Sorry if it's been stated before, or it's in the wrong section.
So this will basically be a how to for those who have the same Soft Brick problem I had.
(Running super clean install of newest version of Revolver ICS, B60 Device)
So last night I had my TF on throughout the day. When I finally went to use it at night, i noticed it would not wake. I held down the power and my transformer wouldn't boot. I thought it might have been a random reboot stuck on the ASUS logo which killed my battery.
I decided to let it charge for ~ 10 minutes. When I came back, it wasn't booting still.
So I held down power+Vol down. Took me to some kind of bricked menu, with an android and an exclamation mark.
This is how i was able to get around it and have it boot up.
Remove Tablet from Dock
Plug into AC power Source
Hold down Power+Vol Down
Wait till the screen where it asks to go into recovery. Instead of pressing Vol Up to get into recovery, just wait instead.
After a while it will show an android icon, and an Exclamation mark with a Triangle around it.
Just continue to wait. Soon enough it will boot.
And just like that you have your favorite TF101 back.
Again this may or not work for you, but it's what fixed mine.
i don't think your tf was ever "bricked" to began with.
just out of power dude
that was something amazing
Its called "The mess that is ICS"
The black screen was the TF frozen crashed, holding power for 30 seconds then release then power on normally would have fixed it too
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Seems I've gotten a pretty stubborn one. Can't get it to turn on. Is there anyway to force reset it?
me too... got into a lock screen and not able to push anything. when I push power button the 'do you want to turn off?' screen pops, but I'm not able to click on anything...
EDIT: adb doesn't detect my device, so thats not the way
you can hold the volume button on start up this will wipe all the date,
my gf did this yesterday then left it on the side as if nothing happend...
acid123 said:
you can hold the volume button on start up this will wipe all the date,
my gf did this yesterday then left it on the side as if nothing happend...
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No, this doesn't solve this problem as reported by numerous people on various forums.
Some people find that letting the battery completely run down and then install charging cable and are able to get screen to start responding again.
Unfortunately, I have the SOD on my second TF that is only 3 days old. My first TF is with Asus being repaired for what I presume was unrelated dark screen issues, but now I'm not so sure the problems aren't related.
I can get my TF to work if I connect the keyboard dock and use the mouse. But screen is still completely unresponsive to touch. Hopefully running the battery down does the trick. Got a video running with screen resolution all the way up to drain the battery quickly.
... I managed to reboot my transformer performing a sort of shamanic dance - I pushed the power button frantically and rotated the tablet so the screen switched from landscape to profile to 180 degrees to 270 and back and after few seconds it rebooted
Success in getting screen to respond again.
Found that letting battery completely drain and then attaching power cable restores touch screen functionality.
While aggravating, a lot better than having to send my second TF to Asus for repair...
My transformer does not boot!
I have had a Transformer for about ten days and right after buying it I successfully updated it to HC 3.1 without a problem. However, four days ago I was reading a review of Samsung Galaxy Tab at the Fox News website through the browser on the tablet and the screen just froze, became completely unresponsive. It was showing the webpage but none of the buttons or links responded. I waited for a few minutes, then turned the device off by pressing the power button for about 10 seconds.
Now, the device refuses to boot. I have tried pressing the power button in all sorts of ways: together with volume down button for 10, 15, 20 seconds; power button alone for 5, 10, 15 seconds; repeatedly pressed power button several times. Nothing worked. The screen is completely blank now. I don't even get the Asus EEE Pad boot up screen. When the tablet went dead, it had about 80% charge, but since it is off now, I don't know how to drain the battery, it could take many days! Any further advice?
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Now, the device refuses to boot. I have tried pressing the power button in all sorts of ways: together with volume down button for 10, 15, 20 seconds; power button alone for 5, 10, 15 seconds; repeatedly pressed power button several times. Nothing worked. The screen is completely blank now. I don't even get the Asus EEE Pad boot up screen. When the tablet went dead, it had about 80% charge, but since it is off now, I don't know how to drain the battery, it could take many days! Any further advice?
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Sound like your display is dead on your TF. I had the same issue. I had to connect my TF to my TV to get a display. With the TF connected to my TV I was able to get a picture on the TV, but still no picture on the TF. I also did a factory reset hoping it would resolve the issue but it didnt. I had to send it in to Asus for repair. My TF didnt locked up like yours. I had it on locked mode before leaving work, and then when I got home tried waking it up but it never turned on.
Today, after I was done using my tablet, I shut it off and noticed it turned off but the green led portion of the power light is still on. Tablet will not respond to power on/off commands, nor can I gain access to it via adb.
I updated to the Energy™ -.¸¸.·´¯ ICS CM9 Kang ROM several days ago, there were no problems there as I have been using the rom for a couple of days now.
All I did was hold the power button down, select "Power down" option came up "this will shut down your tablet" I selected "ok" and that was that.
KFU shows it as offline, as does adb. Windows does not detect the device.
Mine had a similar experience, using AOKP ICS, I powered it off and about 18 hours later I tried to turn it on and got nothing. Turned out the battery was just dead, I think it may have locked up while powering down and killed the battery. I would try a few things:
1. Hold down the power button for 10+ seconds and see if you can get it to do a hard shutdown.
2. Plug it in to the charger and see what happens.
3. Leave it alone for a while and hope the battery dies and it may start up after that when plugged in.
I kind of feel stupid, why is it with technology us geeks start troubleshooting by skipping the simple solutions, like "is it plugged in" well today, holding down the power button for 20 seconds fixed the problem. She booted up and everything is back to normal.
Appreciate the fast reply!
It seems my Nexus 7 seems to be hosed.
It was running the latest android os as pushed out by google (maybe 4.2.1?) Not sure what I did, but I am in the APX mode and I cannot exit it. The screen is completely dark, and I am not sure it is working when I press the buttons.
I have held:
Power button for 60+ seconds
Power + volume up
Power + volume down
Power + volume up + volume down
If the device is plugged into my laptop, I get a beep after holding any aforementioned combination indicating that the system detects the device but it shows up in the device manager as APX with a question mark.
I have opened the back, and disconnected and reconnected the battery.
Prior to noticing it was not working, I set a torrent download using µtorrent. My initial guess was that the battery discharged, but I have been charging it now for a few hours without any resolution.
Please help! I am past the returns for Walmart, and I do not want to ship it to ASUS to have it repaired.
Bump.
This is frustrating. I have never owned an android tablet before, and I had no intentions of rooting it. Now I have no idea if I can even recover it. Other threads are saying I am hosed because nvflash does not work on the nexus 7.
Any ideas besides throwing it in the garbage?
Try letting the battery die.
Or try these tips: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1789135
Hello,
I have been having a few odd issues with my Nexus 4, random reboots, no sound from speakers unless a reboot. Anyway Last night I had it on charge and it started rebooting itself in a loop so I managed to break the cycle and I ended up on a screen with a android on its side with a big arrow pointing at the power button, so I pressed the power button and it rebooted and was sat on the Nexus 4 logo.
I left the phone doing that and when I came back a while later the phone was still on the Nexus logo (which was still animating) but the phone was roasting hot, I turned the phone off by holding the power button.
Anyway, now the Nexus will not turn on, when it is plugged into a power source I get a red LED for a couple of seconds and then it goes out. In device manager I have qhsusb_dload in device manager.
I have done many hours of searching, I tried a few things suggested on other posts using Ubuntu but nothing.
This was a stock device that had only ever been updated with official updates. I can send it back no problem but I thought I would try save everyone's time and effort and see if there was anything I could try.
Thanks
qhsusb_dload stands for Qualcomm high speed download mode. Theres nothing you can do, other than a jtag. Sorry
I am sorry if this is a dumb thread I am just worried. I was watching my Poco M3 update up to 60%(my battery was on 68% before starting the update) then I started to watch TV and didn't pay much attention to the phone. When I looked at it it was off and i thought that maybe it is just in the process of rebooting or its already on the lock screen .Because I thought it may still be rebooting I just placed my finger on the fingerprint reader because I didn't want to risk turning it of by pressing the power button. My phone didn't respond at all. I haven't tried to hold the power button because I'm worried that its still in the process of updating. What should I do ?
Never mind. I had to hold the power button for 10 seconds and it turned on. I am sorry for wasting your time. I was so worried since it was a new phone and I couldn't afford a new one. I am sorry again.
This post was usefull, it happened to me too. The phone wouldn't even show an image when connected to a charger. I waited for a while, entered Fastboot succesfully and then, after the second (on the first one remained stuck on the MIUI screen) 10s power button push, it succesfully booted
It happened also to me during update to 12.0.8.0, but I used Power and Vol+ and then Reboot to System.
It was a moment of anxiety.
It happened to me to. It is a branch new phone and I got so worried that I might just have bricked it. Fk Xaomi.
just happended with me right its on MIUI Screen hope its get on
Update: Just Booted In Fastboot Its on Screen now
Same thing just happened to me too. My phone is not turning on at all. I tried holding the power button for 10 seconds as discussed here, tried fast booting, tried connecting charger and starting. Nothing is working. Going into panic mode.
**UPDATE***
After leaving the phone alone for 24 hours in which time it was completely unresponsive to anything I tried, I connected the charger and just pressed power button and it decided to just start normally. POCO needs to address this situation.
**UPDATE***
Phone is not responding again after restrating. I give up on this phone.