Experts help needed! weird EFS brick - ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi! Long story short: My oneplus one has started to behave weird since last month.
I was on cm13 latest nightly and boeffla kernel.
Device worked great UNTIL you perform a reboot. (I had liveboot app installed and the log started to show an abnormal error code causing a bootloop. "unable to open mixer card 0, then 1, then 2 and so on. )
Every time i reboot and this error starts, it bootloops, or starts. But when boeffla kernel default settings apply, device freezes and shutted off. (I checked this by changing the time that boeffla app waits until it applies default config).
At first i thought a clean flash was needed, i usually dirty flash nightlies and some times i start over with a clean flash.
I identified that this error " mutes" the device and causes audiofx app to FC until the phone dies.
I related this to the thread "brickloop EFS corrupt" but i didnt have any time to try anything.
Last week device shutted of because of low battery and hard bricked itself. (Well, qdloader 9008. Not a hard brick, properly speaking but there is a fix with the chinese colorOS zip)
Now this is the first weird thing... Devices dont just hardbrick itselves.
But battery was dead, really dead, and caused the mbn image flashing in the chinese tool to loop and device connect and reconnect on every attempt to flash this first file. (For those experiencing this issue i can confirm is the battery dead, and sahara error code is a corrupted file on the folder).
I have another oneplus one, so switched batteries and was able to flash the damn thing.
Now, back from dead i had none imei, baseband, bluetooth or wifi and audioFx FC.
I tried reflashing the persist, reserve4, modem1 and 2.
I tried formatting mmckbl0p15 with terminal command.
I installed colorOS, then switched to cm12 and got back my baseband, but still none of the other things.
I downloaded the "nightmare fix" full folder from the brickloop thread and followed the steps. No result on any flashing attempt.
On a random cm12.1 flashing attempt i got back wifi and bluetooth and imei showed now "0"
Using the "el hechizero" method i had rewritten the imei number with QPST and got the signal back and sim card detection. But it looped from "no sim" to "no service" all the time.
From there, i fastboot flashed cm11 44s and got everything running. Wifi, sim card, bluetooth, imei. All except audio. Device is mute, audiofx FC. And i have to reboot it several times until i get it working.
Now i am where i started. Stuck on cm11 44s. Any other rom flashing causes a hardbrick if i go with fastboot. And if it boots, something will not work, wifi, or sim detection. And audioFx FC on ANY rom (after 10 or 15 reboots it works until i reboot again) and random shut downs. (Not reboots, device just freezes and shuts off)
Of course i dont have a EFS backup, just another oneplus one that works like a charm running cm13 and boeffla.
I tried MANY things. It only leads to qdloader or faulty roms. Cm11 44s works stable enough as long as i get it to boot with audio and keep the phone charged.
Anu suggestions? Maybe i should start to think about a faulty motherboard?

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[Q] Trouble flashing Stock & Custom ROM's

So it started out that CM 12 kept shutting down on me, the phone would occasionally just power off. I tried restoring some of my TWRP backups but they seemed to be corrupted.
So I decided to try RSD and reflash the stock firmware and go back to 4.4. I let it flash and then when I booted up I kept getting a message saying that the phone was going into cool down mode, but the phone never actually got hot. So I decided to try and reflash the stock 4.4 firmware again in RSD. This time I watched the phone screen as it went through and just after the system image (#7 of 17) I would get a message in "RED" letters that reads "sp space is not enough". It would continue to flash the rest of the images and then reboot. And it would have the same problem with saying the phone is going into cool down mode and sometimes it would shut off, but the phone never gets hot.
I thought maybe I had a bad download / firmware image so I tried several 4.4 images including one directly from Motorola but I get the same message every time I flash the stock 4.4 ROM.
*While it is plugged into the computer the phone stays on, but once I disconnect from the computer it shuts down again.
So I thought I would try flashing TWRP and CM 11 and then CM12, but the phone will boot up and then shortly after boot up it will shut down.
I have spent hours looking for a solution online and I do find that there have been multiple reports of this same problem along with photos of the phone screen message, but I have not found an explanation or a solution.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is or how to fix it?
morr22066 said:
So it started out that CM 12 kept shutting down on me, the phone would occasionally just power off. I tried restoring some of my TWRP backups but they seemed to be corrupted.
So I decided to try RSD and reflash the stock firmware and go back to 4.4. I let it flash and then when I booted up I kept getting a message saying that the phone was going into cool down mode, but the phone never actually got hot. So I decided to try and reflash the stock 4.4 firmware again in RSD. This time I watched the phone screen as it went through and just after the system image (#7 of 17) I would get a message in "RED" letters that reads "sp space is not enough". It would continue to flash the rest of the images and then reboot. And it would have the same problem with saying the phone is going into cool down mode and sometimes it would shut off, but the phone never gets hot.
I thought maybe I had a bad download / firmware image so I tried several 4.4 images including one directly from Motorola but I get the same message every time I flash the stock 4.4 ROM.
*While it is plugged into the computer the phone stays on, but once I disconnect from the computer it shuts down again.
So I thought I would try flashing TWRP and CM 11 and then CM12, but the phone will boot up and then shortly after boot up it will shut down.
I have spent hours looking for a solution online and I do find that there have been multiple reports of this same problem along with photos of the phone screen message, but I have not found an explanation or a solution.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is or how to fix it?
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I had tried everything I could think of and it appeared that there was a partition problem. The phone continued to shut down and would only stay on while connected to the PC. If it were a PC I would reformat and re-partition the drive but I did not want to risk a permanent brick by messing with it.
So, as a last ditch effort to try and get my phone functioning again I let it download and install system updates. The phone is now working again, it has not shut down at all and there have been no warning messages about cool down mode.
BUT, I am now on "4.4.4, SU-5-24, build 23.3.24 dated 10-27-14. Since my boot loader is unlocked I flashed TWRP but it would not not accept Super SU zip so I am no longer rooted.
I finished reading up on it in the forums and realize I am pretty much screwed as far as root goes. But at this point I don't even care anymore. I just need to get the phone functioning correctly.
*So, I am still having the problem with flashing stock and getting the "red" letter message after system image boots saying "sp space not enough". So long as it is hooked up to the computer it stays on and if it is downloading or installing an update it stays on and I never get a warning about cool down mode and it does not shut off, but once I disconnect from the computer it starts all over again. The phone boots up but at random intervals it still either gets a pop up message saying that it has gone into "cool down mode" or it shuts off. It is not doing it as often as before, but it is still doing it. Does anyone have any suggestions on whats causing it or how to fix it? It sounds like a software / firmware issue but I am not sure how to fix it.
*Update. The phone is still not functioning correctly. At times it will appear to work fine for hours with frequent to heavy use at times then suddenly it will start acting up, the phone will shut down randomly and when it reboots some of my settings have changed. The temperature is usually pretty low but once in a while after a shut down I will check the temp when I'm able to reboot it and it will be high. When it shuts down like that I usually have trouble getting it to boot up again unless I plug in the factory cable, either in the PC or just the wall charge then it seems to boot up fine and I can even reboot it but once it shuts itself down it doesn't want to start again unless I use the factory cable.
It really does sound like a software / firmware / partition problem but after multiple attempts to flash the firmware with RSD I continue to get the same error message at the end of the system flash and the phone continues to have problems. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Got me an xt1080 which I'm trying to restore to stock, and in both House of Motor and RSDlite 6.2.4 at some point during the system partition flash 'so space is not enough' as well. The phone is in perpetual bootloop, unless I use a 'Factory/power' cord and starting up in fastboot (eventually). Tried both 1FF and CFC fxz files, no luck.

[2016]Random Reboots on my ONE. Please help.

Later edit5: Tried to restore my nandroid backup and TWRP froze. Had to hard reboot the phone...
Later edit4: It started working. It f***** started working. Out of nowere. Last night, the last thing i tried was this: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/fix-for-sudden-death-and-boot-loop.146107/
I rebooted the phone and it didn't work. I gave up.
This morning I turned it back on and ... surprise, surprise... it started working (optimizing apps and actually booting into cos12.1).
My happiness didn't last because as soon as the phone started updating some apps, it crashed, and entered a boot loop again. Good thing i managed to copy one of my previous backups.
Can someone explain this behavior?
Later edit3: my phone is still stuck in a bootloop. Neither roms are working.
Things I've tried:
- flash new roms
- erase/ flash persist
- flash color os
Nothing works!
Later edit2: while on cm13, i plugged it in to recharge. While connected to wall plug it did nothing(working fine, as it should be). As soon as i unplugged it started rebooting over and over again... a boot loop. This phone is starting to look like one of the biggest mistakes i ever made. I regret purchasing it.
Later edit: now it just turned off, and pressing the power button won't turn it back on. Had to press it for about 10 - 15 seconds. ANNOYING!
OP: I've been experiencing random reboots on my oneplus ONE since I've had it.
When i first got the phone, i was so excited about it and started flashing custom roms, just for fun and to see which one suites me. I messed up the phone (my camera wouldn't work anymore. All the roms gave me the same message"Camera has stopped working" ) and sent it back to warranty, here in my country, at the shop from which i've bought it. After two weeks they sent it back to me with the note "restored to factory settings". I've checked the "About" section and it was running cos12.1, 1 jan 2016 security patch, kernel 3.4.67.
So I've decided to stick with this rom because I didn't want to mess it up again. But, out of nowhere it rebooted. First i thought that it was an app that needed the phone to reboot. I didn't mind it. I've left my phone over the night and in the morning it was saying "enter pin" as it has rebooted.
Long story short, ever since it reboots at least 1 time a day, and it is getting really frustrating! Sometimes when i'm in an app, sometimes when it just lays around.
Reasons it rebooted:
- no reason, just siting and it rebooted
- opened waze app
- browsing chrome
- tried to connect to a saved wireless network, it rebooted and afterwards the network was not recognized anymore and had to retype the password
- no reason!!! just sitting!!
- fresh install of cos 12.1, i queued about 20 apps to install... it rebooted and continued installing after reboot.
- sometimes i heavily use it and it runs perfectly, but when i stop using the phone and lay it down it reboots. (this only happend one time)
Things I've tried:
- factory reset
- clear cache and dalvik cache
- power cicle the phone
- new rom
None of these worked.
Today I installed sultans CM13, with his 3.4.0 - sultan - caf kernel, hoping that my problems would disappear. (I installed TWRP 2.8.7.0.5, flashed the rom, cleared the cache, flashed the gapps, cleared the cache and reboot.)
It ran flawlessly. I've installed all my apps, played a little with it, configured it as I pleased and I've left it the table for about 15 minutes. When i picked it up, it rebooted(AGAIN!) out of nowhere.
What could it be? As I read through the forums i found out that a log with the exact problem is impossible to get because it gets deleted.
Could it be the wireless network? Could it be the sim card I am using or the phone modem? Could it be because of the launcher?
(for now, i've disabled my sim pin so when my phone reboots i don't miss phone calls if i don't notice it has rebooted)
Please help, as this problem is getting more and more frustrating...
Reboot log
Quickly after a reboot i reconnected the phone, opened cmd and typed adb logcat.
This is the log. 22:17 is the time when the phone rebooted so i extracted only that fragment of the log.
I am going to flash the stock cm13 nightly with the "stock" version of gapps. (until now i always flashed "nano").

Random problems (bricks every 2 weeks, no wifi, no sim/sensors detected)

Hi!
My Nexus 5 device seems to have many issues, some that I have resolved, some that appeared next. Here is some history.
- The first issue that I had was that some sensors were not detected, and the others were not working. Sensor testing applications found some of them (but they didn't work), and others like the accelerometer didn't even show up in the list.
- For a couple of months now, once in a while (at each ~2 weeks), I find my Nexus 5 powered off, and bricked (the boot process stops at the Google logo)
- Each time, flashing the original images worked (simply using flash-all.sh)
- After one of these flashes, I had no wifi. Flashing the original image did not work. Rooting/installing TWRP recovery, erasing cache, etc. did not work. I finally got it to work by installing a custom ROM, and never understood why it worked.
- Device bricked again, flashed the original image back. Wifi still works, but no SIM card detected. Absolutely no sensors are detected. The device reboots after a couple of minutes. This is where I am now.
What I tested so far :
- Rooting the device, running e2fsck on the partitions, some of them showed errors. None of them show bad sectors.
- Moving the content of /persist (to try to fix the SIM card problem)
- Flashing custom ROM, stock ROM, old ROM, different radio, etc.
- Removing/inserting the SIM card
I really am out of ideas, does anybody have ideas that I could test? I'm starting to think that I have an hardware issue but I still hope to repair the device... The issues started to appear right after the guarantee was expired.
EDIT: I found many threads about power button issues, however right now if I boot to Android the device reboots after few minutes, but when the phone is in TWRP recovery it stays open and never reboot. I therefore think that the reboot problem is not related with the power button.

Flashed stock ROM -> SIM card not detected

EDIT: Disregard the rest of the post. Restoring the stock ROM and then installing the OTA apparently fixed the issue for me.
G7 Power user here, with Magisk.
Recently I tried to install the new OTA update, so I followed the Magisk tutorial with the Uninstall -> Restore Images, then Install -> Install to Inactive Slot and all that. Magisk had some issues unpacking the zip at first, but it eventually worked, so I rebooted as per instructions.
Then I got bootlooped. I was warned that might happen once or twice after updating, but no, this was a genuine bootloop, lasted forever. Disheartened, I figured my only option was to reflash the stock ROM completely (as flashing just the unpatched boot.img didn't help) and work my way up from there again.
But when I did that, suddenly my phone stopped detecting my SIM card. No matter which slot I put it in, no matter how many times I turned the phone on and off, the airplane mode on and off, it remained unresponsive. My IMEI is blank, even when I use the *#06#. Dialing the *#*#64663#*#* code, which I've seen as a suggestion to solve the issue, doesn't work either, it just returns me to the dial-up screen.
I've tried every solution I could find online. Some of them led me to more bootlopping, some of them simply added a "system integrity compromised" message that prevented updates and most had no effect. I'm not sure where the problem lies in the first place... Any ideas on what I could do? Any help would be much appreciated.

Debugging J7 Prime Restart issue

Pardon for a long story but someone gave this Samsung J7 Prime(SM-G610F) to me with an issue "An Error Has Occurred While Updating The Device Software". So I gave Samsung Smart Switch a try sadly they removed the Initialize option and old version don't seam to do what it suppose to do so I wen to a traditional Odin flashing. I then look for a stock rom for the phone that I think is the right one. Started with android 6 MM region pakistan and flashing went well. I was able to use it for a good hour or two until I notice it restarted by it self, then it keeps doing it 10-20 seconds after booting up. I though its the firmware I'm using so I went and look for Oreo version this time I region india (I don't know if region matters). So I flashed it again and tested the device again. I'm still able to use it for a good while till it restarted again. I then keep testing it to see what may be causing the problem. I notice that when the WIFI is on it just crash the phone to reboot so as soon as the phone reboots I turned the wifi off and it didn't crash anymore. I then factory reset the phone cleared everything, wipe cache then installed benchmark tools first. Thing I notice is it crashes when Google Play store is trying to install or download something. I tested it a couple of times to see when it crash and it does crash when downloading or installing something. I was still able to install 3Dmark and run it with wifi off. It completed the test without crashing so it couldn't the processor issue. I then look for another rom and tried flashing it. This time I had issue with it failing at system.img even if I use recent rom that worked. I then keep trying till flashing TWRP worked and flashing the rest of the rom is fine again.
What bothers me is why doesn't it crash during the first couple of hours. I've search similar issues and they say it may have been and app issue. I've already disabled bunch of app but nothing changed. Run the phone in safe mode but this time instead of crashing and rebooting right away it freezes for a few seconds. I suspect if google play or something being an issue since I've tried disabling it and it didn't crash for a couple of hours. Looked for allot of related thread but none of them seam to solve my problem.
I suspect either its the rom that I'm using and it can only be fixed by using the original rom, or its having a memory issue but don't know how to pin point it. Anyone can suggest on how I can debug this? I'm used to debugging things in real time and my knowledge with android is a quite slim but as a programming understanding the errors won't be a problem. I hope.
Edit: Hmm. Does copying kernel log with TWRP work or the kernel logs get overwritten every time the phone reboots? Because I see the kernet logs but don't see anything failing except for something saying SHUTDOWN but I don't think thats it. :S
Still no reply. :S I think its /system dismounting it self while doing a write operation. but it doesn't trigger until a certain amount of time after the phone is flashed or factory reset. I have to go to recovery and mount system back but that only happens on marshmallow. over version it remounts it self after the random reboot. After factory reset I'm able to install COD mobile and play a couple of match. after a long while it just decides to reboot.
I also tried z3x and after reading PIT from phone OK. the phone just reboots and flashing completes without it doing any flashing.

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