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Can't Install update.zip from SD card!!

Hello all,
So I've been digging through the site for a week or so before i made the plunge to Root my stock Magic. I bought at v1.5, updated to 1.6 (before I new I wanted to Root). I have since gone back to 1.5, created back up with Cyanogen, Flashed, Wiped and am now at the point where Im trying to load my new Rom (Cyanogen's latest) via update.zip.
Problem is, Im using a mac so there is no zip extension by default. I add the extention, plug the SD into my phone, boot to recovery and attempt to install but I fails displaying: "E:Can't access open/sdcard/update.zip (bad) Installation aborted"
Any idea's? I've seen a couple recommenations to rename minus "zip" or reformat the SD card. None of which have helped. Im currently sitting at v1.5 rejecting the Tmobile 1.6 system update messages a couple times an hour!!! *sigh*

if your using a recent recovery rom you should have choose zip option
so just download cy rom leave name as is then put in root of sd boot to recovery and choose zip

sitimber said:
if your using a recent recovery rom you should have choose zip option
so just download cy rom leave name as is then put in root of sd boot to recovery and choose zip
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Thanks for you response.
I am using CyanogenMod v1.4 Recovery. I have the option to "apply any zip from SD" but nothing is displayed in the list unless its named "update.zip" I had other files on the card that don't show up. In fact, Cyanogen's last update links to a Wiki that doesn't even instruct you to rename the new Rom's to 'update' but again, my SD doesnt display them.

Is the zip on the root of your card? You should probably redownload the CM rom and put that one you redownloaded on your sdcard without renaming it or anything. That might work.

how do you copy the file across
phone in recovery mode or phone fully booted
if the first you will need to reboot back to recovery after you copied it accross to show
you could fully format your card fat32 if your using cy rom mount sd card and copy just the cy rom across to the card remember to backup card first

sitimber said:
how do you copy the file across
phone in recovery mode or phone fully booted
if the first you will need to reboot back to recovery after you copied it accross to show
you could fully format your card fat32 if your using cy rom mount sd card and copy just the cy rom across to the card remember to backup card first
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I tried 2 options. 1)Fully booted via usb into the card and 2)removing card and mounting via a Card Reader to my Mac. In both cases I booted to Recovery Mode on the phone and had the same result.
As far as formating the card, its not stock, its an 8 gig that I formated via the phone's erase/format function. Is that not sufficient?
In regards to cy's ROM Im not able to access it after I backup with the apk i have (never get the "Load Custom Rom" button, which is why im using cynoagens.

Anartic said:
Is the zip on the root of your card? You should probably redownload the CM rom and put that one you redownloaded on your sdcard without renaming it or anything. That might work.
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Yup...had already tried that too. *sigh* SD card wont see anything unless its named 'update.zip'.

try the amon_ra recovery
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689412/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img 32a phone
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689411/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3G.img 32b phone
Copy recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img to a location where fastboot can find it.
Boot your Magic into fastboot mode (boot while holding BACK)
Connect your Magic via usb to your pc/mac/...
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your device)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img (remember to change the H to a G if you have 32b)
when booted to recovery
partition card via this
than go to bottom of menu and select mount sd card
copy file across and reboot back to recovery
select choose.zip and ???????

Ohene10 said:
Im currently sitting at v1.5 rejecting the Tmobile 1.6 system update messages a couple times an hour!!! *sigh*
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I'm assuming the quoted statement above is still true. I flash via a Mac all the time, so here's what I would do if I were you.
Have the phone booted into your standard ROM.
Plug in the USB cable.
Pull the top menu down on your phone and choose Mount USB.
You should see a new volume in Finder on your Mac (Mine is called no name)
Put the TWO files required for Cyanogenmod on the root of that volume (one of the files is called HTCRootedBase something or other.zip and the other is Cyanogen's actual changes)
Power off the phone after the file copy is complete.
Unplug the USB.
Reboot into recovery by holding the Home&Power button.
Choose apply any zip
Select the HTCRootedBase file first.
Let it do its thing.
When it says "Install from SD complete", run apply any zip again.
Choose the Cyanogen zip file.
When it says "Install from SD complete", reboot the phone.
Be PATIENT. It may take 5 minutes for the phone to reboot, but as soon as you see the blue Android logo with the guy on the skateboard you can start doing the happy dance.

sitimber said:
try the amon_ra recovery
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689412/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img 32a phone
http://rapidshare.com/files/291689411/recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3G.img 32b phone
Copy recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img to a location where fastboot can find it.
Boot your Magic into fastboot mode (boot while holding BACK)
Connect your Magic via usb to your pc/mac/...
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your device)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H.img (remember to change the H to a G if you have 32b)
when booted to recovery
partition card via this
than go to bottom of menu and select mount sd card
copy file across and reboot back to recovery
select choose.zip and ???????
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Forgive my ignorance but Im completely new to this. After fastbooting and connecting to my Mac Im stumped....

jsnyng said:
I'm assuming the quoted statement above is still true. I flash via a Mac all the time, so here's what I would do if I were you.
Have the phone booted into your standard ROM.
Plug in the USB cable.
Pull the top menu down on your phone and choose Mount USB.
You should see a new volume in Finder on your Mac (Mine is called no name)
Put the TWO files required for Cyanogenmod on the root of that volume (one of the files is called HTCRootedBase something or other.zip and the other is Cyanogen's actual changes)
Power off the phone after the file copy is complete.
Unplug the USB.
Reboot into recovery by holding the Home&Power button.
Choose apply any zip
Select the HTCRootedBase file first.
Let it do its thing.
When it says "Install from SD complete", run apply any zip again.
Choose the Cyanogen zip file.
When it says "Install from SD complete", reboot the phone.
Be PATIENT. It may take 5 minutes for the phone to reboot, but as soon as you see the blue Android logo with the guy on the skateboard you can start doing the happy dance.
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Unable to install the ROM...same error message: "E:Can't access open/sdcard/HTC_ADP_1......zip (bad) Installation aborted"

can you try another sd card

Ok, problem solved! It seems my Mac was not correctly downloading the files in the zip format even though i was manually changing the extention. Luckily i have Parallels so I downloaded via XP and added the correct zip files to my sd from there and success! Thanks for all your help!!!

glad you got there bet you learned alot about adb recovery because of your little problem

Please help!!!

Hi all.
I wa trying to update radio on my magic 32a.
I went in recovery mode and then apply zip file without renaming it, from recovery;
zip file name is update-hboot-1.33.2010-signed.zip
Here are operation that I have done:
copy file mentioned above into SD card
go in fastboot mode
find device
boot my recovery image from fastboot (I have not flashed permanently recoevry image on my device) recovery image is RA 1.5.2H
from menu of recovery I choose apply any zip file, without renaming the file
Then I have to reboot system
I reboot it, but it still remain with logo startup
I have tried to remove battery and then go into fastboot, but nothing
How can I solve this problem??
Thanks all for collaboration
Fabrizio

[Guide] Unlocking HTC Desire HD using HTCDEV method and installing CyanogenMod

I'm pretty new here but as I documented the process of modding my own phone I thought I'd share it with you. I didn't invent any of these processes and this information is available from many different sources. I've tried to credit any source material that I've used verbatim. I am by no means an expert.
Please reply back with any corrections and I'll be happy to edit the post.
This guide describes how to take a HTC Desire HD (mine was fully patched with OTA updates including Sense 3.0), unlock it and install CyanogenMod onto it. It worked for me but it might not for you. I don't take any responsibility for you turning your phone into a brick!
Pro Tips
Remember, in any steps requiring the phone to be powered off, just give it a minute to make sure that it is properly turned off.
Understand what's happening! If you get what's going on, you've more chance of fixing it if it goes wrong. This process describes how to use HTCs official method to unlock the bootloader. This allows you to change the operating system on the phone. The phone contains a recovery system which we an engineer can boot into to replace the main operating system if it becomes unbootable. We are going to replace this stock recovery system with a modified one which allows us do fiddle about with the phone's internal partitions. Once we have the modified recovery system in place we use it backup the existing phone operating system and replace it with a modified one. We can also use it to restore the original one again if things go wrong.
Read all of the instructions properly first! Don't go off half-****ed!
As far as I'm aware you can't reverse the official HTC bootloader unlock (i.e put your phone back *exactly* as it was) and it may effect your warranty. You have been warned!
Unlock the Bootloader
INFO: You can use the HTCDEV unlock bootloader method from HTC as an 'official' means of unlocking the bootloader. Confused? Check out the official site: http://htcdev.com/bootloader/ I'm not going to describe it step by step here because HTC do that quite well enough themselves.
Quick tip. If when going from one step to another on the HTC website you come to a white screen, that may be because you've been logged out. Just go back to the first page, log in again, then go back to the last step you completed.
Another quick tip. Make sure you properly install everything HTC tells you to. We'll need it all later...
Installing recovery mode
INFO: The stock recovery mode itself is pretty basic and can't do much, so we need to replace it with a custom recovery image.
We're going to use the clockworkmod recovery image which you grab from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4518713/archive/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.7.111102-j_r0dd_mod-ace.zip (originally seen here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118865)
Make sure that the fast boot mode on your phone is disabled. You can find this in your power settings menu.
If the phone is connected via a USB cable then unplug it.
Power off the phone using the power button and leave it alone for a minute.
INFO: To flash the new recovery image to the phone, you need to reboot the phone into the bootloader so that you can select a new image to boot. The bootloader is known as HBOOT.
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
On your PC open cmd prompt and cd to the platform-tools directory of the android sdk. Mine is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>
Copy the .img file from the clockworkmod zip file we downloaded earlier to the platform-tools directory. Rename it recovery.img
Go to your command prompt and issue this command:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
INFO: The recovery image will then be written to your phone, and as long as everything went well you'll get a message saying OK.
Ensure that BOOTLOADER is selected in the HBOOT menu and press POWER button to select it. Now you're back at the HBOOT menu.
Use the volume buttons to highlight RECOVERY and press the power button to select it. After showing you the HTC logo, the phone should boot into recovery mode!
Backing up your phone
Using the volume buttons to select move to the 'backup and restore' option in the menu. Use power to select and use the backup option. This backs up your current phone setup to the SD card.
Select power off to turn off you phone. Leave it a few secs - select reboot system now.
When your phone is backup and running, mount it in mass storage mode and navigate to the root of your SD card. See the folder called 'clockworkmod'? copy that along with everything in it to your computer and put it somewhere safe. That's your backup. If needs be, you can use this backup your phone back to the original state!
Installing CyanogenMod (other mods may vary)
Mostly taken from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Nexus_One:_Full_Update_Guide with some extra stuff that messed with me when I tried to do it.
Download the latest version of CyanogenMod from http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=ace
Download the Google Apps for the device. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Version/Google_Apps
Place the CyanogenMod update.zip file on the root of the SD card.
Place the Google Apps .zip on the root of the SD card also.
Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery.
Once the device boots into the ClockworkMod Recovery, use the side volume buttons to move around, and the power button to select.
Select the option to Wipe data/factory reset.
Then select the option to Wipe cache partition.
And the option to wipe the Dalvik cache
Select Install zip from sdcard.
Select Choose zip from sdcard.
Select the CyanogenMod update.zip.
Select Install zip from sdcard
Select Choose zip from sdcard
Select the Google apps zip
These extra steps seem to have been required by people in this thread. All credit due to marsdta and theluckster for their suggestions. I've edited this guide to include the instructions here where they are more visible.
On your computer extract the ROM zip (e.g. update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip) and there should be a file inside it called boot.img. This should be flashed automatically, however for some reason via the HTCDEV method it is not.
To do it manually, you need to enter fastboot mode, as per the instructions above:
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
Then on your PC, in the directory you extracted the zip file run:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Once the installation has finished, select Go Back to get back to the main menu, and select the Reboot system now option. The phone should now boot into CyanogenMod.
Now wait for what seems like an incredibly long time with the phone showing the 'htc' screen.
INFO: The phone should now boot into CyanogenMod!
Restoring your phone - When things go wrong
OK, so you flashed a bad mod. Time to restore.
First up, put the backup you made in the previous step onto the root of your SDcard (if it isn't already there). Then, I came across this video which seems to explain things pretty well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYGe8mmNWU
The basic gist of it is, boot into recovery mode, format the cache, data and system partitions, wipe the Dalvik cache, then restore the backup from your SD card.

Wow thanks a lot!
I personally have 1 problem:
Step 12 of the "installing recovery mode" when i type in the command in command prompt is says:
'error: cannot load recovery.img'
I placed it in the same folder as fastboot en renamed it "recovery.img".
I unlocked the bootloader succesfully btw..
Any thoughts?

I think you should contemplate using attn1's ace hack kit to gain bootloader unlock instead of voiding your warranty.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
I think you should contemplate using attn1's ace hack kit to gain bootloader unlock instead of voiding your warranty.
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Well I've already unlocked the bootloader through htcdev.
But tried the Attn1's as well...ended up saying:
/data/local/tmp/goldcard.img: cannot open for read: No such file or directory
starting downgrade...
** The phone will now reboot into HBOOT.
** It will then check the file just sent.
** If everything is okay, the phone will
** prompt you to continue by pressing
** VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.
The phone did not prompt me to continue by pressing volume up.
When i start clockwork recovery it states i should root my phone...
So a lot going wrong and i can't figure out what..

how long the htc screen? I'm waiting for a looooong time

Thanks for the tutorial. I've followed the instructions and managed to unlock the bootloader and install ClockworkMod, however after flashing CM7 and rebooting it is stuck on the H3G boot screen (isn't flashing CM7 supposed to overwrite the boot logo?). I'm trying to flash:
update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip
gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
I've double checked /data, /system, /cache and Dalvik-Cache have been wiped before flashing but still no avail
Here are the versions from the bootloader:
***UNLOCKED***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 22 2011, 14:28:19
I am able to restore the backup, but flashing any other ROM just doesn't boot.

The guide is missing one key step . Flashing the boot image.
So after flashing your from boot back into boot loader and flash your roms boot.img.(just copy it over to your fast boot file)
Then run the command
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot . Done.
You'll have to do this every time you flash different roms. 4ext has a nice feature of doing this for those that have HTC unlocked you should try it out
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Awesome, thanks marsdta! It is working now, good work!

thelucster said:
Awesome, thanks marsdta! It is working now, good work!
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can you repeat it more clear for me because i have the same problem.
Thank you Thelucster. You have saved me from a big mistake.

crom1 said:
can you repeat it more clear for me because i have the same problem
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First flash the Cyanogen ROM and Google Apps, as per the instructions above. Then on your computer extract the ROM zip (e.g. update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip) and there should be a file inside it called boot.img. This should be flashed automatically, however for some reason via the HTCDEV method it is not.
To do it manually, you need to enter fastboot mode, as per the instructions above:
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
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Then on your PC, in the directory you extracted the zip file run:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I didn't set notifications on this post and forgot it existed till today. I've updated the guide with the information posted by marsdta and theluckster to make things clearer. Sorry about any confusion caused by missing that step out.

the boot screen shows cyanogen(mod)7 instead of the regular HTC sign!! Following each and every step I landed up here. And now I am stuck, cuz this boot screen has been there for like half-an hour....does it mean something is wrong or does it take this much time to load first???

Hello,
for HTC dev unlocked bootloader (about what is added after step 15 in "installing cyanogen" phase) : it seems that the boot.img must be flashed before installing the .zip from sdcard.
I got stuck for that. Could be worth to make it clear.
Great tutorial anyway, thank you !

zarkenciel said:
Hello,
for HTC dev unlocked bootloader (about what is added after step 15 in "installing cyanogen" phase) : it seems that the boot.img must be flashed before installing the .zip from sdcard.
I got stuck for that. Could be worth to make it clear.
Great tutorial anyway, thank you !
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It shouldn't matter. I've seen people do it both ways and it worked fine for them.
@ash win. Your in a boot loop. Did you do a full wipe before flashing? Could be just a bad flash. Go back and reflash the rom and boot.img. you should also verify the md5hash to make sure yous didn't get a corrupt download file.

Just finished the tutorial, works perfectly. Thanks for writing it.

Does this unlock you from the network, i.e. is this the alternative to paying £15 for an unlock code?
I do understand this is for modding and flashing to a new ROM, but I am wondering if it also unlocks the phone from your network (or maybe that is IMEI based).
This is not for any illegal purposes, just I fancy a new ROM and I am now out of contract, so happy to experiment with flashing.

ohforfs said:
Does this unlock you from the network, i.e. is this the alternative to paying £15 for an unlock code?
I do understand this is for modding and flashing to a new ROM, but I am wondering if it also unlocks the phone from your network (or maybe that is IMEI based).
This is not for any illegal purposes, just I fancy a new ROM and I am now out of contract, so happy to experiment with flashing.
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No, you need the aahk for that. That gives you sim unlock as well. Just Google attn1 aahk and you'll find it

marsdta said:
No, you need the aahk for that. That gives you sim unlock as well. Just Google attn1 aahk and you'll find it
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Thanks - very kind of you to point me in the right direction, I've found it

Hi,
and how do i root my phone after HTCDev Unlock??
I want install the Custom Rom "Sabsa Prime". Do i need root to flash it?
Sorry for my bad english.

You may also want to include wiping battery stats in the advanced option of cwm in your guide

Reset Internal Memory

Is there a way to reset the Internal Memory of the N4 without the phone? I try to turn my phone on and it's a lit black screen. I accidentally dragged a file named "Recovery.img" onto the memory and I'm guessing that's what the problem is...

12Fully said:
Is there a way to reset the Internal Memory of the N4 without the phone? I try to turn my phone on and it's a lit black screen. I accidentally dragged a file named "Recovery.img" onto the memory and I'm guessing that's what the problem is...
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Where did you drag it to? Do you have CWM or TWRP recovery, and can you boot to it? If so just adb push a rom zip and flash it.
Can you boot to BL? Have you tried flashing the stock, or other, recovery image yet? Anyways usually a good idea to provide more detail if possible, any steps you've taken already, blah, blah.
Anyways worse case scenario you can back up YOUR apps and the user partition of the SD card via adb:
Code:
adb backup -all -nosystem -shared -apk
If your BL is already unlocked, then flashing the factory images via fastboot won't result in you having to unlock your BL and potentially lose your junk. If you do have to unlock your BL and it wipes your data off the sdcard:
Code:
adb restore backup.ab
adb back up guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
flash factory images: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

I dragged it onto the main directory of the phone. I unlocked my bootloader, installed CWM via fastboot, and now it won't let me start up my phone. I CAN boot into bootloader.

12Fully said:
I dragged it onto the main directory of the phone. I unlocked my bootloader, installed CWM via fastboot, and now it won't let me start up my phone. I CAN boot into bootloader.
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Try
Code:
fastboot erase cache
and see if you can boot then.

I still can't reboot.
*Edit
Resolved. Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit did the trick.

nova plus mla l03 done screwed up (brick af)

sooo yesterday I thought id be smart and try install an ota while rooted using flashify I obviously ignored the warning as if nothing bad could happen well it seems flashify went ahead and screwed me over i was trying to fix my mistake because flashify deleted the os so yay no os ok easy fix boot into fastboot downloaded this firm MLA-L03C6540B300CUSTC654D001 after download it i did a bit of playing around in twrp first and noticed system, cust, data, cache were not accesible so i went ahead formatted system i could now mount the system in the mount settings so forward i went with cache and now cache was mountable i could not get cust or data to mount or even be selectable and it read data as 0 bytes so i went ahead deleted the cust folder and the data folder and well now they dont exist wich i belive enlies my new issue i can now boot into fastboot i have replaced twrp with stock recovery extracted from update.app i then went ahead flashed system.img and boot.img using fastboot so recovery works i can get into it but I'm now in a boot loop with some weird ass Huawei symbols instead of the standered red one and it just shoves me into erocvery any help plz?

I did something pretty similar to you and I'm still stuck with my MLA-L03 bricked since a few weeks now...
Few conclusion about the thousand things I've tried:
-With fastboot I could not access cache or data to wipe them even if my bootloader is unlocked.
-I flashed the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img from all MLA-L03 images released from huawei without error but booting to the os still fail
-I can flash and boot or sideload TWRP. It looks like it function with root privileges and I can mount partitions as rw with no error but it does even if still format or wipe them, nothing really changes. Also, I can't access the user data partition. Maybe the fact that I had a finger-locked password encrypted that partition and now I can't even mount, wipe or format it even with root privileges.
So yea I'm stuck now...
As a last note I want to say that a normal boot sequence look like this:
-Show the unlocked bootloader screen with orange text
-Show Huawei logo animation
-Show lock screen
...and my phone currently does that
-Show the unlocked bootloader screen with orange text
-Show Huawei logo animation
-Shuts off and restart
I wish you luck and I'll try to find my notes so I can post more info and maybe someone will understand something out of this mess.

morbitron said:
I did something pretty similar to you and I'm still stuck with my MLA-L03 bricked since a few weeks now...
Few conclusion about the thousand things I've tried:
-With fastboot I could not access cache or data to wipe them even if my bootloader is unlocked.
-I flashed the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img from all MLA-L03 images released from huawei without error but booting to the os still fail
-I can flash and boot or sideload TWRP. It looks like it function with root privileges and I can mount partitions as rw with no error but it does even if still format or wipe them, nothing really changes. Also, I can't access the user data partition. Maybe the fact that I had a finger-locked password encrypted that partition and now I can't even mount, wipe or format it even with root privileges.
So yea I'm stuck now...
As a last note I want to say that a normal boot sequence look like this:
-Show the unlocked bootloader screen with orange text
-Show Huawei logo animation
-Show lock screen
...and my phone currently does that
-Show the unlocked bootloader screen with orange text
-Show Huawei logo animation
-Shuts off and restart
I wish you luck and I'll try to find my notes so I can post more info and maybe someone will understand something out of this mess.
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Soooo I fixed this haha how you may ask? 2 days of nothing but time so heres how I did it
Step 1. I downloaded this firmware from boycracked L03C6540B300CUSTC654D001
Step 2. I then extracted the update.app from the zip
Step 3. Using the huawei firmware extracted I extracted recovery boot and system img
Step 4. I then procedeaded to flash them using fast boot did a factory reset and well that didnt work I was still boot looping away
Step 5. Flashed twrp and noticed /system/data /cache were now all mountable only un mountable was cust
Step 5. I then re flashed the stock recovery Wich we extracted earlier after that I put the update.app on a 64gb sandisk micro SD card (one of the high end ones) in a folder called dload
Step 6. Proceed to start phone by holding all3 buttons down
Step 7. The update. App flashed fully in stock recovery and phone started was now in android 7 emui 5
Boot loader was relocked and phone is working great again

Delta wolf said:
Soooo I fixed this haha how you may ask? 2 days of nothing but time so heres how I did it
Step 1. I downloaded this firmware from boycracked L03C6540B300CUSTC654D001
Step 2. I then extracted the update.app from the zip
Step 3. Using the huawei firmware extracted I extracted recovery boot and system img
Step 4. I then procedeaded to flash them using fast boot did a factory reset and well that didnt work I was still boot looping away
Step 5. Flashed twrp and noticed /system/data /cache were now all mountable only un mountable was cust
Step 5. I then re flashed the stock recovery Wich we extracted earlier after that I put the update.app on a 64gb sandisk micro SD card (one of the high end ones) in a folder called dload
Step 6. Proceed to start phone by holding all3 buttons down
Step 7. The update. App flashed fully in stock recovery and phone started was now in android 7 emui 5
Boot loader was relocked and phone is working great again
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Holy ****! Really! I think I did not execute all the steps you did in this particular order so there is a chance that it works with my case also.
At first I want to try to do your steps like this but if that doesn't work for some reason I'll do it exactly as you said:
Step 1. I downloaded this firmware from boycracked L03C6540B300CUSTC654D001
Step 2. I then extracted the update.app from the zip
Step 3. Using the huawei firmware tool extracted I extracted recovery boot and system img
Step 4. I put the update.app on a 64gb sandisk micro SD card (one of the high end ones) in a folder called dload
Step 5. Proceed to start phone by holding all3 buttons down
Step 6. The update. App flashed fully in stock recovery and phone started was now in android 7 emui 5
I'll try that as soon as I get the time and I'll get back to you.

I have the same problem I have not been able to revive my Huawei Nova Plus .... I am downloading the recommended firmware for the test ... Question has worked ????

Explain more steps 3 y 4
morbitron said:
Holy ****! Really! I think I did not execute all the steps you did in this particular order so there is a chance that it works with my case also.
At first I want to try to do your steps like this but if that doesn't work for some reason I'll do it exactly as you said:
Step 1. I downloaded this firmware from boycracked L03C6540B300CUSTC654D001
Step 2. I then extracted the update.app from the zip
Step 3. Using the huawei firmware tool extracted I extracted recovery boot and system img
Step 4. I put the update.app on a 64gb sandisk micro SD card (one of the high end ones) in a folder called dload
Step 5. Proceed to start phone by holding all3 buttons down
Step 6. The update. App flashed fully in stock recovery and phone started was now in android 7 emui 5
I'll try that as soon as I get the time and I'll get back to you.
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Ok,
Try the steps that were described but did not work ....
I do not know if I'm doing something wrong but they could help me by being more specific between step 3 and 4 that is done with boot system and recovery extracted

nikonacho said:
Ok,
Try the steps that were described but did not work ....
I do not know if I'm doing something wrong but they could help me by being more specific between step 3 and 4 that is done with boot system and recovery extracted
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I had a problem with mine too.
I used the extract tool, but found the firmware using google. Think I typed Huawei nova plus recovery.img rogers (carrier phone was from), and was led to a page I could get 2 .zip files.
I downloaded the update.zip file, then extracted to a folder on my desktop. I used the Huawei firmware extract tool on the update.app file in that folder. I extracted BOOT, RECOVERY, SYSTEM.
I then used fastboot to flash them to the phone. After that I rebooted holding the power and vol+, vol- buttons together. And system restore started. It looked like it was freezing at 5 percent but just leave it do it's thing, go for a coffee. When I came back the phone was in Huawei setup and ready to use again.
fastboot flash recovery RECOVERY.img
fastboot flash boot BOOT.img
fastboot flash system SYSTEM.img
fastboot reboot
were commands I used.
(these commands only work if you copy the BOOT, SYSTEM and RECOVERY.img files into same directory as fastboot)
Everything is running like normal now.