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(soft)bricked my device. Is there a fix?

Hi all,
I installed the TWRP recovery for my mate 7 - 09 version, with lollipop 5.1. But then I unknowingly wiped something I shouldn't have: I think it was the system folder. No backups were made
My phone keeps starting up to the huawei logo and then reboots\turns off. I can get into fastboot&rescue mode, but that's it. No recovery, no 3-button fix (as far as I know).
The second problem is that I cannot get my device to be recognised by my pc. adb devices doesn't give me any results.
I don't feel like I can install the drivers properly as well. Pherhaps thats the problem? How can I do this? I have a driversetup from a mate7 download, but double clicking it doesnt show any prompts.
Anyone who can help me in any way is more than welcome!

dekraan said:
Hi all,
I installed the TWRP recovery for my mate 7 - 09 version, with lollipop 5.1. But then I unknowingly wiped something I shouldn't have: I think it was the system folder. No backups were made
My phone keeps starting up to the huawei logo and then reboots\turns off. I can get into fastboot&rescue mode, but that's it. No recovery, no 3-button fix (as far as I know).
The second problem is that I cannot get my device to be recognised by my pc. adb devices doesn't give me any results.
I don't feel like I can install the drivers properly as well. Pherhaps thats the problem? How can I do this? I have a driversetup from a mate7 download, but double clicking it doesnt show any prompts.
Anyone who can help me in any way is more than welcome!
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Hey Buddy, here's what you can try to do:
1.) Boot connect your phone to your computer.
2.) Next, boot your phone to fastboot.
3.) Next, open command prompt from the folder where your ADB files are stored.
4.)On CMD type:
fastboot devices
5.) If your device appears then you have 2 options now. You can either:
a.) Flash Stock recovery.img or
b.) Flash back TWRP
6.) If choosing option a.) you can then save stock firmware within dload folder on your external sd card then force upgrade via 3 btn method.
7.) If choosing option b.) you can boot to twrp then either sideload a custom rom or try to save on your external sd and flash

blitzkriegger said:
Hey Buddy, here's what you can try to do:
1.) Boot connect your phone to your computer.
2.) Next, boot your phone to fastboot.
3.) Next, open command prompt from the folder where your ADB files are stored.
4.)On CMD type:
fastboot devices
5.) If your device appears then you have 2 options now. You can either:
a.) Flash Stock recovery.img or
b.) Flash back TWRP
6.) If choosing option a.) you can then save stock firmware within dload folder on your external sd card then force upgrade via 3 btn method.
7.) If choosing option b.) you can boot to twrp then either sideload a custom rom or try to save on your external sd and flash
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I'll give that a try, thank you. With step 1, you just mean: connect the phone through usb to the computer, right?
When I rooted the phone, I did so on my work laptop, so I am hoping I can get it recognised there, but lets see what happens at home.
EDIT:
Ok, i've typed in fastboot devices, and it gave me one line with a 16-digit code (numbers and letters) some white space and then the word fastboot. What does that mean?

That should meen it recognizes your phone in fastboot mode. Next step is to flash as stated in step 5 that in the instructions.
Sent from my HUAWEI MT7-L09 using Tapatalk

dekraan said:
I'll give that a try, thank you. With step 1, you just mean: connect the phone through usb to the computer, right?
When I rooted the phone, I did so on my work laptop, so I am hoping I can get it recognised there, but lets see what happens at home.
EDIT:
Ok, i've typed in fastboot devices, and it gave me one line with a 16-digit code (numbers and letters) some white space and then the word fastboot. What does that mean?
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EDIT AGAIN:
Ok, this is what I did. I downloaded the well known mate7 package, extracted the b119 tools folder and I put the twrp_2.8.7.0_mate7_5.1.img file from this forum (the TWRP for 5.1) inside this folder.
Then, I open cmd inside the folder, and I typed: fastboot flash recovery twrp_2.8.7.0_mate7_5.1.img. This is what happens:
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery'(12644 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.302s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.455s]
finished. total time: 1.756s
Now, I finally managed to get back into TWRP! I've only got 2% battery though (but I see a + which I think means charging...EDIT: yes, it is on 3% now. Better leave it like this...).
It tells me this:
TWRP has detected an unmodified system partition.
TWRP can leave your system partition unmodified to make it easier for you to take official updates. TWRP will be unable to prevent the stock rom from replacing TWRP and will not offer to root your device. Installing zips or performing adb operations may still modify the system partition.
I decided to swipe, to allow modifications.
So, I've got twrp back! For lollipop. This probably means I have to flash the lollipop rom? I will download the update.zip file next and put it on my sd card (using my pc and a microsd adapter...)
Keep you posted!

Ok, this is not working.
I put update.zip on my sd-card, and tried to install it. This is what I get:
Installing 'sd-ext/update.zip'...
checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
E:unknown command [errno]
file_getprop: failed to stat
E: error executing updater binary in zup 'sd-ext/update.zip'
Error flashing zip 'sd-ext/update.zip'...
Updating partition details...
...done
EDIT:
I tried to sideload but on my pc I get:
error: protocol fault (no status)
And on my TWRP I get:
You need adb 1.0.32 or newer to sideload to this device.
EDIT:
Updated my adb to 1.0.32 for windows, and rebooted everything. Now i'm at 6% of sideload. Hoping this will work!
EDITn the PC everything seems to go ok, but on my phone it says: E:Zip signature verification failed:1
What should I try next?

dekraan said:
Ok, this is not working.
I put update.zip on my sd-card, and tried to install it. This is what I get:
Installing 'sd-ext/update.zip'...
checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
E:unknown command [errno]
file_getprop: failed to stat
E: error executing updater binary in zup 'sd-ext/update.zip'
Error flashing zip 'sd-ext/update.zip'...
Updating partition details...
...done
EDIT:
I tried to sideload but on my pc I get:
error: protocol fault (no status)
And on my TWRP I get:
You need adb 1.0.32 or newer to sideload to this device.
EDIT:
Updated my adb to 1.0.32 for windows, and rebooted everything. Now i'm at 6% of sideload. Hoping this will work!
EDITn the PC everything seems to go ok, but on my phone it says: E:Zip signature verification failed:1
What should I try next?
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I don't advise you to flash lollipop firmware first. It's more prudent to go back to kitkat first as I believe Lollipop needs kitkat as base
1.) Put stock kitkat update.app on dload folder of your memory card. Also make sure you have the LO9 stock kitkat recovery.
2.) With your phone connected to pc, go to twrp and reboot to bootloader.
3.) Once on bootloader open cmd on your tools folder then fastboot flash the stock kitkat recovery.
4.) Once done, fastboot reboot then force upgrade to install stock firmware.
5.) Once you have stock kitkat follow the drill to reach lollipop

blitzkriegger said:
I don't advise you to flash lollipop firmware first. It's more prudent to go back to kitkat first as I believe Lollipop needs kitkat as base
1.) Put stock kitkat update.app on dload folder of your memory card. Also make sure you have the LO9 stock kitkat recovery.
2.) With your phone connected to pc, go to twrp and reboot to bootloader.
3.) Once on bootloader open cmd on your tools folder then fastboot flash the stock kitkat recovery.
4.) Once done, fastboot reboot then force upgrade to install stock firmware.
5.) Once you have stock kitkat follow the drill to reach lollipop
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Hi, thank you for your advice. I have but one question remaining: what stock kitkat update should I use? And where can I find the right recovery that goes with it?
I've tried several recovery_stock.img I found, and it does take away TWRP, so it might have done the trick. Only problem is that I cannot force upgrade to install whats on my sd-card....The phone keeps turning on (after a long push) and after seeing the logo for a little while, it turns off (short vibration)... Is there another way?

dekraan said:
Hi, thank you for your advice. I have but one question remaining: what stock kitkat update should I use? And where can I find the right recovery that goes with it?
I've tried several recovery_stock.img I found, and it does take away TWRP, so it might have done the trick. Only problem is that I cannot force upgrade to install whats on my sd-card....The phone keeps turning on (after a long push) and after seeing the logo for a little while, it turns off (short vibration)... Is there another way?
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You should flash B137SP03 firmware. You can also refer to this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/help/5-1-to-4-4-2-bootloop-t3132888
1.)Prepare the Stock B137SP03 firmware on your SD card
2.)Download the fastboot.zip guide and extract it to a separate folder.
3.) next connect your phone to your computer and go to fastboot mode.
4.) Flash the boot.img and recovery.img you find on that guide.
5.) Once done, do the force upgrade with the B137 firmware.

blitzkriegger said:
You should flash B137SP03 firmware. You can also refer to this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/help/5-1-to-4-4-2-bootloop-t3132888
1.)Prepare the Stock B137SP03 firmware on your SD card
2.)Download the fastboot.zip guide and extract it to a separate folder.
3.) next connect your phone to your computer and go to fastboot mode.
4.) Flash the boot.img and recovery.img you find on that guide.
5.) Once done, do the force upgrade with the B137 firmware.
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I've followed the guide you are reffering to. And I flashed the boot and recovery, and managed to get the roll back force installed. But for the life of me, I cannot get my phone to force install the B137 zip. I just can't get into force install mode. Are there tips or tricks? I am holding power up and down, and then press power untill I feel a short vibration. But all it does it show me the huawei logo screen and then shuts down again.
Very frustrating!
EDIT:
ok, I noticed that when my sd-card is not inserted, the phone easily boots into the force install mode. It shows the logo for a couple of seconds, screen goes black and then the force install loads. So this is what I did: insert the sd card half way, press vol up and down, and power on. Then after the logo when the screen goes black, insert the sd-card all the way and when the phone goes to force install mode, it can find the update!
Now installing.... hope this helps someone else out there!

Worked! And I am up and running again! Thank you for saving my mate

I got my Mate bricked and i've been trying to figure out how to solve it. I tried lots of things from different guides, but just an hour ago I found this guide and it worked! I can't tell you how happy I am right now, thanks guys!

aleksik said:
I got my Mate bricked and i've been trying to figure out how to solve it. I tried lots of things from different guides, but just an hour ago I found this guide and it worked! I can't tell you how happy I am right now, thanks guys!
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Glad to hear both of you guys have your mates up and running again. As long as a phone turns on and is not dead as a brick there's always hope it can be restored

Hi everyone, I have the same problem with my mate 7, i was messing with unlocking bootloader(which I succesfully have done), couldn't get my phone rooted so installed TWRP recovery for Lollipop(which was already installed when i bought the phone). Ended up with soft bricked phone(no OS, no recovery at all).
I tried different tutorials how to fix it, none of them worked(including that one unfortunatelly).
I have taken some pictures to show you what the problem is but cannot post them until reach 10 posts on forum
Basically, i can get into fastboot mode by holding volume down with power button. Windows and Hisuite don't recognise my device but in fastboot mode i can check devices connected. Typing "fastboot devices" i get "P6Q7M14A15008421 fastboot", which i guess is my device indeed.
After that i try flashing boot.img and recovery.img(which are reported OK). Then rebooting with 3 button(vol up and down, power) and Huawei logo screen appears for a bit and goes into white screen saying "rescue mode" and at the bottom: "Error Func NO: 10(FUNC_BOOT_RECOVERY) Error NO:2". Trying rebooting into recovery mode(vol up and power) it shows similar "recovery mode" screen but with different errors: "Error! Func NO:12(FUNC_LOAD_IOM3) Error NO:1".
That's it! It seems like i cannot flash my device successfully for some reason. What Windows version did you guys use?? I tried Win 8.0 and Win 10, maybe i should use older systems? Please help, i had my phone for a week only and broke it(

I can't help you much because I don't have enough knowledge about these kind of things.. I use Windows 7 and from my previous experiences I can say that working with Windows 8 can be frustrating. PS. I bricked my Mate 12hrs after buying it

muzammil84 said:
Hi everyone, I have the same problem with my mate 7, i was messing with unlocking bootloader(which I succesfully have done), couldn't get my phone rooted so installed TWRP recovery for Lollipop(which was already installed when i bought the phone). Ended up with soft bricked phone(no OS, no recovery at all).
I tried different tutorials how to fix it, none of them worked(including that one unfortunatelly).
I have taken some pictures to show you what the problem is but cannot post them until reach 10 posts on forum
Basically, i can get into fastboot mode by holding volume down with power button. Windows and Hisuite don't recognise my device but in fastboot mode i can check devices connected. Typing "fastboot devices" i get "P6Q7M14A15008421 fastboot", which i guess is my device indeed.
After that i try flashing boot.img and recovery.img(which are reported OK). Then rebooting with 3 button(vol up and down, power) and Huawei logo screen appears for a bit and goes into white screen saying "rescue mode" and at the bottom: "Error Func NO: 10(FUNC_BOOT_RECOVERY) Error NO:2". Trying rebooting into recovery mode(vol up and power) it shows similar "recovery mode" screen but with different errors: "Error! Func NO:12(FUNC_LOAD_IOM3) Error NO:1".
That's it! It seems like i cannot flash my device successfully for some reason. What Windows version did you guys use?? I tried Win 8.0 and Win 10, maybe i should use older systems? Please help, i had my phone for a week only and broke it(
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Sounds like the wrong boot.img or recovery.img has been flashed. May I know what Mate 7 model you have and which Lollipop firmwre version your phone came last with?
Try to obtain boot.img and revoery.img for your lollipop version then flash that via fastboot

blitzkriegger said:
Sounds like the wrong boot.img -recovery.img has been flashed. May I know what Mate 7 model you have and which Lollipop firmwre version your phone came last with?
Try to obtain boot.img and revoery.img for your lollipop version then flash that via fastboot
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My phone mt7-09l, european version 16gb. Came with lollipop 5.1 when I bought it but I think I have formatted it via twrp recovery so it shouldn't matter what boot and recovery version I am trying to flash, should it? I'll extract boot and recovery from b308 today andtry that, see if this works. If not, only thing I can try is using win7 and that's it really, no more possibilities

dekraan said:
I've followed the guide you are reffering to. And I flashed the boot and recovery, and managed to get the roll back force installed. But for the life of me, I cannot get my phone to force install the B137 zip. I just can't get into force install mode. Are there tips or tricks? I am holding power up and down, and then press power untill I feel a short vibration. But all it does it show me the huawei logo screen and then shuts down again.
Very frustrating!
EDIT:
ok, I noticed that when my sd-card is not inserted, the phone easily boots into the force install mode. It shows the logo for a couple of seconds, screen goes black and then the force install loads. So this is what I did: insert the sd card half way, press vol up and down, and power on. Then after the logo when the screen goes black, insert the sd-card all the way and when the phone goes to force install mode, it can find the update!
Now installing.... hope this helps someone else out there!
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I'm stuck on this stage, no errors while flashing but no boot either. Shows logo then like a spark a bit of music and animation (1 sec maybe) and reboot, so on and on and on...

muzammil84 said:
My phone mt7-09l, european version 16gb. Came with lollipop 5.1 when I bought it but I think I have formatted it via twrp recovery so it shouldn't matter what boot and recovery version I am trying to flash, should it? I'll extract boot and recovery from b308 today andtry that, see if this works. If not, only thing I can try is using win7 and that's it really, no more possibilities
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If you were on Lollipop when everything went sour, you should do what I did, thanks to advice from @blitzkriegger:
You should flash B137SP03 firmware. You can also refer to this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate...tloop-t3132888
1.)Prepare the Stock B137SP03 firmware on your SD card
2.)Download the fastboot.zip guide and extract it to a separate folder.
3.) next connect your phone to your computer and go to fastboot mode.
4.) Flash the boot.img and recovery.img you find on that guide.
5.) Once done, do the force upgrade with the B137 firmware.
I used the full steps from the link in there: flashed the right boot and recovery through fastboot. Then I flashed the rollback zip from my sd-card, and then I flashed the B137 zip from my sd-card. I can't tell you more about it, obviously

brack11 said:
I'm stuck on this stage, no errors while flashing but no boot either. Shows logo then like a spark a bit of music and animation (1 sec maybe) and reboot, so on and on and on...
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Been there, done that. Very frustrating! I've tried several things, none of which are probably the right way, but they worked for me. sometimes....
Can you get into stock recovery (vol+ and power)? What I tried several times was wipe cache, and then hold the powerbutton untill my phone turned off. That worked occasionally to get the device totally turned off. Then try to get to force update with your sd-card half way in, and flip it in totally when the logo dissapears and the screen is black. I also tried to shut down the constant starting up by going into fastboot/recovery mode and then holding power down. As long as it takes. Good luck! And hopefully someone can give you proper advice...

Very hard brick

Hi!
Okay, this case is really weird and of course is thanks to my negligence. I'm gonna post it hoping someone can help me, or at least keep other people aware about trying stupid things lol
I tried to update to Nougat with an unofficial method (I don't consider necessary to tell what method...) and I just messed it up, badly. I'll try to give a detailed explanation:
The phone has the bootloader unlocked. After trying to update to Nougat, it got stuck when rebooting. After the unlocked bootloader warning message, the phone won't go further than that, it just stays there. If I hold and press the power button for more than 10 seconds the phone won't shut down, it will restart to get stuck again after the unlocked BL warning, making impossible to turn it off completely.
I try to enter to stock recovery by pressing vol + and power button at the same time (tried other combinations, vol - and power button & vol -, vol + and power button) but I have no luck, it just gets stuck at the same point.
I already tried extracting BOOT.img, RECOVERY.img, CUST.img and SYSTEM.img from an official update.app and flash them in that order via fastboot (yeah, I can enter to fastboot mode). The process is successful in terminal (I use Linux) but when I reboot the phone, it gets stuck again after the warning.
The only recovery that is actually working is TWRP, the one ported for the Honor 8 (flashed via fastboot), but it won't let me install any custom ROM, it just stays in "patching image unconditionally" forever, making me press and hold the power button but this won't shutdown the phone, it reboots, gets stuck and... so on *infinite loop*
Btw, when I wipe cache, dalvik and data in TWMP, the message "failed to mount /cust" with red letters appears, so it's probably a very corrupted system partition. also, It's impossible to repair the custom partition. This appears:
Repairing Custom using e2fdck...
/sbin/e2fsck -fp /devblock/mmcblk0p44 process ended with ERROR: 8
Unable to repair Custom.
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Tried HiSuite from Huawei (in Windows) and it doesn't even recognize the phone.
Hope somebody could possibly give a solution, if there's any. If not, I'm afraid I have a beautiful paperweight now...
Oh yeah, one very important part: my Honor 8 is the US version (FRD-L04), and yes, I'm making sure I'm getting the current update.app for this model.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi There
you try this method.
Get a SD CARD
make a directory at the card root name dload
put your best update.app in the directory (the most older version the best)
insert into your phone 2nd sim slot
try everyway to make the 3 button combo.
hope this help
edit: you need stock recovery to do this

chongns said:
Hi There
you try this method.
Get a SD CARD
make a directory at the card root name dload
put your best update.app in the directory (the most older version the best)
insert into your phone 2nd sim slot
try everyway to make the 3 button combo.
hope this help
edit: you need stock recovery to do this
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Hey, thanks!
unfortunately, as far as I know is that for this method I have to enter to stock recovery, but then again, I can't get in. The phone gets stuck trying any combination of pressed buttons... But I'll try it.
Edit: Trying your method right now, hope it goes well...

El Brillantinas said:
Hey, thanks!
unfortunately, as far as I know is that for this method I have to enter to stock recovery, but then again, I can't get in. The phone gets stuck trying any combination of pressed buttons...
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Yes, but since you r able to go into TWRP, can your use adb command like adb reboot bootloader than flash stock recovery image?
after that since it is keep rebooting, you can hold your volume up and down all the way to force update.
IDK if this work. but no harm to try it, since it is "very hard brick"
Edit: Fastboot erase {partition} before flash back the image maybe help

chongns said:
Yes, but since you r able to go into TWRP, can your use adb command like adb reboot bootloader than flash stock recovery image?
after that since it is keep rebooting, you can hold your volume up and down all the way to force update.
IDK if this work. but no harm to try it, since it is "very hard brick"
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Yep, I'm trying it now and right now is installing the update (the EMUI logo with the circular progress bar). Hope it works *crossed fingers*
Edit: No luck. After the process finished, it says:
Software install failed!
Get help from: http//www.emui.com/emotionetcetc.
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El Brillantinas said:
Yep, I'm trying it now and right now is installing the update (the EMUI logo with the circular progress bar). Hope it works *crossed fingers*
Edit: No luck. After the process finished, it says:
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I assume you having the update.app from a L04 full firmware, not the OTA.
for the not able to repair partition like custom maybe you can erase it using fastboot erase command and fastboot flash it back
or you can fastboot erase all the known partition like system, cache, data, custom etc.... and fastboot flash back the image.
i assume your fastboot still able to access

chongns said:
I assume you having the update.app from a L04 full firmware, not the OTA.
for the not able to repair partition like custom maybe you can erase it using fastboot erase command and fastboot flash it back
or you can fastboot erase all the known partition like system, cache, data, custom etc.... and fastboot flash back the image.
i assume your fastboot still able to access
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I did it!!
I could bring it back following some of your methods. Here's how I achieved it:
-Formatted the Custom partition in fastboot.
-Flashed BOOT.img, RECOVERY.img, CUST.img and SYSTEM.img again.
-Forced the update by putting the entire firmware in the dload folder located in the sdcard, it failed at the end, but I rebooted by pressing and holding the power button.
-The phone passed beyond the point where it was getting stuck (finally!), but now it got stuck in the Honor 8 blue screen. Rebooted it again doing coldboot.
-Entered to stock recovery, wiped everything.
Then I just rebooted it and Voalá! It started all new!
Guess it was not that hard brick haha. I'll have to change the name of the topic.
A million thanks @chongns, you rock!

El Brillantinas said:
I did it!!
I could bring it back following some of your methods. Here's how I achieved it:
-Formatted the Custom partition in fastboot.
-Flashed BOOT.img, RECOVERY.img, CUST.img and SYSTEM.img again.
-Forced the update by putting the entire firmware in the dload folder located in the sdcard, it failed at the end, but I rebooted by pressing and holding the power button.
-The phone passed beyond the point where it was getting stuck (finally!), but now it got stuck in the Honor 8 blue screen. Rebooted it again doing coldboot.
-Entered to stock recovery, wiped everything.
Then I just rebooted it and Voalá! It started all new!
Guess it was not that hard brick haha. I'll have to change the name of the topic.
A million thanks @chongns, you rock!
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Good to know you succeed.
please tag a moderator to move your thread to Guide, News and Discussion section..
most of the time ppl search solution at there.

Guide in another Huawei phone XDA forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/general/fuss-debrick-restore-mate-8-t3457969

Moderatos, can you please move this topic to the Guides and discussion section? Thanks in advance.

Glad you fixed it bro. That was very critical.

El Brillantinas said:
Moderatos, can you please move this topic to the Guides and discussion section? Thanks in advance.
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good to hear u go phone back , and there is another guides already exist to restore a framware throw the same method , thank you for sharing ur experience .

Here's the issure I'm having. My Honor 8 FRD-L04 is stuck at a hard brick. It won't reach the recovery. I tried to flash images using fastboot. But I end up with the error: FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
Any help would be appreciated

bho01 said:
Here's the issure I'm having. My Honor 8 FRD-L04 is stuck at a hard brick. It won't reach the recovery. I tried to flash images using fastboot. But I end up with the error: FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
Any help would be appreciated
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Is your frp status lock in fastboot?

faizalotai said:
Is your frp status lock in fastboot?
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No it's unlocked

bho01 said:
No it's unlocked
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Your phone status?

faizalotai said:
Your phone status?
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Still can't get into recovery and I'm still getting the "FAILED(Command not allowed)" error whenever I try to flash stock images

bho01 said:
Still can't get into recovery and I'm still getting the "FAILED(Command not allowed)" error whenever I try to flash stock images
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I mean your phone status in fastboot.
Its comes with frp and phone status..both have to be unlocked in order to flash images.

Try using the dload method of flashing

faizalotai said:
I mean your phone status in fastboot.
Its comes with frp and phone status..both have to be unlocked in order to flash images.
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Also unlocked

Mate 9 ERROR Mode

Hello,
following problem:
Mate 9 (MHA-L29C432). Had an update on Android 8 (Oreo) made. It was perfect too. But when I did not manage to install Magisk, I did a backup of Flashfire via TWRP version B194 (Boot, Recovery, System).
Flashfire, by that I mean the program for backup and restore.
Now the phone starts in Fastboot mode, but looks different:
ERROR fashion
Attention!
Please update system again
Error!
Func NO: 15 (bl31 image)
Error NO: 1 (security verify failed!)
I can not turn off the phone !!! It always starts again, with the above screen.
It is also not possible to boot into recovery or eRecovery.
And with the above message, my PC recognizes no more device. So Fastboot still download mode is not possible.
What can I do? Can it be because of the partions, because Android 7 and 8 have other partion names?

Sorry u must write in english here!
Du musst in English schreiben hier!

My German is not very good, so you'll have to translate this if you need to.
You should still be able to boot to fastboot mode.
However, that error seems to refer to /system partition, and it has triggered AVB or verity.
I would try flashing stock system.img using fastboot, download your Oreo firmware from http://pro-teammt.ru/firmware-database/ and extract update.app, then extract system partition from it using Huawei Update Extractor. Alternatively, if Huawei Update Extractor gives you errors like it did to me, use this: https://github.com/marcominetti/split_updata.pl (you need perl for this, I use Strawberry).
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)
(And flash recovery_ramdisk, recovery_kernel, erecovery_ramdisk, erecovery_kernel too.)
And you're not actually starting in fastboot mode, it's error mode.
You have to plug in usb and reboot and hold volume down to get to fastboot.

Thanks for the answers.
The problem is, no matter what I do, the Hamdy does not start in Fastboot. It always comes error mode. I can not turn off the phone, so far, it always showed the error mode and always starts again by itself. But now, I think, the battery is running low.

laptop45307 said:
Thanks for the answers.
The problem is, no matter what I do, the Hamdy does not start in Fastboot. It always comes error mode. I can not turn off the phone, so far, it always showed the error mode and always starts again by itself. But now, I think, the battery is running low.
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Try plugging USB in, hold volume down and power down for a while. A while can be a minute or 2. I don't remember how long I had to hold it when I got ERROR MODE.
Alternatively you could maybe let it run out of battery, hold down volume down and plug in USB. It should get you to fastboot as soon as it starts.
Does it display different errors when you try to boot recovery/eRecovery? It should say Func error: recovery or eRecovery. If it doesn't, just keep pressing power until it does reboot and be ready with volume buttons.

Hello, battery is empty. As soon as I press the volume button and connect USB, the error mode appears. If I keep it pressed, the device restarts again and again after a few seconds. Again and again with the error mode.

laptop45307 said:
Hello, battery is empty. As soon as I press the volume button and connect USB, the error mode appears. If I keep it pressed, the device restarts again and again after a few seconds. Again and again with the error mode.
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Have you figured it out or still looking for solution. Because I'm now in the same situation. Just error no is 14.

Ditto here , two error numbers 11 and 2. 11 is recovery and 2 is load failed!

laptop45307 said:
Hello, battery is empty. As soon as I press the volume button and connect USB, the error mode appears. If I keep it pressed, the device restarts again and again after a few seconds. Again and again with the error mode.
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any progress?
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sgtduckyboy said:
Ditto here , two error numbers 11 and 2. 11 is recovery and 2 is load failed!
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fixed?

yes, forgot to update. when my battery died down, i put it on a charger as it got up a few percent , I then held the volume down and power buttons,, booted right up to erecovery! downloaded nougat, installed and it immediately gave me the Oreo update, so i took it, been running great for a week or more now!

Sorry for gravedigging, but I am having the same problem. I followed ante0´s directions but i cant flash system cause the command is not allowed (FRP Lock). Any chance to get it running again?

laptop45307 said:
Hello, battery is empty. As soon as I press the volume button and connect USB, the error mode appears. If I keep it pressed, the device restarts again and again after a few seconds. Again and again with the error mode.
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Hi, I was having the same problem. Mate 8 EMUI 8.
After looking everywhere and trying all the options available, I wasnt able to resolve.
Finally, I tried FunkyHuawei and got my system back through eRecovery.
Gave them the readings like version no. , build no...etc through fastboot. The required info is on their site. They then reverted with a link of the firmware which I flashed through their FuHunbrick tool. It force updates the entire full last version.
After flashing and booting, the system didnt boot but was able to go to eRecovery and restored my previous version.
If you or anyone else stuck at this error, they can try at their own risk as they dont guarantee anything.
Edit: you should and will be able to boot into fastboot once the battery is totally down and phone shuts off completely. Just press volume down button and insert usb. Try again and again if it doesnt work first time.
Thanks.

[HONOR 6X BLN-L21] Honor 6X comletely bricked

Hello there,
i had an camera issue on my Honor 6x (EMUI 5 B369), thats why I made a Rollback to EMUI 4(B130). After doing that properly with that files:
http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=94070&version=376169&siteCode=de-h From Bxxx to B300 (only contains some .img (See Attachment))
and http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=94087&version=376224&siteCode=de-h From B300 to B130 (full Update.app)
After being on EMUI 4, I wanted to dload back to B369, but then I accidentally flashed the B300, which only contained some .img.
Then it went into softbrick mode, so I only was able to boot into fastboot.
To flash anything I unlocked the bootloader. The Device turned off and back on, then wanted to boot to recovery for hard reset.
This is where I am now. I can not boot into any mode. It just turns on and then shows the "Your device has been unlocked and cant be trusted". I tried to go into dload mode, tried recovery, tried fastboot, none of them were working.
When force rebooting it just turns on, vibrates 2 times and shows that "Your device..." screen and "Your device is booting now"
To archieve that it forgets that process to boot into recovery i let the battery drain empty and try again, which partly worked. Now sometimes it doesnt show "Your device is booting now" on the "Your device..." screen, but it shows the three options that are normally shown when turning on with opened bootloader.
But still no success into fastboot etc.
Edit: My phone seems to be not charging anymore, because ist shows that booting stuff, but then turns on and shows the "Your device..."-screen
Is there any way to unbrick my Honor 6X BLN-L21C432?
Greetings, LRX
PS: plss help me

I didn't understood a thing; actually, you have access to fastboot mode or not? And if yes, what's the status of FRP and Phone in fastboot... Lock or unlocked?
Try to go in fastboot mode by pressing the volume down + power on buttons while your phone is connected to a PC USB port. If this shouldn't work, i had read something online that says that there is a chance to flash an image through HiSuite; never tested, so i can't ensure that it'll works... But we'll try to find out a way to unbrick your device

:crying: same problem shows on my mobile if you found any solution please share with me my device also in same state

same here ... my BLN-L21 is bricked. Can't access to recovery, no fastboot, no e-recovery. any connection with PC !
I have disassembled the phone and looking for schematic testpoint but no result for now
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LRX22G said:
Hello there,
i had an camera issue on my Honor 6x (EMUI 5 B369), thats why I made a Rollback to EMUI 4(B130). After doing that properly with that files:
http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=94070&version=376169&siteCode=de-h From Bxxx to B300 (only contains some .img (See Attachment))
and http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=94087&version=376224&siteCode=de-h From B300 to B130 (full Update.app)
After being on EMUI 4, I wanted to dload back to B369, but then I accidentally flashed the B300, which only contained some .img.
Then it went into softbrick mode, so I only was able to boot into fastboot.
To flash anything I unlocked the bootloader. The Device turned off and back on, then wanted to boot to recovery for hard reset.
This is where I am now. I can not boot into any mode. It just turns on and then shows the "Your device has been unlocked and cant be trusted". I tried to go into dload mode, tried recovery, tried fastboot, none of them were working.
When force rebooting it just turns on, vibrates 2 times and shows that "Your device..." screen and "Your device is booting now"
To archieve that it forgets that process to boot into recovery i let the battery drain empty and try again, which partly worked. Now sometimes it doesnt show "Your device is booting now" on the "Your device..." screen, but it shows the three options that are normally shown when turning on with opened bootloader.
But still no success into fastboot etc.
Edit: My phone seems to be not charging anymore, because ist shows that booting stuff, but then turns on and shows the "Your device..."-screen
Is there any way to unbrick my Honor 6X BLN-L21C432?
Greetings, LRX
PS: plss help me
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Do yo have the red light ? and red charging logo before boot ? I have charge my battery yesterday out of phone (to see if out of battery change boot option). And try boot fastboot / recovery / erecovery with plug and replug battery but no success. Still same

Try to boot into fastboot mode. If you disconnected phone battery, connect it again. Unplug the phone from USB cable. When powered off, hold Vol down key (and only hold that key), then plug your phone to your computer (be sure to hold Vol down until you reach fastboot screen).
If you reached fastboot mode, then flash the RECOVERY.img image from B130 to the recovery partition.
If successful, unplug your device, then reboot.
When rebooting, hold Vol Up and Power button until you see the boot warning saying that you're booting to recovery mode or something like that (the screen won't show any other options to boot as a regular boot should, so that will be an important indicator).
If you reach the recovery screen, then try to dload full B130 firmware.
If this fail, try another flashing combinations. I mean:
1- Try dloading another firmware (e.g. the B369 firmware you downloaded) over B130 recovery.
2- If step 1 failed, flash B369 RECOVERY.img, then try to dload B130 package. If this don't work, now try to dload B369.
3- If previous steps failed, try to flash RECOVERY.img from THE DOWNGRADING PACKAGE (the one with few IMGs). After that, dload B130.
If this don't work, is because your soft brick is a real pain in the ass.
Cheers, and good luck.
PS: don't miss your hope. I achieved to recover my bricked phone with FRP locked (FRP doesn't let you flash anything at all), and a warning screen with RED letters, and a big exclamation mark, saying that the phone was not able to boot.

try dloading the correct firmware.dload works most of the time.

there is no way to enter in dload, recovery or fastboot. i try all methods but no luck. please is here any one know that can we access flash IC?

Ounly one possibility is using "testpoint" on motherboard mobile (Huawei USB COM 1.0 port in PC) with DC Phoenix and than HCU (19€). I had the same problem , I have repared it
1. Unbrick tutorial: you can find it on webside dc-unlocker ((ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages)
2. Repair oeminfo and custom.bin tutorial: you can find it on webside hcu-client (ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages)
I have the picture Testpoint Honor 6x BLN-L21.jpg
Send mi private message.
Good luck...

power off the device hold the vol down connect data cable to pc it will show fastboot then flash twrp then reboot to twrp flash custom rom.

Impossible to reboot to TWRP from fastboot...
- Install russian MultiTool 8
- download rollback package (Android 6, EMUI 4.1, 1.76GB ) then extract dload folder into SD Card and put sd-card in phone
- Connect USB cable to PC, power off phone, keep pressed Vol- then plug USB cable, phone start in Fastboot Mode
- From MultiTool flash Recovery and eRecovery 1.x version
- Power off phone
- Reboot pressing Vol+,Vol-, Power and wait...

Boot brick - Can't power off, can't get to erecovery or recovery after rollback

Hey guys, my Honor is in brick state. I pushed a rollback package while I was in marshmallow (but with wrong ROM, so I was trying to rollback again and retry the procedure) and the phone got stuck in Honor blue screen at loop.
It won't let me power off, it justs turns on again. All button combinations won't work apparently. I can't get to recovery or e-recovery.
I tried depleting the battery. But as soon as I connect to the charger, it powers on. If I try the button combination before putting charge, it also doesn't work.
After the first successful rollback to MM, I think the bootloader got locked.
adb and fastbook can't seem to list the device.
I can get to fastboot and rescue mode, but I don't know the procedure from there.
So, is this a unsolvable brick? Or is there anything else that can be done to save this phone?
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

use dc unlocker to flash unlock bootloader and after dc flasher

valp88 said:
Hey guys, my Honor is in brick state. I pushed a rollback package while I was in marshmallow (but with wrong ROM, so I was trying to rollback again and retry the procedure) and the phone got stuck in Honor blue screen at loop.
It won't let me power off, it justs turns on again. All button combinations won't work apparently. I can't get to recovery or e-recovery.
I tried depleting the battery. But as soon as I connect to the charger, it powers on. If I try the button combination before putting charge, it also doesn't work.
After the first successful rollback to MM, I think the bootloader got locked.
adb and fastbook can't seem to list the device.
I can get to fastboot and rescue mode, but I don't know the procedure from there.
So, is this a unsolvable brick? Or is there anything else that can be done to save this phone?
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
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It's easy. I had a similar problem too. Just when your phone attempts to boot, hold the Volume Down button and immediately connect it to the PC (within 1-2 second). It should go into fastboot mode. Now, open Huawei Multi Tool and unlock your bootloader then use the tool to unbrick your phone, start with flashing stock recovery and then the correct firmware.

SirDarknight said:
It's easy. I had a similar problem too. Just when your phone attempts to boot, hold the Volume Down button and immediately connect it to the PC (within 1-2 second). It should go into fastboot mode. Now, open Huawei Multi Tool and unlock your bootloader then use the tool to unbrick your phone, start with flashing stock recovery and then the correct firmware.
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Thanks for repying. I unlocked my bootloader through fastboot and I'm trying to get multi-tool now!
i'm getting 404 from xda for the download link though.

SirDarknight said:
It's easy. I had a similar problem too. Just when your phone attempts to boot, hold the Volume Down button and immediately connect it to the PC (within 1-2 second). It should go into fastboot mode. Now, open Huawei Multi Tool and unlock your bootloader then use the tool to unbrick your phone, start with flashing stock recovery and then the correct firmware.
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I flashed extracted and flashed images for B131 and B360, without luck. Stuck on the unlocked warning now: "Your device is booting now".
I can't seem to get to erecovery. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

valp88 said:
I flashed extracted and flashed images for B131 and B360, without luck. Stuck on the unlocked warning now: "Your device is booting now".
I can't seem to get to erecovery. Please let me know if you have any ideas.
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If you're stuck on "Your device is booting now". This probably means your recovery is screwed. Don't worry, flash stock recovery and erecovery using Multi-Tool.
Then try the dload method. If the problem persists, then flash the correct TWRP then use HuRUpdater to flash the ROM you want. This will definitely fix the issue.

SirDarknight said:
If you're stuck on "Your device is booting now". This probably means your recovery is screwed. Don't worry, flash stock recovery and erecovery using Multi-Tool.
Then try the dload method. If the problem persists, then flash the correct TWRP then use HuRUpdater to flash the ROM you want. This will definitely fix the issue.
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The recovery images from Multi-Tool servers seem to work! Thanks a lot. I was able to get to erecovery, now I'll proceed as decribed by you! :good::good::good:
Edit: dload failed at 99%, but I was able to factory reset and get to the system after all!