Hi,
I have a boot loop, I upgraded my phone successfully to 170 but when I plugged the phone in with fastboot so I got unlock the bootloader I realised I had accidentally left in the background on my laptop a fastboot window open which was waiting to upgrade (or in this case downgrade) the phone to Version 121 (fastboot flash system system.img)! it was only when I looked at the window I noticed it had started downloading to the phone so I had to let it finish.
I flashed boot etc... so that everything matched up to 121 but the phone is just in a boot loop, I factory reset the userdata as well but its just stuck in a boot loop.
I presume there is a version indicator in the file I noticed in the extract program there is a curver.img so I assume that this might be it but I have no idea how to flash this back, it looks like the phone thinks it should be on 170 but its software is on 121 as that is the only version I can flashboot.
Has anybody got any ideas? I can get in to fastboot but no idea what to do.
Thanks for your help
Fixed it...
Flashed 170 boot.img and recovery.img
(fastboot flash boot boot.img and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
The phone the booted normally!
Flashed the MM recovery image which crashed at 95% as expected by placing the update.app into sdcard\dload folder
Placed the full update.app from 121 on my SD card and ran the update which worked and left the phone at 121 and not an amalgamation of 170 and 121!
All fixed , what a nightmare makes me appreciate all the HTC and Sony phones I have used in the past!!! so much easier!
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I can access fastboot, and recovery.
however i am unable to boot into any ROM (AOKP or CM10)
the screen flash white, and the thing just offs.
even if I go back to stock now, this still happens
anyone encountered this before?
ideas to solve?
try to enter into recovery TWRP and choose wipe factory and system. then reboot into bootloader (fastboot) and flash recovery and recovery2 with recovery.img from official ROM. then put official's dload into microSD then reboot. it should flash official ROM.
still the same.
below is my attempt to reboot the tablet into stock recovery to install dload folder.
note the white screen, then the android robot, then switches off.
Hi! Can you solve your problem? I'm having the same with a S7-312u (AT&T version).
serverxeon said:
still the same.
below is my attempt to reboot the tablet into stock recovery to install dload folder.
note the white screen, then the android robot, then switches off.
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Remove SD card and SIM card then turn off the device. plug the device to a computer via usb and press vol+ and vol- for 30 secs till you get all the yellow text on the screen. now press all buttons power , vol+ , vol- and your device should restart and no more white screen
me too same problem with
Mediapad 10 link s10-101u
white screen after wrong flash file
cant update again from sd card only fastboot working but computer never seen the device (fastboot devices) or (adb devices)
how can i reflash the device throw fastboot ?
RAZOR888 said:
me too same problem with
Mediapad 10 link s10-101u
white screen after wrong flash file
cant update again from sd card only fastboot working but computer never seen the device (fastboot devices) or (adb devices)
how can i reflash the device throw fastboot ?
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no one here ?
Update..
device back to life again after flash it with fastboot
extract the UPDATE.APP with HuaweiUpdateExtractor
try to get in fastboot mode with usb cable
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
you may need to update throw SD with Dlaoad folder
Hey, I have an Archos Helium 45 that I put a custom ROM on a while ago, but today decided to revert to the stock ROM because it was having some issues. I must have done something wrong though, and softbricked my phone. Now this would be no problem if only I could enter recovery mode, however when I boot up my phone holding down the +volume and power button, all I get is a green screen, which is the fastboot mode. On this screen there is nothing I can select (just seems to be some tiny tiny white, unreadable text on the top). I'm guessing this is because I installed TWRP over the regular recovery.
When I first installed the custom ROM, I did something wrong and softbricked my phone too, and had the same problem of not being able to select anything on the green screen, but then I was able to use the command 'adb reboot recovery' via the PC to boot into recovery mode. However, now this does not work anymore, and when using 'adb devices', it returns an empty list. I still do get a code when using 'fastboot devices' though.
Does anyone have any solution to boot into recovery mode from the fastboot mode?
I read somewhere that I could try flashing the img files from the original ROM via fastboot one by one, however the only img file in ROM's zip file is boot.img.
I also tried updating the ROM using 'fastboot update update.zip' but then it says
Code:
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
error: update package 'update.zip' has no android-info.txt
Edit: Never mind, right after creating this thread I found out I could enter recovery mode simply by continuing to hold the +volume button and releasing the power button after the green screen... (and I also plugged it into my computer right when TWRP started, don't know if this was a requirement or coincidence) **** I spent all day looking for a fix and ended up finding it just by trying something.
I'm having issues with the stock ROM though, but at least I can install an other custom ROM and have a working phone.
I flashed a wrong TWRP recovery on my Nokia 1 (a one from a Huawei P10 Lite). After that, i rebooted reinserting the battery, it showed android logo + "orange state", 10secs of blackscreen, and bootloop "forever".
I tried to get into bootloader mode via adb at reset
Code:
fastboot reboot bootloader
, but it doesn't work ("waiting for any devices"). Note that i flashed the wrong recovery successfully via adb, and previously i had a correct recovery flashed with adb too.
Flashing the TA 1056 stock rom via OST didn't work either; OST doesn't detect the phone (probably because i can't get into bootloader mode).
I tried with SP Flash Tool too, flashing the TA 1056 MT6737M firmware, but CHIP TYPE NOT match, scatterChipType 143, targetChipType 160. In the scatter file (i don't know why), i changed "platform: MT6752" to "platform MT6737M" and holding down both volume buttons till the end, i could flash the complete firmware.
Then, i reset reinserting the battery and obtain the ethernal bootloop with a blackscreen; the phone vibrates every 10secs until i remove the battery (no logos show up).
I can't do anymore; i can reflash with SP Flash Tool, but it's the same.
Please, help me
*PD: i flashed via SP Flash Tool with "Format All + Download" option; can it be a problem?
Man... I am right now where you were.
Same error. Did you find any way out?
*sigh*
Hey OP, you still looking to troubleshoot? I might be able to help
First of all, thanks for the great guides published here and all the work that went into them. They help resolve a lot of issues.
Unfortunately I encountered an issue today on my KIW-L21 that I can't find a solution for in the published guides. Today a stock update (installed via TWRP) got stuck on first boot and somehow managed to break the DLOAD recovery option (accessed by pressing Vol Up+Down when powering up the phone). Whenever I try to enter the DLOAD recovery mode now, the phone is not flashing the UPDATE.APP from the dload folder on the SD card anymore, but is showing an update screen (looks like a usb plug in a circle). This process stays on 5% for a while and then just reboots the phone into the regular system. So no option to recover from the UPDATE.APP anymore. Otherwise the phone still seems to be working fine.
Here's what I did to run into the problem:
- Successfully flash 5.1_EMUI 3.1_C432B140 firmware found in the Honor 5X repository on XDA via DLOAD recovery
- Flash TWRP (twrp-3.3.1-0-kiwi) via fastboot
- Download update to 6.0.1_EMUI 4.0_C432B350CUSTC432D003 via the regular update option
- After download the phone automatically booted into TWRP to install the update
- Reboot after TWRP flashed the update got stuck on boot and the DLOAD recovery got replaced by that update feature
Since then I booted into TWRP recovery again and installed AOSiP 9.0 + Magisk after wiping data/system/cache. This worked fine and AOSiP is booting and working correctly. The only issue now is that the DLOAD recovery did not get restored that way. That behavior stayed the same.
I tried eRecovery (reports an error after connecting to the wifi network, but this did not work before either) and stock recovery (extracted from B140 firmware and flashed via fastboot) without success. Both stock recovery options failed with an error message but did not provide any details regarding the issue.
Is the lost DLOAD recovery a known issue? Not sure if a partial update is stuck somewhere and needs to be deleted or if the DLOAD recovery function can be flashed via fastboot to fix this.
*** UPDATE 1
Here's some additional things I tried to fix the issue and that I noticed during those attempts:
- Recovery via HiSuite unfortunately does not seem to work. When booted into the bootloader HiSuite does not recognize the device. When booted into AOSiP, the phone is recognized, but the HiSuite app installed on the phone fails to work due to missing location authorizations. It doesn't ask for them though, just displays an error pop-up that leads to settings where I don't have the option to enable location access for the app. When manually checking the location permission for apps HiSuite is not among those that I can enable/disable this for.
- TWRP recovery can't be accessed from the phone despite flashing it via "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img". When launching recovery on the phone I end up in EMUI stock recovery. I can access and use TWRP via "fastboot boot twrp.img" though.
- I tried using the DLOAD update with the dload folder copied to the internal storage (local SD card). This did not change the phone getting stuck at a 5% update instead of the EMUI firmware flash.
- The local dload folder however seemed to have an impact on the stock recovery. While the stock recovery failed with an error before, it now gets the stuck at 99% done and a reboot just restarts the stock factory reset. I did find a way to exit this loop without waiting for the battery to drain (reboot with both volume buttons pressed into the update mode I don't want, reboot regularly once it stops on 5%) that got me back into a running/reset AOSiP.
- I can't boot into EDL mode via ADB (adb reboot edl). I was hoping HiSuite might help in that mode, but the command just rebooted the phone into AOSiP.
- The 5% update issue does not get resolved by disconnecting the phone from a cable during the operation. I read on XDA that this solved the issue for other HUAWEI devices, did unfortunately not work for mine.
- I noticed the bootloader does not show the FRP info anymore on the screen of the phone. It just shows "PHONE Unlocked". Not sure if that is important or just changed to this after unlocking the bootloader a few days ago.
The fact the flashing the recovery partition with TWRP does not seem to work properly suggests a partitioning issue to me. Is there a way to repartition the device and manually flash the relevant partitions via fastboot or some other tool?
If anyone knows how to fix the issue, a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated.
[SOLVED]
I finally managed to fix the issue by reverting to stock in several steps.
Tools required:
- Stock Firmware (I used the C432B140 I downloaded from the XDA Honor 5X repository)
- ADB/Fastboot toolset
- Huawei Update Extractor
- Stock firmware UPDATE.APP in dload folder on SD card installed in phone
1. I extracted BOOT.IMG, RECOVERY.IMG and SYSTEM.IMG from the full stock firmware
2. I rebooted the phone into bootloader (using command "adb reboot bootloader")
3. I flashed the stock recovery image (using command "fastboot flash recovery RECOVERY.IMG)
4. I flashed the stock system image (using command "fastboot flash system SYSTEM.IMG)
5. I flashed the stock boot image (using command "fastboot flash boot BOOT.IMG")
6. I rebooted the phone (using command "fastboot reboot"), this rebooted the phone in a stock B140 / B350 hybrid stock EMUI
7. I entered the ProjectMenu by entering *#*#2846579#*#* on in the phone app and chose "4. Software Upgrade" > "1. SDCard Upgrade" and confirmed that I want to perform the update.
8. The phone finally rebooted into the regular EMUI dload updater and reflashed stock firmware C432B140 to my phone
Afterwards the recovery from dload could also be started via Vol Up+Down when powering up the phone.
Hope this helps someone else fix the issue in case anyone encounters this.
I am facing a very similar issue on a KIW-L21 (running a custom ROM though).
Can anyone guide me to whether the steps presented can be modified to work coming from a custom ROM?
Hi, I have a semibrick on my X3 Superzoom (Global), and I can't seem to restore the original firmware. When it was working properly, I think the phone was updated to the latest version available in Europe (RMX2081EU_11.A.50), hence Realme UI 1.0.
I do not remember very well what I did, it's been a few weeks since my "screw up", I must have flashed an untrusted firmware, the thing is that when rebooting the screen looks black and goes into a continuous bootloop, but allows to enter fastboot mode with power + Vol down (I know because I can launch fastboot commands). Curiously, when it goes into bootloop you don't see the Realme logo, I discovered that the logo is there but with the screen illumination at minimum, and you can only glimpse a little if you put it under a lamp. Very strange.
Since it can go into fastboot mode I have tried flashing several firmwares for my phone, RMX2086 and none of them repair brik. I have tried always by command line because with MsmDownloadTool I don't have login access and with Realme Flash Tool always shows error "cannot find central directory", I have tried also with QFil and I can't get it to stay stable on the port.
I flash with command line with "fastboot flash" all .img files of super, recovery, boot, boot, dtbo, vbmeta (in that order) but it does nothing. Furthermore, I have tried with several ofp files like for example the following file from realmefirmware.com, which seems to be the last released full version of Realme UI 2.0 (I have tried also with Realme UI 1.0 versions):
RMX2086GDPR_11_C.11_2022011318270168.zip (I decrypt the ofp file inside to extract the .img files.).
Interestingly, I can flash TWRP Recovery (it works, and you see the screen with normal TWRP recovery) and from the recovery I can flash a Custom Recovery like PixelPlusUI. The phone boots (no logo visible) in CustomROM normally, but after a while of use the screen turns off but working ROM.
What should I do? Although I have some flashing experience, I'm pretty much stuck. Can anyone give me any suggestions?
Sorry with making it so long, but I wanted to explain this as best as possible so it is well understood.
When you already upgrades to Android 11, you can not flash custom rom, otherwise it bricks, because all the custom roms required android 10 ROM system, you may downgrade using flash tool (I tried but failed to flash any stock rom using any tool, only able to flash using fastboot commands)
bernarbernuli said:
Hi, I have a semibrick on my X3 Superzoom (Global), and I can't seem to restore the original firmware. When it was working properly, I think the phone was updated to the latest version available in Europe (RMX2081EU_11.A.50), hence Realme UI 1.0.
I do not remember very well what I did, it's been a few weeks since my "screw up", I must have flashed an untrusted firmware, the thing is that when rebooting the screen looks black and goes into a continuous bootloop, but allows to enter fastboot mode with power + Vol down (I know because I can launch fastboot commands). Curiously, when it goes into bootloop you don't see the Realme logo, I discovered that the logo is there but with the screen illumination at minimum, and you can only glimpse a little if you put it under a lamp. Very strange.
Since it can go into fastboot mode I have tried flashing several firmwares for my phone, RMX2086 and none of them repair brik. I have tried always by command line because with MsmDownloadTool I don't have login access and with Realme Flash Tool always shows error "cannot find central directory", I have tried also with QFil and I can't get it to stay stable on the port.
I flash with command line with "fastboot flash" all .img files of super, recovery, boot, boot, dtbo, vbmeta (in that order) but it does nothing. Furthermore, I have tried with several ofp files like for example the following file from realmefirmware.com, which seems to be the last released full version of Realme UI 2.0 (I have tried also with Realme UI 1.0 versions):
RMX2086GDPR_11_C.11_2022011318270168.zip (I decrypt the ofp file inside to extract the .img files.).
Interestingly, I can flash TWRP Recovery (it works, and you see the screen with normal TWRP recovery) and from the recovery I can flash a Custom Recovery like PixelPlusUI. The phone boots (no logo visible) in CustomROM normally, but after a while of use the screen turns off but working ROM.
What should I do? Although I have some flashing experience, I'm pretty much stuck. Can anyone give me any suggestions?
Sorry with making it so long, but I wanted to explain this as best as possible so it is well understood.
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Have you found solution? I have exactly the same problem!
maskalicz said:
Have you found solution? I have exactly the same problem!
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It's been over a year since it happened, I didn't find a solution on my own, and since it was still under warranty, I sent it to the official technical service and a couple of weeks later I received it back with the firmware working.