Honor 8 black screen and only fastboot mode - Honor 8 Questions & Answers

Good to all, yesterday I downloaded an operating system for my phone, it came from a brick, it turns out and I did flash by dload folder by pressing the 3 corresponding buttons. It arrived at 100% normal and it restarted automatically, but it does not give image, is in black screen. I had the idea to connect it to the pc, and it recognizes the pc, appears in fastboot mode and appears in My Pc an ADB device.
Someone please help me solve it. Thank you
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You said it booted up to Home screen and you were able to use it as it was supposed to be? Have you tried force restarting using by holding the power button?

Saeem said:
You said it booted up to Home screen and you were able to use it as it was supposed to be? Have you tried force restarting using by holding the power button?
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I tried many things, it comes out black screen, in fastboot mode and adb mode activated, but it does not allow to flash anything

marpermes said:
I tried many things, it comes out black screen, in fastboot mode and adb mode activated, but it does not allow to flash anything
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Try using dload method again

Saeem said:
Try using dload method again
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Friend, black screen, no see nothing

marpermes said:
Friend, black screen, no see nothing
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I got you. For using the dload method you don't need a screen to see. Just keep holding all the 3 keys together (Volume up, down and power)
try this or if you already did let me know.

Saeem said:
I got you. For using the dload method you don't need a screen to see. Just keep holding all the 3 keys together (Volume up, down and power)
try this or if you already did let me know.
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My friend, the phone was fine. What I did was to install an update and reached 100%, after that, the phone automatically rebooted and did not turn on the screen anymore, it turned black, I connect it to the pc and it recognizes it by fastboot and adb, but it does not present any image

marpermes said:
My friend, the phone was fine. What I did was to install an update and reached 100%, after that, the phone automatically rebooted and did not turn on the screen anymore, it turned black, I connect it to the pc and it recognizes it by fastboot and adb, but it does not present any image
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Hmm, I see. Can you let me know what version you EMUI you had the last running on your phone?

Saeem said:
Hmm, I see. Can you let me know what version you EMUI you had the last running on your phone?
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Android Nougat 7.0

Rommco05 said:
Try in stock recovery do factory reset
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Bro the phone showing nothing expect black screen.
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Bro can you can try to unbrick using dcunlocker , may be it give some luck , we have no other options.

As you said your device is detected by ADB, so why don't you try to boot it into bootloader then extract your Update.app from dload folder and flash them using fastboot commands manually.

Saeem said:
As you said your device is detected by ADB, so why don't you try to boot it into bootloader then extract your Update.app from dload folder and flash them using fastboot commands manually.
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Hold a moment all this wont work because of a big mistake , he flashed the EV-l09 oem info .

venugopalu007 said:
Hold a moment all this wont work because of a big mistake , he flashed the EV-l09 oem info .
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So, Only Huawei can fix it

Saeem said:
So, Only Huawei can fix it
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But sad thing is the phone is not allowed in his country:crying:

What is his country? And if it was bought from China/Hongkong/Singapore the seller will take the phone to repair. & and if the phone is from somewhere else he needs to contact the Huawei support of that country and that's it. If he is lucky he will get a free Airway bill (like I got an hour ago) from Huawei and KABOOMH! His device will be fixed and sent back to him via mail. Simple.....................

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What is his country? And if it was bought from China/Hongkong/Singapore the seller will take the phone to repair. & and if the phone is from somewhere else he needs to contact the Huawei support of that country and that's it. If he is lucky he will get a free Airway bill (like I got an hour ago) from Huawei and KABOOMH! His device will be fixed and sent back to him via mail. Simple.....................
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Woooo .. but this takes months .

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venugopalu007 said:
Woooo .. but this takes months .
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If it's from China/Hongkong/Singapore it could take months because of the seller. But if its from huawei, No more then a month via any kind of express shipping(HDL/FedEx/Aramax/SMSA)
Also he can repair it through the huawei service of his country by paying a lot of money.

I have the same problem here! Did anyone found a solution? Please help me guys =(

marpermes said:
Good to all, yesterday I downloaded an operating system for my phone, it came from a brick, it turns out and I did flash by dload folder by pressing the 3 corresponding buttons. It arrived at 100% normal and it restarted automatically, but it does not give image, is in black screen. I had the idea to connect it to the pc, and it recognizes the pc, appears in fastboot mode and appears in My Pc an ADB device.
Someone please help me solve it. Thank you
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did you fix it?

Rommco05 said:
What is exactly your problem? You have only black screen on phone?
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Hello!
It seems I have the same problem in the op.
My honor 8 seems being bricked: it does not boot, does not vibrate, the LED does not light up and the phone does not give sign of life.
There is only a beep when I plug in the phone to the pc anche when I type "fastboot devices" I see the serial number on the phone and the little icon on my desktop like in the pic above.
I tryed unbricking it using multi tool with boot, cust, recovery and system.img and the flash is okay but after this flash the phone is in the same situation before the flash.
I asked in the multi tool's thread and someone told me it is the "Black fastboot issue".
I Google it and I find this thread..
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[Q] Stuck on i9023 rooting

Yesterday, I tried a oneclick root application but turns out only to complete the mission halfway. After pushing volume up and power button, I see
Lock state- unlocked, but Rom manager told me I'm not rooted
Today I found several thread, including the sticky thread on the top of the forum page, to root it the regular way. However, when I proceed to
fastboot oem unlock
nothing happens on the phone screen
Then I tried next step
"fastboot flash recovery 3024v3-i9023.img"
the picture of what happened is attached
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still nothing on the phone screen
I try the recovery option on the phone, but few seconds later exclamtion sign and android robot show up. I'm able to get out of it and go into android system recovery, which only has 4 option
reboot system now
apply update from /sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
I tried both wipe option but they are both fruitless except wiping out all my data. They didn't change the lock/unlock property.
My i9023 is on 2.3.6, don't know if it matters.
So here is my situation, this is my first attempt to root the phone.
Guys help me please.
Did you get it rooted?
Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
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Look into my posts from my profile and look into my Topics Thread for rooting method... works with all Nexus S. Just follow the video.. download the file in description names NexusSRootNew ... just follow the video and Ull be fine. I used it and I'm doing well =]
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Look at your screen shot. You left out the "flash" in the fastboot command.
irishrally said:
Look at your screen shot. You left out the "flash" in the fastboot command.
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Lol good call.. missed that
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irishrally said:
Look at your screen shot. You left out the "flash" in the fastboot command.
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I'll try it later, thanks.
irishrally said:
Look at your screen shot. You left out the "flash" in the fastboot command.
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Still fails. I get "wait for device" on the computer screen forever and get "fastboot status fail invalid command" on the bottom of the phone
mikel719 said:
Did you get it rooted?
Have you tried this?
h ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
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Tried and fail.
Did you install the pda drivers?
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YourMainDude said:
Look into my posts from my profile and look into my Topics Thread for rooting method... works with all Nexus S. Just follow the video.. download the file in description names NexusSRootNew ... just follow the video and Ull be fine. I used it and I'm doing well =]
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It's oct 13th post right?Your youtube link fails. Several videos are alike, so I've got the idea of rooting but it simply fails after I input the commands, nothing happened on the phone screen and on computer it says wait for device
taylorzhang said:
It's oct 13th post right?Your youtube link fails. Several videos are alike, so I've got the idea of rooting but it simply fails after I input the commands, nothing happened on the phone screen and on computer it says wait for device
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Go into my profile and look in my Topic Theads posted> Rooting Nexus S For Noobs... follow the steps and ill 100% guarantee you that Ull root it...
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mikel719 said:
Did you install the pda drivers?
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You reminds me, thanks. However, instead of nothing happens, it now shows failed. Screen capture is attached.
wait... u gotta update your drivers man.. ur computer needs yo recognize your phone lol
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YourMainDude said:
wait... u gotta update your drivers man.. ur computer needs to recognize your phone lol
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your youtube link direct me to wrong place. Actually I've seen video that use Nexusrootnew.zip maybe that's the one you want me to watchbut I the zip I downloaded is 4kb and obviously didn't work...
No matter how I try, it's always android 1.0 device...
Just in case we are missing the obvious, when you run your fastboot command, is your phone plugged into your computer via usb, and with your phone on the bootloader screen (power button + volume up when your phone is off)?
also, try:
fastboot devices
Guys, finally get it rooted and installed cm7.1. But the driver still seems to have some problem. It still reads android 1.0 in the device manager on the computer but the cwm is flashed in accidentally. Everything after is easy.

.:|Help I Brick my Infuse|:.

Hello all,
Yesterday I was trying to flash JB, flash it successfully but then when i need to flash gapps the rainbows inside recovery was so annoying that i try to flash a GB bootloader, I think because the driver or something else the flash wasn't right and since then I got a expensive paperweight. Trying to boot in download mode the phone turn on showing a completely white screen for about 3 seconds then the phone turn off and thats is a eternal loop. turn on > white screen > turn off. When the screen is white ODIN and Heimdall recognize the phone but the device simply turn off after seconds so is impossible to flash something.
Today i got a JIG MicroUSB try to boot in Download Mode with it but does not work.
Help I read several threads along XDA but nothing could help by now.
Thanks in advance
I sure hope that you tried flashing some other things using Heimdall or Odin before using your choice of software to flash bootloaders.
In this state you're in, have you tried the battery pull, hold volume buttons, plug in usb, put battery back in, continue holding power button method to enter download mode?
If you can get to download mode this way, you aren't bricked.
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Seems to me you have definitely bricked it :s A bootloader flash is practically the only way our phone can be bricked. That is why it is recommended to flash other things first to make sure odin has no issues with drivers and such
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Sure I flash another things, and yes I try all the combo buttons to enter in download mode. Nothings happens i can't get into download mode.
In case that I hardbrick my device there is another easy solution.
andros11 said:
Seems to me you have definitely bricked it :s A bootloader flash is practically the only way our phone can be bricked. That is why it is recommended to flash other things first to make sure odin has no issues with drivers and such
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You may be right, but we don't know for sure that he's bricked yet. We've seen several close calls where the Infuse has made it through - even after a borked bootloader flash.
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p|p3 said:
Sure I flash another things, and yes i try all the combo buttons to enter in download mode. Nothings happens i can't get into download mode.
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Can you confirm that you pulled the battery?
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jscott30 said:
Can you confirm that you pulled the battery?
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Yep a lot of times.
You mention that Odin sees the device for a moment before the device loops. As a last ditch effort, you may be able to issue an "adb reboot download" command using adb on your PC. No guarantee that this will work, but it's worth a shot.
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Gotta try to issue the command at the same moment that Odin sees the device.
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jscott30 said:
You mention that Odin sees the device for a moment before the device loops. As a last ditch effort, you may be able to issue an "adb reboot download" command using adb on your PC. No guarantee that this will work, but it's worth a shot.
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Bro i'll be so glad if may you can guide me on this or give a link. Much thanks. :laugh:
p|p3 said:
Bro i'll be so glad if may you can guide me on this or give a link. Much thanks. :laugh:
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You can download what you need for adb from here: http://d-h.st/2mi
Extract the zip package, browse to the unzipped folder where you'll see adb.exe and some other files. Place all of those files in the Windows folder on your C:\\ drive. Then, press the Windows key on your keyboard + R so that the "Run" prompt appears. Type cmd and then press enter. In the command prompt, type this just as Odin sees your device (keep an Odin window open to be sure):
Code:
adb reboot download
The problem is, if both your primary and secondary bootloaders are screwed up, you may never get into download mode. It's worth a shot to try, though.
I agree jscott, I believe there's still hope !
I have managed to rescue my infuse from some dark moments.. once I used this one-click unbrick and I managed to save it.
See if you have my same luck with it
Through ADB Shell was imposible that recognize the device, JAVA One Click works for a moment like Odin but the device desconnected so is not much what i can do. Here post a PIC of what a can reach through ODIN so my question will be if i can make ODIN doesn't check MD5's and flash direct or something similar.
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Anyway for now i aprecciate all your answers, i'm sure that out there there is a solution.
p|p3 said:
Through ADB Shell was imposible that recognize the device, JAVA One Click works for a moment like Odin but the device desconnected so is not much what i can do. Here post a PIC of what a can reach through ODIN so my question will be if i can make ODIN doesn't check MD5's and flash direct or something similar.
Anyway for now i aprecciate all your answers, i'm sure that out there there is a solution.
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Sorry, but neither Odin or Heimdall will work unless you are able to get the phone into download mode. If it turns out that you really have borked the bootloaders, you won't be able to get into download mode. Someone will have to make a jtag repair like in the video below to restore your phone. The guys in this video are reputable and can fix it.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4zwn_HMTek
jscott30 said:
Sorry, but neither Odin or Heimdall will work unless you are able to get the phone into download mode. If it turns out that you really have borked the bootloaders, you won't be able to get into download mode. Someone will have to make a jtag repair like in the video below to restore your phone. The guys in this video are reputable and can fix it.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4zwn_HMTek
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Thanks man, yep looks like I screw both bootloaders, unfortunately the guys in the video are in the states but I from Colombia so may be difficult and also expensive send my phone for that fix, anyway today looks like i find someone that could fix my phone using the JTAG cable and box for about USD$50.
Any solution that finallly find to fix my phone i'll be posting here.
Here's a thought have you tried a different USB cable and USB slots. I have 2 phones one likes to connect to front of my PC the other in the back. Plus USB cables get worn out a new one may connect better.
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Try taking your battery out for a few hours..or better yet, a day. Charge your battery fully using an external source or use a different fully charged battery, after a day and then try again.
darkchyldx101 said:
Here's a thought have you tried a different USB cable and USB slots. I have 2 phones one likes to connect to front of my PC the other in the back. Plus USB cables get worn out a new one may connect better.
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Did it same result, definitely its not the cable. Thanks anyway
qkster said:
Try taking your battery out for a few hours..or better yet, a day. Charge your battery fully using an external source or use a different fully charged battery, after a day and then try again.
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Did it too, same result thanks to you too.
JTAG will be
Did you have success restoring with Odin/Hiemdall???
You should of started off fresh, a complete wipe/restore and then the bootloaders <(assuming you had success with
wipe/restore....) It sounds like a JTag is ur only option
I was flashing a kernel and my cord came loose handbills couldn't get anywhere either. Didn't get white screen just a picture of a phone some dots a triangle more dogs and a computer. I found something called one click unbrick. I know you are a different situation than I am but it's worth a shot maybe.
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[q] help - phone won't even boot anymore

I have a strange issue with my GS3 Verizon. I was running Clean ROM 4 and then recently wiped it and put Clean Rom 7.0 on it. Everything was working fine until last week it started just powering off randomly. So i'd pull the battery, reboot, and voila, it worked for a while until it randomly powered down again. Today i was thinking maybe it was Clean Rom causing this so I wiped it and installed Wicked Sensations. The problem only worsened. It started powering down like every minute. Now not eve a battery pull will get the phone back on.
Verizon is sending me a replacement, but i have to get this phone unrooted and back to stock so i don't have to pay a 300 dollar fee.
Can anyone PLEASE help me get this done? I have Samsung Drivers and Oden but doesn't recognize this blank screen device...
Thanks
Tommy
Voyaging said:
I have a strange issue with my GS3 Verizon. I was running Clean ROM 4 and then recently wiped it and put Clean Rom 7.0 on it. Everything was working fine until last week it started just powering off randomly. So i'd pull the battery, reboot, and voila, it worked for a while until it randomly powered down again. Today i was thinking maybe it was Clean Rom causing this so I wiped it and installed Wicked Sensations. The problem only worsened. It started powering down like every minute. Now not eve a battery pull will get the phone back on.
Verizon is sending me a replacement, but i have to get this phone unrooted and back to stock so i don't have to pay a 300 dollar fee.
Can anyone PLEASE help me get this done? I have Samsung Drivers and Oden but doesn't recognize this blank screen device...
Thanks
Tommy
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Yes, flash this http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 with Odin. That's it....if you can boot into recovery mode.
buhohitr said:
Yes, flash this http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196 with Odin. That's it....if you can boot into recovery mode.
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How can I flash when the phone won't even power up? I can't get it to go into recovery or anything right now. Oden doesn't recognize anything either (i'm assuming because there's no power to the device?)
Voyaging said:
How can I flash when the phone won't even power up? I can't get it to go into recovery or anything right now. Oden doesn't recognize anything either (i'm assuming because there's no power to the device?)
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So you can't turn on the phone even with the power plug in? is there any indication where the phone has power, like vibrating, flashing light, sound etc..? I don't think your phone is brick, most likely hardware issue since it's acting up before it die.
Exactly...there is no sign of power whatsoever. Verizon is sending a replacement but i'm worried they'll figure out it's rooted w a custom ROM flashed...so i was hoping to find a way to get unrooted and back to stock before it is sent back to them...
BUT I will say....when i plug the phone into my mac, i get the dialog box from VMWare fusion that asks do you want this device connected to Mac or Windows...but then Oden doesn't see it on Windows side and Android File Transfer won't notice it on mac side...but at least there's recognition that SOMETHING was just plugged in to the machine... hope?
Voyaging said:
BUT I will say....when i plug the phone into my mac, i get the dialog box from VMWare fusion that asks do you want this device connected to Mac or Windows...but then Oden doesn't see it on Windows side and Android File Transfer won't notice it on mac side...but at least there's recognition that SOMETHING was just plugged in to the machine... hope?
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So pretend the screen is dead, boot it into download mode,(hold down the 3 buttons) wait 30 sec, then connect the phone to your pc see if your pc see the phone through Odin.(even though the screen is black).
Edit: I think you having hardware issue, but it's not hurt to try the hardbrick method just for the hell of it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
buhohitr said:
So pretend the screen is dead, boot it into download mode,(hold down the 3 buttons) wait 30 sec, then connect the phone to your pc see if your pc see the phone through Odin.(even though the screen is black).
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just tried that again...nothing.
Voyaging said:
just tried that again...nothing.
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see my edited previous post.
buhohitr said:
see my edited previous post.
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will do. here is the message i get when i plug the phone back into the micro USB end:
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Help! Can't get Flashtool to switch phone to DL mode

So I'm trying to go back to stock rom with flashtool. Everything sets up and goes fine until it tries to switch phone to DL mode. IT fails 15 seconds in and then nothing happens.
Any ideas? Tried every usb port and every cable (3 of them) and it's the same thing every goddamn time.
Here is what I get.
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ComradeZ said:
So I'm trying to go back to stock rom with flashtool. Everything sets up and goes fine until it tries to switch phone to DL mode. IT fails 15 seconds in and then nothing happens.
Any ideas? Tried every usb port and every cable (3 of them) and it's the same thing every goddamn time.
Here is what I get.
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Are you not putting your device in download mode first? You must first place the phone into download mode yourself. Also make sure those USB ports are USB 2.0. USB 3.0 will cause that exact error your getting as well.
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Yup. USB 2.0. Yes, I put the phone in to DL mode before plugging it in. Sometimes it flashes almost all the way then gets as far as checking minios then blue factory reset screen and I'm stuck there due to flashtool failing to read the phone -again-.
ComradeZ said:
Yup. USB 2.0. Yes, I put the phone in to DL mode before plugging it in. Sometimes it flashes almost all the way then gets as far as checking minios then blue factory reset screen and I'm stuck there due to flashtool failing to read the phone -again-.
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Remember it's almost always going to fail after 80%. That's supposed to happen as the reset is just rebooting. Since your getting mini os did you reflash choose board_dl?
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No, I used update dl, what flashtool was set at when I installed it.
Edit: And now I cannot get into DL mode anymore. Just a minios thing then a blue screen with the number 2 and 'Factory reset' on it.
Can't do anything otherwise. Stuck there.
GD, I hate this phone.
ComradeZ said:
No, I used update dl, what flashtool was set at when I installed it.
Edit: And now I cannot get into DL mode anymore. Just a minios thing then a blue screen with the number 2 and 'Factory reset' on it.
Can't do anything otherwise. Stuck there.
GD, I hate this phone.
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You've tried pulling the battery, putting it back in and doing the button combination while plugging in the USB cable?
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hyelton said:
You've tried pulling the battery, putting it back in and doing the button combination while plugging in the USB cable?
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Just did that 4 times and finally got it to DL mode. I set flashtool to board dl and am now reflashing.
Edit: Flashing complete, but now stuck at AT&T Mini OS 3.1 screen with a 'Auto touch test: Dont touch the screen' with an 'ok' button under it.
When will the madness end??
ComradeZ said:
Just did that 4 times and finally got it to DL mode. I set flashtool to board dl and am now reflashing.
Edit: Flashing complete, but now stuck at AT&T Mini OS 3.1 screen with a 'Auto touch test: Dont touch the screen' with an 'ok' button under it.
When will the madness end??
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Not sure what you mean by madness? That screen is normal you use the vol up and down and power button to choose reset or reboot..
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hyelton said:
Not sure what you mean by madness? That screen is normal you use the vol up and down and power button to choose reset or reboot..
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Ok, got back to stock finally. Just rebooted the phone. Now to figure out a way to root it without bricking again.
ComradeZ said:
Ok, got back to stock finally. Just rebooted the phone. Now to figure out a way to root it without bricking again.
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Glad you got it back to stock
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Have I bricked the phone?

Decided to root my second hand Samsung S8 + but have managed to get stuck on the screen below with not a clue on how to get out of it. I am unable to swipe to unlock.
My first attempt at rooting so please keep any reply's simple as I do not seem very adept at this black art.
I was following this guy. https://galaxys8root.com/galaxy-s8-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s8-or-s8-plus-on-android-8-0-oreo/
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you didnt brick it thats for sure, it seems that you got 2 overlays of the twrp (unlock / enable write access) maybe try a reboot into twrp once again
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you didnt brick it thats for sure, it seems that you got 2 overlays of the twrp (unlock / enable write access) maybe try a reboot into twrp once again
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Can you explain in more detail mate as I do not understand what is required of me?
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Can you explain in more detail mate as I do not understand what is required of me?
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okay so TWRP got a timeout mode just like any android does, after a certain time it goes on a black screen and when turned back on you get the swipe to unlock screen that you are seeing.
Under that lock overlay is your first setup, it asks you to either use twrp in read-only or enable write for it (enabling write makes twrp possible to deny the replacing of TWRP for the default recovery mode)
You should be able to just turn off your s8 and reboot into TWRP
*Note im not responsible for causing a brick, its a unlikely event that will occur but thought to mention it
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okay so TWRP got a timeout mode just like any android does, after a certain time it goes on a black screen and when turned back on you get the swipe to unlock screen that you are seeing.
Under that lock overlay is your first setup, it asks you to either use twrp in read-only or enable write for it (enabling write makes twrp possible to deny the replacing of TWRP for the default recovery mode)
You should be able to just turn off your s8 and reboot into TWRP
*Note im not responsible for causing a brick, its a unlikely event that will occur but thought to mention it
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Holding the power button does absolutely nothing so I have no idea how to turn it off.
Holding the power button and volume down gets me to this screen but the phone does not respond to touching or swiping?
MrFraggle said:
Holding the power button does absolutely nothing so I have no idea how to turn it off.
Holding the power button and volume down gets me to this screen but the phone does not respond to touching or swiping?
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Weird, maybe reflash?
Araero said:
Weird, maybe reflash?
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As I mentioned in my first post I am new to this so you just telling me to 'reflash' is pretty meaningless.
So again I ask for more detail?
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As I mentioned in my first post I am new to this so you just telling me to 'reflash' is pretty meaningless.
So again I ask for more detail?
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you can just follow the instructions again!
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you can just follow the instructions again!
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I am guessing that you mean use Odin to install the TWRP.tar file again? If so nothing happening after clicking start.
Trying to reflash with the correct firmware does zilch also.
My problem with this is after downloading the correct firmware and putting the files in there correct boxes and pressing start the only thing that happens is on the left side Odin box I have File analysis which is correct below that is setupconnection and then nothing seems to be happening.
I am assuming that this is because I am not in download/recovery mode but stuck on the twrp lock screen?
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Trying to reflash with the correct firmware does zilch also.
My problem with this is after downloading the correct firmware and putting the files in there correct boxes and pressing start the only thing that happens is on the left side Odin box I have File analysis which is correct below that is setupconnection and then nothing seems to be happening.
I am assuming that this is because I am not in download/recovery mode but stuck on the twrp lock screen?
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Volume down + bixby + power not work?
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Faxo said:
Volume down + bixby + power not work?
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Nope, that just removes the big white padlock for a while.
The power + vol down + bixby is really built into the phone. I've yet to see a situation where that combo won't reboot. How long have you held the buttons? Sometimes it takes 15sec or so. Also, try to see if twrp is giving you ADB access by default and try to reboot that way. Also. Very worst case is you let it die, then when you plug it in do the key combo to get into download mode, flash whatever file you want and keep going.
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The power + vol down + bixby is really built into the phone. I've yet to see a situation where that combo won't reboot. How long have you held the buttons? Sometimes it takes 15sec or so. Also, try to see if twrp is giving you ADB access by default and try to reboot that way. Also. Very worst case is you let it die, then when you plug it in do the key combo to get into download mode, flash whatever file you want and keep going.
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You sir are a genius as that has worked and I do not understand why as I am sure I have tried that combination before now.
I am now on the Download page what is my next move please?
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You sir are a genius as that has worked and I do not understand why as I am sure I have tried that combination before now.
I am now on the Download page what is my next move please?
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Not a genius by a long shot, but have felt the despair of having a pricey paper weight on my desk before haha. Well. You can try flashing TWRP again, see if that shakes it out of its little loop. Otherwise, you can flash the original firmware like you were saying earlier just to get back to normal. I'd try flashing twrp again and see if that fixes it first.
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Not a genius by a long shot, but have felt the despair of having a pricey paper weight on my desk before haha. Well. You can try flashing TWRP again, see if that shakes it out of its little loop. Otherwise, you can flash the original firmware like you were saying earlier just to get back to normal. I'd try flashing twrp again and see if that fixes it first.
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Will have one last go at twrp if no joy will hopefully reflash it with stock. Thanks again though I might well be back here.
eregev said:
Not a genius by a long shot, but have felt the despair of having a pricey paper weight on my desk before haha. Well. You can try flashing TWRP again, see if that shakes it out of its little loop. Otherwise, you can flash the original firmware like you were saying earlier just to get back to normal. I'd try flashing twrp again and see if that fixes it first.
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I don't bother rooting anymore. If I want to rid myself of bloatware, I just flash using the Unlocked no carrier firmware.
Of course this is just my opinion, and I know there are other reasons. But if someone is a real novice, they should probably stay away fro rooting, or risk that pricey paper weight.
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I don't bother rooting anymore. If I want to rid myself of bloatware, I just flash using the Unlocked no carrier firmware.
Of course this is just my opinion, and I know there are other reasons. But if someone is a real novice, they should probably stay away fro rooting, or risk that pricey paper weight.
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That is all that I pretty much want to do. Where do I get the Unlocked no carrier firmware from though surely the stock firmware will be free of carrier bloatware though to be honest I would quite like to get rid of some of the Samsung rubbish also?
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That is all that I pretty much want to do. Where do I get the Unlocked no carrier firmware from though surely the stock firmware will be free of carrier bloatware though to be honest I would quite like to get rid of some of the Samsung rubbish also?
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First off is your phone unlocked from the carrier? If so you can google and find the firmware for your device. You can also search XDA under Samsung S8+. You will be using ODIN, so you should be familiar with that.
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Will have one last go at twrp if no joy will hopefully reflash it with stock. Thanks again though I might well be back here.
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