[Q] Factory image will not flash - Nexus 9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
I'm trying to flash the factory image recently posted but getting the following error:
Code:
target reported max download size of 518205818 bytes
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
failed to allocate 1814213396 bytes
error: update package missing system.img
Looks like the Nexus 9 doesn't have enough allocated space to take the 820+MB zip file that contains the system images. I've updated to the latest version of SDK tools and have the newest Fastboot EXE, and device state is saying UNLOCKED on the HTC Fastboot screen.
Anyone have any ideas?
Regards
Phil

PhilipL said:
Hi
I'm trying to flash the factory image recently posted but getting the following error:
Code:
target reported max download size of 518205818 bytes
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
failed to allocate 1814213396 bytes
error: update package missing system.img
Looks like the Nexus 9 doesn't have enough allocated space to take the 820+MB zip file that contains the system images. I've updated to the latest version of SDK tools and have the newest Fastboot EXE, and device state is saying UNLOCKED on the HTC Fastboot screen.
Anyone have any ideas?
Regards
Phil
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I would trying to flash each image in factory image individually (Flash bootloader, flash boot, flash recovery, etc.), flashing them in the order the flash-all script would flash them (If your not sure which order it would flash them in just open the flash-all.bat or flash-all.sh as a text file and look at the order they are flashed in).

PhilipL said:
Hi
I'm trying to flash the factory image recently posted but getting the following error:
Code:
target reported max download size of 518205818 bytes
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
failed to allocate 1814213396 bytes
error: update package missing system.img
Looks like the Nexus 9 doesn't have enough allocated space to take the 820+MB zip file that contains the system images. I've updated to the latest version of SDK tools and have the newest Fastboot EXE, and device state is saying UNLOCKED on the HTC Fastboot screen.
Anyone have any ideas?
Regards
Phil
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The missing.sig errors are normal. The missing system.img is not. Try downloading the factory image again.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

Same here, get the same error when trying to flash factory image. I did flash the files individually, but wasn't sure how to flash the vendor.img?

any update on this?
what do we do with vendor.img?

mingiunate said:
any update on this?
what do we do with vendor.img?
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Just an update - based on the size of vendor.img, I assumed it was the same as userdata.
here are the steps i took to manually flash:
unzip image-volantis-lrx21l.zip
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata vendor.img
from tablet - select hboot
select factory reset
Done!

Hm, I successfully flashed vendor.img using
Code:
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
But I'm not sure whether that was the correct way to go about things.

Hi
Thanks everyone for the replies/responses.
I will try and flash each image separately, however this shouldn't be necessary and means the image (or some setting on the Nexus 9) is wrong or broken. The whole point of the factory image is that it flashes with ease to get us back to a clean slate (well tablet), so a bit worrying they've not seemingly tested it too well.
Note I've flashed factory images dozens of times to Nexus 4, 5, 7 (both years) and never had this problem.
Perhaps Google will post a fix soon.
Best Regards
Phil

I think you need to run these two commands before you flash the rest of the .img files?
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-flounder-3.43.0.0114.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader

ilatimer1 said:
I think you need to run these two commands before you flash the rest of the .img files?
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-flounder-3.43.0.0114.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
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here are the steps i took to manually flash:
run the flash-all.bat up until the point where it fails
unzip image-volantis-lrx21l.zip
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata vendor.img - looks like userdata should be vendor? - mine worked with userdata regardless
from tablet - select hboot
select factory reset
Done!

Hi
ilatimer1 said:
I think you need to run these two commands before you flash the rest of the .img files?
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-flounder-3.43.0.0114.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
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I did this as the first step as that is what is in the batch file with all/most Nexus factory images, didn't make a difference though. Something is definitely broken somewhere. However installing the images separately seems to work.
Best Regards
Phil

When was the last time you updated your SDK? Try downloading the latest SDK and run the flash-all

Hi
cundiffr said:
When was the last time you updated your SDK? Try downloading the latest SDK and run the flash-all
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As I mentioned in the first post, after the first failure I updated my SDK to the very latest version, the result was the same. The image doesn't flash unless you separate out the individual parts and do it separately. Either the Nexus 9 isn't configured to allow enough space to accept the entire image (which clearly Google think it should as that is how they instruct it to be installed), or the image is broken in some way.
I'm sure it will get fixed at some point.
Regards
Phil

The same thing happened to my while I tried to flashed the newly released lollipop image to my nexus 5. I only had to restart my laptop and it worked.

mingiunate said:
[*]fastboot flash userdata vendor.img - looks like userdata should be vendor? - mine worked with userdata regardless
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Yep, vendor should be flashed to the "vendor" partition.
userdata is emptied during factory reset.

Are you sure the prollem is with the tablet? When running a full ruu on other HTC devices, the failure to allocate space prollem arises from not having enough ram on the pc. Could be why flashing the images separately is working.

scotty1223 said:
Are you sure the prollem is with the tablet? When running a full ruu on other HTC devices, the failure to allocate space prollem arises from not having enough ram on the pc. Could be why flashing the images separately is working.
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It's the image or tablet that's at fault. I ran the flashing process on a high-end machine equipped with 32 GB of RAM.

Restart your computer!
I sat here forever trying to figure why the hell i couldn't get 5.0 to flash to my nexus 5. I looked everywhere and didn't find anything that helped at all. I restarted my computer and tried again and it worked instantly. The first thing i said to myself was are you ****ing kidding me.... my computer was the issue. Dont tell yourself bull**** about how your computer is the bees knees. Mine may only have 16 gb of ram but restarting it worked perfectly.

Do i make a fullwipe, befor i flash the Image Files, if yes how i do this.
format system
format data
format cache
????????

fastboot flash userdata vender.img actually worked for me

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Flashing system.img problem

Hi,
I have flash system.img file by using
Code:
D:\ADB\Android>fastboot flash system d:\backup\flash\system.img
sending 'system' (116302 KB)...
OKAY [114.524s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 47.582s]
finished. total time: 162.108s
It seems normal to me, but the problem arise when I restart the the phone. The phone unable to boot, and when I try
Code:
ADB Shell
It says somethings like "sh" is not found. So I do reboot recovery go to the shell and mount /system. Shockingly there is nothing in there.
I have checked the contents of system.img, and there is a lot of things in there, including the "sh". But it seems fastboot failed to flash the system partition.
Anyone can help me ?
maybe you should tell more info about your device, brand,chipset, etc ?
so people can be more easy to help.
just newbie suggestion, ignore this if its no help xD
Looks like your system image file is corrupted cause its not mounted after loading kernel. What kind of filesystem the image is using?
lolet said:
Looks like your system image file is corrupted cause its not mounted after loading kernel. What kind of filesystem the image is using?
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The system image is not corrupted, because I can safely flash it using Clockworkmod. The filesystem is yaff2, and I have tried opening it using some software and my file is there. I think the problem lies on fastboot who failed flashing properly.
simple
yokowasis said:
Hi,
I have flash system.img file by using
Code:
D:\ADB\Android>fastboot flash system d:\backup\flash\system.img
sending 'system' (116302 KB)...
OKAY [114.524s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 47.582s]
finished. total time: 162.108s
It seems normal to me, but the problem arise when I restart the the phone. The phone unable to boot, and when I try
Code:
ADB Shell
It says somethings like "sh" is not found. So I do reboot recovery go to the shell and mount /system. Shockingly there is nothing in there.
I have checked the contents of system.img, and there is a lot of things in there, including the "sh". But it seems fastboot failed to flash the system partition.
Anyone can help me ?
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ur work is simple...just plug in ur phone in fastboot mode...keep a boot.img file in the same folder that that of the fastboot folder....boot.img can be taken from ur STOCK ROM
and type ==
fastboot devices
then ur device will be shown.....
then type
fastboot flash boot boot.img
n its done!
I stuck with my Mate 9 Error mode numbers 11 and 2
MEGHSHAH said:
ur work is simple...just plug in ur phone in fastboot mode...keep a boot.img file in the same folder that that of the fastboot folder....boot.img can be taken from ur STOCK ROM
and type ==
fastboot devices
then ur device will be shown.....
then type
fastboot flash boot boot.img
n its done!
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I would like to tell you my problem, I have a Mate 9 MHA-L09C605B111 which I did a rebrand a while ago and I'm with CUST 432 and installed the version of Oreo 8.0.0.368, a few weeks ago I received the update 369 via OTA. It was interesting to try; the problem is that I had open bootloader, TWRP Pretorian 3.2.0 and Root, take a terrible decision to do a relock of the bootloader.
After several attempts and letting the battery drain I could enter Fastboot mode, I have the FRP unlocked and I could unlock the bootloader again, the problem is that I can not enter either the TWRP, or to recovery mode, try flashing again the same TWRP I had installed it well but still when I want to enter after passing the Huawei logo it remains on the white screen of ERROR MODE, Func NO: 11 (recovery image) Error NO: (image Failed!) Reading other forums and looking I have been told a lot by Internet that it is necessary to make the Dload method try it but it did not work, I understand that it does not work in this model but I still try it.
I also did a flash with all the files as I found in a tutorial
"When you have system extracted, flash it in fastboot using fastboot flash system system.img.
Do the same with KERNEL, extract and flash to fastboot flash kernel KERNEL.IMG
(BOOT is now split into RAMDISK and KERNEL)
Recovery was split to recovery_ramdisk, recovery_vendor and recovery_vbmeta
Boot was split into ramdisk and kernel
Recovery2 (erecovery) was split into erecovery_ramdisk, erecovery_kernel, erecovery_vendor and erecovery_vbmeta
fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img. Kernel flashed as fastboot flash kernel kernel.img.
Recovery ramdisk as fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdisk.img "
I'm still stuck on the same screen with error 11 and 2 I made the flash of the recovery that I used when I put version 368 are two MHA_RECOVERY_NoCheck.img and MHA_RECOVERY2_NoCheck.img both give Failed using the command Fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY_XXXX with both the same without using the _ramdisk command is equal I'm still stuck in the same state.
Does anyone have an idea that another method I can try?
I will thank you very much.
You can flash all * .img through ADB and in this case there is a specific order to do it, check several threads but I did not get an answer and search but I could not find anything, it is worth noting that when I flash files I mentioned before all OKAY but on power up it goes back to error 11 and 2 I have been told that it is a partition problem but I could not find something to recover them, there is some method that is missing or maybe an error in the steps I am doing ? I still can not access the TWRP but I can access without problems by ADB.

Nexus 9 stuck on Google logo

hello
my device has suddenly got stuck on the Google logo and wont boot normaly, i have no idea what to do.
please help
Nexus 9 WiFi'
** edit: i was trying to install a stock lolipop using Nexus Tool Kit and these are the resault many errors and mainly this error "out of memory"...
i would provide a pic but i cant upload due to the span prevention system in the forum...
Hard to say for sure what happened, but I can say it is always best to stay away from a toolkit as problems like this arise all too frequently
So long as your bootloader is unlocked flashing a factory image is the best choice
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en
If you need a hand setting this up let me know
Best of luck
hey many thanks for the kind offer to help, i've been trying to flash a new factory image but no luck, i keep getting an erot while flashing [something about too many links or not enough memory], i'll provide a pic soon.
edit: i ran the flash-all script as instructed in the link you gave me, ended up with these errors: [i cant attach a pic since im a new user, system alert]
update package missing "system.img"
"archive does not contain "boot.sig"
"archive does not contain "recovery.sig"
in other case the fastboot froze [on the tablet] and an error popped up in the terminal "out of memory"
Try erasing and flashing partitions separately
fastboot format system
fastboot format cache
fastboot format data
fastboot format recovery
fastboot format boot
Now
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
Just unpack the .zip you downloaded and you'll find another zip with all these files
Some more help can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277112
demkantor said:
Try erasing and flashing partitions separately
fastboot format system
fastboot format cache
fastboot format data
fastboot format recovery
fastboot format boot
Now
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
Just unpack the .zip you downloaded and you'll find another zip with all these files
Some more help can be found here
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thanks, but when i was trying to format i got this error:
FAILED (data transfer failure (too many links))
every fastboot command i run fails for this reason.
when i try again to format the operation crushes.
just found a pic from other tread in this forus so i could add it, i have the same errors.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2790293&d=1402378385
Shouldn't get that error when erasing, try updating your fastboot binary on PC, maybe also try another USB cable
demkantor said:
Shouldn't get that error when erasing, try updating your fastboot binary on PC, maybe also try another USB cable
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can you please tell me how to do that? i tired several cables and ports, same error every time.
Guessing you are using windows? If so the best way is to have the android SDK downloaded and update through the available ui
More detailed instructions are available from the fastboot link I sent earlier
But the error you are getting is almost always a bad USB cable or port, at least whenever I have troubleshot that error with others that's what turned out to be the fault
demkantor said:
Guessing you are using windows? If so the best way is to have the android SDK downloaded and update through the available ui
More detailed instructions are available from the fastboot link I sent earlier
But the error you are getting is almost always a bad USB cable or port, at least whenever I have troubleshot that error with others that's what turned out to be the fault
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Well yes i do use android SDK and its always up to date, i really dont understand the cables and port i have been using are all good since i use them with other devices too, i really dont know what else i should do...
one more thing, when trying to format boot and data i got this error:
formatting is not supported in filesystem type "raw" [something like that]
what does this mean?
edit: i was able to flash the system. boot, cache and recovery but the tablet still stuck on google logo
edit #2: i wasnt flashing correctly, i used the flash all script and it ran flawless, the tablet has booted and its faster then ever! i have another shot to a cable and port i still didnt use
and now its working, i cant thank you enough!
EladC said:
Well yes i do use android SDK and its always up to date, i really dont understand the cables and port i have been using are all good since i use them with other devices too, i really dont know what else i should do...
one more thing, when trying to format boot and data i got this error:
formatting is not supported in filesystem type "raw" [something like that]
what does this mean?
edit: i was able to flash the system. boot, cache and recovery but the tablet still stuck on google logo
edit #2: i wasnt flashing correctly, i used the flash all script and it ran flawless, the tablet has booted and its faster then ever! i have another shot to a cable and port i still didnt use
and now its working, i cant thank you enough!
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How were you not flashing correctly?
I had the same issue.
Go into fastboot and flash the vendor.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
Flashing the vendor.img actually did it - I followed the explanations above and was still stuck at the Google screen.
Formatting and flashing the following finally did the trick:
fastboot format system
fastboot format cache
fastboot format data
fastboot format recovery
fastboot format boot
(the three above failed due to an unsupported file system which didn't make a difference in my case)
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
I have a Nexus 5X but it was the same issue when trying to flash LineageOS 14 after using Android 8.
I downloaded the vendor image from the official Linage OS thread and that fixed it. Only command I had to run was "fastboot flash vendor vendor.img". I did a factory reset with TWRP before booting though.

[TWRP] self-booting 3.2.3-0

I extended the given TWRP from s3tupw1zard ported by Thinhx2.
You can now use the adb root access while the TWRP booted and access your phone with mtp when it is not encrypted.
It is a self booting image now, means, this boot file only boot direct to TWRP.
NEVER flash this image direct to flash with fastboot flash boot, you cannot start android then, only TWRP.
Boot it, while your smartphone is in fastboot mode, with the command:
fastboot boot self_bootingTWRP323.img
Then you can do everything like in the flashable version of TWRP, only with the advantage that you are not security patch dependent and you don't need to modify your original system.
You can install all ZIP files, like Magisk or open-Gapps.
After reboot the smartphone starts normal from the boot partition inside the smartphone and twrp is gone.
Tested in 00EEA platform only but i guess it will also run on 00WW!
Lol, what's the difference between each of these 4 parts. No statement about it. Lack of info may confuse users.
Its one rar image divided into 4 parts because upload size is limited!
page1875 said:
Its one rar image divided into 4 parts because upload size is limited!
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How could I combine it all?
Download them all, put them to the same folder and extract the first image.
Then the rar extractor will take the following images automatically!
How to decrypt Nokia 3.2 using TWRP.
page1875 said:
Download them all, put them to the same folder and extract the first image.
Then the rar extractor will take the following images automatically!
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Works perfectly. If you want to decrypt your Nokia 3.2 you will be needing to format your data partition using TWRP. But your device will be encrypted again (if you didn't do (perhaps) any backup or used commands like "adb push") once it booted up.
I tried it after unlocking bootloader but it just goes to black screen and nothing is happening, only solution is holding power button and it reboots normally. here's the command output:
[email protected]:~# fastboot boot /mnt/q/twrp/self_bootingTWRP.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.962s]
booting...
FAILED (status read failed (No such device))
finished. total time: 6.614s
I'm on android 9 (no updates applied), phone is TA-1164. build number: 00WW_1_08D.

Need Help Installing LineageOS 17.1 on Umidigi A7 Pro (amd64 A-Only) with TWRP

Current State:
TWRP Installed, no OS, no system partition, instead a super partition.
I also flashed an orange_state_disabler which seems to have worked just fine.
ADB Sideload:
When I try to start ADB Sideload Feature this is what I get:
https://pastebin.com/k3gJ048P
when trying to use the adb sideload command:
Code:
adb: sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
adb: trying pre-KitKat sideload method...
adb: pre-KitKat sideload connection failed: no devices/emulators found
I converted the lineageos img file I have to a flashable zip using the tool from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nu.../swapper-generate-flashable-zips-img-t4133591
but when I try to flash that zip file tho it returns this:
Code:
Installing zip file '/usbotg/system.zip'
Checking for Digest file...
Unmounting System...
Invalid zip file format!
Error installing zip file '/usbotg/system.zip'
Updating partition details...
...done
so... yeah, I don't know what else to do right now.
A Custom ROM like LineageOS can only get installed via TWRP, not by any other means: in no case by "adb sideload".
jwoegerbauer said:
A Custom ROM like LineageOS can only get installed via TWRP, not by any other means: in no case by "adb sideload".
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Heh, I was just trying to get the ROM on the device so I could flash it then via TWRP but maybe I just misunderstood what adb sideload does
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Seppppx said:
The Oneplus 8 Pro has a dynamic partition layout and you flash a system image by doing "fastboot flash system system.img"
See : https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/development/rom-lineageos-17-1-t4122983
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Yeah I tried that already, the problem is that it doesn't have a system partition
MoonPadUSer said:
Yeah I tried that already, the problem is that it doesn't have a system partition
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Your posted error messsage suggests the zip install has failed. So no change to device should have happened.
Current twrp cannot flash system.img
Only super.img(combined system.img, vendor.img, and product.img)
The systemswapper you refered to is from a qualcom device thread, and uses some *qti* device binaries that are not in your recovery. It is unlikely to have worked. (I might be wrong about the *qti* binary being only a qualcom device tool)
These new devices with dynamic partition have 2 fastboot modes.
The bootloader mode (adb reboot bootloader)
This is used for unlocking bootloader, flashing standard partitions
There is fastbootd mode (adb reboot fastboot)
This mode is only available if stock recovery is installed.
It also requires r30 or higher fastboot binary file on PC.
From fastbootd you can flash the sub partitions on super.img
There is alot of changes that take place with this new partition setup.
As for your phone no longer booting into original system, and bootlooping to recovery, I suggest first try boot to bootloader, and flash stock recovery, see if this stopps the bootlooping.
If not then use sp flash tool and flash full stock room and start fresh
mrmazak said:
From fastbootd you can flash the sub partitions on super.img
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How?
MoonPadUSer said:
How?
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Fastbootd is part of stock recovery, it will look different than what you may be used to as being fastboot mode.
You should see options on screen to select just like stock recovery has.
One for boot to bootloader
One for boot to recovery.
When you confirm you are in fastbootd
You just use
Code:
fastboot flash system /some-directory-on -pc/gsi-system.img
You should see messages on screen
Resizing system
Sending sparce system chunck. 1 of x
Writing system chunck 1 of x
There could be more descriptive guide on flashing gsi on dyniamic partitions if your Search google, (xda).
But it is hard to guide you to fixing device, when I'm not sure how you got stuck. I mean the description you have said should not have made you loose system partition or fail to boot, so I said it before and will suggest it again. If you have a non booting device , the FIRST thing you should do is flash it with sp flash tool and full factory rom, before messing around with other stuff before you get into worse condition
MoonPadUSer said:
How?
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I did another post about using fastbootd on similar device. The information is all relevant to your a7pro too.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=83241985&postcount=3
mrmazak said:
Fastbootd is part of stock recovery, it will look different than what you may be used to as being fastboot mode.
You should see options on screen to select just like stock recovery has.
One for boot to bootloader
One for boot to recovery.
When you confirm you are in fastbootd
You just use
You should see messages on screen
Resizing system
Sending sparce system chunck. 1 of x
Writing system chunck 1 of x
There could be more descriptive guide on flashing gsi on dyniamic partitions if your Search google, (xda).
But it is hard to guide you to fixing device, when I'm not sure how you got stuck. I mean the description you have said should not have made you loose system partition or fail to boot, so I said it before and will suggest it again. If you have a non booting device , the FIRST thing you should do is flash it with sp flash tool and full factory rom, before messing around with other stuff before you get into worse condition
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Ok, I am back to a fully working device again, where I got stuck was that I do not have a system partition, thus I can't flash it. Whenever I try to flash it using fastboot flash system or anything else, it just says that I do not have a system partition
Where I am right now:
I am back to a fully working device after downloading the stock ROM from my manufacturer and plugging that into SP Flash tool
After that I researched and figured out that the super partition I have basically acts like a container for
system.img, boot.img and vendor.img
which explains while simply flashing LineageOS.img to my super partition (
Code:
fastboot flash system Lineage.img
) resulted in
my device not booting anymore.
I found a tool which can unpack those super.img into system, boot and vendor
(using this youtube video: https://youtu.be/J5cQdzivtXk)
I used that to unpack the super.img which I got from my stock ROM and
now I have system.raw, boot.raw and vendor.raw, I do not know what kind of file these are but my plan is to replace system.whatever with the lineageos.img and then repack it into super.img which I can then use to flash the super partition on my phone
MoonPadUSer said:
Ok, I am back to a fully working device again, where I got stuck was that I do not have a system partition, thus I can't flash it. Whenever I try to flash it using fastboot flash system or anything else, it just says that I do not have a system partition
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Can you show picture of this .
Of both pc screen and phone screen, please
mrmazak said:
Can you show picture of this .
Of both pc screen and phone screen, please
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I'd love to but how am I supposed to take a picture of my phone screen in fastboot mode? (I don't have any other devices with a camera)
@MoonPadUSer
Code:
fastboot flash system Lineage.img
must have failed.
Reason: This command tries to write a complete Lineage OS ( what itself contains a partition named /system, too ) into phone's Android's current /system partition - what only is 1 partition of multiple ones that exist.
Note: You can't flash a Custom ROM by means of Fastboot.
Re-read post #2
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Seppppx said:
That's not true when you are flashing a Generic System Image.
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ROFL
Remember OP wants to install LineageOS 17.1 what isn't a GSI as it is with LineageOS 18.x
jwoegerbauer said:
ROFL
Remember OP wants to install LineageOS 17.1 what isn't a GSI as it is with LineageOS 18.x
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Actually... I don't really care about the version all that much, whatever works, just didn't know if 18x is supported
Downside to Lineage GSI is for Umidigi you can't flash gapps. So unless someone adds it to the gsi for you it's best to use something else.
I went with this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pr...velopment/aosp-10-0-quack-phh-treble-t3992559
You have to get the AB version with GAPPS if you want them
Comes pre rooted as well and gave my phone a huge speed boost
Flash the stock ROM
Unlock bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock
(unnecessary if already unlocked)
fastboot flashing unlock_critical
enter fastboot
fastboot reboot (to enter fastbootd)
fastboot erase system
(optional but I had to do this myself)
fastboot delete-logical-partition product - deletes the product partition, allowing a larger system partition
fastboot flash system (gsi file)
And you're good
Don't try to install magisk because it causes a bootloop. Even when installing it through the app. Once the boot image is patched you're in a bootloop until you reflash the stock boot
Made a generic ish Umidigi flashing tutorial because it's the same in all of them I've had so far
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...ng-rom-gsi-t4182673/post83803205#post83803205

[GUIDE] Installing .ofp files without realme tool to install stock

I tried installing fastboot images extracted from ozip files but vendor and system images gave partision not found error and I didn't have a windows device I had ubuntu
I installed .ofp by this way
I had bootloader unlocked, please report if it works without bootloader unlocked
1.Download .ofp file of your device
https://c.realme.com/in/post-details/1271381271037083648 this is link for Indian version from realme's website
2.extract .ofp file, I did it using https://github.com/bkerler/oppo_decrypt (This took awfully long time for me)
3.Go to fastboot and flash all the files through fastboot commands
( 1. fastboot flash boot boot.img 2.fastboot flash super super.img 3.fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img 4. fastboot flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img 5.fastboot flash vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img 6.fastboot flash userdata userdata.img)
in this order
4.go to stock recovery and format and wipe data
5.Now you should be able to boot
(If anyone wants stock recovery tell me I'll give link)
thank you very much this have save me a lot of times.
my windows computer have problem with fastboot driver. i installed realme adb-fastboot driver again and again but it doesnt work, device manager still have ''question mark'' android driver, maybe windows need to be reinstall or something... i use the same pc to unlock bootloader before,
i unpack the ozip on raspbian (using raspberry pi 3 with microsd) , fastboot flash realme x 3 that i messed up before and now it work.
Shreeram02 said:
I tried installing fastboot images extracted from ozip files but vendor and system images gave partision not found error and I didn't have a windows device I had ubuntu
I installed .ofp by this way
I had bootloader unlocked, please report if it works without bootloader unlocked
1.Download .ofp file of your device
https://c.realme.com/in/post-details/1271381271037083648 this is link for Indian version from realme's website
2.extract .ofp file, I did it using https://github.com/bkerler/oppo_decrypt (This took awfully long time for me)
3.Go to fastboot and flash all the files through fastboot commands
( 1. fastboot flash boot boot.img 2.fastboot flash super super.img 3.fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img 4. fastboot flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img 5.fastboot flash vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img 6.fastboot flash userdata userdata.img)
in this order
4.go to stock recovery and format and wipe data
5.Now you should be able to boot
(If anyone wants stock recovery tell me I'll give link)
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I followed the same steps, but no luck. later i checked in twrp and it says no os installed.
ash1337x said:
I followed the same steps, but no luck. later i checked in twrp and it says no os installed.
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ignore twrp thing and u didn't follow everything as u have twrp u should install stock recovery
everything is cool but i have multiple super imgs what do i do?
Shreeram02 said:
I tried installing fastboot images extracted from ozip files but vendor and system images gave partision not found error and I didn't have a windows device I had ubuntu
I installed .ofp by this way
I had bootloader unlocked, please report if it works without bootloader unlocked
1.Download .ofp file of your device
https://c.realme.com/in/post-details/1271381271037083648 this is link for Indian version from realme's website
2.extract .ofp file, I did it using https://github.com/bkerler/oppo_decrypt (This took awfully long time for me)
3.Go to fastboot and flash all the files through fastboot commands
( 1. fastboot flash boot boot.img 2.fastboot flash super super.img 3.fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img 4. fastboot flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img 5.fastboot flash vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img 6.fastboot flash userdata userdata.img)
in this order
4.go to stock recovery and format and wipe data
5.Now you should be able to boot
(If anyone wants stock recovery tell me I'll give link)
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Send me stock recovery please
prabal_2004 said:
everything is cool but i have multiple super imgs what do i do?
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Yes, 4 or 5 super img files how to flash
4 or more super img files, with defrent name
Sajeevkaif said:
4 or more super img files, with defrent name
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If all of them have the same size, then they're duplicated, rename one of them to super.img, and delete the others.
SubwayChamp said:
If all of them have the same size, then they're duplicated, rename one of them to super.img, and delete the others.
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for me, i have 1 super.0 file with 2.86gb
1 super.1 file 1.95gb
and 12 super.2 files ranging 800mb to 1.8gb
what should i get for the super.img?
i opened the super_map.csv and saw this(the picture below)
the super0 and super1 for all country is the same, and in the super2 is different
should i get my super.img from the super2 with my country?
CloudChase said:
i opened the super_map.csv and saw this(the picture below)
the super0 and super1 for all country is the same, and in the super2 is different
should i get my super.img from the super2 with my country?
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Sometimes the tool split the super images, and sometimes it unpacks it in a one single file, but I guess the size can't be less than 5 or even 6 GB.
SubwayChamp said:
Sometimes the tool split the super images, and sometimes it unpacks it in a one single file, but I guess the size can't be less than 5 or even 6 GB.
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the overall size of the ofp file for the global version of realme c25s is 21gb, do you need authorization when using the Realme Flash Tool?
SubwayChamp said:
Sometimes the tool split the super images, and sometimes it unpacks it in a one single file, but I guess the size can't be less than 5 or even 6 GB.
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what should i do? i need to fix my phone
CloudChase said:
the overall size of the ofp file for the global version of realme c25s is 21gb, do you need authorization when using the Realme Flash Tool?
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CloudChase said:
what should i do? i need to fix my phone
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I referred to the super image size, it's unlikely that the image has just this size, anyway it doesn't hurt to try it, flash some of them and see, you can try using fastboot too.
SubwayChamp said:
If all of them have the same size, then they're duplicated, rename one of them to super.img, and delete the others.
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No, all of threm have Difrent name and size (more than a gb file)
Sajeevkaif said:
No, all of threm have Difrent name and size (more than a gb file)
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Did you try flashing one of them?
SubwayChamp said:
Did you try flashing one of them?
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No,
There is a tool to merge Super Image if they are split into multiple files.
Follow this tutorial to merge it. Find the exact tool from Google search and ensure it has the orange logo as seen in the video.
my bad I didn't open xda for a long time as this device doesn't have much support on xda
yea only a10 has 1 super img other ones have multiple super imgs
if ur in still in stock u can use partition backup app(needs root) from playstore to backup required img files
I'll try to upload separate img files from a11 and a12 backed up here soon

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