| gnarface | agneli: i found a sticker i did not see before! it says (i think): S/N:C7OKAS081403 | 02:16 |
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| gnarface | the 0 and O are ambiguous, but distinct, so i guessed | 02:16 |
| gnarface | also wondering if you know if it's normal for the keyboard light to keep blinking orange even after the tablet light has turned green from being charged | 02:17 |
| gnarface | does that mean i just need to charge it more or something else? | 02:17 |
| gnarface | that pdf manual is just about useless, as i remembered. no mention of a hotkey to boot from microSD | 02:17 |
| gnarface | but, the keyboard seems to be acknowledged by the android setup interface (this device was wiped, if you recall, so there isn't really any data on there to back up, unless you're suggesting i should backup the android installer itself? | 02:19 |
| gnarface | ) | 02:19 |
| gnarface | i thought i'd gone through all this and failed at the microSD boot and couldn't figure out if it was a missing hotkey or just a build failure of my boot image | 02:20 |
| gnarface | but i'm having trouble remembering where i put that boot image | 02:20 |
| gnarface | i think from that xdaforums link this serial number designates it as "SBK2" is that right? | 02:25 |
| gnarface | that doesn't identify the keyboard though, does it matter? | 02:25 |
| gnarface | does SBK2 mean it won't work, or just that there's no recovery process available if i screw it up? | 02:27 |
| gnarface | ctrl+esc (what i think is the esc key anyway, it doesn't actually say esc on it) doesn't do anything apparent, i still just end up booted into the first-time setup panel (asking for language and wifi etc) | 02:35 |
| agneli | gnarface: | 06:39 |
| agneli | 1. I always do backup of the original image... one never knows I guess | 06:39 |
| agneli | hence my recomendadtion, rest is up to you | 06:39 |
| agneli | 2. I do not have much knowledge Asus Transformer per se, so idk where and how to check the serial number, I can ddg it and see what comes out, but you can do it as well :) | 06:42 |
| agneli | 3. CTRL+ESC is the sequance from ac100, on tf101 you need to press some buttons on the tablet part of your device | 06:43 |
| agneli | 4. please note, the above sequence is _not_ to boot the device from microsc, i have no idea if android bootloader has any shortcuts to boot from sdcard or usb, I sincerely doubt it that would go against their logic of having a locked, secure device | 06:46 |
| agneli | i delete android and its bootloader immediately after I make my backups :) | 06:46 |
| agneli | 5. on ac100 with original tegrapart there was a recovery boot partition where you could download an arbitrary image and boot it... i think by pressing some keys, idr what was that... | 06:48 |
| agneli | 6. we are talking here about putiing your deivce into recovery mode, links i provided you previously explain what you need to press to get there, then loading an expternal bootloader via usb cable using tools like nvflash or tegrarcm or sth else of your liking, and then booting the system from sdcard | 06:50 |
| agneli | 7. if your device is sbkv2 then the devs for the tegra legacy uboot told me it is not supported, without really explained me what to do :) | 06:52 |
| gnarface | agneli: i see. so basically because of #7 this is pretty much stalled again | 06:53 |
| gnarface | i think that's slightly further than i made it before, but still the same result | 06:53 |
| agneli | did you ever see me giving up, please? :) | 06:53 |
| gnarface | hah, i guess not, no | 06:53 |
| agneli | then maybe you will hehehe | 06:54 |
| agneli | anyway, please | 06:54 |
| agneli | I shared links with you where there are procedures | 06:54 |
| agneli | to determine sbk version | 06:54 |
| agneli | even on a bricked device | 06:54 |
| agneli | https://snlookup.com/asus | 06:54 |
| agneli | idk what it is good for, does not wan to work over tor | 06:55 |
| gnarface | so, something on one of the links you gave me i thought mentioned that nvflash also does nto support the sbk2 | 06:55 |
| gnarface | *does not | 06:55 |
| gnarface | which sounds like a big problem | 06:55 |
| gnarface | though, maybe they were just rare enough nobody was able to test? | 06:56 |
| agneli | there are many versions of nvflash, there are ones that screw my machine and there are ones that are not... | 06:56 |
| agneli | i am not sure, I believe this is due to the bootloader encruption keys | 06:56 |
| agneli | the ones for sbkv1 were leaked | 06:56 |
| agneli | but i am guessing here, please do not take it as confirmed | 06:57 |
| gnarface | as for putting it into recovery mode... which link was that? i didn't see anything like that on there but also the non-keyboard part of this only has two buttons, and i have already tried holding both of them and it does nothing | 06:57 |
| agneli | https://droidrecovery.com/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-recovery-mode/ | 06:58 |
| agneli | thsi sone | 06:58 |
| gnarface | hmmm, recovery AND fastboot mode... is fastboot mode similar to FEL mode? | 06:59 |
| agneli | if keys are not working then you would need to configure android and go via adb | 06:59 |
| gnarface | ah, ok | 06:59 |
| agneli | idk about FEl | 07:01 |
| agneli | and you are sure you pressed those buttons as they want to? | 07:01 |
| gnarface | hmmmm.... | 07:02 |
| agneli | i remember on some xiaomi crap i had to keep usb cable connected to get to recovery mode | 07:02 |
| gnarface | this seems to imply that one of the two buttons is actually a volume up and down rocker button, so maybe i did not | 07:02 |
| agneli | at least for me it always takes many tries before I can confidently get what I want from those buttons :) | 07:02 |
| gnarface | i'll poke at it a bit more now that it's charged | 07:03 |
| agneli | keyboard you can charge separately andindependently of the device | 07:03 |
| agneli | I was told | 07:03 |
| gnarface | i had a question about the keyboard i'm not sure if you know the answer to | 07:03 |
| gnarface | it seems to be working but the LED status code on it is still blinking orange | 07:03 |
| gnarface | the tablet's LED status did eventually turn green | 07:04 |
| gnarface | do you think this means the battery in the keyboard is dead or maybe something else? | 07:04 |
| gnarface | the keyboard did at least register keypresses | 07:04 |
| agneli | in the xda link i shared yesterday was a link to a proper thread | 07:06 |
| agneli | https://xdaforums.com/t/asus-transformer-epic-noob-guide.1494230/ | 07:06 |
| agneli | to get the sbk version | 07:06 |
| agneli | they explain the recovery mode as well | 07:07 |
| agneli | for the keyboard, led colors should be explained in the manual, no? | 07:07 |
| agneli | and this link: https://xdaforums.com/t/win32-64-one-click-ubuntu-installer-final-frankc123-tools-with-source.1364095/ | 07:10 |
| agneli | anyway sbk version first | 07:10 |
| gnarface | well, LED colors are given, but they give them for the main tablet LED and just wordlessly imply the one on the keyboard uses the same codes | 07:35 |
| gnarface | so, my guess is either that's not true or the keyboard's battery is fried, but maybe i'll try charging it separately to see what happens | 07:36 |
| gnarface | after something like 10+ hours charging, the LED on the tablet changed to "above 95%" but the keyboard LED still reads as "below 10%" | 07:41 |
| gnarface | but maybe i just didn't wait long enough? | 07:41 |
| gnarface | i wonder if charging through the keyboard still charges the tablet battery first or something | 07:42 |
| gnarface | i think pinephones with the keyboard attachment behave that way, but i don't know how common that behavior is | 07:43 |
| agneli | idk | 08:42 |
| agneli | sometimes battery that was long in storage requires to be jumpstarted | 08:43 |
| agneli | before it even wants to be charged | 08:43 |
| agneli | idr the exact procedure, probably you need ddg the web | 08:44 |
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