So a few days back something happened to my SD card and all of a sudden a day later after it hung, both rom and recovery got deleted. Even the SD card is wiped. I had RR 7.1 with twrp installed. I can access fastboot and tried installing the 4.3 firmware for India, but I get an error 'bundle doesn't match device' from flashtool. Even tried using xperifirm and generated a custom IN firmware, and it didn't work, same error. Currently only the default Android recovery is present on the device. Also, there's a aerror at the bottom of the recovery '/misc/ not found'.
Any clue what to do from here on?
nvm, fixed it using 2016 version of flashtool. idk how to close the thread.
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I tried to factory format my phone through TWRP, then when I tried to restart again, it never comes back.
I still have access to TWRP, but when I install zip files I downloaded, it always failed. I tried to use Odin, it failed to flash an image in.
Plz help me.
Many thanks.
Gambinohe said:
I tried to factory format my phone through TWRP, then when I tried to restart again, it never comes back.
I still have access to TWRP, but when I install zip files I downloaded, it always failed. I tried to use Odin, it failed to flash an image in.
Plz help me.
Many thanks.
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What format option did you select in TWRP and hope you didn't accidently remove your OS? The device could fail to boot if you don't have an OS installed. You may be able to flash a complete stock restore image via TWRP. Would you recall what Android version you were on before the brick? Also what is your phone model and carrier?
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What format option did you select in TWRP and hope you didn't accidently remove your OS? The device could fail to boot if you don't have an OS installed. You may be able to flash a complete stock restore image via TWRP. Would you recall what Android version you were on before the brick? Also what is your phone model and carrier?
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Mine was ATT S3 I747 with Android 4.3 system. I did wipe my OS during recovery. That caused the whole problem. Then I use TWRP to flash a system and a kernel in. I was unable to flash bootloader and modem in; I did not know what is the problem. The weird thing is that I successfully start my phone and used it for a while. When I rebooted it, it dies again. I tried to install the some boot update in this January. It never works again. Any advise?
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Mine was ATT S3 I747 with Android 4.3 system. I did wipe my OS during recovery. That caused the whole problem. Then I use TWRP to flash a system and a kernel in. I was unable to flash bootloader and modem in; I did not know what is the problem. The weird thing is that I successfully start my phone and used it for a while. When I rebooted it, it dies again. I tried to install the some boot update in this January. It never works again. Any advise?
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You can try flashing a complete stock system to get your phone back to working condition. Since you already had 4.3, flashing zips often fails if there is a bootloader incompatibility. The stock restore should do it. Please go to the following thread ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
Download the stock restore zip to your PC. Use another device or something to load it to a (micro) SD card. Insert the card into your phone. Boot into recovery mode and flash from TWRP. When done, wipe your cache/dalvik and reboot to system. Let's know if this works for you.
My non-rooted GT-N7100 didn't want to boot after a longer period without battery charge. After fully charging, i got this screen: dropbox dot com/s/jy8sirmpgp6zm7h/20140823_214100.jpg
Later, i got the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue"-message. I tried to flash the latest stock ROM (via ODIN, from sammobile, checked MD5) but I get a fail when writing system.img.
So I decided to flash a custom recovery (twrp v2.8.0.1) (and trip knox..) to flash via an OTG-cable, but this also doesn't work.
TWRP tells me there is "no OS installed" when trying to reboot.
What am I doing wrong?
Wensjong said:
My non-rooted GT-N7100 didn't want to boot after a longer period without battery charge. After fully charging, i got this screen: dropbox dot com/s/jy8sirmpgp6zm7h/20140823_214100.jpg
Later, i got the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue"-message. I tried to flash the latest stock ROM (via ODIN, from sammobile, checked MD5) but I get a fail when writing system.img.
So I decided to flash a custom recovery (twrp v2.8.0.1) (and trip knox..) to flash via an OTG-cable, but this also doesn't work.
TWRP tells me there is "no OS installed" when trying to reboot.
What am I doing wrong?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922461
try the steps under "3. Odin Instructions for the Samsung Galaxy S III "based" devices".
TWRP recovery should not be an issue if you rooted your phone before installing it. But, if you somehow have messed it up, try getting the firmware from Sammobile and flash it using odin. That should also replace your recovery to stock.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
I can flash a bootloader, recovery, pit-file, .. I'm using the right cable/drivers/.. It's just impossible to flash system.img to that partition. Twrp/philz/cwmrecovery give me an error when trying to wipe. Is it possible that that partition is corrupt?
I've tried a few stock roms and different custom/pre-rooted roms. None are flashable via odin (1.85, 3.07, 3.09), via adb sideload or USB-stick. I can't mount micro SD cards.
The phone was 4.3 when problems started; does anyone know where i can find the latest universal 4.3 stock rom? Sammobile only shows 4.4 and up..
Bricked?
Try twrp 2.7.2.1. and see if it works.
Hi,
I've just tried and failed to install the "cm-12-20150218-NIGHTLY-nicki" ROM on my phone. Specs are:
Official Android 4.3 Firmware
Model: C1904
Timeline:
Unlocked bootloader according to instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484428
Phone then got stuck in official boot animation (the colourful one)
Didn't bother flashing the "Elixer" kernel as suggested in above thread
Used fastboot to flash the boot.img from the CM zip file
Booted to recovery
Wiped data & cache
Flashed CM & GApps from external SD card
Restarted phone
Phone showed big Android robot animation and then went back to CyanogenMod Recovery
Looking at logs showed "Cannot load volume /misc" error
Found a forum post saying this thread helped with the above error: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-m/development/cwm-twrp-recoveries-cm12-lollipop-t2979752
Tried flashing TWRP recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...very-cwm-twrp-recoveries-custom-roms-t3016507) within CyanogenMod Recovery, but it said the file integrity was bad or something
Used "fastboot flash boot FOTAKernel.img" to flash the above, which worked
Tried to wipe data from within TWRP, but got "failed to mount /data" errors
So the phone is now in a state where:
I can only boot into TWRP
I can't use ADB since the program on the computer won't detect the phone
Fastboot still works
I can't boot into Android
Something seems wrong with "/data"
Any ideas about where to go from here?
I was able to use Flashtool to flash the official firmware back on and boot into it as normal. After doing that and restarting the procedure to install CM12 2015-02-19, this time it installed just fine.
Although I still got errors about "Cannot load volume /misc". Hopefully they don't matter...
Now you have CM12 installed and it is working?
Had the same errors when I tried to flash CM12. Flashing CM11 worked fine but I could not get CM12 to boot...
xa.fr said:
Now you have CM12 installed and it is working?
Had the same errors when I tried to flash CM12. Flashing CM11 worked fine but I could not get CM12 to boot...
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Yeah; it's installed and working fine. When I flashed the official firmware, (Android 4.3) I told Flashtool to flash everything including the kernel. That seemed to put the phone back into a good state, which allowed me to install CM12.
I'm not sure what caused the problem in my case. Maybe it was unlocking the boot loader.
So I came back to official MIUI after 1 month of using LineageOS. And I just found out that the device certification for the device was uncertified. Is it because of the bootloader being unlocked?
EDIT: Tried to reflash the phone using MiFlash, got an error due to repartitioning of the storage. Is there any way to return everything to its stock values?
You will have to first flash the stock recovery via TWRP..
Stock recovery link below:
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=at...xNDE2MTA0NHw2MjM2NzEyMTl8MjU0MDg=&ck=f7e6c025
I used fastboot ROM (aroung 1GB) and flashed via MiFlash.. All worked well and now I'm again back to AICP
Device: Zenfone 2 ZE551ML (WW Z00A)
Current Firmware: UL-Z00A-WW-2.20.40.206-user
Bootloader version: unknown + unlocked
I've seen several tutorials about using fastboot to flash recovery back to normal, but nothing seems to be working for my device. For context, I played around with LineageOS and Mokee for a while until I decided to go back to stock firmware. I had TWRP working, so I just downloaded the original stock, formated all partitions with TWRP and reflashed UL-Z00A-WW-2.20.40.206.
That worked well, but I just realized I am unable to boot into recovery. Everytime I use adb reboot recovery, the device goes into a bootloop. The ASUS logo shows up, then recovery silently fails to load, and finally the phone reboots. This keeps going until I force the device to turn off and reboot into normal mode.
I can adb reboot bootloader and use fastboot to flash recovery images. I have tried several stock recoveries I found in the forum and blog posts. I also tried a recovery.img extracted from the official ASUS firmware package (UL-Z00A-WW-4.21.40.352-user). I also tried different versions of TWRP, most recent and one that was working on my device. No matter which one I flash, the device just won't reach recovery.
I am willing to flash the stock fimware back to the phone and recreate all partitions, if necessary... except I can't even do that because... well... I can't get into recovery!
Does anyone have any tips for a manual fastboot flash of the entire firmware? Can I somehow format and recreate this partition?
I'm thinking about improvising from the steps outlined here, but I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Quick update: after house into the night, I found a way around it!
I eventually came across this post, which has links to a complete list of all Z00A firmwares in RAW format. So I could get a hold of the latest stock firmwares for Android L (2.x) and M (4.x).
Turns out, a RAW image is just a zip file. It's different in the sense that it contains several *.img files that compose the firmware in state ready to be flashed using tools like fastboot. Inside WW_ZE551ML_2.20.40.206_20170627.raw I found a recovery_sign.img, which I was able to flash and use successfully. Great! That recovered the original stock recovery.
After that, I was able to update my firwmare to Asus's latest android M. Strangely enough, I also reflashed TWRP after that and it also works again.
Hopefully, this can help any lost soul in the future.
Best regards to all!
Hello, My Zenfone 2 model Z00AD has stopped at recovery screen and can't get into TWRP. I have used fastboot flash recovery followed by fastboot boot for various img files including 9 of 12 TWRP image files available for this phone. I have tried the recovery file that you obtained from RAW files, but it did not work for my phone.
Any suggestions welcome!