[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tiisai44:
I am currently on a journey to becoming a "know-it-all." I've always been a serial flasher, but other than that, I notice I really don't know much else. In an effort to change that, I am learning as much as I can from the XDA forums (as well as google searches) and completing NOOB GUIDES along the way. I am a visual learner, so there will be many pics and screen images to guide the noobie more effeciantly.

Disclaimer: Proceed at your own risk. I am only responsible for what I do, not what you do. This is just documentation of what I have done.

I want to give a shout out to Rushing, who wanted a noob guide on nvflash. I want to install it too, so let's see what I can do to help. If you read my first Noob Guide on how to recover from a brick, you'll realize that fastboot is not my forte (btw if I don't fully explain certain things, it's because I have in my first guide...so please go there first if you don't understand, ask questions second). I've did some digging and I realized that I probably never really was stuck on fastboot. I just didn't know how to use it. So when the screen states "Starting Fastboot USB download protocol," it is not stuck. This is what it's suppose to look like.

Open up Windows Command Prompt and enter fastboot devices to make sure you see your Prime.

Tip: You can also enter fashboot help for a list of commands.

Now that you have gotten a crash course in fashboot, here is the Tegra3 Guide: nvflash. Note: The instructions are just a tad bit different in this noob guide but the concept is the same. Download the Windows version of the nvflash flash zip, and extract to the C:\ drive. In the command prompt, enter fastboot flash staging c:\tf201_nvflashpack\ebtblob.bin

This is what your Prime should look like after it finishes.

Enter fastboot reboot in the command prompt. When the Prime reboots, instead of saying “This Device is UnLocked” it should say “AndroidRoot 9.4.2.28r01″ in the top left corner. This means you have successfully flashed the AndroidRoot bootloader. Now start up fastboot again. Again, in the command prompt enter fastboot boot c:\tf201_nvflashpack\nvfblobgen.img

It will take approximately 30 seconds, but your prime will automatically reboot. For some reason, my driver got messed up. I had to update my driver and reboot (Every time my Prime went to sleep, it disconnected so I went to Settings --> Developer options --> select Stay awake)

Now back to the regularly scheduled program. :good: When my Prime rebooted, it showed up on my computer. Navigate to AndroidRoot files by going to: My Computer --> ASUS Android MTP Device --> Internal Storage --> Android Root. There should be 5 files there.

According to the Tegra 3 guide, it states, "

** You absolutely must keep these files in triplicate copies -- they are your life-line **

" but I have no idea what triplicate copies they are talking about. Update: I got word that it just means save multiple time in multiple places. My guess is 3 times in 3 places Next, you must boot into NVIDIA APX mode. You can do this by shutting down the Prime while holding the vol up button. It will seem like a normal shut down but it will be connected to your computer.

I opened my command prompt from the nvflash pack folder and entered wheelie.exe which started wheelie. Then I inputted wheelie --blob blob.bin which immediately started to download and my Prime turned on and showed:

I just downloaded NvFlash for Windows

In the command prompt I entered: nvflash --resume --rawdeviceread 0 2944 bricksafe.img then nvflash --resume --read 14 factory-config.img then nvflash --resume --read 7 unlock-token.img

A whole bunch of mumbo jumbo came up each time and I had to enter several times to get back to point where I could enter again. I'm not sure if I did this right. From what I gather, searching the web, I should have saved the img's to nvflash. But I don't know.

Entering nvflash --resume --go and it didn't reboot, just the same mumbo jumbo. I had to reboot with the power/vol and it rebooted normally.

Hit thanks if I've helped.