hello all. I really need some help. I let my friend play around with my nexus 7 and he got into the TWRP and accidentally wiped everything off my nexus including the OS so now when i boot it just hangs on the google splash screen. I can get into fastboot mode and the team win bootloader screen but thats it. When i connect to my computer it is not recognized so i cant drag and drop a new boot image. I would just like to have my nexus back to factory unrooted bone stock
Please help me out. I'm new to the android scene and freaked out that i have a bricked device.
Thanks in advance!
1ll3st said:
hello all. I really need some help. I let my friend play around with my nexus 7 and he got into the TWRP and accidentally wiped everything off my nexus including the OS so now when i boot it just hangs on the google splash screen. I can get into fastboot mode and the team win bootloader screen but thats it. When i connect to my computer it is not recognized so i cant drag and drop a new boot image. I would just like to have my nexus back to factory unrooted bone stock
Please help me out. I'm new to the android scene and freaked out that i have a bricked device.
Thanks in advance!
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First of all, stay calm! :good:
If you are able to reach fastboot mode, nothing of value is lost (beside your personal data). You can just follow this guide.
At the end, your Nexus will be as fine as before. And don't forget to threaten your friend not to do such things again if he doesn't understand how to repair it.
P.S.: You don't have to unlock (flashing step 2) and re-lock (flashing step 5) your Nexus as you may have unlocked it before (according to information about installed TWRP). And be sure to use the nakasig/Tilapia image for flashing.
1ll3st said:
hello all. I really need some help. I let my friend play around with my nexus 7 and he got into the TWRP and accidentally wiped everything off my nexus including the OS so now when i boot it just hangs on the google splash screen. I can get into fastboot mode and the team win bootloader screen but thats it. When i connect to my computer it is not recognized so i cant drag and drop a new boot image. I would just like to have my nexus back to factory unrooted bone stock
Please help me out. I'm new to the android scene and freaked out that i have a bricked device.
Thanks in advance!
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is this guy still your friend?! why would anyone go into recovery on someone else's device? sounds like he C.I.A'd you lol
kistenschieber said:
First of all, stay calm! :good:
If you are able to reach fastboot mode, nothing of value is lost (beside your personal data). You can just follow this guide.
At the end, your Nexus will be as fine as before. And don't forget to threaten your friend not to do such things again if he doesn't understand how to repair it.
P.S.: You don't have to unlock (flashing step 2) and re-lock (flashing step 5) your Nexus as you may have unlocked it before (according to information about installed TWRP). And be sure to use the nakasig/Tilapia image for flashing.
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Thanks I'll try that guide out tonight after work.
How it happened was I received the OTA update for 4.2.2, but didn't update. So when I let him use the tablet he thought he was being nice by updating for me and when the nexus reset it kicked into TWRP which he thought he f*ucked up and decided to "wipe" what he did.
Odp: [Q] Need help. OS was wiped using TWRP v2.3.2.1
1ll3st said:
Thanks I'll try that guide out tonight after work.
How it happened was I received the OTA update for 4.2.2, but didn't update. So when I let him use the tablet he thought he was being nice by updating for me and when the nexus reset it kicked into TWRP which he thought he f*ucked up and decided to "wipe" what he did.
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That's the reason why I don't let anyone (even my best friends) to do anything on my phone without me looking what they are doing ATM. You should have done the same.
All your data you've had on your phone/tablet is permanently gone, all you have to do now is to restore your os from a backup (if you have made backup before) or flash other ROM and you are good to go
For the future knowledge - if you can access any recovery mode it's almost impossible that your phone is bricked. If you can only enter fastboot there is like one percent chance of this that your phone / tablet is bricked.
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You could flash a recovery with fastboot < fastboot flash recovery recovery.img > (just necessary if TWRP got wiped during the update) and then push a ROM with adb.
This method wouldn't delete your SD card.
How do you know that he just didn't wipe system? It's possible that he didn't, so all you may need to do is flash the system image. If you have driver issues while in fastboot, I recommend the official Asus drivers.
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I seem to have messed up the process. I successfully unlocked and rooted my Nexus 7 but during wipe process using JROM flasher something didn't go right and now I'm stuck at the google logo screen forever. I can boot into fast recovery mode but that's about it. I can't do anything.
I've had this done before on my nexus phone but it seems I managed to f it up this time.
I thought I had a rom zip file copied on to the Nexus 7 but it doesn't show in the menu. Now I'm stuck at the logo screen not having access to any roms to install. How do I reset all of this to factory? I've already checked most of the threads regarding this and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
calavera-pw said:
I seem to have messed up the process. I successfully unlocked and rooted my Nexus 7 but during wipe process using JROM flasher something didn't go right and now I'm stuck at the google logo screen forever. I can boot into fast recovery mode but that's about it. I can't do anything.
I've had this done before on my nexus phone but it seems I managed to f it up this time.
I thought I had a rom zip file copied on to the Nexus 7 but it doesn't show in the menu. Now I'm stuck at the logo screen not having access to any roms to install. How do I reset all of this to factory? I've already checked most of the threads regarding this and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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before you do anything, use your recovery to see if the rom zip is located in /data/media/0/. if its there, flash it from that location.
Are you able to boot into recovery?
If yes, it could be as simple as plugging your tablet into the computer and mounting the usb, drag and drop the rom, and flash it without using a toolkit (only recovery). I'm not familiar with jrom flasher, but i will say the more variables there are, the more chance of a problem.
If no, you're best off running the stock factory image through your computer, found here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#nakasi. I had your problem at one point, and could not even boot into recovery. After trying to install cwm through adb (which failed), and a number of toolkits, the factory image was what brought my nexus back to life.
I remember reading that sometimes a wipe can delete your recovery as well as your system (and whatever else you have on your n7), although i dont know if that was ever fixed, as i got my tab replaced a month or two ago and havent rooted it again yet. There was some type of command or .zip or something that should be used to keep recovery after wipes. When i expirienced problems such as yours, it was also from a bad wipe from a toolkit. Using just the recovery afterwards, i never expirienced any issues, even without the recovery fix.
I would definitely try simms suggestion first if you can access recovery. If that fails, try one of the above processes.
PS, even if you can access recovery, if at this point you just want to go completely stock, the factory image will work regardless.
cheers
Thanks for the help guys, I've been struggling for the past 3~4 hours but I found a solution.
What I did was use JROMFlasher and upload a rom zip to the sdcard directly and go from there.
calavera-pw said:
Thanks for the help guys, I've been struggling for the past 3~4 hours but I found a solution.
What I did was use JROMFlasher and upload a rom zip to the sdcard directly and go from there.
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Guys..I have the similar problem..I am not able to upload rom zip to sdcard using JROMFlasher..Also USB mounting is not working for me ..
Is there any other way to move ROM to sdcard?:crying:
appoos said:
Guys..I have the similar problem..I am not able to upload rom zip to sdcard using JROMFlasher..Also USB mounting is not working for me ..
Is there any other way to move ROM to sdcard?:crying:
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ADB
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Pirateghost said:
ADB
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This dint work in my windows 8
appoos said:
This dint work in my windows 8
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You're holding it wrong. ADB works on my Win8 machine
Pirateghost said:
You're holding it wrong. ADB works on my Win8 machine
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can you tell me the procedure..
appoos said:
can you tell me the procedure..
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no.
in the other thread that YOU created, you were given links to follow and the instructions are already there. i dont hold hands
I could do it with ADB..thanks guys
Yes i know. I ****ed up. But somehow i was tinkering and managed to delete the entire internal storage. I can still get into fast boot and.twrp. Can someone please help me?
What was i trying to fix? Check my other thread about the headphone jack.
Edit:Also. Twrp says i dont have an os above every swipe screen...
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Have you tried reflashing stock?
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If you have an OTG cable and a USB key you should be able to make ROMs or other backups which you preserved OFF THE TABLET available to TWRP.
If not, take the above poster's advice and install pure stock to copy stuff (ROMs, recovery images, etc) back on to the tab via MTP.
I too blew away all of /data once with that "format data" button in the touch version of TWRP; I feel your pain.
Um.....I may have made a mistake and swiped on all the clear screens...including internal memory...so...T_T Am i screwed???
JoshuaXedos said:
Um.....I may have made a mistake and swiped on all the clear screens...including internal memory...so...T_T Am i screwed???
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You're not really screwed, you should be able to flash another ROM from recovery.
As long as you can get into fastboot, you'll be fine. The easiest way is to download and install Nexus Root Toolkit, then use the "back to stock" part to flash the factory image following the instruction.
I have got something even worse
My nexus 7 tab started freezing during use and then after booting in safe mode and wiping cache in recovery mode it now doesn't even go past the google screen. I haven't even flashed anything to it at all and it's showing these crazy symptoms (The bootloader is still locked and the device is not even rooted). I still have access to the adb sideload mode and fastboot but I am confused af as to what has happened
Any ideas guys?
Hello guys
For some reason I decided to test out the CM and Slim 4.4 roms, but did not see that there were issues flashing with TWRP... so flashing failed with both these ROMS. I did not read the ops on Slim and did not see any warning about TWRP on the CM, so began wiping stuff to try make the flash happen, eventually wiped too much, and now I cannot boot the tablet. Worse is I have also wiped the zip files from the tablet so now I have PhilZ Touch CMW recovery but nothing to flash and this Recovery does not suppot OTG memory, so I have nothing to flash.
SO, tried my full version of Nexus 10 Toolkit to sideload the zip, but Toolkit never gets past "Toolkit Waiting for ADB mode".
I don't know the manual commands to try flash one of these roms, but at this point, I would be happy to just go back to stock, and cant figure how to get to Download mode, there is no home button on an N10.
It seems my safest bet, if possible, would be to get to download and flash a rom there.
Any ideas, much appreciated,
Mark.
fredphoesh said:
Hello guys
For some reason I decided to test out the CM and Slim 4.4 roms, but did not see that there were issues flashing with TWRP... so flashing failed with both these ROMS. I did not read the ops on Slim and did not see any warning about TWRP on the CM, so began wiping stuff to try make the flash happen, eventually wiped too much, and now I cannot boot the tablet. Worse is I have also wiped the zip files from the tablet so now I have PhilZ Touch CMW recovery but nothing to flash and this Recovery does not suppot OTG memory, so I have nothing to flash.
SO, tried my full version of Nexus 10 Toolkit to sideload the zip, but Toolkit never gets past "Toolkit Waiting for ADB mode".
I don't know the manual commands to try flash one of these roms, but at this point, I would be happy to just go back to stock, and cant figure how to get to Download mode, there is no home button on an N10.
It seems my safest bet, if possible, would be to get to download and flash a rom there.
Any ideas, much appreciated,
Mark.
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From recovery power down your tablet and get into fastboot by holding volume buttons and power buttons at the same time. If this works then you'll be fine because from there you can get back to stock. Download wugfreshs nexus toolkit. Use the option to return to stock and check the one that says stuck in bootloop but can access fastboot (or something like that) then plug your tablet in while its in fastboot mode and go through the steps. It'll have to download stock factory image unless you already have it and browse to it but the toolkit will do everything and get your tablet working again. Don't worry too much its usually not as bad as it seems. The same thing happened to me and I panicked and it turned out to be an easy fix. If you need any more help or more detail on what to do just ask
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Thanks Abdel, that worked fine... though I did spend about an hour on Wugfresh last night, it kept on starting to do stuff, then got to recovery mode and it stopped with wufgresh saying waiting for device or something... maybe shutting computer helped too... anyway, thanks for the advice, somehow it worked!
Cheers
Mark.
abdel12345 said:
From recovery power down your tablet and get into fastboot by holding volume buttons and power buttons at the same time. If this works then you'll be fine because from there you can get back to stock. Download wugfreshs nexus toolkit. Use the option to return to stock and check the one that says stuck in bootloop but can access fastboot (or something like that) then plug your tablet in while its in fastboot mode and go through the steps. It'll have to download stock factory image unless you already have it and browse to it but the toolkit will do everything and get your tablet working again. Don't worry too much its usually not as bad as it seems. The same thing happened to me and I panicked and it turned out to be an easy fix. If you need any more help or more detail on what to do just ask
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fredphoesh said:
Thanks Abdel, that worked fine... though I did spend about an hour on Wugfresh last night, it kept on starting to do stuff, then got to recovery mode and it stopped with wufgresh saying waiting for device or something... maybe shutting computer helped too... anyway, thanks for the advice, somehow it worked!
Cheers
Mark.
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Your welcome I'm glad you got it working. Make sure to that k wugfresh as well for his awesome tool
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Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
EonHawk said:
Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
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Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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---------- Post added at 06:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:04 AM ----------
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
EonHawk said:
If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
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As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
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Berrydroidcafe said:
As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
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I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
EonHawk said:
I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
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Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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sky0165 said:
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
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Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
Berrydroidcafe said:
Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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I tried, but I got stuck because I couldn't do Step 1 without having USB Debugging enabled!
EonHawk said:
Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
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Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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I waited for over 5 minutes, turned it off, and tried booting it up. After another 3 minutes of nothing, I gave up.
Tried sideloading an old backup but wasn't able to sideload anymore..
Currently trying to do the driver things in the toolkit..
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
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Ok, sideloading CM again. Currently at 70%. I'll keep you guys posted.
Sorry to post 4 times in a row, but still stuck in the CM bootloop.
Is there anything better I should try sideloading? Maybe a factory image?
Something that would completely restore everything?
Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
EonHawk said:
Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
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Great! :thumbup:
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I panicked and probably did something quite stupid...
So I tried to flash the new cyanogenmod rom to have a taste of kit kat, but then I had the status 7 error.
This never occurred to me before, I didn't keep a backup to fall back onto... ( yes, I am an idiot, I learned my lesson, the hard way)
Than the device won't boot, it shows the Google logo twice, and then goes into the clockwork mod, where you choose to flash roms
and I am stuck.
I tried Nexus Root Toolkit, doesn't help because my device is not booting up, no way can it install the drivers properly...
and I think I did something more ingenious... I just tried anything on the Toolkit, and I got my rooted Nexus 7 locked...
But it's still the same, I am stuck at the clockwork mod thing just as before... Wiped whatever I can. and even formatted the sdcard and system...
Some Android Wizard out there... Please help...
If at boot you go to recovery directly... You have had to flash new version of recovery in wrong partition. You must flash it last version of recovery with "fastboot flash recovery yourrecovery.IMG" (see 'recovery' as partition to flash). Then flash boot and system partitions from factory image (in XDA have you multiples threads about it) if you want to keep your data. If not, flash factory image from usual ways (this wipes your data) and then flash recovery like I say above.
After that, try to flash CM again.
PS: I recommend TWRP instead of CWM.
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but its more serious than that... My computer doesnt recognize the tablet because of some driver issues... I am not sure, at this moment, whether the USB debugging thing still works
i can only get to the clockwork mod page, bootloader and thats it.
I cant flash anything, I cant transfer files from the PC to tablet....
please, please help.
bump!,
Im in a similar boat. I bricked my tablet while trying to force an update. It wouldnt autoupdate (there was always an error about cant find zip file...) so I tied to install it with Skipsoft program. After 20 minutes i realize my computer has frozen....So I waited 2 hours and nada. So I had to reboot my desk top. At that time my tablet is now bricked....what do we do?
Vishnuisgod said:
bump!,
Im in a similar boat. I bricked my tablet while trying to force an update. It wouldnt autoupdate (there was always an error about cant find zip file...) so I tied to install it with Skipsoft program. After 20 minutes i realize my computer has frozen....So I waited 2 hours and nada. So I had to reboot my desk top. At that time my tablet is now bricked....what do we do?
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hello friend.
1. we can pray
2. i think we have to look at some software that can do something more "fundamental" than wugus nexus tool kit, and communicate with the tablet
i am just guessing, i crashed my tablet, so....
dangercl0se said:
hello friend.
1. we can pray
2. i think we have to look at some software that can do something more "fundamental" than wugus nexus tool kit, and communicate with the tablet
i am just guessing, i crashed my tablet, so....
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I think I got it!!!!!!!!!!
using the skipsoft,
first i did option 1, install usb settings; then
I used option #6 force recovery.. I think i did stock rom.
now Im update with kitkat and it updating to 4.4.2
Vishnuisgod said:
I think I got it!!!!!!!!!!
using the skipsoft,
first i did option 1, install usb settings; then
I used option #6 force recovery.. I think i did stock rom.
now Im update with kitkat and it updating to 4.4.2
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hey
can you post links to where u got the stuff?
coz looks like the skipsoft homepage is not working
dangercl0se said:
hey
can you post links to where u got the stuff?
coz looks like the skipsoft homepage is not working
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it was already on computer....
make sure you look for "android tool kit"....