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PLEASE HELP! Bricked Honor 8

Hi,
I was trying to flash TWRP, but now I am stuck with flashing TWRP logo after rebooting or powering the phone on.
I am unable to get to the fastboot.
STEPS I did before brick:
1. unlocked OEM via official way
2. flashed TWRP
3. after that my phone was reset however most of the apps was missing, I was trying to do factory reset once again but it failed with the message "Data partition was heavily damaged"
4. I re-locked EOM
5. brick as mentioned above
Please help, I have the phone only two weeks and I have no idea how to fix this without fastboot.
Thank you.

Meiton said:
Hi,
I was trying to flash TWRP, but now I am stuck with flashing TWRP logo after rebooting or powering the phone on.
I am unable to get to the fastboot.
STEPS I did before brick:
1. unlocked OEM via official way
2. flashed TWRP
3. after that my phone was reset however most of the apps was missing, I was trying to do factory reset once again but it failed with the message "Data partition was heavily damaged"
4. I re-locked EOM
5. brick as mentioned above
Please help, I have the phone only two weeks and I have no idea how to fix this without fastboot.
Thank you.
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Sounds like you flashed the 3030 version of TWRP. Download the 3020 version and put it in your fastboot folder. Plug in the USB to PC
Hold power and volume up untill the phone reboots. While it's still off immediately change to power and volume down and hold till it goes into fastboot (bootloader)
Now fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img
With the 3020 version.
Unplug the USB and hold power and volume up until it says the phone is booting.. let go and TWRP will load.
Go to Wipe / format data / type yes
Reboot to system and your all set
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

clsA said:
Sounds like you flashed the 3030 version of TWRP. Download the 3020 version and put it in your fastboot folder. Plug in the USB to PC
Hold power and volume up untill the phone reboots. While it's still off immediately change to power and volume down and hold till it goes into fastboot (bootloader)
Now fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img
With the 3020 version.
Unplug the USB and hold power and volume up until it says the phone is booting.. let go and TWRP will load.
Go to Wipe / format data / type yes
Reboot to system and your all set
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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So I've tried that but the phone is still booting to recovery (flashing TWRP logo) no matter what.
Basically the phone is always on now because if hold the power button (or any other combination) for a few second it will just reboot back.
I have an access only to ADB, but I am not able to boot to bootloader at all, it seems the bootloader is damaged somehow.
Also that warning about unlocked OEM doesn't have that text saying "hold volume up to boot to recovery" etc. like before brick.

Hi there,
Try using the Huawei Multi Tool with the Unbrick option : https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/development/tool-huawei-multi-tool-team-mt-t3523923
Speaking from experience, this little fellow helped me recover my phone when I bricked it ON DAY ONE after failed root attempt... (Derp)
Let me know if it helped you
(Leave a thanks if it did )
EDIT : This tool is also useful if you want to get lazy whilst rooting. I use it constantly when flashing diffrent bits and pieces

Clearly follow My steps To unbrick and get normal device ::
Step 1 ::
Download the full firmware of your device.
Step 2 :
make sure that your bootloader is in unlocking state
Follow the video blindly ::: https://youtu.be/OMKDnBqbi3U?list=PL...eT9J26lkefvVkK
don't panic of mobile.
Step 3 :: done ..enjoy u did it
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If you bricked on nougat then follow the below steps
step one :::
download the downgrade package to mm .
then extract the zip and open the update.app using HuaweiUpdateextrator in that select recovery and extract
1.now, boot your device into fastboot and flash the recovery (Optional)(try this if it said incompatible version on recovery)
2. on your sd card and make a folder "dload" . and copy the update.app which we have extracted earlier
3.the switch off the device and press all three buttons you will be reboot into recovery and done . you device will be okey

Meiton said:
So I've tried that but the phone is still booting to recovery (flashing TWRP logo) no matter what.
Basically the phone is always on now because if hold the power button (or any other combination) for a few second it will just reboot back.
I have an access only to ADB, but I am not able to boot to bootloader at all, it seems the bootloader is damaged somehow.
Also that warning about unlocked OEM doesn't have that text saying "hold volume up to boot to recovery" etc. like before brick.
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Booting to the bootloader is just a timing issue
Phone must be hooked to PC with USB
And volume up and power till it goes black
Then immediately volume down and power and Hold untill the bootloader loads
Keep trying until you get it
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

clsA said:
Booting to the bootloader is just a timing issue
Phone must be hooked to PC with USB
And volume up and power till it goes black
Then immediately volume down and power and Hold untill the bootloader loads
Keep trying until you get it
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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I appreciate your help but I've tried it multiple times always with the same result.
I also can use "adb reboot bootloader", but it will reboot again to stuck recovery.

DJ Daemonix said:
Hi there,
Try using the Huawei Multi Tool with the Unbrick option : https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/development/tool-huawei-multi-tool-team-mt-t3523923
Speaking from experience, this little fellow helped me recover my phone when I bricked it ON DAY ONE after failed root attempt... (Derp)
Let me know if it helped you
(Leave a thanks if it did )
EDIT : This tool is also useful if you want to get lazy whilst rooting. I use it constantly when flashing diffrent bits and pieces
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I've tried that, but I am still stuck as that tool is using fastboot as every other tool to flash .img files.
Thank you for the tip though.

Plug phone into computer with USB, then hold down power + volume down until it eventually boots into bootloader. I had the same scenario as you and that's how I got into the bootloader. You can flash either a good TWRP or the stock recovery, either one will work.

Pixel 2 Softbrick, No Fastboot?

I flashed TWRP to the device successfully, and proceeded to try to install Magisk 19.3 zip. It would begin to do a recovery bootloop. I fixed it using TWRP, and tried using the patched boot img from magisk manager instead. This is where things go wrong. After flashing boot.img, the phone refuses to boot, and asks me to do a factory reset. I did this twice, and the phone continued not to boot. I then tried installing the latest android Q factory image. The flash failed, and the phone stopped showing up when I do fastboot devices or adb devices. It is stuck in the bootloader telling me slot b is not bootable. I have tried different ports, but adb and fastboot are no longer responding.

Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start

D3RP_ said:
Can't promise anything, but this might be a good spot to start
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Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.

skyward176 said:
Unfortunately, this just tells me that it can't detect my device, even though it is plugged in. Its so weird that it makes it to the bootloader screen, but fastboot doesn't work.
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Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?

D3RP_ said:
Have you tried just holding the volume up and power button for a good 30 seconds?
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Holding down the volume up and power buttons just restarts it repeatedly, and each time it restarts it tells me "ERROR: Operation Denied"
EDIT: OMG fastboot works! Let's see how this goes from here. TYSM!

ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much

skyward176 said:
ITS FIXED!! Thanks so much
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Hello! I have exactly the same problem.
Can you explain step by step what you did after fastboot began to see your phone?

I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.

skyward176 said:
I held the vol up and power buttons. This allowed fastboot to see it, and let the flash all script from the stock boot image run. This gave an error, but after holding the vol. Up and power buttons again, the phone started right up.
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Ayyy! Good job!

Oukitel wp15 bootloop

Hello !
I tried to root my Oukitel WP15 by following the magisk method
I downloaded the official rom of the oukitel WP15 on the official website and I patched it by my phone with the apk.
After that, I disabled the bootloader security and flashed the boot partition.
But after restating my phone, I'm currently blocked in a bootloop
Orange state
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
Your device will boot in 5 seconds
And my phone is no longer detected by adb nor fastboot
If someone have an idea ?
Thanks in advance,

try to restore boot and vbmeta via flashtool. it's saves me from red state (wp15 too).

vxsw said:
try to restore boot and vbmeta via flashtool. it's saves me from red state (wp15 too).
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If only my wp15 was detected by my computer. Since I got stuck on this boot loop my wp15 always reboot and is connected and disconnected again and again

adb and fastboot is not a pc. it must be detected by pc even when powered off. check in devices via device manager. if it exists - that's enough for flashing. install mtk usb-com drivers (by manual of flashtool) and flash it, but check only boot.img and vbmeta.img and do not use "format" only "download". after flashing it must be accessable via fastboot.
n.b. if it ask to remove battery:
- unplug your phone
- setup flash tool and click "download" button
- power off phone
- on unplugged phone, hold both volume buttons and hold power button too (three buttons at once).
- hold it all >15 seconds and ignore any phone activity, just hold.
- release power button only (keep holding both volumes)
- plug your phone (still keep holding both volumes)
- now flashing process must start and you may release any buttons.
p.s. of course I mean boot.img and vbmeta.img from original firmware, downloadable via vendors download center https://oukitel.com/pages/download-center (select wp15 manually)

vxsw said:
adb and fastboot is not a pc. it must be detected by pc even when powered off. check in devices via device manager. if it exists - that's enough for flashing. install mtk usb-com drivers (by manual of flashtool) and flash it, but check only boot.img and vbmeta.img and do not use "format" only "download". after flashing it must be accessable via fastboot.
n.b. if it ask to remove battery:
- unplug your phone
- setup flash tool and click "download" button
- power off phone
- on unplugged phone, hold both volume buttons and hold power button too (three buttons at once).
- hold it all >15 seconds and ignore any phone activity, just hold.
- release power button only (keep holding both volumes)
- plug your phone (still keep holding both volumes)
- now flashing process must start and you may release any buttons.
p.s. of course I mean boot.img and vbmeta.img from original firmware, downloadable via vendors download center https://oukitel.com/pages/download-center (select wp15 manually)
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Yes okay but I was waiting that my wp15 is out of battery to shutdown because the buttons does nothing and when I plug it again it go again in this boot loop so IDK how to,,,

Lunalunea said:
I was waiting that my wp15 is out of battery to shutdown because the buttons does nothing and when I plug it again it go again in this boot loop
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discharging 15000 battery by boot loop? not sure if serious.
as I've remember, when I tried to shutdown my phone by holding power button while it was in red state, it would not power off, just rebooting. it goes power off when I tried to flash it via flashtool. it jus immediately powered off when I'd click "download" button in flashtool. so try it, then by manual from above. and when you would hold volumes and power - ignore any phone activity, even it would restart continuously. just hold >15 seconds (20 for sure), release power button and plug in pc. anyway, even if you could not power off it, just try to flash as I wrote before, just exclude "power off" point.

Hi, mates, I am a new Oukitel WP15 owner.
Is there any safe root method for our new baby?

di0nko said:
Hi, mates, I am a new Oukitel WP15 owner.
Is there any safe root method for our new baby?
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anyone found a working twrp img for oukitel wp15? or a GSI install method for this model?

Lunalunea said:
Yes okay but I was waiting that my wp15 is out of battery to shutdown because the buttons does nothing and when I plug it again it go again in this boot loop so IDK how to,,,
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Have you find how to install twrp? I can't flash the partition, i get error, "partition not exists

Asqq said:
anyone found a working twrp img for oukitel wp15? or a GSI install method for this model?
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gsi installs flawlessly, but not all gsi are compatible. I use a phhusson's 11.0 v313 and it works fine enough.
also I know, what (at least) one man tried to use 12+ phhusson's builds and got fail. I'll suggest what it's some boot compatibility issue and will not work properly with otiginal oukitel boot of android 11.

vxsw said:
gsi installs flawlessly, but not all gsi are compatible. I use a phhusson's 11.0 v313 and it works fine enough.
also I know, what (at least) one man tried to use 12+ phhusson's builds and got fail. I'll suggest what it's some boot compatibility issue and will not work properly with otiginal oukitel boot of android 11.
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Can you give more details about install? i can't find and flash a twrp. When i try to flash a random oukitel img recovery, it say "partition not found" and if i use the command to directly boot on recovery, the androids keeps boot loop
On my bv9100 work an oukitel k9 twrp img and i have on it GSI 18, Andy Yan version, i wanted to try on oukitel wp15 too but i can't flash anything, I still get the error partition

you do not need twrp or any similar. just upload gsi to fastbootD via fastboot command from adb tools.
I strongly recommend you to read about treble project and partition structure it really help in understanding of all of this. just english is not my first language and I'd not sure what I can explain all of this exactly and correctly. but ok, I'll try, but I'm not sure what this thread is correct place for this, I'll suggest to go here https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/oukitel-wp15.4402253/ seems it'll be a bit more right place.

@Timmmmaaahh! Cannot delete
Why ?

Lunalunea said:
@Timmmmaaahh! Cannot delete
Why ?
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No, deletion of threads/posts is avoided because it generates 404 errors. We lock (and void, if needed) them instead.

Flashing TWRP without first flashing a vbmeta image with verity disabled rendered my Galaxy Note10 exynos unable to boot

Newbie here. Tried to download TWRP onto unrooted device (Galaxy Note10 Exynos d1) with Odin and now my phone is stuck on "downloading" screen. When I try to cancel (restart phone) it goes to the startup/booting screen for less than a second and then jumps back to "downloading". It says this at the top left corner of the screen:
recovery: Error validating footer (6) CUSTOM RECOVERY VBMETA N970F XXU1 ASG0. 24967245R
I am able to get into the custom OS installation screen (don't know what it's actually called but second picture) by letting the battery drain so that the phone turns off and then holding volume up + volume down key and plugging the phone into my laptop with USB.
The bootloader is unlocked. I went to https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxynote10.html and even there it says "Flashing TWRP without first flashing a vbmeta image with verity disabled will render your device unable to boot." Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

TheAckermans said:
Newbie here. Tried to download TWRP onto unrooted device (Galaxy Note10 Exynos d1) with Odin and now my phone is stuck on "downloading" screen. When I try to cancel (restart phone) it goes to the startup/booting screen for less than a second and then jumps back to "downloading". It says this at the top left corner of the screen:
recovery: Error validating footer (6) CUSTOM RECOVERY VBMETA N970F XXU1 ASG0. 24967245R
I am able to get into the custom OS installation screen (don't know what it's actually called but second picture) by letting the battery drain so that the phone turns off and then holding volume up + volume down key and plugging the phone into my laptop with USB.
The bootloader is unlocked. I went to https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxynote10.html and even there it says "Flashing TWRP without first flashing a vbmeta image with verity disabled will render your device unable to boot." Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
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Go first to the unlocking menu to check if your device is really unlocked, long press volume up, and see which the menu says.
If it is unlocked, then flash the vbmeta file provided, then try to boot to recovery and perform a factory reset.

SubwayChamp said:
Go first to the unlocking menu to check if your device is really unlocked, long press volume up, and see which the menu says.
If it is unlocked, then flash the vbmeta file provided, then try to boot to recovery and perform a factory reset.
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Bootloader is unlocked and I've flashed the vbmeta file but now my phone is stuck on the startup screen and I can't seem to boot into recovery. Why?

TheAckermans said:
Bootloader is unlocked and I've flashed the vbmeta file but now my phone is stuck on the startup screen and I can't seem to boot into recovery. Why?
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Maybe you missed some essential part of the process, by unlocking your device through the Download menu option your data has to be erased, it's recommendable after to unlock the bootloader, to reboot again to system and check once the UBS debugging and OEM unlock options if they remain fine, from there you should reboot to download mode again, uncheck the Auto-reboot option within Odin, flash the vbmeta.tar and then flash the TWRP, if all till here goes well you should reboot manually to TWRP by powering off completely, pressing the three buttons, and just now, pressing the volume up + PWR key buttons till your device boots to TWRP.

SubwayChamp said:
Maybe you missed some essential part of the process, by unlocking your device through the Download menu option your data has to be erased, it's recommendable after to unlock the bootloader, to reboot again to system and check once the UBS debugging and OEM unlock options if they remain fine, from there you should reboot to download mode again, uncheck the Auto-reboot option within Odin, flash the vbmeta.tar and then flash the TWRP, if all till here goes well you should reboot manually to TWRP by powering off completely, pressing the three buttons, and just now, pressing the volume up + PWR key buttons till your device boots to TWRP.
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Thanks for the help, tough i am struggling to get acces to the download menu option. Could you give me a example to acess the menu?

TheAckermans said:
Thanks for the help, tough i am struggling to get acces to the download menu option. Could you give me a example to acess the menu?
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The screenshots you uploaded some months ago, are the download screen, you, successfully did boot to, download mode doesn't have a useful menu, it's just a mode, so you can flash some things, using Odin. To boot to, use the same way you did it previously, usually, doing it manually, or if you are rooted, you can use other ways too.

recovery mode

hi, I hope I'm in the right place to get help with my issue. my Ace is in a reboot loop that i can't seem to get it out of. i have tried force rebooting and lt will not enter into recovery mode so that each time i would hit recovery mode the screen goes blank for a few seconds then the moto logo (M powered by Android) screen comes on with vibration for six seconds then again to blank repeating this loop until i again hold power and volume down buttons. I do have a lot of apps installed but this phone has a whole lot of memory that came with it. I am hoping this forum may have some ideas to help me rectify this issue. thank you.

While connected to a pc, enter the fastboot - w command. This will erase the internal memory and your phone should be able to boot.

RETIEF said:
While connected to a pc, enter the fastboot - w command. This will erase the internal memory and your phone should be able to boot.
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thank you for responding. I connected my phone to my laptop but it does not detect it. my phone has, highlighted in red, AP fastboot flash mode (secure). also, tools mode: Disabled, and OEM locked

If you can reboot to recovery, try a factory reset.

RETIEF said:
If you can reboot to recovery, try a factory reset.
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thats the problem I"m having is getting into the recovery. I hold the volume down and the power buttons down till I can see the options recovery mode, but when I click on it by pushing on the power button, that's when it goes into the loop mode and never goes into recovery.

Use the Lenovo tool to download and flash the stock rom which includes a recovery.

RETIEF said:
RETIEF said:
56Use the Lenovo tool to download and flash the stock rom which includes a recovery.
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Use the Lenovo tool to download and flash the stock rom which includes a recovery.
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RETIEF said:
Use the Lenovo tool to download and flash the stock rom which includes a recovery.
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I did what you adviced and I was instructed to enable debugging or fastboot mode in order to be able to rescue. But if I was able to do either one of those that means I wouldn't need help booting up. follow what I'm saying? because I would have to get into the settings to enable debugging or fastboot mode, somthing I can't do because my phone will not boot up.

To enable fastboot moode, hold the power button and the volume down button at the same time. This should put you in the right place. You should get red text that says you are in fastboot mode. If not, go to https://t.me/motoblankflash and ask for help.

RETIEF said:
To enable fastboot moode, hold the power button and the volume down button at the same time. This should put you in the right place. You should get red text that says you are in fastboot mode. If not, go to https://t.me/motoblankflash and ask for help.
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listen, I want to thank you for your time and patience and quick responses. I will look into the link above. You've been very helpful and I appreciate you. God bless. Peace.