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So my roommate got a KF yesterday for $80, handed it off to me to root and ROM it as I'm very familiar with rooting, etc on my Android phone (Droid X) did some read-ups, rooted using KF Utility, installed TWRP, all went without a hitch. Had put him on CM7 barebones, he didn't like it and wanted ICS, so I installed Energy. Seemed to be running good, besides the usual ICS KF things I'd read (hardware accel, etc.) dropped it off with him and left for work.
He left it on the charger overnight last night, brings it down to my room this morning, and it won't turn on. If you press Power the light will stay on for about 2 seconds and go off, screen doesn't even flicker. If you have it plugged in to USB (either computer or stock charger) can't get it on at all, power light doesn't even flicker when already plugged in to USB and trying to turn on. Not even KF screen or the yellow triangle. Just nothing. If I press and HOLD power so the green LED stays on, and THEN plug it into USB, the green LED stays on without me holding power. Its the only way to get it to do it. Alas, still no screen. Tried hooking up to KF Utility, device not recognized, all boot options fail (fastboot, etc.)
Any ideas?
Goose306 said:
So my roommate got a KF yesterday for $80, handed it off to me to root and ROM it as I'm very familiar with rooting, etc on my Android phone (Droid X) did some read-ups, rooted using KF Utility, installed TWRP, all went without a hitch. Had put him on CM7 barebones, he didn't like it and wanted ICS, so I installed Energy. Seemed to be running good, besides the usual ICS KF things I'd read (hardware accel, etc.) dropped it off with him and left for work.
He left it on the charger overnight last night, brings it down to my room this morning, and it won't turn on. If you press Power the light will stay on for about 2 seconds and go off, screen doesn't even flicker. If you have it plugged in to USB (either computer or stock charger) can't get it on at all, power light doesn't even flicker when already plugged in to USB and trying to turn on. Not even KF screen or the yellow triangle. Just nothing. If I press and HOLD power so the green LED stays on, and THEN plug it into USB, the green LED stays on without me holding power. Its the only way to get it to do it. Alas, still no screen. Tried hooking up to KF Utility, device not recognized, all boot options fail (fastboot, etc.)
Any ideas?
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Did you try to press the power key for about 20 - 30 seconds and then turn it on again?
Same thing happened to me, same rom. Just turned off like that when I unplugged the charger..
I just held the power button for like 25 seconds and it restarted.
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Sound like you have one of two problems. Either you have a bad TWRP installation or your bootloader has failed.
First make sure you are in fastboot mode (i.e. fastboot idme 4002) and try installing a different recovery.img
fastboot -i 0×1949 boot WhateverRecoveryYouAreUsing.img
I suggest using ClockworkMod but that's just my opinion. If that doesn't work you may need to reinstall your bootloader.
You can get a new bootloader here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369405
unzip the u-boot.zip and place the u-boot.bin in your working directory (wherever you are running fastboot from) and type:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin (Windows)
./fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader u-boot.bin (Linux/Mac)
see if that works for you
edit: oh and change bootmode back to 4000
After a whole 24 hours of using Lollipop and found the phone was unusable (phone would ring, but not give any other indication of an incoming call) in some ways, and lacking in other features, I decided it was time to go back to 4.4.4.
So I followed the instructions from Google(/android/nexus/images) , downloaded the 4.4.4 Occam factory image, and installed Minimal ADB and Fastboot. It took a while playing with drivers to get the device to show properly with the adb devices command, but it finally did, and was able to command it to reboot bootloader.
Everything still looking good. Still following the instructions, did the oem unlock, wiping it to factory settings, and then ran flash-all.bat. It went through that, the phone restarted into the bootloader, this time showing the Kitkat loading images instead of Lollipop, I think I'm home free.
I'm in the bootloader again now and notice adb devices is no longer showing the phone, so I try oem lock, and the phone screen updates to show locked. Odd, but it worked. I now used the volume buttons to select power off, and power off the device.
Powering on, the phone shows the Kitkat white "Google" on the screen, but that's it. I try powering it off again, and it restarts itself. I try getting it to display in adb devices, and nothing. The phone has been sitting at this screen for half an hour now with no change.
Using volume down+power I'm able to get it back into fastboot mode, but nothing will work from there. Start, recovery mode, and power off all result in the same thing: phone looks like it's turning on, but sits forever just showing the white "Google" on the screen. Abd devices still shows no devices attached, yet the phone still accepts oem lock and unlock commands, so I tried to run flash-all.bat again, but it just gives a 'command write failed(unknown error)'.
I'm kinda stumped now, and I haven't been able to find anything on this kind of issue. I'm hoping someone might have some experience or be able to suggest something my limited experience hasn't exposed me to before.
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After a whole 24 hours of using Lollipop and found the phone was unusable (phone would ring, but not give any other indication of an incoming call) in some ways, and lacking in other features, I decided it was time to go back to 4.4.4.
So I followed the instructions from Google(/android/nexus/images) , downloaded the 4.4.4 Occam factory image, and installed Minimal ADB and Fastboot. It took a while playing with drivers to get the device to show properly with the adb devices command, but it finally did, and was able to command it to reboot bootloader.
Everything still looking good. Still following the instructions, did the oem unlock, wiping it to factory settings, and then ran flash-all.bat. It went through that, the phone restarted into the bootloader, this time showing the Kitkat loading images instead of Lollipop, I think I'm home free.
I'm in the bootloader again now and notice adb devices is no longer showing the phone, so I try oem lock, and the phone screen updates to show locked. Odd, but it worked. I now used the volume buttons to select power off, and power off the device.
Powering on, the phone shows the Kitkat white "Google" on the screen, but that's it. I try powering it off again, and it restarts itself. I try getting it to display in adb devices, and nothing. The phone has been sitting at this screen for half an hour now with no change.
Using volume down+power I'm able to get it back into fastboot mode, but nothing will work from there. Start, recovery mode, and power off all result in the same thing: phone looks like it's turning on, but sits forever just showing the white "Google" on the screen. Abd devices still shows no devices attached, yet the phone still accepts oem lock and unlock commands, so I tried to run flash-all.bat again, but it just gives a 'command write failed(unknown error)'.
I'm kinda stumped now, and I haven't been able to find anything on this kind of issue. I'm hoping someone might have some experience or be able to suggest something my limited experience hasn't exposed me to before.
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ADB needs a booted up android to work, it wont work in bootloader mode. Another requirement is that usb debugging must be enabled in dev options. Fastboot works only in bootloader mode and doesnt need usb debugging.
Download wugfresh toolkit.. Use it to restore your device and DISABLE FORCE FLASH
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Hey guys i really need your help, i decided to unlock the bootloader of my phone, and so i did without any issue, the phone opened and worked completly, so i wanted to relock it and so i did also without any issue, but i wanted root again so i tried to unlock it again with the same Code with the official unlocking way, but this time the phone have been stuck and red led notification blinking everytime i put in on computer.
If i plug off the power source and try to open the device the red light blink very fast and there is a charging symbol on the screen but then dissapers instantly and nothing the phone turning off.
I cannot enter on recovery or dload, anyone knows what to do? The PC cant recognize the phone if i plug it.
Here some video to check the issue, please turn on the subtitles because im speaking Greek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkx0ifNhg4
Also here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dS76eRe0c
Huawei is one of the worst companies i ever saw! Their phones are so easy to brick and they can't be fixed!
Wait until the battery drained and phone shutdown, connect charger again and wait for 5 minutes , it will turn on in erecovery , shutdown and redo fastboot etc carefully.
Dr4In said:
Hey guys i really need your help, i decided to unlock the bootloader of my phone, and so i did without any issue, the phone opened and worked completly, so i wanted to relock it and so i did also without any issue, but i wanted root again so i tried to unlock it again with the same Code with the official unlocking way, but this time the phone have been stuck and red led notification blinking everytime i put in on computer.
If i plug off the power source and try to open the device the red light blink very fast and there is a charging symbol on the screen but then dissapers instantly and nothing the phone turning off.
I cannot enter on recovery or dload, anyone knows what to do? The PC cant recognize the phone if i plug it.
Huawei is one of the worst companies i ever saw! Their phones are so easy to brick and they can't be fixed!
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Dissconnect the usb cable and hold the power button. When it is just about to reboot, plug in the USB and hold the volume down button. This should take you to fastboot OR to error mode...
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Huawei devices aren't easy to brick, but recovering the devices is a pain... I hard bricked my device as well a couple weeks ago..
I have tried to wait for the battery drained completly and if you plug the usb while the phone is off the phone is powering on automatically and stays to the "Your Device has been unlocked"
Also with the same method before i plug in the usb i was trying to hold the volume down button and plug it in but it didnt happend it is booting on the same thing.
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I have tried to wait for the battery drained completly and if you plug the usb while the phone is off the phone is powering on automatically and stays to the "Your Device has been unlocked"
Also with the same method before i plug in the usb i was trying to hold the volume down button and plug it in but it didnt happend it is booting on the same thing.
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pls clear actual screen position of ur fone, unlock screen titled as fastboot and rescue or yellow text with black background.
chances are there u get fastboot connection by turning off mobile by power button hold for 7 seconds and phone turned off wait for a while ensure no USB cable connected to phone. then press volume down button and conect USB cable, you will see fast boot and rescue screen. now issue command fastboot devices. if u see ur devices serial number there then follow further fasboot procedure mentioned in other threads,
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system.img
above files may be obtained by extracting update.app for ur phone stock image by huawei extractor. you have to work for 2 days constantly for unbricking phone. I have gone through all these processes last week.
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pls clear actual screen position of ur fone, unlock screen titled as fastboot and rescue or yellow text with black background.
chances are there u get fastboot connection by turning off mobile by power button hold for 7 seconds and phone turned off wait for a while ensure no USB cable connected to phone. then press volume down button and conect USB cable, you will see fast boot and rescue screen. now issue command fastboot devices. if u see ur devices serial number there then follow further fasboot procedure mentioned in other threads,
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system.img
above files may be obtained by extracting update.app for ur phone stock image by huawei extractor. you have to work for 2 days constantly for unbricking phone. I have gone through all these processes last week.
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Hi, I have a similar problem: "your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted". I cannot enter fastboot nor with the two buttons method (power + volume down) or the three buttons method. I messed up with the EMUI, I guess. Infact, I unlocked the bootloader, relocked it and tried to unlock it again to flash a custom ROM. The first time I unlocked the bootloader, I tried to install TWRP but something went bad, I do not remember what, but I decided to relock.
Now I am stuck with this message. But....sometimes, I can't understand WHEN, I can enter my phone Last time it was when I tried the above solution (only volume down and usb cable, without the Power button). When the phone turned on, HiSuite recognized "a phone" was connected because the software turned on, but it couldn't really see it. I went into the Developer Options on the phone to turn on OEM, but it was grey and I could do nothing :crying:
Full of hope because the phone turned on, I then tried to flash the content of the SD Card (where I put files extracted with the Huawei Update Extractor) by holding the three buttons (power + volume up + volume down), but again it appeared the "your device has been unlocked" message.
Now the phone is off. Once, in the meantime, it appeared a red flash on the screen for one second, I am not sure it is related to the battery, it doesn't display a battery but only a flash.
I cannot enter fastboot in any way, I cannot flash from SD card, sure I cannot rollback because it implies flashing.
My only hope is some command to be given when I can enter the phone. Anyway, I sent it to repair (not official, I have obviously no guarantee anymore) and they sent it back to me: they didn't know what to do.
Any idea? Thanks a lot!
PS: I will read your replies as soon as I can but I have very variable ad unstable working hours!
Please don't blame Huawei for YOUR mistakes. Thank you
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Please don't blame Huawei for YOUR mistakes. Thank you
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Did I? Sorry if it seemed so, but of course are my mistakes...
help us
i have a same problem did you find solution
Same Problem Here
I have the same issue. Have anyone found a solution yet?
Dr4In said:
Hey guys i really need your help, i decided to unlock the bootloader of my phone, and so i did without any issue, the phone opened and worked completly, so i wanted to relock it and so i did also without any issue, but i wanted root again so i tried to unlock it again with the same Code with the official unlocking way, but this time the phone have been stuck and red led notification blinking everytime i put in on computer.
If i plug off the power source and try to open the device the red light blink very fast and there is a charging symbol on the screen but then dissapers instantly and nothing the phone turning off.
I cannot enter on recovery or dload, anyone knows what to do? The PC cant recognize the phone if i plug it.
Here some video to check the issue, please turn on the subtitles because im speaking Greek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkx0ifNhg4
Also here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dS76eRe0c
Huawei is one of the worst companies i ever saw! Their phones are so easy to brick and they can't be fixed!
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I think the red light blinks cause you are critically low on power. Leave it plugged in. Ignore whats on the screen just leave it plugged in for a few hours and leave it alone.
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I think the red light blinks cause you are critically low on power. Leave it plugged in. Ignore whats on the screen just leave it plugged in for a few hours and leave it alone.
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Same here with a BLN-L21 (Honor 6x)
The phone will not charge with this method. Try to let it plug one night, and no charge !
@Meticulus this was the question felix ask you: is uboot (booting with sdcard) is possible ?
Fixed for me with buy an honor 9 ... but investigate to revive my honor 6x.
For now i have maybe found how to shutdown phone, to charge battery (with shurtcut two point in motherboard) but don't know if phone charge for the moment because there is no light
Solution for the moment but difficult AND / OR expensive ....
1. Remove emmc and repair it with a JTAG box.
2. Try to boot with uboot (but probably won't work)
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Dr4In said:
Hey guys i really need your help, i decided to unlock the bootloader of my phone, and so i did without any issue, the phone opened and worked completly, so i wanted to relock it and so i did also without any issue, but i wanted root again so i tried to unlock it again with the same Code with the official unlocking way, but this time the phone have been stuck and red led notification blinking everytime i put in on computer.
If i plug off the power source and try to open the device the red light blink very fast and there is a charging symbol on the screen but then dissapers instantly and nothing the phone turning off.
I cannot enter on recovery or dload, anyone knows what to do? The PC cant recognize the phone if i plug it.
Here some video to check the issue, please turn on the subtitles because im speaking Greek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkx0ifNhg4
Also here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dS76eRe0c
Huawei is one of the worst companies i ever saw! Their phones are so easy to brick and they can't be fixed!
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Hello, can ask you some question about how you have hardbricked this phone ?
My honor 6x is same bricked, and red light too. So the big question is THE FIRSTIME BRICK = phone was FREEZE can't reboot and can't do nothing. I have wait for empty battery, and now dload and all is not working ?
I will try to charge my battery out of phone. For me it's like the phone never charge ... but i will try with a charged battery and plug unplug battery connector. It's like red screen low battery change boot mode ...
sanjay.rup said:
Same here with a BLN-L21 (Honor 6x)
The phone will not charge with this method. Try to let it plug one night, and no charge !
@Meticulus this was the question felix ask you: is uboot (booting with sdcard) is possible ?
Fixed for me with buy an honor 9 ... but investigate to revive my honor 6x.
For now i have maybe found how to shutdown phone, to charge battery (with shurtcut two point in motherboard) but don't know if phone charge for the moment because there is no light
Solution for the moment but difficult AND / OR expensive ....
1. Remove emmc and repair it with a JTAG box.
2. Try to boot with uboot (but probably won't work)
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Hello, can ask you some question about how you have hardbricked this phone ?
My honor 6x is same bricked, and red light too. So the big question is THE FIRSTIME BRICK = phone was FREEZE can't reboot and can't do nothing. I have wait for empty battery, and now dload and all is not working ?
I will try to charge my battery out of phone. For me it's like the phone never charge ... but i will try with a charged battery and plug unplug battery connector. It's like red screen low battery change boot mode ...
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Its not actually mine and it was long time ago, but the owner told me that he unlocked bootloader with the official way, relocked, and then he unlocked again the third time the phone died.
Hello.
me too, he does not want to do anything anymore.
he only knows this '' your device is booting now '' screen with the red LED flashing.
whatever I do, it always starts on this screen. I think you have to change the motherboard.
Do you know where to find it at a reasonable price?
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Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
after i try to unlock my huawei P9 lite, my phone show this message "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" and i can't restart or load from sd card.
i put update.app in new folder "dload", put the sd card in phone.... no boot. my laptop not detect usb phone. help me please.
ionut69 said:
after i try to unlock my huawei P9 lite, my phone show this message "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted" and i can't restart or load from sd card.
i put update.app in new folder "dload", put the sd card in phone.... no boot. my laptop not detect usb phone. help me please.
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I fixed mine today. I just had to wait for 5 hours for the battery to drain. then when it shuts off i waited 10 min. after that i started the phone and i let me choose to continue to the phone.
I dunno if you have the exact same problem but thats how i fixed mine.
And after that i tried factory resetting (cause bluetooth and NFC didn't work) but then it got stuck again. so i waited it out and it worked once again.
Too scared to do anything to my phone now :/
alesbabnik said:
I fixed mine today. I just had to wait for 5 hours for the battery to drain. then when it shuts off i waited 10 min. after that i started the phone and i let me choose to continue to the phone.
I dunno if you have the exact same problem but thats how i fixed mine.
And after that i tried factory resetting (cause bluetooth and NFC didn't work) but then it got stuck again. so i waited it out and it worked once again.
Too scared to do anything to my phone now :/
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now my battery is empty but when i plug in acc cable show same screen
any fix on this as I have the same issue with huawei p9 lite - no recovery mode, no usb reckognition from pc. Just stuck on that "unsafe" prompt screen after huawei logo
Stop buying huawei phones if you are into custom roms or root. They made the phone easily brickable and they removed the bootloader unlock site due to some stores installing malware into phones. But hey, they couldn't simply do what Xiaomi is doing eh?
Hello guys,
A day ago I decided to root my Huawei P10 lite. I unlocked bootloader and flashed TWRP. Everything worked fine. However I was unable to root my phone so I tried to lock bootloader. Thats where my problem started.... I locked bootloader via ADB and then it said the phone will reboot and factory reset. Phone was rebooted but now its ,,stucked" on huawei logo screen and nothing happens.... I just let phone to discharge and when I try to turn it on its still get to the logo screen and nothing. Always when I try to turn phone off it keeps turning on to the logo screen and Im unable to go to recovery or safe mode because button combination dont work. I cant even connect it to the PC via the USB cable....
Any ideas how to fix it (if its even possible) would be much apreciated.
Thanks a lot guys.
So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754
Eurofighter_ty said:
So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754
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Thats the problem, the phone cant be shut downed by the ,,official" way (hold power button) because it instatly power on after two seconds... Only way how to completely shut down is let the phone discharge.... Anyway when I try to shut down the phone and then instatly press volume down I always get to the logo screen then I get black screen (looks like its trying to do something) and then the phone reboots and again get logo screen... It looks like the phone is gone for good lol
Eurofighter_ty said:
So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754
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Thats the problem, the phone cant be shut downed by the ,,official" way (hold power button) because it instatly power on after two seconds... Only way how to completely shut down is let the phone discharge.... Anyway when I try to shut down the phone and then instatly press volume down I always get to the logo screen then I get black screen (looks like its trying to do something) and then the phone reboots and again get logo screen... It looks like the phone is gone for good lol
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It worked as you said (holding volume down + USB) and phone booted successfully but then appeared shutting down possibly due to low battery... I will keep trying. So thank you very much, you saved my day lol.
Allright, the phone is gone for good... Whenever I try your trick (volume down + USB) the phone boot up to the OS but then always shut down because of low battery. I tried to charge the battery but it seems like its not charging at all... Got phone on charger for three hours now and still red LED diod shows low battery.... I think this thread can be closed and I will bring the phone to the service center and see if they can fix this or not. Again thanks for the help.
Try to charge it when is in bootloop or that's what you tried?
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Try to charge it when is in bootloop or that's what you tried?
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Yeah, now I have it on charger for 5 hours, got huawei logo on screen and red LED diod flashing... Strange thing is the phone is not heating anymore, even charger is cold... When I un-plug the charger the phone shut down in like 5 minutes... When its on charger its not turnning off so I assuming there must be some power coming through the charger to phone then...
This Huawei P10 Lite is quite strange piece of electronic.... Its just booted itself on its own and actually its working just fine... What would you recommend to do, now? battery is charging right now at 16%
pathfindercz said:
This Huawei P10 Lite is quite strange piece of electronic.... Its just booted itself on its own and actually its working just fine... What would you recommend to do, now? battery is charging right now at 16%
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What do you mean by working just fine ? It booted to the OS or what ?
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What do you mean by working just fine ? It booted to the OS or what ?
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I left it plugged on charger and after few hours it booted to the OS, but when I tried to go to Fastboot and Rescue mode it turned off and now It wont boot again. Got stucked on huawei logo screen again.
So I pulled out my XT907 to test a new cable I have. The port on the phone has been damaged and it won't charge and won't be recognized by my PC. The port stopped working ages ago during a reset to stock using RSDlite. So when the device tries to boot, it goes straight to the fastboot screen and tells me there was a flash failure. This screen also tells you if you have a USB cable connected. Heres where I am confused. According to this screen, when I plug in a cable, the device registers it as being plugged in (or not plugged in), but the PC won't say anything. Since then I thought I also lost TWRP as a result of the flash failure. Today I found out I was very wrong. I got the device to boot to TWRP without issue, the red Motorola logo even appears at boot which hasn't happened since RSDlite failure. From there I went to the file manager and discovered the whole system is still there. So I am confused as to what is really happening here: 1) Either the USB port on the phone works or it doesn't, depending on what you believe (the phone or the PC) 2) If RSDlite did fail, as fastboot says, how would I even be able to boot to TWRP? 3) Given number 2, if the flash really did fail would it cause the device not to be recognized? 4) Also given number 2, the logo shouldn't even appear period. EDIT: 5) With the device powered off and I plug it into an outlet or my PC, it will power on into fastboot and also says USB connected.
So I decided to dig out the phone and play around with it. I can still get into TWRP so I managed to flash system and boot. Here's the weird part. I thought the phone wouldn't charge. I was wrong. It charges on almost every cable, but my PC will not recognize it in AP fastboot or TWRP. I had forgotten about the 3 button trick, volume up + volume down + power brought me to the recovery menu. I just let it sit there for the few seconds it stays and suddenly the red logo appeared...and the phone booted...normally. So it does charge, but adb or fastboot is a no go. Looks like if I keep this phone, I'll be flashing what I can or am able to with TWRP, on an external SD card if I can't download it to internal.
So it appears only the AP fastboot partition is damaged...every time It boots to it (if I didn't intentionally do it) it says "fastboot flash failure". So since I can't use RSD lite, what are my options?
So the only thing that was damaged was AP fastboot and anything beyond that, including 'charging mode' (thanks for that trick @sd_shadow though it didn't work). For a couple years I thought the clip inside the charging port on the phone was too badly damaged to take a charge or be recognized by my PC. So with intentions of fixing it myself, I put it in a drawer until such time. I knew there was some hope in salvaging it despite the 'flash failure' because every cable I tried, would only charge the phone so no PC means no RSD Lite. I was convinced TWRP would save me and I would find a way to flash everything I needed, but was only able to get as far as the boot.img and system.img. So last night I started to play around with the phone after having plugged it in and noticed the green light in the upper left corner turned on. I spent a few hours flashing and reading and flashing some more before I found another post by @sd_shadow referencing to three buttons, press and hold in this order: volume down, volume up and power. That got me to the stock Motorola recovery screen, which only hangs around for abut 10 seconds, so you have to be quick at selecting an option. I did not select an option, and much to my surprise the phone booted all the way and properly. And that was the only issue. I still had TWRP too. However anytime I needed to reboot, it would go straight to the AP fastboot screen. The 3 buttons bypassed that.
I looked inside the charging port on the phone as I had many times before, and noticed what looked like a piece of foil stuck inside of it. I tried to dig it out but I just managed to push it between the crack in the clip. I plugged it back into my PC and I was even more surprised when it made the familiar connect sound. So I assume that piece of foil was actually a pin, and I managed to seat it just right that the phone charges, is recognized by my PC and i was able to SUCCESSFULLY recover using RSD Lite. We're back in business