bootloader is locked and the phone simply doesnt boot, i still have access to fastboot and miui recovery, when using the MiAssitant option, pc suite says "device isnt supported"
Often a failure to boot is caused by the encryption going wrong somehow, though not sure whether it'd behave that way with Mi Assistant.
Since you have recovery, once you've run out of options a Factory Reset could work.
chisnz said:
Often a failure to boot is caused by the encryption going wrong somehow, though not sure whether it'd behave that way with Mi Assistant.
Since you have recovery, once you've run out of options a Factory Reset could work.
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sadly, the wipe data option on the miui recovery doesn't work, the phone simply reboot after a minute
Since you're on stock and nothing works, seems like it's time to take it back to where you bought it - if possible. Sometimes a drop or moisture can damage the phone in some way and prevent booting too, so the shop might find it needs to be repaired.
get into fastboot mode and just type " fastboot -w ", then rebooting your phone !
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I recently found a moto g5 in one of my fellow "old tech" drawers and decided to turn it on, it was on the
1. May 2018
Security patch on nougat, I decided to use the inbuilt system updater to go to Oreo, and now....it crashes during flashing process after about 25-30% completion,
Now im guessing boot or System is not properly installed due to the zip file having aborted mid-flash
Recovery doesn't properly boot as that is used to install the update and thus imidiately goes to doing that
Also, it hang up during installation on random times, it basically has a record of 2mins of not crashing whilst still being stuck on 30%
I got it to "boot" when trying factory mode, yeah it crashed mid boot animation...not a help
Any suggestions? EDL mode maybe?
Can you not flash firmware via fastboot
In theory as long as firmware is signed you don't need an unlocked bootloader to flash firmware
Firmware can be downloaded from https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/cedric/official/
You can also try the lenovo moto smart assistant to flash the firmware
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5/how-to/guide-how-download-official-fastboot-t3916778
If not you will most likely need a motherboard replacement or jtag firmware flash at a repair shop
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Can you not flash firmware via fastboot
In theory as long as firmware is signed you don't need an unlocked bootloader to flash firmware
Firmware can be downloaded from https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/cedric/official/
You can also try the lenovo moto smart assistant to flash the firmware
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5/how-to/guide-how-download-official-fastboot-t3916778
If not you will most likely need a motherboard replacement or jtag firmware flash at a repair shop
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SOMEHOW it just decided to boot, I have never seen such behaviour, even on my g5s which I had for a while, (and am currently daily driving to school if it wasn't closed....NEVER
Maybe I'll unlock it and try somehow recreating it? Well it's in physically rough shape but all components inside are fine...so that can't be the reason....?
My g5 got stuck in a bootloop without an update, no root or anything modded. Is there any way to recover the data if its stuck like this?
anonymous724 said:
My g5 got stuck in a bootloop without an update, no root or anything modded. Is there any way to recover the data if its stuck like this?
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Flash the stock rom and boot the device. But this will format the device.
To save data, remove the command fastboot erase userdata
Fastboot erase customisation.
Apps may be gone, but files In internal storage will be safe, like download,photos, music.
riyan65 said:
Flash the stock rom and boot the device. But this will format the device.
To save data, remove the command fastboot erase userdata
Fastboot erase customisation.
Apps may be gone, but files In internal storage will be safe, like download,photos, music.
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no luck on this front, gets to the passcode screen, write in passcode then motorola logo shows and screen keeps on turning off and on.
Thanks for the effort though, much appreciated
Mine is similar to yours. Initially was on permanent loop of the following:
1. Boot to moto g splash screen... Repeat
2. Boot to lock screen then usually a few loops of 1. (after entering the patter or left Idle)
The phone initially didnt have any developer options enabled.
I wiped cache using recovery mode. Restarted and pretty much the same thing except that it would on rare occasions actually fully boot up usually only last a few minutes before cycling between steps 1 and 2 above.
I used those rare boot ups to backup all files and enable any USB debugging /oem unlock (incase I need to use a solution dependent on these being enabled.)
Factory resetted it and its still the same with the random successful boot amongst the numerous failed ones.
I managed to hook it up to Lenovo's Lmsa and flash the latest ROM. Now I get a lot more successful boots but still loops every so often. The downside is that I can no longer do any functions that make use of the audio/ mic/ video (can take pictures). If I do then it will crash and loop.
The hardware test on the LMSA passed for every component before flashing to the latest version. Post update it predictably fails on the audio/ mic components.
I guess I'll have to go back to the old version to see I get the audio back.
Hi Everyone,
I have a 5T running android 9 - completely stock. The device is SIM free, I have never customised it at all - if anything it's never been connected to a PC even.
A few days ago I was using my phone as normal (on whatsapp) but it completely froze. It now boots up to the "Your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted and may not work properly" - it freezes on start up and won't work at all.
- I can get to the fastboot screen
- I can get to the recovery screen to install from ADB
The fastboot screen says in red - device state - locked.
The device is a clean, un-customised phone. Only a few days prior I checked for any OTA updates but I haven't received android 10 yet.
I haven't flashed phone firmware or anything for years now. (By years, I literally mean years - back in the Nokia 8210 days). My only other experience of flashing firmware was with Samsung phones and 'debranding' them.
As I was not trying to root the device or anything - how do I fix this issue? I've searched the forums but I cannot fine a scenario similar to mine therefore I'm a bit confused as to what to do to resolve it.
I've tried to sideload this - oneplus.com/uk/support/softwareupgrade/details?code=PM1574156155944 via recovery but it says installation failed.
Any help appreciated thanks!
Sounds like you're straight out of luck to recover any data if your device is completely stock, as to unlock your bootloader to access encrypted data would mean a factory reset. You could try try one of the unbrick tools using the guide here. You will lose your data.
I tried the unbrick tool here - forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/how-to/oneplus-5t-unbricking-tool-confirmation-t3733012
... and it doesn't work. The phone now boots to a blank screen with a constant white LED.
Could this be a hardware issue?
I'm not too concerned about losing my data - already gave up on trying to keep my data when the problem first occurred!
After the 4th use of the unbrick tool (each time it completes successfully) I was finally able to boot into the phone.
I got as far as setting the region but then it wouldn't find any wifi networks. It then completely froze on this screen and is now back to "your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted" and will continually try to boot and freeze on the oneplus logo. Sometimes it will boot to a blank screen with a white LED.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm definitely suspecting a hardware issue now...
oneplus5t_ said:
After the 4th use of the unbrick tool (each time it completes successfully) I was finally able to boot into the phone.
I got as far as setting the region but then it wouldn't find any wifi networks. It then completely froze on this screen and is now back to "your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted" and will continually try to boot and freeze on the oneplus logo. Sometimes it will boot to a blank screen with a white LED.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm definitely suspecting a hardware issue now...
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Problem fixed?
unfortunately not. Any ideas on next steps?
That's an odd issue for sure. My only idea would be installing TWRP and maybe formatting from there and using fix permissions etc. to see if it has any effect.
I've done some googling to try and understand "TWRP" but I'm not sure I fully understand. Are there any forum posts I can refer to?
- phone has been flashed several times
- before this whole saga dev mode was enabled, but only to reduce animation scale - USB debugging was never enabled
- the phone has always been stock / sim free - never rooted
Thanks
Can you get into recovery? If yes then try connecting to a pc whilst in recovery as it should let you open your phones internal storage on PC but im not too sure if stock recovery allows it, (TWRP) does. Then copy whatever files you need. Let us know if you can get into fastboot mode aswell
It sounds similar to an issue I have just experienced with a friends 5T. In my case it's a hardware issue (seems like Wi-Fi has died). Just for kicks try to flash the Android 7 firmware. For some reason it allowed me to boot the phone fine and use it, albeit without any Wi-Fi. I sideloaded OOS 4.7.6 and that seems to be the last version 7. You could also use the older unbrick software. Academic I fear as I think you have a hardware issue.
I got into a bootloop after disabling the settings app from the terminal emulator, using the command pm disable, am rooted using magisk. Now it is telling me to enter safe mode, but the safe mode is completely unusable. Anyone can tell how to undo so it boots up normally, besides factory reset
Bummer. If nothing works you could go to recovery and wipe phone clean from there. You'll need to look up the button combo to go to recovery, don't recall myself.
Can't believe you decided to proceed even people told you your device will brick. Nothing you can do other than factory reset your device from recovery. You also can flash ROM via odin. Next time listen to others. Otherwise, don't even ask in the first place
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Can't believe you decided to proceed even people told you your device will brick. Nothing you can do other than factory reset your device from recovery. You also can flash ROM via odin. Next time listen to others. Otherwise, don't even ask in the first place
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Actually my phone was working just fine while the app was disabled ,but I forgot to to enable it again before reebooting my phone , simple mistake
I have a bricked Redmi Note 5 Pro. Stock firmware, locked bootloader, did literally nothing that would cause this. Just updated firmware (it happened few years ago, just now decided to try and repair it), and after update It's stuck in Mi-Recovery 3.0, with options only for "Reboot", "Wipe Data" and "Connect with MIAssistant", with red text at the bottom "This MIUI version can't be installed on this device" (see photo). Tried everything form this menu, nothing solves the problem. I can boot into fastboot but can't use it as the bootloader is locked and debugging is off. I can go into EDL mode but can't flash as I need to log in into Mi Account, and my sister (this phone was hers) forgot the password and even the account which was connected to this device. I was looking for MiFlash that bypasses authorization but can't find any that is not marked as malware (anyone knows of any that is safe?). At was past the warranty and I've tried to ask few phone-repair shops but the said that is unrepairable.
Any ideas what I can check or try next to solve this problem?
BTW. Does anyone knows why all of this happened? As I already said, never did anything with OS, only updated it which caused brick. My only idea is, as this phone was bought not from official store, that it might be a phone that was bought cheaper in china, then flashed with modified global OS and after update it was replaced with official global OS which bricked the phone. No idea if something like this is possible.
Edit [Sep 19, 2021]: I got somewhere. Used Firehose file to flash whyred global image without authenitcation. Got into system. I can at least go into fastboot and it's detected correctly in windows. Now I'm trying to get root, flash TWRP and any non-stock OS. Couldn't flash directly via fastboot because of anti-rollback check. Tried to do "fastboot boot twrp_rn5pro.img" which resulted in FAIL in console (status read failed - too many links) and "The system has been destroyed - click the power button to shutdown".
Edit2 [Sep 19, 2021]: Looks like my bootloader is still locked and that's why I can't flash custom recovery. But when I look in the phone settings it says that my phone is already unlocked. Checking in fastboot via PC says otherwise. Enabled OEM unlocking, but fastboot still says "FAILED (remote: Token Verify Failed, Reboot the device". Can't unlock it using MiUnlock cause they say that I need to set my account as available to unlock in unlock status on my device, but I can't do it as my device says that it's already unlocked.
Edit3 [Sep 20, 2021]: I've tried other tool: XiaoMiTool V2 (by Francesco Tescari). As the option "My device works normally I want to mod it" didn't work I chose "My device is bricked I want to unbrick it". Selected option without unlocking bootloader (wouldn't work). And it actually auto-detected that it's chinese phone and flashed chinese OS (MIUI 10.3 Stable). At the boot I got a prompt that this device is locked and I need to log into my Mi account (the one I logged in in the last ROM - from first Edit), after logging in it let me go through setup (luckily there was English). But phone still says that it's unlocked while it's still locked in fastboot. So in the end it didn't got me anywhere, but at least I know that orginally it was a chinese phone.
Edit4 [Sep 20, 2021]: Finally solved the problem! Used this tutorial. Did everything like shown on video and at the end I have MIUI 12 with unlocked bootloader (this time it's actually unlocked - checked with fastboot). Managed to flash TWRP using dummy.img and flashing to recovery. Couldn't boot from img, but vol+ + power did the job. With working recovery I can do everything else I wanted to do.
I had the same issue, which I also managed to fix. I thought I'd share what I did here.
My phone was bricked with access to MIUI recovery and Fastboot. My phone was locked, however my phone was not linked to my Mi account, and so I couldn't unlock it using the Mi Unlock tool. The only way to get into EDL mode was via the testpoint method. It's not as scary as people may think.
Many of the YouTube videos on testpoint show that you have to touch the two terminals while pushing the cable into the phone. Several times I was able to activate EDL mode without doing both at the same time - i.e. I could just connect the cable and touch the two terminals (I used a paper clip) and the phone would enter EDL mode. I think it might have had something to do with me pressing the power button. In my case, I had to have the battery disconnected from the circuit to get into EDL mode.
I used the Xiaomi Flash tool. Always remember to select not to relock the bootloader. I think it's stupid that relocking is the default option and that the radio buttons are at the bottom of the program and sometimes not visible on a laptop. That's how I got into this mess in the first place!
One of the things that I think causes the "MIUI version" problem is attempting to install the incorrect stock ROM. The phones may be fussy about which stock ROM they will accept. In my case, I thought the phone was a global version, then worked out that it was probably a Chinese version.
I replaced the firehose files in all the ROMs I attempted flashing with the ones supplied on XDA. The Xiaomi Flash tool reported success several times, but when starting up the phone it would go into recovery with the "MIUI version" message. I tried about six different MIUI ROMs with the testpoint method, both global and Chinese, before stumbling on the one that worked (after replacing the firehose files): whyred_images_V11.0.2.0.PEICNXM_20191023.0000.00_9.0_cn
When I got back into MIUI, I linked the phone to my MI account and then attempted flashing the latest LineageOS (which was what I was trying to do in the first place), using the Lineage recovery. The phone wasn't accepting the Lineage recovery, so I flashed OrangeFox-R11.0-Stable-whyred. I had to boot to Orangefox in order to flash it. You copy the Orangefox zip file to your phone using your computer when you have MIUI up and running, then you enter Fastboot and run the following command from your computer:
fastboot boot recovery.img
From Orangefox, you then select the Orangefox zip file on your phone and swipe to install.
Once that was done, I rebooted to recovery and did a wipe of the phone. It wasn't enough for me to wipe Dalvik/ ART Cache and Cache (as recommended), I had to also wipe System, Vendor and Data. (I tried just the first two and the LOS installation was corrupt, even though it was reported as being successful.) I then copied LOS to a micro SD card, inserted it into the phone and mounted it, before flashing LOS by navigating to the zip file on the SD card, selecting it and selecting wipe to install.
Finally success!
I think the key with the testpoint method is to keep trying ROMs until you stumble on the one that works. If the Xiaomi Flash tool reports success, I think it means you are doing something right. I also wonder if a lot of people who have the "MIUI version" issue have a phone with the Chinese ROM and don't realise it.
Hope this helped someone!
by any chances how do you unlock bootloader if you just bypass the mi account?
yoshukii19 said:
by any chances how do you unlock bootloader if you just bypass the mi account?
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No hacking ... Why did you bypass mi account???
drnightshadow said:
No hacking ... Why did you bypass mi account???
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the reason is I got my phone Redmi Note 5 Pro on fb marketplace by swapping my old phone, when I'm using it there's no mi account logged in on my phone then I tried to install the latest MIUI 12 by flashing it on MiFlash but I didn't notice that I didn't change the setting on clean all so it locked my bootloader, after I manage to fix the issue about my phone because it doesn't open and it only boot on recovery with a message "This MIUI...." and make it boot by flashing cn official rom, it says that my phone is locked and I need to logged in the old mi account, I already ask the previous owner but he said he doesn't have an access on that account, even the number and email are already lost
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No hacking ... Why did you bypass mi account???
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If it's locked and you haven't registered the phone with Mi Account, then you will need to use test point. There are a lot of claims that it's not necessary, but I tried many of them and it wouldn't work. I think they are a load of rubbish to get you to pay money. Test point is not that hard, but you need to pick the right ROM.
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If it's locked and you haven't registered the phone with Mi Account, then you will need to use test point. There are a lot of claims that it's not necessary, but I tried many of them and it wouldn't work. I think they are a load of rubbish to get you to pay money. Test point is not that hard, but you need to pick the right ROM.
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Why did you quote me?!?
Hi guys,
I have a problem with a Xiaomi 10T Pro. It is in bootloop. The reason for that is unknown (it’s a friend’s phone). The phone settings are basically all standard, meaning the bootloader is locked, stock recovery and stock OS. I can access recovery and fastboot. Safe boot and repair boot out of recovery does nothing. It is just showing the MIUI logo as during the normal boot.
Is there any way to copy the data of the phone (photos would be enough)?
I read about flashing just the boot.img of the firmware but I don’t know which version is running. I am assuming the newest one that come with OTA updates.
I also read that some people wiped the data in recovery (only full wipe possible in stock recovery) and then used some android data recovery software to recover their data.
Not very satisfying options. I would really appreciate a different way. Any ideas?
My first idea was to boot into TWRP but because of the locked bootloader this is not possible.
sexler said:
Hi guys,
I have a problem with a Xiaomi 10T Pro. It is in bootloop. The reason for that is unknown (it’s a friend’s phone). The phone settings are basically all standard, meaning the bootloader is locked, stock recovery and stock OS. I can access recovery and fastboot. Safe boot and repair boot out of recovery does nothing. It is just showing the MIUI logo as during the normal boot.
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Note that this may be a hardware problem.
As the bootloader is locked, you can only try to erase the data and see if the phone restarts, which is not certain and then try with recovery software, also not certain.
Or before erase the data, this tool:
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
Choose "my device is bricked"
Also without warranty.
I have Ur same exact issue xD been like that for months
NOSS8 said:
Note that this may be a hardware problem.
As the bootloader is locked, you can only try to erase the data and see if the phone restarts, which is not certain and then try with recovery software, also not certain.
Or before erase the data, this tool:
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
Choose "my device is bricked"
Also without warranty.
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Thank you for your reply.
I haven’t found a different solution yet so despite the fact that this method is not certain I guess I’ll try it in the next couple of days. Before that I’ll also give this Xiaomi tool a try.
Do you know some good data recovery tools that I could use if the device will boot?
sexler said:
Thank you for your reply.
I haven’t found a different solution yet so despite the fact that this method is not certain I guess I’ll try it in the next couple of days. Before that I’ll also give this Xiaomi tool a try.
Do you know some good data recovery tools that I could use if the device will boot?
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Never had to try to recover my data on a smartphone, sorry.