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[Q] HTC One X Restor Failure - Not Loading

Hi. First of all congratulations on you exceptional work and great forum, I am a frequent reader!
Since yesterday when I turned it on I have not network connection on my phone (HTC One X). I tried the same sim card on a different device and it works, so I guess is something with the device, not the SIM or the carrier. As I recently (2 months ago) rooted and installed a custom ROM (cyanogenmod) following this tutorial (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660807) I thought it could be something with the ROM and tried to went back to my original HTC version (before I install the cyanogenmod version I did what I think is a backup of my original ROM).
As it says in the tutorial I am using teamwin recovery project, so I used this software to backup, install the new ROM and now I am trying to restore the backup, but it is not working - it looks like it completes restore with success, then I reeboot the phone and it stays forever in the HTC splash screen...
Can anyone please help me with that?
Thanks!
Just a note: before it reboots the phone it says you device does not appear to be rooted and prompt me to install SuperSU now. I tryed it both doing it and not, dont know if it helps.

uaeted said:
Hi. First of all congratulations on you exceptional work and great forum, I am a frequent reader!
Since yesterday when I turned it on I have not network connection on my phone (HTC One X). I tried the same sim card on a different device and it works, so I guess is something with the device, not the SIM or the carrier. As I recently (2 months ago) rooted and installed a custom ROM (cyanogenmod) following this tutorial (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660807) I thought it could be something with the ROM and tried to went back to my original HTC version (before I install the cyanogenmod version I did what I think is a backup of my original ROM).
As it says in the tutorial I am using teamwin recovery project, so I used this software to backup, install the new ROM and now I am trying to restore the backup, but it is not working - it looks like it completes restore with success, then I reeboot the phone and it stays forever in the HTC splash screen...
Can anyone please help me with that?
Thanks!
Just a note: before it reboots the phone it says you device does not appear to be rooted and prompt me to install SuperSU now. I tryed it both doing it and not, dont know if it helps.
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flash SuperSU
restore our backup and dont forget to flash the backup's boot.img also.

robchongke said:
flash SuperSU
restore our backup and dont forget to flash the backup's boot.img also.
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Thanks robchongke!
So I instaled the SuperSU (I still had it on a folder in the phone), then I went into restore, selected the older folder (which should countain my original ROM), all the process went ok with no errors in the console (restore completed in 149), then restart (again asking if I want to root my phone or not), I said no this time and then the same is happening, the phone starts with but stays forever in the splash screen. When you say "dont forget to flash the backup´s boot.img also what do you mean exaclty? You mean in the restoring screen, after select the backup folder, select both Boot and System? That's is selected by default so I just "swipe to restore"...
Thank you for you help!

uaeted said:
Thanks robchongke!
So I instaled the SuperSU (I still had it on a folder in the phone), then I went into restore, selected the older folder (which should countain my original ROM), all the process went ok with no errors in the console (restore completed in 149), then restart (again asking if I want to root my phone or not), I said no this time and then the same is happening, the phone starts with but stays forever in the splash screen. When you say "dont forget to flash the backup´s boot.img also what do you mean exaclty? You mean in the restoring screen, after select the backup folder, select both Boot and System? That's is selected by default so I just "swipe to restore"...
Thank you for you help!
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you have to flash the boot.img so it wont bootloop. if you have a copy of your backup in your computer copy the boot.img and place it inside your fastboot folder if you do not have a copy you can mount your phone in recovery. boot into bootloader then enter this command in command prompt.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
flash erase cache.

robchongke said:
you have to flash the boot.img so it wont bootloop. if you have a copy of your backup in your computer copy the boot.img and place it inside your fastboot folder if you do not have a copy you can mount your phone in recovery. boot into bootloader then enter this command in command prompt.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
flash erase cache.
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Oh that's a different think then... Thank you very much for your reply! Meanwhile I installed the ROM I had in my folder again - the version I installed first - and it worked fine and I have phone signal again! So everything is solved, not with the first solution I thought, but at least is working now. Now the pain of get all the apps installed again and configure everything...
Anyway, thank you very much robchongke, your help was great and I am sure if I had the knowledge to follow your instructions I would have the stock version installed right now.

uaeted said:
Oh that's a different think then... Thank you very much for your reply! Meanwhile I installed the ROM I had in my folder again - the version I installed first - and it worked fine and I have phone signal again! So everything is solved, not with the first solution I thought, but at least is working now. Now the pain of get all the apps installed again and configure everything...
Anyway, thank you very much robchongke, your help was great and I am sure if I had the knowledge to follow your instructions I would have the stock version installed right now.
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No problem. it's good that you have a nandroid backup.

[Q] Restore TWRP nandroid from PC

I'm a newbie and I am in trouble. I have a rooted Nexus 7 2013 and I have a TWRP Nandroid backup which I had copied to my WIndows PC.
Now my Nexus 7 crashed and won't go beyond the X on bootup. The Nandroid and Titanium backups are on my windows PC.
How do I restore the Nexus 7 to working status by restoring from the Nandroid backup and data I have copied to the PC?
Please help. Thanks.

Guys, someone please help.
I don't know how to get out of this mess. I'm still stuck on X.
I can power off the Nexus 7 and power to the recovery screen where I find Teamwin's menu.
I restored (several times) the nandroid backups I found on this menu (they were all done after the last reset) but rebooting then just gets me back to the X screen and no further.
I have a good nandroid backup on my PC but no way to get it into the tablet so TWRP can restore from it. Is there a way to transfer a file to or from the tablet when it will not boot completely?
The advanced screen of the Teamwin recovery menu lets me access a file manager. Is there any way I can use it to move files on or off the tablet to "anything" else?
The last time the boot froze on the X screen, I was able to go to the recovery screen with the android on his back and an X and from there to a reset. But this time I cannot get there and the recovery screen gets me to the Teamwin recovery menu. This has a wipe option. Will this reset the Nexus if selected. Will it remove root? I don't want to go through rooting it all over again.
Essentially I just want to do 2 things:
a) extract data from the stuck Nexus 7
b) reset and restore the nandroid backup I have on my pc.
Please help.......

Bill235 said:
Guys, someone please help.
I don't know how to get out of this mess. I'm still stuck on X.
I can power off the Nexus 7 and power to the recovery screen where I find Teamwin's menu.
I restored (several times) the nandroid backups I found on this menu (they were all done after the last reset) but rebooting then just gets me back to the X screen and no further.
I have a good nandroid backup on my PC but no way to get it into the tablet so TWRP can restore from it. Is there a way to transfer a file to or from the tablet when it will not boot completely?
The advanced screen of the Teamwin recovery menu lets me access a file manager. Is there any way I can use it to move files on or off the tablet to "anything" else?
The last time the boot froze on the X screen, I was able to go to the recovery screen with the android on his back and an X and from there to a reset. But this time I cannot get there and the recovery screen gets me to the Teamwin recovery menu. This has a wipe option. Will this reset the Nexus if selected. Will it remove root? I don't want to go through rooting it all over again.
Essentially I just want to do 2 things:
a) extract data from the stuck Nexus 7
b) reset and restore the nandroid backup I have on my pc.
Please help.......
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Just choose the wipe option in twrp.
That should allow you to start android.
Then copy your backup from PC to virtual sdcard, reboot to twrp, and restore.
You can copy files while in recovery but it is more involved so I would try this first.

sfhub said:
Just choose the wipe option in twrp.
That should allow you to start android.
Then copy your backup from PC to virtual sdcard, reboot to twrp, and restore.
You can copy files while in recovery but it is more involved so I would try this first.
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But will it remove the root I worked so hard to get?

If you worked hard to get root on a Nexus device you did something wrong. It should be as simple as unlocking the bootloader (already done), flashing a custom recovery (already done), and flashing the SuperSU ZIP file (this is the only step you'd need to repeat).
That said, doing a factory reset should not remove root. Even if it does, it would be restored when you restored your rooted Nandroid.

raptir said:
If you worked hard to get root on a Nexus device you did something wrong. It should be as simple as unlocking the bootloader (already done), flashing a custom recovery (already done), and flashing the SuperSU ZIP file (this is the only step you'd need to repeat).
That said, doing a factory reset should not remove root. Even if it does, it would be restored when you restored your rooted Nandroid.
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Easy for an expert. I'm a newbie. I used the WUGfresh toolkit and it took multiple frustratng attempts and forever for it to finally download the correct adb drivers that would recognize the Nexus 7. Then all went smoothly.
But back to the present. I'm all fine now (till the next time the Nexus 7 crashes on me). For other newbies like me who run into this problem and need simple instructions here is what I did.
The first time this crash with the boot stuck on the X screen happened, going to the recovery screen (Power button + Volume up simultaneously) showed me the android on his back with a red triangle. Pressing power button and briefly volume up gave me the option to reset the tablet without removing root. Because I was traveling and did not have my TWRP backups with me (they were on my laptop 1,000 miles away) this removed all my data and I had to re-install all my apps and everything again.
The second time this happened, the recovery screen took me to the TWRP recovery screen. TWRP recovery had apparently survived the crash. I needed to save my data before reseting the tablet again. By trial and error I discovered that the TWRP menu has under the Advanced Tab a file manager. also discovered that if you connect a flash device to the tablet's usb port the TWRP file manager could read and write to it (!!!) in a folder called usb-otg (but not to my windows laptop). I copied what I wanted to save to the flash drive. Then I used the "wipe" tool to return the tablet to android.
I installed a free app, Recovery Manager, to reinstall TWRP recovery. Copied my previous TWRP nandroid backup to the tablet and restored everything as it was.
Easy as pie if you know how. I hope this helps some other befuddled user.
sfhub and raptir: Do you know what can be done to prevent this from happening again? Could Google Play being conected to in Europe after it was used to being to conected to in the US cause the problem? Both times the crashes happened shortly after I used the tablet in Europe and the the second time after I used it for the first time in the US.

Bill235 said:
sfhub and raptir: Do you know what can be done to prevent this from happening again? Could Google Play being conected to in Europe after it was used to being to conected to in the US cause the problem? Both times the crashes happened shortly after I used the tablet in Europe and the the second time after I used it for the first time in the US.
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I can't say for sure what is happening in your case, but in my experience getting stuck on X means your user data got corrupted. The cases I've seen fall into 2 categories:
1) faulty EMMC flash memory. Sometimes if you wipe a couple of times the bad blocks get locked out and you don't see the problem anymore. Other times, they keep coming back. In the latter case, return/exchange/rma the unit
2) android crashes (random reboot) and unfinished writes are not completed corrupting the user data. They put in code in the latest ROM to mitigate this so if you think you are suffering from this type of corruption, install the latest ROM if you haven't done so already.

Thank you for the excellent and clear reply. I'll hope the 2 wipes I did may have gotten rid of my bad blocks.
I'll update to the latest stock rom too.
Thank you.

Bill235 said:
Thank you for the excellent and clear reply. I'll hope the 2 wipes I did may have gotten rid of my bad blocks.
I'll update to the latest stock rom too.
Thank you.
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The updating part got me in trouble.......
I accepted the system update and am now running android 4.3 but lost root.
So I went back to the WUGfresh Nexus Root kit. Updated everything, am now on version 1.7.3 of the toolkit, followed all the instructions (uninstalled and re-installed driveers) and got stuck on the same problem I had the first time I tried rooting: the adb : step3 of the full driver test. adb device not found .
I did reboot twice, am using the oem asus cable, etc. What a pain!!
Unfortunately I am dependant on the toolkit because I do not know enough to root manually.
Suggestions? Thanks.

Bill235 said:
The updating part got me in trouble.......
I accepted the system update and am now running android 4.3 but lost root.
So I went back to the WUGfresh Nexus Root kit. Updated everything, am now on version 1.7.3 of the toolkit, followed all the instructions (uninstalled and re-installed driveers) and got stuck on the same problem I had the first time I tried rooting: the adb : step3 of the full driver test. adb device not found .
I did reboot twice, am using the oem asus cable, etc. What a pain!!
Unfortunately I am dependant on the toolkit because I do not know enough to root manually.
Suggestions? Thanks.
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So you're stock 4.3 now? Rooting manually isn't hard bud, setting up the toolkit is harder IMO.
You just need to download and install the Android SDK. Then download a custom recovery .img file, and a SuperSU flashable zip. Put the SuperSu flashable zip on your /sdcard. You'll then boot into the bootloader, open a command prompt and change directories to your Android SDK (Ex. mine is at C:\sdk\platform-tools) and run the command: fastboot flash <name of recovery file>.img
Then reboot into recovery, flash the SuperSU zip, reboot, done. You're rooted. There are plenty of How To's stickied in the General Forums for the N7 here.

RMarkwald said:
So you're stock 4.3 now? Rooting manually isn't hard bud, setting up the toolkit is harder IMO.
You just need to download and install the Android SDK. Then download a custom recovery .img file, and a SuperSU flashable zip. Put the SuperSu flashable zip on your /sdcard. You'll then boot into the bootloader, open a command prompt and change directories to your Android SDK (Ex. mine is at C:\sdk\platform-tools) and run the command: fastboot flash <name of recovery file>.img
Then reboot into recovery, flash the SuperSU zip, reboot, done. You're rooted. There are plenty of How To's stickied in the General Forums for the N7 here.
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Will look into your suggestions later because I am rooted again. It was the adb drivers again. The universal ones just would not work for me. The Samsung signed drivers on the other hand worked smoothly and then the toolkit ran smoothly and I am rooted. But it wiped out my TWRP recovery so I will re-install that next.
Thanks for the help.
About your advice, than you. But as a newbie I need clearer instructions. "download and install the Android SDK". Where? to the pc or the tablet? etc.
I need to learn more so I don't keep getting into these ridiculous binds!

Bill235 said:
Will look into your suggestions later because I am rooted again. It was the adb drivers again. The universal ones just would not work for me. The Samsung signed drivers on the other hand worked smoothly and then the toolkit ran smoothly and I am rooted. But it wiped out my TWRP recovery so I will re-install that next.
Thanks for the help.
About your advice, than you. But as a newbie I need clearer instructions. "download and install the Android SDK". Where? to the pc or the tablet? etc.
I need to learn more so I don't keep getting into these ridiculous binds!
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Review the General forum for the N7 2013 here, as there are threads stickied to the top of that forum which has write-ups and video how to's that'll explain it all. I suggest to review those FIRST before you try doing things just so you can get a picture of what's going on. It may seem like a lot, but once you do it, it really is not.
The Android SDK is installed on your computer.

ZE551KL keeps rebooting into Twrp

I was fooling around with my phone and decided to try to update to MM. I downloaded the update to my sd card and fastbooted into stock recovery. I selected apply update from sd card and then selected the update file. It stuck on verifying update package for about 40 minuets at which time I was thoroughly pissed and pulled the battery. It booted into twrp when I restarted it. I selected one of my backups which twrp said was installed successfully. When I reboot it comes right back to twrp every time. what can I do to fix this.
Edit: Twrp is permanently installed on my phone, the use of stock recovery was a one time deal.
My Phone: ZE551KL-ZOOTD
Rooted: Yes
Bootloader unlocked: Yes

You stopped it mid-install... 40 minutes is not a long time. Rule number one of updating firmware, ALWAYS let it finish.
You've corrupted the system and probably boot. You'll need to download and reflash system through ADB.

willcall said:
I was fooling around with my phone and decided to try to update to MM. I downloaded the update to my sd card and fastbooted into stock recovery. I selected apply update from sd card and then selected the update file. It stuck on verifying update package for about 40 minuets at which time I was thoroughly pissed and pulled the battery. It booted into twrp when I restarted it. I selected one of my backups which twrp said was installed successfully. When I reboot it comes right back to twrp every time. what can I do to fix this.
My Phone: ZE551KL-ZOOTD
Rooted: Yes
Bootloader unlocked: Yes
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First you said you use stock recovery. And then you said it reboots into TWRP. Which one is it?
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kenbo111 said:
First you said you use stock recovery. And then you said it reboots into TWRP. Which one is it?
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk
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Twrp is installed on my phone. I used fastboot to temporarily boot into stock recovery using the command "fastboot boot recovery.img" where the stock recovery is in my adb and fastboot folder. After I pulled the battery and restarted the phone it booted into twrp and that is where I am now

The problem has been solved. Apparently Twrp handles the factory reset differently than the stock recovery. I tried the factory reset in Twrp two or three times with no luck. I figured what the hell, before I wipe the everything and reinstall I would give stock recovery a try.
Fastbooted stock recovery, wiped the cache, did a factory reset, and when I rebooted my phone had been magically restored. I don't know how to delete this thread so if the moderators will, delete it. Thanks

hi i have a same problem . im stuck in my twrp . i already have a custom rom. but accidentally wipe my fone using restore factory data after that istuck on twrp.. i dnt have idea what should i do . i already put another custom rom but nothng happens still in twrp after rebooting.. btw im using asus zenfone 2 laser z00ld.. thank you plss help me

Fix for bootloop in twrp
Had the same issue earlier than i came to this simple trick(by experimenting).
Follow the steps:
1. Extract the boot.img from any rom zip file you have.
2. Move that boot.img to memory card and plug that memory card to the phone having reboot problem.
3. Now boot in twrp and click install--> image--> and locate the boot.img file in memory card.
4. Finally select boot option in twrp install screen, and finally slide to install.
Hope it will fix ur problem. Cant post the link. I am new to xda so.

Twrp wont work,so i have no backup.. help!

I had a rooted phone with twrp. someone told me about the nougat preview so I decided to try it. I got it... but its slow, choppy, and buggy. I attempted to boot into recovery to restore. it didn't work, it said no command. so, I flashed twrp. but when I try to boot into twrp I'm stuck at the logo with "teamwin". I just want everything back!i need my backup. help!! nothing I tried worked. booting into it in the command prompt didn't work either and I tried erasing recovery then reflashing . same issue. help.... also, I don't understand many technical terms and ive only had an android for 5 months. I just really need help!!

starlitserenity said:
I had a rooted phone with twrp. someone told me about the nougat preview so I decided to try it. I got it... but its slow, choppy, and buggy. I attempted to boot into recovery to restore. it didn't work, it said no command. so, I flashed twrp. but when I try to boot into twrp I'm stuck at the logo with "teamwin". I just want everything back!i need my backup. help!! nothing I tried worked. booting into it in the command prompt didn't work either and I tried erasing recovery then reflashing . same issue. help.... also, I don't understand many technical terms and ive only had an android for 5 months. I just really need help!!
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I'm new to the 5X but have been using Nexus devices for a while. The 5X is different though. From my understanding, the data on the device is encrypted. TWRP can't read the contents on the internal storage as it is. At least not on the Dev Preview. In order to allow it to read the storage, you need to decrypt the data which means you need a custom boot.img. There is one around here somewhere. just fastboot flash it and install TWRP again. I can't recall if it wipes the data so you might want to backup your TWRP backup to a computer before doing it. After flashing everything, move your backup back to your device and restore it.
Don't just take my word for it though. Read through stuff first. That's just my basic understanding of how it works to get you started.
EDIT: depending on how you got the preview on your device, if you opted in for the beta and got the OTA, you can sign out of the beta and another OTA will be sent to your phone to revert back to Marshmallow. Then go through the process of installing TWRP and your backup. This will probably be faster than I mentioned above. But transfer your backup to your computer first because that does wipe your device.

Pixel 2 xl stuck on white screen with G on it and status bar underneath

Phone is stuck on this white screen with the G on it and the status bar scrolling over and over. Phone is unlocked and rooted and i was having trouble installing a recovery onto it. I just spent 3 hours setting everything up. Do i have to wipe and start again?

equlizer said:
Phone is stuck on this white screen with the G on it and the status bar scrolling over and over. Phone is unlocked and rooted and i was having trouble installing a recovery onto it. I just spent 3 hours setting everything up. Do i have to wipe and start again?
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What did you flash to cause this?? Did you try a hard restart by holding the power button down until it starts rebooting?

Tried a hard restart and same thing happens. I was trying to install TWRP using skipsoft toolkit #6 option.

equlizer said:
Tried a hard restart and same thing happens. I was trying to install TWRP using skipsoft toolkit #6 option.
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Since I'm not familiar with toolkits, or their interface, I'll let someone else take over. Have you considered using adb and fastboot commands to accomplish your task?

I would if i knew what i was doing I just tried the wipe everything option and now it says "cant load android system. Your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message, you may need to perform a factory reset and erase all user data stored on this device"
Well i did that and i get that same message over and over again. How do i start fresh? I have the image on my computer

equlizer said:
I would if i knew what i was doing I just tried the wipe everything option and now it says "cant load android system. Your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message, you may need to perform a factory reset and erase all user data stored on this device"
Well i did that and i get that same message over and over again. How do i start fresh? I have the image on my computer
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If you want to continue using the toolkit, I would post your problems in that thread. The folks that made it will be more qualified to help you than I could.

i went into bootloader mode and did the flash all. The phone reboots and comes back with the same message "cant load android"
I dont care what i use to get things working again. pls help.

equlizer said:
i went into bootloader mode and did the flash all. The phone reboots and comes back with the same message "cant load android"
I dont care what i use to get things working again. pls help.
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I will try my best.
1. You have definitely unlocked_critical correct. If you haven't, you need to.
2. Have you downloaded SDK on your pc? You need this as well. You can find a link to it on Google's factory image page.
3. You have downloaded the latest factory image and unzipped it with the 7zip program.
4. Inside the SDK program, look for a file called platform tools.
5. You need to take the contents you extracted from the factory image, and place them in the platform tools folder. That includes: Radio, bootloader, the flash-all.bat file, and another large zip file that contains the boot, system, vendor and about 16 other things.
6. Put your phone into bootloader mode and plug it into the pc. Open a command prompt from the platform tools folder and type "fastboot devices" if your phone ID comes up, your good.
7. Double click the flash-all.bat file, and that should start the installation process. It will take a little while to install the OS, so be patient. If all goes well, your phone should automatically boot up.
8. I will try and find a link for all this installation stuff.
9. Good luck!
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to/guide-unlock-flash-root-pixel-2-xl-t3702418
Here is a link to instructions written by one of the best kernel developers out there. Read it carefully if what I gave you doesn't make sense.

Tried it this morning and when i go to root with magisk (followed every step) i get the white screen with the G and the bar scrolling

equlizer said:
Tried it this morning and when i go to root with magisk (followed every step) i get the white screen with the G and the bar scrolling
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Did you ever get your phone to boot up on stock system?

Badger50 said:
Did you ever get your phone to boot up on stock system?
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Not sure how i did it but it seems to have reverted back to complete stock. Everything setup after but when it rebooted it said "this device cannot be trusted, hit the power button to continue" so i do and it seems to boot back into the phone. How do i get rid of that message?
Ive never had so many issues with a phone before.

How do i get rid of that message?
once you had the Bootloader unlocked in this phone it will display that message in every boot, there is no way to get rid of it at this moment.

equlizer said:
Not sure how i did it but it seems to have reverted back to complete stock. Everything setup after but when it rebooted it said "this device cannot be trusted, hit the power button to continue" so i do and it seems to boot back into the phone. How do i get rid of that message?
Ive never had so many issues with a phone before.
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A lot of trouble people have with these phones has to do with the A/B partitions, glitches in cables, sdk, PC's, ghosts in the machine, and users not taking the time to read and learn what to do. Anyway, glad you got it going. Your welcome.

Everything else worked except for the rooting with magisk. when it patches the image using manager 5.4.3 it says its downloading version 14.0 not 14.5. I go to flash the patched boot img then it just reboots to the white screen with the G and it hangs there till i shut it off.

equlizer said:
Everything else worked except for the rooting with magisk. when it patches the image using manager 5.4.3 it says its downloading version 14.0 not 14.5. I go to flash the patched boot img then it just reboots to the white screen with the G and it hangs there till i shut it off.
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Manually download 14.5 and flash it in twrp. Or, take the stock boot.img, place it on your phones internal storage, open magisk, hit install, and select patch boot (I think) Then take the patched_boot.img and flash that with fastboot. Either way should give you root.

I already said I patched it using the magisk I installed but when I flash it I get the G on the white screen. I can't even get twrp to stick. This was all using 8.1 but now I'm on 8.0. I guess I'll try again?

equlizer said:
I already said I patched it using the magisk I installed but when I flash it I get the G on the white screen. I can't even get twrp to stick. This was all using 8.1 but now I'm on 8.0. I guess I'll try again?
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What twrp version are you using? So, you can fastboot the twrp-3.1.1-beta2-taimen-img but then are unable to flash the twrp.zip once you enter temporary twrp?

I just downloaded twrp 3.1.1 beta 2 taimen.img and the zip
how do i fastboot the img?
then from there do i flash magisk 14.5.zip then reboot and install magisk manager 5.4.3 then check for root?

equlizer said:
I just downloaded twrp 3.1.1 beta 2 taimen.img and the zip
how do i fastboot the img?
then from there do i flash magisk 14.5.zip then reboot and install magisk manager 5.4.3 then check for root?
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Go to fastboot and type: fastboot boot twrp-3.1.1-beta2-taimen.img
That should immediately take you temporary twrp where you then flash the twrp.zip, and then flash your magisk zip. That should also install the magisk app as well.

it takes me to the screen where it says "this devices cannot be trusted" so i hit the power button then it just reboots into android 8.0. I appreciate all the help