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Nexus 5 QPST/QDLoader Mode

So, messing around with kernels and stuff, I wound up with a bricked device (wouldn't turn on, no response to anything, etc [I did eventually manage to get it functional again through a combination of button mashing and praying])
However, when plugging it into my computer, it showed up as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader" which seemed interesting.
Searching the internet, I found several things. The QPST (Qualcomm Product Support Tool) Software suite, as well as other less useful links about the LGFlash tool, etc.
The programs also makes reference to debug and other modes, but there isn't a lot of documentation on the internet.
What I want to know is, is there a way to put the device back into the QDLoader or other QPST related modes so as to either update the firmware again, or just make backups for future use?
If there is, this seems like it would be a great tool for undoing any damage to the phone that isn't hardware related (the documentation says this part resides on a read only chip[which it seems fastboot doesn't])

It looked like you borked your phone to the point where there was nothing recognizable as Android left on it. I don't know anything about this loader but based on my past experiences dealing with proprietary OEM tools (Samsung KIES), I hope I never find myself in a situation where I'd need to learn. :crying:

Turn off your phone. Press all the keys if nothing happens your phone bricked. If you end up qualcomm 9008 mode we cant do much, because we dont have a working flash programmer and a working bootloader which would be flashed to the phone with the flash programmer. You can do 2 things. Replace your motherboard, or find the emmc pins on the motherboard to get direct acces to the storage then with a modified sdcard reader you could have access to the storage content then you could restore the bootloader. This is pretty hard method almost impossible.
If you have qualcomm 9006 mode then you can restore the bootloader with any kind of linux, because in 9006 mode the phone acts like a external hdd.

May I ask how exactly you messed around with the kernels to get this? Did you flash an incompatible kernel or something?

It sounded like he resolved his issue and wanted to know if this hidden mode can be used.

Wakamatsu said:
It sounded like he resolved his issue and wanted to know if this hidden mode can be used.
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to enter qload mode you have to turn on the phone then press everykey at the same time until the screen turns off

It works!
bitdomo said:
to enter qload mode you have to turn on the phone then press everykey at the same time until the screen turns off
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Thank you! This works!
It still only puts it in download mode, not the diagnostics or anything else. Although.. That may just be a project for when there's better documentation, or I don't actually need this phone for normal use...

caffeinatedangel said:
Thank you! This works!
It still only puts it in download mode, not the diagnostics or anything else. Although.. That may just be a project for when there's better documentation, or I don't actually need this phone for normal use...
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To achive diagnostic mode you need a working flash progfammer and bootloader which can be loaded with flash programmer. We will never have these files unless someone at qualcomm build it for nexus 5 then share it here on xda.
With LG G2 if something goes wrong during ota update the phone starts in qualcomm 9006 diagnostic mode.

Well darn
bitdomo said:
To achive diagnostic mode you need a working flash progfammer and bootloader which can be loaded with flash programmer. We will never have these files unless someone at qualcomm build it for nexus 5 then share it here on xda.
With LG G2 if something goes wrong during ota update the phone starts in qualcomm 9006 diagnostic mode.
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Ah, darn. I suppose we can just hope though. Maybe someone with too much time will find a way to do it on their own. Oh well. Thank you!

I've never bricked my phones that bad man when I was a noob I installed safestrap on a device with an unlocked boot loader and tried to flash a ROM it didn't work out to well,man that was about two years ago

caffeinatedangel said:
Ah, darn. I suppose we can just hope though. Maybe someone with too much time will find a way to do it on their own. Oh well. Thank you!
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There were two placed where qualcomm documentatiosn could be found. One was a chinese forum where you have to be veteran or admin to get access to the files. This forum not exist anymore. The other is a chinese ebay like website where they are selling qualcomm documents for 3000 usd.
If you search for msm8974 boot flow or sahara protocol you will find file names for qualcomm pdf documents. Sadly just file names no download possibilty.

[Completed] lenovo z90-3 vibe shot

Hello please help phone campaign became a brick, I flashed through lenovo z90-3 miflash on s240 firmware with the substitution of non-hlos after the launch of the phone did not see the connection and stop defined COM port Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 by pressing the volume + button and the inclusion of is determined only by the adb, after a whole bunch of incomprehensible to me manipulation somehow all have seen my phone as it should, then I went qfill decided to fill stitching s208 and at the beginning flew error and then the phone even completely refuse to be included, not taking charge does not go in rekaveri and computer saw him as an unknown device, a week later decided to re-connect it defined as the ADB interface as it is now to revive and if possible ??. I have mat. board ordered him a new

maks.9016 said:
Hello please help phone campaign became a brick, I flashed through lenovo z90-3 miflash on s240 firmware with the substitution of non-hlos after the launch of the phone did not see the connection and stop defined COM port Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 by pressing the volume + button and the inclusion of is determined only by the adb, after a whole bunch of incomprehensible to me manipulation somehow all have seen my phone as it should, then I went qfill decided to fill stitching s208 and at the beginning flew error and then the phone even completely refuse to be included, not taking charge does not go in rekaveri and computer saw him as an unknown device, a week later decided to re-connect it defined as the ADB interface as it is now to revive and if possible ??. I have mat. board ordered him a new
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Hi and welcome to XDA!
I couldn't find much information about your device here except this thread
Vibe shot(z90-3) bricked
Try posting your query there. Hopefully other z90-3 users may be able to help you.
Good luck

Strangest "Bricked" Oneplus One: No recovery, locked OS, can't unlock bootloader

Strangest "Bricked" Oneplus One: No recovery, locked OS, can't unlock bootloader
Hi there, I've come in to the possession of the most stubbornly bricked phone that I've ever seen . Bought a OPO off Craigslist, someone cracked the screen and sold it for cheap instead of fixing it. It had been remote wiped but still has some strange difficult software. Posted this problem to the Oneplus Forum but have had no response, thought XDA would be more qualified!
From what I can tell it's a Oneplus One that was sold through a re-seller that replaced all the software on the phone with a high-security version of Android. It's called EncroChat and from their website (encrochat.network or encrochatsure.com) it looks like it removes the recovery from the phone and replaces it with an EncroChat OS (some kind of Cyanogen) that you can boot to in addition to the Android OS.
Well I assume during the remote wipe something went wrong with the software and the phone no longer really functions. It boots up fine but can't connect to Wifi, cellular, not detected when connected to my PC, and has no real apps to speak of. I think most of the device's drivers are missing. Trying to boot to recovery instead boots to their EncroChat OS which is locked behind a password that neither I nor the person I bought it from knows.
I can get to fastboot and my PC will detect the phone then but running the bootloader unlock command doesn't work, the phone just reboots into the locked EncroChat OS. My idea now is to try and hardbrick the phone and then re-do everything on the phone over again, but I can't figure out how to do that. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Contacting EncroChat
Tried contacting EncroChat via email form, twitter, and reddit. No luck! Still stuck with this. I want to try this unbrick guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732 for hardbricks but I can't get my phone to show as QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. Any idea how I can do that? This guy seems to have done it:
evronetwork said:
Had one GOOD soft brick in the past, I've used coloros rom(from the Chinese OnePlus One) and fix my phone ...it deleted all media of course but manage to unbrick the phone. Don't ask me how to, it's been a while, google it
It would fix even the most stubborn soft bricks you'll see. Before that I tried everything that was available at the time, no boot as well only fastboot(not even recovery)
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broccolicakes said:
Tried contacting EncroChat via email form, twitter, and reddit. No luck! Still stuck with this. I want to try this unbrick guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732 for hardbricks but I can't get my phone to show as QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. Any idea how I can do that? This guy seems to have done it:
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For your phone to be recognized in your PC as QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008, you need to install proper drivers. follow this guide
http://www.androidbrick.com/ultimat...agons-are-unbrickable-qhsusb_dload_qpst_qfil/
let me know, if I can help you furthermore.

broccolicakes said:
Tried contacting EncroChat via email form, twitter, and reddit. No luck! Still stuck with this. I want to try this unbrick guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unbrick-oneplus-one-t3013732 for hardbricks but I can't get my phone to show as QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. Any idea how I can do that? This guy seems to have done it:
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Hello dude,
While it was quite some time when I did this unbrick, it was successful ...expect ALL data to be deleted from phone. Google is your friend and I did get all the files from somewhere
You use a special software from the phone, it's coloros software and with provided files it recognise the phone and flash it(2-3 seperate flashes through the software if I remember correctly) - don't worry as long as the phone turns on(mine was turning on but did nothing ...blank, only way to turn it off was to hold power button and hold it(forced turn off))
P.S. The phone wasn't recognised by the OS ...only from this app(cool? ..weird if you ask me - I'm a computer repair tech guy and find this hard to believe if it didn't happen and see it with my own eyes - on the other hand it could be somewhere hidden in the system and recognised like something else so I won't put my hand in fire to verify this )

Thanks!
evronetwork said:
Hello dude,
While it was quite some time when I did this unbrick, it was successful ...expect ALL data to be deleted from phone. Google is your friend and I did get all the files from somewhere
You use a special software from the phone, it's coloros software and with provided files it recognise the phone and flash it(2-3 seperate flashes through the software if I remember correctly) - don't worry as long as the phone turns on(mine was turning on but did nothing ...blank, only way to turn it off was to hold power button and hold it(forced turn off))
P.S. The phone wasn't recognised by the OS ...only from this app(cool? ..weird if you ask me - I'm a computer repair tech guy and find this hard to believe if it didn't happen and see it with my own eyes - on the other hand it could be somewhere hidden in the system and recognised like something else so I won't put my hand in fire to verify this )
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I figured it out, thanks ! Now I'm stuck with a more minor problem of only having 16gb visible on my 64gb phone. Can't write the userdata_64G image to my phone. Still trying some stuff out and I'll probably just make a new post if I can't get it to work. Thanks again!

broccolicakes said:
I figured it out, thanks ! Now I'm stuck with a more minor problem of only having 16gb visible on my 64gb phone. Can't write the userdata_64G image to my phone. Still trying some stuff out and I'll probably just make a new post if I can't get it to work. Thanks again!
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I read just the other day that someone needs the 64gb image instead of the 16gb image. You did so well so far, I'm sure you'll figure this one out. Congrats! "Encrochat Beware!"
The mention of the 64gb vs 16gb image is here:
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/solution-recover-from-hard-bricked-oneplus-one.104943/
He links to the images here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541

help
broccolicakes said:
I figured it out, thanks ! Now I'm stuck with a more minor problem of only having 16gb visible on my 64gb phone. Can't write the userdata_64G image to my phone. Still trying some stuff out and I'll probably just make a new post if I can't get it to work. Thanks again!
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Hi broccolicakes, cane you please tell me how you figured it out. Because Am at your same position with an Oneplus x ??
please tell me how you did it????

redi.c said:
Hi broccolicakes, cane you please tell me how you figured it out. Because Am at your same position with an Oneplus x ??
please tell me how you did it????
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Hi there, sorry in advance this might not be very helpful in your situation. I ended up using the ColorOS repair tool for Oneplus One that I mentioned earlier in the post. It turned out I just didn't have the correct drivers so once I sorted those out the tool was able to bypass all the software and replace everything on the phone so that I could then install my own OS.
I guess the trick would be to find a version of this tool for OneplusX. I'm not sure if there is one available, I haven't looked. Maybe make a separate post about that? The ColorOS tool I'm talking about is from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55024864&postcount=136 and it just looks directly for the Qualcomm chip and writes to that. I'm not sure where that tool came from, if it made its way out of Oneplus directly or if someone created it afterwards...

[Hard bricked Pixel 2] qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 in device manager

I'm the lucky one to get this scarce BRICK problem, my pixel 2 occasionally run into this, can't boot up any more, no bootloader, recovery,
plug into the pc, it always tell qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008,
had searched out all the forum, need to use QFIL to flash correct, prog_emmc_firehose_xxxx.mbn, together with rawprogram_XXX.xml.
what is that ? anyone happen to know where to get it ?
any idea is pretty appreciated.

I found this for you: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/guide-fixing-hard-bricks-t3403868/page1

@misslebulletttttt did you fix your Pixel. If yes, how did you do that?

download > Tool all in one. Update it. update the drivers button at the bottom. now....... choose your phone. now choose flash factory image button.
it go to page where you pick the right firmware for you phone. press the download link. go back to Tool all in one and find the file you just download and then flash it with the button.

Tacis said:
@misslebulletttttt did you fix your Pixel. If yes, how did you do that?
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sadly, the files that download tool asked was far proprietary, I'm not able to peek it a bit

I'm not saying these will fix or even do anything but I found them and maybe they can help you there Qualcomm usb drivers. I apologize if these are of no use.

I will just post here in case someone has the same issue and might contribute with the files...
Basically an Android device has a few steps of initialization
- power on
- initialize cpu and memory
- load bootloader
- bootloader selects boot mode
- having the boot selected, the kernel and device tree are loaded
- drivers are loaded
- system is loaded
- userdata is decrypted
Ok... So knowing that, when we want to write some partition on the device, we use fastboot. But first, the fastboot must have oem unlocked in settings. Well when unlocking in settings, this write in a protected partition (don't remember which one) which is checked if the fastboot can run some commands.
Well the next step is... Where is fastboot located?
Well, fastboot is located inside the bootloader. So, what?
Imagine that there isn't anything written in the memory... What would the processor do? It would think... Well nothing there... But must access the memory. So the cpu opens a port which is known as the emergency download mode (EDL).
EDL mode can be triggered with adb command or by shorting test points (there's another way, but I won't say it here)
Anyway when in edl mode, the processor talks a defined protocol, which is known as firehose.
So the first file you mentioned:
prog_emmc_firehose_xxxx.mbn
Is the programmer for the specific chipset, in order to make a handshake and allow to write.
Then after the handshake, you need to define how the memory will be partitioned (remember... It is considering a raw memory, with nothing on it). This lead us to the second file:
rawprogram_XXX.xml
This is basically how the memory is partitioned and where the image address is.
Besides those files, you need the img files (which will probably be only the system.img non sparsed i think...) And patch.xml too, probably.
But remember... The programmer needs to be signed and for the chipset... So if anyone has any contact with google... Maybe we can get those in order to unbrick devices... Anyway...
I just wanted to have those files, in case i run into a bad update...

I think we have to contact the carrier according to the bootloader files

misslebulletttttt said:
I'm the lucky one to get this scarce BRICK problem, my pixel 2 occasionally run into this, can't boot up any more, no bootloader, recovery,
plug into the pc, it always tell qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008,
had searched out all the forum, need to use QFIL to flash correct, prog_emmc_firehose_xxxx.mbn, together with rawprogram_XXX.xml.
what is that ? anyone happen to know where to get it ?
any idea is pretty appreciated.
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Hello friend! I have the same problem as you! (Hard bricked Pixel 2 and can't find firmware files for flashing device(via QFIL or QPST)). Do you have any progress on this issue ?
I don`t know where to go with this problem except for this forum

Hi, have you found a solution to this problem? I got a hard brick after the update (

Any update from anyone please?

bmw9651 said:
download > Tool all in one. Update it. update the drivers button at the bottom. now....... choose your phone. now choose flash factory image button.
it go to page where you pick the right firmware for you phone. press the download link. go back to Tool all in one and find the file you just download and then flash it with the button.
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What does any of that mean? There is no download for a, tool all in one around here.

[HELP NEEDED] Bricked Tulip: EDL Mode only. Xiaomi won't help.

Hi,
I have somehow bricked my Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro (Tulip) in a peculiar fashion.
It happened when a firmware flashing went downhill due to a faulty cable.
My device is now totally unresponsive. Pushing the power button does utterly nothing. There is no System, no Recovery, no Fastboot.
I managed to connect it in EDL mode (my PC sees it as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" device).
With the correct drivers and after deactivating Windows Driver signature enforcing, I've been able to connect it with MiFlash Utility and receive the hello package.
UNFORTUNATELY, I cannot proceed to flash the new system image, since my Xiaomi Account does not have FLASHING PERMISSION.
I can't find any way to avoid this check. I mailed Xiaomi and they answered they can but won't help, since "it's my fault the phone is bricked".
Does anyone know how to flash in EDL mode without a flashing-enabled Xiaomi account?
Please, help. It's a fine phone, I'd hate to lose it when i'm just a mere security measure away from restoring it to perfect functionality!
Thanks for any help.

ILLE_614 said:
Hi,
I have somehow bricked my Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro (Tulip) in a peculiar fashion.
It happened when a firmware flashing went downhill due to a faulty cable.
My device is now totally unresponsive. Pushing the power button does utterly nothing. There is no System, no Recovery, no Fastboot.
I managed to connect it in EDL mode (my PC sees it as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" device).
With the correct drivers and after deactivating Windows Driver signature enforcing, I've been able to connect it with MiFlash Utility and receive the hello package.
UNFORTUNATELY, I cannot proceed to flash the new system image, since my Xiaomi Account does not have FLASHING PERMISSION.
I can't find any way to avoid this check. I mailed Xiaomi and they answered they can but won't help, since "it's my fault the phone is bricked".
Does anyone know how to flash in EDL mode without a flashing-enabled Xiaomi account?
Please, help. It's a fine phone, I'd hate to lose it when i'm just a mere security measure away from restoring it to perfect functionality!
Thanks for any help.
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Funny I was just reading an article about this yesterday. There is only one way to fix this and that is with an authorized account. Sadly Xiaomi gave out a few account authorizations but won't do it anymore. Yet you may still be in luck if you open your wallet. The prices I saw were not very high $18-35USD. One of the guys here on XDA will do it remotely but I don't remember who. I found the article on mi-globe.com and will try and find it and link it.

Did you find the solution
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Funny I was just reading an article about this yesterday. There is only one way to fix this and that is with an authorized account. Sadly Xiaomi gave out a few account authorizations but won't do it anymore. Yet you may still be in luck if you open your wallet. The prices I saw were not very high $18-35USD. One of the guys here on XDA will do it remotely but I don't remember who. I found the article on mi-globe.com and will try and find it and link it.
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Did you find the solution

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Did you find the solution
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I found a person who had edl permission. Unfortunately due to xda rules we are not allowed to give out contact information because they charge for the service.

Try qfil application
Qfil application might help