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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Follow-Up

I contacted Sammy they told me that their system shows that my tablet is out of warranty, so I argued the fact that I have Paper work that shows that I received this device Mid March 2012 it was late being shipped to me as they were waiting for the new shipment from Samsung to which he replied that the unit was most likely a Refurb that I have to contact TELUS for warranty.

I asked them if I choose to have it fixed out of warranty roughly how much would it cost and he stated that they have seen a rush of these coming in due to ICS upgrade failure and that it has not cost more than $85.00 returned.

Contacted TELUS and they said they do not send out refurbished units and assured me that this was a new Unit and that their (TELUS) warranty on the device is 30 days after that is Samsungs factory warranty which is 1 year.

Directly after the TELUS call ended Sammy called me explaining that there was something that they forgot to mention on promotional items their system can show as warranty expired so all they need is the packing slip with the shipping date and my particulars and warranty will start from that date.

Yessss..... it'll be fixed under warranty.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djmatt604:
RIGHT ON man. That's how you do it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Now you have a display piece you can show your son and say "this is how you'll turn out if you disobey me!" hahaha
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linnu5:
I tried the on/off loop, and looking at the device manager the "nvidia" stops looping and just stays there permanently after a minute or so, so I'm not sure if the on/off loop is working. And I'm not so sure if the tab is charging or not.

I also tried to remove the battery, and plugged the tab on my pc, it still shows "nvidia..." (without the battery plugged - guess it gets power from the usb or it have another source of power?). Removing the battery helps anything?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Nvidia? You didnt install the drivers? and yeah removing the battery should be the alternative. Still doesn't work?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linnu5:
I've installed the drivers, so the tab appears as "Nvidia USB Boot Recovery" on the device manager.

And yes, I removed the battery and still doens't work. APX only.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
I undoubtedly installed the drivers and it appears as NIVIDA USB Boot-Recovery driver for mobile devices similar to linnu

when i tried to run the nvflash, the result is

flash>nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --go

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X4

Command send failed (usb write failed)

So... i presume this means the driver is correct? (although my bootloader is locked -.-a)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MapleSyrup:
I have this horrible problem. I'll try this method to fix it, but after reading it all, I'm not 100% sure, will this work with a locked bootloader? I mean, the part of flashing with nvflash is absolutely necessary (with fastboot it'll be pretty easy) or just the "battery drain" part of it (and that's where the trick is)?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decatf:
The method described in the OP doesn't involve flashing using nvflash. It is an attempt to get the device to out of whatever low level mode it might be stuck in by draining the battery and hoping it will power up again and reset.

It's nearly impossible to tell what exactly the problem each person had. People haven't been posting much information about how they "bricked" it or what the events were that led to the tablet being stuck in this state. So it's hard to tell what exactly the conditions are that this method might work under.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
i think the only purpose is to check whether the tab is in the right 'draining mode' but im not too sure

i hope it works, otherwise... ill be in deep trouble

When i flash a custom ICS i downloaded from one of the thread, it got stuck at 'installing' and the progress bar doesnt progress at all until the whole thing died out (the battery puff) then i recharge it because i thought that it runs out of battery so.. now im waiting for the battery to drain instead :crying:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
My tablet just stopped switching itself on after a charge. I tried this method it didnt work - its gone off to a samsung repair centre
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goalie77:
Hi,

I have a samsung galaxy tab 10.1 that crashed the other night while i was playing games on it. I held down the power button until it reset and it now appears to be stuck in downloading mode !

If i hold down the power button and the left hand volume button i can get the restore/download menu and using the volume keys navigate over to restore but nothing happens when i press the right volume key to select restore. The restore icon just continues to flash and the only thing that i can do to get out of that screen is to choose Download and restart tab. Which for the record just shuts the tab down and when i restart it, well just repeat everything i just said.

Stuck i say.

My question is i will these instructions that you've typed out fix my problem ?

I'll leave my tab on at the downloading screen until the battery goes flat (unfortunately i'd just charged it) but am stuck for answers otherwise.

Please help
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Oh, yours isn't considered a brick, but more or less the buggy first edition honeycomb firmwares. Alot of people had that issue, esp from the Verizon one. You need to flash a stock firmware, fresh one on top of it. Restore doesn't work because the recovery mod is probably broke. You can either flash CWM again to fix that issue or you can flash a brand new firmware. But if you flash CWM chances are it just fixes the recovery module but not sure about your data. You need to put the tab in download mode to flash the CWM via Odin. (problem is that a bit unsafe so most kernel developers make it a Zip flash able file to be flashed via CWM.

You can however get the stock boot image from the rooting kit. And flash that via Odin (never flash a Zip file on Odin)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbE:
Have a look at this Thread...I'm sure my Experiences will help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739452
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSHV:
when i connect the device with the battery unplugged the device still getting recognized as apx !!

as if the device not is using the battery at all .
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
It should be because the bootloader is broken, you need to bring it to download mode and flash a stock rom or CWM (assuming that your rom isn't what's caused the breakdown) :banghead: that's how you will save it. Removing the battery and loading it in download mode directly
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MapleSyrup:
Do you know how to do that (the "download mode directly" part) ?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Sadly you need to go through the whole quick boot menu :/
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rndchef:
Fix my brick

So my tab froze during a nandroid restore and I restarted which has resulted in a brick. I can get into Apx mode and tried pushing some nvflash commands but it aint working. Given some of the success stories here, do you think this would work in my situation?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AudiTuner:
Hi, I had a quick question before I send my P7510 in for RMA:

The tablet froze during a TWRP flash of pershoot's 9/01 CM9 experimental build. I had to power it off and now it won't power back on. I've drained it a few times (as far as I can tell) by attaching various USB devices to the USB dongle add-on and tried to get it to show that it was charging by plugging it into the wall A/C charger but unfortunately I haven't had any luck. Just a blank screen and a tablet that won't turn on.

Any advice?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decatf:
There's not much else you can do as far as I know. I have been waiting a more than a week for the battery to drain and it still has not. I don't have the USB dongle so it could take a very long time.

It seems like quite a few people with this problem recently have been because of problems inside of CWM/TWRP. There has not been any people reporting success with this method recently as far as I can see. If anything there have been a number of people saying that it won't even charge after draining it. This leads me to believe that this method is not likely to work with whatever problem(s) with CWM/TWRP recently that is resulting in this device being stuck with APX mode.

What concerns me is that there was one user posting that Samsung wouldn't repair it because they do not fix no power situations.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rndchef:
I am concerned about that as well. Or they come back and sting me for a out of warranty repair. I am not sure how they could refuse a refurbished replacement since it is dead and not a mark on it. I am more concerned they discover it was rooted and ding me. I am waiting to hear from the guys that are doing the Jtag deal to see if they can do it. I had 1 day left on warranty when it happened. Unbelievable!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pershoot:
that TWRP recovery, if using samsung's release kernel 3.1, needs to have MMC_CAP_ERASE removed from it. please contact the person who built this to have it rebuilt without this functionality in it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Master per shoot. You grace us with your reply. :p

But in a way the one who's handling the CM thread didn't do that, most just flash the rom then the kernel replaces yours, and that recovery just screws everything over.

I don't really know how to fix that either because that leads to a locked bootloader. Ox4 error that makes it impossible to fix.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pershoot:
if it cannot be rebuilt then it should be removed and notices put up for people to flash off of it (recovery).

only samsung can fix it, unfortunately (although i believe some were able to JIG the devices in mention (this is on s2 i believe).

they will either reflash it with nvflash via APX (they have the key) and/or reset the chip inside (I gather) and then reflash it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Either way, that's the harder way than finding some sort of unlocker for the locked bootloader. :confused:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bucketachicken:
If I had an unlocked bootloader (with the unlocked icon on bootup before this brick), does that help with the ability to unbrick my device? It is stuck in apx mode, and I have the usb-dongle, but it's taking forever to drain (was basically fully charged before this). I can occassionally get nvflash to show success with "nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --go" from the thread I used to root in the first place but I don't know what to do then. The next step from that thread, the whole "nvflash --resume --download 8 recovery.img" part always fails.

Is there anything else I can do to fix this on those occasions I get it to actually show success with the first command? The tab itself turns the screen on and has one tiny line in the corner about nvflash recovery mode, but I can't get anything else to work from there and the tab eventually turns back off.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
What's the error you get? If it's 0x4 then nope. Otherwise you haven't loaded up the drivers properly
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bucketachicken:
This is what happens the majority of the time when I try to use nvflash. On rare occasion it's successful, though I have yet to find any sort of pattern as to what makes it do that instead of this.

I've heard of the dreaded 0x4 error from browsing threads, and while I'm not 100% certain since I don't know where it appears exactly, I don't believe I've seen it. The "rcm version" was once 0x4, but it's usually something different (such as in this screenshot), dunno if that's related.

EDIT: oh, and my driver version is 1.1.1.0 on the "NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery driver for Mobile devices" which I installed a little over a year ago from the thread I referenced above, the 3.1 root thread. I can certainly update if there's a newer one.

EDIT 2: aha, got it to show success (see second screenshot). The tab itself now just has the message "Entering NvFlash recovery mode / Nv3p Server" (and some weird symbol at the end I don't recognize). But what to do now is beyond me...the only thing I know to try is the "nvflash --resume --download 8 recovery.img" which gives me the message...

Nvflash started
[resume mode]
failed executing command 14 NvError 0x120000
command failure: partition download failed
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
I have taped my gtab 10.1 and it pop in and out of the device manager but it has been close to 2weeks and same thing still happening in which case, based on the guide in the OP, it signify that my battery is yet to be drained...

I have a battery around 60% level when the flash goes wrong, something wrong with my gtab connection to the PC, or it is normal that the battery last for this long?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goalie77:
Hey i checked out that thread as well as a couple of youtube videos showing how to flash a new cwm recovery onto my tablet and each time i try to do so i get a fail and an error on the screen. Nothing seems to be working at all.

It's still under warranty however i was hoping that i wouldn't have to send it back in. Anything else i can try ?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *child:
+1

I've opened up my Tab and disconnected the battery and the tab still boots into APX mode. Perhaps there's a backup battery or something?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lehongwang:
Hello, my tab has just been bricked, I disassembled and unplug the battery connector, but couldnot believe,there is ghost, my tab is still ON up to now (was after 4 hours), how many battery do the tab have and how to drain it fastest ? thank you
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirapramli:
prevention is better than cure. is there something we as custom rom users can do to prevent these horrible SOD from happening??
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
Im in my 3rd weeks and when i try to connect it to my notebook, it still comes out in the device manager.

Anyone here has tried draining the battery by taping without using additional USB devices to leech the power off?

Would it take months to drain the whole battery out?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AudiTuner:
Just wanted to give an update - I sent my P7510 in to Samsung for an RMA. The online chat people were very helpful and even filled out the RMA form for me. In my case the only thing I had to include was the charger and tablet itself. Samsung paid for shipping (both ways). They received my unit on a Friday and looked at it the next Tuesday I believe. They replaced the motherboard according the repair invoice they emailed me. This only took one day once they actually had the tablet ready to go. They sent it back via UPS Second Day Air and I received it last Friday.

The best part is that they replaced my motherboard with one with an unlocked bootloader. :) No questions were asked besides the initial, "What's wrong with the device?" via online chat to which I responded that it wouldn't turn on or charge. I wasn't hassled by Samsung afterwards either.

Overall, I'd have to say that they have great customer service (if you're under warranty like I was) and their RMA process was very easy and efficient. I hope this gives hope to some other people who might have been hesitant to RMA their tablets - Samsung's customer support really is top-notch! :good:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *child:
+1

I experienced exactly the same thing.

On a side note: how do I check if my bootloader is unlocked as well?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AudiTuner:
When your tablet boots up you'll see a little (unlocked/opened) padlock icon on the bottom of the screen. Retail devices with locked bootloaders don't show any icon there,
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *child:
Seems my bootloader is locked. Oh well.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bucketachicken:
Any idea what Samsung would charge for an out of warranty fix for this? I currently have it stuck in apx where I can only access nvflash recovery, and despite many many weeks of googling, I seem to be unable to do anything else (and yes, unlocking bootloader). I bought a Nexus 7 to use in the meantime, but I still want me tab fixed! I tried calling them but they seemed confused and weren't particularly helpful. Does anyone know what this fix would cost out of warranty?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carenjnn:
Hi,

My galaxy tab 10.1 got bricked after I tried root it flashing .zip files(I should've never tried to do that. My poor tab :crying:). I proceeded exactly as you said in the first post but i realy got confused in the last part. I am on the download mode already, what am i suposed to do now? Conect it to the pc? Wait? I have no idea exactly what bricked it and I'm not familiar with the terms you used as I'm a complete noob. Where do I get Odin and the right firmwares I require? How do I flash it? Where does this: [xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1130574] enter in the procedure?

The batery died again while I was writing this while the tab was in the download mode, will this damage the device? Sigh.. so many questions.

Anyway please be patient with this noob fellow.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzoman:
You have so many questions, but all of them are answered if you take the time to search and read. Maybe someone will spoon feed you, but you really need to know what and how to flash things before you attempt anything. You are lucky to be able to get to download mode, which usually means you haven't completely bricked your tab yet. I suggest you sit and doing some serious reading and a little learning before attempting anything. We were all new once and don't mind answering questions, but since we have learned the answers to most questions are there if you search and read just a little, most will not spoon feed you answers.

If nothing else post in q&a and see if some member takes pity on you and will help you without you having too look around.

Good luck!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carenjnn:
I don't know why, but this made me feel a little hurt, maybe because i realised that i'm being (a bit) too lasy.Well, i made some research and things are a lot clearer now but i still have some questions (brace yourselves). Which firmware did you guys used? I looked it over the forum and most of them are custom. Did anyone here used the normal ones? I am asking this because none of the threads said something like: " Use this if you bricked you tablet" or "This won't fix bricked tablets, it'll just make it look pink".

Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wtgserpant:
Odin might work

Odin flash ur tab with stock honeycomb and then you can root it or do whatever u want.

Get Odin, get stock honeycomb (look through development thread), get into download mode ( in ur tab), flash stock from with Odin ( if ur not sure, just YouTube it) and then leave everything to Odin

I think this should ( no guaranty) fix ur soft bricked tablet as u can still enter download mode
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carenjnn:
Fixed it! Thanks for the help!:D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dj____boy:
Thanks!

This is going in to my library!

great guide for the hopeless devices
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
Due to no particular/additional information on this, i decided to sent my tab out to the service center after taping it for 1 month

They fixed it within 3-7days time (i was out to another country for a week during the service so cant really tell how long)

They fixed the tab

The diagnose mention 'hardware issue' from the power IC instead of software issue due to my attempt in flashing custom (probably spoiled the power IC for taping the power button for a month

They gave me ICS instead of the original honeycombxD~

Free of charge since im still under warranty

So at least for SME, they either do take care of this problem and do not charge you for it or its because they thought that its a hardware failure

*Seeing how my Power IC got spoiled, anyone attempting the 'tape' might want to be careful

although i cant confirm its spoiled because of the 'draining attempt' for too long
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
My god! what has happened to Tapatalk, I never got notified for this despite being subscribed to this topic! I have alot of reading to do!

@Steven Draining wont spoil the tab, that's for sure. If anything draining just resets what the RAM tends to store temporarily. It's more or less like a Word Document that gets dumped in the RAM so you can recover it in times of sudden let -go. Same way when the tab tends to brick/crash it dumps it all in the RAM as to try and revive what's being dumped. But if the dumped data is bricked/junk, then it bootloops you over a bootimg sector it can't read. Drain just resets the memory to fetch and load.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steven_oh87:
Its supposedly as you mention, im confused myself about the diagnostic result of "Hardware Issue: Power IC breakdown' nonetheless, it saved me from some potential hassle since it wouldn't be covered in warranty if they diagnose it due to 'custom rom flash/software blabla' :laugh:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arch.fadi:
any hope for asus tablet in this method ?????

i have a bricked asus transformer tf300t ....any 1 tried IT
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karim228731:
i have samsung galaxy s GT I9003 and while i was rooting it i unplugged it by mistake......so when i turn it on the galaxy start up stage freezes.... so i put it on odin and put PIT file but i forgot to uncheck RE-Partition and now all i have is a black screen when i turn it on.... pleasseeeee helppppppp:crying::crying:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
That's all good except you're completely in the wrong section for that. If anything you need to make sure you flash the pit file. Then flash the stock ROM in PDA in Odin. Make sure it's from XXKPH to DDLF2 or whatever you want to flash to. And please in the correct section :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jöbi_1:
yesterday my p7510 Tab won't boot...

i had tried all the combinations before, to get into download mode, nothing helped :rolleyes:

so i searched and found this thread, thanks!

I tried to put some clear tape on the power button and BAM it began to boot normal. :confused:

i flashed stock ICS and after that i was flashing cm10.1 nightly (the 4.2.1 version) and the A1 Kernel all went pretty flawless i was so happy to have Android 4.2 on my beloved tablet, until a few hours later, black screen and no response on power or other buttons...

so today i sticked again clear tape and wait for the tab to run out of power from about 80% :(

i really hope i can fix it again and will stay on Stock ICS for a while... :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Hahaha. So it got fixed but then it died again. Owch. Well on the other side I've decided to keep mine on CM10 despite how laggy I feel it is at times. Sure the stock ICS works wonders but they're way back on updates
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jöbi_1:
yeah you're right!

all i want is a stable android tablet experience... :cyclops:

the really annoying thing is that i cannont tell where this "sleep of death" is coming from and how to avoid it...:eek: