Device turns on, goes to ASUS logo screen with 'The Device is UnLocked." in corner. Can't enter recovery, can't enter fastboot.
Device can only go into APX mode, and I have no nvflash blobs previously.
Am I surely hard bricked? Is sending this in to ASUS the only option at this point? (Because I have 0% experience with hardware, taking this tablet apart, replacing hardware in it, etc.)
Thank you
mikeDCMDVA said:
Device turns on, goes to ASUS logo screen with 'The Device is UnLocked." in corner. Can't enter recovery, can't enter fastboot.
Device can only go into APX mode, and I have no nvflash blobs previously.
Am I surely hard bricked? Is sending this in to ASUS the only option at this point? (Because I have 0% experience with hardware, taking this tablet apart, replacing hardware in it, etc.)
Thank you
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Hi!
I have an Asus EeePad Transformer Prime TF201, on stock ICS, unlocked via ASUS official method.
I tried to flash CWM in order to get CyanogenMod, fastboot flash all went OK, no errors, i rebooted the tablet into O/S then after several tries to get into CWM Recovery( normal volume-down + power, adb reboot recovery) all led to a freeze in the splash-screen or bootloader menu.
Then i tried to do a full wipe from the bootloader menu, the tablet hanged again trying to boot recovery image. After about 30 minutes of wait, i hard-rebooted it.
This final step led to a strange brick: the tablet is stuck with Asus logo in the center, "Powered by Nvidia Tegra" in the down-right corner and "The Device is Unlocked" in the top left corner.
I tried to get to fastboot but it doesn't respond to the normal volume-down + power, it actually reboots but the bootloader menu doesn't come up.
Is there any solution for my problem? Your help is greatly appreciated
Same problem here.. I wanted to go back to CM10 but the device wouldn't load into recovery so I installed Reboot to Recovery from Google Play and now it just boots to Asus splash screen! PC doesn't even recognize the device when plugged... Before I installed the "Reboot to Recovery " app I was getting the Cold Boot menu when I hit power+volume down... Now the device just boots to splash screen top left says Device unlocked bottom right has powered by nvidia tegra logo.. middle just has Asus logo.. I allowed the device to die over night and tried power+volume down still no luck.. Play Help!
evl_z4y said:
Same problem here.. I wanted to go back to CM10 but the device wouldn't load into recovery so I installed Reboot to Recovery from Google Play and now it just boots to Asus splash screen! PC doesn't even recognize the device when plugged... Before I installed the "Reboot to Recovery " app I was getting the Cold Boot menu when I hit power+volume down... Now the device just boots to splash screen top left says Device unlocked bottom right has powered by nvidia tegra logo.. middle just has Asus logo.. I allowed the device to die over night and tried power+volume down still no luck.. Pls Help!
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I used Reboot Transformer to Recovery
If there's no recovery, no adb/fastboot, and you're in a boot loop or it won't boot at all then I'm pretty sure this is a brick. Check the dev forum for the tf201 and look at the brick thread. If it's recoverable then that thread will tell you how to do it
McJesus15 said:
If there's no recovery, no adb/fastboot, and you're in a boot loop or it won't boot at all then I'm pretty sure this is a brick. Check the dev forum for the tf201 and look at the brick thread. If it's recoverable then that thread will tell you how to do it
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Im going to call customer service and see how can I go about sending it. Going on the 48th hour without my baby and im feeling alone and neglected :crying:
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At first when I was able to cold boot I was receiving the 4 icon screen when I tired to boot into recovery (power+volume down) than I thought the device relocked so I reinstalled the Asus unlock tool and this crap started! It gave me some kind of "unknown time error" and after I restarted this stuff started happening..
evl_z4y said:
Im going to call customer service and see how can I go about sending it. Going on the 48th hour without my baby and im feeling alone and neglected :crying:
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It'll happen like this :
Asus will send an RMA for you. You'll pay $25ish shipping to get it there. Either a week (or 2) will pass, or several months, then they'll call you with an estimate. That estimate will be : $160 for the replacement motherboard fix, $60 for labour, and $10+ for shipping.
If you're lucky they might replace it under warranty. Do NOT tell them you unlocked it, their system may not have registered it. When you contact them ask what sort of warranty is on it, get them to look. Let them know you were updating to the latest Android on it when it bricked, not anything else. If they say your warranty is good, send it in and press them to fix it.
If not...I have a TF201 with busted LCD/digitizer that works, already nvflashed and all that. Might save you a few bucks.
Nightpath said:
It'll happen like this :
Asus will send an RMA for you. You'll pay $25ish shipping to get it there. Either a week (or 2) will pass, or several months, then they'll call you with an estimate. That estimate will be : $160 for the replacement motherboard fix, $60 for labour, and $10+ for shipping.
If you're lucky they might replace it under warranty. Do NOT tell them you unlocked it, their system may not have registered it. When you contact them ask what sort of warranty is on it, get them to look. Let them know you were updating to the latest Android on it when it bricked, not anything else. If they say your warranty is good, send it in and press them to fix it.
If not...I have a TF201 with busted LCD/digitizer that works, already nvflashed and all that. Might save you a few bucks.
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I agony of defeat! One of these super duper smart developers has to know some sort of way to recover the device using APX mode!
I am stuck on the Asus screen with the device is unlocked in the top left corner. I can't boot into bootloader, it just restarts and does the same thing. Powering it off will just restart it too. I read up on some other threads and I haven't done anything with nvflash - late to that boat. Just wondering if anyone has any feedback or solutions to try so I don't have to send it in.
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I am stuck on the Asus screen with the device is unlocked in the top left corner. I can't boot into bootloader, it just restarts and does the same thing. Powering it off will just restart it too. I read up on some other threads and I haven't done anything with nvflash - late to that boat. Just wondering if anyone has any feedback or solutions to try so I don't have to send it in.
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I have exactly the same issue here. Have an unlocked transformer, with original firmware. Wanted to wipe all data, After that, the whole tablet stucks on the starting screen. Power off is giving a reset instead of shutting down.. Any ideas how to solve?
I recently purchased a TF201 tablet and keyboard on ebay. I was mainly after the keyboard to replace one whose battery refused to charge. I already knew the tablet was bricked and it was essentially free, but took it to see if it was recoverable. I now think it is hard bricked but thought I would check here to confirm
It will boot to APX mode (can see it in devices on PC) but that doesn't help because I do not have a blob.bin for the tablet.
When it boots up normally, it displays the Eee Pad splash screen, and up the top it says AndroidRoot 9.4.2.28r01. This is displayed for a few seconds, then the screen goes blank and it reboots again. It does this continually in a loop.
If I hold down the Vol - button while it goes through a reboot, it displays the same as above, but also
"
Android cardhu-user bootloader <2.10 e> released by "WW_epad-9.4.2.28-20120525" A03
Checking for android ota recovery
Booting recovery kernel image
"
once again, this is displayed for a few seconds, and then the tablet just reboots again in a loop
I have tried the reset button as well, but that didnt help
Any ideas?
So they flashed the androidroot bootloader but don't have blob.bin?
You need to go flash a ICS-era recovery somehow. (Ask them for the blob.bin or hope that your fastboot is working)
Hello, I have a tablet sitting in front of me that I need to repair. The tablet will only boot to a screen that shows a usb logo and a white bar, which eventually changes to red. It appears that the device doesn't have a working bootloader and will only go into what seems like a download mode. Connecting the device to the computer shows "CLOVERVIEW" in device manager. Attempting button combinations doesn't provide any results. I do not know how to proceed from here. Any ideas?
This video seems like what I'd need to fix it (Intel manufacturing flash tool), although I don't exactly know how to apply this to my device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh89aiepcjQ
EDIT: Fixed it and did a write-up: http://forum.xda-developers.com/memo-pad-7/general/howto-unbrick-hardbricked-memo-pad-t3105945
However, I managed to get myself stuck at the ASUS splashscreen. Does anyone know of a way to get past the splashscreen or force download mode on a MeMo pad?
hi, i have a problem with my asus zenfone 5 (root), I think it's in hard brick, I explain better, yesterday I did a restore to "clean" the system, while restoring freezes, then I try to boot into recovery mode, I long ago I installed a custom recovery, the fact is that by inserting the recovery.img and trying to start it from the custom recovery I get errors and does not install, so start in droidboot mode to adjust all manulamente by pc (GNU / linux), with fastboot flash the recovery.img, but when I have to do the last step described by driving mistake, now I do not have a chance to get more in recovery mode, in fact, when I press power + vol + appears the Android logo with red exclamation point, if I try to start it normally there is a loading of the asus logo with the infinite wheel, but when there is asus adb logo detects it, it just says chen is not "authorized", the phone has to be thrown away? There are hardware / software solutions?
thank you so much
ps: sorry for the grammar are not English
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