OPX - No Access to Recovery or Bootloader. OOS 2.2.3 Booting normally. - OnePlus X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am on OOS 2.2.3 on my Oneplus X. Rooted with Twrp recovery. Was not able to flash the new and official OOS 3.1.3 zip file through TWRP, so flashed Blue_spark TWRP in recovery mode (read somewhere that it could have enabled me to flash OOS 3.1.3). Now the phone boots into OOS 2.2.3 normally, but I cant boot into recovery or bootloader and it gets stuck at the logo screen in both these modes.
Could someone please help me out with this?

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Shalabh21 said:
I am on OOS 2.2.3 on my Oneplus X. Rooted with Twrp recovery. Was not able to flash the new and official OOS 3.1.3 zip file through TWRP, so flashed Blue_spark TWRP in recovery mode (read somewhere that it could have enabled me to flash OOS 3.1.3). Now the phone boots into OOS 2.2.3 normally, but I cant boot into recovery or bootloader and it gets stuck at the logo screen in both these modes.
Could someone please help me out with this?
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As a result of this, I am not even able to do a manual factory reset from the setting menu in OOS 2.2.3, because when i try to initiate this the phone again gets stuck at the logo screen of recovery mode.

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Shalabh21 said:
I am on OOS 2.2.3 on my Oneplus X. Rooted with Twrp recovery. Was not able to flash the new and official OOS 3.1.3 zip file through TWRP, so flashed Blue_spark TWRP in recovery mode (read somewhere that it could have enabled me to flash OOS 3.1.3). Now the phone boots into OOS 2.2.3 normally, but I cant boot into recovery or bootloader and it gets stuck at the logo screen in both these modes.
Could someone please help me out with this?
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blu.spark TWRP v41 uses the updated Marshmallow bootloader from OOS3.1.3, and you are on the Lollipop bootloader.
Lollipop Bootloader recovery won't boot on Marshmallow bootloader and Marshmallow bootloader recovery won't boot on Lollipop bootloader.
If you wanna flash the 3.1.3 zip, then use these instructions.
Download Oxygen OS 3.1.3 full ROM
Download MM based unofficial TWRP
Downloaded Modded SuperSU if you want root
You will require a PC with WinRAR & Notepad++, because as we are running custom ROMs the zip will give an error 7 saying that The package is for OnePlus, this is an onyx, we need to remove that.
Don't worry, its super easy.
- Download the OOS3 zip, copy it to your PCs desktop
- Open it with winRAR, dont extract it, just open it
- There will be a META-INF folder, open it
- Then open com, then google, then android, there will be 2 files here, updater-binary & updater script
- Double click on updater-script
- It will ask which app to use to open the file, then select to open with Notepad++ (designate it from its installed directory if it isn't visible in the initial list)
- The file will look like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
- Delete the entire first line that starts with getprop
- Now it should look like this
- Now press Ctrl+S to save the file and close the window
- WinRAR will ask weather to update changes in the archive, say yes to that
- Let it finish its job
- Done !
Moving on to the flashing now...
Assuming you on OOS2.2.3, goto settings, enable Advanced Reboot.
Then reboot to bootloader, this is fastboot mode.
Flash this recovery.
Done, now...
- Copy the modded OOS3 zip into your Device
- Boot into TWRP recovery
- Wipe system, data, cache & dalvik/art cache
- Flash the modified OOS3 zip
- Let it complete
- After it completes, press the wipe cache/dalvik button below
- Now reboot to system
- Complete the initial setup
- Goto settings, unlock developer options by tapping 7 times on build number in about phone
- Enable advanced reboot
- Then reboot to bootloader
- Flash the MM based unofficial TWRP via fastboot
- Remember to boot into this newly flash TWRP before booting into system so that it doesn't overwite it
- Done
Now you are on OOS 3.1.3, and have a working TWRP, you can proceed to flash SuperSU etc to gain root

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Joshwin Aranha said:
blu.spark TWRP v41 uses the updated Marshmallow bootloader from OOS3.1.3, and you are on the Lollipop bootloader.
Lollipop Bootloader recovery won't boot on Marshmallow bootloader and Marshmallow bootloader recovery won't boot on Lollipop bootloader.
If you wanna flash the 3.1.3 zip, then use these instructions.
Download Oxygen OS 3.1.3 full ROM
Download MM based unofficial TWRP
Downloaded Modded SuperSU if you want root
You will require a PC with WinRAR & Notepad++, because as we are running custom ROMs the zip will give an error 7 saying that The package is for OnePlus, this is an onyx, we need to remove that.
Don't worry, its super easy.
- Download the OOS3 zip, copy it to your PCs desktop
- Open it with winRAR, dont extract it, just open it
- There will be a META-INF folder, open it
- Then open com, then google, then android, there will be 2 files here, updater-binary & updater script
- Double click on updater-script
- It will ask which app to use to open the file, then select to open with Notepad++ (designate it from its installed directory if it isn't visible in the initial list)
- The file will look like this
- Delete the entire first line that starts with getprop
- Now it should look like this
- Now press Ctrl+S to save the file and close the window
- WinRAR will ask weather to update changes in the archive, say yes to that
- Let it finish its job
- Done !
Moving on to the flashing now...
Assuming you on OOS2.2.3, goto settings, enable Advanced Reboot.
Then reboot to bootloader, this is fastboot mode.
Flash this recovery.
Done, now...
- Copy the modded OOS3 zip into your Device
- Boot into TWRP recovery
- Wipe system, data, cache & dalvik/art cache
- Flash the modified OOS3 zip
- Let it complete
- After it completes, press the wipe cache/dalvik button below
- Now reboot to system
- Complete the initial setup
- Goto settings, unlock developer options by tapping 7 times on build number in about phone
- Enable advanced reboot
- Then reboot to bootloader
- Flash the MM based unofficial TWRP via fastboot
- Remember to boot into this newly flash TWRP before booting into system so that it doesn't overwite it
- Done
Now you are on OOS 3.1.3, and have a working TWRP, you can proceed to flash SuperSU etc to gain root
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Thank you very much Joshwin Aranha. This worked like a charm.
However I modified the last step and flashed OOS recovery instead. Want to use the phone without root for a while, because the main reason I rooted it in the first place was to install Greenify and save battery (battery used to drain heavily in OOS 2.2.2 and all prior versions), but unfortunately it did not have a great impact on battery life. So going back to stock version for now.

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Shalabh21 said:
Thank you very much Joshwin Aranha. This worked like a charm.
However I modified the last step and flashed OOS recovery instead. Want to use the phone without root for a while, because the main reason I rooted it in the first place was to install Greenify and save battery (battery used to drain heavily in OOS 2.2.2 and all prior versions), but unfortunately it did not have a great impact on battery life. So going back to stock version for now.
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Whatever rocks your boat buddy, glad you sorted that out.

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OPX stuck at oneplus logo after following the procedure
@Joshwin Aranha
Hi, I followed the exact same procedure you mentioned, and the process goes smoothly. But when i reboot the phone is stuck at oneplus logo (when i check through my PC for the status it says it is in fastboot mode).
I can easily flash OOS 2.2.3 and move to lollipop , but the problem occurs in OOS 3.1.3 MM
P.S. - i am not rooted.

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hbansal24x7 said:
@Joshwin Aranha
Hi, I followed the exact same procedure you mentioned, and the process goes smoothly. But when i reboot the phone is stuck at oneplus logo (when i check through my PC for the status it says it is in fastboot mode).
I can easily flash OOS 2.2.3 and move to lollipop , but the problem occurs in OOS 3.1.3 MM
P.S. - i am not rooted.
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Which recovery did you use to flash OOS3 ? And did you properly wipe everything ? Try re-flashing.

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Joshwin Aranha said:
Which recovery did you use to flash OOS3 ? And did you properly wipe everything ? Try re-flashing.
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I have used official TWRP that you mentioned in the procedure. I can easily flash CM13 and get my phone running. The problem is only coming in flashing OOS 3.1.3 after OOS 2.2.3.
And yes i have tried it multiple times. With factory reset, user data erase . Everything.
One quirk which i faced 1 time was that while flashing OOS 3 via official twrp 3.0.2.0 , during system verification stage i got an error "system partition has unexpected contents". I cleaned dalvik/cache/data and the error went away but the problem still persists

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hbansal24x7 said:
I have used official TWRP that you mentioned in the procedure. I can easily flash CM13 and get my phone running. The problem is only coming in flashing OOS 3.1.3 after OOS 2.2.3.
And yes i have tried it multiple times. With factory reset, user data erase . Everything.
One quirk which i faced 1 time was that while flashing OOS 3 via official twrp 3.0.2.0 , during system verification stage i got an error "system partition has unexpected contents". I cleaned dalvik/cache/data and the error went away but the problem still persists
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Does the OOS3 zip give any errors ? Or flashes properly ? This seems like a peculiar issue nonetheless..

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Joshwin Aranha said:
Does the OOS3 zip give any errors ? Or flashes properly ? This seems like a peculiar issue nonetheless..
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It does flash properly when i try to flash from OOS 2.2.3->3.1.3 . What i have observed is that as soon as the phone starts it gets stuck on oneplus logo without "android" written below. When i plug it into my system and check the device, it responds to "fastboot devices". I guess there is some issue with the bootloader or something

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hbansal24x7 said:
It does flash properly when i try to flash from OOS 2.2.3->3.1.3 . What i have observed is that as soon as the phone starts it gets stuck on oneplus logo without "android" written below. When i plug it into my system and check the device, it responds to "fastboot devices". I guess there is some issue with the bootloader or something
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Very the md5 of the OOS3 zip to check for a corrupted download.
Original md5 is 162f12d4dfef0142a184e761da868c5f

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Joshwin Aranha said:
Very the md5 of the OOS3 zip to check for a corrupted download.
Original md5 is 162f12d4dfef0142a184e761da868c5f
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MD5 is the same for UNCHANGED zip. i guess md5 will differ on a modified zip due to the changes you mentioned in the process.