Bricked Asus TF300T

[GreatGeak]

what did you call the ROM, and do you know the ROM you installed? Because this sounds like something worth trying.

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[delerivm]

It was specific to my phone, but it looks like you can download stock firmware from the ASUS support Site and install it from a micro sd card. Check this out :

[GUIDE] How to flash Official Firmware downloaded from ASUS site

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2

[delerivm]

Download the firmware from here:

http://www.asus.com/Tablet/Transform...300T/#download

Hope that helps..

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2

[Theodoric]

This option appears to be for the TF101 that you can actually operate, I am facing a tablet that is not functioning. Also the TF300T will not boot from an microSD card, at least not in my experience.

[alainlafond]

Hi Theodoric,
I have the same problem, and I'm following...
I went to by another tablet this afternoon, my wife is dying of laught...
As a good wife, she wouldn't forget to say, "I've told you"

Seem I'm not the only one.
This morning I bricked my tablet, 5 minutes after I bought a wall charger on EBay...

As for now the only answers seem to be from people that don't read post good.
We can't get to use the recovery...

Again, if someone knows how reset the tablet prior booting...

I beleive that its the only other way.

The last possibility, buy a new one...

I believe the problem started before.

- I unlocked my tablet more that a month ago, at the Jelly Bean release.
- Rooted
- Installed the official release
- Everything went well, up to this morning
- I noticed that my Rom Manager Premium start to show adds
- Goo manager refused to install recovery script
- Then I tried to go in recovery, it fails.
- I said to myself that it was better to start from scratch
- I tried a Factory reset using setting menu.
- After this step the tablet started to show This device is unlocked
-After the last step the device wouldn't boot no other way...

I don't know what happened but it seem a bit strange that everything worked fine before this morning.

For sure I'll keep exploring ways to get out of this mess.

Good luck to all the other unfortunate that that are in the same boat.

Alain

[Stevetronics]

Hey all,
First post in the forums, but I'd just like to tell you guys about my brick/recovery today. I have an unlocked TF300T, US SKU. I decided it would be a good idea to try to use CWM recovery to flash the asus stock image (4.1 JB) (DOH! I'm an idiot, I know)
All this did was brick my tablet, instantly. The recovery kernel image was shot, and nothing would work. Then I spent a few days trying to get it into fastboot mode (which I was able to do, but didn't end up using). In frustration, I ran a "wipe data" from the boot menu, and when that completed, and the tablet rebooted, I was greeted by the sight of the default android "please set up your tablet" screen. Everything works like a treat now. I have no clue what happened to my bootloader/recovery kernel setup, but things seem to be working nicely...

[Theodoric]

Thanks Alain,
You hit the nail on the head. I cannot get into ANY kind of recovery menu/screen. The only thing I can do is see my tablet in the device manager as an Android Phone. I know from rooting other devices that when seen in Device Manager commands can be sent to them. I am hoping that there is a way to do this with the TF300T. In other news, I went out and bought another TF300T and have sent it in for an RAM because it constantly reboots and looses wifi connectivity. I guess it was not meant to be. :O

[Theodoric]

OOps I meant RMA.

[elliptic1]

Hi,
I've just bricked my tf300t in the same way- I see the ASUS screen, "The Device is Unlocked" in the top left, and I can't get to the menu with the fastboot option anymore. It isn't recognized by the hardware manager.

Has anybody been able to recover from this state?

-Thanks

[nikon5241]

Similar situation here, too!

I tried to flash a different ROM but when it rebooted, I got the same as others have described. The ASUS logo appeared with a blue loading bar just beneath it and 'The Device is UnLocked' in the top left corner of the screen. After the blue bar finished loading, it rebooted again... and again, and again. It was stuck in a boot loop that I haven't been able to get out of.

I have tried holding the power + vol. up, power + vol. down, pressing the tiny reset button in the side of the tablet but nothing seems to work. I do get something different whenever I press power + vol. down:

The Device is UnLocked
Android cardhu-user bootloader <2.10 e> released by "US_epad-9.4.3.30-20120604" A03
Checking for android ota recovery
Booting recovery kernel image

No other options appear at that point and the tablet reboots again. I've tried connecting it to my laptop with Win7 and got the device manager to see it after installing the 0.7 Universal Naked Driver.

Tried using ADB to push commands to the tablet but that doesn't work because ADB always says either the device cannot be found or waiting for the device.
I even tried to get help from Asus... yeah right! Just the typical response of "Send it in for repairs... you are out of warranty... you will be charged... don't know how much though" ugh!!

After all this I haven't given up hope though. The way I see it is, if there was a way to screw it up then there has to be a way to fix it. Anyone else going through the same nightmare as this? Anyone get through this or know of a possible fix that I haven't mentioned?