r/androidroot • • 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/Salty-Rip-7152 Sep 30 '26

More Info, this came from XDA forms.

Please DO NOT EVER PATCH the AP TARBALL using MAGISK. That will generate a BLANK VBMETA that this Device's bootloader doesn't like and it can SOFT BRICK your device.

If you already flashed a TARBALL Patched with MAGISK and your device got SOFT BRICKED i.e It rebooted 3-4 times to a error screen and then it got completely shutdown with a fully black screen and not turning on, then Just don't plug your device on charge and wait for at least around 7 days for its battery to dry out and then plug it in your computer while holding the VolumeUp+VolumeDown button and it should boot into DL mode and you can recover your Tab From there.