Ok, without getting into the cascading series of screwiness along the way, I think I've managed to effectively brick my phone. I'm posting in hopes that the part of my brain screaming "No, you're missing something" is right.
e970, already rooted, running CyanogenMod 10.1 and TWRP 2.6.3.0. In pursuit of a "clean slate" to deal with remnants of sloppy uninstallations, I thought I'd clear everything with TWRP and just put CM back. So, I pulled out my SD card with my saved data, and had TWRP wipe everything, including the CM zip on the root of the built-in storage. I copied the newer CM and GAPPS to a spare SD card, plugged it in...
and I found the external SD card wasn't recognized by TWRP. There's only 1 storage location listed, which is the built-in area I just wiped.
I can't get the phone to be recognized by a desktop running Windows 8.1. I have freshly installed the drivers, downloaded the SDK, rebooted, etc. from that side. The phone is never recognized by either Windows or ADB. So, I dug out the laptop I originally installed CM from some time back (last year?). Same story - no Windows or ADB recognition.
Ok, fine - maybe the USB port is dying on me. I'll try formatting the SD card and see if that's the issue. FAT32, copy the files back, still no luck. Great. Maybe it's the card, so I copy my data and put the zips on the original card I had in the phone. Still no dice.
So, here I am. No OS installed, no image on the internal drive to recover from, TWRP won't recognize my external card(s), and I can't get anything to acknowledge the phone via USB to do a sideload.
Am I missing something, or did I completely hose myself?
I forgot to mention: I did try different cables and ports on both computers before arriving at the idea the e970 USB port may have having issues.
Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
If that doesn't work, you may have to just LGPNST back to bone stock.
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
OMGMatrix said:
Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
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(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
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If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I've honestly not messed with this option; I just know I've solved similar problems with flash drives in the past by formatting in different ways.
OMGMatrix said:
If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
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How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
Sent from my LG Optimus G using Tapatalk
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There's a thought... I think I have a Knoppix disk around here that I could boot from. I don't have high hopes, since it's not being recognized by the laptop I did this on originally, but I'll give anything a shot at this point. I'll let you know how it goes.
No dice. ADB gives me the same response whether the phone is at the fastboot screen or the sideload inside TWRP.
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb start-server
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$
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OMGMatrix said:
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I tried this but didn't have any luck. It looks like it is trying to hit the external card, but still isn't recognizing it.
E: Unknown File System: 'datamedia'
Updatition partition details...
Partitioning SD Card...
E: Unable to locate device to partition.
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Check ALL your cords
Another update. After presuming me e970 dead, going to Best Buy to shop for an AT&T Next upgrade, running the HTC One m8 for a couple days, I get a wild hair to try the HTC cord on the old phone. Oddly enough, it works and the phone was picked up immediately. I've already pushed CM over via adb, and and working on gapps now.
Apparently both of the cords I tried previously weren't up to spec for smartphone use. I'm going to have to come up with a labelling system on what's good for trickle charges and what's good for data.
I'm not sure what a return will do to my upgrade status, but I'd rather wait on a new phone. It even looks like I know what I'll get. Thanks for the ideas along the way.
Nice, glad you found a solution. Unless things have changed with the new plans, you should be OK to return the phone within 14 days and keep your upgrade.
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I have CWM v5 newly installed. I immediately ran a backup with it and all went well. Now, a little later, I've been looking into CyanogenMod and wanted to tiny baby steps so I was nice and confident with things.
I tried to do another backup from CWM and it said it couldn't mount /sdcard. I tried to restore and the same error. Rebooted a few times and it's the same still.
I booted normally and checked with a standard file manager and /sdcard was fine. I haven't changed anything since the time it was working but I still seem to have broken things
What can I do?
EDIT: Actually, since getting CWM on the device, I have played a little with ADB commands and replaced the bootanimation.zip. Everything works when the phone is booted normally so that can't have caused it. Can it?
You really like new threads eh?
I presume you don't have a physical micro SD card, and you've changed kernels again at some point. Now the sdcard mentioned in newer CWM recovery is the external_sd, which you don't have. Use the internal SD card option.
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You really like new threads eh?
I presume you don't have a physical micro SD card, and you've changed kernels again at some point. Now the sdcard mentioned in newer CWM recovery is the external_sd, which you don't have. Use the internal SD card option.
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I love them I do search before hand to see if there are similar threads relating to my device but because there aren't, I thought making a new thread per issue would be helpful. I can keep it all in this thread though if that's the etiquette around here though.
I used kTool to flash the zImage from the link you pointed out in my last thread, that gave me CF-Root v5 and CWM. I haven't changed anything since that point so if it worked once, I don't understand why it won't work again. You have confused me about the sdcard/external_sd. I have a card in the device, and everything normally saves to /sdcard but there's also /sdcard/external_sd which is always empty. I also see /sdcard/usbStorage where I have put some files too, but I don't really understand the naming conventions.
As I said, look for the "internal sd card" option in CWM recovery.
I'll add a bit more in the hope you don't need to keep posting.
If you don't have a physical micro SD card in your phone and you try to use any of the "install/backup/restore to/from sdcard" in newer versions of CWM recovery, it will give an error about being unable to mount /sdcard. Also, as far as I know, /sdcard/usbStorage refers to USB OTG, so unless you've got a USB OTG cable and a memory card/HDD plugged in, you shouldn't be writing files to that location.
Backed up successfully to internal sdcard, although I wasn't able to restore from it first which I don't understand because there should be the original one from earlier somewhere.
Turns out I was wrong, I don't appear to have a card in that SD slot even though I could swear there was one. And I can create files/folders in /sdcard/external_sd/ so I give up, lol.
EDIT: Nope, just the normal USB that came with the phone. I created the files/folders directly in the phone when I tested it.
Nook Tablet won't read internal. When plugging in usb message screen from microsoft windows pops up and says You need to format the disk in drive I: before you can use it. Do you want to format it? First thought it was the external card but popped it out. Not the case. I'm on 1.4.0 and running cm7b. I have never updated from 1.4.0. Are there any benefits to updating to 1.4.3? Everything works fine just won't read internal. Before installing I used meghd00t Repartition, Reformat, Restore and Rescue SDcard to go back to stock. (Still rooted apparently). So installed cwm recovery, cm7b and gapps. No problem reading external card just keep getting that jacked up windows message wanting me to format my nook. Thanks for any help or fixes.
If I was you, I wouldn't listen to anything that Windows has to say. Especially about formatting, that would just erase all your data.
What happens when you choose not to format the disk? Nothing at all?
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If I was you, I wouldn't listen to anything that Windows has to say. Especially about formatting, that would just erase all your data.
What happens when you choose not to format the disk? Nothing at all?
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Hey Solar.Plexus,
Everything on the tablet works just fine so far. I've been away from it for 3 or 4 months. Seems like this happened to me before when I bricked it. It seems as though something is kicked out of it somewhere. For instance when going back to stock and going thru the whole sign in it won't let me register with b&n. Don't care about b&n so that's not a problem. Just thought that was why I was never able to get updates and still stuck at 1.40. I just bypass it with the volume up and tapping the screen. Would like to be able to run CM9 on eMMC and CM7 from microSD. But if it doesn't show up not sure what to do. Appears as blank drive letters. Oh well! I remember you now solar. Seems that I posted something months back about the benefits to update and old_fart mentioned something about there is a little box called search. It was a good fun banter. Apparently you got a kick out of it if I remember right. So help me out here please. Are you on 1.4.3?
Appreciate your input my friend.
I actually haven't used stock ROM for a really long time. I currently have CM9 on eMMC and different SD cards with ROMs to use. Let me know what exact dual boot setup you'd like to use and we'll see if we can get it to work out for you.
Who knows, flashing the new ROM might fix the unreadable problem. Regardless, you could probably still use ADB to transfer files to and from your /mnt/media partition.
Sent from my Slider SL101
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I actually haven't used stock ROM for a really long time. I currently have CM9 on eMMC and different SD cards with ROMs to use. Let me know what exact dual boot setup you'd like to use and we'll see if we can get it to work out for you.
Who knows, flashing the new ROM might fix the unreadable problem. Regardless, you could probably still use ADB to transfer files to and from your /mnt/media partition.
Sent from my Slider SL101
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Sounds like a solid dog deal to me!
Let's try your setup for kicks and see if I can follow along. Not real familiar with Cyanoboot but I know how to push buttons. ADB knowledge a bit limited but somehow manage to figure it out eventually. I'll try not to have too many senior moments with you. I'm ready to crack this puppy open.
Dragging right now so catch up with you later.
Thanks major dude!
Since you already have CWM recovery flashed internally, all you have to do is flash the CM9 ROM and gApps from this post right here to set up your eMMC ROM.
Then to make your CM7 SD ROM, follow the directions under the SD VERSION IMAGE section of this post right here.
After that, you can modify the SD card to use CyanoBoot, the 2nd bootloader. So do this:
1.) Download the CyanoBoot file from this post right here.
2.) Navigate to the first partition (boot partition) of the CM7 SD card you have made.
3.) Replace the old flashing_boot.img with the new flashing_boot.img file you just downloaded.
4.) Done.
Now, anytime you boot up from a completely off state, your NT should* boot from the SD card and go to CyanoBoot, where you can choose which ROM you want to boot into.
*You might need to plug your NT into a wall charger in order to get it to boot from the SD card. Only some NTs require this.
I have sd_root_nt16or8gbV4.7, and it works great, but it does not see any zip files in the card I insert to do the cm7, I am using the same sandisk 4gb I used to install sd_root. Also, when I reboot since I am stuck, what version am I on. I am trying to install cm-7-TEAM-B-BETA1-signed.zip, and I can see it on the card from my computer. and also the nook.
So I have two nook tablets in this state. (16gb)
Assuming your SD card is bootable, to boot the NT from SD card: turn off your NT then insert a powered USB cable (as opposed to using the power button).
Also, you might consider going to CM10, as time goes on there will increasing less and less apps available for CM7.
possible solution but I do not know how to get in twrp
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Assuming your SD card is bootable, to boot the NT from SD card: turn off your NT then insert a powered USB cable (as opposed to using the power button).
Also, you might consider going to CM10, as time goes on there will increasing less and less apps available for CM7.
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Originally Posted by Chizo View Post
I have to say this is the easiest and best guide I have come across. I was able to easily get root access. The only problem is I'm not able to install the rom or gapps. When I select install zip from sd card, -> choose zip from sd card, it doesn't see anything, it just says no files found. I've tried 4 different cards,( two 2gb & two 32 gb) and the same problem with both. Any ideas as to what I might have done wrong?
You should have debugging and install from unkn source aready checked uder manage apps and development but double check. if all is good there in TWRP or CWM dismount and remount SD and make sure it's reading the card/ on TWRP in the left pane there will be files to choose, brouse them and see if you can find the downloads. If still no joy, and your for sure rooted try to reformat your sd again with sdformatter and put your rom and gapps back on it and try again. LMK, thanks,
I would post there but it would not let me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2037368
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Originally Posted by Chizo View Post
I have to say this is the easiest and best guide I have come across. I was able to easily get root access. The only problem is I'm not able to install the rom or gapps. When I select install zip from sd card, -> choose zip from sd card, it doesn't see anything, it just says no files found. I've tried 4 different cards,( two 2gb & two 32 gb) and the same problem with both. Any ideas as to what I might have done wrong?
You should have debugging and install from unkn source aready checked uder manage apps and development but double check. if all is good there in TWRP or CWM dismount and remount SD and make sure it's reading the card/ on TWRP in the left pane there will be files to choose, brouse them and see if you can find the downloads. If still no joy, and your for sure rooted try to reformat your sd again with sdformatter and put your rom and gapps back on it and try again. LMK, thanks,
I would post there but it would not let me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2037368
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Im having trouble finding debugging and install from unknown source option, or even finding manage apps and development. How do i get there?
im actually using that guide and im in my cwm recovery v5 and i cant find any option to debug etc.
Debug is under developer options. Unknown sources is under security settings. Both of which are in the ROM, not in CWM.
Sent from my NT running Kuzma's CM10.1
Same problem No files found on SD card
Thanks for the efforts to get to this point.
Nook Tablet 1.4.3 complete root guide for 8or16gb to GB and JB
Yes, I am rooted but unable to load any of the other files. More suggestions? I repeated the process but nothing after removing the root card at step 14.
I can see them from the NT but I am not able to load any of them.
Thanks,
Les
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Thanks for the efforts to get to this point.
Nook Tablet 1.4.3 complete root guide for 8or16gb to GB and JB
Yes, I am rooted but unable to load any of the other files. More suggestions? I repeated the process but nothing after removing the root card at step 14.
I can see them from the NT but I am not able to load any of them.
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Les
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I removed the USB charge connector from the laptop and connected it to the charger. Suddenly, I can see the contents of the card and was able to progress with the installation. Frustrating... But moving on...
Can't find zips
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I removed the USB charge connector from the laptop and connected it to the charger. Suddenly, I can see the contents of the card and was able to progress with the installation. Frustrating... But moving on...
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I still can't find the zips. I tried this too but nothing. How do I get to see the zips???
Booted into recovery and made a nandroid. Then while still in twrp, flashed saberkernel.
Every time I boot my phone it says "safe to remove SD" or whatever. I've tried putting it in an adapter and plugging it into my computer but windows won't even recognize it. At least OSX says it's unable to recognize it and asks if I want to format it.
If I boot into recovery with the SD in the phone, it shows all the directories, but going into folders shows nothing. I had 3 nandroids in the twrp folder but if I browse to that in recovery, there's nothing there.
Is there a way to save my camera pictures and nandroids and everything else or am I basically going to have to reformat and lose everything?:crying:
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Booted into recovery and made a nandroid. Then while still in twrp, flashed saberkernel.
Every time I boot my phone it says "safe to remove SD" or whatever. I've tried putting it in an adapter and plugging it into my computer but windows won't even recognize it. At least OSX says it's unable to recognize it and asks if I want to format it.
If I boot into recovery with the SD in the phone, it shows all the directories, but going into folders shows nothing. I had 3 nandroids in the twrp folder but if I browse to that in recovery, there's nothing there.
Is there a way to save my camera pictures and nandroids and everything else or am I basically going to have to reformat and lose everything?:crying:
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Same thing just happened to me. Lost a new 32gb SD card. Not good. :crying:
This happen to me last week. I was not rooted at the time so I called verizon and they sent me out a new phone
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Wanted to pull this out of the newbie thread, not because it doesn't belong there (i'm certainly still an XDA newb) but because hold IRC-chat is it hard to keep up with all those posts...guess I'm too much of a noob for the newbie post?
TL;DR:
My TF700T has TWRP functioning, but no Android OS installed. Unfortunately TWRP doesn't seem to recognize anything in the USB/SD card ports. See below for what I've tried.
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I was trying the whole new ROM on my tablet (ASUS TF700T) thing. I have the recovery part setup just fine TWRP, but I made the foolish mistake of wiping the ENTIRE internal storage, including my backup.
Certainly not a good start, but easy enough to put the new image (I was going for crombie-kk) on an SD card & load from that, except for my problem.....
TWRP doesn't seem to notice my SD Card (or USB) storage devices. It lists "external storage" as one would expect, but it's always 0MB and no files, regardless of whether a device attached. I know the devices are good, and I know the USB & SD card ports were working the day I started the rooting/romming process--so i'm reluctant to think they coincidentally died that exact day.
I've tried SD cards (both full & micro) in both SD card slot & USB port, as well as USB sticks of varying sizes. I've even tried various file formats on these storage devices, but I can't get anything other than 0MB.
Any advice on how to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, on my device? Obviously a custom ROM is the goal but even if I could go back to a stock device--at least the external storage would work and I could go from there!
Thanks for the help in advance
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Wanted to pull this out of the newbie thread, not because it doesn't belong there (i'm certainly still an XDA newb) but because hold IRC-chat is it hard to keep up with all those posts...guess I'm too much of a noob for the newbie post?
TL;DR:
My TF700T has TWRP functioning, but no Android OS installed. Unfortunately TWRP doesn't seem to recognize anything in the USB/SD card ports. See below for what I've tried.
Full Story:
I was trying the whole new ROM on my tablet (ASUS TF700T) thing. I have the recovery part setup just fine TWRP, but I made the foolish mistake of wiping the ENTIRE internal storage, including my backup.
Certainly not a good start, but easy enough to put the new image (I was going for crombie-kk) on an SD card & load from that, except for my problem.....
TWRP doesn't seem to notice my SD Card (or USB) storage devices. It lists "external storage" as one would expect, but it's always 0MB and no files, regardless of whether a device attached. I know the devices are good, and I know the USB & SD card ports were working the day I started the rooting/romming process--so i'm reluctant to think they coincidentally died that exact day.
I've tried SD cards (both full & micro) in both SD card slot & USB port, as well as USB sticks of varying sizes. I've even tried various file formats on these storage devices, but I can't get anything other than 0MB.
Any advice on how to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, on my device? Obviously a custom ROM is the goal but even if I could go back to a stock device--at least the external storage would work and I could go from there!
Thanks for the help in advance
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If I understand your problem corectly you have to go into Recovery and mount your sd card first.
I'n not sure where in the TWRP recovery exactly is but there is surely a menu 'mount'.
In there you have to mount your sd card first.
Hope it solve your problem.
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If I understand your problem corectly you have to go into Recovery and mount your sd card first.
I'n not sure where in the TWRP recovery exactly is but there is surely a menu 'mount'.
In there you have to mount your sd card first.
Hope it solve your problem.
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I should have mentioned that. I have tried mounting (under the "mount" menu), it lists "Micro SDcard" as an option, but won't select (it just flashes & stays unchecked) when I attempt to select it.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
See if you can adb push a rom zip to the internal storage.
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See if you can adb push a rom zip to the internal storage.
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Sorry, not entirely clear what you mean, could you explain in a little more detail or link to a guide or something? Thanks!
coatmaker618 said:
Sorry, not entirely clear what you mean, could you explain in a little more detail or link to a guide or something? Thanks!
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Read these about adb push:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598027
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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Read these about adb push:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598027
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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I don't think I can, "adb devices" or "fastboot devices" does not seem to see my table, when it is attached to the computer. I went to "Mount" --> "ADB Sideload" so the tablet is "listening" for the adb push....but as I said, adb.exe cannot see my tablet
So did I brick this tablet beyond repair?
Is there anything I can do?
What about factory reset?
HALP!
And thanks, for everything I've gotten so far and hopefully everything to come.
Factory reset won't help in this situation at all.
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...irmware-tf700-tf300-tf101-possibly-tf201.html