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TWRP BOOT LOOP has anyone found a solution (OTA update)

i tried installing the lastest ota update while i had twrp installed, i have tried everything to get out of this loop.
tried flashing the updated rom off the oneplus website and if gave me errors
just looked at my phone and now it wont turn on what so every getting really stressed please help
[SOLVED]
went back to stock recovery and side loaded the full 1.4 gb rom i will leave a link for tutorial that i used, i wanted to get back to complete stock and this was the one use
"https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-how-to-unroot-your-oneplus-3-and-go-back-completely-to-stock.456232/"

When you have TWRP you have to install full zip, not simply the eval OTA zip

bob_cheeseman5 said:
i tried installing the lastest ota update while i had twrp installed, i have tried everything to get out of this loop.
tried flashing the updated rom off the oneplus website and if gave me errors
just looked at my phone and now it wont turn on what so every getting really stressed please help
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Flash the stock recovery.
Get stock recovery from downloads.oneplus.net

I cant seem to flash the stock recovery. The device is not visible in adb devices or fastboot devices. im facing the same issue.

If you are using TWRP 3.0.4-0 - try a hard boot...hold down the power button for 20s...wait 20s, power it back on.

bob_cheeseman5 said:
i tried installing the lastest ota update while i had twrp installed, i have tried everything to get out of this loop.
tried flashing the updated rom off the oneplus website and if gave me errors
just looked at my phone and now it wont turn on what so every getting really stressed please help
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easy solution. Boot into fastboot
download this tool.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/development/toolkit-oneplus-3-toolkit-unlock-t3398799
if newest version isnt working, download an older version with older twrp
than unzip the tool and run the .bat file and install twrp.
Thats it

There are many posts on Nougat not working with official TWRP (based on 6.0 build). Try booting into stock recovery. performing a system settings reset, then booting into fastboot and run the adb command, <fastboot boot TWRP-3.0.2-1.28.img>. From there you can do virtually anything you need to do. I recommend at least using a modified version of TWRP (such as 1.28). This has been posted many times before, please try and do a search for the answers first, it will help tremendously. Thanks

recovery
i had the same problem on my rooted OP3 when i used TWRP 3.0.2-1 , it worked to flash the full 4.0.1 rom but failed for everything else, flashing latest verion of twrp fixed it for me

Got the same problem (unrooted phone + device state locked, cannot access recover, but can access fastboot) with an added "benefit", USB debugging mode was off before it all went crashing and burning.
How to access my phone via PC? (all the guides I've found assume I had USB debugging mode on before the phone got soft-bricked, but as a normal phone user who never installed anything custom, I've never figured it is A MUST BE ON function).
Or simpler question - what tool to use to turn on the USB debugging mode? (if that is at all possible?)

Aislandas said:
Got the same problem (unrooted phone + device state locked, cannot access recover, but can access fastboot) with an added "benefit", USB debugging mode was off before it all went crashing and burning.
How to access my phone via PC? (all the guides I've found assume I had USB debugging mode on before the phone got soft-bricked, but as a normal phone user who never installed anything custom, I've never figured it is A MUST BE ON function).
Or simpler question - what tool to use to turn on the USB debugging mode? (if that is at all possible?)
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I have tried doing the installing of the newer twrp but cant find a newer version of it, i am on 3.0.2-1. i have the same problem as you that my USB debugging isnt on i dont think so when trying to use the op3 tool kit i can get it to pick up fast boot but nothing else.
have you found a solution to your problem yet?

bob_cheeseman5 said:
I have tried doing the installing of the newer twrp but cant find a newer version of it, i am on 3.0.2-1. i have the same problem as you that my USB debugging isnt on i dont think so when trying to use the op3 tool kit i can get it to pick up fast boot but nothing else.
have you found a solution to your problem yet?
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Noted that you solved your issue, but this post is about the new version of TWRP. Version 3.0.3 is available on twrp.me and it works with Nougat.

bob_cheeseman5 said:
I have tried doing the installing of the newer twrp but cant find a newer version of it, i am on 3.0.2-1. i have the same problem as you that my USB debugging isnt on i dont think so when trying to use the op3 tool kit i can get it to pick up fast boot but nothing else.
have you found a solution to your problem yet?
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Gave up trying and booked a session with OP technicians Will see how it goes in a week.

Help, might have killed my device

Not 100% sure of best place to post this, but I'm getting desperate now...
I'm pretty worried I've killed my device. After following the guide on how to root with Magisk, my phone is stuck on the white "loading" screen with a G logo. I've since tried to restart, but I can either go into fastboot mode or get the white screen when attempting to boot into android.
Tried to flash the latest factory image to fix it, but that couldn't get that to work. Now the phone isn't showing up on adb devices either. panicking a little bit here.
Does anyone know what to do?

ADB won't work unless the phone is booted into Android or in stock recovery for a sideload.
Does your computer recognize the device when you are in Fastboot mode and type "fastboot devices"? Try flashing the factory image again but make sure you have the most up to date platform tools from Google. Old versions are a common cause of issues.
Did you flash TWRP recovery or just boot to it to root? If you still have stock recovery you can try a factory reset from there but any modified images you installed might be the issue.

like Fury said, your platform tools need to be updated, same thing happened to me.

What didn't work when you flashed the factory image? Do you have the latest sdk tools version of fastboot and adb?
Sent from my [device_name] using XDA-Developers Legacy app

fury683 said:
ADB won't work unless the phone is booted into Android or in stock recovery for a sideload.
Does your computer recognize the device when you are in Fastboot mode and type "fastboot devices"? Try flashing the factory image again but make sure you have the most up to date platform tools from Google. Old versions are a common cause of issues.
Did you flash TWRP recovery or just boot to it to root? If you still have stock recovery you can try a factory reset from there but any modified images you installed might be the issue.
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Thanks so much, this is where I was going wrong. Have gone into recovery and rescued it.
Tried the process again to get Magisk working, but ended up the same although this time the white screen only went on for a while before I got an error saying my data was corrupted. Tbh, after all the stress I'm just going to give up on this and live with the phone in stock. All my drivers and adb were installed and setup today, so everything is up to date.
edit...
Not out of the woods yet. After restarting the phone and going through the setup, it's not detecting the SIM card or any wifi networks. I've installed the OTA and wiped data once more after having this problem, still not resolved.

Nick676 said:
Thanks so much, this is where I was going wrong. Have gone into recovery and rescued it.
Tried the process again to get Magisk working, but ended up the same although this time the white screen only went on for a while before I got an error saying my data was corrupted. Tbh, after all the stress I'm just going to give up on this and live with the phone in stock. All my drivers and adb were installed and setup today, so everything is up to date.
Thanks again for helping.
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It sounds like you are trying to install Magisk v17.1 like I tried. If so you need to use v17.3 beta. If you follow this thread you should be fine. It even tells you what to do for your original problem, just takes some reading and patience.

Misterxtc said:
It sounds like you are trying to install Magisk v17.1 like I tried. If so you need to use v17.3 beta. If you follow this thread you should be fine. It even tells you what to do for your original problem, just takes some reading and patience.
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I tried it with both 17.1 and 17.3, so not sure what the issue is. Seem to have finally booted up properly with wifi and signal working, so hopefully it's all good now. Gonna give up on rooting.

Nick676 said:
Not 100% sure of best place to post this, but I'm getting desperate now...
I'm pretty worried I've killed my device. After following the guide on how to root with Magisk, my phone is stuck on the white "loading" screen with a G logo. I've since tried to restart, but I can either go into fastboot mode or get the white screen when attempting to boot into android.
Tried to flash the latest factory image to fix it, but that couldn't get that to work. Now the phone isn't showing up on adb devices either. panicking a little bit here.
Does anyone know what to do?
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you may want to try to totally uninstalling Magisk frist with the official latest Magisk uninstaller and reboot and then do a complete factory reset. this has helped me in the past.
my new pixel 3XL will be the first Android phone that I owned that will not be rooted.

OP3 bricked and now won't boot after MSM

Few months ago I flashed some stuff on my phone which I shouldn't have, I guess. In the meantime I got a new one but now I'm trying to recover my OP3. I tried all sorts of MSM tools, (from Marshmallow to latest Pie that OP support provided me with) and in best case I could get it to bootloop and then throw me a dm verity warning screen after that (screenshot below) After that it only can throw me in a generic chinese OP recovery which fails to do anything. MSM runs fine, loads up as HS 9008 Qualcomm device and gets it's job done in 5-6 mins. I can't do anything in fastboot since bootloader is locked after MSM. Is there any help because it seems to not be completely dead?
Thanks
Screen after bootloop:
https://imgur.com/a/R1lJTjX

AnnoyingZlatan said:
Few months ago I flashed some stuff on my phone which I shouldn't have, I guess. In the meantime I got a new one but now I'm trying to recover my OP3. I tried all sorts of MSM tools, (from Marshmallow to latest Pie that OP support provided me with) and in best case I could get it to bootloop and then throw me a dm verity warning screen after that (screenshot below) After that it only can throw me in a generic chinese OP recovery which fails to do anything. MSM runs fine, loads up as HS 9008 Qualcomm device and gets it's job done in 5-6 mins. I can't do anything in fastboot since bootloader is locked after MSM. Is there any help because it seems to not be completely dead?
Thanks
Screen after bootloop:
https://imgur.com/a/R1lJTjX
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If you can get to bootloader, download and flash OOS 5.0.6. If not, try one of the MSM Tools on XDA. There are quite a few of them, search. Please also note that the Tool is different for 3 and 3T.
I had used one of the oldest Tools here on XDA a couple of times without any hiccups.

Did you get a solution to this? I am struggling with the same issue.

Another OP3 user here with the same problem as you guys.
I tried all of the MSM tools posted here, with no success and varying responses from the phone.
One of them does let me actually boot to recovery, but it's the generic one that only has install from adb (and sideloading always fails at 47% - haven't found a solution around that yet either). From inside recovery, attempting to wipe cache or wipe system gets about 3/4 of the way then the device reboots on its own.
I was also on occasion able to boot to the decrypt password entry screen, but no password is valid and attempting to issue a reset from there (from Forgot password) doesn't seem to do anything.
No issues getting to fastboot or qs9008 serial mode, but bootloader is locked also so kind of stuck.
In my case, phone was working fine, but the OTA update caused a brick so I've been trying to recover it since then.
Maybe somebody else has an idea here..

myserver57 said:
Another OP3 user here with the same problem as you guys.
I tried all of the MSM tools posted here, with no success and varying responses from the phone.
One of them does let me actually boot to recovery, but it's the generic one that only has install from adb (and sideloading always fails at 47% - haven't found a solution around that yet either). From inside recovery, attempting to wipe cache or wipe system gets about 3/4 of the way then the device reboots on its own.
I was also on occasion able to boot to the decrypt password entry screen, but no password is valid and attempting to issue a reset from there (from Forgot password) doesn't seem to do anything.
No issues getting to fastboot or qs9008 serial mode, but bootloader is locked also so kind of stuck.
In my case, phone was working fine, but the OTA update caused a brick so I've been trying to recover it since then.
Maybe somebody else has an idea here..
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Did you try to sideload OOS using adb? Try the various versions of OOS.

TNSMANI said:
Did you try to sideload OOS using adb? Try the various versions of OOS.
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Thanks, yes I did. Stalls at 47%.
Also tried every version of OOS that I could find (5.04, 5.05, 5.06, etc from https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/op3-collection-unbrick-tools-t3896722)
Also tried the versions from https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-for-a-hard-bricked-oneplus-3.452634/
(this one is the one that sometimes lets me get to recovery, the others don't).

myserver57 said:
Thanks, yes I did. Stalls at 47%.
Also tried every version of OOS that I could find (5.04, 5.05, 5.06, etc from https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/op3-collection-unbrick-tools-t3896722)
Also tried the versions from https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-for-a-hard-bricked-oneplus-3.452634/
(this one is the one that sometimes lets me get to recovery, the others don't).
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If you are able to use fastboot, try flashing TWRP or atleast boot TWRP and then from TWRP flash OOS or one of the custom ROMs.
If this also fails, I am at a loss for ideas. May be you have a hardware fault.

TNSMANI said:
If you are able to use fastboot, try flashing TWRP or atleast boot TWRP and then from TWRP flash OOS or one of the custom ROMs.
If this also fails, I am at a loss for ideas. May be you have a hardware fault.
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Thanks again for trying to help.
Sadly, bootloader is locked so flashing TWRP or even booting to TWRP is a no-go.
I don't think it's a hardware fault since it was working fine before the OTA update, but I guess you never know. Damn, if only sideloading would work, darn thing...

Question Bricked while flashing Mi Pad 5 from Chinese to Global ROM

Hi guys,
i want to flash my MiPad 5 from chinese to global Rom.
I already installed the Bootloader Unlock Tool and waited one week.
Now the bootloader is unlocked and i downloaded "Xiaomi Pad 5 Global MIUI V12.5.4.0.RKXMIXM Update". There are two different Download Versions, one for Recovery and one for fastboot. Which one is correct and usable without root?
Now i'm Stuck in the Process of Downloading TWRP because I can't find a specific version for my MiPad 5. Is there anybody who can give me a step by step Guide what to do now?
Thank you

chrwo said:
Hi guys,
i want to flash my MiPad 5 from chinese to global Rom.
I already installed the Bootloader Unlock Tool and waited one week.
Now the bootloader is unlocked and i downloaded "Xiaomi Pad 5 Global MIUI V12.5.4.0.RKXMIXM Update". There are two different Download Versions, one for Recovery and one for fastboot. Which one is correct and usable without root?
Now i'm Stuck in the Process of Downloading TWRP because I can't find a specific version for my MiPad 5. Is there anybody who can give me a step by step Guide what to do now?
Thank you
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Try fastboot method without bootloader lock

I bricked it....
Error occurred while flashing the Global ROM.
After that it went directly into fastboot. Can't turn it off right now.
At the moment i am trying to install twrp with help of minimal adb and fastboot. getting errors now...
Tried an Intel and a AMD Computer. Tried CN Rom and Global ROM. Endless flashing, no result. Green loading bar is completed, saying mismatching and flashing... Now its stuck in Fastboot Mode.
can anybody help?

chrwo said:
I bricked it....
Error occurred while flashing the Global ROM.
After that it went directly into fastboot. Can't turn it off right now.
At the moment i am trying to install twrp with help of minimal adb and fastboot. getting errors now...
Tried an Intel and a AMD Computer. Tried CN Rom and Global ROM. Endless flashing, no result. Green loading bar is completed, saying mismatching and flashing... Now its stuck in Fastboot Mode.
can anybody help?
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Could maybe try this:
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
Don't have any experience with it personally, but worth a try

TWRP is not required to flash the global ROM.
Just specify the unzipped global ROM as the working directory of MiFlash.

try flashing fastboot rom using miflash tool

finally could flash the global rom.
i am pretty sure it was about the ryzen gaming pc i used. now it worked out with my intel laptop....
strange problem

chrwo said:
I bricked it....
Error occurred while flashing the Global ROM.
After that it went directly into fastboot. Can't turn it off right now.
At the moment i am trying to install twrp with help of minimal adb and fastboot. getting errors now...
Tried an Intel and a AMD Computer. Tried CN Rom and Global ROM. Endless flashing, no result. Green loading bar is completed, saying mismatching and flashing... Now its stuck in Fastboot Mode.
can anybody help?
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Mi Pad 5 didn't have recovery partition, since it use A/B structure. You must execute fastboot boot recovery.img and after that install recovery to RAMdisk.

chrwo said:
I bricked it....
Error occurred while flashing the Global ROM.
After that it went directly into fastboot. Can't turn it off right now.
At the moment i am trying to install twrp with help of minimal adb and fastboot. getting errors now...
Tried an Intel and a AMD Computer. Tried CN Rom and Global ROM. Endless flashing, no result. Green loading bar is completed, saying mismatching and flashing... Now its stuck in Fastboot Mode.
can anybody help?
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Whered you even get twrp? Had an error while flashing from cn to global as well about sparse super failed. Then tried reflashing but i got the same error as you had and all i did was reboot the tablet in fastboot while it was still in fastboot and after that it flashed successfully even though it threw out am error flash is not done but the tablet rebooted hy itself and then booted up after a minute or two. Almost gave me a heart attack while i was at it
Edit: seems you flashed it successfully already thats good. Fastboot can be clunky on ryzen sometimes, i remeber back on mi a2 had to use a hub instead of directly connecting my phone to my ryzen pc for fastboot to work properly and not get stuck while flashing. But now i can connect directly after switching to a b450motherboard, was using a b350 before

I am trying to use the Mi Flash tool and when I open it, it tells me to install Drivers, but the screen just hangs there when I press Continue.
I also get an error saying a specific log folder is not present.
I also am trying to install global rom on china model. Please help!

chrwo said:
finally could flash the global rom.
i am pretty sure it was about the ryzen gaming pc i used. now it worked out with my intel laptop....
strange problem
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It would be great if you can make a step-by-step guide on how to do this. Thank you.

puleen said:
I am trying to use the Mi Flash tool and when I open it, it tells me to install Drivers, but the screen just hangs there when I press Continue.
I also get an error saying a specific log folder is not present.
I also am trying to install global rom on china model. Please help!
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prob just driver problems, i use ryzen and it works fine.

Don't know if I need to create a new thread. After the unlocking, I tried to change the region from RU to CN and got the same problem after a "successful" update as chrwo with "Mismatching image and device" error and fastboot mode. Then I tried to flash global version and the device error is gone but I still have the fastboot mode. Recovery from MiToolv2 doesn't help either, after successful recovery tablet still goes only to fastboot.

Got it working after flashing with miflash on the intel PC. I used a USB port on the motherboard this time.
So maybe there is really a problem with Ryzen.

Choochter said:
Could maybe try this:
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
Don't have any experience with it personally, but worth a try
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Not work for me.
But when I try with Miflash tool and anoter Rom (newest), it worked

Critical Hit said:
Got it working after flashing with miflash on the intel PC. I used a USB port on the motherboard this time.
So maybe there is really a problem with Ryzen.
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I meer the same errỏr when I use Intel PC.
So, I dont think this a problem of Ryzen

i also brick the device using mi-flash sucking program. i finally using fastboot command flashing which copying from the stock rom "flash_all.bat" file.

So we can't lock the bootloader after installing the global rom?

Question Poco f3 Error: Sending modem_ab

good evening
I have been trying to return to stock miui from Pixel Experience since yesterday but get this error every time I try to flash the Firmware and do not know what I can do about it. I would be happy if somebody knew what this error is from and what might fix it.

Same problem. Don't try more things because you will brick your phone like mine.

Thanks for your reply. What did you do that bricked your Phonem? This way I know what to avoid. Thanks you in advance

As you are sure your device is a eea one, try with this last official stable firmware : Version: V13.0.7.0.SKHEUXM
You can find it here https://new.c.mi.com/global/miuidownload/detail/device/1900394
Fastboot version here at bottom : https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/miui/alioth/stable/V13.0.7.0.SKHEUXM/
Or https://bigota.d.miui.com/V13.0.7.0...EUXM_20220627.0000.00_12.0_eea_e461331a7d.tgz

Thanks you so much I will try that

and i did not mention this but I started this whole project of returning to miui because my poco was and still is in a bootloop and is only accessible over fastboot, not recovery and even though it sometimes gets to the system it almost instantly crashes and reboots

Still the Same Error unfortunatelly

nockcx said:
and i did not mention this but I started this whole project of returning to miui because my poco was and still is in a bootloop and is only accessible over fastboot, not recovery and even though it sometimes gets to the system it almost instantly crashes and reboots
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Ok,
Do you have any idea what you did that may have caused this bootloop ?
Have you used any Qualcomm Tools or any soft in EDL mode ?

No, I did not do anything that would mess with the system to my knowledge . which is why i really do not know what to do. Can This Error occur because of a USB 3.0 used to flash? The Phone even tries to reboot when it is detected as a Fastboot device, maybe This has Something to do with it. Maybe it loses the Connection and therefore the flashing process stops. Are there possible ways to fix This?

Try with the latest android platform tools.
Put the content of platform tools archive in the fastboot folder and launch flash_all.bat don't use flash_all_lock

Still the Same Error . Can This be because of a Driver or a hardware issue?

i had similar issues but with the super partition when trying to flash from cmd.
flashing with miflash instead solved it.

It doesnt seem to make any difference to the error whether i flash it via cmd or miflash

nockcx said:
Still the Same Error . Can This be because of a Driver or a hardware issue?
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Maybe : So as you can try with other PC, USB cable, USB connector, reinstall USB drivers...

I already tried with two Notebooks, I will try again tomorrow with another PC and installing USB drivers again. Thank you

You could try redownloading the MIUI ROM... you got it from xiaomifirmwareupdater.com right?
And yes ^^, try other PCs/laptops and other USB-cables.
Just please make sure
Unfortunately, Fastboot-Flashing is a gamble. It's not a solid protocol. It has zero protection against sudden USB-connection loss.
And manufacturers like Xiaomi go out of their way and block Qualcomm's EDL Mode, which is the only way to recover your phone in case Fastboot Mode stops working, because that Mode itself can also get damaged.

Fixed - first flash a miui recovery rom from twrp make sure the rom version lower than the latest one, now flash and boot miui , now just update from miui updater once you updated to the latest version , now try to flash the fastboot rom that you trying to flash, it should work.

I cant access a bootloader like TWRP because the phone still keeps rebooting after a couple of seconds in the bootloader so i cant really do much. I only have access to fastboot

nockcx said:
just flash a custom vbmeta and then install a custom recovery in to the boot partition like fastboot flash boot ....flash both the slots boot_a and boot_b the run fastboot reboot recovery do all this with latest platform tools
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okay Im as far as I have never been with a very weird method, maybe somebody can explain. Because my poco always wants to reboot I found out a way to keep in in Fastboot mode. I repeatedly press the power and volume down button, This way it stays on for a lot longer, but it still is not enough to succeed at flashing the rom. It also lets me believe that my problem is not a software but probably a hardware problem, otherwise and cannot explain this suuuper weird behavior. what do you guys think? is there a possible fix you know?