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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
In CWM, mount the /system (under mounts & partitions if I remember correctly), then issue the adb push command for the rom zip to the /sdcard, unmount /system, check to see if the zip is now available to flash.

Sent from my CM7 Atrix.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
CWM is not yet compatible with the reboot into recovery options yet, unless you're using one of the 2 modded versions of CWM Recovery.

Also, to insure CWM touch recovery is property installed, I'd install via fast boot.

Sent from my CM7 Atrix.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Dai323:
Thank you. I ll be sure to do that again just to be on the safe side.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] samuelson:
please help,

i have got brick 1a

i have followed this guide to get adb working:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1387527

but i just get device not found:confused:

please help me

many thanks
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
See post #279 of this thread for my adb files. Unzip them to a folder on your pc. Boot into CWM Recovery, connect Prime to PC via USB cable, issue all commands from the adb folder.

Open command prompt in adb folder by Shift + right click -> open command prompt here.

Check adb connection by typing: adb devices

If it sees your device, issue the commands in this thread's OP to solve issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kbluebig:
Thank you so freakin much

Been running stock rooted image for awhile without unlocking the bootloader. Finally decided to unlock the bootloader which went thru with no problems and loaded the Team EOS rom, again went thru with no problems. Then I went to reboot the prime using the recovery reboot option and I get repeat reboots to CWM over and over.

Option 1a fixed it....Thanks, thought I was screwed there for a second
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] handi1948:
Thx a lot,

I was within the option 1a)

You saved my day!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Dai323:
Anyone have a link at hand to one of the modded versions?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
They are both posted here in the dev section. One is the repacked one by Roach, another was just posted this week... sorry, can't post links on the mobile app.

Sent from my CM7 Atrix.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RucaNebas:
Thank you, Thank you very much :) :)

I saved my TP :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
While downgrading my tf201 to an earlier version in order to root it, I started getting a boot loop. It hangs at the Eee Pad screen and reboots, but I don't receive the unrecoverable bootloader error. Am I still screwed regardless?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sunfirex:
Is your bootloader unlocked?

I don't believe you're screwed. I had a some what similar issue but installing AOKP after I was already rooted. Got stuck at the EEE screen and just said "Device is UnLocked" nothing else.

I ended up having to push the blob file from AOKP onto my tab through fastboot.

If you're unlocked, you should be able to access fastboot.

I'm not sure if that's going to solve your issue or not, but that was my issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
My bootloader is unlocked and I have access to FastBoot. I'm just unsure how to push the blob file to my tablet. I also have access to Clockwork. I tried flashing a rom through it, but it was unable to access my sd card and I didn't have the rom loaded up in the internal storage.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] CharliesTheMan:
Do you have any roms in your internal storage in the downloads folder or anything?

Is it brick 1a you're referring to where when it boots it goes into recovery, or does it just loop booting to the asus screen?

If it's brick 1a it would be easy to run command in the OP and reboot.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
It keeps looping at the Asus screen. I don't any any roms on the internal storage
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mmkaplan:
I wanted to report on my situation in the hopes that it may help someone else out.

I brick 3ed my Prime, read 100s of posts to bring it back to life and spent around a month working on it. I read about how sending it back to Asus will be over $300 and could take weeks to get back. Growing impatient, I turned to eBay and craigslist. The prices there didn't warrant buying even a used one so I bit the bullet and sent it in to get fixed.

They received it on Monday and on Friday I received the email that it was on its way back. Yes, it was unlocked, i.e. voided warranty, but they still fixed it completely free of charge. I haven't received it yet, but I imagine that they just flashed it back to factory settings, I am curious if it will still be unlocked.

I did call them on Tuesday after seeing that in their website they haven't started working on it yet and the next morning I saw that it was in repair. I also heard that you can request from them to have it overnighted, but I didn't unfortunately. It seems like it pays to be on top of them and it's nice that the service department is open 24/7.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
Check the last few pages for the answer. ;)

Sent from my CM7 Atrix.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
The battery died on me last night while I was trying to fix it, so I let it charge over night. Things seem to have gotten worse. The tablet no longer reboots now, it just hangs at the Eee Pad screen. I can no longer access CWM now either. It used to give me the option to boot to it, now it goes straight to the screen where I can choose to wipe data and choose fastboot. I tried re-installing CWM, but it won't work. It shows a progress bar, but it just sits there. I must have really bricked it badly.

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I've got CWM installed again, but i'm still in the same boat. Since I can't load a rom through CWM if it's not on the internal storage, i'm screwed.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
If you can get to CWM , then you should be able to adb push a rom.zip to your /sdcard. Also, you could try flashing your roms boot.blob via fastboot.

Sent from my CM7 Atrix.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] captsakis:
check previous threads and you find the way to do it
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Flip35:
oh my ****ing GOD diamondback i can give u the biggest huge dude no homo ****, ive been stuck with my prime on recovery for over a week now i was about to cry, scream, u name it man, ive been at it all night and i finally saw ur post and fixed it with adb using ur commands man, thank u sooo much man it just booted back up and running thank u man really thank u
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] djwascom33:
Hard bricked

So my I was trying to flash a new ROM on my 3 day old prime and it got stuck on the Boot Screen and It was bricked and it was refering to Option 2 . So I just decided to send it to ASUS and they fixed it and sent it back to me just like new. So if your prime is super HARD BRICKED and you cant do anything just send it to ASUS. I had mine rooted and bootloader was unlocked and they still fixed it. Just thought I wiuld let you guys know.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Flip35:
U didn't have to pay?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ekalb10:
Bricked Prime

I used this method extracting the original zip file and renaming the zip file within the extracted folder to EP201_SDUPDATE.zip without extracting it, i then followed the manual update and once the epad logo went away it just went back to the black screen and never forced the firmware to update. I'm on a locked, rooted prime with .21 firmware and want to make sure that you put the files on an external micro sd card. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Flip35:
Im also staying away fr the build.prop after recovering my bricked prime n seeing couple ppl having issue with it i raher stay away fr it cuz i felt so lost when I bricked my prime that I dont want to go through that feeling again lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ekalb10:
How did you get yours un-bricked that's what i can figure out.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Flip35:
well i bricked mines with method 1a on the beginning of this thread, it was stuck in recovery everytime i would try to reboot it would just reboot back to recovery so i used the method 1a and follow those adb commands diamonback put on the beginning at it came back to life lord ii was so relieve
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rift999:
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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Daveg891:
Hi

I have a situation after a hard reset where my Prime reboots into CWM recovery only. I do not have an image to reflash from.

I am running CWM touch recovery 5.8.1.8 and when I run adb I see no devices. I have tried numerous drivers with no difference.

This thread implies that CWM touch is compatible adb.

Can anyone clarify the situation or tell me how I recover my Prime?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] djwascom33:
No I didnt have to pay. they paid shipping both ways too.

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No I didnt have to pay anything . And they payed for shipping.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Flip35:
That's nice to knw, thanx
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] T33H00:
many thanks to you

I finally got my Transformer back to work. I tried to make a donation but it seems you paypal dont accept money from U.S. or something. Please let me know if there is another way though
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
Still not able to get my prime working. My problem now is that adb doesn't recognize my prime while in clockwork. I'm unable to run any command cause of this. I've even tried this using a recently formatted laptop using the naked drivers, but I still get nothing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
Are you issuing the commands from the same folder that you have the adb files in?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
Yep. Still nothing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
So does it just not see your device under adb devices at all, or can you just not push anything? B/c if it does at least see your device, you will need to mount /system under mounts & storage in CWM, before you try pushing files.

I uploaded my adb files (which I know work) as a attachment a page or two/three back.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] DONNY TRUMP:
TF101

Hey, Just wanted to let you know that this (Option 1) worked with my TF101. Thanks a lot.....sucks that it took me a while to find this thread lol. Also, adb wasnt recognizing it in cwm but it was recognizing it when it went to the "coldboot" screen or apx. anyway, thanks again.

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read my post above...hopefully that helps. I wasn't hearing that """connected to my laptop""" noise when it was in cw, but heard it when i tried apx mode or got to the coldboot screen.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mardiie:
I have had brick 1 twice in a row now.

I got it after choosing Reboot (not to recovery just a normal reboot) in the team gummy rom. I havent had ik before but now im afraid to reboot again.

Does anyone have a clue why this recovery loop actualy happens?

Thanks for the adb command, it was a easy fix.

For the people who are having the problem that there prime is not recognized in windows when in CMW. Download the Universal Naked Driver thingy on this subforum, go to manage (right click my computer), go to device manager, look for Transformer, tell it to update drivers, then choose one yourself, and pinpoint it to the Universal Naked Driver directory which you should have extracted, then it will install the driver and your pc will recognize the prime, then you can ADB in and follow these steps. Also please keep in mind that if you havent registered ADB to CMD (i havent since i cant figure out how) you need to be in the actual platform-tools directory in android sdk to run it!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] neilvv:
option 2 bricked fixed

I was trying to flash a new ROM (OTA update faild again and again) on my prime and it got stuck on the Boot Screen and it was hard bricked "Option 2". So I just decided to send it to ASUS and they fixed it and sent it back to me.within 5 days!!! no cost at all.

:confused: :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jay3147:
Did you let them know you bricked it while trying to load a rom or did you just play dumb and say it got stuck at the boot screen all of a sudden?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mardiie:
Its a easy fix for them. Why wouldnt they even if you unlocked. Thats called costumer support B-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] enomele:
I'm on a TF300 on the Asus splash screen, and no text when booting with Volume down and power. I do not get any messages about the bootloader errors or anything but the situation is the same as Brick 2. Nothing shows up in device manager when USB is connect and there no access to adb. I have fallen to the hard brick haha. Time to talk to Asus probably. Shouldn't have an issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gotchi:
I am a little bit in shock - still.

I flashed new cyan rom yesterday using goo.im - all went fine - after that I wanted to go back to my last backup goo.im made after I changed from the original rom to cyanogenmod.

So I fired up recovery - twrp2. I have chosen the first backup goo.im initiated when I installe cyan first time (that means back to the original rom).

Everything went fine until reboot - now my transformer ist stuck on the asus boot screen and says only - bootloader unlocked.

I can use vol-down after power up to get into a menu showing me an USB and WIPE-DATA icon and a message to bootin normally in 10 seconds.

wipe-data is doing nothin good at all - behaviour stays the same.

can you help me - pleeeeaaaasssseeeee
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] fordwolden:
You need to unbrick using fastboot. Choose to USB icon in your bootscreen and connect to a computer. Search around this forum for fastboot and how to push a boot.img to your device. I was in the same situation some months ago and had to search around and read up, you'll learn alot! :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gotchi:
hi,

thanks for the tipp, i tried to push a cwm and twrp recovery, it did upload it - but no recovery to choose from - so I am still stuck.

but I try to find the boot.img for another try, the problem is - that I have read so much about flashing the wrong image and ending up with a hard brick that scared me.

so if someone could point me to an boot.img which is working would save my day :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TanKCR:
hey all, everytime I flash anything now I have to adb in and run option 1A, any ideas of what I might possibly have done, or what I can do to fix it?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
Which recovery are you using?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TanKCR:
CWM Touch
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moe5508:
Similar situation here. Someone please help :confused:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chugger93:
So I accidentally used this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transformer.recovery&feature=search_result

didnt read the reviews, and now I'm in a bootloop and can't boot my ROM. I can get into recovery though.

Any help or ideas?? Argh
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cragains:
Wow, very detailed post, thank you for taking the time to post your experience!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] broad_st_bully:
I would like to THANK THE OP FOR THIS DAMN-GOOD & *WELL WRITTEN* unbrick method (Option 1A)...you saved my ass.

I felt the need to use caps in this post because of all the "unbrick your Prime" threads that I found while in my sweaty-and-panicked-search of Google & XDA while trying desperately to save my new Prime from being a sexy-looking paperweight I came across your fix...

it was well-written and not in the least bit vague in any way...

I simply followed the directions and my Prime is back from the half-dead CWM-reboot state...

it seems to me that you DO understand that everyone who

uses these threads is NOT an experienced developer

and sometimes need a little more info or help when being instructed on how to fix something...

I saw quite a few threads that simply say "flash so-and-so then do this then do that then reboot"...they are worse than instructions from IKEA....

I guess some people don't care that if someone does one very small thing the wrong way while following their half-assed instructions that would mean their device ends up trashed...

anyway, thought I would say thanks for the post and the help fixing my Prime...now I can stop sweating profusely and calm down....:D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Vinius:
Hello all, is there a way to perform an unbrick without CWM? My TP got somehow bricked with the latest OTA update. My prime is just rooted, no unlock, no CWM.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kman79:
I've been having to use the option 1a every time my prime is rebooted. Using option 1a allows me to boot back into my ROM, but everytime I reboot the prime, I'm needing to use option 1a for it to reboot normally.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to resolve this issue? Any help with this is greatly appreciated, thanks.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] broad_st_bully:
you're saying that every time you boot up the Prime you have to go through the whole 1A process?????
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kman79:
Yes. I don't normally power down my prime, but when I do, I have to go through the 1a process to have it reboot into the ROM properly.

Any ideas?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mangala_Dharma:
I was just stuck into recovery bootloop, if I had to do all the 1a stuff every reboot I'd definitely use another recovery.. Like twrp or whatever the other one is. If you have normal access to your Prime while it's awake that would be easy, there are these topics about it.

Me too I say thank you to Diamondback for option 1a, a combination of Universal Naked drivers and using WSG Unbricker to get to adb got me able to input the commands to get my Prime out of the bootloop. The user 2-3 posts before this one stuck into recovery and asking for suggestions, this is an easy set of measures to get you out of trouble.

Sent from my HTC One V using my Dog
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jackmei2:
so I'm also stuck in a bootloop where my prime always boots into CWM, but I have the additional problem where when I connected my prime to my laptop or desktop, it wasn't being recognized by windows... I think I'm borked. any ideas on what I can do?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] CeeJayII:
Mine wasn't being recognized either, go into your PC's device manager and see if your prime shows up with an exclamation point next to it. If so, right click and update the driver, choose the location yourself, them choose a from a list of drivers on computer. Look through the list for an android device, mine said SAMSUNG android phone. Once selected, ASUS adb driver should show up. Click it and click ok, hopefully your device will be recognized through adb now.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jackmei2:
it's not showing up at all... when I plug in my thunderbolt even when in recovery it's recognized by windows. with the TFP... nothing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] reyadh:
My prime is dead

Hi;

I spent two days trying to fix my bricked prime and I am almost at the point of giving up

It started when I tried to install a rom with CWM that I guess was not downloaded correctly. When I flashed it my prime can not boot.

I can flash a different one which could fix this easily, however, the wierd thing is that it will not boot to cwm recovery as well, when I push power + volume up I just get vibration then a blank screen. I can get to fastboot though successfully, but cwm recovery just gives me a blank screen.

I used fastboot to flash a number of recoveries (cwm, cwm touch, twrp) all with the same result, the flash is successfull but when I try to reach recovery I get a blank screen and nothing on it.

The only thing I read that may be a hope is that fastboot can flash a custom rom or a nandroid backup using fastboot update command.

Any body has a custom rom compatible with fastboot or can give me a nandroid backup of a custom rom to download? or other suggestions?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] klutch:
i guess we in the same boat i have the same issue its been 2weekz and still nothing and for some reason i feel its the TF not the computer because everytime i connect to my computer when its off computer powers back on but dont mount on CWM cant do nothing @ all now my question is what could it be that causes this issue?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] reyadh:
Moe5508 Quote below solved my problem and I unbricked my device

This is great, thanks alot Moe5508, you saved my prime

I advice to put Moe5508 post on the first page as a solution as well.

The only thing I did differently was the boot image (boot.img) from WSG Unbricker v1.01 gave me an error when I tried to flash it with fastboot, I extracted boot.blob from aokpcb_tf201_r2.1-beta-20120610-2144 instead and it worked.

Best Regards
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Snake X:
Ok so what should I do next to safely restore my transformer prime back to the way I had it?

Here's where it begins: I was first rooted + CWM 5.8.20 (official one) and decided to download the 9.4.2.21 firmware udpate file from asus. I had a backup right before I did this of course and I tried to install it. It rebooted and I was in a boot loop with cwm and couldnt get out. I tried wiping data/factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik cache, and restore (in that order). Still in cwm loop. I then for whatever reason (because I was dumb) tried to flash the ota firmware update file in cwm and that didn't do jack squat. I was still in cwm loop. I then clear everrything as mentioned before and tried to reinstall my backup. Still in cwm loop. I then did this: "adb shell dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 count=13" (without quotes obviously) and that worked. I saw a bar when I rebooted that filled and it rebooted into android with all the apps still there. However, there was no root and superuser.apk had dissapeared from the app drawer. Also, not only that, every time I hold volume down with power, I get this added text before I boot into recovery or go to fastboot now:

Android cardhu-user bootloader (2.10 e) released by "US_epad-9.4.2.21-20120323" A03

Checking for android ota recovery

Also cwm is no longer installed and the stock recovery is. whenever I boot into it, it has the green android with a progress bar under it that goes away in 5 seconds followed by the red triangle.

I would like to:

a) get rid of that from whenever I do power + volume down

b) safely restore my backup that I made before doing all that

c) flash the repacked recovery but I don't know how in fastboot since its a zip. #asus-transformer said 'fastboot flash recovery recoveryblob' but that didn't work. They then gave me the same command but with SOS and -i and something like 0x and some numbers but that failed (outputted some fatal error and didn't change anything on the tablet).

Is anyone able to help me? Now I know never to do that again now that i read the do's and don'ts :P
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
Recovery

Just in case what you stated wasn't a type, on the TFP, you need to press and hold Power + Vol Down to tell the bootloader to look for you recovery kernel. I've lazily done this: Press and hold Power + Vol Down until the tablet vibrates. Then I release the Power button but continue to hold down the Vol Down button until my screen reads this in the upper left corner:

Your Device is UnLocked

Android cardhu-user bootloader (2.10 e) released by "US_epad-9.4.2.21-20120323" A03

Checking for android ota recovery

Checking for RCK...press key (Vol_Up) in 5 sec to enter RCK​

If you do nothing, the bootloader will default to fastboot mode, where you can select to wipe device, USB, or cold boot device. If you press Vol Up in the allowed time frame, you will load your recovery kernel. Hope this helps