[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] asifanwaruk:
HELP! Not-quite-bricked but messed up!!

Hello all.

I hope someone can help me as I have not-quite-bricked my TF201 but am still non-functional.

I have a UK TF201 and it was so awful to use on stock ICS that I unlocked the bootloader (using Asus app) and flashed CM9 a few months ago and it was great (fast, stable etc except wifi still rubbish). Anyway, the wife decided she no longer wanted it and wanted to go back to a Windows netbook (sigh!), so this was going on ebay. As part of that, I wanted it back to fresh stock.

I found this thread and thought I would flash JB onto it (I have a custom JB ROM on my Galaxy S3). So I rebooted into CWM 5.8.2.0 and flashed the two zips posted in the OP (after a full wipe of course).

NOW, when I reboot, it just keep booting (quite happily!) into CWM, and can never boot into the actual system itself.

I have possibly cocked up my bootloader? or something else?

Anyway, I installed the SDK and adb and I used "adb push <filename> /sdcard/" with <filename> being the latest ICS firmware (unzipped once from the download = WW_epad-user-9.4.2.28.zip, renamed to "update.zip"). That DID push successfully (55mins!) and CWM DID flash it seemingly happily. Had to do it that way so could use CWM "Apply /sdcard/update.zip" feature as pushing to a subfolder gave silly errors.

Still reboots to CWM.

Specs: Asus TF201 UK model. Do you need my serial number?

No SDcard in the external slot.

When booting up it says:

The Device in Unlocked.

Android cardhu-user bootloader <2.10 e> released by "WW_epad-9.4.2.28-20120525" A03

Checking for android ota recovery

Booting recovery kernel image

Then boots into CWM. I can never get it to do anything else. (cant even get the darn thing to power off, just keep powering back on into CWM! Press and hold power button = screen off and single vibrate buzz then powers back into CWM!)

I fully accept I may have made a dog's breakfast of this, but the fact that it boots into CWM gives me hope as it is then not truly bricked. Just cocked up!

Note, I am a fairly experience flasher (ooh err!) with my own Galaxy S3 as well as my wife's S2 and have been jailbreaking iPhones for years. I just find the TF201 to be a bit of a mystery but I can follow clearly worded instructions as needed. Am pretty advanced computer (windows) geek too.

Main rig has Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit, but talking to the device right now via a virtual machine of Windows7-32bit with SDK and adb installed. adb happily finds the device in recovery mode but fastboot just keeps saying <waiting for device> even tho I DID put in the Universal Drivers. I had hoped I could try the fastboot push plan to push a new blob as per the earlier post, but no can do....

If I try "fastboot devices" it just comes back with nothing. "adb devices" lists the device OK.

Please note that I did not do anything with nvflash etc earlier. Couldn't really understand how to do it, and I thought this would be an easy flash (famous last thoughts!). No flames please. I am not blaming anyone but myself here, and just hoping I don't have a £500 brick I cant sell.

I appreciate all the expertise in these forums (I read the S3 xda forum daily and am always tinkering about with custom ROMS on that etc), and I thank you in advance for any help you can give me in getting ICS or JB to boot on this thing. Don't care which, just want a booting OS so can sell it!

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi(s)! You're my only hope!