Okay so I'm not new to rooting, flashing custom roms, or using custom recoveries, but this one has stumped me.
After reading and researching several poorly written/translated guides I set out to flash the Miui6_5.3.20_r827_b3wok custom rom on my Oppo Find 5 Mini. I copied the CWM for the R827 into the sd card, using Mobile Uncle MTK tools to install it. I successfully rebooted into CWM, selected the factory reset option (wiping data and cache) and then format /system and wiped the dalvik cache. I then installed the zip of the custom rom, with no errors. However, the custom rom needed a patch, specifically the "VPN-Fix by Louise - AICP v10 - R827" which acc. to the instructions were supposed to be patches BEFORE gapps.
Now the problem is that at the end of flashing that patch, it automatically reboots the phone, so I held the power button while the Oppo logo was there and booted into CWM again. I then flashed gapps, and rebooted the device.
However, I am no longer able to get into CWM, nor does the Oppo logo move/progress. Pressing Volume Down + Power to get into recovery mode turns on the phone with the text =>Recovery Mode in the bottom left, but instead of going into CWM it now just turns off the screen, vibrates, and proceeds to boot as if I never attempted to go into recovery mode in the first place.
Is this phone well and truly bricked? Fastboot mode (Volume Up + Power) just vibrates the phone and turns it off, so theres no way I can do a adb reboot or sideload. I can however copy files to and fro the microSD card via a separate card reader, if it helps.
Thanks for helping , and sorry for the long read...This really is my last hope. :crying:
Update: Okay so I went to the Oppo store and after about 40 minutes they somehow both fixed it and updated to the ColorOS with Kitkat.
OP resolved.
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I've installed the CM12 ROM from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...nt/rom-cyanogenmod-12-lollipop-5-0-1-t2971945 and it was working fine, but I realized after installing that I had a lot of space on my internal storage still being used up by old apps I'd installed with the stock ROM. None of these apps were showing up in the app manager, so I decided to factory reset the device from the Settings menu in CM12 to wipe the internal storage and start over.
Now, my device gets to the TWRP "teamwin" splash page, and stays there, blinking to a black screen and back every few seconds. I can't get into recovery or system. I can get into download mode and I've flashed TWRP with Odin3 a few more times and it hasn't helped. My device is now stuck on this blinking flash screen and I cannot power it off. Holding the power button down simply reboots the device and I end up in the same spot. How can I fix this? I do have a backup of the stock ROM on a USB key that I made with TWRP before flashing the CM12 ROM, if that helps.
Thanks!
So after some digging, I found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59627179&postcount=544 and I'm currently downloading stock firmware from sammobile at an excruciatingly slow speed. I should be able to try flashing it in 6-7 hours(!), and hopefully that gets the device booting properly again, then I'll try flashing TWRP, CM12, and gapps again.
I tried booting into recovery today, and my R7 Plus just boots normally. It gives the vibrate indication, and then the OPPO logo flashes on for a split second... but then it gives up booting into recovery, the screen goes black again, and the phone boots normally.
If I hold down volume [-] and power, it keeps flashing the Oppo logo and then black screening every second until I let go of the buttons. It seems to me like it keeps trying to boot into recovery and then something goes wrong. After I let go of the buttons, it boots normally.
Booting to recovery through Flashify didn't work; it gave the same Oppo logo-flash before turning back and booting normally.
For some more background, after rooting my phone, I did some deleting of .com files and other Oppo-associated apps/files; I'm not a fan of ColorOS and any Oppo bloatware, so I probably deleted some pretty important stuff. Actually, I'm pretty sure I deleted something important along the way.
I would like to do a clean install to get all of the key firmware modules/files back, I can't do that without access to recovery. I tried unrooting and installing an official update, but that failed since I can't access recovery. What's more, I can't re-root because, again, recovery isn't available; Oppo Tools isn't working.
If I do a factory reset, does that restore all of the ColorOS data, including restoring deleted OS files, or does it just delete my user data and I still won't be able to boot into recovery? Is there a way to flash a stock ROM without recovery mode being available?
sendraww said:
I tried booting into recovery today, and my R7 Plus just boots normally. It gives the vibrate indication, and then the OPPO logo flashes on for a split second... but then it gives up booting into recovery, the screen goes black again, and the phone boots normally.
If I hold down volume [-] and power, it keeps flashing the Oppo logo and then black screening every second until I let go of the buttons. It seems to me like it keeps trying to boot into recovery and then something goes wrong. After I let go of the buttons, it boots normally.
Booting to recovery through Flashify didn't work; it gave the same Oppo logo-flash before turning back and booting normally.
For some more background, after rooting my phone, I did some deleting of .com files and other Oppo-associated apps/files; I'm not a fan of ColorOS and any Oppo bloatware, so I probably deleted some pretty important stuff. Actually, I'm pretty sure I deleted something important along the way.
I would like to do a clean install to get all of the key firmware modules/files back, I can't do that without access to recovery. I tried unrooting and installing an official update, but that failed since I can't access recovery. What's more, I can't re-root because, again, recovery isn't available; Oppo Tools isn't working.
If I do a factory reset, does that restore all of the ColorOS data, including restoring deleted OS files, or does it just delete my user data and I still won't be able to boot into recovery? Is there a way to flash a stock ROM without recovery mode being available?
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Hi there, i know its been a long time. But i wanna know, have you solved your problem? If yes, could you please share how to fix it. Because im in the same situation right now.
Thank you.
Hi there, having just the old casual phone crisis. I was running cyanogenmod 12.1 for awhile and decided to finally upgrade to a nougat 7.1 build.
I tried using this one https://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/development/rom-dark-rom-t3492150 using adb sideload as I had tried a earlier one and the gapps messed up so I wasn't able to put twrp back on the phone. The rom said it had installed successfully but I wasn't able to sideload gapps, I kept getting an error status 255. I went ahead and just tried to load the rom without gapps and see if I could install it slowly through APKs. I managed to get past the initial android load and the services started up, and it got in an endless crash loop because the phone service wouldn't start. So I went to try and flash another rom and was going to delete the cache. When I went to delete the cache the phone hung for about an hour so I tried to just reset it into recovery mode again.
Now when I hold the power button and volume down key to into fastboot mode I can. I have access to the initial screen with the four options, but when I try to start recovery mode or start the phone my screen goes black, and it'll flash the dead android symbol with the error saying unable to mount cache, it only flashes it for like half a second then goes black and repeats every 10-15 seconds.
I tried holding power down, doing volume up, and letting go to do a hard factory reset but it does nothing. I also can't seem to access the adb sideloading anymore, I'm very scared that it's hard bricked, is there anything I can do at all to fix this.
Flash a new version of the recovery via fastboot. Then do a full wipe. After that install the ROM only! Reboot recovery (not system but recovery) then reflash the ROM (no wipe) and add everything else. Hope this helps you out.
The phone may not boot the ROM without wiping data if installing a 7.1 ROM over a 5.1.1 ROM.
So, I just decided to try and Flash the old TF101 with Katkiss 6.0.1 and Gapps, but I always get stuck on the same problem.
My TF101 is running Android 4.0.3 ICS and USB Debugging is on
I downloaded TWRP app on the transformer, as well as the latest .blob flash file through the app.
Before this, I rooted the tablet using Kingroot.apk, which worked. When I went to flash the tablet with the recovery, the app noted "Recovery Partition not found".
I tried to boot into recovery mode on my own, (Pressing Pwr + Volume down , Then hitting Volume Up), The android screen popped, up and then flashed to a fallen android with a red triangle.... The screen stays on this for a minute and then boots into the normal system. I can't even boot into recovery through ADB, using the
Code:
adb reboot recovery
, The tablet will just reboot normally, not into recovery mode.
The Device does recognize through ADB....
Is my recovery partition just non existent? Even when I just let the system though without pressing volume up, it only gives me the option of (Android) or (Erase Data). when I click erase data, ill stay on the asus loading screen indefinitely and nothing will happen until i turn it off and on.
I just cant seem to boot into TWRP for some reason, and that means I just cant install the downloaded custom ROM.
How Can I fix this and boot into TWRP? I've tried for hours and have been hung up due to the same problem each time, even after rooting.
Did you already solve that problem? I also need a solution.Thanks
I've been using lineage OS rooted and TWRP installed, my phone was slowing down, so i boot into recovery and cleared all data and copied ROM and gapp files and flashed them, then it rebooted but it went again to recovery only, ever since, stuck in TWRP recovery and even if i tried to go to fastboot via pressing vol up and power button its going into TWRP, Anyone knows how to fix this