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Hi Guys,
First, I beg of you not to say RTFM on similar questions here regarding this. I have read them, and read them in their entirety. The problem I have is that none of them list how to get me though my issues on my Galaxy Note 3 SM-N900A.
My problem is that I (as many others) really want to upgrade to the Kit Kat OTA released from AT&T a week or so ago. The thing is, I did root my device and as everyone know's this fails any OTA updates.
My question is two fold, but first I would like to explain that I rooted my device NOT for being able to install any custom ROM's. In fact I never had an interest in doing so as I actually like the stock OS's which right now I am still running 4.3. I rooted it specifically to be able to run network / packet sniffers on my own home network as a method to learn a little more about how things go over a network, seeing what I can learn and see if I can find any vulnerabilities. I also used it to try and clean bloat ware and other programs that with out root I can not uninstall or use, such as certain fast reboot apps. So, I really had no intention of using the Root to get me a custom ROM, as I wouldn't even know where to begin.
So my questions are this. Is there anyway that I can "un do" the root in order to let the device act as if it were never rooted? Or, is there anyway to force the OTA regardless of the device being rooted. My biggest fear is losing all the apps and files that I have on my device and I have never been able to get any kind of back up app to work, especially to restore anything from them.
I had read that one can use ODIN to flash the Kit Kat ROM, but while I have installed ODIN on my laptop, I am clueless on how to use it. I tried everything, but even with the USB drivers installed and working (I know this because plugged into the USB port, I am able to browse all the files on my device, yet ODIN continues to tell me that no device has been found.
Can someone please help me to understand what I need to do? Again, I don't care if I lose Root, I care that I don't lose all the stuff I spent months installing and getting my device where I want it. I really need someone to explain somethings to me as if I were a two year old, with out scalding me and making me feel like a complete idiot. I came here because everyone I have talked to told me that you guys would be the ones that could help me, and if you can't, then I am screwed and will have to just wipe the entire device and I just can't do that. I may wind up having to buy a new device and just transfer over what ever I can, however, in the mean time that is not an option.
To this end, I come begging for some serious help since I know you guys are the literal gods of Androids. If I must take some kind of custom ROM in order to get Kit Kat, I am somewhat willing, but I do not fully understand or know what ROM I would want to install as I have never in my life seen a custom ROM and what the benefits of having one are which is kind of why I really want to stick with the stock ROM and just keep getting the updates via OTA.
I have all the faith in the world you guys can help, I just don't know if anyone is willing to help since I know similar questions have been asked, but I do not know how to use what I learned for my particular device.
Thanks very much.
EU
Dardwizzle said:
Hi Guys,
First, I beg of you not to say RTFM on similar questions here regarding this. I have read them, and read them in their entirety. The problem I have is that none of them list how to get me though my issues on my Galaxy Note 3 SM-N900A.
My problem is that I (as many others) really want to upgrade to the Kit Kat OTA released from AT&T a week or so ago. The thing is, I did root my device and as everyone know's this fails any OTA updates.
My question is two fold, but first I would like to explain that I rooted my device NOT for being able to install any custom ROM's. In fact I never had an interest in doing so as I actually like the stock OS's which right now I am still running 4.3. I rooted it specifically to be able to run network / packet sniffers on my own home network as a method to learn a little more about how things go over a network, seeing what I can learn and see if I can find any vulnerabilities. I also used it to try and clean bloat ware and other programs that with out root I can not uninstall or use, such as certain fast reboot apps. So, I really had no intention of using the Root to get me a custom ROM, as I wouldn't even know where to begin.
So my questions are this. Is there anyway that I can "un do" the root in order to let the device act as if it were never rooted? Or, is there anyway to force the OTA regardless of the device being rooted. My biggest fear is losing all the apps and files that I have on my device and I have never been able to get any kind of back up app to work, especially to restore anything from them.
I had read that one can use ODIN to flash the Kit Kat ROM, but while I have installed ODIN on my laptop, I am clueless on how to use it. I tried everything, but even with the USB drivers installed and working (I know this because plugged into the USB port, I am able to browse all the files on my device, yet ODIN continues to tell me that no device has been found.
Can someone please help me to understand what I need to do? Again, I don't care if I lose Root, I care that I don't lose all the stuff I spent months installing and getting my device where I want it. I really need someone to explain somethings to me as if I were a two year old, with out scalding me and making me feel like a complete idiot. I came here because everyone I have talked to told me that you guys would be the ones that could help me, and if you can't, then I am screwed and will have to just wipe the entire device and I just can't do that. I may wind up having to buy a new device and just transfer over what ever I can, however, in the mean time that is not an option.
To this end, I come begging for some serious help since I know you guys are the literal gods of Androids. If I must take some kind of custom ROM in order to get Kit Kat, I am somewhat willing, but I do not fully understand or know what ROM I would want to install as I have never in my life seen a custom ROM and what the benefits of having one are which is kind of why I really want to stick with the stock ROM and just keep getting the updates via OTA.
I have all the faith in the world you guys can help, I just don't know if anyone is willing to help since I know similar questions have been asked, but I do not know how to use what I learned for my particular device.
Thanks very much.
EU
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does ur kies run? if so turn it off.
USB debugging off? turn it on.
are u in download mode of ur phone? if not, switch off n wait till vibrate to make it really off. then press vol down + home + power. then follow instructions to press vol up once u inside warning screen.
after that u can plug in ur phone.
Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.
antique_sonic said:
does ur kies run? if so turn it off.
USB debugging off? turn it on.
are u in download mode of ur phone? if not, switch off n wait till vibrate to make it really off. then press vol down + home + power. then follow instructions to press vol up once u inside warning screen.
after that u can plug in ur phone.
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Hi antique_sonic, I would just like to clarify a couple things as well as answer your questions.
>does ur kies run? if so turn it off. <--- If you mean is it installed on my laptop and work? Yes it is, and yes it does, however, I almost never use it. Mainly because I was told that once you root a Samsung Device, Kies is no longer able to be used.
>USB debugging off? turn it on. <--- It is and has been turned on in an effort to try to sideload KitKat, but that was a hug fail. But I will leave it on for this discussion.
>are u in download mode of ur phone? <---- I have gotten here before but don't exactly know what to do once I am there since I don't know where to get a Kit Kat ROM, where to put it once I have it, or how to use anything in d/l mode.
> if not, switch off n wait till vibrate to make it really off. then press vol down + home + power. then follow instructions to press vol up once u inside warning screen. after that u can plug in ur phone. <--- Are these instructions for wiping the device back to the factory default? Will I lose everything currently installed and loaded on my Note 3? Or does this some how fix / allow for the OTA update to install completely because it no longer can tell the device is rooted?
Again, I must apologize because this is so greek to me.I am just trying to understand at this point what infact the instructions you gave me do, and what they are intended for. Is this just to get the USB drives to work properly? Or is this something that will help me undo root so that I would be able to install KitKat via the AT&T OTA. If now the latter, where I can I get a complete Kit Kat ROM and use ODIN to flash the ROM? This outcome would suck because I believe that this will cause me to lose everything on my device I worked so hard to get where I wanted. I have just over looked the fact that in rooting my device I there by killed my ability to keep my device updated with the latest OTA releases / patches.
Again, I appreciate you reply, but sadly I am in need of a bit more info if you could please.
Thank you so very much. I hope one day to be able to pay it forward, passing along the knowledge you have shared with me,
Regards,
EU
Dardwizzle said:
Hi antique_sonic, I would just like to clarify a couple things as well as answer your questions.
>does ur kies run? if so turn it off. <--- If you mean is it installed on my laptop and work? Yes it is, and yes it does, however, I almost never use it. Mainly because I was told that once you root a Samsung Device, Kies is no longer able to be used.
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do check, is it running in background ? check your task manager. if so, kill the process. Kies should not run together with ODIN. Otherwise sometimes will give problem to your ODIN process.
I normally only install the USB driver only, as this is the only thing needed to connect your phone to comp (as MTP, or as ODIN connection).
Dardwizzle said:
>are u in download mode of ur phone? <---- I have gotten here before but don't exactly know what to do once I am there since I don't know where to get a Kit Kat ROM, where to put it once I have it, or how to use anything in d/l mode.
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ok, in a very simple word. download mode is basically a state whereby your phone is ready to download system files and install the system files on your device.
This is the only state possible to get a connection to your ODIN PC to flash stock firmware, recovery (in .tar/.md5 format).
How to get the KK ROM ?
1) identify your device. which model it is. N9005? N900T? N900A? N900 blablabla?
2) goto samfirmware.com (register there if you don't have account. it is free). after that you can just find your firmware by typing on the search device textbox your device model (e.g N9005), and it will come out the list of your device firmware (normally they will show for the latest firmware list)
3) choose the firmware that you want to download (if your device N9005 international 32 gb, try to avoid the Hongkong / Taiwan firmware, as they have different PIT partition).
4) once you have the downloaded zip file from samfirmware, extract the zip, and then you will get the (.tar/.md5) file. Now you can use to flash this one over ODIN.
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> if not, switch off n wait till vibrate to make it really off. then press vol down + home + power. then follow instructions to press vol up once u inside warning screen. after that u can plug in ur phone. <--- Are these instructions for wiping the device back to the factory default? Will I lose everything currently installed and loaded on my Note 3? Or does this some how fix / allow for the OTA update to install completely because it no longer can tell the device is rooted?
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no. no. no.
This is how to go into download mode in your device
Not yet talking about factory reset.
But yes, you have to backup your internal storage, as sometimes upgrading will cost you to do factory reset, and your internal storage will be gone.
Dardwizzle said:
Again, I must apologize because this is so greek to me.I am just trying to understand at this point what infact the instructions you gave me do, and what they are intended for. Is this just to get the USB drives to work properly? Or is this something that will help me undo root so that I would be able to install KitKat via the AT&T OTA. If now the latter, where I can I get a complete Kit Kat ROM and use ODIN to flash the ROM? This outcome would suck because I believe that this will cause me to lose everything on my device I worked so hard to get where I wanted. I have just over looked the fact that in rooting my device I there by killed my ability to keep my device updated with the latest OTA releases / patches.
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up to this point, I just remembered that you have N900A (AT&T) version. hahaha.
I go check the samfirmware, no release of KK yet at the samfirmware.
I'm sorry, I own N9005, and I never explore too much on the N900A, so I won't know what is the latest release, and where to get it other from samfirmware.
Dardwizzle said:
Again, I appreciate you reply, but sadly I am in need of a bit more info if you could please.
Thank you so very much. I hope one day to be able to pay it forward, passing along the knowledge you have shared with me,
Regards,
EU
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no problem. you just get your latest firmware first, once you have it, you let me know, i can give you step by step in detail, on how to flash to your device.
antique_sonic said:
up to this point, I just remembered that you have N900A (AT&T) version. hahaha.
I go check the samfirmware, no release of KK yet at the samfirmware.
I'm sorry, I own N9005, and I never explore too much on the N900A, so I won't know what is the latest release, and where to get it other from samfirmware.
no problem. you just get your latest firmware first, once you have it, you let me know, i can give you step by step in detail, on how to flash to your device.
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Sure sure, just laugh at me why don't ya!! LOL I will continue to try to find the appropriate firmware. I guess if I learned one valuable lesson in all this, it is just don't root your device if you don't plan on using custom ROM's. I had no idea that there would be no way to "unroot" your device once it's rooted. I was really hoping that you could just undo what ever is done to actually root the device, this way the OTA's will just start working again. Or that there would be a way to just force the OTA regardless of whether the device is rooted. I am not sure I truly understand why the OTA just won't install just because the device is rooted.I mean sure it adds SU to the device, and unlocks (I think) the boot partition or the boot loader, which ever, but regardless, why should the OTA package care and fail to install just because of that change?
Anyway, that's probably a discussion for another thread. I actually did find a Kit Kat zip that is like 150MB's it has a boot.img inside the zip, but it has nothing with an extension that ODIN can recognize. I would love to show you the zip, but it's too large to attach or email. The file name is 2400258.zip, but I forgot where I downloaded it from. It may be what I need to do the job, but with out someone seeing the zip I have no way of knowing if it's the files I need. I was not about to find any files with in it that are in txt readable format for me to say exactly what it is. It does have subfolders names Google and Android and the like but I am sure that is pretty useless with out seeing the full zip.
I will keep my eye on this thread and when I find something I can work with, or if you guys find anything I can work with I will come back and see where we can go next.
Thanks again bud!
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Sure sure, just laugh at me why don't ya!! LOL I will continue to try to find the appropriate firmware. I guess if I learned one valuable lesson in all this, it is just don't root your device if you don't plan on using custom ROM's. I had no idea that there would be no way to "unroot" your device once it's rooted. I was really hoping that you could just undo what ever is done to actually root the device, this way the OTA's will just start working again. Or that there would be a way to just force the OTA regardless of whether the device is rooted. I am not sure I truly understand why the OTA just won't install just because the device is rooted.I mean sure it adds SU to the device, and unlocks (I think) the boot partition or the boot loader, which ever, but regardless, why should the OTA package care and fail to install just because of that change?
Anyway, that's probably a discussion for another thread. I actually did find a Kit Kat zip that is like 150MB's it has a boot.img inside the zip, but it has nothing with an extension that ODIN can recognize. I would love to show you the zip, but it's too large to attach or email. The file name is 2400258.zip, but I forgot where I downloaded it from. It may be what I need to do the job, but with out someone seeing the zip I have no way of knowing if it's the files I need. I was not about to find any files with in it that are in txt readable format for me to say exactly what it is. It does have subfolders names Google and Android and the like but I am sure that is pretty useless with out seeing the full zip.
I will keep my eye on this thread and when I find something I can work with, or if you guys find anything I can work with I will come back and see where we can go next.
Thanks again bud!
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I don't like spoonfeeding too much actually.
but I find u r quite funny. no offence.
I have no idea this will work or not, but I found this as the 1st search result on Google.
http://www.droidviews.com/install-android-4-4-2-kitkat-ota-on-att-galaxy-note-3-sm-900a/
just have a look first nd don't do anything till u understand the article.
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antique_sonic said:
I don't like spoonfeeding too much actually.
but I find u r quite funny. no offence.
I have no idea this will work or not, but I found this as the 1st search result on Google.
(I had to remove the link as the website thought I was adding it and gave me a no no warning that I can't post outside links cause I be a newbie!) BAH!!!
just have a look first nd don't do anything till u understand the article.
Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.
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Hey antique_sonic, no offence taken my friend, I am a giant goof ball, but I am also someone who doesn't mind working out my own problems. It's just sometimes with things like this where I am clueless and need a little hand holding. It's nice to know that there are people like you around to help out the dopes like me My apologies for not getting back to you sooner, and I will be looking into the link you sent tonight. I haven't been feeling well lately, I have two herniated disks in my back and I have End Stage Liver disease and I am only 39, so I sometimes get a bit under the weather and am down for the count for a few days. So I do appreciate your patience with me and all the help and direction you are giving me. I try never to abuse the help as that is no way to learn, and learning is actually one of favorite hobbies! Weird huh.... So, I am off to go read the link you provided me and update the stock on my website and hope I make some more sales so I can get some money to buy a new phone when I brick this one! LMAO! Thanks again Sonic, I really appreciate everything!
Dardwizzle said:
Hey antique_sonic, no offence taken my friend, I am a giant goof ball, but I am also someone who doesn't mind working out my own problems. It's just sometimes with things like this where I am clueless and need a little hand holding.
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No worries and yeah you should try to find first. by this way, you will learn faster, compare if someone do the spoonfeed.
Dardwizzle said:
It's nice to know that there are people like you around to help out the dopes like me My apologies for not getting back to you sooner, and I will be looking into the link you sent tonight.
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My pleasure to help. And no worries for late reply, as I will do the same when I busy with my real life job.
Dardwizzle said:
I haven't been feeling well lately, I have two herniated disks in my back and I have End Stage Liver disease and I am only 39, so I sometimes get a bit under the weather and am down for the count for a few days. So I do appreciate your patience with me and all the help and direction you are giving me.
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you are welcome mate. I'm sorry to read the news about your conditions. I can't say anything about this, but wish you all the best. Don't ever feel down in whichever state you are, just do the best in life, and we will never regret that 1 more day has passed.
Dardwizzle said:
I try never to abuse the help as that is no way to learn, and learning is actually one of favorite hobbies! Weird huh.... So, I am off to go read the link you provided me and update the stock on my website and hope I make some more sales so I can get some money to buy a new phone when I brick this one! LMAO! Thanks again Sonic, I really appreciate everything!
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GOOD !!!
go and grab sales, rather than you brick the phone.
Once again, u r welcome mate.
Hi everyone, new poster here but long time user!
I have recently rooted and installed twrp on my sprint lgv20. I also installed the stock international ROM to sim unlock for various uses. My only annoyance with the root is the red warning corruption screen, i was wondering if anyone had a work around or image to flash to get rid or hide the screen somehow with maybe an lg screen or anything.
Thank you for any suggestions,
Zach
juicemane141997 said:
Hi everyone, new poster here but long time user!
I have recently rooted and installed twrp on my sprint lgv20. I also installed the stock international ROM to sim unlock for various uses. My only annoyance with the root is the red warning corruption screen, i was wondering if anyone had a work around or image to flash to get rid or hide the screen somehow with maybe an lg screen or anything.
Thank you for any suggestions,
Zach
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Unfortunately there is no current fix for this. I am not sure what exactly is needed for this to be fixed, but I would assume that those people who are developing roms for the V20 have already exhausted what ever options there are.
Would be nice to have fixed, but since that screen is only during initial boot up I don't think anyone is terribly concerned with getting this corrected.
Hope this helps.
No fix
It is related to google
Not lg
I would imagine the reason for this is both for security and to let manufacturers know when a phone has been modified.
I don't believe there is a workaround for it either because it can't be done (doubtful as I am sure its software based) or people just don't care (honestly I am sure some developers were annoyed enough to look into it). I just don't think anyone has found a way around it.
This "feature" was introduced in marshmallow.
Edit: further research shows the Nexus 5x developers were able to work around it by replacing the image. So while it doesn't remove the function it hides it.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/to-remove-corruption-warning-message-t3248441
Please note this is a marshmallow phone not nougat so I am not sure the same concept would work on our phone.
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That's what they did with the HTC one m7. Was to replace the image. It's just finding the way to do it. As Everytime the devs find a way around something. Then Google, the phone makers,or carriers patches it to make it harder next time. I understand why they make that tamper screen because to many people trying to root and bricks their phones lies about not tampering with their phones OS. They say don't know what happened I just turned it on and nothing. I am sure they will find a way to replace the image. It just takes time and it's low priority on the devs list of things to do.
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That's what they did with the HTC one m7. Was to replace the image. It's just finding the way to do it. As Everytime the devs find a way around something. Then Google, the phone makers,or carriers patches it to make it harder next time. I understand why they make that tamper screen because to many people trying to root and bricks their phones lies about not tampering with their phones OS. They say don't know what happened I just turned it on and nothing. I am sure they will find a way to replace the image. It just takes time and it's low priority on the devs list of things to do.
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It appears that the image is located within the bootloader. It would have to be extracted, changed, and put back in assuming there is not a signature check with it on boot up. From what I was reading it depends on which partition it is located in whether it can be done or not. If it is in aboot, Tilde has mentioned that we can't edit this partition. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like it's a simple case of replacing an image.
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It appears that the image is located within the bootloader. It would have to be extracted, changed, and put back in assuming there is not a signature check with it on boot up. From what I was reading it depends on which partition it is located in whether it can be done or not. If it is in aboot, Tilde has mentioned that we can't edit this partition. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like it's a simple case of replacing an image.
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I can confirm it is located in aboot itself.
Hey guys
I was wondering if someone here is still on the V6 version of the security update, if you are you can make the TOT file out of the V20 Sprint model. Whoever has the Z3X box for LG, follow these steps:
1. Start the LG Tools
2. Select H918
3. Select the Port 1 in Workspace, in connection put it to: AndroidNet USB Serial Port
4. Search phone button will find the LS997 model.
5. Select the Firmware Maker on the bottom of the right box
This will make the firmware of the version 6, the one that has the hidden menu for the unlock, since we cannot downgrade, maybe we can try it this way, it creates a TOT file that is flashable through the Z3X software
Does anyone have the box with this version, before it was updated. Because I lost that in the hidden menu the unlock function and now I cant even get signal, having issues wanna downgrade.
If someone has this LS997V6, create the firmware so we can flash it and maybe we can go back to that security update before it was patched, been looking around for it. But I dont have that version or else would have created the file to share.
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Hey guys
I was wondering if someone here is still on the V6 version of the security update, if you are you can make the TOT file out of the V20 Sprint model. Whoever has the Z3X box for LG, follow these steps:
1. Start the LG Tools
2. Select H918
3. Select the Port 1 in Workspace, in connection put it to: AndroidNet USB Serial Port
4. Search phone button will find the LS997 model.
5. Select the Firmware Maker on the bottom of the right box
This will make the firmware of the version 6, the one that has the hidden menu for the unlock, since we cannot downgrade, maybe we can try it this way, it creates a TOT file that is flashable through the Z3X software
Does anyone have the box with this version, before it was updated. Because I lost that in the hidden menu the unlock function and now I cant even get signal, having issues wanna downgrade.
If someone has this LS997V6, create the firmware so we can flash it and maybe we can go back to that security update before it was patched, been looking around for it. But I dont have that version or else would have created the file to share.
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But didn’t antirollback change? If so firmware or not you cannot downgrade
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hyelton said:
But didn’t antirollback change? If so firmware or not you cannot downgrade
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Yes, but I am currently working on it, but I need that firmware version to see what I can do, because I dont have that, I need someone to make a copy of that from their phone using the methods I have provided for me to do the work on it.
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Yes, but I am currently working on it, but I need that firmware version to see what I can do, because I dont have that, I need someone to make a copy of that from their phone using the methods I have provided for me to do the work on it.
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If antirollback did change, there’s no physical possible way to downgrade. It’s not possible, there’s no way around antirollback.
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If antirollback did change, there’s no physical possible way to downgrade. It’s not possible, there’s no way around antirollback.
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There is always a way for everything, keep in mind Samsung did the same thing to prevent downgrading the firmware, I have found a way to downgrade that to the first version installed on the device even if you are on the latest version, but took me a very long time to find the exploit for it. So trust me, when I tell you there is always a way. Would I share that, no I wont, because its my business and my hard work alone. But I am willing to share my work for this project.
What is there to lose, you have a person here willing to work for free, and work on this project to share with the community.
ayoshidage said:
There is always a way for everything, keep in mind Samsung did the same thing to prevent downgrading the firmware, I have found a way to downgrade that to the first version installed on the device even if you are on the latest version, but took me a very long time to find the exploit for it. So trust me, when I tell you there is always a way. Would I share that, no I wont, because its my business and my hard work alone. But I am willing to share my work for this project.
What is there to lose, you have a person here willing to work for free, and work on this project to share with the community.
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Yeah nothing to loose .
Here’s a good post on it. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73206763&postcount=3
Here is a post from another thread:
“In short: the ARB is implemented in the bootloader and to be more clear in the certificates within. There is 100% no chance to change this other then when you break the signature algo or find a bug in the implementation”
Good luck, If you get anything be sure to post updates!
Without being able to inject code between the CPU and the NAND, it can't be done. I would LOVE to be proven wrong, but here is a quick overview:
The PBL is located in QFPROM on the CPU. ARB is located in QFPROM on the CPU. The RSA key is located in QFPROM on the CPU.
When you power on the phone, the PBL loads XBL and checks the ARB version. If it is less than what is burned into the CPU, it goes into 9008 mode. It also use the RSA key to verify the signature of XBL. If it is modified -- 9008 mode.
When a phone successfully loads XBL that has a greater ARB version than what is burned into the CPU, it immediately burns the greater ARB version into the CPU.
So there are a couple of attack vectors:
1 - Have some cool hardware that can read the RSA key from the CPU and try and brute force the RSA cert with the key and the sig.
2 - Have some cool hardware that can do a MITM attack on the CPU and NAND replying with a valid return so that the CPU will boot no matter what is on the NAND.
Good luck, I will be following this closely....
-- Brian
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Without being able to inject code between the CPU and the NAND, it can't be done. I would LOVE to be proven wrong, but here is a quick overview:
The PBL is located in QFPROM on the CPU. ARB is located in QFPROM on the CPU. The RSA key is located in QFPROM on the CPU.
When you power on the phone, the PBL loads XBL and checks the ARB version. If it is less than what is burned into the CPU, it goes into 9008 mode. It also use the RSA key to verify the signature of XBL. If it is modified -- 9008 mode.
When a phone successfully loads XBL that has a greater ARB version than what is burned into the CPU, it immediately burns the greater ARB version into the CPU.
So there are a couple of attack vectors:
1 - Have some cool hardware that can read the RSA key from the CPU and try and brute force the RSA cert with the key and the sig.
2 - Have some cool hardware that can do a MITM attack on the CPU and NAND replying with a valid return so that the CPU will boot no matter what is on the NAND.
Good luck, I will be following this closely....
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Hi Brian
Thank you for all the information and all the input, I am gonna try to see what I can do from my end, my issue is this, before the update was patched from the hidden menu. This is the problem that has occured. Before the update, when I got this phone, was running on V6, I believe that was the last version that supported the HiddenMenu.apk, that you were able to change production to lab mode. Now since the mistake I did in updating the security software that has been patched and because of it. I have very weak signal and now also the 4G is gone. Before the update, I had full signal bars and 4G service. Now the bars come and go with the data connected. The phone was unlocked this method (temp method) and then was unlocked using Octopus after the update.
These are the issues:
1. The signal bars goes up and down to 0 and goes up again, I am in a very strong signal area.
2. The 4G was working but not the greatest speeds, was doing like 4-8MB a sec down and 0.1Kbs upload. Which is terrible.
I tried Resetting the Security via box and now the 4G is gone and data. Calls are working but same signal issues.
The issue is I know sprint uses the CDMA technologly, and where I am its GSM network, but my service uses WCDMA because it runs on the AWS network 1700/2100. The problem is this. I can get the HiddenMenu to work again, but that special section in the old version does not exist anymore because it has been patched in the new security update.
I am also able to get in to the band selection, AWS and all other bands are there, but the issue is if you select AWS it says FAILED to connect on any band except on AUTO, so this is why I wanted to have the old version extracted on the version 6, so that I could work on it, since Sprint does not have firmware files you can flash.
So this is the problem. Very stupid the way they did this firmware method OVER THE AIR method. The funny thing is that the it supports all the bands that the GSM supports here and the UMTS.
I just want to get this phone back to full bars with the data restored and have the full speed I had when I did the temp fix, but real solution. I know maybe I can flash a custom rom, but I dont know how reliable that is and if it will resolve the issue.
Whats your input on all of this?
Those issues your having are typical issues of using a sprint device on another carrier. Only fix is flashing a different model firmware which won’t ever be possible for the Sprint model. Never rely on a sprint device unless your using it on sprint.
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Yes I'm aware of these things of Sprint after finding out. But the weird thing is I never had an issue after that fix for the hidden menu patch that unlocks it when out into lab mode and specifying the APN. Never had a dropped signal once or data. This issued occured after the update. This is my first time owning an Sprint phone so I didn't know there were no firmware which is why I wanted to work on this project.
They say the workround is flashing a DirtySanta ROM. But then again if you fladh that rom would u have those old options back in hidden menu and would it fix the issue. That's the real question.
I am also aware that since you unlock the bootloader and lock it again you can brick the device. Luckly I have made a tot of my whole system firmware image latest version.
What's the best approach to getting this back to working state. My network runs on WCDMA that's why AWS is needed.
Just want to know how to get this working...
> would i share that, no i wont, its my hard work alone ...
>i need someone to ...
I see a hiccup in the reasoning here.
Best of luck. Development on this device came to a screeching halt when ARB hit.r
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> would i share that, no i wont, its my hard work alone ...
>i need someone to ...
I see a hiccup in the reasoning here.
Best of luck. Development on this device came to a screeching halt when ARB hit.r
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That's phrase is for the Samsung exploit. Not LG two different phones and companies.
If nobody cares to share that firmware version to extract no worries I won't work on it. Worst comes to worst I'll sell the phone that's all.
Good luck finding a way to do it yourself then. Dont questions others people work when you don't know what skills they have in the mobile field.
Thanks for everyone else for their input.
ayoshidage said:
That's phrase is for the Samsung exploit. Not LG two different phones and companies.
If nobody cares to share that firmware version to extract no worries I won't work on it. Worst comes to worst I'll sell the phone that's all.
Good luck finding a way to do it yourself then. Dont questions others people work when you don't know what skills they have in the mobile field.
Thanks for everyone else for their input.
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Well thank you, but you fail to understand something very basic here. While there may have been a question mark in there somewhere, in no way was your request a request. It was rather demanding. You demanded someone do something for you, with no reciprocity from you. I think attitudes like that tend to rankle rather than disarm.
As far as the last bit of your snarky comment - bear this in mind - I'm not the one looking for a 'way to do it myself'.
Again, best of luck.
elijah420 said:
Well thank you, but you fail to understand something very basic here. While there may have been a question mark in there somewhere, in no way was your request a request. It was rather demanding. You demanded someone do something for you, with no reciprocity from you. I think attitudes like that tend to rankle rather than disarm.
As far as the last bit of your snarky comment - bear this in mind - I'm not the one looking for a 'way to do it myself'.
Again, best of luck.
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Thanks for you reply, but I dont think you understood the meaning of what request means? Request means " an act of asking politely or formally for something" I think you should understand what the meaning of request means before commenting no sense. Also I didn't demand someone, I was asking if someone had a dump file or if someone could create a dump file for me to work on the project. I am here to help people out to find solutions, you are here for the purpose of starting rant on the forums. By no means, this was demand or any sort of order in bossing people around. But its all good, I dont have the phone anymore, so no need to work on it anymore, have a great day.
Thanks.
So it seems, some custom roms floating around out there can cause the WiFi Mac address to get changed, my understanding it has to do with the persist getting messed up.
There are a few tools floating around on XDA, one is the Persist_Resurrector.
But it's my understanding, if you have not messed with flashing another persist.img, then you are safe, and flashing back at Stock ROM will correct this.
I had one or two custom roms change my wifi mac, not sure which ones now, but I just flashed stock oreo back, and my original mac address is back, so I'm assuming I am all good, and this problem isn't bad, as long as you don't mess with another persist.img, flash stock back and you're golden?
How can I check if my persist partition is ok?
Thanks
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Sorry remove what?
DoR3M3 said:
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Sorry remove what?
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I think he post on the wrong thread and ask mod to remove post
For your question I still don't know I'm really happy with stock experience and those persist partition froze me on moving to a custom ROM
But all MiA1 are not the same and yours seems to have survive also they have probably fix this problem on newer custom ROM build
Dead-neM said:
I think he post on the wrong thread and ask mod to remove post
For your question I still don't know I'm really happy with stock experience and those persist partition froze me on moving to a custom ROM
But all MiA1 are not the same and yours seems to have survive also they have probably fix this problem on newer custom ROM build
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Ok on removed message...
I like the Stock too, I just wish Xiaomi could of put out a ROM, that doesn't have Gapps, and allow the users to pick their own...
I personally don't want anything google on my phone, or as little as can be possibly had...
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Ok on removed message...
I like the Stock too, I just wish Xiaomi could of put out a ROM, that doesn't have Gapps, and allow the users to pick their own...
I personally don't want anything google on my phone, or as little as can be possibly had...
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That would be bizzare if it happened for a AndroidOne phone not to have 'google anything' on the phone.
DoR3M3 said:
So it seems, some custom roms floating around out there can cause the WiFi Mac address to get changed, my understanding it has to do with the persist getting messed up.
There are a few tools floating around on XDA, one is the Persist_Resurrector.
But it's my understanding, if you have not messed with flashing another persist.img, then you are safe, and flashing back at Stock ROM will correct this.
I had one or two custom roms change my wifi mac, not sure which ones now, but I just flashed stock oreo back, and my original mac address is back, so I'm assuming I am all good, and this problem isn't bad, as long as you don't mess with another persist.img, flash stock back and you're golden?
How can I check if my persist partition is ok?
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As long as you have the original Xiaomi WiFi and BT Mac addresses, your persist partition is untouched.
DoR3M3 said:
Ok on removed message...
I like the Stock too, I just wish Xiaomi could of put out a ROM, that doesn't have Gapps, and allow the users to pick their own...
I personally don't want anything google on my phone, or as little as can be possibly had...
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Why not just disable the Gapps you don't want.
I have these apps I don't use frozen (updates removed first):
Google play games
Google play books
Google play movies
Google play music
korean input
indic input
pinyin input
and zhuyin input all disabled.
I don't disable them because I object to Google, I freeze them because I don't want them to update, once updated you have two copies on your device, the outdated original stays in system, the new uses your storage (for an app you don't want).
I have also removed the Xiaomi installed user apps I don't use, feedback, mi store etc
joeyhuab said:
As long as you have the original Xiaomi WiFi and BT Mac addresses, your persist partition is untouched.
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Hey joeyhuab, the persist got messed up, but I had the original WiFi Mac address from my router, LOL...
As far as the BT Mac, well, if the persist is messed up, is it going to change it too?
I figured out how to flash stock rom, using the persist.img with MiFlash tool and got it all working, I guess for now, not sure the BT Mac address was changed or not...
@kudos1uk, yeah titanium is good to freeze apps, I was doing that before in Stock...
DoR3M3 said:
@kudos1uk, yeah titanium is good to freeze apps, I was doing that before in Stock...
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You don't need titanium, just disable then in the app manager.
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You don't need titanium, just disable then in the app manager.
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Yes of course the app manager, I just mentioned titanium, I just find it easier to scroll through it, either way works...
DoR3M3 said:
Yes of course the app manager, I just mentioned titanium, I just find it easier to scroll through it, either way works...
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Titanium is great but it needs root and I don't know if you can use it without changing the system partition and stopping OTA, app manager is safer as you can't disable important apps by mistake, Google only allow you to disable non critical apps.
I only mention it as you can keep your phone 100% stock without root and disable most Google apps which can be easily turned back on in the future, of course things like Play Store can't be disabled.
Back to the original topic...
So my persist was messed up, and I restored it, but the only way I could figure this is with the image on xiaomifirmware.
https://xiaomifirmware.com/guides-and-tips/restore-persist-partition-xiaomi-mi-a1/
Hopefully this wasn't such a bad move, wifi works, and I see a mac address, but I'm not sure if they are the original, also I can make calls, so not sure if the imei is the original, or the network, just updated the phone to a new iemi.
How can I tell, or is there a way, if I have everything back to original?
Thanks
DoR3M3 said:
Back to the original topic...
So my persist was messed up, and I restored it, but the only way I could figure this is with the image on xiaomifirmware.
https://xiaomifirmware.com/guides-and-tips/restore-persist-partition-xiaomi-mi-a1/
Hopefully this wasn't such a bad move, wifi works, and I see a mac address, but I'm not sure if they are the original, also I can make calls, so not sure if the imei is the original, or the network, just updated the phone to a new iemi.
How can I tell, or is there a way, if I have everything back to original?
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Is that way considered as flashing another phones persist file that not belong to our phone? Its just because we don't know where that persist (that available there) come from. I don't know for sure so CMIIW. Because i restored my persist by persist resurrector to get my original mac back. I don't wanna wreck my device by flashing another persist file that I don't know where it come from. One more time, correct me if I wrong.
upilguebu said:
Is that way considered as flashing another phones persist file that not belong to our phone? Its just because we don't know where that persist (that available there) come from. I don't know for sure so CMIIW. Because i restored my persist by persist resurrector to get my original mac back. I don't wanna wreck my device by flashing another persist file that I don't know where it come from. One more time, correct me if I wrong.
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I don't think by flashing with this persist.img we call the phone damaged, just that the mac addresses are changed, maybe the imei too, but I made calls and text ok, so if it changed my imei, the carrier picked it up no problem...
For now, I'm trying to get the phone booted into edl mode, and oh what a PAIN in the, you know what! LOL...
Just a few simple cmds and the hours it seems to take to do things, heck, running Linux is simpler then this, I could of installed several Unix/Linux systems, by the time I have figured this out! LOL
Last go, I installed the 15 Seconds ADB installer by Snoop, and adb devices wouldn't show anything, then I tried the minimal adb setup/installer and same problem. Now I'm going to try the android sdk and install and the platform tools and see if it works this way, mind you, all this time, to make sure everything is clean, I have been constantly wiping out my box, reformatting it, and putting back a clonezilla image I have for Win8.... OH BOY, so much bloody work...
The WHOLE goal here is, that supposedly, you place phone in; fastboot oem edl, have the oreo rawprogram0.xml edited, so it has 'persist.img' in it, then flash with MiFlash and this is suppose to flash the original stock persist.img
BUT, I see that a lot of people are saying the only way to get edl is to open phone, and short out a few connectors on the board, which put's it into edl...
http://en.miui.com/thread-1680467-1-1.html
Also I read, you hold both up/dn vol and power and wait for phone to vibrate twice and this makes edl...
So I've been going to all this trouble to try and run; adb reboot-edl because fastboot oem edl always gives me some failed...
Hmm
kudos1uk said:
Titanium is great but it needs root and I don't know if you can use it without changing the system partition and stopping OTA, app manager is safer as you can't disable important apps by mistake, Google only allow you to disable non critical apps.
I only mention it as you can keep your phone 100% stock without root and disable most Google apps which can be easily turned back on in the future, of course things like Play Store can't be disabled.
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if you want to remove the apps,you can use the bat script,no root needed,put in the adb folder and give the necessary permission,run the bat script..mi launcher is disable by default
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upilguebu said:
Is that way considered as flashing another phones persist file that not belong to our phone? Its just because we don't know where that persist (that available there) come from. I don't know for sure so CMIIW. Because i restored my persist by persist resurrector to get my original mac back. I don't wanna wreck my device by flashing another persist file that I don't know where it come from. One more time, correct me if I wrong.
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roshan2989 said:
if you want to remove the apps,you can use the bat script,no root needed,put in the adb folder and give the necessary permission,run the bat script..mi launcher is disable by default
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Ahh interesting...
Thanks
P.S. Post all good, issue resolved, no need to reply...
*EDIT 05-24
I had a problem where I would get stuck even after using MSMDOWNLOADTOOL completely. With the help of great minds,
#fullofhell #Dark Nightmare #Scott and frankly a god #Eliminater74 I could fix the phone completely. I am heading for modem work, which put me into this situation.
As of this point, I cannot find any misbehavior but I am quite new to this, so I can be deadly wrong. (Well but then, sensors are fine, calls , texts, data, wifi is working just fine. I don't know what else to check!)
I know as a fact that what happened to me is not really that rare (although it is quite rare, it happened before as well.)
So I was about to share how I fixed it but decided not because what I did was so out of experimental and I frankly have no idea if the same would work for others.
Tbh, if you are in the same position as I am, go ahead and contact the Oneplus service team. I did what I did only because I had to, I am Korean, and couldn't get it fixed.
If anyone, comes to this point and has absolutely no way to get it fixed, I will be glad to help,
(only if that person agrees that there is more chance to totally destroy it then fixing it XD.)
Again, Thank you so much Scott, dark nightmare. What you guys shared with me saved a bunch of time and you guys are what the forum truely needs!
P.S, Still couldn't find the moded MSMdownload tool. What can you recall what functions it had? Maybe enabled engineer mode?
I can't assist with your dump file, I'm just curious though how exactly did you brick your device?
Pain-N-Panic said:
I can't assist with your dump file, I'm just curious though how exactly did you brick your device?
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Although it's pure stupidity, I guess it's worth sharing. I was messing around with the modem and somehow somewhere I broke proximity sensor.
So, I used fastboot flash tools including critical partitions. Which is the same process shared by amt911 "https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/help/bricked-oneplus-6t-msmdownloadtool-t3900145". Once I was done with flashing, I could not reboot. Here, I could have just side load or try to find other way out but I decided to use msm tool, which locked my oem.
basically, I think it's critical partition that causes un-recoverable boot-loop to some of us. That is not fixed by msmdownloadtool for now.
Which, I am curious, do you think msm-download tool will wipe and flash every partitions? From what I searched so far, everyone seems to agree that msm tool will flash every partitions including the critical parts (which is not exactly true because I know for a fact it doesn't wipe out efs partition). If not, do you think there is a way to force it?
Thank you for your interest though! I am going quite sad and mad alone here!
Somehowko said:
Although it's pure stupidity, I guess it's worth sharing. I was messing around with the modem and somehow somewhere I broke proximity sensor.
So, I used fastboot flash tools including critical partitions. Which is the same process shared by amt911 "https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/help/bricked-oneplus-6t-msmdownloadtool-t3900145". Once I was done with flashing, I could not reboot. Here, I could have just side load or try to find other way out but I decided to use msm tool, which locked my oem.
basically, I think it's critical partition that causes un-recoverable boot-loop to some of us. That is not fixed by msmdownloadtool for now.
Which, I am curious, do you think msm-download tool will wipe and flash every partitions? From what I searched so far, everyone seems to agree that msm tool will flash every partitions including the critical parts (which is not exactly true because I know for a fact it doesn't wipe out efs partition). If not, do you think there is a way to force it?
Thank you for your interest though! I am going quite sad and mad alone here!
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Damn man, sorry to hear that. I've never had to mess with msm tool, thankfully. The fact that it locks the bootloader kind of scares me. From what I've read about the tool it does sound like it wipes/flashes all partitions including critical.
Are you able to unlock the BL in fastboot mode using the command?
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Damn man, sorry to hear that. I've never had to mess with msm tool, thankfully. The fact that it locks the bootloader kind of scares me. From what I've read about the tool it does sound like it wipes/flashes all partitions including critical.
Are you able to unlock the BL in fastboot mode using the command?
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As the bootloader is locked and I cannot boot, I am can't put enable oem-unlock on the data. Which means, yes I cannot unlock the bootloader as long as oneplus 6t doesn't have a loophole like oneplus 3T. I am pretty sure that was fixed though.
Well, I don't know if it's msm tool really. If I just started with that I would have been fine (at least I believe so). Yes I didn't wanted to lock the boot loader, which is why I used fastboot flash tool. But then, that's why I ended up here. So, if you end up in a situation where you might, might need msm tool or flash tool, always go with the msm tool !
For msm, I am quite certain it doesn't flash all partitions. I think there is some partition checkup somewhere. Here is why I think so
1) Completely formatted OS cannot be on a boot loop unless it's caused by hardware issue.
2) All partitions except vendor, system goes way too fast. It ends within 200 seconds for me. I would assume that kinda makes sense as it really is the problem of usb-pc hardware power but installing the image should take longer I think (but then I truly have no idea)
My conclusion is that the tool checks partition size before flashing, and does not touch / replace every file. I am probably wrong since it is
EDI tool after all, but I simply cannot believe msm tool cannot fix something that has nothing to do with the hardware.
I mean, imagine we can brake our newly formatted PC OS without any single components corrupted! (Is it even possible?)
I don't know man....with the bootloader locked you're not able to fastboot flash ANYTHING?
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For msm, I am quite certain it doesn't flash all partitions.
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Im sure this is correct. This is about the 3rd or so thread that I have read whereas the MSM tool could not completely recover the phone.
So far no one has found a solution. One person ended up sending theres back to OnePlus so we are waiting to find out how it turned out. Here is the thread I am referencing: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/help/bricked-oneplus-6t-msmdownloadtool-t3900145
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Im sure this is correct. This is about the 3rd or so thread that I have read whereas the MSM tool could not completely recover the phone.
So far no one has found a solution. One person ended up sending theres back to OnePlus so we are waiting to find out how it turned out. Here is the thread I am referencing: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/help/bricked-oneplus-6t-msmdownloadtool-t3900145
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Well, tbh, we know as a matter of fact it is not a complete flashing. I mean it clearly says flashing to partition _a only unlike previous versions of msm tools (ah, good days.) What I am curious of is if there is anything we can do about skipping partitions. I am suspecting using qfil would, through unpacking ops files. Although it seems like a long shot.
Btw, thank you for your interest!
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Im sure this is correct. This is about the 3rd or so thread that I have read whereas the MSM tool could not completely recover the phone.
So far no one has found a solution. One person ended up sending theres back to OnePlus so we are waiting to find out how it turned out. Here is the thread I am referencing: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/help/bricked-oneplus-6t-msmdownloadtool-t3900145
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Msm tool has hidden functions, it's a pain but not impossible.
Search Google and gsm forums for readback mode, smt wipe, and imei/esn restore...
Siren siren... Watch out the xda police gunna blow down and remove my comment.. oh nooooo aghastt....
Btw u cannot use berklers script without an AES recovery key. There aren't any around as far as I know for fajita.
Easiest thing is if OnePlus bought device, get an exchange.. play dumb.. oops I dunno, your Android Q crap broke it..
Or if tmo bought, add insurance if u don't have it, play dumb. Get a new one. I did for a scratched screen..but made it about the modem not working, bc I erased it...
These corporations owe us nothing.
Get a new phone man
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Msm tool has hidden functions, it's a pain but not impossible.
Search Google and gsm forums for readback mode, smt wipe, and imei/esn restore...
Get a new phone man
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Thank you so much! I don't have to hassle with python anymore!!! That thing was making my brain fart!
Sadly, That's the only option that I got. As I am living in Korea and I cannot send a phone outside of a country (funny isn't it? they say battery hazard, I say licking Samsung's ass) I can't even get it fixed.
Frankly, I love my phone and I would go an extra mile even for a hint of getting it back to work again.
I will try to look for back up and smt wipe. Hopefully, I wouldn't totally destroy my phone. (again, hopefully.)
If you have any other information, please share with me!
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Thank you so much! I don't have to hassle with python anymore!!! That thing was making my brain fart!
Sadly, That's the only option that I got. As I am living in Korea and I cannot send a phone outside of a country (funny isn't it? they say battery hazard, I say licking Samsung's ass) I can't even get it fixed.
Frankly, I love my phone and I would go an extra mile even for a hint of getting it back to work again.
I will try to look for back up and smt wipe. Hopefully, I wouldn't totally destroy my phone. (again, hopefully.)
If you have any other information, please share with me!
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You're saying an msm reload didn't fix the device? Btw you can use the unlocked device msm tool as well as of version 9.0.11 I believe, just look for the modded tool that skips the model check, did you do a full system backup before tinkering? If so you can dd files back into place if msm doesn't overwrite them the way its supposed to, I've done some crazy things to the 6t, a bit surprised recovery didn't fix it for you...
And yeah FoH already pointed out that decrypt tool is useless to us.
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You're saying an msm reload didn't fix the device? Btw you can use the unlocked device msm tool as well as of version 9.0.11 I .
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Are you talking about what
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Eliminater74
shared with us? if so, I tried to use back up before smt download but it fails. firehorse read data error 995.
And I didn't do the back up; I only flashed every partition with the fastboot-flash tool. I am quite surprised to see msm letting me down as well );
Can you share more if you know more?
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Are you talking about what
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Eliminater74
shared with us? if so, I tried to use back up before smt download but it fails. firehorse read data error 995.
And I didn't do the back up; I only flashed every partition with the fastboot-flash tool. I am quite surprised to see msm letting me down as well );
Can you share more if you know more?
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Na, there was another someone else had modded, it should be in the general forum, I believe it was linked in the new international conversion method, the one after my thread. If you simply flashed using the fastboot-flash-tool, then you should definitely be recoverable, attempt a msm reload, I believe you may have a usb port issue if you're having firehose failures, try using an onboard port and not the front ports.
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Na, there was another someone else had modded, it should be in the general forum, I believe it was linked in the new international conversion method, the one after my thread. If you simply flashed using the fastboot-flash-tool, then you should definitely be recoverable, attempt a msm reload, I believe you may have a usb port issue if you're having firehose failures, try using an onboard port and not the front ports.
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That's weird. If I had a usb port issue it would say it during the msmdownloading wouldn't it? Msmdownload goes fine but I just can't use the readback function.
And thank you I will go and look for it!
Somehowko said:
That's weird. If I had a usb port issue it would say it during the msmdownloading wouldn't it? Msmdownload goes fine but I just can't use the readback function.
And thank you I will go and look for it!
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qusb is weird, it would let me backup but not flash once, tried a different port and it worked fine for both, so I figured I'd suggest such, doesn't hurt to try after all?
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qusb is weird, it would let me backup but not flash once, tried a different port and it worked fine for both, so I figured I'd suggest such, doesn't hurt to try after all?
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Weird, different port different errors. Error code changed. I will try with other desktops this afternoon.
For another msmdownload tool, are you referring to the thread "T-Mobile 6T to International Conversion (WITHOUT unlocked bootloader/SIM unlock!)"?
Thank you so much for your help!
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Weird, different port different errors. Error code changed. I will try with other desktops this afternoon.
For another msmdownload tool, are you referring to the thread "T-Mobile 6T to International Conversion (WITHOUT unlocked bootloader/SIM unlock!)"?
Thank you so much for your help!
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That's correct and if you're on windows 10 it may be a system update messing with the drivers, its dumb, but it actually affects the simplest of things.
Somehowko said:
Weird, different port different errors. Error code changed. I will try with other desktops this afternoon.
For another msmdownload tool, are you referring to the thread "T-Mobile 6T to International Conversion (WITHOUT unlocked bootloader/SIM unlock!)"?
Thank you so much for your help!
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As crazy as it sounds three reboots and four different ports did the trcik!
And sincerely thank you! Although I couldn't find the modded msmtool you told me I was able to boot into the os finally.