Problem On My TF201 - No Option To Boot Into Fastboot - Going Straight Into Recovery - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Hello
After long time of reset and installations (4 hours from now) i'm stuck now on a very strange problem.
My Asus Prime tf201 is going straight into TWRP Recovery.
Even when i press the volume down and the power button i can't get into Fastboot screen.
I must get into the Fastboot screen to reset and delete my prime completely.
Even when i insert a small pin into the reset hole and pressed the volume down is doing every time the same thing and takes mw to the Recovery.
My device is also Unlocked.
Is there a way to fix it and be able to have the fast boot screen ?
Or my tablet is dead and i get put it in the garbage

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james341 said:
Hello
After long time of reset and installations (4 hours from now) i'm stuck now on a very strange problem.
My Asus Prime tf201 is going straight into TWRP Recovery.
Even when i press the volume down and the power button i can't get into Fastboot screen.
I must get into the Fastboot screen to reset and delete my prime completely.
Even when i insert a small pin into the reset hole and pressed the volume down is doing every time the same thing and takes mw to the Recovery.
My device is also Unlocked.
Is there a way to fix it and be able to have the fast boot screen ?
Or my tablet is dead and i get put it in the garbage
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So, is recovery working or only the splash screen?
If working, can you mount ext_sdcard?
If working' can you adb into tab?

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Yes, the recovery is working and I can adb but can't mount ext_sdcard
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james341 said:
Yes, the recovery is working and I can adb but can't mount ext_sdcard
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So you can install recovery again.
I recommend one of those from the post#01 from this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772093
Push recovery.blob to internal sdcard (/storage/sdcard0) and try to flash using terminal command of TWRP.
Code:
dd if=/storage/sdcard0/recovery.blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 [enter]
reboot
If it works, you will see a blue progress bar. Let it finish and boot itself to System. On ASUS screen press power and voldown and you should see the three bootloader icons, RCK flashing. Now you are in fastboot mode. If you see four icons (RCK, Andy, USB and wipe) then you have wrong bootloader.
Report again here.

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Thanks
In all the downloads in the link you gave me the file that i have after the unzip process is the recovery.img and it's not a blob file.
where can i find a blob file ?
So I searched in google for recovery blob files for the tf201 and it took me to the TeamWin website :
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/93
and i went down in the page for the "Download - Recovery Image / Fastboot Method (using ICS or JB Asus boot loader):" section and downloaded both ICS and JB blob files and tried to push first the JB and run the commend in the terminal . in both files it looks like it was working and than i reboot (it asks me to install SuperSU and i press No) but even after the restart nothing happened and it takes me to the Teamwin recovery (that in some strange way, the first screen that it shows me is to enter some password ....and i press cancel)
thanks

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james341 said:
Thanks
In all the downloads in the link you gave me the file that i have after the unzip process is the recovery.img and it's not a blob file.
where can i find a blob file ?
So I searched in google for recovery blob files for the tf201 and it took me to the TeamWin website :
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/93
and i went down in the page for the "Download - Recovery Image / Fastboot Method (using ICS or JB Asus boot loader):" section and downloaded both ICS and JB blob files and tried to push first the JB and run the commend in the terminal . in both files it looks like it was working and than i reboot (it asks me to install SuperSU and i press No) but even after the restart nothing happened and it takes me to the Teamwin recovery (that in some strange way, the first screen that it shows me is to enter some password ....and i press cancel)
thanks
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The cited teamw.in page is outdated. There TWRP stops at 3.6.0.1 which is (to my experience) an evil one. We are at TWRP 2.8.4.0.
Why don't you take my advice and take that one of here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53139910&postcount=1 ???? Nowadays there is no ICS TWRP anymore.
Best IMO is this one: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712468163
Don't stall at the name TF300T; it's also for TF201 and works with ext4 and f2fs. Either you install it by zip flash or unzip it and get the recovery.img to flash manually.
If you care for a blob file, rename it to recovery.blob. Android terminal commands don't care for file extensions; you need only a .img extension for the zipflash routine of TWRP.

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Thanks
will give it a try now

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james341 said:
Thanks
will give it a try now
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If you are more comfortable with fastboot, you can flash recovery using
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging recovery.img
BTW could you post version of your bootloader (small notice on left upper margin of ASUS screen at bootload).

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i tried and it give me an error
I'm uploading now a youtube video for you to see what i am doing - it will take a while and i will be happy if you can pass here tomorrow to see it and what it gives me.
about the bootloader - i think this is the problem, i don't have nothing there , when i turn on the tablet i see only the Asus logo and a message up there that said "device is unlocked"
about the fastboot - i can't run fastboot command because my tablet can't get into fastboot mode - as i told you it boot straight into the recovery

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james341 said:
i tried and it give me an error
I'm uploading now a youtube video for you to see what i am doing - it will take a while and i will be happy if you can pass here tomorrow to see it and what it gives me.
about the bootloader - i think this is the problem, i don't have nothing there , when i turn on the tablet i see only the Asus logo and a message up there that said "device is unlocked"
about the fastboot - i can't run fastboot command because my tablet can't get into fastboot mode - as i told you it boot straight into the recovery
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O.k. one of our best devs here has for the 'boot only to recovery' issue an elaborate solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54965562&postcount=1
Problems could be connected with wrong bootloader. @lj50036 has somewhere provided some zips with fitting bl/recovery combos (don't find it atm).

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Thanks
I will give it a try - hope to have short night.....

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das chaos said:
O.k. one of our best devs here has for the 'boot only to recovery' issue an elaborate solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54965562&postcount=1
Problems could be connected with wrong bootloader. @lj50036 has somewhere provided some zips with fitting bl/recovery combos (don't find it atm).
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IS it really that elaborate ?

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Ok ...there's some change , now I can see the fastboot screen on my prime. A screen I haven't see for a while ...but now I can't run fastboot commends aldo ADB run fine . It looks like when i put Fasboot devices - it don't see the device.
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james341 said:
Ok ...there's some change , now I can see the fastboot screen on my prime. A screen I haven't see for a while ...but now I can't run fastboot commends aldo ADB run fine . It looks like when i put Fasboot devices - it don't see the device.
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Look in device manager, can you see the device in there ?
Thx Josh

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Yes - it say fastboot asus
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james341 said:
Yes - it say fastboot asus
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Hmmmm, not sure .. odd ...
I can help on hangouts if you would like more help looking into this ....
Drop me a line sometime [email protected]
Thx Josh

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Ok no problem - I will contact you later ...need to go to work...many many thanks .....
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I can't found you in Hangouts - is this the right email?
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james341 said:
I can't found you in Hangouts - is this the right email?
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'gamil.com' is of course 'gmail.com'.
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james341 said:
Ok ...there's some change , now I can see the fastboot screen on my prime. A screen I haven't see for a while ...but now I can't run fastboot commends aldo ADB run fine . It looks like when i put Fasboot devices - it don't see the device.
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So:
1. How many icons on 'fastboot screen' which is bootloader screen.
2. Now you would see bootloader version; report.
3. 'device' command doesn't work on my pc either; fastboots nevertheless. Try
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash recovery recovery.img
and report outcome by the word.

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I see 3 icons . I can't remember if I see now the bootloader version ...I'm in my office now. By the way, I sent you a message in hangouts.
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