Lenovo TB-8504F Wlan Inactive After Updating to 8.1

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RobinGill

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Hi,

I updated this tablet using Lenovo Smart Upgrade Assistant - update to TB_8504F_USR_S001019_1909091114_Q12000_ROW seems fine except my Wifi/WLAN is totally dead.

If I turn it on, it looks turns back to off quickly, but never actually turns on, and sometimes tablet hangs for a while sometimes when I try to turn wifi on.

I saw a previous post where someone also had this problem and solved it by flashing a modded ROM then flashing the stock ROM and Wifi worked again (with a strange MAC address after that procedure)

But I am stuck because the option to enable OEM Unlocking in Developer Options is greyed out - underneath it says to Connect to the internet or contact your carrier.

I have tried unlocking via ADB but this does not work either.

If I go into settings, WLAN Preferences, it says my MAC Address is 02:00:00:00:00:00 which seems to match other people with this problem.

I tried installing a terminal emulator, "ip link show" returns request send failed: Permission denied, "ip link" says I have:
1: lo:
2: duumy0:
3: [email protected]:

I don't have wlan0 or wlan1, and lo/dummy0/[email protected] did not show the 02:00:00:00::00:00 address.

Please does anyone have any ideas for me?

If I cannot get wifi working, is there any way I can connect to internet using USB to my PC?
 
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RobinGill said:
I eventually found a version of QFIL that works (part of the QPST package) https://droidfilehost.com/download/download-qpst_2-7-480/

I found a ROM https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1Fd5m7BMLqrhURAj0kWdqeiZGIuU95k/view (password: https://firmware247.com)

It seems to have downgraded, but now when it starts, I get the screen where I can choose location, and after a few seconds it reboots.
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Please try to format data (if you don't have important data in the device) and reboot. If that doesn't help, download latest firmware (S001031). You can also try a custom ROM. Below are links to them:

LineageOS 16.0 (Android 9)
LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10)
Resurrection Remix OS (Android 10)
crDroid (Android 10)
 
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adazem009 said:
Please try to format data (if you don't have important data in the device) and reboot. If that doesn't help, download latest firmware (S001031). You can also try a custom ROM. Below are links to them:

LineageOS 16.0 (Android 9)
LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10)
Resurrection Remix OS (Android 10)
crDroid (Android 10)
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Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I can't load any custom ROM's because my bootloader is locked.

I downloaded twrp-3.2.3-0-tb_8504x.img and renamed that to recovery.img and put in the folder with the rest of stock ROM and reflashed the downgraded stock ROM (TB-8504F_S000029_170518_ROW_QFIL) but same problem, and I still have normal recovery, not TRWP so I can't load custom ROM's.

Any chance you can please share a link to S001031 please to see if that helps?
 
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I just tried flashing stock ROM TB_8504F_USR_S130004_1902221150_Q12000_SCP and now OEM Unlocking is not greyed out, but I'm still stuck with Android Recovery instead of TRWP. Hopefully will have fun tomorrow.
 
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Ok, today installed TWRP 3.3.1-0 and tried various ROM's but still no luck:

crDroidAndroid-10.0-20210731-TB8504-v6.20 Boot logo loop

RROS-Q-8.6.9-20210519-TB8504-Unofficial Boots but no wifi or bluetooth
RROS-Q-8.7.1-20210726-TB8504-Unofficial Boots but no wifi or bluetooth

lineage-16.0-20200319-UNOFFICIAL-TB8504 Boot logo then rebooting to TWRP
lineage-17.1-20210408-UNOFFICIAL-TB8504 Boot logo then rebooting to TWRP

All current official firmwares for TB8504F:
TB_8504F_S110006_181015_YZ Boots but no wifi or bluetooth
TB_8504F_S140008_190215_UK Boots but no wifi or bluetooth
TB_8504F_USR_S120010_1901181601_Q12000_HFT Boots but no wifi or bluetooth
TB_8504F_USR_S130004_1902221150_Q12000_SCP Boots but no wifi or bluetooth
TB_8504F_USR_S001019_1909091114_Q12000_ROW Boots but no wifi or bluetooth

Anyone got any ideas for me?
 
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RobinGill

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Damn, somehow ended up with tablet bricked and now I have 900E Diagnostics connection. Trying to use a deep flash cable to get it into EDL mode but doesn't seem to work for me.
 
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Deep flash cable didn't work.

Found a Yourtubr clip about changing the Qualcomm driver from 900E to 9008 - didn't work.

But found a video on the internet that got me out of trouble.


In the clip it says to leave the battery unplugged - that did not work for me. I needed to short the test points, plug in USB, then connect battery and it's flashing again in 9008 mode.

After flashing I had to disconnect and reconnect the battery to get it to boot normally.

Looks like I will be back where I was a day or two ago.
 
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RobinGill

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Interesting - when I recovered using TB_8504F_S110006_181015_YZ I now have wifi again - I'm not sure if I'm going to just leave it like this or play around further.
 
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I have just found TB_8504F_S110006_181015_YZ, will be a day or two for me to upload and send you the link.
 
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