I need help. My TN7 became a brick and I use this tablet for general purposes. I've tried everything but everything doesn't work because USB Debugging is off. Please if you know how to fix this, please reply.
As far as im aware this tablet is unbrickable since it can be put into nvflash mode and you can use the rom tools to flash everything back to stock on it. System, kernel, recovery the works.
slybunda said:
As far as im aware this tablet is unbrickable since it can be put into nvflash mode and you can use the rom tools to flash everything back to stock on it. System, kernel, recovery the works.
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Do you by chance know where to get the nvflash tool ? I just bricked mine today in APX mode and have got the drivers so that windows can see it but I have no idea how to flash the files needed to restore the device .
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Alright guys so I'm about to sacrifice root for this and just get the ota update and root again.....I've tried reinstalling drivers for Acer and apx mode didn't work tried different downloads for tools didn't work tried a whole new PC all together didn't work.. I've also tried entering apx mode manually and automatically I'm running flex reapers ics rom and whenever the tablet is supposed to go into download mode it hangs and never goes I've tried waiting even after an hour it just a black screen ive tried doing a wipe and reinstalling rom twice any thoughts.....i have no idea thanks
Im trying to get ics bootloader by the way ;-)
The black screen IS APX mode... You shouldn't get anything until you actually start to flash the bootloader using nvflash or the tool created to flash the bootloader - sorry, its about 3am here, I'm at work and can't remember who created the flash tool.....
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The black screen IS APX mode... You shouldn't get anything until you actually start to flash the bootloader using nvflash or the tool created to flash the bootloader - sorry, its about 3am here, I'm at work and can't remember who created the flash tool.....
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haa thanks for replying so late haha i was trying to flash the bootloader but it would never go into download mode????i dont now why tried everything i could possibly do!!! just recwntly tried rolling back an flashing a new ics rom didnt work....
gears177 said:
haa thanks for replying so late haha i was trying to flash the bootloader but it would never go into download mode????i dont now why tried everything i could possibly do!!! just recwntly tried rolling back an flashing a new ics rom didnt work....
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Hi,
I was fighting the same battle just a other day and got over it with the manual flashing guide by Civato & Co. Found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 (almost at the end of the forst post)
I also used blackthund3r's A500 manager to get to the APX mode and then finalized with the manual way.. So a combo worked for me..
kameli said:
Hi,
I was fighting the same battle just a other day and got over it with the manual flashing guide by Civato & Co. Found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 (almost at the end of the forst post)
I also used blackthund3r's A500 manager to get to the APX mode and then finalized with the manual way.. So a combo worked for me..
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Thanks ill try but hopes are not very high..EDIT Tried it but now it hangs on formatting partition 4 please wait......waited about 20 minutes
get this tool and it has a get out of apx mode, if that doesnt work just flash a new ics bootloader
download:https://hotfile.com/dl/158437685/178e3f6/Afterota_v1_07.zip.html
jnktechstuff said:
get this tool and it has a get out of apx mode, if that doesnt work just flash a new ics bootloader
download:https://hotfile.com/dl/158437685/178e3f6/Afterota_v1_07.zip.html
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I think I'm just ready to flash back to 3.0.1 unstable and get the ota....i don't have ics boot loader that's what I'm trying to get
gears177 said:
I think I'm just ready to flash back to 3.0.1 unstable and get the ota....i don't have ics boot loader that's what I'm trying to get
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lol then dude go to the development section and click the DUAL-BOOTLOADER thread and get the v4+ ics patched bootloader,
follow civvy's guide in the above post to flash your shiny new unlocked ics bootloader
the new apx flash tool the above user described to you sound like your right path,,, read up on the method and versions before trying anything and always nandroid and keep your cpuid saved and backup digitally and physically (sticky note )
did this 3days ago with civvy's guide and all is great in land of android.
chismay said:
lol then dude go to the development section and click the DUAL-BOOTLOADER thread and get the v4+ ics patched bootloader,
follow civvy's guide in the above post to flash your shiny new unlocked ics bootloader
the new apx flash tool the above user described to you sound like your right path,,, read up on the method and versions before trying anything and always nandroid and keep your cpuid saved and backup digitally and physically (sticky note )
did this 3days ago with civvy's guide and all is great in land of android.
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Ill try one more time
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Ill try one more time
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I put on the my previous post to try boot loader v4 but I would probably go to the v8
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I put on the my previous post to try boot loader v4 but I would probably go to the v8
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Alright will do im going to rollback and try again later thanks
same issue
Hi,
i have an a500 and it is in apx mode. I am completely new to finding cpuid and babsector euu.
I have many thanks but i have an important event soon so can someone guid me through this.
Thank you
Rm_awesome said:
Hi,
i have an a500 and it is in apx mode. I am completely new to finding cpuid and babsector euu.
I have many thanks but i have an important event soon so can someone guid me through this.
Thank you
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First of all, install all the acer drivers on the PC.
Install the Acer Drivers from Acer Support and the USB drivers from the Android SDK here
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Then get afterota
and export / save (whatever it says) your cpuid and system info and stuff....there should be a button that lets you save that
next, download a rom of your choice and place it on the EXTERNAL SD card...don't put it in internal storage
then use babsector and follow instructions below
Heres the link to babsector.rar
How to use babsector -
Turn your tab off and put it in apx mode manually. Press and hold reset button, hold power for 3 secs after the light comes on and release it, after another second release the reset button. Your screen is black and the power light is on.
Download and extract the .rar to a folder on your PC
Connect your tab to your PC
Navigate to the babsector folder and click on 501 A.bat
Reboot into recovery
Go to Mounts and Storage and Format System twice and Power Off
Go back into apx mode and run 501 B.bat
Reboot into recovery and do the wipes and flash your rom
Reboot!!!
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If anyone else is stuck on partitioning error or something using nvflash or blackthund3r, use this method
Hope that helps!
usb debugging
When i tried afterota and got to the second line it said usb debugging but i cant turn on usb debugging in my situation
i dont know what to do!!:crying:
Rm_awesome said:
When i tried afterota and got to the second line it said usb debugging but i cant turn on usb debugging in my situation
i dont know what to do!!:crying:
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why cant you turn on usb debugging? does your tablet have a section called developer options? did u enable it?
black screen
ryukiri said:
why cant you turn on usb debugging? does your tablet have a section called developer options? did u enable it?
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the thing is my tablet has black sceen white light so I cant really navigate to usb debugging
Rm_awesome said:
the thing is my tablet has black sceen white light so I cant really navigate to usb debugging
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what happens if you hold the power button for like 15 seconds or so? does it shut down? (i dont have an a500 and ive nvr been stuck in apx mode..)
Hi !
I am posting here because I'm a bit desperate.
I have a B40 TF101 and a B70 dock (I bought them separately).
I have tried to flash an official ASUS update downloaded from their website using EasyFlasher.
The thing is it did not work and now my tablet won't boot at all.
All I can do now is start APX mode. The wieird thing is that it does not work with every computer, some detect my tablet and some just don't. Note that it only works while the dock is connected. Without the dock, I can't get the APX mode to be detected on any of my computers.
On the only computer that detects it, I have tried pretty much everything I found on the web to restore a rom, using easyflasher again on windows, then juste wheelie's restore.sh script under linux.
Using easyflasher I can't download the complete rom (it stops at uploading blob.APP, saying that a timer has expired or something like that). I tried to simply install a custom recovery image, to be able to flash an update.zip from there. The flash process seems to go as expected but I just can't reboot into the recovery, the tablet only boots into APX mode.
I am really stuck there, and I hope someone among you will be able to help me or at least tell me there is still hope
Thanks
If you aren't getting many replies here, I would post this on the Q&A section.
You need an NVFLASH rom
even if it doesn't seem to have detected APX mode try it anyway
You have to install the apx mode drivers for your device in order for it to be detected by the computer plenty of tools available to recover your device just search for some good ones will even install the apx drivers for you for example this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185104
ok so i have a pretty big problem and very minimal experience with flashing and rooting. Reading and studying many many forums i have peiced together what i have done wrong to do brick my tablet. So to begin a few days ago i managed to wipe my stock recovery and flashed a non existant one, reason being is i didnt download a recovery and unzip it in the required folder. the following day i had it rooted, that was successful. i installed an app from the android market which required root access and a reboot. It is now in bootloop on the "Asus Inspiring Innovation Persistant Perfection" Recovery results in the "Dead Andriod" screen. i have tried flashing using easy flasher but i cant get into APX mode to do so. if i exicute apx mode and plug the usb into the pc i dont get a response, but if have the cable already plugged in and exicute apx i hear chimes and i get "win 7 apx drivers not installed" i tried easy flasher and successfuly flashed WW_epaduser9_2_1_27UpdateLauncher asus stock rom however it still stuck in bootloop. i tried the recovery feature that came with easy flasher but that still result in bootloop when i boot from recovery. i have tried many recovery mods and none seem to work. im doing something wrong i just need someones help getting me out of this i dont want to make anymore mistakes. i have done enough damage. im taking this as light as possible, im a noob i watched the xda noob video and i read a t101 guide on a thread here on this website. many thanks for caring about a strangers issues.
asus tf101 S/N :B60KASO41231
ICS 4.0.3
9.2.1.27
rooted stock rom
audiphur said:
ok so i have a pretty big problem and very minimal experience with flashing and rooting. Reading and studying many many forums i have peiced together what i have done wrong to do brick my tablet. So to begin a few days ago i managed to wipe my stock recovery and flashed a non existant one, reason being is i didnt download a recovery and unzip it in the required folder. the following day i had it rooted, that was successful. i installed an app from the android market which required root access and a reboot. It is now in bootloop on the "Asus Inspiring Innovation Persistant Perfection" Recovery results in the "Dead Andriod" screen. i have tried flashing using easy flasher but i cant get into APX mode to do so. if i exicute apx mode and plug the usb into the pc i dont get a response, but if have the cable already plugged in and exicute apx i hear chimes and i get "win 7 apx drivers not installed" i tried easy flasher and successfuly flashed WW_epaduser9_2_1_27UpdateLauncher asus stock rom however it still stuck in bootloop. i tried the recovery feature that came with easy flasher but that still result in bootloop when i boot from recovery. i have tried many recovery mods and none seem to work. im doing something wrong i just need someones help getting me out of this i dont want to make anymore mistakes. i have done enough damage. im taking this as light as possible, im a noob i watched the xda noob video and i read a t101 guide on a thread here on this website. many thanks for caring about a strangers issues.
asus tf101 S/N :B60KASO41231
ICS 4.0.3
9.2.1.27
rooted stock rom
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i finally got easy flasher to work, installed apx drivers manually updated device booted into apx mode ran easy flasher and got me out of bootloop, thank you.
audiphur said:
i finally got easy flasher to work, installed apx drivers manually updated device booted into apx mode ran easy flasher and got me out of bootloop, thank you.
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Can you post the steps please?
mstrblueskys said:
Can you post the steps please?
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Try this:
Open page with EasyFlasher
Download EasyFlasher
Restart your device into APX (power off than power on while holding volume up - screen will turn black and it will look like off)
Connect your tablet to windows computer. If you already have APX drivers just continue with next step. If don't, windows probably show you info that they didn't find proper driver. Just download APX driver (link on Easy Flasher page), open device manager on windows, right click on APX (it will have exclamation mark next to it) and choose update driver and select manual location to location where you extracted apx drivers.
Download the latest ASUS stock firmware (link also on Easy Flasher page)
Choose Flash Asus stock zip / Unbrick and select location of downloaded stock
When finished, click on flash button in Recovery area.
reboot and pray
I am sorry to start a new thread but I have been reading threads and trying things now for over 7 hours straight. I have bricked my mothers A500.
I installed Skrillex V8 bootloader to my own tablet with Thor 1.7.3 recovery and a CM10.2 rom, everything worked fine. My mother liked how my tablet had way more battery and seemed faster then her own so she asked me to do it to hers.
I did everything the same except I had deleted the files and had to find a different bootloader so I found the "lightspeed" version of Skrilex V8 and as it seemed to just be a re-skin figured it was fine.
I downgraded to the unstable 3.0.2 build then installed iconia root and a Thor recovery via acer recovery. I then installed the lightspeed bootloader via thor with intentions of then installing the newer thor and rom after.
This is where im stuffed, after installing the new bootloader it is screwed. I cannot enter recovery or boot the primary kernal. I attempt to enter fastboot and although the tablet goes into fastboot it outputs errors and has random lockups and freezing on the tablet which the computer identifies as it being disconnected.
I have tried searching the forums for an answer and have tried everything I can understand but I am truely boned. As I am writing this I am installing packages to my Ubuntu laptop so that I can obtain the UID through the terminal in hopes it will work with APX and blackthunders tools.
If I cannot get it working I will simply wipe and give my mother my tablet, But I would really like to try and get this son of a ***** working again. I am currently incredibly annoyed at it and am probably missing something obvious. Please help me.
[UPDATE 1]
I have managed to obtain my CPUID and thus my SBK through the method described here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751978
I am still unable to use any tools as my PC will not recognize it in APX mode, I have reinstalled the drivers, restarted, tried multiple USB ports, uninstalled the failed unrecognized device and started from scratch a few times and I just cant seem to get it to detect them. Also tried other USB cables incase it was iffy, checked contacts on ports. There also cannot be any env variable or reg conflicts as I used my diagnostic machine to check it and it booted into its clean OS.
the APX seems to work with my linux unit though, but the blackthunder tools are for windows...
[UPDATE 2]
Using the tutorial here ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444187
I made it boot into the APX mode with the yellow acer logo and the APX mode text at the top, however I left it for a while and it didnt seem to finish flashing, using lsusb I can see its still connected to the linux box but it is clearly not flashing properly.
I am going to leave it for a bit then try unplugging from linux and plugging into windows while in the yellow acer logo screen with verbose output and see if blackthunders tool detects it.
[UPDATE 3]
DO NOT try what i did in update 2, I believe i removed it when it was formatting the partition, it wont even boot to the bootloader now. black screen with white light on power button and cannot be detected as APX.
[UPDATE 4]
I treid a few more times at getting it into APX mode and it turns out its just being dicky and freezing randomly, however, by trying a few times (this is dangerous but i had nothing to lose at this point) to run the Nvflash script on my linux box eventually it run through and installed the v9 bootloader. This bootloader allowed me to go into Fastboot without the freezing or crashing or loss of communications i was experiencing before. I then using fastboot flashed a recovery appropriate to the v9 bootloader and am now using that to flash a 4.3 rom. This should completely fix all the problems.
I am now sure (as previously I could only guess that the problem was caused by a dicky install of the lightspeed bootloader (a custom variant of skrilex v8 designed to match the theme of the lightspeed rom).
[UPDATE 5]
Working
Adding solved to title as I know the feeling when you come across an old thread that talks about your problem and has no replies or help.
-V0L4T1LE
Been using XDA for years never bothered to post as have never had to spend more then a few hours to solve a problem, this one took me a long time though so I decided to ask for help. Nevermind, didnt need it.
Awsum and well done getting yrself sorted, thanx for posting
rgds dibb
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Can you extract the partition 4 using nvflash --rawdeviceread to a file and share to me? My A500 is bricked and cannot download to it. only --rawdevicewrite works.
Thanks!
So a couple of weeks ago I accidentally let my battery die, which I try not to do because I have trouble getting it to turn back on again and this time it did just that: my tablet wouldn't power on at all. I searched up my symptoms: Power light comes on, Doesn't vibrate, Black screen, and everything pointed to either my motherboard went kaput or APX Mode. A new motherboard for my model is upwards of 50$, so I tried looking into what APX Mode meant. I'm decent with computers but this was beyond me, or more so that I have no idea where to find the files/programs to flash(?) it. Anyway digging through the threads here I looked at a recent one here and on a whim I tried the suggestion, even though it was to another problem they were having with APX Mode. And it worked!
My tablet turned on fine, but I am skeptical of how long that will last. So, some questions that I hope someone can help me with are, what is a "fastboot", and does it hurt the system in any way if used repeatedly? Is there another way (an app or something) that will be able to tell me my UID and SBK other than through a Linux computer? Also, bootloading, does that root the device in any way? When I was looking around it didn't sound like it did, but then sometimes it did and now I'm just confused.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks for looking!
All files needed for unlocking the bootloader, rooting and unbricking can be found in the root guide in my sig. Along with methods of retrieving the cpuid and also a guide to flash the bootloader using the apxflash tool - I try and keep download links up2date, let me know if you have any probs.
If your tab does have a faulty emmc and I'm not saying it does...it will eventually fail, being stuck at the Acer screen seems to be the most common symptom, followed by the inability to flash.
Fastboot gives the ability to perform wipes and flash via the windows command prompt...
Root is gained (on ics) with icsRoot tool...once done you can then nvflash the unlocked bootloader.
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dibb_nz said:
All files needed for unlocking the bootloader, rooting and unbricking can be found in the root guide in my sig. Along with methods of retrieving the cpuid and also a guide to flash the bootloader using the apxflash tool - I try and keep download links up2date, let me know if you have any probs.
If your tab does have a faulty emmc and I'm not saying it does...it will eventually fail, being stuck at the Acer screen seems to be the most common symptom, followed by the inability to flash.
Fastboot gives the ability to perform wipes and flash via the windows command prompt...
Root is gained (on ics) with icsRoot tool...once done you can then nvflash the unlocked bootloader.
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Ah, thank you! I will definitely go through those. I checked the cpuid one last night in case it decided to die while I was sleeping, so that's good. Although my sister's tablet doesn't have that file on hers at all? And its the same model ... anyway.
emmc? Forgive me, I am not well versed in these abbreviations. It hasn't gotten stuck at the Acer screen yet since I've had it, but ... its always a possibility.
Hmm, I didn't have it connected to the computer when I tried fasbooting it — is it considered something else when you power the tablet on holding the Power Button + the Volume Up button? Maybe it wasn't in APX Mode at all then, but I don't know if that makes it better or worse. No other way would make it turn on, it was just a dead black screen no matter what I did, and then I tried that and the Acer logo popped up.
And, sorry just to be clear, there's no way to unbrick a tablet without rooting it?
Thanks so much
emmc = memory chip!
Per+vol down = custom recovery
Pwr+vol UP = fastboot
Drivers - From Acer and adb_fastboot drivers from android sdk (or the mini.zip in the guide)
Cpuid/sbk imperative to run most of the unbricking files which are based on nvflash.
Root - unavailable on hc 3.2, not needed to unbrick but usb debugging needs to be enabled in settings. For ics use icsRoot,
skrilax_cz unblocked bootloader - needed to install custom roms. Needs cpuid. Will also flash cwm recovery. Gives fastboot ability. So you can flash a new recovery thru Windows command prompt i.e. enter fastboot
Open command prompt
Type in: fastboot flash recovery "name_of_your_recovery'.img
EUU - Acer upgrade tool which gets you back to stock. PC based, needs cpuid and also used to unbrick.
update.zip - Acer stock updates, some are full os dates some are just incremental updates. Used also to help with softbrick like getting stuck on the Acer screen. Cpuid not required, flashed via ext sd card.
Think that's it in a nutshell...as stated get your cpuid NOW
Which build of Android is the tab running??
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