Fastboot command brick my tablet?

[lil_bono]

I was about to flash a recovery image to my son's generic tablet, but I issued a fastboot reboot command from adb and it now won't boot past an android splash screen. I've pulled the battery. I've tried holding the volume up key for booting to recovery. Nothing. No joy. I don't think it's possible to brick a device just by sending a reboot command. I'm assuming it's just stuck looking for a reboot recovery file of a different name. Then again, a boot loop is as good as bricked. Any suggestions?

 

[lil_bono]

I was about to flash a recovery image to my son's generic tablet, but I issued a fastboot reboot command from adb and it now won't boot past an android splash screen. I've pulled the battery. I've tried holding the volume up key for booting to recovery. Nothing. No joy. I don't think it's possible to brick a device just by sending a reboot command. I'm assuming it's just stuck looking for a reboot recovery file of a different name. Then again, a boot loop is as good as bricked. Any suggestions?

Nevermind... after a few groundings of the battery cables, it has come back from the dead. Thanks for playing

 

[lil_bono]

I was about to flash a recovery image to my son's generic tablet, but I issued a fastboot reboot command from adb and it now won't boot past an android splash screen. I've pulled the battery. I've tried holding the volume up key for booting to recovery. Nothing. No joy. I don't think it's possible to brick a device just by sending a reboot command. I'm assuming it's just stuck looking for a reboot recovery file of a different name. Then again, a boot loop is as good as bricked. Any suggestions?

I feel that I should update folks on the latest details. As it turns out, this tablet is a Chinese 'allwinner' made by Eken. It's not just hanging because of my actions. Apparently these devices do not follow proper GPL. It doesn't respond to many fastboot commands at all. Once I issued the command to boot into fastboot, and it gets into fastboot mode, it stops responding. You can not issue any commands to bring it out of fastboot either! Not something I would recommend people invest in, no matter how cheap. It also has software that I would consider malware attached to the Android browser. It literally tells you that it will track you and throw advertisements whenever it wants. Garbage.