Tablet S boot loop?

[zandm7]

So yeah, one night my Sony Tablet S shut down in sleep mode like it does occasionally. Next morning when I tried turning it on, it stayed on the booting animation for several minutes. Did several hard resets and tried again to no avail. Even tried letting it run out of battery, charging, and then booting but no dice. I've never rooted or modified my tablet. Any help? Or do I need to get a new one? I've had this tablet for almost 2 years now and it's served me well, no problems like this before.

Thanks!

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[smgdev]

Did you make all system updates? What was your release number?

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[zandm7]

I was on the latest release for the original Tablet S. 4.0.3 release 5a, was it?

Is there anyway to factory reset this damn thing from the "outside" using adb or something?

 

[DudemeisterAT]

Did you try to flash the original sony Firmware in recovery Mode?

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[smgdev]

Try going into recovery mode. When tablet is powered off, hit power button and volume up button together and hold volume up button for a while. When android recovery menu comes up, make a factory reset from there.

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[zandm7]

Thanks guys! Going into recovery mode and factory resetting worked!