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Root Padpone 2, locked bootloader, invalied Kernal

Britguy

Lurker
Jan 31, 2015
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Hi,

I've managed to brick my Padpone 2 due to the infamous low battery looping issue. Currently if I boot into either fastboot or recovery (power + volume up/down) the phone stays powered..but only on fastboot, if I try the same on the recovery menu I can't choose any options and the phone just reboots. if I leave it connected to a pc it will eventually stay powered on, but with invalid Kernal on the top right of the screen.

USB debugging is not enabled - my laptop recognises the phone and installs the drivers, but I cannot access any options. In fastboot I can make the phone reboot but that's it, in ADB it is unrecognised, I do get the occasional ? if I enter the devices command.

Any advice?

the obvious would be to send it back to Asus, but I only want to do that as a VERY last resort.
 

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