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htc a9 hiaeuhl encrypted data.how decrypyt?

Hello.I bought htc with unlock bootloader and flashed twrp, when i updated twrp and flash los and reboot system i look isn t data partition.i reboot to twrp i look
please pssswort to decrypt
i was format data,flash los reboot system and look...
data encrepted..any ideas?

I had this problem, but it was really easy to fix. I just used TWRP (3.0.0.2 v) and Wiped data. TWRP gives you multiples options to wipe Data. The swipeable boton to "Format Factory" , Advance Menu (You can choose what partition to wipe) and FORMAT DATA (This is what you need). Use it and that's all.
- If it continues with the problem , maybe is the TWRP version the problem.
- Make sure you have activated the Debuggin Option in Developers Menu. And the OEM Option (just to be sure).
Then you confirm its all Checked re-try to Format Data with TWRP.
IF it continues with de lock, just go back again to System and leave the cellphone without Passwords or and kind of block and try to do it again.
Good luck with the process !

Any operation from twrp is non stable.After boot again encrypter.Maybe flash stock rom?my cid is 002

igipigiel said:
Any operation from twrp is non stable.After boot again encrypter.Maybe flash stock rom?my cid is 002
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Could you solve the problem flashing the Stock rom? If not I recommend you using the RUU to flash everything again as stock And retry the process above.
First you have to relock the Bootloader. And then ennable debbung mode in System/Developers Options.
Be sure your Windows OS can detect the device in adb and Bootloader/Download mode. It usually install drivers as quick as you Connect the device. If not Google it. Go get the RUU for your device Cid or Carrier.
It Will erase everything on your Phone. But after that Just re-root it, unlocking Bootloader, reflashing the TWRP Recovery and Super Su. Zip or whatever you prefer. Now you can do the process above doing format Data.

you have to format everything, reboot to recovery .. install los + MAGISK .. and the problem should be gone

This is joke.When los found fingerprint data is cripting.
I set pin+ fingerprint and data is visible?

If you don't want Magisk, you can try the attached zip file here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76936775&postcount=1447
First you need to format data (not only "wipe") via TWRP 3.2.1 or above, then install this patch after installing ROM and before rebooting.
At least with both LOS 15.1 (nightly-0625) and 14.1 (nightly-0510) it works.

[ROOT] Moto E5 Plus (Rhannah) Backup and Magisk.

/* *** Disclaimer
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war,
* or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research
* if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM/KERNEL
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point your finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
* BOOM! goes the dynamite
*/
I have a Moto E5 plus XT1924-5 (rhannah) in my possession. It is the only device in which this guide has been tested. I should serve for the rest of the rhannah and others moto e5 without problems.
My cust LATAM and the compilation version is OPP27.91-25. Do not make the fast route if you do not have exactly the same device with that same compilation number or if you do not know exactly what you are doing.
The guide is divided into parts. First how to backup everything. Then how to root with magisk (for that there is fast and slow way)
What do you need.
- 1 Moto e5 Plus
- 1 Micro Sd card (minimum 4gb)
- Usb Cable
- Adb and fastboot drivers installed
-. Read the complete guide before to understand what they are doing (5 minutes, no bricks)
- 1 Brain.
- Comprehensive reading
FIRST STAGE (COMMON). BACKUP OF EVERYTHING.
Our phone have its own TWRP, works relatively well, except that it does not allow decrypting and therefore mounting the data partition and internal storage.
The steps.
1.- You open the bootloader. Look at any guide to open bootloader in Motorola, it has not science and is common for all motorala phones
2.- Download the Moto e5 play (james) TWRP (https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e5/development/recovery-twrp-moto-e-5-play-james-t3796323)
3.- We put the phone in fastboot. For this, we activate the USB debugging and with the connected phone we write in a CMD "adb reboot-bootloader"
4.- In fastboot we write in our CMD "fastboot boot twrp_james.img". This will start our phone in TWRP without permanently flashing the recovery (for no reason to flash it)
5.- The recovery will take something to start and it will ask us for our key to decrypt data. We need to press cancel as the recovery will fail even with the correct key. DONT MOUNT SYSTEM WITH RW PERMISSION
6.- Go to the backup section, we choose as our destination SD and we backup
ALL except data and cache.
7.- Restart the cell phone and we put our backup in one or more safe place (the misfortunes happen)
With this we already have a backup of boot and system so we will not have problems if we make mistakes later
SECOND STAGE (THE DIFFICULT ROUTE) Patching our own boot.img for magisk
1.- In android we download and install he last magisk manager APK (available in my google drive account https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XD7Q7NXmchTNsSJ-oqt2TOXO8osroVJp)
2.- We open it, we go to setting and in "Update Channel" we activate the beta channel of updates (THE DEVICE WILL ENTER IN BOOTLOOP WITHOUT WITHOUT THIS STEP)
3.- In the main screen of magisk we are going to install, we accept to install the version of magisk 16.7 or superior (by no reason a lower one) and we go to "Patch boot image file", we select the file boot.emmc.win of our backup and We wait for you to patch our boot. (sdcard/TWRP/ Backups /ZL5223F3V8 / DATE /)
4.- Magisk will generate a patched boot in /internalstorage/MagiskManager/patched_boot.img
5.- Copy patched_boot.img to our computer, put the phone in fastboot mode and flash the patched_boot.img with the command fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img, and later restart the phone.
Ready!. Magisk perfectly installed our phone. In my case, safety.net passes without problems.
Second stage. (The easy way). SAFE ONLY in the variants indicated
0- Open bootloader
1.- Make the backups (iam not responsable of this)
2.- put the phone in fastboot mode
3.- Flash my boot.img patched for magisk "fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img"
Moto e5 plus XT1924-5 OPP27.91-25
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XHtV1rI1cDPQCAw8otuBRxeSzNBzKWQn/view?usp=sharing
Moto e5 plus XT-1924-8 (Thanks Arslan_Rulex)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zu9mefxd397nr1f/patched_boot.img/file
Moto e5 plus XT1924-7 (MetroPCS) (Thanks theUsualSuspexx)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UzP5NEBLD3_ex_zU2EoijVFs1uiGBEMI
Backups TWRP
Moto e5 plus rhannah xt1924-5 (OPP27.91-25.) Include twrp backup of rooted boot partition with system partition, and untouched boot partition (separated)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vu0CvgBc0QeSxWOLyRgcMykvJ9ckgQy_
I hope you send yours, since there is only one fastboot image for this phone.

Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:

folken2003 said:
Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:
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What rom are you using bike friend e5?

Rodneyy said:
What rom are you using bike friend e5?
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the stock rom

In case I want to download and install an OTA update, is it possible to undo this by uninstalling Magisk (and its modules, Exposed, etc.) and reinstall the old boot.img via TWRP? Or would that brick the device?

Hinterecke said:
In case I want to download and install an OTA update, is it possible to undo this by uninstalling Magisk (and its modules, Exposed, etc.) and reinstall the old boot.img via TWRP? Or would that brick the device?
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In theory, reinstalling your unmodified stock boot image will remove all traces of systemless root. On OTA installations with most Moto devices, the update.zip performs a number of checksums in order to verify that certain partitions are unaltered. Your /recovery, /boot, /system, /oem, and /vendor partitions are typically included in these checksums. Even if these partitions have never been altered, an OTA will nevertheless fail if any of the aforementioned partitions have ever been mounted as r/w, even if they were not altered or modified. So, if you've ever mounted any of these partitions as r/w via TWRP, your OTA will fail, but the likelihood of a brick is extremely slim. The best way to prepare your device for an OTA is to flash a full factory firmware package via fastboot or RSD Lite. RELOCKING THE BOOTLOADER IS NEVER NECESSARY ON A MOTO DEVICE FOR INSTALLING AN OTA UPDATE.
Alternatively, you may use a UTF-8 encoding capable file editor to remove checksums from your captured OTA package. Then, you can flash it with TWRP even on a rooted device.
So to fully answer your question, you would want to install stock recovery and boot image via fastboot, not TWRP, since the OTA will fail with a custom recovery. The OTA will need to be installed via stock recovery, not TWRP.

I used @avilav 's rooting method he described over here and didn't install TWRP because it would be useless, I actually read the big warning, so still on stock recovery.
Don't have the factory firmware for my rhannah XT-1924-1 (reteu) either so flashing that is not much of an option. Maybe I should just leave it this way cause most MOTO updates, for the cheaper devices, are mostly just security updates, no new features, software, etc.

MotoJunkie01 said:
In theory, reinstalling your unmodified stock boot image will remove all traces of systemless root. On OTA installations with most Moto devices, the update.zip performs a number of checksums in order to verify that certain partitions are unaltered. Your /recovery, /boot, /system, /oem, and /vendor partitions are typically included in these checksums. Even if these partitions have never been altered, an OTA will nevertheless fail if any of the aforementioned partitions have ever been mounted as r/w, even if they were not altered or modified. So, if you've ever mounted any of these partitions as r/w via TWRP, your OTA will fail, but the likelihood of a brick is extremely slim. The best way to prepare your device for an OTA is to flash a full factory firmware package via fastboot or RSD Lite. RELOCKING THE BOOTLOADER IS NEVER NECESSARY ON A MOTO DEVICE FOR INSTALLING AN OTA UPDATE.
Alternatively, you may use a UTF-8 encoding capable file editor to remove checksums from your captured OTA package. Then, you can flash it with TWRP even on a rooted device.
So to fully answer your question, you would want to install stock recovery and boot image via fastboot, not TWRP, since the OTA will fail with a custom recovery. The OTA will need to be installed via stock recovery, not TWRP.
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+1 .If you never mount system rw before backup you should not have problems. It is not necessary to do it with this way of rooting, and in theory if you make a backup system-image you should not have problems , since that is a bit-by-bit backup

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folken2003 said:
Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:
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como lo hiciste?

mickeynews said:
como lo hiciste?
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RTFM

I have the Boost Mobile (Sprint) version which shows as XT1924-8 in the Hardware tab in settings. It has the Snapdragon 435 1.4Ghz octacore w/ 3GB ram 32GB rom. I was able to follow these steps to unlock the bootloader, fastboot into TWRP, did a backup, install magisk manager, patch the boot image and then flash it via fastboot. I might try to get unltd tethering working but for now WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO, this was a rush!

reaper-death said:
I have the Boost Mobile (Sprint) version which shows as XT1924-8 in the Hardware tab in settings. It has the Snapdragon 435 1.4Ghz octacore w/ 3GB ram 32GB rom. I was able to follow these steps to unlock the bootloader, fastboot into TWRP, did a backup, install magisk manager, patch the boot image and then flash it via fastboot. I might try to get unltd tethering working but for now WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO, this was a rush!
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That's excellent news. You are encouraged to start a rooting tutorial thread for the xt1924-8. By the way, upload me a system image and boot image from a TWRP backup of your device and I'll compile a TWRP flashable stock ROM for the device.

MotoJunkie01 said:
That's excellent news. You are encouraged to start a rooting tutorial thread for the xt1924-8. By the way, upload me a system image and boot image from a TWRP backup of your device and I'll compile a TWRP flashable stock ROM for the device.
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Sure, I'm uploading the files to mediafire and should be up in a little while.
As for the tutorial basically I did ALMOST everything. I didn't flash twrp and I didn't flash noverity. I did get stuck with no boot when I flashed the patched boot img but figured it out (update channel wasn't set to beta). To fix that boot issue I restarted back to the bootloader then booted twrp and then restored just my boot image from the backup. Then I did the magisk patching and then flashed it and this time I got root.

reaper-death said:
Sure, I'm uploading the files to mediafire and should be up in a little while.
As for the tutorial basically I did ALMOST everything. I didn't flash twrp and I didn't flash noverity. I did get stuck with no boot when I flashed the patched boot img but figured it out (update channel wasn't set to beta). To fix that boot issue I restarted back to the bootloader then booted twrp and then restored just my boot image from the backup. Then I did the magisk patching and then flashed it and this time I got root.
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Ok. Got it. You basically followed standard protocol based on the tutorial for other variants.
Cool. Once you get me the files I should be able to cook up the ROM and post sometime tomorrow. Thanks for your efforts and your feedback. This will help other members with your variant.

Ok, here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6862xg60zi8ai
Edit: I also was able to pull the stock recovery img using the XDA TWRP app in android.

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hi how do you install the twrp backup you posted

seantello97 said:
hi how do you install the twrp backup you posted
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Just like any twrp backup. Put it in your twrp/backups/*your phone's serial number*/*put backup here*

Stuck in bootloader
Hi thanks for that. I flashed Magisk on my e5 plus and rebooted but it takes me to bootloader every time. any ideas?

Hi the boot.img isn't showing up where i put it

OnePlus 7 Pro Flashing doesn't work properly

Hey guys,
so first of all I wanna let you know that my device is not bricked or something (it was a couple of times though).
But let's get started with my issue. For me, personally, I have experienced that the slot system (A/B Slot) doesn't work that good. I had a OnePlus 3T before and I never had any problems with flashing, but now...
My impression is that it's a lot easier to brick its' device than before. Every time I want to flash a new OS I gotta use the msmtool.
1. I boot to recovery mode through the OS
2. I boot to fastboot trough the OOS stock recovery
3. I try to flash TWRP to erase the system
4. Flashing works, but I can no longer boot into recovery mode
5. I have a bootloop (fastboot mode only)
6. I have to use that msmtool
7. I have some old OOS (9.5.5 or something)
8. I unlock the bootloader through the OS & fastboot
9. I boot into TWRP, delete everything and flash another ROM
10. Everything works and the cicle begins again​
I really don't know why I'm always stuck in that bootloop... Maybe you guys could help me and give me your personal opinion on the slot system?

I totally know that feeling. I started with a tmo op7p, flashed international, unlocked bootloader, try to boot TWRP, and nope. Switch slot, it works. Flash it, great. Make a backup with TWRP of my working system, flash ROMaur, won't do anything but boot to TWRP. Open TWRP file manager and every file on internal storage is a ton of folders with jumbled strings of letters and numbers for names. MSM tool back to intl stock, try lineage... Nope. Keeps telling me to do a factory reset. I did, but I do another and still boot loop. MSM to intl, try other roms, same outcome.
I can unlock my bootloader and root it and run intl stock but that's it.

oxadedzn said:
Hey guys,
so first of all I wanna let you know that my device is not bricked or something (it was a couple of times though).
But let's get started with my issue. For me, personally, I have experienced that the slot system (A/B Slot) doesn't work that good. I had a OnePlus 3T before and I never had any problems with flashing, but now...
My impression is that it's a lot easier to brick its' device than before. Every time I want to flash a new OS I gotta use the msmtool.
1. I boot to recovery mode through the OS
2. I boot to fastboot trough the OOS stock recovery
3. I try to flash TWRP to erase the system
4. Flashing works, but I can no longer boot into recovery mode
5. I have a bootloop (fastboot mode only)
6. I have to use that msmtool
7. I have some old OOS (9.5.5 or something)
8. I unlock the bootloader through the OS & fastboot
9. I boot into TWRP, delete everything and flash another ROM
10. Everything works and the cicle begins again
I really don't know why I'm always stuck in that bootloop... Maybe you guys could help me and give me your personal opinion on the slot system?
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Doing it wrong.
If you are currently rooted and a new OS comes out you can do the following and you don't need to flash with TWRP or use a computer.
1. Download the full OTA. You can use Oxygen updater to do that or use a link in the stock ROM section on this site.
2. Make sure you have the Magisk and the TWRP zip on the phone.
3. Do a local update in the system area but do not reboot.
4. Launch Magisk manager and select install.
5. Use the OTA install option to inactive slot.
6. Now you can reboot. You have installed the new OS and root also.
7. Once rebooted do another local install. This will install in the slot that you were just running. It will fail the first time, but work the second time.
8. Repeat 4.
9. Repeat 5.
10 . Repeat 6.
You now have both slots with the same OS and rooted.
If you want to install TWRP.
Launch Magisk and install the TWRP zip.
Reboot into recovery. This is important because you cannot boot in slot with TWRP unless Magisk in installed.
Now flash the Magisk image file.
Now in TWRP select the other slot and reboot into recovery.
In recovery install Magisk image to this slot.
Now you have TWRP and Magisk in both slots.
I have done it that way since 9.5.7 and have not had an issue.

tech_head said:
Doing it wrong.
If you are currently rooted and a new OS comes out you can do the following and you don't need to flash with TWRP or use a computer.
1. Download the full OTA. You can use Oxygen updater to do that or use a link in the stock ROM section on this site.
2. Make sure you have the Magisk and the TWRP zip on the phone.
3. Do a local update in the system area but do not reboot.
4. Launch Magisk manager and select install.
5. Use the OTA install option to inactive slot.
6. Now you can reboot. You have installed the new OS and root also.
7. Once rebooted do another local install. This will install in the slot that you were just running. It will fail the first time, but work the second time.
8. Repeat 4.
9. Repeat 5.
10 . Repeat 6.
You now have both slots with the same OS and rooted.
If you want to install TWRP.
Launch Magisk and install the TWRP zip.
Reboot into recovery. This is important because you cannot boot in slot with TWRP unless Magisk in installed.
Now flash the Magisk image file.
Now in TWRP select the other slot and reboot into recovery.
In recovery install Magisk image to this slot.
Now you have TWRP and Magisk in both slots.
I have done it that way since 9.5.7 and have not had an issue.
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Irrelevant ISH, but ever had that one bootloop where it only bootloops at the "Warning Bootloader unlocked screen" constantly? When I try to access fastboot, it'll just go straight to recovery without even waiting for input (to my luck, of course, until I had to uninstall magisk in full, reinstall, make sure TWRP was reflashed and did the "Fix recovery bootloop", though that wasn't the seemingly the issue). The issue got resolved, but it was very scary for that to have happened as soon as i enabled sudohide (I always had it work, but with huge problems, but never enough to bootloop me to death)

JhinCuatro said:
Irrelevant ISH, but ever had that one bootloop where it only bootloops at the "Warning Bootloader unlocked screen" constantly? When I try to access fastboot, it'll just go straight to recovery without even waiting for input (to my luck, of course, until I had to uninstall magisk in full, reinstall, make sure TWRP was reflashed and did the "Fix recovery bootloop", though that wasn't the seemingly the issue). The issue got resolved, but it was very scary for that to have happened as soon as i enabled sudohide (I always had it work, but with huge problems, but never enough to bootloop me to death)
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If you install TWRP on a 7 Pro without installing Magisk you will absolutely boot loop. If you wipe the system in one slot and have a differing ROM from the active slot you can in fact boot loop. Although the systems are different, the settings between the systems are shared.

Sorry to say, but nothing about those steps is correct. Follow some guides in the guides section to get aquatinted with the A/B system

Arden144 said:
Sorry to say, but nothing about those steps is correct. Follow some guides in the guides section to get aquatinted with the A/B system
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You are absolutely incorrect.
When going from 9.5.10 to 9.5.11 and all my previous upgrades it has been:
1. Local install of the new OS with a full OTA since I am rooted.
2. Do not reboot.
3. Install Magisk to inactive slot.
4. Reboot (Slot will automatically switch to the one recently updated).
5. Local install of OS into the other slot, fails first time, do it again.
6. Install Magisk into inactive slot.
7. Reboot. (Slot will switch to recently updated slot).
8. Both slots now have latest OS and are rooted.
You can also install TWRP if you like.
No computer needed.
This works.

tech_head said:
You are absolutely incorrect.
When going from 9.5.10 to 9.5.11 and all my previous upgrades it has been:
1. Local install of the new OS with a full OTA since I am rooted.
2. Do not reboot.
3. Install Magisk to inactive slot.
4. Reboot (Slot will automatically switch to the one recently updated).
5. Local install of OS into the other slot, fails first time, do it again.
6. Install Magisk into inactive slot.
7. Reboot. (Slot will switch to recently updated slot).
8. Both slots now have latest OS and are rooted.
This works.
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That's completely unnecessary and just avoiding the purpose of the a/b system.
All it would take is:
1. Local install
2. Install magisk to inactive slot

[SOLVED] Installing ANY custom ROM bricks Oneplus 6

Hello!
I'm having quite a hard time figuring out what is happening on my new Oneplus 6.
The first time i flashed LineageOS 16 microg edition it booted but since i tried to restore stock ROM backup with TWRP it all went to hell.
Device immediately bricked, only booting to fastboot.
Had to use msm tool to unbrick. ( the first of so many times.... )
Then updated from settings to latest OOS 9.0.9.
unnlocked bootloader
and flashed again.
NO OS INSTALLED.
phone boots only in fastboot.
can't boot any recovery from fastboot. gives error.
if reboot to recovery blue led and black screen is all that i see.
only fix is msm.
From that point onwards i tried EVERY guide I could find (and recognize as valid of interest) here on xda, youtube, google.
Multiple times per guide.
here's an example of a "last resort" guide from https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-microg-oneplus-6-source-ligthway-t3874469
INSTALLATION TUTORIAL
Italic = recommended, but not mandatory. Do it if something doesn't work properly
0) DON'T RESTORE your apps until everything is set up, otherwise you'll have issues with GCM (getting instant notifications from messaging apps for example)
1) Reboot to blu spark TWRP
2) step deleted
3) Flash OOS
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot to recovery
6) Flash OOS
7) Flash TWRP
8) Reboot to recovery
9) Flash your custom ROM + TWRP + reboot to TWRP
10) Flash again your custom ROM + TWRP
11) Reboot to recovery
11 bis) Wipe data ("factory reset")
12) Flash Magisk
13) Reboot to system. It's just to make sure the installation worked.
... more on link
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Tried also official lineage, SyberiaOS. Different previous version of the two (since I read in the lineage official thread others have this issue)
Basically at the point after flashing any of these roms results immediately in TWRP warning "no os is installed" at reboot attempt with or without re-flashing twrp after.
Then if rebooted just hangs on blue led. can't boot anything.
Meanwhile flashing OTAs + twrp results in bootable system.
Other things that i tried:
before unlocking BL update to latest OTA_34 -> 9.0.9, reboot, install again.
using mauronofrio twrp version https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...overy-unofficial-twrp-touch-recovery-t3860815
Any ideas?
[SOLUTION]
If you're bricked follow this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/tool-msmdownloadtool-v4-0-international-t3798892
1 - Have last OOS installed in both slots
- update from settings, local update, latest OTA (Pie) from oneplus support site.​- reboot, let it complete​- apply again​2 - Enable OEM Unlock in Developer options
3 - Boot to Fastboot and unlock bootloader:
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
4 - Once in OOS reboot to fastboot and boot twrp:
Code:
fastboot boot <twrp-img-name>.img
5 - Push twrp + custom rom:
Code:
adb push <custom-rom-name>.zip <twrp-zip-name>.zip /sdcard
6 - Flash twrp in twrp
7 - Reboot to recovery
8 - Wipe system and Data
9 - flash ROM
10 - flash twrp
[IMPORTANT]
11 - Tap Reboot to recovery then if it says No OS installed! tap home button! Don't reboot! reboot = brick = msmdownloadtool
12 - Go in advanced menu and select Fix Recovery Bootloop and swipe
13 - THEN TRY TO MOUNT /system.
IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO MOUNT /system APPLY AGAIN THE FIX AND REPEAT FROM STEP 7​14 - Reboot to recovery
It WILL stil say No OS installed but now you'll be able to reboot to recovery​[/IMPORTANT]
15 - Once in recovery reboot to system.
If you've done everything correctly it won't complain again about no OS being installed and you'll get your rom up and running.​16 - Let it reboot to system and complete first configuration
17 - Now you can reboot and flash every module you like from twrp.
That's it. Hope this'll spare nightmares and storage write life.

This is a bad phone .. I have it too
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But you seem (from post history) to be able to install ROMs :crying:
As most of those who try i guess.
Maybe my phone is somehow damaged

What some guides miss out is that you have to install everything twice. Once on slot A and once on slot B and after each install, verify what slot you are on before reboot and then check what slot you are on after reboot. I ran into issues flashing Havoc OS onto my phone too and figured it out in the end after so many times that I was in fact installing stuff twice on the same slot because it never switched over. I'll run you through the order I did things so hopefully you can follow.
-Use MSM Tool to revert everything back to stock and once the phone is booted, update to 9.0.9 either by downloading the update through the phone or by local upgrade if you have the file to hand. (remember to only have the OOS file present as any other OS in zip form crashes the local updater). You don't need to do this if you are already rocking stock Oxygen OS.
-Once the phone has restarted after the upgrade, let the post update procedure finish before continuing.
-Enter developer mode and enable OEM unlocking, Advanced Restart and USB Debugging. From here, reboot to bootloader.
-Plug your phone into the PC now and assuming you have fastboot setup ready on your PC, type 'fastboot oem unlock' and use the volume keys to select the option to unlock and press the power button to select.
-After the phone has completed it's wipe cycle, re-enable Advanced Restart and USB Debugging. The OEM unlock option should be greyed out as it's already been enabled. Make sure you don't add a pin code or password just yet as you will enable encryption which will make the next steps harder than it should be.
-Boot back to bootloader and type 'fastboot boot twrp.img' (or whatever you named it. Make sure that the image file is in the same folder you initiated cmd or powershell)
-Once booted into TWRP, flash blu_spark TWRP as that supports encryption apparently and is more stable than any other. To make sure that the script executed on both slots, hit reboot and check what slot you are on and tap the button for the other slot. Now reboot back to recovery, check you are on the other slot and flash it again.
-Now flash your 9.0.9 OOS zip followed by TWRP once on slot A and once on slot B while making sure you are on the other slot when doing it a second time. Remember that you have to re-flash TWRP after any flashable file that alters the boot partition before you reboot or you will undo all your work. Just make it habit that you re-flash it every time and you should be good.
-Once OOS and TWRP have been flashed on BOTH slots, reboot back to recovery and do the whole process again with your custom ROM (Remembering to flash TWRP before you reboot and checking which slot you are one before and after each flash).
-Once that has completed, reboot back to recovery and flash Magisk on each slot and GApps or MicroG if your ROM supports it. You don't need to re-flash TWRP after this but I do anyway to keep the habit lol.
-Entirely up to you, but before you reboot to your fresh new OS, you can wipe internal storage ONLY if you want all traces of your previous OS gone, but this will also remove personal files etc. I generally just head into TWRP file manager and delete the Android folder and keep the rest.
If you run into issues like crashes on your new OS, reboot to recovery and do a factory reset, but you will also need to re-flash Magisk again. GApps installs itself to system, so you won't need to re-flash that. MicroG does not and will need setting up again. One thing that took me a while to realise is that if you try rebooting while your USB is plugged into your PC, you will sometimes enter download mode, so only keep it plugged in when you need it for MSM Tool or to transfer files across.
I'm pretty sure I put everything down the way I did it and didn't miss anything, but it is late and I am half asleep. Will check back in the morning and double check with a fresh brain.

Many thanks for your exhaustive reply!
Will follow this tomorrow morning with a fresh brain

Fixed!
Now I'll write a guide for those in the same situation.

franticboe said:
Hello!
I'm having quite a hard time figuring out what is happening on my new Oneplus 6.
The first time i flashed LineageOS 16 microg edition it booted but since i tried to restore stock ROM backup with TWRP it all went to hell.
Device immediately bricked, only booting to fastboot.
Had to use msm tool to unbrick. ( the first of so many times.... )
Then updated from settings to latest OOS 9.0.9.
unnlocked bootloader
and flashed again.
NO OS INSTALLED.
phone boots only in fastboot.
can't boot any recovery from fastboot. gives error.
if reboot to recovery blue led and black screen is all that i see.
only fix is msm.
From that point onwards i tried EVERY guide I could find (and recognize as valid of interest) here on xda, youtube, google.
Multiple times per guide.
here's an example of a "last resort" guide from https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-microg-oneplus-6-source-ligthway-t3874469
Tried also official lineage, SyberiaOS. Different previous version of the two (since I read in the lineage official thread others have this issue)
Basically at the point after flashing any of these roms results immediately in TWRP warning "no os is installed" at reboot attempt with or without re-flashing twrp after.
Then if rebooted just hangs on blue led. can't boot anything.
Meanwhile flashing OTAs + twrp results in bootable system.
Other things that i tried:
before unlocking BL update to latest OTA_34 -> 9.0.9, reboot, install again.
using mauronofrio twrp version https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...overy-unofficial-twrp-touch-recovery-t3860815
Any ideas?
[SOLUTION]
If you're bricked follow this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/tool-msmdownloadtool-v4-0-international-t3798892
1 - Have last OOS installed in both slots
- update from settings, local update, latest OTA (Pie) from oneplus support site.​- reboot, let it complete​- apply again​2 - Enable OEM Unlock in Developer options
3 - Boot to Fastboot and unlock bootloader:
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
4 - Once in OOS reboot to fastboot and boot twrp:
Code:
fastboot boot <twrp-img-name>.img
5 - Push twrp + custom rom:
Code:
adb push <custom-rom-name>.zip <twrp-zip-name>.zip /sdcard
6 - Flash twrp in twrp
7 - Reboot to recovery
8 - Wipe system and Data
9 - flash ROM
10 - flash twrp
[IMPORTANT]
11 - Tap Reboot to recovery then if it says No OS installed! tap home button! Don't reboot! reboot = brick = msmdownloadtool
12 - Go in advanced menu and select Fix Recovery Bootloop and swipe
13 - THEN TRY TO MOUNT /system.
IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO MOUNT /system APPLY AGAIN THE FIX AND REPEAT FROM STEP 7​14 - Reboot to recovery
It WILL stil say No OS installed but now you'll be able to reboot to recovery​[/IMPORTANT]
15 - Once in recovery reboot to system.
If you've done everything correctly it won't complain again about no OS being installed and you'll get your rom up and running.​16 - Let it reboot to system and complete first configuration
17 - Now you can reboot and flash every module you like from twrp.
That's it. Hope this'll spare nightmares and storage write life.
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i tried all the mentioned steps, nothing worked for me. Even i tried all the guides, here on xda and on youtube i am not able to boot my 1+6 it is getting booted to fastboot mode, after installing custom rom. But if i flash only OOS then it boots back properly.
But in case of a custom rom it boots back to fastboot mode, and then in the end msm tool is the last resort to lock bootloader and make it stock.

i tried all the mentioned steps, nothing worked for me. Even i tried all the guides, here on xda and on youtube i am not able to boot my 1+6 it is getting booted to fastboot mode, after installing custom rom. But if i flash only OOS then it boots back properly.
But in case of a custom rom it boots back to fastboot mode, and then in the end msm tool is the last resort to lock bootloader and make it stock.
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If you are stuck on fastboot try
fastboot set_active other
then try rebooting recovery if fails try
fastboot boot pc-stored-twrp
I found changing the active slot via fastboot may unbrick it without msm. It all depends on what steps you actually take during installation.
For installing LOS try not flashing twrp after installation. Los comes with its own recovery. Anyway if it says no OS installed you HAVE to fix recovery bootloop.

Can't use TWRP in slot A

Hit a nasty issue while trying to upgrade from LOS 17.1 to 18.1. Story begins here.
After not getting anywhere with a normal clean-flash, I backed up all my stuff and totally wiped my phone using a fastboot rom (OOS 10.0.8, here). I applied the fastboot partitions, and then the "criticals" from TWRP, so my phone should be 100% stock OOS10 at this point.
At this point, there is strange behavior. From fastboot, I can boot into TWRP with fastboot flash boot /path/to/twrp.img only if the active slot is B. Running this command with A active, then rebooting to recovery, just kicks me back to fastboot. With B active, rebooting to recovery works as expected.
This is the behavior for the official 3.5.2_9-0 TWRP release. Using mauronofrio's unofficial 3.4.0-10 release, I get a flashing TWRP splash screen instead. I can use adb in this state, but twrp commands don't work (says TWRP isn't running). Official also has issues decrypting data/storage, so I'm sticking with unofficial 3.4 for now. I've also tried with the LOS recovery img, this has the same behavior as 3.5.2 official TWRP.
By flashing TWRP to slot B, I can then do a bunch of different things, none of which get me working TWRP in slot A:
Factory reset, flash OOS11, reboot recovery
Gets me the stock OOS recovery. Works, but can't flash anything.
Factory reset, flash OOS11, flash TWRP, reboot recovery
Same old slot-A-TWRP behavior as when booting from fastboot
Factory reset, flash OOS11, flash TWRP, reboot system
OOS11 works as expected, but if I reboot recovery, same old slot-A-TWRP behavior
Install a TWRP zip, which flashes both slots, then manually set slot A as active and reboot recovery
Same old slot-A-TWRP behavior
What could possibly be causing this?

I have found an incredibly complicated workaround:
Reboot fastboot
Flash mauronofrio's OOS10 fastboot rom (to A & B)
Reboot fastboot (just to be sure)
Flash boot twrp (to slot B)
Reboot bootloader (into TWRP)
Factory reset (just to be sure)
Flash OOS11 (to A; for vendor firmware etc)
Factory reset (just to be sure)
Flash LOS18.1 (to A)
Reboot system (to A)
Complete first-time setup and run a system update (to B)
Reboot recovery (to B; LOS recovery, not TWRP)
Factory reset
Flash gapps, magisk, etc
The magisk install didn't work quite right, but Nikgapps seems fine. This is the only way I've been able to install LOS18.1 with gapps. However, not having TWRP to create backups is concerning. Really, having an unreliable recovery is terrifying.
So, I'm going to load my LOS17.1 backup and wait for the dust to settle on the LOS18.1 ecosystem.

What!! awesome!!!
I am working on developing this logic, how?? Fantastic!