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Oneplus 3 decryption and stock recovery problem HELP!!!

I have been trying to flash oxygen os open beta 9 on my oneplus 3
first i tried the official steps mentioned on the oneplus site
I flashed stock oxygen os recovery
but when i boot into recovery mode it asks for a pattern which upon entering does not decrypt
I then flashed official TWRP and tried to flash the full open beta .zip file but it shows this package is for oneplus 3 this is a ""
also if i try to flash the modified TWRP 28 then also it cannot decrypt the phone
I would prefer not to format the phone if at all possible

aaditya98 said:
I have been trying to flash oxygen os open beta 9 on my oneplus 3
first i tried the official steps mentioned on the oneplus site
I flashed stock oxygen os recovery
but when i boot into recovery mode it asks for a pattern which upon entering does not decrypt
I then flashed official TWRP and tried to flash the full open beta .zip file but it shows this package is for oneplus 3 this is a ""
also if i try to flash the modified TWRP 28 then also it cannot decrypt the phone
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Hi, I think you should try to format data. Probabby via fastboot, then install TWRP.
Not sure which are the correct commands for the full format, so have a look around or someone else will help.
Otherwise there is the unbrick guide here in the forums to try.

I'm having a similar issue. So any advice would be great. Just updated to most recent unofficial TWRP (having been on a previous version). Now when entering my pin to decrypt it is not accepted. Would prefer not to have to format data.

aaditya98 said:
I have been trying to flash oxygen os open beta 9 on my oneplus 3
first i tried the official steps mentioned on the oneplus site
I flashed stock oxygen os recovery
but when i boot into recovery mode it asks for a pattern which upon entering does not decrypt
I then flashed official TWRP and tried to flash the full open beta .zip file but it shows this package is for oneplus 3 this is a ""
also if i try to flash the modified TWRP 28 then also it cannot decrypt the phone
I would prefer not to format the phone if at all possible
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unfortunately no choice other than wiping everything.....

antisoma said:
I'm having a similar issue. So any advice would be great. Just updated to most recent unofficial TWRP (having been on a previous version). Now when entering my pin to decrypt it is not accepted. Would prefer not to have to format data.
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I believe the decrypt is a known issue with TWRP and OB8/OB9 with F2FS /data partition. I don't think there's a work around at this time without formatting /data and rooting to prevent encryption.

Hw4ng3r said:
I believe the decrypt is a known issue with TWRP and OB8/OB9 with F2FS /data partition. I don't think there's a work around at this time without formatting /data and rooting to prevent encryption.
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So do you think there would be workaround in future?

0xelectron said:
So do you think there would be workaround in future?
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Hopefully there will be, but it doesn't look promising right now. @eng.stk is the one that was modding the TWRP, but has since stopped doing TWRP dev.

kipue said:
Hi, I think you should try to format data. Probabby via fastboot, then install TWRP.
Not sure which are the correct commands for the full format, so have a look around or someone else will help.
Otherwise there is the unbrick guide here in the forums to try.
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But I'm on official 3.2.8 with ext4 partition

Do you guy know where to get the stock recovery for openbeta 9? I downloaded somewhere a file recovery_OBT8N.img, but it still shows dm-verity issue.

nqk said:
Do you guy know where to get the stock recovery for openbeta 9? I downloaded somewhere a file recovery_OBT8N.img, but it still shows dm-verity issue.
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Fastboot Format system and data
Then fastboot flash stockrecovery
Then boot to system
Sideload rom
Then fastboot boot twrp28
Then wipe data and install superuser in one go

candiesdoodle said:
Fastboot Format system and data
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you mean: fastboot erase userdata?
Btw, I just ignore the dm-verity message to enter stock recovery, and do adb sideload openbeta9.zip and when it boots up again, the dm-verity message is no longer there.
I would try to format (erase userdata) data and flash the modded twrp.

nqk said:
you mean: fastboot erase userdata?
Btw, I just ignore the dm-verity message to enter stock recovery, and do adb sideload openbeta9.zip and when it boots up again, the dm-verity message is no longer there.
I would try to format (erase userdata) data and flash the modded twrp.
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Yeah fastboot Format userdata
But since you don't have the dm-verity you can skip the fastboot Format. Boot into the modd twrp and when it asks for password, hit cancel and then format data (you will have to type 'yes').
Then flash SuperSU or superuser in the same session without booting. This will ensure dm-verity doesn't come up again as it will start in enforcing mode, thanks to SuperSU/superuser.
You may be able to flash twrp afterwards but I haven't tried it.

TWRP Can't Mount /System - OP3 Bricks When Trying to Flash New ROM??

I'm currently running my OP3 on Resurrection Remix 5.7.4 (MM 6.01), the phone has the latest version of TWRP and I've flashed other ROMs in the past without any issue
RR has proven to be quite unstable for me, the system UI keeps crashing, which renders the phone unusable until after a reboot so I wanted to flash Freedom OS as that worked quite well for me previously. When I tried to flash the ROM in TWRP the ROM seemed to flash successfully but when I rebooted, only the boot logo showed and then the screen went black and the phone refused to respond at all for about two hours, after that exactly the same thing happened. I managed to boot into recovery and tried flashing a different ROM but the result was the same every time, the only way to get the phone to work normally was to flash RR again/restore from a Nandroid backup, either way, the result is the same, I'm stuck on an unstable ROM and I don't know why, the last time I flashed these ROMs they worked fine, I followed all of the instructions for flashing said ROMs to the letter, I have the latest version of TWRP, etc.
Also it seems TWRP can't mount /system, in TWRP under "mount", system is unchecked, I checked it and tried again but found that whenever I rebooted the phone or attempted to flash a new ROM, it would always uncheck itself and flashing the ROM would fail, however strangely flashing the same version of RR was always successful. Is this why the flashing keeps failing and does anyone know what the problem could be?
Thanks!

bronderb said:
Go into your bootloader and format system, cache, and userdata (This will wipe EVERYTHING so be sure to backup). Then latest official flash stock rom and reboot. This should fix it. If this helped hit thanks!
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Bootloader? There is no option in the bootloader to delete everything as far as I can see, do you mean in recovery? And if I wipe everything off the phone, how do I get the stock ROM onto the phone to flash it? When you say wipe userdata do you mean wipe internal storage or am I misunderstanding and you're telling me to wipe the usual dalvik, cache and data as you would for a normal clean flash?

bronderb said:
No, go into fastboot and plug into pc. Open cmd and type "fastboot format userdata" "fastboot format cache" "fastboot format system"
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Okay, thanks, and then what? Do I flash TWRP then push the stock ROM to the phone and flash that? And exactly how do I do that?

bronderb said:
You just go into twrp (no need to reflash) then adb sideload oxygen os
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Thank you, I am now running OOS, hopefully everything else will go smoothly now, planning to go back to FOS again
I didn't even have to use the fastboot commands to format, just sideloading the OOS file wiped everything anyway

Turns out the issue isn't actually fixed, "system" still appears unchecked in TWRP. Could the fact that I didn't actually format everything first have made a difference, given everything was wiped in the process anyway?
Looks like I'm going to be living the sideloading life...
Edit: Sideloading freedom OS failed, ended up having to restore from my TWRP backup. I don't know what I'm going to do, my main reason for using custom ROMs is installing a black theme, and OOS doesn't support Layers or Substratum fully so I can't stay on that

Is the thing that says "mount system as read-only" enabled in the mounts menu? /System isn't ever mounted when TWRP starts, you have to manually mount it, but as long as the updater-script tells /system to mount, it will. However, if that option to make it read-only is enabled, then nothing will ever write to /system. Last resort is deleting the .twrps file from /sdcard/TWRP folder to remove current TWRP preferences and then when you boot into TWRP, that first screen has the swiper to allow modifications, and you'll swipe that

frickinjerms said:
Is the thing that says "mount system as read-only" enabled in the mounts menu? /System isn't ever mounted when TWRP starts, you have to manually mount it, but as long as the updater-script tells /system to mount, it will. However, if that option to make it read-only is enabled, then nothing will ever write to /system. Last resort is deleting the .twrps file from /sdcard/TWRP folder to remove current TWRP preferences and then when you boot into TWRP, that first screen has the swiper to allow modifications, and you'll swipe that
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It isn't set to read only, I have tried updating and resetting TWRP but nothing has helped, in fact it's got worse, I managed to sideload OOS but my attempted install of FOS failed so I tried to restore from a backup and that also failed, something which didn't happen back when I was on RR.

evilkitty69 said:
It isn't set to read only, I have tried updating and resetting TWRP but nothing has helped, in fact it's got worse, I managed to sideload OOS but my attempted install of FOS failed so I tried to restore from a backup and that also failed, something which didn't happen back when I was on RR.
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Which version of TWRP are you running? The official 3.1.0-0 is good for OOS and OOS based ROMs only. Try eng.stk's version.

Use the latest eng-stk twrp.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
In recovery go to Wipe > Format data (this will wipe ALL in youre phone).
It's youre Data in F2FS? If yes you must change it to ext4, in recovery Wipe > Change file system. Reboot recovery. Check if it's changed.
Reboot to Bootloader (Fastboot). From PC reflash recovery.
Now copy Oos rom to the phone memory. Flash rom. Reflash recovery (the rom will overwrite the recovery). Reboot to recovery to see if it works. If not do it again.
I sugest to NOT restore old data. This way you'll have all new in youre phone.

tnsmani said:
Which version of TWRP are you running? The official 3.1.0-0 is good for OOS and OOS based ROMs only. Try eng.stk's version.
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I was running 3.0.2-2 when the issue started, I updated to 3.0.3 and 3.1.0-0 but nothing changed. Thanks for the suggestion, I will give it a try

null0seven said:
Use the latest eng-stk twrp.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
In recovery go to Wipe > Format data (this will wipe ALL in youre phone).
It's youre Data in F2FS? If yes you must change it to ext4, in recovery Wipe > Change file system. Reboot recovery. Check if it's changed.
Reboot to Bootloader (Fastboot). From PC reflash recovery.
Now copy Oos rom to the phone memory. Flash rom. Reflash recovery (the rom will overwrite the recovery). Reboot to recovery to see if it works. If not do it again.
I sugest to NOT restore old data. This way you'll have all new in youre phone.
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Help! I attempted to do this and the process failed, I didn't manage to wipe data because "/data could not be mounted as device or resource is busy"
Edit: Device now has nothing but TWRP and fastboot, no OS, no ADB, no data, no internal storage

If you can reflash twrp from PC. If not reflash recovery from twrp recovery : Instal > Image > Select Recovery (you must have TWRP.img in youre phone memory )

I managed to get hold of a few factory images and attempted to flash system.img through fastboot, resulting error was
"target reported max download size of 536,870,912 bytes" (system image is 3080 MB)
"invalid sparse file format at header magi"

null0seven said:
If you can reflash twrp from PC. If not reflash recovery from twrp recovery : Instal > Image > Select Recovery (you must have TWRP.img in youre phone memory )
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I reflashed the modified TWRP successfully. The second suggestion wouldn't have worked, given my phone has no internal storage

You can't see internal storage because of the recovery does not work write.
If you have a working recovery you can do all you want.

null0seven said:
You can't see internal storage because of the recovery does not work write.
If you have a working recovery you can do all you want.
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The recovery was working at this point, the issue turned out to be the data partition, system was formatted to ext4 but I didn't realise data was in f2fs which caused the problem in the first place. I formatted to ext4 and everything worked, I was able to install paranoid android and everything worked...
...until I flashed the wrong firmware and now I've hard bricked it! I'm going to try the hard brick toolkit
Edit: After 12 hours of being an unresponsive brick, the phone suddenly booted, system doesn't work but it has recovery. Unfortunately I seem to be back to square one, if I try to flash something it appears to succeed but then the phone doesn't boot up into system

So I am now back to the original issue of system not mounting, in terminal if I type "mount /system" I get following error:
"mounting /dev/block/sde20 on /system failed: Device or resource is busy"
Anyone know how to solve this?

I formatted everything, reflashed recovery and tried to flash OOS, got following error:
Code:
[FONT="Courier New"]"This package is for OnePlus3 devices, this is a oneplus3t" (it isn't)
"Updater process ended with ERROR: 7
Error installing zip file /sdcard/OOS3.2.6.zip" [/FONT]

Issue was "solved" by flashing PA, GApps and the correct firmware
Hopefully that's the end of all this drama, thanks to everyone for their suggestions

Hi, I'm pretty new at rooting and I seem to have a similar error. I'm getting the "can't mount /system" error in TWRP. I am able to boot into OOS 4.1.3 and run the nandroid backup but, I keep getting the same error and am unable to select "system" when choosing the mount option in TWRP.
Do I need to have all partitions in f2fs? My system partition is in ext4. Is this what solved your issue?
It seems my phone is functional even with the error active but, I've been trying to get systemless SuperSU and MagiskHide working and I think that's what is preventing me from doing so.

How to factory reset OP 3 with PC?

Hello,
it seems to be that sth went wrong today. I wanted to factory reset my OP3 but right now nothing is working.
The initial set up was the following:
Unlocked bootloader with TWRP installed. Oxygen OS + several custom ROMs installed
What I did:
I deleted the data from system partition since I thought that they Oxygen OS system data will be deleted.
Problem:
Right now I get a encryption hint without the possibiity to factory reset my OP3 since I don´t get access to the data partition in order to upload a Oxygen OS .zip on my OP 3 from my PC.
What can I do in oder to factory reset my OP3 with the help of my PC? I want to install the OnePlus 3 OxygenOS Open Beta 28.

Search mega unbrick guide method 2 and then flash the last OnePlus recovery and then flash OB28

I managed to flash the most current Oxygen OS on my OP3 by doing a factory reset within TWRP and flashing the Oxygen OS .zip and Magisk 4.5.
BUT after rebooting, the file system seems to be encrypted again in TWRP (even allowing explicitly file modifications!). This means that I am not able to flash another .zip.
How can I manage that the file system remains decrypted also in TWRP?

I don't have access in TWRP to my files in oder to flash an OS Update and so on. It seems to be encrypted in TWRP. How can I manage to have access to all my files located in the internal flash?

king0r said:
I don't have access in TWRP to my files in oder to flash an OS Update and so on. It seems to be encrypted in TWRP. How can I manage to have access to all my files located in the internal flash?
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If you boot OOS without any force encryption disabling mod them it will encrypt. It's not a problem at all if you use the right TWRP. Pick the TWRP from the Bluspark thread and you should be fine.

king0r said:
I don't have access in TWRP to my files in oder to flash an OS Update and so on. It seems to be encrypted in TWRP. How can I manage to have access to all my files located in the internal flash?
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Well, there is a way to decrypt the device, but you'll lose everything. Reboot do fastboot and connect to pc, then type from CMD "fastboot erase userdata" or "fastboot format userdata"

Puddi_Puddin said:
If you boot OOS without any force encryption disabling mod them it will encrypt. It's not a problem at all if you use the right TWRP. Pick the TWRP from the Bluspark thread and you should be fine.
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Please send me a link to the thread. I can't find it.

king0r said:
Please send me a link to the thread. I can't find it.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?iie=1&q=Bluspark+oneplus+3t
If you pay attention, it also explains how searching in the internet works. It's littery the first result if you google "Oneplus 3 Bluspark".

I was already using
twrp-3.2.1-x_blu_spark_v8.61-op3_op3t.img !!!
BUT nevertheless I don't have access to any file (e.g. .zip) even using the newest version of the Bluspark TWRP. Every directory is listed with 0 Bytes.
When accessing TWRP an Error message comes up but I can allow file modifications. But this doesn't help to get access to any file.

Flash the stock recovery
http://oxygenos.oneplus.net.s3.amazonaws.com/recovery_op3.img
Then after flash stock recovery boot to recovery all wipe (internal storage will be deleted). Done!
Flash official or Blu spark twrp. Go to Mount>check the internal storage.

madsponge26 said:
Flash the stock recovery
http://oxygenos.oneplus.net.s3.amazonaws.com/recovery_op3.img
Then after flash stock recovery boot to recovery all wipe (internal storage will be deleted). Done!
Flash official or Blu spark twrp. Go to Mount>check the internal storage.
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Thanks, but this means that I will lose all my data located on my phone??
Will at least the already installed OOS remain?

king0r said:
Thanks, but this means that I will lose all my data located on my phone??
Will at least the already installed OOS remain?
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Well, if you can't access your data with TWRP then you are ****ed any way.

I can only not access the data in Recovery! In OOS no peoblems at all!!
I don't understand why in Recovery nö data access is possible.

[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

Can I put a roms on a bootloader unlocked lmg710ulm?

Last night I managed to get my bootloader unlocked using this method. Awesome, but now I'm stuck on the 11g firmware and I can't even update magisk correctly. I found the unofficial lineage 16 for the European model but that can only be installed from European firmware. I flashed the latest European pie kdz and found that I could no longer enter the bootloader (even though it's still unlocked). I've tried installing twrp but as of now there is only a semi-persistant version which doesn't really do anything for me. So for now I'm stuck, any ideas?

i am using the 10th release of lineageos 16 for the persistant twrp.
edit: also, i installed it from canadian pie (20a) and it worked fine.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot tonight

Pouchon514 said:
i am using the 10th release of lineageos 16 for the persistant twrp.
edit: also, i installed it from canadian pie (20a) and it worked fine.
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I can't seem to be able to send files to my phone while in twrp. Did I flash something wrong?
I did install canadian pie but can't access bootloader from this version

TJzuo said:
I can't seem to be able to send files to my phone while in twrp. Did I flash something wrong?
I did install canadian pie but can't access bootloader from this version
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PM and ULM models seem to have issues with pie not loading bootloader.
Sticking to oreo seems to fix this issue. But lineage being installed over oreo shouldnt cause a big issue.

loonycgb2 said:
PM and ULM models seem to have issues with pie not loading bootloader.
Sticking to oreo seems to fix this issue. But lineage being installed over oreo shouldnt cause a big issue.
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I can't send files to twrp from my computer, so I don't have a way to flash it (even on oreo which loads the bootloader fine)

TJzuo said:
I can't send files to twrp from my computer, so I don't have a way to flash it (even on oreo which loads the bootloader fine)
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Did you try adb push? When you are in twrp open openshell:
adb push .\file name /sdcard/"destination" (with out quotes) or you might have to format data to access internal storage.
Running GSI LOS 16. Will update after running it for few hours.

sinkoo1979 said:
Did you try adb push? When you are in twrp open openshell:
adb push .\file name /sdcard/"destination" (with out quotes) or you might have to format data to access internal storage.
Running GSI LOS 16. Will update after running it for few hours.
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Just got around to messing with this thing again, I can't seem to access adb sideload from twrp:
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer.
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
Unable to recreate /data/media folder.
Updating partition details...
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
... done
Unable to mount storage
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
Full SELinux support is present.
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
MTP Enabled
Starting ADB sideload feature..."
It fails several seconds later. So far there's no way for me to push the file using adb. Any other suggestions?

TJzuo said:
Just got around to messing with this thing again, I can't seem to access adb sideload from twrp:
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer.
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
Unable to recreate /data/media folder.
Updating partition details...
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
... done
Unable to mount storage
Failed to mount '/data' (Unknown error 150)
Full SELinux support is present.
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
MTP Enabled
Starting ADB sideload feature..."
It fails several seconds later. So far there's no way for me to push the file using adb. Any other suggestions?
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Did you format the data first? if you didn't, go to wipe select format and type yes and after that reboot to recovery.

sinkoo1979 said:
Did you format the data first? if you didn't, go to wipe select format and type yes and after that reboot to recovery.
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YOU sir, are an absolute life saver. I feel dumb that it was such a simple fix. I was able to copy over the file! But trying to install it failed for some unknown reason. Thanks again!

TJzuo said:
YOU sir, are an absolute life saver. I feel dumb that it was such a simple fix. I was able to copy over the file! But trying to install it failed for some unknown reason. Thanks again!
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What rom are you trying to flash?

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What rom are you trying to flash?
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Unofficial lineage 16 for the european model. If you've got a better one that's be awesome!

TJzuo said:
Unofficial lineage 16 for the european model. If you've got a better one that's be awesome!
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GSI lineage 16 works good.

sinkoo1979 said:
GSI lineage 16 works good.
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Awesome to hear! Do you happen to have a link?

TJzuo said:
Awesome to hear! Do you happen to have a link?
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search treble xda on google search

sinkoo1979 said:
search treble xda on google search
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Found it, I downloaded a file called "lineage-16.0-20190910-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_bvN.img.xz" and extracted it. I tried installing the img as a system image, no dice. Not sure what to do from here...

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Found it, I downloaded a file called "lineage-16.0-20190910-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_bvN.img.xz" and extracted it. I tried installing the img as a system image, no dice. Not sure what to do from here...
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What kind of message are you getting?
flashing gsi:
flash gsi as system
reboot to recovery
go to wipe and repair and resize the system
flash gapps
flash magisk (optional)
reboot

sinkoo1979 said:
What kind of message are you getting?
flashing gsi:
flash gsi as system
reboot to recovery
go to wipe and repair and resize the system
flash gapps
flash magisk (optional)
reboot
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looks like I'm stuck in bootloop. I managed to flash everything successfully without any errors but couldn't actually boot into the system. Do I need to flash a rom as well as a system image?

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looks like I'm stuck in bootloop. I managed to flash everything successfully without any errors but couldn't actually boot into the system. Do I need to flash a rom as well as a system image?
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Yes, flash the system img that you get from zip in system partition. That is all you flash in GSI no zip for system.

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Yes, flash the system img that you get from zip in system partition. That is all you flash in GSI no zip for system.
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I must not have the right image file then, I can keep looking. What site did you get yours from?