Help!!! My Axon 7 is dead (Boot into fastboot and EDL only) - ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers

My phone was working fine, until it suddenly freeze and reboot. After that, it runs into bootloop at zte logo.
I had miflash the phone with stock rom. Flash successful, but the phone still bootloop at zte logo (can't enter system).
I can enter fastboot only (recovery + system => reboot);
try:
0. boot to system => definitely failed
1. hold volumn up + power button => failed
2. fastboot boot recovery => failed
3. fastboot boot twrp.img => failed
4. axon7tool -w recovery = successful , but failed when boot recovery
5. axon7toolkit : flash twrp = successful, but failed when boot recovery
6. miflash A2017 rom = successful, but failed when boot system + recovery
7. miflash A2017 rom = successful, but failed when boot system + recovery
:crying: I am desperate here.
Any help would be appreciate!! Thank you!

Try going into your recovery and formating as ext4. If you were using f2fs, edl won't work.

My edl is working, and miflash successful but then the device cant boot system (and cant boot recovery also)

tamahouse02 said:
My edl is working, and miflash successful but then the device cant boot system (and cant boot recovery also)
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First of all, redownload the stock EDL file. If you already have it, just check that it's not corrupted or anything. I'd advise redownloading it, which the files can be found from this thread.
Flash the stock EDL, then before booting, go into stock recovery (Hold volume up button whilst powering on). Do a factory reset, and also wipe cache. Now try booting. It should boot, and if it doesn't, then the only thing I can think of is either a corrupted EDL file or physical damage inside the phone to the memory chip.

I had miflash two different edl roms (china and us). And facing the same issue. It may be the hardware problem.

tamahouse02 said:
I had miflash two different edl roms (china and us). And facing the same issue. It may be the hardware problem.
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Everyone is telling you that you have to format your data partition, but you're not answering that: did you or did you not? If you have Fastboot, enter it and issue
fastboot format userdata
and hit enter

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Everyone is telling you that you have to format your data partition, but you're not answering that: did you or did you not? If you have Fastboot, enter it and issue
fastboot format userdata
and hit enter
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I did. The phone enters system for 1 minute then keep reboot itseft again

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[FIX] Unable to load custom recovery

For those that are unable to boot a custom recovery (limited reports so far) the following should work. Well it did on mine!
1) Flash custom recovery
2) Fastboot erase cache
3) From bootloader select factory reset - this will load the custom recovery.
Hope this helps.
manook said:
For those that are unable to boot a custom recovery (limited reports so far) the following should work. Well it did on mine!
1) Flash custom recovery
2) Fastboot erase cache
3) From bootloader select factory reset - this will load the custom recovery.
Hope this helps.
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Doesn't work for everyone.
Flashing recovery on boot partition can help too - MAKE SURE ALL ZIP FILES ARE ON THE PHONE FIRST : Rom.zip, SUperSU.ZIP, recovery.img, boot.img
> fastboot flash boot recovery.img (not the touch one!)
Flash rom and SU from recovery
reboot phone in bootloader
> fastboot fash boot boot.img
> fastboot erase cache
Enjoy
I had problems until I turned off quick boot in system settings. Spent hours flashing different recoveries etc until I found that tip !
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RedWave31 said:
Doesn't work for everyone.
Flashing recovery on boot partition can help too - MAKE SURE ALL ZIP FILES ARE ON THE PHONE FIRST : Rom.zip, SUperSU.ZIP, recovery.img, boot.img
> fastboot flash boot recovery.img (not the touch one!)
Flash rom and SU from recovery
reboot phone in bootloader
> fastboot fash boot boot.img
> fastboot erase cache
Enjoy
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Yeah this one really should work. If you get a bootloop, Hold power+vol down for about 45 secs, u should get into bootloader than to "reflash" Superboot.img / boot.img from custom firmware
VOL down + power
neothechosenone said:
Yeah this one really should work. If you get a bootloop, Hold power+vol down for about 45 secs, u should get into bootloader than to "reflash" Superboot.img / boot.img from custom firmware
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I had problems with installing the recovery as well.
But you might try the AIO toolkit and just install CWM from there.
Recovery wouldn't start on my phone after that either, but I turned my phone off and pressed Volume Down + Power until the screen showed the bootloader again (keeping them pressed somewhere around 10 sec I think). So do not release the buttons, but keep pressing them. Miraculously the recovery than worked (tested with both CWM and TWRP...)
Never installed the CWM as boot.img...

[ZE551KL] Stuck in bootloop, need complete rebuild. Help!

OK, 3 days ago I rebooted my ZE551KL and it went into a bootloop. I was completely 100% stock. No root. Locked bootloader. Spent the better part of the weekend trying to troubleshoot it, and I have made almost zero progress.
I've tried a bunch of things, but here is my current status.
Can get into fastboot mode no problem.
POWER + DOWN VOL gets me into stock recovery, but at some point I flashed an older version. I tried flashing TWRP, but after install could never seem to get into it (is that because I'm unrooted and locked?)
Current recovery version: Android system recovery <3e> LRX22G.WW_user_1.16.40.763_20151201
I've tried flashing to a couple different firmware versions from the ASUS website both via ADB and via the SD Card.
Current firmware: UL-z00T-WW-1.17.40.1531-user.zip
Still in bootloop.
Any advice on rebuilding this thing from scratch? I dont care whether I just get stock back, or if I need to root/unlock, install TWRP and a custom ROM. Dont care, just want a functioing phone!
Thanks in advance.
ACFH said:
I dont get it. Did you factory reset your phone? With stock rom, factory work most of the time.
You said that you tried flashing TWRP. If you see successfull message after flash, type "fastboot reboot" and hold volume down button right after hit Enter. If you did right, you can get into twrp, then choses Wipe > format, it more powerfull than factory reset.
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1. Factory reset from within the phone's OS? No, I cant get that far. Just constant bootloop on ASUS logo.
2. I've used the fastboot erase command to wipe everything, and used the wipe data/factory reset option in the stock recovery. Still bootloop.
3. I've tried flashing TWRP 3.0.0.0 and the newest version of TWRP. I hold down the VOL DOWN key before hitting enter on "fastboot reboot"; it just goes into a faster bootloop, like every half-second. When I release the VOL DOWN key, it goes into the same, slower original bootloop.
ACFH said:
Ok. You can format through fastboot
Code:
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
If it still stuck in bootloop, try reflash boot and recovery, fastboot wipe system. Then copy update.zip to sdcard. Boot into recovery > install update from external sd.
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Awesome. I'll give that a try and report the results.
I just downloaded the .img with the same date as my recovery version from here. https://asus.kremowka.xyz/categories/show/2
Its been hung at "Verifying update package...." for about 10 mins now. Once this is finished (and probably fails ); I'll give your format commands a try.
ACFH said:
Ok. You can format through fastboot
Code:
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
If it still stuck in bootloop, try reflash boot and recovery, fastboot wipe system. Then copy update.zip to sdcard. Boot into recovery > install update from external sd.
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Ugh. Didn't work. Here is what I did:
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
fastboot erase system
fastboot format system
Reboot to recovery
install UL-z00T-WW-1.17.40.1531-user.zip from SD card.''
Installation successful.
Reboot.
In a bootloop that shows ASUS logo for 10-15 seconds, flashes a blue screen really quick, then reboots.
What can I try next?

fastboot flashable boot.img

Hi !
I might have erased the boot partion. I still got the unlocked bootloader screen, and can still get in fastboot, but that's it. I can't boot in TWRP. I've tried to flash the boot.img from the stock zip, but it doesn't work... anyway to fix this ? It's the A2017G model. All i need is to get into TWRP.
Exnocte said:
Hi !
I might have erased the boot partion. I still got the unlocked bootloader screen, and can still get in fastboot, but that's it. I can't boot in TWRP. I've tried to flash the boot.img from the stock zip, but it doesn't work... anyway to fix this ? It's the A2017G model. All i need is to get into TWRP.
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can't you flash recovery? I think someone made a flashable TWRP somewhere
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can't you flash recovery? I think someone made a flashable TWRP somewhere
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I've tried to flash TWRP several time, but it won't boot...
Exnocte said:
I've tried to flash TWRP several time, but it won't boot...
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you can try getting into EDL and using MiFlash to flash one of the zips on the Russian page 4pda. Go to the debrick page (the one with the phone carnage pictures inside), find the links for the chinese full recovery package. it will get you to the 4pda page. from there find a package that suits your needs (there is one with aboot and fbop) and flaah with MiFlash
Otherwise download the full B10 recovery package and flash it with MiFlash. you won't lose data but it might conflict if you were on Nougat
I'm in this situation for some days...
No EDL, No recovery, only fastboot and FTU modes are accessible.
And we can't flash via Miflash. It sees the phone only in fastboot mode, and can't flash it.
 @op : 2 ways to recover :
- Test points method to force EDL and flash via miflash
- Return to ZTE
If any1 has other solutions ...
FYI : My tests so far :
- Flash boot / reboot / flash recovery : Stuck on ZTE logo, red led on permanently
- Hot load recovery (fastboot boot twrp.img): Command unknown
- Format userdata/cache : No work
- Flash via Miflash in fastboot : "Can't find Eraseall except Data.bat"
- Change drivers by some others one : No luck
Sn8K said:
I'm in this situation for some days...
No EDL, No recovery, only fastboot and FTU modes are accessible.
And we can't flash via Miflash. It sees the phone only in fastboot mode, and can't flash it.
@op : 2 ways to recover :
- Test points method to force EDL and flash via miflash
- Return to ZTE
If any1 has other solutions ...
FYI : My tests so far :
- Flash boot / reboot / flash recovery : Stuck on ZTE logo, red led on permanently
- Hot load recovery (fastboot boot twrp.img): Command unknown
- Format userdata/cache : No work
- Flash via Miflash in fastboot : "Can't find Eraseall except Data.bat"
- Change drivers by some others one : No luck
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I don't know what you mean with FTU mode, but if FTM is meant you should be able to send a "reboot edl" command to activate the EDL mode.
tron1 said:
I don't know what you mean with FTU mode, but if FTM is meant you should be able to send a "reboot edl" command to activate the EDL mode.
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Humm ... Early morning for me ... i meant DFU. Vol+ & - while powering the phone Result on a black screen, and driver is recognized as Handset Diagnostic Driver (DFU COm port x)
Ind in that kind of brick, FTM is not accessible either.
tron1 said:
I don't know what you mean with FTU mode, but if FTM is meant you should be able to send a "reboot edl" command to activate the EDL mode.
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Yeah that pretty much sums it up. If you get ZTE handset diagnostic driver on Ports COM&LPT you'll have to take your device apart and use the test point. If it is recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 it means that you're on EDL. I'd reccomend trying to use miflash like i described, if it doesn't work return it or take it apart
Maybe a bit late for a reply, but I was able to get out of a similar situation (from DFU) by holding power and volume down for a long time. That got me to FTM and then I could reboot into edl via "adb reboot edl". Then I used the Axon7toolkit to flash fastboot and from there I could get to twrp and back in business. Any questions, let me know.
@Piet : How long for the PWR+DWN ? I've tried for something like 40/45 seconds, without success.
Sn8K said:
@Piet : How long for the PWR+DWN ? I've tried for something like 40/45 seconds, without success.
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From what I read you have to let the device discharge totally, then you can get ftm. I had my battery fully charged when i bricked so i just did the 4th categ unbricking process

Boot from SD card. EMMC memory is dead

I have the wt86047(HM2014813,HM2XTDPro) and I have dead emmc on my phone. The internal /data /system and /cache partitions are unmountable. So I decided that I try to boot from sdcard.
I have used this tutorial Dual boot to partition my sdcard and modify the recovery and the rom(Lineage 14.1) to look for the system, data and cache partitions on sdcard.
But when I try to boot up the phone is stuck at the MI logo and I see my device in fastboot. To be able to boot to my device I need in fastboot to execute fastboot boot modifiedboot.img. This is not too much convenient as I need pc to turn my phone on. I also can only boot recovery and not to get to the recovery mode. I can however flash the image to the /recovery partition. I suspect that my /boot partition is also corrupted. I tried to manualy flash boot also with no succes. Any ideas how to boot the phone without need to use fastboot?
I have the exact same issue with the same phone.
You have modified only the fstab file ?
nings008 said:
I have the exact same issue with the same phone.
You have modified only the fstab file ?
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In boot.img yes(fstab.qcom), in TWRP the etc/recovery.fstab and in the updater script any mention of /system and /data.
The phone boots with the fastboot boot, but it is quite slow as I have quite cheap sd card in it. I would buy a better one If I would be able to boot the phone without computer.
EDIT: Camera is also not working for some reason
Try folding the fastboot ROM.
Same thing happened to me. I tried and flashed the fastboot image. It worked. This happened to me a long time ago. Don't worry about bootloader if you can see the fastboot screen with the mi man on your phone .
http://bigota.d.miui.com/V8.0.1.0.K...DG_20160805.0000.29_4.4_global_daca6227c0.tgz
This is the link for the fastboot file for Redmi 2 aka wt88047 or any other version of the Redmi 2.
Just use the following method to flash using ADB and should be successful.
Steps to Flash MIUI Fasboot ROM Without Using Mi Flash Tool {Using Command Prompt}
We would like to suggest that Please use the Official Flashing method through Mi Flash Tool if that method didn’t work for you then try this method.
Below is the overall method to Flash MIUI 8/9 Using Command Prompt. The commands use in this method are pretty common. For most of the users are familiar with this Commands.
Quick Requirments:
Download Fastboot ROM of your device.
Xiaomi USB Driver & ADB Driver of your device.
Try Mi PC Suite if above USB Driver doesn’t work for you.
Flash MIUI Fastboot ROM Using Command Prompt
1. Download the Fastboot ROM you want to flash from the above download link. Extract the Downloaded Fastboot ROM in your Windows PC.
2. Enter into Download Folder. You will see some Files & Folder out there. Again go to Images Folder.
3. Boot your device into Fastboot Mode. To do this Switch off your phone. Now, Press Power Button + Volume Down button to boot your device into Fastboot Mode.
4.In that folder “Open Command Window” by Holding Shift Button + Right Click button of the mouse. You will see Command Prompt will open there.
5.Type following Command to check whether your device is connected or not.
fastboot devices
6. Below the command, If it shows the device then you are ready to flash. Now, Execute following commands one by one to flash the whole ROM.
fastboot flash system system.img
Press Enter to Continue
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Press Enter to Continue
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Press Enter to Continue
fastboot flash cache cache.img
Press Enter to Continue
Want Complete erase of data? All Data will be deleted it will be like new device. Then type this following commands.
fastboot erase userdata
Press Enter to Continue
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
Press Enter to Continue
All Flashing process in complete. Now, Type the following code & hit enter button to Reboot your device normally.
fastboot reboot
That’s it! Congratulation! You have successfully Installed Latest MIUI Fastboot ROM. Your device bootloader is locked now & You device is unrooted. Please let me know if it helped.
d2211basu said:
Same thing happened to me. I tried and flashed the fastboot image. It worked. This happened to me a long time ago. Don't worry about bootloader if you can see the fastboot screen with the mi man on your phone .
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This won't help. This is the hardware issue. The storage chip on the motherboard is dead. You can not write anything to it. It is possible to replace that chip but it is a quite difficult operation.
tulen_kobi said:
Any ideas how to boot the phone without need to use fastboot?
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Looking for the same.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/how-to-boot-sd-card-qmobile-z8-bricked-t3712171
Redmi 2 Hard Bricked or Boot Dead Repair
tulen_kobi said:
I have the wt86047(HM2014813,HM2XTDPro) and I have dead emmc on my phone. The internal /data /system and /cache partitions are unmountable. So I decided that I try to boot from sdcard.
I have used this tutorial Dual boot to partition my sdcard and modify the recovery and the rom(Lineage 14.1) to look for the system, data and cache partitions on sdcard.
But when I try to boot up the phone is stuck at the MI logo and I see my device in fastboot. To be able to boot to my device I need in fastboot to execute fastboot boot modifiedboot.img. This is not too much convenient as I need pc to turn my phone on. I also can only boot recovery and not to get to the recovery mode. I can however flash the image to the /recovery partition. I suspect that my /boot partition is also corrupted. I tried to manualy flash boot also with no succes. Any ideas how to boot the phone without need to use fastboot?
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Follow This Link
https://globaltech2u.com/how-to-bring-a-boot-dead-or-hard-bricked-redmi-2-back-to-life

[SOLVED] Need help with hard brick

Hi,
I'm not new in flashing rom but this time i have a big problem !
My oneplus 6t stuck in the "press power key to pause boot" page.
Pressing power do nothing same as power + vol down.
I was using lineage 16 fajita, no problem but wanted to upgrade to lineage 17.
I went to bootloader, flash twrp, boot on twrp, and flash rom from the zip on my internal storage.
everything goes well with no error.
on reboot the phone stuck on the boot page.
I'm under linux, adb and fastboot ok (no windows os at home).
What can i do ?
Thanks for you help.
OK i found how to shut down the phone by pressing : vol up + power 15" with the phone unplugged
After that pressing vol up + vol down + power make the phone boot on bootloader.
I try to flash the twrp recovery now with "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" (no error)
But when i try to enter recovery (vol down + power) the screen stuck in the boot page
Any idea ?
You need to boot to the twrp recovery first, THEN flash it to memory from that recovery.
I think the command is 'fastboot boot <recovery.img>
a491765 said:
Hi,
I'm not new in flashing rom but this time i have a big problem !
My oneplus 6t stuck in the "press power key to pause boot" page.
Pressing power do nothing same as power + vol down.
I was using lineage 16 fajita, no problem but wanted to upgrade to lineage 17.
I went to bootloader, flash twrp, boot on twrp, and flash rom from the zip on my internal storage.
everything goes well with no error.
on reboot the phone stuck on the boot page.
I'm under linux, adb and fastboot ok (no windows os at home).
What can i do ?
Thanks for you help.
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Different android versions maybe causing this issue. Lineage 17 requires A10 base, no? Could be wrong.
When this happened to me I tried all sorts of things except MSM Tool.
Reboot phone. On the next hang, try holding down the volume down and or volume up buttons when it hangs. It worked for me and let me boot to twrp so I could format internal storage.
But it was indeed some strange undocumented key combo that allowed me to boot.
If else fails you could just MSM Tool back, flash Android 10 from OnePlus then flash LOS17.
g90814 said:
You need to boot to the twrp recovery first, THEN flash it to memory from that recovery.
I think the command is 'fastboot boot <recovery.img>
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When i boot on bootloader, plug phone, and use this method my phone reboot and stuck on "Fastboot Mode" screen.
Scott said:
Different android versions maybe causing this issue. Lineage 17 requires A10 base, no? Could be wrong.
When this happened to me I tried all sorts of things except MSM Tool.
Reboot phone. On the next hang, try holding down the volume down and or volume up buttons when it hangs. It worked for me and let me boot to twrp so I could format internal storage.
But it was indeed some strange undocumented key combo that allowed me to boot.
If else fails you could just MSM Tool back, flash Android 10 from OnePlus then flash LOS17.
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Oh my bad i flash lineage 17 directly from my lineage 16 under android 9 didn't think about upgrading android 10 first... !!
Yeas i already try combo like vol down or up or power... no way to access twrp...
Well i found a solution to have TWRP back by following a tutorial about slots.
I was on slot B and fastboot tried to flash recovery on slot B !!
so i did :
*fastboot getvar current-slot > answer B
*fastboot flash boot_a recovery.img
*fastboot --set-active=a
after that reboot to recovery and yes ! TWRP is back !
From there i installed the twrp zip and flash it and finally installed the lineage 16 zip and flash it.
A wipe data, dalvik... done and IT WORKs !!!
Thanks for helping !

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