[HELP] Honor 7x/Mate SE Soft Brick? - General Questions and Answers

So I was putting together a flashable zip for downgrading to Nougat, and when I rebooted I must have erased something I shouldn't have, because the screen went black. I have no idea what i could have done but when i force restart, it makes the pc disconnect sound and three seconds later, it reconnects. I can't reboot to bootloader or recovery, much less system, but strangely adb commands still show that my phone is is fastboot mode. I ran the Huawei Multitool with files I know for sure were correct, and hit unbrick. There were no errors and everything flashed correctly, or so it said. Once again I attempted to reboot but to no avail. The screen stays black.
Can anyone help me out here??? I don't know what happened. I don't think it's hardbricked right? I can still use fastboot.
Thanks!

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I was charging my phone overnight. In the morning I realized it didn't charge, I tried to turn it on and it gets stuck on the HTC screen.
I was running Viper One 3.21, I tried rebooting, entered recovery, tried to reinstal a nandroid, got stuck on the screen again.
Tried reinstalling ViperOne same problem.
Here's what I know:
Fastboot will NOT work, while I can get to fastboot, any time I reboot the phone it gets stuck.
I can't get to RUU (because it wont go past the HTC screen).
adb sideload will not work
I've let the battery drain, fully charged it; no change.
I tried wiping and doing a factory reset but it just gets stuck on the reboot, I also noticed on the File manager within TWRP that my phone was never wiped.
Any ideas?
SS823 said:
I was charging my phone overnight. In the morning I realized it didn't charge, I tried to turn it on and it gets stuck on the HTC screen.
I was running Viper One 3.21, I tried rebooting, entered recovery, tried to reinstal a nandroid, got stuck on the screen again.
Tried reinstalling ViperOne same problem.
Here's what I know:
Fastboot will NOT work, while I can get to fastboot, any time I reboot the phone it gets stuck.
I can't get to RUU (because it wont go past the HTC screen).
adb sideload will not work
I've let the battery drain, fully charged it; no change.
I tried wiping and doing a factory reset but it just gets stuck on the reboot, I also noticed on the File manager within TWRP that my phone was never wiped.
Any ideas?
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Sorta sounds like one of the bricked ones where the entire emmc goes write protected. If you can't get fastboot or ruu mode and have no warranty left I can take a look at it for you. I'm in PA so it wouldn't take long to mail it here.
Not sure how it got bricked, it has been over a month since I flashed anything.
I am able to use adb sideload, but any file I use it says is corrupted.
Could I partition part of the drive and try to instal from there?
What part of PA are you in?
SS823 said:
Not sure how it got bricked, it has been over a month since I flashed anything.
I am able to use adb sideload, but any file I use it says is corrupted.
Could I partition part of the drive and try to instal from there?
What part of PA are you in?
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I am down in the York/Harrisburg/Lancaster area. You don't want to partition emmc manually.

[Q] Cannot wipe or flash anything, stuck in decryption screen.

I am stuck on the Decyption screen where it says "To start Android, enter your password". I have seen a few threads about this issue but they managed to solve the issue by reflashing or re-unlocking the bootloader. However, I am unable to do any of these things.
I have been on ViperOneM8 for quite a long time now and everything was working fine. I unlock my screen by swiping up on the screen while the screen is off. Felt the vibration to unlock but the screen stays blank. Had to force reboot it to make it work again. A few days later, this exact same issue happened again, but before I was able to reboot the device, it rebooted on its own and went into the said decryption screen. I enter a random word for password and it says, password is correct but data is corrupted; must factory reset to use phone.
Alright, so I have factory reseted, nothing happened. It wiped my data and sd card, same decryption screen.
I've used the bootloader to flash a stock android, I remember it succeeded but restarted to the same screen.
I've used twrp to re-flash multiple roms, all succeeded, restarted to same thing.
I've wiped data, full wipe, you name it, restarted to same thing. Once it reboots it would show the ViperOne boot, so something isn't wiping.
I even went into the phone's data and manually deleted everything in internal storage with my pc, restarted the phone, same thing. Checked the internal storage again, everything that was there got restored.
I've used adb and fastboot to push data, same thing. I've used the dottat .exe installer, goes through the entire process, reboots... same thing.
I've tried reflashing another recovery, success, but it boots into the same recovery.
I've tried doing the SuperCID and going through htcdev to unlock the device again, but it fails when pushing the key. SuperCID also resets whenever I restart the device. I've tried locking the bootloader with fastboot but that fails.
One thing I couldn't do is boot into the RUU mode. 'fastboot oem rebootRUU' doesn't seem to work for me. It reboots the device but boots up and goes into the decryption screen.
When I try the 0P6BIMG with bootloader, it seems to restart before completing the installation now. But I remember it went through successfully before, but still boots into the decryption screen.
It seems like no matter what I do, the phone restores itself to the previous state that it's in. That or nothing is actually affecting the data.
I am at a lost of what to do. I feel like maybe it's a damaged hardware but at the same time I am unsure. Anybody have any suggestions at all?
kyuuku said:
I am stuck on the Decyption screen where it says "To start Android, enter your password". I have seen a few threads about this issue but they managed to solve the issue by reflashing or re-unlocking the bootloader. However, I am unable to do any of these things.
I have been on ViperOneM8 for quite a long time now and everything was working fine. I unlock my screen by swiping up on the screen while the screen is off. Felt the vibration to unlock but the screen stays blank. Had to force reboot it to make it work again. A few days later, this exact same issue happened again, but before I was able to reboot the device, it rebooted on its own and went into the said decryption screen. I enter a random word for password and it says, password is correct but data is corrupted; must factory reset to use phone.
Alright, so I have factory reseted, nothing happened. It wiped my data and sd card, same decryption screen.
I've used the bootloader to flash a stock android, I remember it succeeded but restarted to the same screen.
I've used twrp to re-flash multiple roms, all succeeded, restarted to same thing.
I've wiped data, full wipe, you name it, restarted to same thing. Once it reboots it would show the ViperOne boot, so something isn't wiping.
I even went into the phone's data and manually deleted everything in internal storage with my pc, restarted the phone, same thing. Checked the internal storage again, everything that was there got restored.
I've used adb and fastboot to push data, same thing. I've used the dottat .exe installer, goes through the entire process, reboots... same thing.
I've tried reflashing another recovery, success, but it boots into the same recovery.
I've tried doing the SuperCID and going through htcdev to unlock the device again, but it fails when pushing the key. SuperCID also resets whenever I restart the device. I've tried locking the bootloader with fastboot but that fails.
One thing I couldn't do is boot into the RUU mode. 'fastboot oem rebootRUU' doesn't seem to work for me. It reboots the device but boots up and goes into the decryption screen.
When I try the 0P6BIMG with bootloader, it seems to restart before completing the installation now. But I remember it went through successfully before, but still boots into the decryption screen.
It seems like no matter what I do, the phone restores itself to the previous state that it's in. That or nothing is actually affecting the data.
I am at a lost of what to do. I feel like maybe it's a damaged hardware but at the same time I am unsure. Anybody have any suggestions at all?
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Sounds like you have one of the few that have been popping up where the entire phone becomes write protected.
Before running the ruu run the following fastboot commands.
Fastboot oem task 28
Fastboot oem task 29
If any errors re-run the command.
Then run ruu.
dottat said:
Sounds like you have one of the few that have been popping up where the entire phone becomes write protected.
Before running the ruu run the following fastboot commands.
Fastboot oem task 28
Fastboot oem task 29
If any errors re-run the command.
Then run ruu.
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I tried those commands and it looks successful, but once I rebootRUU it would just reboot and load to the decryption screen again.
I also tried the 0P6BIMG method after those commands, no luck.
kyuuku said:
I tried those commands and it looks successful, but once I rebootRUU it would just reboot and load to the decryption screen again.
I also tried the 0P6BIMG method after those commands, no luck.
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Sounds like your phone did end up write protected. You need a new motherboard.
The ones I have seen like this don't even allow you to lock the boot loader or turn s back on either.
dottat said:
Sounds like your phone did end up write protected. You need a new motherboard.
The ones I have seen like this don't even allow you to lock the boot loader or turn s back on either.
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Ahh that's too bad. It was what I expected though.
Thank you anyway for the help!

honor 8 hard bricked, only vibrates twice. No recovery,no fastboot and no dload.

my honor 8 is stuck on honor 8 blue screen, cant turn it off.
cant access fastboot, recovery or even dload. only vibrates twice.
can anyone help me to solve this issue???
abbassbhai said:
my honor 8 is stuck on honor 8 blue screen, cant turn it off.
cant access fastboot, recovery or even dload. only vibrates twice.
can anyone help me to solve this issue???
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Have you tried to flash custom ROMs or TWRP?
overcustom said:
Have you tried to flash custom ROMs or TWRP?
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i was trying to dload mm firmware. The firmware dloaded fine but after factory reset and reboot, the fone is jus staying on honor screen after 3d text. i tried to go in erecovery but cannot, fone jus vibrates twice and then after 3d honor text, it stays on blue honor screen forever.
i tried to boot in fastboot as well as dload.....same thing happend not booting in fastboot or dload.
only 3d text and blue screen.
now fone doesnt even turns on if power button pressed ,but juss vibrates twice and blue screen after 3d text.
Leave your device as it is so that the battery is fully drained and is powered off. Then plug your device to charger for 5 minutes. Unplug it and now try to boot to recovery.
Hold the power button and volume up button until you hear the first vibration and screen goes on. Leave both buttons. Now you can go to recovery. Perform a full factory reset. Then power off your device and move the dload package to your external SD card. Repeat the same process but this time hold both volume buttons and power button.
hackslash said:
Leave your device as it is so that the battery is fully drained and is powered off. Then plug your device to charger for 5 minutes. Unplug it and now try to boot to recovery.
Hold the power button and volume up button until you hear the first vibration and screen goes on. Leave both buttons. Now you can go to recovery. Perform a full factory reset. Then power off your device and move the dload package to your external SD card. Repeat the same process but this time hold both volume buttons and power button.
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thankyou bro for ur suggestion...i already tried all tht but no luck.
the fone turns on everytime whatever i try to do....only 3d text and it is stuck on blue honor screen.
no recovery dload fastboot etc.
Hi. Sorry the revive.
Could you solve this? I'm in the same situation
No unlock, can't enter to recovery, can't enter to erecovery so I can't flash with dload, fastboot is a joke if the phone has locked bootloader so I can't reflash the recoveries.
abbassbhai said:
my honor 8 is stuck on honor 8 blue screen, cant turn it off.
cant access fastboot, recovery or even dload. only vibrates twice.
can anyone help me to solve this issue???
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Noivern said:
Hi everyone!
First, sorry reviving the threadm but this one is similar to my trouble.
Second, every flash process was done with dload method and vol + - and power combination.
Third, I never unlock my phone before or flashed any custom rom or recovery, everything was stock.
Last night, I tried to rollback my honor 8 frd-al19 to emui 6.0 with proper rollback package and firmware for Android 6.0 (both official and for my model), but phone went into boot lock. It isn't boot loop, It's stuck on the Honor blue logo. I can't even turn off the phone.
I did this procedure once before with success. I was on fdr-al19c432b360 firmware 100% functional (I was an idiot to rollback again when not needed at all... I know). I applied the rollback package correctly, and then I did a mistake and flashed full c636b131 Android 6.0 firmware instead of c432b131 Android 6.0.
Phone started ok with everything working. But I noticed my bad (emui didn't find any update package from OTA, and noticed the error in version model shown) and reflashed rollback package... At this point is where I think I messed up the recoveries or something. When ended the flashing process, I copied the correct firmware (the c432b131 android 6) on dload folder and tried again to flash.... but this time phone never entered on erecovery nor recovery. Only thing I get is stuck honor blue screen. It refuses to enter on recovery or erecovery. It just reboots, vibrate twice and keeps stuck after that on honor screen.
Strange thing, is that I did this procedure once before some months ago with success, but that time I didn't make the mistake with the versions.
After panic, I tried to boot in fastboot connected to my pc, and HiSuite knows there is something connected, because it launches it self, but don't recognize the phone and says it can't be recovered. Also, Adb don't see the phone either, only fastboot.
With fastboot commands I tried to reboot into recovery and nothing happened. Then wipe cache/user data, reflash stock recovery. Everything failed with message "remote: not allowed". And of course, because I never unlocked my bootloader. Fastboot says phone locked, frp locked (was frp, don't remember now exactly).
Then, I read about to let the battery die. I did. That didn't work either, phone keeps stuck on honor blue logo.
I downloaded multitool for huawei software, and everything requires an unlocked bootloader to recover.
Then, I tried to get unlock code, but huawei site ask me product id which I can't get because phone is bricked (I have all other data, imei, serial, etc.) . Tried with id generator too, and nothing what I tried have work so far. It's frustrating.
I'm pretty hopeless now, no unlock, no recovery, no erecovery, so I can't flash anything on the damn phone to try to recover it.
Can I save my phone or is it just an expensive brick? Any help will be REALLY welcome.
:crying:
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Well, is a bit silly to answer yourself but this can help someone else:
I did purchase a license of 3 days of dc phoenix software and force updated version android 6.0 c432B131 on my honor 8 fdr L19.
It flashed ok, but software said that couldn't install update. On phone went to 99% for long time (more than 1 hour).
So I looking for some info, and also the software said that I had to manually update. I just copied the same rom with dload method: just the same UPDATE.APP on the folder, and tried the 3 buttons: It worked!
After a success bootup, it found inmediatelly (OTA) the update to android 7, c432b360 firmware and downloaded and installed.
Here went something strange: after updated again via OTA, everything was working ok, but on about phone, the version shown wasn't the c432b360. Instead it said something about test keys build. Just for being safe, I tried to full reset the phone and... it failed. It said failed on erecovery menu, and after that, the next boot up I couldn't pass over wifi setting menu: keyboard was missing and it just tried to talk to text input. Another panic moment, so I tried to enter on recovery to clear cache and reset user with no luck. After that, phone refused to start showing an error message on fastboot screen: "phone couldn't pass verification, it may not function properly".
What to do? just do all the things again, but just with dload method. As I was on android 7, first I installed downgrade package. Ok, it did well. After, installed again c432b131 (android 6). And finally success!.
Once again, phone ask for install OTA android 7 and I let it. Now, I just didn't tried to do a factory reset and so far is ok.... but it hasn't AOSP Android keyboard anymore. So far is working ok, everything is working: wifi, phone, 4g mobile internet, nfc, sensors, apps, gps, compass... so I'm pretty happy now, but not sure what happened when I tried to factory reset and what happened to AOSP Android keyboard.
Noivern said:
Well, is a bit silly to answer yourself but this can help someone else:
I did purchase a license of 3 days of dc phoenix software and force updated version android 6.0 c432B131 on my honor 8 fdr L19.
It flashed ok, but software said that couldn't install update. On phone went to 99% for long time (more than 1 hour).
So I looking for some info, and also the software said that I had to manually update. I just copied the same rom with dload method: just the same UPDATE.APP on the folder, and tried the 3 buttons: It worked!
After a success bootup, it found inmediatelly (OTA) the update to android 7, c432b360 firmware and downloaded and installed.
Here went something strange: after updated again via OTA, everything was working ok, but on about phone, the version shown wasn't the c432b360. Instead it said something about test keys build. Just for being safe, I tried to full reset the phone and... it failed. It said failed on erecovery menu, and after that, the next boot up I couldn't pass over wifi setting menu: keyboard was missing and it just tried to talk to text input. Another panic moment, so I tried to enter on recovery to clear cache and reset user with no luck. After that, phone refused to start showing an error message on fastboot screen: "phone couldn't pass verification, it may not function properly".
What to do? just do all the things again, but just with dload method. As I was on android 7, first I installed downgrade package. Ok, it did well. After, installed again c432b131 (android 6). And finally success!.
Once again, phone ask for install OTA android 7 and I let it. Now, I just didn't tried to do a factory reset and so far is ok.... but it hasn't AOSP Android keyboard anymore. So far is working ok, everything is working: wifi, phone, 4g mobile internet, nfc, sensors, apps, gps, compass... so I'm pretty happy now, but not sure what happened when I tried to factory reset and what happened to AOSP Android keyboard.
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A late answer but maybe useful for some
Because the OTA showed up, was not a full OTA file. I guess it was only 1.3 gb something. It was a test build and didnt have any apks inside including the keyboard. And also not a stable one (test build) So it is always better to download FULL package from the menu and flash that one.

I think I have bricked my device after update.

So everything went smoothly after the update but I couldnt get it to factory reset. Kept saying unable to mount. So I tried the repair option on TWRP and that wiped the OS. Now I can't get into recovery only the fastboot function. What can I do?
fastboot boot twrp.img on your PC?
Maybe you are using the wrong one, the inoffical twrp comes in Android P and Q flavour
I have also had the issue where neither started, after shutting down and waiting for a while it worked again
I had same problem totally black dead screen, nothing happens for couple of minutes, I tried all key combinations and it didn't respond. Somehow after a while (like 5 min. ) I tried vol up+down+power button, it took me to fastboot screen. Then I flashed everything back in, downside Lost All data even internal storage.

Stuck in bootloop, TWRP crashes

Hi,
Since yesterday, my phone suddenly went into a bootloop (I wasn't even using it, but it suddenly started vibrating every half a minute or so). I'm able to get into fastboot mode, but from there if I try to boot into TWRP, it just shows the splash screen for a bit, and then crashes and reboots again. I should say that this is my brother's old phone he gave to me, so I'm not exactly sure what he's done to it, and I'm also not particularly familiar with Android stuff myself.
Is there anything I could try to retrieve data from the device? I've managed to run a different recovery img (included in here: https://onepluscommunityserver.com/list/Unbrick_Tools/OnePlus_One/), which allowed me to use ADB from my MacBook, and from there I tried to use the adb backup command, but this just gives me "Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation..." without actually showing anything on the phone.
And even if I can't recover anything, is there anything I could try to bring the device back into a working state?
since your fastboot is working, you can try downloading the bacon roottoolkit and restore stock rom, before doing that install all the drivers like it mentions in the app. https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934555863;
Let me know if this works

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