[Q] ASUS TF101 'soft' bricked; can't unbrick it.

XTwarrior · Mar 17, 2013

So, I have a TF101 (B70) that was running Revolution HD. Was running great, but I wanted to play with overclocking. I decided I was going to try out the EOS4 ROm since it had overclocking built in. I downloaded and ran Titaniumn Backup Pro. Went to flash, tried to restore to factory default (Never flashed the new ROM), and it froze during the Factory default. Since then, I cannot boot into the OS, and I get errors whenever I enter CWM Recovery (power + volume down).

The biggest issue I think I am running into - I did not have debugging mode turned on when I went into CWM.

I have the ASUS drivers in place (AMD64). I have installed full ASUS Suite from their website. The PC recognizes it as "ASUS Android ADB Interface" in Device manager when I have it booted into APX mode. I had to update the drivers for AMD64 for it to recognize it other than just 'APX' in Device manager. The device is obviously rooted. I tried running reflash_sbkv1 (and 2) and all it does is bring a prompt up for a split second then goes away.

Drivers are installed, NVflash is installed, installed necessary ADB bits onto my PC. Yet, when I try to run the command 'adb devices' it finds no device.

I have supposedly run EasyFlasher using the current TF101 US version and it goes through all the scripting and runs and completes. Yet when i reboot it is stuck on the 'Android' screen again and I get the same errors in recovery.

Also, if I try to boot into regular OS, Device manager on my PC shows it as a 'MTP USB Device' with a yellow exclamation mark. If I try to update drivers with the USB drivers I downloaded, all it says is that Windows thinks the drivers are already up to date! It won't seem to take the downloaded drivers from ASUS (AMD64)

I don't know what to do now. Help!

XTwarrior · Mar 17, 2013

*Detection* · Mar 17, 2013

How long did you wait for NVFLASH to flash the TF ?

It takes quite a while iirc but so long as you are in APX Mode then it should be able to recover it

This is the latest stock NVFLASH ROM
http://www.xdafileserver.nl/Files/Asus/Asus%20Transformer%20(TF101)/STOCK%20ROMS/ICS%20.27/NVFLASH_ICS_9.2.1.27_US_NOROOT.7z

Put the Tablet into APX Mode with the USB cable attached > Run download.bat and wait for it to complete

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USB Debugging doesn't affect recovery, only when you're booted into Android

Thing O Doom · Mar 17, 2013

ADB won't work with stock recovery.
I think your issue is that you need to be in APX mode to use NvFlash to unbrick the tab, download the link that *Detection* posted.
You probably have a Sbkv2 tablet with B70 (still try both), so download wheelie from androidroot.mobi, overwrite the files from first .zip with the wheelie files.
Get into APX mode with Volume-UP + Power, the screen will stay blank but the computer will detect it. Usbpcdriver is the APX drivers and a folder in the first download link.
Run Reflash_Sbkv2.bat and give it awhile. Should fix the tablet.

XTwarrior · Mar 17, 2013

*Detection* said:
How long did you wait for NVFLASH to flash the TF ?

It takes quite a while iirc but so long as you are in APX Mode then it should be able to recover it

This is the latest stock NVFLASH ROM
http://www.xdafileserver.nl/Files/Asus/Asus%20Transformer%20(TF101)/STOCK%20ROMS/ICS%20.27/NVFLASH_ICS_9.2.1.27_US_NOROOT.7z

Put the Tablet into APX Mode with the USB cable attached > Run download.bat and wait for it to complete

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USB Debugging doesn't affect recovery, only when you're booted into Android

Thing O Doom said:
ADB won't work with stock recovery.
I think your issue is that you need to be in APX mode to use NvFlash to unbrick the tab, download the link that *Detection* posted.
You probably have a Sbkv2 tablet with B70 (still try both), so download wheelie from androidroot.mobi, overwrite the files from first .zip with the wheelie files.
Get into APX mode with Volume-UP + Power, the screen will stay blank but the computer will detect it. Usbpcdriver is the APX drivers and a folder in the first download link.
Run Reflash_Sbkv2.bat and give it awhile. Should fix the tablet.

I've done these but didn't wait long. Is it supposed to just quick run the batch and then dissappear quickly, and i just wait awhile?

*Detection* · Mar 18, 2013

XTwarrior said:
I've done these but didn't wait long. Is it supposed to just quick run the batch and then dissappear quickly, and i just wait awhile?

The .bat opens command prompt which will show you progress until its done, which takes 5-10 minutes maybe

The TF should also show something on its screen once the flashing begins, not much just a line or two at the top

When its done it should reboot your TF, might have to force reboot it but it will tell you once its finished

Make sure you run the download.bat as Admin

TheMrcool212 · Mar 18, 2013

XTwarrior said:
I've done these but didn't wait long. Is it supposed to just quick run the batch and then dissappear quickly, and i just wait awhile?

Try to run as administrator

Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

XTwarrior · Mar 19, 2013

Thanks guys! Finally got it to work with NVFlash. Kept hanging after it formatted the UDA partition, but it was because when I unpacked it into a new folder, I needed to take the original zip and slap it into the root of the new folder I made so that it could grab the zip file.

transfomer · Jul 12, 2014

Thing O Doom said:
ADB won't work with stock recovery.
I think your issue is that you need to be in APX mode to use NvFlash to unbrick the tab, download the link that *Detection* posted.
You probably have a Sbkv2 tablet with B70 (still try both), so download wheelie from androidroot.mobi, overwrite the files from first .zip with the wheelie files.
Get into APX mode with Volume-UP + Power, the screen will stay blank but the computer will detect it. Usbpcdriver is the APX drivers and a folder in the first download link.
Run Reflash_Sbkv2.bat and give it awhile. Should fix the tablet.

Help me!
My tablet is bricked.I try to flash by Easyflash it but not work.
It's can't write bootload on my tablet.
Now what can i do???

*Detection* · Jul 12, 2014

transfomer said:
Help me!
My tablet is bricked.I try to flash by Easyflash it but not work.
It's can't write bootload on my tablet.
Now what can i do???

Need more info, what did you try? How did you try Easyflasher?

Did you install the Universal Naked Drivers?

Which Windows OS are you running?

transfomer · Jul 12, 2014

*Detection* said:
Need more info, what did you try? How did you try Easyflasher?

Did you install the Universal Naked Drivers?

Which Windows OS are you running?

tks for your answer!
I used Window 7.
First, I press the volume up, connect the tablet to a PC.
Pc getting APX driver, I installed NVidia boot the PC USB.
I used Easyflash fw 0.8.3 and fw US_epad-user-9.1.27 on Asus homepage.
I click SBK2, click to zip and flash stock Asus steps:

transfomer · Jul 12, 2014

And now my tablet is hanging like this logo.
Show me,how to fix it?

fofototo1 · Jul 14, 2014

I have the same problem...it keeps showing ASUS forever.....please, help.
I don't have important files in the memory and it is unrooted, as II tried to restore it to the stock rom and unroot it.

mariley84 · Feb 27, 2018

Not sure if anyone is monitoring this thread still... I hope so.
The Details:
Windows 10 64x
TF101 - No recovery options (Vol down) work. RCK, "Android", and "wipe data" Give me the same error: Unrecoverable bootloader error: (0x00000000)

If I could just get my PC to detect this thing, I think I'd be gold. I've got the Universal Naked Drivers 0.72, however when I try ti install via Device manager, it doesn't help, even after disabling digital driver signing. Any ideas? Links that don't lead to dead ends? This is my little girls tablet and shes going nuts without it. Please help, if anyone is available...

onslow26 · May 5, 2018

mariley84 said:
Not sure if anyone is monitoring this thread still... I hope so.
The Details:
Windows 10 64x
TF101 - No recovery options (Vol down) work. RCK, "Android", and "wipe data" Give me the same error: Unrecoverable bootloader error: (0x00000000)

If I could just get my PC to detect this thing, I think I'd be gold. I've got the Universal Naked Drivers 0.72, however when I try ti install via Device manager, it doesn't help, even after disabling digital driver signing. Any ideas? Links that don't lead to dead ends? This is my little girls tablet and shes going nuts without it. Please help, if anyone is available...

I have same problem i have try all but nothing work

Please can someone help

Regards

Onslow

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