Fixing an Asus Transformer TF101 stuck in recovery boot loop

Sometimes hax go awry.  When we’re lucky they only go slightly awry
and things are relatively easy to recover once you get all the tools
and ducks lined up. In this case it was an Asus Transformer TF101 that
the BIL of a friend had tried to root and rom about a year ago.
APPARENTLY about a year ago there was a fairly common bug in the tools
available that resulted in devices like the Transformer getting stuck in
a boot-loop where they’ll only start in recovery mode but won’t ever
boot up android by themselves without user-intervention. That
user-intervention for reference is:

  1. Press and hold Power and Vol- until the device reboots and small
    white text shows up saying press Vol+ within 5seconds for recovery.  Do
    not press Vol+.
  2. It will then prompt you to cold-boot in to either recovery or
    android, follow the directions on screen to select android and start.

That seems rather annoying to have to do every time you restart the
bloody thing. The permanent fix requires either root access via terminal
emulator under the installed version of android, or running a remote
shell on it with the Android sdk. I chose the latter.

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As with all ASDK tomfoolery, start the adb server

adb start-server

Check to make sure the device shows up

adb devices

Start the required remote shell session

adb shell

Run the follow magic command to make everything happy again

echo boot | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=0

And then reboot the device.

reboot

Once you know it works, take a picture of your haxxing assistant and post to social media.

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