How To Unbrick Asus Eee Pad Transformer Honeycomb Tablet

By Zayed Rehman on Jun 15 2011 14 Comments

Asus-Transformer-unbrickIf you were tinkering around with your awesome Asus Transformer and ended up bricking it much to your regret, no need to get depressed over it. XDA-Developers forum member rayman84 has just released a quick fix to get you out of this mess and have your Transformer up and running again in no time. Read on for more on it!

While this fix is a must try for anyone with a bricked Transformer out there, it is a must have tool as a contingency plan when your heart stops beating cause your Transformer won’t boot up anymore. The tool is based on NVflash and is amazingly very simple to use considering the task at hand. Unbricking your device just got a lot cooler and easier!

So let’s get this done. You can also see a video tutorial below.

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips will not be liable if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.

Requirements:

Instructions:

  1. To begin, download both the Nvflash tool and the ROM from the links above.
  2. Extract the Nvflash tool to a folder and then extract the ROM to the Nvflash folder.
  3. Connect the device to the computer and turn it on while holding down the Volume Up key. The screen will stay off, but USB device will be shown connected on the computer.
  4. If you’re on Linux, skip to Step 5, if not, read on. Once the device is in APX mode, Find the APX device in Device manager and update the driver by pointing at the usbpcdriver directory in the Nvflash folder.
  5. Run download.sh (Linux) or download.bat (Windows) and watch the magic happen!

For updates and queries visit the forum thread at XDA-Developers.

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  • raka

    thanks a lot for saving my transformer

  • Gary

    Hi Zayed,

    I was able to flash this rom but the touchscreen has stopped working at all and I am stuck at welcome screen where the first screen with language selection. Could you please advise.

    Thanks
    Gary

  • zerofeel

    First, if your screen locks up just let the battery drain and it will start working again. Second, this guy is using the video from my site but telling you to get support for things from XDA. Check out this post for updates and support.

    http://tabletroms.com/forums/showthread.php?1071-Asus-Transformer-NVFlash-Stock-3.1-Recovery-Roms-Update-to-3.2

    • Bjorn

      hi zerofeel. when i run the nvflash everything works fine until the flashing of system.img. the command prompt either stops at a certain bytes or it closes the command prompt and on the screen of the TF it says “!!!!phone update failed”. tried downloading nvflash and prime 1.4 on different websites but still the same thing. i just don’t know what to do. please help. please…

      • cma

        Same thing happened to my Transformer…looks like it’s completely bricked…no way back :(
        Those damned linux archives…

        • Filipebergami1

          Same here

        • Filipebergami1

          Same here

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  • deshaila

    Unbelievable I just got this transformer a day and a half ago and I’m already have problems ..

  • henkksd

    Hello,

    I have a real problem.
    1- i dont can find the apx in my devicemanager from win7. He is visable in system.
    2- i have only a black screen on my tf101. When i startup nvflash i have connection and a Google screen. Not the saus screen.

    Please help me. I use him in my wheelchair and can nou nothing

    Grretings and thanks
    Henk the netherlands ( the reading for my bad englisch :) )

  • henkksd

    I have make a misunderstanding.
    I can find the apx in the devicemanager but i was hoop to find him in the explorer with mals e.g. so i can try to put files directly in the 101.

    Who have a solution please …:…

    Thanks

  • dido

    I´ve already tried to unbrick my tf but it is black and it has not life after a failure during the download.bat process “file not found : recovery.img” “failed executing command 2147483647 NvError 0×4″ “command failure : create failed”

    Could you help me ?

  • Panayotis

    Thanks! You saved me

  • Neil

    Thanks for this. It got my Transformer back.

  • http://twitter.com/JonsonChong Jonson Chong

    What if I only have a Mac?

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