I just got the N9005 Note 3 clone and I believe that I have bricked it. I installed CWM using MTK Tools (or so I thought) and downloaded what I believed to be the correct recovery for the phone. Now when it boots, it will stay on for about 10 seconds and reboot and will continue to do so if I let it. When I try to boot the phone into recovery mode instead it goes to a screen that says,
Select Boot Mode:
[VOLUME_UP to select. VOLUME_DOWN is OK.]
[Recovery. Mode]. <<==
[Fastboot. Mode]
[Normal. Mode]
I can use my volume up key but I can't select anything. No amount of pressing it, or holding it down, or pressing the other buttons selects either of them. I have to pull the battery to get the phone to do anything from there. Which leads me to believe that there was either an error in installing CWM, or it didn't install anything at all and corrupted something else pertinent to the Android system. It's almost as if Android recovery doesn't exist anymore like it was deleted. Is that even possible? I am at a total loss at what to do. Since I can't keep my phone booted for longer than 10 seconds at a time, I can't install CWM (again), which means that I can't factory reset my phone, install any kind of roms, wipe any kind of caches, nothing. Any help that you can provide I would be eternally grateful.
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Ok so after a couple of days of frustration and many hours of trial and error and lots of research done on many outlets of approach I found out that I can now boot the phone into fastboot. I booted the phone normally and in the 5-10 seconds that it does stay booted, PDAnet recognizes the phone and in a command prompt I very quickly typed 'adb reboot bootloader' and the phone reboots into fastboot. I immediately did research to find out what to do next. I tired a couple of things and so far I haven't had much success. I typed in my command prompt 'fastboot -w' and it says erasing 'userdata'... and after many minutes it says 'FAILED <status read failed <too many links>>.' Am I doing something wrong? My goal is to factory reset the phone back to the original boot image.
I'm pretty sure this all happened because I flashed the wrong recovery, when I try to boot into recovery (volume down+home button+power button) it brings me to a boot menu where I have 3 options to choose from, recovery, fastboot, and normal boot, none of which I can select. My best guess is that when I flashed the recovery the original recovery that came with the phone was deleted and it has corrupted something in the system which is causing the continuous reboots.
Upon further research I found a debrick image that is specific to my phone. Would that help? I'm going to try it and see what happens.
Sorry for the doosy here and all the questions but any help that anyone can provide would be very appreciated.
I have the same problem on my MTK6577 !
You have fixed your problem ?
Hi guys. While I am grateful with you just to be interested in helping, please try to read my whole post before trying to offer a solution, because it is kind of a long trip until now.
I am having a bad experience here trying to root a Moto E XT1021 (single SIM). As warranty is now expired and after watching all development going to this little amazing device we decided to root this phone which is not mine. I followed instructions and unlock the bootloader, fastboot displays a "Device is UNLOCKED. Status Code: 3" line, so I am pretty sure it is.
Now, I get into fastboot mode with hard keys and thru "adb reboot bootloader", I put the SuperSU.zip to flash thru custom recovery inside my sdcard but when I try to flash the custom recovery with a "fastboot flash recovery recovery_whatever.img" I get:
Code:
target reported max download size of 299892736 bytes
sending 'recovery' (7300 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.250s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.702s]
finished. total time: 0.952s
In cellphone display I get:
Code:
cmd: getvar:partition-type:recovery
cmd: getvar:max-download-size
cmd: download 008d5800
cmd: flash: recovery
Mismatched partition size (recovery)
So I don't guess nor assume the recovery was flashed, fastboot is informing it writed the IMG file to the correct partition. So I reboot and try an "adb reboot recovery" which fails miserably and reboots to system. Well, I read and read and find that I have to go directly from fastboot to recovery, but when I do this, the same thing happens. So, I read in another similar problem and the guys say I have to stay in fastboot display, disconnect my phone, and AFTER this I have to go to recovery directly from fastboot, but when I do this, display goes blank (does not seem to have backlight on).
I have tried with, literally, every custom recovery IMG I have found here and from scripts like Moto Tool and Super Tool. The most I can get is this. Or a pixelated-static display trying to get into recovery but finally failing. Help me, please, I just wiped the whole thing to unlock bootloader and if I can't root it my wife is gonna kill me.
SOLUTION:
Adarsh1998 said:
While the phone in bootloader, press vol down key until it scrolls down to recovery, press vol up button to select that recovery option, report if that reboots into twrp recovery or not.
P. S, Ignore that mismatched partition error.
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Since you didn't mentioned on what version you on, Lollipop or KitKat? Try flashing this recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2754486 and, did you tried this method?
While the phone in bootloader, press vol down key until it scrolls down to recovery, press vol up button to select that recovery option, report if that reboots into twrp recovery or not.
P. S, Ignore that mismatched partition error.
Adarsh1998 said:
Since you didn't mentioned on what version you on, Lollipop or KitKat? Try flashing this recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2754486 and, did you tried this method?
While the phone in bootloader, press vol down key until it scrolls down to recovery, press vol up button to select that recovery option, report if that reboots into twrp recovery or not.
P. S, Ignore that mismatched partition error.
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I am on Android 4.4.4 I have tried this recovery version but I have not tried the method. I will try when I have the device with me. Thank you.
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Attaboy! You, my friend, made my day! Thank you a lot.
i got the same error...getting "mismatched partition size(recovery) " and then phone goes off..........when i tried to install recovery
plz provide my solution.....asap....
HELP: i had been going to flash MR by myself, but when i tried to unlock it and flashed the rooted 'boot.img' extracted from 'Z4T_SGP771_AndroPlusKernel_v4.zip', i don't get the 'supersu' on the desktop properly, after tried a few times, i did a factory reset, it now hangs on boot logo, there is no response to 'power' button long pressed down, looks it will power down until battery goes up, does anyone also experience this? how can i restore this?
The link i'm following:
cwm-twrp-android.net/download/sony-xperia-z4-tablet-lte/
it prevents me paste the outside link since this my first post, so i removed http prefix.
I solved it by myself, after pressing 'Volume Down' + 'Power', it reboots, and looks the factory reset did nothing, it's weird.
On the .260 firmware AndroPlusKernel v4 won't work. I had the same thing when I accidentally flashed v5. You'll need v10. Also, download this stuff from official sources, look in the AndroPlusKernel thread here on XDA.
So, get into fastboot in some way (I don't know how I got back into it, just hammered the volume rocker) and flash the correct v10 boot.img.
Wei Xu said:
I solved it by myself, after pressing 'Volume Down' + 'Power', it reboots, and looks the factory reset did nothing, it's weird.
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Hi,
to go in fastboot mode press and hold down volume up and connect to your Pc, the led become blue
To go in flash mode press and hold down volume down and connect to your pc, the led become yellow for a few seconds so you must be fast to enter the command in ADB
killdozer56 said:
Hi,
to go in fastboot mode press and hold down volume up and connect to your Pc, the led become blue
To go in flash mode press and hold down volume down and connect to your pc, the led become yellow for a few seconds so you must be fast to enter the command in ADB
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Thanks a lot for your comments, i have root it successfully, is there anyone made it to flash MarshMallow? i tried to update it with TWRY with officially binary SW_binaries_for_Xperia_AOSP_M_v01_2.zip, but it tells 'Could not find 'META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file', does anyone know how to survive this?
I also find a AOSP version 'AOSP_L_MR1_160113_karin.zip' from www.androidfilehost.com, but it only contains image file, i tried to flash them all, others(boot, userdata, recovery) are all ok, but it hangs at flashing 'system.img', i terminate it forcely after waiting for 20+ mins, the system boot up back to 5.0.2 after that.
If i use TWRP to install this zip, it tells the same error with the official binary, anyone know if this will work?
Hello everybody,
since saturday I have a really big problem. Until now I tried to find a similar problem from an other person in the internet in order to fix mine but that was not possible.
So in my last hope I am now writing it down here. Hopefully someone can help me:
The phone was/is rooted and has TWRP as recovery installed (v3.21). The software is still the original EMUI.
On saturday my Huawei Honor 5x (Model KIW-L21) gave me the notification that there is an software update avaible. So I backuped everything with TWRP to my sd-card and copied it to the computer. After this I ran th eupdate. The update downloaded the new software, then rebootet to the recovery, installed the update.zip automaticly and rebootet again. Then there was written on the screen "Huawei software installing ... DO NOT unplug usb or press any key!". Also there was "0%" all the time. It did nothing. also the phone was not connected with usb.
After an hour I long pressed the power button. after two seconds there was the text "Warning: The powerkey is long pressed, please release powerkey to avoid system crash" displayed. I pressed it longer and the phone turned off.
Now I have the following problem. When the phone is turned off, I can:
press the power button: the phone starts, the "honor ... android" logo is shown but nothing more happens. ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> device found but no permission to enter commands)
press the power button and the volume up button and the volume down button at the same time: normally this should take me in the recovery mode, mut it doesn't anymore. Instead the "EMUI" update screen is shown (see above "huawei software installing ..." with "0%") ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
press the power button and the volume up button at the same time: I get a huawei menu with three buttons: "reboot", "wipe user cache" and "factory reset". I tried both (wipe and reset) wich both finished without an error. But nothing changes ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
press the power button and the volume down button at the same time: I get an "eRecovery" menu from huawei with three buttons: "Reboot", "power off" and "Recover with latest software". The last button lets me connect to my wifi and then "searching for packages", with failes all the time. ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
This problem occures with and also without the sd-card. Also there is no "update.zip" or "update.app" on the sd-card.
I really hope somebody can help me. I only need to get into the recovery. If I am there I can recover the backup or install a new ROM. That would be no problem for me. But at the moment I get nothing :crying:
Or maybe a tool to reset the phone completly? to start over from the beginning?
greetings,
Christopher
PS.: Thanks for your efford.
PSS.: Sorry for my bad english, I really try my best and hope that you understand what I am trying to say.
Same problem here... Please help us :'(
christopher2007 said:
Hello everybody,
since saturday I have a really big problem. Until now I tried to find a similar problem from an other person in the internet in order to fix mine but that was not possible.
So in my last hope I am now writing it down here. Hopefully someone can help me:
The phone was/is rooted and has TWRP as recovery installed (v3.21). The software is still the original EMUI.
On saturday my Huawei Honor 5x (Model KIW-L21) gave me the notification that there is an software update avaible. So I backuped everything with TWRP to my sd-card and copied it to the computer. After this I ran th eupdate. The update downloaded the new software, then rebootet to the recovery, installed the update.zip automaticly and rebootet again. Then there was written on the screen "Huawei software installing ... DO NOT unplug usb or press any key!". Also there was "0%" all the time. It did nothing. also the phone was not connected with usb.
After an hour I long pressed the power button. after two seconds there was the text "Warning: The powerkey is long pressed, please release powerkey to avoid system crash" displayed. I pressed it longer and the phone turned off.
Now I have the following problem. When the phone is turned off, I can:
press the power button: the phone starts, the "honor ... android" logo is shown but nothing more happens. ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> device found but no permission to enter commands)
press the power button and the volume up button and the volume down button at the same time: normally this should take me in the recovery mode, mut it doesn't anymore. Instead the "EMUI" update screen is shown (see above "huawei software installing ..." with "0%") ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
press the power button and the volume up button at the same time: I get a huawei menu with three buttons: "reboot", "wipe user cache" and "factory reset". I tried both (wipe and reset) wich both finished without an error. But nothing changes ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
press the power button and the volume down button at the same time: I get an "eRecovery" menu from huawei with three buttons: "Reboot", "power off" and "Recover with latest software". The last button lets me connect to my wifi and then "searching for packages", with failes all the time. ("fastboot devices" -> no devices found, "adb devices" -> no devices found)
This problem occures with and also without the sd-card. Also there is no "update.zip" or "update.app" on the sd-card.
I really hope somebody can help me. I only need to get into the recovery. If I am there I can recover the backup or install a new ROM. That would be no problem for me. But at the moment I get nothing :crying:
Or maybe a tool to reset the phone completly? to start over from the beginning?
greetings,
Christopher
PS.: Thanks for your efford.
PSS.: Sorry for my bad english, I really try my best and hope that you understand what I am trying to say.
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suzushima said:
Same problem here... Please help us :'(
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to enter fastboot mode
1. Place the device in fastboot mode:
Turn off the device. (then wait for at least 2 seconds) For a mobile phone, press and hold the volume down and power keys simultaneously for at least 10 seconds (for a tablet, press and hold the volume up and power keys).
2. If the above operations do not switch the device to fastboot mode, please try the following steps:
Turn off the device. (then wait for at least 2 seconds) Then insert the USB cable and press and hold the volume down and power keys simultaneously for at least 10 seconds.
Step 2 worked for me every time
Arobase40 said:
AGAIN AND AGAIN, when you receive an update notification you MUST first flash back to stock recovery or it won't update with TWRP !!!
- To recover a stock recovery you need to boot onto download mode/your bootloader mode (Power+Volume Down) : plug your phone to your computer and type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img".
From there you will loose your connexion with your computer. So unplug your phone and reboot manually holding down the Power button for some seconds.
If the system ever update your phone, BE VERY PATIENT !
The above note should probably part of a sticky !!!
If you don't get back to your Home screen and if you need TWRP back, reboot again onto download mode/your bootloader mode (Power+Volume Down) : plug your phone to your computer and type "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" (or whatever the custom recovery name).
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The problem a lot of people were having is TWRP flashed enough of the update that they lost custom recovery and had no way to get to the bootloader / fastboot ... that's why I posted the instructions above and in about 4 other threads.
Did you ever get your phone updated ?
Arobase40 said:
AGAIN AND AGAIN, when you receive an update notification you MUST first flash back to stock recovery or it won't update with TWRP !!!
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I did not knew this one. Thanks a lot.
Thanks to @clsA I found the stock recovery here and I will try it:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=49383
clsA said:
1.Turn off the device. (then wait for at least 2 seconds) For a mobile phone, press and hold the volume down and power keys simultaneously for at least 10 seconds (for a tablet, press and hold the volume up and power keys).
2. If the above operations do not switch the device to fastboot mode, please try the following steps:
Turn off the device. (then wait for at least 2 seconds) Then insert the USB cable and press and hold the volume down and power keys simultaneously for at least 10 seconds.
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Working great thanks a lot!
"fastboot & rescue mode" with a working usb connection.
What is the next step? If I now flash the stock recovery, does the phone manages to finish the system update?
Or should I flash the twrp recovery and not the stock revocery?
greetings,
Christopher
EDIT:
I flashed the stock recovery and also the twrp recovery. both times i startet the phone and hoped the installation of the new software will go on. But it didn't.
So my problem is still resistant. so what can I do? How do I stop the update from blocking my recovery? I do not need the update. maybe I can reset my device with the fastboot access somehow?
christopher2007 said:
I did not knew this one. Thanks a lot.
Thanks to @clsA I found the stock recovery here and I will try it:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=49383
Working great thanks a lot!
"fastboot & rescue mode" with a working usb connection.
What is the next step? If I now flash the stock recovery, does the phone manages to finish the system update?
Or should I flash the twrp recovery and not the stock revocery?
greetings,
Christopher
EDIT:
I flashed the stock recovery and also the twrp recovery. both times i startet the phone and hoped the installation of the new software will go on. But it didn't.
So my problem is still resistant. so what can I do? How do I stop the update from blocking my recovery? I do not need the update. maybe I can reset my device with the fastboot access somehow?
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All the full updates are in the file depot
Use stock recovery plus the full update for your version.
You have to hold volup + voldown + power to start the update
Refresh TWRP / Root and your good to go
Sent from my KIW-L24 using Tapatalk
clsA said:
All the full updates are in the file depot
Use stock recovery plus the full update for your version.
You have to hold volup + voldown + power to start the update
Refresh TWRP / Root and your good to go
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I found the stock recovery at https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=51004 but I have no idea what update I must use and how to use it.
Could you please give me a concrete link with a little introduction? Do I have to copy the update file to my sd-card? or do I have to use the "fastboot update *" command?
(Most of the files are for "KIW-L24" but I have a "KIW-L21" ... is there a significant difference? Od do I can use also the other files?)
Also, don't I have to stop the wrong update first?
greetings,
Christopher
EDIT:
I tried these "UPDATE.APP":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5x/development/stock-kiw-l24-l21-t3312684
http://www.androidvillaz.com/2016/0...honor-5x-to-stock-lollipop-firmware-b130.html
both did not work. I copied them into the "dload" folder in the root of the sd-card and started the phone with volup+coldown+power.
The only thing the phone said was "Software install failed! ... Press powerkey to conrifm ... Shutdown system now".
christopher2007 said:
I found the stock recovery at https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=51004 but I have no idea what update I must use and how to use it.
Could you please give me a concrete link with a little introduction? Do I have to copy the update file to my sd-card? or do I have to use the "fastboot update *" command?
(Most of the files are for "KIW-L24" but I have a "KIW-L21" ... is there a significant difference? Od do I can use also the other files?)
Also, don't I have to stop the wrong update first?
greetings,
Christopher
EDIT:
I tried these "UPDATE.APP":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5x/development/stock-kiw-l24-l21-t3312684
http://www.androidvillaz.com/2016/0...honor-5x-to-stock-lollipop-firmware-b130.html
both did not work. I copied them into the "dload" folder in the root of the sd-card and started the phone with volup+coldown+power.
The only thing the phone said was "Software install failed! ... Press powerkey to conrifm ... Shutdown system now".
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if the update.app doesn't work you'll have to flash TWRP and the Stock Rom and wait like everyone else that's stuck trying to update the L21
clsA said:
if the update.app doesn't work you'll have to flash TWRP and the Stock Rom and wait like everyone else that's stuck trying to update the L21
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The only way I know to flash a ROM, is to go over TWRP.
So I now did the following:
Phone power off
connect to pc
voldown+power
in the fastboot flash the recovery from twrp
shutdown
copy the "customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip" to the sd-card
volup+coldown+power what normally starts twrp, but only the huawei update manager is shown
I only need twrp, no update and nothing else.
What options do I have left, because "flash a ROM" is not working ...
How can I stop this terrible update that is blocking my twrp?
greetings,
Christopher
christopher2007 said:
The only way I know to flash a ROM, is to go over TWRP.
So I now did the following:
Phone power off
connect to pc
voldown+power
in the fastboot flash the recovery from twrp
shutdown
copy the "customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip" to the sd-card
volup+coldown+power what normally starts twrp, but only the huawei update manager is shown
I only need twrp, no update and nothing else.
What options do I have left, because "flash a ROM" is not working ...
greetings,
Christopher
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are you flashing TWRP ?
you enter recovery with Volume up and Power
in TWRP you choose Install then choose customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip
swipe to flash when it's done reboot
and your rom should load
clsA said:
are you flashing TWRP ?
you enter recovery with Volume up and Power
in TWRP you choose Install then choose customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip
swipe to flash when it's done reboot
and your rom should load
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I flashed TWRP using "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img". I also used this one last time (one month ago) and it worked then and also now.
Flashing was successful, but when I press volup+power I get a huawei menu.
At the top there is the "EMUI" circle and below there are three buttons:
Reboot system now
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
I can move around in this little menu by using the volume keys.
But this is not TWRP.
And normally I enter the recovery by using volup+voldown+power. But this is currently blocked by the update progress from huawei.
greetings,
Christopher
christopher2007 said:
I flashed TWRP using "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img". I also used this one last time (one month ago) and it worked then and also now.
Flashing was successful, but when I press volup+power I get a huawei menu.
At the top there is the "EMUI" circle and below there are three buttons:
Reboot system now
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
I can move around in this little menu by using the volume keys.
But this is not TWRP.
And normally I enter the recovery by using volup+voldown+power. But this is currently blocked by the update progress from huawei.
greetings,
Christopher
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You still have stock recovery
Flash TWRP -
fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
Do not reboot the phone
Hold power plus volup and TWRP should load.
Now flash your rom
Sent from my KIW-L24 using Tapatalk
clsA said:
You still have stock recovery
Flash TWRP -
fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
Do not reboot the phone
Hold power plus volup and TWRP should load.
Now flash your rom
Sent from my KIW-L24 using Tapatalk
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C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes
sending 'recovery' (45196 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.442s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.703s]
finished. total time: 2.148s
I now flashed this more then ten times ... but with power+volup I still get the EMUI menu.
christopher2007 said:
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img
target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes
sending 'recovery' (45196 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.442s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.703s]
finished. total time: 2.148s
I now flashed this more then ten times ... but with power+volup I still get the EMUI menu.
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Are you rebooting from the fastboot screen?
From the white boot loader screen hold volume up and power for 15 seconds
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clsA said:
Are you rebooting from the fastboot screen?
From the white boot loader screen hold volume up and power for 15 seconds
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The last six hours I tried to fix my phone ... again. One thing I did really helped a little:
Target1920 said:
http://forum.android.com.pl/topic/205126-instalacjaodzyskiwanie-systemu-rom-za-pomoca-fastboot/
This is the polish version of manual, I will write you how to do it:
1. Download ADB and Fastboot
2. Extract to c:/adb
3. Download from this thread firmware for you (extracted version!) http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5x/development/stock-kiw-l24-l21-t3312684 If you have problem what firmware you have to install, take look at the back side of phone, at the down you will se KIW-L21 or 24 (or another). Copy all files to adb folder
4. Rund adb program
5. Write in the command line: cd c:/adb
6. Connect phone to usb to download mode (power and vol- combination)
7. Write in fastboot command: fastboot flash recovery recover.img (or recovrey .img, see the file and type it name) - wait for install
8. And now: If the flash is succesfull, reboot the phone to recovery (power and volume+) and wipe all data. Phone have to work.
But if flash is not succesfull, plug again usb with download mode
9. Write this commands: fastboot flash cust cust.img -wait for install
and: fastboot flash system system.img -also wait, system.img can took a while
10. Now you will enter recovery and wipe all data
11. Again plug usb cable and install firmware with those commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash cust cust.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash system system.img
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With this I am not able to start my phone again. It will boot normally and I have a clean android. No userdata and no root.
So I now did the same like last month:
Unlock OEM -> not necessary, because it is already unlocked
install twrp with fastboot
reboot to twrp and there it is again
I did exactly what you said and also I did exactly the same thing I did last month but both times there is the same result: TWRP will not show up.
The "stock recovery" is blocking twrp in some sort of way. I can do whatever I whant ... volup+power out of the fastbook mode, or with "adb reboot recovery", or other ways ... twrp will not show up.
How is this possible? I also tried different twrp images. (The "kiwi_twrp_2-27_recovery.img" and "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img" out of your repository, and also the "twrp-3.0.0-0-kiwi.img" and "twrp-3.0.2-0-kiwi.img" from the twrp website itself ... always the same result: no twrp)
I am really at the end of my knollage
greetings,
Christopher
christopher2007 said:
The last six hours I tried to fix my phone ... again. One thing I did really helped a little:
With this I am not able to start my phone again. It will boot normally and I have a clean android. No userdata and no root.
So I now did the same like last month:
Unlock OEM -> not necessary, because it is already unlocked
install twrp with fastboot
reboot to twrp and there it is again
I did exactly what you said and also I did exactly the same thing I did last month but both times there is the same result: TWRP will not show up.
The "stock recovery" is blocking twrp in some sort of way. I can do whatever I whant ... volup+power out of the fastbook mode, or with "adb reboot recovery", or other ways ... twrp will not show up.
How is this possible? I also tried different twrp images. (The "kiwi_twrp_2-27_recovery.img" and "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img" out of your repository, and also the "twrp-3.0.0-0-kiwi.img" and "twrp-3.0.2-0-kiwi.img" from the twrp website itself ... always the same result: no twrp)
I am really at the end of my knollage
greetings,
Christopher
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First off thanks for the very informative post.
Without actually having the phone in my hands I'm also stumped at what to try next.
After flashing TWRP and still in the boot loader unplug the USB before you reboot with power and volume up.
That's all I can think of right now
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clsA said:
First off thanks for the very informative post.
Without actually having the phone in my hands I'm also stumped at what to try next.
After flashing TWRP and still in the boot loader unplug the USB before you reboot with power and volume up.
That's all I can think of right now
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I must thank you for all your help
So I now read some more articles and tried some things. So there are old problems solved, but also new problems came up:
For me it is no longer possible to flash a recovery that is permanent. I have no idea why but I am ignoring it, because I can start the phone with voldown+power into bootloader and then use a usb-connection to enter the following command:
fastboot boot twrp-3.0.2-0-kiwi.img
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So i can enter twrp temporary and because I do not need TWRP this often, that is ok for me.
BUT:
with the extracted "UPDATE.APP" and flashing some "*.img" files manually (see my last post), I have a more or less working "L21C432B130" version of android.
So now there is everything original (recovery, system, ...).
The update to "L21C432B140" is still not working. But that is also something I can live with.
So now I whant to restore my old system in order to have my old data/apps/... .
So I enter my temporary TWRP, go to Restore and select my old backup. Then the restore starts. Restoring EFS, Restoring efs2, Restoring Recovery, Wiping System and Formatting System using make_ext4fs. All of this in this order are successful. But the last operation "Restoring Data" failes with the following error message:
extractTarFork() process ended with error 255
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So I searched on xda and found out, that this could be ANYTHING. I tried five or six different methods in order to fix it. In the end I am not sure what really fixxed it, but now I can restore my old update without any error. The phone now runs and I have all my old data.
There are four main differences on my phone to the time before I tried that damn update:
1. I have less internal storage
2. I have no TWRP permanently avaible
3. I can not Factory-Reset
4. I can not use a "UPDATE.APP" inside a "dload" folder on the sdcard
(the last two things always failes)
But as long as the android system now runs smooth again I can live with these things.
Is there maybe anything else I should be careful? maybe a known bug/problem that I have not seen yet?
The reason why I wanted to update in the first place was, that I have problems with my sd-card.
Some Apps do not allow to use the external storage. Easy Voice Recorder is the main problem. But also the Call Recorder has problems with it.
Is this a well known bug? Does a update helps? And if so, how do I update? (Now I know how to rescue my phone, so I could try it again xD )
Or does this problem gets solved with an custom ROM? If so, what good custom ROMs are out there for the honor 5x?
Or is this a problem that is not possible to fix on the honor 5x? Because these apps does not have this problem on my HTC One M9 ...
And thanks again so much for all your help
greetings,
Christopher
christopher2007 said:
I must thank you for all your help
So I now read some more articles and tried some things. So there are old problems solved, but also new problems came up:
For me it is no longer possible to flash a recovery that is permanent. I have no idea why but I am ignoring it, because I can start the phone with voldown+power into bootloader and then use a usb-connection to enter the following command:
So i can enter twrp temporary and because I do not need TWRP this often, that is ok for me.
BUT:
with the extracted "UPDATE.APP" and flashing some "*.img" files manually (see my last post), I have a more or less working "L21C432B130" version of android.
So now there is everything original (recovery, system, ...).
The update to "L21C432B140" is still not working. But that is also something I can live with.
So now I whant to restore my old system in order to have my old data/apps/... .
So I enter my temporary TWRP, go to Restore and select my old backup. Then the restore starts. Restoring EFS, Restoring efs2, Restoring Recovery, Wiping System and Formatting System using make_ext4fs. All of this in this order are successful. But the last operation "Restoring Data" failes with the following error message:
So I searched on xda and found out, that this could be ANYTHING. I tried five or six different methods in order to fix it. In the end I am not sure what really fixxed it, but now I can restore my old update without any error. The phone now runs and I have all my old data.
There are four main differences on my phone to the time before I tried that damn update:
1. I have less internal storage
2. I have no TWRP permanently avaible
3. I can not Factory-Reset
4. I can not use a "UPDATE.APP" inside a "dload" folder on the sdcard
(the last two things always failes)
But as long as the android system now runs smooth again I can live with these things.
Is there maybe anything else I should be careful? maybe a known bug/problem that I have not seen yet?
The reason why I wanted to update in the first place was, that I have problems with my sd-card.
Some Apps do not allow to use the external storage. Easy Voice Recorder is the main problem. But also the Call Recorder has problems with it.
Is this a well known bug? Does a update helps? And if so, how do I update? (Now I know how to rescue my phone, so I could try it again xD )
Or does this problem gets solved with an custom ROM? If so, what good custom ROMs are out there for the honor 5x?
Or is this a problem that is not possible to fix on the honor 5x? Because these apps does not have this problem on my HTC One M9 ...
And thanks again so much for all your help
greetings,
Christopher
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from your current state you can try flash recovery with TWRP by choosing install / image / your version of TWRP / choose recovery / swipe to flash
Now choose reboot / recovery
As for the sdcard try the sdcard fix for kit Kat in the play store. It works for some older apps.
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Arobase40 said:
If you mean getting my phone updated to KIW-L21 B140, no I still don't get it !
But I did try with KIW-L24 B151 with the result I already mentioned previously : almost bricked... ^^
But I always managed to get into Bootloader/Fastboot to flash back any kind of recovery...
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clsA said:
All the full updates are in the file depot
Use stock recovery plus the full update for your version.
You have to hold volup + voldown + power to start the update
Refresh TWRP / Root and your good to go
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So i have this issue too. im so stupid for doing this. I can go into fastboot mode and i flashed stock recovery and when i rebooted into recovery it still said that it was updating the firmware. I flashed twrp after that and it had the same message. am i doing something wrong or is it my phone? I tried rebooting into bootloader using adb but only fastboot will reconize my phone so adb also wont work. could you guys maybe help me?
Edit: Yessss. i got it using the temporary command. Thank you guys all for your help. it was so stupid of me to flash it with twrp still on it. Thank you all very much
Hey guys. I have the Huawei Ascend XT and I thought I was hard bricked and I started to mess around with some of the commands with Fastboot. I was able to get my phone back up and running. I am currently on the B180 but I am assuming it will work for any version between B140 and B180. What happened with me was I wiped my system partition but I had an unlocked bootloader. I could not get TWRP to boot up or I wasn't able to flash it because of the "FRP Lock", which is also known as Factory Reset Protection so a lot of commands were disabled such as "fastboot -w" to do a factory reset so I thought the worst case scenario.
1. Make sure you can access the "Rescue & Fastboot Mode" by holding down the Volume Down button and Power Button. Mine boot looped for a few screen flashes but it eventually booted into it.
2. Download the stock B140 recovery from here, post #7. (Special Thanks to clsA) https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-ascend-xt/help/stock-ascend-xt-recovery-t3572924
3. Assuming you have already downloaded the Minimal ADB and Fastboot files, open up a command prompt navigating to the fastboot folder and type in the following commands: "fastboot boot recovery.img"
4. After it boots, you can go ahead a do a factory reset via the recovery. It will be stuck on 99% and it wont go to 100%. Give the phone 5 minutes on 99% before doing anything. It gives it a chance to wipe everything completely.
5. Reboot your phone by holding the Volume Down and Power button until it boots into "Recovery & Fastboot Mode" and then flash TWRP as you like. As you can now see that "FRP Lock" disappeared thus allowing you to flash recoveries and use commands again.
It helped me so I hope it helps you out, saved me a lot of stress. Press thanks if this helped and feedback is always welcome.
Always been a great feature - can use fastboot to boot into any recovery, especially useful for testing if a new one works before flashing it. Fairly certain it's fully functional too, so you can do whatever changes you like or make backups without changing your stock recovery.
TheShwksFan86 said:
Hey guys. I have the Huawei Ascend XT and I thought I was hard bricked and I started to mess around with some of the commands with Fastboot. I was able to get my phone back up and running. I am currently on the B180 but I am assuming it will work for any version between B140 and B180. What happened with me was I wiped my system partition but I had an unlocked bootloader. I could not get TWRP to boot up or I wasn't able to flash it because of the "FRP Lock", which is also known as Factory Reset Protection so a lot of commands were disabled such as "fastboot -w" to do a factory reset so I thought the worst case scenario.
1. Make sure you can access the "Rescue & Fastboot Mode" by holding down the Volume Down button and Power Button. Mine boot looped for a few screen flashes but it eventually booted into it.
2. Download the stock B140 recovery from here, post #7. (Special Thanks to clsA) https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-ascend-xt/help/stock-ascend-xt-recovery-t3572924
3. Assuming you have already downloaded the Minimal ADB and Fastboot files, open up a command prompt navigating to the fastboot folder and type in the following commands: "fastboot boot recovery.img"
4. After it boots, you can go ahead a do a factory reset via the recovery. It will be stuck on 99% and it wont go to 100%. Give the phone 5 minutes on 99% before doing anything. It gives it a chance to wipe everything completely.
5. Reboot your phone by holding the Volume Down and Power button until it boots into "Recovery & Fastboot Mode" and then flash TWRP as you like. As you can now see that "FRP Lock" disappeared thus allowing you to flash recoveries and use commands again.
It helped me so I hope it helps you out, saved me a lot of stress. Press thanks if this helped and feedback is always welcome.
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How were you able to flash the recovery in FRP Lock???
I've tested to flash on that mode and got the same error "Command Not Allowed"
How have you flashed the recovery??
What am i missing??
Thanks
RSGI said:
How were you able to flash the recovery in FRP Lock???
I've tested to flash on that mode and got the same error "Command Not Allowed"
How have you flashed the recovery??
What am i missing??
Thanks
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Same
TheShwksFan86 said:
Hey guys. I have the Huawei Ascend XT and I thought I was hard bricked and I started to mess around with some of the commands with Fastboot. I was able to get my phone back up and running. I am currently on the B180 but I am assuming it will work for any version between B140 and B180. What happened with me was I wiped my system partition but I had an unlocked bootloader. I could not get TWRP to boot up or I wasn't able to flash it because of the "FRP Lock", which is also known as Factory Reset Protection so a lot of commands were disabled such as "fastboot -w" to do a factory reset so I thought the worst case scenario.
1. Make sure you can access the "Rescue & Fastboot Mode" by holding down the Volume Down button and Power Button. Mine boot looped for a few screen flashes but it eventually booted into it.
2. Download the stock B140 recovery from here, post #7. (Special Thanks to clsA) https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-ascend-xt/help/stock-ascend-xt-recovery-t3572924
3. Assuming you have already downloaded the Minimal ADB and Fastboot files, open up a command prompt navigating to the fastboot folder and type in the following commands: "fastboot boot recovery.img"
4. After it boots, you can go ahead a do a factory reset via the recovery. It will be stuck on 99% and it wont go to 100%. Give the phone 5 minutes on 99% before doing anything. It gives it a chance to wipe everything completely.
5. Reboot your phone by holding the Volume Down and Power button until it boots into "Recovery & Fastboot Mode" and then flash TWRP as you like. As you can now see that "FRP Lock" disappeared thus allowing you to flash recoveries and use commands again.
It helped me so I hope it helps you out, saved me a lot of stress. Press thanks if this helped and feedback is always welcome.
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Yeah, it seemed like it was gonna work, got boot.img downloaded, but it sat there trying to boot for a half an hour with nada happening. Bummer.