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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:11:33 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Helping a friend with their Lenovo Yoga. It's stuck on the splash screen forever.
   
   I managed to get to recovery mode (power up while holding volume up + volume down). I chose factory reset.
   
   Now it's stuck on the splash screen forever even when trying to get to recovery mode.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:27:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     It enters fastboot immediately when I hold volume down while powering on. Tried `fastboot recovery` with same result.
   • silkevicious (silkevicious@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:27:49 UTC silkevicious

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     @clacke it's just a new yoga position: the splash screen.
     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:29:17 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:
     @aryak No, she wants an Android tablet. If I don't make this work she'll just buy a new one.
   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:29:18 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

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     @clacke sell it and get him a thinkpad x200 tablet

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:45:02 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I don't even know how to identify the model. It just says YOGA on the back, no numbers or codes anywhere.
     
     It seems to be very similar to Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab, but there is a revolving camera on this one that the ones in the pictures don't have. It does have the same mini-stand on the back. I wonder if I can brick it even worse with the wrong ROM.
     
     I found a zip with a whole bunch of images, one per partition. Fastboot got back that I'm not allowed to flash partitions.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:47:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Booting to Windows to see if I can install Lenovo Rescue and Smart Assistant and if it knows what to do.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 12:58:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The tool cannot identify the tablet unless I connect in debug mode. If I were able to enable debug mode I would also be able to see the model myself in the system settings. Picking a model and hoping for the best, it's bricked as it is anyway.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:00:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:
     @aryak If you want to stay friends with people, don't push a laptop on them when they know that they want a tablet.
   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:00:22 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

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     @clacke install android x86 on it on a dual boot with trisquel GNU/Linux

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:02:56 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     It's downloading the same zip file I found out there on the web, but this tool should know what to do with it.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:04:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Ideally it would be bootable enough and smart enough that it could tell me which image I should have flashed, but I have very low expectations on the devices of this decade.
   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:05:48 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

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     @clacke

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 13:05:48 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:
     @aryak Ok. This is a 100 USD tablet. She just wants a Google Now that understands Chinese.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2022 18:39:07 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Flashing failed. And that's all it told me, just failed, no explanation.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Apr-2022 08:08:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Ok, actually there is already a replacement tablet. This one is basically mine now and I'm making it work for my own benefit.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Apr-2022 17:02:04 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Matthew "Smiffy" Smith
     @grumpysmiffy Yeah, it's an Android 9/Pie.
   • Matthew "Smiffy" Smith (grumpysmiffy@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Apr-2022 17:02:06 UTC Matthew "Smiffy" Smith

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     @clacke Is that an Android device? That sounds like an Android reset sort of thing.