Hey,
So we had some issues yesterday, during flashing a TWRP ZIP on a Redmi Note 8T, now earlier it seems the TWRP told us we have ginkgo, however, the next time, I was trying to flash an image, it said that we have widdow, so we got confused. I have managed to flash the image tho, *which was the issue* and now the device seems to just do reboots, now I could easily fix it, but the real issue is even when I wish to enter to fastboot mode, after 1 second it reboots, so I can't even stay there and do magic. Pressing VOL UP and POWER also seems to just reboot the device.
I am completely lost at this point, never been in a situation when fastboot totally ****ed up.
I heard some ways to use test points but for that, we would need to remove the backplate, so we rather just wait and if no one can help, we send it to warranty.
sqpp said:
Hey,
So we had some issues yesterday, during flashing a TWRP ZIP on a Redmi Note 8T, now earlier it seems the TWRP told us we have ginkgo, however, the next time, I was trying to flash an image, it said that we have widdow, so we got confused. I have managed to flash the image tho, *which was the issue* and now the device seems to just do reboots, now I could easily fix it, but the real issue is even when I wish to enter to fastboot mode, after 1 second it reboots, so I can't even stay there and do magic. Pressing VOL UP and POWER also seems to just reboot the device.
I am completely lost at this point, never been in a situation when fastboot totally ****ed up.
I heard some ways to use test points but for that, we would need to remove the backplate, so we rather just wait and if no one can help, we send it to warranty.
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Go to fastboot and clean flash stock fastboot ROM. A clean flashing could solve most problems, I think.
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I have updated my Nexus 5x to 7.1.1 beta and after a day it powered off and I got the infamous red led during charging. I was not able to turn the phone on even after leaving the charger on for some days. I thought it is bricked and left it alone connected to my computer.
However today, out of nowhere Google logo popped up. It was bootlooping, but I was able to enter bootloader and original recovery. I wanted to flash it from bootloader, but was unable, because it was still oem locked. And I was not able to oem unlock, because I did not do the required part in the Developer Tools menu. I tried to adb sideload OTA in the original recovery, but sideloading stopped after uploading ~48% every time.
So I opted for the "VolumeUp + Power" mode flashing. Phone was recognized and I started flashing the appropriate TOT file. However at 33% on phone and 28% on the PC, progress stopped. And after a minute or so phone turned off. Currently it has no signs of life at all. Have I completely bricked it now? Is there a way to recover from interrupted "VolumeUp + Power" flashing mode?
EDIT: at first I though maybe the battery died during flashing. But interruption was not abrupt. First the progress slowed down to halt. And then after some time phone turned off.
It seems not all is lost. Have a blinking red light again after leaving it connected to computer for a day. Back to square one, but at least it is alive.
Your motherboard is dead.
And it is not your fault, mine also died while using beta 7.1 and I sent it RMA. They replaced for a new one.
But in my case i had unlocked bootloader, I flashed back 7.0 and it gave no results, still bootloop that's why I sent
Thanks for the info.
After leaving my phone with a clamp on a power button throughout the night (so the red light would flash continuously), I got it booting into "VolumeUp + Power" mode and this time I have successfully flashed the same TOT file via LGUp software. It was still bootlooping after flashing. Now I was able to enter into bootloader and recovery and this time sideloading the same previous file actually works. However it still bootloops.
Anyway, I tried to RMA it and after giving my IMEI to the Google rep, they said that they could not find it in their system after checking US and UK store records. Also tried calling LG warranty, but they do not know of my IMEI either. I got this phone from Swappa, so I left wondering where did the original owner of this phone got it from. He claimed that he got it as a present...
BlinK_ said:
Thanks for the info.
After leaving my phone with a clamp on a power button throughout the night (so the red light would flash continuously), I got it booting into "VolumeUp + Power" mode and this time I have successfully flashed the same TOT file via LGUp software. It was still bootlooping after flashing. Now I was able to enter into bootloader and recovery and this time sideloading the same previous file actually works. However it still bootloops.
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out of curiosity, have you ever tried to flash custom recovery through the bootloader ? If you can, you might also wanna try to make a EFS backup, wipe all partition, then flash custom rom or near-stock rom like this one, just for the sake of testing.
anazhd said:
out of curiosity, have you ever tried to flash custom recovery through the bootloader ? If you can, you might also wanna try to make a EFS backup, wipe all partition, then flash custom rom or near-stock rom like this one, just for the sake of testing.
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I wanted to flash custom recovery but was unable to do so, because device is still OEM locked. And I am unable to unlock it, because I did not do the confirmation in the Developer Options before device started to bootloop. Is there a way to flash custom recovery without this step in Developer Options?
BlinK_ said:
I wanted to flash custom recovery but was unable to do so, because device is still OEM locked. And I am unable to unlock it, because I did not do the confirmation in the Developer Options before device started to bootloop. Is there a way to flash custom recovery without this step in Developer Options?
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For now, no way that I can think of. You could try to oem unlock it until it work, just cross your finger I guess?
I have some progress here. Since I was able to sideload various OTA images, I started doing that one by one and seeing if some of them would not bootloop. And after flashing 7.0.0 (NRD91N) from here (https://developers.google.com/android/ota) phone booted successfully and now is working. Will report if I get any problems.
Long story short, I ended up with a classic bootloop (shows boot animation continuously) from messing around with Magisk modules, so I did a wipe from recovery, still bootloop, so I tried reverting completely to stock with the OEM downloads. I tried flash_all_except_storage.bat, and flash_all.bat, but this time it was a different bootloop. The phone shows the Android One logo, the screen flickers like it's going to the boot animation, but then it just goes back to the Unlocked Bootloader Warning Screen, then the Android One logo, and loops like that. I dumbly thought locking the bootloader, reflashing everything, and starting over like it were a new phone would fix the issue, so I did flash_all_lock.bat, but now I'm just stuck with this weird bootloop and a locked bootloader. Trying to unlock the bootloader with fastboot just gives me "oem unlock is not allowed", so I'm at a loss here.
Does anyone know of anything else I could do, or is this a hard brick?
With a locked bootloader EDL flash probably is your last chance.
Maybe this thread helps:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite/help/hard-bricked-mi-a2-lite-help-to-enter-t3862648
thorin0815 said:
With a locked bootloader EDL flash probably is your last chance.
Maybe this thread helps:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite/help/hard-bricked-mi-a2-lite-help-to-enter-t3862648
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I got stuck with a similar problem and that was the only option, to boot into EDL mode you will need to partially dissasemble your device and flash the image via fastboot or via MiFlash (download the latest version as I had problems with an older one). Since that incident I kept the bootloader unlocked just in case something happens.
I had the phone booted into EDL mode and attempted to flash the stock ROM (10.0.3.0) with MiFlash, but it errored out with an ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE. I tried with the previous version, 10.0.2.0 and it worked for some reason. That fixed it though, so thanks! I've been lightly tinkering with rooting android phones a few years now, but until encountering this issue, I'd never heard of EDL mode. You learn something new every day? ?
I have the same issue with my nephew 's mi a2 lite which has the bootloader locked.
It only shows the android one logo.
I cannot go to recovery mode, but I can go in fastboot.
Changing from "a" to "b" doesn't solve anything and being the bootloader locked is not possible to flash anything from fastboot.
So I've opened the device and I've short circuited the edl pinpoint to be able to flash with MiTool (I've used an old version since more recent ones gave errors when flashing).
I was able to flash both the latest official ROM and the oldest one which I've found ( daisy_global_images_V11.0.14.0.QDLMIXM_10.0 and daisy_global_images_V9.6.4.0.ODLMIFF_8.1 respectively).
In both cases the device still is "frozen" with the android one logo when I've tried to turn it on after the flashing procedures gave me a successful status.
What else can I do?
Hi everyone.
I have been reading a few posts about bootloops in hopes that someone would have been facing the same issue as me. It seems my case is a bit different. I am desperate for some help!
My Max 3 came initially with a chinese ROM but I followed some wonderful tutorials here and I unlocked it and installed initially the xiaomi.eu ROM. Then a couple of months later I installed AOSiP ROM, I updated it a couple of times dirty flashing over it, and settled in exactly the "AOSiP-9.0-Pizza-nitrogen-20190719" build. And there i was, for 4 months, all stable, then suddenly today I was going to unlock the phone with my fingerprint and asked for password.
This happens exactly 1 time per day but I noticed that today it was the second time. Then doesn't matter how many times I put my password correctly, it would keep asking for my password. So I decided to restart the device... and then the bootloop issue started. It starts, reaches the moment in which the AOSiP logo shows and (not even 1 second until the logo shows) freezes, and restarts the device.
I can access the recovery without issues so I didn't panic yet, I backed up all I could, wiped everything I could, started from zero: firmware 9.9.3 + AOSiP-9.0-Pizza-nitrogen-20191117 + gapps. The bootloop still there, in exactly the same way. So at this point I have no clue what could be the reason. I was always careful not to trigger any anti-rollback, it was all going good, now not even with a full factory reset seems to work. I even reinstalled the recovery.
Any ideas? does anyone know what could I try next? Thank you very much advance.
I forgot to attach some logs. I got using the TWRP Advanced > Copy Log option.
Well, I guess I completely screwed it now. I had the brilliant idea to go back to some of the original steps I did way back and flashed an old xiaomi.eu ROM "xiaomi.eu_multi_MIMAX3_8.8.9_v10-8.1", that completely bricked the phone. Screen doesn't even turn on anymore. Is it the end for my Max 3?
diegoocampo said:
Well, I guess I completely screwed it now. I had the brilliant idea to go back to some of the original steps I did way back and flashed an old xiaomi.eu ROM "xiaomi.eu_multi_MIMAX3_8.8.9_v10-8.1", that completely bricked the phone. Screen doesn't even turn on anymore. Is it the end for my Max 3?
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The mi max 3 has arb enabled, so flashing old rom can cause it to brick.
Have you tried different button combinations to enter fastboot? If you can get to fastboot, just flash a fastboot rom, if that works.
If the brick is caused by triggering ARB, then that may cause some issues, and may need an Authorized Account to flash the ROM from scratch, with some qualcomm flashing tools things.
Though, there may be some way to bypass the authorization for mi max 3 on the internet and have your device unbricked.
Thank you for your replies. Yes probably ARB, I thought my phone had never installed a ROM with ARB and so I was safe to install xiaomi.eu_multi_MIMAX3_8.8.9_v10-8.1 (which it is also to be pre-ARB), but I guess I made a mistake at some point.
Situation now:
- with Mi Flash I am getting the authorization error with almost any ROM, with very old ROMs I am not even able to start the flashing process
- with Qualcomm QFIL tool I always get an error "function: sahara_rx_data:237 Unable to read packet header. Only read 0 bytes". And I also tried with the patched files from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/how-to/fix-arb-bricked-device-qfil-t3841780
I think at this point I tried everything that can be tried. My bootloader was unlocked, but at this point I am not even sure if its unlocked anymore since I can't see anything on the device screen.
The only positive thing is that the phone always shows under the Windows 10 device manager "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008", so at least is a bit alive, and with the Mi Flash at least for some ROMs starts the flash process. I am not sure if disassembling it and trying things like removing the batter would make any difference.
If anyone knows any other way to bypass authorization please let me know.
Here I am back with another update:
- I fixed the full brick by disassembling the phone and disconnecting the battery, with the battery disconnected I could finally flash a Chinese ROM. That however was just the beginning... more problems came
- Common problem I guess is that after booting with that Chinese ROM i was getting a message about how the encryption was interrupted. This was easy, just changed the file system of Data and formatted it and it was fixed.
- Now I am stuck in another hard to solve problem. Any ROM that boots will not allow me to use WiFi or SIM cards. And the reason is that the IMEI is not set anymore. Reading about it I see that this is related with the EFS partition being corrupted. Nothing seems to work now. I don't have any EFS backup . Anyone knows how to fix the IMEI in this case?
Hello everyone, Merry Christmas!
Although I say that, I bring not so merry news. My OnePlus 7T is bricked and after trying everything I don't know where to go from here. Currently I am stuck at the:
The current image (boot/recovery) has been destroyed​phase of things and all I can do is boot into fastboot, that is it.
How did this all start? All I did was just update the phone to Android 12 with the official OTA update from OnePlus, big mistake. Worst update ever; my adaptive brightness went haywire, the brightness gets stuck at max, I couldn't receive calls, data was completely unresponsive, and the list goes on. So before the obvious downgrade method, I try a few things first:
Cycle airplane mode on/off
Reset network settings
Reset ANR
These worked for a minute on my data then right back to the same issue.
Wipe cache partition... Oh wait I had to find out the hard way Android 12 removed this option....
Wipe the phone
That fixed nothing.
Ok time to downgrade, but this is where things got tricky and I realized that maybe all my issues stemmed from me getting the wrong update from OnePlus? Although I found this out too late.
See my phone model is HD1907 which I already knew at the back of my head, but when it mattered to remember the most, I didn't catch what happened. After my update to A12, my model number changed to HD1901 which is the Indian version, and when I saw it didn't think anything of it at the time but then after all my problems it came back to me, my phone has always HD1907 so maybe this is a compatibility issue.
Anyway since I was going to downgrade anyway I thought to myself, 'since I already wiped everything, maybe I can use this opportunity to try out a ROM for A12 and see if it is just this ****ty OOS causing all these issues,' and so I did. First thing I did was unlock the bootloader, and try get TWRP on my phone. That all went fine, I booted into TWRP, flashed my zip for TWRP, then proceeded to try to boot into the OS... and the rest is history because that is as far as I got. Apparently my boot.img is destroyed and I can't boot back into TWRP anymore either, all I can do is get to fastboot.
So then I tried MSM, it won't detect my phone.... So then I tried flashing my Stock ROM through fastboot, apparently I'm missing a partition and it won't write to a critical partition either....
So where do I go from here...?
Hello I was in the exact same boat as you today same phone, same update issues, same no recovery mode, no os to boot into only greeted with fastboot mode. I have resolved it and I'm back on oos 11 good as new. I did use the msm tool it is tricky for sure at first. A critical step is installing the qualcomm drivers and then rebooting your pc. Get them here
https://androiddatahost.com/nbyn6. Be sure to reboot. It's late and I just got this thing back into working shape so I don't want to write a lot a right now. It's been a few days since this post so... If you are still stuck I will be glad to help out let me know. There is hope!
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Hello I was in the exact same boat as you today same phone, same update issues, same no recovery mode, no os to boot into only greeted with fastboot mode. I have resolved it and I'm back on oos 11 good as new. I did use the msm tool it is tricky for sure at first. A critical step is installing the qualcomm drivers and then rebooting your pc. Get them here
https://androiddatahost.com/nbyn6. Be sure to reboot. It's late and I just got this thing back into working shape so I don't want to write a lot a right now. It's been a few days since this post so... If you are still stuck I will be glad to help out let me know. There is hope!
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I too had all the symptoms after an update to OOS12, including progressively losing any semblance of booting. not even recovery and the drivers found elsewhere didn't work, and had a different name when installed and would never get detected in the MsmDownloadTool. After installing this one and rebooting, it finally detects it and installs the image of EDL mode.
Must be rusty in my old age, but I dont remember having any of these issues back with my previous android phones... the 11 is my first new one since the 6T though.
Whats my situation:
Phone boots into fastboot, attempts to boot to recovery, or continue, or restart all end back at fastboot. Can issue fastboot commands, but all roads seem to lead back to fastboot.
How I got here:
When I first got my phone, I unlocked the bootloader via fastboot command, but for some reason my phone wouldn't let me set a pin. Be it numeric, alphanumeric, or pattern, it would never let me confirm after putting it in the second time, and consequently I couldn't register a fingerprint or face scan. Reddit suggested that this sometimes happens after bootloader unlock but can be resolved by re locking and unlocking again... ok fair enough, haven't done much yet, whats another factory wipe.
fastboot flashing lock command - finished, boots straight back to bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock command - finished, ok time to try booting through to see if it fixed the problem... stuck in fastboot.
I'm rusty enough to want to stop here and seek guidance before I further brick my phone. I have fastboot access so in theory I should be able to flash an image from here? Any guidance would be appreciated. I'll admit I've fallen off the scene hard (new baby, job etc) and perhaps I should have just left my phone locked... but habits die hard eh?
You can only flash the full rom /images with unlocked bootloader
With locked bl you becomes the messages
Flashing on locked states not allowed
did you flash a patched init_boot.img after your first unlock?
benhc911 said:
Must be rusty in my old age, but I dont remember having any of these issues back with my previous android phones... the 11 is my first new one since the 6T though.
Whats my situation:
Phone boots into fastboot, attempts to boot to recovery, or continue, or restart all end back at fastboot. Can issue fastboot commands, but all roads seem to lead back to fastboot.
How I got here:
When I first got my phone, I unlocked the bootloader via fastboot command, but for some reason my phone wouldn't let me set a pin. Be it numeric, alphanumeric, or pattern, it would never let me confirm after putting it in the second time, and consequently I couldn't register a fingerprint or face scan. Reddit suggested that this sometimes happens after bootloader unlock but can be resolved by re locking and unlocking again... ok fair enough, haven't done much yet, whats another factory wipe.
fastboot flashing lock command - finished, boots straight back to bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock command - finished, ok time to try booting through to see if it fixed the problem... stuck in fastboot.
I'm rusty enough to want to stop here and seek guidance before I further brick my phone. I have fastboot access so in theory I should be able to flash an image from here? Any guidance would be appreciated. I'll admit I've fallen off the scene hard (new baby, job etc) and perhaps I should have just left my phone locked... but habits die hard eh?
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You need to re-unlock the bootloader in the original china ROM!
I can help you if you get stuck on this issue ! pm me! !
I did indeed reunlock the bootloader. I imagine the issue possibly when I was attempting to root by patching a boot img with magisk and flashing that... Although after doing that my phone seemed to operate fine.
Regardless I reflashed the original, and it seemed to still bootloop into fast boot.
I tried relocking the bootloader, going to recovery, etc. After some degree of insanity doing seemingly the same thing I got to stock recovery, and then back to bootloader then back to recovery, then it flashed me writing in Chinese and it booted normally.
Since then I've rebooted my phone with no issue.
Not sure what exactly happened to make it conditionally work/not work... But given the time I wasted on it and the infant I'm having strong second thoughts about bothering with an unlocked bootloader. I'm clearly not in my element anymore as my confidence of which files to flash and commands to do so was very low (hence the post). My initial suspicion was "I have fast boot I can just flash original rom and I'm back to square one at least" but was too "afraid" to proceed and brick my new phone.
To expand on the "why bother with unlocked bootloader", I feel like it's been 3 phones since I truly took advantage of unlocking my bootloader. Perhaps I need to read more about the current state to see if there is a value proposition for me, or if I'm just creating more work (to then root, magisk, TWRP, safetynet, windvine etc)
Same happened to me,
Possible solution:
I used fastboot enhance to flash the payload.bin all over again, after it finished it rebooted into fastbootd automatically, then I falshed the same payload.bin into fastbootd as well then it rebooted into system smoothly.