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A quick explanation of my stupidity, I unlock and load customer iOS builds on iPhones all the time. I decided to take on the task of loading a customer rom on my Nexus 4 for the first time thinking, "how much harder can it be!". I wanted to put Xylon onto my device. After getting into restore mode and wiping doing the factory reset command, the phone shut off. It will not turn on at all. I've tried hard resetting the device and get nothing. When plugged into my computer, I can see it recognizes it as a driverless Qualcomm USB device so I know the phone is on, it just shows absolutely nothing on screen. How can I get this back up and running? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Boot into bootloader and see if you can get fastboot to connect. If you can, it's fixable. Just flash the stock images until you work up the nerve to try again.
estallings15 said:
Boot into bootloader and see if you can get fastboot to connect. If you can, it's fixable. Just flash the stock images until you work up the nerve to try again.
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There is no booting into anything. Just black nothingness on screen.
mukzer0 said:
There is no booting into anything. Just black nothingness on screen.
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If you hold volume down while booting, what happens?
estallings15 said:
If you hold volume down while booting, what happens?
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nothing
mukzer0 said:
nothing
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A round of applause for this guy.
You managed to brick your Nexus. Did you fastboot flash the wrong IMG to the bootloader or what? Tell us what you did so no one else does it.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm sorry for your loss.
I'd recommend letting it charge for a few hours, then try fastboot again.
estallings15 said:
A round of applause for this guy.
You managed to brick your Nexus. Did you fastboot flash the wrong IMG to the bootloader or what? Tell us what you did so no one else does it.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm sorry for your loss.
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Everything was going smoothly. Got to the customer loader which is where I did the factory reset and then went to select the image I wanted and realized I didn't put it in the phones directory. I went to the menu and hit "restart" and that was the last breath of my Nexus
Did you by chance flash xylon for nexus 7 by mistake as I believe that will brick your nexus 4 faster than crap thru a goose.
kzoodroid said:
Did you by chance flash xylon for nexus 7 by mistake as I believe that will brick your nexus 4 faster than crap thru a goose.
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Ya know, I didn't even think of that... "Asu-Hydro 7.zip". Serves me right for doing this all at 4am. What do I need to do to get it back up? Will a USB Jig work to get Odin going?
mukzer0 said:
Ya know, I didn't even think of that... "Asu-Hydro 7.zip". Serves me right for doing this all at 4am. What do I need to do to get it back up? Will a USB Jig work to get Odin going?
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Um, no. It's done. No bootloader = No way to recover. Unless I'm missing something. Anybody?
Also, Samsung uses Odin.
mukzer0 said:
Ya know, I didn't even think of that... "Asu-Hydro 7.zip". Serves me right for doing this all at 4am. What do I need to do to get it back up? Will a USB Jig work to get Odin going?
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Only Samsung phones have Odin. LG does have a "download" mode' but I haven't seen the utility for it.
Currently I haven't read of anyone recovering from a N7 ROM or kernel flash.
Sorry, I think you're out of luck...
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mukzer0 said:
Ya know, I didn't even think of that... "Asu-Hydro 7.zip". Serves me right for doing this all at 4am. What do I need to do to get it back up? Will a USB Jig work to get Odin going?
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Someone else just did this a few days ago and I think there is no recovery from this.
kzoodroid said:
Someone else just did this a few days ago and I think there is no recovery from this.
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well this is dissapointing..
mukzer0 said:
well this is dissapointing..
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mukzer0 said:
well this is dissapointing..
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I can't find the other thread but it has something to do with where the Nexus 7 writes its files to that bricks the Nexus 4.
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Well, if I send it back to google saying it wont turn on, think they will actually check to see if it was tampered with? If so, should I send it on 3 second through a trip through microwave before sending it?
kzoodroid said:
I can't find the other thread but it has something to do with where the Nexus 7 writes its files to that bricks the Nexus 4.
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Makes sense. The system or boot partition is probably the same as our bootloader.
estallings15 said:
Makes sense. The system or boot partition is probably the same as our bootloader.
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Yes it was something like that.
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mukzer0 said:
Well, if I send it back to google saying it wont turn on, think they will actually check to see if it was tampered with? If so, should I send it on 3 second through a trip through microwave before sending it?
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I don't think there is any way for them to check if it doesn't turn on. There have been a few others who have done the same thing and gotten an RMA form Google with no problems. I did it with an Incredible from Verizon about 2 years ago with no problems after bricking it trying to unlock the bootloader.
Just wanted to post a reply to my incident. Google replaced the device and there was no charge. Thank you all for your help
Hi so my lg g2 d801 is stuck on the lg boot logo and when i try going to recovery mode (twrp) it just turns into a black screen. Any idea how to get out of this please?
and when i connect the phone to the computer it pops up all these drives for some reason. really scared don't want to think that my phone just became paperweight
CrazzyBoy265 said:
and when i connect the phone to the computer it pops up all these drives for some reason. really scared don't want to think that my phone just became paperweight
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check this thread out. I had the same thing.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
this reverts you completely back to stock. You will lose all your data but you did back up regularly, right?
(edit) you only have to hold the volume UP key while plugging in the USB on a D801 to get into download mode.
Make sure you've disconnected usb when attempting to enter recovery. Hope the silence means you've sorted it out!
mooserov said:
check this thread out. I had the same thing.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
this reverts you completely back to stock. You will lose all your data but you did back up regularly, right?
(edit) you only have to hold the volume UP key while plugging in the USB on a D801 to get into download mode.
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im confused so im fashing stock rom normally?
yep. the phone will be the same as when you took it out of the box. What did you do to get to this point?
mooserov said:
yep. the phone will be the same as when you took it out of the box. What did you do to get to this point?
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i felt like going back to stock from (was on cm11 nightlie) so i went on flashify and for some reason i tried restoring twrp and when it rebooted it messed it up bad -.-
I am able to get into TWRP to flash a ROM. I have tried the Stock Sprint Root ZV8 and it just reboots into TWRP. I was unable to get it to work with the LG Flash Tools.
Ikyo said:
I am able to get into TWRP to flash a ROM. I have tried the Stock Sprint Root ZV8 and it just reboots into TWRP. I was unable to get it to work with the LG Flash Tools.
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well im downloading the rom as i write this hope it works for me. Do you got the same issue as i do?
CrazzyBoy265 said:
well im downloading the rom as i write this hope it works for me. Do you got the same issue as i do?
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You have to get your phone in DOWNLOAD mode then use the thread posted above to get back to stock
RubbleTea said:
You have to get your phone in DOWNLOAD mode then use the thread posted above to get back to stock
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ok i pressed up and down volume key its not doing anything am i doing something wrong?
CrazzyBoy265 said:
ok i pressed up and down volume key its not doing anything am i doing something wrong?
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You hold vol up and plug in to PC.....or hold vol down and power same time.....nothing?
RubbleTea said:
You hold vol up and plug in to PC.....or hold vol down and power same time.....nothing?
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worked perfectly with the volume up thing im unpacking the rom right now
i followed every step but when its unpacking the it says extract file error. Any ideas?
CrazzyBoy265 said:
i followed every step but when its unpacking the it says extract file error. Any ideas?
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If you're trying to unpack the ROM try redownloading the rom.
You're saying that you have CM installed? I had this exact problem and I had PA installed.. it was a mess. I had to sideload the original ROM because to flash with that program your build.prop has to be the original information when you received the phone or else the program will throw a "different phone model"
Do you have the LG usb drivers? Install all proper USB drivers and try to sideload an original ROM.
BTW do you have any backups? Restoring also gets you out of this mess
never mind i opened the wrong folder thanks for everything guys it worked perfectly ^.^
xxxrichievxxx said:
If you're trying to unpack the ROM try redownloading the rom.
You're saying that you have CM installed? I had this exact problem and I had PA installed.. it was a mess. I had to sideload the original ROM because to flash with that program your build.prop has to be the original information when you received the phone or else the program will throw a "different phone model"
Do you have the LG usb drivers? Install all proper USB drivers and try to sideload an original ROM.
BTW do you have any backups? Restoring also gets you out of this mess
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It worked perfectly but i guess i have to root my phone again so i think i lost all my backups from flashify
Didn't lose my root but now I've got some screen burn in because the phone wouldn't stay off.
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LCD screen burn in
MerlinOfLore said:
Didn't lose my root but now I've got some screen burn in because the phone wouldn't stay off.
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In case you don't know, you can supposedly get rid of it by displaying an all-white screen (with display brightness turned down to preserve bulb life).
MerlinOfLore said:
Didn't lose my root but now I've got some screen burn in because the phone wouldn't stay off.
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Really I found out how to turn my phone off when it was messed up I'm sorry to hear about that though
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my rooted G2 with stock 4.2 suddenly quit accepting a charge and appears to be caught in a boot loop. when I have it in via usb to my laptop it (laptop) responds by recognizing 12 different devices while saying they they all need to be reformatted. when I unplug the device they go away on the laptop. when I hold power (device) the LG logo will appear then quickly disappear leaving only the very dim backlight as proof that it isn't completely dead. any ideas? thank you
one more thing, the fiddling I have been doing is xposed modules. the last one I think I activated was xblast tools (very cool sh*t by the way).
You need to flash the xposed disable zip that's automatically put on the root of the storage directory. The latest module or change you added is most likely the cause. After flashing the zip, you'll need to reinstall xposed. Remember to disable the module that caused the bootloop.
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You dun got ATT'ed.
They're pushing OTA's out without asking now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2647654
Do one thing flash the .tot file for your phone if you can get to download mod, it should bring it back to factory defaults but it will format your sdcard as well so all personal data will be gone.
Here is the link to instructions:
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-lg-g2-to-stock-firmware/
se1988 said:
You need to flash the xposed disable zip that's automatically put on the root of the storage directory. The latest module or change you added is most likely the cause. After flashing the zip, you'll need to reinstall xposed. Remember to disable the module that caused the bootloop.
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I can flash even though I can not enter download mode?
abhinav.tella said:
Do one thing flash the .tot file for your phone if you can get to download mod, it should bring it back to factory defaults but it will format your sdcard as well so all personal data will be gone.
Here is the link to instructions:
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restore-lg-g2-to-stock-firmware/
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I cannot enter download mode I'm afraid.
khaytsus said:
You dun got ATT'ed.
They're pushing OTA's out without asking now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2647654
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What exactly do you mean? I glanced at the link and either your joke went right over my head or I missed it in the lot her thread.
pollutedmuse said:
I can flash even though I can not enter download mode?
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can't you enter recovery?
If you can't enter recovery or download mode, you have a softbrick. Search on how to solve softbrick issues. Im sorry I cant help you any further if it is a softbrick, as I am completely new to LG
se1988 said:
can't you enter recovery?
If you can't enter recovery or download mode, you have a softbrick. Search on how to solve softbrick issues. Im sorry I cant help you any further if it is a softbrick, as I am completely new to LG
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Do you mean hard brick?
pollutedmuse said:
my rooted G2 with stock 4.2 suddenly quit accepting a charge and appears to be caught in a boot loop. when I have it in via usb to my laptop it (laptop) responds by recognizing 12 different devices while saying they they all need to be reformatted. when I unplug the device they go away on the laptop. when I hold power (device) the LG logo will appear then quickly disappear leaving only the very dim backlight as proof that it isn't completely dead. any ideas? thank you
one more thing, the fiddling I have been doing is xposed modules. the last one I think I activated was xblast tools (very cool sh*t by the way).
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When you plug it into your computer do you see a yellowed out device in Windows device manager?
If so try this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48361867&postcount=68
or alternately, install the pdanet drivers.
If you can then get adb access to your device there are several paths you could take.
I used this thread (I had recovery but not twrp), as it's the least destructive - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
If you can't get adb access with either single sooner or pdanet drivers, you may have to resort to this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2582142
(actually kind of sounds like fun to me)
pollutedmuse said:
Do you mean hard brick?
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No, hard brick is when the device won't even turn on. OPs device turns on, but is stuck in limbo.
se1988 said:
No, hard brick is when the device won't even turn on. OPs device turns on, but is stuck in limbo.
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Oh, F'n sweet! Thank good sir! I am gonna work on your advice immediately.
CxanDroid said:
When you plug it into your computer do you see a yellowed out device in Windows device manager?
If so try this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48361867&postcount=68
or alternately, install the pdanet drivers.
If you can then get adb access to your device there are several paths you could take.
I used this thread (I had recovery but not twrp), as it's the least destructive - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
If you can't get adb access with either single sooner or pdanet drivers, you may have to resort to this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2582142
(actually kind of sounds like fun to me)
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Thank you my friend!
pollutedmuse said:
Oh, F'n sweet! Thank good sir! I am gonna work on your advice immediately.
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Good luck!!
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I recently rooted my note3 and installed xpose framework and other tweaks. i later realised that my power button cant lock and put my device into my lock screen.
the power button still works for everything else and i have a software button to bring it to the lock screen which i made using the "greenify app".
whats causing this and is there any fix? or any ways to put the device into safe mode ans see if this is caused by some faulty tweak? bug?
Summary:
"Power button works for everything except putting the phone to lockscreen/screen blackout"
Basic solution is to go to security and check "power button instantly locks" something like that.
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not the fix
jdgamble said:
Basic solution is to go to security and check "power button instantly locks" something like that.
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Thans for the reply.
i do know how to fix that..
but Thats not the issue. It doesnt even go to a black screen when i click the power button. just no response at all.
Rysekhon said:
Thans for the reply.
i do know how to fix that..
but Thats not the issue. It doesnt even go to a black screen when i click the power button. just no response at all.
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List the modules you installed. It is possible that something is overriding the button function.
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factory reset
jdgamble said:
List the modules you installed. It is possible that something is overriding the button function.
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I removed all my modules and root permissions and used super user to remove my root.
Ive backed up all my data, removed my root access and im planning to do a factory reset. That should fix it right? Is it possible to soft brick my device this way?
Im fluent when it comes to jailbreaking but still a total noob with rooting.
rysekhon2 said:
I removed all my modules and root permissions and used super user to remove my root.
Ive backed up all my data, removed my root access and im planning to do a factory reset. That should fix it right? Is it possible to soft brick my device this way?
Im fluent when it comes to jailbreaking but still a total noob with rooting.
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Factory reset will delete all data photos, music, vids, contact and messages etc. If you've backed up everything then you are good to go for factory reset and will welcome you back to fresh out of the box phone. And no soft brick can occur by doing this.
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jdgamble said:
Factory reset will delete all data photos, music, vids, contact and messages etc. If you've backed up everything then you are good to go for factory reset and will welcome you back to fresh out of the box phone. And no soft brick can occur by doing this.
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Did a factory reset but the problem is still here. Can't put my screen to sleep with the power button. This is really bugging me. Don't see any posts related to this online
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rysekhon2 said:
Did a factory reset but the problem is still here. Can't put my screen to sleep with the power button. This is really bugging me. Don't see any posts related to this online
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my phone can't time out. Think the app greenify must of messed up my phone somehow.
Have you tried a battery pull after FR?
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jdgamble said:
Have you tried a battery pull after FR?
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Battery pull as in remove and put the battery back in? Yes but not in any special way?
Hmmmm...this is odd. Can't seem to figure out anything that would mess up power button in such a manner.
You're on stock rom right? Nothing fancy done to your phone.
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jdgamble said:
Hmmmm...this is odd. Can't seem to figure out anything that would mess up power button in such a manner.
You're on stock rom right? Nothing fancy done to your phone.
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yea im on a stock rom. googled " note3 wont time out" and some people are having the same problem. havent found a fix yet tho. right now just leaving my note3 with battery out.
will try start in safe mode and see fi i can put it to time out
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yea im on a stock rom. googled " note3 wont time out" and some people are having the same problem. havent found a fix yet tho. right now just leaving my note3 with battery out.
will try start in safe mode and see fi i can put it to time out
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safemode didnt work as well. any way to totally fix it?
flash in a brand new rom? like start from totally clean note3
Rysekhon said:
safemode didnt work as well. any way to totally fix it?
flash in a brand new rom? like start from totally clean note3
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i was playing with boot animations last night. that could of caused it? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486469
Very interesting...
I discovered that if I renamed the boot animation qmg file under \system\media , the screen won't turn off. Once I restored the file, all is well.
Why is this?
how to i reset all this without doing it manualluy?
I'm assuming it's coded as most hardware functions are. Anyway applause for finding the solution on your own, well done.
ddogishere said:
I'm assuming it's coded as most hardware functions are. Anyway applause for finding the solution on your own, well done.
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i havent found a solution :/.
will try reinstall from a stock rom. first time doing this tho. any tips? or webistes where i can get roms? im scared i might install and download the wrong rom.
I successfully unlocked my bootloader, installed twrp and rooted with magisk then tried installing a rom, carbon rom to be precise... now my phone wont boot up at all just showing a black screen and it only goes into fastboot mode, how would I go about fixing it please
bodomfan said:
I successfully unlocked my bootloader, installed twrp and rooted, but tried installing a rom, carbon rom to be precise... now my phone wont boot up at all just showing a black screen and it only goes into fastboot mode, how would I go about fixing it please
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Did you ask in the carbon thread?
Chances are it was a wipe issue.
Did you wipe in stock or aosp recovery?
You can always get back to stock by flashing the stock firmware.
I did this via booting twrp then flashing to both slots.
So unlock storage in twrp, then go flash the ROM, reboot recovery and it'll change slot.
Then flash it again.
Then reboot
Should boot
If not boot to recovery again (not twrp) and wipe system and data.
Should work then..
I didn't have that issue when carbon myself
If push comes to shove there's a tool to get back to stock @meffles has suggested it a few times but I've not used it myself, although he has and he swears by it.
Probably a good way to go and won't be hard.
dladz said:
Did you ask in the carbon thread?
Chances are it was a wipe issue.
Did you wipe in stock or aosp recovery?
You can always get back to stock by flashing the stock firmware.
I did this via booting twrp then flashing to both slots.
So unlock storage in twrp, then go flash the ROM, reboot recovery and it'll change slot.
Then flash it again.
Then reboot
Should boot
If not boot to recovery again (not twrp) and wipe system and data.
Should work then..
I didn't have that issue when carbon myself
If push comes to shove there's a tool to get back to stock @meffles has suggested it a few times but I've not used it myself, although he has and he swears by it.
Probably a good way to go and won't be hard.
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What is the tool for stock please, can you link me to it
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/how-to/op8pro-unbrick-tool-to-restore-device-t4084953
meffles said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/how-to/op8pro-unbrick-tool-to-restore-device-t4084953
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Do they even have 14? Would it work to downgrade?
Never used it myself.
dladz said:
Do they even have 14? Would it work to downgrade?
Never used it myself.
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Don't think so but you can go to any version using this tool (depending on whichever version you choose to download).
But yes, you can go back to android 10 from 11 no problem.
I'll have a look, thank you
I'm downloading the newest version
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Don't think so but you can go to any version using this tool (depending on whichever version you choose to download).
But yes, you can go back to android 10 from 11 no problem.
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Thanks man, that sounds like the ticket.
Cheers.
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bodomfan said:
I'm downloading the newest version
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Oxygen downloader has 10.5.14 available for download.
Just incase you can't find it
dladz said:
Oxygen downloader has 10.5.14 available for download.
Just incase you can't find it
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My phone is still in fastboot mode, downloading tool now
meffles said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-8-pro/how-to/op8pro-unbrick-tool-to-restore-device-t4084953
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It's not showing my phone
bodomfan said:
It's not showing my phone
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Never used this one pal.
Meffles is your man or check in the thread..
Don't you connect in EDL mode?
Think it's like a lower level recovery mode that you get to without having the cable connected. The screen will be blank..
Then connect and if should show..
Least that's my loose understanding of it.
What does the thread say??
Ps: looks like the application has stopped responding..
Make sure you have ran it as an administrator and that all pre requisites are installed that the application requires..
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It's not showing my phone
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Turn your phone off, and make sure you don't have any cables connected. Hold volume up + volume down for 20 seconds, then plug in the usbc cable whilst still holding the volume buttons. You should see it spring into life. If not, then you need to check your drivers, which is covered in the link I provided you with.
I've taken it to a shop for repair
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Turn your phone off, and make sure you don't have any cables connected. Hold volume up + volume down for 20 seconds, then plug in the usbc cable whilst still holding the volume buttons. You should see it spring into life. If not, then you need to check your drivers, which is covered in the link I provided you with.
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Only the volume buttons?
bodomfan said:
Only the volume buttons?
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Correct.
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Correct.
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If only I saw this before I paid for a repair lol
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bodomfan said:
If only I saw this before I paid for a repair lol
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Ah dude, you should have waited man .
dladz said:
Ah dude, you should have waited man .
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I know, darn