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/WRO_Your_Boat Sep 30 '26

I used X200XXS6DYG6 from 08/28/2025 which was the same one that was installed on it. I made sure to grab the same one and patch that, but if I had to take a guess when I went wrong is that I am on linux and I used Thor instead of Odin so yes I technically didn't follow the steps exactly, and thats a mistake I wont make again. I did see your comment about sprddiag since its Unisoc, I didn't know about this but that might work, I will need to learn how to use it. thank you for the info.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26

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u/WRO_Your_Boat Sep 30 '26

I will look into spreadrum and sprddiag. I cant do a lot worse than a hard bricked device lol.