How to make EDL package? - ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers

I have been using MiFlash since I first got my Axon 7 and it has saved my butt so many times from bricks.
I was just wondering how I would go about to make an EDL package. I would like to create one for my current ROM if possible. It would be great to have one as a backup just case something happens.
I have also been looking online for an answer but was getting nowhere but dead ends.

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hard bricked

i seem to have hardbricked my mytouch 4g. no signs of life no bootloader recovery charging lite nothing. it is shown as a qualicom hs downloader device on my pc. does annybody have the files to flash through qpst by chance to restore the partition table. because if i can atleast get a working partition table i can get somewhere and possibly recover the device. a qpst factory device image would be even better though if anyone has eather of these please post them in the thread
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I gave it a shot, but a few issues led me to give up the attempt:
1) The QPST instructions I found required using an mmi code to put it into diagnostic mode in order for QPST to operate. Those have never worked on my phone (either my old mytouch or new one, on both stock and custom ROMs). It might have something to do with being no-contract/prepaid.
2) I searched around and couldn't find a single successful story of someone using QPST on any HTC gsm phones with a qualcomm msm8255. Lots of noble attempts, but no results.
3) A QPST backup would contain the phone's IMEI, which is pretty sketchy and not something I would want to share. I was going to look into making a backup for myself, and if I could find a way to zero out the IMEI I would consider sharing it for unbricking purposes, but couldn't even get past step 1 anyway, so that was a bust.
4) FYI, for $12 I picked up a broken mytouch on ebay and swapped the motherboard when I destroyed mine a couple months ago. Far lower frustration level. That's my contingency plan, anyway.

HardBricked nexus 7 (i think its HardBricked anyway)

Hi, im kinda new here, but i really need help. i think ive hardbricked my nexus 7 (it wont start and the bootloader is wiped, the computer recognize the device as "APX" or something like that) and in one post they talked about blob files and a blob tool, can anyone help me with that? i have no clue how to compile/decompile the blobtool and what program i should use, can anyone give me a tutorial of any kind? (with what programs to use and in what steps)
thanks ahed
I have a nexus in the same condition. As far as I can see is dead. The blob thing only works if you copied it before it died as it is device specific.
Would be grateful if anyone could help though.
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I have the same issue. my brother says it bootlooped after updating (this happened a while ago), he then tried to flash the bootloader and then killed it. the device shows in APX mode in windows. I managed to install the Naked drivers and get it to recognize as a Asus Transformer device but I'm not sure where to go next with that. It has been gathering dust since last couple of months. I am hoping some good developer would take interest and solve this thing once and for all.

Touch screen works in TWRP no touch booted

Okay. This is an odd one for me. bought another axon 7 bc it was cheap. swapped in my old board and battery because it was charging and running really hot. (ive owned 4 axon 7 now, it was the hottest ever) so surgery went fine. upon booting, the touch screen, does not respond to touch. while within recovery (twrp by nfound) touchscreen works perfectly. i really dont know what to do to it. i have tried to restore all sorts of backups, but every one has the same issue. ive tried not including EFS and tried it included. if the screen wasnt working in TWRP, id question my hardware labor, but im kind of stumped. i keep trying to download B19 nougat edl, but the download keeps failing. (thanks tmobile and my in-laws wifi). my question is coming from a functional custom recovery is there a way to flash or restore stock recovery? i know i can EDL eventually, i was just wondering if there is an easier way?
EDL fails to complete using any of the EDL files i have tried so far using
Secondary question, is there any EDL thats works as a necessary starting point? i.e.- on moto devices, many firmwares were not backward flashable. ultimately, i just want to know if i can EDL Marshmallow or if that is even possible. i have attempted B15, B19, and B32 with no success.
kitcostantino said:
Okay. This is an odd one for me. bought another axon 7 bc it was cheap. swapped in my old board and battery because it was charging and running really hot. (ive owned 4 axon 7 now, it was the hottest ever) so surgery went fine. upon booting, the touch screen, does not respond to touch. while within recovery (twrp by nfound) touchscreen works perfectly. i really dont know what to do to it. i have tried to restore all sorts of backups, but every one has the same issue. ive tried not including EFS and tried it included. if the screen wasnt working in TWRP, id question my hardware labor, but im kind of stumped. i keep trying to download B19 nougat edl, but the download keeps failing. (thanks tmobile and my in-laws wifi). my question is coming from a functional custom recovery is there a way to flash or restore stock recovery? i know i can EDL eventually, i was just wondering if there is an easier way?
EDL fails to complete using any of the EDL files i have tried so far using
Secondary question, is there any EDL thats works as a necessary starting point? i.e.- on moto devices, many firmwares were not backward flashable. ultimately, i just want to know if i can EDL Marshmallow or if that is even possible. i have attempted B15, B19, and B32 with no success.
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you should be able to EDL any update without problems. Use EDL Tool, that one works even better than miflash.
What a mess. ? Maybe an EDL flash on the newer board would have fixed the thermal problems...
Try an IDM for downloading stuff. If the download fails you can simply resume it no problem. IDMs on Windows are crap, but this one works perfectly (on Android, that is):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=idm.internet.download.manager
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you should be able to EDL any update without problems. Use EDL Tool, that one works even better than miflash.
What a mess. Maybe an EDL flash on the newer board would have fixed the thermal problems...
Try an IDM for downloading stuff. If the download fails you can simply resume it no problem. IDMs on Windows are crap, but this one works perfectly (on Android, that is):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=idm.internet.download.manager
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Pretty much par for the course with me and Axon 7's. Simple op impossible. lol.
I just flashed b32 which Miflash says flashed successfully, yet as was the case after b15N and b2xN the splash screen pops up, the image of stock recovery flashes just for a sec, several red flashes, and power off.
It takes a try or two to get EDL mode after that. i guess tomorrow (left it at work on my desk) the phones original board is going back in. lol.
So i swapped back to the board that came in the phone and touch works perfectly. that board was missing the pink paste on the back of the SOC. after having it run 115-125° F, i decided to swap the battery with my good one and add the pink gummy stuff too. on stock it got so hot it would freeze and shut down, and now bl unlocked on O RR, i have to undervolt -25 global to keep it stable. i did finally manage to get full EDLs to work, but the SOC just seems faulty or tweaked. i imagine it is just one that runs hotter. also, in swapping the screen back, i have concluded that the other board i had must have a connector issue for the touch display. i may try to resinstall it later. kinda tired of screwing with it for now. any input is appreciated. thanks
EDit:
hot board made cool by flashing back as far as i could go, but now it has no IMEI. lol.
UPDATE: finally figured out the b15 full edl i was using was what was killing the screen. flashed back to b20 and screen worked fine. now both phones do not have IMEIs, though. win some, lose some. lol

Can anyone share a dump folder of .ops file? (python)

*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?
Pain-N-Panic said:
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?
Somehowko said:
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
Scott said:
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!
Scott said:
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
fullofhell said:
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!
Somehowko said:
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.
Dark Nightmare said:
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
PHP:
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?
Somehowko said:
Are you talking about what
PHP:
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?
Dark Nightmare said:
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!
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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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.

I did a big dumb. Failed root

Howdy. Tried to root my OnePlus 8 Pro. First time trying such a thing... Having now bricked my phone into a boot loop, I'm pretty sure that the guide I followed missed an important step. It said to download the latest patch, extract it, then use magisk to patch it and flash it. I'm pretty sure that the part I missed was actually updating to that patch before flashing. So I have whatever latest patch that I didn't have the foresight to write down, but my original build was IN2025_11_C.33 . Am I boned completely and thoroughly or is there any hope of recovering? Thanks either way.
LOL, welcome. Wisely, you've chosen a phone that supports EDL, with known ROMs. EDL will allow you to reflash to factory, no matter how badly you've messed up, assuming you didn't brick the hardware (which, unfortunately, is actually possible with this phone- there's two different RAM voltages and you can flash something that writes the wrong one and literally fry the phone... sigh)
All the stuff you need is covered in other threads here, and in other OnePlus forums on XDA... too tired to summarize them all (sorry). Search for the MSM tool (I think the one you want is here but please double check) and how to use it. Happy flashing, and welcome to the best phone mfr to mod! (Note EDL requires a Qualcomm chipset, there are other OP phones that do NOT have them... so not EVERY phone is bailable-outable...)
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LOL, welcome. Wisely, you've chosen a phone that supports EDL, with known ROMs. EDL will allow you to reflash to factory, no matter how badly you've messed up, assuming you didn't brick the hardware (which, unfortunately, is actually possible with this phone- there's two different RAM voltages and you can flash something that writes the wrong one and literally fry the phone... sigh)
All the stuff you need is covered in other threads here, and in other OnePlus forums on XDA... too tired to summarize them all (sorry). Search for the MSM tool (I think the one you want is here but please double check) and how to use it. Happy flashing, and welcome to the best phone mfr to mod! (Note EDL requires a Qualcomm chipset, there are other OP phones that do NOT have them... so not EVERY phone is bailable-outable...)
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thanks!
dimlu said:
thanks!
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In case you haven't sorted it yet - this is a great MSM guide which also links to the Windows drivers you need and the MSM tools for your device.
Good luck

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