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Bricked after unlocking bootloader

Hi all,
Just having right now a BIG problem with my all new N5. I have received it a few hours ago.
I have just turned it on one time: the phone downloaded and installed an update, and I have configured my google account. After that, and before installing any app, I decided to unlock my bootloader.
Here is exactly what I have done se far:
- downloaded the ZIP archive by chainfire (CF-Auto-root tool) from this thread
- unzipped it,
- I just ran then: sudo chmod +x tools/fastboot-mac
- Then, I boot the N5 in fastboot mode
- And finally: sudo tools/fastboot-mac oem unlock
So, here, my phone asked me (on the screen) if I was sure to unlock the bootloader. I clicked on yes, and then :
- the screen turned off,
- I got on the shell:
... ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory))
Since, my phone does not respond to anything, the power button has no effect. It just seems off, and I can not turn it on.
So, any idea on what has just happened? I was just unlocking the bootloader through fastboot, so no heavy tweaking here...
Any help would be buch appreciated, but I have the feeling that my N5 is now a (pretty) brick...

Did you have all the drivers?
Can you get to bootloader?

pert_S said:
Did you have all the drivers?
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Up to my knowledge, no driver is required on a mac.
pert_S said:
Can you get to bootloader?
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No, and that's what makes me think my Nexus is dead. The device does not respond to the power button at all.

sylar12 said:
Up to my knowledge, no driver is required on a mac.
No, and that's what makes me think my Nexus is dead. The device does not respond to the power button at all.
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Oh I see. I've never used a Mac for these things before but have you asked for help in the CF thread?

Do you see the battery icon when you plug your phone in? Try it a few times and see if the icon will show up.

pert_S said:
Oh I see. I've never used a Mac for these things before but have you asked for help in the CF thread?
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Yep. No response so far, but the problem appears a few hours ago only.
I'm pretty sure my bootloader is corrupted. But does that prevent the device to power on?

Any other idea?

sylar12 said:
Any other idea?
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If you can't do anything to it, then RMA. Google won't know you did something to it, because they won't be able to boot it too.

abaaaabbbb63 said:
If you can't do anything to it, then RMA. Google won't know you did something to it, because they won't be able to boot it too.
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I have contacted google, RMA should be OK.
But I would like to understant what happened: is this because I tried to unlock from a mac? A what is the meaning of:
... ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory))
Just in case it could allow people to not have the same problem

sylar12 said:
Hi all,
Just having right now a BIG problem with my all new N5. I have received it a few hours ago.
I have just turned it on one time: the phone downloaded and installed an update, and I have configured my google account. After that, and before installing any app, I decided to unlock my bootloader.
Here is exactly what I have done se far:
- downloaded the ZIP archive by chainfire (CF-Auto-root tool) from this thread
- unzipped it,
- I just ran then: sudo chmod +x tools/fastboot-mac
- Then, I boot the N5 in fastboot mode
- And finally: sudo tools/fastboot-mac oem unlock
So, here, my phone asked me (on the screen) if I was sure to unlock the bootloader. I clicked on yes, and then :
- the screen turned off,
- I got on the shell:
... ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory))
Since, my phone does not respond to anything, the power button has no effect. It just seems off, and I can not turn it on.
So, any idea on what has just happened? I was just unlocking the bootloader through fastboot, so no heavy tweaking here...
Any help would be buch appreciated, but I have the feeling that my N5 is now a (pretty) brick...
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Have you created a path for adb (in for windows) system/system variables/path/ commands to be recognized on your Mac (if this is needed off course)? I`am not xperienced with Macs but i guess they also need a path for passing on commands.

sylar12 said:
I have contacted google, RMA should be OK.
But I would like to understant what happened: is this because I tried to unlock from a mac? A what is the meaning of:
... ERROR: usb_read failed with status e00002ed
FAILED (status read failed (No such file or directory))
Just in case it could allow people to not have the same problem
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Wait. Try this:
Press and hold the power button + BOTH volume buttons AT THE SAME TIME for about 15 seconds, then try booting.
It seems that the USB connection got interrupted, but that wouldn't normally brick your phone, nor corrupt the bootloader. Maybe it just got stuck.

Please keep us updated if you find out why this happened. I am waiting for my Nexus 5 to arrive on Monday and I was planning on doing exactly what you did.. Boot it up, configure Google account to check if everything is fine and then unlock the bootloader on a Mac. I've never used fastboot before on a mac as I only have one recently, but from what I remember of using fastboot in a windows machine, as long as we could run "fastboot devices" and got a response, everything should be fine. Isn't this the same in Macs?
Cheers.

gee2012 said:
Have you created a path for adb (in for windows) system/system variables/path/ commands to be recognized on your Mac (if this is needed off course)? I`am not xperienced with Macs but i guess they also need a path for passing on commands.
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This is not "directly" required on mac. And the fastboot binay has been recognized by the shell, since the unlocking procedure started (my phone asked me if it was ok for unlocking the bootloader).
abaaaabbbb63 said:
Wait. Try this:
Press and hold the power button + BOTH volume buttons AT THE SAME TIME for about 15 seconds, then try booting.
It seems that the USB connection got interrupted, but that wouldn't normally brick your phone, nor corrupt the bootloader. Maybe it just got stuck.
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I already tried this: nothing happens... I guess the phone is really bricked.
eddie_gordo said:
Please keep us updated if you find out why this happened. I am waiting for my Nexus 5 to arrive on Monday and I was planning on doing exactly what you did.. Boot it up, configure Google account to check if everything is fine and then unlock the bootloader on a Mac. I've never used fastboot before on a mac as I only have one recently, but from what I remember of using fastboot in a windows machine, as long as we could run "fastboot devices" and got a response, everything should be fine. Isn't this the same in Macs?
Cheers.
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It should be the same, yes. Fastboot is very easy to use usually, it's the first time I have such a problem. And I have no idea why the unlocking has got wrong. 2 solutions imho:
- a phone harware problem which only reveals during the unlocking process;
- a fastboot problem/mac related problem.
Just trying to figure out which one is the correct answer.

El Daddy said:
Do you see the battery icon when you plug your phone in? Try it a few times and see if the icon will show up.
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Sorry, just noticed your post right now.
No, nothing happens when I plug the phone in.

sylar12 said:
Sorry, just noticed your post right now.
No, nothing happens when I plug the phone in.
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Congrats!
You have managed to be the first xda user to really brick their Nexus 5.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to rma.

sylar12 said:
Sorry, just noticed your post right now.
No, nothing happens when I plug the phone in.
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I think you got really unlucky. Possibly a bad cable or USB port but some connection got lost while you were flashing. RMA is your best option right now. Sorry bro

abaaaabbbb63 said:
Congrats!
You have managed to be the first xda user to really brick their phone.
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Yessssss, I did it!
...
:crying:
abaaaabbbb63 said:
I'm sorry, but you'll have to rma.
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It should be OK I think. I just hope they will not notice I tried to unlock the phone (but if the N5 is really dead, I don't think they will).

sylar12 said:
Yessssss, I did it!
...
:crying:
It should be OK I think. I just hope they will not notice I tried to unlock the phone (but if the N5 is really dead, I don't they will).
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You'll be fine on the rma. Been there done that on another device

sylar12 said:
Yessssss, I did it!
...
:crying:
It should be OK I think. I just hope they will not notice I tried to unlock the phone (but if the N5 is really dead, I don't think they will).
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Maybe the XDA award for the1st N5 bricker is a new Nexus 5 32GB

abaaaabbbb63 said:
Congrats!
You have managed to be the first xda user to really brick their Nexus 5.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to rma.
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Sorry to disappointed you but I was the first one. Last week I bricked mine

Black screen and nothing else...

Lets make a long story short, i just got my OPO, as an advanced android user i desided to put
ParanoidAndroid 4.6, but before I installed custom bootloader (TWRP) and rooted it. Since i am installing new ROM i did a backup and then i needed to wipe my device, by accident i wiped everything from my phone, including backup and new ROM. I was left with TWRP (It is my 1st android phone without sdcard so i started to panick), then i started it in fastboot mode, to check if I can copy ROM again from my pc, but it didnt work. Then i went to restart options in TWRP and choose restart in recovery mode, then my phone turned off. Apperently it did restart but now my screen is just black and I cant do anything with it. I was holding power button, then with volume up, then with volume down, no result. When i connect it to my PC i hear sound that phone is connected but still nothing is happening. Please help me what should I do. My guess is when i pressed to restart in recovery mode, it wasn't meant to be the custom one, so it tried to open one that dosen't exist. My phone was charged 40% when i was doing that.
Note1: Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed), this is what i get when I check Device Manager.
Many suggestions were made so far none of them help. Hope someone will help me here!

First, TWRP isn't a custom bootloader, it's a custom recovery. The phone can't 'open a recovery that doesn't exist', it opens whatever recovery you have installed at the time. Make sure the phone is powered off (hold power for about 10-15 seconds), then try booting into recovery again (hold power + volume down).
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Looks like you're using windows from the looks of you writing Device Manger so if you can boot back into fastboot then you're still okay!
Download this then just use the Flash CM11S option and it should bring you back to life.
Tool kits are amazing bro. Even as an advanced user myself they are still my favorite tools to use.

There is another problem
bigballa said:
Looks like you're using windows from the looks of you writing Device Manger so if you can boot back into fastboot then you're still okay!
Download this then just use the Flash CM11S option and it should bring you back to life.
Tool kits are amazing bro. Even as an advanced user myself they are still my favorite tools to use.
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I tried all of the toolkits and fastboot, the problem is that i cant even see device when I type adb devices in cmd.

Only 1 thing
I just need to fix how to find device in adb and then it will be very easy.

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Gapkobob said:
I tried all of the toolkits and fastboot, the problem is that i cant even see device when I type adb devices in cmd.
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Gapkobob said:
I just need to fix how to find device in adb and then it will be very easy.
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My friend you're in a bit more trouble than I think you realise you're in. Your device is showing up as QHSUSB_BULK in Windows, which means it's technically bricked. I believed you can save it though, have a look in this thread, you're gonna need to read through it all to find the solution you need. Let me know how you go.
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Simple driver issue.
The following steps will solve your problem: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/solution-recover-from-hard-bricked-oneplus-one.104943/

Solved !!!
Solved thx to everybody. http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...een-fastboot-adb-t2835696/page16#post55129486 this helped

Great news.
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Back to Stock help please

I want to put my phone back to factory, as it was out of the box. I have done a few things but when it starts up, the keyboard is missing and all the stock Apps are missing.
Can someone provide me with a step by step guide on how to put it back to stock Android 7.0
Cheers

what i did was reboot to recovery (twrp) if you can somehow, and plug in to computer and use adb to reboot to bootloader. adb reboot bootloader
from there i hold down power and volume up (keep plugged in to computer). It should boot to stock recovery and you can connect the phone to wifi and download stock.
I was on Lineage and it was working great I just wanted to go back to stock 5.0 emui. This worked for me after I screwed around for a day trying to figure out how to get back and I sort of stumbled into it.
It was stuck on the blue Honor Screen immediately after for the first boot forever so i actually held down power + Volume down I think until it rebooted then immediatley Power Button + volume up and factory reset it again. This did it and booted it up back to 5.0.
the only thing is my bootloader is still unlocked. Back on emui 4 this sort of method would lock it up as well as unroot and put everything back to stock but it doesnt lock the bootloader back up at least on mine. hope this helps sorry if my directions suck this is my first time posting.

For me, when I try to download from the recovery screen it comes up with an error and won't download.

jasonst165 said:
For me, when I try to download from the recovery screen it comes up with an error and won't download.
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That is my problem, too. Didn't find any workaround for it yet and would also be interested!

I am on the US l04 version maybe yours is a different model and uses a different method?
Really difficult to find 100% sure fire answers at least for me with this particular device so I just started to be my own guinea pig and test out things on my own. I also was able to lock my bootloader back by using this command
fastboot oem relock [unlock code i received from honor site]

cfda.008 said:
I am on the US l04 version maybe yours is a different model and uses a different method?
Really difficult to find 100% sure fire answers at least for me with this particular device so I just started to be my own guinea pig and test out things on my own. I also was able to lock my bootloader back by using this command
fastboot oem relock [unlock code i received from honor site]
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I am on the FRD-L09 Version. I also have another problem, that my PC won't recognize my Honor8 in Fastboot Mode (both: google's .exe files and the amazing Huawei MultiTool by Team MT).
every ADB Command works fine so far.
Since all downloadlinks for Huawei Firmware from here didn't work for me so far, too, i am trying the original Firmware from hihonor.com. The last time i checked it wasn't offered there until recently.
I am trying to make a SoftwareUpgrade via the Service Menu (*#*# 2846579#*#* tipped into the calling interface). This will execute the Update.app i copied to my sdcard/dload/ folder.
I hope i am not forgetting any procedures before i try to update. Right now my device is rooted and the bootloader is unlocked, while TWRP3.1 is installed.

I'm new to this so I don't know how to share links or files yet or even if thats possible but I used the "Huawei Android USB Driver" I found on one of the posts on this site. I cant remember exactly which one I'm not the most organized person with my files. look around on xda there are links to it somewhere. I'll try to dig around for you here in a few minutes see if i can find the link.
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Oh one more thing
in emui 5.0 i found USB debugging always shuts itself off for some reason. So when your phone is plugged in go back into your developer settings and switch usb debugging back on.
I dont know why they changed this it wont stay on for me at least automatically

cfda.008 said:
I'm new to this so I don't know how to share links or files yet or even if thats possible but I used the "Huawei Android USB Driver" I found on one of the posts on this site. I cant remember exactly which one I'm not the most organized person with my files. look around on xda there are links to it somewhere. I'll try to dig around for you here in a few minutes see if i can find the link.
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Oh one more thing
in emui 5.0 i found USB debugging always shuts itself off for some reason. So when your phone is plugged in go back into your developer settings and switch usb debugging back on.
I dont know why they changed this it wont stay on for me at least automatically
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The USB Driver you mentioned are the ones which can be installed via the Huawei Multitool by Team MT. In the unzipped folder from there, there is a Huawei_Multi-Tool.bat which can be run. It can be used for multiple purposes, even installing all drivers. (except the ones for my fastboot connection obviously, but it also could be a hardware problem. so i didn't report this problem to them).
perhaps it can already help you guys.

I resolved my issue. I followed the downgrade instructions and it worked a treat. It then auto updated back to Nougat.

{Solved} Pixel 2 Bricked, need help.

Hey Guys. I'm new to the Pixel 2 and have found myself stuck and not sure what to do. I'm stuck at this screen and keep getting getting an error message staying "Slot Unbootable: Load Error". I am not able to get into fastboot to flash the "Deuces" script or to flash a new system image.
I have tried all of the basic stuff to get to my device to be recognized. I downloaded and installed the latest ADB & Fastboot and I have tried different cables and USB ports and still have no luck. I'm really worried and not sure what to do if I cannot get my device to accept fastboot commands so I can recover.
Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help me.
Jason
EDIT:
I still have no idea what I did, but I decided to use the Skipsoft Tool to see if it would work. Lucky for me it did and I was able to restore the factory image. Sorry for the fire-drill, I should have tried this before I posted. Thank you for the replies!!

Grab the latest Google platform tools and USB drivers. When your device is plugged in, do you see any unknown devices in your device manager? Or anything that looks like it could be your phone?

jascolli said:
Hey Guys. I'm new to the Pixel 2 and have found myself stuck and not sure what to do. I'm stuck at this screen and keep getting getting an error message staying "Slot Unbootable: Load Error". I am not able to get into fastboot to flash the "Deuces" script or to flash a new system image.
I have tried all of the basic stuff to get to my device to be recognized. I downloaded and installed the latest ADB & Fastboot and I have tried different cables and USB ports and still have no luck. I'm really worried and not sure what to do if I cannot get my device to accept fastboot commands so I can recover.
Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help me.
Jason
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I've seen that before.
When you select reboot bootloader does that message go away?
Try it without the cable plugged in does it go away then?
I just want to know if you can actually get that message to go away or not at this point.
Also can you link the tools you are downloading

jascolli said:
I still have no idea what I did, but I decided to use the Skipsoft Tool to see if it would work. Lucky for me it did and I was able to restore the factory image. Sorry for the fire-drill, I should have tried this before I posted. Thank you for the replies!!
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For future learning, I'd recommend you familiarize yourself with how to do this without toolkits. A toolkit is nice, but it really helps to understand what the toolkit is doing so that if you have an issue you know what to do next.

Telperion said:
For future learning, I'd recommend you familiarize yourself with how to do this without toolkits. A toolkit is nice, but it really helps to understand what the toolkit is doing so that if you have an issue you know what to do next.
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Solid advice, thank you.

I did this same thing and solved it the same way. I think things just get funky and the tool you mentioned to fix it.

nolimit78 said:
I did this same thing and solved it the same way. I think things just get funky and the tool you mentioned to fix it.
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Yeah I'm baffled. I could not for the life of me get fastboot to work. That Skipsoft tool is pretty impressive.

HELP!!!!
I have same problem, so which functions you use to fix it????
jascolli said:
Hey Guys. I'm new to the Pixel 2 and have found myself stuck and not sure what to do. I'm stuck at this screen and keep getting getting an error message staying "Slot Unbootable: Load Error". I am not able to get into fastboot to flash the "Deuces" script or to flash a new system image.
I have tried all of the basic stuff to get to my device to be recognized. I downloaded and installed the latest ADB & Fastboot and I have tried different cables and USB ports and still have no luck. I'm really worried and not sure what to do if I cannot get my device to accept fastboot commands so I can recover.
Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help me.
Jason
EDIT:
I still have no idea what I did, but I decided to use the Skipsoft Tool to see if it would work. Lucky for me it did and I was able to restore the factory image. Sorry for the fire-drill, I should have tried this before I posted. Thank you for the replies!!
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Same thing happened to me. I need help. Please tell me how you unbricked your phone

same problem
i have the same problem already download skipsoft program but dont have results can you tell me the steps what you do please
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yuva_cool said:
Same thing happened to me. I need help. Please tell me how you unbricked your phone
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do you already unbricked your phone?

my pixel still cant be detected by that toolkit, can u list the step by step procedure what u did to unbrick the device?

I was having the exact same issue as OP. I wound up fixing it by entering fastboot and making it display barcodes until the battery died. Then I put a rubber band over the power button so the red led would blink (I wanted to completely drain the battery). When it stopped blinking, I hooked my dead phone up to my PC via a USB 3 port and held Power + vol down to boot into fastboot (the battery was still too low for the phone to boot normally -- it would just show the battery icon). Surprisingly, my PC recognized my phone (made the little USB sound) and I was able to fastboot flash-all the newest factory image on it!! No toolkits required!
I'm so happy because this was a last ditch effort before I sent my original phone back to google and would have to live with the RMA they sent me which could not be bootloader unlocked (this is a whole other issue!)
I hope this helps!
EDIT: Info I provided in a PM
Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the process... I didn't want to push my luck and things are working now. But The photo I've attached was exactly what I was seeing except I was on the December update (Now I'm on the January update) ... and:
UFS: 128 GB Hynix
DRAM: 4096MB Micron LPDDR4
Device State: unlocked (I had been unlocked since April 2018)
Until I had entirely drained my battery, I couldn't do anything. Download mode and recovery mode were impossible to access. I forgot the specific error, but it was the same as a lot of other people who have been having this problem.
The only thing I could do was to restart bootloader, which removed the error message until I tried to do anything. I couldn't boot at all or do anything conducive to fixing my phone until I drained the battery entirely. I couldn't get any PCs to even acknowledge the existance of my phone until after the battery was drained.
Keep in mind, I NEVER got my RMA phone to work. I was only able to fix my original NEW phone that I had purchased directly from google.

Until I had entirely drained my battery, I couldn't do anything. Download mode and recovery mode were impossible to access. I forgot the specific error, but it was the same as a lot of other people who have been having this problem.
The only thing I could do was to restart bootloader, which removed the error message until I tried to do anything. I couldn't boot at all or do anything conducive to fixing my phone until I drained the battery entirely. I couldn't get any PCs to even acknowledge the existance of my phone until after the battery was drained.
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This is the correct resolution to this issue.
I had the same issue, no usb in bootloader. I drained the phone and rebooted into the Bootloader flash A and B side bootloader the Aug 2018 (previously working for me) and A and B side Radio, as well as the System image. After that everything booted fine.
Attempted to install the January update the same way and it worked as well.
Seems like they messed up A and B side flashing
My steps::: For Lurkers having this issue.
1. Drain battery DEAD!
2. Boot Bootloader (Vol Down + Power)
3. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-walleye-mw8998-002.0073.02.img (or whatever image)
3. fastboot set_active b (opposite of the one on screen)
4. fastboot reboot-bootloader
5. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-walleye-mw8998-002.0073.02.img (or whatever image) (Again)
6. fastboot reboot-bootloader
7. fastboot flash radio radio-walleye-g8998-00253-1809191716.img (or whatever image)
8. fastboot set_active a (opposite of the one on screen)
9. fastboot reboot-bootloader
10. fastboot flash radio radio-walleye-g8998-00253-1809191716.img (or whatever image)
11. fastboot reboot-bootloader
12. fastboot update image-walleye-pq1a.190105.004.zip (or whatever image)
Phone boots properly, and is updated.

thedude9821 said:
I was having the exact same issue as OP. I wound up fixing it by entering fastboot and making it display barcodes until the battery died. Then I put a rubber band over the power button so the red led would blink (I wanted to completely drain the battery). When it stopped blinking, I hooked my dead phone up to my PC via a USB 3 port and held Power + vol down to boot into fastboot (the battery was still too low for the phone to boot normally -- it would just show the battery icon). Surprisingly, my PC recognized my phone (made the little USB sound) and I was able to fastboot flash-all the newest factory image on it!! No toolkits required!
I'm so happy because this was a last ditch effort before I sent my original phone back to google and would have to live with the RMA they sent me which could not be bootloader unlocked (this is a whole other issue!)
I hope this helps!
EDIT: Info I provided in a PM
Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the process... I didn't want to push my luck and things are working now. But The photo I've attached was exactly what I was seeing except I was on the December update (Now I'm on the January update) ... and:
UFS: 128 GB Hynix
DRAM: 4096MB Micron LPDDR4
Device State: unlocked (I had been unlocked since April 2018)
Until I had entirely drained my battery, I couldn't do anything. Download mode and recovery mode were impossible to access. I forgot the specific error, but it was the same as a lot of other people who have been having this problem.
The only thing I could do was to restart bootloader, which removed the error message until I tried to do anything. I couldn't boot at all or do anything conducive to fixing my phone until I drained the battery entirely. I couldn't get any PCs to even acknowledge the existance of my phone until after the battery was drained.
Keep in mind, I NEVER got my RMA phone to work. I was only able to fix my original NEW phone that I had purchased directly from google.
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omg after months of figuring it out ,and almost opt for warranty,finally my pixel is aliveeeee, thanks alot for the fix im so glad.. and whats more important for me is the data is still intact! i cant thank you enough.. google messed up december update pretty bad.

I just received my 4th RMA and the bootloader wasn't able to unlock. So to my surprise Google is giving me a full refund? I purchased my Pixel 2 back in Nov 2017 ?

Dajax2 said:
3. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-walleye-mw8998-002.0073.02.img (or whatever image)
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@Dajax2 Super new to this and it may be a total waste since my bootloader screen says "Device State: locked" but in trying to flash or even sideload ota, the command returns "error: cannot load (file location/name): no such file or directory found". Again, total noob and I don't even know if I'm supposed to unzip the folder or not but have tried both ways with the same error.
It returns the serial number for fastboot devices but nothing for adb devices. I obviously didn't have OEM or USB debugging enabled prior. Hoping I can at least get in to retrieve data before giving up all hope :/

Solved. Enter barcode mode. In this screen, check for devices from adb or fastboot. It should be there. You are now able to switch slots and do all the fastboot things.

Great workaround that I would never have thought - good info here, thanks everyone!

dianea said:
Solved. Enter barcode mode. In this screen, check for devices from adb or fastboot. It should be there. You are now able to switch slots and do all the fastboot things.
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Edit - My phone wasn't detected when on the barcode screen, just like from the main bootloader screen.
HOWEVER... to my surprise.. the above method of draining the battery completely to 0% actually worked. I'm a little dumbfounded why this allowed the bootloader to connect via fastboot again, but it did. I was able to flash the latest factory image (without wipe) and boot back up like nothing ever happened. Thank you so much for the tip. I passed this along to Google support and they also said they appreciate the troubleshooting and asked me to just send back the replacement phone with the RMA package/label.
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thedude9821 said:
Keep in mind, I NEVER got my RMA phone to work. I was only able to fix my original NEW phone that I had purchased directly from google.
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Did they accept the RMA phone back and remove the temp auth on your card?

thedude9821 said:
I was having the exact same issue as OP. I wound up fixing it by entering fastboot and making it display barcodes until the battery died. Then I put a rubber band over the power button so the red led would blink (I wanted to completely drain the battery). When it stopped blinking, I hooked my dead phone up to my PC via a USB 3 port and held Power + vol down to boot into fastboot (the battery was still too low for the phone to boot normally -- it would just show the battery icon). Surprisingly, my PC recognized my phone (made the little USB sound) and I was able to fastboot flash-all the newest factory image on it!! No toolkits required!
I'm so happy because this was a last ditch effort before I sent my original phone back to google and would have to live with the RMA they sent me which could not be bootloader unlocked (this is a whole other issue!)
I hope this helps!
EDIT: Info I provided in a PM
Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the process... I didn't want to push my luck and things are working now. But The photo I've attached was exactly what I was seeing except I was on the December update (Now I'm on the January update) ... and:
UFS: 128 GB Hynix
DRAM: 4096MB Micron LPDDR4
Device State: unlocked (I had been unlocked since April 2018)
Until I had entirely drained my battery, I couldn't do anything. Download mode and recovery mode were impossible to access. I forgot the specific error, but it was the same as a lot of other people who have been having this problem.
The only thing I could do was to restart bootloader, which removed the error message until I tried to do anything. I couldn't boot at all or do anything conducive to fixing my phone until I drained the battery entirely. I couldn't get any PCs to even acknowledge the existance of my phone until after the battery was drained.
Keep in mind, I NEVER got my RMA phone to work. I was only able to fix my original NEW phone that I had purchased directly from google.
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Dajax2 said:
This is the correct resolution to this issue.
I had the same issue, no usb in bootloader. I drained the phone and rebooted into the Bootloader flash A and B side bootloader the Aug 2018 (previously working for me) and A and B side Radio, as well as the System image. After that everything booted fine.
Attempted to install the January update the same way and it worked as well.
Seems like they messed up A and B side flashing
My steps::: For Lurkers having this issue.
1. Drain battery DEAD!
2. Boot Bootloader (Vol Down + Power)
3. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-walleye-mw8998-002.0073.02.img (or whatever image)
3. fastboot set_active b (opposite of the one on screen)
4. fastboot reboot-bootloader
5. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-walleye-mw8998-002.0073.02.img (or whatever image) (Again)
6. fastboot reboot-bootloader
7. fastboot flash radio radio-walleye-g8998-00253-1809191716.img (or whatever image)
8. fastboot set_active a (opposite of the one on screen)
9. fastboot reboot-bootloader
10. fastboot flash radio radio-walleye-g8998-00253-1809191716.img (or whatever image)
11. fastboot reboot-bootloader
12. fastboot update image-walleye-pq1a.190105.004.zip (or whatever image)
Phone boots properly, and is updated.
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Gifted both of you Ad-Free for this.
You saved me $300 and the annoyance of having to wait for shipping for either RMA or another phone on Swappa.

OP7 Pro Fastboot Bootloop! [HELP]

This may be a simple solution, but I am completely puzzled on how to fix this.
SO i recently rooted my phone & used the twrp "twrp-3.3.1-4-guacamole". Installed magisk via that twrp and continued with my day.
I accidentally got a virus by trying to get a full free vpn, me being a terrible pirate, i accidentally got a virus! Silly me.
It was annoying me and I decided to factory reset my phone... not via twrp. I remembered after I clicked "Reset all" on oxygenos that it's not the way how to do it with a root device, and well.. it didn't exactly work.
Every time I power/reboot the phone it just brings me to the fastboot menu of "START", "POWER OFF", "RECOVERY MODE", & "RESTART BOOT LOADER". I thought since TWP is recovery mode I try to access that... no luck, it just brings me back to that fastboot menu. I tried going on CMD via adb by saying "fastboot flash boot twrp-3.3.1-4-guacamole.img". It will say it's finished and successful, but when i reboot and try to access recovery mode it just does not work.
TL;DR: Think I bricked my phone, there is no OS installed and I can only access the fastboot.
Any help? Much appreciated

https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/msm-tool-guac-t3934691

trapcoder666 said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/msm-tool-guac-t3934691
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Thank you for the guap recovery as i didn't know it existed. However, what are the steps? when i go on the MSM download tool it doesn't detect my phone.
that being said, i can't access any of my files through my pc using fast boot. on MSM it's just saying "waiting for device" even when plugged in so thats annoying.

trapcoder666 said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/msm-tool-guac-t3934691
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I downloaded the one you sent, and after a while as my internet is bad. It still does not work.
Whenever I try to install the qualcomm drivers it never shows up, and when i try and boot it up so the gual recover detects my phone it never works. It's still saying "waiting for device".
Does anyone know how to fix this? it's doing my head in that it's not as easy as it should be.

MOweenSalah said:
I downloaded the one you sent, and after a while as my internet is bad. It still does not work.
Whenever I try to install the qualcomm drivers it never shows up, and when i try and boot it up so the gual recover detects my phone it never works. It's still saying "waiting for device".
Does anyone know how to fix this? it's doing my head in that it's not as easy as it should be.
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Pretty sure that your phone will not be accessible via adb/fastboot during the msm process. Did you follow the directions in the link above to a T?
A few things to note:
- Works perfectly fine for unbricking GM1917 modeled OnePlus 7 Pros.
- Use the original cable and try to plug it into a USB 2.0 port. I've found that this is the most ideal condition.
- Make sure your device is charged up. If you can't see how much charge it has, leave it charged via the 30W warp charger for 40 minutes and that should be good enough.
- In the L2 drivers folder found in the archive, navigate to the 32 or 64 folder depending on your system's architecture, and click on the file that ends in the extension ".cat". Then, click "view signature", then "View certificate", then "Install." This is IMPORTANT.
- Then, make sure your device is powered OFF, then, plug in the USB-A side of the cable (big head) into your computer and do NOT connect the USB-C (small head) into your phone yet.
- Hold down Volume up AND volume down for five seconds, and while you're continuing to hold, plug the USB-C side into your phone. The drivers should automatically download, and you should see a "Qualcomm QD loader" device in Device Manager. If you see an exclamation mark or you don't see this, you are doing it wrong and you need to repeat the above steps.
- Open up MSMTool.exe as an administrator and click 'start' only. Should take a few minutes, but you will have a good-as-new OnePlus 7 Pro.
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Krsmqn said:
Pretty sure that your phone will not be accessible via adb/fastboot during the msm process. Did you follow the directions in the link above to a T?
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I did yes, i pressed all buttons and the power button for 5 seconds and plugged my charger in. Then after that went on the MSM tool and it went straight to the fastboot. I really don't know but it loves this fastboot tool haha

Krsmqn said:
Pretty sure that your phone will not be accessible via adb/fastboot during the msm process. Did you follow the directions in the link above to a T?
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Add: I made a video showing what I mean with the fastboot. Basically if i do anything with the phone fastboot it will just go back to the menu (sorry for bad quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8a6kDXNNs&feature=youtu.be

MOweenSalah said:
Add: I made a video showing what I mean with the fastboot. Basically if i do anything with the phone fastboot it will just go back to the menu (sorry for bad quality)
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It's one of those things where if someone was there with you, it'd likely get figured out. I've seen this kind of situation hundreds of times on XDA, and with all due respect, the problem is most always at the hands of the user. These phones are cookie cutter made, so there's nothing different (besides individual variants) that would make thee tools not function correctly, unless it's operator error. But that's not set in stone. Just don't give up. Try setting up your camera for an overhead view. I couldn't tell if you were plugging in your cord. And it seemed to reboot, instead of power off. Repeat the steps carefully, and see if you can achieve better results.
Don't give up! We're here for you ?

Make sure phone is powered off before plugging it in. Launch msm tool, Press the vol up and down key for a few seconds then plug in.
Edit : make sure your drivers are up to date too.

I don't know about msm tools never tried it but I know your situation.
Don't do fastboot flash boot twrp-3.3.1-4-guacamole.img
Remove the word flash. You are supposed to boot into twrp then flash the zip file to the phone.
look at this

Command in Fastboot mode is:
Fastboot boot "name of the recovery".img. Phone should boot to twrp. Then flash twrp.zip
or try Fastboot roms:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/how-to/rom-stock-fastboot-roms-oneplus-7-pro-t3931424
Choose the one for youre phone (region)
MSM tool it's the last option.

Can't you just switch slots from fastboot or did you mess up both?

trapcoder666 said:
Make sure phone is powered off before plugging it in. Launch msm tool, Press the vol up and down key for a few seconds then plug in.
Edit : make sure your drivers are up to date too.
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Firstly I'm terribly sorry for no response (same goes to everyone else looking into this matter for me. THANK YOU!)
However, I have done this multiple times in the past and it instantly goes back to boot menu. it sucks :/

IronSingh said:
I don't know about msm tools never tried it but I know your situation.
Don't do fastboot flash boot twrp-3.3.1-4-guacamole.img
Remove the word flash. You are supposed to boot into twrp then flash the zip file to the phone.
look at this
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Okay. I shall go and look into this situation when I receive my phone back (going to explain that in a later quote)

larsdennert said:
Can't you just switch slots from fastboot or did you mess up both?
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If i'm honest with you.. i'm not sure in the slightest. My only assumption is no because the only thing I can access is only the fastboot. if i attempt to go into recovery mode it will go back to fastboot. when I flash twrp it will flash but it won't boot into it. It's confusing as hell.
Just to add to this whole situation:
Since I have no idea and just wanted it fixed in the day; i was willingly to give money for this phone to be fixed, but thanks to the person, he just made it a slower process by doing things i've already done.. going to pick the phone back up in an hour of this message.
I haven't used the fastboot boot twrp cmd yet, but from how everything else has been so far i feel like that won't work, but i will update everyone on that situation.
Just to add additional things that I may have not mentioned in the past will be below:
- Whenever i type in "ADB Devices" in cmd, it will not show up with anything. However, when I type in "fastboot devices" it shows it's serial and in "fastboot". It will only show as fastboot and i can't access the phone via file explorer in windows.
When i say "ADB Devices" it says *devices attached* and will show none of my phones details, but when i say fastboot devices it will then show the devices.
^ what i said above means I can't use the guap recover, or anything which means the phone has to be detected in windows, because other than fastboot, it won't work at all.
- So far I can't access twrp as a whole, so if anyone knows how to give me a guide on how to install it from where I am at, that would be amazing (if not, i'll try and reiterate what to do with the one given from a previous comment, so thank you )
- There was one time I was allowed in TWRP but i completely forgot how i entered it (so i can't explain), So i feel like there is hope in that aspect. I feel like i entered something via cmd so maybe there's a way?
In terms of hardware my phone is completely fine, there's not a single problem other than the software being a pain in the ***!!
if anyone can just spew out a bunch of help in different explanations it means the world because so far all I can see is that I wasted about £600 on an amazing phone because of dumb *** haha.
Thank you to everyone who has helped, and is helping

From your comments, you are not familiar with how Android functions. Not knowing the difference between adb and fastboot is an indicator that you should just endeavour to have a stock phone until you understand whats going one. It's also hard for people to help as no one has hands on and can see what is broken. Everyone here will be working blind like trying to fix your car for you from across the country.
Start the phone into fastboot and connect it to a pc. From a pc command prompt in your fastboot directory enter the command:
fastboot getvar current-slot
If the current slot is A then:
fastboot --set_active=b
or vice versa
fastboot --set_active=a
then fastboot reboot and see if you boot into the other slot.
Not knowing what phone you have makes it even tougher but I suspect you will have to reflash a clean complete rom via fastboot.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...fastboot-roms-oneplus-7-pro-t3931424#poststop

larsdennert said:
From your comments, you are not familiar with how Android functions. Not knowing the difference between adb and fastboot is an indicator that you should just endeavour to have a stock phone until you understand whats going one. It's also hard for people to help as no one has hands on and can see what is broken. Everyone here will be working blind like trying to fix your car for you from across the country.
Start the phone into fastboot and connect it to a pc. From a pc command prompt in your fastboot directory enter the command:
fastboot getvar current-slot
If the current slot is A then:
fastboot --set_active=b
or vice versa
fastboot --set_active=a
then fastboot reboot and see if you boot into the other slot.
Not knowing what phone you have makes it even tougher but I suspect you will have to reflash a clean complete rom via fastboot.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...fastboot-roms-oneplus-7-pro-t3931424#poststop
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I do appreciate the help. If i'm honest with you the only reason I did this is to increase my data speeds (which from look of things is outdated now), and a longer battery life. I don't know much about rooting/jailbreaking but believe me that I have been in the scene for years, but not even knowing everything haha!
that being said.. i'm in twrp! thank you so much mate, i'll try and go and install the rom now. thank you!

Now install the zip twrp

Thankfully.. IT'S FIXED!
I didn't have to install twrp again or any of that. I simply changed the slot from A to B and pressed all buttons when it was showing the "! Your decide is unlocked" orange/black screen.
I had msm tools up and it detected and instantly installed the OS to the latest one and boom. It works again!
I got to thank everyone for helping me because without you people I wouldn't of been able to fix it. I looked everywhere and no help anywhere as I feel like it's pretty dumb to do what I did haha!
Thank you again people!

Oh you gave up on root?
You are supposed to read the instructions and follow them to the letter. When I read your post I realized you tried to install twrp like you would pre Oreo but it changed you have to boot into twrp then install it via zip file.
Anyways just remember that for next time.