Well guys, I think I did it. I think I really did brick my Honor 8.
Phone details: New Honor 8, Model is FRD-AL10.
It came with the Chinese ROM, locked. What I did was to unlock it with DC unlocker, flash TWRP as custom recovery and root it.
Later, I had some problems with installing Open Gapps so I decided that I will flash a custom ROM unto it. What I chose was this RROS. I followed all of the instructions, made sure my EMUI was up to date, deleted all of my fingerprints (although I did not disable the PIN lock). I performed a factory reset using TWRP, flashed RROS and started facing errors.
Trying to power up the phone I found out it was going into bootloop, not able to start up. Only recovery available was not TWRP, but the default Huawei eRecovery, that lets you restore the phone using the Wi-Fi to download the needed files. Panicking for my new phone, I tried to restore my phone this way, only when it completed the download it failed restoring.
I have tried to unbrick my phone using the Honor 8 Multi-Tool: flashing BOOT.img, CUST.img, Recovery, USERDATA.img and SYSTEM.img. The firmware I downloaded and extracted UPDATE.app from is this: FRD-AL10_C00B135_Firmware_China_Nonspecific_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_05013LBP.zip.
The Multi-Tool's log is this:
Code:
12:51:55: All images are found, everything is ready for the unbricking process.
12:52:01: Unbricking started. Your computer may freezes during the process.
12:52:01: flash boot "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\boot.img"
12:52:03: The Boot image is flashing successfully
12:52:03: flash system "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\system.img"
12:55:09: target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending sparse 'system' 1/6 (413881 KB)...
OKAY [ 30.117s]
writing 'system' 1/6...
FAILED (remote: sparse flash write failure)
finished. total time: 30.164s
12:55:09: Error#1
12:55:09: flash cust "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\cust.img"
12:55:28: Error! You are trying to flash the wrong image!
12:55:28: flash recovery "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\recovery.img"
12:55:31: The Recovery image is flashing successfully
12:55:31: flash userdata "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\userdata.img"
12:55:38: target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'userdata' (143361 KB)...
OKAY [ 4.183s]
writing 'userdata'...
(bootloader) success to erase cryypt info in oeminfo
OKAY [ 1.275s]
finished. total time: 5.458s
12:55:38: Error#1
12:55:38: Completed
12:55:38: Something went wrong (((
As you see, SYSTEM.img cannot be written for some reason, and CUST.img is for some reason the wrong file.
I also tried to flash UPDATE.app using a microSD card and the Volume up+Volume down+Power combination, but it fails after 5%, Saying:
Code:
Software install failed!
Incompatibility with current version.
Please download the correct update package.
So either my phone is completely dead, or I am missing something here.
Can anyone help me restore my phone to normal function?
you need to find the rollback package, you had android 7 but you're trying to flash android 6
I tried to root by flashing the patched boot image as describe in https://forum.xda-developers.com/ho...agisk-root-honor-view-10-mate-10-pro-t3749280. After that, the phone went into a bootloop.
When I get to the eRecovery screen, I tried 'Download latest version and recovery.' It got to 'getting package information from server' but then stopped with 'getting package info failed.'
I then tried 'Wipe data/factory reset' and it rebooted but nothing changed.
I don't know what else to try with this phone. None of the current versions of twrp would run on it. I've never bricked a device in years of rooting.
thecdn said:
I tried to root by flashing the patched boot image as describe in https://forum.xda-developers.com/ho...gisk-root-honor-view-10-mate-10-pro-t3749280. After that, the phone went into a bootloop.
When I get to the eRecovery screen, I tried 'Download latest version and recovery.' It got to 'getting package information from server' but then stopped with 'getting package info failed.'
I then tried 'Wipe data/factory reset' and it rebooted but nothing changed.
I don't know what else to try with this phone. None of the current versions of twrp would run on it. I've never bricked a device in years of rooting.
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You need to restore your original ramdisk. Also, you have to patch your own ramdisk.img with Magisk Manager if you want to try rooting your device.
And btw, this is a development forum, not General or Q&A one. Read carefully before trying to mod this device, or you will end up with an expensive brick.
please contact me on hangouts i may be able to help [email protected]
You can download the appropriate images to restore your device below. These are for the US variant (BKL-L04)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
Edit: Link updated
[email protected]_USA said:
You can download the appropriate images to restore your device below. These are for the US variant (BKL-L04)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kf...yiH2t-srYBBvN3
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I"m getting a web page not found 404 when I try that link.
thecdn said:
I"m getting a web page not found 404 when I try that link.
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Same
thecdn said:
I"m getting a web page not found 404 when I try that link.
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freeza said:
Same
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look like chris didnt updated the link,
bdw here you guys go https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
I flashed the system.img and the recovery_ramdisk.img. It booted to the eRecovery screen again.
I tried 'Download latest version and recovery' and it failed with the 'getting package info failed' error again.
I then tried 'Wipe data/factory reset' and unlike before, it actually went through and said it was successfully completed. But then it rebooted twice and went back to the eRecovery screen again.
Any ideas on how to proceed from here?
ETA: When I pressed vol up/power after this it went to a screen which said 'software install failed' instead of the recovery screen I thougt it would go to. After the first time, pressing vol up/power goes to the EMUI screen with the options of 'Reboot' 'Wipe data/factory reset' and 'Wipe cache partition.'
thecdn said:
I flashed the system.img and the recovery_ramdisk.img. It booted to the eRecovery screen again.
I tried 'Download latest version and recovery' and it failed with the 'getting package info failed' error again.
I then tried 'Wipe data/factory reset' and unlike before, it actually went through and said it was successfully completed. But then it rebooted twice and went back to the eRecovery screen again.
Any ideas on how to proceed from here?
ETA: When I pressed vol up/power after this it went to a screen which said 'software install failed' instead of the recovery screen I thougt it would go to. After the first time, pressing vol up/power goes to the EMUI screen with the options of 'Reboot' 'Wipe data/factory reset' and 'Wipe cache partition.'
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You need to restore ramdisk, not recovery_ramdisk.
Pretoriano80 said:
You need to restore ramdisk, not recovery_ramdisk.
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I did 'fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img' and it still does a couple of reboots and then goes back to the EMUI screen with the recovery/reset/reboot/shutdown options.
In summary, this morning I did:
'fastboot flash system system.img' which resulted in 7 occurances of 'sending sparse system x/7 (xxxx KB)...' - which I have never seen before but all finished with OKAY
'fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdisk.img'
'fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img'
Is there something else I could do or redo in a particular order?
thecdn said:
I did 'fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img' and it still does a couple of reboots and then goes back to the EMUI screen with the recovery/reset/reboot/shutdown options.
In summary, this morning I did:
'fastboot flash system system.img' which resulted in 7 occurances of 'sending sparse system x/7 (xxxx KB)...' - which I have never seen before but all finished with OKAY
'fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdisk.img'
'fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img'
Is there something else I could do or redo in a particular order?
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Try to also flash kernel : fastboot flash kernel kernel.img
Pretoriano80 said:
Try to also flash kernel : fastboot flash kernel kernel.img
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No joy yet but I do appreciate all the help.
thecdn said:
No joy yet but I do appreciate all the help.
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Did you tried a factory reset from stock recovery?
Pretoriano80 said:
Did you tried a factory reset from stock recovery?
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I've tried two factory resets after completing the above mentioned actions. Both times reported they were successful it still won't boot to the os, goes to the EMUI screen after several boot attempts.
Same problem here on a US BKL-L04 =(
I flashed a magisk modified ramdisk.img and have been in bootloop ever since.
I've downloaded and flashed recovery_ramdisk.img, ramdisk.img, and kernel.img from the link earlier in this thread: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
I've then did "Wipe data/factory reset" from Huawei eRecovery - no luck
$ fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'ramdisk' (16384 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.401s]
writing 'ramdisk'...
OKAY [ 0.083s]
finished. total time: 0.484s
$ fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdisk.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery_ramdisk' (32768 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.807s]
writing 'recovery_ramdisk'...
OKAY [ 0.164s]
finished. total time: 0.971s
sek stock2 $ fastboot flash kernel kernel.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'kernel' (24576 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.615s]
writing 'kernel'...
OKAY [ 0.128s]
finished. total time: 0.745s
Aside from fastboot happing very quickly (< 1 second even for 32 meg recovery_ramdisk.img) everything seems to work fine... The phone just no longer boots - it trys a few times - displaying the "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" screen for quite a while and the non-animated blue honor screen briefly and then ends up in EMUI eRecovery.
Are these files still up to date? Or perhaps there were newer versions on my phone and that's why flashing the older ones isn't working?
Also worth noting, I'm flashing from a mac with Android sdk fastbook:
$ fastboot --version
fastboot version 0.0.1-4500957
Installed as /Users/sek/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/fastboot
Thanks for any help / tips!
akasek said:
I flashed a magisk modified ramdisk.img and have been in bootloop ever since.
I've downloaded and flashed recovery_ramdisk.img, ramdisk.img, and kernel.img from the link earlier in this thread: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
I've then did "Wipe data/factory reset" from Huawei eRecovery - no luck
$ fastboot flash ramdisk ramdisk.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'ramdisk' (16384 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.401s]
writing 'ramdisk'...
OKAY [ 0.083s]
finished. total time: 0.484s
$ fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk recovery_ramdisk.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery_ramdisk' (32768 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.807s]
writing 'recovery_ramdisk'...
OKAY [ 0.164s]
finished. total time: 0.971s
sek stock2 $ fastboot flash kernel kernel.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'kernel' (24576 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.615s]
writing 'kernel'...
OKAY [ 0.128s]
finished. total time: 0.745s
Aside from fastboot happing very quickly (< 1 second even for 32 meg recovery_ramdisk.img) everything seems to work fine... The phone just no longer boots - it trys a few times - displaying the "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" screen for quite a while and the non-animated blue honor screen briefly and then ends up in EMUI eRecovery.
Are these files still up to date? Or perhaps there were newer versions on my phone and that's why flashing the older ones isn't working?
Also worth noting, I'm flashing from a mac with Android sdk fastbook:
$ fastboot --version
fastboot version 0.0.1-4500957
Installed as /Users/sek/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/fastboot
Thanks for any help / tips!
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Flash stock kernel, ramdisk and recovery ramdisk for your model in fastboot and you'll be able to boot again
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/development/tool-flash-official-firmware-recovery-t3769279
Use this tool for flash full fw
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Thanks for the info, that tool looks interesting. Where can I get the stock files for BKL-L04 US version Honor View 10?
I have now tried flashing kernel, ramdisk, recovery_ramdisk and system from both of these sources:
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
- http://arter97.com/browse/v10/stock/BKL-L04/
They all appear to flash fine. I tried flashing vendor.img as well, but get an error on that:
$ fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magic
sending sparse 'vendor' 1/2 (445713 KB)...
OKAY [ 9.718s]
writing 'vendor' 1/2...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 9.724s
It still doesn't want to boot. I end up in eRecovery each time.
I am able to flash TWRP from Pretoriano80: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-view-10/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3769917
It seems to be working properly, perhaps that helps me somehow?
Finally back up and running - Thanks Tecalote!
FYI: I am finally back up and running - Tecalote's post worked perfectly (and BKL-L04 update zips are linked earlier in the thread also): https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76331841&postcount=46
akasek said:
Thanks for the info, that tool looks interesting. Where can I get the stock files for BKL-L04 US version Honor View 10?
I have now tried flashing kernel, ramdisk, recovery_ramdisk and system from both of these sources:
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
- http://arter97.com/browse/v10/stock/BKL-L04/
They all appear to flash fine. I tried flashing vendor.img as well, but get an error on that:
$ fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magic
sending sparse 'vendor' 1/2 (445713 KB)...
OKAY [ 9.718s]
writing 'vendor' 1/2...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 9.724s
It still doesn't want to boot. I end up in eRecovery each time.
I am able to flash TWRP from Pretoriano80: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-view-10/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3769917
It seems to be working properly, perhaps that helps me somehow?
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akasek said:
Thanks for the info, that tool looks interesting. Where can I get the stock files for BKL-L04 US version Honor View 10?
I have now tried flashing kernel, ramdisk, recovery_ramdisk and system from both of these sources:
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kfNAjIwiMj8wpeDuJayiH2t-srYBBvN3
- http://arter97.com/browse/v10/stock/BKL-L04/
They all appear to flash fine. I tried flashing vendor.img as well, but get an error on that:
$ fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magic
sending sparse 'vendor' 1/2 (445713 KB)...
OKAY [ 9.718s]
writing 'vendor' 1/2...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 9.724s
It still doesn't want to boot. I end up in eRecovery each time.
I am able to flash TWRP from Pretoriano80: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-view-10/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3769917
It seems to be working properly, perhaps that helps me somehow?
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try to install twrp and then do hruupdate from twrp
get your files from firmware finder and search xda forums to how to install those files
its very easy and your system will be back in stock format
after that you can try to root and install custom rom
thecdn said:
No joy yet but I do appreciate all the help.
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Hi, what helped you there? I have a similar situation.
"Hi,
I need some advice on what can be done with my Honor View10 as it keeps gracing a bootloop followed by fasrboot mode.
Mine is a C675 variant and I was on 190 when I decided to unroot and update the device to 218. Once that was done, I flashed a patched recovery_ramdisk boot image that was patched using magisk to support it. Worked fine. Did a reboot and it got stuck in a bootloop.
I have tried flashing other patch.imgs too, due instance tried extracting recovery.img of the current version of rom, flashed it, no luck!
Tried flashing the patched version of that, still did not help.
I am on EMUI9, any help please?
Also can anyone help me with the link of one of the latest versions of C675 update please? "
This is what happened to me
I successfully unlocked the bootloader, flashed TWRP, and installed SuperSU, but now I sold my Mate 9, and the guy would like it back to stock. I extracted RECOVERY.img (the stock recovery) from Update.zip, and used the command: fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY.img and got this output:
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery_ramdisk' (54884 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.749s]
writing 'recovery_ramdisk'...
FAILED (remote: partition error)
finished. total time: 1.796s
Any suggestions come to mind what I may be doing wrong?
No, you can not do that. You can use erecovery to back stock or use dload method (https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/how-to/guide-rebrand-chinese-al00-mate9-to-t3554656)
gazavn said:
No, you can not do that. You can use erecovery to back stock or use dload method (https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/how-to/guide-rebrand-chinese-al00-mate9-to-t3554656)
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With all due respect, don't think all that is necessary. I have been following this comprehensive guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/how-to/hacking-customizing-managing-huawei-t3589996
and this fellow says I should be able to simply extract the recovery.img from update.zip, and fastboot flash it. If I'm not mistaken you are talking about rebranding it as if I were going to update the phone. I'm not trying to be combative, just seems like a lot of monkeying around...
UPDATE:
I was using the wrong image. I had confused an UPDATE.APP from a different file. Plus I had an olde version of HuaWei Update Extractor. The correct .img file was labeled recovery_ramdis.img, I had been trying RECOVERY.img.
Hello all, I never thought I will be posting here.
I need help with my Oneplus one 64Gb version.
I am struck with No OS & Twrp 2.8.6.0.
Twrp is not able to mount otg-usb,
I have tried flashing rom through Fastboot via Bacon root toolkit, It gives error (
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'boot' (7806 KB)...
FAILED (data transfer failure (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 6.209s
&
Sometimes the error is too many links & sometimes its giving write command error.
error: cannot load 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Bacon Root Toolkit\data\Factory_Images\potato_bacon-9-20180818.Baked-v2.0.MASHED\emmc_appsboot.mbn'
I am even unable to flash new recovery, so that I can mount otg-usb drive.
I have also tried manually flashing the phone via fastboot but it just stuck there for hours on command window without any progress.
I will be really thankful to any one who can help me flash ROM to the phone.
Thanks
Hi.
After trying to upgrade my rooted P20 eml-l09 c605 with EMUI 9.x, I couln't get into recovery mode anymore (on button + vol up)
What I did was flash original ramdis.img and recovery_ramdis.img to unroot it, so i could upgrade it directly from the phone, but something bad happened so I couldn't get the recovey menu anymore.
Help please.
PS: (Bootloader is unlocked)
This message appears when I try to flash recovery_ramdisk
- Flashing TWRP recovery
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'recovery_ramdisk' (23542 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.577s]
writing 'recovery_ramdisk'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.590s
Where did you find the original ramdisk image from?
I need it too because i accidently flashed a TWRP version that doesent work
I can't flash anything, even with the original ramdisk (downloaded from firmware finder).
I really don't know what to do.
My phone is an EML-L09C605, it is working and rooted.
Only I can get to fastboot menu.
I still haven't got a solution but, Is downgrading it the way to follow?
Help please.