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[Q] Bricked? - need help

Hi guys
So I have been flashing and updating roms quite a few times but this time I did something wrong. I had the latest Leedroid up and running but I wanted to switch my main google account (since I have an paid google apps account thing)
Anyways i enter the settings menu and press the factory reset, but after a reboot I can't get passed the loading screen. All black screen with "ANDROID" in silver letters.
Now normally I would just try and go to the bootloader and reflash, but the problem is I can't get to the bootloader anymore.
I tried running Unrevoked3, but no go.
I tried the R6 from Modaco but the process stops at:
FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)
sending 'zip' (138708 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
Rebooting to bootloader...
Anyone with any ideas? I'd really appreciate it.

Also I tried fake flash. Downloaded the update.zip and put on sdcard (via other computer). Turned on my device with 'volume down' pressed but when I select 'Recovery' I don't get to the exclamation mark page, but rahter to the "fastboot" page where i can go back to bootloader or reboot/power down.

if you have try unrevooked 3..you have installed the adb (fastbootdriver)..? (a link is in the download package....
and if you installed the driver you can go to fast boot (power + hold back button) and try to flash an original ruu
with kind regards..Alex

This might help... go to recovery then partitions menu then mount /sdcard then connect your phone to your pc should give you access to the sd card so you can put a new rom on it

Its working again!!
I got iw working via Unrevoked 3 by installing it on a new computer and reaplying the usb drivers etc. So where my main computer failed when pushing the recovery image it finally worked!
I'm now back up and running again

[Q] HBoot Questions - PD98IMG.zip?

Good afternoon,
I am having serious trouble trying to install my FOTA from Orange (1.84.xx.x) and with little knowledge available on it, I'm trying to break it down piece by piece.
The phone works fine at the moment with the 1.40.xx.x Firmware on it but I do want to install the update.
I can load in to the bootloader no problem but when I do it hangs for a few seconds before a screen appears saying that it has tried to check PD98IMG.zip but it can't be found. It then says it can't find various connotations of that such as PD98xxx.nbh. Is this an issue?
Would not finding these files result in the phone hanging when I try to put it in Recovery mode? I have the FOTA file on the SD card (in the Download folder where it was downloaded to) and wa hoping that clicking Recovery would boot the FOTA file. It doesn't. The system hangs until I either take the battery out or....
.... I press Vol UP (3 seconds) and tap the Power button. This takes me to a new screen with blue writing (Android system Recovery 3e) that gives me the option to either Boot, Apply sdcard:update.zip, Wipe data/factory reset, Wipe cache partition.
I also have yellow writing on the screen with the message, "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command". I can only assume that this is quite important - what is wrong?
As for the update.zip, what is it? Should I rename the FOTA file as update.zip? where should it be put on the SD card to make it available to the Recovery menu?
Many thanks in advance,
AC

Hey did you ever get this fixed? I'm having the same issues. hit me up @ [email protected] please.

[Q] Bricked Nubia N7 Mini?

Hello everyone, i'm new to this forum and i hope anyone can help me. I recently received a Nubia z7 mini. It's an awesome phone! However just tonight i tried to upgrade using the OTA option. When my phone rebooted into the Nubia v1.0 recovery it kept displaying this message:
E: footer error
E: signature verification failure
operation aborted
The phone then rebooted.
I then searched for other ways of updating and this is where i went wrong. I downloaded the latest official update, placed it on my phones external SD and tried to install using flashify. Since the search for zip file option didn't load properly i clicked on 'boot image' (really didn't know what i was doing there). It then loaded the zip file, and asked for my okay. I then rebooted and the phone didn't start anymore, it's just stuck at the Nubia logo. I can get it into recovery mode (Nubia recovery 1.0) but if i try to flash a new rom i keep getting the above errors (footer error and signature verification error).
My phone is not being recognized by windows right now so i cant flash with odin.
Is there a way to fix this phone ?
Many thanks in advance!

Afross said:
Hello everyone, i'm new to this forum and i hope anyone can help me. I recently received a Nubia z7 mini. It's an awesome phone! However just tonight i tried to upgrade using the OTA option. When my phone rebooted into the Nubia v1.0 recovery it kept displaying this message:
E: footer error
E: signature verification failure
operation aborted
The phone then rebooted.
I then searched for other ways of updating and this is where i went wrong. I downloaded the latest official update, placed it on my phones external SD and tried to install using flashify. Since the search for zip file option didn't load properly i clicked on 'boot image' (really didn't know what i was doing there). It then loaded the zip file, and asked for my okay. I then rebooted and the phone didn't start anymore, it's just stuck at the Nubia logo. I can get it into recovery mode (Nubia recovery 1.0) but if i try to flash a new rom i keep getting the above errors (footer error and signature verification error).
My phone is not being recognized by windows right now so i cant flash with odin.
Is there a way to fix this phone ?
Many thanks in advance!
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Well, I can inform that you do need a custom recovery on that phone in order to flash a custom ROM... Or it wont work. But i dont have that phone, you can try this.
1.copy ****.zip to root folder of the phone SD card (no need to unzip).
2.Turn off the phone, then keep pressing power button and volume+ button until the robot icon appear, then press power button again and it will show as below
3.Press the volume- to move up and down to choose“wipe data/factory reset”, then press volume+ button to confirm.
4.Choose “yes—delete all user data”, then press volume+ button to enter the page as below.
5.It will enter below page after finishing delete all user data.
6.Then choose“apply update from sdcard”
7.Find and select the ROM, press volume+ to enter the page as below.
8.Please make sure the power is sufficient during the upgrading. It will showed as below when the upgrading finished.
9.Choose “reboot system now”,then press volume+ button to reboot your phone.
Also, Are you rooted?
Regards,
Exxo

Exxoriscism said:
Well, I can inform that you do need a custom recovery on that phone in order to flash a custom ROM... Or it wont work. But i dont have that phone, you can try this.
1.copy ****.zip to root folder of the phone SD card (no need to unzip).
2.Turn off the phone, then keep pressing power button and volume+ button until the robot icon appear, then press power button again and it will show as below
3.Press the volume- to move up and down to choose“wipe data/factory reset”, then press volume+ button to confirm.
4.Choose “yes—delete all user data”, then press volume+ button to enter the page as below.
5.It will enter below page after finishing delete all user data.
6.Then choose“apply update from sdcard”
7.Find and select the ROM, press volume+ to enter the page as below.
8.Please make sure the power is sufficient during the upgrading. It will showed as below when the upgrading finished.
9.Choose “reboot system now”,then press volume+ button to reboot your phone.
Also, Are you rooted?
Regards,
Exxo
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Hi Exxo,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, i am rooted
Now in step 1 what do you mean with ***.zip. Is that supposed to a zipfile to change the recovery?
i tried downloading and flashing Clockworkmod Touch Recovery 6.0.4.3 CWM (downloaded from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2531628).
However it is giving me the following error:
Finding update pakacge
Opening update package
Verifying update package
E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted

anyone?

Tutorial on how to update firmware and install newer custom ROM

After losing several days now knowing the exact steps and files needed to upgrade from my 6 month old AOSP Extended custom ROM to the latest version, I present you this tutorial
Latest ROM you can install without updating your firmware is
Code:
AospExtended-v6.5-whyred-20190527-0118-OFFICIAL.zip
If you read the changelog of
Code:
AospExtended-v6.6-whyred-20190609-1902-OFFICIAL.zip
it says that new TWRP and firmware is required. Download both firmware and TWRP and place them on microSD card and insert it into the phone. First boot with the old firmware and "v6.4" version took 1 minute. First boot with the newest mentioned firmware and "v6.7" also took 1 minute. If it takes more then that or if you don't see AEX logo spinning 10 seconds after Mi logo, something is wrong.
How to enter into TWRP: hold Volume up + Power while phone is turned off. Once you feel the vibrations and Mi logo appears release the Power button and hold the Volume up for 10 seconds. Release after TWRP logo appears.
I had problems with both Windows 10 and Linux on my computer so I used USB 2.0 port on old Windows 7 laptop. This is how I did it. Maybe some steps are redundant.
1. Don't touch anything and wait around 8 seconds. Unplug USB cable from the phone after completion. Notice new look of TWRP.
Code:
C:\adb>fastboot boot recommended-twrp-3.3.1-1-whyred
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.827s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.140s]
finished. total time: 0.998s
(2a.) While inside the new TWRRP, install recommended-twrp-3.3.1-1-whyred.img Return. Return. Return. Reboot. Shutdown. Turn on phone. Don't touch any button. It will reboot a few times and go into fastboot. Step 2a is useless because this way doesn't install TWRP permanently (it actually deletes TWRP).
2b. Once temporarely booted into 3.3.1-1 after step 1, Install required new MIUI firmware without ZIP signature check.
3. (Install new ROM.) Reboot again into bootloader/recovery.
4.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recommended-twrp-3.3.1-1-whyred
5.
Code:
fastboot reboot
& unplug USB cable from the phone. twrp-3.3.1-1 should be permanently installed.
6. Go to Wipe and do: 1. Swipe to Factory reset 2. Format Data 3. Advanced Wipe (select Dalvik / ART Cache) and cache). You can then install new ROM :good:

Mi Max 3 stuck in fastboot

Long story short, I tried to flash a global ROM on my Mi phone. However, after a few unsuccessful attempts at doing so, my phone is now stuck in the fast boot screen.
I tried all I know and what I can find online, but the problem still persists, where when holding the power button it would boot to main power screen and then make a buzz and go back to the fastboot screen.
Have tried:
- Resetting through recovery mode (pow + vol up)
- plugging phone into my computer to reflash the ROM (error remote: unknown command) / on my phone it would switch out of fastboot and instead display this message: "press any key/button to shutdown"
- pow + vol down (held for more than 1 minute)
- pow (held for more than 5 minutes, everytime it would boot and then boot back into fastboot mode with the buzz in between)
- ADB console commands:
- fastboot reboot
- fastboot device
- tried using MiPCSuite, plugged my phone in, but application didn't detect my phone
- running all applicable applications as mentioned above as admin
- when resetting phone progress bar would stop at 1.03% then it would say reset completed (I don't think did reset the phone, but whatever...)
- tried different ROM versions, Global and China (Once again it would either switch out of fastboot on screen OR in the flash tool it would display the error "unknown command" which I assume would be something to do with the communication between my PC and the device itself)
At this point I don't know what else to do, watched every tut on youtube, read pretty much all the forums I could find related to this issue.
Any help would be much appreciated!

Is it locked or unlocked?
I whould try to update firmware, then recovery (wipe all at this point) and at the end ROM (format data, wipe dalvik and cache at this point), always worked for me. But - the phone should be unlocked for this

Wywern.pl said:
Is it locked or unlocked?
I whould try to update firmware, then recovery (wipe all at this point) and at the end ROM (format data, wipe dalvik and cache at this point), always worked for me. But - the phone should be unlocked for this
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I have tried going into recovery mode and wiping all data, and trying to update the firmware via the flash tool. But as I said above I can't it gives me the error "error: FAILED(remote:unknown command)" and since I can't get into my phone, I can't use mipcsuite either or enable and settings.

Note - wipe data and format data is not the same
I've stuck with some stupid error ("erase all data" message and reboot to twrp) for hours until I formated data

jayX23 said:
I have tried going into recovery mode and wiping all data, and trying to update the firmware via the flash tool. But as I said above I can't it gives me the error "error: FAILED(remote:unknown command)" and since I can't get into my phone, I can't use mipcsuite either or enable and settings.
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did you solve it? i also need to flash rom via mi flash tool but I do exact same error.