Pixel stuck on google loading screen after flashing patched boot image - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm trying to root my Pixel 3 and my device is stuck on the white google loading screen after flashing the patched boot file.
Here is what I've done so far:
Downloaded the boot image -> Installed Magisk on my phone -> patched the boot image -> booted into Fastboot -> flashed the patched boot image -> then my phone restarted and has been stuck on the white google loading screen.
If I hold the volume down button and the power button, my screen goes to the Fastboot mode. Then if I try to power off and start the phone, I get back to the white google loading screen which doesn't change.
Heres the logs from terminal if that provides any info:
(base) [email protected] android % ./fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img
Sending 'boot_b' (31860 KB) OKAY [ 0.310s]
Writing 'boot_b' OKAY [ 0.258s]
Finished. Total time: 0.837s
(base) [email protected] android % ./fastboot reboot
Rebooting OKAY [ 0.080s]
Finished. Total time: 0.080s
Anyone have any ideas? everything was going smoothly until this point so not sure what I've done wrong. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

@MHuncho
Looks like the boot-loader got broken. Not unusal when flashing a system-less framework as Magisk. Probably dm-verity was enabled when you flashed Magisk's boot.img.
My advice: Try to re-flash Stock ROM.

jwoegerbauer said:
@MHuncho
Looks like the boot-loader got broken. Not unusal when flashing a system-less framework as Magisk.
Try to re-flash Stock ROM.
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Thanks for the reply but slight issue. I got impatient and tried another solution which was:
(base) [email protected] android % ./fastboot flash boot --slot all magisk_patched.img
Sending 'boot_a' (31860 KB) OKAY [ 0.310s]
Writing 'boot_a' OKAY [ 0.494s]
Sending 'boot_b' (31860 KB) OKAY [ 0.200s]
Writing 'boot_b' OKAY [ 0.192s]
Finished. Total time: 1.760s
Now my device is stuck in a loop on the Fastboot Mode screen with following info:
Device state: unlocked
Boot slot: a
Enter Reason is: "no valid slot to boot'.
Also my device is now NOT recognised by my laptop so I'm unable to re-flash stock ROM as you suggested or do anything. sigh... I shouldn't have rushed.

@MHuncho
Congrats ... This is the price that people who think they must put up a better (?) ROM than that what gets pre-installed by OEM/Carrier - in their R&D department there are certainly no idiots sitting around - pay.

jwoegerbauer said:
@MHuncho
Congrats ... This is the price that people who think they must put up a better (?) ROM than that what gets pre-installed by OEM/Carrier - in their R&D department there are certainly no idiots sitting around - pay.
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@jwoegerbauer
Slight success, after restarting my laptop, my device is now recognised but my devices is not found when I do ./adb devices and it is found when I do ./fastboot devices. Hence I'm unable to do the command ./adb reboot Bootloader and start the flashing stock ROM. I get the following when I do ./adb reboot Bootloader
(base) [email protected] android % ./adb reboot bootloader
error: no devices/emulators found
From research this may be because USB Debugging is not enabled? which I can't do because my device is stuck in fastboot.. ahh pls help

MHuncho said:
@jwoegerbauer
Slight success, after restarting my laptop, my device is now recognised but my devices is not found when I do ./adb devices and it is found when I do ./fastboot devices. Hence I'm unable to do the command ./adb reboot Bootloader and start the flashing stock ROM. I get the following when I do ./adb reboot Bootloader
(base) [email protected] android % ./adb reboot bootloader
error: no devices/emulators found
From research this may be because USB Debugging is not enabled? which I can't do because my device is stuck in fastboot.. ahh pls help
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Hold power and volume down buttons to get to fastboot.

Tulsadiver said:
Hold power and volume down buttons to get to fastboot.
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I'm already in fastboot, thats the only thing I can get to regardless of what I do the phone. Either completed off, or in fastboot
apparently I dont need ./adb to flash the factory image so I'll try just using fastboot

MHuncho said:
I'm already in fastboot, thats the only thing I can get to regardless of what I do the phone. Either completed off, or in fastboot
apparently I dont need ./adb to flash the factory image so I'll try just using fastboot
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Unzip factory image zip and double click flash-all.bat. edit the flash-all.bat by taking off the -w if you don't want to delete data.

Tulsadiver said:
Unzip factory image zip and double click flash-all.bat. edit the flash-all.bat by taking off the -w if you don't want to delete data.
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Would this work if I'm on a Mac? as its a bat file

MHuncho said:
Would this work if I'm on a Mac? as its a bat file
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You should use the .sh file.

Tulsadiver said:
You should use the .sh file.
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wooohoooo finally restored to factory image. I didn't use the .sh file as it was opening in notepad but got it working through terminal! thanks a lot!
I still want to root the phone again so how what would I need to change from my original post in this thread? as said @jwoegerbauer "better (?) ROM than that what gets pre-installed by OEM/Carrier" . does that mean I downloaded and patched the wrong boot image? hence why my phone was stuck in the white google loading screen for 1hour+?

MHuncho said:
wooohoooo finally restored to factory image. I didn't use the .sh file as it was opening in notepad but got it working through terminal! thanks a lot!
I still want to root the phone again so how what would I need to change from my original post in this thread? as said @jwoegerbauer "better (?) ROM than that what gets pre-installed by OEM/Carrier" . does that mean I downloaded and patched the wrong boot image? hence why my phone was stuck in the white google loading screen for 1hour+?
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I believe that he was inferring that you are rooting in order to run a custom ROM and that maybe you should have stayed stock.
I don't know where you got your boot image but if you will unzip the image zip that was inside your firmware where you found the flash-all zips you should find the correct boot image to use. First you should enable developer settings and enable USB debugging so you can use USB. What you did sounded correct.

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Flashing system.img problem

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

Remove RFP Lock Huawei Y6

Hi all,
I have a small problem, my phone does not boot and hanging on Logo. Now i can boot to fastboot menu, but i cannot really use it since i have FRP lock . Is there any chance to baypass it to make possible to flash recovery boot.img ?
When i try any command getting this error :
Code:
target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes
sending 'revocery' (4096 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'revocery'...
FAILED (remote: Necessary to unlock FRP! Navigate to Settings > Develope
finished. total time: 0.154s
Since my phone not booting i cannot use this option Please help
Hi, back again
As i can see, try not to mess with the names :revocery...
When you want to flash the boot.img don't change that name.
Just flash it like : fastboot flash boot boot.img
Use my last boot.img which i sent you. That's a good one out of my backup.
For the FRP (perhaps edit your thread tiltle ) i have no answer in a minute. Did the "fastboot oem unlock" gave anything better ?
raystef66 said:
Hi, back again
As i can see, try not to mess with the names :revocery...
When you want to flash the boot.img don't change that name.
Just flash it like : fastboot flash boot boot.img
Use my last boot.img which i sent you. That's a good one out of my backup.
For the FRP (perhaps edit your thread tiltle ) i have no answer in a minute. Did the "fastboot oem unlock" gave anything better ?
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I have try also boot , try everything, not matter if youhave FRP lock fastboot oem unlock is only to unlock bootloader, which i have, that is not a problem.
See if this method works for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3261846
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
joyrida12 said:
See if this method works for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3261846
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
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You cannot use this method since i have only FastBoot feature, adb is not possible to use, since phone never boot. This method can be used only for phones what can boot correctly, so unfortunately useless for me. but thx for link
michalss said:
You cannot use this method since i have only FastBoot feature, adb is not possible to use, since phone never boot. This method can be used only for phones what can boot correctly, so unfortunately useless for me. but thx for link
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i have exactly the same problem. FRP is locked but my phone doenst boot. so how can i unlock the frp with the fastboot mode?
stiggu said:
i have exactly the same problem. FRP is locked but my phone doenst boot. so how can i unlock the frp with the fastboot mode?
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same problem on my mate s
good to know that adb is not working for others
i thaught it was just me
I've the same problem , any idea ??
michalss said:
Hi all,
I have a small problem, my phone does not boot and hanging on Logo. Now i can boot to fastboot menu, but i cannot really use it since i have FRP lock . Is there any chance to baypass it to make possible to flash recovery boot.img ?
When i try any command getting this error :
Code:
target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes
sending 'revocery' (4096 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'revocery'...
FAILED (remote: Necessary to unlock FRP! Navigate to Settings > Develope
finished. total time: 0.154s
Since my phone not booting i cannot use this option Please help
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activate "Developer options"
playing several times "compilation"
go to options and enable developer
"Enable OEM unlock"
Hey , the problem is the device won't boot , so how can we enable developer option?!!!!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There was a time when xda where the place to get the right answer and quick!
nowadays most topics are full of people with same problem and no dev to come to help, pity.
on topic: I have the same problem, ( mine is a Y6 pro) and before bricking it I had debugging and oem unlock enabled but now can't flash boot etc using fastboot ( error , denied ..) and can't use spflashtools either : preloader vcom appears for 1 second and then disappears and phone turns on.
tried many drivers, 3 Os'es (7, 8.1 ,10) still no luck.
porcha18 said:
activate "Developer options"
playing several times "compilation"
go to options and enable developer
"Enable OEM unlock"
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Danke!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nach ewigem Suchen diese einfache Lösung. Vielen Dank!! Tag gerettet
the same issue
Good day, i have the same issue on my p9 EVA-L19.
FRP lock. And i can't do anything...
My warranty says that they cannot recover data from the phone, but the information is very important. I need to unlock FRP and somehow boot into TWRP or something to recover my data.
Please help someone if you had a same issue and results.
For the Huawei Y6 you can return to Stock.
Try to fastboot boot recovery-twrp.img and put your stock firmware (dload) folder to the rootdir at your sdcard.
Reboot your device to bootloader and hold down vol+ + vol- and use the command: fastboot boot stockrecovery.img (keep the keys pressed until the stock recovery comes up and starts installing your stock rom.
You will see an emui logo and the recovery will install the complete stock rom if you did everything right.
Retry to boot the stock recovery with this way if it is not working at the first try.
EDIT: after i wiped /system and and all the other stuff i was able to flash stock recovery via fastboot.
Runner85sx said:
For the Huawei Y6 you can return to Stock.
Try to fastboot boot recovery-twrp.img and put your stock firmware (dload) folder to the rootdir at your sdcard.
Reboot your device to bootloader and hold down vol+ + vol- and use the command: fastboot boot stockrecovery.img (keep the keys pressed until the stock recovery comes up and starts installing your stock rom.
You will see an emui logo and the recovery will install the complete stock rom if you did everything right.
Retry to boot the stock recovery with this way if it is not working at the first try.
EDIT: after i wiped /system and and all the other stuff i was able to flash stock recovery via fastboot.
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Is there a way to do this on a mac?
Ive got adb enabled on terminal and I have a recovery.img file in my downloads though Im not sure if its the right one.
I typed in fastboot devices and then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img but it said cannot load recovery.img
anditan said:
Is there a way to do this on a mac?
Ive got adb enabled on terminal and I have a recovery.img file in my downloads though Im not sure if its the right one.
I typed in fastboot devices and then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img but it said cannot load recovery.img
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your recovery location in adb is wrong probably. try changing it to the correct path. atleast thats what worked for me
man u can'T do anything because FRP is ACTIVATED !!!
No solution till now
Use the Huawei Swype bypass Method
michalss said:
Hi all,
I have a small problem, my phone does not boot and hanging on Logo. Now i can boot to fastboot menu, but i cannot really use it since i have FRP lock . Is there any chance to baypass it to make possible to flash recovery boot.img ?
When i try any command getting this error :
Code:
target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes
sending 'revocery' (4096 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'revocery'...
FAILED (remote: Necessary to unlock FRP! Navigate to Settings > Develope
finished. total time: 0.154s
Since my phone not booting i cannot use this option Please help
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Try to do:
fastboot boot recovery.img
This will boot up the device with the given image. With that you can put a custom rom to your sd-card and flash it.
I will upload a Nandroid (stock system, recovery, boot) from my Y6 SCL-L01 soon.
With that you can restore boot and recovery with twrp. For this way you don't need to have a frp unlock.
Procedure:
fastboot boot recovery-twrp.img
Put your stock firmware (dload folder) to the sdcard.
Put my Nandroid to your sdcard.
Restore my Nandroid, reboot your device with Vol+ and Vol- pressed.
This way only works for SCL-L01 up to SCL-L04.
I need to create an extra recovery.img that includes a dt image that fits for all SCL variants.
Work in progress...
I have just removed frp today, but its not free method, unfortunately

[Solved]Touch screen not workiMoto G Powerng after rooting Moto G Power

Apologies if I should have searched harder. My understanding is that touch screen issues like this happen when the firmware you flash isn't quite compatible with your device. I've triple checked the stuff I downloaded, and I'm not seeing how it could be that. Maybe I did something else stupid? This is my first time rooting anything.
Product/Variant (as seen in bootloader): sofia XT2041-4 64GB PVT
The boot.img I downloaded: lolinet's firmware/moto/sofia/official/RETUS/ (the august 31 one. Currently trying with the earlier one, but the download is taking forever)
Magisk version: 7.5.1
I only have a linux laptop, so the rescue and smart assistant appears to be off the table
Here's what I did:
Downloaded the boot.img from lolinet
patched it using magisk
flashed it using fastboot
How I flashed it:
Code:
~/Downloads$ fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img
target reported max download size of 805261312 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (12136 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.376s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [ 0.069s]
finished. total time: 0.446s
I booted up after this, and I couldn't use the touchscreen. Then I noticed the boot_b thing, so I did the following to do both partitions (although I have no idea if this is what you're supposed to do):
Code:
~/Downloads$ fastboot flash boot_a magisk_patched.img
target reported max download size of 805261312 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (12136 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.350s]
writing 'boot_a'...
OKAY [ 0.076s]
finished. total time: 0.425s
~/Downloads$ fastboot flash boot_b magisk_patched.img
target reported max download size of 805261312 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (12136 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.370s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [ 0.214s]
finished. total time: 0.584s
No dice..
Next, I tried to just use the unpatched boot.img to restore things.
Code:
~/Downloads$ fastboot flash boot_a XT2041-4_SOFIA_RETUS_10_QPMS30.80-109-2_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml/boot.img
target reported max download size of 805259264 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (65536 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.908s]
writing 'boot_a'...
OKAY [ 0.696s]
finished. total time: 2.604s
~/Downloads$ fastboot flash boot_b XT2041-4_SOFIA_RETUS_10_QPMS30.80-109-2_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml/boot.img
target reported max download size of 805259264 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (65536 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.949s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [ 0.525s]
finished. total time: 2.474s
once again, no dice..this time I didn't even get to the lockscreen. Just stuck on the moto logo
Any idea what I've done wrong? Would really appreciate some help with this.
Update: I tried with the other boot.img from lolinet, doesn't get to lockscreen. Then I tried a factory reset with twrp, and flashing the earlier boot.img and I got to the setup screen, but still no touch.
Update 2: I managed to get omnirom flashed, and that's working so far! I am still curious to know why the touch screen issues popped up..will be useful next time I want to flash stock
check the forums for the g7 play, I've found topics about that kind of issue.
There's a few touchscreen vendors used for the same device, and they use different drivers basically.
Got a link by any chance? The ones I've seen are twrp related or because of the wrong firmware.
Any idea how to figure out which set is right for my phone?
Here is solution: get full ROM through LMSA and flash components through bootloader and fastbootd
* boot, recovery, dtbo, vbmeta, super flashed in fastbootd (adb reboot fastboot)
* All other actions done in bootloader (adb reboot bootloader)
mingkee said:
Here is solution: get full ROM through LMSA and flash components through bootloader and fastbootd
* boot, recovery, dtbo, vbmeta, super flashed in fastbootd (adb reboot fastboot)
* All other actions done in bootloader (adb reboot bootloader)
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Can this be done without fastbootd? i stupidly flashed twrp (which doesnt work). so I dont have stock recovery to get into fastbootd. Can this be done using regular fastboot?
Or any way to flash a stock rom using just fastboot? the rom i have does not have 'flash all' so im not sure what to do from here.
If you get the recovery image from lolinet, you can boot that (or flash recovery) and then enter fastbootd
cnoevl21 said:
Can this be done without fastbootd? i stupidly flashed twrp (which doesnt work). so I dont have stock recovery to get into fastbootd. Can this be done using regular fastboot?
Or any way to flash a stock rom using just fastboot? the rom i have does not have 'flash all' so im not sure what to do from here.
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Solution:
Flash everything ***except*** those flashed in fastbootd
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot reboot fastboot
The last resort: use LMSA rescue, but your phone will be wiped
mingkee said:
Solution:
Flash everything ***except*** those flashed in fastbootd
fastboot reboot bootloader
fastboot reboot fastboot
The last resort: use LMSA rescue, but your phone will be wiped
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when you say flash everything. is it just flashing the .img files? or literally everything?
Sorry, ive never had to manually flash before.
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nero075 said:
If you get the recovery image from lolinet, you can boot that (or flash recovery) and then enter fastbootd
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ill have to try this. thanks. Ive tried to just boot the boot.img and it hasnt done anything. so ill do this to try and get into fastbootd.
nero075 said:
If you get the recovery image from lolinet, you can boot that (or flash recovery) and then enter fastbootd
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Ok. ive gotten into fastbootd but have no idea what to do now. I assumed it was like flashing with regular fastboot. but when i type commands like fastboot flash boot boot.img i get a failed result no such file or directory
Hello friend,
Did you ever resolve your issue with the touchscreen?
I've just down the same thing using Magisk. Everything was fine until I flashed the magisk.patched.img. The device booted up but the touchscreen doesn’t work no matter what.
Please let me know of your solution.
Thank you kindly.
PamelaGirl said:
Hello friend,
Did you ever resolve your issue with the touchscreen?
I've just down the same thing using Magisk. Everything was fine until I flashed the magisk.patched.img. The device booted up but the touchscreen doesn’t work no matter what.
Please let me know of your solution.
Thank you kindly.
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hey did you fix it or something? i got the same problem, and idk what to do, can you help?
I never solved it.
In the end I was able to get a Moto G8 Plus that I was able to unlock the bootloader and root using Magisk.
PamelaGirl said:
I never solved it.
In the end I was able to get a Moto G8 Plus that I was able to unlock the bootloader and root using Magisk.
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sadly the phone i tried to root is the only phone that i have
I understand the frustration my friend. I tried and tried but it just doesn’t work with Moto G Power.
PamelaGirl said:
I understand the frustration my friend. I tried and tried but it just doesn’t work with Moto G Power.
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i think i got how to do it, u need to use LENOVO MOTOROLA SMART ASSISTANT and it works i think, i am going to try it, there is a tutorial in this forum, sadly only works if u have windows, but i manage to go to a place that has windows pc https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/moto-g-power-flashing-guide.4159301/
klninja said:
i think i got how to do it, u need to use LENOVO MOTOROLA SMART ASSISTANT and it works i think, i am going to try it, there is a tutorial in this forum, sadly only works if u have windows, but i manage to go to a place that has windows pc https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/moto-g-power-flashing-guide.4159301/
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That’s a good find. Please report back with your success so I stand corrected.
PamelaGirl said:
That’s a good find. Please report back with your success so I stand corrected.
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a person already did this
That’s good news!
Now its your turn.
PamelaGirl said:
That’s good news!
Now its your turn.
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i would like to ask a question, when ur g8 wasnt working did the phone charge or not? cus mine dont show how much battery i have
Sorry I honestly cannot recall. I was so frustrated at that time, blinded to get the root to work that I did not notice.

Question Bootloop while trying to revert from the December update

And yeah, despite the fact that I'm flashing phones since a long time,
I've tried to flash my Pxl6 to the November factory image with adb and fastboot coming from a 2 years old tools pack (adb, fastboot)
- unlock bootloader
- flash recovery image was done
- fastboot reboot ok
- flash radio was done
- fastboot reboot failed
- fastboot reboot restarted
- flash system image fails every time I try trough command line or online with Android Flash Tool (whetever wiping option I choose with the online tool)
when the process reboots to Fasbootd
Code:
Writing 'vendor_boot_a' OKAY [ 0.079s]
extracting super_empty.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.001s
Rebooting into fastboot OKAY [ 0.000s]
< waiting for any device >
fastboot: error: Failed to boot into userspace fastboot; one or more components might be unbootable.
or
Code:
Writing 'vendor_boot_a' OKAY [ 0.112s]
extracting super_empty.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.000s
Rebooting into fastboot OKAY [ 0.000s]
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'super' (4 KB) FAILED (Status read failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
the update process fails despite that fasbootd initiates and appears.
When trying to boot fastboot manually with the device, it's difficult to make it appear but possible.
Bootlooping on starting the OS otherwise.
I've updated to the latest commandline tools from Google but the issue remains.
The driver works ok, the usb cable allows flashing the recovery and the radio, so should not be the issue.
SDK is not installed on the PC.
I'm blocked, can someone help me to even reinstall the december or whatever version ?
I fear it's bricked this time
cAnArdtichAud said:
And yeah, despite the fact that I'm flashing phones since a long time,
I've tried to flash my Pxl6 to the November factory image with adb and fastboot coming from a 2 years old tools pack (adb, fastboot)
- unlock bootloader
- flash recovery image was done
- fastboot reboot ok
- flash radio was done
- fastboot reboot failed
- fastboot reboot restarted
- flash system image fails every time I try trough command line or online with Android Flash Tool (whetever wiping option I choose with the online tool)
when the process reboots to Fasbootd
Code:
Writing 'vendor_boot_a' OKAY [ 0.079s]
extracting super_empty.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.001s
Rebooting into fastboot OKAY [ 0.000s]
< waiting for any device >
fastboot: error: Failed to boot into userspace fastboot; one or more components might be unbootable.
or
Code:
Writing 'vendor_boot_a' OKAY [ 0.112s]
extracting super_empty.img (0 MB) to disk... took 0.000s
Rebooting into fastboot OKAY [ 0.000s]
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'super' (4 KB) FAILED (Status read failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
the update process fails despite that fasbootd initiates and appears.
When trying to boot fastboot manually with the device, it's difficult to make it appear but possible.
Bootlooping on starting the OS otherwise.
I've updated to the latest commandline tools from Google but the issue remains.
The driver works ok, the usb cable allows flashing the recovery and the radio, so should not be the issue.
SDK is not installed on the PC.
I'm blocked, can someone help me to even reinstall the december or whatever version ?
I fear it's bricked this time
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You definitely have to wipe to go back. Did you remove the -w from the install bat file?
You should update your platform tools and you'll need to format data to go back to the November factory image.
Tulsadiver said:
You definitely have to wipe to go back. Did you remove the -w from the install bat file?
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Uh no, it was the 1st time I was trying to use directly the flash-all script, so no I used the fastboot -w parameter.
Later I tried the flash online tool from Google and I ticked wipe.
Yeah sorry that's not the exact code I used, so yes..w was used.
What are my options? Fastbootd seem broken because flashing fails when rebooting to fastbootd.
Edmontonchef said:
You should update your platform tools and you'll need to format data to go back to the November factory image.
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Yeah thanks I updated them after I had the issue and retried without working.
cAnArdtichAud said:
Uh no, it was the 1st time I was trying to use directly the flash-all script, so no I used the fastboot -w parameter.
Later I tried the flash online tool from Google and I ticked wipe.
Yeah sorry that's not the exact code I used, so yes..w was used.
What are my options? Fastbootd seem broken because flashing fails when rebooting to fastbootd.
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Perhaps you didn't get a good download of your firmware. Try downloading it again.
Edit: usual things, try a different usb port on your pc, try a different pc, use a different cable. Check version. fastboot -- version
Tulsadiver said:
Perhaps you didn't get a good download of your firmware. Try downloading it again.
Edit: usual things, try a different usb port on your pc, try a different pc, use a different cable. Check version. fastboot -- version
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This. Make sure you're using the latest Platform Tools - current version is 31.0.3, Aug '21.
I am going to take a wild guess that the reason for the rollback. Is because of the data issues.
If so,
Just flash the November radio image on top of the December update.
"Fastboot flash radio radio.img"
The above is what I did. And it has worked well for me.
vandyman said:
I am going to take a wild guess that the reason for the rollback. Is because of the data issues.
If so,
Just flash the November radio image on top of the December update.
"Fastboot flash radio radio.img"
The above is what I did. And it has worked well for me.
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Yeah but I've already flashed back recovery and radio the OS part is failing
V0latyle said:
This. Make sure you're using the latest Platform Tools - current version is 31.0.3, Aug '21.
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thx. I tried several images but will retry on another port, another cable same PC (only one...)
I have 31.03 command tools
funkin' love you guys: ensuring I was on a powered usb port, changing cable made me flash the data/os files
funkin' pixel 6 reverted back to the entire previous rom
funkin Xmas to you guys , #heartWithFingers!
vandyman said:
I am going to take a wild guess that the reason for the rollback. Is because of the data issues.
If so,
Just flash the November radio image on top of the December update.
"Fastboot flash radio radio.img"
The above is what I did. And it has worked well for me.
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I have the Dec update on my P6 unlocked on Verizon but would like to revert back to the Nov one without doing a complete wipe of my phone. Is this what you did?
sniff1 said:
I have the Dec update on my P6 unlocked on Verizon but would like to revert back to the Nov one without doing a complete wipe of my phone. Is this what you did?
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You can't go back without a full wipe.
Tulsadiver said:
You can't go back without a full wipe.
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Because when you unlock the bootloader prior to flashing, the phone is wiped.
cAnArdtichAud said:
Because when you unlock the bootloader prior to flashing, the phone is wiped.
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Even if your bootloader is already unlocked.
sniff1 said:
I have the Dec update on my P6 unlocked on Verizon but would like to revert back to the Nov one without doing a complete wipe of my phone. Is this what you did?
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No. I have the Dec. 15th update and the mid November radio.
If you would like to install the older radios. You will need to download the older factory image and extract the radio image.
Than flash the older radio image with fastboot on your PC.
You need to have the USB devloper checked to use adb/fastboot on your PC.
vandyman said:
No. I have the Dec. 15th update and the mid November radio.
If you would like to install the older radios. You will need to download the older factory image and extract the radio image.
Than flash the older radio image with fastboot on your PC.
You need to have the USB devloper checked to use adb/fastboot on your PC.
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That is just the radio.....not the system.
vandyman said:
No. I have the Dec. 15th update and the mid November radio.
If you would like to install the older radios. You will need to download the older factory image and extract the radio image.
Than flash the older radio image with fastboot on your PC.
You need to have the USB devloper checked to use adb/fastboot on your PC.
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This is exactly what I want to do. I know how to extract the radio image, but not too certain on the fastboot commands to do it
Tulsadiver said:
That is just the radio.....not the system.
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Yes ,just the radio image from November on top of the complete December image.
What I did;
Flash-all (December factory image with the -w removed for no data wipe)
Next, I extracted the November radio image from the November factory image.
Than , fastboot flash radio radio.img.
I know it sounds confusing. Lol..
sniff1 said:
This is exactly what I want to do. I know how to extract the radio image, but not too certain on the fastboot commands to do it
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Fastboot flash radio yourradio.img
Yes the radio command needs to be there after the flash command and before your radio.img.
Very similar to to flashing a boot image,
Example, fastboot flash boot boot.img

Z5C refuses to load TWRP

Hey all,
I have a new z5c running 32.4.A.1.54 stock.
I flash TWRP (I have tried a few different versions) using Fastboot on Ubuntu20.04, it all runs fine no errors, and appears to flash as it should.
But the phone will not load TWRP, from the phone itself, I have tried a million different ways.
The only way it loads is by
fastboot boot twrp.img
But when I do this .. android will not then start .. hangs on Sony logo
I have to reflash the stock rom to get it to work again
If I run
fastboot reboot recovery
I get:
fastboot: usage: unknown reboot target recovery
even tho:
fastboot devices
correctly identifies the device
I would like to root and use custom rom, but have not yet been able to get past this TWRP hurdle
Has anyone experience of this, or any ideas?
You've flashed TWRP in a wrong way! Please search for help in my several ROM threads.
Well, thanks for your answer, really, I appreciate it
But I have flashed it again and again and followed your threads and other threads
I'm not a newbie, i have flashed TWRP and roms to a few phones, inc Z1C and a couple of Z3Cs
I have adb, and fastboot installed
Bootloader unlocked
USB debugging
Recommended stock
I have downloaded multiple .img files, including your 3.6.1 version
I run fastboot
and
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
The phone will not reboot into TWRP, using buttons nor fastboot, only into android, unless I then run
fastboot boot twrp.img
Then TWRP runs, but when I then reboot, I just hit the SONY logo if I have not flashed a ROM or a bootloop if I have.
And from there will not return to TWRP at all.
What am I missing?
I'm very confused as everything you're talking about is working here and for other users flawlessly.
Really, I don't know what's wrong at your side.
Berni-0815 said:
I'm very confused as everything you're talking about is working here and for other users flawlessly.
Really, I don't know what's wrong at your side.
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Yes, that makes 2 of us!
Ugh.
Did you try what I told you in this post?
With that, LineageOS 19.1 MUST boot up!
If not, I don't know further...
Berni-0815 said:
Did you try what I told you in this post?
With that, LineageOS 19.1 MUST boot up!
If not, I don't know further...
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I did try that as recommended, thanks
I am flashtool-ing back to the stock again, after being again stuck on boot with TWRP inaccessible
I will give it one last go
Thanks, man
How do I buy you a coffee?
That's all really weird; since it works here since years.
From a fresh fully-functional stock install
Following this simple process exactly
Devices with only TWRP.IMG​
If your device only has the IMG file, then execute the below command: fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Now execute the below command to boot your device to the TWRP recovery. fastboot boot twrp.img
Once it boots to TWRP, you could then boot it to the OS, via the Reboot > System option in TWRP.
From here;
https://www.getdroidtips.com/flash-twrp-recovery-android/
After 3. it gets to SONY logo and hangs
Same every time
Obviously not a problem with your or any other custom ROM
The only way out from here is to Flashtool the stock again
Geez
I'm giving up on TWRP and custom ROM
I'll go for the rooted, debloated, degoogled stock as best as I can get it
Thanks v much for the support!
I've NEVER used the command
Code:
fastboot boot twrp.img
I've always flashed TWRP like this:
Shutting down device
Waiting some time
Pressing volume up and plugging usb cable
Enter this command in a terminal window:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP_3.6.1_9-0-recovery_suzuran_2022-03-09.img
After unplugging the usb cable and waiting some time I rebooted into TWRP by pressing power and volume down simultaneously.
That worked since years flawlessly!
Berni-0815 said:
I've NEVER used the command
Code:
fastboot boot twrp.img
I've always flashed TWRP like this:
Shutting down device
Waiting some time
Pressing volume up and plugging usb cable
Enter this command in a terminal window:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP_3.6.1_9-0-recovery_suzuran_2022-03-09.img
After unplugging the usb cable and waiting some time I rebooted into TWRP by pressing power and volume down simultaneously.
That worked since years flawlessly!
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That command is the only way that twrp has loaded for me
Right .. deep breath ... one last go at this using yr suggestion,
thanks
Nope
Same again
All goes as it should
Power and volume down simultaneously
Boots into Android
adb reboot recovery
Also boots into android
If I was now to run
fastboot boot twrp.img
It would run TWRP the one time, but just hang on SONY logo when rebooted
Ho hum.
kaivalyam said:
Power and volume down simultaneously
Boots into Android
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That SHOULD NOT happen if you've flashed TWRP in the only right way.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe that...
Berni-0815 said:
That SHOULD NOT happen if you've flashed TWRP in the only right way.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe that...
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Well, its not a particularly complicated process
I have described exactly what I have done
I have done it multiple times
And that is what happens
As I said: I've never seen that and that's not reported very often by other users.
And if, then it has been an error in flashing.
Highly unlikely that you're devices so called FOTA partition is damaged so that the command
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <name of the recovery image>
fails.
Code:
fastboot flash boot <name of the boot image>
flashes the boot partition and that's not the same as the FOTA partition.
I have to believe you but somehow I can't.
I understand
fastboot flash recovery <name of the recovery image>
Doesn't fail exactly ... it runs fine .. no errors
Code:
~/Dev/Z5/twrp/3.6.1$ fastboot flash recovery TWRP_3.6.1_9-0-recovery_suzuran_2022-03-09.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (22668 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.570s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.395s]
finished. total time: 0.965s
But then the phone will only boot android
~~~
Unless
I run;
fastboot flash boot <name of the boot image>
Again, runs fine .. no errors
Code:
~/Dev/Z5/twrp/3.6.1$ fastboot boot twrp.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.552s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.561s]
finished. total time: 1.113s
This boots TWRP but then after that the phone hangs at boot and will neither start Android or TWRP
It is indeed very strange.
Look at your own code:
Code:
~/Dev/Z5/twrp/3.6.1$ fastboot boot twrp.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
From where is boot.img downloaded? And where is it stored internally?
Have you flashed system.img too?
There goes something terribly wrong at your side.
Thanks for your patience
Yes I'm sure you're right, probably user error, although I am having trouble seeing what that is exactly ...
So, using Ubuntu, I am in the directory that contains the twrp.img file (most times I have renamed it this)
Is that correct so far?
From there I run
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
All good, as above, but TWRP does not load, ever, using buttons or adb, unless I then run
fastboot boot twrp.img
TWRP then runs
But the phone will not boot into anything from there
Yes, I thought that was a little odd ...
"downloading" : I assumed it meant it was transferring the file across, or accessing it, from my pc to the device
"'boot.img" : I assumed fastboot had changed the filename to what it needed it to be ...
Is the problem around this?
You can name the recovery image file as you like it to be named.
Have you disconnected the USB cable after flashing?
Have you waited some time before trying to boot anything?
If you can boot TWRP, you can fetch a LOG file at the "Advanced" menu. Please send me this LOG file via PM (it may contain personell data!).

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