Revive your Garmin-Asus A10 after deadly “Close the battery cover” message
I recently nearly bricked my Garmin-Asus A10 phone. The case is very common: Root the phone, using it for a while and then perform a master reset. Then after all, the only message “Close the battery cover to complete first time setup” appears. And you seem can do nothing with your phone.
It took me almost a month leaving my phone out in the dust with that shitty fault. I even bought a new phone, a Motorola Defy which pleased me so much, d’oh, but that’s a different story. Now is the part you might want to know.
I decided to give it one more try this morning. Here’s all the steps I find nescessary to reproduce the sequence:
- Insert your SIM. You need a SIM with G/E/H (read: Internet access) working out of the box with your phone before.
- Make a call from another phone to the number of the above SIM. Line will be busy but you’ll see one notification from your A10.
- Pull it down, open it and you’ll have your Phone, Contacts screen opened.
- Go to Contacts, press Menu and the Accounts
- Add a Google account, Next, Next, Agree blah blah and then voilà, you regain access to the launcher.
- From here, you still can’t reflash your phone with the original .update. To do it, plug it to your computer, turn on ADB (USB debugging) and Unknown Programs from Applications Manager.
- Install Z4Root.apk via ADB, re-root the phone if it’s not rooted.
- Type those lines:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount -r -w /dev/block/mmcnandblk0p3 /system
/system/bin/busybox cp /system/bin/busybox /system/xbin/busybox
- Reset your phone, copy the original .update file to /sdcard/Garmin/Update folder and perform an update.
You might notice a request Superuser permission from your phone. Allow it 
Good luck with that 
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate.
Hey thanks for this but …….when you say ‘type those lines’….(the all important lines to fix this issue)……..WHERE do you type them ?
Hello there drcspy. You have to install adb on your computer and type those lines in your command line console. Google it around if you’re not familiar with these terms
thanks very much for the awsomely quick reply my friend. I did try that and it made no difference……….maybe I did it wrong….. ? Anyway I sent the phone in to the service agent as the bluetooth had quit on it also. I reset it back to factory original before I did that – hope they cant ‘see’ somehow that i’d rooted it as that may void the warranty……….the guy at the telecom shop said he’d never seen that ‘close cover etc’ error…
NOt too sure of the exact details but the techs gutted the phone then installed new hardware appararenty there ws a big fault
Thanks! You are life-saver. I love this phone and since I rooted it I can’t seem to get Bluetooth working, so decided to reset to factory just like you, and got this battery cover thing. You instructions were a great help in recovering my phone.
Once again thanks heaps!
I have a Problem I cannot Get into my phone, as I have forgot my pattern and I dont use gmail so i cant recover it with email. Im just wondering how i can restore it to factory settings.?
You can enter recovery mode by holding volume down while turning the phone up.
When in recovery mode, press Vol up + down to bring the menu up and then wipe data. Your contacts and SMS will be lost though.