I would love to know what went on here.
Here is what we know:
I purchased a TF101 about a month ago.
It is factory refurbished.
The serial number on the box starts with C10.
The serial number in Status starts with 037c7
After I received it, the first thing I did was root it.
I then put it in APX mode just for fun and ran sbkDetect which said I have sbk2
At this point I was pretty sure I would never NVFlash this device, both the serial number then sbkDetect detect said no.
More of what we know:
This device came with Honeycomb and has NEVER received an ASUS update.
I installed Revolution HD, followed soon after by Megatron.
At some point just for giggles, I downloaded and installed the Asus Unlock tool for Transformer Prime. I turned off my wifi (just to be safe) and ran it. It told me I was on the wrong device and it would not work.
I played with some linux kernels to boot ubuntu. At some point while doing this I lost recovery and the ability to boot anything.
I was still in my 30 day window, so I almost returned it. Then, again just for fun, I grabbed the NVFlash package, and the PRIME images. I ran this and (once I had the images in place) it finished and claimed success.
My boot image is now grey without the nvidia logo it used to have. Then it goes through some PC looking steps (I am not sure if this is the ROM being cute or something to do with the boot loader).
I booted up, logged into the PRIME (1.4 I was just grabbing SOMETHING to test with) and all seems fine. Just to double check, I went back and NVFlashed it again. It worked again and Android booted back up in a rewiped state.
So what do you guys think? My best guess is that when it was refurbished the serial number was changed (I mean it's just on the box), but it's MB was not and SBK1 was left on the board. This does not explain why the SBKDetect tool told me I was SBKv2.
Is it possible the Prime unlock unlocked mine even though it returned an error?
Would anyone else with a C10 like to back their's up and try an NVFlash for fun? Then run the Prime unlock and try again if it fails?
Elders of the forum, please speak up.
Here is what we know:
I purchased a TF101 about a month ago.
It is factory refurbished.
The serial number on the box starts with C10.
The serial number in Status starts with 037c7
After I received it, the first thing I did was root it.
I then put it in APX mode just for fun and ran sbkDetect which said I have sbk2
At this point I was pretty sure I would never NVFlash this device, both the serial number then sbkDetect detect said no.
More of what we know:
This device came with Honeycomb and has NEVER received an ASUS update.
I installed Revolution HD, followed soon after by Megatron.
At some point just for giggles, I downloaded and installed the Asus Unlock tool for Transformer Prime. I turned off my wifi (just to be safe) and ran it. It told me I was on the wrong device and it would not work.
I played with some linux kernels to boot ubuntu. At some point while doing this I lost recovery and the ability to boot anything.
I was still in my 30 day window, so I almost returned it. Then, again just for fun, I grabbed the NVFlash package, and the PRIME images. I ran this and (once I had the images in place) it finished and claimed success.
My boot image is now grey without the nvidia logo it used to have. Then it goes through some PC looking steps (I am not sure if this is the ROM being cute or something to do with the boot loader).
I booted up, logged into the PRIME (1.4 I was just grabbing SOMETHING to test with) and all seems fine. Just to double check, I went back and NVFlashed it again. It worked again and Android booted back up in a rewiped state.
So what do you guys think? My best guess is that when it was refurbished the serial number was changed (I mean it's just on the box), but it's MB was not and SBK1 was left on the board. This does not explain why the SBKDetect tool told me I was SBKv2.
Is it possible the Prime unlock unlocked mine even though it returned an error?
Would anyone else with a C10 like to back their's up and try an NVFlash for fun? Then run the Prime unlock and try again if it fails?
Elders of the forum, please speak up.