[Asus Transformer TF700] Pabos:
Hey guys... so... I am really desperate here. I tried updating my tf201 to nougat following the guide here on the forum but somewhere along the way things went terribly wrong and now the tablet is stuck in the aforementioned bootloop/freeze. I cannot get into fastboot. I can only get into ATX. I DO have my nvflash backup blobs, but even so I am unable to get the tablet from this state. I have tried like 4 different guides and approaches (including the one here, of course), but unfortunately nothing seems to work. I can't get fastboot.

Any ideas?

Things I've tried:

https://xdaforums.com/t/nvflash-recovery-with-generated-blobs-tf-700-t.2538028/

commands like: nvflash -r --rawdevicewrite 0 2944 bricksafe.img (I find it strange that the command runs slowly for the first half of the upload and then it speeds up a lot... but that might be okay, I dunno)

Tried flashing back the original firmware / blob downloaded from asus.com etc. Nothingseems to work.

Please, any help will be greatly appreciated.

EDIT:

Ok. So after a good night's sleep I'm feeling a little less desperate and I can describe in more detail how I managed to get to this proper bricked state.

1) I followed https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-tutor...me-tf201-stock-to-android-7-1-nougat.3486237/ this guide and got all the way to Step 6 (bootloader) at which my tablet started to behave a bit differently than what was described in the guide. It is also important to note, that the tablet display is a little bit damaged - just the first two lines of the display - but unfortunately, that makes reading important info, such as whether or not the device is unlocked, bootloader version etc., impossible.

2) Anyways... Halfway through step 6, just after:

The tab reboots and launches the HairyBean TWRP recovery (androwook).

My tab loaded back into android instead. So here I thought - with all my stupidity's might - "hmmm, so maybe I didn't unlock it properly" (keep in mind that due to the damaged display, I couldn't check),, and I went ahead and ran the unlock app again. That lead to the Tab's restart and here we are. When I turn on the tablet, it just shows the Asus logo for like half a second and then restarts. Shows the Asus logo again and restarts. And that way forever. Pressing power + volume- does nothing. The only thing that works is power + volume+ which starts ATX and I am able to interact with it using wheelie and nvflash.

3) At this point, I can't remember the exact order of things that I tried, but things I tried are:

Load back my nvflash blobs. I still have those. I followed this guide: https://xdaforums.com/t/nvflash-recovery-with-generated-blobs-tf-700-t.2538028/

Load back stock ASUS firmware downloaded from asus.com

The steps in this thread as described by georgecoat.

At one point I think I tried following this guide: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-nvfla...rick-recover-downgrade-upgrade-tf201.1927818/ and that I'm afraid might have been the proverbial nail in the coffin. So... you see, my nvflash files didn't match the ones described in that thread. SoI thought "hmmm, I have bootloader.ebt, so that's probably the same as his blob.EBT" so I executed

nvflash.exe -r --download 4 bootloader.EBT

And that I think got me to where I am now... It's cool how sometimes I can amaze myself with my own stupidity... and the worst part is that I'm an IT guy, I work with linux, docker, python a lot.... but android is a complete unknown for me and as I got more and more desperate I tried stupider and stupider things. Oh well...

So... any ideas? Anything goes, really. At this point I might as well use the tablet as a paperweight so really, any ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance.