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restore back to stock cm-12.0-YNG1TAS2I3 using toolkit

is it safe to restore back to cm-12.0-YNG1TAS2I3, i am currently on Resurrection Remix Rom 5.1.1, was wondering just starting fresh and going back to stock, anything special i need to do to my phone, i am assuming it will revert back to stock recovery and will this relock the bootloader? thank u.

Bradl79 said:
is it safe to restore back to cm-12.0-YNG1TAS2I3, i am currently on Resurrection Remix Rom 5.1.1, was wondering just starting fresh and going back to stock, anything special i need to do to my phone, i am assuming it will revert back to stock recovery and will this relock the bootloader? thank u.
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Do you mean restoring a TWRP backup? It won't touch your recovery or your bootloader. Just make sure you wipe properly (system, data, cache, dalvik cache) before restoring.

no doing a full clean restore to stock cm12s, from toolkit

Bradl79 said:
no doing a full clean restore to stock cm12s, from toolkit
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Don't use a toolkit, they're nothing but trouble and inevitably cause problems. It's perfectly safe to flash the cm-12.0-YNG1TAS2I3 stock images and you'll find detailed instructions in my guide thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471

Or you can use my re-packaged factory images. It's all automated using a flash-all.bat similar to Nexus devices. Literally a one-click option (with the manual option available too)

EddyOS said:
Or you can use my re-packaged factory images. It's all automated using a flash-all.bat similar to Nexus devices. Literally a one-click option (with the manual option available too)
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Does your automated script have the "fastboot reboot-bootloader" command between each flash?

Heisenberg said:
Does your automated script have the "fastboot reboot-bootloader" command between each flash?
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Nope, I've removed all that and they now work (tested on my own OPO)

EddyOS said:
Nope, I've removed all that and they now work (tested on my own OPO)
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Awesome, I know that rebooting between flashes was causing bricks for some people so that's good to know.

Heisenberg said:
Awesome, I know that rebooting between flashes was causing bricks for some people so that's good to know.
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Yeah, heard that myself so re-did them. I've only posted the latest CM12S images as I've not the time to go through al the others!

EddyOS said:
Or you can use my re-packaged factory images. It's all automated using a flash-all.bat similar to Nexus devices. Literally a one-click option (with the manual option available too)
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thank u both for the info, on ur reflash back to stock does it flash stock recovery and relock bootloader? and could i just reflash twrp?

Bradl79 said:
thank u both for the info, on ur reflash back to stock does it flash stock recovery and relock bootloader? and could i just reflash twrp?
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I think @EddyOS's script does relock the bootloader, which you definitely don't want because once relocked sometimes it won't unlock again. He'll need to confirm that though. It definitely flashes the stock recovery but you can flash TWRP again.

Heisenberg said:
I think @EddyOS's script does relock the bootloader, which you definitely don't want because once relocked sometimes it won't unlock again. He'll need to confirm that though. It definitely flashes the stock recovery but you can flash TWRP again.
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It doesn't relock, no. I link to a script that does if you want to though

No that's OK I do not want to relock it, thank u both for all ur help

Nexus 5 bootloops even after doing a factory reset?

I tried to get rid of root by going into the supersu app and clicking the uninstall option. It then rebooted, but it went into a bootloop. I already wiped multiple times but nothing happened.
Could it be because of xposed being installed?
Thanks.

Was stock recovery used to perform the factory reset?

audit13 said:
Was stock recovery used to perform the factory reset?
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No, I used TWRP to do it. v2.8.7.0 I think.

Try with stock recovery.

audit13 said:
Try with stock recovery.
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How would I uninstall TWRP recovery?

Flash the recovery.img file that is included with the stock rom. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.

audit13 said:
Flash the recovery.img file that is included with the stock rom. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
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Hmm, still boot loops. Am I forced to just reflash the fctory image?

Since it still bootloops, I recommend flashing back to a completely stock ROM to make sure the phone still functions properly.

audit13 said:
Since it still bootloops, I recommend flashing back to a completely stock ROM to make sure the phone still functions properly.
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Dang. I wish I wouldn't have to wipe my files, but there aren't That many important stuff. Thanks.

audit13 said:
Since it still bootloops, I recommend flashing back to a completely stock ROM to make sure the phone still functions properly.
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Sorry for this, but could you also help me install nonsystemless root? systemless causes trouble with layers so it would be very nice if you could help.
Thanks

Which rom is on the phone? For stock LP, flash supersu from twrp. Many custom mm ROMs are prerooted.

audit13 said:
Which rom is on the phone? For stock LP, flash supersu from twrp. Many custom mm ROMs are prerooted.
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Wait the nonsystemless root is gotten by just flashing it? I always thought it was the other way.
Thanks so so so much for your help!

[HELP] Completely lost and out of ideas

So I've got my phone into a useless bootloop.
I unlocked and rooted without much issue except that I lost Google Play Services somehow during the process. I tried a factory wipe from TWRP to see if that made a difference but I think that wiped system.
I've tried the dload method with updates but nothing has worked so far - they all fail at 5%, one got to 33% and failed.
I've tried flashing custom roms, but I don't think there's a system to flash them to.
I've tried the erecovery, obviously that does nothing.
I've tried extracting the update.app and flashing boot, system and recovery, boot flashes but system doesn't, no matter what update I use. I don't want to lose TWRP because at the moment that's too valuable to me.
I need help. I'm out of ideas. I don't have a clue what to try next. I can't use FunkyHuawei.
Edit: I should have mentioned, my model is MHA-L09

d_bo said:
So I've got my phone into a useless bootloop.
I unlocked and rooted without much issue except that I lost Google Play Services somehow during the process. I tried a factory wipe from TWRP to see if that made a difference but I think that wiped system.
I've tried the dload method with updates but nothing has worked so far - they all fail at 5%, one got to 33% and failed.
I've tried flashing custom roms, but I don't think there's a system to flash them to.
I've tried the erecovery, obviously that does nothing.
I've tried extracting the update.app and flashing boot, system and recovery, boot flashes but system doesn't, no matter what update I use. I don't want to lose TWRP because at the moment that's too valuable to me.
I need help. I'm out of ideas. I don't have a clue what to try next. I can't use FunkyHuawei.
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hi,currently thr is only 2 region thats have offline dload files which is C636 and AL00,so may i know you r currently running which version?

I should have mentioned, sorry, it's MHA-L09

eddmecha said:
hi,currently thr is only 2 region thats have offline dload files which is C636 and AL00,so may i know you r currently running which version?
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I should have mentioned, sorry, it's MHA-L09

I had to flash stock recovery to get erecovery to work
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

tusvik said:
I had to flash stock recovery to get erecovery to work
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Did it work?

d_bo said:
Did it work?
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Yes everything is working fine
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

I'll try it as soon as I get a chance. If it works I'll buy you a coffee!

how did you get back to stock recovery? I'm on the same boat; can't do anything.. Mine is L29C185B138 if that makes a difference..

I tok a canse and downloaded a stock rom for the mate 8 and used Huawei update extractor tool to get the recovery file.
Used adb to push the file to the phone and it worked fine.
It was a gamble but I was completely stuck to and didn't now what else to try.
I take no responsibility if you try it
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

tusvik said:
Yes everything is working fine
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Didn't work for me. Stock recovery flashed fine but ERecovery still does nothing. Just tries to connect and fails almost immediately.
Are you in the UK? On Three?

d_bo said:
Didn't work for me. Stock recovery flashed fine but ERecovery still does nothing. Just tries to connect and fails almost immediately.
Are you in the UK? On Three?
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I am in Norway on Telenor
Can you boot up your phone at all?
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

Did you Format Data in TWRP?
Unless you wiped something else you shouldn't be bricked.
Also, why can't you use Funky?

ante0 said:
Did you Format Data in TWRP?
Unless you wiped something else you shouldn't be bricked.
Also, why can't you use Funky?
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I did factory reset in TWRP, but modifications to /system were enabled so my guess is I wiped /system.
I did format data afterwards, with/system modification off.
I tried extracting /system from update.app with the Huawei Extractor program but fastboot won't load system.img for whatever reason.
Re: Funky, I can't afford it.

tusvik said:
I am in Norway on Telenor
Can you boot up your phone at all?
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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I can boot into recovery, eRecovery or a bootloop that ends in eRecovery, which doesn't work. I can't boot into Android.

d_bo said:
I did factory reset in TWRP, but modifications to /system were enabled so my guess is I wiped /system.
I did format data afterwards, with/system modification off.
I tried extracting /system from update.app with the Huawei Extractor program but fastboot won't load system.img for whatever reason.
Re: Funky, I can't afford it.
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Ah, Factory reset. Yeah that apparently you shouldn't do. I don't know why as it's only supposed to wipe data and cache, but it seems to wipe more stuff as well.
What's your full model and build? MHA-L09CxxByy
Also:https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70781892&postcount=4
I guess you could try the SHIELD ROM under custom roms, that should at least get you back into your phone.
If not your only option is Funky or wait til we get more offline dload roms. Or rebrand and install one of the 2 existing offline dloads.

ante0 said:
Ah, Factory reset. Yeah that apparently you shouldn't do. I don't know why as it's only supposed to wipe data and cache, but it seems to wipe more stuff as well.
What's your full model and build? MHA-L09CxxByy
Also:https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70781892&postcount=4
I guess you could try the SHIELD ROM under custom roms, that should at least get you back into your phone.
If not your only option is Funky or wait til we get more offline dload roms. Or rebrand and install one of the 2 existing offline dloads.
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MHA-L09C432B126
I did try the Shield ROM, it still couldn't boot.

d_bo said:
MHA-L09C432B126
I did try the Shield ROM, it still couldn't boot.
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I used the Huawei firmware finder Android app but I was able to boot the phone.
I see they have a windows app to but haven't tried it.
I would do as do as ante0 recommend and use funky that works with erecovery
Sent from my LON-L29 using XDA-Developers Legacy app

d_bo said:
MHA-L09C432B126
I did try the Shield ROM, it still couldn't boot.
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If you did a backup in twrp you could try flashing that to boot up the phone, you may also need to flash the public and hw-data zips for your firmware version as well, then you could update in phone settings and factory reset in stock recovery to get everything working.
You could also try to use the dload method with the C636 offline firmware to get your phone to boot up. Then use firmware finder to install L09C432B126 for your phone. Then factory reset in stock recovery. Then use the update in phone settings to update to the latest B138 and then B156 for L09C432. This is what I had to do once when in a boot loop. Then you can unlock bootloader, flash twrp, format data, flash decrypted L09C432B156 boot.img, flash superuser, and flash public and hw-data zips for L09C432B156 to get everything working
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ante0 said:
Ah, Factory reset. Yeah that apparently you shouldn't do. I don't know why as it's only supposed to wipe data and cache, but it seems to wipe more stuff as well.
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If you're interesting...
Data partition has three things which must not be cleared.
/data/cust - symlink to /cust/hw/your_customization
/data/custom.bin - text config with your_customization
/data/product.bin - text config with model name
When you doing factory reset in TWRP, it is deleting all above. But without this info, phone will not boot up.

Downgrade from 9.0.2 to 9.0.1?

Hi, just tried to do this by flashing the old zip trough TWRP, but i always end to boot in recovery, maybe i'm doing something wrong...?

I tried this today and happened the same, i guess you have to clean flash to downgrade.
Also a tip, if you got stuck in recovery and yet cannot decrypt (doesn't ask for password/pin in TWRP), boot to fastboot mode, use the command "fastboot boot <the img file name for twrp>" so that you can boot directly to the img file from your PC. This way it will ask for your password.

Killua96 said:
Hi, just tried to do this by flashing the old zip trough TWRP, but i always end to boot in recovery, maybe i'm doing something wrong...?
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You might try flashing again when you get booted back to TWRP. That way, you can get 9.01 flashed to both slots if it's not already. No guarantees, but it's worth a try.

maigre said:
You might try flashing again when you get booted back to TWRP. That way, you can get 9.01 flashed to both slots if it's not already. No guarantees, but it's worth a try.
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I tried this way too but keep getting booted back to TWRP. Even did a wipe of the caches, system and data (not internal storage).
Is there anything I can still try?

jiatern said:
I tried this way too but keep getting booted back to TWRP. Even did a wipe of the caches, system and data (not internal storage).
Is there anything I can still try?
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Flash Magisk again.

maigre said:
Flash Magisk again.
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I did as well but it didn't help. Still the same.

jiatern said:
I did as well but it didn't help. Still the same.
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Backup all your data outside the phone and flash a fastboot rom, it worked with me stuck in fastboot and I got back from that horrible 9.0.2

Killua96 said:
Backup all your data outside the phone and flash a fastboot rom, it worked with me stuck in fastboot and I got back from that horrible 9.0.2
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Why horrible?

PuCiNhOOO said:
Why horrible?
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Keyboard continuously crash 'cause the new gesture system, that have longer animations and the recent app one loses the vibration feedback and it' s also a lot confusing.
Anyway you can read the same things in the ota's thread, unfortunately are widespread problems

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Killua96 said:
Keyboard continuously crash 'cause the new gesture system, that have longer animations and the recent app one loses the vibration feedback and it' s also a lot confusing.
Anyway you can read the same things in the ota's thread, unfortunately are widespread problems
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I think they pushed the update too fast from beta to stable... But yes, agree with the gestures bug... Its a fact, but the other stuff is good

Killua96 said:
Backup all your data outside the phone and flash a fastboot rom, it worked with me stuck in fastboot and I got back from that horrible 9.0.2
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Can you link me to the exact fastboot rom you flashed? Some said I have to use the downgrade zip from OnePlus to Oreo 5.1.1 then only upgrade to 9.0.1. The OP of the fastboot rom said the rom is not for downgrading.
Did you downgrade to Oreo first or directly flash the 9.0.1 fastboot rom?

jiatern said:
Can you link me to the exact fastboot rom you flashed? Some said I have to use the downgrade zip from OnePlus to Oreo 5.1.1 then only upgrade to 9.0.1. The OP of the fastboot rom said the rom is not for downgrading.
Did you downgrade to Oreo first or directly flash the 9.0.1 fastboot rom?
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I've wiped everything, then downgraded to Pie directly, but I was in a slightly different situation (only fastboot available).
Just to be sure flash the Oreo one and then upgrade to Pie.

With the whole A/B partition layout it should be easier to downgrade too right?

Question Does installing twrp wipe my data?

I recently unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone via magisk and this of course wiped my data and factory resetted it. I unfortunately forgot to install twrp before I setup and restore my phone's data. Now I want to install twrp but too lazy to resetup my phone again in case my data gets wiped again. So my question is does installing twrp wipe my data if my device has already unlocked the bootloader and rooted. Thanks in advance. (I have an international SM-A536E)

iintc said:
I recently unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone via magisk and this of course wiped my data and factory resetted it. I unfortunately forgot to install twrp before I setup and restore my phone's data. Now I want to install twrp but too lazy to resetup my phone again in case my data gets wiped again. So my question is does installing twrp wipe my data if my device has already unlocked the bootloader and rooted. Thanks in advance. (I have an international SM-A536E)
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No it doesn't, but a pro tip is: if you're on one ui 5.1 don't install twrp as it doesn't work.

TringQuack said:
No it doesn't, but a pro tip is: if you're on one ui 5.1 don't install twrp as it doesn't work.
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Oh, twrp apparently doesn't work on one ui 5.1? That's interesting. Anyhow, thanks.

iintc said:
Oh, twrp apparently doesn't work on one ui 5.1? That's interesting. Anyhow, thanks.
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it works now, go check out the twrp thread by afaneh, follow the instructions and make sure you download the latest kernel.

TringQuack said:
it works now, go check out the twrp thread by afaneh, follow the instructions and make sure you download the latest kernel.
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This thread? https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/recovery-unofficial-twrp-for-galaxy-a53-5g-exynos.4467443/ btw if so, how do I disable the encryption? Where is the Advanced option in "Go to Advanced > Terminal, type: multidisabler"?