Hello Everyone I am hoping there is a solution to this however I have been unable to find anything.
I flashed the latest OTA image via sideload and everything was fine until I tried to install TWRP. When trying to install the latest TWRP I could find ( 3.1.0-0RC2 ) my phone would then boot loop. I tried this process several times and each time after installing my phone would boot loop for 10 minutes until I forced it into fastboot, fast booted the TWRP image, and finally sideload the OTA once again.
I have seen a couple threads which I believe indicate that May update changed/broke something with the bootloader but I will be honest I
haven't read into it much.
This is on a Google version of the device with the bootloader unlocked. (failed to mention that).
Thanks in advance.
Bijiont said:
Hello Everyone I am hoping there is a solution to this however I have been unable to find anything.
I flashed the latest OTA image via sideload and everything was fine until I tried to install TWRP. When trying to install the latest TWRP I could find ( 3.1.0-0RC2 ) my phone would then boot loop. I tried this process several times and each time after installing my phone would boot loop for 10 minutes until I forced it into fastboot, fast booted the TWRP image, and finally sideload the OTA once again.
I have seen a couple threads which I believe indicate that May update changed/broke something with the bootloader but I will be honest I
haven't read into it much.
This is on a Google version of the device with the bootloader unlocked. (failed to mention that).
Thanks in advance.
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Please read the other Posts about this
Flash the bootloader from april.
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Download last months 7.1.2 factory image.
Extract it and find "bootloader-marlin-xxxxblahblah.img".
Rename it to "bootloader.img" for simplicity's sake, then move it to the side.
:Flash-all" the latest factory image, after its done stay in fastboot.
Run "fastboot flash bootloader_a bootloader.img" from wherever you moved the file to
Disregard if "partition_a" isnt your primary, once the command is ran it will auto flash to the primary partition.
Boot and setup, reboot back to bootloader.
Boot and install twrp, then reboot to recovery.
Delete fstab.marlin in main directory, then flash preferred supersu (i use 2.79 sr3).
Reboot to system and your done. from here reboot to recovery or bootloader to flash your preferred kernel and mods.
Was able to get this all sorted out.
If anyone else happens to see this thread with the same issues and missed the April bootloader deal you can find a good overview Here
To get the April bootloader image which is something I have never loaded myself you need to download the Factory Image from April then extract it. Inside there you will see the bootloader image.
Hope this helps anyone else who didn't read far enough into this issue.
I unlocked the bootloader following Motorolas steps. I then flashed the latest version of TWRP avaiable on the development forum and then flashed Lineage OS + the root zip they provide and gapps. I couldn't figure out how to get out of the bootloop so I've since gone back to stock. Any idea what I was missing?
TWRP:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...recovery-unofficial-twrp-moto-z-play-t3495629
Lineage:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/development/rom-unofficial-cyanogenmod-14-1-t3495644
Did you read the notices and entries on the Linage last pages of the thread that people are having it fail on the install, the latest release? That would be a clue...
I even tried flashing Pure Nexus but that too was stuck on a loop. I left it for about 10 minutes as it was loading. :/
I did the same thing like you on my first attempt, on my second I was able to install Lineage OS successfully. I'll provide the steps I did.
First attempt steps:
1. Unlocking the bootloader using Motorola website
2. Installing TWRP from the same link in your post.
At that point I tried booting the phone, but the phone was booting to TWRP only, tried wiping, format data from TWRP with no luck.
3. From TWRP flashed Lineage OS zip file and GAPPS nano package (the latest version of TWRP is able to see SD card).
At that point I was able to to boot LOS only after executing "fastboot erase user data". Doing the same from within TWRP was not doing the job. The problem was that after each reboot the phone was getting into bootloop again and "fastboot erase userdata" was necessary.
4. At that point I noticed that TWRP thread starts with warning that you have to install a patcher to disable this "verity" feature of the bootloader may be. And I installed the patcher "Verity_FE_patcher.zip"
The patcher didn't fix the issue and went back to stock Nougat using the guide below:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/moto-z-play-reteu-firmware-otas-t3557917
First I tried "flashall.bat" , but it didn't wor.k and I flashed all the files manually using the guide . The phone booted normally and I updated it with one OTA update.
Second attempt steps:
1. I wanted to install the verity patcher before anything else and I boot TWRP 3.1.0.1 without flashing it. It booted normally and I realized that the SD card was formated and the patcher zip file is not there. I reboot the system and the phone got in bootloops again even the TWRP was not installed. I coppied the patcher zip, LOS zip, GAPPS zip on SD card . I tried to boot (without flashing) TWRP again, but for some reason TWRP was not able to boot.
2. I flashed TWRP
3. Booted TWRP and flashed verity patcher.
4. Wiped from TWRP and boot the system
At that point I was able to boot the stock firmware with TWRP installed and I was able to restart the phone normally.
5. Flashed LOS and nano GAPPS
Now everything seems to work properly.
Hope this will help.
Thanks. I'll give this a shot tonight. Our first attempts sound very alike.
I have a Pixel C, rooted using the Nexus Rootkit, TWRP and SuperSU.
All was fine and was on build N2G48C.
I had an OTA notification for Oreo, so I downloaded the OPR6.170623.010 Oreo OTA file, and used FlashFire to apply this.
Now everytime it reboots it goes past the Google logo, then to the "waiting for fastboot command" screen. I've tried rebooting to Recovery and I get the same thing!
Google didn't seem to help, so please can anyone else help?
I was manually flashing rather then using flashfire, but I was getting the same problem. First, flash just the stock room (no root or TWRP) and check that it boots. Mine would, but every time I tried to flash TWRP, it would bootloop to fastboot.
You may want to download the full rom, not just the ota. You can modify the flash batch file to not wipe the tablet, or just flash the components.
What was finally successful for me was to flash TWRP and NOT let it finalize. It should ask if you want to mount R/W so it can keep the rom from overwriting the recovery. I told it no, then flashed the Magisk zip for root. I haven't tested SuperSU, but just replace it here to try. This got me a proper boot to Oreo, with Magisk working correctly.
If I understand it right, and I haven't booted to recovery to check, the rom will likely have overwritten TWRP. Worst case, I have to reflash recovery whenever I want to do a backup or update my rom, but that isn't something I do often on this tablet.
Used the search, used google, couldn't find any concrete answers
I am on Android N - unlocked bootloader - rooted via magisk, One Plus 3.
Could I do the following?
use TWRP to make a Nandroid Backup (System+Data+Boot) of my current set-up
then, manually flash (using twrp) Android O
find out I don't particularly like it
Go back to TWRP and Nandroid Restore back to Android N, as if no update ever happened
Or will there be issues?
Thanks
I do that with freedomos. 2.17(N)>3.1(O)>2.17. I restore nandroid and reflash rom
xGOGI said:
I do that with freedomos. 2.17(N)>3.1(O)>2.17. I restore nandroid and reflash rom
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Should have mentioned I'm using stock rom.
So I'd restore the nandroid via twrp, and I should be good to go?
arthritis said:
Used the search, used google, couldn't find any concrete answers
I am on Android N - unlocked bootloader - rooted via magisk, One Plus 3.
Could I do the following?
use TWRP to make a Nandroid Backup (System+Data+Boot) of my current set-up
then, manually flash (using twrp) Android O
find out I don't particularly like it
Go back to TWRP and Nandroid Restore back to Android N, as if no update ever happened
Or will there be issues?
Thanks
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There won't be any issue. You are alright with the procedure. Just make sure you use the correct twrp recovery for oreo coz if you use the non compatible recovery then you won't be able to boot into recovery once the oreo is flashed and you are forced to go with the stock recovery
Process I followed when I tried oreo last week
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage) then flash oreo twrp image. Perform reboot. (no OS warning on reboot option screen will appear) just ignore it. It will boot to recovery even without the OS.
Once booted back to new recovery(oreo twrp)
Flash oreo stock zip and again flash oreo twrp image and reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu. Reboot to OS
Enjoy oreo
To go back to nougat
Reboot to recovery.
Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
Happy flashing.
Edit : use blu sparks recovery for nougat backup.
maxs8007 said:
There won't be any issue. You are alright with the procedure. Just make sure you use the correct twrp recovery for oreo coz if you use the non compatible recovery then you won't be able to boot into recovery once the oreo is flashed and you are forced to go with the stock recovery
Process I followed when I tried oreo last week
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage) then flash oreo twrp image. Perform reboot. (no OS warning on reboot option screen will appear) just ignore it. It will boot to recovery even without the OS.
Once booted back to new recovery(oreo twrp)
Flash oreo stock zip and again flash oreo twrp image and reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu. Reboot to OS
Enjoy oreo
To go back to nougat
Reboot to recovery.
Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
Happy flashing.
Edit : use blu sparks recovery for nougat backup.
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Thank you for the detailed procedure.
maxs8007 said:
There won't be any issue. You are alright with the procedure. Just make sure you use the correct twrp recovery for oreo coz if you use the non compatible recovery then you won't be able to boot into recovery once the oreo is flashed and you are forced to go with the stock recovery
Process I followed when I tried oreo last week
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage) then flash oreo twrp image. Perform reboot. (no OS warning on reboot option screen will appear) just ignore it. It will boot to recovery even without the OS.
Once booted back to new recovery(oreo twrp)
Flash oreo stock zip and again flash oreo twrp image and reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu. Reboot to OS
Enjoy oreo
To go back to nougat
Reboot to recovery.
Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
Happy flashing.
Edit : use blu sparks recovery for nougat backup.
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Thank you
Hi @maxs8007
thanks for the instructions. I did all that to get back to my nougat rom (PureFusion) and all seem good and phone booted fine. But i am stuck on login screen after booted up. I tried my correct password several times but to no avail. anyway reset my password without factory resetting again?
Thanks for the advise.
sqlpro said:
Hi @maxs8007
thanks for the instructions. I did all that to get back to my nougat rom (PureFusion) and all seem good and phone booted fine. But i am stuck on login screen after booted up. I tried my correct password several times but to no avail. anyway reset my password without factory resetting again?
Thanks for the advise.
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Go to twrp - advanced - file manager - go to root folder - data - system - and delete files with .key extension. There will be 2 files delete both and reboot.
maxs8007 said:
Go to twrp - advanced - file manager - go to root folder - data - system - and delete files with .key extension. There will be 2 files delete both and reboot.
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Thank you very much and that worked. I am back in the system.
BTW in your original instructions I had to re flash rom after restoring twrp backup otherwise it didn't boot and stuck at rom animation.
sqlpro said:
Thank you very much and that worked. I am back in the system.
BTW in your original instructions I had to re flash rom after restoring twrp backup otherwise it didn't boot and stuck at rom animation.
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Thanks for pointing out, I must have forgot to add it. I'll update again.
Hi @maxs8007
I ran into this issue again today! after unlocking as per instructions yesterday and am back into phone and re-set the pin and all good. But today i had to reboot the phone and same issue again , cant login on the lock screen!! i tried deleting those files again but to no avail!!
any ideas before factory reset and loose my data ? Thanks.
sqlpro said:
Hi @maxs8007
I ran into this issue again today! after unlocking as per instructions yesterday and am back into phone and re-set the pin and all good. But today i had to reboot the phone and same issue again , cant login on the lock screen!! i tried deleting those files again but to no avail!
any ideas before factory reset and loose my data ? Thanks.
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This should not have happened, anyways delete all those files which I've highlighted in the image below. This will reset the lock settings.
Oh sorry I forgot to attach the file. Here it is.
maxs8007 said:
There won't be any issue. You are alright with the procedure. Just make sure you use the correct twrp recovery for oreo coz if you use the non compatible recovery then you won't be able to boot into recovery once the oreo is flashed and you are forced to go with the stock recovery
Process I followed when I tried oreo last week
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage) then flash oreo twrp image. Perform reboot. (no OS warning on reboot option screen will appear) just ignore it. It will boot to recovery even without the OS.
Once booted back to new recovery(oreo twrp)
Flash oreo stock zip and again flash oreo twrp image and reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu. Reboot to OS
Enjoy oreo
To go back to nougat
Reboot to recovery.
Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
Happy flashing.
Edit : use blu sparks recovery for nougat backup.
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Hi, OP here. Thanks for this guide.
Unfortunately, it did not work out for me.
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Done
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage)
Wiped fine although I got an error of not being able to wipe 'USB-OTG' or whatever it's called. I ignored it and moved on.
then flash oreo twrp image.
I googled oreo twrp image and got an img file with filename "TWRP-Oreo-OnePlus-3-3T". When I installed the img, it asked the options to choose Boot, System, or Recovery - so I chose System.
Then I rebooted and went back to recovery.
Flash oreo stock zip
flash oreo twrp image
Done
reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu.
This is where it ends. I get stuck at the OnePlus loading screen and forced reboot into twrp and flashed magisk. Once I boot up the OS, I get stuck at the OnePlus logo and that's it.
I actually re-did ALL of the steps again (in case I made a mistake) and still, the same issue. No progression.
Once I gave up on Oreo, I decided to go restore my nandroid
Reboot to recovery. Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Wiped
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Here's the issue:
I press Restore (I uncheck both bootloader and cache, but there's no option for a specific dalvik cache- unless I'm not looking hard enough?) and I get the 255 Error.
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
I tried to ignore that error and flash the twrp recovery.
Rebooted and it took me to fastboot. Regardless of I keep trying to reboot system it won't work.
I actually made two separate nandroid backups (the same 'everything except system image' as you've described) in case one of the backups was corrupted. Both backups ended up with the same error.
I got too tired of all these errors and just found a stock recovery and ROM and flashed it back. Now, all my apps and settings are gone. To be honest, I just want my phone back to where it was with Nougat.
Can anyone assist me?
@maxs8007, Like I said I did that already but nope still same issue. It wouldn't let me do matter what I did.
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arthritis said:
Hi, OP here. Thanks for this guide.
Unfortunately, it did not work out for me.
Take nandroid of all options available except system image. (system, data, bootloader, firmware, efs, etc.) on nougat twrp.
Done
Do factory reset(wipe everything except internal storage)
Wiped fine although I got an error of not being able to wipe 'USB-OTG' or whatever it's called. I ignored it and moved on.
then flash oreo twrp image.
I googled oreo twrp image and got an img file with filename "TWRP-Oreo-OnePlus-3-3T". When I installed the img, it asked the options to choose Boot, System, or Recovery - so I chose System.
Then I rebooted and went back to recovery.
Flash oreo stock zip
flash oreo twrp image
Done
reboot to recovery(this time the device will get stuck with a black screen and white LED). Don't panic, just force reboot the device and go to recovery again to flash magisk/supersu.
This is where it ends. I get stuck at the OnePlus loading screen and forced reboot into twrp and flashed magisk. Once I boot up the OS, I get stuck at the OnePlus logo and that's it.
I actually re-did ALL of the steps again (in case I made a mistake) and still, the same issue. No progression.
Once I gave up on Oreo, I decided to go restore my nandroid
Reboot to recovery. Perform factory reset as mentioned above.
Wiped
Restore everything except bootloader, cache and dalvik cache
Here's the issue:
I press Restore (I uncheck both bootloader and cache, but there's no option for a specific dalvik cache- unless I'm not looking hard enough?) and I get the 255 Error.
Flash nougat twrp recovery. Reboot to system.
I tried to ignore that error and flash the twrp recovery.
Rebooted and it took me to fastboot. Regardless of I keep trying to reboot system it won't work.
I actually made two separate nandroid backups (the same 'everything except system image' as you've described) in case one of the backups was corrupted. Both backups ended up with the same error.
I got too tired of all these errors and just found a stock recovery and ROM and flashed it back. Now, all my apps and settings are gone. To be honest, I just want my phone back to where it was with Nougat.
Can anyone assist me?
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Buddy from my experience the whole thing too finicky and am thinking just factory reset and stick with stock rom. I wasted so much time already. Everytime I get different error, probably recoveries still not fully compatible with Oreo.
sqlpro said:
@maxs8007, Like I said I did that already but nope still same issue. It wouldn't let me do matter what I did.
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Buddy from my experience the whole thing too finicky and am thinking just factory reset and stick with stock rom. I wasted so much time already. Everytime I get different error, probably recoveries still not fully compatible with Oreo.
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Could you please tell me what error you get on the lock screen? Could you post an image so that I can get a better idea of what's happening with your device? Also could you please confirm which files have you deleted? This time you need to delete 5 files which are related to lock screen setting and those are the only files responsible for lock settings on the device. I'm somewhat confused because I never ran into such issue while I did the oreo thing
If you have decided to flash stock then just make a backup of data partition so that you won't loose your data and you can easily restore it via twrp.
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arthritis said:
I googled oreo twrp image and got an img file with filename "TWRP-Oreo-OnePlus-3-3T". When I installed the img, it asked the options to choose Boot, System, or Recovery - so I chose System.
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I read the entire post and here what I've to say. The above quoted steps is where you went wrong. The recovery needs to to be flashed as a recovery and not as system.
In your case the nougat recovery was never replaced with the oreo recovery because you flashed it as a system. This is where it went wrong. Sorry for the dalvik cache and USB - otg, I didn't mentioned about them. Those are the least important points in flashing though I should have mentioned that already
The next thing you mentioned is you went back to recovery which at that moment was nougat recovery and not oreo recovery. I'll link the modded recovery I used for oreo below
The next thing you did is you flashed oreo zip and again flashed the oreo recovery but as you flashed the recovery as system, the oreo stock rom was automatically replaced with recovery because you flashed it as system and the device didn't boot because there was no android OS to boot up
You got stuck on oneplus boot up screen. (this was going to happen because of the same flashing error at your end).
You were unable to boot back to nougat as well because of the same issue.. Never flash the recovery as system. This won't let you boot the device.
To restore your nandroid backup just follow the steps below
As you confirmed you booted to stock rom with a stock recovery.
Flash nougat twrp via fastboot
Boot back to the twrp recovery and restore the nandroid backup and you are good to go
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I'll make a video in my free time to help you guys with the steps that I've followed to flash oreo rom and how i came back to nougat successfully.
Hello @maxs8007
Sorry I didn't have any screen shots of the prompt and finally I was fed up with the whole process and had to switch back to oreo stock rom.
Login prompt I was referring to was standard pin required load android. Black background with only pin entry.
BTW I tried blu twrp recovery oreo version and nougat version.
What's interesting is, after several failed attempts it said I got 10 more tries before phone wiped out but after 10 attempts it started counting backwards from zero, - 1,-2 etc., finally I had to flash stock recovery via fastboot and selected forgot password option which reset my phone.
BTW I have deleted all those files from data/system I found another thread but no dice.
Thank you for trying to help us all.
@maxs8007 followed your steps. Booted to oreo, didn't felt as stable as nougat then booted back to nougat. You saved me. Thanks.
sqlpro said:
Hello @maxs8007
Sorry I didn't have any screen shots of the prompt and finally I was fed up with the whole process and had to switch back to oreo stock rom.
Login prompt I was referring to was standard pin required load android. Black background with only pin entry.
BTW I tried blu twrp recovery oreo version and nougat version.
What's interesting is, after several failed attempts it said I got 10 more tries before phone wiped out but after 10 attempts it started counting backwards from zero, - 1,-2 etc., finally I had to flash stock recovery via fastboot and selected forgot password option which reset my phone.
BTW I have deleted all those files from data/system I found another thread but no dice.
Thank you for trying to help us all.
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I'm sorry that I was unable to help you. The thing is I never used the pin prompt to load android because I reboot too often to flash things via recovery and its too much of a hassle to enter the pin everytime the device is booted and I think it's too much to a security for a android device when there's already a lock screen present once booted to secure the device.
Please don't put the pin entry to load android next time if you flash stuff regularly. It will save you the hassle of going back to stock rom and recovery when something like this ever happens again. The files which I told you to delete in the image I posted above remove the lock screen protection completely
The login pin at the boot to load android was implemented to avoid unauthorized access to the device in case it gets stolen or lost.
maxs8007 said:
I'm sorry that I was unable to help you. The thing is I never used the pin prompt to load android because I reboot too often to flash things via recovery and its too much of a hassle to enter the pin everytime the device is booted and I think it's too much to a security for a android device when there's already a lock screen present once booted to secure the device.
Please don't put the pin entry to load android next time if you flash stuff regularly. It will save you the hassle of going back to stock rom and recovery when something like this ever happens again. The files which I told you to delete in the image I posted above remove the lock screen protection completely
The login pin at the boot to load android was implemented to avoid unauthorized access to the device in case it gets stolen or lost.
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Frankly no clue why deleting those files didn't reset my pins and I even deleted gatekeeper files too.
Maybe these are lock screen key files and android boot prompt stored somewhere else. Not sure though.
I was rooted with Magisk on the April build and attempted to update to May. So I used Magisk to uninstall, accepted the OTA, then used Magisk to reinstall (before rebooting) but I got an error about the phone being corrupt,. So I've spent the past several hours flashing the stock boot image to both boot slots, creating new Magisk patched images, flashing those to both boot slots, rebooting, and flashing stock boot images again to both boot slots. I've done every combination of flashing stock to one boot slot and patched to another, patched to both slots, and now stock to both slots. Any time I try to boot a patched boot image the phone reboots a few times and finally tells me it's corrupt and asks to reset it (which I haven't done and prefer not to do).
I can confirm that I'm on the May update and that I'm using the May boot image in my attempts to root again. At this point, I've wiped the Magisk app (thinking a module could be causing the issue when I root) and I'm back on the stock boot image and the phone seems to be working fine, just without root.
I feel like I'm missing something simple. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I stopped to update ROM with this method since march because i had always a bootloop.
Now i install the update by android flash tool and flash boot patched with fastboot command.
You could do it. I hope Twrp wil be released quickly.
Vincent_40 said:
I stopped to update ROM with this method since march because i had always a bootloop.
Now i install the update by android flash tool and flash boot patched with fastboot command.
You could do it. I hope Twrp wil be released quickly.
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I successfully updated to May and I've flashed the patched boot image in fastboot at least a dozen times (stock to patched, different partitions, patched to stock). The phone won't boot whenever I flash the patched image. It just bootloops and eventually gives me an error about being corrupt and asks if I want to factory reset.
Flash your patched image, then boot to safe mode, then reboot. It should work. I had the same issue and it ended up being something I had in Magisk, even though I had everything disabled. I ended up uninstalling everything in Magisk, and reinstalling.
shiftr182 said:
Flash your patched image, then boot to safe mode, then reboot. It should work. I had the same issue and it ended up being something I had in Magisk, even though I had everything disabled. I ended up uninstalling everything in Magisk, and reinstalling.
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And if this doesn't work you might have to wipe your phone and re-flash the appropriate build. I remember seeing posts in the past with users discussing a wipe and re-flash resolving the "phone is corrupt" issue.
shiftr182 said:
Flash your patched image, then boot to safe mode, then reboot. It should work. I had the same issue and it ended up being something I had in Magisk, even though I had everything disabled. I ended up uninstalling everything in Magisk, and reinstalling.
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I wiped data in Magisk since I can't access the modules to disable them right now (no root) and I also wiped data in Rice Tweaks since it was one of the mods I was using. I'll try this tonight and see if it works.
joshw0000 said:
I wiped data in Magisk since I can't access the modules to disable them right now (no root) and I also wiped data in Rice Tweaks since it was one of the mods I was using. I'll try this tonight and see if it works.
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Before you wipe everything try this:
** ALSO: booting into safe mode automatically disables all Magisk modules **
How I root and update (which is identical whether rooting the first time or updating):
Use the latest Magisk Stable (in my case, I keep the app "hidden" / renamed)
Used the full firmware zip, extracted to the same folder as the latest Platform Tools (S:\platform-tools)
Extracted the new boot.img
Copied new boot.img to the phone
Patched the new boot.img with Magisk Stable
Renamed Magisk'd boot.img so I know what version of firmware it's for
Copied the Magisk'd boot.img back to the computer
Disabled all my Magisk Modules
Removed the "-w " from the flash-all.bat
Re-edited the flash-all.bat to verify I saved it with the "-w " taken out
Open a Command Prompt, navigated to S:\platform-tools
adb reboot bootloader
flash-all.bat
Let phone boot, unlock it, check that it's working, allow the update process to finish (gave it five minutes or so)
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot kernel.img (renamed Magisk'd boot.img)
fastboot reboot
Unlock, check everything's working
Re-enabled the most basic Magisk Modules which I was sure wouldn't cause a critical issue
Reboot, unlock, made sure everything's working
Back to modding!
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From here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...central-repository-of-relevant-links.4352027/
biTToe said:
Before you wipe everything try this:
** ALSO: booting into safe mode automatically disables all Magisk modules **
How I root and update (which is identical whether rooting the first time or updating):
From here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...central-repository-of-relevant-links.4352027/
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Thanks. Do you know if I can run the flash-all.bat if I'm already on the current update? I have the full firmware on my PC (so I could get the boot image).
It sounds like booting to safe mode is the one thing I haven't tried.
When I updated last night I tried to disable Magisk from within the app but Magisk didn't have a backup (because I had rooted on the April build from fastboot) so I flashed the factory April boot.img, then fastboot boot magisk-boot.img, then allowed Magisk to root my phone. Then disabled all the modules, unrooted with Magisk, accepted the OTA which took unusually long to install (2+ hours), then used Magisk to restore root but I think I forgot to tell it to do the inactive partition which may have cause all of my issues. When I rebooted it gave me the corrupt error.
From there I spent a bunch of time fastboot flashing and fastboot booting the stock and modified May boot images. I've got about 4 copies of the modified boot image where I kept recreating it hoping it'd work again.
Tonight I'll try to flash the modified boot.img and boot directly into safe mode to see if I can get it to load. I may also try wiping cache in recovery to see if that helps.
joshw0000 said:
Thanks. Do you know if I can run the flash-all.bat if I'm already on the current update? I have the full firmware on my PC (so I could get the boot image).
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YES you can.
Just make sure to edit the flash-all.bat and remove -w
otherwise you WILL wipe.
THEN... after you save the edited flash-all.bat, edit it again to make sure the -w is in fact not there.
Ive been where you are before. I forgot to disable a mod and boot-looped.
I booted to safe mode then re-flashed with flash-all, patched the boot.img and flashed that via Magisk and I was golden.
I always use this method. I even went from 12-beta to 12.1 w/o so much as a hiccup.
OTA can be problematic (or has been for me in the past). this is simple, quick, and works every time.
My suggestion is to start from scratch: delete all those previously used/attempted files -especially the patched image.
d/l the new factory image, extract/patch that boot.img This way you know everything is from the same place.
cheers
Thanks guys for all the help. Safe Mode is going to work for me. I was able to root, boot to safe mode, and reboot normal. I'm slowly enabling modules until it errors again and I've found that Renovate Ice was the culprit. But whenever it errors, I can just boot to safe mode, reboot, and start fresh with modules. Thanks!