yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Same here: I can't flash anything via fastboot, so I'm dead in the water. My interest has peaked due to sdbags's post, but I'm not really sure if it's about recovery not working, fastboot, or something else. I'm still new with all of this, but without fastboot flashing working I would assume apx/nvflash is the only way to unbrick this.

I'm going to try to get an accurate repair quote from the people at Asus today, but I'm holding out hope that the brilliant minds here will figure something out.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
I dont think sbdags was talking about the fastboot issue, i beleive he was talking about the off topic conversation about recovery, dont get your hopes up... brilliant minds are here, pcj has been able to revert back to 4.1 bootloader, but his fastboot is fully functional..
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Buzz kill lol. I appreciate the honesty. I'm looking into repair costs now.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
Let me know!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Asus was reluctant, to say the least, to give me a quote. Essentially, a motherboard replacement, which is worst-case-scenario, is $202. That does include shipping it back to me, but not my shipping cost to send it out.

I have a rule of thumb that if the parts/repair cost more than 1/3 to replace the whole unit, I usually don't deem the repair a smart choice.

I also have a feeling that once they have it in hand, they will be inclined to just replace the motherboard, as that is easier than searching for a software solution when it has been tinkered with and bricked so badly. In all likelihood, I'm looking at $220 to get this device fixed when you consider my cost to ship it out.

Although I greatly miss having the device fully functional, I can't justify a $220 repair nor buying a $400 (albeit $350 now) device twice in less than 1 year. That's either $620 or $750 for a mid-range tablet. I just can't do that. If I had the disposal income, sure, but that just sounds irresponsible; even more irresponsible than breaking the darn thing to begin with.

My birthday is coming up, so maybe I will get some giftcards I can put towards a new one if it puts a big enough dent in the overall cost. The cruel irony in this whole thing is that the 1 thing I did ask for was a new case to put the tablet & dock in, and now it's just going to be a brick cover.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
Lol... sorry, brick cover made me laugh.... i bought another one on ebay for 200.... half the price of new... im on 4.2 running cromi 4.2 beta atm.. still needs to have that OC.. without it just seems too stock... i appreciate the info and wish you luck,
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
LOL it was pretty funny. Thanks for the well wishes, and I am considering a used version from ebay or something along those lines. For right now I'm just going to wait, and maybe in the meantime a miraculous fix will be found.... I can dream, right? ;)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deangus:
Sorry, I probably should have been a little clearer. While I do have TWRP and ADP access, none of it makes any difference; Fastboot still chokes on any operations. If you attempt to flash something it says all is good on the PC but the tablet itself freezes up and needs a power-off to get going again.

D
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
Yea..... miraculous... lol

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:02 PM ----------

Thats the problem! Lol.. just been frustrated by this update bricking peoples tabs.. lol, i had done it right, stock 10.4.2.20, with stock bootloader, it was like quicksand, really weird, flashed the update, failed, it managed to put 4.2 bootloader on, left me with nada, tryed formating recovery to flash new, i know fastboot can format. Lol
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr_s14:
Same here. Updated to 4.2.1 perfectly but was missing 10gb of memory. Flashed twrp 4.3.3 (oops) and all hell broke loose. Anyway, it boots into twrp (useless 4.3.3), adb works, fastboot effing hangs. I'll also be waiting for that miracle fix. I just won't hold my breath.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbdags:
For those of you that still have a custom recovery. I have made a blob that will write a raw image to staging and then flash on next boot.

The file contains bootloader, twrp 2.4.4.0 and kernel.

The only caveat is that your existing recovery must be able to write to staging.....

Anyone want to try it?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Even the custom recovery I had could not write anything to JellyBean or mount any partitions. Otherwise I would be thrilled to try this, but since that point my situation only got worse.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr_s14:
I'll try anything :good:

Count me in!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
No Chance At All?!

Hi all..

the same problem here...

updated to 4.2, unlocked and rooted, then flash latest TWRP, but not the patched one, it made a mess of the whole things, then i erased recovery partition, and finally unable to flash a new recovery via fastboot..

Are you sure the only way possible is to give it to a service center?

First of all, it costs too much, secondly it is not worth it for this tablet to put such a high money on repairing..

Will there be a solution AT ALL? is there any possibilty that a Dev could find a way to flash things via new bootloader and fastboot commands?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjc21:
Just a few questions for those having this issue.

Has everyone that has this issue where fastboot hangs used the "erase" command via fastboot on the 4.2.1 bootloader?

Those with this issue, when you boot into fastboot and run the command

fastboot devices

does it list your device s/n?

When you boot in fastboot if you run only this command

fastboot reboot

does the device respond and reboot?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
Yes, pjc, i can get my sn with devives, i can fastboot reboot, but as soon as you try to flash. The bootloader hangs until physically reset, .. btw , yes i used the erase command to remove recovery, not being able to flash new ... etc
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjc21:
Ok that's good to know & also matches my theory on why fastboot hangs - which may be totally wrong, just a theory.

Here is a blob file I made, if anyone having this issue is brave enough to try flashing this in fastboot.

Copy to your android-sdk\platform-tools folder.

fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob

I have no idea if this will work, not sure - fastboot may still just hang.

After you try, reboot to bootloader and select the "RCK" icon and see if you have a recovery, you should also know by the bootloader as if it does works you will be back on the 4.1.1 bootloader with 4 icons.

If on the off chance this does work copy the XX_epad-user-10.4.2.20.zip to your external sd, do a full wipe including format data in recovery and flash.

Let me know if this works.

I also have 1 other idea if the above does not work but am still looking into this one.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
thanks for the file,Just downloaded, gonna give it a shot...

will tell you the result asap...
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Hi pjc21,

I really appreciate you looking into this for those of us with this problem. Unfortunately I tried flashing the blob file you provided and used the same command, but it still froze on the flash so it didn't apply anything. I will gladly try anything else you suggest, and I eagerly look forward to your next idea!

Thanks!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
THE SAME IS HERE...

this blob file makes the fastboot hang as well :(

i'm not gonna give up on it :D :D :D

have been using many commands recently, and still will :D :D :D

so, what's the next step? what's your another idea?

we are ready to be your prototype :D :D
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thePatzen:
Hey guys! I've tried this blob stuff but fastboot still stuck:

Here is my log:

mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot devices
01234567890abcde fastboot
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob.bin sending 'staging' (14436 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.617s]
writing 'staging'...
OKAY [ 0.306s]
finished. total time: 2.924s
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot rebooting...
<HANGS>
finished. total time: 27.763s
mylinux:/myTab/tools # mv blob.bin blob
mylinux:/myTab/tools # md5sum blob
29f7dccded099b56e80b72d80b78b668 blob
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob sending 'staging' (14436 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.621s]
writing 'staging'...
OKAY [ 0.300s]
finished. total time: 2.922s
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot devices
???????????? fastboot
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot rebooting...
<HANGS>
mylinux:/myTab/tools # ./fastboot -i 0x0b05 getvar all < waiting for device >
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.0
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: 01234567890abcde
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) product: Cardhu
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) unlocked: no
(bootloader) uart-on: yes
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:bootloader: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x0000000030000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x000000001ac00000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x000000032a680000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
all:
finished. total time: 0.107s
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d1dd1y:
Having the same problem as well hope we can find a solution soon...
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenalive:
Should those basic partitions be emmc instead? Logs that have emmc, those people didn't have fastboot problems (I think), but everyone that has /boot and recovery as basic has the problem. If there is a way to change it in fastboot, that may be the solution. Looks like everyone who has the fastboot freeze has those partitions listed as basic.

I think we should all email and hound asus support repeatedly until they offer us a free fix. This is a bug in the boot loader or something! Why should we have to pay for a bug!
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goddly:
I'm out of ideas , pjc has a great grasp of the problem, and the willingness to try alot of different things, but seeing how he doesnt have a tab with this problem its hard to test and make any real progress.. Ive offered The use of my 6 core amd phenom 2 desktop via remote viewer , and skype , along with my bricked (atm fingers crossed) tranformer tf300t , to see what the tab is doing , as a way for him to see and work on a tablet with this condition. As i have another tablet already, he can try whatever fixes he can on my old tab. I really just wanna get this going for all you guys, these tablets are not cheap.. and having these machines sitting in a drawer while they still turn on and can still operate in fastboot to some extent just feels messed up. Lol. it shows my serial, i can reboot via fastboot, but not after a flash..
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
guys, keep the post and the thread up, and please participate in the discussion about this damn issue, untill someone can find a solution...

i wish I knew a bit about programming, or anything which could contribute to the people who have the same problem...

keep the post up till a dev might see it, maybe someone could give us a hand before we have to get help from ASUS... :(
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjc21:
No, I don't believe this is the direct cause of the issue.

On 4.1.1 the bootloader, recovery & boot partitions are in emmc format, but everyone on 4.2.1 (working or not) now has these 3 partitions in "basic" format. So this cannot be the direct cause. However I do believe this may have something to do with it but not sure. Maybe the combination of the partitions being in basic & erasing them might be the cause.

When I tried to run the "fastboot -i 0x0b05 format recovery" command on working 4.2.1 I get a fastboot error saying that "basic" is not a recognized format in fastboot, yet on 4.2.1 when I run "fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash system blob" which I believe also formats these 3 partitions, it has no issue with re-formatting the "basic" format.

My other idea seems to be a no-go, which was to make a bootable recovery on a microSD card as I have seen this method done on some other devices. I can make a bootable recovery on microSD without issue but after trying many different vol & power button combinations it does not look like the device is capable of booting off a microSD card.

Also looking into ways of wiping the partition table & recreating the partition table on the flash memory but as some functions of fastboot are still working I don't think we need to go this far. This is also above my knowledge level.

Think the answer could maybe be in booting from fastboot itself with command like "fastboot -i 0x0b05 boot <kernel> <ramdisk>" but this is also above my knowledge level, it is used by devs to boot test kernels without actually flashing it and then once they are working this command "fastboot flash:raw boot <kernel> <ramdisk>" will automatically combine them & flash.

Maybe someone could try booting recovery this way - with the new twrp for 4.2 here

fastboot -i 0x0b05 boot twrp421.blob

Not sure if that will work at all but worth a shot.

I will keep looking into ideas but it's not looking to good :(

maybe someone with more knowledge of android & fastboot will have more luck.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3fiant:
When I try your new test I get the following error;

E:\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\sdk

\platform-tools>fastboot -i 0x0b05 boot twrp421.blob

creating boot image...

creating boot image - 7684096 bytes

downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY [ 1.662s]

booting...

FAILED (remote: ()

finished. total time: 1.683s

E:\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219\sdk

\platform-tools>
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjc21:
I get the exact same result on a working device, I think you also need the ramdisk.img in this command also but not sure.

I have not tried this yet but in android-sdk/system-images/android-17/armeabi-v7a is the ramdisk.img file.

As I said this is above my knowledge level so not sure what this will do but you could try copying this file to your platform-tools folder and try

fastboot -i 0x0b05 boot twrp421.blob ramdisk.img

and see if anything happens.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thePatzen:
Hey everybody!

Not working here too.

Ill try this with ramdisk now.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3fiant:
same error with ramdisk image copied to folder and the new command run
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chanhny:
Me too! $220. It's a waste of money. I hata asus. I'll never use any product of apple. Long time ago I made my s8500 die boot. SS can recovery very easy with free (2 year after used).
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3fiant:
lol, I'm a little more pragmatic, no one forced me to brick a perfectly usable tablet, thats all me, I've just never been a fan of 'stock' :p

However thanks all to those trying to assist, ur a clever bunch and its greatly appreciated
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Tried this just in case, got the same results as d3fiant.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
tried, too...

neither here...

do you think no one can help us? even a dev? :(
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riderskull:
guys, my error when i try to click on wipe data and RCK is

Booting Recovery Kernel Image
Booting failed
Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000000)

.

However, when i try

fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob

(blob file of Android 4.2.1),the response is

sending 'staging' (800923 KB)...
OKAY [133.373s]
writing 'staging'...
OKAY [ 3.099s]
finished. total time: 136.474s

When i launch

fastboot reboot

it gives me this error

ERROR: could not clear input pipe; result e00002ed, ignoring...
ERROR: could not clear output pipe; result e00002ed, ignoring....
rebooting..

and TF300T became freeze.

The response at command

fastboot getvar all

is

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0
(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.0
(bootloader) version: 0.4
(bootloader) serialno: 015d24a42617ea10
(bootloader) mid: 001
(bootloader) product: Cardhu
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) unlocked: no
(bootloader) uart-on: yes
(bootloader) partition-size:bootloader: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:bootloader: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x0000000000800000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: basic
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x0000000030000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x000000001ac00000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x0000000332680000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata: ext4
all:
finished. total time: 0.105s

Can you help me? Any solutions ?

P.S. sorry for my english :silly:
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Looks like you're in the same boat as the rest of us. The errors I get are the same. Pjc21 is our only hope! (no pressure, bro ;) )
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
I just wonder why no recognized developer or at least a dev who can help us out would see this damn thread :(

Years back, when I had a X10i, DoomLord was the greates developer there, and i know he is still working on many projects simultaniously, but I don't know anyone with a special skill in TF300...

Can't we inform a dev here? :(

I'm totally miserable, 6 days without tablet, I don't want to give it to support center since it costs much more than what it is worth it :(
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
I'm just as upset as you are, but are you really complaining about Devs here who offer their support/solutions for free? Relax man, there is a bunch of us in the same boat. If you are that eager, give Asus your money lol
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riderskull:
just a question (I will not raise questions about the devs who help us and on their commitments, are already doing so much and I do not know how to thank them! :highfive:): The battery will be damaged once the tablet is turned off?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
why do you think I'm complaining about our great DEVs?!!!! I've been always appreciating what they've done for us, always, and as you said, all of them FOR FREE...

I DO appreciate them, in the highest level of respect, no doubt..

I'm just telling you that we need them HERE, on this issue, this is a DAMN issue, nothing like creating a THEME!!! don't you think so?!!!

that's just my OPINION, nothing more, maybe we have been through some misunderstandings, just that :)

thanks for your comment :)

I didn't mean that bro :)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
My bad, I think I misread your original post. Either way I agree with you- I would love this fixed ASAP (I think it's been broken 8-10 days?). I'm new to forum, so I'm not sure how quickly these things get addressed, but I am happy that a few people more knowledgeable than myself have looked at it.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
Any updates? Time to buy a new tablet?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdguider:
Unrecoverable Bootloader Error

From my point of view, this does not look good at all, I've been on XDA over 7 years now. I just recently purchased a TF300T on eBay for about $115.00 (cracked screen). I also took the latest update, Asus really screwed us over on this one, on one hand they give us the unlock boot loader tool, and tell us this will void our warranty, on the other hand we flash the latest official update on our tablets rooted/unlocked boot loader/ it doesn't matter, the tablet should not have crashed like it did. This damn sure didn't happen from rooted 10.xx.x18 to 10.xx.xx.20. So we have a real problem, If you come across this thread and you can still boot into Android, stop flashing stuff until a fix is found, as for the devs should be working on this, I don't know where I stand on that issue. They bust their xxx to root, cook roms and just make our devices better, sure they accept donations (they should) we have no right to say when and where their free time should be devoted.

My replacement tablet comes in Friday so I'll be swapping out the screens.

If you need this issue fixed right now, replace your board, buy a cracked lcd ... tf300t/g on eBay or usual places. If that's not an option, be patient, this is not something that will be fixed overnight.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobdaryl:
This thread is being watched.

There is no need to get hopes up for no reason. It is better to wait until you have something which will work or at least is ready for someone to test.

Try not to be frustrated with the long wait. 4.2 is not an easy nut to crack.

Hang on and Good Luck!

Note: If you have read the entire thread you will find one dev who has acknowledged working on this by offering something for testing. It didn't work out but certainly shows intent.

I know easy for me to say!

Here is a thread which you can read while you wait. This is one person who had success. I am currently working with another and we have not been very successful so far. If I learn anything else useful I'll pass it along but I'm no dev and have limited knowledge. There are many posters trying and I have noted several by reading this thread.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdguider:
We know it's been watched, I have followed every page, and tested some theory's provided by devs. It just amazes me how impatient people are. As of Friday (29th of March) I will have (2) Asus Tablets, one bricked one working.

If anyone needs anything tested, let me know.

You can reach me by private message or click on my username and send an email.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobdaryl:
Thanks for the good words.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenalive:
Our options:

Send to Asus, eat the fee. I was quoted 87, one guy got charged 207 for a new MB.

Buy a for parts tablet on ebay, preferably a functioning machine with a broken screen. Swap the motherboard. Cons: You may need to downgrade your storage if a 32gb isn't available. Cost $50-$100 is what I would spend.

Wait hoping for a fix. I highly doubt this option will come. We can't flash with fastboot, there is no fixing it with NVFlash either. Asus will have to release a tool specifically for this problem. Assuming it's even possible to fix.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kfrye89:
So nvflash isn't possible?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdguider:
I agree

I agree with everything except Cost $50 -$125, You find a working TF300T with a cracked screen for $50 let me know.

Good Luck
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebi4321:
I just can't understand how the hell it is possible:

1)To perform some SOFTWARE related commands (fastboot) to the device

=

2)The result is a need in WHOLE MAINBOARD changing...

have we all screwed the whole motherboard?!!!

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