Hello everyone,
I bought a new lenovo Z2 plus in India. As the presinstalled Rom was very slow and laggy. I unlocked the bootloader via the image file from zuk site. I used adb and fastboot to install twrp recovery. I am not sure which version of it i installed but it was either for lenovo z2 plus or zuk z2. I tried to flash custom roms into my phone I was successful in installing discovery rom but I was getting some error saying unable to mount /cust. I wanted to install resurrection remix on my z2 plus. but I got error in all the roms i tried either error 7 or or something like 'this rom is for z2plus, zuk z2 but this phone is z2121' So i read somewhere that i should install the chinese verion of the TWRP which will remove this problem so I flashed the new recovery image over the previous one.
The current situation is that There is no ROM installed in my phone, the phone is not booting up in the recovery mode, the screen just lit ups but nothing comes on it, when i connect the phone to pc, i get something but the internal storage is not displayed. I am able to boot the phone in fastboot. I would be really grateful if anyone can help me out with this issue.
What do you mean by "new recovery image"? Are you recovering to stock recovery and boot image? Where did you source it?
I myself have searched a lot for the stock recovery of this device for a different purpose but so far no luck. My guess is that you might have flashed the wrong stock recovery. Please note Z2 Plus and Z2 Pro are different devices.
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Greetings Everyone
My Device
I have Mi Mix 6GB 256GB
What I got it with
I was on Chinese MIUI8 and I believe Stock Recovery Was Mi Recovery 3.smth
What got me here
1)I moved to Epic Rom following proper method BL Unlocked,TWRP by MRRaines and Wiped Dalvik,DATA,System,Cache and Flash
2)I didnt liked it much then on same recovery following same method installed RR MIX it was insanely Lagging too much stutter thought it would need me to wipe userdata too so wiped all again from TWRP flashed again it was smoother but games were dropping so i thought ill wait for Stable Lineage Build (when ever there is)
Finally I decided to get back to Chinese MIUI
Here's what I've tried so far
For Updater Method Via Epic ROM
Downloaded Official ROM figured TWRP couldn't flash it ,Grabbed Stock Recovery flashed it via fastboot but Recovery buttons lead me to misuite.com screen or whatever it was to flash via official software
tried recovery from another source same issue
Then I went for Fastboot Method
Downloaded Fastboot ROM with .BAT and Download MiFlasher
the process succeeds everytime but and Stuck at
MIX(logo)
...
powered by
android
Now I'm New with MIX but I've been flashing ROMS since days of Moto RAZR L7 point being I dont think a boot should take that long
What actually happens is on MIX logo screen dims and brightens and its loading & loading then for an instance I see MI logo with white navigation strip then back to MIX logo like if it was optimizing APPS or smth for First boot can anyone kindly help me with what I've been doing wrong or what would be a proper safer method
Thanks
[SOLVED] finally again flashed twrp then flashed .ZIP stock FW via TWRP
My Mi 8 got bricked by the latest MIUI update. I installed the software update from settings and clicked reboot and it booted straight to TWRP (more on that in a bit). I tried rebooting to system but it just went straight back to TWRP. I have unlocked the bootloader and also rooted my phone but as I kept the stock ROM I wouldn't think this would break it. In hindsight, after doing a bit of looking around it seems like people tend to reflash stock.img before updating or something when they've rooted their phone? Wish I'd known that before I clicked update.
I tried flashing a different ROM but when I go to reboot it just says "no OS installed. Are you sure you want to reboot?" and just goes into bootloop stuck on the Mi logo
using fastboot adb tools I can boot it into TWRP (has never worked using the volume and power buttons) and flashing ROMs seems to go okay but reboot says no OS installed and it bootloops, as I said.
I've tried flashing the latest MIUI build for my device, pixel experience, lineage OS and all of them yield the same results. Happy to answer any questions and try out any suggestions that anyone has. I'm really quite desperate!
SOLUTION: I flashed the stock firmware using the xiaomi mi flash tool. This fixed pretty much everything apart from now the camera doesn't work lol
What twrp you are using?
dimitrisverlis said:
what twrp you are using?
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twrp-3.2.1-0611
Wipe everything, FORMAT data and update xiaomi firmware.
Hi guys, I'm new here. I haven't been playing with custom roms for a while now but I have xiaomi mi 8 se for which I would like to set up a custom global/eu rom. I read a lot of posts here and tried to do it but without access. First I applied to unlock my device via Xiaomi procedure, waited X hours and then went to download and install rom from here: https://mifirm.net/model/sirius.ttt#global
That's when I realized that I have to find fastboot rom for this way of flashing and there isn't one for global or eu version. After a bit more reasearch I decided to do it on my own with TWRP (just found out how that works). So I downloaded one from here: https://mifirm.net/model/sirius.ttt#twrp and after some time (and a lot of small steps I learned along the way) I got it installed.
Then I downloaded non fastboot EU rom and tried to flash it through recovery(twrp). Problem here is that the whole recovery is in chinese so I had to watch other people videos and compare location of buttons so I'm not sure I pressed everything correct. After "flashing" phone stuck in fastboot boot loop. Here I panicked I bricked the phone and downloaded "normal" chinese rom with fastboot and flashed that MIU flash tool. This went well so now I have factory reset phone with the same/similar rom I had before. I know this is an old device and probably there isn't some easy solution but I would love to hear if someone with more experience can give me some advice how to correctly flash eu rom (non fastboot). Also is there some version of twrp that isn't chinese and it would be perfect if I can flash twrp with fastboot (if thats possible).
For recovery: Link
Recommend to factory reset from TWRP before flashing any ROM. And speaking of custom ROM, can I recommend to you the Pixel Experience? It's the most solid ROM right now. If you are interested, you can try out.
Hello NesaiOmachi, thank you very much for your advice. Pixel experience looks great, my only prerequisite is that it has google play services support so will definitely check it out. I found this page with ROM downloads, can you please also point me which version to choose and which twrp (from your url) is compatible with it?
I assume I have to install twrp with ADB tools from my PC (already have that setup up), then I enter TWRP and do something like this: https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-install-a-custom-rom-using-twrp-recovery/
EDIT: just saw there are instructions at pixel experience site, awesome! Ignore my message, will try with latest twrp and latest pixel rom and see how it goes
Hi all,
I have a rooted redmit note 9 that was running the stock rom (EU version i believe as i am UK based) perfectly well for several months until today when then latest over the air update installed and my phone is now stuck in a bootloop where i can only access the custom PBRP recovery (installed from when i rooted previously). I can also access fastboot. I have tried wiping all data and cache etc, i have tried reflashing the magisk patched stock rom that previously worked, i have also tried flashing vbmeta that i flashed previously but still no luck. This is my only phone so I really need to get it working again.
I was about to try re-flashing the stock rom with SP tool but it tells me the scatter file is invalid.
Not sure what else to try now. I also note that when i PBRP loads up it always asks for a password however i dont have a password on the device.
Please could someone suggest something i could try?
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Hi all,
I have a rooted redmit note 9 that was running the stock rom (EU version i believe as i am UK based) perfectly well for several months until today when then latest over the air update installed and my phone is now stuck in a bootloop where i can only access the custom PBRP recovery (installed from when i rooted previously). I can also access fastboot. I have tried wiping all data and cache etc, i have tried reflashing the magisk patched stock rom that previously worked, i have also tried flashing vbmeta that i flashed previously but still no luck. This is my only phone so I really need to get it working again.
I was about to try re-flashing the stock rom with SP tool but it tells me the scatter file is invalid.
Not sure what else to try now. I also note that when i PBRP loads up it always asks for a password however i dont have a password on the device.
Please could someone suggest something i could try?
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your devices is encrypted try flash other custom rom first then try revert to stock hope it help u out
Thanks very much for your response. Based on your advice i tried to flash the latest Kraken 11 Vanilla rom from this fourm, however after installing via TWRP now i can't even get into recovery anymore, just goes straight to fastboot.
Any other suggestions please?
I have now managed to get back in to TWRP and tried flashing lineage latest rom but still i am stuck in a boot loop taking me to fastboot this time.
Please can someone help suggest hwo i can get my phone working agian. At this point i dont care which rom i end up (custom or stock) with as long as i can get it to function again
If your device is rooted, you can NOT update the system using the OTA (over-the-air), or the device will be stucked in bootloop.
If your device is rooted, you need to update the system MANUALLY, using the fastboot or spflashtool.
I suggest to update the system using the fastboot.
Now, you need to flash the whole MIUI again, except userdata and you will have your device back.
For anyone with a asimilar problem i eventually managed to fix my issue by using miflash tool version 20180528 and flashing merlin_eea_global_images_V12.0.10.0.QJOEUXM_20210413.0000.00_10.0_eea_c4a9d5d7fc fastboot version which i downloaded from the xiami site.
I had to try this multiple times because the extraction of the file did not seem to be correct on the first attempts.
Hi
A few months ago I was able to flash on angelica lineage-17.1-20210326-UNOFFICIAL-angelica.zip and this worked well. Yesterday I tried to flash the s same image again and after several attempts I get a black backlit screen when lineage is meant to start. I reflash stock _V12.0.10.0.QCRMIXM then a recovery - PBRP 3.0.1. From there I was having issue
What is the flashing process for an unlocked device that has something like TWRP/Pitch Back/Orange Fox installed?
I guess once you unlock and can flash the recover you use the recover to flash the zip, then reboot and flash magisk.zip and everything should work? Or is there some step missing.
I had this problem too with the google pixel 7 pro. Can't help ya there on that one. I even tried re installing older firmware and it still didn't work. Maybe the bootloader is permanetly downgradable but the firmware of the stock is. Just a guess. Lineage os 20 is an unofficial build at the moment that receives hardly any updates.