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Mako always booting into recovery

Hi all,
I was running the official Google 5.1.1 version until this morning. I now did an oem unlock using fastboot and installed the latest twrp recovery 3.0.0, and finally copied overy CM-13 nightly (and Chroma-2016-02 for testing purposes) using adb.
Flashing itself work flawless, there is no warning or error message, but when hitting "Reboot" within twrp the Google logo shows up for a few seconds and it directly boots into twrp again. This is with both, CM-13 and the latest Chroma.
So I basically cannot get my Nexus-4 bootet regulary any more.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
Any help is welcome,
regards, mistersixt.

Mmmh, strange, I did a factory installation (latest 5.1.1 from Google) and started the same thing from scratch ... and guess what... the system is booting fine now.
No idea why it did not work on my first attempt .
Regards, mistersixt.
mistersixt said:
Hi all,
I was running the official Google 5.1.1 version until this morning. I now did an oem unlock using fastboot and installed the latest twrp recovery 3.0.0, and finally copied overy CM-13 nightly (and Chroma-2016-02 for testing purposes) using adb.
Flashing itself work flawless, there is no warning or error message, but when hitting "Reboot" within twrp the Google logo shows up for a few seconds and it directly boots into twrp again. This is with both, CM-13 and the latest Chroma.
So I basically cannot get my Nexus-4 bootet regulary any more.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
Any help is welcome,
regards, mistersixt.
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Same here. Running stock until today, wanted to see a different ROM, flashed TWRP 3.0.0, it refused to boot anything else. Tried to flash DU, then tried Chroma. Did a full wipe, then an advanced wipe selecting everything, then a full format, same thing. Installed TWRP 2.8.7, same thing. Finally installed latest stock, it is now booting, optimizing apps. I don't know if installing a custom rom will work or not yet.
Edit: Yeap, after flashing stock 5.1.1 and installing TWRP 3 again, the phone is now booting into DU.
First time I did a wipe with TWRP, it complained that it couldn't mount /data. Since this is the first time doing it, I assumed it was normal. After going through a full format, it didn't complain about data anymore, but it did complain about something to do with /dev/zero and another file under /dev/. I assume it was trying to dd /dev/zero to a file under /dev/ that didn't exist.

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Done the whole process from scratch again and worked like a charm

Hello, same story here.
First I:
- unlocked bootloader
- flashed TWRP (last version)
- flashed Chroma and Gapps
- reboot
=> I consistently rebooted on TWRP. No way to properly install the ROM. No error message at all.
Then I found this thread, and did as described:
- flashed the latest stock ROM
- flashed TWRP again (took me ages to manage to do this: TWRP would not install. I don't know how I finally did it, but at some point it suddenly worked. Probably a driver problem)
- flashed Chroma and Gapps again
Bingo, this time it worked! I don't know why it didn't work the first time. Could it be linked to the bootloader unlock thing?

I'm stumped on this (Rebooting into TWRP)

I've had this happen before on other phones, usually fixed by just installing a different rom or restoring a backup. Not here.
I finally unlocked my bootloader on the XT1607 (the Motorola site just randomly worked one day), installed TWRP & the 7.1.1 Soak Test (from here). I forgot to backup 6.0.1, so I backed up the soak test which was booting and working flawlessly. I was using it for a while, but I did a factory reset inside TWRP and it randomly said "cannot mount storage" and when I rebooted, it was into TWRP. It wasn't working at all, so I got LineageOS 15.1 and flashed that. Same error, "cannot mount storage" and back to TWRP. I went into Wipe>Format Data and then reinstalled Lineage. The "cannot mount storage" error was gone, but still booting into TWRP. I tried AOSP Extended, CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android. roms with gapps, roms without, with & without supersu or magisk. Nothing worked. So then I thought that restoring my backup (of all partitions) would fix the issue. It didn't, still booting back into TWRP. I'd also like to mention that plugging the phone in still worked, I can view the files in file manager, sd card works, etc.
So, no clue what to do here. What's wrong? It all started with that simple factory reset from twrp.
edit: I found that if I boot into bootloader and press start it will go into android, but hardly a permanent solution.

Same thing happened to me but my issue resolved after restoring back to stock rom with stock recovery and after that u can again flash twrp it will work fine

sumit1327 said:
Same thing happened to me but my issue resolved after restoring back to stock rom with stock recovery and after that u can again flash twrp it will work fine
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Heyyy, thanks man. Worked like a charm.

Help... Data Partition error.

I flashed MIUI Pro... Used it for a month or so.. then I flashed Mokee rom... Everything seemed to work well until I rebooted phone into twrp to flash magisk. I saw that data partition is not accessible at all. Unable to mount error came. So I flashed global dev miui rom using Fastboot mode. and after successful first boot i went into fastboot.. flashed Mokee Nougat instead of oreo. everything seemed good.. Until I rebooted into twrp to flash magisk but could not get into twrp cause now data encrypted and non of my mi account pass or phone pin is working... I again flashed global dev miui rom using fastboot... and again flashed twrp then new rom.... and after a successful boot into system again booted to recovery to check if i can access data partition or not... BUt still no luck.. Unable to mount data partition. HOw to fix this??????? Anyone got any Idea thanks.

killeradi said:
I flashed MIUI Pro... Used it for a month or so.. then I flashed Mokee rom... Everything seemed to work well until I rebooted phone into twrp to flash magisk. I saw that data partition is not accessible at all. Unable to mount error came. So I flashed global dev miui rom using Fastboot mode. and after successful first boot i went into fastboot.. flashed Mokee Nougat instead of oreo. everything seemed good.. Until I rebooted into twrp to flash magisk but could not get into twrp cause now data encrypted and non of my mi account pass or phone pin is working... I again flashed global dev miui rom using fastboot... and again flashed twrp then new rom.... and after a successful boot into system again booted to recovery to check if i can access data partition or not... BUt still no luck.. Unable to mount data partition. HOw to fix this??????? Anyone got any Idea thanks.
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Just reflash your device with deep flash cable or just use pin point method

Problems updating from 5.1.7 to 9

Hi,
I have a rooted OP5, running 5.1.7 and TWRP. I used Oxygen Updater to download the new android 9 ROM. I tried to install via TWRP, but got an error about zip compatability & a treble problem. I found a thread stating that I needed a newer TWRP to fix the treble problem, so I installed TWRP_3.2.3-Pie_siankatabg_OP5 , which said it had Pie support, from here:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262903996029
That worked fine, but when I tried to flash the 9 ROM, I got still got the same error. Another post said to remove compatibility.zip from the ROM zip. I did that, and it now installed, but it wouldn't boot. Re-flashing 5.1.7 booted fine. I tried another TWRP - twrp-3.2.3-0-20181227-codeworkx-nocompatcheck-cheeseburger from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...overy-twrp-3-2-1-0-oreo-oxygenos-5-0-t3725723
That installs, and boots to system, but won't boot to recovery, so I can't install the 9 ROM.
Any ideas where I go from here to upgrade to 9?
Thanks!

richstant said:
Hi,
I have a rooted OP5, running 5.1.7 and TWRP. I used Oxygen Updater to download the new android 9 ROM. I tried to install via TWRP, but got an error about zip compatability & a treble problem. I found a thread stating that I needed a newer TWRP to fix the treble problem, so I installed TWRP_3.2.3-Pie_siankatabg_OP5 , which said it had Pie support, from here:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262903996029
That worked fine, but when I tried to flash the 9 ROM, I got still got the same error. Another post said to remove compatibility.zip from the ROM zip. I did that, and it now installed, but it wouldn't boot. Re-flashing 5.1.7 booted fine. I tried another TWRP - twrp-3.2.3-0-20181227-codeworkx-nocompatcheck-cheeseburger from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...overy-twrp-3-2-1-0-oreo-oxygenos-5-0-t3725723
That installs, and boots to system, but won't boot to recovery, so I can't install the 9 ROM.
Any ideas where I go from here to upgrade to 9?
Thanks!
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Hi, I got Pie to install with TWRP_3.2.3-Pie_siankatabg_OP5 on my device.
Go to this link:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78523940&postcount=13
And follow my post on the part where it says:
" Notes for the Pie update: "
Let us know if those steps work for you. The firmware is linked to on there, pre-modified. Try flashing that pre-modified zip and see if your device boots.

richstant said:
Hi,
I have a rooted OP5, running 5.1.7 and TWRP. I used Oxygen Updater to download the new android 9 ROM. I tried to install via TWRP, but got an error about zip compatability & a treble problem. I found a thread stating that I needed a newer TWRP to fix the treble problem, so I installed TWRP_3.2.3-Pie_siankatabg_OP5 , which said it had Pie support, from here:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262903996029
That worked fine, but when I tried to flash the 9 ROM, I got still got the same error. Another post said to remove compatibility.zip from the ROM zip. I did that, and it now installed, but it wouldn't boot. Re-flashing 5.1.7 booted fine. I tried another TWRP - twrp-3.2.3-0-20181227-codeworkx-nocompatcheck-cheeseburger from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...overy-twrp-3-2-1-0-oreo-oxygenos-5-0-t3725723
That installs, and boots to system, but won't boot to recovery, so I can't install the 9 ROM.
Any ideas where I go from here to upgrade to 9?
Thanks!
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It sounds like you did not follow the detailed flashing instructions in the first post here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/official-oxygenos-4-5-2-7-1-1-ota-t3627003
Is your device storage encrypted or decrypted? Have you flashed magisk? Have you used an older magisk(your end link leads to my post where I mention that)? Have you downloaded the rom file without compatibility.zip or did you removed it on your own?

strongst said:
It sounds like you did not follow the detailed flashing instructions in the first post here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/official-oxygenos-4-5-2-7-1-1-ota-t3627003
Is your device storage encrypted or decrypted? Have you flashed magisk? Have you used an older magisk(your end link leads to my post where I mention that)? Have you downloaded the rom file without compatibility.zip or did you removed it on your own?
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Thanks for the links both, but still no go. I was on Magisck 17.1, uninstalled Magisk with the latest uninstaller, flashed the ROM with compatability.zip already removed. Same result as before - I get the oneplus logo, then it just reboots instead of starting the system. I've only wiped cache & dalvik, I don't really want to wipe more than that if I can help it - it is worth trying a system/vendor/data wipe? I recovered by flashing back to 5.1.7 (also updated to Magisk 18 while I was at it).
Any more ideas? One thing I find a little weird is that I'm on the @siankatabg TWRP, when I tried either the bluespark & codeworx TWPR, I couldn't get into recovery with either, I just got a blank screen with a LED staying on light blue. Only the siankatabg recovery works. Surely any of them should work? Does this point to a problem?
I'm not sure what you mean by encrypted or not - I get messages about unencrypting when going into recovery, which I assume means I am encrypted?
THanks!

richstant said:
Thanks for the links both, but still no go. I was on Magisck 17.1, uninstalled Magisk with the latest uninstaller, flashed the ROM with compatability.zip already removed. Same result as before - I get the oneplus logo, then it just reboots instead of starting the system. I've only wiped cache & dalvik, I don't really want to wipe more than that if I can help it - it is worth trying a system/vendor/data wipe? I recovered by flashing back to 5.1.7 (also updated to Magisk 18 while I was at it).
Any more ideas? One thing I find a little weird is that I'm on the @siankatabg TWRP, when I tried either the bluespark & codeworx TWPR, I couldn't get into recovery with either, I just got a blank screen with a LED staying on light blue. Only the siankatabg recovery works. Surely any of them should work? Does this point to a problem?
I'm not sure what you mean by encrypted or not - I get messages about unencrypting when going into recovery, which I assume means I am encrypted?
THanks!
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Maybe try backing your device up, and then locking the bootloader. Try updating with stock recovery on a locked bootloader. If that works, you can then unlock the bootloader and copy your data back

richstant said:
Thanks for the links both, but still no go. I was on Magisck 17.1, uninstalled Magisk with the latest uninstaller, flashed the ROM with compatability.zip already removed. Same result as before - I get the oneplus logo, then it just reboots instead of starting the system. I've only wiped cache & dalvik, I don't really want to wipe more than that if I can help it - it is worth trying a system/vendor/data wipe? I recovered by flashing back to 5.1.7 (also updated to Magisk 18 while I was at it).
Any more ideas? One thing I find a little weird is that I'm on the @siankatabg TWRP, when I tried either the bluespark & codeworx TWPR, I couldn't get into recovery with either, I just got a blank screen with a LED staying on light blue. Only the siankatabg recovery works. Surely any of them should work? Does this point to a problem?
I'm not sure what you mean by encrypted or not - I get messages about unencrypting when going into recovery, which I assume means I am encrypted?
THanks!
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Please use an older recovery like twrp-3.2.3-0-20181031-codeworkx-cheeseburger.img the actual pie recoveries require pie firmware(mentioned in last post of blue spark thread for example).

strongst said:
Please use an older recovery like twrp-3.2.3-0-20181031-codeworkx-cheeseburger.img the actual pie recoveries require pie firmware(mentioned in last post of blue spark thread for example).
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OK, I understand now - if I use an older TWRP, or the siankatabg version, it works fine. I can then flash the Pie ROM, however it still won't boot - I get the oneplus logo, then it just reboots. However having done the Pie flash, I can then flash the more recent TWRPs (codeworx or Bluespark), and can now get into recovery fine. However Pie still won't boot - I've even tried re-flashing the Pie ROM from within the newer TWRPs, but the result is the same - it gets to the oneplus logo, then reboots. At this stage I guess wiping system/vendor/data is the only way forwards?
*Edit* - OK, so wiping everything fixed the issue, I'm now on Pie. Flashing Magisk didn't work when flashing the ROM, but I'll try again once it's finished downloading all my apps etc.

Oneplus 5 hardstuck bootloop. Please help me out, I've tried everything!

Firstly, my phone isn't hard-bricked. I'm able to load different versions of the TWRP recovery and access Fastboot without any problems. I'm also pretty comfortable using adb to push, sideload, access fastboot, recovery , etc. so please feel free to throw out any suggestions that might help me resolve my issue. (Note:I'm unable to find the stock recovery on OnePlus's support page anymore, I recall they always had the option to download the stock recovery just below the download option for the stock ROM, so I haven't been able to try sideloading after formatting with the stock recovery.)
My OnePlus 5 was running stock Oreo and I'd been meaning to upgrade to Lineage 16.0 (Pie) or any other Pie ROM really. I booted into TWRP (3.2.3-0 - Oreo firmware) and wiped everything other than USB storage and formatted data too as my previous Oreo installation was encrypted. Then, I downloaded codeworkxx's 9.0.3 firmware for OnePlus 5 and pushed it to my phone using adb. I flashed the firmware successfully, rebooted into Bootloader/fastboot; and flashed the Android Pie version of TWRP recovery ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/cheeseburgerdumplings/files/16.0/cheeseburger/ ) and was able to successfully boot back into the recovery. Since then, I've tried to flash multiple different Pie ROMs (Pixel Experience, Lineage 16.0, stock OOS official build - 9.0.3 , Beta OOS build OpenBeta26) (clean flashing always) but always ended up with a bootloop with the boot animations in all the ROMs. I've even tried flashing them with Magisk-v18.0 but that doesn't help either. I've waited for 15 min with each boot for the different ROM's (ending up in bootloops) and on rebooting back to TWRP, I've always found that irrespective of ROMs, the only folder that's created in Internal Storage is 'obb' and it is an empty folder. I've even tried sideloading OOS 9.0.3 (official build) via TWRP and that still ends up in a bootloop with the obb folder in Internal Storage being the only thing created. Also, flashing the boot.img recovery in the stock ROM zip files leads to a blank screen with a white LED that tries to install Qualcom drivers, so I just reflashed TWRP and am back to where I started.
That pretty much sums up my problem here. Kindly throw suggestions at me to help fix my problem' I've searched the forums but most of the bootloop issues I've found and read are about unsuccessful firmware flashes (not the case with me as I've explained above) or dirty flashes (again, not the case with me as I always cleanflash).
Thanks!

You should be focusing on getting stock OOS back on before trying custom rom. Have you tried rolling back to 5.1.7 Oreo? Sometime it better to go back to square 1 and try again.

Z-Blade said:
You should be focusing on getting stock OOS back on before trying custom rom. Have you tried rolling back to 5.1.7 Oreo? Sometime it better to go back to square 1 and try again.
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Thank you for replying!
I successfully flashed the 5.1.7 firmware and Oreo-TWRP-recovery and was able to install Lineage OS 15.1 and boot it up properly. I'm unable to find a link for previous versions of OOS to test whether or not 5.1.7 would work. Do you know where I can find a link?
Thanks again!

BigTurboSkipper said:
Thank you for replying!
I successfully flashed the 5.1.7 firmware and Oreo-TWRP-recovery and was able to install Lineage OS 15.1 and boot it up properly. I'm unable to find a link for previous versions of OOS to test whether or not 5.1.7 would work. Do you know where I can find a link?
Thanks again!
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It's within the guides section https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/oneplus-5-mirrors-official-oxygen-os-t3628190

strongst said:
It's within the guides section https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/oneplus-5-mirrors-official-oxygen-os-t3628190
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Thanks!
So the Lineage 15.1 flash worked fine but OOS 5.1.7 still leaves me with a bootloop and the obb folder as detailed in my first post. I'm unsure as to how to proceed.

BigTurboSkipper said:
Thanks!
So the Lineage 15.1 flash worked fine but OOS 5.1.7 still leaves me with a bootloop and the obb folder as detailed in my first post. I'm unsure as to how to proceed.
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What was your LAST stock oxygenOS version that was installed your device prior to 5.1.7?

strongst said:
What was your LAST stock oxygenOS version that was installed your device prior to 5.1.7?
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I can't recall exactly, but it was most probably OB23/24 (Oreo)

BigTurboSkipper said:
I can't recall exactly, but it was most probably OB23/24 (Oreo)
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Can you please try to flash 5.1.4 stock oxygenOS rom and the 5.1.7 after it, then magisk and reboot to the os?
Make sure you have an old Oreo compatible recovery like this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrEMydZfQxC_eWx1W-OlASo8H7okXNTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

strongst said:
Can you please try to flash 5.1.4 stock oxygenOS rom and the 5.1.7 after it, then magisk and reboot to the os?
Make sure you have an old Oreo compatible recovery like this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrEMydZfQxC_eWx1W-OlASo8H7okXNTQ/view?usp=drivesdk
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Successfully flashed but still results in a bootloop

BigTurboSkipper said:
Thanks!
So the Lineage 15.1 flash worked fine but OOS 5.1.7 still leaves me with a bootloop and the obb folder as detailed in my first post. I'm unsure as to how to proceed.
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Lineage 15.1 (official) boots successfully but without radios working... I tried reflashing Firmware-5.1.7 but that does not help; not sure how to fix this. Could it be a firmware issue with installing Pie ROMs? But then again, OOS Oreo doesn't boot either - still ends up in a bootloop

My only suggestion ...
BigTurboSkipper said:
Lineage 15.1 (official) boots successfully but without radios working... I tried reflashing Firmware-5.1.7 but that does not help; not sure how to fix this. Could it be a firmware issue with installing Pie ROMs? But then again, OOS Oreo doesn't boot either - still ends up in a bootloop
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Greetings! I got your private message, but I haven't read it yet. Sorry, very busy today. However, I can make the following suggestion to get your device back into original working order.
Have a look at this link on xda. It's for an unbrick tool, which I've used numerous times with great success.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/unbrick-tool-oneplus-5-t3648169
This tool will put your device back into its original condition, with original OOS.
Let me know if it works for you.
Peter

BigTurboSkipper said:
Lineage 15.1 (official) boots successfully but without radios working... I tried reflashing Firmware-5.1.7 but that does not help; not sure how to fix this. Could it be a firmware issue with installing Pie ROMs? But then again, OOS Oreo doesn't boot either - still ends up in a bootloop
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OxygenOS also needs a formatted internal storage, otherwise bootloop will pop up

strongst said:
OxygenOS also needs a formatted internal storage, otherwise bootloop will pop up
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Definitely! I've always been clean flashing ROMs (Wiping Internal Storage, Data, System, Dalvik Cache, Cache + Wiping/Formatting Data to factory reset ) for each trial!

BigTurboSkipper said:
Definitely! I've always been clean flashing ROMs (Wiping Internal Storage, Data, System, Dalvik Cache, Cache + Wiping/Formatting Data to factory reset ) for each trial!
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Wiping system, data, cache, Installing 5.1.4, then magisk, then format internal storage, then boot os should not cause a bootloop
What's your twrp recovery? Did you tried mine?

strongst said:
Wiping system, data, cache, Installing 5.1.4, then magisk, then format internal storage, then boot os should not cause a bootloop
What's your twrp recovery? Did you tried mine?
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That's exactly what I'm doing. I've tried using codeworkxx 's versions, blu_spark TWRP versions and yours too!

PeterGuru said:
Greetings! I got your private message, but I haven't read it yet. Sorry, very busy today. However, I can make the following suggestion to get your device back into original working order.
Have a look at this link on xda. It's for an unbrick tool, which I've used numerous times with great success.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/unbrick-tool-oneplus-5-t3648169
This tool will put your device back into its original condition, with original OOS.
Let me know if it works for you.
Peter
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Thank you for replying!
The tool doesn't detect my device whatsoever - I have system-wide adb & fastboot set up (to use from any folder or path) yet the device is not detected in fastboot mode or recovery mode.
How do you use it?
Thanks!

BigTurboSkipper said:
Thank you for replying!
The tool doesn't detect my device whatsoever - I have system-wide adb & fastboot set up (to use from any folder or path) yet the device is not detected in fastboot mode or recovery mode.
How do you use it?
Thanks!
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You need to put your device into MSM Download mode. It's simple. Power off your device. Press and hold the Volume UP key for about 8-10 seconds and, while continuing to hold the Volume UP key, plug in your device to your computer via USB. Open the MSM Tool and press Start.
That's it.
It takes about 3-5 minutes for the tool to complete the unbrick process.
Peter

Thank you! I was able to successfully use the unbrick tool to reset to OOS 4.5.8 Nougat. I'm going to try stepping all the way up to Pie now!