yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
I don't know where you got the idea of changing the IMEI. The WiFi version of the Shield Tablet doesn't even have one, since there is no mobile modem.

There is only one killswitch OTA which was not delivered for a short while and renamed. This OTA is broadcasted all the time, to all targeted tablets, no matter if were killed or not. Even if you manage to revive the tablet, you can get it killed again the first time TegraOTA checks the server. Take your killed tablet SN and check it on Bogdacutu web page. You will get the ST-yy back although your tablet is already dead.

The few occurrences where people revived the tablet, in my opinion, or was something else than the killswitch or the killswitch backfired. The only solution is the Secure Boot Key to leak out.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] carlompms:
good evening,

I received my recall tablet yesterday, before connecting the new one, I installed a new rom, for now I have 2 tables to work.

in the process I do not know what I did my tablet brick in apx mode.

for exit apx mode I connected to the PC, press power button until you hear the disconnect sound on pc(tablet turn off)

Press "Volume Down" -> "Power", hold "Volume Down" and leave Power buttons till device boots

It may work for you too

sorry for my English (google translate)
[Shield Tablet General] drZeT:
This very thread was started by a guy who supposedly revived his tablet by first changing it's IMEI. Check the first post. Mine is (was) LTE so it does (did) have one.

Maybe. Again, this is what this thread all about - tablet revived and works. First post. So "backfire" or different kill-switch, bottom-line -

there are 2 types of bricked tablets

: APX mode=dead for good (?). And some other, wounded but not killed. So, yes, changing IMEI has nothing to do with tablet revival, we need SBK.

Are you sure your tablet was in APX mode ? Have you checked "Device manager" and seen APX device for which no driver can be found? I've tried what you suggested but to no avail. Tablet just switches off and back on to APX.
[Shield Tablet General] carlompms:
yes i sure apx mode

but when I did it not yet had boot new one
[Shield Tablet General] carlompms:
.youtube.com/watch?v=oraSce-chzI&feature=youtu.be

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I made a mistake you need unplug usb before torn on(enter Fastboot)

i make a video

w w w .youtube.com/watch?v=oraSce-chzI&feature=youtu.be

i cant post link

maybe work for you to

sorry video quality
[Shield Tablet General] 2kool2Bcruel:
When I press power, nothing happens at all. I don't see how this can work if You can't turn it on.

How did Nvidia disable the power button anyway? It freaks me. I don't think there is a way to recover those that Nvidia completely killed the power.

I need a way to jump-start that thing.
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
If you plug in the charger, the charging symbol appears on the screen ? Maybe you have an empty battery.

Connect the tablet to a computer and look in Device Manager when you power it on. If is killed, it will appear an APX device.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] 2kool2Bcruel:
Unfortunately it doesn't. The screen just stays black. Not like its on and its a black screen but, it isn't on.
[Shield Tablet General] xxflyingarmbarxx:
Just wanted to say that i got my tablet working even after it was in "APX" mode. Connected it to computer after not being able to turn it on, seen APX in the Device Manager. Adb couldnt see anything. Seen someone say they were able to access the bootloader. Tried that, bootloader worked. Adb to fastboot, unlocked bootloader, flashed SU, had to fix some of the file systems, flashed Bliss and GAPPS, tab is up and running now.
[Shield Tablet General] jimyx17:
Those with working fastboot/bootloader seem like bad flashed kill switch upgrade, that's all.

As someone has already explained, it's not possible to recover it through the APX interface without a signed package and the kill switch completely wipe the bootloader.

Anyway, has someone tried to directly flash the nand through the SPI?
[Shield Tablet General] Infinity_roy:
this topic becomes foolish, please moderators take a look here.

Sincerely Infinity
[Shield Tablet General] xxflyingarmbarxx:
Yeah it seemed like it was a bad flash cause once I finally got twrp running, my whole file system was jacked up. Took me like an hour to figure out how to fix everything.
[Shield Tablet General] kungmusic:
Hello everyone, i need help, i am from brazil and here prices are very expensive so i am thinking to buy a blocked Nvidia Shield, not rooted and not bootloader unlock before kill switch, is it possible to recover now and unlock everything and make it work again? i read a lot in this post but i am still in doubt, i did a lot of root in sansung and LG devices and installed custom roms and did jaylbreak on Ipad device too so i know something.

I tryed to contact victorcangil16 but he dont answer, can someone help me with that please?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
If the tablet is still booting into Android, you can fix it. Root and remove TegraOTA.apk while keeping the tablet off from internet and you're done.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] kungmusic:
Topcat, the seller sayd tablet boot untill nvidia logo, is that enough to make it work?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Yes, if the logo appears, is good.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] kungmusic:
damn bro, that tablet was sold, there are others with black screen, is it possible to recover if only a black screen show when turn in?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
No. Black screen is toast.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] xmobus:
Dead tablet

Hi,there I got my new nvidia and after a few days the old one got de-activated.You gave a hint how to recover the old one,but mine cannot be switched on.the battery charging seems ok.I got a black screen always on switch on.

Any help please how to proceed.

Thank you

xmobus
[Shield Tablet General] ecyscher:
Hi,

Maybe someone can take a look at Miphone flash tool software. It has the nvflash for flashing the Xiaomi Mi Pad (which using the same Nvidia Tegra K1 chip).

And the apx driver for Mi Pad also can be use on Nvidia Shield Tablet, already tested on my pc showing nvidia boot-recovery on Device Manager.
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
Hi Victorcangil 16,

I am new to this post, But if anyone can help me to find what version is my shield, becoz i got this dead one from ebay, ..?

Thanks in advance.
[Shield Tablet General] greatdragon:
So I have a question along these lines, I have several nVidia Shields 4 to be exact 3 wifi and one LTE, I just realized the LTE is also up for the recall (I left it sitting in a bag and forgot about it until I needed it) so the question is I replaced 2 of the wifis because of the recall I hung onto the tablets and sent the batteries back, I have no intention of using them but I figured why waste a good screen.... so the question is if anyone knew if you could pull the serial and any other relevant ids off one of the good wifi's and insert it onto the LTE giving up a wifi to gain an extra LTE? I have no problems soldering chips and if I knew it would and don't mind testing on the extra with no batteries. I also have a full set of chip programmers at my disposal so if anyone has any ideas on how to progress let me know.
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
s. i also doubt the same...lets give it a try
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
Helo and i would like to suggest, whether we can wake this sleeping beauty by replacing with equivalent batteries..? will it work for good..?
[Shield Tablet General] greatdragon:
no, nVidia has a killswitch that they use to brick the old tablets by trashing the bootloader. there is a fairly large discussion about it but it comes down to if you use them and accept the OTAs then at some point after using the new tablet the old one gets bricked. that being said even if you do manage to get one working or kept it working I would replace the battery ASAP. as there is a reason why they are sending out replacement tablets....
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
thanks for ur reply...but still i came thro google ..tat initially they tried to replace the batteries befor the kill switch was implementec...but if we can wake the tab stil we can find some othr solution !!!???
[Shield Tablet General] Vybramo:
Its any way how to flash bootloader on device when see only APX as devices

vid_0955&pid_7f40

? or acess to partition memory and flash it like on http://xdaforums.com/lg-g2/general/lg-g2-unbrickable-fix-real-hard-brick-t2904404 ? lg g2?
[Shield Tablet General] Sess:
someone please explain to me what root has to do with booting into the bootloader? We're pre kernel here, this whole thread sounds like a bad joke in poor taste.
[Shield Tablet General] THEHOLYG0D:
So what this guy did was changed the registered IMEI so that it fools Nvidia and it won't send the KILL SWITCH and the tablet doesn't deactivates. Now my question here is; someone who never got KILL-SWITCH or got deactivated and switched to CUSTOM before it, has tried to do the process so that finally THE TABLET WILL RUN STOCK WILL ALSO RECEIVES OTAs AND Won't get deactivated. Anyone ?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
That is not going to work. IMEI is a modem ID. What if I have the WiFi version ? That one has no IMEI.

The killswitch is sent by tablets Serial Number, and that one is not changeable. Even if it were, I would still remove TegraOTA.apk .

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Themaniacboy:
Could someone verify this? I can't find the right software and drivers.
[Shield Tablet General] drZeT:
MiFlash

I can confirm that (after disabling signature verification) one can install APX driver and MiFlash recognizes the tablet. You'll find the driver in \Xiaomi\Miphone\Nvidia\Driver after installing MiFlash

Which leads to a n00b question, is there such a thing as bootloader.img for Nvidia shield tablet ?
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
hi frnd..tats a great try..i think the boot loader. img must be there within the recovery image provided on the nvidia developers web...i am also planning to do the same..;
[Shield Tablet General] hari01091986:
s..so possibly if u can send me the link for Mi pad Image ..i wil try to download and retrive some bootloader files for testing

Fyi, the below readme txt is from nvidia Dev's Web, show's the existance of the Bootloader and blob file in the recovery image.

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/mobile/shield/ROM/ST8/3_1_1/HowTo-Flash-Recovery-Image.txt

> Have you already downloaded the factory image (2.1gb). If so can you check by unpacking the image ..?

Meahwhile I will also google for some possible extraction's from the existing shield.
[Shield Tablet General] drZeT:
http://bigota.d.miui.com/V7.1.1.0.K...ICK_20151209.0000.6_4.4_global_f80229b3ed.tgz

It contains boot.img, not bootloader
[Shield Tablet General] THEHOLYG0D:
An xposed module called *serial number changer*, just surfaced, it says it masks it from even the manufacturer, those who are gonna try it, proceed with caution cause you never know

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/serial-changer-qa-t3345596

That's the forum link to it
[Shield Tablet General] Tomtom5893:
hey my old shield was not deactivated because i does not conected it since i have my new one but i cant Change the imei...

how can i set up my old tablet so that it does not deactivated?

"oem writeimei" does not work... it Shows me Unknown command!

can i Flash an alternative Rom to stop the deactivated process?

(i have unlock it)
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Flash custom ROM or delete TegraOTA and use stock.

IMEI is not the ID for deactivation. Tablet's serial number is.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Tomtom5893:
Thats all?

my old tablet works definitely online without kill?

great^^ thanks

Can i use the new marshmallow Recovery Rom?

and how do i delete the TegraOTA.apk?

or do you know a good custom Rom instead?
[Shield Tablet General] topcat36:
Check this thread for more info: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=62345155

And here you can find the MM updates: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=65096689

I am just now typing from my old tablet without any problems, using official MM.

I never used a custom ROM before, so I don't know what's best.

Sent from my old SHIELD Tablet.
[Shield Tablet General] Vybramo:
Drivers which one to use?
[Shield Tablet General] THEHOLYG0D:
Get them directly from developer.nvidia.com
[Shield Tablet General] diafebus:
No news about recovering killed tablets? Mine just got killed after updating to 4.1 I didn't even had time to remove tegraOTA...
[Shield Tablet General] Rafael1703:
I would like to know this too.
[Shield Tablet General] Blaszkson:
No news about recovering killed tablets?
[Shield Tablet General] lafester:
No, it's dead.
[Shield Tablet General] grujic.ljubomir:
I was hoping that this thread would surprise me with a possible solution, but I guess Nvidia made sure our tablets stay dead :(
[Shield Tablet General] 526lawn@gmail.com:
any hope or no?

is there any hopes of me getting my tablet to turn on again?
[Shield Tablet General] mirrin:
nope they purposefully bricked it so at the lowest level it can not turn on short of desoldering the nand and swapping it or some sort of super low level direct write to the nand nothing is going to unbrick a pyro. The chassis and parts is worth something if you swapped a k1 mobo and battery into it...
[Shield Tablet General] Nailyouh:
You did that? the only mobo I can find on eBay is 119 bucks....so not worth it if u ask me.

you know where to get it?
[Shield Tablet General] mirrin:
No I just bought a k1... But as they have not elected to make a 2016 tablet as people break them I imagine more will show up. As for everything else a bricked pyro can still be sold for parts to someone who broke a screen on a k1.
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
I restore the blocked nvidia shield tablet

I recover the disabled Nvidia Shield pad, for this purpose it is necessary to send the motherboard to repair.
[Shield Tablet General] grujic.ljubomir:
Can you please elaborate?
[Shield Tablet General] Vybramo:
Can you give to us any info which part need to be repaired etc?
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
You remove the motherboard and you send me on repair to Ukraine, on a forum 4PDA I am Drims75 too. Ask http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=617264 who does to whom did. Repair costs 30 dollars. Transfer also at your expense.
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
There is a person from a forum which wants to send for repair, hope when he writes a response you will be sure that I really repair
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
Has made, has sent back to Austria, we wait in 2 weeks for a response from the recipient.
[Shield Tablet General] Djabolic:
Can you please elaborate? I really want to send my ST to you but you're not sharing any information. Can you really recover a bricked tablet from APX state after the kill switch is activated?
[Shield Tablet General] hissi1978:
It is working!!!

Hello guys!

I have send my motherboard to drims75 from Austria.

It was already stuck in APX mode no change to reactivate.

Today I received my motherboard back and rebuild it to my tablet.

It is working now with android 7 serial number changed (fully official nvidia update no problem) also the battery type is showing now B01.

All I can say now drims75 has really done the job and it is working now.

Always when I ask a question to drims 75 I get very fast answer with pictures.

So please trust him he can repair.

I made photos from my repair process if you need any information please ask!!

I am so happy!

Best regards from Austria to Drims75 and all of you!!!

Regards

Michael
[Shield Tablet General] Djabolic:
Well I'm a little bit skeptic about the guy who has only one post and only registered last month.

Can you show us some of those pictures maybe so we can trust him?
[Shield Tablet General] hissi1978:
Trust drims75

Hello!

What I have done I installed Chrome Browser with plugin to translate from Ukraine letters to english.

In this forum Drims75 has many posts.

"httpsxxxxxx://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=617264"

The people describe there the good experience with him.

Search for Drims75 posts there and you will see.

If you need pictures from my expierence please PM me your email adress I will send this is easier for me.

For your information you have to remove your motherboard from your tablet and send it to Drims75.

This is no joke and no fake.

Best regards

Michael

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Hello!

Because of forum rules it is not allowed to post links to other forums

so you should remove the xxxxxxx from my link before.

As I told already please send me your email with PM otherwise it is not allowed for me

to post links after 10 posts here.

Best regards

Michael

---------- Post added at 09:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 PM ----------

Hello,

I have many pictures from my repair process from Drims75 and which I have done.

There is also a video available how to remove and rebuild the motherboard.

I can send you this link.

I am trying to make 10 posts if necessary to copy direct links.

Best regards

Michael

---------- Post added at 10:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:38 PM ----------

Hello,

I try to make 10 posts here (otherwise please PM),

please have a look on the forum which i posted before

you will see that drims75 is very active there.

What I did is to send a PM to drims75 please try he will respond to you.

I send the money for drims75 with westerunion.

Paypal was not working in ukraine.

Best regards

Michael
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
Here number of a parcel you can check RA822028078UA
[Shield Tablet General] hissi1978:
Parcel from Ukraine

Hello!

You can use this link to check the parcel which was send from Ukraine to Austria:

"httpxxxxxx://services.ukrposhta.ua/bardcodesingle/Default.aspx"

The tracking was online until it left the customs of Ukraine.

Best regards

Michael
[Shield Tablet General] Djabolic:
Well I believe you guys and this is great but I live in Turkey and sending a postal from here to Austria would cost hundreds of dollars for me.

[MENTION=7434773]Drims75[/MENTION] do you fix those devices thru NVFlash with Secure Boot Key or something? I'm just curious.
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
It is necessary to send to Ukraine costs 6-10 dollars
[Shield Tablet General] dr-zeke:
Hi Drims75,

I am too in the same position as Djabolic and the rest with a bricked Shield stuck in APX-mode. [MENTION=7434773]Drims75[/MENTION], what are the success rate of such a procedure? And what is it that you do in order to un-brick it?

Cheers

dr-zeke
[Shield Tablet General] Mr_Armageddon:
Also interested in learning more about this repair process. My my 32GB LTE enabled tablet was replaced during the recall, but it seems I have still been hit by the kill switch. Its basically bricked, only showing up on my PC in APX mode (Power+Vol Up). Can't get in to fastboot at all.

Nvidia support is not willing to work with me on the issue, so looking to the forums.
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
You send me a matheboard and I do. As I make it my problems, the main thing is that the result is 100%
[Shield Tablet General] nickless_bg:
Hi there,

I'm the next one happy customer of Drims75. He returned to the life my dead 32GB LTE tablet which was only showing up on my PC in APX mode, although it was replaced during the recall program.

I contacted with him before 20 days for help, when a saw this thread. He told me to send him only motherboard of the tablet because postage will cost much more less and he sent me full instruction with vodeo and pics, how to disassemble it.

Yesterday I received the repaired motherboard (how it's done, I don't know and I don't care) and I assembled it and now I have again working Shield (some basic soldering skills and equipment are required, if not, you can use some local PC/phone service).

It is with last android 7, serial number changed, rooted, battery type is B01, and increased size of system partition :)

Personally for me, for this money, it is worthwhile to keep this tablet, which is still very up to date compared with the new ones on the market.

So you can fully trust to Drims75 that he can repair your dead or kill switched Shield tablet.

Thank you Drims75 :good:

Regards,

Niko.
[Shield Tablet General] Drims75:
I also restore apx nvidia shield tv 2015 and 2017!
[Shield Tablet General] Alfonso87:
He made it

Guys he made it for real xD

I live in Italy so the shipping cost wasn't so high. I tried. I had an unusable pyro shield tablet and during the pandemic i tried to ship it to [MENTION=7434773]Drims75[/MENTION].

Several days have passed but in the end he got it, repaired it and shipped it back to me xD

Ask me anything you wanna know. Btw this is the post on imgur i made to show drims that the tablet arrived and to convince myself it really was working xDD

https://imgur.com/gallery/Ar1o9Zt
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amirhosseintaghavi:
Hi.to all xda users

I have solution for network unlock note5 but need nv_data.bin for edit and final test.

Manual:

-install root explorer.apk

-root phone

-goto efs folder

-copy nv_data.bin file

-share here for me

Br

Tnx
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] counterzattack:
Note 5 Canadian Factory Unlock!!

Hi there, I got the file, but don't know how to share it here. Please help.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] china chenli:
N9208:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B85NFBg-YkZVaGRkS3FOT1dBYm8/view?usp=sharing

N920C:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B85NFBg-YkZVbHJxZ3ZHX3VnTU0/view?usp=sharing

N920T:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B85NFBg-YkZVdjFjenIwbldhOG8/view?usp=sharing

This is my BOX was used to extract

Please let me know if you are successful :o
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] counterzattack:
Damn!! It worked :D

Damn!! It worked :D You are good :)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inneyeseakay:
Do you need the nv file for each phone or are the ones posted above universal for that model?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] counterzattack:
Different phone model different nv file man :)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] china chenli:
Please contact me if you need other NV
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iRootAll:
will this sim unlock a US t mo variant that has the remote unlock app?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inneyeseakay:
Didn't work for me... you may have better luck. Let us know.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buntoid:
Will this unlock LTE Band 20 (800) for the 9208 so can be used in the uk?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] counterzattack:
It should work with your UK version. However don't forget to have a backup buddy :)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iRootAll:
I just followed all the steps and it didn't work for US T-Mo. Any other way around the remote unlock app?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inneyeseakay:
This worked for me: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3196964
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] china chenli:
G920A G925A he can do it? :confused:

This is I can't unlock the only model

Because I can't get a samsung factory ROOT tool
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inneyeseakay:
No
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TaianiLeaks69:
N920p nv please
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shashi18:
Do you have solution for AT&T NV920A

Do you have solution for AT&T NV920A
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f10wer:
Do you have solution for SM-N920W8, Canadian model

Many Thx
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] counterzattack:
Hi there, ya my one is Canadian note 5 and I have successfully unlocked my phone :D
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ActiveNoise:
http://puu.sh/mrrKf/6286008bf8.bin

Bell Canadian W8 Variant