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help me my razr xt890 is not booting

So here is my problem , after trying to install a custom rom on my razr i i may have broken something in the system and now he isnot booting anymore , i'm stuck in the fastboot mode but not any of the options is working and it keeps telling me that my pds partition is broken ...
I'm a complete newbie and i have no idea how to fix it so please help me !

doud1998 said:
So here is my problem , after trying to install a custom rom on my razr i i may have broken something in the system and now he isnot booting anymore , i'm stuck in the fastboot mode but not any of the options is working and it keeps telling me that my pds partition is broken ...
I'm a complete newbie and i have no idea how to fix it so please help me !
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What if u flash with fastboot the pds partition? And what is exactly the error u get?
If that doesn't work just flash with rsd-lite (latest) and your firmware (latest) and recover it. From then on u can try again.

Hazou said:
What if u flash with fastboot the pds partition? And what is exactly the error u get?
If that doesn't work just flash with rsd-lite (latest) and your firmware (latest) and recover it. From then on u can try again.
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thanks for responding fast . I'll try that but how can i flash the pds partition and where can i find this partition? As well where can i find the firmware for my phone?
thanks very much for helping me

doud1998 said:
thanks for responding fast . I'll try that but how can i flash the pds partition and where can i find this partition? As well where can i find the firmware for my phone?
thanks very much for helping me
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See my signature
I assume you have a working adb and fastboot, otherwise u couldn't have installed the recovery.
Your firmware can be found under section E.
When you have downloaded your fimware (always 4.1.2). Extract it and flash the pds_signed or pds.bin. Something with pds.
This can be done by moving the pds* to the directory with the fastboot executable. Then boot into ap fastboot mode and check if your device is recognized by using "fastboot devices". If yes, do the following command to flash the pds partition "fastboot flash pds (pds-file)"
If it doesn't work, post the results. Not only that is says an error, but post the error string.

Hazou said:
See my signature
I assume you have a working adb and fastboot, otherwise u couldn't have installed the recovery.
Your firmware can be found under section E.
When you have downloaded your fimware (always 4.1.2). Extract it and flash the pds_signed or pds.bin. Something with pds.
This can be done by moving the pds* to the directory with the fastboot executable. Then boot into ap fastboot mode and check if your device is recognized by using "fastboot devices". If yes, do the following command to flash the pds partition "fastboot flash pds (pds-file)"
If it doesn't work, post the results. Not only that is says an error, but post the error string.
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I'm really sorry to annoy you for that but i don't get what you mean by "section E"

doud1998 said:
I'm really sorry to annoy you for that but i don't get what you mean by "section E"
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I meant, in my signature under my post u can find within the link INDEX/GUIDE, ALL Things RAZR I under paragraph/ section E a link to all the firmwares available for the Razr I.
But in this case i will post the full link to the firmware site, here.

I've download the zip but there is no pds file and i don't know how to use rsd (or is it anormal that the phone reference appear nowhere?!)

i tried to flash recovery_signed but i have the error
Checking fs on partition pds...
E:can't repaire partition pds
E:failed to mount PDS partition

doud1998 said:
I've download the zip but there is no pds file and i don't know how to use rsd (or is it anormal that the phone reference appear nowhere?!)
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I looked a bit further into your problem, u may have this problem: this
So what we now are going to do is the following.
First can u enter recovery? and if i can, do u have a nandroid backup. If yes, restore it and just boot up the phone.
If u don't have the above. (all can be found with a bit of searching in the link in my signature)
1. Install RSD-Lite 6.1.x
2. Install the USB drivers for the phone
3. U already downloaded the right firmware (latest and the one from your region)
4. Boot in AP Fastboot and connect phone to USB port PC
5. In RSD-Lite u won't see your device. It doesn't have a system installed.
6. In RSD-Lite search in the above bar for the firmware zip file.
7. Click on flash or something. (there is a RSD-Lite tutorial in my signature in my post)
8. See what happens
9. Report back

Hazou said:
I looked a bit further into your problem, u may have this problem: this
So what we now are going to do is the following.
First can u enter recovery? and if i can, do u have a nandroid backup. If yes, restore it and just boot up the phone.
If u don't have the above. (all can be found with a bit of searching in the link in my signature)
1. Install RSD-Lite 6.1.x
2. Install the USB drivers for the phone
3. U already downloaded the right firmware (latest and the one from your region)
4. Boot in AP Fastboot and connect phone to USB port PC
5. In RSD-Lite u won't see your device. It doesn't have a system installed.
6. In RSD-Lite search in the above bar for the firmware zip file.
7. Click on flash or something. (there is a RSD-Lite tutorial in my signature in my post)
8. See what happens
9. Report back
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when i run rsd i can select the firmware xml but the commands 'start', 'show devices', or 'decompress and flash' are disabled (nothing happen)

+> i don't have any backup and i can't go to recovery , when it turns on it automaticly stuck to the ap fastboot menu

doud1998 said:
when i run rsd i can select the firmware xml but the commands 'start', 'show devices', or 'decompress and flash' are disabled (nothing happen)
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Are you sure you installed drivers? RSD Lite should show Fastboot smi S as connected.
If you have installed drivers, and nothing is being detected, then you might want to prepare for several hours of headaches and lots of swearing.
You might have a chance doing this:
You will need to flash a custom recovery. If you can get CWM or TWRP working, you might have a chance to flash a zip.
i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Since your PDS is damaged, Omar's MotoJB ROM will probably not work, so you will need to flash a clean, stock ROM.
The only stock ROMs I've found (that can be flashed with custom recovery) are:
deodexed Retail Great Britain ICS ROM
odexed Retail Great Britain ICS ROM
Note that going back to ICS using this zip file will not brick your device (at least it didn't for my phone) unless you do it with RSD Lite.
But please don't hold me responsible if it makes things worse for you.
If you manage to flash this and it works, you can then try the PDS fix.
Good luck... :good:

waj3k said:
Are you sure you installed drivers? RSD Lite should show Fastboot smi S as connected.
If you have installed drivers, and nothing is being detected, then you might want to prepare for several hours of headaches and lots of swearing.
You might have a chance doing this:
You will need to flash a custom recovery. If you can get CWM or TWRP working, you might have a chance to flash a zip.
i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Since your PDS is damaged, Omar's MotoJB ROM will probably not work, so you will need to flash a clean, stock ROM.
The only stock ROMs I've found (that can be flashed with custom recovery) are:
deodexed Retail Great Britain ICS ROM
odexed Retail Great Britain ICS ROM
Note that going back to ICS using this zip file will not brick your device (at least it didn't for my phone) unless you do it with RSD Lite.
But please don't hold me responsible if it makes things worse for you.
If you manage to flash this and it works, you can then try the PDS fix.
Good luck... :good:
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thanks for your responce but the threads for these roms have deadlink so i can't download the files....Any idea where i could find them?

doud1998 said:
thanks for your responce but the threads for these roms have deadlink so i can't download the files....Any idea where i could find them?
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I know, I just uploaded Deodexed Retail Great Britain ICS:
Here you go. There should be a download icon at the top.

give me the right access (i'm [email protected])

Sorry, forgot to set it to public, should be fixed now.

so now i have to flash the boot.img or what? i'm not really sure what to do with this zip

You need to flash custom recovery and then you can install a zip.
Here is a tutorial on how to use recovery, if you're unsure.

i can't make works neither cwm nor twrp

doud1998 said:
So here is my problem, after trying to install a custom rom on my razr i, i may have broken something in the system
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may i ask you what u have exactly done to install your "custom rom"?
1. Bootloader unlocked?
2. Custom Recovery installed?
3. How did you installed your rom?
4. Which custom rom?

Oneplus 3 decryption Ultimate guide

Ok guys, this is a sureshot guide for
PROBLEM
* anyone wanting to decrypt their op3 but stuck at 1+ boot screen(Or not able to boot any custom ROMs.) and only able to restore twrp backups
* After using fastboot format userdata twrp and about phone shows only 32gb phone memory(where the hell is my rest of 32gb )
* Fastboot format userdata resulting in Stuck at boot screen or simply an unbrick trick to return to Stock OOS in unencrypted stage
SOLUTION
1. Use method 2 of Mega unbrick guide to restore your phone to stock partitions found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700
2. After the flashing is complete do not reboot the phone instead reboot directly into bootloader.
3. In fastboot mode flash modded twrp 3.0.2.22 using command ''fastboot flash recovery recovery.img'' found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
4. Reboot directly into twrp and using mtp mode copy latest elemental x kernel or bluspark kernel zip for OOS and SYSTEM supersu.zip into the internal storage. System supersu.zip here OR directly proceed to step 8
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/supersu/download/zip/SuperSU-v2.78-201609011115.zip
5. Now flash system supersu.zip and directly after that kernel.zip
6. Now again reboot to recovery directly and from twrp boot into system.
7. After boot up you system should be decrypted. You can check in security settings.
8.Reboot recovery and flash required firmware + modem zip found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/radio-modem-collection-flashable-zips-t3468628
9.wipe data +cache +dalvik +system
10. Flash any rom of your choice and go flashoholic, use multirom or whatever you want.
Pheww. Thanks.

Man, Finally the SystemRoot (V4A, MultiROM etc) as we discussed a couple of weeks back with this hassle at the Mega Unbrick and Decrypt guides threads...:highfive:
I saw your post on MultiROM but maybe it got moved I guess...
So are you able to cross flash anything now ?
thanks.

Ashtrix said:
Man, Finally the SystemRoot (V4A, MultiROM etc) as we discussed a couple of weeks back with this hassle at the Mega Unbrick and Decrypt guides threads...:highfive:
I saw your post on MultiROM but maybe it got moved I guess...
So are you able to cross flash anything now ?
thanks.
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anything... even multirom works flawless.

I will give this a try, Or will try to Flash the EX then perform parts of this since they support Kexec, to see what works, I have data and lot of apps working them again is a real pita with my schedule...

Thanks but, this is basically what i have done to decrypt my op3, i just used the CypherOs ROM instead OxygenOs, fastboot format userdata, reboot to recovery, flash rom, flash elementalx, and i didnt flash Supersu(dont know if thats causing my problem, i dont think so), i also did fastboot format userdata without being stuck at boot logo and still no 32gb, dont know whats the problem

ach3fck said:
Thanks but, this is basically what i have done to decrypt my op3, i just used the CypherOs ROM instead OxygenOs, fastboot format userdata, reboot to recovery, flash rom, flash elementalx, and i didnt flash Supersu(dont know if thats causing my problem, i dont think so), i also did fastboot format userdata without being stuck at boot logo and still no 32gb, dont know whats the problem
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its different fastboot format userdata causes this Dont know why. I suggest method in the OP. Read carefully and follow it.

nikhilsnigam said:
its different fastboot format userdata causes this Dont know why. I suggest method in the OP. Read carefully and follow it.
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Aham, so the format userdata causes it, thanks for that. i want to ask you something, after restoring completely with Msmdownloadtool(method2) can i directly reboot to recovery then sideload CB 3.5.5 and then reboot to fastboot and continue with the tutorial? What im saying is my device is decrypted as long it doesnt boot, am i right?

ach3fck said:
Aham, so the format userdata causes it, thanks for that. i want to ask you something, after restoring completely with Msmdownloadtool(method2) can i directly reboot to recovery then sideload CB 3.5.5 and then reboot to fastboot and continue with the tutorial? What im saying is my device is decrypted as long it doesnt boot, am i right?
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Yes you can but you will be encrypted again. so after msm method reboot fastboot and flash modded twrp. reboot recovery flash CB or OOS. flash supersu flash kernel. Agin flash twrp.img from recovery itself and reboot recovery. After that reboot system and you are good to go. Make sure you have enough system space before flashing supersu and kernel. frow twrp file manager delete unneeded system apps 1st. DO NOT REBOOT in between.

nikhilsnigam said:
Yes you can but you will be encrypted again. so after msm method reboot fastboot and flash modded twrp. reboot recovery flash CB or OOS. flash supersu flash kernel. Agin flash twrp.img from recovery itself and reboot recovery. After that reboot system and you are good to go. Make sure you have enough system space before flashing supersu and kernel. frow twrp file manager delete unneeded system apps 1st. DO NOT REBOOT in between.
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But i need unlocked bootloader to flash twrp, so i guess i need to unlock after i use Msmdownload tool right?

ach3fck said:
But i need unlocked bootloader to flash twrp, so i guess i need to unlock after i use Msmdownload tool right?
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your bootloader doesn't get locked

nikhilsnigam said:
your bootloader doesn't get locked
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Sorry to bother you, but i have one more question, i used Msmdownloadtool before, but only in Qualcomm download mode, can i use fastboot or i have to boot to EDL(qualcomm download mode)? And again sorry for taking your time.

ach3fck said:
Sorry to bother you, but i have one more question, i used Msmdownloadtool before, but only in Qualcomm download mode, can i use fastboot or i have to boot to EDL(qualcomm download mode)? And again sorry for taking your time.
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you have to use qualcomm download mode by switching off your phone. pressing vol up button and connecting to usb.

nikhilsnigam said:
you have to use qualcomm download mode by switching off your phone. pressing vol up button and connecting to usb.
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Yeah, i know that, thanks a lot, will try later all of this since i have no time now, will report how it went.Thanks!

Does anyone hava a guide to installing custom rom on MI 9 2020?

Hi,
I bought a new phone and thought I would get in to custom ROMs again. Mostly to get rid of bloatware. However, after following multiple guides I'm still no where closer to achieving my goals. The phone is a MI 9.
I found there's a lot of different steps depending on guide but most of the once I've tried does the following:
* Unlock bootloader, working
* Installing twrp via fastboot, working
* Deleting data in twrp, working
* Transfering a rom.zip file (depending on rom), working via usb cable
* Some guides recommends to install disable force Encryption via another zip file transferred from the computer, however, that seems to not be necessary, tried i few times
* Installing rom via twrp, seems to work
* In some guides you then need to remove cache, working
* Rebooting from twrp, working
After these steps I find myself in one of three different cases,
1. Phone is stuck in fastboot, have to reflash it with MIflash and global MIUI rom to get phone to work again
2. Phone in boot loop, logo shows up, phone waits for awhile, phone reboots, logo shows up
3. Phone boots up, logo is shown, phone reboots into twrp
I've also tried both XiaoMiTool and XiaoMiTool V2,
XiaoMiTool seems to write the global ROM to the phone whatever I choose (Have tried Xiaomi.eu and LineageOS 17)
XiaoMiTool V2, fails in second to last step, it wants to remove some cache before the installation in twrp is done.
Things I've not tried:
* Moving file to twrp with adb instead, should not make a difference
* Installing magisk
Now, I'm a bit afraid my phone will get hard bricked, have reinstalled the OS 20 times the last day to test different approaches and steps. Nothing seem to work. Does anyone have a proven method working in 2020?
Another way to go might be to just get rid of the commercials, run a different launcher to get app list and get rid of the bloatware. This is not really what I want but I can live with it.
As you can hear I'm about to just throw in the towel and give up. But I've heard a lot good about the xda forums so I thought it might be worth a try even though I do understand if no one has time or energy to help out a newbie.
Help please!
Edit: I do realize I've accidentally put this under Guides and not Q&A. I find no way of moving it nor deleting the thread so I guess some moderator will have to come help. Sorry for this.

Do you use latest TWRP for Mi9? TWRP from Mauronofrio works fine for me.
When you say "Deleting data in twrp", does this mean you did Format Data (confirm by typing "yes")? Or just wipe?
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mxxt01 is right. You have to format the data partition or else you will run into a bootloop.
I followed the guide here but I did not flash magisk since I don't need root.
Basically what I did was;
1. Unlock bootloader
2. Reboot to load the OS but skip the initial setup
3. Reboot to fastboot/bootloader
4. Flash TWRP (use the latest beta from Mauronofrio)
5. Immediatly press Vol Up + Power button to boot TWRP
6. Sideload the firmware to /tmp/
7. Format the data partition and type yes to continue
8. Factory reset
9. Flash firmware from within TWRP
10. Factory reset again (you can skip this if you don't want to)
11. Reboot
And that is how I did it.

mxxt01 said:
Do you use latest TWRP for Mi9? TWRP from Mauronofrio works fine for me.
When you say "Deleting data in twrp", does this mean you did Format Data (confirm by typing "yes")? Or just wipe?
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I have tried both Formatting data, this generally makes all folders have gibberish names and by going to advanced wipe, choosing data, some guides also wants you to delete Dalvik, Cache and System. I have tried both in the same go and one or the other. Does not seem to make a difference. But from the response below I get that it's formatting the data and typing yes that is the way to go(?)
TWRP version 3.3.1-0
sangbuana said:
mxxt01 is right. You have to format the data partition or else you will run into a bootloop.
I followed the guide here but I did not flash magisk since I don't need root.
Basically what I did was;
1. Unlock bootloader
2. Reboot to load the OS but skip the initial setup
3. Reboot to fastboot/bootloader
4. Flash TWRP (use the latest beta from Mauronofrio)
5. Immediatly press Vol Up + Power button to boot TWRP
6. Sideload the firmware to /tmp/
7. Format the data partition and type yes to continue
8. Factory reset
9. Flash firmware from within TWRP
10. Factory reset again (you can skip this if you don't want to)
11. Reboot
And that is how I did it.
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Could you describe step 6 in more detail please?
This is what I get if I try sideloading my phone:
adb push xiaomi.eu_multi_MI9_V11.0.5.0.QFACNXM_v11-10.zip /tmp/
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
I guess it's important to not get the firmware in the SD-card folder since that will be wiped if I format the data, this might be where I fail.

Step 6 is to type adb push rom.zip /tmp/
I renamed the zip file to rom.zip so that I don't typo when typing.
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In any case you should flash a current (11.0.6.0 or younger) fastboot ROM (.tgz extention). Recovery ROMs (.zip extention) don't reset the phone as deep as fastboot ROMs do.
After that you'd best flash vbmeta.img before TWRP, see #1 for more details.
Cheers
Toscha

From personal experience of using xiaomi.eu's ROM, I never did install vbmeta.img or dmverity, since that particular rom is based on the official beta Chinese MIUI ROMs, and the latest TWRP from Mauronofrio supports decryption. Not sure about other ROMs though.
Just to be safe, just download the stock fastboot ROM as a backup just in case anything goes wrong. Always remember to NOT lock your bootloader when flashing back to stock, in case your persist partition gets corrupted, you can flash it to recover.

ZevSwe said:
I have tried both Formatting data, this generally makes all folders have gibberish names and by going to advanced wipe, choosing data, some guides also wants you to delete Dalvik, Cache and System. I have tried both in the same go and one or the other. Does not seem to make a difference. But from the response below I get that it's formatting the data and typing yes that is the way to go(?)
TWRP version 3.3.1-0
Could you describe step 6 in more detail please?
This is what I get if I try sideloading my phone:
adb push xiaomi.eu_multi_MI9_V11.0.5.0.QFACNXM_v11-10.zip /tmp/
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
I guess it's important to not get the firmware in the SD-card folder since that will be wiped if I format the data, this might be where I fail.
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Like written by toscha42 you should flash the latest fastboot stock rom (tgz) for your phone first, as after all the attempts you have made your phone is probably kind of ****ed up... Do not lock bootloader.
What I do and it works for me, starting from stock ROM.
1. Unlock bootloader (you already done that)
2. Flash in fastboot latest TWRP for your device (I use Mauronofrio)
3. After flashing disconnect the phone and push VOLUME UP + POWER to enter from fastboot directly to TWRP recovery
4. Format data with yes
5. Reboot to recovery
6. Flash xiaomi.eu custom rom for your device with USB OTG (usb otg is the easiest way I guess as you don't need to move the rom to internal storage)
7. Reboot to recovery
8. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
8. Reboot to system
And that's all.
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toscha42 said:
In any case you should flash a current (11.0.6.0 or younger) fastboot ROM (.tgz extention). Recovery ROMs (.zip extention) don't reset the phone as deep as fastboot ROMs do.
After that you'd best flash vbmeta.img before TWRP, see #1 for more details.
Cheers
Toscha
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Can't seem to find any fastboot ROMS, neither of xiaomi.eu or LineageOs 17. Where can I find this? https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/20-1-16.54300/
If I understood correctly vbmeta.img unlockes secure boot. Not sure why that is needed or what problems it might create. Did some googling but found nothing. What is this used for? If it's important, why is it not in any guides I found?

ZevSwe said:
Can't seem to find any fastboot ROMS, neither of xiaomi.eu or LineageOs 17. Where can I find this? https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/20-1-16.54300/
If I understood correctly vbmeta.img unlockes secure boot. Not sure why that is needed or what problems it might create. Did some googling but found nothing. What is this used for? If it's important, why is it not in any guides I found?
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Fastboot STOCK Xiaomi ROM.
To be flashed with MiFlash. Do not lock bootloader.
http://c.mi.com/oc/miuidownload/detail?device=1700361
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Fastoot ROMs are only available for official MIUI ROMs and has tgz as their filename extensions. They are flashable only using Mi Flash tools or equivalent. Custom ROMs has zip and they are flashable using recovery.
Correct me if I'm wrong, vbmeta.img is for verified boot. I was running on official MIUI ROM and I wanted to have TWRP recovery, but stock recovery would come back after every reboot. So I flashed a modified version of vbmeta.img available on the web, to disable verified boot, and TWRP would persist in the recovery partition. Have a read on Verified Boot here.

mxxt01 said:
Fastboot STOCK Xiaomi ROM.
To be flashed with MiFlash. Do not lock bootloader.
http://c.mi.com/oc/miuidownload/detail?device=1700361
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Hmm okay, but the phone is already working with the stock ROM, my whole idea is to switch to something else. What do you mean with do not lock bootloader?
sangbuana said:
Fastoot ROMs are only available for official MIUI ROMs and has tgz as their filename extensions. They are flashable only using Mi Flash tools or equivalent. Custom ROMs has zip and they are flashable using recovery.
Correct me if I'm wrong, vbmeta.img is for verified boot. I was running on official MIUI ROM and I wanted to have TWRP recovery, but stock recovery would come back after every reboot. So I flashed a modified version of vbmeta.img available on the web, to disable verified boot, and TWRP would persist in the recovery partition. Have a read on Verified Boot here.
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Right, well I wish to switch to another ROM so installing MIUI Global ROm will not help.
I'm able to install TWRP without touching verfiedboot at all and get it to work even after reboot so that is not a problem. If that is what verifiedboot does I believe I can skip that?

ZevSwe said:
Hmm okay, but the phone is already working with the stock ROM, my whole idea is to switch to something else. What do you mean with do not lock bootloader?
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than try once again by following my steps in post #8

You can skip flashing vbmeta and just follow mxxt01's steps.
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sangbuana said:
You can skip flashing vbmeta and just follow mxxt01's steps.
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That seems to have made the trick! Thanks so much!

I've been following this thread because I was having the same problems as ZevSwe, multiple attempts at installing roms with no success. I've been using phones/tablets with custom roms for years so I have some experience but not with this device.
I'll be trying the steps in post #8 later today but I have a question about twrp that's buggin me. I have been taking full twrp backups to a usb stick before installing and just reinstalling when the custom rom didn't work but the last few times the reinstall failed at about 98% complete and I've had to reinstall stock from scratch.
Any idea why a twrp backup would fail on reinstall? Is there something I could have inadvertantly done to cause this issue? Playing with roms is fun and easy when you've got a twrp backup to fall back on but a pain in the $#^ when it doesn't restore. Any thoughts would be appreciated before I give it another go.

thecdn said:
I've been following this thread because I was having the same problems as ZevSwe, multiple attempts at installing roms with no success. I've been using phones/tablets with custom roms for years so I have some experience but not with this device.
I'll be trying the steps in post #8 later today but I have a question about twrp that's buggin me. I have been taking full twrp backups to a usb stick before installing and just reinstalling when the custom rom didn't work but the last few times the reinstall failed at about 98% complete and I've had to reinstall stock from scratch.
Any idea why a twrp backup would fail on reinstall? Is there something I could have inadvertantly done to cause this issue? Playing with roms is fun and easy when you've got a twrp backup to fall back on but a pain in the $#^ when it doesn't restore. Any thoughts would be appreciated before I give it another go.
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Since you noted that you have been doing a backup to a USB stick, it could be the USB stick is failing.

Honestly, all the installation guides for custom Roms i came across on XDA in the recent years are complete garbage. It fills like copy pasted from a guide that has been copypasted from a copypasted thread which has been copypasted and never worked.
For me, this guide works just fine. I just had to find the files for my Mi 9 instead of the k20 Pro. I would upload them for you but my upload speed is garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_u_w6SrTDY&t=249s

I have flashed a lot of ROMs custom and official, fastboot and recovery. Never had any problems, the steps is here in thread.
Just remember 2 thing:
1. If you have ROM which using encryption, you must format data, because wipe will not remove encryption and you will see gibberish names
2. If you wipe system (which is mean less, because every ROM flash will do that, when you flash it, but many people insist in wiping it) then you must flash a ROM without reboot or you will stuck in fastboot and only option to repair is to flash official fastboot ROM (Non official fastboot ROMs, don't exist).

Help! Got bootloop after flashing permissiver_v5 in Evo X Rom (A2)

Hello! Hoping someone can help and guide me in fixing my A2's bootloop. I already searched many forums online, but still no luck.
I flashed a permissiver_v5.zip in Evolution X Rom hoping that it will solve the random reboots, and I got bootloop. I successfully flashed the July stock rom through Miflash, hoping to boot into system, but still bootloop. I flashed the stock firmware and persist zip too in TWRP, but I also got mount persist error. I also need to use fastboot boot twrp.img to get into Twrp since it will disappear after clicking reboot recovery. I tried EDL, but then I got not enough storage error in Miflash.
Hopefully somebody can help me with steps!
LATEST UPDATE:
With the help of KevMetal, I can now use my phone after a week of being hardbricked. At first, my device can't boot to the bootloader or recovery, so what I did was to press the volume down and power button for some time and my phone was detected by the PC. So my device booted to EDL by itself, no need to open the phone. Then I used the 2018 version of MiFlash Tool and flashed the V.10.0.17 of stock Pie ROM from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-...-t3824849/amp/
After that, I flashed the persist.zip provided by KevMetal (browse in this thread) in recovery since I can't sideload the zip, and it worked fine. I then booted to system and finally there was no bootloop.
I then noticed that the IMEI was gone, so I tried to fix through some guides online but this one worked for me. https://medium.com/@shekhawatkoki/fi...1-2ed533548d32

Ronaldendoma said:
Hello! Hoping someone can help and guide me in fixing my A2's bootloop. I already searched many forums online, but still no luck.
I flashed a permissiver_v5.zip in Evolution X Rom hoping that it will solve the random reboots, and I got bootloop. I successfully flashed the July stock rom through Miflash, hoping to boot into system, but still bootloop. I flashed the stock firmware and persist zip too in TWRP, but I also got mount persist error. I also need to use fastboot boot twrp.img to get into Twrp since it will disappear after clicking reboot recovery. I tried EDL, but then I got not enough storage error in Miflash.
Hopefully somebody can help me with steps!
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you are messing up ..stop ..
1.boot into fastboot
2. flash stock rom with miflash
3. boot back to fastboot
4. download orange fox or pitch black recovery that actually supports persist flashing
5. join global mi a2 telegram group download relevant persist like if mi a2 or mi x6 and on android 9 or 10
6. put it in adb folder
7. boot recovery ( don't flash)
8. in recovery activate sideload adb option
9. in command window run :adb sideload persist.zip ( persist must have this name in adb folder )
10. now reboot your phone
*in the beginning it will bootloop four or five times ..just leave it
***suddenly your phone will be back to new
***stop flashing permissver and other crap
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KevMetal said:
you are messing up ..stop ..
1.boot into fastboot
2. flash stock rom with miflash
3. boot back to fastboot
4. download orange fox or pitch black recovery that actually supports persist flashing
5. join global mi a2 telegram group download relevant persist like if mi a2 or mi x6 and on android 9 or 10
6. put it in adb folder
7. boot recovery ( don't flash)
8. in recovery activate sideload adb option
9. in command window run :adb sideload persist.zip ( persist must have this name in adb folder )
10. now reboot your phone
*in the beginning it will bootloop four or five times ..just leave it
***suddenly your phone will be back to new
***stop flashing permissver and other crap
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Thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate it. I admit that I am really wrong in flashing that permissiver zip. I just hoped that it will solve my random reboot issue, from this tutorial: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...BMAB6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw2suOu9rYeTps71AvKuZbrA
So now, I already downloaded OrangeFox-R10.1_1-Stable-jasmine_sprout.zip for recovery and persist_restorer_6x.zip from the Telegram group, which is universal persist according to them.
But I just have some questions:
1. Do I need to wipe both a and b in recovery or use command fastboot -w before flashing the stock ROM?
2. After flashing stocK ROM in Miflash tool, it will start to boot to system, but in this case, bootloop, so am I right to press buttons to forcibly go to bootloader?
3. For #7 (boot to recovery), this means fastboot boot recovery.img?
4. For #9, if adb sideload doesn't work, can I flash persist in recovery instead?

Ronaldendoma said:
Thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate it. I admit that I am really wrong in flashing that permissiver zip. I just hoped that it will solve my random reboot issue, from this tutorial: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...BMAB6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw2suOu9rYeTps71AvKuZbrA
So now, I already downloaded OrangeFox-R10.1_1-Stable-jasmine_sprout.zip for recovery and persist_restorer_6x.zip from the Telegram group, which is universal persist according to them.
But I just have some questions:
1. Do I need to wipe both a and b in recovery or use command fastboot -w before flashing the stock ROM?
2. After flashing stocK ROM in Miflash tool, it will start to boot to system, but in this case, bootloop, so am I right to press buttons to forcibly go to bootloader?
3. For #7 (boot to recovery), this means fastboot boot recovery.img?
4. For #9, if adb sideload doesn't work, can I flash persist in recovery instead?
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no install stock using miflash but don't wipe anything ..for this to work well don't install the recovery ..just boot
fastboot boot recovery.img
then using the adb sideload option you can flash the zip from your computer without decryting the internal storage
you can flash magisk the same way ..then you will have stock rooted with persist restored but without custom recovery and your device will remain encrypted ..
if you want custom recovery and install custom rom you can wipe and install but for stock don't do it ..flash persist and magisk from adb sideload without decrypting
2.yeah enter bootloader / fastboot with power button and volume button
4. it will work if done correctly ...if you want to flash from internal storage you will have to wipe and format data to decrypt internal syorage
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KevMetal said:
you are messing up ..stop ..
1.boot into fastboot
2. flash stock rom with miflash
3. boot back to fastboot
4. download orange fox or pitch black recovery that actually supports persist flashing
5. join global mi a2 telegram group download relevant persist like if mi a2 or mi x6 and on android 9 or 10
6. put it in adb folder
7. boot recovery ( don't flash)
8. in recovery activate sideload adb option
9. in command window run :adb sideload persist.zip ( persist must have this name in adb folder )
10. now reboot your phone
*in the beginning it will bootloop four or five times ..just leave it
***suddenly your phone will be back to new
***stop flashing permissver and other crap
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KevMetal said:
no install stock using miflash but don't wipe anything ..for this to work well don't install the recovery ..just boot
fastboot boot recovery.img
then using the adb sideload option you can flash the zip from your computer without decryting the internal storage
you can flash magisk the same way ..then you will have stock rooted with persist restored but without custom recovery and your device will remain encrypted ..
if you want custom recovery and install custom rom you can wipe and install but for stock don't do it ..flash persist and magisk from adb sideload without decrypting
2.yeah enter bootloader / fastboot with power button and volume button
4. it will work if done correctly ...if you want to flash from internal storage you will have to wipe and format data to decrypt internal syorage
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Thank you again.
I tried adb sideload before but was stuck at 0%, I missed something. I'll update here for the result once I can be back to PC.

KevMetal said:
you are messing up ..stop ..
1.boot into fastboot
2. flash stock rom with miflash
3. boot back to fastboot
4. download orange fox or pitch black recovery that actually supports persist flashing
5. join global mi a2 telegram group download relevant persist like if mi a2 or mi x6 and on android 9 or 10
6. put it in adb folder
7. boot recovery ( don't flash)
8. in recovery activate sideload adb option
9. in command window run :adb sideload persist.zip ( persist must have this name in adb folder )
10. now reboot your phone
*in the beginning it will bootloop four or five times ..just leave it
***suddenly your phone will be back to new
***stop flashing permissver and other crap
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KevMetal said:
no install stock using miflash but don't wipe anything ..for this to work well don't install the recovery ..just boot
fastboot boot recovery.img
then using the adb sideload option you can flash the zip from your computer without decryting the internal storage
you can flash magisk the same way ..then you will have stock rooted with persist restored but without custom recovery and your device will remain encrypted ..
if you want custom recovery and install custom rom you can wipe and install but for stock don't do it ..flash persist and magisk from adb sideload without decrypting
2.yeah enter bootloader / fastboot with power button and volume button
4. it will work if done correctly ...if you want to flash from internal storage you will have to wipe and format data to decrypt internal syorage
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Thank you again.
I tried adb sideload before but was stuck at 0%, I maybe missed something. I'll update here for the result once I can be back to PC.

Ronaldendoma said:
Thank you again.
I tried adb sideload before but was stuck at 0%, I maybe missed something. I'll update here for the result once I can be back to PC.
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ok yeah must be a mistake ..
do you understand that first you enter fastboot and boot the orange fox recovery ..only then you start the adb ..
BUT REMember first you need to toggle or activate adb from orange fox recovery (maybe you forgot this ? )
another thing it is very slow so wait very long
another thing the zip you want to flash must be in the adb folder and have the name you use
so
rename persist to persist.zip and put it in adb folder ..then put magisk zip and rename to magisk.zip :
adb sideload persist.zip
adb sideload magisk.zip
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here is a photo where you need to activate adb
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KevMetal said:
ok yeah must be a mistake ..
do you understand that first you enter fastboot and boot the orange fox recovery ..only then you start the adb ..
BUT REMember first you need to toggle or activate adb from orange fox recovery (maybe you forgot this ? )
another thing it is very slow so wait very long
another thing the zip you want to flash must be in the adb folder and have the name you use
so
rename persist to persist.zip and put it in adb folder ..then put magisk zip and rename to magisk.zip :
adb sideload persist.zip
adb sideload magisk.zip
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I need to wait more, I think. Before this thread, I tried to adb sideload in TWRP but it took somewhat long and still 0%, so I just cancelled since I ran out of time.

KevMetal said:
here is a photo where you need to activate adb
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Regarding persist.zip, I am now confused because I asked in the group if the file persist_restorer_6x.zip is universal (either pie or 10, wayne or jasmine), they said yes, and another one said no. I searched in the group and found persist_restorer_a2.zip. I checked both files and they have the same filesize and contents.
So is there a thing like a universal persist for a2/6x, either for pie or 10? Or like what you said, only relevant persist depending on the os and device?

techieboy2020 said:
Regarding persist.zip, I am now confused because I asked in the group if the file persist_restorer_6x.zip is universal (either pie or 10, wayne or jasmine), they said yes, and another one said no. I searched in the group and found persist_restorer_a2.zip. I checked both files and they have the same filesize and contents.
So is there a thing like a universal persist for a2/6x, either for pie or 10? Or like what you said, only relevant persist depending on the os and device?
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it is the same device.. so it is cross compatible ..it might just give an error if it checks the build prop ..obviously flash the A2..pie or q will just maybe be updated version or not but bettrr to flash corresponding if it exists
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KevMetal said:
it is the same device.. so it is cross compatible ..it might just give an error if it checks the build prop ..obviously flash the A2..pie or q will just maybe be updated version or not but bettrr to flash corresponding if it exists
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I see. I can't access my PC yet, but what if I still got bootloop after trying those steps, what must I do next? I'm worried for step #10.
Regarding the persist.zip, can you please check the zips below? The two have the same filesize and files inside, so maybe the two are just the same.

techieboy2020 said:
I see. I can't access my PC yet, but what if I still got bootloop after trying those steps, what must I do next? I'm worried for step #10.
Regarding the persist.zip, can you please check the zips below? The two have the same filesize and files inside, so maybe the two are just the same.
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those are empty and won't work ..use this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mimt4go8fert44c/persist good.zip?dl=0
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KevMetal said:
those are empty and won't work ..use this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mimt4go8fert44c/persist good.zip?dl=0
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Ok thank you so much. Will try this tomorrow.
Regarding the state of my device, I can't boot to system because of bootloop. If I press power and volume +, I got no command. If I press power and volume -, fastboot mode. My device's bootloader is already unlocked, and can be detected through fastboot.

techieboy2020 said:
Ok thank you so much. Will try this tomorrow.
Regarding the state of my device, I can't boot to system because of bootloop. If I press power and volume +, I got no command. If I press power and volume -, fastboot mode. My device's bootloader is already unlocked, and can be detected through fastboot.
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you don't need to boot to system ...just boot the revovery and flash the zip ..
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KevMetal said:
you don't need to boot to system ...just boot the revovery and flash the zip ..
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Got it. So the zip is compatible for either Pie or Android 10?
What's the best version for Miflash tool? I tried the newer version but it can't detect my device, and only the older version can detect. But it seems that the older version can't be trusted also since I still got persist error before.
For #10, my device will bootloop 4 to 5 times. So will it automatically turn off and on again until it will successfully boot? How long does it normally boot?

UPDATE:
KevMetal said:
you don't need to boot to system ...just boot the revovery and flash the zip ..
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UPDATE:
So I flashed the Pie Rom (V.10.0.17.0) in the MiFlash Tool (v. 2016.04.01.0) and the flashing was successful. The device turned on and only remained at the Android One logo and turned off again. This repeated for another time and I then forced my device to fastboot mode through the buttons. I then flashed the latest Orange Fox Recovery and it was successful. Now, I checked the recovery and persist can't be mounted (can't put a check on the box), but I still continued to adb sideload mode. The sideloading for persist.zip started, but was stuck at 10%. I waited more and decided to disconnect and try to flash the zip on the device instead. I checked the active slot and it was b, so I thought changing to a will be able to mount persist. I thought that if I remain at b, I will still get mount persist error. I clicked "boot to recovery" and the screen turned off. After a while, the screen remained off and I tried to use the button combinations, and the screen was totally black (no fastboot, logo, animation, or even some light, etc). It's completely black, but I noticed that the device was still hot after a few minutes. I connected my device to the PC again and the MiFlash tool detected my device as Com10. I flashed the rom again but the flashing was not successful. I tried to uninstall the drivers and still, there is no hope for reflashing the rom (it's now detected as com4). If I try to use power combinations, the PC will make sounds like when you connect/ disconnect a device, meaning, my phone can still be detected by my PC. So is there still a hope for my phone?

techieboy2020 said:
UPDATE:
So I flashed the Pie Rom (V.10.0.17.0) in the MiFlash Tool (v. 2016.04.01.0) and the flashing was successful. The device turned on and only remained at the Android One logo and turned off again. This repeated for another time and I then forced my device to fastboot mode through the buttons. I then flashed the latest Orange Fox Recovery and it was successful. Now, I checked the recovery and persist can't be mounted (can't put a check on the box), but I still continued to adb sideload mode. The sideloading for persist.zip started, but was stuck at 10%. I waited more and decided to disconnect and try to flash the zip on the device instead. I checked the active slot and it was b, so I thought changing to a will be able to mount persist. I thought that if I remain at b, I will still get mount persist error. I clicked "boot to recovery" and the screen turned off. After a while, the screen remained off and I tried to use the button combinations, and the screen was totally black (no fastboot, logo, animation, or even some light, etc). It's completely black, but I noticed that the device was still hot after a few minutes. I connected my device to the PC again and the MiFlash tool detected my device as Com10. I flashed the rom again but the flashing was not successful. I tried to uninstall the drivers and still, there is no hope for reflashing the rom (it's now detected as com4). If I try to use power combinations, the PC will make sounds like when you connect/ disconnect a device, meaning, my phone can still be detected by my PC. So is there still a hope for my phone?
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all of this couldn't happen if you only flashed permissiver ..what rom did you previously flash in slot b
anyway doesn't matter ..boot to fastboot with buttons ..boot ..NOT FLASH orange fox recovery
do all wipes
format data
install custom rom
install magisk
install persist
reboot to other standby slot ..
do all wipes
format data
install custom rom
install magisk
install persist
then reboot and phone will boot
use a latest custom rom Q with gapps included ....
follow all the instructions ..not only some ..don change them ..if it fails message me with screenshot
but the 10% problem over usb is a hardware , computer or most likely cable problem ..get a new cable ..or maybe you changed or damaged your screen improperly ..
anyway try the above
also download the most newest copy of miflash and use that to install drivers and flash if you want to flash stock and flash the latest stock amdroid ..
if your phone doesn't go into fastboot it is cos it is bricked in edl mode ..so flash latest stock with latest miflash ..
THEN FLASH PERSIST BY ONLY BOOTINGBrecovery
did you try to convert this A2 to Wayne amd triggered arb ? that could be why flashing stock pie goes to edl mode
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Just FYI:
Since 10.0.2.0 till now I thought that persist.img is version-insensitive, as I flashed persist.img taken from 8.1 ROM into couple of versions of 9.0 without any problems (via my method published in "Guides...").
Last week I noticed that compass is "showing south", and tried to flash various versions of persist.img into active 11.0.12.0 - and was surprised to encounter "white screen of eternal booting" with non-native version of persist.img. So finally had to flash persist.img taken from 11.0.12.0 fastboot ROM image.
(Btw, my problem with compass seems to have 2 sides -1st is somewhat very big deviation at homeplace, and 2nd is that only 1st magnetic sensor is being calibrated while second magnetic sensor is not being calibrated by means I used).

KevMetal said:
all of this couldn't happen if you only flashed permissiver ..what rom did you previously flash in slot b
anyway doesn't matter ..boot to fastboot with buttons ..boot ..NOT FLASH orange fox recovery
do all wipes
format data
install custom rom
install magisk
install persist
reboot to other standby slot ..
do all wipes
format data
install custom rom
install magisk
install persist
then reboot and phone will boot
use a latest custom rom Q with gapps included ....
follow all the instructions ..not only some ..don change them ..if it fails message me with screenshot
but the 10% problem over usb is a hardware , computer or most likely cable problem ..get a new cable ..or maybe you changed or damaged your screen improperly ..
anyway try the above
also download the most newest copy of miflash and use that to install drivers and flash if you want to flash stock and flash the latest stock amdroid ..
if your phone doesn't go into fastboot it is cos it is bricked in edl mode ..so flash latest stock with latest miflash ..
THEN FLASH PERSIST BY ONLY BOOTINGBrecovery
did you try to convert this A2 to Wayne amd triggered arb ? that could be why flashing stock pie goes to edl mode
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So I was able to use another laptop, and I managed to install adb, drivers, and MiFlash Tool. The 2018 version can now detect my phone, and I can now at least boot into fastboot. But my flashing is still not successful because I got stuck at system.img. The laptop freezes and I already tried to free up space in C: drive.

Question Need help, TWRP shows no rom

Hi everyone, I really need some help. Took my phone to I.T shop to have it unlocked and EU rom stable put on. I got my phone back with TWRP on it saying no rom. I know nothing about this kind of thing and now I am stuck. Is there someone who can fix this remotely for me?? Thanks in advance

In twrp Click install and Check in the download folder in case it's not in the root folder, if there is no ROM there you could fix it yourself by flashing the last fastboot ROM from a bat file or cmd line
i think it was 12.5.5 or something like that and then you can update to EU 12.5.12 stable via twrp
AND NEVER USE THAT SHOP AGAIN LOL

speedtripler said:
In twrp Click install and Check in the download folder in case it's not in the root folder, if there is no ROM there you could fix it yourself by flashing the last fastboot ROM from a bat file or cmd line
i think it was 12.5.5 or something like that and then you can update to EU 12.5.12 stable via twrp
AND NEVER USE THAT SHOP AGAIN LOL
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Thanks for your reply. Could this be done remotely. I really have no idea how to do any of this stuff which is why i first went to a shop. Im happy to pay for a good outcome

Anyone who flashes ROMs could do it in a few minutes via team viewer or something.... But it maybe beneficial to learn for yourself
It's really simple, you've already done the hardest part if you've unlocked the bootloader and installed twrp
Just put the phone in fastboot mode and then plug into PC and click on the bat file

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Select your phone and download the MIUI stock ROM. (Do NOT extract it.)
Boot into Twrp and wipe and factory reset.
Move the miui stock rom to the phone.
Select flash and select the zip file.
Swipe to flash
Then download and flash(move to phone, flash) the 'ARM64 Android 11' Gapps(Google apps) https://opengapps.org/
Then reboot.
All data will be lost. If you want to keep your photos and videos, before doing everything, go to twrp , connect the phone to a pc, and move the 'Dcim' folder to the computer side.

If you have a working TWRP, just use it to flash latest EU version, format data, reboot system. Done.
Then if you want to go back to a stock ROM, flash it via fastboot or twrp depending on the ROM format you download.

Sathelp said:
If you have a working TWRP, just use it to flash latest EU version, format data, reboot system. Done.
Then if you want to go back to a stock ROM, flash it via fastboot or twrp depending on the ROM format you download.
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If he's stuck in twrp how can he download a ROM to flash? I don't think you can transfer files to a phone that doesn't have a ROM to flash via twrp
Fastboot first from a PC cmd maybe the only way to get started

He is asking someone else to do the process he doesn't know anything about these things (and I don't understand why buying a phone to make things like this if not capable). Anyway go on YouTube and check people doing the process, I don't think is difficult watching a guy and copy what he is doing

I am replying to close this thread. He contacted me over telegram. I took a look at his phone and the phone is not being detected in fastboot mode on his pc. Maybe hard bricked or in edl mode. Also his twrp is not accessible. So i suggested him to contact the edl guy and he fixed the phone.

So ask mods to close this thread?

speedtripler said:
If he's stuck in twrp how can he download a ROM to flash? I don't think you can transfer files to a phone that doesn't have a ROM to flash via twrp
Fastboot first from a PC cmd maybe the only way to get started
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I know it's closed as such but in twrp, I can copy files from pc to phone. He could have done the same. BTW, I'm using the very first twrp that many wouldn't install but my phone is recognised in Windows while in recovery. This might help someone else