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Hi, so my phone's LCD and glass are broken and there is no display nor is touch working but the phone is on. I don't want to spend any money on it for replacing the LCD. It's on Android 7.0 stock, not rooted and everything stock and Wifi and USB debugging is NOT enabled although there is no lock code on the phone. I need to transfer my data to my pc (and no internal SD files are backed up in my Google account) but when I connect my phone to my PC, it doesn't show any files as i need touch to enable file transfer mode even though it recognized the nexus 6. Now i have 2 questions.
1. How to backup/transfer all my data? (preferably an alternative to the OTG mouse and HDMI solution since i can't find it easily in my country and can't order from amazon/ebay etc to my country).
2. How to reset the phone completely if i want to sell it to someone?
Any help would be highly appreciated on this matter...
yasirrfc said:
Hi, so my phone's LCD and glass are broken and there is no display nor is touch working but the phone is on. I don't want to spend any money on it for replacing the LCD. It's on Android 7.0 stock, not rooted and everything stock and Wifi and USB debugging is NOT enabled although there is no lock code on the phone. I need to transfer my data to my pc (and no internal SD files are backed up in my Google account) but when I connect my phone to my PC, it doesn't show any files as i need touch to enable file transfer mode even though it recognized the nexus 6. Now i have 2 questions.
1. How to backup/transfer all my data? (preferably an alternative to the OTG mouse and HDMI solution since i can't find it easily in my country and can't order from amazon/ebay etc to my country).
2. How to reset the phone completely if i want to sell it to someone?
Any help would be highly appreciated on this matter...
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Adb pull files from recovery
holeindalip said:
Adb pull files from recovery
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Hi, thanks for your reply. Can you please explain/guide me a bit on adb pull?
yasirrfc said:
Hi, thanks for your reply. Can you please explain/guide me a bit on adb pull?
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What files are you needing to get off?
holeindalip said:
What files are you needing to get off?
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I only need my images and the whatsapp folder. btw i dont have usb debugging enabled and not rooted.
yasirrfc said:
I only need my images and the whatsapp folder. btw i dont have usb debugging enabled and not rooted.
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Do you have e a custom recovery installed? Bootloader unlocked? Can you see anything onscreen?
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Do you have e a custom recovery installed? Bootloader unlocked? Can you see anything onscreen?
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Nope no custom recovery installed. i didn't unlock the bootloader so im guessing its locked. and can't see anything on the screen nor can it recognize touch input as LCD and glass is damaged. is there any way?
yasirrfc said:
Nope no custom recovery installed. i didn't unlock the bootloader so im guessing its locked. and can't see anything on the screen nor can it recognize touch input as LCD and glass is damaged. is there any way?
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I haven't used adb enough to know whether or not if stock recovery can be used, maybe somebody else can chime in
I hate to say it but your getting them by replacing the screen. Without root or adb debugging you won't even have access to the directory or be able to issue the device any commands.
zelendel said:
I hate to say it but your getting them by replacing the screen. Without root or adb debugging you won't even have access to the directory or be able to issue the device any commands.
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Can i reset my phone in this condition? If i end up selling it, i want to wipe all the data in it so is that possible in this condition?
yasirrfc said:
Can i reset my phone in this condition? If i end up selling it, i want to wipe all the data in it so is that possible in this condition?
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Maybe if you have it connected to the device the Android device manager. I disable it myself so can't say for sure. Other then that. No you are not gonna be able to. I really would just replace the screen. Not only will you learn something but you will be able to get all your stuff as well as the sale value will be higher.
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Maybe if you have it connected to the device the Android device manager. I disable it myself so can't say for sure. Other then that. No you are not gonna be able to. I really would just replace the screen. Not only will you learn something but you will be able to get all your stuff as well as the sale value will be higher.
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is wiping through fastboot an option? like if i enter download mode and wipe through a fastboot command.. don't know the exact steps though..
yasirrfc said:
is wiping through fastboot an option? like if i enter download mode and wipe through a fastboot command.. don't know the exact steps though..
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If you are wanting to just wipe and sell then yes it is an option
holeindalip said:
If you are wanting to just wipe and sell then yes it is an option
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ok so i've downloaded a fastboot compilation and i need to use fastbook device to check if nexus 6 is in fastboot mode and fastboot -w to wipe. I tried turning my phone off but i think it doesnt turn off until you press the power off button on the screen, even if you hold the power button longer. so ill let my phone fully discharge so it turns off and then charge it a bit while its off and then try to turn it on in fastboot mode by pressing volume down and power and then enter the commands. seems right?
yasirrfc said:
ok so i've downloaded a fastboot compilation and i need to use fastbook device to check if nexus 6 is in fastboot mode and fastboot -w to wipe. I tried turning my phone off but i think it doesnt turn off until you press the power off button on the screen, even if you hold the power button longer. so ill let my phone fully discharge so it turns off and then charge it a bit while its off and then try to turn it on in fastboot mode by pressing volume down and power and then enter the commands. seems right?
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Yup, if you plug the phone into PC before booting into fastboot, hold vol- then hit power button,while in your fastboot directory on PC, hold shift and right click mouse button, then click open command prompt from here. Then type: fastboot devices this will then tell you on PC if phone is connected and ready to receive commands. If it returns your phones serial number then proceed with the commands
If you hold power button to reboot phone, as soon as phone vibrates hold the vol- key and it should put you into fastboot mode
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Yup, if you plug the phone into PC before booting into fastboot, hold vol- then hit power button,while in your fastboot directory on PC, hold shift and right click mouse button, then click open command prompt from here. Then type: fastboot devices this will then tell you on PC if phone is connected and ready to receive commands. If it returns your phones serial number then proceed with the commands
If you hold power button to reboot phone, as soon as phone vibrates hold the vol- key and it should put you into fastboot mode
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can't seem to boot in fastboot mode. My PC recognizes nexus 6 when its connected in normal mode so i know when its normally on. So i tried holding the power down button for 10 seconds or so and then tried holding the volume down button for several seconds and then connected it to PC but fastboot didn't recognize it neither my PC in general but after a while nexus 6 showed up on my PC which probably meant it rebooted normally without going into fastboot mode. any tips?
yasirrfc said:
can't seem to boot in fastboot mode. My PC recognizes nexus 6 when its connected in normal mode so i know when its normally on. So i tried holding the power down button for 10 seconds or so and then tried holding the volume down button for several seconds and then connected it to PC but fastboot didn't recognize it neither my PC in general but after a while nexus 6 showed up on my PC which probably meant it rebooted normally without going into fastboot mode. any tips?
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Probably need to install drivers
holeindalip said:
Probably need to install drivers
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tried installing the drivers twice. no luck...
holeindalip said:
Probably need to install drivers
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it finally worked but after wiping it said erase successful, but not automatically formatting. cant determine partition type and then it said failed twice. dont know if it wiped it or not so ill leave my phone in fastboot mode for a while. any clues? should i flash a stock image on it or something?
LCD on my Moto X 2014 cracked, and it will not boot up into Android. I really just want to get to the storage on the device so just a adb interface would work. The phone has Cyanogenmod + TWRP on it. Booting into TWRP should bring up an adb interface which should be enough. Can anyone specify the exact sequence to get directly into recovery? Maybe a screen shot of the bootloader screen (or a link to one)?
You should be able to issue the following command and then plug the phone into the pc.
Adb wait-for-device reboot recovery
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Red_81 said:
You should be able to issue the following command and then plug the phone into the pc.
Adb wait-for-device reboot recovery
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Unfortunately I can't get any adb commands to the device in the first place. The phone would need to boot up properly to do so, or at least get into TWRP, which apparently brings up adb automatically. I assume my options are either to (a) get the phone into TWRP with the volume+power button or to (b) get the phone to boot up properly.
For option (a) I'm just not sure what the button combinations are because I only did it a few times before the phone died.
For option (b) I'm assuming I'd have to replace the screen and input (digitizer) to make it boot properly.
Actually, I'm taking a wild guess, that if I were to physically remove the screen and digitizer it might boot. This is with the assumption that the device is getting some bad signals from the input device (digitizer), but really I have no idea what is going on. The phone initially would boot up just fine after the LCD cracked, but the input would not work. I had the phone off for a day after that, and when I went to turn it back on, the LCD was completely non-functioning. Now the phone just goes into a bootloop when I try to power it up.
Since you said it's in a boot loop, just holding down Volume down while it loops should be enough. Then you can either connect the phone to your PC and send the command 'fastboot reboot recovery', or you can press Volume down once, then Volume up once to boot into TWRP.
Or issue the command I gave you with the phone powered off and the device unplugged. After you issued the command, plug in the phone. It will interrupt the boot process as soon as it sees the device. It's worth the 3 minutes to give it a try.
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Alexsp32 said:
Since you said it's in a boot loop, just holding down Volume down while it loops should be enough. Then you can either connect the phone to your PC and send the command 'fastboot reboot recovery', or you can press Volume down once, then Volume up once to boot into TWRP.
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Thanks, that seems to have worked! (The volume key method)
Red_81 said:
Or issue the command I gave you with the phone powered off and the device unplugged. After you issued the command, plug in the phone. It will interrupt the boot process as soon as it sees the device. It's worth the 3 minutes to give it a try.
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I tried it, but it wasn't working Thanks for the idea!
EDIT: I got to fastboot mode finally, just by trying different USB cable... (am I dumb? yes. really.) I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time that tried to help me!
I tried to install xposed via TWRP, and after that I got stuck in a bootloop, then I tried to install something in panic in twrp in order to fix my phone, and then when I was about to boot, it said "No OS installed are you sure you want to reboot?" I tapped Yes. Now I can't access my recovery mode anymore.
I haven't installed fastboot on my phone or whatever (dont know does it have to be installed to get access to it) but when I try the button combination I'm not accessing the fastboot mode.
I'm stuck in a screen where it says 'Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" and in the bottom is says "Your device is booting now..." and does nothing.
Please I really need help, I paid for my phone 300 euros and have had it only like month... also i'm addicted to pokemon go and my p9-lite is the only device I could play it with, and my family isn't the richest one and I can't buy a new one in like a year
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To access fastboot mode. Make sure the phone is off. Press and hold vol down and insert USB cable. That should bring you to fastboot mode.
n0my said:
To access fastboot mode. Make sure the phone is off. Press and hold vol down and insert USB cable. That should bring you to fastboot mode.
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not working, just brings me to the same screen where it says "your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted"
what about 3 button combination???
Hold vol- ;vol+ and power button, when huawei logo appers realise power button.
Sugestion. Dont mess with TWRP and zips if u dont know what are u installing.
P.S. DC phoenix can fix your phone, but it cost 15 EUR and u should be able to acced fastboot.
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the 3 button combination doesn't work either.. also DC phoenix won't put me in fastboot right? as I've searched online about it.
And I won't mess with twrp ever again when I get my phone back.
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not working, just brings me to the same screen where it says "your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted"
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connect cable with pc, then connect with phone, only then press volume down and powerbutton about 15 sec, so phone force restart, keep holding vol down. need to be in fastboot mode, if are not ,then its done for you!
Arnys said:
connect cable with pc, then connect with phone, only then press volume down and powerbutton about 15 sec, so phone force restart, keep holding vol down. need to be in fastboot mode, if are not ,then its done for you!
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well...... I guess my phone is 'done' then
Is there any other ways to install the firmware than fastboot? like some kind of tool on pc so it forces the install and your phone doesn't have to be in fastboot or anything?
Finally got to fastboot mode, just by trying different USB cable... (am I dumb? yes.) I'm sorry for wasting everybody's time!
I'm never gonna do any modding to my phone ever again
Hi, I have a problem with my p9 too. I can't access fastboot or recovery mode. The phone stays on black screen, no led. When i pluged it on usb, he is detected but as "USB SER". How can i do to reflash ?
My P9 have problem who help me......plssss
Hello,
i think I've broken my phone, I hope you can help me.
I followed this tutorial that you can download here : (I can't post the link because I'm a new user)
I've tried to unlock the boot loader with success, then the installer tried to install a recovery (as the text in the command window said) and the progress stopped, I have waited a couple of minutes but nothing happend and I disconected the phone from my computer (I know that was a bad idea).
Know my phone won't start, not even in the recovery mode. I can hold the Vol +, Vol - button and the power button but only the huawei logo appears, then turns the screen black and nothing more happens. I have also disconnected the battery for some minutes but this didn't change anything.
The only positiv thing is, that Fastboot still recognizes the phone when it's connected to my PC, but I still can't enter the fastboot mode.
I hope you can help me and save my phone,
thankfull Robin
Flash twrp in it, and than install persona's B602 rom.
D1stRU3T0R said:
Flash twrp in it, and than install persona's B602 rom.
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First of all thank you for your reply. But I can't put my phone with my computer and minimal ADB in fastboot mode. The device is found with the command "adb devices" but it has only recovery status. When I type in "adb reboot bootloader" then Huawei logo flashes up and then it goes back to blackscreen.
I fixed it
I fixed the phone by myself. I'm not an expert at all and this is for the people with the same problem.
I think the problem was, that the phone won't leave the recovery mode, because it was listed with "apd devices" as "recovery" for the whole time.
So I tried to install a stock ROM via SD Card with a tool named au_temp.cfg and the phone actually did more then just turning back off when i pressed the Vol+, Vol- and Power key. So the phone actually entered the bootloader but I got the wrong stock image, but this didn't mattered because after one try the phone got back to normal mode and booted quite fine. So I think the main problem was, that my phone was stuck in a recovery mode and needed help to exit it.
I have been blundering my way though the internet to get my ROG Phone 2 rooted. I have unlocked the bootloader, I have a modified boot image from magisk, I have the ADB connection set up through USB and it works fantastically. I honestly don't know how I got it work, it involved many different driver update attempts and then figuring out I hadn't put the phone into USB debugging, but now fastboot doesn't work.
ADB will list the device, but fastboot cannot see it. I have tried rebooting the phone into the bootloader, but there is no connection on either. Not sure why I thought that would work, but I tried. I really don't understand enough about fastboot to get any farther on my own.
I have the tencent version and I was pretty certain I have the CN android 9.0 on it, but I am no longer certain of that. I am running windows 10.
This is my build number: PKQ1.190414.001.WW_Phone-16.0622.1906.19-0
I honestly don't know, but does that WW mean my tencent phone is running the WW firmware?
RichDoe252 said:
I have been blundering my way though the internet to get my ROG Phone 2 rooted. I have unlocked the bootloader, I have a modified boot image from magisk, I have the ADB connection set up through USB and it works fantastically. I honestly don't know how I got it work, it involved many different driver update attempts and then figuring out I hadn't put the phone into USB debugging, but now fastboot doesn't work.
ADB will list the device, but fastboot cannot see it. I have tried rebooting the phone into the bootloader, but there is no connection on either. Not sure why I thought that would work, but I tried. I really don't understand enough about fastboot to get any farther on my own.
I have the tencent version and I was pretty certain I have the CN android 9.0 on it, but I am no longer certain of that. I am running windows 10.
This is my build number: PKQ1.190414.001.WW_Phone-16.0622.1906.19-0
I honestly don't know, but does that WW mean my tencent phone is running the WW firmware?
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Fun fact, I just got Fastboot access from my computer by using the side USB port and rebooting into the bootloader from ADB. Still not to sure about the version bit. I think I'm just going to give it whirl and brick my device, maybe.
RichDoe252 said:
I have been blundering my way though the internet to get my ROG Phone 2 rooted. I have unlocked the bootloader, I have a modified boot image from magisk, I have the ADB connection set up through USB and it works fantastically. I honestly don't know how I got it work, it involved many different driver update attempts and then figuring out I hadn't put the phone into USB debugging, but now fastboot doesn't work.
ADB will list the device, but fastboot cannot see it. I have tried rebooting the phone into the bootloader, but there is no connection on either. Not sure why I thought that would work, but I tried. I really don't understand enough about fastboot to get any farther on my own.
I have the tencent version and I was pretty certain I have the CN android 9.0 on it, but I am no longer certain of that. I am running windows 10.
This is my build number: PKQ1.190414.001.WW_Phone-16.0622.1906.19-0
I honestly don't know, but does that WW mean my tencent phone is running the WW firmware?
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1. You are running a WW rom, but that doesn't necessarily mean your fingerprint is matched. To update you need to have both WW rom and WW fingerprint. You can check if your fingerprint is CN or WW using device info hw from playstore under 'system'
2. In order to root you need to have a matching root boot img for your current rom ie root img for 1906.19, just checking that your know this?
3. Have you managed to get the phone recognised using the cmd 'fastboot devices'? Also are you using the side port?
4.when you say bootloader, have you definitely got the phone in fastboot mode - hold vol up and power button until you see the screen with some options. That screen is fastboot mode, you don't need to select any further options. Once in that mode, connect to pc, open adb and run the fastboot devices cmd. Once your device is recognised, report back here for further steps
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reg66 said:
1. You are running a WW rom, but that doesn't necessarily mean your fingerprint is matched. To update you need to have both WW rom and WW fingerprint. You can check if your fingerprint is CN or WW using device info hw from playstore under 'system'
2. In order to root you need to have a matching root boot img for your current rom ie root img for 1906.19, just checking that your know this?
3. Have you managed to get the phone recognised using the cmd 'fastboot devices'? Also are you using the side port?
4.when you say bootloader, have you definitely got the phone in fastboot mode - hold vol up and power button until you see the screen with some options. That screen is fastboot mode, you don't need to select any further options. Once in that mode, connect to pc, open adb and run the fastboot devices cmd. Once your device is recognised, report back here for further steps
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Thanks for the reply! I did indeed get fastboot to work over USB. Fastboot devices reported back the serial number and everything. I did not know that the build need to match on both the boot and the rom, but that does make sense and I probably should have realized that before I went ahead and copied the rooted boot.img I had over. Then my phone couldn't boot up proper, and got stuck in fastboot. Then I went ahead and copied all of the contents of the same rom over and now it is literally just a black screen. Won't turn on any more. I think I super bricked it.
Sorry I didn't see your post earlier and I know I am not father into the deep end, but is there a way out from where I am.
RichDoe252 said:
Thanks for the reply! I did indeed get fastboot to work over USB. Fastboot devices reported back the serial number and everything. I did not know that the build need to match on both the boot and the rom, but that does make sense and I probably should have realized that before I went ahead and copied the rooted boot.img I had over. Then my phone couldn't boot up proper, and got stuck in fastboot. Then I went ahead and copied all of the contents of the same rom over and now it is literally just a black screen. Won't turn on any more. I think I super bricked it.
Sorry I didn't see your post earlier and I know I am not father into the deep end, but is there a way out from where I am.
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Oh jeepers dude. So just a black screen... Can you at least boot into fastboot?
reg66 said:
Oh jeepers dude. So just a black screen... Can you at least boot into fastboot?
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Nope. The only response I can get out of it now is when I plug it into the fastboot port, the computer recognizes that something was plugged in. I don't even get a device on a device manager.
RichDoe252 said:
Nope. The only response I can get out of it now is when I plug it into the fastboot port, the computer recognizes that something was plugged in. I don't even get a device on a device manager.
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Try holding the power button for around 20 secs until it shuts down. Then try vol up and power together and see if you get back to fastboot. If that doesn't work try vol up vol down and power buttons all together. Then try again to put it in fastboot mode using vol up and power. Let us know what happens /if you can reach fastboot mode
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Try holding the power button for around 20 secs until it shuts down. Then try vol up and power together and see if you get back to fastboot. If that doesn't work try vol up vol down and power buttons all together. Then try again to put it in fastboot mode using vol up and power. Let us know what happens /if you can reach fastboot mode
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Unfortunately, nothing. Holding power for 20 seconds showed nothing, and like wise for volume up and power. Battery was fully charged too. Had it plugged in for most of today while I was trying to get fastboot to work.
RichDoe252 said:
Unfortunately, nothing. Holding power for 20 seconds showed nothing, and like wise for volume up and power. Battery was fully charged too. Had it plugged in for most of today while I was trying to get fastboot to work.
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Is there any sort of illumination to the black screen ie do you think the phone is on but the screen is black or do think the phone is completely off?
Holding power button for a while should switch it off after a while. Try holding for longer than 20 secs, then try booting into fastboot mode
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Well dude, it's 4 am here. Gotta get some sleep dude. Will check here when I wake. Good luck in the mean time
Still trying to get to sleep. How ya getting on? What about vol down and power buttons for 30+secs, can you try that and let us know the results
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Still trying to get to sleep. How ya getting on? What about vol down and power buttons for 30+secs, can you try that and let us know the results
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Bro get to sleep! Such a good Samaritan
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Bro get to sleep! Such a good Samaritan
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LOL! I would if I could, just can't sleep yet. Hopefully soon tho!
RichDoe252 said:
Unfortunately, nothing. Holding power for 20 seconds showed nothing, and like wise for volume up and power. Battery was fully charged too. Had it plugged in for most of today while I was trying to get fastboot to work.
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Try a USB 2.0 port? Surprisingly this works for some phones even though it's compatible with 3.0.
reg66 said:
Still trying to get to sleep. How ya getting on? What about vol down and power buttons for 30+secs, can you try that and let us know the results
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Well, It's been untouched for a day now, and it still will not react to input. No response from long hold on the power button. I will try again in the morning. Is it possible that I somehow wrote into the BIOS of the phone? Android does use a BIOS, right?
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Well, It's been untouched for a day now, and it still will not react to input. No response from long hold on the power button. I will try again in the morning. Is it possible that I somehow wrote into the BIOS of the phone? Android does use a BIOS, right?
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Android itself does not have a BIOS, since Android is an OS and BIOS is more similar to firmware. But yes, the phone does have firmware, and it could be that the mismatch in firmware versions (from which you tried to flash), has caused the bootloader to "not know what to do now" when trying to start the phone up.
One thing which comes with all phones with a Qualcomm chipset is something called Qualcomm Crashdump Mode. You can try to see if you can get your phone in EDL (emergency download) mode and restore the correct firmware in that way:
https://www.the***********.com/rog-phone-2-unbrick-guide (URL gets censored for some reason; it should be "the custom droid" with no spaces)
Also, if you continue to have driver issues with connecting the phone to your PC, are you able to test another PC or even a Mac if you have access to one? I find Windows can be a giant pain for getting ADB and fastboot to work properly at times.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Still trying to get to sleep. How ya getting on? What about vol down and power buttons for 30+secs, can you try that and let us know the results
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Ok, so here's where I am: I have left the phone unplugged for a long time now. Really had no effect. I just downloaded QPST and I can actually get my computer to see the phone. However, I am still not quite sure how to USE QPST and not make things worse. So this is my plan: I am going to look through the forums here for info on how to use QPST to get my phone working again. Not really sure what that will look like, but fastboot would be a good start. From there, it sounds like I have to get the original firmware back on it, and then go about the process of rooting once again.
Still leaves me with the issue that started me down the path of rooting this phone, but at least it will not longer be bricked.
RichDoe252 said:
Ok, so here's where I am: I have left the phone unplugged for a long time now. Really had no effect. I just downloaded QPST and I can actually get my computer to see the phone. However, I am still not quite sure how to USE QPST and not make things worse. So this is my plan: I am going to look through the forums here for info on how to use QPST to get my phone working again. Not really sure what that will look like, but fastboot would be a good start. From there, it sounds like I have to get the original firmware back on it, and then go about the process of rooting once again.
Still leaves me with the issue that started me down the path of rooting this phone, but at least it will not longer be bricked.
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You may not HAVE to flash complete firmware, it is quite likely that the boot.img is causing the problem as you flashed an incompatible version. Below you'll flash the correct version which HOPEFULLY will fix your phone, provided you can get into fastboot mode now.
Haven't read back through all the thread so i can't recall all the details of where you're at. As far as i can tell you're still running WW 16.0622.1906.19-0, correct? Can you get the device to now boot into fastboot mode? (from a powered off state, press and hold vol up and power at the same time. You should then be presented with some options, DON'T select any option. With that menu screen open is fastboot mode.
1. Download and install ADB Fastboot from here to C: drive of your pc/laptop.
2. With your phone in fastboot mode (as detailed above) connect it to pc/laptop using the side port of the phone.
3. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot folder and double click the cmd-here.exe, this will open a cmd window.
4. Type 'fastboot devices' to check that it's recognised, there should be a serial/key shown after entering that cmd.
5. Provided the serial/key is shown in fastboot mode, download the following boot.img (which is for WW 1906.19) from here.
6. Copy that boot img to the same folder you have open for ADB (C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot)
7. In the cmd window type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'.
Now, that boot img is the STOCK boot img for your rom version. Don't worry about rooting for now (if i recall correctly, your phone won't boot to system), let's just try to get the phone booting first. Providing there are no errors when flashing the boot img, on the phone fastboot menu, scroll through and choose 'restart'.
Let me know if the device boots to system now... Good luck
I'll pm you my email address so you'll be able to get hold of me if you get stuck at any stage...
EDIT: was forgetting you tried so many times to get into fastboot mode, without success.
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Dude, is your phone screen still black but switched on? When you tap the screen does it vibrate. I'm thinking you might already be in edl mode (which could be a good thing). Let us know
Check your pm's dude for further info. I can't post links to the site required so have sent via pm
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Android itself does not have a BIOS, since Android is an OS and BIOS is more similar to firmware. But yes, the phone does have firmware, and it could be that the mismatch in firmware versions (from which you tried to flash), has caused the bootloader to "not know what to do now" when trying to start the phone up.
One thing which comes with all phones with a Qualcomm chipset is something called Qualcomm Crashdump Mode. You can try to see if you can get your phone in EDL (emergency download) mode and restore the correct firmware in that way:
https://www.the***********.com/rog-phone-2-unbrick-guide (URL gets censored for some reason; it should be "the custom droid" with no spaces)
Also, if you continue to have driver issues with connecting the phone to your PC, are you able to test another PC or even a Mac if you have access to one? I find Windows can be a giant pain for getting ADB and fastboot to work properly at times.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Just dropping you a quick note to say thanks for thanks! LOL. Yeah, your post earlier seems like the best place to go. Have used Miflash Tool a few times on Xiaomi devices, it's pretty good and straight forward. Should be a LOT easier than using QPST and having to change EMMC to UFS.
Can't remember where i saw it now, but i'm sure i read that if the phone screen is black (but switched on) and vibrates, then it's likely to be in EDL mode already. Which will hopefully be good news for @RichDoe252. Before that (having never been in that situation), i wasn't aware that an all black screen could mean EDL mode is active. Fingers crossed for Rich it'll all work out just fine.
@RichDoe252 If all goes successfully using the QPST file download (and using the Miflash Tool the guide mentions in the pm i sent you) and flashing, DON'T ROOT JUST YET!!!! LOL. Let us know how it goes and then we can look into, and point you in the right direction, for getting you rooted and up to date on latest A9 or A10 whichever you'd prefer
Well I must say Rich, I'm surprised you haven't been back here yet to give any updates on progress!! Sent you a couple of emails through pm... Man, if it was my fairly expensive phone that was in the poo pan, I'd be all over trying to fix it lol
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Well I must say Rich, I'm surprised you haven't been back here yet to give any updates on progress!! Sent you a couple of emails through pm... Man, if it was my fairly expensive phone that was in the poo pan, I'd be all over trying to fix it lol
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First off, you are a freaking saint. I really do appreciate all the help you have been offering up, and I am sorry I have not been very quick with a response. As my phone currently stands, I get 0% response from anything I do to it. No vibrate, nothing. No indication it even is plugged in. I had it connected to my PC with QPST installed, and it was able to pick up that the phone was there, and then immediately tried to download something to it. Not sure what, not sure why, but that kinda typifiies my interaction with this whole process so far. If you haven't guessed, I'm kinda in over my head.
Back to the problem: QPST started some opperation to download something to it. Wouldn't let me do anything else, said the phone was in "download mode". Either way it stopped at 30% and didn't progress for 30 minutes, so I tried to unplug it and plug it back in. Same interaction. Unable to do anything to the phone, no reaction from the phone what so ever. This was, by the way, plugged into the fastboot side port.
I saw that you PM'ed me, and now I can't find the email notification or the PMs on the site. Forgive me for being unfortunately new at this. I will get back to you bud, and thank you again.