Hi all people,
first of all, I want excuse me for not my perfect English.
I have Honor 9 from few days. And I think to have bricked it.
I have unlocked bootloader correctly.
I have flashed recovery this TWRP recovery with the intention to proceed to root with Magisk or SuperSu. I accidentally and unconsiuosly do factory reset then the phone goes bootloop. (it power off and power on continuously) with the alert "your device has been unlocked and..etc".
Yesterday, reading this thread, I flashed, from fastboot console, boot, recovery and system, the phone resets two/three times then goes to eRecovery where I do a factory reset.
After a factory reset the phone works correctly and seems successfully unbricked. So I re-flash TWRP recovery.
But this morning, during the attempt to install from TWRP one between Magisk or SuperSu (I don't succeed to do it beacuse the phone was crypted and I don't see zip files from TWRP). I have reset the phone but goes bootloop again.
I tried to re-flash boot, recovery, system and cust more (that I don't have flashed yesterday). Now the phone goes eRecovery and ask me to connect to download latest version and recovery, but don't ask me to do a factory reset.
Now I don't know what I can do.
How I can solve this situation? I want only unlock bootloader (done!), install TWRP and have root permission. Now I don't think to change rom.
Something similar happened to me. It seems like the TWRP provided has some issue..... After installing TWRP I had a bootloop problem. I have resolved installing Magisk. It seems that Magisk patchs something. If you can access TWRP try to install Magisk (put the zip file on external sd). In other words: copy magisk zip on sd card - during the bootloop you have the chance to power off phone - Power off - Power on in recovery mode. If you have TWRP correctly installed Honor should go in recovery using TWRP . Install Magisk and see what happens...
unvisigoth said:
Something similar happened to me. It seems like the TWRP provided has some issue..... After installing TWRP I had a bootloop problem. I have resolved installing Magisk. It seems that Magisk patchs something. If you can access TWRP try to install Magisk (put the zip file on external sd). In other words: copy magisk zip on sd card - during the bootloop you have the chance to power off phone - Power off - Power on in recovery mode. If you have TWRP correctly installed Honor should go in recovery using TWRP . Install Magisk and see what happens...
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I have tried to flash TWRP recovery again to do install Magisk from sd card. I have done it but the phone doesn't work fine.
So I have put rommco05 TWRP Backup into sd card then restored it from TWRP restore (boot and vendor img). Now the phone seems have bootloader locked, in fact I don't have bootloader warning at the power on. Now in fastboot mode the phone says me that I have Phone locked and FRP unlocked.
How can I exit from this situation?
Try this
Killus3 said:
Hi all people,
first of all, I want excuse me for not my perfect English.
I have Honor 9 from few days. And I think to have bricked it.
I have unlocked bootloader correctly.
I have flashed recovery this TWRP recovery with the intention to proceed to root with Magisk or SuperSu. I accidentally and unconsiuosly do factory reset then the phone goes bootloop. (it power off and power on continuously) with the alert "your device has been unlocked and..etc".
Yesterday, reading this thread, I flashed, from fastboot console, boot, recovery and system, the phone resets two/three times then goes to eRecovery where I do a factory reset.
After a factory reset the phone works correctly and seems successfully unbricked. So I re-flash TWRP recovery.
But this morning, during the attempt to install from TWRP one between Magisk or SuperSu (I don't succeed to do it beacuse the phone was crypted and I don't see zip files from TWRP). I have reset the phone but goes bootloop again.
I tried to re-flash boot, recovery, system and cust more (that I don't have flashed yesterday). Now the phone goes eRecovery and ask me to connect to download latest version and recovery, but don't ask me to do a factory reset.
Now I don't know what I can do.
How I can solve this situation? I want only unlock bootloader (done!), install TWRP and have root permission. Now I don't think to change rom.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/help/bootloader-locked-help-to-enable-usb-t3683145
Rommco05 said:
Again unlock bootloader
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I have unlocked bootloader again and do a factory reset from TWRP recovery, now the phone seems works correctly!!!:good:
Now I should try to root the phone with Magisk or SuperSu, right?
I have a question about TWRP. From TWRP's file manager I don't see the files that I put in the internal memory. It's because I have used finger print to lock the phone that encryptes files?
raw_jay said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/help/bootloader-locked-help-to-enable-usb-t3683145
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This is to re-brand the phone from Chinese to EU version...I don't think is my case.
Rommco05 said:
Take a backup before make root. You don't see files because is some issue with decryption in TWRP. I achieved root with Magisk but I don't remember exactly steps
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I think it's too late
Anyway I can re-flash all thing from begin.
Then I can't use TWRP with the phone encrypted ( PIN, password, fingerprint, etc...) ?
Rommco05 said:
I'm not sure about thatz Huawei roms are encrypted somehow by default
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After I have installed Magisk (v14.0) now I have problem with google play services which don't download and do updates apps.
If I do a factory reset again I can solve it?
Update:
After I done a factory reset from TWRP recovery
and formatting data partition the phone seems working perfectly (I don't know why, but before format data the phone says me that I have only 150mb of memory space)
I say "seems" because there's something getting me in trouble, for example, I don't have anymore ringtones in the settings menu.
And I don't know if I have lost something else.
Exists a possibilty to restore all contents of the phone?
You could try this and flash your phone back to stock. But then you would need to unlock your bootloader and install TWRP again. Another way would be to unpack an image of your ROM and flash system and other parts via fastboot. Of course this could be risky and you could brick the device.
Meranico said:
You could try this and flash your phone back to stock. But then you would need to unlock your bootloader and install TWRP again. Another way would be to unpack an image of your ROM and flash system and other parts via fastboot. Of course this could be risky and you could brick the device.
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If I understand it well...
I have 2 options:
1) Rebrand the phone and flashin, then at end I have back the phone stock.
2) Unpack the image of ROM (what it means?) and flash system and other parts via fastboot. (Which are those parts? How?) But this procedure is more hazardous then rebrand procedure?
I have understand right?
1. Yes, correct. I would recommend that. Everything is explained in the thread I linked. Of course everything you do could potentially harm your phone, but you should know that already.
2. Get an update.app file for your specific phone model (there are threads already here, just search a bit, or use Firmware Finder), open it with the Huawei Update Extractor and extract the parts you want to flash (like system or recovery). Then flash them via fastboot. I tried this because I was in a situation like yours, but it didn't work for me. But in theory it could, because you would replace the faulty parts of your firmware.
Killus3 said:
I have understand right?
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Could you solve your problem?
Meranico said:
Could you solve your problem?
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Hi, I don't say it because I have replaced the phone with another same.
Now I'm starting to unlock bootloader, installing recovery TWRP and rooting the phone.
I hope to avoid bootloop this time.
Goodmorning everyone!
Yesterday I have:
- Unlocked bootloader correctly!
- Installed TWRP correctly!
- Make a TWRP Backup of all partitions of the device, except data partition because TWRP gives me an error during backup attempt.
- Then I start the device.
- After start the device I go to recovery TWRP to install Magisk, but the phone goes bootloop.
After reboot 2-3 times on the screen appears for a few moments a message of eRecovery that have restored something but I don't know. Then the device shows me the eRecovery that asks me to make a factory reset.
At this point I shutdown the device, go in TWRP to flash Magisk unistaller and the device goes out bootloop and works fine but without root.
How I can solve this problem and install Magisk and have root finally?
Some question:
-When I flashed TWRP (via fastboot) and I configurate it, example language, hours, etc... TWRP don't save the settings, in fact when I go in TWRP again I do remake the settings. Why?
-Then I go in sdcard I don't navigate files, I see folders with casual characters. This is an effect of encryption of the device?
Killus3 said:
Goodmorning everyone!
Yesterday I have:
- Unlocked bootloader correctly!
- Installed TWRP correctly!
- Make a TWRP Backup of all partitions of the device, except data partition because TWRP gives me an error during backup attempt.
- Then I start the device.
- After start the device I go to recovery TWRP to install Magisk, but the phone goes bootloop.
After reboot 2-3 times on the screen appears for a few moments a message of eRecovery that have restored something but I don't know. Then the device shows me the eRecovery that asks me to make a factory reset.
At this point I shutdown the device, go in TWRP to flash Magisk unistaller and the device goes out bootloop and works fine but without root.
How I can solve this problem and install Magisk and have root finally?
Some question:
-When I flashed TWRP (via fastboot) and I configurate it, example language, hours, etc... TWRP don't save the settings, in fact when I go in TWRP again I do remake the settings. Why?
-Then I go in sdcard I don't navigate files, I see folders with casual characters. This is an effect of encryption of the device?
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Answers to all your concerns go here mate---> TWRP doesn't decrypt data. Done.
Hence: weird folders in there, nowhere to store its settings prefs, about Magisk it's another story, if you want root go SuperSU latest beta.
Regards.
a basically did what that guy did, got root installed via TWRP but my google apps are all busted.
I tried flashing the update_data_full_public.zip and update_full_hw_usa.zip I found using the russian device lookup link switching trick but I the HW errored when I tried to flash it in TWRP and my play store still broken.
[UPDATE]
Hey,
Just to say, I managed to fix the biggest mess up in technology ive done in a long while (thank God). So everything seems to be working fine now.
Thanks
-Rory
Hey,
I recently flashed the Pixel Experience Rom, which automatically activated the "pin at boot" function of Android. That was fine until I tried to root my phone, so booting into TWRP I was greeted with a decrypt screen. I typed in my PIN and it failed. I have reboot my device into TWRP about 6 times now from TWRP as this is a known bug to no avail. Then, panicking, I went on boot loader and ran "fastboot wipe **" (The ** being system, boot, recovery, userdata etc etc). By doing this I stupidly deleted my NAND backup. I then reflashed TWRP. TWRP still needed to be decrypted.
I then used "adb push" to transfer the zip file of the ROM to my phone while in TWRP, I then tried flashing it from TWRP but it returned error code 7 and couldnt mount /system /sdcard etc etc as it had been encrypted.
Right now I am trying to flash the stock firmware from fastboot. I have flashed "system.img" and "boot.img." Yet there is no userdata file.
I have rebooted my phone but it takes me straight to recovery, which is still encrypted.
Any help will be massively appreciated.
Thanks
-Rory
Heyyo, just a heads up format data does a reformat on user data partition and disables encryption.
But I believe I have the proper solution to TWRP in my test thread under BETA downloads as Indian EUI ROM has forced encryption where as Chinese ROMs seem to have none which is why switching from Indian EUI ROM to custom ROMs gives decryption errors.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/development/test-twrp-3-2-1-0-leeco-le-max-2-t3734209
So i had a hickup with updating magisk to v20.3.
The result was that after a reboot the device got stuck in fastboot mode.
I went to TWRP 3.3.0 recovery and backed up all offered partitions before then attempting to re-flash magisk.
Didn't work out.
Then i heard that if you extract the boot.img from the stock firmware and flash it with fastboot you can get back to a working state where you can install Magisk again.
So i thought.
Now after booting i am greeted by the miui first install wizard and the whole set of apps seems to be gone as well as my settings.
IIRC i only removed the dalvik cache which shouldn't affect this state.
Where in the procedure is the mistake and can i get the old pre-broken update state back? I am afraid something has been lost in the process
selemine said:
So i had a hickup with updating magisk to v20.3.
The result was that after a reboot the device got stuck in fastboot mode.
I went to TWRP 3.3.0 recovery and backed up all offered partitions before then attempting to re-flash magisk.
Didn't work out.
Then i heard that if you extract the boot.img from the stock firmware and flash it with fastboot you can get back to a working state where you can install Magisk again.
So i thought.
Now after booting i am greeted by the miui first install wizard and the whole set of apps seems to be gone as well as my settings.
IIRC i only removed the dalvik cache which shouldn't affect this state.
Where in the procedure is the mistake and can i get the old pre-broken update state back? I am afraid something has been lost in the process
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Just install the latest stock rom then install recovery and restore all the backed up partitions.
Now install magisk and reboot.
If that doesn't work (u get into fastboot again) then just flash the boot.img file via fastboot and then reboot.
if i restore the backed up partitions and install magisk over it i get back to the non-booting , stuck in fastboot version. So something is wrong in the state of denmark.
selemine said:
if i restore the backed up partitions and install magisk over it i get back to the non-booting , stuck in fastboot version. So something is wrong in the state of denmark.
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I looked at the /data backup from twrp and it is only 3mb, unless stuff got moved to /system or so, it seems to be gone forever.
Hell , i wil never update magisk again.
selemine said:
I looked at the /data backup from twrp and it is only 3mb, unless stuff got moved to /system or so, it seems to be gone forever.
Hell , i wil never update magisk again.
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Don't install magisk with the rom, just restore the data, flash the stock boot.img file and then reboot.
After boot uninstall the magisk manager app and reboot to recovery and then flash magisk again.
(sorry if posting in the wrong place)
Background:
A few months, after receiving my Mi Note 10 Lite Miui 11 to 12 update, I finally rooted the phone using the Magisk patched boot method. All fine.
A while ago, with the latest MIUI 12 minor update we got, I lost root again. Now I wanted to root it again, and tried to find if there was already a working TWRP for this phone.
What happened:
After googling a bit, I found a post on XiaomiEU that had instructions to install a working TWRP (to install the rom). So I followed the steps, flashing vbmeta and the twrp image. Rebooted to recovery and as it was installed, I rebooted to system. After that, the first problem. It would only boot the twrp, not system.
To fix this, I got the latest stock fastboot rom and installed it via miFlash (with flash_all_but_storage option). Managed to boot again to Miui. After doing the google restoring steps, I found out that all my internal storage files were encrypted.
What I've tried so far:
formatted data (not internal storage and data/media) and tried again
installed a different TWRP I found here in XDA that supposedly would decrypt the files (twrp-3.4.0-14-toco-mauronofrio). It asks for the encryption password when starting and I get a success message when entering the right password, but even in the recovery file manager the files are encrypted.
installing recovery rom through TWRP without formatting data
(side note: on system, the Xiaomi Cloud restore seems to be always stuck without restoring anything and there is no way to stop it)
Can anyone please help me get my files (photos and videos, more importantly) back? Is there any hope? The files are there and I know the password, there must be something I can do...
Thanks in advance
Do you want to keep MIUI or go to a custom rom ?
Hello,
Is it possibly to OTA Update a rooted Nord2 5G (DN2103) without TWRP without data loss ?
I rooted it with patched magisk boot image with DN2103_11_A.14 found here on XDA.
Tried OTA update for SN2103_11.A.16 from the phone menu, but got error from updater:
"Could not update: Verification problem" (translated by me, the original english message may be different)
I reverted to stock boot.img but the update fail again with the same error.
Now I am back with the magisk's patched one with root.
Which scenarios I have to update to the A.19 without lost data and without need to install TWRP.
Thanks.
Updated: March 28, 2022
Perhaps I am a bit late to respond, but for future users running into this issue (including myself lol), you first need to install TWRP, otherwise the following instruction won't work. Since you're rooted, you can install TWRP as well (and its really not hard to do)
for DN2103 you have to download the OTA update zip, boot image and vbmeta, see:
[STOCK][DN2103][EU] Incremental update packages & Boot images
Hi All, Below you can find a couple of incremental update packages that you can use for updating from various versions of your device. Incremental update packages These can be installed using TWRP by following this tutorial...
forum.xda-developers.com
After you downloaded the correct files, do the following:
boot into TWRP and flash the boot image corresponding to your update.
(optional) by flashing the boot image, you lose root. to prevent that, you can patch the boot image first with the magisk app. you can always do this step after updating, in case you forget it.
!!! some updates do not have boot image.
flash the <ota_update>.zip
flash the vb.meta image
reboot phone normally
Also, before doing all this, i recommend (temporarily) turning lockscreen security off, in case something goes wrong, you can always recover data then since the phone won't be encrypted.
Thank you, for the answer.
This is the correct way to do update.
Best,