Phone won't boot - Moto E4 Questions & Answers

I have the Qualcomm version, XT1768. LOS 14 from squid as well as his TWRP. I was downloading movies when the screen had just turned off. I thought it was just screen timeout. I tried to turn it back on but it wouldn't. Turned it off, won't boot into LOS, or TWRP, only boot loader. Not ready to give up and go back to stock just yet. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

codyalan said:
I have the Qualcomm version, XT1768. LOS 14 from squid as well as his TWRP. I was downloading movies when the screen had just turned off. I thought it was just screen timeout. I tried to turn it back on but it wouldn't. Turned it off, won't boot into LOS, or TWRP, only boot loader. Not ready to give up and go back to stock just yet. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks
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Given the symptoms seems likely your device experienced a hardware failure. In your shoes the first thing I'd try is booting (not flashing/installing) a TWRP image assuming the bootloader is unlocked. If no joy it's probably game over. There is nothing in LOS (or any legitimate custom rom) that would cause this behavior.

Davey126 said:
Given the symptoms seems likely your device experienced a hardware failure. In your shoes the first thing I'd try is booting (not flashing/installing) a TWRP image assuming the bootloader is unlocked. If no joy it's probably game over. There is nothing in LOS (or any legitimate custom rom) that would cause this behavior.
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Yeah, tried that this morning, didn't work. Just flashed stock and them back to LOS

codyalan said:
Yeah, tried that this morning, didn't work. Just flashed stock and them back to LOS
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Whatever happened is likely to reoccur (unless you were doing something other than described). Good luck.

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Certain Roms will not boot anymore?

As of yesterday my phone stopped booting certain roms! Im rooted with all the latest twrp, vendor, bootloader, etc. I never encountered this problem and Ive been rooted since day one. I have several custom roms on my phone and only "Resurrection Rom" seems to boot without any problem all the other (Purenexus, benzorom, chroma, exdous) Roms get past the google screen and stay stuck in the boot up screen.. Am I missing something?? Ive checked everything I could. Ive downgraded twrp. Im stump any insight on this would be greatly appreciated..
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big nu said:
As of yesterday my phone stopped booting certain roms! Im rooted with all the latest twrp, vendor, bootloader, etc. I never encountered this problem and Ive been rooted since day one. I have several custom roms on my phone and only "Resurrection Rom" seems to boot without any problem all the other (Purenexus, benzorom, chroma, exdous) Roms get past the google screen and stay stuck in the boot up screen.. Am I missing something?? Ive checked everything I could. Ive downgraded twrp. Im stump any insight on this would be greatly appreciated..
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check Kernel compatibility if you update internal rom
- reinstall kernel
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big nu said:
As of yesterday my phone stopped booting certain roms! Im rooted with all the latest twrp, vendor, bootloader, etc. I never encountered this problem and Ive been rooted since day one. I have several custom roms on my phone and only "Resurrection Rom" seems to boot without any problem all the other (Purenexus, benzorom, chroma, exdous) Roms get past the google screen and stay stuck in the boot up screen.. Am I missing something?? Ive checked everything I could. Ive downgraded twrp. Im stump any insight on this would be greatly appreciated..
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Same with me dude
https://tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php?t=3357580&share_tid=3357580&share_fid=3793&share_type=t
Here's my thread... I have tried everything even going back to stock MHC19Q and starting fresh... RIP 6P
MoistPicklez said:
Same with me dude
https://tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php?t=3357580&share_tid=3357580&share_fid=3793&share_type=t
Here's my thread... I have tried everything even going back to stock MHC19Q and starting fresh... RIP 6P
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Never figured anything out? I think im having this same issue with my 6p i tried flashing pure nexus, xTraFactory, and Stock+ but for me it just bootloops and once out of 20 attemps pure nexus will get to the colored logo then freeze and reboot. I long deleted Ressurrection Remix because it was my daily driver and already had a backup made. That went to sh*t though when my backup bootlooped as well so now i have a 6p i can only boot into recovery and bootloader. My laptop with fastboot installed needs a new charger so i use my moms computer to put zips on my phone but i really doubt she will let me install anything on it at all :/. I dont want to flash the factory image and bootloop still though when i get a charger. Ill see if I can boot back into rros fresh.
Coeur Brisé said:
Never figured anything out? I think im having this same issue with my 6p i tried flashing pure nexus, xTraFactory, and Stock+ but for me it just bootloops and once out of 20 attemps pure nexus will get to the colored logo then freeze and reboot. I long deleted Ressurrection Remix because it was my daily driver and already had a backup made. That went to sh*t though when my backup bootlooped as well so now i have a 6p i can only boot into recovery and bootloader. My laptop with fastboot installed needs a new charger so i use my moms computer to put zips on my phone but i really doubt she will let me install anything on it at all :/. I dont want to flash the factory image and bootloop still though when i get a charger. Ill see if I can boot back into rros fresh.
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Well this is quite an old post to awaken but to be short and Frank I had to send my device in to have the motherboard replaced because the 6p still has hardware issues whether it's Huawei's (prolly spelled wrong.) fault or Google's, regardless I just got the motherboard replaced and sold the device immediately because I didn't want to have another paper weight in my hands I now have an essential phone and it is dare I say the most comfortable phone I've ever had. That being said I hope you can Rectify your issues here but you'll have to go through either Huawei or Google, and get one of the two to help you out with a replacement.
This kind of happened to me too. I just updated TWRP and all flash are fine now. Hope this will help someone
MoistPicklez said:
Well this is quite an old post to awaken but to be short and Frank I had to send my device in to have the motherboard replaced because the 6p still has hardware issues whether it's Huawei's (prolly spelled wrong.) fault or Google's, regardless I just got the motherboard replaced and sold the device immediately because I didn't want to have another paper weight in my hands I now have an essential phone and it is dare I say the most comfortable phone I've ever had. That being said I hope you can Rectify your issues here but you'll have to go through either Huawei or Google, and get one of the two to help you out with a replacement.
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Solved it today it was because I tried restoring an old backup with an old version of twrp that has a fatal bug when you restore an EFS. I was truly relieved

Unusable A2017G

So i have this A2017G owned by a cousin of mine. He had never tempered with anything except updating OTAs from the settings app. Meaning Stock everything and BL locked. Now, all of a sudden his device lags a lot (after the N-B06 update). When booting the device the boot animation lags like crazy. And it almost never gets past the boot animation (always restarts at Axon 7). The times it does reach past the boot screen, the device hangs after a minute or so and restarts.
Things that i have tried:
# Factory resetting through stock recovery.
# Downloading update.zips from ZTE and trying SD Card update trough stock recovery. Which always fails saying Signature verification failed.
# Booted to factory test mode and tried adb devices on cmd. Nothing comes up as there is no new device on the device manager. Also no sound.
# Booted to EDL mode and flashed N-B06 from this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/guide-ztea2017v2-0-0b08-t3658636
Nothing helped. Same old lags. And of course, the device is unusable.
What to do? Suggestions?
nsabir said:
So i have this A2017G owned by a cousin of mine. He had never tempered with anything except updating OTAs from the settings app. Meaning Stock everything and BL locked. Now, all of a sudden his device lags a lot (after the N-B06 update). When booting the device the boot animation lags like crazy. And it almost never gets past the boot animation (always restarts at Axon 7). The times it does reach past the boot screen, the device hangs after a minute or so and restarts.
Things that i have tried:
# Factory resetting through stock recovery.
# Downloading update.zips from ZTE and trying SD Card update trough stock recovery. Which always fails saying Signature verification failed.
# Booted to factory test mode and tried adb devices on cmd. Nothing comes up as there is no new device on the device manager. Also no sound.
# Booted to EDL mode and flashed N-B06 from this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/guide-ztea2017v2-0-0b08-t3658636
Nothing helped. Same old lags. And of course, the device is unusable.
What to do? Suggestions?
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Get a new phone. Unfortunately I think it's some hardware that is broken. But in case it's not try to flash b05 instead?
I don't see anything else you could do since adb doesn't seems to work. I'd just RMA it with the warranty still being in effect. And if it was purchased trough amazon you'll probably just get a new one ! (that's what happened to me last time).
nsabir said:
So i have this A2017G owned by a cousin of mine. He had never tempered with anything except updating OTAs from the settings app. Meaning Stock everything and BL locked. Now, all of a sudden his device lags a lot (after the N-B06 update). When booting the device the boot animation lags like crazy. And it almost never gets past the boot animation (always restarts at Axon 7). The times it does reach past the boot screen, the device hangs after a minute or so and restarts.
Things that i have tried:
# Factory resetting through stock recovery.
# Downloading update.zips from ZTE and trying SD Card update trough stock recovery. Which always fails saying Signature verification failed.
# Booted to factory test mode and tried adb devices on cmd. Nothing comes up as there is no new device on the device manager. Also no sound.
# Booted to EDL mode and flashed N-B06 from this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/guide-ztea2017v2-0-0b08-t3658636
Nothing helped. Same old lags. And of course, the device is unusable.
What to do? Suggestions?
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Did you try downgrading through EDL? I'll post the link to MM B10 for you to install through EDL, see if that helps. I seriously doubt that it's a hardware issue since it would not even boot if that was the case (take the Nexus 6P and 5X as an example: big cores busted and the phones wouldn't get past the boot logo).
Don't unlock the bootloader if you can't fix it, it'd make matters worse if LOS-based ROMs didn't work.
Edit: Here are a couple of links for B10 from 4pda. should be the same file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bynn_Z9_tfeOZWZmN1o2U09pWVU/view
https://mega.nz/#!ZhwR1BAD!PuIWa5Vivk3DxZ1Dgk-wAoITxiKmBiR-j1U8wZZidTw
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Did you try downgrading through EDL? I'll post the link to MM B10 for you to install through EDL, see if that helps. I seriously doubt that it's a hardware issue since it would not even boot if that was the case (take the Nexus 6P and 5X as an example: big cores busted and the phones wouldn't get past the boot logo).
Don't unlock the bootloader if you can't fix it, it'd make matters worse if LOS-based ROMs didn't work.
Edit: Here are a couple of links for B10 from 4pda. should be the same file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bynn_Z9_tfeOZWZmN1o2U09pWVU/view
https://mega.nz/#!ZhwR1BAD!PuIWa5Vivk3DxZ1Dgk-wAoITxiKmBiR-j1U8wZZidTw
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I have tried this EDL package as well. Most of the time it says can not found programmer file. Only once it said can not find hello packet, reset status. That also ended up in error.
The N-B06 EDL package flashes fine. But the problem still persists.
I have also tried replacing N-B06 recovery.img with TWRP recovery.img and flashed it. But that just bricks the recovery.
Currently the 2 EDL packages i know are these two. N-B06 and MM-B10 for the G. The N one works fine while the MM one doesn't. Do u have any other EDL packages?
I too think it's a software problem since he has never dropped the phone and only used it for 2 months.
nsabir said:
I have tried this EDL package as well. Most of the time it says can not found programmer file. Only once it said can not find hello packet, reset status. That also ended up in error.
The N-B06 EDL package flashes fine. But the problem still persists.
I have also tried replacing N-B06 recovery.img with TWRP recovery.img and flashed it. But that just bricks the recovery.
Currently the 2 EDL packages i know are these two. N-B06 and MM-B10 for the G. The N one works fine while the MM one doesn't. Do u have any other EDL packages?
I too think it's a software problem since he has never dropped the phone and only used it for 2 months.
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I think something is wrong with the hardware. I had a similar problem as u with my last phone a honor 8, it frozed up and it was nothing I couldnt do other than go back to the store with it. I got a new one.
nsabir said:
I have tried this EDL package as well. Most of the time it says can not found programmer file. Only once it said can not find hello packet, reset status. That also ended up in error.
The N-B06 EDL package flashes fine. But the problem still persists.
I have also tried replacing N-B06 recovery.img with TWRP recovery.img and flashed it. But that just bricks the recovery.
Currently the 2 EDL packages i know are these two. N-B06 and MM-B10 for the G. The N one works fine while the MM one doesn't. Do u have any other EDL packages?
I too think it's a software problem since he has never dropped the phone and only used it for 2 months.
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I got that package from 4pda. if you go to the 4th category brick repair manual, then enter the link that says "Qualcomm drivers and MiFlash" it will redirect you to 4pda. no need to translate: just open the spoilers (I think it's the 2nd) and you'll find all of the images. You obviously have to use the A2017G ones. there's B10, i think B11, B05, B06 and maybe another N package too
The thing is that it'd be best if you could downgrade to Marshmallow, as that would probably do some other stuff that N packages don't do.
Do you have an external SD card plugged in? Try to use without external sd, i already had lags because of a defective sd card (that couldnt be rescued nor reformatted )
Perru said:
Do you have an external SD card plugged in? Try to use without external sd, i already had lags because of a defective sd card (that couldnt be rescued nor reformatted )
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I was gonna suggest that, but a read-only SD card wouldn't provoke that. I had one that got read-only after using it as swap for a long time, and you would only notice in twrp (booted in ~2 minutes). If he was able to try to install a system update through the recovery, he was able to write to the SD card --> it's not dead
Perru said:
Do you have an external SD card plugged in? Try to use without external sd, i already had lags because of a defective sd card (that couldnt be rescued nor reformatted )
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It lags the same. Regardless a sd card is inserted or not.
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I got that package from 4pda. if you go to the 4th category brick repair manual, then enter the link that says "Qualcomm drivers and MiFlash" it will redirect you to 4pda. no need to translate: just open the spoilers (I think it's the 2nd) and you'll find all of the images. You obviously have to use the A2017G ones. there's B10, i think B11, B05, B06 and maybe another N package too
The thing is that it'd be best if you could downgrade to Marshmallow, as that would probably do some other stuff that N packages don't do.
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Thank you for mentioning there is EDL packages in 4pda. I just tried the packages that are available for the G variant on 4pda. But the problem still persists.
I was thinking that too. Trying to downgrade through EDL. But so far i've found only one MM so far, B10. But that ends up in error during flashing process.
Is there any way to install TWRP through EDL without unlocking bootloader? Also, is there any way to unlock BL without adb? If i could at least unlock the BL, i could flash twrp through EDL. There are EDL packages available for flashing TWRP.
Thanks.
nsabir said:
Thank you for mentioning there is EDL packages in 4pda. I just tried the packages that are available for the G variant on 4pda. But the problem still persists.
I was thinking that too. Trying to downgrade through EDL. But so far i've found only one MM so far, B10. But that ends up in error during flashing process.
Is there any way to install TWRP through EDL without unlocking bootloader? Also, is there any way to unlock BL without adb? If i could at least unlock the BL, i could flash twrp through EDL. There are EDL packages available for flashing TWRP.
Thanks.
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Why don't u just go back to the store with it and get a new one? Its clearly something that can't be fixed by yourself unfortunately.
jw1985 said:
Why don't u just go back to the store with it and get a new one? Its clearly something that can't be fixed by yourself unfortunately.
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Not all that clear, but yeah the last thing I'd do is unlock the bootloader.
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Not all that clear, but yeah the last thing I'd do is unlock the bootloader.
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Mabey but I think as in my case that something has happened with the hardware. I think it is a hardware's fault that has come up to the surface when he updated the phone like it did 2 me. But hey, it's just my theory.
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Why don't u just go back to the store with it and get a new one? Its clearly something that can't be fixed by yourself unfortunately.
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Not all that clear, but yeah the last thing I'd do is unlock the bootloader.
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jw1985 said:
Mabey but I think as in my case that something has happened with the hardware. I think it is a hardware's fault that has come up to the surface when he updated the phone like it did 2 me. But hey, it's just my theory.
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The problem is axon 7 is not available in our country. If he has to rma it then he has to send it to a relative in Sweden. Then the relative can do that for him. That's why he asked me to do what i can to revive the phone. RMA is the last resort for him.
Now, i guess i will give up and tell him i did everything i could.
Anyways, thank you all for helping.

Screen Not Responsive After Flash ..... +

Hey,
I've been on quite a journey since I attempted to flash the Treble rom for newbies. My phone eventually ended up as DFU'd but, I brought it back to life after a following the DFU Unbrick - Disassembly guide. After doing this, the screen was not responsive to touch at all at the Welcome screen of the EDU ROM. So, my adventure continued as I took the phone apart several times again to make certain things were connected, not damaged, etc..
After flashing TWRP I concluded the screen itself must be fine because I could use TWRP using the screen/touch. I have since tried flashing several different roms, tried many combos of unlocking the bootloader (again, because I assume it was already unlocked due to the bootloader warning screen of can not check for corruption message), tried flashing bootstack and the stock rom from DrakenFX. Used MiFlash, EDM Tool to flash various items.
Each time and currently, when it boots to the Welcome screen it does not respond to touch.
Can anyone please help me with this?
Thank you!
I remember this happened to me some years ago with a different phone, and it was a bad flash.
I resolved it by flashing the stock firmware again.
What did you flash with MiFlash? Stock firmware untouched? You must do this, try with B35 untouched. Don't flash stuff with TWRP.
Untouched? Is there anything on here like that?
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=962187416754472312 B35 A2017U
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569960045 B10 A2017G
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850490196 B14 A2017CN
Those are "untouched" system images. Replace recovery.img with a proper TWRP version before flashing:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=673956719939822011
bornlivedie said:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=962187416754472312 B35 A2017U
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569960045 B10 A2017G
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850490196 B14 A2017CN
Those are "untouched" system images. Replace recovery.img with a proper TWRP version before flashing:
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=673956719939822011
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Yeah, unfortunately the very first link (since I am in the USA and have a U version) is the very stock EDL version I used with MiFlash rightg after I was successful getting the phone out of DFU. I have tried flashing it twice after and still nothing.
Thank you for helping!!!
djprez said:
Yeah, unfortunately the very first link (since I am in the USA and have a U version) is the very stock EDL version I used with MiFlash rightg after I was successful getting the phone out of DFU. I have tried flashing it twice after and still nothing.
Thank you for helping!!!
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Sad to hear that... Maybe you can try again? Who knows, with a little bit of luck...
Or try another version, like this one:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=890129502657579386
btw, did you try every single spot in your screen while in TWRP? Maybe some pins in the connector are broken and some parts work and others doesn't?
And for the sake of it, you could try discharging your battery completely.
Last thing I can think of... is to restore the stock recovery and apply the official update via sdcard:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy7nd252f3rcm5y/338450B3220A2017UV1.1.0B35(SD card software).zip?dl=0
It was taken from here:
https://www.zteusa.com/axon-7#support
bornlivedie said:
Sad to hear that... Maybe you can try again? Who knows, with a little bit of luck...
Or try another version, like this one:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=890129502657579386
btw, did you try every single spot in your screen while in TWRP? Maybe some pins in the connector are broken and some parts work and others doesn't?
And for the sake of it, you could try discharging your battery completely.
Last thing I can think of... is to restore the stock recovery and apply the official update via sdcard:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy7nd252f3rcm5y/338450B3220A2017UV1.1.0B35(SD card software).zip?dl=0
It was taken from here:
https://www.zteusa.com/axon-7#support
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Yeah, the entire screen works perfectly in TWRP. I disassembled it several times before when I thought I may have put it back together wrong or damaged something so, the battery was removed those several times therefore, no power.
I'll try the stock above. I'm actually trying another stock rom atm --- flashing from sdcard
djprez said:
Yeah, the entire screen works perfectly in TWRP. I disassembled it several times before when I thought I may have put it back together wrong or damaged something so, the battery was removed those several times therefore, no power.
I'll try the stock above. I'm actually trying another stock rom atm --- flashing from sdcard
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Well, EUREKA! I found I had saved the first files you were supposed to load when the Axon was first unlocked ( file name STEP_1_3-B20_FULL_OTA). Flashed it and the screen works fine. Now, I have to remember how to update it...lol I've unlocked the bootloader in Developer mode and I should be on my way..... fingers crossed.
djprez said:
Well, EUREKA! I found I had saved the first files you were supposed to load when the Axon was first unlocked ( file name STEP_1_3-B20_FULL_OTA). Flashed it and the screen works fine. Now, I have to remember how to update it...lol I've unlocked the bootloader in Developer mode and I should be on my way..... fingers crossed.
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Strange.
Nevertheless, congratulations. Happy for you.
Well, it's great that I now know the screen/hardware is fine but, I am unable to get any further than version B20. OTA doesn't work, the other files to flash (STEP_4-B20_to_B27 and STEP_5-B27_to_B29) won't flash and get aborted due to it expecting a certain version. I've tried DrakenFX Bootstack and then Stock System and it boots to the Welcome screen but the screen is no longer responsive again.
I have been at this all day again and it's shaping up another all night too. I am so baffled!
Restore to stock firmware your phone came shipped with.After that update trough ota or sd card package and maybe dont flash Treble again,its broken
djprez said:
Well, it's great that I now know the screen/hardware is fine but, I am unable to get any further than version B20. OTA doesn't work, the other files to flash (STEP_4-B20_to_B27 and STEP_5-B27_to_B29) won't flash and get aborted due to it expecting a certain version. I've tried DrakenFX Bootstack and then Stock System and it boots to the Welcome screen but the screen is no longer responsive again.
I have been at this all day again and it's shaping up another all night too. I am so baffled!
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i wish i had seen this sooner, because i have this same exact problem on one of my boards. it will update perfectly to any of the MM sd card update files (see rootjunkys bl unlock video, thanks @Tomsgt) but the board/phone will not retain touch functionality on anything higher than mm b29. i had lost my imei on that board, and actually swapped to another one despite eventually regaining it simply bc i wanted to be on Oreo ROMs. if you find a fix, id love to know about it. i flashed and reflashed every update, sd card versions, edl versions, and OTA updates to no avail. Nougat or above, touchscreen didnt work... mine was a gold a2017u. good luck, man. im glad im not crazy.
Sorry to bump an old(er) thread I started. I wanted to ask if anyone has found a solution to this issue yet?
I have since tried updating using OTA to Nougat and the screen doesn't respond so, I had to flash back to Marshmallow B29. Thank you to anyone who might have an idea!

tmobile s8 boot loop-ish

hey all,
Saturday morning a wake up to my alarm on my phone (SM-G950U T-Mobile Stock since new) and turn off the alarm and proceed to check email and scroll social medias. A few minuted later phone turns off and starts boot looping. Occasionally it would boot to home screen and i could unlock it but then maybe 30 seconds later it would start boot loping again. Now it either just boot loops or boots straight to recovery . I have tried flashing current firmware in case it was corrupted and i have tried accessing it through ADB. I know for a fact USB debugging is on because I just used abd to pull wifi passwords 2 weeks ago, but when I try to [ abd devices] if comes up as unauthorized and I cannot proceed. I know everyone will suggest a factory reset, but I am hoping someone has a trick for extracting files. I dont care about most on my phone, but I would like to save the pics from my GF and I trip this past august. Apparently I didnt have my photo library set to sync to cloud -_-
thanks
-chip
update: it appears there is a pattern. it boot loops or boots to recovery (after a blue failed system update screen) 99% of the time. the 1% it boot fully and then crashes is only when battery is 0% . it for some reason is only trickle charging and isnt getting enough juice when it does boot fully to stay on . But if i leave it charging a while it will then only boot loop or boot to recovery. Strange...any way I had enough time this past boot to reauthorize usb debug.....wish me luck with adb
....nevermind. still shows up as unauthorized
chip102 said:
hey all,
Saturday morning a wake up to my alarm on my phone (SM-G950U T-Mobile Stock since new) and turn off the alarm and proceed to check email and scroll social medias. A few minuted later phone turns off and starts boot looping. Occasionally it would boot to home screen and i could unlock it but then maybe 30 seconds later it would start boot loping again. Now it either just boot loops or boots straight to recovery . I have tried flashing current firmware in case it was corrupted and i have tried accessing it through ADB. I know for a fact USB debugging is on because I just used abd to pull wifi passwords 2 weeks ago, but when I try to [ abd devices] if comes up as unauthorized and I cannot proceed. I know everyone will suggest a factory reset, but I am hoping someone has a trick for extracting files. I dont care about most on my phone, but I would like to save the pics from my GF and I trip this past august. Apparently I didnt have my photo library set to sync to cloud -_-
thanks
-chip
update: it appears there is a pattern. it boot loops or boots to recovery (after a blue failed system update screen) 99% of the time. the 1% it boot fully and then crashes is only when battery is 0% . it for some reason is only trickle charging and isnt getting enough juice when it does boot fully to stay on . But if i leave it charging a while it will then only boot loop or boot to recovery. Strange...any way I had enough time this past boot to reauthorize usb debug.....wish me luck with adb
....nevermind. still shows up as unauthorized
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Ive had similar cases happen with older models. May be time for a battery. They will do crazy **** when the battery crashes. When you flashed stock firmware you lost adb authorisation. Need to get the system back first for that.
TheMadScientist said:
Ive had similar cases happen with older models. May be time for a battery. They will do crazy **** when the battery crashes. When you flashed stock firmware you lost adb authorisation. Need to get the system back first for that.
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thank you very much. my battery life was greatly suffering and the USB-c port was worn pretty bad. Ill grab a new battery and hope that works.
chip102 said:
thank you very much. my battery life was greatly suffering and the USB-c port was worn pretty bad. Ill grab a new battery and hope that works.
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Cheapest fix in my opinion. I saw another thread a guy dropped his. Now detects 9008 how to fix. More than likely a phone wont just not boot. Or lose programming unless a hardware issue. So if it was just running and quit. Not modding stuff really. More likely than not its gonna be some form of software. But hardware.
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Cheapest fix in my opinion. I saw another thread a guy dropped his. Now detects 9008 how to fix. More than likely a phone wont just not boot. Or lose programming unless a hardware issue. So if it was just running and quit. Not modding stuff really. More likely than not its gonna be some form of software. But hardware.
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Replaced Daughter board and battery. No improvement :/ bummer
the only time i can get it back into recovery is after a "successful" flash with odin. by successful i mean that it says it worked but it just continues to boot loop or boots to recovery. attached is a picture of the info i get in recovery every time. hope someone can shed some light in the issue. im using my old phone so i dont feel pressured to call the data a loss and try a factory reset just yet....my old phone is a POS though
chip102 said:
the only time i can get it back into recovery is after a "successful" flash with odin. by successful i mean that it says it worked but it just continues to boot loop or boots to recovery. attached is a picture of the info i get in recovery every time. hope someone can shed some light in the issue. im using my old phone so i dont feel pressured to call the data a loss and try a factory reset just yet....my old phone is a POS though
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Yea some one tried to root it using the edl safestrap thread. Only wsy to fix it is filled the steps and reflash jrkruses pie rom. One of my mother boards are in the same state. That's the only way dm verity fails. Is his rom method.
There's some easy to flash a cache wipe in Odin but I hadn't found it yet. I have 2 mother boards and one is identical. I flash this stock and lose download or recovery. but the errors you show are only from doing that edl safestrap
Ill be honest..i have no idea what you are talking about. Ive messed with the software with previous devices and never heard of safe strap. This one has been bone stock since I got it from Tmobile and i haven't attempt to flash anything until i had this issue. never tried to root it
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Yea some one tried to root it using the edl safestrap thread. Only wsy to fix it is filled the steps and reflash jrkruses pie rom. One of my mother boards are in the same state. That's the only way dm verity fails. Is his rom method.
There's some easy to flash a cache wipe in Odin but I hadn't found it yet. I have 2 mother boards and one is identical. I flash this stock and lose download or recovery. but the errors you show are only from doing that edl safestrap
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chip102 said:
Ill be honest..i have no idea what you are talking about. Ive messed with the software with previous devices and never heard of safe strap. This one has been bone stock since I got it from Tmobile and i haven't attempt to flash anything until i had this issue. never tried to root it
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/development/root-t3904613. This thread can help you at least get pie back up and running. I wouldn't mess with no more. I haven't had much luck with mine. But I did get it booting again

What???? No fastboot unlock warning

I decided to downgrade my OP8PRO last night, so I flashed the latest A11 using MSM. Everything was normal until I OTA'ed the first rom to get it back to A12. The first OTA was a A12 version that I haven't seen before and it was different in that the recovery was setup Chinese and there was no boot warning that my phone was unlocked. So what happened is I unlocked my boot loader while I was on this rom and now it no longer shows the unlock warning. Even after updgrading to C33 and C36 and now running my favorite A12 after market rom. The boot loader unlock warning is gone. Has anybody else seen this yet or has it been gone for so time now and I just noticed it.
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I decided to downgrade my OP8PRO last night, so I flashed the latest A11 using MSM. Everything was normal until I OTA'ed the first rom to get it back to A12. The first OTA was a A12 version that I haven't seen before and it was different in that the recovery was setup Chinese and there was no boot warning that my phone was unlocked. So what happened is I unlocked my boot loader while I was on this rom and now it no longer shows the unlock warning. Even after updgrading to C33 and C36 and now running my favorite A12 after market rom. The boot loader unlock warning is gone. Has anybody else seen this yet or has it been gone for so time now and I just noticed it.
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Yea, it's gone on OOS 12 but back on OOS 13 (from what I hear)
Got same issue; upgrade A 12.1 C33 to A13 F11 and on boot got warning that orange state your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted. Any idea how to fix this???
DizXDA83 said:
Got same issue; upgrade A 12.1 C33 to A13 F11 and on boot got warning that orange state your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted. Any idea how to fix this???
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There's no way to "fix" this
DizXDA83 said:
Got same issue; upgrade A 12.1 C33 to A13 F11 and on boot got warning that orange state your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted. Any idea how to fix this???
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It's not "broken", so there's nothing to "fix". It was actually broken on A12 since it didn't show up there but is supposed to show up when you're unlocked.
Nimueh said:
It's not "broken", so there's nothing to "fix". It was actually broken on A12 since it didn't show up there but is supposed to show up when you're unlocked.
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The only problem I can see is that it gets stucked for 5 secs
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The only problem I can see is that it gets stucked for 5 secs
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A13 is booting faster than A12 on my device even with 5 secs wait.
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A13 is booting faster than A12 on my device even with 5 secs wait.
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Might be... But again I don't like it. TBh though once I setup it I reboot every 2-3 weeks or so
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Might be... But again I don't like it. TBh though once I setup it I reboot every 2-3 weeks or so
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Well, i'm doing it muuuuch more often, as i always must "tinker" with dolby atmos config file ^^
ShadoV90 said:
Well, i'm doing it muuuuch more often, as i always must "tinker" with dolby atmos config file ^^
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Oh tbh no idea... I thought dolby atmos is supported out of the box...
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Oh tbh no idea... I thought dolby atmos is supported out of the box...
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Because it is, but this UI don't let me to customize it as much as i want.
This file have 3252 lines of code, and you can here edit anything, behavior of every device in every profile, tunings of equalizers, devices etc.
Nevermind, i'm out of topic. Very sorry.
Back to topic, in OxygenOS12 despite no information, device was still in orange state. Safety net was broken etc. In A13 you just see that you're unlocked. Sincerely i don't see anything wrong about it. Every unlocked device which i have (htc10, lg g7, op8 pro) have and imo should have this reminder.
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And only "fix" for that is being full stock and relocking device.
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The only problem I can see is that it gets stucked for 5 secs
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If it didn't sit there for 5 seconds then it would sit at the spinning dots for that time - the bootloader unlock warning adds no extra time, it merely changes what you look at while it boots
Hmm, it seems that abl.img contain information about orange state which shows that message.
Abl from what i know is part of bootloader, so i believe it may contain this type of warning message.
I found it Here (op9pro xda)
As OOS13 on OP9Pro is still OOS13, probably similar operation will have similar effect as described there.
I don't encourage anyone to do that, it's just "fun fact", and possibility to learn more about our devices

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