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OS is completely gone on my HTC one X

Hi!
I lend my HTC one X to my friend that said that he would boost my phone up to KitKat 4.4.4. But he returned it completely blank. I am pretty sure he erased the whole system.
When I start the device it stops at the HTC logo. I am able to enter the bootloader and it says "Unlocked". When I enter "Recovery" the device loads a grey screen with a couple of options. The main title is "ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.4.8".
When I connect my phone to the PC it shows the device ( H: ).
Please help, how do I restore my phone? I don't care if it is rooted or not. I just want it to work again.
Kind regards,
Alexander

you can restore your phone either by nandroid backup or by flashing a custom rom..

Poojan Patel said:
you can restore your phone either by nandroid backup or by flashing a custom rom..
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I am not so good at this. Did I not have to have made a backup in nandroid before things got out of hand? The storage seems to be totally deleted. How do I put in an OS again?
I tried to use adb but I might have done it wrong because my PC says that there are no devices found. Are you able to help me?

alera207 said:
I am not so good at this. Did I not have to have made a backup in nandroid before things got out of hand? The storage seems to be totally deleted. How do I put in an OS again?
I tried to use adb but I might have done it wrong because my PC says that there are no devices found. Are you able to help me?
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Download any custom rom, boot into recovery,connect the phone to pc,select usb mass storage in recovery,copy custom rom file and flash.

Poojan Patel said:
Download any custom rom, boot into recovery,connect the phone to pc,select usb mass storage in recovery,copy custom rom file and flash.
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aaah, okey.
How do I transfer nandroid to my phone? I'm unable to connect my phone to my PC, it makes the sound that the PC found my phone but it does not pop up anymore. Tried to search on google and when I looked in sdcard/clockworkmod/ the folder is empty.
Do you have a guide on how to use this? I do not know if it is possible but i am afraid that my friend has erased all data.

Saviour
Follow the steps
-Download latest cyanogenmod nightly(endeavoru) from their website.
-Extract boot.img from the zip.
-Download latest Gapps. Google PA gapps and download the gapps which suits you, from the xda thread.
-Download ONEXROOT.zip from http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/HTCOneX/root
-Extract the zip,name it as 'onexroot' and copy the extracted boot.img to the folder.
-Power phone in fastboot mode.
-While in the onexroot folder, press shift key and right click, open command terminal here.
-type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
-Go to cwm recovery and mount your internal storage.
-Copy the cyanogenmod and gapps zip in internal storage
-Install/Flash the cyanogenmod and gapps zip.
-Reboot phone. Kitkat instaled.

INDIAN-MAfIA said:
Follow the steps
-Download latest cyanogenmod nightly(endeavoru) from their website.
-Extract boot.img from the zip.
-Download latest Gapps. Google PA gapps and download the gapps which suits you, from the xda thread.
-Download ONEXROOT.zip from
-Extract the zip,name it as 'onexroot' and copy the extracted boot.img to the folder.
-Power phone in fastboot mode.
-While in the onexroot folder, press shift key and right click, open command terminal here.
-type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
-Go to cwm recovery and mount your internal storage.
-Copy the cyanogenmod and gapps zip in internal storage
-Install/Flash the cyanogenmod and gapps zip.
-Reboot phone. Kitkat instaled.
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Thank you for a good guide but I got stuck on 'Go to cwm recovery and mount your internal storage'
What I have available in the main menu (IMG_1) is 'mounts and storage'. When I select that I have the options from IMG_2 and IMG_3. If i Choose mount USB storage the device shows IMG_4 but nothing happens.
Am I doing it wrong? The only thing that happens is when I connect my device to the computer, it makes the sound as if it was found.

Try flashing this recovery. http://d-h.st/nmh
Download the image and put it in the onexroot folder.
In fastboot mode, type fastboot flash recovery <name-of-recovery/file>.img
Did this because the cwm mount never worked for me too :/

INDIAN-MAfIA said:
Try flashing this recovery.
Download the image and put it in the onexroot folder.
In fastboot mode, type fastboot flash recovery <name-of-recovery/file>.img
Did this because the cwm mount never worked for me too :/
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Great thanks!
Works like a charm!

Left with Official Twrp

Hi guys, I was trying to install latest beta. Formatted my OS with latest F2FS storage and wiped everything. But my MTP option in recovery is not getting enabled so am not able to copy data to internal Storage. So how can I install OS on it. I have all the zip files , recoveries but since am not able to copy, I am left with recovery only. Any ideas how to install OS.

Use adb side load .. you can find it under advanced ..

anirudhnyg said:
Use adb side load .. you can find it under advanced ..
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I am trying that only. But its saying "cannot read zip ". Which OS to flash using that.

prateek29chandra said:
I am trying that only. But its saying "cannot read zip ". Which OS to flash using that.
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Open the task manager and kill "adb" and try again .. this happened to me too .. it worked after this !
All the best ??

I have the same problem. I'm stuck in TWRP. I tried to flash the Open Beta zip file using TWRP, but it's not installing. Same with ADB sideload, it says it installedm but every time i reboot to system it goes back to TWRP.
Edit: I flashed twrp-3.0.2-22-oneplus3, format storage, flashed Oxygen OS CB Beta 7 and my phone is working again. I'll probably stick with Beta 7 for now.

anirudhnyg said:
Use adb side load .. you can find it under advanced ..
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Or if you can access recovery adb push <update zip> to phone and update from recovery.

anirudhnyg said:
Open the task manager and kill "adb" and try again .. this happened to me too .. it worked after this !
All the best
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Ok Thanks. I couldnt flash official roms. I had to flash CM rom then had to format it again. Flashed Open Beta 8, working smooth. Thanks.

Can't install anything in TWRP

i cannot install anything in TWRP atm
it says "could not find ´META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary´in zip file.
Any bright ideas ?

Citroon said:
i cannot install anything in TWRP atm
it says "could not find ´META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary´in zip file.
Any bright ideas ?
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It looks so simply but did you take a look to your rom zip? open with a zip explorer like winzip in /META-INF/com/google/android and here you must find this file

SubwayChamp said:
It looks so simply but did you take a look to your rom zip? open with a zip explorer like winzip in /META-INF/com/google/android and here you must find this file
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it's not only with the roms, it's with everything
i've tried to flash new firmware, gapps and nothing works :/

well, what version of twrp do you use? try first with oficcial 3.0.2.0, bootloader unlocked? check usb debbugging and allow oem unlock in developer options, sometimes neccessary mount system or enable MTP in recovery

SubwayChamp said:
well, what version of twrp do you use? try first with oficcial 3.0.2.0, bootloader unlocked? check usb debbugging and allow oem unlock in developer options, sometimes neccessary mount system or enable MTP in recovery
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im using the official 3.0.2.0, i currenly have no RoM installed so i can't boot into anything

Citroon said:
im using the official 3.0.2.0, i currenly have no RoM installed so i can't boot into anything
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try first formatting data, wipe everything except where placed your rom zip (int or extSD), mount system and flash again

SubwayChamp said:
try first formatting data, wipe everything except where placed your rom zip (int or extSD), mount system and flash again
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Tried that, still having the error:crying:

Citroon said:
i cannot install anything in TWRP atm
it says "could not find ´META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary´in zip file.
Any bright ideas ?
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ok, go to format the data and then write YES, but u will lose your data, so, backup your files, and then restore them. should be working !!

StonebridgeGr said:
ok, go to format the data and then write YES, but u will lose your data, so, backup your files, and then restore them. should be working !!
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Doesn't work either, this is really weird to me, i've been flashing for a few years now, and never encountered this issue before.
-also note that i'm not amazing at this

Citroon said:
Doesn't work either, this is really weird to me, i've been flashing for a few years now, and never encountered this issue before.
-also note that i'm not amazing at this
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ok. which image did u flash? which guide did u followed to flash twrp ? ( because a newiest image of TWRP RECOVERY for mi max is up )

StonebridgeGr said:
ok. which image did u flash? which guide did u followed to flash twrp ? ( because a newiest image of TWRP RECOVERY for mi max is up )
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i've tried about every RoM available.
I also want to note that i have flashed with this version of TWRP before (3.0.2.0)

StonebridgeGr said:
ok. which image did u flash? which guide did u followed to flash twrp ? ( because a newiest image of TWRP RECOVERY for mi max is up )
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tried about every rom available, and other things just to see what would work and what wouldn't (nothing can flash)
im currently running 3.0.2.0 and have flashed with this version of TWRP before, but suddenly it stopped working

Citroon said:
Tried that, still having the error:crying:
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Probably a bad flashing and you are needing repari partitions, for that I recommend start from beginning again:
- flash miui rom for fastboot (unpack zip rom in your adb folder for better performance, connect device to pc into mode fastboot, be sure device be recogniced typing; fastboot devices then right click mouse and execute like admin over "flash all".
- then to install rom you can flash again twrp via fastboot typing any place adb folder and placing file recovery.img this folder; fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- then go to recovery with hardware keys and flash supersu v.2.79

SubwayChamp said:
Probably a bad flashing and you are needing repari partitions, for that I recommend start from beginning again:
- flash miui rom for fastboot (unpack zip rom in your adb folder for better performance, connect device to pc into mode fastboot, be sure device be recogniced typing; fastboot devices then right click mouse and execute like admin over "flash all".
- then to install rom you can flash again twrp via fastboot typing any place adb folder and placing file recovery.img this folder; fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- then go to recovery with hardware keys and flash supersu v.2.79
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oh boy, i guess im screwed for now then.
i only have access to a macbook for the next few days, tried installing fastboot on it but that's a complete nightmare

Citroon said:
oh boy, i guess im screwed for now then.
i only have access to a macbook for the next few days, tried installing fastboot on it but that's a complete nightmare
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two things; I assume that trying to flash from extSD, if yes with file explorer of recovery copy to internal memory, maybe an issue to reading extSD, also you can to install a newer version of recovery 3.0.3.2 works sometimes for me and last here you have a reading page about install fastboot on mac (nightmare) http://www.stechguide.com/setup-adb-and-fastboot-on-mac-easy-step-by-step-guide/

SubwayChamp said:
two things; I assume that trying to flash from extSD, if yes with file explorer of recovery copy to internal memory, maybe an issue to reading extSD, also you can to install a newer version of recovery 3.0.3.2 works sometimes for me and last here you have a reading page about install fastboot on mac (nightmare) http://www.stechguide.com/setup-adb-and-fastboot-on-mac-easy-step-by-step-guide/
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I finally got it working
I was so stubborn that I decided to install Windows Bootcamp on my mac
it was as simple as reinstalling TWRP and do a clean wipe, now i can install roms and all the other things as i please again.
-Thank you for your help!

[SOLVED] TWRP doesn’t let browse /sdcard files

I am having a problem it happened after I finally got to flash latest CosmicOS and set up a new password on my OP3. So, here’s what basically happened;
Once I got it up and running I noticed that home button and fingerprint sensor was completely disabled, then I tried to set up a new password (completely same password I used to decrypt my storage in TWRP 3.0.2-0) and fingerprint just in case but it didn’t react to me calibrating the fingerprint so I was like, ”alright, gladly I got a backup in TWRP”.
Once I rebooted to recovery it asked for a password as usually, once I typed that exact same password as before it just said wrong password, I tried it twice in case if I made a typo but still invalid password. And then I was panicing and pressed cancel and just rebooted back to OS.
I then removed all passwords there and booted back to recovery again, TWRP doesn’t ask for a password anymore but there’s a slider which says allow modifications or something similar and also there’s read only mode. When I slided the modification thing it just doesn’t show any of my files in sdcard folder when I go to ’Install’ tab but (0mb) instead. I even was able to browse and add files from my pc while phone was plugged in and in recovery mode, not anymore though.
Can anyone give me advice or help to get my oneplus 3 back in use? I have all the important files moved to my pc so I don’t mind losing files I have left in internal storage that much. Not if it’s necessary or easier workaround. thanks for reading this long-ass text :fingers-crossed:
EDIT: Issue SOLVED thanks to @AkR2014. I switched data partition from EXT4 to F2FS and then one more time back to EXT4 in TWRP's Wipe tab. (I was using latest blue_spark's TWRP-3.2.1-x version) and I was able to wipe data, system and both caches afterwards. After that I managed to flash new rom via USB-C to A with mounted USB flash drive on the other end and you know rest of the story. Do note that it WILL clear your internal storage so back up all the necessary files you need. And if you want to stay on F2FS data partition be sure to flash a ROM which supports it
EDIT2: There might be another way to mount your storage in TWRP but this is probably fail-proof method and worked for me

Oh and I couldn’t flash the Gapps in recovery after flashing the CosmicOs and nor I can’t now because of this haha. I can use my email though and send files through it from my another email if that helps

Vaahtopahvi said:
Oh and I couldn’t flash the Gapps in recovery after flashing the CosmicOs and nor I can’t now because of this haha. I can use my email though and send files through it from my another email if that helps
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Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.

tnsmani said:
Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.
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I couldnt find link for eng.stk TWRP, only people talking of it it. and what am I supposed to do with it once I get if you could explain? sorry for nooby questions

tnsmani said:
Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.
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Wait, I think I found it. But the question is can and do I need to update the latest eng.stk’s TWRP through fastboot? And if so, is there instructions topic somewhere?

So here's the latest update: I flashed twrp-3.1.1-2 via fastboot but once I go to recovery it still doesn't let me browse files in /sdcard and if I put new password in OS it doesn't match in TWRP. I have a OS where I can boot to but no Gapps installed.
People say formatting data in TWRP would work, I'm just scared if that doesn't work and won't let me boot to OS anymore (even though I have a TWRP back up which I made before wiping my OxygenOS system data and caches in my pc as well in my phone's storage atm) and I can't flash anything in recovery mode, is there anything I could do? I'm in desperate need of help right now.
In this CosmicOS i am using Android 8.1.0 and I'm afraid something isn't supporting it or so.

Vaahtopahvi said:
So here's the latest update: I flashed twrp-3.1.1-2 via fastboot but once I go to recovery it still doesn't let me browse files in /sdcard and if I put new password in OS it doesn't match in TWRP. I have a OS where I can boot to but no Gapps installed.
People say formatting data in TWRP would work, I'm just scared if that doesn't work and won't let me boot to OS anymore (even though I have a TWRP back up which I made before wiping my OxygenOS system data and caches in my pc as well in my phone's storage atm) and I can't flash anything in recovery mode, is there anything I could do? I'm in desperate need of help right now.
In this CosmicOS i am using Android 8.1.0 and I'm afraid something isn't supporting it or so.
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As I said, flash eng.stk's TWRP. Simply flash the image to Recovery partition using the TWRP you already have. After that, wipe everything and clean flash the ROM. If anything goes wrong, you can use the Mega Unbrick guide method 2.
Here's the link to TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads

tnsmani said:
As I said, flash eng.stk's TWRP. Simply flash the image to Recovery partition using the TWRP you already have. After that, wipe everything and clean flash the ROM. If anything goes wrong, you can use the Mega Unbrick guide method 2.
Here's the link to TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
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Thanks for the reply and link. I understood most of the parts except flashing the image to Recovery partition. Am I supposed to find the eng.stk’s TWRP from my Install tab in my current TWRP? Because it doesn’t show any files there. Also do I download the latest 3.2.1-x TWRP from the link you provided?

Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks for the reply and link. I understood most of the parts except flashing the image to Recovery partition. Am I supposed to find the eng.stk’s TWRP from my Install tab in my current TWRP? Because it doesn’t show any files there. Also do I download the latest 3.2.1-x TWRP from the link you provided?
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You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.

tnsmani said:
You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.
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he is unable to mount storage via twrp , i have the sol but it will format your whole data / internal storage if your wiling to .
1 ) Go to twrp
2 ) wipe - > Advance wipe > change system file partation
3) if your on F2FS change to ext 4 or vice versa .
4 ) you will be able to mount sdcard
and dont flash this rom again , faceed same issue while flashing some oreo rom .
P.S : do it at your own risk .

AkR2014 said:
he is unable to mount storage via twrp , i have the sol but it will format your whole data / internal storage if your wiling to .
1 ) Go to twrp
2 ) wipe - > Advance wipe > change system file partation
3) if your on F2FS change to ext 4 or vice versa .
4 ) you will be able to mount sdcard
and dont flash this rom again , faceed same issue while flashing some oreo rom .
P.S : do it at your own risk .
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Thanks man :highfive: I have really nothing to lose anyways so I gotta try that lol. How can I know whether I am on F2FS or EXT 4 though? And once it’s done can I access to my phone storage while it’s in recovery mode and just paste new rom to internal storage? Or do I need to push the rom via adb while in fastboot mode? Thinking to try out Paranoid rom which is based on Nougat, right?

tnsmani said:
You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.
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Thanks for clarification tnsmani, appreciate the time you put into it. But as the person who replied to your text, I cannot mount the storage in TWRP which would prevent me of flashing pretty much anything on phone in TWRP.

Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks man :highfive: I have really nothing to lose anyways so I gotta try that lol. How can I know whether I am on F2FS or EXT 4 though? And once it’s done can I access to my phone storage while it’s in recovery mode and just paste new rom to internal storage? Or do I need to push the rom via adb while in fastboot mode? Thinking to try out Paranoid rom which is based on Nougat, right?
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yap you will be able to access your internal storage as well flash any thing you want from internal storage , no need to push via adb , use deskinfo app from playstore to check
the format of your data partition. yah try Omni 8.1.0 really awsome rom i am currently using. :laugh:

Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks for clarification tnsmani, appreciate the time you put into it. But as the person who replied to your text, I cannot mount the storage in TWRP which would prevent me of flashing pretty much anything on phone in TWRP.
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If you are able to boot into fastboot mode, you can install TWRP through ADB.
But you can not copy, paste in TWRP.

AkR2014 said:
yap you will be able to access your internal storage as well flash any thing you want from internal storage , no need to push via adb , use deskinfo app from playstore to check
the format of your data partition. yah try Omni 8.1.0 really awsome rom i am currently using. :laugh:
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Great to hear that. Though I don’t have Gapps installed. Accidentally tried to flash the wrong one before the mounting problem occurred and now you know rest of the story :laugh:
I’ll try to find another way to check it though. Oh and as well as the ROM

TWRP

In TWRP I cann't not find .Zip (/sdcard). What should I do?
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wikiuse said:
In TWRP I cann't not find .Zip (/sdcard). What should I do?
Picture: https://uphinh.org/image/20200520-204525.uxojl7
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TWRP is support MTP, you can use it

redymedan said:
TWRP is support MTP, you can use it
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I know that but I can not find .ZIP file to flash module.

wikiuse said:
I know that but I can not find .ZIP file to flash module.
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Hello,
Your files are still encrypted from when you came from the stock ROM.
Please flash the file that is attached to this reply in TWRP.

Help me,
After flash twrp and boot to twrp. I did fully wipe and flash multi-disabler.zip as introducetion.
Then flash magisk20.4.zip
1) at twrp, chose reboot => system. Phone boot successfully.
2) turn off phone, then boot to twrp, i choose reboot => recovery (to boot with magisk), got stuck on lock screen and alway reboot. (Bootlop)
How to fix my problem plz?