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[q] stuck in recovery mode

First time poster, long time lurker. I downloaded TWRP and installed the recovery image but soft bricked my phone. Silly me remembered I had a backup made in CWM but not in TWRP. This is when you say to run boot.img but unfortunately I can not get the drivers to install properly on my Windows 7 x64 machine, due to not having them on here to begin with. So I have no One X drivers on the computer, I have MIUI and CM10 downloaded but can not get them to load due to not flashing properly, and TWRP with no backup. I have followed all the forums to delete drivers, re-install HTC Sync, manually point to the drivers but no dice. So.....what should I do :fingers-crossed:

Mode please close, I have resolved the issue.

Please post your solution for the benefit of others. That is how this forum works, its basically a database of issues and solutions that everyone can use.
I also think you are/were confused. The phone doesn't need to be working to get the drivers on your PC. You can download them from a variety of places. If you have HTC Sync properly installed, the drivers needed to connect your phone (USB mount, adb, fastboot, etc.) are installed. But if you have connection problems, updating these drivers or re-installing them will sometimes resolve the issue.
It seems that all you needed to do is get the drivers properly installed, then mount USB and put the ROM on the phone's SD, and flash boot.img using fastboot.

You're absolutely right. The solution was that I kept looking for fastboot to identify the device, and in my head that mean I couldn't push or flash to it. So I ended up just flashing TWRP recovery again, then it booted to CM10. Now im dealing with a whole new issue, but I'm going to work through it before I post again. Thanks.

Trouble shooting Sony Xperia Z3 (D6616)

Guys, I am in desperate need of help to resolve my issue.
I have a T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z3 (D6616). Last night I went to flash Existenz Y in XZ Dual Recovery and when I rebooted the phone does not respond to anything. The ONLY thing I can do is hold down volume down and power and it boots up in the Android recovery screen, but any executed command here the phone just turns itself off. If I put the phone to charge the red LED comes on and the phone just vibrates on and off continuously.
The problem I am having is that for whatever reason the FTF stock file is not showing up in Flash tool. I can't drag it into the flash tool window, and using Xperim in flash tool when I find my model and click on the file nothing happens.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything. I have the stock FTF on hand, as well as the XZ dual recover file, and the existenxz Y .zip file. I just can't for the life of me get flash tool to populate the FTF file in the window when I go to flash?
I have tried using PC companion to fix/repair the phone as well. I connect the phone and it recognizes it but when I click to fix it and the window pops up asking to connect your phone and hit ok, i hit ok and the window just flashes and stays in place. I do nopt know what to do anymore and been without my phone for a day now already. Just need to figure out why the FTF is not showing in flash tool.
Thanks
Edit: Phone was rooted with kingroot, then Supersu was installed to replace kingroot. Root was verified. I am aware that this doesn't unlock the boo tloader on this phone.

I was able to use Flash tool on my Macbook Pro. For whatever reason in windows it's not recognizing the drivers or the stock ROM. So I rooted the Phone again with kingroot, after installing stock ROM, then installed Supersu, then installed XZ Dualrecovery. Wiped the phone, and for the second time installed existenz Y on the phones internal memory. Selected it in recovery, installed it. When In went to reboot the phone it did the same thing again. Not sure why Exiztenz Y is not working for me........
Edit: I restored my Windows laptop to factory settings and re-installed flashtool and now it's working.

Help - after flashing with Flashtool phone is showing errors and restarting

Hello,
I have Xperia Z3 D6603 with android 6.0.1 and wanted to root it, I've looked up the topic and found good guide on XDA.
I've just started to follow instructions in this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/general/guide-rootrecovery-how-to-root-install-t3017056.
So I used Flashtool and used FW linked in the guide. After succesful flash my phone got in some loop of errors and it's restarting continuously - the video below shows the process.
https://youtu.be/_Pi58MvK4_o
I tried to flash it with other FW (second linked in the guide), it looked like success but phone behaves the same - same errors.
Any suggestions what should I do to fix it? Or which tool use to try? Is there sth I'm doing wrong with the Flashtool, some special option I should use?
Thanks for every help!

Before anything else goes wrong you should try Sony PC Companion.
Get the phone back to a stable state before you root. You might end up sending it under warranty if you still have it.
Use flashtool to flash the ftf for your country / wherever the phone is from. Then even if you still get the same behavior you can use PC Companion which will auto detect and download the correct firmware for the device and flash it. The only reason to flash the ftf for your country is so that PC Companion downloads this also. That way if you do take it for repairs you won't get asked why it's changed (they can check)
That guide works though so you probably did nothing wrong. Either a software error occurred along the way (try reinstalling all the flashtool drivers with signature verification turned off in windows) or you uncovered a hardware fault that Sony needs to fix.
Welcome to Xperia Rooting

Are you sure you selected the options to wipe data and cache in flash tool?
If you don't do this, you can often end in bootloop.

Thank you guys, I'm fresh in this topic so I got pretty confused when sth went wrong.
I've already used Xperia companion, it worked properly, now I'll make second attempt with downgrading and rooting.
Many thanks once again!

[Completed] How to install ROM on Vonino Pluri Q8 tablet ?

Hi there,
Today i've received this tablet. All good and dandy until it notified me it has an update so obviously i've gone and do the update. Surprise.. after reboot, update installment and so on the device won't boot anymore at all, and recover mode doesn't work to enter.
I've found official ROM package on their site:
ftp.vonino.org/public/Firmware/Vonino_Tablets/Pluri%20Q8/Orange%20Version/Android%206.0/
Tablet can connect to the PC, but it isn't recognized because "some drivers" missing. How can i install this ROM on the tablet from my pc ?
Thank you.

Hi,
I can't find anything about it on xda or anywhere. You'll need to contact the manufacturer for drivers and instructions on flashing their firmware.
Good luck!

After i tried like almost the entire day i got the tablet in rescue mode or fastboot mode..
I've wiped/data or factory reset and the same happens... it stays in a loop when boot at logo.
I've let it to do so until the battery went dead from 100% and still the same.
I have official ROM but can't install it at all. I think the bootloader is locked?! And it doesnt even unlock it when using some fastboot commands
Also can't install nothing from SD card and when tryin to use ADB the PC can't see the device, but when using fastboot I can work on it.
In rescue mode i've done some root integrity check and at the end of the check some /system files are modified. I believe this is causing the entire problem.

denede said:
After i tried like almost the entire day i got the tablet in rescue mode or fastboot mode..
I've wiped/data or factory reset and the same happens... it stays in a loop when boot at logo.
I've let it to do so until the battery went dead from 100% and still the same.
I have official ROM but can't install it at all. I think the bootloader is locked?! And it doesnt even unlock it when using some fastboot commands
Also can't install nothing from SD card and when tryin to use ADB the PC can't see the device, but when using fastboot I can work on it.
In rescue mode i've done some root integrity check and at the end of the check some /system files are modified. I believe this is causing the entire problem.
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Typically, on devices I know of, it's fastboot that you would use to flash factory images. So you should be good there. But again, I don't know if that is how your device works too. And it would also typically not matter what's been altered on your device, system wise, you would simply flash the appropriate images with fastboot.
So I'd still say you need to determine the correct procedure to flash the files you got from their site. Perhaps there site has instructions? Or a support number for help of its not working as it should?

I've talked with the support. They gave me a link with an official ROM, a different one that the one that was from the site. But they didn't even told how to use it, LOL.
Have the damn files and don't know what to do with them, OMG.
I've placed the zip archive on SD card and tried to use the option from rescue mode with 'update via sd card". The zip archive is visible but after i select it says Installation aborted :|
I've googled around and maybe my tablet needs to be at over 50% power... but it was plugged into the wall it should've worked.
edit: 100% and no good...
edit2: they sent me another e-mail with a pdf file in which it is explained how to flash their device.

nexus 5 rooted : mistakes and can't acces to twrp to install new rom

Hey
I have a nexus 5 which was rooted and lineageOS was already installed (don't remeber which one, i didn(o do the installation).
I wanted to upgrade to lineageOS17.
I had issues when i wanted to install opengapps. I found some messages on the forum to resize the file system.
Then I had other issues and i did different stuffs with my phone.
In the end, I think my phone is totally dead : evrything is erased and I can't have access to the TWRP interface to install an ne rom or to wipe the phone memory
When I turn on my phone, i am in the bootloader mode.
I choose recovery in orderto get to the TWRP interface but it doesn't work. the phones just turned off.
When i plub my phone to the computer i cant' have access to its storage disc.
I still can root the phone with "CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5".
but then I can't do anyhting else.
Is any help possible? or should I just dump my phone?

anavatat said:
Hey
I have a nexus 5 which was rooted and lineageOS was already installed (don't remeber which one, i didn(o do the installation).
I wanted to upgrade to lineageOS17.
I had issues when i wanted to install opengapps. I found some messages on the forum to resize the file system.
Then I had other issues and i did different stuffs with my phone.
In the end, I think my phone is totally dead : evrything is erased and I can't have access to the TWRP interface to install an ne rom or to wipe the phone memory
When I turn on my phone, i am in the bootloader mode.
I choose recovery in orderto get to the TWRP interface but it doesn't work. the phones just turned off.
When i plub my phone to the computer i cant' have access to its storage disc.
I still can root the phone with "CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5".
but then I can't do anyhting else.
Is any help possible? or should I just dump my phone?
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I would try to flash the last factory image via fastboot.