[Sony Tablet S] numbaonenewb:
this worked for me. it may work for you but I can't guarantee it. let's start with some history. so I rooted with condi's awesome root tool. everything was great. one day while web browsing, the thing turned off. I was wondering, what the heck? rebooting only got me to the part where the golden ribbon flowed constantly. I guess they call it a bootloop. resetting and wiping data only got me into a worst scenario

so there it was. only had it for 4 months and the thing kaput on me. that's ok, got my receipt. even though it was rooted, I planned on sending it in without a doubt. I had bought as an opened item at frys. I'll just blame it on the 1st owner. anywho, couple of visits to Sony stores revealed that they were remodeling. they couldn't accept the tablet (I guess theres one near san jose, lucky me). Anyways, I even made attempts to contact through the web but nothing. I had just bought a galaxy s3 so I was like, oh well. its just a tablet. I left it sitting there collecting dust. One day my girl nags me to death to get it done. its almost been a year and I need to claim the warranty. Well, LOL. I lose the receipt. Yes, SOL.

What did I have left to resort to? Begging the crap out of condi to do whatever is in his power to help me. It didn't get me far. I gave up. So its been over a year since I bought the thing and I decided to give it another whack because I swear I had gone through the process of making sure I installed the boot loop protection condi had created. well, I can't find the charging cable. Wow, those things are hard to find and very expensive. I give up again.

Today, I was digging through my storage and what do you know, I find the charger. I was confident I could fix the tablet. This is what I did. After sitting there for so long, I charged it up a bit. I knew that I couldn't allow it to charge for too long. I noticed that if I ever ran into a situation that got me stuck at the sony logo and not allowing me to go anywhere, and the only thing I could do was to do a manual power off, the only way to get out of that is to let the tablet die.

So tip. If you get stuck at the sony logo, just let it sit there until it dies. only way I found to fix that.

I also, in the past, ran into the infamous E:verification failed yadda yadda yadda. something about not being able to mount the sd or some crap. I hated that error. I couldn't understand why it did that. well, today, I decided to try something totally outside the box. I figure it couldn't hurt. Prior to even booting up my tablet for the first time in 10 months, I inserted the sd card directly into a slot in my laptop and always noticed the drive letter came up (in my case) as J:. Now I kind of realize that the drive letter may or may not make any bit of a difference since its just a drive letter that the computer assigns, and in some cases, if inserted into another computer and that letter is taken, it then sets a different letter up for that SD. well, again, I'd figure what's the harm in trying so I went into control panel. administrative tools, computer management. on the tabs on the left, I went for the disk management under storage and decided to change the drive letter that my computer sees the sd card to E. Well of course I had a virtual drive set as E but with a little change here and there, I finally get the SD to show up on my laptop as E. I copied the nbx signature file that condi recommends that you copy to try and flash it during these "soft brick" situations, even copied my decrypted and signed update files just in case my first attempt fails.

as soon as I boot it up, I go into recovery mode. I select the file that condi suggested. right away it started saying it was updating. Nice. No e:verification failure messages. so I grin and watched it as it was actually flashing it. wowzers. and of course, towards the end after the 3rd bullet has been highlighted, I get ready to hold the Vol +, so that I can wipe data or else have to face this process again. Boom, wiped data and waited. Of course I was nervous as I watched the dancing golden ribbons, which I have seen dance in front of me endlessly before in the past. Then, the setup screen pops up. YES. I got it fixed!