Xiaomi Redmi 7 - bricked/only EDL mode available - Xiaomi Redmi 7 Questions & Answers

Hello,
I got an issue with my Xiaomi Redmi 7. I was trying to install TWRP with adb, but something got wrong, and now my phone seems dead, bricked.
Nothing happens when I try to turn on, can put on fastboot mode (with power+volume down), nor restart it with power+volume up. The screen are just black, and even the notification led doesn't light up when I connect the charger. My guess is the phone is in EDL mode.
Connecting to my computer it recognizes it as "Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E", and I can see it on MiFlash, but when I try to flash any stock rom, it stucks in the very beginning. Here's a screenshot:
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I've tried different versions of the stock rom, MiFlash and computers, but got the very same result.
Do you have any idea what can I try to bring it back to life?
Thank you in advance!
Tamas

tamasv said:
Hello,
I got an issue with my Xiaomi Redmi 7. I was trying to install TWRP with adb, but something got wrong, and now my phone seems dead, bricked.
Nothing happens when I try to turn on, can put on fastboot mode (with power+volume down), nor restart it with power+volume up. The screen are just black, and even the notification led doesn't light up when I connect the charger. My guess is the phone is in EDL mode.
Connecting to my computer it recognizes it as "Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E", and I can see it on MiFlash, but when I try to flash any stock rom, it stucks in the very beginning. Here's a screenshot:
I've tried different versions of the stock rom, MiFlash and computers, but got the very same result.
Do you have any idea what can I try to bring it back to life?
Thank you in advance!
Tamas
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Hey mate, I'm not sure if you fixed it or not but I'm pretty sure that if it can boot to fastboot it's not bricked. What I suggest you would do right now is install xiaomi drivers onto your pc first and foremost (this actually fixed all my problems) then try to use adb and fastboot tools to fastboot flash recovery twrp.img. if that works you're safe and then proceed to advanced wipe, then vendors and system wipe then in an SD card or an otg flash USB install the lastest global or Europe ROM for miui 11.

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I've installed fastboot, and installed the drivers for my xperia play (R800x) while it's in fastboot, so I've successfully unlocked the bootloader (got the code back when you still could for free), rooted using zergRush, and have successfully flashed DooMKernel.
However, i've tried to just flash the CM7 (CDMA of course) using fastboot only to get a black screen (which prompted me to flash DooMLorD's kernel). I saw the .ftf file above the CM7 download, so i googled what to do with it (the post didn't say you had to do anything with it). So, I discovered flashtool, and I've read both this and this guide, however I can't get flashtool to recognize my R800x when I plug it in.
I have extracted both of the flashtool files and merged them, so flashtool loads fine, and the .ftf is read fine, however flashtool just will not recognize my R800x when it's in flashmode (blue light).
For the drivers I did launch Gordon's Gate and install it in the drivers folder (Gordon's Gate folder inside the drivers folder) and i did install all of the drivers from the installer inside that folder successfully.
I can't understand why it won't recognize it, so I just need someone to clearly explain to me how to set up the drivers for flashtool for my Xperia Play. (flashtool 0.4.2 downloaded from here)
By not recognizing it do you mean that it doesn't give the PLAY as a device option? Cuz flashtool doesn't list the PLAY but still works if you select x10 or Arc. And by the way, blue light does NOT mean flash mode, it means fastboot mode. Green light (hold back button when plugging in) means flash mode. So it probably doesn't see your device cuz it's in fastboot mode
You must be in Flash Mode, not fastboot mode, when you are trying to use flash tool. You must hold the BACK button, NOT search button for flash mode.
Oh wow, what a stupid mistake x.x, so I'm not 100% sure I fully flashed it. I went through the procedure til it told me to turn on my phone and then turn on debugging and unknown sources, then i turned it back off and reflashed. The second time it asked me for a device, i chose the Arc according to the jacklebott, then it ended with this
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I then unplugged it and turned it on, i guess that was the end... right?
That should do it

LG G3 VS985 (verizon) will not enter download mode, please help

About a year ago I flashed back to the stock rom using a guide from this site. Then I used LG OneClickRoot and successfully rooted the phone. Last week I decided I wanted to upgrade to MM since Verizon has been pushing it via OTA.
So here's what I did:
As suggested in another forum, I went into SuperSU, and did the "Full unroot" option. It worked and rebooted.
Then I proceeded to re-enable OTA updates, and then clicked check for software updates under the setting menu.
It found and downloaded a new version @200MB. When the phone rebooted to install the new update it stopped at 0% with an error code. The phone rebooted to the home screen and said "software update could not be installed" I'm guessing it's because it detected the former root or flash that I had done?
So I decided I would try to flash back to the stock ROM again which worked for me last year. I found the thread for the TOT method and I still had the factory ROM TOT file, so I proceeded and shut the phone off and attempted to put the phone in download mode to begin this process but it will not enter download mode. No matter what USB cable or computer I use, when I hold down VOL UP and plug in the USB to the phone with the battery out I immediately receive the image of the phone with a white cord attached and an orange/yellow triangle next to it with a question mark in the triangle (I did not take this picture but this is the same image I get)
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I rebooted the phone and got back to the home screen and decided to REroot it thinking that maybe that was the problem. I used LG OneClickRoot again, and with the phone on at the home screen I connected the usb and it entered debug mode and the program on the PC said "rebooting into download mode" and I was skeptical at this point that it would work, but it did! The phone booted up and displayed the "FIRMWARE UPDATE" screen and the PC pushed the files needed to ROOT the phone, then the phone booted back up and was rooted again.
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just pull the battery in and then hold the volume UP button and pull the usb cable in.
This worked for me. Hope so will also work for you to get into download mode.
Don't remove the battery once again.

[Fixed] I hard bricked my Vibe P1

Dear developers!
After successfully flashing and upgrading a friend's Samsung, I got the courage to do the same with my Lenovo Vibe P1.
I followed this video and everything was perfectly: I unlocked the bootloader, connected using QFIL and flashed the TWRP recovery he provided, until the 8:00 minute in the video the program said "Waiting for reset done..." and my QFIL just stucked on that message, so after waiting 5-7 minutes I disconnected the cable in hope that it will reboot to recovery, got some log errors and since then the phone is hard bricked.
Turning on does not work, recovery/bootloader/charging does not work, essentially the screen is dead, the only thing that works is recognization in QFIL program.
When I try to flash stock rom or that recovery from that video again, it first says a protocol error:
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When I try to Download again, now it gets stuck at the Working folder (last message in the log, see below)
EDIT: Depending on the QFIL version, the version below actually gives the same error as above after few minutes.
In addition, any attempt to connect the phone to Windows using USB results in numerous partitions being shown from the phone internal memory (many of which Windows does not recognize as formatted):
(https://i.imgur.com/otd7e0M.png)
Is there anything that could be done to recover my phone please? Not having the right financial situation to purchase a new one and school starts soon so pretty bad situation for me now.
Kind regards,
kangarko
Update! I deleted all partitions from the phone and was successfully able to flash a couple of ROMs from the Internet (including a stock one). However, after each flash one, I get the "Waiting for reset done..." message and than the phone gets disconnected from my Fusion (virtual Windows 7 in Mac), and when it gets connected again it says Finished but the phone is completely black. No signs of any activity, it does not restart itself nor vibrates, and I end up with the problem in my first post again ;(
Help still needed... noticed I typed "Lenovo" in the thread title instead of Vibe, I corrected that but the PHONE IS STILL BROKEN.
Alright, got it solved somehow.
Flashed "P1a42_S272_160506_ROW_QPST" using QFIL 2.0.0.3 and Lenovo usb drivers v1.1.33 + Qualcomm drivers 1.0.
Newer QFIL versions are disfunctional over my device.
Always make sure to hold Power button for 13 seconds to make sure the device is OFF, then connect to QFIL. After it finishes the flashing process, simply disconnect and hold Volume UP button + Power button for 13 seconds and than again to make it boot.
You can find some useful stuff here (including TWRP):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/vibe-p1/how-to/qpst-flashing-vibeui-3-1-s272-rom-t3386650
kangarko said:
Alright, got it solved somehow.
Flashed "P1a42_S272_160506_ROW_QPST" using QFIL 2.0.0.3 and Lenovo usb drivers v1.1.33 + Qualcomm drivers 1.0.
Newer QFIL versions are disfunctional over my device.
Always make sure to hold Power button for 13 seconds to make sure the device is OFF, then connect to QFIL. After it finishes the flashing process, simply disconnect and hold Volume UP button + Power button for 13 seconds and than again to make it boot.
You can find some useful stuff here (including TWRP):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/vibe-p1/how-to/qpst-flashing-vibeui-3-1-s272-rom-t3386650
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Fastboot / Bootloader doesn't exist..?

Hello,
I've tried researching this issue but nobody seems to have the same issue that I do.
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Issue: I cannot boot this thing into fastboot mode. I can connect it to adb and get it listed in adb devices just fine. I set it to always trust the computer. I try issuing a "adb reboot bootloader" and the Pixel C screen shuts off like I would expect. The screen goes black, then...nothing. The rainbow lights on the back light up as though it's powered on, but nothing ever happens.
Troubleshooting:
So far, I've tried turning off the device completely, then powering it up while holding down the volume- button. This gets me the same black screen with the rainbow lights turned on.
I've tried holding volume- & volume+ while booting, and that gets me into Safe Mode (whatever that is). I've tried volume+ and power, which doesn't seem to do anything at all.
I checked device manager, and the device gets detected when it is in OS, but when I issue it the adb reboot bootloader command, and get the black screen, NOTHING shows up in device manager. No "other device" or "unknown device" or "android device" anything. In fact, listening for Windows audio alerts, I hear the device disconnect when it reboots, then I never hear it reconnect.
At some point after boot cycling it multiple times, it came up saying "The device is having trouble booting, you can click try again or you can try reformatting." It looked like the stock recovery, but not fastboot or anything. Haven't gotten that to show up again. I did go through with the device wipe.
If anybody has ANY ideas for how to get this thing booted into fastboot, please send them my way. It would absolutely make my week
EDIT:
Just tried this and am getting somewhere hopefully...
I did "adb reboot recovery" and it gave me the dead Android screen. Did Power & Volume+ and got the menu opened. Was able to get an adb sideload working and I sideloaded the latest OTA. Here is the logs shown on screen:
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LG K10 - Cannot launch TWRP, or download mode - Bootloop

Model: LG K10 K430dsE
Spoiler: bootloop error
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Bootloader is unlocked / oem unlock / usb debugging ON
This happened after i tried to adb reboot fastboot flash twrp.img (because without flashing twrp ididn't launch)
Now my device is bricked? - maybe it was even wrong twrp version, whatever couldn't find anything official for the exact model and device is old
When the phone starts i get the following message
"Your device is corrupt. It can’t be trusted and may not work properly"
Stuck into a bootloop
1. 'adb devices' does not find the connected phone, neither 'device manager' (did before) - cannot start twrp
2. Pressing UP and connecting USB, it goes into Download mode for ~10 seconds then exit and shows;
"Your device is corrupt. It can’t be trusted and may not work properly" and goes into a bootloop again
2.5 PC recognises the COM/PORT for a split second in LGUP + LG Bridge , then it goes away cause phone loops so i cannot enter upgrade and flash the .kdz
3. LGUP shows 'There is no handset connected. Please, connect a handset(s)'
4. LG Bridge does not see the USB, tried different PC and ports.
5. Removed battery, press UP + connect USB device tries to start and closes in 1s
6. When i try to go into download mode, windows shows
'MT67xx Preloader' Looking for updates/drivers, but fails to find it,
Download mode goes into bootloop again and shows 'Your device is corrupt etc'
Spoiler: flip
99,9% i will hear "your device is hardbricked and there is no fix"
It was probably wrong twrp img, K10 K430XX - flashed it and now the phone is gone prob
edit; pressing UP + connecting USB, will show on LGUP and LG Bridge, the device
'connecting' for a split second, then goes away - phone from download mode for 10s will go to bootloop again

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