i tried but apps wont recognize the brand,
the stock rom is not available anywhere but I managed to find some custom ones.
This tablet is actually a given by government for educational purposes, and it has no download mode, I can only initiate recovery mode with volume up+power button combo, and there is no sd card in it.
Here is what happened. It was running with problems so I decided to flash a custom rom I find on this forum. First I tried flashing using adb sideload. I got an error message "Installation aborted" with no error codes after verification step but it does not state whether verification is failed or not. I don't know what actually failed. Then I tried to flash it using adb shell as root (the system image was in /sdcard directory). It freezed, I exit the shell using Ctrl+C command. Then whenever I try to start shell i got "error:closed" message. I see my device with adb devices with sideload, but it is not seen in fastboot devices.
When I try to open it, I guess it enters in a small boot loop (screen flickers multiple times with brand name on it) and after some time I got dead android with no command written.
I tried,
reflashing it again with Android AIO Flasher,
use fastboot to unlock bootlader (it says "waiting for device") although adb devices sees it,
re-installing the adb drivers after uninstalling them,
disassembling the device to see if I can detach memory to edit it and to see if disconnecting the battery helps,
I even used a simple jig to see if i can initiate download mode (know it works for specific devices but you know hope)
Apparently, I messed up the device but the hardware must be all fine. So I think there must be a way out. What can you suggest, I wish I have unlocked the bootloader. I can send the pictures of its motheboard it helps,
Thanks in advance.
I have searched a lot on google and xda and havn't found an answer to my issue. Either I'm searching for the wrong thing or I have a very unique problem.
My basic problem is on two Nabi 2's I can't access the bootloader in order to be able to fastboot TWRP (or any other recovery). It just perpetually hangs.
Both tablets boot just fine. Both tablets are on 1.9.37. Both tablets can be factory wiped via the stock recovery.
Both tablets were rooted via TWRP 2.3.3.0 a few years ago in order to install gapps. I wanted to be able to upgrade the tablets to JB when it came out so I used Nabilablite to "return to stock". I followed all of the prompts and it appeared as though everything worked as desired. I downloaded the OTA update told it to install and never looked at the version again...I just assumed it installed. Handed the tablets back to the kids and everyone was happy. Apparently all I did was flash the stock recovery because they are still rooted and have gapps after several factory resets.
Now (a year later) I have realized I was a dufas and didn't actually effect the change I wanted.
If I hold Vol+ & Pwr buttons it loads to the recovery/boot menu with "boot normally" "fastboot protocol" "recovery kernal" and "forced recovery". If I boot normal, the tablet works fine but I can't update via OTA.
If I choose fastboot protocol it just hangs...for ever...HOW DO I FIX THIS!?!?!
If I choose recovery kernal it loads the stock recovery but still wont install any update OTA or otherwise, even from the sd card.
If I choose forced recovery nothing happens, it also appears to just hang.
If I hold Vol- & Pwr button the nabi logo flashes then the device turns off.
If I hold Vol+ & Vol- & Pwr buttons it appears to be the same as just Vol+ & Pwr.
With the tablet on and fully booted I can see it via ADB. I tried using the adb restart bootloader. The tablet reboots but then just hangs never actually loading the boot loader...
I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2587543. But aicjofs mentions seeing a bootloader issue once before.
Usually when it hangs at the Nabi logo it means you don't have the USB cable plugged in or that the fastboot driver is not installed.(Check device manager and see if fastboot driver is installed/no exclimation point). If that's not the issue then it's the bootloader which I have only seen one person have that issue. Depending on which OTA's you have ran there was an update to a Jellybean bootloader so it's possible. That can be fixed with nvflash or placing the bootloader blob in the staging partition.
Also you can always get recovery back without fastboot in Android by dd'ing the recovery over.
For example if the recovery image is on the internal SD
dd if=/data/media/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/SOS
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I have NO idea what dd'ing the recover over is...
Thank you for any help fixing this.
P.S. I have a 3rd tablet that I also used TWRP 2.3.3.0 on to root and install gapps with. I did NOT use nabilablite on that tablet to return to stock. Yesturday I used fastboot to flash TWRP 2.6(something) to flash a JB OTA update which worked fine. It was also able to download and install every other OTA update all the way to the most recent KK with no problems...
najman9 said:
I have searched a lot on google and xda and havn't found an answer to my issue. Either I'm searching for the wrong thing or I have a very unique problem.
My basic problem is on two Nabi 2's I can't access the bootloader in order to be able to fastboot TWRP (or any other recovery). It just perpetually hangs.
Both tablets boot just fine. Both tablets are on 1.9.37. Both tablets can be factory wiped via the stock recovery.
Both tablets were rooted via TWRP 2.3.3.0 a few years ago in order to install gapps. I wanted to be able to upgrade the tablets to JB when it came out so I used Nabilablite to "return to stock". I followed all of the prompts and it appeared as though everything worked as desired. I downloaded the OTA update told it to install and never looked at the version again...I just assumed it installed. Handed the tablets back to the kids and everyone was happy. Apparently all I did was flash the stock recovery because they are still rooted and have gapps after several factory resets.
Now (a year later) I have realized I was a dufas and didn't actually effect the change I wanted.
If I hold Vol+ & Pwr buttons it loads to the recovery/boot menu with "boot normally" "fastboot protocol" "recovery kernal" and "forced recovery". If I boot normal, the tablet works fine but I can't update via OTA.
If I choose fastboot protocol it just hangs...for ever...HOW DO I FIX THIS!?!?!
If I choose recovery kernal it loads the stock recovery but still wont install any update OTA or otherwise, even from the sd card.
If I choose forced recovery nothing happens, it also appears to just hang.
If I hold Vol- & Pwr button the nabi logo flashes then the device turns off.
If I hold Vol+ & Vol- & Pwr buttons it appears to be the same as just Vol+ & Pwr.
With the tablet on and fully booted I can see it via ADB. I tried using the adb restart bootloader. The tablet reboots but then just hangs never actually loading the boot loader...
I found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2587543. But aicjofs mentions seeing a bootloader issue once before.
I have NO idea what dd'ing the recover over is...
Thank you for any help fixing this.
P.S. I have a 3rd tablet that I also used TWRP 2.3.3.0 on to root and install gapps with. I did NOT use nabilablite on that tablet to return to stock. Yesturday I used fastboot to flash TWRP 2.6(something) to flash a JB OTA update which worked fine. It was also able to download and install every other OTA update all the way to the most recent KK with no problems...
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EDIT: OOOPPS. I didn't see this was in the XDA Assist section. I'm not suppose to answer questions(I was just searching for Nabi questions and didn't notice this was XDA assist), dedicated XDAers just point you in the right direction in this section. Please ask the question again in the Nabi2 section and I'l come help you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nabi-2
This might help answer some questions http://forum.xda-developers.com/nabi-2/general/nabi-information-t3229119
If it just hangs at fastboot protocol then the USB connection isn't good or fastboot driver isn't installed most of the time. Can you verify fastboot shows up in device manager?(I know the 3rd tabet worked OK) .
Nabilabite doesn't do anything that should change the bootloader, and fastboot should still work as it did before.
dd'ing recovery over means that you use the root access you have in Android to flash the recovery partition instead of using fastboot. IT's just another way of getting the TWRP recovery on the tablet.
The stock recovery won't install the OTA because when you added Gapps it changed some fies and the OTA sees those files as invalid and will fail.
Forced recovery always looks blank screen. It's waiting for you to give it a bootloader to run(beyond the scope here).
You should be able to get back on track once you have TWRP loaded. It's one of 3 things. Bad USB connection, fastboot driver not installed right, bootloader damage. Check the first 2 issues despite the fact the 3rd tablet had no such problems.
One of the XDA smart guys fixed my error of posting this in the wrong section.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and have installed and re-installed the drivers several times. When the tablet's are fully booted ADB has a good connection and sucessfully sends the command to reboot. So I don't believe there is a driver or USB cable error...
When the tablets hang on the fastboot protocol my computer makes the usb connecting noise but fails to install the drivers...
When I hit forced recovery I hear the unrecognized USB device sound...
These two things make me think I don't have the proper drivers installed...but I don't understand how the driver's work when the tablet is booted but not when trying to access the boot loader.
It appears as though I'm going to have to try the dd method if you are able to point me in that direction please.
EDIT: Now I'm thinking I really DON'T have the fastboot drivers installed. I just plugged the 2nd tablet that hands on the fastboot menu and fastboot failed. I also booted the tablet completly, the adb driver's installed correctly but the fastboot driver's did not...I have installed the 64 bit driver's included with nabilablite. I can't find any actual other downloads. The 15 second ADB installer didn't change anything...
najman9 said:
One of the XDA smart guys fixed my error of posting this in the wrong section.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and have installed and re-installed the drivers several times. When the tablet's are fully booted ADB has a good connection and sucessfully sends the command to reboot. So I don't believe there is a driver or USB cable error...
When the tablets hang on the fastboot protocol my computer makes the usb connecting noise but fails to install the drivers...
When I hit forced recovery I hear the unrecognized USB device sound...
These two things make me think I don't have the proper drivers installed...but I don't understand how the driver's work when the tablet is booted but not when trying to access the boot loader.
It appears as though I'm going to have to try the dd method if you are able to point me in that direction please.
EDIT: Now I'm thinking I really DON'T have the fastboot drivers installed. I just plugged the 2nd tablet that hands on the fastboot menu and fastboot failed. I also booted the tablet completly, the adb driver's installed correctly but the fastboot driver's did not...I have installed the 64 bit driver's included with nabilablite. I can't find any actual other downloads. The 15 second ADB installer didn't change anything...
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Uninstall those nablablite and try this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62826514&postcount=2639
Or look at the other options in section 4 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/nabi-2/general/nabi-information-t3229119
Dear everyone,
I have an ASUS MeMoPad 10 (ME103K) here which I vowed to fix. The user wanted to revert to Factory Defaults, lost power or something like this, and ended up with a bricked device.
I can only start it with power button + volume up, into Fastboot. Secure Boot is enabled.
I have Android SDK and minimal FastBoot installed. Have the Google USB Drivers on my desktop.
I tried flashing SuperBoot (ADB), but ADB simply lists "Waiting for Device". No devices can be listed. It does show up in Windows Device Manager: ASUS Android Bootloader Interface.
I have the following files available:
- SuperBoot r5
- Kernel: l-8064-r1_V12.16.1.12-201508071139-foss.tar
- UL-K01E-WW-12.16.1.12-user
- recovery-original-me103k
There is apparently no recovery.img for this device. The boot.img is in the UL-K01E-WW-12.16.1.12-user file
Power = ASUS logo then goes black
Power + Volume up = Fastboot
Power + Volume down = /
Power + Volume up+down = /
Is this the place I should be looking? I'm honestly not sure if I can catch up with the details: android.stackexchange.com/questions/124344/trying-to-flash-a-system-img-i-took-with-dd-failing
Any help would be much appreciated!
- Al
EDIT:
fastboot devices now detects #serialnumber
Alright, fastboot now detects my device. I installed PDANet which didn't do anything, and then downloaded another adbfastboot package which hit it.
I'm able to start writing boot.img, but that's what it stays at. It's an 8MB file, so it shouldn't take half an hour, I suppose?
I'm not getting any error message either, though.
EDIT: It seems that regardless of what commands I send, they stall and don't get executed. ADB doesn't seem to find any devices, only Fastboot does.
EDIT 2: Tried the same on my laptop. Different ports. Nothing goes further than for example "Writing 'boot' - that's it.
Bump (won't bump until tomorrow late)
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Recover Asus Me103k (k01e)
1) Stock recovery:
View attachment k01e_stock_recovery.zip
3) Run it without flash:
Code:
fastboot boot k01e_stock_recovery.img
3) In recovery select to install UL-K01E-WW-12.16.1.12-user.zip (early placed on microsd)
4) Also can check boot ability:
Extract boot.img from update firmware zip UL-K01E-WW-12.16.1.12-user
And run it from fastboot:
Code:
fastboot boot boot.img
If Android loaded normaly after it, but after reboot you see FASTBOOT MODE, than execute this commands:
Code:
fastboot oem reset-dev_info
fastboot reboot
Asus MeMo pad ME103K/K01E bootloader unlock
sheinbo said:
Hi,
after all these years I remembered my asus memo... Such a fine displsay but ... . I discovered an unofficial rom for another old device ( samsung gt 5830) and so I'd like to ask you whether you know any possibility to "upgrade" the MeMo or any other way to pitch / patch it. Your reply here let me think that you are very attached to asus memo, maybe you are still interested.
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Same here, running the device on Lollipop is awfully slow, KitKat is somewhat better though but those are the only two official ROM's which can be found and installed.
Tried to unlock the bootloader to try different ROM's but bootloader is locked, despite all info here on XDA, nothing seems to work and the bootloader remains locked. Unlock APK's also give no result.
Running out of options here, any suggestions will be appreciated.
First of all, thanks for the great guides published here and all the work that went into them. They help resolve a lot of issues.
Unfortunately I encountered an issue today on my KIW-L21 that I can't find a solution for in the published guides. Today a stock update (installed via TWRP) got stuck on first boot and somehow managed to break the DLOAD recovery option (accessed by pressing Vol Up+Down when powering up the phone). Whenever I try to enter the DLOAD recovery mode now, the phone is not flashing the UPDATE.APP from the dload folder on the SD card anymore, but is showing an update screen (looks like a usb plug in a circle). This process stays on 5% for a while and then just reboots the phone into the regular system. So no option to recover from the UPDATE.APP anymore. Otherwise the phone still seems to be working fine.
Here's what I did to run into the problem:
- Successfully flash 5.1_EMUI 3.1_C432B140 firmware found in the Honor 5X repository on XDA via DLOAD recovery
- Flash TWRP (twrp-3.3.1-0-kiwi) via fastboot
- Download update to 6.0.1_EMUI 4.0_C432B350CUSTC432D003 via the regular update option
- After download the phone automatically booted into TWRP to install the update
- Reboot after TWRP flashed the update got stuck on boot and the DLOAD recovery got replaced by that update feature
Since then I booted into TWRP recovery again and installed AOSiP 9.0 + Magisk after wiping data/system/cache. This worked fine and AOSiP is booting and working correctly. The only issue now is that the DLOAD recovery did not get restored that way. That behavior stayed the same.
I tried eRecovery (reports an error after connecting to the wifi network, but this did not work before either) and stock recovery (extracted from B140 firmware and flashed via fastboot) without success. Both stock recovery options failed with an error message but did not provide any details regarding the issue.
Is the lost DLOAD recovery a known issue? Not sure if a partial update is stuck somewhere and needs to be deleted or if the DLOAD recovery function can be flashed via fastboot to fix this.
*** UPDATE 1
Here's some additional things I tried to fix the issue and that I noticed during those attempts:
- Recovery via HiSuite unfortunately does not seem to work. When booted into the bootloader HiSuite does not recognize the device. When booted into AOSiP, the phone is recognized, but the HiSuite app installed on the phone fails to work due to missing location authorizations. It doesn't ask for them though, just displays an error pop-up that leads to settings where I don't have the option to enable location access for the app. When manually checking the location permission for apps HiSuite is not among those that I can enable/disable this for.
- TWRP recovery can't be accessed from the phone despite flashing it via "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img". When launching recovery on the phone I end up in EMUI stock recovery. I can access and use TWRP via "fastboot boot twrp.img" though.
- I tried using the DLOAD update with the dload folder copied to the internal storage (local SD card). This did not change the phone getting stuck at a 5% update instead of the EMUI firmware flash.
- The local dload folder however seemed to have an impact on the stock recovery. While the stock recovery failed with an error before, it now gets the stuck at 99% done and a reboot just restarts the stock factory reset. I did find a way to exit this loop without waiting for the battery to drain (reboot with both volume buttons pressed into the update mode I don't want, reboot regularly once it stops on 5%) that got me back into a running/reset AOSiP.
- I can't boot into EDL mode via ADB (adb reboot edl). I was hoping HiSuite might help in that mode, but the command just rebooted the phone into AOSiP.
- The 5% update issue does not get resolved by disconnecting the phone from a cable during the operation. I read on XDA that this solved the issue for other HUAWEI devices, did unfortunately not work for mine.
- I noticed the bootloader does not show the FRP info anymore on the screen of the phone. It just shows "PHONE Unlocked". Not sure if that is important or just changed to this after unlocking the bootloader a few days ago.
The fact the flashing the recovery partition with TWRP does not seem to work properly suggests a partitioning issue to me. Is there a way to repartition the device and manually flash the relevant partitions via fastboot or some other tool?
If anyone knows how to fix the issue, a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated.
[SOLVED]
I finally managed to fix the issue by reverting to stock in several steps.
Tools required:
- Stock Firmware (I used the C432B140 I downloaded from the XDA Honor 5X repository)
- ADB/Fastboot toolset
- Huawei Update Extractor
- Stock firmware UPDATE.APP in dload folder on SD card installed in phone
1. I extracted BOOT.IMG, RECOVERY.IMG and SYSTEM.IMG from the full stock firmware
2. I rebooted the phone into bootloader (using command "adb reboot bootloader")
3. I flashed the stock recovery image (using command "fastboot flash recovery RECOVERY.IMG)
4. I flashed the stock system image (using command "fastboot flash system SYSTEM.IMG)
5. I flashed the stock boot image (using command "fastboot flash boot BOOT.IMG")
6. I rebooted the phone (using command "fastboot reboot"), this rebooted the phone in a stock B140 / B350 hybrid stock EMUI
7. I entered the ProjectMenu by entering *#*#2846579#*#* on in the phone app and chose "4. Software Upgrade" > "1. SDCard Upgrade" and confirmed that I want to perform the update.
8. The phone finally rebooted into the regular EMUI dload updater and reflashed stock firmware C432B140 to my phone
Afterwards the recovery from dload could also be started via Vol Up+Down when powering up the phone.
Hope this helps someone else fix the issue in case anyone encounters this.
I am facing a very similar issue on a KIW-L21 (running a custom ROM though).
Can anyone guide me to whether the steps presented can be modified to work coming from a custom ROM?