Having an Android tablet such as the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T is great because of its 10.1″ LED WXGA screen and its NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core CPU. If you miss the feel of a QWERTY keyboard, this wonderful pad also has an optional full QWERTY chiclet keyboard mobile dock. This will transform your tablet into a netbook anytime, anywhere.
With all these outstanding features, the ASUS Transformer Pad also has custom ROMs developed for it by the Android development community. For example, there's the (unofficial) CyanogenMod 10 custom ROM, bringing Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, and there's the ICS-based unofficial AOKP custom ROM.
These custom ROMs are ready to be downloaded and installed anytime on your tablet. However, the common issue of these custom ROMs is that the tablet would lose its 3G features. In order to get this feature working again, you can flash stock firmware to your tablet and restore the tablet back to stock.
In this guide, learn how to restore stock firmware on the Transformer Pad TF300T.
Warning
- The instructions in this guide are intended for use with ASUS Transformer Pad, model number TF300T. Applying these instructions on another device or model may produce undesired outcomes.
- The information in this guide is provided for instructional and educational purposes only. There is no guarantee that these instructions will work under your specific and unique circumstances.
- Use these instructions at your own risk. We shall not hold any responsibility or liability for whatever happens to you or your device arising from your use of the info in this guide.
- Read and understand the whole guide first before actually performing the instructions.
Requirements
- ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T
- Download the stock ROM from ASUS’ official support website. Select Android from the drop down menu, select the firmware, and download the firmware that matches your SKU. You can check the SKU by doing the following:
- You can check the SKU of your tablet by going to Settings > About Tablet, then check the Build Number.
- Check the first starting letters of your tablet's build number. For instance, if have the build number JP_epad-9.X.X.X_2012xxxx, the “JP” is your tablet's SKU.
- Download Fastboot Package (Fastboot.zip, 404.46 kB)
- A Windows PC
- Your tablet's USB drivers installed on the PC.
- Backup all personal data on your phone to make sure you have a copy of your personal data (e.g., contacts, SMS, MMS, Internet settings, Wi-Fi passwords, and the like) in case the procedure in this guide erases such data.
Instructions
- Extract the Fastboot ZIP file to the drive C:\ of your computer. You will get a Fastboot folder with 4 files inside.
- Extract the downloaded stock ROM file. You will get another archive file after extraction. Extract the archive file to extract the files inside, among which is a blob file.
- Copy the blob file to your Fastboot folder. You will now have 5 files inside the Fastboot folder.
- Connect your tablet to your computer using a USB cable.
- Turn off your tablet.
- Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Down button. You will be prompted with a message “Press Vol. Up to enter RCK (5s)”. Wait for 5 more seconds and another menu will appear.
- When the second menu appears, press the Volume Down button to highlight a USB icon. Then press Volume Up button to confirm.
- Open a command prompt on your computer.
- Enter the commands below at the command prompt. The second command should show you your tablet's serial number. If no serial number is displayed, your computer is not properly detecting the tablet.
cd c:\Fastbootfastboot devicesfastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
- The third command above can fail several times. Just enter the same command as often as needed until the firmware is successfully flashed.
- Once the firmware is fully flashed, you will be prompted with a “finished/OKAY” message.
- Type
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot in the command prompt to reboot your tablet.
Great work! You have now fully restored the firmware of your ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T to stock.
