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Can't enter TWRP

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

XT1039 softbricked, any help or suggestions appreciated

Hello,
Edit: Don't know how or why, but after a couple of more tries I was able to boot the recovery directly and flash the rom. So everything is working fine right now. Admin/mod, would you like to close this thread? Thank you
For some reason I wanted to flash a new rom on my XT1039. In the process I screwed up and got it softbricked. I already had a look at the thread started by alfread56 and although the situation seems quite similar, the offered solutions didn't work out for me.
Right now my phone doens't have any rom installed. Flashing twrp with fastboot suggest everything works allright (using a linux system by the way):
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (8314 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.295s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.303s]
finished. total time: 0.598s
After the reboot and holding the buttons for recovery mode I still get the stock recovery screen. When I select recovery in this menu, the phone shuts down. Because I know holding the recovery buttons on reboot takes some timing, I have redone the procedure of flashing twrp and holding the buttons numerous times. But it never went to the twrp recovery.
Then I tried to boot the twrp image directly with
$ fastboot boot recovery.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.290s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.230s]
finished. total time: 0.520s
Here I made a mistake: I have also flashed the boot partition with the twrp image with fastboot flash boot recovery.img (don't know how much of problem this is).
Booting up the TWRP image works fine. Then I've wiped dalvik, cache, data, internal storage and after several runs also deleted system by accident, and factory reset. When trying to flash the lineage zip everything works out fine for about 1 second, then the screen flashes en the phone is back in the TWRP screen. Too quick for me to see what the output is, but I do see there are not red marked lines (no errors)
I have tried it with several different ROMS (al checked), with several versions of TWRP and with fastboot and mfastboot. Does anybody know a solution on how to get twrp recovery working on my phone, or why I can't flash a rom when I boot twrp directly? Any help is appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
weisa4564

Root: Stuck at "Your device is booting now"

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.

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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).

Help me unbrick my Honor 8

Well guys, I think I did it. I think I really did brick my Honor 8.
Phone details: New Honor 8, Model is FRD-AL10.
It came with the Chinese ROM, locked. What I did was to unlock it with DC unlocker, flash TWRP as custom recovery and root it.
Later, I had some problems with installing Open Gapps so I decided that I will flash a custom ROM unto it. What I chose was this RROS. I followed all of the instructions, made sure my EMUI was up to date, deleted all of my fingerprints (although I did not disable the PIN lock). I performed a factory reset using TWRP, flashed RROS and started facing errors.
Trying to power up the phone I found out it was going into bootloop, not able to start up. Only recovery available was not TWRP, but the default Huawei eRecovery, that lets you restore the phone using the Wi-Fi to download the needed files. Panicking for my new phone, I tried to restore my phone this way, only when it completed the download it failed restoring.
I have tried to unbrick my phone using the Honor 8 Multi-Tool: flashing BOOT.img, CUST.img, Recovery, USERDATA.img and SYSTEM.img. The firmware I downloaded and extracted UPDATE.app from is this: FRD-AL10_C00B135_Firmware_China_Nonspecific_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_05013LBP.zip.
The Multi-Tool's log is this:
Code:
12:51:55: All images are found, everything is ready for the unbricking process.
12:52:01: Unbricking started. Your computer may freezes during the process.
12:52:01: flash boot "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\boot.img"
12:52:03: The Boot image is flashing successfully
12:52:03: flash system "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\system.img"
12:55:09: target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending sparse 'system' 1/6 (413881 KB)...
OKAY [ 30.117s]
writing 'system' 1/6...
FAILED (remote: sparse flash write failure)
finished. total time: 30.164s
12:55:09: Error#1
12:55:09: flash cust "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\cust.img"
12:55:28: Error! You are trying to flash the wrong image!
12:55:28: flash recovery "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\recovery.img"
12:55:31: The Recovery image is flashing successfully
12:55:31: flash userdata "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Honor 8\Unbrick\userdata.img"
12:55:38: target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'userdata' (143361 KB)...
OKAY [ 4.183s]
writing 'userdata'...
(bootloader) success to erase cryypt info in oeminfo
OKAY [ 1.275s]
finished. total time: 5.458s
12:55:38: Error#1
12:55:38: Completed
12:55:38: Something went wrong (((
As you see, SYSTEM.img cannot be written for some reason, and CUST.img is for some reason the wrong file.
I also tried to flash UPDATE.app using a microSD card and the Volume up+Volume down+Power combination, but it fails after 5%, Saying:
Code:
Software install failed!
Incompatibility with current version.
Please download the correct update package.
So either my phone is completely dead, or I am missing something here.
Can anyone help me restore my phone to normal function?

you need to find the rollback package, you had android 7 but you're trying to flash android 6

Cannot flash TWRP with latest OTA (5.4)?

I'm trying to obtain root on a Shield K1 that has the latest ota update (5.4).
I've unlocked the bootloader, but the latest TWRP just won't flash, says OK and writes to recovery, but same stock recovery stays there.
Do I need to use an older developer image, one that was released prior to the latest TWRP?
This is what the terminal is giving me:
Code:
[[email protected] tablet ]$ sudo fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.1-0-shieldtablet.img
target reported max download size of 100663296 bytes
sending 'recovery' (12426 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.487s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.506s]
finished. total time: 0.993s
Then, when I reboot to recovery, I get a dead robot with a little ? & "No command"
EDIT: OK, I fixed it, by using "fastboot boot twrp.img" and then installing lineage and then installing twrp
I didn't know that you could boot an image without installing it that's really good to know.
So that's a workaround.

I could just compile a new TWRP but that would take effort

scres said:
I could just compile a new TWRP but that would take effort
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You definitely don't need to do that. I have a K1 on 5.4, and TWRP works fine. Although I did already have TWRP installed before flashing 5.4. So not sure if that makes a difference.
Try fastboot erase cache, and flash a different TWRP build (like a build or 2 older such as 3.1.1-0).

I fixed this already