Z3 bricked, no recovery - Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
somehow my sons' D6603 messed up and didn't boot anymore. Had an old CarbonROM installed before, but that failed for no reason I can pinpoint.
OK, to recover I tried to reflash the ROM - but boot process got stuck in boot animation for hours (until battery ran out).
OK, so I fired up flashtool and tried to install an FTF - but all FTFs I tried to retrieve failed to unpack.
OK - one more try - got me a stock ROM that was supposed to be flashed through recovery.
Now I get Sony splashscreen, then display turns black and stays like that forever. Only sign of something happening is that the notification LED blinks occasionally.
I tried to enter recovery - wouldn't work at all: never saw any change in boot process.
I can put the phone into flash mode and into fastboot - so I tried to flash a new TWRP:
Code:
[email protected] ~/temp/TWRP-z3 $ fastboot flash FOTAKernel recovery.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'FOTAKernel' (15904 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.502s]
writing 'FOTAKernel'...
OKAY [ 1.056s]
finished. total time: 1.558s
[email protected] ~/temp/TWRP-z3 $ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'recovery' (15904 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.501s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.055s]
finished. total time: 1.556s
But still the mobile won't boot into recovery
OK, there's a different TWRP available - but I can't flash it to FOTAkernel:
Code:
[email protected] ~/Downloads $ fastboot flash FOTAkernel twrp_z3_2018-03-28.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'FOTAkernel' (10808 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.342s]
writing 'FOTAkernel'...
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.345s
[email protected] ~/Downloads $ fastboot flash recovery twrp_z3_2018-03-28.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'recovery' (10808 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.342s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.721s]
finished. total time: 1.063s
Can anyone help me to get stuff working again? I'm lost for options right now - TWRP won't come up, and I can't get an FTF via flashtool to my harddrive. Any other ways to unbrick the phone?
Got a recent LinuxMint 19.x here as my machine right now. Getting a Windows up and running would be an obstacle (although I might get a hand to one).

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NOTE: Says when on rsd mode failed to boot 0x00001
on fastboot same + is says failed to format pds and does't connect to the pc after that
i have over 50 hours in 5 days looking for way to fix no luck .
i try my luck with Fastboot. I first tried flashing the recovery with no luck. I then tried flashing over the official moto files (boot/sytstem/....)
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
C:\SDK_tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [ 0.694s]
writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: (19000008))
....
If i follow that order boot/system and recovery fail then userdata says it works and it lets me flash the other options (but clearly just says they work it looks like it's lying)
C:\SDK_tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [ 0.694s]
writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: (19000008))
.......
C:\SDK_tools>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
sending 'userdata' (139233 KB)... OKAY [ 11.598s]
writing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 0.164s]
finished. total time: 11.764s
C:\SDK_tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [ 0.688s]
writing 'boot'... OKAY [ 3.462s]
finished. total time: 4.151s
.....
If I try fastboot oem unlock I'm prompted with the unlock message and after hitting accept. I see the following error on the screen
ERROR: Failed to format UDA.
Error while unlocking device.
My next try was with RSD light. I tried flashing all of the images for my xoom off this site . all of them give me the following error:
Failed flashing process. Failed Flashing process. Interface AP-OS: Error flashing subscriber unit. Device API error: 0xE0020085 Address: 0x1F870 Command: ADDR (0xE0222085); phone connected
I ran out of ideas on what to do next. One post i saw said try using a nand backup but I can't find one that will work.
Any help would be great. I really love my XOOM and I'm sad i can't fix it.

[Q] problem flashing

hey guys
i have p920 with problem hang on the logo
but can not flash and error after 35 %
please help me thanks
can not go to recovery custom
phone is unlocke bootloader and write recovery philz_touch but after write can not go to recovery and still here bootloader!!!!?
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ADB & FASTBOOT>fastboot flash re
covery philz_touch_6.18.7-zaradug.img
sending 'recovery' (8056 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.750s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.828s]
finished. total time: 2.578s

Unable to flash recovery.

HI.
Fresh install of the latest Android 6 on to my N5.
I used Wug and everything has gone well apart from I don't have a recovery.
I've booted to the bootloader and tried the following..
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead.img
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'recovery' (14524 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.688s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.125s]
finished. total time: 1.813s
Rebooted to Android, rebooted to recovery and nothing.. little green man on his back
I've also tried stock recovery with the same results.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Code:
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'recovery' (10008 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.554s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.841s]
finished. total time: 1.397s
I've tried flashing, rebooting to bootloader, then rebooting to recovery I still get the same.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Panic Over
I've just done this again and after the flash finished, I rebooted to recovery swiped to allow modifications and now it's taken !

after flashing H2OS no longer boots in twrp

So H2OS boots up just fine. Fastboot mode works. When I boot into recovery mode the oneplus logo shows up, but it is as nothing happens afterwards. I left the device there for more than an hour and still nothing. Flashing from the OS twrp 2.8.7.0 or 3.0.0-2 has no change on this. Flashing from fastboot the same. When I try to boot from fastboot,I get the following error:
[email protected] ~/Downloads $ fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-2-oneplus2.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.807s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: dtb not found)
finished. total time: 0.873s
[email protected] ~/Downloads $ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (31700 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.815s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.534s]
finished. total time: 1.349s
Any ideas?

Nexus 5 bootloop & recovery doesn't work

First of all, I'm german, so sorry if something's wrong with my English
Hey I've got a Nexus 5 laying around (I don't use it) and it is bootlooping. I would like to fix it but nothing works.
1. Power button isn't stuck (checked it)
2. I can boot into the bootloader
3. fastboot works fine
4. Can't get into Recovery ( when I boot into Recovery the Google Logo comes up and it keeps restarting)
5. Flashing a fresh Android doesn't work
6. Flashing a custom Recovery doesn't work
7. I don't know anything about the phone (I just got it because i wanted the display for my other Nexus 5)
8. bootloader is unlocked
I have fastboot and adb on a Windows and a Linux machine. Thanks for your help
Your English is perfect (apart from the lower case on "German" ) - if you hadn't started with that sentence I would never have known.
At the risk of boring people who may have already seen this post in other threads, see if this advice helps at all. If you have a working bootloader screen it may work. You can ignore the first sentence about backup, since in your situation it's redundant.
Preparation.
- Take a TWRP backup and save it on your PC.
- Download factory image (https://developers.google.com/android/images#hammerhead) and unzip all files, including the zip within the zip. Rename the *.img files to the names below. Copy all of them to the same folder as your ADB/fastboot executables.
- Download the relevant TWRP and rename to twrp.img - also put in ADB/fastboot folder.
- Copy SuperSU to device (if root wanted).
- Set USB debugging in Developer options & attach to your PC.
- Open a CMD window, navigate to your ADB folder, and check connectivity with "adb devices". If it's ok, copy & paste each command below into the CMD window and run them - the only lengthy one is the system.img.
1. adb reboot bootloader
2. fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
3. fastboot reboot-bootloader
4. fastboot flash radio radio.img
5. fastboot reboot-bootloader
6. fastboot erase system
7. fastboot flash system system.img
8. fastboot erase boot
9. fastboot flash boot boot.img
10. fastboot erase cache
11. fastboot flash cache cache.img
12. fastboot reboot-bootloader
13. fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
14. From bootloader boot to TWRP and reflash superSu
Didn't work...
Here's my output:
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'bootloader' (2506 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.219s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [ 0.453s]
finished. total time: 0.688s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.094s]
finished. total time: 0.094s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash radio radio.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'radio' (42033 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.422s]
writing 'radio'...
OKAY [ 2.891s]
finished. total time: 4.313s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.109s]
finished. total time: 0.109s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot erase system
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 1.109s]
finished. total time: 1.109s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash system system.img
target didn't report max-download-size
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.516s]
sending 'system' (692940 KB)...
OKAY [ 21.893s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 46.692s]
finished. total time: 69.132s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.234s]
finished. total time: 0.234s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash boot boot.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'boot' (8620 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.484s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.734s]
finished. total time: 1.234s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot erase cache
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.500s]
finished. total time: 0.500s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash cache cache.img
target didn't report max-download-size
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.484s]
sending 'cache' (13348 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.625s]
writing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 1.063s]
finished. total time: 2.188s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.094s]
finished. total time: 0.094s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
target didn't report max-download-size
sending 'recovery' (14626 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.672s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.125s]
finished. total time: 1.797s
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads\hammerhead-krt16m>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.109s]
finished. total time: 0.109s
When i boot to recovery the google logo appears and still restarts all the time.
As i said, i've already tried flashing a custom recovery and Android before... Didn't work for me..
Sorry to hear that. I've never seen the "target didn't report" message. Maybe a hardware problem?
I thinks it's a hardware failure. I found somebody else having this problem on the google forum. They say the flash storage is demaged. Not repairable. But thanks for the quick reply.
Budden6800i said:
I thinks it's a hardware failure. I found somebody else having this problem on the google forum. They say the flash storage is demaged. Not repairable. But thanks for the quick reply.
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Why you are using krt16m image? It's old...
Please download M4B30Z and try again...

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