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Bricked and won't boot following attempted Samsung update (16GB Wifi Retail)

A message popped up from Samsung to install an update (I had been pressing cancel for the past week on this update). It says click OK to reboot and apply update (something along those lines) so I do. Now I am stuck with a tablet that won't boot. If I hold the power button it says "Samsung Galaxy 10.1" after about 12 seconds, but then it goes away and back to darkness. Nothing else. Holding power and volume up does nothing.
Someone know what is going on and have any idea how to resolve?

The best way is to restore any backup you have from cwm recovery. Else grab a stock firmware and flash it with ODIN or if zip than CWM recovery. For luck, try clearing cache and data in recovery, first!Perhaps it may work saving you all fuss of flashing a firmware.

I cannot even boot that far too get into recovery. And I just noticed that although I can't boot, the backlight is on (on a solid black screen).... wtf

You can't hold volume down and power button to enter recovery?

Nope. I plugged into my computer and for some reason with the USB connectd it let me enter recovery. Flashed a backup and rebooted, but now I have no wifi... im confused.

it occured once to me when i tried to overclock, it never worked except when installing a new rom... Try to root the device and then install a new rom

OK, was a helluva night messing with ROM and kernel installs... I have yet to go back to completely stock (that's next up tonight, unfortunately), but I installed Starburst ROM and the Wifi still didn't work so I then installed pershoot's kernel and now when I boot the screen is extremely distorted kind of like this: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsKa5IoQxnesGdUjykWDDggoQZ38yZ2VXSgPAQ09NOCnETzl9-
As a side note, when I say the wifi is not working, it still shows all networks and allows me to connect just like normal. However when connected no apps can access the network...
Can someone point me to a thread on how to revert EVERYTHING back to stock so I can start fresh? TIA!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171089
Should have all the files you need. From where you are now I would flash the stock OTA 3.1 or TW then flash the stock recovery and do a factory reset from that recovery. That should get rid of the garbled screen.

Thanks buddy. On my way to grab the files now

I heard the update was pulled as it sometimes rewrites the bootloader improperly. You might need to send it in, unfortunately.

A500 wont get past boot logo or CW recovery

I have an a500 with a thor 3.2 rom. I recently used CWM to reset to factory to install the Thor ICS v170 rom. I got an error when restarting into recovery to install it so I restarted again. There it hung up on the logo. So I restarted into recovery holding the power and volume down, but here is where it goes nuts. Once into recovery, the tablet vibrates nonstop and a Team Rogue logo comes up in the background and gives me errors for reading system data and cache. It gives me menu items listen but doesnt let me do anything and I have to Hold power to power down. Still even restarting doesnt get past the Acer boot logo. Please help me out!

Staples01 said:
I have an a500 with a thor 3.2 rom. I recently used CWM to reset to factory to install the Thor ICS v170 rom. I got an error when restarting into recovery to install it so I restarted again. There it hung up on the logo. So I restarted into recovery holding the power and volume down, but here is where it goes nuts. Once into recovery, the tablet vibrates nonstop and a Team Rogue logo comes up in the background and gives me errors for reading system data and cache. It gives me menu items listen but doesnt let me do anything and I have to Hold power to power down. Still even restarting doesnt get past the Acer boot logo. Please help me out!
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That's what happens when you run stuff from Dev's that don't adhere to GPL. Undoubtedly some leftover code from whomever it was taken from and "somebody" didn't bother to clean it out all the way. FYI, Team Rogue did ICS development for the Xoom tablet, and also some early CWM work. Guess we know where "somebody" got some code from
Ok, back to your current issue at hand. For starters, you're probably still on an HC Bootloader and probably running a really old version of CWM recovery. If you are going to run ICS or JB roms, I highly suggest you upgrade your bootloader to the patched ICS Unlocked bootloader. Also, I would update to the latest version of CWM. You can get it at his site.
I believe your next rom may be able to run on an HC bootloader, or so I've heard, but your CWM needs to be updated, and that's what probably threw out the errors.
You can find a guide for the unlocked bootloader installation in the Dev Forum. It's stickied.
Hope this fixes your issue. If not, post back.
MD

Staples01 said:
I have an a500 with a thor 3.2 rom. I recently used CWM to reset to factory to install the Thor ICS v170 rom. I got an error when restarting into recovery to install it so I restarted again. There it hung up on the logo. So I restarted into recovery holding the power and volume down, but here is where it goes nuts. Once into recovery, the tablet vibrates nonstop and a Team Rogue logo comes up in the background and gives me errors for reading system data and cache. It gives me menu items listen but doesnt let me do anything and I have to Hold power to power down. Still even restarting doesnt get past the Acer boot logo. Please help me out!
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All I can say is WOW!!

linuxsociety said:
All I can say is WOW!!
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Yeah, its strange but doesn't surprise me.
OP, your partitions are also undoubtedly messed up as well. I suppose you didn't by chance write down your UID number did you? You may be able to get by with installing an ICS full update zip. Maybe.
MD

Soo...nothing. is it just a piece of junk now?

Staples01 said:
Soo...nothing. is it just a piece of junk now?
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I wouldn't think it is 100% bricked, but I'd definitely ask on tegraowners.com since it is from one of their recovery/roms. Guess you may have already asked Thor about the issue though?

I have my cpuid but when i run the dotnetdetector to update the usb doesnt stay connected long at all.

Staples01 said:
I have my cpuid but when i run the dotnetdetector to update the usb doesnt stay connected long at all.
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Are you trying to manipulate the A500 from a Windows PC or Linux? Notice you said Dotnetdetector, sounds like windows, but not familiar with it exactly. Maybe you could try using a live linux distribution (such as Ubuntu or Fedora) to try to get fastboot/adb and reflash the recovery partition with a known working recovery for A500. The teamrogue thing still puzzles me and I'm just curious if bits of Team Rogue's code has been pieced in with the A500 recovery you are trying to use, or if you may have got a hold of a recovery that was for a different device ? I'm not trying to say that you are a nub and flashed a recovery for the wrong device, but there is a possibility depending on where you obtained the rom from, that it could have been mis-labeled for your device ( but been for a different one) If it was for a diff device it would make sense why you can't do anything with it.
Let me get it straight how this happened.
1. You had CWM installed for A500 and recovery was working fine
2. You used CWM to try to flash a Thor ROM, in which the installation failed.
3. After reboot you have nothing but the Acer logo
4. When you boot back into recovery, it is no longer CWM, but a Team Rogue logo is displayed, and that is all you see?
That's the way I interpret the issue you are having anyway. Can you please send me a link to the ROM that you tried to install that triggered all of this. That way I can see exactly what the installer script attempted to do (because it very well could have tried to flash a diff recovery to your device and failed on something else)
Hope we can get things straightened up for you. Good luck again bud

Completely bricked a501?! Any way fixing it?

Hello everybody, I have a501 running on HC, wanted to install an ICS ROM, downgraded, rooted the tablet and somehow after the downgrade I ended up with a stock android v.3.0 but it was for the a500 so therefore I didnt have 3g and gps no more. After this the tablet gave me an ICS update I tried installing it but still no 3g and gps (obviously). Then I completely messed my recovery and now I ended up with a bricked tablet, cannot boot (stuck in a bootloop), cannot enter recovery (gives me an exclamation mark and nothing more) cannot enter in APX mode... Any ideas on fixing this mess? Tried everything in this thread and still nothing...
Thanks in advance!

Well, when you took the update, it overwrote your recovery and everything else, which is why you have stock recovery.
To get into APX, with tablet off, hold the pinhole reset, the press PWR. Hold for 4 seconds, release PWR, the 1 second later release the pinhole.
You should have a black display, and the PWR light should be on. Confirm via Windows Device Manager
Keep in mind, to update to the unlocked bootloader V*, you will need to have your UID number, so I hope you still have it written down somewhere (so you can get the SBK for the bootloader change).

[Q] Guess i bricked my A500 (no CPUID / UID)

Hey guys.
I got a big problem with my A500 Tablet.
Story:
In the past i decided to flash a custom rom: Lightspeed (ICS)
I did not grab the UID or CPUID
I want to sell the tablet -> wanted to go back to stock rom 3.2
Just renamed the .zip from a unrooted stockrom to update.zip and here we go. BRICK.
I can't even enter the recovery
Getting Bootloop if i start the tablet
hardreset (vol+ & power & rotation lock) -> getting tablet started saying: "Power off Shutting Down..." but never shuts down.
I tried to flash some ICS roms... I just want a working tablet. It does'nt matter if it's ICS or STOCK or whatever. just a working tablet would be nice
by the way: flashing roms via update.zip worked until it got 90% or so. not saying anything. screen freezes. Tablet powers off :/
thanks in advance,
Dfgank

similar problem here
dfgank said:
Hey guys.
I got a big problem with my A500 Tablet.
Story:
In the past i decided to flash a custom rom: Lightspeed (ICS)
I did not grab the UID or CPUID
I want to sell the tablet -> wanted to go back to stock rom 3.2
Just renamed the .zip from a unrooted stockrom to update.zip and here we go. BRICK.
I can't even enter the recovery
Getting Bootloop if i start the tablet
hardreset (vol+ & power & rotation lock) -> getting tablet started saying: "Power off Shutting Down..." but never shuts down.
I tried to flash some ICS roms... I just want a working tablet. It does'nt matter if it's ICS or STOCK or whatever. just a working tablet would be nice
by the way: flashing roms via update.zip worked until it got 90% or so. not saying anything. screen freezes. Tablet powers off :/
thanks in advance,
Dfgank
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i updated my Iconia A500 to ICS
its rooted but no CWM aur any bootloader is installed or custom rom ever flashed.
its bricked now. I have its UID. please tell me how to unbrick it pleeeease!!1

[Q] Thinkpad 1838-22U CWM help

I bought this tablet for my son. It has CM9 on it and many of the functions do not work correctly. I have tried to get into CWM and even tried installing it and I cannot get it to work so I can update the firmware so that all the functions work like they should. I would be happy to install the stock ROM if possible but I'm completely lost.... When I boot and push the up vol button a message on the top left of the screen says booting into recovery image but it just sits there and when I select reboot into recovery or boot loader the tablet just boots back into the cm9 rom. I have searched for days and I'm more confused than ever.