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Returning to stock

Wanting to go back to stock on the nexus 7. I have downloaded the factory image but for the life of me cannot figure out how to flash it. I am in the bootloader and i've extracted the image to my adb and fastboot directory. there is a "flash-all.sh" file but I'm unsure what to do with it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I personally don't remember how to use the .sh files.
But open the file with a text editor such as Notepad++, and you'll see the commands the script will run. You can run them manually.

sh files are purely for Linux users (it's the equivalent of batch files in Windows). Just run the commands in the sh file in your command prompt (or alter them so that it matches your fastboot).

I downloaded the images and looked at the script. Here is what it does.
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-grouper-3.34.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
<Wait for it to reboot>
fastboot -w update image-nakasi-jrn84d.zip
And you're done.

Thanks to all three of you. I am now back to stock. I appreciate the help at this crazy hour in the morning.

chris.wueste said:
Thanks to all three of you. I am now back to stock. I appreciate the help at this crazy hour in the morning.
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Help asap....trying to flash stock file... in adb, I've typed all fast boot commands...I get an error at the " boot loader boot loader grouper" command. It says error, cannot load etc.

gmen78 said:
Help asap....trying to flash stock file... in adb, I've typed all fast boot commands...I get an error at the " boot loader boot loader grouper" command. It says error, cannot load etc.
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Are you still stuck? What is going on at the moment? What have you tried? PM me if you would rather.

Ya I'm still stuck....tried using wugfresh toolkit to get back to stock but drivers ain't working correctly. I'd rather just flash stock Google image if possible and be done.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Can you use ADB and Fastboot???
Do you know how to use ADB and Fastboot???

If you are stuck returning to stock, I have just posted a full guide in the development section. I just did it myself to make sure that it works. Enjoy.

UPDATE Verizon Soak Test Does Break Root in regard to PWNMYMOTO

According to Droid Life, the Verizon Soak Test that just came out today doesn't break root.
heres the link
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/2...o-x-rolling-out-to-testers-doesnt-break-root/
WARNING DO NOT UPDATE IF YOU ARE USING PWNMYMOTO, some people are confirming bootloops. I believe this "keeping of root" is in relation to motoroot, but as always, do so at your own risk.

looks like the editor of droid life was rooted via motoroot and it kept that. I believe we have seen that with other OTAs. maybe not as exciting.

Glad to hear this. Of course, I un-rooted when I got the invite a week ago because I figured I either wouldn't get the OTA or it wouldn't install if I stayed rooted. I wonder if I can root again.

Tried to update with PwnMyMoto installed
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.

tyguy829 said:
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.
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I would try to clear your cache, hopefully that works for you
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Can't Clear Cache
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?

tyguy829 said:
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?
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would
fastboot erase cache
command not work in the bootloader?

tyguy829 said:
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?
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I believe you can also clear cache through TiBu

Be careful according to JCase the soak does break root. Check his twitter.

I'm in the same boat as above. Phone stuck in a bootloop. If anyone figures it out I'll be in your debt. Also rsdlite doesn't detect my phone so I can't even restore it that way. I'm hoping there's at least a way to restore to factory through adb but Google is coming up empty.
- Nathan

tyguy829 said:
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.
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After your phone reboots hold down vol down + power to get into the bootloader. Now you can flash recovery through fastboot. Get the fastboot files from here if you don't already have it and the FXZ file for your carrier here. Now you can either just flash the recovery or flash the entire rom. If you just flash the recovery then the next time you boot it will reboot into recovery and run the update. If you choose to flash the entire rom then you will be wiping everything. To flash using fastboot you will first need to make sure the contents of the FXZ file are in the same folder as the fastboot files. Next open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder with your fastbboot files (eg. cd C:\). Now use the following commands to flash the FXZ files. If you choose to just flash the recovery then skip all the other commands except the command to flash recovery.
Code:
fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin (optional: this is the boot logo)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize (optional: will erase any customizations if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot erase clogo (optional: will erase the custom boot logo if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot

Thank you so much!! Worked like a charm as far as restoring my phone to defaults. The update is no longer showing in the software update section but that's ok. :good::good:
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After your phone reboots hold down vol down + power to get into the bootloader. Now you can flash recovery through fastboot. Get the fastboot files from here if you don't already have it and the FXZ file for your carrier here. Now you can either just flash the recovery or flash the entire rom. If you just flash the recovery then the next time you boot it will reboot into recovery and run the update. If you choose to flash the entire rom then you will be wiping everything. To flash using fastboot you will first need to make sure the contents of the FXZ file are in the same folder as the fastboot files. Next open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder with your fastbboot files (eg. cd C:\). Now use the following commands to flash the FXZ files. If you choose to just flash the recovery then skip all the other commands except the command to flash recovery.
Code:
fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin (optional: this is the boot logo)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize (optional: will erase any customizations if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot erase clogo (optional: will erase the custom boot logo if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
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Anyone know how to cancel the reminder on the update? My phone downloaded the update, when I click install later it makes me set a time to be reminded. Don't really want to lose root for this update. Any ideas?
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whitlecj said:
Anyone know how to cancel the reminder on the update? My phone downloaded the update, when I click install later it makes me set a time to be reminded. Don't really want to lose root for this update. Any ideas?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4
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delete the download through Tibu and then freeze the ota apk in Tibu

what i did to keep root with pwnmymoto was make sure my phone was 100% stock then root using pwnmymoto boot into recovery and back up root with ota rootkeeper. then i temp unroot and reboot to bootloader and flashed the original recovery back and installed the update which aborted near the end so i did it again and it did the same thing. after rebooting it was the new software update with no root so i flashed the boot.img into the recovery partition and booted back to recovery to restore root which you may have to grant a app su permisions for it to stick when you reboot. so far its running good. idk if the update applied properly but it booted up and runs great

FeaR_x_KhAoS said:
what i did to keep root with pwnmymoto was make sure my phone was 100% stock then root using pwnmymoto boot into recovery and back up root with ota rootkeeper. then i temp unroot and reboot to bootloader and flashed the original recovery back and installed the update which aborted near the end so i did it again and it did the same thing. after rebooting it was the new software update with no root so i flashed the boot.img into the recovery partition and booted back to recovery to restore root which you may have to grant a app su permisions for it to stick when you reboot. so far its running good. idk if the update applied properly but it booted up and runs great
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anyone know if safestrap will be available after the ota (assuming we apply the update as you mentioned)?

has anyone tried rooting via motoroot 1.1 after doing the OTA from an unrooted device?

jayboyyyy said:
delete the download through Tibu and then freeze the ota apk in Tibu
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Thanks for the response. Where do I find the download using tibu?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4

whitlecj said:
Thanks for the response. Where do I find the download using tibu?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4
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check out here. It is a big list but i think it has what things to freeze for the OTA. there is just one maybe two i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432729
just checked that he only disabled motorola OTA. i am on Vzw and don't have an OTA yet so im not sure thats all you need to freeze. I read some where to freeze updater.apk as well. maybe its either or. I don't have updater.apk frozen but if motoOTA doesn't fix it then do updater as well

jayboyyyy said:
check out here. It is a big list but i think it has what things to freeze for the OTA. there is just one maybe two i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432729
just checked that he only disabled motorola OTA. i am on Vzw and don't have an OTA yet so im not sure thats all you need to freeze. I read some where to freeze updater.apk as well. maybe its either or. I don't have updater.apk frozen but if motoOTA doesn't fix it then do updater as well
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You have to.freeze the update.apk and if you've downloaded the update its in your cache.

Warning: Update to LRX21Q fails when rooted.

Hi all,
on my Nexus 9, update to LRX21Q failed: After reboot, the android icon was shown with "error" below.
I suppose, update failed as my system is rooted with the method Chainfire posted in the development forum.
After an additional reboot, the previous firmware is still shown. The system does not offer the update anymore but claims to be up-to-date.
Any hints? Thanks in advance.

Maybe it's the modified kernel from Chainfire. Try to get back to the stock kernel and try again.

Download the factory image, flash recovery, boot, system & vendor.
Your software will be updated and you won't lose any data. You will lose root however.

I got the same error from OTA with no root. Only had 9 for 2 days, got OTA rite out of box no issue.
Yesterday for new build i get little error android icon upon reboot/install.

Obviously, something that is being changed by the "root" process is being checked DURING the update process. Probably a checksum on the boot partition. If it doesn't match, it bails on the update.
The likely reason for this is they acknowledge that you don't want to lose your root.
All it means is that you need to do the update manually.
It may be possible for a modified recovery to bypass this check, or possibly even be made to auto-root new boot images.

Thanks, guys. Will try as suggest above and post results.
Update: worked perfectly, needed to root again though.

StuMcBill said:
Download the factory image, flash recovery, boot, system & vendor.
Your software will be updated and you won't lose any data. You will lose root however.
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has anyone tried this? i would like to update without losing data...

Flash through fastboot and you will be fine. Thats what I did then rerooted with CF autoroot

mk92595 said:
Flash through fastboot and you will be fine. Thats what I did then rerooted with CF autoroot
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What's the fastboot command for the img? Do you flash as boot, system, etc?

zeebone said:
What's the fastboot command for the img? Do you flash as boot, system, etc?
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Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash system system.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash vender vendor.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash cache cache.img
Fastboot reboot
Not sure if I forgot one but I think thats all of them

mk92595 said:
Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash system system.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot flash vender vendor.img
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash cache cache.img
Fastboot reboot
Not sure if I forgot one but I think thats all of them
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Should there be a - sign between reboot and bootloader .. And is fastboot flash vender or vendor... Just making sure .

pantmunu said:
Should there be a - sign between reboot and bootloader .. And is fastboot flash vender or vendor... Just making sure .
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Yes there should be a - sign and vendor. Sorry i'm not home so I don't have the files near me.

mk92595 said:
Yes there should be a - sign and vendor. Sorry i'm not home so I don't have the files near me.
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Thank you sir .

Where can i find the images for download. Thx

Google for nexus factory image.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using XDA Premium HD app

Update failed on me too. Completely stock

UPDATE:
Apparently *some* devices didn't get the recovery updated with the last update (LRX21L).
The new update (LRX21Q) requires the newer version of the recovery to install.
Google really messed up the launch of the Nexus 9 with all the HW/SW quality control issues
Serious f#ck-up from Google really

Interesting thing I noticed: I restored factory images manually in order to unroot and the OTA was no longer available. I verified I was still running on L. I manually installed the update and it went in just fine.
Now waiting on the root package to be updated for the Q kernel. You can re-root but you will be running on the L kernel, not the Q kernel.

maarten08 said:
Update failed on me too. Completely stock
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My too fck Google

Mine failed and Im not even rooted
And im not sure if it did the update as its not showing a new one. Im on L

help soft bricked stuck on animation tried many things no luck

as the tittle says... i am soft-bricked, stuck on google animation.. I did a install of the full android rom 1.4 from zulu99 and everything worked like a champ but i wanted to go back to stock for the kids and now i am stuck
I can access fastboot and recovery on the device and compute recognizes it also..
I downloaded the stock image for marsh 3.2.0 and i flashed all the required files:
fastboot flash staging blob
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot reboot
it reboots and goes to the google animation and it just stays there!!!(left it there for a day!!!) i also tried to flashing fastboot flash tegra210-foster-e-p2530-0930-e02-00.dtb and did not fix it..
also tried to flash 3.1.0 same steps and no go... i know my adb files are up to date... any ideas?
I was able to flash full android 1.4 from zulu again and works like a champ but i need stock for the kiddos.

try flashing twrp recovery from there wipe system and data partition then reboot into fastboot flash 3.2 again

i was stuck at the boot animation about a month ago after the 3.2 update.... see my post in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shi...ion-screen-t3263143/post67564062#post67564062
please note: i used the 3.1 recovery image because the 3.2 image had not been released yet. have not tried it with the newer 3.2 image
also, if you follow my post and install the 3.1 image....be sure to flash the files in the order posted! some will flash quickly, but one or two took awhile to complete, so be patient and wait for each step to finish before moving on to the next.

yes, i saw ur post and how you solved it and i did try the same thing and it did not fix it.. it just gets me to the animation screen... i am gonna try to load twrp from fastboot, wipe.. then re install everything and once done, i will try to fastboot -w and see if that helps me...
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i was stuck at the boot animation about a month ago after the 3.2 update.... see my post in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shi...ion-screen-t3263143/post67564062#post67564062
please note: i used the 3.1 recovery image because the 3.2 image had not been released yet. have not tried it with the newer 3.2 image
also, if you follow my post and install the 3.1 image....be sure to flash the files in the order posted! some will flash quickly, but one or two took awhile to complete, so be patient and wait for each step to finish before moving on to the next.
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lalord69 said:
yes, i saw ur post and how you solved it and i did try the same thing and it did not fix it.. it just gets me to the animation screen... i am gonna try to load twrp from fastboot, wipe.. then re install everything and once done, i will try to fastboot -w and see if that helps me...
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if you un pack the nvidia recovery image there is a scipt inside caled flashall.bat one of the steps run in there is a reboot to fastboot after you flash the boot.image
flash staging blob
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
adb wait-for-device
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot reboot
echo Press any key to exit...
pause >nul
exit

I need help with twrp ASAP please

I flashed 3.3.1-2 twrp and then installed a couple different roms to compare. Then I'm not quite sure what happened, I know I formatted and tried to install another, then I lost access to twrp. Even though it says I'm successful at flashing it, it won't boot into twrp or any recovery for that matter. What should I do? I've tried two different twrp's and neither will boot up. I've tried the .bat and volume+ and power, and I even tried with the fastboot boot twrp.img command.

willineedhelp said:
I flashed 3.3.1-2 twrp and then installed a couple different roms to compare. Then I'm not quite sure what happened, I know I formatted and tried to install another, then I lost access to twrp. Even though it says I'm successful at flashing it, it won't boot into twrp or any recovery for that matter. What should I do? I've tried two different twrp's and neither will boot up. I've tried the .bat and volume+ and power, and I even tried with the fastboot boot twrp.img command.
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What do you see exactly when you try to enter recovery mode? Stock recovery? Or fastboot? Which recovery have you tried? (provide links)

willineedhelp said:
I flashed 3.3.1-2 twrp and then installed a couple different roms to compare. Then I'm not quite sure what happened, I know I formatted and tried to install another, then I lost access to twrp. Even though it says I'm successful at flashing it, it won't boot into twrp or any recovery for that matter. What should I do? I've tried two different twrp's and neither will boot up. I've tried the .bat and volume+ and power, and I even tried with the fastboot boot twrp.img command.
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Hello, download fastboot rom and flash this files
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash misc misc.img (u can get on fastboot rom not .zip)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (recommend used twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix)
For twrp use bat file to install for u don't do it manually..

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What do you see exactly when you try to enter recovery mode? Stock recovery? Or fastboot? Which recovery have you tried? (provide links)
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Fastboot mode

farhan20 said:
Hello, download fastboot rom and flash this files
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash misc misc.img (u can get on fastboot rom not .zip)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (recommend used twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix)
For twrp use bat file to install for u don't do it manually..
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I'll give that a shot, thanks!

farhan20 said:
Hello, download fastboot rom and flash this files
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash misc misc.img (u can get on fastboot rom not .zip)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (recommend used twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix)
For twrp use bat file to install for u don't do it manually..
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Oh man you're a life saver! Worked perfectly! Thanks so much!

willineedhelp said:
Oh man you're a life saver! Worked perfectly! Thanks so much!
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Glad to know I was able to help, it happens with me and this is how I fixed ?

Hello! Had the same problem and the procedure let me access recovery, yet everytime I reboot to system, the phone opens recovery instead.
I tried restoring a backup but rom is unstable and stuff keeps crashing. Any ideas?
EDIT: did a fastboot flash of .9 ROM and at got it back to work.

farhan20 said:
Hello, download fastboot rom and flash this files
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash misc misc.img (u can get on fastboot rom not .zip)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (recommend used twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix)
For twrp use bat file to install for u don't do it manually..
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So I tried to go back to MIUI and it did it again, I did the default wipe and tried to install it. It got stuck in a bootloop and wouldn't go into TWRP again. Tried what you prescribed again, but that didn't work. I tried using the command (fastboot boot recovery.img) and it just shut off. It's clearly not flashing TWRP, but I have no idea why. I tried both 3.3.1-2 and 3.3.1-3, neither worked. I tried flashing more of the fastboot ROM images, but that did nothing either. Any suggestions? I'm having to use my old moto g5 until I get this fixed, so help ASAP would be amazing. Thanks in advance!

willineedhelp said:
So I tried to go back to MIUI and it did it again, I did the default wipe and tried to install it. It got stuck in a bootloop and wouldn't go into TWRP again. Tried what you prescribed again, but that didn't work. I tried using the command (fastboot boot recovery.img) and it just shut off. It's clearly not flashing TWRP, but I have no idea why. I tried both 3.3.1-2 and 3.3.1-3, neither worked. I tried flashing more of the fastboot ROM images, but that did nothing either. Any suggestions? I'm having to use my old moto g5 until I get this fixed, so help ASAP would be amazing. Thanks in advance!
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Nvm, I just had a junk TWRP version.

willineedhelp said:
So I tried to go back to MIUI and it did it again, I did the default wipe and tried to install it. It got stuck in a bootloop and wouldn't go into TWRP again. Tried what you prescribed again, but that didn't work. I tried using the command (fastboot boot recovery.img) and it just shut off. It's clearly not flashing TWRP, but I have no idea why. I tried both 3.3.1-2 and 3.3.1-3, neither worked. I tried flashing more of the fastboot ROM images, but that did nothing either. Any suggestions? I'm having to use my old moto g5 until I get this fixed, so help ASAP would be amazing. Thanks in advance!
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What MIUI version you have tried to go back?