Probably bricked my zenfone 3 ultra... :/ - Asus ZenFone 3 Ultra Questions & Answers

So I was interested in getting a root, did fastboot boot twrp.img, the version you get from shakala's megaupload page and tried to do a mtp mount to copy the supersu in. That didn't work because I'm on mac and I rebooted... surprise phone doesn't boot. It's just stuck on the 'asus, in search of incredible' screen that comes up 1 second after booting.
Tried to instead flash twrp to recovery, no dice, black screen. Tried flash stock recovery from the shakala's page, I get the droid belly up with an exclamation mark over the open belly...
Tried fastboot boot twrp.img and then sideload the actual OTA firmware, no dice. It won't even try to flash and just gives the 1001 error.
I have tried and unpacked 3 different stock images I've found
UL-ASUS_A001-WW-14.1010.1702.36-user.zip
UL-ASUS_A001-WW-14.1010.1703.42-user.zip
UL-ASUS_A001-WW-14.1010.1704.46-user.zip
and flash the sytem.new.dat to the system partition, no dice again. Phone just doesn't boot.
TL;DR
Something got wonky, phone doesn't boot
Recovery is broken, flashing stock recovery from shakala's page produces belly-up-android image
Without stock recovery, I can't sideload a full system update...
Halp? Ideas?

Got a little bit progress...
The TWRP black screen can be fixed by just turning off the display via the power button and then pressing it again, and you can see the twrp. Looks like even the normal one
Next hurdle was that /cache and /system couldn't be mounted for sideloading so in the end I had to go to the adb shell and format them manually. Then the wiping of system was possible and there were no more errors from TWRP.
So I went ahead and tried sideloading again, it put the image in nicely and everything looks good. Go to reboot screen and it say 'no OS installed'.
I guess those 1.7G images don't exactly have the full OS so a /system formatted Zenfone 3 Ultra can't be restored from those?

Alrighty, got stuff working. Sharing for people who might run into this later.
At this time, you need the stock recovery working to be able to `adb sideload` a full image. The TWRP goes to 50% and then actually doesn't unconditionally push the stock ROM into the partition. I saw the difference when using TWRP/Stock Recovery.
My biggest failure was not to recognize that the green android belly up with an exclamation mark on top of it actually meant that the stock recovery was working. You have to do a little bit more finger juggling to actually enter the recover commands section of the recovery. Mainly after the android appears, volume up+power for a few seconds, release volume up. Illustrated here:
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/in/thread-121896-1-1.html
From the stock recovery, you can then wipe caches and start adb sideload, and using your pc to sideload the image (or from sd card if you so wish).

blosphere said:
I guess those 1.7G images don't exactly have the full OS so a /system formatted Zenfone 3 Ultra can't be restored from those?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can testify that the 1.7G image contains a full OS on /system.
If you read META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script inside the UL-ASUS_A001-WW-14.1010.1704.46-user.zip, you will see the official recovery do use system.transfer.list and system.new.dat in the zip to flash /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system.
Recovery is broken, flashing stock recovery from shakala's page produces belly-up-android image
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When you see the belly-up-android image, press Power + Volume-Up. The stock recovery menu comes up. I was confused at the beginning, too.
From you id Tokyo, did you buy the phone in Japan? If so, it is a JP_Phone, and need some tweak to the initrd in boot.img to flash WW firmwares.
Oh, glad to see you've already solved it! You might want to mark the thread title as "[SOLVED]".

Related

[Q][A700] Need help, i guess i bricked my A700 :-(

Hello XDA community !
LAst week I bought my Acer A700, but after a few days a dead pixel appeared...
So I was on my way to send back my toy, when I saw that CMWR was available.
"Nice ! I can do a factory reset so my toy will be clean to be sent back !"
But the factory reset didn't work... It was stuck at "Formatting /data" for a while...
So I rebooted the A700, and now it's stuck at the ACER logo... I only have access to recovery...
Any ideas ?
Thanks a lot :good:
Since you have recovery try and do data wipe, then wipe cache then davlik cache, then reboot.
If you have recovery you can install a ROM by renaming it update.zip and using CWM.
Itchiee said:
Since you have recovery try and do data wipe, then wipe cache then davlik cache, then reboot.
If you have recovery you can install a ROM by renaming it update.zip and using CWM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I already tried this, when I want to install a update.zip, it stucks at "installing update".
When I want to wipe a partition, it stucks at "formating /xxx" and nothing happens...
I wanted to flash stock bootloader with Nvflash, but I can't find APX drivers for ACER A700
Can you install the update.zip without the use of CWM (By pressing the powerbutton with the vol down)?
Also, where is your update.zip located?
Edit:
I guess it could do no harm if you'd hook up your device to the PC and enter the following commands:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot erase cache
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
TomONeill said:
Can you install the update.zip without the use of CWM (By pressing the powerbutton with the vol down)?
Also, where is your update.zip located?
Edit:
I guess it could do no harm if you'd hook up your device to the PC and enter the following commands:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
_ update.zip putted on a extrenal SD card doesn't work, it's skipped and CWM is launched.
_ the "adb reboot bootloader" puts the A700 in "APX" mode... and the "fastboot erase cache" is stuck at "waiting for device"...
Thanks for trying to help !!!
May this be a relevant solution??
http://androidforums.com/esteem-all...w-get-out-clockworkmod-recovery-bootloop.html
Edit:
I don't think the device checks for update.zip on the sdcard. Maybe there is a way to move the file to the internal. (adb mount sdcard adb push /sdcard/update.zip update.zip ?
Yeah,
The current CWM seems to corrupt the Data partition (amongst other things). Seems to be a going thing lately. Remember, these are new tabs, and new root & recovery methods, so there are going to be some bricked tabs before things get sorted out. This happens in "ALL" development, and everybody knows the risks involved.
I had the same issue. Couldn't reboot into fastboot, as it seems the OS has to be running?
This is why Skirlax_CZ built the bootloader for the 500/501, so you could boot it into fastboot mode, bypassing the OS. Unfortunately, the stock 70x OEM bootloader doesn't seem to allow this.
Best bet if you can't find the "exact" version rom the tab was shipped with, is to try renaming some full roms to update.zip, copy to sd, reboot (vol + and PWR, and see if it will install and boot. At the worst, it will install a stock bootloader and recovery.
Also, holding PWR, Vol - (I believe) and toggling the rotation lock should wipe User Data.
At the very worse, turn it into Acer Service, suck it up and pay the repair bill.
They will just install the correct service rom and give it back to you.
MD
Touns said:
Hello XDA community !
LAst week I bought my Acer A700, but after a few days a dead pixel appeared...
So I was on my way to send back my toy, when I saw that CMWR was available.
"Nice ! I can do a factory reset so my toy will be clean to be sent back !"
But the factory reset didn't work... It was stuck at "Formatting /data" for a while...
So I rebooted the A700, and now it's stuck at the ACER logo... I only have access to recovery...
Any ideas ?
Thanks a lot :good:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
your situation is just same as mine,seeming bricked after using fatory rest or wiping from cwm,I think it's the problem of the damn cwm.as i know from now there are several devices got bricked,all because of the goddamn cwm.as we know factory rest is the same as recovery wiping,i use the under the official recovery,everything wen fine,but after wiping via cwm from the forum,it appeared the problem.
i tried a lot of method,just as u mentioned,to flash *.img
but i found a curious thing,after dumping series of *.img from a well-mailfuntioning device i can use fastboot to flash "userdata" which the loaction is mmcblk010 or /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA,but after flashing,i can't erase userdata block in fastboot.then i reflashing the data.img to userdata block,then in cwm,i can mount /data,but it's still not able to wipe or format it.then i've found a data.img and flashing the userdata and reboot.then i enter the system,and it forced me to do a factory reset,of course as before,it's not mailfunctioning because of the cwm or the block itself damaged..
but i can enter adb,and i found that i can see the /data and the filesystem in it.then i use mount to modify it,for i can delete or modify the files in /data,and it appears normally.i delete everything in /data.then i want to try to reboot to see if it's working,but after rebooting,the device stuck at acer logo,then i reboot into the cwm,it can't be mounted again.it seems that i can flash the userdata but i can't format or wipe or modify...
and i tried to reflash the bootloader from a well-mailfunctioning deivece,not working,either.
then i go for searching the situation in google,i found there are a lot of similar problems of the tegra device,and the solution is nvflash...
i don't know if there are a block saving the information of partitions just like the PIT file of my galaxy s2,seems we should wait for nvflash?or the method to flashing PIT partitions file?
i installed the nvflash driver by modifying the usb id,but i can't do anything from nvflash,it's not matching.
I had the same problem after I upgraded to JB with CWM recovery 6.0.14 and I tried to root it. But it stuck in acer logo. Then I went to recovery mode, but it couldn't mount sdcard or external card, too.
In my case, I solved it by these steps:
1. Try to go to fastboot mode by press vol (-) + power. After it vibrate, release power, and then play lock button. Then tablet will go to fastboot mode. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861092
2. Download these boot and recovery images: https://www.box.com/s/3321wf8gg4at639nfn06
3. Try to flash these boot and recovery images to table:
fastboot flash boot boot.img​
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img​
And then, reboot tablet:
fastboot reboot​
WOW, my tablet works again.
:victory:
kwaiding said:
I had the same problem after I upgraded to JB with CWM recovery 6.0.14 and I tried to root it. But it stuck in acer logo. Then I went to recovery mode, but it couldn't mount sdcard or external card, too.
In my case, I solved it by these steps:
1. Try to go to fastboot mode by press vol (-) + power. After it vibrate, release power, and then play lock button. Then tablet will go to fastboot mode. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861092
2. Download these boot and recovery images: https://www.box.com/s/3321wf8gg4at639nfn06
3. Try to flash these boot and recovery images to table:
fastboot flash boot boot.img​
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img​
And then, reboot tablet:
fastboot reboot​
WOW, my tablet works again.
:victory:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately, although somewhat similar, this is not the same situation as the OP had.
The first CWM originally posted a few months ago, was posted by a user who used the totally wrong partition tables, and also, didn't own the tab so it was never tested (after the fact). Basically, it damaged the chipset which required a motherboard replacement. Not to mention a specifically nasty Data_Cap bug in the CWM kernel. No image flashing via fastboot (and probably NVFlash) would repair the damage. The result was several bricked tabs till the CWM was removed. (mine included)
Also note, that the current root procedure is by the same person. Although there is an alternative.
What you had, was simple data corruption on one of the Dev Blocks. This is why you were able to fastboot an image.
Corrupting a partition can happen at any time. Whether rooted, stock, or custom rom. So it's always nice to have ADB to pull your partition images. Just in case.
MD

[XT1541 16Gb] - Update caused boot loop, cannot flash ROM

Hi all,
I just tried to update my XT1541 (I didn't see what version it was to, sorry), but was rewarded by an endless boot loop -- the phone wouldn't progress past the white splash screen, and lasted about 15-20 seconds per cycle.
Holding the [Volume Down] button got me to the bootloader screen, from which I was able to go into recovery. However, this only displayed an error message, 'No command found', with a red warning symbol over the android image.
I could get round this, however, by holding down [Power] then [Volume Up], and was able to both wipe the cache and do a factory reset. Neither of these helped fix the issue, however. I am unable to flash from the SD Card, either, as attempting this results in the error message, 'internal and external memory cannot be mounted'.
At this, point, I imagine I can try adb and fastboot, but does anyone have any guidance first?
Go into that bootloader screen and flash the stock rom with fastboot.
maarten2001 said:
Go into that bootloader screen and flash the stock rom with fastboot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ach, now I can't unzip the factory ROM -- sparsechunk.4 is broken and refuses to be extracted :/
rosyatrandom said:
Ach, now I can't unzip the factory ROM -- sparsechunk.4 is broken and refuses to be extracted :/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Make sure you have downloaded the correct version for your device or try to download it again.

Phone won't boot past TWRP recovery

Ok so I recently upgraded to lineage OS and it had a few issues, as in it kept restarting when you left it alone, so I went into TWRP and did a factory reset and then tried reinstalling it. But when it rebooted it went straight into recovery so, I thought oh lets just use a backup I made, same issues will only boot into recovery. So looking around I couldn't find much to help with this, so I tried flashing other ROMs including stock, no luck, I then tried re-flashing TWRP including all compatible versions, no luck either. So I don't know what to do as I don't have a way to boot the phone anymore, also Windows only sees an empty TWRP folder with one file in so all the other folders have gone so I now have 22.6 GB free of 23.4GB. Any help will be great as I would like my phone back.
Ps all my backups are on an external sd card and I don't care about lost data as it's mostly on the sd card anyway
Any help appreciated
Fixed it myself
Ok so what I did was flash the stock recovery and then rebooted it fixed itself
how did you manage to go into fastboot mode to flash stock recovery??? i am unable to flash recovery via the TWRP reboot>bootloader i keep having an unknown command
mine's the same, if it goes to fastboot I can't do anything, just get a blackscreen with fastboot mode written in tiny writing in the bottom left hand corner. How do you flash the stock recovery?
andydgg said:
mine's the same, if it goes to fastboot I can't do anything, just get a blackscreen with fastboot mode written in tiny writing in the bottom left hand corner. How do you flash the stock recovery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Connect to PC. Use fastboot from PC to flash recovery. From a command window type:
fastboot flash recovery original.img
Replace "original" with the name of the original recovery image.

Honor 8 Can't Download Firmware, Can't Flash, Bricked? [Solved]

Hi, after trying unlock my bootloader, I couldn't get into recovery mode without "Your phone cannot be trusted" getting stuck on my screen.
I re-locked the boot loader but now when I go into recovery it says "Data Partition is corrupted please format" then it asks me to connect to a wifi network which then just shows errors everytime the password comes up.
I tried to turn on USB Debugging to ADB sideload a firmware, but I can't because the phone has been resetted; if I try to enter a wifi password the keyboard doesnt show it's just the google voice (which doesn't work) with no options. If i skip the wifi option it just goes on the google login and gets stuck on "Checking Info".
Any solutions to the problem please?
EDIT: I just re-unlocked the bootloader and now its permanently stuck on "Your device cannot be trusted, booting now" regardless of what buttons I press during startup
EDIT 2: I fixed it, it was long and complicated but I got it to work, here's how.
1. When flashing TWRP, I realized I was flashing the TWRP for EMUI 4, so I flashed TWRP for EMUI 5. (Make sure Bootloader is unlocked)
First have all the adb/fastboot drivers, for windows shift + right click the folder and click "Open Command here"
Make sure the twrp img file is in the same folder as the adb folder.
On the honor 8 phone, if it is stuck like mine, turn the phone off and then hold Volume Down + Power Button until the download mode is on the screen
Type "fastboot flash recovery (twrpfilename).img"
Once it's done, turn it off and then hold power button + volume up AND volume down at once till TWRP comes on
(Continuously hold it, if the "Your Device cannot be trusted" screen comes on release)
2. (Make sure internal storage and data are backed up externally for this)
Reset system, data, cache/dalvik, and internal storage
3. Download Update.zip and the second .zip from a website on google, search Honor 8 Manual Nougat and click the link from smartstocknews (I can't post links) but do not follow the steps from that website, and also download GAPPS from open GAPPS. Make sure ARM64 is selected and not ARM as well as 7.0
4. After wiping, mount the Honor 8 by connecting it via USB to a computer, and press "Mount" on TWRP
Upload the both update.zip and update_data_full_hw_eu.zip and GAPPS ARM64 7.0 to internal or external storage
5. Exit mount and go to install, install the zips in this specific order and do not reboot in between
A) Update.zip
B) Update_data_full_hw_eu.zip
C) GAPPS.zip
6. Reboot after GAPPS is done (it might show already installed, if that's the case then it's alright, reboot anyways)
Download the 70mb package for firmware downgrade and the latest marshmallow firmware from your regional huawei's website.
Extract the small package and put the .app file in a folder called dload on the SD card and insert it in your phone.
Boot by holding volume + volume - and pressing power, holding all 3 buttons until the phone vibrates.
The package will flash and afterwards you repeat the process, this time using an .app file from the full marshmallow firmware.
The 70mb package installs not matter how messed up your file system is, and makes your phone ready for the MM firmware. This process brings any brick back to life. Good luck.
I too was trying to root my FRD-L04 and apparently used the wrong TWRP because now I get...
Code:
Unable to open ' ' to wipe crypto key
Unable to wipe Data
Unable to format to remove encryption
Failed to mount /data (invalid argument)
and I cant get the keyboard loaded so I can log into my wifi when I do a factory reset. I really have no idea how best to attack this...my phone is bricked I can get into TWRP 3.0.2.0 recovery, sideload, and fastboot (i think). I am currently downloading the stock ROM for my device and will try to sideload it.
I feel I need to fix the data issues thought before trying to load the ROM as I dont think my data partition is working at all now. Does anyone have any suggestions or a step-by-step guide on how to fix my bricked phone?
I've tried all sort of things today but no matter what, I cant get a keyboard working so I guess that means I'm screwed....
EDIT - my phone doesnt have a insertable SD card so I cant fix things the way the above poster suggests.
menriquez said:
I too was trying to root my FRD-L04 and apparently used the wrong TWRP because now I get...
Code:
Unable to open ' ' to wipe crypto key
Unable to wipe Data
Unable to format to remove encryption
Failed to mount /data (invalid argument)
and I cant get the keyboard loaded so I can log into my wifi when I do a factory reset. I really have no idea how best to attack this...my phone is bricked I can get into TWRP 3.0.2.0 recovery, sideload, and fastboot (i think). I am currently downloading the stock ROM for my device and will try to sideload it.
I feel I need to fix the data issues thought before trying to load the ROM as I dont think my data partition is working at all now. Does anyone have any suggestions or a step-by-step guide on how to fix my bricked phone?
I've tried all sort of things today but no matter what, I cant get a keyboard working so I guess that means I'm screwed....
EDIT - my phone doesnt have a insertable SD card so I cant fix things the way the above poster suggests.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you have nougat just flash the correct recovery from the twrp you already have. https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/development/twrp-t3566563
sysak said:
If you have nougat just flash the correct recovery from the twrp you already have. https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/development/twrp-t3566563
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is truly one of the worse phones I have ever had when it comes to root and such. My frustration over what, for a unbranded unlocked phone that *should* probably SHIP with root, this phone has and is putting me through is super high.
That being said...so I flashed the new 3.1.0.0 recovery. Before doing that, I had just tried to Unbrick the phone with flashing B162 image with 3.0.3.0...so now the phone is totally frozen in the "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted..." screen. Nothing I seem to do can get it out of this mode.
I want to install the rooted b378 boot.img file I just downloaded, but am unable to find the button commands to get the bootloader loaded. Does anyone have any suggestions in somehow trying to save the day with this damned phone?
much thanks in advance.
EDIT: So I got the phone in bootloader mode by pressing vol up/vol down/power and inserting the usb cable...i flashed the rooted boot.img and twrp 3.1.0.1 to both recovery and recovery2 and now i can get into recovery. I feel like I may actually have a chance now to fix this damn thing...
So can anyone point me in a direction where, from this point with the new recovery loaded and the modded boot image installed, where i can get this phone working?? ill use ANY ROM it dont really matter at this point...
Don't worry. It's really easy, once you know what to do, just realy easy to screw up if you don't. If your phone is a mess just roll back to android 6 using the procedure i described above. Once your phone works, update to nougat and install twrp and root following this guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/development/twrp-t3566563
Same issue
Ramonator said:
Hi, after trying unlock my bootloader, I couldn't get into recovery mode without "Your phone cannot be trusted" getting stuck on my screen.
I re-locked the boot loader but now when I go into recovery it says "Data Partition is corrupted please format" then it asks me to connect to a wifi network which then just shows errors everytime the password comes up.
I tried to turn on USB Debugging to ADB sideload a firmware, but I can't because the phone has been resetted; if I try to enter a wifi password the keyboard doesnt show it's just the google voice (which doesn't work) with no options. If i skip the wifi option it just goes on the google login and gets stuck on "Checking Info".
Any solutions to the problem please?
EDIT: I just re-unlocked the bootloader and now its permanently stuck on "Your device cannot be trusted, booting now" regardless of what buttons I press during startup
EDIT 2: I fixed it, it was long and complicated but I got it to work, here's how.
1. When flashing TWRP, I realized I was flashing the TWRP for EMUI 4, so I flashed TWRP for EMUI 5. (Make sure Bootloader is unlocked)
First have all the adb/fastboot drivers, for windows shift + right click the folder and click "Open Command here"
Make sure the twrp img file is in the same folder as the adb folder.
On the honor 8 phone, if it is stuck like mine, turn the phone off and then hold Volume Down + Power Button until the download mode is on the screen
Type "fastboot flash recovery (twrpfilename).img"
Once it's done, turn it off and then hold power button + volume up AND volume down at once till TWRP comes on
(Continuously hold it, if the "Your Device cannot be trusted" screen comes on release)
2. (Make sure internal storage and data are backed up externally for this)
Reset system, data, cache/dalvik, and internal storage
3. Download Update.zip and the second .zip from a website on google, search Honor 8 Manual Nougat and click the link from smartstocknews (I can't post links) but do not follow the steps from that website, and also download GAPPS from open GAPPS. Make sure ARM64 is selected and not ARM as well as 7.0
4. After wiping, mount the Honor 8 by connecting it via USB to a computer, and press "Mount" on TWRP
Upload the both update.zip and update_data_full_hw_eu.zip and GAPPS ARM64 7.0 to internal or external storage
5. Exit mount and go to install, install the zips in this specific order and do not reboot in between
A) Update.zip
B) Update_data_full_hw_eu.zip
C) GAPPS.zip
6. Reboot after GAPPS is done (it might show already installed, if that's the case then it's alright, reboot anyways)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I pretty much have the same issue. No keyboard showing, just the stupid voice thing, and the Bootloader is Relocked. How did you get it fully unlocked. I can't get it. I guess let me get that resolved first (the bootloader) and I can try to go from there. Please help me.
UPDATE: Never mind I fixed it. I'm not really for sure how either but I think it mainly was just persistence.
Didn't work
Hello, so earlier today I tried to install RROS newest version in hope to get magisk/unrooting my phone because I'm addicted to snapchat and I rooted my phone with SuperSU earlier but didn't know u can't login to snapchat after that. It failed idk why, (I followed instructions very clearly and searched info from internet before doing that) causing me to brick my phone so when I booted it, it only showed black screen. After couple hours not finding way to get into twrp with my circumstances I managed to flash boot, recovery and system images, I tried to reboot and see what happens, (just in case, I kinda knew I didn't had ROM installed at the time, I also was hoping RROS to boot) nothing happened expect my phone got stuck in boot screen for booting EMUI, which was not installed obviously. Again after couple hours I stumbled to your post and managed to finally get myself into TWRP, I followed again ur instructions and everything was going fine, no erros, not anything. When Gapps was finished installing, I rebooted and again it just got stuck into booting screen. I did press and hold Power button, vol+, vol- and got myself into some kind of ROM installing screen, (hard to explain I don't exactly know what is name of it) and no it wasn't Huawei erecovery screen (Power button & Vol+ and no it didn't work me either saying that "getting package info failed") so in that ROM installing screen it just was stuck at 5% installing, and now I don't know what to do. My phone got locked again and I'm stuck at booting screen.
Note:
I don't have SD Card, should I get one and install stock rom?
Sorry for being kinda unclear but I'm tired it was 7 hours ago I got my phone bricked and have surfed on the web finding for answers ever since.
Also as you might notice, yes, I'm new to modding devices etc but still I'm not totally noob. Please help ASAP.
[SOLVED] So after hour of watching netflix as depressed teen I tried to reboot my phone again just in case, got stuck in booting screen. Then I held Power Button + Vol+ and got myself into EMUI stock recovery mode, I chose wipe cache partition and wipe data/factory reset, after that I rebooted my phone, it was stuck in booting screen for like 2 minutes but then it actually finished booting and now my phone is again functioning and god bless locked & unrooted.

Flashed TWRP 3.1.1 and 3.2.3 to Nokia 3 but can't access recovery with either of them

I finally figured out how to unlock the bootloader after figuring out that I have to specify "-i 0x2e04" between "fastboot" and the fastboot command and I thought it was going well until after flashing TWRP custom recovery version 3.11 as per This thread's recommendation when attempting to boot into TWRP recovery simply takes me to, rather than the menu that's supposed to show up, a screen with the android mascot on it's back and a single line of text below it saying "No command".
I figured I might as well try reflashing, but the problem persisted. I then tried reflashing with a newer version of TWRP, version 3.2.3 as recommended by This guide. but instead of taking me to the "No command" screen, it just ends up in a boot loop as long as my finger is holding down the power + volume buttons. The boot loop ends, booting into the normal OS if I stop holding down the buttons.
How can I access the recovery to make a nandroid backup and install the magisk .zip file?
I've heard one or two guides make mention of a "no verity opt encrypt.zip" file but I haven't been able to find where I can download it. Could someone help me out?
root using magisk than install from official twrp app
tech2update said:
root using magisk than install from official twrp app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can't access the apps on the phone because the phone is stuck in a bootloop

Categories

Resources