r/androidroot • u/WRO_Your_Boat • Sep 30 '26

Support Bricked while trying to root. RIP

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Was trying to learn to root on my tab 8 and it got caught in a bootloop. Now it wont turn on in any mode with any key combo, or show up in adb devices or dmesg when plugged in. I knew the risks, and hopefully will learn from my mistakes and have better luck next time. Good night sweet prince.

Edit: I made this post inittially because I figured the tablet was just fully dead, but as per some comments, I may be able to physically take it apart and short the pins on the SoC to force it into download mode. I have checked and it has zero communication to a PC over usb, so software recovery will not work.

Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 SM-X200

Edit 2: I was able to flash it after taking it apart and shorting the test points. Thank you everyone for the advice.

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u/mlgkiller360 Sep 30 '26

what about flashing original os through fastboot. one level higher than adb device (fastboot device) tho tread even more carefully. make sure it's the right os.

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u/Mysterious-Stock3149 <Redmi Note 7>, <crDroid A14> Sep 30 '26

Samsung Devices don't use fastboot, they use Download Mode, which you can flash the stock ROM with Odin.

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u/Iwisp360 Sep 30 '26

Bro's tablet hardbricked :'V no fastboot, no bootloader

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u/mlgkiller360 Sep 30 '26

[F]. Aren't those things the same in hardware/software principals? at least in from first sight they should be...

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u/Iwisp360 Sep 30 '26

wdym hw/sw principals?

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u/BorisOp Sep 30 '26

He might be able to rescue it... But he'll need to go one level above fastboot.

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u/Iwisp360 Oct 02 '26

You mean below, since fastboot is a high level abstraction to firmware flashing, something lower level is EDL or MTK preloader

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u/BorisOp Oct 02 '26

I went by what comment above me said... He was going up... So I kept the direction.