Hello. Recently I got my hands on this device. Never had experience with flashing Roms/kernels but did my research and got familiar enough to explain the problem.
The phone is very slow and unresponsive. I have checked and it is rooted. So I decided to flash new ROM to it, CM11 ROM + OnePlus One Conversion Kit for Nexus S. However, there is a warning:
"YOU HAVE TO USE CWM Recovery 6.0.4.3 or HIGHER otherwise you will fail during install and other problems will occur!!! You can easily update to latest CWM Recovery by using ROM Manager from Play Store."
So I downloaded ROM Manager to update it and that's where the problems started that I do not know how to deal with, and I don't want to risk bricking. ROM Manager installs fine, but when entering gives following message from first image.
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
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So when I tried to ignore that and update it anyway, got a message with error, which resulted in red triangle when booting into recovery. After a while system loads up as usual, phone is working but painfully slow. So if anyone is kind enough to help me restore it to working condition? What to do?
I found it always easier to use the fastboot method. This method it quite primitive and thus might have less problems. Mainly one makes sure that fastboot is installed on the PC (this is ridiculously simple for Linux, but I don't know about and am not interested in Windows), connects the device via USB, boots it to bootloader and issues some commands on the PC to push all parts of the so called "ROM" directly to the device.
And: I used the latest version of TWRP which is similar to CWM, but prettier.
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Hello,
I need help to recover my phone - Star s9500 after booting into factory mode and going to "Clear eMMC" (I know this was stupid of me but that is another story...). From MTKDroidTools, the phone hardware reads mt6582 and was running 4.2.2.
When the phone powers on, I only get the Android bootup animation and everything stops there.
I managed to install CWM using MTKDroidTools and even tried to flash the ROM using CWM after placing the zipped image on an sdcard. CWM simply aborts after attempting to read the zipped package.
For some reason MTKDroidTools does not show the IMEIs, but I can see the records when I power the phone into factory mode.
I tried to flash the rom using SP Flash tools as indicated in this thread:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2458369, but I simply keep waiting with the indicator "EMMC searching" from the tool or the phone itself even after 10 minutes (see attached files).
I am attempting to flash with this rom - http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s9500-mt6582-fwvga/ .
I did read somewhere that I have to setup partition information stored in the eMMC for the flashing to be successful. The post on this is here: http://checkrom.com/threads/formatting-emmc-no-no-no.647/ , but I believe I can get this phone up and running again.
Various sources say that I only need to flash the rom. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Why am I unable to flash with SP Flashtools? What alternative flash tools can I try? For pictures please see attached.
I am also now getting a BROM Error from SP Flashtools saying Failed to open COM 8.(see attached)
Thank you in advance!
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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I've spent the last two days trying to figure out how to flash Omni 4.4 on my Wave S8500 device, but unfortunately, the system becomes unbootable once I use firmware 09.09.2014 and newer. Assuming that I'm not the only person experiencing this (search for "i tried installing this rom 8 times but every time successfully installed but when choose reboot system reboots but stucks on «samsung wave 2 s8530» showing boot screen" in the comments below this YouTube video), there seems to be a deal-breaking bug in later ROMs that makes the phone stuck at the "Samsung Wave GT-S8500" boot screen with no TWRP recovery accessible. Both Turko CFW 10.2 and Omni - 15.08.2014 are, however, working fine for me.
Here's what settings I use when flashing Omni with Multiloader:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
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"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"
}
Then I follow the installation procedure step-by-step with no issues.
And this is what I get after system reboot…forever.
Any help is appreciated!
BUMP. Any tip what else should I try?
Ok, I made a video (about 20 mins long) about me trying to flash Omni 4.4 on my phone. I hope it'll be helpful (and hopefully enough to tell what the hell's going wrong).
youtube.com/watch?v=Hztt6749XJk (Installing Omni 4.4 on my Wave S8500)
Been scratching my head on this one for a day or two, as while Kinguser/Kingroot works on my phone, it just doesn't cut it in my case and I wouldn't want to put my trust on something that's of dubious repute. Not that I am laying smack on the Kinguser team though, it's that I'm more confident with something the Android community is vouching on for years.
Things needed:
MTK Droid Tools
A working 5038A stock ROM. This image taken off a Smart-locked phone may work.
The latest SuperSU flashable image
Your phone
ADB drivers, and some patience
So what I did was this: Fire up MTK Droid Tools, and click on the Root/Backup/Recovery tab. Click on the Recovery and Boot button, and it'll ask you for a boot image from the stock ROM. Click Yes on the message box that shows up, and if done correctly you'll end up with a fresh recovery image on the recovery folder. Open SP Flash Tool, load up the scatter file from the ROM you just downloaded (or backed up), then load the recovery image you made earlier. You can either flash the whole ROM along with the CWM you did, or just the latter:
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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Once all that's done, boot to recovery by holding Volume+ and Power. Select the SuperSU package from your SD card, then let it do its thing. If done correctly, SuperSU should work properly on your device. Make sure to untick Mount namespace separation on the SuperSU settings menu for Titanium Backup to work correctly (c.f. djranoia).
You can try this image I made just in case; I can't guarantee that it works on any Alcatel OT-5038A out there though.
Code:
http://d-h.st/Ja0x
I don't take credit for all of this, but I'd just like to share this tip in case you feel like doing things the hard way.
So I tried to install TWRP to a Blu Advance 5.0 HD (seems there's not much info on these phones too) and after some bootloops with TWRP (for a failure in the recovery script), I was able to get back into fastboot and flash the stock image from bluroms info website, however now it simply goes to the BLU screen and restarts all the time. I've tried every possible combination with buttons but can't get anywhere, any ideas?
Edit: Upon further searches and realizing I screwed up and flashed boot.img instead of the recovery image from bluroms website, I have also found that I have no way of recovering the device with adb/fastboot, but that I could have a possibility if I use SPFlash tool (Yes, it detects it when plugging it in and whilst it is doing the bootloop) to try and flash the correct file to the device (which currently fails with an error message that doesn't have many details [I do the following things to get the error:
1 - Load the scatter file.
2 - Select recovery to be flashed.
3 - Click download
4 - Plug phone into computer
5 - Wait for download
6 - Error message pops up:
{
"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"
}
]).
If there are any ideas on recovering a device from this state without having to buy anything, it'd be appreciated. (And hopefully a good list of instructions on how to use SPFlash tool to recover the device).
To tell you the short story, I was dumb.
I rooted my oneplus 8 using magisk, but the WiFi didn't work. I had no idea how to unroot a oneplus 8 so I just used msmdownloadtool for my device and got an error "param preload failed". My device is now broken.
What I have tried.
Flashing all files and partitions. (I get an error saying something along the lines of system partition not found, i will attach image below).
msmtool in usb 3 and 2 on Ryzen and intel (i get param preload failed error every time).
What I want to try.
Unlock critical flashing and try flashing all files and partitions again (scared of har bricking device).
What happens when I boot.
First thing I've noticed is boot time has been greatly increased ever since rooting. Without a system rom I boot to a black screen but the strange thing is, that is i hold down power down i still get a stock android power off and reboot popup.
My device:IN2013 European oneplus 8 (was on oos 11)
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Please, any help is greatly appreciated. I have only had this phone for a month and a half. Also if you do answer make it very clear as I am fairly new to all this.
I would download the fastboot ROM from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fastbootroms/files/OnePlus 8/11.0.0-EUROPE-OnePlus8Oxygen_15.E.30_OTA_0300_all_2009301818_e9aef8a82-FASTBOOT.zip/download
And just start again. Don't forget to wipe internal before you flash.
Also, make sure you are in fastbootd and not fastboot.