recovery doesnt work - ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i tried to install lineageos on my asus zenfone 2 ze551ml. I must confess that I really messed things up because i didnt put lineage os on it before wiping.... anyways, I cant access the bootloader, but my phone does turn on and show the asus logo and that powered by android thing, in white tho, which is since I activated bootloader. Since the Screen turns on it doesnt seem to fit the definition of hardbricked, but I cant access bootloader either so it doesnt seem to be softbricked. What can/should i do now? When holding Power and volume up it just vibrates and does nothing, but when i just press power it gets stuck in the booting screen, i can turn it off though. I dont want to make things worse since everyone seems to warn me of using hardunbrick methods when the screen still does turn on... I own the zenfone 2 ze551ml, it wasnt rooted and i recently downgraded to lollipop since otherwise i couldnt have used asus' bootloaderunlock tool.
EDIT: I now have followed some tutorials, I have used the xfstk tool and i got to the point where I can choose between normal boot, power off, recovery, and reboot to recovery. I can also detect it via cmd and fastboot devices. Now unfortunately I can't flash a ROM with the Asus flash tool because "Error #1" and I cant put anything on it in general. I've come to the point where I just decided that i will take the next opportunity that will make this stupid thing work again and that my next phone will just be a oneplus because of the far better support from customroms etc. Anyways, does anyone have a clue how to fix it? if it runs lineageos afterward or the stock rom doesnt matter anymore, but it should work afterwards. Thanks! (in cmd, when im trying to flash something it would just say (command write failed (no error)))

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Bricked Zenfone, Out of ideas

Hello everyone, need a little help if possible .
The say curiosity killed the cat, well… it killed my phone. To be more precise I wanted to know if my 550ml (with unlocked bootloader and running cm12.1) could run a 551ml firmware so… I did install thru TWRP the superzen firmware and after that the screen turned black. Can’t see anything . Not even in fastbootmode, no logo, no nothing. If I turn it on and plug it to the pc it shows, I see the internal memory and the sdcard. It’s gotta be from the different resolution that 550 and 551 have but how do I change it since I can’t see anything?
I did a userdata reset thru fastboot, wiped cache , reinstalled stock recovery ,boot recovery, tried to install stock firmware, still no change. I even managed to enter stock recovery and did an adb sideload of the latest firmware from the asus site.
As for now the phone boots, the capacitive buttons respond, the led indicates that it charges, the pc sees it but no matter what I do the screen remains black. Most likely I’m on the setup wizard but like I said I don’t see anything.
So… What can I do now? To the Asus service with it or …?
I'm not much of a forum user so go easy on me. Thank you.
Not sure if it's going to make a difference but here is an idea, try sideloading a cm recovery and flash a cm rom and see what it does...
fastmix said:
Not sure if it's going to make a difference but here is an idea, try sideloading a cm recovery and flash a cm rom and see what it does...
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Unfortunately it does not work, when i try to sideload a rom with twrp it gives this: error closed. Probably because usb debugging is not enabled... and in cwm different error: Device unauthorized...
Are you sure bootloader is unlocked?
It has to be unlocked cause i can flash permanent TWRP and when I enter TWRP recovery i can touch the buttons, even tried to do a restore in the dark... But nothing... Still the black screen persists... Thank you anyways.
PS: Well it looks like I've managed to resolve my problem. Thanx to user helroz i have found in his google drive a Raw firmware and I was able to flash it via fastboot with Asus Flash tool and now the phone booted, no more black screen for me. Lesson learned.

Phone soft bricked after applying software updates

Hello.
The other night I applied 3 software updates to Android and ended up with an unusable phone. The updates (I assume) were like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-htc-one-m8/help/3-software-updates-t3268014
After the phone rebooted a couple times, it got stuck at the white HTC logo screen (I ended up falling asleep and the phone was like the after waking up, so stuck for about 6 hours) and wouldn't respond to just holding the power button. I had to hold power + vol up to get it to restart. After restarting it now boots to a black screen. It is possible to get to HBOOT and TWRP but I can't get adb to recognize it anymore so I'm not sure how to go about getting fixes on the phone.
The phone was running a custom recovery (clockwork recovery) and rooted. I then tried to get it back to stock to apply the Android 5.0 RUU and then used TWRP without flashing the recovery to root the phone again. My guess is that something about that process might have messed with something that one of the software updates was updating.
So, I have two questions:
1. Is it possible to recover files (pictures, for exampl) off the internal sd? Like I said, I cannot get adb (or windows) to recognize the phone, though it does show in the windows device manager.
2. If it's not possible to get recover those files, how can I get the phone usable at all?
Can you get it into the boot loader?
Yes, luckily I can get to the bootloader.
hatbocs said:
Yes, luckily I can get to the bootloader.
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If so once in the bootloader can you use something like:
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0.img
to boot into twrp? (note twrp-2.8.7.0.img is the filename of the twrp image that I saved it as, yours might be different)
If you can boot into twrp then you can install a rom/backup. also you could use, I think, something like "fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.0.img" as well.
-brad
I'm at work so I can't test this again to make 100% sure but if fastboot works like ADB then my phone doesn't show.
I do currently have TWRP installed however windows does not see the phone.
So if twrp works, you should be able to use that to connect to your pc. If not go and buy an OTG usb drive. Copy a Rom onto it, and then connect it to your phone. One time I messed my phone up and I used this method.
Worth a try. I'm in the middle of moving and that box of stuff isn't in this house. So I'll have to wait to report back. Thanks for the help so far.

I Bricked and Unbricked my day one V30 in one night (How to not be completly screwed)

I picked up my UK V30 H930 yesterday all fine and saw that LG have unlocked the bootloader on my model so I went ahead and tried it along with trying the alpha TWRP build
So I thought id write about what went wrong and how I recovered from it.
I made the mistake of letting the phone auto update to 10v software verion before I did this. As I had 10f on before when I bought the phone.
I went to load in all the software needed to unlock the bootloader and proceeded to do so but in my haste of the user data being wiped taking a longer then I thought it would I unpluged the phone to try "fastboot flash unlock unlock.bin" again . No such luck already unlocked. It booted back in fine so I thought everything was ok but that was the moment I thought could have caused my entire night to be ruined.
I thought with the bootloader saying it was unlock it was now fine to flash TWRP on now so went to do that and discovered it would no longer boot into the rom anymore coming up with the LG V30 Logo and just staying put. Thought it must be my 10v software version messing it up. Ok ill try to flash a 10f stock kdz. After about an hour or so of 'Finding my feet' with the phones boot methods for download mode, Fastboot and recovery I found that twrp was being strange with mounting the phone tried otherways eventually got the phone talking to the pc by using uppercut with LGUP and having the phone in download mode and the port com channel in device mananger set to com 41. After about 4 tries of flashing KDZ's to the phone it would just come with a "erasing" circle and proceed to get stuck on boot logo again so I messed about with .dlls and tried to other methods. Still nothing.
Now I tried LG Bridge's "Update error recovery" and I was actually talking to the phone for the 1st time so i let it do its thing which took well over an hour to download the kdz file. "Fine just work please". it got to the updating stage at 5% and froze and the phone being in download mode hadnt done a thing. I tried again but still nothing. Eventually now at 6am and having been up all night I went to give up but I manged to get it on to fastboot mode and by chance came across "flashing lock_bootloader" tried and it and it locked tthe bootloader back up (this thing of LG saying it cannot be undone must be rubbish?) now before I tried anything I rebooted the phone . IT BOOTED! onto the fresh 10v KDZ i had installed on it but before anything I wanted to see if it would now run with a unlocked bootloader on its own with no TWRP installed. It works! Now i just need a method of rooting but im now ready at least.
Hope this helps anyone with simular troubles.
Also had some trouble yesterday after trying out some Magisk modules.
On reboot it sometimes got stuck in the LG V30 screen, and sometimes even the bootanimation came up, but it didnt finish the boot lol
Only installed and adblock btw, and tried the Xposed module. Uninstalled that again btw. Now only using Adblock.
Phone also seems to need Power + Vol- to force shutdown for me, not only Power like other phones. Also didnt manage to find a way to boot into recovery when the phone is off, only found a way to get into the factory reset screen ?
sadly i dont have a working sdcard currently (my 3 year old 128GB one is read only for some reason, atleast changes dont get applied), so ill wait for a new one to mess around more ^^
Also working on a LOS14.1 build atm (it compiled, but didnt adapt all parts of thr device tree yet, and no idea if i have all vendor files lol)
SGCMarkus said:
Also had some trouble yesterday after trying out some Magisk modules.
On reboot it sometimes got stuck in the LG V30 screen, and sometimes even the bootanimation came up, but it didnt finish the boot lol
Only installed and adblock btw, and tried the Xposed module. Uninstalled that again btw. Now only using Adblock.
Phone also seems to need Power + Vol- to force shutdown for me, not only Power like other phones. Also didnt manage to find a way to boot into recovery when the phone is off, only found a way to get into the factory reset screen
sadly i dont have a working sdcard currently (my 3 year old 128GB one is read only for some reason, atleast changes dont get applied), so ill wait for a new one to mess around more ^^
Also working on a LOS14.1 build atm (it compiled, but didnt adapt all parts of thr device tree yet, and no idea if i have all vendor files lol)
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Ive just managed to get 10f on so ill retry flashing twrp now.
Are you sure your sdcard doesnt have a little read/write switch on it . Im sure i remember so of them used to have one.
Dreamxtreme said:
Ive just managed to get 10f on so ill retry flashing twrp now.
Are you sure your sdcard doesnt have a little read/write switch on it . Im sure i remember so of them used to have one.
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nope, doesnt have one. Neither windows nor Linux fail at writing on it, or when deleting files, but as soon as I re-insert the SDCard all changes are reversed. Formatting doesnt work anymore, unknown error. Tried that in Windows, Linux and in the Phone (Androids formatting crashed, TWRPs produced an error after it timed out)

[HELP] V521 Bricked/LG bootloop; Accidentally wiped ‘System’; stock recov; lost hope

Long story short my V521 is bricked, as far as I can tell.
Here’s what happens:
Turn on.
Shows ‘can’t detect corruption’ unlocked boot loader screen.
Shows LG screen.
Reboots.
If I attempt factory reset via hardware buttons, I get a Nougat circle that says ‘Erasing...’, then reboots into the above loop.
Download mode seems to be nonexistent, as it just never works. My PC does not recognize it as the right device for LG support tool or Uppercut to find it, despite all drivers being installed.
ADB was working until stock recovery flashing (which I thought was gonna be a fix...)
And now I don’t know what to do.
Basically, the only thing I have is an unlocked bootloader.
Someone. Please.
Help me.
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HELP. my oneplus 5t wont boot into recovery or fastboot and my os is corrupted

Hello, im a noob here, tho i've crawled my share. To keep this short, i had lineageos 16 running on my OnePlus 5t, and decided to change it up to another os based on Android 10. Maybe i deleted a partition i shouldnt have or something, because i installed the os, but when i boot it i get the "hello" screen, i press that and get a white screen with a swirling "just a minute" that is infinite.
The worst part is that for whatever reason. i can no longer boot into recovery or fastboot modes! so i can't seem to do anything about my situation with my own skill set. I'm hoping someone in the community can help. can i boot the phone from an otg cable and install twrp? i just don't know what to do. Thanks
Re-flash Stock ROM by means of QFIL ( read: Qulacomm Flash Image Loader ).
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I'll def look into it, read about it. So it has the ability to flash the phone even without recovery or fastboot mode? download mode and edl mode dont seem to work either. i can pretty much just get 2 screens into the initial first time load, every times since it never moves past that point, just a white screen "just a sec" lmao, and a swirling circle. thats about all i can do that i'm aware of at this point. i tried the unbricking tool, but the phone never shows up properly in device mode, so that i can update drivers and continue that line of directions.
i'm gonna be so upset if im like the only person around who was able to brick his oneplus so that it can never be fixed...

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