New P4 bricked

[amasterman]

upgraded to rileyrom 1.4, seemed ok but after an hour its bricked. trying to reload the rom, android tools see the tablet (blue square), 'boot start' ok, 'maskrom start' ok, but gets to test device and just hangs on 100%, nothing at all on the tablet screen. Tried everything nothing seems to work, had two pipos before never had an issue. helppppp anyone please

[rrileypm]

Why start two threads on the same subject?

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[amasterman]

rookie mistake

sorry riley, rookie mistake first post, not sure i posted so did it twice

tried the 1.3 and it loaded ok, so went to 1.4, it did work for an hour but bricked while watching a video. just tried 1.3 again and have the same result it hangs

download boot start
dowload boor success
wait for maskrom start
wait for maskrom success
test device start
test device (100%)....

[rrileypm]

Usually it is the USB connection that causes that. Make sure you are using Pipo's cable.

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[amasterman]

still in pain

riley thanks for your help, good people like you keep these tablets going.

tried original USB cable and three other usb cables, still the same, also tried three USB ports on my laptop!!

thanks for you help, but tonight im all out of luv for the pipo

[amasterman]

5 days in still a brick

any ideas from anyone tired every thread for advice and still after a couple of more days trying to make this work it is still stuck.

androidtool seeing the device but just hands when it tests device

any advice is now welcome

[rrileypm]

I'm mobile...so I can't look it up, but I noticed a post last night from tinydeal with the upgrade instructions for flashing factory firmware. It uses a different tool...but there are new rk drivers for the 3288. There is a download link on that thread. You might try them and see if it makes a difference.

[amasterman]

thanks for help but still no joy

trying pipo for help, but still no joy, its now in my 'old tech' draw with stuff i eventually will take apart, it lasted leess than 4 hours running

[prioris]

having seconds thought on rooting ... lol

never did say if he tried the new drivers or was it too late

was any lesson learned

[rrileypm]

If the custom ROM is going to brick at tablet, it will do it immediately. The tablet won't boot at all if there is a problem with the firmware. Since my ROM is pretty much rooted stock, with very little changed and very little removed, and others have reported the ROM works fine for them, I'm thinking that Amasterman's problem is a hardware problem...maybe a NAND memory failure or a CPU/GPU failure. Other users are reporting problems with the battery charging circuit, too...which could also have failed. I have experienced this on an M8 Pro tablet and was never able to bring it back to life.

The reason I'm thinking hardware is the problem is that as stated in post #1, he was using the tablet for an hour before the tablet failed. Since he was running everything at stock tolerances, no overclocking or underclocking or any other power related tweaks in place, it has to be something wrong in the hardware.

[prioris]

that's a reasonable guess. i think it makes sense to allow the unit time to burn in a little. he didn't have the tablet that long either. usually if things break, they will break early on.

[amasterman]

hi riley, can confirm its not the rom, they are always quality that keeps pipo selling outside china. electronics engineer had a look and its a hardware fault.

regards and respect for the rom