I have an Asus Zenfone 2 Z00AD (ZE551ML). I tried to unlock the bootloader, which turned out to be a disaster as when the bat file said "All done", I wasn't able to get any input or display from the device. However, my computer was able to "Recognize" it by playing "Device plugged in" sound and then "Device plugged off" sound (I guess the device was still functional?). I tried to un-brick it using the xFSTK download tool and the ASUS Flash Tool, which again yielded the same result being the phone's not responding but still being recognized. I managed to get it into OS (with the boot animation thing) but I noticed that whenever i went to the bootloader and restart into recovery mode, the device shows the "ASUS" logo, then flashes and then it continues to boot into OS, not the recovery. I've tried flashing the recovery through fastboot but that didn't work as well. I don't even know what to do right now. Does anyone here know how to fix it? I need to get the device functional as soon as possible.
Try to flash custom recovery in fastboot mode
(If your bootloader is unlocked)
You have not lost your recovery partition, you only haven’t a recovery image properly installed. You have to flash a recovery (fastboot flash recovery.img) suitable for your os configuration (which is compatible with the boot loader version, divided in Lollipop and Marshmallow).
You can find here the latest TWRP.
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Hello all,
I have Zenfone 2 on which I intended to use a custom ROM.
So the first thing was to unlock the bootloader.
On previous occasion, on my Nexus, I had used the - fastboot oem unlock - command and it had worked. So with that in mind, I booted into the bootloader and tried the command, but it failed - saying oem command unrecognized.
Then I searched online and apparently, to unlock the bootloader, Asus has launched an app! But to be able to install the app, I need to get a normal boot happening, which is not happening now.
In between all this, I tried the commands - fastboot flash recovery <recovery.img>, fastboot flash boot <boot.img> too. But none of these were successful, and each of them returned a 'Permission denied' message, probably coz the bootloader was locked.
Now the situation is that -
- Bootloader is locked.
- Phone is stuck in bootloader
- There is no recovery installed. In fact, from the bootloader, when I try to boot into 'Recovery Mode', it goes there for a second and returns back to the bootloader. Doesn't show the normal android image with a 'X' on top.
- There is no root access.
Now I think the first step is to get root access, and for this I want to try the method with installing CWM recovery and SuperSu.
But for this, I need to be able to push the SuperSu.zip to the phone, which I am not able to.
Can somebody please help!
r the drivers for fastboot & adb update to date?
Android version?
If the phone is stuck in bootloader, you can use Asus Flash Tool to flash .raw files and unbrick the phone.
Raw files: https://yadi.sk/d/FijRoAVJtvRiG
AFT: https://yadi.sk/d/NQCiY--IsQjBr (I use AsusFlashToolInstaller1.0.0.14.exe).
you can use Asus Flash Tool to flash .raw files and unbrick the phone.
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Have to choose wipe the data or not?
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Have to choose wipe the data or not?
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stay away from aft. if will f**k up yor device completely. AFT is too unstable. lot of times it bricks the device to unrecoverable state. tell me the bootloader version, ifwi version shown on screen while in bootloader mode.
So I already had a rooted (and I'm pretty sure unlocked bootlader) version of the stock Asus and wanted to put CM13 nightly on there. Everything was going smooth until I got to the stage where I have to load into TWRP and I got the error screen with the little dead alien and the red symbol.
Now I can't enter normal boot, but entering recovery mode seems to work. I tried the option to side load a package from ADB on that screen but nothing worked (.zip files extracted, but I got an error on the phone).
As you can tell, I'm really new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried looking around, but it seems the more common issue is people not being able to enter recovery mode or something similar.
Thanks
Looks like your doing it wrong. Being rooted does not necessarily mean that your bootloader is unlocked.
By the looks of it your in recovery mode with the dead robot with the "error" message. That is normal. To reboot back into system you either have to press (I don't remember) power button and volume up or down button. Then you should see some options with reboot to system. Or if that does not work you can hold the power button till it turns off.
Then you get back into Android, download the official bootloader unlock tool from ASUS and install it on your device. NOTE: If you updated to MM then this will not work and this will void your warranty.
Run the tool and press unlock and it should reboot into fastboot where it should begin the unlocking process. I believe it should automatically reboot and you should see that the Asus logo is now black instead of white. If not, repeat the process.
You can now proceed to flash twrp recovery. Boot into fastboot/bootloader mode either with "adb reboot bootloader" or hold a specific set of buttons while off to go directly into fastboot.
On the computer, connect your device and type in "fastboot flash recovery (path to twrp IMG without brackets)"
When done you should be able to reboot into twrp recovery where you can flash the cm13 zip.
Hope this helped.
Note : I have never posted on XDA before, when I'm posting this I'm stressed as hell so I searched quickly on the internet but nothing helped so
Here I go, I recently rooted (with twrp) my LG G4 and I installed Cyanogen 13 on it. (i followed this guide : /watch?v=P_9HasZKwWA)
Then I installed Flashfire and it told me I didn't have root access (which I had) and because I'm stupid I installed SuperSU which told me to do someting with the recovery mode, which the phone did. It flashed something with TWRP and now I'm stuck in Bootloop (the little blue droid) and I can't get in recovery mode with the Power+Downvolume technique.
I am desperate, please help me... My PC recognizes the phone (you know it makes this little noise) but doesn't show it...
I GOT IT!!!
You need to hardreset the phone (find on google) and then it's all good!
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Note : I have never posted on XDA before, when I'm posting this I'm stressed as hell so I searched quickly on the internet but nothing helped so
Here I go, I recently rooted (with twrp) my LG G4 and I installed Cyanogen 13 on it. (i followed this guide : /watch?v=P_9HasZKwWA)
Then I installed Flashfire and it told me I didn't have root access (which I had) and because I'm stupid I installed SuperSU which told me to do someting with the recovery mode, which the phone did. It flashed something with TWRP and now I'm stuck in Bootloop (the little blue droid) and I can't get in recovery mode with the Power+Downvolume technique.
I am desperate, please help me... My PC recognizes the phone (you know it makes this little noise) but doesn't show it...
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Probably you have lost recovery system.
The only way to get rid is fastboot mode.
Is phone booting in fastboot ? If bootlogo is coming then probably it will.
Google for it how to enter & flash image in fastboot mode.
Learn how to use ADB & Minimal Fastboot
As you will be doing first time,
1. do not flash all the partitions i.e. boot, rcovery, system, data, cache etc.
2. Download suitable TWRP version for your phone , Start your phone in fastboot and give a comand in adb "fastboot boot twrp.img" this will boot in to twrp mode & you can acess your phone. If this is sucessfull then,
2. First only flash recovery i.e. "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" command only.
goto "en.miui.com/thread-307022-1-1.html" here is a complete guide but this is for xiomi phone, LG will have similer type of arrangement.
Flash TWRP in recovery partition i.e. "fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img" then enter into TWRP by rebooting and flash any ROM thru TWRP.
I can get my Zenfone 2 up to the fastboot screen, but no further.
Under PC device manager is shows "Android-Phone" as the device, but no drivers loaded.
I've tried a few different drivers, but even though they seem to install OK, "Android-Phone" (in device manager) still won't show as having a driver.
Some threads say I have to enable Android Debugging, but how to do that when the ONLY screen I can get on the phone is fastboot??
Help???
Boowho??
You can try this.
1. Uninstall all drivers for phone you installed on PC, then reboot.
2. Disable antivirus on PC then install standard Intel android device usb drivers. You can download them from Asus website. Then reboot again.
3. Connect phone to PC in fastboot mode.
4. In the device manager you should see "Asus android device" under which "Asus android bootloader interface".
5. Check connectivity in minimal adb & fastboot software (you can get it from XDA) by command "fastboot devices" without quotes. It should answer "some number<space>fastboot".
If all is ok then you can flash raw stock firmware in fastboot mode & update it to latest version OR unlock bootloader, flash TWRP & install custom rom.
Thank you Sanesh. I got all the img/bin files successful now. However, the ZF2 has this issue when you select recovery from bootloader screen it gives dead android. You can then (extra step) hold power and VOl + and get into stock recovery. This is a flaw in the original firmware, I think.
BUT, this extra step is causing TWRP not to be entered. Stock recovery is OK, but not TWRP.
I had to recover the phone using the SOC drivers; before that TWRP worked perfectly.
Thanks
Have you unlocked bootloader ? Unlock bootloader first then flash twrp using giovix92 method. Then reboot to recovery.
Thanks. Turned out I was using a twrp image that is only for marshmallow. I still use lollipop. Every thing is now back to where it was before I had to recover the thing using the SOC method.
Lesson learned. un-root before trying to upgrade to MM.
Hi guys,
I tried to flash TWRP on my Wiko Lenny 4 earlier.
I used adb and fastboot to flash it, however the touchscreen wouldn't work and I was stuck at the "swipe to allow kernel modifications" screen in TWRP. No problem, I reboot in recovery mode, and switched to fastboot mode.
I found another TWRP image and, after flashing with
-> fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
I typed another command,
- >fastboot boot twrp.img.
Since then I am stuck at the Wiko boot screen, saying:
Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted (initially I unlocked OEM)
Your device will boot in 5 seconds
Whatever combination of power+vol up/down I try to use, it only reboots to this screen.
adb won't reconize any device, as well as fastboot. And both are up-to-date.
Perhaps there exists a recovery image that I can put on my sd card, and hopefully it will automatically boot on the sd card as I don't have any control right now.
If someone has an idea, please tell me.
thanks
[EDIT] Solved
Using this link https://aiomobilestuff.com/how-to-unbrick-wiko-stock-firmware-via-wiko-official-site/
I was able to download Wiko's recovery tool from https://customer-world.wikomobile.com/
After unzipping and starting the software, it automatically installed drivers (I guess, if it does not, mediatek usb wiko drivers can be used instead) and downloaded the software into the phone which works now.