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updated to 4.4.1 stuck in boot animation!

Installed 4.4.1 via TWRP this morning, but it is stuck in reboot. Just keeps doing the colliding circles!
Tried rebooting a couple of times. Can get to fastboot, But device isn't seen by adb, and fastboot only shows start (no recovery option)
Any ideas at this point?

RedBullet said:
Installed 4.4.1 via TWRP this morning, but it is stuck in reboot. Just keeps doing the colliding circles!
Tried rebooting a couple of times. Can get to fastboot, But device isn't seen by adb, and fastboot only shows start (no recovery option)
Any ideas at this point?
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I would recommend flashing the 4.4 stock factory image from here in fastboot mode. Then once your device is booting up properly again I would recommend taking a look at this guide to properly install the 4.4.1 update.

You MUST either side load or safer still, un-root(if rooted) and flash stock recovery and sideload and then re-flash custom recovery and re-root if needed.
If you are able to get to fastboot:
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ( use stock)
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
go into to stock recovery - wait for dead droid, one you see him, go into recovery by holding volume+ and power at same time
follow the orange instructions to sideload via adb - which should now work
reboot and validate all is well
reboot into bootloader and re-flash your custom recovery and root (if needed)
Enjoy.

planet_x69 said:
You MUST either side load or safer still, un-root(if rooted) and flash stock recovery and sideload and then re-flash custom recovery and re-root if needed.
If you are able to get to fastboot:
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ( use stock)
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
go into to stock recovery - wait for dead droid, one you see him, go into recovery by holding volume+ and power at same time
follow the orange instructions to sideload via adb - which should now work
reboot and validate all is well
reboot into bootloader and re-flash your custom recovery and root (if needed)
Enjoy.
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Thanks, I eventually got it. I was really puzzled that I couldn't select recovery from the bootloader. All set now though, thanks!

I hae also updated to 4.4.2 but now my N10 is stuck at the Google start page. Please help?

jalize said:
I hae also updated to 4.4.2 but now my N10 is stuck at the Google start page. Please help?
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If you mean stuck at boot animation, then I suspect you used TWRP to flash?
I found that TWRP was not able to clear caches, so I use CWM instead. Worked like a champ...

RedBullet said:
If you mean stuck at boot animation, then I suspect you used TWRP to flash?
I found that TWRP was not able to clear caches, so I use CWM instead. Worked like a champ...
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No I used the adb sideload command for the OTA. That all went well but now I'm stuck at the google page even before the animations begin!

jalize said:
No I used the adb sideload command for the OTA. That all went well but now I'm stuck at the google page even before the animations begin!
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Hold volume up and power to get it to recycle, and immediately hold all three buttons down to get to bootloader. Try clearing your caches from recovery

RedBullet said:
Hold volume up and power to get it to recycle, and immediately hold all three buttons down to get to bootloader. Try clearing your caches from recovery
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Tried that already, still stuck at Google page before animations. Everything is stock on this tablet with root.

jalize said:
Tried that already, still stuck at Google page before animations. Everything is stock on this tablet with root.
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Hi,
Try flashing it fresh stock again, factory reset your device from recovery, download the stock image file from here, untar it, then unzip the zip inside the tar and you'll get some files (.img). Copy those files to your fastboot folder and then open a cmd there. (Guessing that you're using Windows)
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
If you're using Linux, do the same, but instead of only fastboot use:
Code:
sudo ./fastboot
Then boot it. I had the same problem when I updated mine to 4.4.1, but I did one thing a little different... Instead of fully "stocking" it again, I flashed back 4.3, flashed 4.4 OTA and then let it boot, without wiping my data, after all it was running like this before. Worked. But as I'm unsure of your situation I think it's more secure and easier to fully stock it again.
Hope this helps,
~Lord
PS.: Remember to put your device in fastboot mode!

[Recovery][LG-H901] Updated TWRP 3.0.0.0 (Still unofficial)

Here is your unofficial TWRP
Please report all issues on my github so I can track them
Download the update!
Merged in TWRP 3.0.0.0
Fixed the time issue Bug in LG's kernel (however daylight savings time does not work when set on/off in recovery)
3.0.0.0
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24407100847293244
md5: f7c84c5328fb073a1a57fb75dc70191a
2.8.7.1
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24269982086988199
md5: 736456843ecaa2b65fbbb749008e1ff3
2.8.7.0
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347853160
md5: f6d38b88b51d8cc39635534b559f719f
This requires you to have an unlocked bootloader which will wipe data if you have not unlocked already.
Recovery does take some time to boot It has taken up to 45 seconds for the TWRP curtain to show for me
To get to bootloader without adb:
Turn device off
Hold Vol Down
Insert USB plug while plugged into your PC
Hold Vol Down until fastboot pops up
Instructions:
If you have issues with adb or fastboot follow this post: HERE
If bootloader is unlocked:
reboot into bootloader
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.1-h901.img
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.1-h901.img
If your bootloader is locked:
enabled developer options
in developer options "Enable OEM unlock"
reboot into bootloader
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.1-h901.img
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.1-h901.img
Known issues:
You get to see that it's not truly 2 displays
Time is not saved from Android to Recovery
Display does not turn off when it times out
TheJesus said:
I've messaged @KAsp3rd to include it in his OP.
ONLY PERFORM IF YOU HAVE ALREADY FLASHED TWRP AND CREATED AN EXTERNAL BACKUP!!!
1. Hold Volume Down
2. Hold Power button until you see LG screen
3. Release Power button and then rehold Power button
4. Follow on-screen prompts to perform a Factory Reset (If you have TWRP, this should not actually factory reset, but there has been one case of it doing it, that's why I suggest keeping a copy of your backup on your computer), may take a minute to boot into TWRP
5. Enjoy TWRP without fastboot
EDIT: On hold until verified on latest TWRP/more devices.
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Device tree is here https://github.com/KAsp3rd/android_device_lge_h901
Compiled using omnirom 5.1 with 6.0 bootable/recovery
Get superSU from chainfire http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu
Thanks to @TheJesus @shabbypenguin @Dees_Troy @_that @bigbiff @helicopter88 @savoca @autoprime and anyone I've forgotten.

I'm getting the android with his guts (triangle exclamation) open when I do a
{adb reboot recovery}
Am I doing something wrong or have done something wrong?
My bootloader is UNLOCKED.

geeserver said:
I'm getting the android with his guts (triangle exclamation) open when I do a
{adb reboot recovery}
Am I doing something wrong or have done something wrong?
My bootloader is UNLOCKED.
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I get the same thing

geeserver said:
I'm getting the android with his guts (triangle exclamation) open when I do a
{adb reboot recovery}
Am I doing something wrong or have done something wrong?
My bootloader is UNLOCKED.
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Did you reboot to bootloader and fastboot flash recovery "img"?

re-read the op
adb reboot bootloader
then do the fastboot commands

KAsp3rd said:
Did you reboot to bootloader and fastboot flash recovery "img"?
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Here are the commands
-In OS, Android with ADB Debugger on with UNLOCKED bootloader checked
{adb reboot bootloader}
-Welcome to Fastboot Mode:
{fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img}
{fastboot reboot}
-Phone back in Android
{adb reboot recovery}
NO TWRP
Right now I'm using stock.img files to restore everything and retrying.
I'm currently using Minimal ADB and Fastboot [8-28-15] to push commands.

geeserver said:
Here are the commands
-In OS, Android with ADB Debugger on with UNLOCKED bootloader checked
{adb reboot bootloader}
-Welcome to Fastboot Mode:
{fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img}
{fastboot reboot}
-Phone back in Android
{adb reboot recovery}
NO TWRP
Right now I'm using stock.img files to restore everything and retrying.
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Flashing stock.img myself to make sure

same issues here also

Mine worked first try... I personally change the recovery img file's name to recovery.img, but other than that I use the same commands.

yeah, mine has the android open door with "no command" under it

KAsp3rd said:
Flashing stock.img myself to make sure
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I can't push stock.img from fastboot. Reading from mickeyinid post in that thread, "Make sure you have the newest fastboot binary or it won't flash the system.img" It has a cap at 53MB but the filesize for system.img is 4.2GB.

android has a file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh when you boot up it overwrites teh recovery with stock, chances are its doing that.
boot into fastboot, flash it, then use
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img
that will drop you into recovery (it takes like 30 seconds) form there you can do a syou wish, then click on reboot system and it will remove that file so youll have twrp always.

shabbypenguin said:
android has a file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh when you boot up it overwrites teh recovery with stock, chances are its doing that.
boot into fastboot, flash it, then use
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img
that will drop you into recovery (it takes like 30 seconds) form there you can do a syou wish, then click on reboot system and it will remove that file so youll have twrp always.
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Didn't catch that one shabby thanks for pointing it out. I'll update op

this worked. Thanks!!
and thank you so much @KAsp3rd for this recovery

shabbypenguin said:
android has a file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh when you boot up it overwrites teh recovery with stock, chances are its doing that.
boot into fastboot, flash it, then use
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img
that will drop you into recovery (it takes like 30 seconds) form there you can do a syou wish, then click on reboot system and it will remove that file so youll have twrp always.
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Once I put in the fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img command, I heard the computer disconnect and it took more like a minute or a minute in a half but it worked. Then I flashed SuperSU and now I'm ROOTED!!! Thanks!!!!

All rooted. Thank you @KAsp3rd!!
Sent from my LG-H901 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

that worked. TWRP installed and rooted. FYI it does take a little time to boot into TWRP with the fastboot command and normal also.
Thanks for the help all
shabbypenguin said:
android has a file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh when you boot up it overwrites teh recovery with stock, chances are its doing that.
boot into fastboot, flash it, then use
fastboot boot twrp-2.8.7.0-h901.img
that will drop you into recovery (it takes like 30 seconds) form there you can do a syou wish, then click on reboot system and it will remove that file so youll have twrp always.
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Xposed
Can you flash xposed in this recovery?

huynh727 said:
Can you flash xposed in this recovery?
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Yes. I have it. Use the arm64 for Lollipop version. It does however break the second screen occasionally (it FC's when I get/make a phone call, but that's it). BUT it has RootCloak which lets me use Android Pay while rooted

Success! The whole process was very easy and worked the first time! Thanks for posting this!

[Need help]Rooting moto g4 plus in stock june security patch level.

I want to root my moto g4 plus(unlocked bootloader and twrp flashed). Anyone knows how to root moto g4 plus. And i also want to know that how to increase battery backup after rooting(is it a myth).

@ADITYA_KUMAR this has been asked and explained many times and once more.
- Take Backup
- get Elemental-X kernel (see development section and download correct one )
- flash with TWRP
- get latest SuperSU : SuperSU
- now you can follow same guide of MM from step 5 : Guide
Don't Forget to Take Backup..

____Mdd said:
@ADITYA_KUMAR this has been asked and explained many times and once more.
- Take Backup
- get Elemental-X kernel (see development section and download correct one )
- flash with TWRP
- get latest SuperSU : SuperSU
- now you can follow same guide of MM from step 5 : Guide
Don't Forget to Take Backup..
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How to take backup and restore it. I flashed twrp image. Before rebooting twrp works fine. But after rebooting i am not able to open twrp. I think it got removed.

ADITYA_KUMAR said:
How to take backup and restore it. I flashed twrp image. Before rebooting twrp works fine. But after rebooting i am not able to open twrp. I think it got removed.
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What happens if you select Recovery from Bootloader ? Is it booting in Stock Recovery ?
In TWRP go to Backup and make backup of /system /data /boot.
If anything bad happens while flashing/Rooting then you can restore it.

The first time, you must open TWRP from the bootloader directly or the recovery gets overwritten.
For rooting, you can flash Magisk instead of flashing SuperSu. Other steps remain exactly the same.

____Mdd said:
What happens if you select Recovery from Bootloader ? Is it booting in Stock Recovery ?
In TWRP go to Backup and make backup of /system /data /boot.
If anything bad happens while flashing/Rooting then you can restore it.
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When i booted into recovery mode. It shows no command.

ADITYA_KUMAR said:
When i booted into recovery mode. It shows no command.
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That's stock Recovery, you need to flash TWRP again.

____Mdd said:
That's stock Recovery, you need to flash TWRP again.
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I flashed twrp 2 times. But every time i restarted my phone it removed automatically.

ADITYA_KUMAR said:
I flashed twrp 2 times. But every time i restarted my phone it removed automatically.
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Did you flashed TWRP and with the next command booted immediately into twrp?

strongst said:
Did you flashed TWRP and with the next command booted immediately into twrp?
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Commands used:
Fastboot flash recovery name.img
It gives output as image not signed or corrupt.
After that i typed command fastboot reboot bootloader.
I open recovery mode. It opens twrp. But after i restart my phone. It automatically removes the twrp.

ADITYA_KUMAR said:
Commands used:
Fastboot flash recovery name.img
It gives output as image not signed or corrupt.
After that i typed command fastboot reboot bootloader.
I open recovery mode. It opens twrp. But after i restart my phone. It automatically removes the twrp.
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This is your problem. You must open recovery from the bootloader menu the very first time. Or TWRP is overwritten with stock recovery. I don't know why that is. But that is how it is...

baunthiyal said:
This is your problem. You must open recovery from the bootloader menu the very first time. Or TWRP is overwritten with stock recovery. I don't know why that is. But that is how it is...
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It means that i don't have to run the fasboot reboot bootloader command and after finishing the flashing i have to open the recovery mode directly?

Yes
ADITYA_KUMAR said:
It means that i don't have to run the fasboot reboot bootloader command and after finishing the flashing i have to open the recovery mode directly?
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Reboot into bootloader.
Flash recovery - fastboot flash recovery twrp-xxx.img
Open recovery from bootloader menu (by using the volume and power buttons)
From there you can reboot and your recovery will work normally after this, most probably.

baunthiyal said:
Reboot into bootloader.
Flash recovery - fastboot flash recovery twrp-xxx.img
Open recovery from bootloader menu (by using the volume and power buttons)
From there you can reboot and your recovery will work normally after this, most probably.
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I need to root my stock nougat( june version).What should i do after that.

I'll tell you what I did.
1. Flash Elemental Ex kernel. https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/development/kernel-elementalx-g4-0-01-t3424836
2. Flash Magisk. https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445

baunthiyal said:
Reboot into bootloader.
Flash recovery - fastboot flash recovery twrp-xxx.img
Open recovery from bootloader menu (by using the volume and power buttons)
From there you can reboot and your recovery will work normally after this, most probably.
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It didn't work. I flashed twrp. I opened recovery mode by using volume down to scroll to recovery mode and power button to select it. I booted in twrp mode and rebooted system from there. After that i power off my phone and tried to open twrp again, but it is showing no commands only. I didn't boot into twrp again.

ADITYA_KUMAR said:
It didn't work. I flashed twrp. I opened recovery mode by using volume down to scroll to recovery mode and power button to select it. I booted in twrp mode and rebooted system from there. After that i power off my phone and tried to open twrp again, but it is showing no commands only. I didn't boot into twrp again.
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Try commands,
fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash recovery name.img
Fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
Then directly boot into recovery,
Then again boot into recovery through twrp itself (there is option for it in reboot) or try anything.

Thank you guys i successfully rooted my moto g4 plus(xt1643)

Help please can't see my phone in adb

I've had my Essential two weeks i was on 8.1 beta.Today i unlocked the boot loader.Then installed twrp while in twrp i side loaded magisk.I went back to fastboot then hit start .The phone just went into a bootloop.I Was able to go back to twrp 2 times but now i can't get back to any type of recovery.I Can get back to fastboot mode ishow all the info and secure boot says yes and device state unlocked.My pc see essential phone fastboot in the device manager but i can't get adb to see it .Can anyone help me ?

forgot something
looks like i skipped this part . Once you're in TWRP, install the stock boot image and then the Magisk/SuperSU zip.Is there anything i can do?

videodave1 said:
I've had my Essential two weeks i was on 8.1 beta.Today i unlocked the boot loader.Then installed twrp while in twrp i side loaded magisk.I went back to fastboot then hit start .The phone just went into a bootloop.I Was able to go back to twrp 2 times but now i can't get back to any type of recovery.I Can get back to fastboot mode ishow all the info and secure boot says yes and device state unlocked.My pc see essential phone fastboot in the device manager but i can't get adb to see it .Can anyone help me ?
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adb only works while phone is booted into system so nothing wrong there. If you're in the bootloader menu where you see that the status of your device is unlocked then you're already in fastboot mode. Just flash twrp again and the sideload stock 8.1 beta boot image (you can probably find it on xda), sideload magisk too. Go into install and press flash image file and find the stock boot image and then go into install again and change to flash .zip and flash magisk. After that, reboot into system.

WOW thank you so much'
Arju said:
adb only works while phone is booted into system so nothing wrong there. If you're in the bootloader menu where you see that the status of your device is unlocked then you're already in fastboot mode. Just flash twrp again and the sideload stock 8.1 beta boot image (you can probably find it on xda), sideload magisk too. Go into install and press flash image file and find the stock boot image and then go into install again and change to flash .zip and flash magisk. After that, reboot into system.
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I was able to flash twrp i'll try the rest when i get home from work

sideloading stock img
videodave1 said:
I was able to flash twrp i'll try the rest when i get home from work
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Do i need it to be zipped I've tried it as image that i downloaded from xda and I've tried a zip i got from Essential neither are working?

zip file
videodave1 said:
Do i need it to be zipped I've tried it as image that i downloaded from xda and I've tried a zip i got from Essential neither are working?
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When i try i get invalid file format. This is using a zip i got from Essential.

Stuck twrp says no os installed . But i did learn how to push files.

just trying to get back to stock now 

videodave1 said:
just trying to get back to stock now 
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681

thanks been there tried the Oreo beta that is what i was on when i started and tried the 1st build before the betas i get an error on both i'll try to download them on another pc my phone does show up when i type fastboot devices now just need an os now .

Okay got back to 8.1 bootloader still unlocked twrp not install and i don't have root.I may just wait until P comes out.I'll try and learn more about adb. Thanks for your help Arju.

thanks everyone.

videodave1 said:
Okay got back to 8.1 bootloader still unlocked twrp not install and i don't have root.I may just wait until P comes out.I'll try and learn more about adb. Thanks for your help Arju.
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No problem. Thank you very much for the donation, that was really kind of you. Hey I'm sure you'll get the hang of it before android P drops. you did figure out what went wrong all by yourself so get a hold of the right boot.img and the rest is exactly as how you did it in the first place but flash the boot.img before magisk. Let me know if you want to give it a dive again.

I'm on 8.1 boot loader unlocked and ready to try to root again .Thanks for the help

This is the closest thread i could find to what is happening to my PH-1.
Like videodave1 I 'was' running the latest stock 8.1 and have my bootloader unlocked. In trying to root the phone I did this:
flash boot flash boot twrp.img
adb shell twrp sideload
adb sideload magisk.zip
All installations went well, but when trying to reboot from twrp it forced me to install the app. After that the phone went into boot loop.
* Note how I didn't sideloaded the Oreo 8.1 image before magisk.
By pressing all 3 buttons I can get the phone to reboot and releasing the volume up I can get to Fastboot. Just volume down and power doesn't work.
The problem now is that adb and fastboot no longer recognise the phone. adb devices just gives an empty list and fastboot only shows < waiting for device >
Trying to go into Recovery mode doesn't work either. Power off doesn't work and Restart bootloader, well, restarts the bootloader.
It might be relevant to mention that I'm running adb and fastboot from Terminal in a Mac and that this is my very first and frustrated attempt to root any phone.
For reference this is what the FastBoot Mode brings:
PRODUCT_NAME - Mata
VARIANT - OPENUS
BOOTLOADER VERSION - mata-aad8ac4
BASEBAND VERSION - 2.0.C4-M1.3.1
SECURE BOOT - yes
DEVICE STATE - unlocked
I might have to just resign myself to the ordinary land of unlocked full stock phones
Thanks very much

avocom said:
This is the closest thread i could find to what is happening to my PH-1.
Like videodave1 I 'was' running the latest stock 8.1 and have my bootloader unlocked. In trying to root the phone I did this:
flash boot flash boot twrp.img
adb shell twrp sideload
adb sideload magisk.zip
All installations went well, but when trying to reboot from twrp it forced me to install the app. After that the phone went into boot loop.
* Note how I didn't sideloaded the Oreo 8.1 image before magisk.
By pressing all 3 buttons I can get the phone to reboot and releasing the volume up I can get to Fastboot. Just volume down and power doesn't work.
The problem now is that adb and fastboot no longer recognise the phone. adb devices just gives an empty list and fastboot only shows < waiting for device >
Trying to go into Recovery mode doesn't work either. Power off doesn't work and Restart bootloader, well, restarts the bootloader.
It might be relevant to mention that I'm running adb and fastboot from Terminal in a Mac and that this is my very first and frustrated attempt to root any phone.
For reference this is what the FastBoot Mode brings:
PRODUCT_NAME - Mata
VARIANT - OPENUS
BOOTLOADER VERSION - mata-aad8ac4
BASEBAND VERSION - 2.0.C4-M1.3.1
SECURE BOOT - yes
DEVICE STATE - unlocked
I might have to just resign myself to the ordinary land of unlocked full stock phones
Thanks very much
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Even though your phone does not show up its there wipe everything.Fallow what Arju said in his post.I got back to stock then took the 8.1 update i'm not rooted but my bootloader is still unlocked.Oh make sure you unlock critical

videodave1 said:
Fallow what Arju said in his post.
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Thanks for coming back to me. I really appreciate it.
Arju said:
Just flash twrp again and the sideload stock 8.1 beta boot image (you can probably find it on xda), sideload magisk too.
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I might be missing something hopefully obvious here. How can I flash twrp again if I my computer can't see the phone. With the USB phone plugged in and in the FastBoot screen I enter into Terminal:
fastboot flash boot twrp.img
and I get:
< waiting for any device >
How do I flash it from the FastBoot screen? BTW, going to Recovery mode just hangs at the Essential logo.
Thanks

avocom said:
Thanks for coming back to me. I really appreciate it.
I might be missing something hopefully obvious here. How can I flash twrp again if I my computer can't see the phone. With the USB phone plugged in and in the FastBoot screen I enter into Terminal:
fastboot flash boot twrp.img
and I get:
< waiting for any device >
How do I flash it from the FastBoot screen? BTW, going to Recovery mode just hangs at the Essential logo.
Thanks
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are you able to get to the bootloader menu? where it says start on the top.

Arju said:
are you able to get to the bootloader menu? where it says start on the top.
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Thanks Arju. If you are referring to the FastBoot menu where you can use the up and down volume keys to select Start, Restart Bootloader, Recovery mode and Power off Yes, but not much else unfortunately.
If I select Recovery mode I don't go to the screen with the blue buttons from twrp.
Thanks

avocom said:
Thanks Arju. If you are referring to the FastBoot menu where you can use the up and down volume keys to select Start, Restart Bootloader, Recovery mode and Power off Yes, but not much else unfortunately.
If I select Recovery mode I don't go to the screen with the blue buttons from twrp.
Thanks
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What you need to understand is that twrp will not stick after you flash it. This device does not have a recovery partition and that's why you replace the boot partition with twrp and while you're in twrp you need to flash the boot.img back and whatever mods on top of that such as kernel etc.. If you flash a rom then it will replace the twrp with the boot.img found in the rom zip.
So now we need the computer to recognize you device. Could you unplug the cable and change the usb port on you computer. connect your phone while you're in the bootloader menu where it says start on the top.
The use use fastboot command: fastboot devices
See if the computer recognizes you device.

Trying to flash TWRP but no success (stuck on Fastboot mode)

I have been on a journey trying to go back to my T-Mobile OnePlus 6T back as my daily driver but the official updates killed the device for me. I have been successful in flashing it to the international version and now the device is on A9. I am trying to get it updated to A10 but in order do that (does not take OTA updates or can not flash within the updates app) I have to flash in recovery. Right now it is on stock recovery so I am trying to flash TWRP.
The problem is now that everytime I run the command " fastboot boot IMAGENAME.img" the phone restarts (as expected) and boots into fastboot but stays stuck in the Fastboot Mode screen.
I tried different TWRP images (older and the most current version per https://dl.twrp.me/fajita/ ) but I keep getting stuck in the Fastboot Mode screen. The last thing I was able to do without issues was unlock bootloader using fastboot.
I just need to be able to flash TWRP on the phone so I can still the final stock image so I can go back to using it as my DD.
EDIT: Disregard everything I fixed it. mods, please delete thread.
EDITR 2: Disregard that last edit lol Yeah I still need help. I am now tryingto flash twrp on a second 6T and the issue described above still applies.

You can try this version. Also try unplugging the USB after it reboots. You aren't getting any crash dump screen? So it should be working.

Brettroth said:
You can try this version. Also try unplugging the USB after it reboots. You aren't getting any crash dump screen? So it should be working.
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Tried your image and still same result. I am running following command
Code:
fastboot boot TWRP-3.6.1_11-OP6xT.img
The command window outputs the following
Code:
Sending 'boot.img' (34964 KB) OKAY [ 0.747s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.092s]
Finished. Total time: 0.860s
The phone then reboots into Fastboot Mode logo and stays stuck there. I even tried unplugging the USB after it reboots as well.
I even tried using the flash command instead of boot but no success.

How about fastboot boot recovery? Should be able to get into recovery somehow. Doing fastboot flash of twrp will mess up your boot partition but either way you still should be able to get into recovery somehow. There is the msm recovery tool you can use as last resort but it will relock your bootloader

Actually fastboot doesn't let you use boot recovery command I don't think. Only adb. But once you are in fastboot can't you choose to reboot recovery with volume keys?

Brettroth said:
How about fastboot boot recovery? Should be able to get into recovery somehow. Doing fastboot flash of twrp will mess up your boot partition but either way you still should be able to get into recovery somehow. There is the msm recovery tool you can use as last resort but it will relock your bootloader
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I tried doing fastboot boot recovery but i get following error
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fastboot: error: cannot load 'recovery': No such file or directory
Brettroth said:
Actually fastboot doesn't let you use boot recovery command I don't think. Only adb. But once you are in fastboot can't you choose to reboot recovery with volume keys?
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When I am in fastboot mode, yes I can choose recovery but it takes me to the stock recovery. I do not have a option to flash any zip files there

Maybe you need a twrp for Android 9 since that's what you are on. But fastboot boot twrp should just take you there. Either have to find one that works or go msm route. Maybe windows not reading it correctly also. You using CMD or PowerShell?

Brettroth said:
Maybe you need a twrp for Android 9 since that's what you are on. But fastboot boot twrp should just take you there. Either have to find one that works or go msm route. Maybe windows not reading it correctly also. You using CMD or PowerShell?
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I tried both CMD and PowerShell. I am going to try a A9 version of twrp
EDIT: I am using twrp-3.6.1_9-0-fajita.img (which I assume is for A9) and still get the same result. Even tried a different usb port.. not sure what i could be missing. I also did the instructions as advised straight from twrp's website.

smartinez832 said:
I tried both CMD and PowerShell. I am going to try a A9 version of twrp
EDIT: I am using twrp-3.6.1_9-0-fajita.img (which I assume is for A9) and still get the same result. Even tried a different usb port.. not sure what i could be missing. I also did the instructions as advised straight from twrp's website.
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I don't know bud. I guess msm tool is the way to go then

Curious did you have the twrp file in same folder as adb and fastboot?

smartinez832 said:
I have been on a journey trying to go back to my T-Mobile OnePlus 6T back as my daily driver but the official updates killed the device for me. I have been successful in flashing it to the international version and now the device is on A9. I am trying to get it updated to A10 but in order do that (does not take OTA updates or can not flash within the updates app) I have to flash in recovery. Right now it is on stock recovery so I am trying to flash TWRP.
The problem is now that everytime I run the command " fastboot boot IMAGENAME.img" the phone restarts (as expected) and boots into fastboot but stays stuck in the Fastboot Mode screen.
I tried different TWRP images (older and the most current version per https://dl.twrp.me/fajita/ ) but I keep getting stuck in the Fastboot Mode screen. The last thing I was able to do without issues was unlock bootloader using fastboot.
I just need to be able to flash TWRP on the phone so I can still the final stock image so I can go back to using it as my DD.
EDIT: Disregard everything I fixed it. mods, please delete thread.
EDITR 2: Disregard that last edit lol Yeah I still need help. I am now tryingto flash twrp on a second 6T and the issue described above still applies.
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I'm having same issue with fajita (OnePlus 6T) you found any solution if yes then please give some reply