long story short, I'm new to this and I'm sure I've made some stupid mistake or overlooked something. I've installed lineageOS, decided I didn't like it, and want to flash back to the Stock ROM. I tried this by connecting it to the flashtool (Emma) but it can't see the phone. ADB can see it but when I reboot into bootloader Fastboot can't? I can reboot into LineageOS's recoverery mode, but I have no idea how to use that to recover the stock rom? or maybe install TWRP? any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi to everyone! Can anyone explain me how to reflash a Stock Rom (6.0.1 or 7.0) back after a soft brick? I mean, once I accidentially installed an OTA update over rooted Android 7 with TWRP recovery, so after restarting the phone got TWRP bootloop and did not enter in the fastboot mode. Tried to reflash a nandroid backup (ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.7.4-20160920-seed) and clean installation of the following Roms:
[TWRP] General Mobile 4G Android 6.0.1 MOB30Q Stock ROM
[TWRP]General Mobile 4G Android N 7.0 NRD90R Stock ROM
cm-13.0-20160930-UNOFFICIAL-seed
ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.7.4-20160920-seed
cm-14.0-20161003-UNOFFICIAL-seed
omni-7.0-20161017-seed-HOMEMADE
but none of them helped. Is there a workaround on making the phone enter in the fastboot mode? Or can I reflash Stock Recovery 6.0.1 MOB30Q or Stock Recovery 7.0 NRD90R via TWRP to get clean installation of the Android 6.01. or 7?
If you want to keep twrp in your phone i don't know how i can help you, but otherwise you could search the stock bootloader etc and then flash it via adb/fastboot in the commandprompt on your computer. After that reboot to bootloader and then flash the rest of the files.
snrfie said:
If you want to keep twrp in your phone i don't know how i can help you, but otherwise you could search the stock bootloader etc and then flash it via adb/fastboot in the commandprompt on your computer. After that reboot to bootloader and then flash the rest of the files.
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The problem was - I could not enter into the adb/fastboot mode due to TWRP bootloop. That was a result of the OTA flashing over custom root and recovery. So I could neither recover my backup nor flash any custom or stock roms (flashing of custom or stock roms goes ok but restart results in TWRP bootloop).
I'm sorry, but i don't think i could help you with that. However with my huawei honor holly it was able to flash things if i removed the battery and disconnected it from the usb cable, then pressed volume down and power and put sptool in flashmode. When i connected it it would immediately start in fastboot mode but kind of basic. I don't know how to achieve immediate flashing after connecting to computer with adb/fastboot commands. Hope this helps.
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I'm sorry, but i don't think i could help you with that. However with my huawei honor holly it was able to flash things if i removed the battery and disconnected it from the usb cable, then pressed volume down and power and put sptool in flashmode. When i connected it it would immediately start in fastboot mode but kind of basic. I don't know how to achieve immediate flashing after connecting to computer with adb/fastboot commands. Hope this helps.
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So, my experience in solving this problem was like this: I started Install MOB30Q.bat from images folder (starting INSTALL_Android N 7.0 September Update.exe could not help), got a message waiting for device and gave a reboot on the phone already connected to PC (in TWRP mode). Flashing process started with some errors, but the main thing - phone got flashed with a Stock Rom over the exisitng Custom one.
There is a workaround on a Russian forum but that's a quite complicated method requiring a modified USB cable.
The other way is to flash 5.1.1 Stock Rom as it is adviced on the same forum but that's a Swift stock rom so I did not risk.
you did not mention what your device is! am i correct to assume that it is a gm 4g android one? if it is, then search and download for a stock rom that is flashable via fastboot.
with your device, remove the battery to force it to switch off, assuming you still have a bootloop as you said. refit the battery and then switch the phone to fastboot mode by pressing vol-down+power on. the rest is already a standard process to flash the stock rom via fastboot. this procedure guarantees that everything in your phone is erased to be replaced by the stock rom you just flashed.
So I was in the middle of using Lineage OS 14.1 when it notified that there was a May 20th update. I allowed it to update, when for some reason it just took me straight to Recovery.
When I tried to reboot back to the system, for some reason it continued to boot straight to recovery.
I tried wiping everything and reinstalling Lineage, but the same thing happened. Same with AICP.
I figured it was an issue with the recovery, so I flashed the latest img from recovery (since I can't do it from fastboot) yet the problem continues to persist..
Can anybody help? I can't do anything with fastboot because it always fails, I can't flash anything, I'm just stuck on TWRP no matter what I do. I even checked the system and everything and despite TWRP saying I "successfully installed rom" or whatever, nothing gets installed into the system or anything, it just stays empty. How do I fix this?
I read somewhere that it may be because it's trying to update something, and since TWRP is installed instead of the actual LG recovery, it can't install it or whatever. I was previously on a stock rom before I installed Lineage. Could that be it? I figured I can fix it using THIS method, but I'm not sure. The link to the KZD is dead and the only download available for D415 is "old" so I don't want to risk bricking my device.
Help is appreciated ahead of time!
I also just realized that I can't really do anything about flashing the stock rom manually because the download mode is registered as fastboot and it doesn't seem to properly register in the Device Manager at all...
I've also just attempted to factory reset the device, but the only thing that does is also boot into TWRP..
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I've also just attempted to factory reset the device, but the only thing that does is also boot into TWRP..
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In twrp there is a terminal so you might be able to get access to fastboot by removing download mode.
Look at the thread below.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/general/guide-fastboot-l90-d415-t2827825
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Fivavoa said:
So I was in the middle of using Lineage OS 14.1 when it notified that there was a May 20th update. I allowed it to update, when for some reason it just took me straight to Recovery.
When I tried to reboot back to the system, for some reason it continued to boot straight to recovery.
I tried wiping everything and reinstalling Lineage, but the same thing happened. Same with AICP.
I figured it was an issue with the recovery, so I flashed the latest img from recovery (since I can't do it from fastboot) yet the problem continues to persist..
Can anybody help? I can't do anything with fastboot because it always fails, I can't flash anything, I'm just stuck on TWRP no matter what I do. I even checked the system and everything and despite TWRP saying I "successfully installed rom" or whatever, nothing gets installed into the system or anything, it just stays empty. How do I fix this?
I read somewhere that it may be because it's trying to update something, and since TWRP is installed instead of the actual LG recovery, it can't install it or whatever. I was previously on a stock rom before I installed Lineage. Could that be it? I figured I can fix it using THIS method, but I'm not sure. The link to the KZD is dead and the only download available for D415 is "old" so I don't want to risk bricking my device.
Help is appreciated ahead of time!
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Hello, look at this page, this would solve the problem:
https://www.androidsis.com/solucionar-problema-bootloop-recovery-actualizacion-ota-linageos/
So I am not really skilled in this type of field but I need my old OP3t rooted. I tried following the installation instructions on TWRP's website for it and everything seemed to work fine at first but I forgot to push magisk onto my phone so I rebooted my phone, which I guess was a mistake. Because right now no matter what I do, I can't get into the TWRP menu to install magisk anymore. Everytime I flash the TWRP img it straight up boots my phone like normal and is not going into the menu. I even tried locking the bootloader und unlocking it again, but this does not work. I am out of ideas on what to do and need your help.
Thanks in advance,
Ceddy
Try to fastboot boot twrp.img and flash Magisk.
Hello guys!
Yesterday I tried to flash the newest Lineage-built to my new G7+ (XT1965-3, bought in Germany via Amazon), but something went wrong and now I'm afraid, I bricked my phone.
It's not my first flash of Lineage, as I did this in the past already on some older Phones (SII, SIII, S5), but it's the first time, that I have a major issue.
So I followed all the steps on the Lineage-Wiki (on Win10).
After flashing the recovery (the lineage-recovery, not TWRP) I wasn't able to enter the recovery-mode, so the phone booted to StockRom. And probably this was the problem: As it didn't react to VolumeDown+Power, I reflashed the recovery a second time. After that the touch-screen is not working any more.
I am able to enter the recovery-mode and I can boot to Stock-Rom, but in both modes the phone does not react to touch, so I can only use the Volume- and Power-Buttons.
Probably I made more mistakes after that: I thought, that a factory-reset would help, but It didn't. I also relocked the bootloader, but as I saw, that it also did not bring any solution, I unlocked it a second time.
Conclusion: I have a brand new phone, with lineage-recovery, an unlocked bootloader but without touch working.
I also tried to flash Lineage, but the sideload got stuck at 47%. So Lineage is not installed and it boots into Stock, where I can not get any further without touch.
Has anyone any idea, what could be the issue and how I can fix it? I would like to start from scratch, but I don't know, what is the exact problem and if i can for example return to stock recovery.
Thank you!
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If it helps: I am able to boot TWRP via "fastboot boot twrp-xxx.img". And in TWRP the touch works!
I could flash lineage directly via TWRP from external sd-card, but i am afraid that after that I won't be able to return if something goes wron.
probably your best bet is to go right back to stock using the LMSA tool and starting fresh. I've seen others encounter similar issues on different devices and always the cleaneast solution was just to role back everything and start over.
Thank you so much. With LMSA I managed to restore everything to stock and touch is working!
So I'm going to start from scratch and finally install Lineage.
Is is indicated to use the Lineage-Recovery, as the Lineage-Wiki says, or would it better to use TWRP?
TWRP gives me the option to flash from sd-card, which seems to me better than via sideload.
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Thank you so much. With LMSA I managed to restore everything to stock and touch is working!
So I'm going to start from scratch and finally install Lineage.
Is is indicated to use the Lineage-Recovery, as the Lineage-Wiki says, or would it better to use TWRP?
TWRP gives me the option to flash from sd-card, which seems to me better than via sideload.
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Glad your back up and running. Take a look in the lineage thread, but it does appear most people lean towards using twrp, shouldnt have an issue with either however.
digitaljeff said:
Glad your back up and running. Take a look in the lineage thread, but it does appear most people lean towards using twrp, shouldnt have an issue with either however.
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I'm having a similar problem. At first touch was fubar but I was able to return to stock using LMSA and now touch works. I can load TWRP with fastboot and even install a custom ROM and TWRP, but installing any custom ROM results in a boot loop during the finding and installing updates part of the phone setup during first boot. I'm tried Evolution X which I was running previously(for about a month, and then a boot loop started yesterday), PixelOS 10, and AncientOS, but all result in the boot loop on first boot after connecting to wifi.
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I fixed this somehow by manually flashing the latest stock firmware to slot a, and then extracting the evolution x Rom and manually extracting the IMG files inside and manually fastboot flashing those to slot b. I then set b as the active slot and booted up, patched the boot image with magisk, flashed that, and everything works. Not sure why twrp wouldn't do the trick.
Finally had the time to install Lineage. Now everything works.
I followed the instructions someone posted in the [ROM][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 17.1 [nightlies]-thread and the instructions of the lineage-wiki:
1. fastboot boot TWRP
2. sideload the copy-partitions.zip from lineage-wiki
3. factory reset via TWRP (wipe cache, dalvik and data)
4. sideload lineage
5. reboot bootloader
6. fastboot boot TWRP
7. sideload magisk
8. reboot system
Had a little bootloop the first time rebooting the system, but that was because I forgot to wipe data-partition in step 3. Wiping data and rebooting did it for me.
So I have a working Lineage17.1 with root via Magisk.
Thank you for the help!
I had exactly the same problem like you had. Bought a brand new moto g7 plus and after recovery flash, Touchscreen was not working anymore. I could manage to go back to the bootloader, sideloaded TWRP, but side loading lineage worked for me then. It seemed to be stuck on 47 percent, but this seems to be a normal issue, the file was there and after installing, touchscreen worked normally.
So I was messing around with my newly bought M4 Pro 5G and I wanted to root it. I started the process of unlocking the phone(bootloader) a week ago and just yesterday I was actually able to do it. Then I installed TWRP to get a backup of the system but I guess that during that process I managed to wipe the whole system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop that only shows the POCO logo and nothing else. Pressing VOL+/VOL- and Power button don't do anything at all and I think I've run out of options. I was wondering if there is anything I could do to install OS or TWRP back because for some reason it doesnt want to go into neither Fastboot or TWRP(I think I didnt install it properly because I had to use console commands almost everytime I wanted to launch it). Title sums up the problem.
Try to flash boot.img file of you stock ROM. It can help to exit bootloop. Or if this does not work i recommend you to reflash full rom once again from MI FLASH TOOL.
Hope it will help you.
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Try to flash boot.img file of you stock ROM. It can help to exit bootloop. Or if this does not work i recommend you to reflash full rom once again from MI FLASH TOOL.
Hope it will help you.
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Doesn't the phone have to be on fastboot to flash? I'm stuck in the POCO logo by the way. I haven't tried the "reflash full rom", is there anything else I might need besides the ROM and MI FLASH TOOL?