Can anyone help me please?
I was messing around with a z3735f intel tablet that had android 6, i used this method to root it and it went all okay....
but then my curiosity started craving me and i realized that if it had a bios setup i could install windows on it, so then i downloaded a version of windows and booted pressing f8 on the keyboard, when it loaded it said something like "flashing bootloader, we need to restart" and then the tablet never booted up again, when i plug it to my pc it never connects and doesnt even sounds when conected, the tablet is off completely and the only sign of "life" is that the processor chip heats up very much, nothing else...
I've read in some forums and youtube videos that it is possible to fix by re flashing the bios but i dont have the tools needed for it and also im not entirely sure if this is the fix for my problem.
can anyone guide me on how to fix my tablet please? thanks
If you had read this thread carefully you would have understood that Windows can not be installed on your device.
Here is why....
This tool was created to be used to root Intel based devices that have a locked bootloader because custom recovery can not be flashed on devices that have locked bootloader. The only thing that can be flashed on devices that have a locked bootloader is the official stock firmware and official stock updates specifically made for the device in question.
You can't flash anything that is not stock when the device has a locked bootloader. That means you can't flash a custom recovery, can't flash any kind of custom ROMs and can't flash an alternative operating system such as Windows or Linux.
If these devices had bootloaders that are already unlocked, this tool would not be needed and would have never been created because if the bootloader were unlocked, a permanent TWRP could be flashed on these devices instead of having to use this tool to boot a temporary custom recovery session. This tool works on devices that have locked bootloader because booting a temporary recovery does not require actually flashing the recovery onto the device, instead, it merely boots a "live" session, similar to using a bootable USB drive on PC to boot a Linux live USB instead of installing linux on the PC.
Next time you want to modify a device, do more research, read more, look for what CAN and CANNOT be done on your specific device, don't just "assume" that you can flash whatever you want.
You might be able to flash the original stock firmware for the device to repair it, if you can find the correct firmware, but I'm willing to bet that it isn't available anywhere and never was or will be. These cheap tablets usually do not get any kind of support from the manufacturers.
If you had used the TWRP built into this tool to create a nandroid backup of your stock ROM before you attempted to install Windows, you might have been able to restore that backup to fix the device, but it's too late for that.
All of this is because you did not properly research information about your device or the process you attempted to use on the device. You did not verify whether you could actually do it before you tried it, you just assumed you could and now you are paying the price for your ignorance. Consider it a learning lesson.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS check bootloader status before attempting to flash anything that is not it's own stock software on any kind of android device(regardless of what model it is) to verify if the bootloader is locked or unlocked. If it is locked, you can't flash it with anything that is not it's own stock software, attempting to do so always results in a bricked device. If it is unlocked, you can flash it without the bootloader causing a problem, but that does not guarantee that what you flash will work, it just guarantees that you won't brick the device due to a locked bootloader.
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