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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
You can use ADB while in CWM so you have 1 half of the puzzle. Also you computer is atleast recognizing that the tablet is connected to it. Rest assured an answer will be found. What OSs are you connecting it to?

Side note: I took me a couple of tried to install the naked drivers, so I understand your frustration, I'm running Win 7 and when I pointed it to the drivers folder with the naked drivers in it it would not find anything. I really wish I remembered what I did to get it to install other that ramming my head against a wall and it working for me
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] djkinetic:
If you can actually figure out how to install these drivers please let me know...otherwise i have no choice to but to chance sending it back to Asus, linux refuses to see the prime as well
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
The irony right now is I'm having trouble keeping my prime driverless when it is connected to my computer to see how to add drivers back to is.

Linux can be a hairy beast, mainly because there is nothing standard about the system, and like everything with linux, it can be frustrating to get the simplest thing to work with it that runs without a hitch on windows.

I have tested this and it worked while my prime was healthy connecting it to my Kubuntu box, maybe this can get you going if that is your prefered route.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehnoJn6CEk
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] djkinetic:
just tried that and no luck still, running out of options, probably gonna just send it back to Asus next wk see how much they say its gonna be to fix it, if its too much ill just tell hem to kick rocks, and prolly pick one up cheap somewhere else.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] juggalofr33k:
ok, i think im hard bricked here. its unlocked, shows its unlocked on the boot screen....no error messages. I have TWRP installed and can get to it no problem. Not sure if i can get to fastboot, as im still not good with ADB yet. I can however get to the option for fastboot. The Prime is completely empty. the directories in file manager in TWRP says the device is empty. Can i somehow push a copy of android to it somehow, or am i really screwed?

TL;DR

Device just hangings on the eeePc Screen while saying its unlocked at the top, and no OS installed. Help please?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
I don't understand. You mean your prime is working normally except that the system is empty, sdcard empty, so no normal boot is impossible as there is nothing to boot ?

Then you just have to use adb and push a rom zip file on your sdcard, then flash in recovery no?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
Follow the directions for the [ZIP] PRIME-FULL-WIPE thread. That will show you step by step how to use ADB to push a rom on your device to flash. I have tested with TWRP so I can confirm that ADB does work with it. Also that ZIP is a life saver if you flash a rom that removes your write access to the internal memory.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
Last thing I can think of is to make sure that you are trying to install the drivers through the device manager.

Right click Computer and select manage.

Go to device manager and find the unknown device when you pug your tab in. right click and select properties.

Uninstall any drivers, and then install them. (again i recommend naked drivers since those worked for me) I either pointed windows to the root folder with the .INF files, or I went into the AMD sub folder and pointed it there to get it to install.

reboot term into recovery

open CMD, adb devices and you should be golden.

If that doesn't work, you might trying uninstalling any ASUS software and making sure that your ADB SDK is at the most recent version and try again. I'm out of ideas otherwise, hope for the best.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stoneworrior:
Just wanted to give a heads up. This may or may not be covered but considering what I have gone through maybe not. I rooted my prime as soon as I got it and I purchased one of the very first that became available. The CWM version that was available at the time was v5.4.0.4.

Anyway to make a VERY long story short I have had a bricked Prime for almost two months that had a working CWM and fastboot but I couldn't get a ROM to stick even after getting help from the Sean at the #Asus-Transformer IRC channel last night and all other fixes I have read on the internet.

Today I said "F" it and decided to flash through fastboot the Clockworkmod recovery 5.8.2.0. I triple wiped everything and my Prime is purring like a kitten.

I just wanted to throw this out there in case it is able to help anyone else.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] urboy4mbx:
dude! thanks, this worked for me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stoneworrior:
No problem I'm glad it helped! I just figured I might not be the only one so I should share :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
OK I'm hoping someone can help me out because I'm been searching with no results. I can only access my recovery. When I reboot it just goes back into recovery. What do I need to do to fix this? Option 3 in the OP is what is occurring but it doesn't give any instruction so is that brick currently unfixable?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stoneworrior:
You sound like your in the 1a category. Can you access fastboot?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
I don't think so. It just reboots directly into recovery every time
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stoneworrior:
Brick 1a: You unlocked your Prime with ASUS' tool, did some stuff to it (like flashing a custom ROM) and now it always boots into recovery instead of your ROM.

You can't select to boot to fastboot or anything else. No matter what you do it's always the recovery. (happening to many users)

-> Please go to Option 1a

Sent from my hacked and modded Kindle on Fire :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
Successfully unbricked. Thanks a lot for your help and this thread in general
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
It exists it's nvflash, and we have it now. No GUI in nvflash though.

And it's not a courtesy of Asus but we have it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stoneworrior:
That must be a relief, these guys know their stuff. Thank god for Android devs!!!!!!

Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire now kicking it JB style :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
i am trying to following the steps for the 1a soft brick, i setup the adb and put on the drivers however is does not recognize my device i followed the advise posted by uninstalling and then reinstalling the drivers but no luck - under device manager it is showing up under android phone as asus transformer prime adb interface - i am not sure what i am wrong ?

edit when i plugged in my galaxy note to my computer it shows up when i type adb devices so i must not have loaded on the drivers for the prime properly, i will work on this again
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
If anyone in the Toronto area had a working sdk adb and can get my prime to boot past cwm I can offer $50 for your services
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] psycodrumfreak:
Just a few questions to try and figure out where you are and how to help out" Have you (I wouldn't if you haven't already) installed ASUS PC Suite? Have you tried to install the naked drivers? When you run ADB devices, do any results come up even if they are not the normal or expected ones? Which recovery are you using? What OS is your computer running?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
just a few questions to try and figure out where you are and how to help out" Have you (I wouldn't if you haven't already) installed ASUS PC Suite? Have you tried to install the naked drivers? When you run ADB devices, do any results come up even if they are not the normal or expected ones? Which recovery are you using? What OS is your computer running?

for me the answers are - no i do not have asus pc suite installed, yes i have install the naked drivers - under device settings it shows up under android phone at the top as asus transformer prime adb interface and the drivers are dated 12/6/2010 - is this the correct date for the drivers ?

when i run adb devices is just says no devices found, when i plug in my galaxy note it appears when i type adb devices the note shows up - although the note does not show up when it is in recovery mode, i am running cwm v.5.8.2.0 and my computer is running windows 7 professional 64 bit
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] damien_nitez:
Just want to say thanks for all the help with unbricking my prime... If not for everyone here at XDA with their questions, fixes and tuts, I would be SOL prime owner.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] faceyourfaces:
You saved my life. :laugh:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] type_2:
So I soft-bricked my prime and I was going to use option 1a until I realized that my computer didn't have the proper drivers. It's no big deal until i started trying to install the driver. I downloaded everything, but as I select the file, it says this:

"The folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designated to work with Windows for x64-based system."

I'm confused because I thought it was the same. I scoured the internet and I'm turning up the same drivers. Any solutions you guys?

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NEVERMIND GUYS! I found the naked drivers and those work like a beauty. Just unbricked it and going back to my backup.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
I finally got it out of the cwm boot loop. My computer finally recognized my prime when I went into platform tools via the command prompt. it all happened when I tried to do A backup of cm10 when I got it out of the boot loop the cm10 ROM wasn't responding at all so I went back to a backup of androwook ROM that I was previously using and that put me in the cwm bootloop again so i followed the steps from 1a again and installed androwook 2.1 from scratch and that seems to be working,i have since bought the Asus infinity but I wanted to get this prime back up and running and finally !!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nickkyboy36:
I am completely stuck. My prime is ROM-less and uses the horrible TWRP recovery which is annoying because all the guides explain how to resolve things using CWM.

My laptop or any computer in my house fails to recognise the prime, even with the naked drivers. ADB works though and it is responsive to this. I've tried pushing ROMs to the sdcard directory so I can flash anything, but it keeps making directories rather than pushing the file. Can anyone assist or throw me a link?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
It seems like everything i do in cm10 (cm10 unofficial 0806 ) ie. A Backup throws me back into the cwm boot loop at least now I know how to be out of it I guess I just won't back up and will still with this ROM until something better come out
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chpimentelpr:
Thanks! You save my A$$
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] icl0udn3t:
First Thank god and Thanks a lot .,.,now i can sleep and BTW .,.,this thread only guided me to install ADB but this did not work out for me .,.,the full ADK with JDK is going well for me .,.,
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doddsie:
well i am stumped, tried every single guide i could lay my hands on, more drivers than i have ever seen in my life, even got a new usb card incase it was something with my USB ports and nothing, simply cant get anything, nothing i try can get it into a recovery mode, just the CWM loop thing, gutted, anyone that lives in warrington that can help me i will make it worth your while. other than that i have a very thin, very expensive paper weight... :*(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] golfinggino:
i tried to send you a pm twice but i dont think it went through, i too was stuck in the cwm bootloop but i finally managed to figure it out send me a pm and i will try and help you
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doddsie:
I think its my dated CWM, im still on 5.8.2.0, tried so many different ways of pressing down and power, it just goes straight back into the same menu. It dont matter what drivers i try, i am just met with the same code 10 cannot install drivers. adb devices show nothing, kinda stuck with what to do, pretty sure i am hard bricked or i have stumbled across a yet unknown brick 5. im in no way and expert with these android devices, but i have managed to get out of some pickles with other devices, usb bricked my desire and thought that was unrecoverable, managed to fix that, been on now for weeks searching every forum and help guide out there with nothing got about 15 differnt folders now with different usb drivers, used that usbdeview thing to physicaly remover every usb driver on my pc and still nothing, adb must be working fine cos it sees all my other devices. just wont show the prime, completly lost now only way i am getting this fixed is with an insurance claim or help from someone that really knows this stuff inside out and can meet me and show me what im doing wrong. completly lost, and literaly pulling my hair out. dont even know what caused the problems in the first place all i did was flash a new nightly, had no problems with any of the others i installed, last one i installed that caused the bootloop was 20120630 and cm9 is the only rom i have installed on it. only reason i havent just given up and made an insurance claim is cos there are photos on there that i really need and soon as it goes to the insurance company i will never see them again.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] a$h:
reverse back to original shipped rom on tf201

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone can help please?

I have flashed the CM 9.0, but I would like to reverse it back to original shipped rom?

Is there any way that I can do this?

Here is what I did:

1) I rooted my TF201

2) I unlocked bootloader

3) I installed ClockworkMod Recovery

4) I flashed cm-9.0.0-tf201.zip

Thank you
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
Why posting here?

Wrong thread, you are not bricked.

Just flash a .28 ROM, help yourself.

You can't come back to locked bootloader.

Or if you feel aventurous, you can unblob the official Asus firmware and nvflash it. Search in nvflash thread there is a post that explain it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bleichtman:
im in a very similar situation. i wiped my internal thinking the twrp would recognize an external sd, which its not doing. i tried using adb and get device not found. now i have no rom on the prime to flash, cant access the sd, and adb wont recognize device. im currently reformatting the sd to see if that works. any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doddsie:
im thinking top of the stairs,, whoops stupid cat.. hello mr insurance company...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bmwboyee:
You are not the only one. I have the same problem :(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lyvewire:
I flashed a Jelly Bean Rom (cherry or w/e) and tried to flash GAPP from Jelly Bean Nightly Rom. Flashed EOS-tf201.Ended up getting stuck and I'm in CWMR v5.8.2.0 I have backups and virtuous prime 9.4.2.28 and Andro Wook.

I tried the steps in tutorial but cannot get Windows to find my device. On my way to try it from a MAC.

Any help please???
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lyvewire:
the naked drivers work!!!!! That guy that created those drivers deserve a 1000 thank you's. My day sucked til now!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gotsaved289:
Stuck In CWM

Hi all Just adding to this that my prime is stuck in CWM and I cannot get it to connect through the adb shell to wipe it can someone PLEASE help me... only boots into CWM and nothing else. I followed the steps to try and fix it but my computer keeps saying that it doesn't recognize any devices when I try to connect... THANK YOU!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cam30era:
Have you tried installing the universal naked drivers?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] soloblazer:
Help please

I see alot of people are having this issue, and some have fixed it and some not, i have read tons of forums and tried many things and no luck. So i have a tf201 and its stuck in the clockwork loop. i install CM 10 and it install fine, and then went to flash the programs for it and when i rebooted it got stuck in the loop. its CW 5.8.1.8, i know a little about adb, and tried it but it keeps saying device not found. i have tired it on a win 7 and win xp machine. and no luck, i have tired 3 or 4 different drivers including the universal one eveyrone says to try. and nothing. i am out of ideas. Please help, i am out of town on business for 3 weeks and need to get this going asap. i have wiped, flashed, restored and nothing, if i can get the pc to connect to it i would be fine i think, i see it in device manager but not connecting via adb. thanks
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gotsaved289:
I don't know if I've tried the universal naked drivers I'll try and find that. I'd really like to get it going so thanks for the help!!

UPDATE: The naked drivers did not fix the Issue, here's what I'm running/what happened

Computer: windows 7 64 BIT I've tried Python ADB MOD, and NAKED DRIVERS, Neither worked.

CWM version: 5.8.2.0 .

I was running Virtuous Prime and had CWM installed than I tried following a tutorial that used GOOMANAGER to install AOKP. and then it just keeps booting to CWM no matter what I do... when I try to ADB shell/adb devices command Either nothing shows up or an error comes up saying there's no devices... My computer recognizes my galaxy s3 when I use ADB Devices but not my prime... PLEASE HELP and thanks so much!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cam30era:
It sounds like you are having a problem with drivers. I did not create this. It was created by Swiftks, post #150 in the NVFlash thread.

"1) Plug in you tablet to your PC.

2) Download the most recent version of Universal Naked Drivers here:

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1426502

3) Go to Device Manager (Control Panel -> Device Manager), select any instance of Asus or TF201, and uninstall the current driver, and also choose "delete the driver software for this device." If you were already using a older version of Naked Drivers, then you places to delete drivers are under Android Device -> Asus Transformer Prime ADB Interface, and Portable Devices -> Transformer Prime TF201.

4) Unplug your tablet, and turn off internet, just so windows doesn't go and try to download anything when you plug it back in. Plug you tablet back in and if you see it trying to install a driver, hit the X on the notification in the system tray.

5) Go back to Device Manager, select your device (should have a ? or ! by it now, since it doesn't have drivers). Right click on it & choose Update Driver Software. Browse Computer for Driver Software, Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the driver package you downloaded earlier (make sure that the include all sub-folders is checked), select Next. A Warning may come up about security, choose to install anyway."
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] soloblazer:
Thanks this works... im back!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cam30era:
See my post above.

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Welcome. :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whycali:
something I read in another forum that seems to describe what a lot of folks here have done to themselves.

"The thing to remember is to manually boot into recovery. If you have the rom do it, it writes a flag that says "boot to recovery". If your recovery has addressed this (TWRP) it erases that flag once you get into recovery. If not, the flag stays and you have a recovery loop. The only way to fix it is clearing that flag via adb or with a zip on your sdcard that will do it. I made one a while back but I don't have it any more. I wish I had time to whip one up but I can't tonight. It's basically just runs the dd command to wipe the flag from the misc partition. It wasn't very helpful since people didn't look for it until they were in the loop and couldn't boot to download it."
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gotsaved289:
FIX: From http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/

1. Download the Latest Android SDK from Google

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. (Select the exe version)

2. Once downloaded, double click the exe file to open it. (MAKE SURE you change the directory that it is installing everything to to c:\android-sdk\)

3. Click on the SDK Manager and it will ask you to install packages. Select the following and leave all others unchecked:

Android SDK Tools

Android SDK Platform Tools

Google USB Driver Package, Revision XX (XX being the highest number available)

4. Then click continue and follow the on screen prompts until all of the packages are installed and it finishes.

5a. On your phone, click Settings > Applications > Development and make sure USB Debugging is on.

5b. If using Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), click on Settings > Developer Options and make sure USB Debugging is on.

6. Plug your phone into your computer via USB cable (it needs to be on). It should say installing drivers if using Windows.

7. Open Windows File Explorer and look for the android-sdk folder inside of the C drive. Then open the platform-tools folder inside that. Now, hold the shift key down on your keyboard and right click in any blank area inside that folder. This will give you the option to open a command window here. Select that and a command prompt will open saying c:\android-sdk\platform-tools\ *if using windows XP, this won’t work. So instead open command prompt first by going to Start > Run > then typing in cmd and hitting enter. Then type cd c:\android-sdk\platform-tools\ and hit enter, then continue.

Step 7 is very important to listen too :) THANKS SO MUCH FOR EVERONE'S HELP!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 24dupo24:
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO POSTED HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought i totally bricked my prime after a botched CM9 install. Spent all day trying to recover it only to get thrown into a cwm boot loop. Then stuck at splash screen. Thought my Prime was D.O.A.

After sifting through the threads here ... ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!

A million thank you's to you all. Just saved me having to buy a new tablet :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ridder215215:
Does anyone have an idea what to do if this doesn't work? I tried it twice already. I still get "device not found' when I type in ADB shell. I soft-bricked my Transformer Prime, like option 1a describes.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mrw1215:
Think I bricked mine, but not sure how, and more importantly, how to fix it. Previously, I unlocked with the Asus tool, did the sparky root method, installed the most current Prime version of CWM, then flashed JellyBro. Wanted to flash a new ROM just now. I booted into CWM and tried to do a backup, but got some kind of error about not being able to back up the boot image, or something like that. Not wanting to flash a new ROM without a backup, I just restarted, but now it just sits on the EEE Pad splash screen. If I hold down the power button, it restarts but still stays on the splash screen. I had to hold down the power and both volume buttons for a long time to get it to turn off and stay off without restarting. So, what do I do?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] g1009:
Do you remember what was the error reported by CWM?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mrw1215:
Can't quite remember. I just remember something about boot image. Either boot image couldn't be found, or couldn't be backed up. It occurred shortly after I started attempting a backup, and stopped the process right then and there.