Monday, January 25, 2016

Teclast X98 Air III 32 GB (M5C5) – hardbricked (flashing BIOS) – repair-methods?

Just recently I purchased a Teclast X98 Air III 32 GB (Android 5 only) – Tablet. Immediately when holding it in my hands I hardbricked it successfully. (Oh my … ;) )

My aim was (is) to reconfigure this tablet to dual-boot with Android and Windows.

From my reading around here and on other forums I got the impression that I am not the only one with this intention. And it seems that I am by far not the only one running into soft- and (for my case) hardbricking problems right from the first step (failed BIOS flash).

So, here is described how I did not succeed (so far):

(Oh, I am sorry for all my misuse of the English language; which has to be expected to happen. I haven't really used this language for a while and I guess I've never been all too good at it. Well, as I have the impression, that there is some bunch of other German native speakers around here, they might help out, if it running for becoming really nasty misunderstandings … hopefully.)

I hardbricked the tablet trying to flash the BIOS to dual-boot using this (http://ift.tt/1OJ1cAM) method at TECHTablets.

As a result it's just all dark now. No way to turn in on. No entering into DnX-Mode (pressing Power + Vol+ - Vol- all together), no answering on fastboot commands (of course not, I guess).

Next step is flashing this tablets BIOS-chip directly with an EEPROM-clip and –flasher following these instructions (http://ift.tt/1OJ1cAO) from android-hilfe (German). I did borrow those and I am too stupid to get the clip hold on that chip! For the moment I hope, it's not purely me not being able to connect that clip on that chip, but that it is the quality of that clip. Following what has been said on TECHTablets (http://ift.tt/1OJ1bwN) that might be the case. So I ordered a quite expensive (for what it does) alternative clip for € 20,--, which should arrive within three days.

Supposing I haven't just already destroyed the tablets board manually with my first tries to get the clip getting grip of that BIOS-chip, which BIOS should I flash?
I thought of flashing the 2.05 BIOS-Version from Mireks 7.0 - ROM. Is that a good idea or bad idea? Has anyone already experienced (positive) results trying this (or something else)?


The original, single-boot BIOS is shown here:

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After attempting to flash the 2.02 - dual-boot - BIOS from the mentioned TECHTablets-description the tablet first booted into BIOS …
"ROM Image update denied
EFI_NOT_FOUND! Rom Image not loaded"
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… I cannot remember exactly, what I did there within the BIOS itself, but it then flashed again, went off, stayed off = hardbricked.

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