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Mi 5X - Boot loop and no access to recovery or fastboot

Bootloader type = Oxygen (not sure if that is the proper one for the device though)
Bootloader lock = Unlocked via Xiaomi official procedure
USB Debug = Not sure, I'm starting to fear it's off though
Original issue = My phone was bricked. No sound, display or whatsoever.
What did I try?
I followed an unbrick tutorial which made me flash an Oxygen firmware file. After that I get a boot loop. Mi logo and Android loading bar appears and seems to be like that continuously.
I can't access either fastboot or recovery mode. If I try any of the two button combinations I don't even get the Mi logo screen. I see the backlight turn on and nothing happens.
I tried flashing several fastboot roms, stock roms and firmware files I could find, flashing them with different versions of MiFlash. Except for the one I described in step 1 none of them change the situation as described in 'Original issue'.
I need to use the 'test pin method' to even let the computer detect the phone in MiFlash. The phone does not get detected inADB fasboot (which makes sense, as I can't enter fastboot mode anyway).
I'm hoping someone can point me in a direction which leads me to fix my phone. I'm not sure what steps I did to even get to the point where it stopped responding in any way. It has been some time ago, but I think I flashed an Oreo firmware file just before that point.

i did tryied test point (edl mode) and i think either i connect wrong point together or my rom was wrong and my phone can not boot or show anything . when connect to charge it shows key light flashing without any picture in the screen and without any vibration after pushing power button . i either dont have acces to fastboot now . what is wrong with my phone ?

Esemtix said:
i did tryied test point (edl mode) and i think either i connect wrong point together or my rom was wrong and my phone can not boot or show anything . when connect to charge it shows key light flashing without any picture in the screen and without any vibration after pushing power button . i either dont have acces to fastboot now . what is wrong with my phone ?
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If you find the right points you can get into edl. Did you try a cable already?

Arealhooman said:
If you find the right points you can get into edl. Did you try a cable already?
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i dont know i connect right point together or not but my phone name changed when connect to pc with xiaomi fastboot installer and i gave my phone to a developer and he install a lot of roms with edl mode ,too but there is no change

Try using edl cable

Arealhooman said:
Try using edl cable
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i dont need any box tool for use it ?

What do you mean?

Arealhooman said:
What do you mean?
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boxes like flash you can connect to pc and acces more thing for connecting to your phone
i mean i wont need anything like these except edl cable ?
sorry i ask too many questions

Esemtix said:
boxes like flash you can connect to pc and acces more thing for connecting to your phone
i mean i wont need anything like these except edl cable ?
sorry i ask too many questions
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Nah it’s k. You still need the right files, but most of the time a edl cable can get you in.

i did tryied edl mode and just black screen does shows. what should i do ? my phone either doesn not vibrate when connect to charge

janus.8x said:
i did tryied edl mode and just black screen does shows. what should i do ? my phone either doesn not vibrate when connect to charge
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Someone told me the phone got hard problem .

janus.8x said:
i did tryied edl mode and just black screen does shows. what should i do ? my phone either doesn not vibrate when connect to charge
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hi . I tried to flash the phone a lot but still the phone keys light are just on when I connect the phone to charger and when I disconnected it , it is off even when I push power key
what should I do ?

Xiaomi mi 8 hard brick!

hello, i have hard brick at my mi8 .
When i try to press the power button the phone doesn't boot, If i try to go into recovery mode it doesn't boot and same for fastboot mode.
The screen is unresponsive (no backlight) and it doesn't vibrate. When i connect the phone to my computer it is automatically recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5) which correspond to the EDL mode (i think).
When try to flash any rom with miflash i get the error " cannot receive hello packet.
Can anyone help me ?:crying:

anderssx1 said:
hello, i have hard brick at my mi8 .
When i try to press the power button the phone doesn't boot, If i try to go into recovery mode it doesn't boot and same for fastboot mode.
The screen is unresponsive (no backlight) and it doesn't vibrate. When i connect the phone to my computer it is automatically recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5) which correspond to the EDL mode (i think).
When try to flash any rom with miflash i get the error " cannot receive hello packet.
Can anyone help me ?:crying:
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Likely you have too much power coming from your usb ports, use a usb hub such as this: https://www.amazon.com/BYEASY-Porta...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
Now try Mi Flash again, make sure that the lock bootloader (which is checked by default) is unchecked.
Now it should work, be sure that you are using a fastboot rom and not a recovery rom. ( a recovery rom will not work)
Make sure that it is a fast boot for your device : If you have a global device here is a link with quite a few fastboot roms :https://c.mi.com/thread-1899815-1-0.html
If you still have trouble let me know, and tell me specifically how you arrived at your brick, I helped someone with this exact issue a couple of weeks ago, and I was going to link you to that thread. But i can't find it at the moment.

I get the same error " cannot receive hello packet" with hub USB.
MY xioami mi 8 is global version, i unlock the bootloader and make a downgrade with twrp to a older version of stable rom, and when the phone start ,its all ok and login my mi account, and the phone goes down and never more boot. Always in the pc i get qualcom port (edl mode) . Sorry for my bad english.:crying:

I think i need account with EDL authorization to flash any rom. And i can't found anyone to save me..

Try https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8/how-to/unbrick-mi8-edl-authorized-account-t3896677

Thank you .. i try this metod but no success

About s-unlock .. anyone knows if the service is online?

anderssx1 said:
About s-unlock .. anyone knows if the service is online?
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Maybe try this site : MOD EDIT: link removed
I dont have his name but one of the techs from this site is a frequent XDA user and supposedly legit.
In the end there is a risk of losing $12. Seems to be worth $12 to me.

I send message to this brother , and it's 40 dollars .. i'm thinking about
thanks for reply

HELP ME!!! BRICK/BLANK SCREEN

Help me.
my device is pixel 4xl with rooted android 13 beta 3.2 .
At first I saw on the lockscreen it said "cerficate expired" and face unlock didn't work.
I thought that if I restarted it would work again, but when I restarted the device it wouldn't turn on, I've tried pressing the power button for 1 minute, it still doesn't react, it doesn't even vibrate....
please help me to find the solution....

sinagaB said:
Help me.
my device is pixel 4xl with rooted android 13 beta 3.2 .
At first I saw on the lockscreen it said "cerficate expired" and face unlock didn't work.
I thought that if I restarted it would work again, but when I restarted the device it wouldn't turn on, I've tried pressing the power button for 1 minute, it still doesn't react, it doesn't even vibrate....
please help me to find the solution....
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Hey! You may be on EDL mode.
To exit it you have to press power button and one of the volumes buttons, though I don't remember which one. Just have a look on Google and you will find something.
As for the certificate, I saw people having that problem if they replaced the front camera or the face id module. I don't if that's your case, but as you have root you may be able to recover face id functionality.
Let me know how it goes!

#mcl said:
Hey! You may be on EDL mode.
To exit it you have to press power button and one of the volumes buttons, though I don't remember which one. Just have a look on Google and you will find something.
As for the certificate, I saw people having that problem if they replaced the front camera or the face id module. I don't if that's your case, but as you have root you may be able to recover face id functionality.
Let me know how it goes!
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Still didn't work :"(

Connect your phone to the PC(must be running windows). The open device manager and under the ports tab, do you see "Qualcomm HS-USB Qloader 9008 (COM *a number*)? Or something similar

#mcl said:
Connect your phone to the PC(must be running windows). The open device manager and under the ports tab, do you see "Qualcomm HS-USB Qloader 9008 (COM *a number*)? Or something similar
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Yes , same.

sinagaB said:
Yes , same.
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Then you are on EDL mode, as when you boot in that mode, the phone change how it shows up on the PC. You need to try to get out of there. If you can't, as you said you were having issues with the OS, maybe something is broken and the phone can't boot up.
When Android starts it has 2 bootloaders (the normal bootloader and the secondary one, which has EDL mode). If the standard bootloader fails, then it uses the second one which is EDL.
So here are some suggestions:
1. Try to hold the power key + volume up key for several seconds. If it doesn't work do the same with the volume down key
2. If that doesn't work there is another method, though it's riskier and might not work. Try to open the phone and disconnect the battery, leave it disconnected for some seconds, reconnect and try to boot the phone.
If none of those things worked for you, it means you will need to flash the firmware to your phone using EDL, as the bootloader is damaged.
Unfourtynaly there is not much info on using EDL on Pixel devices, though a lot of people use EDL to unlock Xiaomi's bootloader, so maybe have a look on those forums. On my profile, I tried to use the EDL mode to unlock a Pixel bootloader(mine is carrier-locked), though had no success, you will find a lot of helpful information to solve your problem, like the tools and files you will need and some overall idea of how EDL works.
Hope those help you and let me know if I can help you further

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#mcl said:
Then you are on EDL mode, as when you boot in that mode, the phone change how it shows up on the PC. You need to try to get out of there. If you can't, as you said you were having issues with the OS, maybe something is broken and the phone can't boot up.
When Android starts it has 2 bootloaders (the normal bootloader and the secondary one, which has EDL mode). If the standard bootloader fails, then it uses the second one which is EDL.
So here are some suggestions:
1. Try to hold the power key + volume up key for several seconds. If it doesn't work do the same with the volume down key
2. If that doesn't work there is another method, though it's riskier and might not work. Try to open the phone and disconnect the battery, leave it disconnected for some seconds, reconnect and try to boot the phone.
If none of those things worked for you, it means you will need to flash the firmware to your phone using EDL, as the bootloader is damaged.
Unfourtynaly there is not much info on using EDL on Pixel devices, though a lot of people use EDL to unlock Xiaomi's bootloader, so maybe have a look on those forums. On my profile, I tried to use the EDL mode to unlock a Pixel bootloader(mine is carrier-locked), though had no success, you will find a lot of helpful information to solve your problem, like the tools and files you will need and some overall idea of how EDL works.
Hope those help you and let me know if I can help you further
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step 1&2 didn't work ,, by the way, thank you for replying my thread ... so there's no possible way to fix this , sir? bcause i'mnot an expert to this . )

Question Hard Bricked , Black Screen only

i was trying to downgrade by using sp flash tool, in this process the sp flash tool shows error file not found. and now the mobile goes to black screen only. it wont turn or even charged. Please Help me Thank you.

Tikaram22 said:
i was trying to downgrade by using sp flash tool, in this process the sp flash tool shows error file not found. and now the mobile goes to black screen only. it wont turn or even charged. Please Help me Thank you.
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Flash again the right firmware.

SubwayChamp said:
Flash again the right firmware.
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i can't bypass the authentication.
device connected and disconnected itself

Tikaram22 said:
i can't bypass the authentication.
device connected and disconnected itself
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Follow this guide, replace carefully, the specific files that are for your model device, instead of using those that are for that model based guide, i.e. your firmware https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...india-6s-using-spflash-tool-for-free.4222027/

Computer is showing the device and mtk auth bypass also shows success and sp flash tool is also showing com port but. when i click on download it shows that STATUS_ERROR (0xC00100001)

Tikaram22 said:
Computer is showing the device and mtk auth bypass also shows success and sp flash tool is also showing com port but. when i click on download it shows that STATUS_ERROR (0xC00100001)
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Just keep it trying, change the port USB, power off your device, then try again, try a different firmware, flash one file by one. This error uses to appear.

Tikaram22 said:
i was trying to downgrade by using sp flash tool, in this process the sp flash tool shows error file not found. and now the mobile goes to black screen only. it wont turn or even charged. Please Help me Thank you.
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Probably i had a similar problem.
Does your phone screen stays dark and the phone vibrates shortly each 20 sec? And you don't see any device when connect to PC over USB?
In my case when i held VOL+ and VOL- for a long time, the phone attached to PC shortly for programming.
I followed this manual
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/x7-max-and-gt-neo-flash-ubrick-instructions.4337339/
and ONLY A15 firmware worked for me! But i had to uncheck boxes in SP FlashTools from:
opporeserve2
cdt_engineering
md1mg
After that flashing was successful.

AndreyKuz said:
Probably i had a similar problem.
Does your phone screen stays dark and the phone vibrates shortly each 20 sec? And you don't see any device when connect to PC over USB?
In my case when i held VOL+ and VOL- for a long time, the phone attached to PC shortly for programming.
I followed this manual
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/x7-max-and-gt-neo-flash-ubrick-instructions.4337339/
and ONLY A15 firmware worked for me! But i had to uncheck boxes in SP FlashTools from:
opporeserve2
cdt_engineering
md1mg
After that flashing was successful.
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Phone didn't vibrates. Now the phone is defects on pc and auth bypass also works. But when I click on download the device disconnected itself.

Tikaram22 said:
Phone didn't vibrates. Now the phone is defects on pc and auth bypass also works. But when I click on download the device disconnected itself.
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Usually you have only ~10sec between auth bypass and phone disconnect... It is necessary to do fast: open the options in SP Flash Tool, select the COM port, then click 'Download'.

Auth bypass is trying to bypass but. It said time out. 30000

Tikaram22 said:
Auth bypass is trying to bypass but. It said time out. 30000
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Maybe it is necessary to hold Vol+ and Vol- longer until the auth tool finishes

Tikaram22 said:
Auth bypass is trying to bypass but. It said time out. 30000
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So, your phone is not charging. Did you play with partitions? Or bootloader?

I was trying to flash device. Suddenly light goes my pc shutdown in middle of flashing. Now this problem happens when I try to flash

Tikaram22 said:
I was trying to flash device. Suddenly light goes my pc shutdown in middle of flashing. Now this problem happens when I try to flash
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Tikaram22 said:
I was trying to flash device. Suddenly light goes my pc shutdown in middle of flashing. Now this problem happens when I try to flash
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Your device is xiaomi right? Plug your phone to charger for couple of hours.Then, try pressing VOL UP, DOWN keys to get into recovery or fastboot mode while the charger is connected. You will be able to put your phone in fastboot mode i guess.
Flash the boot image and recovery image through ADB. Did you unlock the bootloader? Can you please tell me the model of your device?

Goddamn_srilankan said:
Your device is xiaomi right? Plug your phone to charger for couple of hours.Then, try pressing VOL UP, DOWN keys to get into recovery or fastboot mode while the charger is connected. You will be able to put your phone in fastboot mode i guess.
Flash the boot image and recovery image through ADB. Did you unlock the bootloader? Can you please tell me the model of your device?
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No brother it's realme x7 max. Display is only black. Can't trun on. Hard break

Tikaram22 said:
No brother it's realme x7 max. Display is only black. Can't trun on. Hard break
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Did you try some of the guides provided? It is not that hard to set up the drivers to can bypass the SLAA/DAA restriction, also you have other forum explaining how it works https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/mod-dev-mediatek-mtk-auth-bypass-sla-daa-utility.4232377/ there are various sites speaking about it, you have to keep it trying.
Can you enter to recovery, or fastboot mode? (this is done through stock recovery), I know you can't turn on the device, so you're bricked, but you have to try other modes, this will give you the certainty that device is not totally bricked, but only display is not showing a thing? When you try the various modes available, check on device manager from Windows, to see if the device is detected properly, open it in a part of your screen while you are trying.

SubwayChamp said:
Did you try some of the guides provided? It is not that hard to set up the drivers to can bypass the SLAA/DAA restriction, also you have other forum explaining how it works https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/mod-dev-mediatek-mtk-auth-bypass-sla-daa-utility.4232377/ there are various sites speaking about it, you have to keep it trying.
Can you enter to recovery, or fastboot mode? (this is done through stock recovery), I know you can't turn on the device, so you're bricked, but you have to try other modes, this will give you the certainty that device is not totally bricked, but only display is not showing a thing? When you try the various modes available, check on device manager from Windows, to see if the device is detected properly, open it in a part of your screen while you are trying.
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Didn't work. I think the partition had been damaged.
I shoud buy new motherboard

Tikaram22 said:
Didn't work. I think the partition had been damaged.
I shoud buy new motherboard
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But what you have from the device?, some advice/warning. What you can do and what not? If the device shows some signal of life, and it is recognized for your PC, then you shouldn't replace it.
You just have to step in every of the ways.

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SubwayChamp said:
But what you have from the device?, some advice/warning. What you can do and what not? If the device shows some signal of life, and it is recognized for your PC, then you shouldn't replace it.
You just have to step in every of the ways.
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Have followed but not successed.
Sending to Sevice center soon

Asus Rog Phone 3 Uber hard brick

Hi Guys,
I really need help with this one. I have tried almost everything.
Here is my problem.
I have an Rog phone 3 strix edition QUALCOMM based.
I repaired the screen because i dropped the phone.
Everything was fine working well. Me with my big head decided to do an factory reset to wipe everything clean from the phone and then the problem started.
The phone was restarting every time i plugged in a usb c cable. If i wanted to listen to some music on headset wont work because it will end in a bootloop.
Now the phone is stuck in CSC Fastboot mode and PC wont recognized it. The screen will turn on and send me to CSC fastboot but that's it. I can turn it back off.
Can i Revive the phone or is it food for the recycling bin?
Please Help.
Sincerely,
Ayolyas

With some effort you should be able to get back on track - unless it's hardware related to the display change you've done.
Can you do a reboot to bootloader from the boot menu? If you can confirm if you have fastboot access. If you do, RAW flash the device.
Worst case, you force the device into EDL mode and do a flash from there, but leave at as the last option.
If the relpaced display is causing harware issues, that's a bigger problem...

Hi Andrologic,
I cannot reboot to the bootloader. I am stuck in csc fastboot. I was trying to put it in edl mode i even bought an edl cable. But i have no idea how to use it or how to put the phone in edl.
I went back to the repair shop but the phone was working fine when it left the phone shop. The problem started when i decided to go for factory reset.

ayolyas said:
Hi Andrologic,
I cannot reboot to the bootloader. I am stuck in csc fastboot. I was trying to put it in edl mode i even bought an edl cable. But i have no idea how to use it or how to put the phone in edl.
I went back to the repair shop but the phone was working fine when it left the phone shop. The problem started when i decided to go for factory reset.
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So, when you turn on the device, it falls into CSC FB and you can't navigate anywhere at all from there?
What happens if you try to do a RAW flash from CSC FB?
Flashing it in EDL mode may otherwise be the only option. Power off the device completely. Then hold Vol up+down pressed and connect to the USB side port. You should land with a completely black screen and on your pc see the device identified in 9008 mode - that's EDL. Since you have a flash cable, you can obviously use that too.
Remember you need Qualcom drivers installed to work in EDL mode. There is a guide with steps for EDL flashing somewhere here on the forum. All the steps are explained.

Andrologic said:
So, when you turn on the device, it falls into CSC FB and you can't navigate anywhere at all from there?
What happens if you try to do a RAW flash from CSC FB?
Flashing it in EDL mode may otherwise be the only option. Power off the device completely. Then hold Vol up+down pressed and connect to the USB side port. You should land with a completely black screen and on your pc see the device identified in 9008 mode - that's EDL. Since you have a flash cable, you can obviously use that too.
Remember you need Qualcom drivers installed to work in EDL mode. There is a guide with steps for EDL flashing somewhere here on the forum. All the steps are explained.
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I cannot navigate anywhere from csc. If i try to reboot bootloader i will end in the same place.
I try to connect like you told me Vol up + down but i ended up at the same place. An raw flash from csc fb how do i do that?
And the steps for edl if you can help where to find those steps because my google history is full off items and still no luck finding the right one.

ayolyas said:
I cannot navigate anywhere from csc. If i try to reboot bootloader i will end in the same place.
I try to connect like you told me Vol up + down but i ended up at the same place. An raw flash from csc fb how do i do that?
And the steps for edl if you can help where to find those steps because my google history is full off items and still no luck finding the right one.
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Yes, you have flash cable, so getting into EDL shouldn't be an issue any way.
This is a useful video on how to use your flash cable to force the device to EDL:
Just remember you need QCom drivers installed to flash in EDL mode, the normal drivers won't do it in EDL.
What is the device identified as on your PC when in CSC FB? Can you send any FB commands to the device at all? Does 'Fastboot Devices' return your device id? If so, try first to do a RAW flash from the Fastboot state you are stuck at. You don't really want to mess with EDL if you can avoid it. Download one of the RAW rom's from the links here on the forum. Version number doesn't matter as long as it matches with your device version, i.e. WW assuming you're on Global.

ayolyas said:
Hi Guys,
I really need help with this one. I have tried almost everything.
Here is my problem.
I have an Rog phone 3 strix edition QUALCOMM based.
I repaired the screen because i dropped the phone.
Everything was fine working well. Me with my big head decided to do an factory reset to wipe everything clean from the phone and then the problem started.
The phone was restarting every time i plugged in a usb c cable. If i wanted to listen to some music on headset wont work because it will end in a bootloop.
Now the phone is stuck in CSC Fastboot mode and PC wont recognized it. The screen will turn on and send me to CSC fastboot but that's it. I can turn it back off.
Can i Revive the phone or is it food for the recycling bin?
Please Help.
Sincerely,
Ayolyas
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Have you fix it?

osomakohj said:
Have you fix it?
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Hi,
Nope. I can get into EDL mode so i think it is hardware related. You can say it is fresh for the garbage.

ayolyas said:
Hi,
Nope. I can get into EDL mode so i think it is hardware related. You can say it is fresh for the garbage.
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maybe try edl cable maybe it'll work? its very cheap in online store

osomakohj said:
maybe try edl cable maybe it'll work? its very cheap in online store
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I did use a EDL cable and i also build one but no succes for both.

ayolyas said:
I did use a EDL cable and i also build one but no succes for both.
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Hope you did the proper way of entering edl mode. btw you can still send that to service center. but first try some other way as your phone still boot