So basically Im stuck.
After goofing around with this thing I wanted to restore to stock. I didnt back up any bloat software and attempted this.
Now im stuck where it wants you to add accounts, upon hitting next it asks for my location permissions, then it crashes because of myaccount.apk, then that loops.
After playing around im totally botched...
Booting normally leads me to a "AP Fastboot Flash Mode (Last Flash Failed)" screen. I can kill that and get to the "Boot Mode Selection Menu" as well. Selecting recovery from that menu will erboot to the typical dual core boot screen, then back to "invalid flash mode"
Long story short - is there a file or method that will get me back to factory from here?
You can use psouza4s tools to restore your /system/app.
Sent from my DROID3 using xda premium
From what boot mode though? I cant get IN to android so I cant connect via ADB.
Boot Menu results:
Normal Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
Recovery Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
AP Fastboot: ALL GOOD
BP SBF Flash: ALL GOOD
BP Only: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
AP BP USB Bypass: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
BP Tools: Invalid Flash Mode
My guess is I need to flash a recovery file somehow to get to a proper recovery, then some kind of update.zip or such I can flash.
edru said:
From what boot mode though? I cant get IN to android so I cant connect via ADB.
Boot Menu results:
Normal Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
Recovery Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
AP Fastboot: ALL GOOD
BP SBF Flash: ALL GOOD
BP Only: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
AP BP USB Bypass: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
BP Tools: Invalid Flash Mode
My guess is I need to flash a recovery file somehow to get to a proper recovery, then some kind of update.zip or such I can flash.
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First of all . . . don't wipe. Second of all, have you tried the booting into bp tools method with your terminal/power shell set to:
Code:
adb wait-for-device shell
rynosaur said:
First of all . . . don't wipe. Second of all, have you tried the booting into bp tools method with your terminal/power shell set to:
Code:
adb wait-for-device shell
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Too late. Wiping is how I ended up in this position :/ - And Im unable to do the adb wait command because BPTools gives me invalid flash mode.
if there was a way to get a backup in a recovery update.zip form place on a sd card and use the recovery menu
Again here is what happens when selecting different boot modes.
Boot Menu results:
Normal Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
Recovery Mode: Invalid Flash Mode
AP Fastboot: ALL GOOD
BP SBF Flash: ALL GOOD
BP Only: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
AP BP USB Bypass: Sits at the M Dual Core Screen - But device is detected
BP Tools: Invalid Flash Mode
So recovery is not an option as you can see.
Boot to where your phone is detectable use psouza4s tools get the system restore apps he provides his tools will install them ... all bloatware will be back..
Anyone who has a bricked DROID 3 phone (Verizon only), I may have a solution for you.
Requirements:
Windows platform
7-zip installed (and know how to extract files)
ability to follow all instructions exactly
willingness to factory reset/lose data on their phone
This unbrick method is NOT guaranteed to work, but it's very hopeful for most situations where other methods aren't working. If you are in desperate need of a fix, send me a PM and I'll link you some files to try.
Lastly: I will not be walking through anyone step by step on how to run this procedure -- the included instructions should be more than enough for most people. If you read the instructions and are thoroughly confused, then this fix isn't for you.
Hello,
Problem - Device keep on rebooting showing Mi logo (every 2 sec), Does not boot into system
What I did?
exteneded system partition to 1.2 gb - success
flash Marshmellow custom rom - success
misinstalled system ui of theme - system ui stopped
reinstalled clean rom from custom recovery - success
then it does not boot into system - keep on rebooting at mi logo (every 2 sec)
tried fastboot rom - failed (remote size too large)
rebooted into recovery
flash stock partition via adb - success
fastboot flash (with flash all) - success (says miflash - operation compeleted successfully)
Still it does boot into system - keep on rebooting at mi logo (every 2 sec)
Help?
if you can access recovery now then go to recovery and take a backup of current rom. The wipe everything except internal storage and then restore the backup.
maybe it'll fix it because thats what happened to me too after flashing the MM custom rom. Every time i was rebooting the phone kept bootlooping at Mi Logo.
Hmm i ll try but i have to install twrp from adb for backup.
Cwm backup not promising.
You think there ll be problem in hardwere?
No problem in hardware.
and yes do it twrp only. never try cwm.
the thing is i am not able to enter into recovery mode at all.
No recovery and fastboot accessible.
Then connect it to PC and tell me what name the device manager shows for the device.
fastboot is accessible.
i've flashed fastboot rom from miui. successfully completed. but it won't boot.
yesterday it booted into system so i was charging the phone, as soon as i removed charger it went the same boot looping.
now,
clicking flash_all_except_storage from fastboot command
it shows one line in every process - 'target reported max size 80909989 '
process goes on and success.
but does not boot into system. same bootloop.
one strange thing is,
when i connect to pc, - just by pressing vol down button i'm entering to fastboot. (even without holding power button)
does this mean there's something wrong with power button which causing cont. reboot? i mean it cont. forcing system to on and off? :s
Nothing is wrong with the hardware. In this situation the phone boots into fastboot by pressing vol when plugged in.
You didn't answer my question. What does it show in device manager on PC.
sorry for late reply , net connection loss
device manager
1st one is android booloader interface
other devices - bluetooth peripheral devices
Did you use miflash tool to flash fastboot rom
yes,
flashed successfully says miflash.
While flashing using miflash did you select all files in advanced menu properly.
Like all the bat, mbn and xml files.
i didnt try all the file separatly.
trying now.
Then go to advance and choose all the respective files properly.
1st one - flash_all_except_storage.xml
2nd one - nvflash_all.bat (leave it as it is)
3rd one - MPRG8974.mbn
4th one - 8974_msimage.mbn
5th one - rawprogram0.xml
6th one - patch0.xml
i found
flash_all.bat
could not find nvboot script
flash programmer
boot image
could not find kernelflinger image
could not find UFS provision image
RAW xml file
patch xml file
should i go with files?
Which MiFlash tool are you using.
I used the 2014.05.09.0 version
Try this one.
And extract the fastboot ROM twice till you get the images folder inside the "cancro_images_V7.0.****" folder. There you'll fill all the files.
Then in miflash click browse and select that images folder.
And in advanced options select the respective files which are there outside the images folder.
2015.10.28 version
i ll leave the navboot as it is.
giving it a try.
appreciate your help brother.
If it doesn't work then try my version.
It has proper names of files. To avoid confusion.
And all files are there in fastboot ROM except nvboot
i checked on miui
no halos.bin
tz.bin
these all files?
p.s.
operation completed successfully but same boot loop.
trying your version now.
@MikeChannon removed OP. please close
what? lol
hi ionioni,
many thanks for your tool. I could successfully create a signed bios file. During the flashing process, i believe, it shows no errors. But after a automatically reboot just the teclast logo appears.
I did a "RESTORE DEFAULT" and "SAVE AND RESET" but when i try to flash android with the mirek tool, it shows the same error message (get_path:344...) .
Do you have any suggestions what i can try to restore a working state?
Thank you.
the_dude_84 said:
During the flashing process, i believe, it shows no errors. But after a automatically reboot just the teclast logo appears
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at the end of the bios flashing, before the reboot, did you received a "RESTORE COMPLETED! Rebooting the tab to load new BIOS!" message? if not, what messages you got when flashing? what are the steps you are doing? more details ... this tool job is to write a (user provided) bios file, not fixing specific stuff (other) on your tab
later edit: the error 'get_path:344' is normal to be shown. the x98 bootloader (efilinux file) will at first try to get a handle for the device (disk) it was started from, but when it is run directly from the bios, ie dnx mode (normally it loads/executes from his EFI partition on mmc) the call returns no handle (as it should) and this is causing the message. is a normal message if starting from dnx, what is not normal, is if after that the bootloader won't be able to load and execute the kernel from the passed boot image.
the tablet just restarts without such a message you named. I used my prevously saves bios with your tool and flash it. What steps i can do to convince the tablet to start the kernel?
Did you repair the saved BIOS before flash by this new tool?
You have to change from FE FE at 400Dh and 400Eh address to FF FF with a hex editor!
updated OP with v2 of the tool as it seems these x98 tabs are not having the most conforming EFI firmware in the bios (it 'forgets' the consistent mapped device so i hard-coded it in the tool, it would have map to the same path anyways as it is a consistent /virtual/ disk that is used as environment during the flashing, so this 'patch' just helps the non-conforming devices /such as x98 so far/ not limits)
blackbile said:
Did you repair the saved BIOS before flash by this new tool?
You have to change from FE FE at 400Dh and 400Eh address to FF FF with a hex editor!
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do you know what those two bytes are about? can anyone say that he bricked his tab by flashing a FE FE bios? (i have flashed my bios back dozen times so far on my Lenovo and did not knew about this until read someplace on these posts so i checked my backup bios file and sure thing it did have the FE FE inside at that offset... i guess is something wrong with my tab since it did not bricked )
joke aside, i cannot say whether this IS or IS NOT true, but what i can say is that there were two users i assisted in flashing back their bios backup (on x98 models) and both had FE FE at that offset and they did NOT BRICKED ( @florent.m was on ant the other don't recall)... i wish i knew more about WHY this needs to be done, not just YOU MUST instructions... what i know is that area belongs to the nvram of TXE region (is the EFFSOSID partition of it) but since Intel takes care that no one has access to TXE related info i sure would be interested in someone saying what those two bytes are accounted for (and more of course)...
again someone who has a flash programmer can check easily and safely (i have but as i said i cannot hard-brick it )
I'm still not able to flash. I get this error message upon running fastboot boot image_name.img
Code:
INVALID size (7586586 bytes) for pushed package! This tool will only accept a (md5) BIOS file for input. You MUST run md5add.exe on your BIOS file and push the file it produces.
ABORTING
I did run md5add on the img and I did run fastboot boot on the image it produced (16 bytes larger than the original). What am I doing wrong?
BTW, by pushing does it mean that I have to run anything else besides those 2 commands on fastboot?
andrepd said:
I'm still not able to flash. I get this error message upon running fastboot boot image_name.img
Code:
INVALID size (7586586 bytes) for pushed package! This tool will only accept a (md5) BIOS file for input. You MUST run md5add.exe on your BIOS file and push the file it produces.
ABORTING
I did run md5add on the img and I did run fastboot boot on the image it produced (16 bytes larger than the original). What am I doing wrong?
BTW, by pushing does it mean that I have to run anything else besides those 2 commands on fastboot?
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read the op again !!! and do exactly the steps detailed there!!! you need to use YOUR signed bios file generated with md5add ... instead you are WRONGLY!!! using some boot image file (luckily for you there is a size check too, otherwise you would have been flashing a kernel on your bios chip, oh boy...)
again:
the first instruction pushes the bios efi flasher tool
the second one pushes YOUR bios (signed) file that you want to flash on your bios chip. to make sure that the bios file that is wrote by the tool is not altered during the transfer i added the extra md5 signing step, so before it will start the effective flashing the efi tool will check the bios file received against the md5 signature appended (this step is normally not needed, but on some PC could be that the usb transfer misbehaves)
Thanks a lot for your efforts and help!!!
ionioni said:
read the op again !!! and do exactly the steps detailed there!!! you need to use YOUR signed bios file generated with md5add ... instead you are WRONGLY!!! using some boot image file (luckily for you there is a size check too, otherwise you would have been flashing a kernel on your bios chip, oh boy...)
again:
the first instruction pushes the bios efi flasher tool
the second one pushes YOUR bios (signed) file that you want to flash on your bios chip. to make sure that the bios file that is wrote by the tool is not altered during the transfer i added the extra md5 signing step, so before it will start the effective flashing the efi tool will check the bios file received against the md5 signature appended (this step is normally not needed, but on some PC could be that the usb transfer misbehaves)
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But the image I'm flashing isn't even 7586586 bytes... I'm flashing with this tool as per this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64854157&postcount=26 (img in the OP of that thread)
Sorry I'm a bit confused... Is that boot image the wrong one to flash then?
Thank you very much!
I think it worked and is waiting for input or is even done already, but I'm quite cautious now, so I don't want to press anything yet
It says:
FPT operation passed
_
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In the flash.bat from another tool (TTT-Update the BIOS on your X98 Air II/3G to the latest dual boot version) it should write that status to a log file and continue with either flash passed or failed, but apparently it doesn't continue automatically in my case.
Hope anyone knows if it is safe to do anything. I've pressed the power button shortly as a confirmation command, but that doesn't do anything.
andrepd said:
But the image I'm flashing isn't even 7586586 bytes... I'm flashing with this tool as per this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64854157&postcount=26 (img in the OP of that thread)
Sorry I'm a bit confused... Is that boot image the wrong one to flash then?
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This is a DIFFERENT tool! that one you are refering to already has a BIOS file in it...
This one flashes a bios file YOU MUST provide!
Bolsnerk said:
Thank you very much!
I think it worked and is waiting for input or is even done already, but I'm quite cautious now, so I don't want to press anything yet
It says:
In the flash.bat from another tool (TTT-Update the BIOS on your X98 Air II/3G to the latest dual boot version) it should write that status to a log file and continue with either flash passed or failed, but apparently it doesn't continue automatically in my case.
Hope anyone knows if it is safe to do anything. I've pressed the power button shortly as a confirmation command, but that doesn't do anything.
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As said on some x98 devices (having a specific bios?) it seems that after the bios is flashed 100% it hangs... not so much you can do but force a power off/reboot ... you should be fine
ionioni said:
This is a DIFFERENT tool! that one you are refering to already has a BIOS file in it...
This one flashes a bios file YOU MUST provide!
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Okay, I got it working, phew, I was being a total noob and confusing everything. I took the dual boot BIOS, added the md5 hash with the tool you provided and flashed it with your tool. Everything went well. Thank you for your work and sorry for being a total moron
andrepd said:
Okay, I got it working, phew, I was being a total noob and confusing everything. I took the dual boot BIOS, added the md5 hash with the tool you provided and flashed it with your tool. Everything went well. Thank you for your work and sorry for being a total moron
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Excellent!
ionioni said:
do you know what those two bytes are about? can anyone say that he bricked his tab by flashing a FE FE bios? (i have flashed my bios back dozen times so far on my Lenovo and did not knew about this until read someplace on these posts so i checked my backup bios file and sure thing it did have the FE FE inside at that offset... i guess is something wrong with my tab since it did not bricked )
joke aside, i cannot say whether this IS or IS NOT true, but what i can say is that there were two users i assisted in flashing back their bios backup (on x98 models) and both had FE FE at that offset and they did NOT BRICKED ( @florent.m was on ant the other don't recall)... i wish i knew more about WHY this needs to be done, not just YOU MUST instructions... what i know is that area belongs to the nvram of TXE region (is the EFFSOSID partition of it) but since Intel takes care that no one has access to TXE related info i sure would be interested in someone saying what those two bytes are accounted for (and more of course)...
again someone who has a flash programmer can check easily and safely (i have but as i said i cannot hard-brick it )
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IonIoni,
All,
1st - thanks again for your tool, it saved my tablet (teclast C5J8)
2nd - yes the boot file I provided to Ionioni was untouched, a direct copy of the bios as dumped by mirek backup tool, and up to now, everything is working fine, either on android, or on Windows 10.
and when I say everything fine......I want to say as before..........the GPS is still not working (((((((
thanks a lot,
Cheers,
Florent
Holy moley, the last 24 hours have been intense, that is how old my x98 air iii is, and I have read over a thousand pages here on XDA in that time, i've also managed to soft brick it trying to flash a dual boot bios as per Techknights/Techtablets guides, not sure why or where exactly things went bad, now i'm stuck in a boot loop, red Chinese symbols with a tiny arrow beside it, but reading this gives me some hope, no idea how to follow the simple instructions above when you say..
" IMPORTANT: run the md5add tool on your bios file md5add.exe your_bios_file your_signed_bios_file. "
tried a few things and got nowhere, I tried to open the bios file that you said to place in the same folder as the other two files, with the md5add tool and a small window flashed on screen for a millisecond then disappeared, that's all no file was produced lol
Also not sure what this part means too..
"start in dnx mode and input:
fastboot flash osloader bios_flasher.efi.."
I can get into dnx mode ok but thats all how do I input anything?
My head is fried but I will stay up and try again, it's 5am (Ireland)
Am I missing an elephant in the room? like some other software the everyone else has already installed except noobs like me?
pilot error said:
Holy moley, the last 24 hours have been intense, that is how old my x98 air iii is, and I have read over a thousand pages here on XDA in that time, i've also managed to soft brick it trying to flash a dual boot bios as per Techknights/Techtablets guides, not sure why or where exactly things went bad, now i'm stuck in a boot loop, red Chinese symbols with a tiny arrow beside it, but reading this gives me some hope, no idea how to follow the simple instructions above when you say..
" IMPORTANT: run the md5add tool on your bios file md5add.exe your_bios_file your_signed_bios_file. "
tried a few things and got nowhere, I tried to open the bios file that you said to place in the same folder as the other two files, with the md5add tool and a small window flashed on screen for a millisecond then disappeared, that's all no file was produced lol
Also not sure what this part means too..
"start in dnx mode and input:
fastboot flash osloader bios_flasher.efi.."
I can get into dnx mode ok but thats all how do I input anything?
My head is fried but I will stay up and try again, it's 5am (Ireland)
Am I missing an elephant in the room? like some other software the everyone else has already installed except noobs like me?
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i wonder how could the instructions in this op be more simple...
you must:
1. find a BIOS file for you model, make sure it is the CORRECT one or you might hard-brick when you flash it
2. sign the file using the md5add tool, this will create a new file, the signed bios file
3. start in dnx mode and load the efi bios flasher tool and then you bios signed file (the steps are in the op)
ionioni said:
i wonder how could the instructions in this op be more simple...
you must:
1. find a BIOS file for you model, make sure it is the CORRECT one or you might hard-brick when you flash it
2. sign the file using the md5add tool, this will create a new file, the signed bios file
3. start in dnx mode and load the efi bios flasher tool and then you bios signed file (the steps are in the op)
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You know what ionioni, they may be simple to you, but this is my FIRST android tab, its only two days old and it's soft bricked on the very first try at bios flashing from following equally simple instructions from techtablets, flashing new bios from within android using update ifwi.apk, I did exactly that chose the 2.02 dual boot bios that everyone else used, copied it to internal storage and pressed the button.
That is all I did to ruin this tablet lol
What techtablets did NOT mention is he was already rooted on mirek190 v6, that is why my tab is softbricked, not because I chose the wrong files.
No idea how to do this step.. "sign the file using the md5add tool", when i search about it, the only results are back in here?
Can you point me in the right direction to learn about md5add?
Thnk you..
pilot error said:
You know what ionioni, they may be simple to you, but this is my FIRST android tab, its only two days old and it's soft bricked on the very first try at bios flashing from following equally simple instructions from techtablets, flashing new bios from within android using update ifwi.apk, I did exactly that chose the 2.02 dual boot bios that everyone else used, copied it to internal storage and pressed the button.
That is all I did to ruin this tablet lol
What techtablets did NOT mention is he was already rooted on mirek190 v6, that is why my tab is softbricked, not because I chose the wrong files.
No idea how to do this step.. "sign the file using the md5add tool", when i search about it, the only results are back in here?
Can you point me in the right direction to learn about md5add?
Thnk you..
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i give you the tools and the how-to use them...
again, you need to do this:
1. FIND a bios file for your tab model, ask around and some other owner can point you at it, but take care as this is the file that will be programmed in your tablet so if it is not good you will HARD-BRICK (ask ten times before using it once)
2. after you have found the file, use the md5add tool to sign, if for eg the file is named some_bios_file.bin you can input at a command prompt:
md5add.exe some_bios_file.bin signed_bios.bin (the signed_bios.bin file will be generated)
3. start your tab in dnx mode and input:
fastboot flash osloader bios_flasher.efi
fastboot boot signed_bios.bin and this will start the flashing process... messages will be shown on your tab screen while progressing...
the md5add.exe and bios_flasher.efi files can be found in the attachment to the first post (op)
the bios file is your responsibility to find
when done if the bios file you used is correct you should be able to use again the tab (ie no more bootloop)
i must repeat: be careful what bios file you use, if it's a wrong one you can HARD-BRICK! ask around for that...
Help revive my device.
After updating the tablet from the playmarket of the Youtube application, the tablet freezes, after a reboot, it hangs on the Asus logo and a spinning circle. I couldn’t enter the droidboot from the buttons and, following the instructions from the 4pda forum, after downloading the service firmware, unpacked it to drive C into the folder, then went to the firmware folder by pressing shift + the right mouse button opened the command window and launched the
droidboot with the fastboot boot droidboot.img
fastboot continue
commands booted into the droidboot and in the folder with the firmware clicked on the update_image file, the firmware process started which took a very long time about 7 hours, at the end the tablet rebooted but only until the first screen saver. I waited a long time, but it did not boot. I turned it off. After that, by pressing a combination of buttons, I was able to enter the droidboot, the serial number of the tablet was missing, through a dead robot I was able to enter the recovery.
Then, according to another instruction from 4pda, through a temporary twrp, I tried to install the Ul-KO13-WW-3.2.23.182-user firmware, the installation process started, but it did not install, but the serial number returned and the tablet again hung on the Asus logo and a spinning circle.
I checked the
fastboot oem start_partitioning
fastboot flash /tmp/patrition.tbl partition.tbl
fastboot oem partition /tmp/partition.tbl
commands after each command was OK. So the flash memory of the tablet is working.
After I checked the root, the rights remained. USB debugging in the developer menu was turned on even when the tablet was working. Then I decided to try installing the service firmware 201 again, as I wrote above, and again unsuccessfully, the serial number flashed again. . And again, through a temporary twrp, I began to install 182 firmware.
And the serial number failed, it was not restored, but the recovery now showed that it costs 182 firmware. After that, when checking, I found out that no root su. I got a complete crash. I tried again to install 201 firmware and now it costs WW 3.2.23.201 in recovery.
On the advice of a person from the 4pda forum, I tried to restore images of 201 firmware boot.img fastboot.img recovery.img via twrp v2.8.7.0 from the 4pda forum, but again unsuccessfully. I showed the person who helped me install the firmware images 201 that twrp gave me an installation error, it read:
Updating partition details ...
E: Unable to mount '/ factory'
E: Unable to mount '/ config'
E: Unable to mount '/ data'.
The person who helped me said that there was no markup table, or rather, the system section was written, but could not find the other sections, since he wrote this script for Android 5. And on KitKat version 4.4, he did not test this script. Now I'm desperate, I really need a tablet in working condition. Because I am very poor, and I do not have money to buy another tablet, I have been sick for 5 years. I live on disability benefits, they pay me $ 50 a month and I can’t buy another one. I beg everyone to help with tips and instructions on how to restore tablet firmware. I need a worker. I need your help.
Even when connecting to a laptop on a Windows 7 tablet in twrp 2.8.7.0 mode, the tablet is detected as K013, but it does not see the internal drive and only shows a microSD card, I suggest that this is because the firmware is installed incorrectly and there are no firmware sections? ? If Who knows, you can install any custom firmware that fits on my tablet.
If someone can write me instructions for restoring the firmware. If anyone has encountered a similar problem, give information and instructions for restoring partitions with links from where to download what and step-by-step instructions for restoring.
Sorry text wrote through translator. I hope the problem is described clearly and someone can help me with the firmware.
I thank everyone in advance who will respond and help restore the firmware.
P.S. I decided to try to flash through Intel Flash Tool Lite, I launched service 201 firmware, reached the 57% band and issued FAILED. I turned off the tablet, I decided to try running TWRP, running the script, and now there are only two errors:
E: Unabled to mount / and
E: Unabled to mount / config, and the amount of internal memory Internal Storage (3916MB) !!! And before that, it was zero and in the device k013 on the laptop it shows the storage along with the memory card. Here's an interesting process