Hello friends,
I was using a General Mobile etab4 tablet,
rooted,
bootloader locked,
not backed up, i tried but apps wont recognize the brand,
the stock rom is not available anywhere but I managed to find some custom ones.
This tablet is actually a given by government for educational purposes, and it has no download mode, I can only initiate recovery mode with volume up+power button combo, and there is no sd card in it.
Here is what happened. It was running with problems so I decided to flash a custom rom I find on this forum. First I tried flashing using adb sideload. I got an error message "Installation aborted" with no error codes after verification step but it does not state whether verification is failed or not. I don't know what actually failed. Then I tried to flash it using adb shell as root (the system image was in /sdcard directory). It freezed, I exit the shell using Ctrl+C command. Then whenever I try to start shell i got "error:closed" message. I see my device with adb devices with sideload, but it is not seen in fastboot devices.
When I try to open it, I guess it enters in a small boot loop (screen flickers multiple times with brand name on it) and after some time I got dead android with no command written.
I tried,
reflashing it again with Android AIO Flasher,
use fastboot to unlock bootlader (it says "waiting for device") although adb devices sees it,
re-installing the adb drivers after uninstalling them,
disassembling the device to see if I can detach memory to edit it and to see if disconnecting the battery helps,
I even used a simple jig to see if i can initiate download mode (know it works for specific devices but you know hope)
Apparently, I messed up the device but the hardware must be all fine. So I think there must be a way out. What can you suggest, I wish I have unlocked the bootloader. I can send the pictures of its motheboard it helps,
Thanks in advance.
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Is a sad day for me...i didn't knew about the Hardware Lock of Vibrants and i rooted and applied lag fix to my phone. After this i just updated the phone via Kies to JI6 then when phone rebooted got stucked after the second stage of booting with a blank screen. I tried many methods of get into Recovery or Download to flash again but can't because of Hardware Lock. Anyone knows if my problem have a solution?? Im very sad plz help.
Have you tried holding volume down and power until it boots?
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Yah....Nothing!!
Try all methods:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771247
I think you may need to use ADB commands to force it to reboot into download.
You may need to do method #4.
You may want to keep adb up and keep typing 'adb devices' to see if it sees the device when you try these different methods. If so - reboot into recovery from that.
You should be able to get into DL mode. Do you have ADB on your computer? If not, get it. Put it on the root of your C:\ and than make sure you get the drivers installed on your PC. Get ODIN and have it open. When that is done, connect your phone to your PC and boot it up. Open a cmd prompt (if you are in windows 7 you may need to open as admin) and navigate to C:\ (or where ever you decided to put ADB). At the command prompt type this exactly minus the parenthesis: "adb reboot download" Should shoot you right into DL mode. At that point you will need to flash a new ROM via ODIN, so make sure you read up.
Hope this works/helps.
I tried all that but cant get into recovery or download mode, my phone is not stuked on vibrant logo it just go to the second logo and then blank screen. Fabrication date is 08-10.
Hi everyone,
Well I'm in that freak out stage.... where I am sure some of you have been.
Heres my issue...
I have a transformer prime that;
I just unrooted using Vipermod
Then did a factory reset
Now I am stuck in CWM recovery
I attempted to do a restore but after it gets done it brings me back into the recovery
I attempted to ADB but the command prompt opens and closes right away ( I assume from not being in USB debugging, which I cant get into without a rom)
I have no rom's currently downloaded into the prime as I just wiped everything in there as well.
Please i'll gladly pay $5 to anyone who can fix this without it breaking more (hard bricking if I havent already done so)
AHHH please guys help, I'm afraid it will run out of battery soon then I'll be royally screwedddd
anyone?
are you on windows 7?
yes windows 7 professional sp 1 32bit . to reiterate I am stuck in Clockwork mod Recovery without root, and with no roms on the internal SD. I have access to one restore that works but after it completes it reboots back in recovery.
birchnick10 said:
yes windows 7 professional sp 1 32bit . to reiterate I am stuck in Clockwork mod Recovery without root, and with no roms on the internal SD. I have access to one restore that works but after it completes it reboots back in recovery.
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Turn on your tablet, let it boot into CWM.
Open cmd, cd to the directory with adb (for example cd C:\android), then copy this line of text below and right click > paste in the command prompt window.
adb shell dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 count=13
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That should get you out of CWM into Android, assuming your restore works fine.
Attempted and got error device not found.
I have uninstalled the transformer drivers and also installed the universal drivers as said in other threads.
I assume to use ADB i need usb debugging on for it to read??
My issue is I cant get into any rom so turning on usb debugging is a no go.
can i fastboot push a rom to the internal sd card or better yet can i install a rom from the external SD card via Clockwork mod recovery?
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Attempted and got error device not found.
I have uninstalled the transformer drivers and also installed the universal drivers as said in other threads.
I assume to use ADB i need usb debugging on for it to read??
My issue is I cant get into any rom so turning on usb debugging is a no go.
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Navigate to %android sdk folder%\extras\google\usb_driver, open android_winusb.inf and copy the following in the sections
"Google.NTx86" and "Google.NTamd64"
; TF201
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0B05&PID_4D01&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0B05&PID_4D03&MI_02
;
; Fastboot for all projects
%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0B05&PID_4DAF
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Save the file and then try running the adb command I gave again.
Says error device not found. I appreciate the help keep it coming it's keeping my hope alive. I really hope this isnt truly hard bricked.
I cant get ADB to read the transformer prime. When I type adb devices nothing shows up . it starts the daemon successfully but then doesn't show the tfp.
Thank you again for helping. I am honestly going to pay who ever finds the true fix. This stress sucks
birchnick10 said:
Says error device not found. I appreciate the help keep it coming it's keeping my hope alive. I really hope this isnt truly hard bricked.
I cant get ADB to read the transformer prime. When I type adb devices nothing shows up . it starts the daemon successfully but then doesn't show the tfp.
Thank you again for helping. I am honestly going to pay who ever finds the true fix. This stress sucks
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Try the instructions here. Try using this only as a last-ditch resort.
it wont shut off either... i tried both of the above mentions and cant get adb to recognize the prime
Attempted both and stuck at recovery loop without root. any more ideas? is it possible to flash rom from external sd? or is there a recovery I could fastboot rhat has this feature?
Attempted both and neither work. I need to somehow get usb debugging enabled while in clockwork mod. Or figure out a way to install a rom via external SD card while in CWM. Any more help is appreciated!
birchnick10 said:
Attempted and got error device not found.
I have uninstalled the transformer drivers and also installed the universal drivers as said in other threads.
I assume to use ADB i need usb debugging on for it to read??
My issue is I cant get into any rom so turning on usb debugging is a no go.
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No adb debugging is needed in cwm. Even without any ROM installed. Recovery is different from Android.
Try to long press power (at least ten seconds) to hard reboot, and see if it changes something in device detection.
Did a hard reset and it boots me back into Recovery.
I was able to get a new rom into the internal SD via the emergency/backup.zip method but after it completes and I do a reboot it just boots right back into recovery again.
Any help please is apprecaited.
$5 bounty for a fix via paypal
Oh joy. This one is a spaghetti western in the making.
Okay. Question first : Does Windows 7 RECOGNISE the device in any way shape or form. To find out if this can be done, you need to power up the device and hold the power and volume down buttons, DO NOT press volume up when it suggests a kernel image. If you get three icons, hit vol down once and up once, then plug the USB cable into the PC and the tablet.
If it sees "Something", you've a chance. Download the naked universal USB driver from the dev forum, install it and have your device pick it up on the windows computer. I'm assuming from your comments that you've GOT a working fastboot and adb so I'm going to skip the instructions on that.
If you do have a something, and it's recognised, hit fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot, if it reboots of it's own accord at this point, you can confirm you have working ADB and Fastboot access. From there you've a few choices. My personal preference would be to ADB push a rom down -after- doing a rebuild of the recovery image via fastboot (I really recommend TWRP for this bit).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26093546#post26093546 - This post here which I wrote will explain how to flash TWRP from fastboot access, presuming you can get it. Once that step is done, wipe EVERYTHING from TWRP, and I mean the whole nine yards, including /system. Raze the memory down to only things it can't actually nuke. Once that's done, reboot to fastboot protocol, get a ROM pushed via ADB and install from inside TWRP.
That -should- get you back in business. Though judging by the tangle you're in, I make no promises.
ADB wont recognize the device. I have installed and uninstalled the drivers about 5 times.
It wont boot into fastboot - just goes directly into Clockwork Mod recovery. Even while holding power and volume down text comes up that says looking for asus recovery. then says clockwork recovery and boots directly into that.
The only way I can get anything into the internal SD card is with MasterZen88's Emergency script tool that puts any 1 file into the internal SD card as backup.zip
It was unrooted prior to all of this as well.
*cringe*
If ADB isn't working -at all- and it's not using the naked USB drivers to get you any kind of workable access. You're starting to smell very much like a hard brick scenario. I'm honestly not sure if there's a way out of that. A lot of the solutions for unbricking absolutely require that the device is able to talk to the outside world, if it's not and the ADB shell is essentially telling you it's talking to dead air, you're in a world of pain.
It's a long shot but it may be worth speaking to ASUS to see if they are willing to, for a fee, restore your tablet to factory settings. Though I can't imagine that will be cheap or simple. If you are able to get an RMA or a means of getting ASUS to poke it, make sure to take photos. Their techies appear to have the worst case of butterfingers in the world.
Go over Pandaball's suggestion, because that's really the last step I can think of before contacting ASUS
Hello, I'm a little bit new to all this, so any help and detailed instructions are very very helpfull.
So I have Gigabyte GSmart Aku A1 device (MediaTek 6589), I don't know if it's bricked or what but apparently is not working quite well.
When I turn on my phone, it just loads and loads and loads and nothing happens (waited for about 4-5 hours), that was starting to happen after I somehow installed CWM on my device with some tutorial, CWM worked for the first time and after next reboot, it disappeared and stock recovery came back (and the problem with infinite loading screen - only showing logo).
I have ADB drivers installed, SDK aswell, tried to put stock firmware (got it from official site) and in like 1/4 of installation it says:
Code:
symlink: some symlinks failed
After that, I tried to install few versions that I downloaded from that official site, but same error again and again. (I tried to install with SD card and with ADB too. ADB is only working when I go to "apply update from ADB" in recovery. I have also used 2 different types of SD cards.)
That didn't worked either, so I got to some russian forum, and using google translator I downloaded 5-6 types of custom ROM's / Firmwares. That didn't worked either, one time when installing one of those ROM's - it said something about signature..
After that I was trying to install those ROM's with ADB and with SD Cards aswell, but turns out that every single time I get error saying: "Installation aborted.".
I have ofcourse tried to wipe data/factory and to wipe cache too, but nothing helps..
Also, when I'm in ADB console, when I type any command besides adb sideload or adb devices, I get error saying: "error: closed". I cant get into fastboot with adb console.
I really don't know what to do anymore, so any help would be very very appreciated. Thank you for your help in advance, if you need any videos, pictures or something, just tell me.
Edit: When I go to "wipe data/factory reset" in recovery, it says: "Mount /data error.".
BUMP!
BUMP^2!
luuksa said:
BUMP^2!
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i would look for stock rom in form of full mtkdroidtools backup and preloader drivers for your mtk chipset
and flash it using flashtool (it uses preloader[you can determine if it's available/undamaged by turning phone off and opening device manager on pc and plugging phone to pc if there will be a flash in device manager before the charging starts it will flash ])
hi, i work helping my classmates when they stuck on their phones... ok, i'm apologize for my bad english but here is the thing, i now have one Huawei G610-U00 and the phone say "Encryption unsuccessful", i notice that him install the twrp recovery so i try flashing a new recovery using fastboot and the fastboot only say "sending 'recovery'" and nothing else happens(i left all the night, the phone only discharge the battery,), make a search on google and find info related and try them, try using sp flash, try installing a new zip, even try a force-update but when press the vol + and - and the power key, the phone go to recovery, also in the bootloader mode it only say "recovery_status:UPDATED" nothing else, the "adb devices" comand shows '0123456789ABCDEF' the "fastboot devices" show "mt6589_phone_720pv2", please need help i use the adb comand and try to format but only receive error messages, this is that i get on the recovery:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NnURitRMg-ZUZCUC1WaXVIQkdPSGRCaE90NUFUVUZodnBr/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NnURitRMg-RUN5ZjhWbklDUVRNeThFbXRMLUdfUUNoVkFJ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NnURitRMg-ZGxqYlhMeTBhbVVXbERHWXNoN0xXYlgxTFdV/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NnURitRMg-bVJRODB1N3hXckxNbnhMZFBpajdhekxhaUc4/view?usp=sharing
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goluisgerardo said:
hi, i work helping my classmates when they stuck on their phones... ok, i'm apologize for my bad english but here is the thing, i now have one Huawei G610-U00 and the phone say "Encryption unsuccessful", i notice that him install the twrp recovery so i try flashing a new recovery using fastboot and the fastboot only say "sending 'recovery'" and nothing else happens(i left all the night, the phone only discharge the battery,), make a search on google and find info related and try them, try using sp flash, try installing a new zip, even try a force-update but when press the vol + and - and the power key, the phone go to recovery, also in the bootloader mode it only say "recovery_status:UPDATED" nothing else, the "adb devices" comand shows '0123456789ABCDEF' the "fastboot devices" show "mt6589_phone_720pv2", please need help i use the adb comand and try to format but only receive error messages, this is that i get on the recovery:
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I have a similar problem with Huawei Y320-U030, MTK 6572, Android 4.2.2 with many malware infections. Almost all applications keep crashing, Factory Reset from Settings does not work, but I can do it from the recovery and it seems to complete successfully but when the devices boots, all user applications and files are there. I have flashed it with stock ROM and backup ROM from an other working similar phone, the flashing process completed successfully but when the device boots all user files and applications are untouched, even after formatting the whole flash with Sp flashtool, Volcano box and Miracle box! An applications called DU Speed Booster is set as device administrator with a pattern lock which cannot be deactivated. Uninstalling the imo application makes the device reboot and hang on Huawei logo untill the battery is pulled out. I can't install any new apk or root the device even using PC. Music, videos, and photos in the internal memory can be copied with a computer but cannot be deleted. Formatting the internal memory with a PC seems successful but all files on the device are intact. Very interesting case indeed.
Hello. I just flashed the AOSiP OS ROM onto my Moto Z2 Force, and now I think my phone is soft bricked but in the strangest way possible.
I can't get past the booting animation so I can't get into the OS, but I can still get into recovery mode and download mode, but virtually nothing is working for me in those modes. In download (Fastboot Flash Mode) mode when I plug my phone into my PC, the computer doesn't let me do anything with the phone. If I plug it in Windows makes the sound like something has just been plugged in, but it doesn't let me access the device. If I go to devices and printers, I see it under unspecified as Fastboot nash S. And if I go to properties it recognizes it. It says Motorola ADB Interface and recognizes it as an android device, but I can't do anything with it and I can't access any files. Fastboot itself doesn't recognize the device either. When I type "adb devices" in my command prompt it doesn't come up in the list, and so I can't flash anything from my computer to fix this. I think it may be because before my phone bricked USB debugging wasn't enabled, but I don't think there is any way to enable now. If anyone knows of a method to enable it that'd be awesome.
I have installed all appropriate drivers, and up until right now it has detected it with no problem.
This is what the command prompt says when I try to detect it: (also tried adb sideload with no luck)
C:\Users\Louis\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools>adb sideload twrp-3.3.1-0-nash.img
loading: 'twrp-3.3.1-0-nash.img'
error: no devices/emulators found
C:\Users\Louis\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
If I go to recovery mode (it was TWRP but now after flashing AOSiP it's back to just regular android recovery mode because I made a mistake so I lost everything) I get an immediate error message saying:
"Supported API:3
E: Failed to Clear BCB message: failed to open /dev/block/bootdevice/by-game/mi.... and the rest of the text goes off screen and I can't see it.
Below that it says
: No such file or directory."
If I try apply update from SD card I get an error message saying:
-- Couldn't mount /sdcard.
Installation aborted. Followed by the same error message as above.
Just like with download mode this was working perfectly fine before flashing this rom.
I feel totally stuck and I have no idea what to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.