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bsammon

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Is there a place where I can download (old) bootloaders?
Or do I just have to download a full ROM image, and extract the bootloader from there?

I want to flash a different bootloader without flashing anything else.
 

berndblb

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Which one are you looking for? And why flash an old bootloader???
Upgrade/downgrade of the BL is usually done through flashing the official firmware. You can do it in fastboot, but that's risky stuff... Why would you?
 

bsammon

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Which one are you looking for? And why flash an old bootloader???

I have ICS installed on my /system partition, and the 10.6.1.14.40 bootloader I recently installed fails to boot the ICS kernel that I usually use. (It does boot Ubuntu however)

Upgrade/downgrade of the BL is usually done through flashing the official firmware. You can do it in fastboot, but that's risky stuff... Why would you?

I have nvflash keys, so I like to live dangerously.
 

berndblb

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I have ICS installed on my /system partition, and the 10.6.1.14.40 bootloader I recently installed fails to boot the ICS kernel that I usually use. (It does boot Ubuntu however)



I have nvflash keys, so I like to live dangerously.
I'll say....
I don't know of anyone collecting old bootloaders ;) so you'll have to flash the system blob in fastboot I think.
Praetoriano had a collection of those: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1946456

AFAIK you cannot downgrade to anything earlier than 9.4.5.30. That was the last ICS version
 

_that

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I'll say....
I don't know of anyone collecting old bootloaders ;)

Now you do... ;)

Code:
that@ws ~/android/tf700/bootloaders $ ls blob.EBT*
blob.EBT.10.4.4.16  blob.EBT.10.4.4.23        blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.4-US  blob.EBT.9.4.5.26
blob.EBT.10.4.4.18  blob.EBT.10.4.4.25-US     blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.4-WW  blob.EBT.9.4.5.30
blob.EBT.10.4.4.20  blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.10-WW  blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.8-US

@bsammon: which one do you want? :)
 

bsammon

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Dec 21, 2012
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Now you do... ;)

Code:
that@ws ~/android/tf700/bootloaders $ ls blob.EBT*
blob.EBT.10.4.4.16  blob.EBT.10.4.4.23        blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.4-US  blob.EBT.9.4.5.26
blob.EBT.10.4.4.18  blob.EBT.10.4.4.25-US     blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.4-WW  blob.EBT.9.4.5.30
blob.EBT.10.4.4.20  blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.10-WW  blob.EBT.10.6.1.14.8-US

@bsammon: which one do you want? :)

Well.. I think I'd start with 9.4.5.30 -- in hopes that that is close enough to load my 9.4.5.26 kernel
And if that doesn't work, or if I'm feeling adventurous, I'd try the 9.4.5.26 image, and see if I can install it from the Flatline bootloader.

Or, you could send me all of them, and I'll find a website to host them on.
 
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