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Alright like a idiot I downloaded a international rom and didn't pay attention...flashed in TWRP and went to reboot so it obviously doesn't work. Tried to use the Flashtool to revert back to the stock Verizon software and it throws the error of the Device Model is different. IMEI is right, BIN, DLL, SWV, SWOV all show the VS980 since I'm trying to flash that.
So have I killed it completely or is there a way to recover? Sure hope there is
I can get into the download mode still
Also appears that it boots into fastboot and can send fastboot commands via the command prompt
Wow this dropped quick...just putting this to the top so I can hopefully get it up and running quicker.
Please check the same thread about LG repair cost. It looks like you need to repair it. you have mismatch in model name in build.prop, so there is no solution as for now. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506208
Ya I saw that after this morning...was hoping it wouldn't come to that. Mine says rooted on the download screen so hopefully that doesn't cause a issue when I send it in.
have you tried pushing a .img using fastboot, as you seem to be able to get to it?
aliaksei said:
have you tried pushing a .img using fastboot, as you seem to be able to get to it?
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Nope as I'm not exactly sure which one I didn't want to attempt anything and break it further
If you could point me to the right one I would appreciate it
collins521 said:
Nope as I'm not exactly sure which one I didn't want to attempt anything and break it further
If you could point me to the right one I would appreciate it
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Hey man are you able to access recovery at all by holding down Vol down+Power, releasing it when the LG splash screen appears for a sec, and then immediately pressing it again? I saw someone a day or two ago was able to put a ROM on a flash drive and install it from there in TWRP.
Mine actually seems to be booting into fastboot when I hold down the power button and it reboots. I can't get it to turn off completely, I can get into download mode if I hold down volume up and power if it's plugged into the computer. If I hold down the power button it will reboot and seems to be in some sort of fastboot when it tries to power on
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Nope as I'm not exactly sure which one I didn't want to attempt anything and break it further
If you could point me to the right one I would appreciate it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752270
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752270
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Makes sense and should be easy enough except that thread makes it out that the boot.img really wouldn't change the device model. Unless it contains it in the img file
Which .img file would I be pushing? The boot.img?
I guess it would be more like which one? Would I be able to just used the one from say CleanRom?
Wohoo! Finally got it up and going...thought for sure it was toast.
I flashed the boot.img through fastboot and then was getting "secure boot unsuccessful" on the screen when it tried to boot. Kept trying to get it into the recovery and it finally did so when it went to the splash screen about pressing the power it put me into TWRP.
I tried to restore the backup that I had stored and it started to but then turned off, I'm not sure if it was because the battery was so low or if it was just the jacked up file structure but it wouldn't get any father than the LG splash screen. The LED would flash green then blue and it would just sit there.
That was when I thought for sure it was toast, let it sit and charge for awhile and still couldn't get back into the recovery but was able to get into download mode. Flashed the stock software via LG Tools and it finally booted.
Not sure if anyone else will run into this issue but now it's documented lol
help a bro
collins521 said:
Wohoo! Finally got it up and going...thought for sure it was toast.
I flashed the boot.img through fastboot and then was getting "secure boot unsuccessful" on the screen when it tried to boot. Kept trying to get it into the recovery and it finally did so when it went to the splash screen about pressing the power it put me into TWRP.
I tried to restore the backup that I had stored and it started to but then turned off, I'm not sure if it was because the battery was so low or if it was just the jacked up file structure but it wouldn't get any father than the LG splash screen. The LED would flash green then blue and it would just sit there.
That was when I thought for sure it was toast, let it sit and charge for awhile and still couldn't get back into the recovery but was able to get into download mode. Flashed the stock software via LG Tools and it finally booted.
Not sure if anyone else will run into this issue but now it's documented lol
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i did the same thing as you i loaded a d802 rom on my vs980 can you tell me how to load the boot .img so i can do what you did i didnt buy a warranty cause i figured i didnt need it so i have no alternative way of fixing it
Had to push the boot.img through adb
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Had to push the boot.img through adb
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What's the command input for the push
All I know is its the along the line of push/c:/(boot.img location)
It's more like "fastboot flash boot boot.img" you can't push it via adb, unless you're already in TWRP.
NRGZ28 said:
It's more like "fastboot flash boot boot.img" you can't push it via adb, unless you're already in TWRP.
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I have twrp installed but I can't boot to it I get stuck on the [800] fastboot mode started screen can I do it from download mode
Hello,
My wife's 6P is stuck in a bootloop. Here's what I've tried so far:
adb devices -> no result
fastboot devices -> device info is displayed
Any other fastboot command -> "FAILED (command write failed(No error))"
I unlocked her bootloader when we got the phone, but I can't flash anything. I just keep getting that error.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help.
Did you update ADB and fastboot ?
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-releases-separate-adb-and-fastboot-binary-downloads/
coremania said:
Did you update ADB and fastboot ?
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-releases-separate-adb-and-fastboot-binary-downloads/
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Yep, I'm able to see my 6P and N7 2012 via ADB, just my wife's 6P that I can't seem to get to work.
Not sure what happened, but I am now able to execute fastboot commands without getting that error. So now I'm waiting for the battery to die down enough to be able to boot recovery per this post. Hopefully this will fix it.
FlyOnTheWall43 said:
Yep, I'm able to see my 6P and N7 2012 via ADB, just my wife's 6P that I can't seem to get to work.
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You're not able to boot to stock recovery ?
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What happens if you put a working twrp.img into your fastboot folder and try to boot it without flashing.
fastboot boot twrp.img
or
fastboot boot recovery twrp.img
coremania said:
You're not able to boot to stock recovery ?
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What happens if you put a working twrp.img into your fastboot folder and try to boot it without flashing.
fastboot boot twrp.img
or
fastboot boot recovery twrp.img
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correct, I cannot boot to stock recovery, flash a custom recovery, or boot to a custom recovery directly (without flashing).
FlyOnTheWall43 said:
correct, I cannot boot to stock recovery, flash a custom recovery, or boot to a custom recovery directly (without flashing).
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Just read the thread you linked, did you try the freezer, like the guy from the last post ???
coremania said:
Just read the thread you linked, did you try the freezer, like the guy from the last post ???
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no, I just found that thread and I'm at work... going to try the freezer trick tonight.
coremania said:
Just read the thread you linked, did you try the freezer, like the guy from the last post ???
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no, I just found that thread and I'm at work... going to try the freezer trick tonight.
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Shoot, didn't help. Still continued to bootloop.
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Shoot, didn't help. Still continued to bootloop.
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Yes, actually the thing with the freezer i never heard that before, but if i remember right someone uses heat to make the phone bootable for a short time. May you carefully try this
with a hairdryer ??? And then try the 4 core modified boot.img
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Yes, actually the thing with the freezer i never heard that before, but if i remember right someone uses heat to make the phone bootable for a short time. May you carefully try this
with a hairdryer ??? And then try the 4 core modified boot.img
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ok, I can give this a try today after work and report back... thanks
The freezer trick did not work. But what helped me was to let the phones battery run out then plug it into the charger and let it boot loop for about 20 mins or so. The phone should boot at that point. I'm thinking the phone has to at least have a minimal charge to boot. Once the phone boots take it off the charger and make sure that "usb debugging" is on as well as allow "oem unlock" option. Once those settings are set go back to fast boot and attempt to flash the four core fix. It really works ????. If you leave the charger on it will go back to boot looping after it reaches 10 percent or so. Hope this helps.
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The freezer trick did not work. But what helped me was to let the phones battery run out then plug it into the charger and let it boot loop for about 20 mins or so. The phone should boot at that point. I'm thinking the phone has to at least have a minimal charge to boot. Once the phone boots take it off the charger and make sure that "usb debugging" is on as well as allow "oem unlock" option. Once those settings are set go back to fast boot and attempt to flash the four core fix. It really works . If you leave the charger on it will go back to boot looping after it reaches 10 percent or so. Hope this helps.
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My bootloader is already unlocked, but I can't flash or boot the four core fix.
I know this question sounds redundant, but does your phone show your bootloader to be unlocked? Seems quite strange that it would not run the fastboot commands. What is the command that you are typing in to install the four core fix.
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I know this question sounds redundant, but does your phone show your bootloader to be unlocked? Seems quite strange that it would not run the fastboot commands. What is the command that you are typing in to install the four core fix.
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no worries, I appreciate the attention/suggestions this thread is getting.... yeah, the bootloader is showing as unlocked. Also as of post #4, I am able to execute all fastboot commands now... I'm not 100% sure why it started working.
Always glad to help. Have you been able to fix the phone?
Sorry to disturb you, after I unlocked my device, I tried to flash both normal fix and 4 -core fix img > flash TWRP recovery, but I still cannot get into recovery mode, is my procedure wrong?
1) Flash 4 core fix boot img.
2) Flash TWRP recovery.
3) Boot to recovery.
4) Bootloop.
Thank you.
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Always glad to help. Have you been able to fix the phone?
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No, but our Pixel 2's just showed up, so this isn't as urgent for me as it originally was. I'm hoping I can still get her old Nexus 6P and use it as our home phone with Google Voice. But, first I have to get this fix to work...
I'm able to flash the modified boot images without any errors, but I still can't get it to boot... I'm thinking it might be because my wife had to keep her phone 3-6 months behind the most current factory image (due to a poorly supported app she HAS to have for work) so I'm thinking the boot images on this thread won't work for her phone because he's on an older factory image. Am I correct in thinking this might be the problem?
I've requested that the OP of that thread either created modified boot images for the older versions of the factory images or explain how he made them so I can try to make them myself. Hopefully he's able to help me out.
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
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Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
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Do not try to lock the BL if you are not completely stock.
If you have TWRP or anything like Magisk installed do not lock the BL.
If something goes wrong, you have a brick.
only lock the BL if you are completely stock.
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Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
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Why would you relock bootloader? Not a good idea especially after modifying software
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tech_head said:
Do not try to lock the BL if you are not completely stock.
If you have TWRP or anything like Magisk installed do not lock the BL.
If something goes wrong, you have a brick.
only lock the BL if you are completely stock.
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Man, I could have sworn it was not recommended to leave the bootloader unlocked. Not exactly the answer I wanted to hear unfortunately. Any idea why it won't boot just because I relocked the bootloader? It just seems like an odd thing to cause a boot loop, and it did it 3 separate times
Can you go to bootloader?
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TJSteveMX said:
Can you go to bootloader?
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I can get into fastboot
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I can get into fastboot
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If your PC can recognize adb fastboot then just get the stock zip file from "back to stock" section here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3701681
I messed up too and back to stock was my only way.
Make sure under bootloader, if you type fastboot devices and is waiting for device, use
fastboot devices -i 0x2e17
If the PC recognize your device then, you can save from your bootloop
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TJSteveMX said:
If your PC can recognize adb fastboot then just get the stock zip file from "back to stock" section here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3701681
I messed up too and back to stock was my only way.
Make sure under bootloader, if you type fastboot devices and is waiting for device, use
fastboot devices -i 0x2e17
If the PC recognize your device then, you can save from your bootloop
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I would do this, but I had unchecked "allow OEM unlock" when I booted up earlier. I cannot unlock the bootloader now from fastboot, and I can't flash back to stock because my bootloader is locked. I am pretty sure I am screwed at this point
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I would do this, but I had unchecked "allow OEM unlock" when I booted up earlier. I cannot unlock the bootloader now from fastboot, and I can't flash back to stock because my bootloader is locked. I am pretty sure I am screwed at this point
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Try holding volume up and down right after essential logo and see if you can get into safe mode. Worth a shot.
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do you see your device in fastboot at all? try switching the slot.. fastboot --set-active=x where x is either _a or _b.
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Try holding volume up and down right after essential logo and see if you can get into safe mode. Worth a shot.
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Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but holding both volume buttons does nothing for me.
And I can get into fastboot and it registers the phone, but when I try to change slots it tells me it failed and I cannot change slots while locked
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Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but holding both volume buttons does nothing for me.
And I can get into fastboot and it registers the phone, but when I try to change slots it tells me it failed and I cannot change slots while locked
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It just stays on lineage boot screen?
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try reinstalling TWRP and flash LOS again, I think once you flash a different software the OEM UNLOCKING switch are not highlighted anymore(what I mean is you can't turn it off), if you can do fastboot, try doing fastboot -w and wait till it reboots.
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try reinstalling TWRP and flash LOS again, I think once you flash a different software the OEM UNLOCKING switch are not highlighted anymore(what I mean is you can't turn it off), if you can do fastboot, try doing fastboot -w and wait till it reboots.
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It's OEM locked. Not true, you can lock it, and so he did.
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See this thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/7hocrl/psa_if_youre_running_a_custom_rom_recovery_on/
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Man, I could have sworn it was not recommended to leave the bootloader unlocked. Not exactly the answer I wanted to hear unfortunately. Any idea why it won't boot just because I relocked the bootloader? It just seems like an odd thing to cause a boot loop, and it did it 3 separate times
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Check any forum of a phone with an unlockable bootloader. You never ever relock the bootloader unless you are 100% completely stock. Once relocked with modified software there is nothing you can do to get it to boot.
Your only hope might be a deep flash cable and qpst if you can figure out how to use it.
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It just stays on lineage boot screen?
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Yeah it just continues to boot as normal, and then of course goes into the boot loop.
I cannot reflash twrp or any other room. Attempting to flash anything fails with the error cannot flash while locked. Same with using -w
Did you try the fastboot unlock command?
varxx said:
See this thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/7hocrl/psa_if_youre_running_a_custom_rom_recovery_on/
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Just saw your post. Wonderful. Might be a good sticky on xda, I didn't see this on Reddit. Anyone want to buy a really expensive shiny brick?!
Anyone get bricked from the last update (I assume January/December security updates). I tried to update my phone yesterday 1/7/2018. My phone basically downloaded everything, told me to restart, loaded into the bootloader 3 times - after i selected normal Boot, and then stopped and charging.
Pretty glad that I had 2 phones.. because I have a video of it bricking in front of my eyes. not sure if I can post links yet.
Any help would be reallly appreciated as I haven't modified anything on it...
Can you still boot into recovery?
neokwlx said:
Anyone get bricked from the last update (I assume January/December security updates). I tried to update my phone yesterday 1/7/2018. My phone basically downloaded everything, told me to restart, loaded into the bootloader 3 times - after i selected normal Boot, and then stopped and charging.
Pretty glad that I had 2 phones.. because I have a video of it bricking in front of my eyes. not sure if I can post links yet.
Any help would be reallly appreciated as I haven't modified anything on it...
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try to wipe your data fastboot -w or with stock recovery
This video is the last time I could get the phone to turn on. The only signs of life I (saw) on the phone was the LED light when I tried to charge the phone -
after it ran out of battery.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XaD1W5CUmMpV9U9w2
The screen won't turn on or off. It's like the power button's broken even though it's still pressable. It should have battery though because I've been trying to turn it on with it plugged in.
neokwlx said:
The screen won't turn on or off. It's like the power button's broken even though it's still pressable. It should have battery though because I've been trying to turn it on with it plugged in.
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ok maybe try power on with volume down
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ok maybe try power on with volume down
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None of these combinations worked. (Held them for at least 3 seconds each)
Power+Up
Power + Down
Power+UP+DOWN
Up+down
neokwlx said:
None of these combinations worked. (Held them for at least 3 seconds each)
Power+Up
Power + Down
Power+UP+DOWN
Up+down
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Try them for 45 seconds.
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Try them for 45 seconds.
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Thanks! It turned on after Vol Down+Power (10 seconds).
Unfortunately every menu option from FastBoot Mode proceeds to black screen
-Start
-Recovery Mode
-Restart bootloader
-Power Off
Got it to work with flash unlock in the bootloader menu! Thanks for the advice everyone!
neokwlx said:
Got it to work with flash unlock in the bootloader menu! Thanks for the advice everyone!
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glad for you ?
How?
neokwlx said:
Got it to work with flash unlock in the bootloader menu! Thanks for the advice everyone!
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Can you please tell me how exactly you did this? via command line fastboot?
I can't select anything in the boot loader menu, just like you all options show a black screen. Can't do anything.
Please help!
Essential Phone stuck in Start up screen with Locked Boot loader
Essential Phone stuck in Start up screen with Locked Boot loader, need help to get it back on. Is there a way around to unlock the boot loader from Fast Boot ?
[email protected] said:
Essential Phone stuck in Start up screen with Locked Boot loader, need help to get it back on. Is there a way around to unlock the boot loader from Fast Boot ?
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You will need to side load the OTA.
You cannot unlock the boot loader unless you check OEM unlock in the developer menu.
Or, at least I have not seen it done.
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You will need to side load the OTA.
You cannot unlock the boot loader unless you check OEM unlock in the developer menu.
Or, at least I have not seen it done.
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OEM unlocking is ticked off. That's the issue. I've seen in some videos or posts like Chris Paton. Advising to relocate the bootloader after sideloading the beta OTA's... I followed it and now I'm in a soup.
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Essential Phone stuck in Start up screen with Locked Boot loader, need help to get it back on. Is there a way around to unlock the boot loader from Fast Boot ?
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try to wipe all user data and reflash the stock ROM through command line..i don 't know if you want to keep your data or just make the phone work
panossd said:
try to wipe all user data and reflash the stock ROM through command line..i don 't know if you want to keep your data or just make the phone work
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I don't min wiping it off... But I'm unable to access those commands as my Boot loader is locked and OEM Unlocking is not toggled on. Let me know of there is anything I can do in such case.
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I don't min wiping it off... But I'm unable to access those commands as my Boot loader is locked and OEM Unlocking is not toggled on. Let me know of there is anything I can do in such case.
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Can u get the phone in fastboot mode??? Try to install lineage os (twrp etc. )
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Can u get the phone in fastboot mode??? Try to install lineage os (twrp etc. )
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Fastboot Mode - YES. But it isn't accepting any commands from there.
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Fastboot Mode - YES. But it isn't accepting any commands from there.
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Does your PC sees the phone when in fastboot mode?
Hey guys, I've done as much searching for something like this I could and have had no luck.
So I successfully unlocked the bootloader and tried to install twrp, since then I am stuck in a fastboot loop with the occasional screen telling me my software is destroyed. I only have access to a macbook air. Can someone point me in the right direction please? also installing windows on the laptop isn't an option for me. I'm stuck, Please help.
dkunjosh said:
Hey guys, I've done as much searching for something like this I could and have had no luck.
So I successfully unlocked the bootloader and tried to install twrp, since then I am stuck in a fastboot loop with the occasional screen telling me my software is destroyed. I only have access to a macbook air. Can someone point me in the right direction please? also installing windows on the laptop isn't an option for me. I'm stuck, Please help.
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Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac
sauliiin said:
Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac
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Thank you! when pressing vol- and power OR vol+ and power it goes to fastboot. it says system destroyed when I only press power. I dont believe TWRP ever installed.
sauliiin said:
Wait. Calm down. Can you boot to twrp? Can you go to fasboot screen? Or it keeps rebooting?
The screen is probably saying system is destroyed, no?
If you can go to twrp or fasboot you can reflash a stock rom, even on crapy Mac
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Could you point me to info on how to fix this?
dkunjosh said:
Could you point me to info on how to fix this?
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Just flash the twrp and the modified vbmeta.img it will fix the bootloop to fastboot (well there are a lot of tutorials check mauronofrio's xda thread idk if it works on mac so)