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Latest OTA update - Help needed

Hi all,
I have a bit of an issue with the latest OTA update currently being pushed out and looking for help how best to proceed.
I have unlocked and rooted the phone previously and recovery is TWRP. My phone is encrypted.
When I accepted the updated the phone rebooted and showed the TWRP splash screen which flashes on and off endlessly. If I turn the phone off and on again it restarts fine but after a few seconds the update process starts again. I am currently stuck in this loop.
Any advice as to how I can get out of this without wiping my phone?
I am wondering if I could flash the standard recovery to remove TWRP if this would work. Could it and if so, where can i get the standard recovery image.
Thanks and sorry of this is already covered, I searched but couldn't find it.

For XT1575.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833

If you want to update be on stock rom i.e. unrooted and no xposed,nothing added or removed from system and also flash stock recovery.
After successful update flash twrp.

So, if I want to install the lastest update it's enough to unroot, remove xposed and flash stock recovery? Or it's better to flash full stock through fastboot?

So I managed to find a link to the full image for my device (XT1572 so the above link wouldn't work to the best of my knowledge - but thanks anyway @Hitti2)
I flashed the standard recovery and rebooted which stopped the endless loop. The update still fails to install but I can live with that for now.
I'll investigate further what I need to do to get the update to take properly but for now I have a functioning phone which is a good start to the day.
Thanks all.
Sent from my XT1572 using Tapatalk

Final installment. Update installed and a good. For anyone who stumbles across this with a similar issue, here is what I had to do.
Flash stock boot and recovery images to remove root and TWRP.
Reboot and let the update install.
Reflashed TWRP and SuperSU (both of which are now newer versions)
Job done. Now I know for the next update [emoji6]

There is a whole thread dedicated to this update in general.

lafester said:
There is a whole thread dedicated to this update in general.
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Maybe there is but as I stated in the OP, I couldn't find the right information at the time of posting. Maybe helpful would be to also link the thread as it may help others.

@lafester could you link thread please.
Sent from my XT1572 using Tapatalk

Boot image?
Thanks for this info. I'm definitely still unable to install this update. I am stock, unrooted. I have flashed the stock recovery image, but not the boot image. Can you please point me to where i can find the stock boot image?
user7743 said:
Final installment. Update installed and a good. For anyone who stumbles across this with a similar issue, here is what I had to do.
Flash stock boot and recovery images to remove root and TWRP.
Reboot and let the update install.
Reflashed TWRP and SuperSU (both of which are now newer versions)
Job done. Now I know for the next update [emoji6]
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nathlynn22 said:
@lafester could you link thread please.
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This one possibly?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/general/xt1575-february-2016-security-update-t3323126
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chuck-fu said:
Thanks for this info. I'm definitely still unable to install this update. I am stock, unrooted. I have flashed the stock recovery image, but not the boot image. Can you please point me to where i can find the stock boot image?
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Maybe this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833
Though I am having issues too... stuck at Error! after trying to install update with (what I assume is) stock recovery and boot.

chuck-fu said:
Thanks for this info. I'm definitely still unable to install this update. I am stock, unrooted. I have flashed the stock recovery image, but not the boot image. Can you please point me to where i can find the stock boot image?
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evandena said:
Maybe this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833
Though I am having issues too... stuck at Error! after trying to install update with (what I assume is) stock recovery and boot.
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@evandena not that one. That is for a different model, I needed the firmware for the XT1572.
@chuck-fu I found a post here on XDA with a list of download links for various versions. I will dig out the link shortly and post it when I have access to my PC.
I extracted but the recovery and boot image files from that package. What you need are the images as close to possible from what is currently installed on your phone.
Edit: Here is the link to the thread with many Moto X Style images... Hopefully this will help
[Firmware] Moto X Style/Pure Stock Software

Thanks so much for trying to help. I went ahead and flashed the boot and recovery files for my model. I did the Boot image first, no luck. then i did the recovery, and this time andy thought a bit longer before giving me the Error! message. And then instead of my phone doing an autoreboot, it was stuck on the dead Andy and I needed to do hold down the power button to get it to shut down.
Anyone have any additional thoughts?
user7743 said:
@evandena not that one. That is for a different model, I needed the firmware for the XT1572.
@chuck-fu I found a post here on XDA with a list of download links for various versions. I will dig out the link shortly and post it when I have access to my PC.
I extracted but the recovery and boot image files from that package. What you need are the images as close to possible from what is currently installed on your phone.
Edit: Here is the link to the thread with many Moto X Style images... Hopefully this will help
[Firmware] Moto X Style/Pure Stock Software
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I was having same issue. I am stock, rooted, unlocked bootloader.
Currently using TWRP 3.0
In order to update with the new OTA you need to find a download of the .zip files and manually install it.
If you try to do OTA update it will just keep getting stuck in recovery. To get out of this just cache wipe and reboot.

This phone has never been able to take OTAs for some reason. I wish I understood why. I tried to leave the thing stock to keep things simple, but it wasn't to be... anyway...
Thanks for the advice. Any idea where to get a download of the .zip files (is it really more than one zip file, or was that a typo)? I tried searching, but can't seem to find the right things to search for.
Also, once i have the zip file(s):
1) Do I just install it via TWRP like any other zip file?
2) to get rid of the OTA prompt, do i wipe the cache and reboot before or after i install the update via the zip?
Many thanks!
InFamousD147 said:
I was having same issue. I am stock, rooted, unlocked bootloader.
Currently using TWRP 3.0
In order to update with the new OTA you need to find a download of the .zip files and manually install it.
If you try to do OTA update it will just keep getting stuck in recovery. To get out of this just cache wipe and reboot.
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I managed to update via OTA flashing the stock recovery, boot and system chunks. This is the procedure I do to update my wife's Nexus 5 and worked for the Moto X Style too. Remember to make a backup before in case something goes wrong.

Thanks for the info- what version do you have? I have the 1575 RETUS and can't find the system file. Is that basically flashing an entire ROM? Sorry, but i've flashed boot and recovery files before, as well as full ROMs but don't ever remember flashing a system file on its own.
Thanks!
Dunkel06 said:
I managed to update via OTA flashing the stock recovery, boot and system chunks. This is the procedure I do to update my wife's Nexus 5 and worked for the Moto X Style too. Remember to make a backup before in case something goes wrong.
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chuck-fu said:
Thanks for the info- what version do you have? I have the 1575 RETUS and can't find the system file. Is that basically flashing an entire ROM? Sorry, but i've flashed boot and recovery files before, as well as full ROMs but don't ever remember flashing a system file on its own.
Thanks!
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I have the 1572 RETEU, but you can find the stock firmware here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833
If it's like the stock firmware that I have for the 1572 it should have all the img files and the system chunks. You just need to flash all the chunks like this:
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.3
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.4
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.5
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.6
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.7
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.8
This has to be done because Marshmallow doesn't allow any modification in the system or the boot image, and will not proceed with the OTA if the ROM is not full stock.
EDIT: You will not loose any data, but any modification to the system partition will be undone.

Dunkel06 said:
I managed to update via OTA flashing the stock recovery, boot and system chunks. This is the procedure I do to update my wife's Nexus 5 and worked for the Moto X Style too. Remember to make a backup before in case something goes wrong.
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Thanks for your help once again. I manually flashed the system files like you listed, but for whatever reason, i'm still getting the same old Error. I'm pretty sure I'm on a stock ROM.
From this site: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833
I have flashed the XT1575 6.0 boot.img, recovery.img, then from the firmware, extracted the 8 sparsechunk files and flashed those as well. I still get the ERROR after a few seconds of trying to load the OTA.
Any other ideas by any chance? Did you do any kind of wiping in there somewhere? Did you just let the normal OTA try installing from within Android?

chuck-fu said:
Thanks for your help once again. I manually flashed the system files like you listed, but for whatever reason, i'm still getting the same old Error. I'm pretty sure I'm on a stock ROM.
From this site: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/pure-firmware-tuff-wip-t3224833
I have flashed the XT1575 6.0 boot.img, recovery.img, then from the firmware, extracted the 8 sparsechunk files and flashed those as well. I still get the ERROR after a few seconds of trying to load the OTA.
Any other ideas by any chance? Did you do any kind of wiping in there somewhere? Did you just let the normal OTA try installing from within Android?
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I just let the normal OTA install after flashing system, boot and recovery, without wiping any partition. Maybe you can try a flash all the zip to make sure it's full stock and see if the OTA install. Just make a backup before in case nothing change.

Help to get N preview 3 installed from a custom rom with no pc just TWrp

Is it possible? It not I will wait till I get home tonight. I'm thinking flash a stock rom zip. Then opt in. Don't loose all internal storage? Thoughts
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iamdarren said:
Is it possible? It not I will wait till I get home tonight. I'm thinking flash a stock rom zip. Then opt in. Don't loose all internal storage? Thoughts
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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Yes it is possible. Just download the complete N factory image, plus the modified boot image (kernel).
Extract the system.img, and vendor.img out of the factory image.
And now, flash the three files using TWRP - system.img (system image), vendor.img (vendor image), and boot.img (kernel).

DJBhardwaj said:
Yes it is possible. Just download the complete N factory image, plus the modified boot image (kernel).
Extract the system.img, and vendor.img out of the factory image.
And now, flash the three files using TWRP - system.img (system image), vendor.img (vendor image), and boot.img (kernel).
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Where can I find the modified boot image?
Edit: Found it, nevermind.

messiahfreedom said:
Where can I find the modified boot image?
Edit: Found it, nevermind.
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Grab it from here, and make sure to download the corresponding boot.img to your build number.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/stock-modified-boot-img-regular-root-t3306684

DJBhardwaj said:
Yes it is possible. Just download the complete N factory image, plus the modified boot image (kernel).
Extract the system.img, and vendor.img out of the factory image.
And now, flash the three files using TWRP - system.img (system image), vendor.img (vendor image), and boot.img (kernel).
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If we do it this way, will we lose data? Can we just update from 6.0.1?

jorgis1 said:
If we do it this way, will we lose data? Can we just update from 6.0.1?
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You can if you were on a stock rom.
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jorgis1 said:
If we do it this way, will we lose data? Can we just update from 6.0.1?
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No, you won't loose any data. Your userdata/data partition will stay as is. You will just wipe the system and boot through TWRP, and then flash the listed image files.

superchilpil said:
You can if you were on a stock rom.
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But if we do it the manual way as stated before, do we lose root? What about gapps? Will those be included?

flashfire is a great app, does it all for you...
I simply downloaded OTA through the system update, then after it was downloaded instead of allowing it to "Restart and Install" which would have failed due to my custom recovery, I just opened flashfire. It found the OTA automatically and I hit Flash button. Done!

I ended up loading up from the PC. It's better this way because I only had 2gb of space on my 64gb!!! Bad thing is, I have spent about 2hrs installing!
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

So I can use flashfire to flash the latest N beta even though I'm currently running a custom ROM?
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GatorsUF said:
flashfire is a great app, does it all for you...
I simply downloaded OTA through the system update, then after it was downloaded instead of allowing it to "Restart and Install" which would have failed due to my custom recovery, I just opened flashfire. It found the OTA automatically and I hit Flash button. Done!
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Foes your custom recovery still work? I tried this method and it just wouldn't boot into TWRP. Been trying all day thru different methods. Idk how to use adb fastboot on a computer so I'm a lil lost when trying any other method. I've been using Wug's toolkit but until he pushes an update for it I'm on stock MM until i can figure something out.

x.0ni.x said:
Foes your custom recovery still work? I tried this method and it just wouldn't boot into TWRP. Been trying all day thru different methods. Idk how to use adb fastboot on a computer so I'm a lil lost when trying any other method. I've been using Wug's toolkit but until he pushes an update for it I'm on stock MM until i can figure something out.
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why does the wug toolkit not work?

I don't know a lot about Flashfire as far as it's compatibility with Custom Roms and such. I was previously on stock android Marshmellow with root and twrp. My phone downloaded the OTA for Android N when I "enrolled" in the beta program. I chose not to allow the phone to attempt to install the OTA as it would likely fail due to my custom recovery, to my surprise when I opened flashfire it offered to install the "update.zip" (AKA the OTA) and I simply hit "flash". It installed the OTA (did not use TWRP) and rooted my phone all on it's own, I did not lose anything no data was lost.
As a side not I would not recommend using Flashfire if you don't know how to use fastboot commands and the Android SDK. It is not complicated and it is a almost certain way to fix your phone when things go haywire. I strongly encourage you to learn how to use it as it is essential to owning a Nexus imo. These root kits and flashfire programs are cool, but they are always subject to failures...

Update Failed WAS-LX1

Hello,
today i wanted to update my *rooted* WAS-LX1 to B182, so i downloaded the update.zip and tried to flash it with FlashFire.
Then my phone booted in Error Mode. So i tried to boot in Fastboot mode, and it worked. So i flashed TWRP and now i want to install Stock firmware again, but i don't know which file i should flash. I've got 3 files called update.zip, update_data_full_public.zip and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip.
I hope you can help me.
Zillinda

Zillinda said:
Hello,
today i wanted to update my *rooted* WAS-LX1 to B182, so i downloaded the update.zip and tried to flash it with FlashFire.
Then my phone booted in Error Mode. So i tried to boot in Fastboot mode, and it worked. So i flashed TWRP and now i want to install Stock firmware again, but i don't know which file i should flash. I've got 3 files called update.zip, update_data_full_public.zip and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip.
I hope you can help me.
Zillinda
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To update my rooted phone to B182 I had to download the full package (2.3gb, including update.zip and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip). I was not successfull in updating via TWRP. I updated via the official system menu so I don't know how exactly it was applied. According to other guides (http://www.stechguide.com/tag/was-lx1c432b182/ for example) it should be update.zip first and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip second, without a reboot. Let us know how it worked out...

garris_bibop said:
To update my rooted phone to B182 I had to download the full package (2.3gb, including update.zip and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip). I was not successfull in updating via TWRP. I updated via the official system menu so I don't know how exactly it was applied. According to other guides (http://www.stechguide.com/tag/was-lx1c432b182/ for example) it should be update.zip first and update_full_WASL21A_hw_eu.zip second, without a reboot. Let us know how it worked out...
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Unfortunately it didn't work. The only thing i can do is boot in the TWRP recovery. Is there a way to flash the stock rom with fastboot?

Zillinda said:
Unfortunately it didn't work. The only thing i can do is boot in the TWRP recovery. Is there a way to flash the stock rom with fastboot?
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I only tried flashing the update via sideload and recovery and it didn't work (http://rootmygalaxy.net/flash-ota-firmware-updates-using-adb-fastboot-commands/). Maybe you are lucky. Problem is, I'm quite new to this stuff, hopefully someone else can help out.

Can someone please provide us with a link for the stock recovery?

kazzot17 said:
Can someone please provide us with a link for the stock recovery?
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https://mega.nz/#!V3AwUI6K!mcqlNCwcyE71MroUZuP9w-bNDhgt3MGzz0svgHUY8Ow

By the way, i solved the problem. I downloaded HuaweiUpdateExtractor for extracting the .img files from the update.app and i flashed them with fastboot.

Nice, congrats

Huawei P10 Lite (WAS-LX1AC109B110) bricked?!

I wanted the unofficial LineageOS on my device, but i messed up some things. Since it didn't work I asked for help and was told that I should flash the stock ROM's image files via fastboot. So I downloaded the WAS-LX1AC109B110 version update.zip file, grabbed the update.app file and extracted it. I got the BOOT.IMG, CUST.IMG, RECOVERY.IMG, SYSTEM.IMG files. Flashed them one-by-one via fastboot and ended up bricking my devices.
I don't know what happened, but now all my device can do is to boot the Huawei eRecovery, where I can do nothing;
and to boot the EMUI updater (or what is it called; the one what uses the dload folder on the sd card), but it either says that the package file doesn't exist, or if I put the update.app file(and the other files from the update.zip) into the dload folder it says "Software install failed! Get help from: (an emui page link)" (the link redirects to a 404 error page).
I can't boot into fastboot mode, neither into the recovery.
Please tell me that I don't need to buy a new phone, it's pretty new.

Have you tried the service ROM unbrick from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/help/original-service-rom-huawei-p10-lite-t3688097 ?

Drain the battery, than hold volume down and connect the USB cable. You should use fastboot again.
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Zoeriva said:
Drain the battery, than hold volume down and connect the USB cable. You should use fastboot again.
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Well, it helped. Thank you! Now I am able to enter fastboot mode, however it's nothing much of a help, because no matter what I do it just won't boot. I flashed everything once again. Now it's slightly better, since the Huawei boot animation is played, but then it restarts. Any idea? (yes, i did erase the user data and cache)

hundred_miles_high said:
Have you tried the service ROM unbrick from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/help/original-service-rom-huawei-p10-lite-t3688097 ?
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My version isn't listed there. WAS-LX1AC109B110

Try Google. Than flash boot.img, recovery.img, recovery2.img and as last system.img.
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Zoeriva said:
Try Google. Than flash boot.img, recovery.img, recovery2.img and as last system.img.
I already did that. Doesn't work.
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You are flashing the wrong rom.
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Zoeriva said:
You are flashing the wrong rom.
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I checked my carriers site. It says that as of 16.05.2017 the last approved firmware for their Warsaw-L01A is WAS-LX1AC109B100.
Even if there was any newer version, that wouldn't change the case, would it? So I should be able to flash the WAS-LX1AC109B[anything] firmwares, right?

keretrendszer said:
I checked my carriers site. It says that as of 16.05.2017 the last approved firmware for their Warsaw-L01A is WAS-LX1AC109B100.
Even if there was any newer version, that wouldn't change the case, would it? So I should be able to flash the WAS-LX1AC109B[anything] firmwares, right?
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Otherwise, just rebrand your phone and use stock FW explained earlier.

Wifi wont toggle on after flashing boot img

I flashed twrp on boot using fastboot instead of on recovery and was stuck in a bootloop. So I found a stock boot img online and flashed that back onto boot and now it boots but wifi won't turn on anymore.

Get the fastboot rom which corresponds to your device version from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/how-to/ota-xiaomi-mi-a1-ota-links-t3718542
Extract the boot.img from the archive and flash it using fastboot. That should get your WiFi going again.

oreo27 said:
Get the fastboot rom which corresponds to your device version from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/how-to/ota-xiaomi-mi-a1-ota-links-t3718542
Extract the boot.img from the archive and flash it using fastboot. That should get your WiFi going again.
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Found it, will try it now thank you.

oreo27 said:
Get the fastboot rom which corresponds to your device version from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/how-to/ota-xiaomi-mi-a1-ota-links-t3718542
Extract the boot.img from the archive and flash it using fastboot. That should get your WiFi going again.
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I have no idea how to go about using a python script to unpack the OTA images from the file. What should I do?

Don't download the OTA image. Download the fastboot image. Use 7-zip to extract.

There's no fastboot image for my version and I have tried a diff version from there and it boots but doesn't fix the wifi problem.

racer1077 said:
There's no fastboot image for my version and I have tried a diff version from there and it boots but doesn't fix the wifi problem.
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What version are you on? I believe all the Fastboot versions are present in that thread. If you're on a newer version that 8.1.10, you'll need to flash 8.1.10 first, effectively downgrading. Then you can update to a higher version using the system's in-built updater.

oreo27 said:
What version are you on? I believe all the Fastboot versions are present in that thread. If you're on a newer version that 8.1.10, you'll need to flash 8.1.10 first, effectively downgrading. Then you can update to a higher version using the system's in-built updater.
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Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.V9.5.4.0.ODHMIFA]. I'm on 8.0 still but it has a different build number. I have tried the boot.img from this one (Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.8.1.10]) but it didnt work.

racer1077 said:
Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.V9.5.4.0.ODHMIFA]. I'm on 8.0 still but it has a different build number. I have tried the boot.img from this one (Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.8.1.10]) but it didnt work.
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Yup. You're on the same version as me. It does not yet have a fastboot ROM indeed. You will need to downgrade.
Flash the entire (Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.8.1.10]) ROM in Xiaomi Flash and choose "Save user Data".

oreo27 said:
Yup. You're on the same version as me. It does not yet have a fastboot ROM indeed. You will need to downgrade.
Flash the entire (Android 8.0.0 [OPR1.170623.026.8.1.10]) ROM in Xiaomi Flash and choose "Save user Data".
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Miflash says it flashes successfully, however it doesn't reboot and after manually rebooting it isn't flashed.
Edit: Upon checking the log there was a problem with file location and right now I'm trying to flash it again.
Edit: IT WORKED!! After flashing the entire ROM wifi now works again properly. Thank you so much for helping me through all this.

racer1077 said:
Miflash says it flashes successfully, however it doesn't reboot and after manually rebooting it isn't flashed.
Edit: Upon checking the log there was a problem with file location and right now I'm trying to flash it again.
Edit: IT WORKED!! After flashing the entire ROM wifi now works again properly. Thank you so much for helping me through all this.
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Mi Flash doesn't seem to accept spaces in the path of the firmware so that was probably the issue. No worries! You'll want to update to the latest version using the system updater to get back on your actual version.