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[Q] WiFi Not Working, PC Not Picking Up Via USB

So today I was looking at the ElementalX thread after I update to GPe 5.1 earlier in the week. I saw that a couple of people had the kernel working fine, so I decided I would flash it and see if it would work fine for me.
Of course, that was not the case. It got stuck in a boot loop, getting past the boot logo and to the "Optimising apps..." stage, every time. So I decided to flash the stock kernel back, but when I upgraded to 5.1, I didn't flash the new firmware, so I thought that this would be a good time to do that. After I did, I managed to get into Android just fine, however I had no WiFi. So after some restarts and clearing caches, etc, I decided to flash the firmware for 5.0.1. Same again. I found another GPe radio posted somewhere on XDA that was flashable in recovery, but same thing. I get a 4G signal fine and Bluetooth appears to be working.
Amongst all of this, now when I plug my phone in via USB neither my Macbook or Windows PC are picking it up...eurgh. I just don't understand why it is doing all of this when I'm sure it is now back to how it was before I started this morning? Would it just be easier to flash the 5.1 RUU to my phone now, or will I most likely just get the same problems?
Thanks in advance!

zedlor said:
So today I was looking at the ElementalX thread after I update to GPe 5.1 earlier in the week. I saw that a couple of people had the kernel working fine, so I decided I would flash it and see if it would work fine for me.
Of course, that was not the case. It got stuck in a boot loop, getting past the boot logo and to the "Optimising apps..." stage, every time. So I decided to flash the stock kernel back, but when I upgraded to 5.1, I didn't flash the new firmware, so I thought that this would be a good time to do that. After I did, I managed to get into Android just fine, however I had no WiFi. So after some restarts and clearing caches, etc, I decided to flash the firmware for 5.0.1. Same again. I found another GPe radio posted somewhere on XDA that was flashable in recovery, but same thing. I get a 4G signal fine and Bluetooth appears to be working.
Amongst all of this, now when I plug my phone in via USB neither my Macbook or Windows PC are picking it up...eurgh. I just don't understand why it is doing all of this when I'm sure it is now back to how it was before I started this morning? Would it just be easier to flash the 5.1 RUU to my phone now, or will I most likely just get the same problems?
Thanks in advance!
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Yes, it would be easier. RUUs are the safest way as well. You'll lose all of your data though, so backup anything that is important to you (photos, apks, zips, etc.)

xunholyx said:
Yes, it would be easier. RUUs are the safest way as well. You'll lose all of your data though, so backup anything that is important to you (photos, apks, zips, etc.)
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Yeah, I ended up doing this and it's working now. Bit annoyed though because I kinda forgot to move things from my /sdcard/ folder, thinking that it wouldn't get wiped...
Whoops. At least it's all working now though

Help - Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Bootloop Out of Nowhere

So...
Last week, my wife's Tab S went into a bootloop. She runs complete stock, we haven't rooted, or anything. There had been a notification about an update, but she hadn't touched it. She'd updated to Lollipop at some point last year, but hadn't applied the absolute latest update. One day last week, she just turned it on, and it started bootlooping.
Because it was so stock, there were no backups, no nandroids, or anything like that. No Custom Recovery. I told her "well, we can just do a factory reset. You'll lose everything, but once we get you back up and running, it'll just re-download everything from the Goog." So we factory reset it. Looked good for a minute, booted into the first screen, enter in your Wi-Fi password, all that. As soon as we got the Wi-Fi password entered, however, it re-booted. And keep rebooting. Bootloop city. No problem. I walked her through (over the phone) using Odin to flash the latest Lollipop firmware. No dice. It appeared to flash successfully, but still bootlooped.
Over the weekend, I tried using Kies to flash the most official firmware I could find. Everything was successful -computer recognized the device, was able to download "direct from the source," as it were, but it got stuck at 69% twice before failing. I read somewhere that one had to run Kies in administrator mode to get it to successfully complete. So I did, and it got past 69%, successfully completing the flash. STILL NO LUCK. STILL WITH THE BOOTLOOPS.
Last night, I realized that I hadn't flashed in Odin using Administrator Mode. Tried it, using latest 5.0.2 (XAR-Cellular South). Flashed successfully, all appeared well. Still bootlooped.
So, I'm stuck. I can get into recovery, I can get into Download Mode, I can successfully flash. I just can't get the darn thing booted.
Thoughts, anyone? Should I try flashing a Custom ROM? How hard is that using Odin? Thanks in advance.

Ok this will take a few tries but here is my method of dealing with this situation
1) Flash stock using Odin
2) AS SOON AS the screen goes blank, start holding Power+Volume Up+Home
3) When recovery boots, release the buttons
4) Use the volume buttons to select "Wipe data/factory reset"
5) Press power to confirm
6) Reboot
If that doesn't work, you may either:
1) (more likely) Installing a ROM will fix the problem
2) (unlikely but possible) You might have worn NAND pages, which I doubt but could cause this behavior.

Nandr0idC0nsumer said:
Ok this will take a few tries but here is my method of dealing with this situation
1) Flash stock using Odin
2) AS SOON AS the screen goes blank, start holding Power+Volume Up+Home
3) When recovery boots, release the buttons
4) Use the volume buttons to select "Wipe data/factory reset"
5) Press power to confirm
6) Reboot
If that doesn't work, you may either:
1) (more likely) Installing a ROM will fix the problem
2) (unlikely but possible) You might have worn NAND pages, which I doubt but could cause this behavior.
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Thanks, I'll try these steps tonight when I get home, and report back!

All right, here's something interesting. Before I tried your first step, I remembered that the other night, I left it stuck at the Samsung logo -it was just kind of stuck there, and since the behavior was a little different than I'd seen before (not continuous bootlooping), I thought I'd boot into recovery and wipe. I did, I wiped (factory reset), and rebooted. The tablet booted into the first screen, Accessibility/Wi-Fi, blahblah. This was where it usually rebooted. On a hunch, I bypassed entering in my WiFi key. I then bypassed almost everything else (Samsung account, Google account, etc.), expecting that the tablet would reboot at any moment. But I made it to the front apps page, where it shows you the side-launcher, the Magazine-Flipboard thingie, and whatnot. Wi-Fi still not connected, though. I opened up the app drawer, and scrolled around. Looked really good for a moment. I even took a picture with the camera, and viewed it in Gallery! Feeling brave, I thought, "well, maybe it just needed a couple of minutes before firing up the radio." So I went into settings, and inputted my WiFi key. It connected. And rebooted into its bootloop. (getting so tired of that boot-sound).
Went ahead and flashed the most original stock firmware I could find. As always, flashed successfully. As soon as it booted, I made my way to recovery, and wiped, per your instructions. No luck. Bootloop again.
It's something in the WiFi is what I've come to think as a result of the above. Which I don't entirely understand, as I thought the radio got re-flashed with the firmware.
I'm ready to try flashing a Custom Rom. Can I do that through Odin, or should I try and flash TWRP, and do it through there? Will TWRP flash without a working (bootable) OS?
All right. Thanks for your response!

Try this as a test.
First make a full backup of every partition with twrp including the EFS <<IMPORTANT!
Get it booting again without wifi then root the device and delete the EFS folder or delete it in recovery.
Reboot the device and try and enable wifi.

ashyx said:
Try this as a test.
First make a full backup of every partition with twrp including the EFS <<IMPORTANT!
Get it booting again without wifi then root the device and delete the EFS folder or delete it in recovery.
Reboot the device and try and enable wifi.
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Got TWRP installed. Won't backup. Fails at 16% (system partition, I think). Just powers down to battery indicator in the middle of the backup. Looks like it backs up the EFS, though, since it's the first one. And when I go into TWRP's Restore option, there's a backup there (though I don't dare try and restore it).
Now I have to figure out a way to get the Custom ROM and GAPPS I downloaded onto the tablet without a reliable boot... It's gotten to the front screen a time or two tonight, but starts looping even when I bypass the WiFi setup.

Entered adb/TWRP interface. Tried to push two files, a Custom ROM file, and a GAPPS file. The ROM failed, with some sort of "Error 7," incompatible data, blahblah... Just out of curiosity, I tried to push the GAPPS file, and that failed after about 6%, and the tablet powered off.
I'm running out of ideas.

copied a custom rom to a USB/OTG stick (thumbdrive), and plugged it in. Fired up TWRP, tried to install. Wouldn't. Wouldn't install GAPPS, either. Looks like the only way it wants to flash anything is through ODIN or KIES.

The Latest...
All right...
I remembered that sometimes the TWRP version mattered. When I installed TRWP last night, I installed the latest and greatest, 3.0.2. Last night after I gave up, I remembered that sometimes, the latest and greatest TWRP doesn't install things perfectly. So, this morning, I downloaded TWRP 2.8.6-ish onto the USB/OTG device, and re-flashed the recovery partition. To be honest, I was surprised that TWRP was even able to flash that (but the TWRP image is only like 9.8 MB, so...)...
Got TWRP 2.8.6.0 flashed, and rebooted into TWRP. Immediately decided to try and re-flash the custom ROM that I'd tried unsuccessfully to flash last night, since the thumbdrive was still plugged in. Resurrection Remix Lollipop. Lined up GAPPS in the queue, as well. The ROM *appeared* to flash better than it had in TWRP 3.0.2, but it was sort of hard to see... GAPPS failed, and I was prepared to watch another round of bootloops. It did bootloop, sort of. The RR splash screen appeared, said that it was installing (or preparing) xx out of XX apps. Then, it rebooted. I figured it was doing its bootloop thing. However, it got to the same screen, "installing xx out of XX apps. Except that XX number had gone down, and the xx number had gone up. It repeated this action about 4 times --the last time I saw it reboot, it was "installing 1 out of 2 apps." And then...?
It booted into the RR lockscreen.
Of course, there were no GAPPS. In fact, there are something like only 20 apps total on the tablet. But it appears somewhat stable at the moment. (See picture).
Afraid to try and connect WiFi, afraid that it'll just bootloop.
Speaking of bootloop. At one point, once we got it booted, my wife hit an option in the Settings. LCD Density, I believe. As soon as she hit it (she literally just placed her finger over the 320 default option), the tablet rebooted. No loop, though. Rebooted straight back to the RR lockscreen.
So I appear to have a somewhat stable OS flashed onto the tablet at the moment. No GAPPS, though. No WiFi.
Anybody have a suggestion on where to go from here? I have my doubts as to whether or not I can even back up this configuration.
Sorry about all the updates. I kind of figured that if *anyone* else ever goes through what I'm going through, they'll have some sense of all the different things that can be tried in resurrecting a bricked/bootlooping device. I appreciate everyone's efforts to date -thank you so much, @Lightn1ng and @ashyx.

All right, because I can't leave well enough alone....
I got WiFi up and working. Tablet still stable and working. Wheeeee.... No GAPPS, though.
Downloaded GAPPS, second-smallest package from opengapps- only 128M (5.1 ARM package). Downloaded it in Android, from the tablet! Tried to flash it in TWRP. Failed, tablet rebooted halfway (not even) through. Now it's bootlooping again...
I should've left well enough alone, and waited for someone. Have tried re-installing Resurrection Remix, but tablet keeps failing to flash. Might have to try and flash a different TWRP. I don't know...

Have you tried another Gapps? Also, is this the WiFi only model or the LTE model we're talking about?

Lightn1ng said:
Have you tried another Gapps? Also, is this the WiFi only model or the LTE model we're talking about?
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It's the WiFi-only model - SM-T800.
It's kind of weird. I thought it might be some sort of internal memory problem (like the worn Nand pages you mentioned), since almost anything I try to do in TWRP fails (although I was able to flash an entire Custom ROM the one time AND get it booted) -but backing up isn't working, whether it's to internal/external SD. And the fact that I can flash perfectly (subjective term there) well using Odin or Kies tells me that whatever problems the tablet is having, something's getting through.
I'll try a different GAPPS package. Right now, though, TWRP isn't letting me flash hardly anything, and moving files back and forth on this thing is just awful.
AGH - I was so close!

daina said:
It's the WiFi-only model - SM-T800.
It's kind of weird. I thought it might be some sort of internal memory problem (like the worn Nand pages you mentioned), since almost anything I try to do in TWRP fails (although I was able to flash an entire Custom ROM the one time AND get it booted) -but backing up isn't working, whether it's to internal/external SD. And the fact that I can flash perfectly (subjective term there) well using Odin or Kies tells me that whatever problems the tablet is having, something's getting through.
I'll try a different GAPPS package. Right now, though, TWRP isn't letting me flash hardly anything, and moving files back and forth on this thing is just awful.
AGH - I was so close!
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I'm running out of ideas!
Maybe somebody else with a T800 could backup their entire EMMC using
Code:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/full_nand_dump.bin
And you take the file on your tablet and do
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/full_nand_dump.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0
And restore YOUR efs folder using TWRP.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS OPERATION AND I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG!
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@ashyx Any more ideas before I go ahead with my evil world domination plan to recover this device?

I wouldnt carry out any risky operations until a full backup can be made with twrp or you may end up with an unrecoverable device.
If twrp cannot backup the system partition then there is an issue with the partition.
Try backup again and post the recovery log, it may contain some relative information.

I have the same issues and have tried eveything. I was rooted and running the latest Pheonix rom on my sm-t800. Last Wednesday (8-10) I starting getting boot loops out of nowhere, no new apps nothing just a daily driver. I've been through everything on here and have gone back to bone stock but to no avail, the boot loops just keep coming. I can connect to wifi and get things set up but if I try to use anything more than 'light usage' the tab starts its boot loops again and rows fits for about 10 minutes and always different timing on the boot. Sometimes it will make it to the Samsung logo, sometime only to Tab S and sometimes about 10 seconds of usage.. I know this isn't helping much but wanted to let you know there are more of us with the same problem. Will be blab to try anything to help said issue.

Exactly the same issue on my LTE version.
Samsung support just asked me 230€ for a new motherboard.
I refused to repair. I think it is related to nand memory..

Hello I have both the 8.4" and 10.5" I updated the 8.4" to Android 5.02 nothing but boot loops my other is still on 442 and I wont be updating it as its working fine. I have been reading a few posts and the problem was right in front of me all the time I have 2 internet connections 2.4 GHZ and 5.0 GHZ if I connect to the 5.0 GHZ I get boot loops but if I stay on 2.4 GHZ no problems what so ever so I may just install a custom rom and my 10.5 tab and stay clear of the faster internet.

srfairhurst said:
Hello I have both the 8.4" and 10.5" I updated the 8.4" to Android 5.02 nothing but boot loops my other is still on 442 and I wont be updating it as its working fine. I have been reading a few posts and the problem was right in front of me all the time I have 2 internet connections 2.4 GHZ and 5.0 GHZ if I connect to the 5.0 GHZ I get boot loops but if I stay on 2.4 GHZ no problems what so ever so I may just install a custom rom and my 10.5 tab and stay clear of the faster internet.
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Why not just update to Marshmallow? Absolutely no issues for me.

ashyx said:
Why not just update to Marshmallow? Absolutely no issues for me.
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Now i figured out its the wifi thats causing the problem i will update to android 6.01 or if i can find a good custom rom il risk that.

daina said:
It's the WiFi-only model - SM-T800.
It's kind of weird. I thought it might be some sort of internal memory problem (like the worn Nand pages you mentioned), since almost anything I try to do in TWRP fails (although I was able to flash an entire Custom ROM the one time AND get it booted) -but backing up isn't working, whether it's to internal/external SD. And the fact that I can flash perfectly (subjective term there) well using Odin or Kies tells me that whatever problems the tablet is having, something's getting through.
I'll try a different GAPPS package. Right now, though, TWRP isn't letting me flash hardly anything, and moving files back and forth on this thing is just awful.
AGH - I was so close!
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DrinkSlinger said:
I have the same issues and have tried eveything. I was rooted and running the latest Pheonix rom on my sm-t800. Last Wednesday (8-10) I starting getting boot loops out of nowhere, no new apps nothing just a daily driver. I've been through everything on here and have gone back to bone stock but to no avail, the boot loops just keep coming. I can connect to wifi and get things set up but if I try to use anything more than 'light usage' the tab starts its boot loops again and rows fits for about 10 minutes and always different timing on the boot. Sometimes it will make it to the Samsung logo, sometime only to Tab S and sometimes about 10 seconds of usage.. I know this isn't helping much but wanted to let you know there are more of us with the same problem. Will be blab to try anything to help said issue.
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Hello,
and the rest of story??
i can flash TWRP in download mode, and i can intall zip by TWRP , the lineage rom,
but, cant odin flash official md5 file, it stucks on logo.

Pixel XL rooted with TWRP updated to February build on its own!

So, something pretty strange just happened. Earlier today I downloaded the latest OTA to my phone to flash with TWRP sometime in the next few days. I was playing around with my phone tonight and setting up Google Assistant to work with my Nest thermostat. The Assistant wasn't consistently recognizing the ability to adjust my thermostat so I did a simple reboot thinking it may solidify things. Much to my surprise, when I rebooted the phone, I noticed the Nougat 'N' in the status bar and when I pulled down the notification drawer it said "finishing upgrade," or something to that effect. STRANGE. I figured, surely my phone didn't just update on its own, so I checked about device and surely I'm on the latest build. Went to reboot my phone and TWRP was replaced with the factory recover and I no longer have root.
In the end, I have no idea how this happened. Everything I have read says updates will fail with a modified system and in fact I've tried updating in the past only to have it fail. Any ideas How or why this happened?

You got a real SMARTPHONE!

mlin said:
Everything I have read says updates will fail with a modified system and in fact I've tried updating in the past only to have it fail. Any ideas How or why this happened?
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While I can't explain how this happened, I can point out that recovery is part of the boot image. And SuperSU is a "systemless" root method that also modifies the boot image. So your system image would appear as stock.

Sounds very interesting... I hope someone could answer this.

FlashFire? Also, do you have auto-update disabled in developer settings?

i got mine not long ago and had 7.1 on it and i did root and added twrp and in the background it downloaded 7.1.1 and when i did a reboot it installed it with no issue.

turn off auto update

sliding_billy said:
FlashFire? Also, do you have auto-update disabled in developer settings?
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Thanks for all of the responses. No flashfire. Auto update was on. I thought it was weird that with root, custom recovery and substratum theming that my phone updated, especially given the fact that I have tried to update several times through the system updates menu and it has always failed... No clue why it suddenly worked, and furthermore why it happened out of the blue.

mlin said:
Thanks for all of the responses. No flashfire. Auto update was on. I thought it was weird that with root, custom recovery and substratum theming that my phone updated, especially given the fact that I have tried to update several times through the system updates menu and it has always failed... No clue why it suddenly worked, and furthermore why it happened out of the blue.
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Purely hypothesis, but this update seemed to touch very few core system files and maybe just by luck none of what normally would cause it to fail was checked for changes. Recovery seems to be it's own animal as running TWRP sideload just wipes all recovery. In your case it replaced it with stock since you ran basically a standard OTA.

fletch33 said:
i got mine not long ago and had 7.1 on it and i did root and added twrp and in the background it downloaded 7.1.1 and when i did a reboot it installed it with no issue.
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Yeah, I knew TWRP alone wouldn't interfere with the update, but I thought root and other mods would. This is why I wasn't surprised when trying to update previously failed but was super surprised when it suddenly worked.

Apparently my wife's Pixel did this today as well. She said she didn't ever see anything about an update.
Its a Verizon model but was rooted, bootloader unlocked, with twrp installed.
It was previously on the December update just like my Pixel XL, but now is on February.
It currently won't make calls or record video, which is why she even asked me about it. I started working on it and noticed it was no longer rooted or had TWRP. I just got those two back and now have to try to get calls working.

jsbeagle said:
Apparently my wife's Pixel did this today as well. She said she didn't ever see anything about an update.
Its a Verizon model but was rooted, bootloader unlocked, with twrp installed.
It was previously on the December update just like my Pixel XL, but now is on February.
It currently won't make calls or record video, which is why she even asked me about it. I started working on it and noticed it was no longer rooted or had TWRP. I just got those two back and now have to try to get calls working.
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Interesting, I was on the December update as well. No problems with calls or video though. Very strange that in 2 months the January patch never successfully applied but the February patch did. Good luck with calls and video.

A full factory image flash got everything working. It kept working after installing TWRP, but after I root (SuperSU v2.79 SR3) it stops again.

jsbeagle said:
A full factory image flash got everything working. It kept working after installing TWRP, but after I root (SuperSU v2.79 SR3) it stops again.
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What stops again?
I am on 7.1.2 Beta and everything works good.
Whats not working for you?

After I root, the phone app gets sluggish, phone call audio doesn't work, the camera app "can't connect to camera" if you try switching to video, and youtube videos don't work in the app. They worked in the browser but had no audio.

jsbeagle said:
After I root, the phone app gets sluggish, phone call audio doesn't work, the camera app "can't connect to camera" if you try switching to video, and youtube videos don't work in the app. They worked in the browser but had no audio.
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Granted, after I got the update everything seemed a bit smoother. Audio seemed louder and more crisp.
Have you tried a factory reset?

Scott said:
What stops again?
I am on 7.1.2 Beta and everything works good.
Whats not working for you?
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Well, I guess its not even related to rooting. I had reflashed factory 7.1.1, installed twrp, and everything was still working. After I installed a few apps and restarted, all that stuff's not working again.
It doesn't even work in safe mode.
Just did a factory reset and it didn't help.

jsbeagle said:
Well, I guess its not even related to rooting. I had reflashed factory 7.1.1, installed twrp, and everything was still working. After I installed a few apps and restarted, all that stuff's not working again.
It doesn't even work in safe mode.
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Thats really odd. Maybe its an app thats not updated for 7.1.1.
I would reflash, let it wipe, then run it as a new phone for 24hrs. If it runs fine then I would install only essential apps, one by one and test after each one. Your sure to find the rotten apple that way. :good:
Good luck!

[Q] Fingerprint not working on mate se after feb update

I have a mate SE (BND-L34) that was on 8.0. Back in September of 2018, I unlocked it and rooted using another thread in this forum. All was working fine until a few days ago when I tried to install xposed using magisk. That bricked the phone. TWRP came up but boot looped. Finally got to the point where my only option was to let it download a stock image through wifi. I did, and then it had a couple updates available, and I let it update to build number BND-L34 8.0.0.352(C567). It also shows android security patch of February 1, 2019. That took the phone back to completely stock. All data wiped, no unlocked warning at bootup.
correction: At bootup, it does still give me the unlocked warning.
So anyway, All seemed to be working and I could add fingers to the list and they will unlock the phone fine. Then I installed an app that could use the fingerprint to unlock it, and I found that it did not work at all. The app waits for the fingerprint to be detected and it never happens. So I tried a different app, and same thing, just waits for the detect to happen. Again, the finger print unlocks the phone without hesitation, every time.
This makes me think that one of the updates is causing a problem. I've done some searching both on xda and google, and come up with nothing. Like no one else has seen this problem.
So I have a few questions:
1) Has anyone else seen this problem?
2) Can I use firmware finder to install a previous build, like the one from January or even the one from September? I don't have TWRP or root, just the stock image.
3) If I can't use firmware finder to downgrade, is there another way? Like through adb or something.
update:
Here's the answer to questions 2 & 3 above:
I was able to use firmware finder to download the January build .351. I couldn't get firmware finder to flash it. I then installed twrp into recovery using the image I found here https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/development/oreo-twrp-complete-backup-t3764500. I followed the steps in this post https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/how-to/tested-unbrick-bnd-l24-t3811645 to flash the .351 image. I just used the files I downloaded from firmware finder instead of the ones list there.
And since no one has replied, I'm guessing that this problem is mine alone. Also, going back to 8.0.0.351 did not solve the problem.

I finally rolled all the way back to 8.0.0.344(C567) (first Oreo, I think, from September) and now the fingerprint sensor works for applications. I have no idea why. Maybe there was a security update in the Jan build that disabled the fingerprint if the phone was unlocked. But it seems unlikely since no one else saw the same problem. I can't be the only person with an unlocked BND-L34 that let the phone update to the latest ota.
So I have another question: is there any way to stop the phone from looking for ota updates? It's damn annoying to have that "update available" thing pop up every day.

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electric bill said:
So I have another question: is there any way to stop the phone from looking for ota updates? It's damn annoying to have that "update available" thing pop up every day.
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Yeah, I posted the same thing a month or so ago and ended up figuring it out. Since you are rooted, the same solution I used will work for you. Froze the EMUI System Update process with Titanium Backup.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hon...ation-t3897144

Welp
It was working, then I tried to install magisk, but it wouldn't install with twrpimgmount_ramdisk.img so I flashed twrp_p10_lite_0.4.img and then magisk 18.1. After that, fingerprint stopped working for apps . I tried re-flashing 344 build, factory resets, different twrp versions, running the magisk uninstall zip, I even re-locked the bootloader. No dice. This phone is back to stock now just the way I got it, no mods, no twrp, no root, and it still has a problem. I just can't figure it out. I think I'm done.
I really liked the phone. It has great features for a $200 phone. I could still use it without the fingerprint password feature, but I really liked that... alot. I certainly have the root procedure down.... I might buy another one and try again, or I might look for something else in that price range and say fu huawei.

electric bill said:
It was working, then I tried to install magisk, but it wouldn't install with twrpimgmount_ramdisk.img so I flashed twrp_p10_lite_0.4.img and then magisk 18.1. After that, fingerprint stopped working for apps . I tried re-flashing 344 build, factory resets, different twrp versions, running the magisk uninstall zip, I even re-locked the bootloader. No dice. This phone is back to stock now just the way I got it, no mods, no twrp, no root, and it still has a problem. I just can't figure it out. I think I'm done.
I really liked the phone. It has great features for a $200 phone. I could still use it without the fingerprint password feature, but I really liked that... alot. I certainly have the root procedure down.... I might buy another one and try again, or I might look for something else in that price range and say fu huawei.
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it's a problem with the app. If I restore an older version with titanium, it works fine.

Hi, I unlocked my mate SE boot-loader and rooted it. After upgrading to BND-L34 8.0.0.352, My TWRP disappeared and lost root. I tried used fastboot to reflash TWRP and failed. Could you confirm if your TWRP worked on version 352? Even I reverted my rom back to 344 using "Firmware finder", I still could not install custom any recovery. Could you help?

General December update woes...

The past few years, I usually install the ota manually on my pixels if they don't come right away on my phone (they usually do in CA). I keep my bootloader unlocked (just in case things go haywire) but haven't modified or rooted in many years. So today, because the update was so large (more reasoning below), I decided to flash the factory image and remove the "-w" command so it wouldn't wipe the phone. Done this many times.
So my usual process is to flash both slots one after the other. I flashed the current slot it was on (b) then switched to the (a) slot. Been doing the same since Android 4 (and A9 for a/b slots), hundreds of times. After flashing slot (a), it restarted like it's supposed to. I then get the dreaded "Your device is corrupt" message. First time I've seen this on any of my 4 Nexus and 5 Pixel phones. Okay so I decided to try flash it again, this time with the wipe command (recovery wouldn't work, same message). Flashing completes, same message. Then tried the flash.android.com - flashed all slots, wiped options on - same thing. The " pixelrepair.withgoogle.com " website doesn't recognize the phone which is odd because flash.android.com does. I tried flashing the original image from November and 2 other build versions. Still no go.
Not sure what happened here. I don't think anything is wrong with the latest image. The reason I flashed this image was because I had a thought today - does flashing the "ota zip" update the bootloader and other firmware versions (they were different different versions this update). So I guess my curiosity killed the cat ... I should have just ran the ota first to see if the bootloader/radio versions updated, but of course the ota updates them (or they would never get updated otherwise). Ahh well. Now I will have to deal with the silly carrier warranty circus.
Also - I never thought an update could cause a phone to completely corrupt itself where it can't be fixed by the user. All of these posts on xda/red_dit etc over the years - I really didn't think it was possible. I always thought corruption must have been there before, but now I'm not so sure.
update: flashed the last build from November using flash.android.com and was able to get my system back. 2nd flash for that build worked.

Alekos said:
The past few years, I usually install the ota manually on my pixels if they don't come right away on my phone (they usually do in CA). I keep my bootloader unlocked (just in case things go haywire) but haven't modified or rooted in many years. So today, because the update was so large (more reasoning below), I decided to flash the factory image and remove the "-w" command so it wouldn't wipe the phone. Done this many times.
So my usual process is to flash both slots one after the other. I flashed the current slot it was on (b) then switched to the (a) slot. Been doing the same since Android 9, hundreds of times. After flashing slot (a), it restarted like it's supposed to. I then get the dreaded "Your device is corrupt" message. First time I've seen this on any of my 4 Nexus and 5 Pixel phones. Okay so I decided to try flash it again, this time with the wipe command (recovery wouldn't work, same message). Flashing completes, same message. Then tried the flash.android.com - flashed all slots, wiped options on - same thing. The " pixelrepair.withgoogle.com " website doesn't recognize the phone which is odd because flash.android.com does. I tried flashing the original image from November and 2 other build versions. Still no go.
Not sure what happened here. I don't think anything is wrong with the latest image. The reason I flashed this image was because I had a thought today - does flashing the "ota zip" update the bootloader and other firmware versions (they were different different versions this update). So I guess my curiosity killed the cat ... I should have just ran the ota first to see if the bootloader/radio versions updated, but of course the ota updates them (or they would never get updated otherwise). Ahh well. Now I will have to deal with the silly carrier warranty circus.
Also - I never thought an update could cause a phone to completely corrupt itself where it can't be fixed by the user. All of these posts on xda/red_dit etc over the years - I really didn't think it was possible. Corruption must have been there before, but now I'm not so sure.
If anyone has any fastboot tricks - I'd try anything at this point.
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All you got to do is go to the factory image page. Click on the Android flash tool and follow that it'll bring you back

mac796 said:
All you got to do is go to the factory image page. Click on the Android flash tool and follow that it'll bring you back
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Not sure if I wasn't clear:
Okay so I decided to try flash it again, this time with the wipe command (recovery wouldn't work, same message). Flashing completes, same message.
I tried flashing 4 different Factory Image builds (flashing manually the Factory Image not ota). The android flash tool (webiste) completes but same message appears after it restarts.

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Not sure if I wasn't clear:
Okay so I decided to try flash it again, this time with the wipe command (recovery wouldn't work, same message). Flashing completes, same message. Then tried the flash.android.com - flashed all slots, wiped options on - same thing. The " pixelrepair.withgoogle.com " website doesn't recognize the phone which is odd because flash.android.com does. I tried flashing the original image from November and 2 other build versions. Still no go.
I tried flashing 4 different Factory Image builds. The android flash tool completes but same message appears after it restarts.
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You're trying to flash with fastboot right? Use that Android flash tool. You'll see a link to it in the factory image page. I went through the same thing you did, I got the corrupt device. at the very end It'll ask you to Lock the bootloader just don't do it if you want to stay unlocked.

Oh maybe I misunderstood you tried that and it's not recognizing it

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Oh maybe I misunderstood you tried that and it's not recognizing it
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flash.android.com recognizes it and it completes but the corrupt message still appears.
I'm going to try the original build from October, using the flash.android.com website - and pick all the Advanced Options, see how it goes (disable verity and verification, force debuggable and flash all partitions). I guess it's worth a try. pixelrepair website doesn't recognize the phone.

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flash.android.com recognizes it and it completes but the corrupt message still appears.
I'm going to try the original build from October, using the flash.android.com website - and pick all the Advanced Options, see how it goes (disable verity and verification, force debuggable and flash all partitions). I guess it's worth a try. pixelrepair website doesn't recognize the phone.
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That's no good. Hope it works out. I had a hell of a time getting mine back too

mac796 said:
That's no good. Hope it works out. I had a hell of a time getting mine back too
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ok what the hell. what a mess. it was weird, long-pressing the power button would never restart the device. it took multiple tries. I've learned over the years to remove the case because it can hinder the restart sequence. But even just getting into fastboot was difficult.
Anyhow it looks like I'm back.
2nd time flashing this exact image, but this time it worked - I used the flash tool website and flashed the November SD1A.210817.037 (non vzw build). I just chose options "All Partitions, and full wipe"(my next step was to try disabling verity and debugging but this worked).
a few reports on red_dit of corruption on the 6 Pros. hopefully Google pulls it soon. if people don't have the "oem unlocking" option enabled, their toast.

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ok what the hell. what a mess. it was weird, long-pressing the power button would never restart the device. it took multiple tries. I've learned over the years to remove the case because it can hinder the restart sequence. But even just getting into fastboot was difficult.
Anyhow it looks like I'm back.
2nd time flashing this exact image, but this time it worked - I used the flash tool website and flashed the November SD1A.210817.037 (non vzw build). I just chose options "All Partitions, and full wipe"(my next step was to try disabling verity and debugging but this worked).
Lots of reports on red_dit of corruption on the 6 Pros. hopefully Google pulls it soon. if people don't have the "oem unlocking" option enabled, their toast.
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I'm glad you got out of it

I also had the pixel 6 pro briked when I put the root of the last base.
I have revived it by putting the ota december by sideload from recovery in the adb section

victoraran said:
I also had the pixel 6 pro briked when I put the root of the last base.
I have revived it by putting the ota december by sideload from recovery in the adb section
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so if I didn't have "OEM unlocking" enabled - I'd have a brick right now. just actually trying to help someone else that also got the corruption message and can't get back into Android to enable oem unlock. Recovery doesn't work (like my situation).
What a mess...

That's what can happen when we're inpatient and not willing to wait for the right version to actually push to the device.

Battery life is awesome, still on 44% at half 10 at night from half 6 this morning

prohibido_por_la_ley said:
That's what can happen when we're inpatient and not willing to wait for the right version to actually push to the device.
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seriously? the right version? I installed the right version, and others also had the same issue just by updating normally through Android interface.
you shouldn't be able to "corrupt a system" just by updating to the official update build. this isn't 2012... anyway, I mostly posted and updated for others who might have had issues also.

Alekos said:
seriously? the right version? I installed the right version, and others also had the same issue just by updating normally through Android interface.
you shouldn't be able to "corrupt a system" just by updating to the official update build. this isn't 2012... anyway, I mostly posted and updated for others who might have had issues also.
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Well in the 4 years of me being on Android I've never had it happen.

I literally just got my Pixel 6 Pro and attempted the December update and got a firmware corrupt. The only options is try again or factory reset. I just finished going through the first time setup and already got this.

JodyBreeze901 said:
I literally just got my Pixel 6 Pro and attempted the December update and got a firmware corrupt. The only options is try again or factory reset. I just finished going through the first time setup and already got this.
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same

Alekos said:
seriously? the right version? I installed the right version, and others also had the same issue just by updating normally through Android interface.
you shouldn't be able to "corrupt a system" just by updating to the official update build. this isn't 2012... anyway, I mostly posted and updated for others who might have had issues also.
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Why not just adb sideload the OTA image, rather then flashing on both slots the factory image? It just sounds a bit of a hassle to me.
I know, I used to fastboot flash without -w my nexuses as well, but that was before the OTA images were available.

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Well in the 4 years of me being on Android I've never had it happen.
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yeah it's super rare. been flashing images and ota's since Nexus 4. But it happens.
I usually get the updates right away but sometimes I'll update the ota. I usually reflash the factory image every year after the beta. just seems odd how it corrupted the device. couldn't get into the system at all (or recovery/rescue modes).

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apparantly it has something to do with Bluetooth? I don't know how, but if you can get into safe mode and disable Bluetooth, clear cache/data for it and update all your google service apps, it can fix it (keeping Bluetooth off while restarting phone in regular mode) - but I couldn't load Android.
The trick to getting into Safe Mode is this: Turn off the device. Hold down power and and as soon as you see the "G" Logo, hold volume down. it will directly boot you to Safe mode. cool little trick. you'll have to manually enable wifi because it gets turned off.
At this point, if you can, enable OEM Unlocking. at least you'll be able to save the device if anything serious happens (like what I went through). the pixel repair website also works but I couldn't get into "Rescue Mode"