Hello all
A friend of mine has a Huawei Honor 6 H60-L12.
He tried to do a firmware update and he bricked the phone.
I bought it and I am desperately trying to recover it.
Here is what I know about the phone:
It had Android 5.1.1
It had Emui 3.1 and was trying to upgrade to 4.0
(Probably was rooted)
It is H60-L12
No matter what I do, I cannot enter recovery mode with the 3 button trick.
I can anytime enter Fastboot mode.
I tried to unbrick it with HONOR Multi-Tool, everything seems to work alright, but flashing boot.img fails. After unbrick I should enter recovery mode but it does not work, phone remains stuck with the Honor logo.
Computer connects to phone in Fastboot mode, Multi-tool and fastboot command works, I also have the drivers installed.
I know that after bricking the rooted phone, I should restore it and remove root before upgrade but I cannot get there.
Please advise
Best regards,
Janos
janos666 said:
Hello all
A friend of mine has a Huawei Honor 6 H60-L12.
He tried to do a firmware update and he bricked the phone.
I bought it and I am desperately trying to recover it.
Here is what I know about the phone:
It had Android 5.1.1
It had Emui 3.1 and was trying to upgrade to 4.0
(Probably was rooted)
It is H60-L12
No matter what I do, I cannot enter recovery mode with the 3 button trick.
I can anytime enter Fastboot mode.
I tried to unbrick it with HONOR Multi-Tool, everything seems to work alright, but flashing boot.img fails. After unbrick I should enter recovery mode but it does not work, phone remains stuck with the Honor logo.
Computer connects to phone in Fastboot mode, Multi-tool and fastboot command works, I also have the drivers installed.
I know that after bricking the rooted phone, I should restore it and remove root before upgrade but I cannot get there.
Please advise
Best regards,
Janos
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Instead of using the honor multi tool, why don't you use the Android SDK platform tools and connect to your phone through adb. You can solve any problem using that. You have to do everything manually but it works and never disappoints as long as you can enter fastboot mode.
Download android SDK and install it. Run the program and only choose platform tools to download. You don't need anything else
Download the latest firmware for your phone and unzip it to get dload folder which will have an update.app in it.
Download Huawei update extractor and open update.app in it.
Extract recovery, boot, Cust and system images from update.app and save them to the platform tools folder.
Flash them using adb and then do a forced update.
Will work wonders. If you need any help or need more info, please let me know.
Hello muradulislam
First of all, thank you for trying to help me.
I tried something similar to your suggestion but I still have problems.
Let me explain.
My phone is H60-L12
Latest stable firmware which I found is this one:
H60-L02-L12_EMUI3.1_Android5.1_C00B535.zip
I extracted the boot, cust, recovery and system images with Huawei update extractor.
My device is detected in fastboot mode, fastboot devices gives me this result:
c:\adb>fastboot devices
F6CDU15117010953 fastboot
When I try to flash the boot.img, it gives me this error:
c:\adb>fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'boot' (10274 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.092s]
writing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 1.135s
I tried to continue with the rest but I think this is useless.
Please tell me what to do.
Best regards,
Janos
janos666 said:
Hello muradulislam
First of all, thank you for trying to help me.
I tried something similar to your suggestion but I still have problems.
Let me explain.
My phone is H60-L12
Latest stable firmware which I found is this one:
H60-L02-L12_EMUI3.1_Android5.1_C00B535.zip
I extracted the boot, cust, recovery and system images with Huawei update extractor.
My device is detected in fastboot mode, fastboot devices gives me this result:
c:\adb>fastboot devices
F6CDU15117010953 fastboot
When I try to flash the boot.img, it gives me this error:
c:\adb>fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'boot' (10274 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.092s]
writing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 1.135s
I tried to continue with the rest but I think this is useless.
Please tell me what to do.
Best regards,
Janos
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My expertise are quite limited but may be, just may be (wishful thinking), you can to flash the twrp recovery specific for your phone. Boot into that and flash a custom ROM from there.
It may not work as I guess, boot.img is needed before entering recovery but give it a try. It never hurts.
Come on, guys!
There must be somebody who can help me.
Guillermo, panamera2011 and muradulislam tried to help me and I want to thank you for their patience.
Problem is, that I am still missing something.
There are 2 weeks now, each day after work I try to revive this phone.
These are the facts I know:
Tried the programs on 4 different machines, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Tried different sets of drivers (the one from Android SDK, the Universal ADB drivers, the ones installed by multi-tool)
Result is always the same.
I can flash anytime, any version of cust.img recovery.img and system.img but I can flash only the boot.img which is resulting from an EMUI2.3 or EMUI3.0 package.
If I try to flash boot.img from EMUI3.1 or EMUI4.0, I get the following error:
sending 'boot' (10274 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.103s]
writing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
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I tried flashing different stock or CWM or TWRP recoveries. They all are written correctly, but I cannot enter any recovery mode.
Someone advised me to try to flash fastboot.img. It is not working, gives error.
I have already many hours and maybe hundreds of firmware writes, I downloaded around 100 GB of firmwares....
There must be an idea how to save this phone.
I am open to any decent advice.
Best regards,
Janos
janos666 said:
Come on, guys!
There must be somebody who can help me.
Guillermo, panamera2011 and muradulislam tried to help me and I want to thank you for their patience.
Problem is, that I am still missing something.
There are 2 weeks now, each day after work I try to revive this phone.
These are the facts I know:
Tried the programs on 4 different machines, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Tried different sets of drivers (the one from Android SDK, the Universal ADB drivers, the ones installed by multi-tool)
Result is always the same.
I can flash anytime, any version of cust.img recovery.img and system.img but I can flash only the boot.img which is resulting from an EMUI2.3 or EMUI3.0 package.
If I try to flash boot.img from EMUI3.1 or EMUI4.0, I get the following error:
sending 'boot' (10274 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.103s]
writing 'boot'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
I tried flashing different stock or CWM or TWRP recoveries. They all are written correctly, but I cannot enter any recovery mode.
Someone advised me to try to flash fastboot.img. It is not working, gives error.
I have already many hours and maybe hundreds of firmware writes, I downloaded around 100 GB of firmwares....
There must be an idea how to save this phone.
I am open to any decent advice.
Best regards,
Janos
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@DigiGoon
You can flash boot.img from emui 2.3 or 3.0? If its written correctly then may be you can try to boot into that emui version by flashing Cust, system and recovery from the same firmware?
Your last hope is Huawei customer service.
Yes, I can flash cust, recovery and system from the same EMUI2.3 or 3.0 package, but I am still unable to boot recovery.
Unfortunately, Huawei customer service will not help me because phone is H60-L12 (Chinese version) and they don't provide support only for L04
janos666 said:
Yes, I can flash cust, recovery and system from the same EMUI2.3 or 3.0 package, but I am still unable to boot recovery.
Unfortunately, Huawei customer service will not help me because phone is H60-L12 (Chinese version) and they don't provide support only for L04
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Well, I have mentioned DigiGoon in the previous reply. May be he can help a bit.
@janos666
You can always put your desired boot.img in a flashable zip, and flash it via TWRP recovery.
Hi DigiGoon!
No, I cannot, because I was never able to access any kind of recovery
janos666 said:
Hi DigiGoon!
No, I cannot, because I was never able to access any kind of recovery
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You can't mix LP and MM ROMs and IMG files. If you want to downgrade, for example, from MM to LP you must use B800 transitional package.
So you must use IMG files from last installed working ROM.
muradulislam said:
@DigiGoon
You can flash boot.img from emui 2.3 or 3.0? If its written correctly then may be you can try to boot into that emui version by flashing Cust, system and recovery from the same firmware?
Your last hope is Huawei customer service.
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zinko_pt said:
You can't mix LP and MM ROMs and IMG files. If you want to downgrade, for example, from MM to LP you must use B800 transitional package.
So you must use IMG files from last installed working ROM.
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Hi zinko_pt
Thank you for your reply.
So this means that I should find out what version he flashed? He told me that flashing firmware went OK, but after reboot, phone wasn't starting anymore.
janos666 said:
Hi zinko_pt
Thank you for your reply.
So this means that I should find out what version he flashed? He told me that flashing firmware went OK, but after reboot, phone wasn't starting anymore.
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Sure. I would go from there as I sometimes mixed boot.img from LP or MM and always got bootloop. I would stick to IMG files from last installed ROM.
janos666 said:
Hi zinko_pt
Thank you for your reply.
So this means that I should find out what version he flashed? He told me that flashing firmware went OK, but after reboot, phone wasn't starting anymore.
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If it was Marshmallow, you have to flash transition package as zinko_pt said, otherwise you have to flash all the IMG files of Lollipop.
And after executing this command from fastboot mode
Code:
fastboot reboot
do you see notification LED light up?
DigiGoon said:
If it was Marshmallow, you have to flash transition package as zinko_pt said, otherwise you have to flash all the IMG files of Lollipop.
And after executing this command from fastboot mode
Code:
fastboot reboot
do you see notification LED light up?
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Hi DigiGoon !
Sorry, which one is the flash transition package?
Which parts to flash from it?
Which is notification LED? I can see only one red LED blinking sometimes, but only when battery is low.
DigiGoon said:
If it was Marshmallow, you have to flash transition package as zinko_pt said, otherwise you have to flash all the IMG files of Lollipop.
And after executing this command from fastboot mode
Code:
fastboot reboot
do you see notification LED light up?
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Isn't there an option to flash all img files from fastboot?
P.S. I just got new info from the guy who flashed it first time. He says he tried to write version:
H60-L02-L12_emui3.1_android5.1_c00B535
Is there such thing as "not correctly unlocked" or "partially unlocked" bootloader?
When i try to write some parts of the firmware, i get the following error:
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
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Normally this would mean that the bootloader is NOT unlocked, but anyway i test it, it says unlocked.
If i type fastboot oem get-bootinfo, i get the following result:
c:\adb>fastboot oem get-bootinfo
...
(bootloader) unlocked
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.005s
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Also the fastboot screen displays in red "PHONE UNLOCKED"
I can write some parts of the firmware, but not the fastboot.img, and boot.img only from EMUI2.3 or EMUI3.0
Please help me
janos666 said:
Is there such thing as "not correctly unlocked" or "partially unlocked" bootloader?
When i try to write some parts of the firmware, i get the following error:
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
Normally this would mean that the bootloader is NOT unlocked, but anyway i test it, it says unlocked.
If i type fastboot oem get-bootinfo, i get the following result:
c:\adb>fastboot oem get-bootinfo
...
(bootloader) unlocked
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.005s
Also the fastboot screen displays in red "PHONE UNLOCKED"
I can write some parts of the firmware, but not the fastboot.img, and boot.img only from EMUI2.3 or EMUI3.0
Please help me
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Some threads mention of locking and unlocking your device again. Give that a try. May help...
muradulislam said:
Some threads mention of locking and unlocking your device again. Give that a try. May help...
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I don't have the unlock code that's why I cannot try to relock it... And in this state I cannot get the necessary info to obtain the unlock code.
Anyway, when I tried to unlock with a bogus unlock code (1234567812345678), it gave me an error something like this:
Command failed, bootloader already unlocked.
janos666 said:
I don't have the unlock code that's why I cannot try to relock it... And in this state I cannot get the necessary info to obtain the unlock code.
Anyway, when I tried to unlock with a bogus unlock code (1234567812345678), it gave me an error something like this:
Command failed, bootloader already unlocked.
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The info you are missing is device id, another user got his device id using Huawei hacker toolkit v 1.4, his model was h60-L02. May be you can give it a try.
You have to lock it before trying to unlock again.
Fastboot OEM lock xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
I wanted to flash the latest update of RR7 but when i tried to get into the recovery the phone would reboot and show the twrp starting screen and then it would reboot again and start normally. I figured something must have gone wrong and reflashed twrp from my pc, however the issue persists. Flashify doesn't work either. So aside from a clean install, is there a workaround?
BoredDude said:
I wanted to flash the latest update of RR7 but when i tried to get into the recovery the phone would reboot and show the twrp starting screen and then it would reboot again and start normally. I figured something must have gone wrong and reflashed twrp from my pc, however the issue persists. Flashify doesn't work either. So aside from a clean install, is there a workaround?
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You can try to boot directly into twrp with "fastboot boot TWRP.img"
zys52712 said:
You can try to boot directly into twrp with "fastboot boot TWRP.img"
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Just tried it, same thing happens i can see the twrp starting screen but i can get to the main menu.
EDIT.
Changed the twrp version to an older one. No results, tried both flashing and booting from fastboot.
i get the following message:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp2.img
(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (14796 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.479s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.566s]
finished. total time: 2.049s
zys52712 said:
You can try to boot directly into twrp with "fastboot boot TWRP.img"
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BoredDude said:
Just tried it, same thing happens i can see the twrp starting screen but i can get to the main menu.
EDIT.
Changed the twrp version to an older one. No results, tried both flashing and booting from fastboot.
i get the following message:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp2.img
(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (14796 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.479s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.566s]
finished. total time: 2.049s
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Then something is really wrong with your internal memory. Because that boot command in the post above does not use TWRP installed on your phone, it's a "temporary" TWRP booted from your PC folder.
Even if you've never installed TWRP on your phone (still have stock recovery) you can still boot to TWRP for a one-time/one-off session by using those commands. Do whatever you want, like install SuperSu, and when you reboot, you'll still have stock recovery!
ChazzMatt said:
Then something is really wrong with your internal memory. Because that boot command in the post above does not use TWRP installed on your phone, it's a "temporary" TWRP booted from your PC folder.
Even if you've never installed TWRP on your phone (still have stock recovery) you can still boot to TWRP for a one-time/one-off session by using those commands. Do whatever you want, like install SuperSu, and when you reboot, you'll still have stock recovery!
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I fixed it erasing the TWRP folder in my internal storage
Hello! I tried to root my Honor 6x (BLN-L21, EMUI 5.0) following the instructions there:
cyberkey.in/how-to-root-honor-6x-100-working/
The bootloader was successfully unlocked.
But when I tried to flash TWRP the process failed and now my phone is stuck on boot :
"Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted [...] Your device is booting now."
I can get access to recovery and fastboot. I wiped the cache and tried a factory reset but nothing changed, my system won't start and I don't know what to do.
Please help!
if you have the boot backup then restore it.
venugopalu007 said:
if you have the boot backup then restore it.
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I don't have any backup. Is there a way to just reset everything? Also I don't know how to connect to the phone anymore since adb won't find the device.
if you cannot find the boot.img
just do a rollback bro
here is the link
first dload this
http://download-c.huawei.com/download/downloadCenter?downloadId=94070&version=376169&siteCode=de-h
and this now
if your device is BLN-L21C432B151 http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G1277/g104/v84712/f1/full/update.zip
or BLN-L21C185B131 http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G1277/g104/v75593/f1/full/update.zip
I think that I flashed the wrong files in "boot" and "recovery". Please tell me which files I should flash there.
I used the commands:
.\fastboot flash boot twrp.img
.\fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Stinks said:
I think that I flashed the wrong files in "boot" and "recovery". Please tell me which files I should flash there.
I used the commands:
.\fastboot flash boot twrp.img
.\fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
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The guide from "cyberkey.in/how-to-root-honor-6x-100-working/" is simply wrong when it comes to flashing the twrp recovery. If you really followed this guide completely then you flashed the recovery to the boot partition.
Use "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" to flash the recovery.
You will still have to flash the boot image to your boot partition then (fastboot flash boot boot.img).
Stinks said:
I don't have any backup. Is there a way to just reset everything? Also I don't know how to connect to the phone anymore since adb won't find the device.
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Use fastboot flash recovery twrpname.img to flash the recovery
Ok so basically I need to flash the boot image. However I don't know where to find the stock boot image. I downloaded the so-called "full version" of the stock firmware that I found here: boycracked.com/2017/07/20/official-huawei-honor-6x-bln-l21-berlin-l21-stock-rom-firmware/
However there was no boot.img file inside.
If you could direct me to the proper stock boot.img or send me one, that would greatly help. I had EMUI 5.0 with Nougat 7.0 I believe, phone version BLN-L21.
V
Stinks said:
Ok so basically I need to flash the boot image. However I don't know where to find the stock boot image. I downloaded the so-called "full version" of the stock firmware that I found here: boycracked.com/2017/07/20/official-huawei-honor-6x-bln-l21-berlin-l21-stock-rom-firmware/
However there was no boot.img file inside.
If you could direct me to the proper stock boot.img or send me one, that would greatly help. I had EMUI 5.0 with Nougat 7.0 I believe, phone version BLN-L21.
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Bro there is update.app open it with huawei update extractor then you will see the the boot image.but remember the emui 4.1 boot wont help you in emui 5 .the boot.img must be emui 5 once.
venugopalu007 said:
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Bro there is update.app open it with huawei update extractor then you will see the the boot image.but remember the emui 4.1 boot wont help you in emui 5 .the boot.img must be emui 5 once.
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Thanks. I successfully updated boot.img and and recovery.img, but system won't load, so I might have imported from the wrong STOCK version.
I tried to reinstall a stock ROM using:
fastboot flash system system.img
But I got this error message:
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending sparse 'system' (444686 KB)...
OKAY [ 12.901s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: sparse flash write failure)
finished. total time: 12.929s
Then I tried to erase the system file with "erase system" and got this error:
erasing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.013s
I guess that the only option now is to install the files on an external SD card?
Stinks said:
Thanks. I successfully updated boot.img and and recovery.img, but system won't load, so I might have imported from the wrong STOCK version.
I tried to reinstall a stock ROM using:
fastboot flash system system.img
But I got this error message:
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending sparse 'system' (444686 KB)...
OKAY [ 12.901s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: sparse flash write failure)
finished. total time: 12.929s
Then I tried to erase the system file with "erase system" and got this error:
erasing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.013s
I guess that the only option now is to install the files on an external SD card?
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Bro y this ,just do a rollback .
Stinks said:
Thanks. I successfully updated boot.img and and recovery.img, but system won't load, so I might have imported from the wrong STOCK version.
I tried to reinstall a stock ROM using:
fastboot flash system system.img
But I got this error message:
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending sparse 'system' (444686 KB)...
OKAY [ 12.901s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: sparse flash write failure)
finished. total time: 12.929s
Then I tried to erase the system file with "erase system" and got this error:
erasing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.013s
I guess that the only option now is to install the files on an external SD card?
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I recommend you to download firmware files only from the official honor website or by using the huawei firmware finder(https://forum.xda-developers.com/tools/general/huawei-firmware-finder-team-mt-t3469146)
In this case try to use huawei firmware finder to get the right stock version for your phone. Download these two files: e.g. update.zip & update_full_BLN-L21_hw_eu.zip.
Export the following image files: recovery, system, boot and cust.
The try to flash them:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash cust cust.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If flashing a partition via fastboot fails then it is usually because it's the wrong image or just not made for your phone.
Thank you guys, you saved my phone! I eventually managed to flash the files from Nougat update for European Honor 6X BLN-L21C432B360 that I found there: stechguide.com/honor-6x-b360-nougat-update/
Now the phone is working fine.
Stinks said:
Thank you guys, you saved my phone! I eventually managed to flash the files from Nougat update for European Honor 6X BLN-L21C432B360 that I found there: stechguide.com/honor-6x-b360-nougat-update/
Now the phone is working fine.
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Glad you revived your phone
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Stinks said:
Hello! I tried to root my Honor 6x (BLN-L21, EMUI 5.0) following the instructions there:
cyberkey.in/how-to-root-honor-6x-100-working/
The bootloader was successfully unlocked.
But when I tried to flash TWRP the process failed and now my phone is stuck on boot :
"Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted [...] Your device is booting now."
I can get access to recovery and fastboot. I wiped the cache and tried a factory reset but nothing changed, my system won't start and I don't know what to do.
Please help!
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my phone is stuck at your device is booting now i cant get to any of other functions such as fastboot or recovry i can only acces it after full charge is gone and after charging.how did you get to acces fastboot or recover.
[email protected] said:
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my phone is stuck at your device is booting now i cant get to any of other functions such as fastboot or recovry i can only acces it after full charge is gone and after charging.how did you get to acces fastboot or recover.
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did you solve your issue.....I have same problem now
nokiasatyam said:
did you solve your issue.....I have same problem now
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Hello, could you be more specific about your problem? I'll be able to help you.
Brief Explanation:
From the screen on which you're stuck, press and hold power button for about 10 seconds to forcibly restart your device. when you see the same screen again, immediately press and hold volume up button(for about 3 seconds) to boot to eRecovery.
> Choose shut down option on eRecovery. press and hold vol down button and insert the charging cable to boot to fastboot.
> Press and hold power and volume up button to boot to recovery. (You could do this even from fastboot screen and the screen you're stuck at).
I was using official Lineage 14.1 on Lollipop bootloader with firmware libra_miui_v8120_fw_patch, then today stupidly decided to update firmware with libra-firmware_miui9-7.8.21_7.0.zip which is probably for Nougat bootloader. Now I am unable to go into recovery and also when trying to flash recovery through fastboot I end up with this:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (40704 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.343s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Partition flashing is not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.362s
So can't even flash recovery. Fastboot oem unlock ends up with this:
Code:
FAILED (remote: Token verification failed, reboot the device)
finished. total time: 0.031s
tried also flashing logo.bin into bk2 just to verify if partition is logged and end up with same issue as with recovery, apparently bootloader locked:
Code:
fastboot flash bk2 logo.bin
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'bk2' (9591 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.329s]
writing 'bk2'...
FAILED (remote: Partition flashing is not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.341s
Is there any way to flash through fastboot just firmware and get back to where I was before screwed update so I don't need to go through flashing fastboot MIUI ROM, losing all my data in phone and setting up phone from scratch? At least in worst case I hope that's an option and it would work just to flash old libra_images_6.1.7_20151221.0000.11_5.1_cn_b09dac70a0, then do oem unlock flash TWRP and the go to lineage, as i did without official unlocking before, but I would rather avoid this since I have still some data not backed up in the phone (luckily i backed up photos just before flashing).
EDIT: Or is there a way to at least back up my data out of phone through fastboot?
EDIT 2: according google results not possible to do backup through fastboot and according fastboot oem device-info it's locked bootloader, so back to square one, losing files, grr and start from scratch
https://www.google.ro/amp/s/forum.x...-unlocking-mi4c-bl-verification-t3336779/amp/
Steps 2 to 9. It should work.
Might be another way to save your data but I didn't found one. Maybe your pc will se your folders in fastboot so you can save the data.
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You can also try to unlock the bootloader the official way, then install TWRP and flash a lollipop firmware zip with the lollipop bootloader and try to boot your ROM that way. The zip floats around in one of the ROM threads.
cezarmed2 said:
https://www.google.ro/amp/s/forum.x...-unlocking-mi4c-bl-verification-t3336779/amp/
Steps 2 to 9. It should work.
Might be another way to save your data but I didn't found one. Maybe your pc will se your folders in fastboot so you can save the data.
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yeah, I did that as usual when unlocking unofficially, but there is no way to see your data, though in miflash it says in bottom "save user data" but nothing was saved, I looked through all phone, can't find it anywhere
OK, I noticed another issue, my available space significantly shrank. I guess it's because during fastboot oem edl flashing fastboot MIUI dev ROM through miflash I left "keep user data" checked instead erase, hoping I can recover them somehow.
Now Settings/Storage shows me that my System takes 21GB out of all 29GB, which is nonsense, since it's pretty much fresh system with few apps and little data used.
So my question is, can I somewhere find my original user data taking all this space and manage them? Or is user data partition (internal storage) somehow corrupted and I should just format it and this should hopefully fix problem with lack of free space (although Settings are showing System is taking all the 21GB)? In Mixplorer Internal storage is showing capacity 7.75GB and Root 1.82GB, so I would think it's corrupted internal storage which should be formatted, although best would be if original data would be somewhere hidden and I could just delete them manually.
EDIT: SOLVED - go to TWRP / Wipe / select Data / Repair button / Resize / and partition was properly resized from 7900MB back to 26136MB without loss of current data, of course original data from before are gone, but I am already over it.