I've just purchased an Asus Transformer TF701T from a friend at work. It was working perfectly and I was able to restore all my apps as I previously used a Nexus 2013. The pad was running with an older version of Android 4.4.2 so I decided Id like to flash the device to get a newer version but I was unable to unlock it via the Asus unlock tool as I when I ran it, I was getting an "unknown error occurred which may be a network connection issue. Please wait and try again later" message. I tried all the usual fixes, removing my Google account, unlocking the 2 factor authentication etc, but the same error persisted. I then read a few posts and hit upon the idea to flash the firmware via the Bootloader and followed the various guides and got things setup this evening. I am using the Minimal ADB and Fastboot drivers.
So I can get the tablet to the bootloader screen without issue, with the 3 icons RCK, Android and Wipe Data and it responds fine to fastboot commands, even reboot works. So I entered the following after getting the UL-K00C-WW-11.4.1.30-user.zip firmware 11.4.1.30 from the Asus website (it used to have WW 11.4.1.17) and unpacked to my ADB folder. These are the commands I used which are all successful:-
fastboot erase system, fastboot erase recovery, fastboot erase userdata, fastboot erase boot, fastboot erase misc, fastboot erase cache. So far so good!
However, the penultimate command fastboot -i 0x0B05 system blob results in the error in the subject (exact copy of the output below)
Now the tablet just comes up with the Asus logo and in red "Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000000)." and only changes if I force it into the bootloader again. I can move between the 3 options ok.
Is there any way of recovering from this? is the problem that the tablet is still locked? I'd really appreciate some help if possible, thanks in advance
Martin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
target reported max download size of 643825664 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.021s]
sending 'system' (1781 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.266s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: Unsupport Flash Unsparse System Image.)
finished. total time: 1.323s
So I can get the tablet to the bootloader screen without issue, with the 3 icons RCK, Android and Wipe Data and it responds fine to fastboot commands, even reboot works. So I entered the following after getting the UL-K00C-WW-11.4.1.30-user.zip firmware 11.4.1.30 from the Asus website (it used to have WW 11.4.1.17) and unpacked to my ADB folder. These are the commands I used which are all successful:-
fastboot erase system, fastboot erase recovery, fastboot erase userdata, fastboot erase boot, fastboot erase misc, fastboot erase cache. So far so good!
However, the penultimate command fastboot -i 0x0B05 system blob results in the error in the subject (exact copy of the output below)
Now the tablet just comes up with the Asus logo and in red "Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000000)." and only changes if I force it into the bootloader again. I can move between the 3 options ok.
Is there any way of recovering from this? is the problem that the tablet is still locked? I'd really appreciate some help if possible, thanks in advance
MartinC:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
target reported max download size of 643825664 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.021s]
sending 'system' (1781 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.266s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: Unsupport Flash Unsparse System Image.)
finished. total time: 1.323s
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