Bricked my phone :( - Asus ZenFone 3 Questions & Answers

Phone :asus zenfone 3 ze552kl
I unlocked the bootloader, then installed TWRP Recovery 3.2.1 ZE552KL, then the twrp screen opened without any problems. After that, I finally installed the magisk 25.0 zip file I downloaded from the install section in TWRP and pressed restart. TWRP told me something about installing TWRP versions and I confirmed it. Then the phone started to turn on and off infinitely. I keep seeing the bootloader unlocked warning screen and after 3 seconds the phone turns off, turns back on, turns off, turns back on. When I click the enter the recovery mode button, the phone turns off and on again and I cannot enter the recovery mode in any way. There is nothing I can enter except the FASTBOOT screen. I don't care if my data is gone. Please someone with knowledge help me

flash boot.img and format cache from fastboot. next time follow the official magisk installation instructions.

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Stuck in a recovery loop

Last week I rooted my phone (with magisk) but wasn't really satisfied so I decided to unroot it. After unrooting I also decided to lock the bootloader. After locking the bootloader however my phone booted into recovery mode where I get 3 options; Download latest version and recovery / Reboot / Shutdown. When I reboot the phone it will get back to this menu and the same happens when I shut down and turn it off. When I choose the first option I get the ''Restore your system with WIFI'' menu. I can choose between Download and Recovery or go back. When I hit Download and recovery my phone will start connecting to the WIFI and after that it's ''Getting the package info from the server'', after about 10 seconds I get the error ''Getting package info failed''. This is where I'm lost, I basically can't do anything at this point because my phone will continue to boot into recovery mode and the package will keep on failing.
Is there any fix for this? Please help!

Tried to root, recovery flashed but didn't boot, now phone won't reboot.

Hey guys and gals, I decided to take my new PH-1 and root it after getting the latest OTA (this is an unlocked Sprint variant). I flashed the twrp for my build and there was an error, tried it again and the same error so I rebooted back into fastboot and it flashed but I didn't reboot into recovery. Flashed it again and booted into recovery but it was just a black screen as if the phone wasn't turned on. The closest I've gotten to recovery was the android laying down and it said "no command" but I forced a reboot at that point (I think I could have pressed up on the volume and pressed the power button to get to it from there but I haven't been able to get back to it).
I ended up flashing a modded boot image for root with Magisk 14.3 and that worked but I can't reboot my phone, it just goes to the blank screen like it isn't on and I can start it up again by holding the power button down for 15 sec. and it seems to function fine but I can't flash the OTA file to go back to complete stock or to go to the Oreo beta.
If anyone could give me some insight into this problem or a way of fixing it I would grateful, thank you.

Have flashed TWRP image using ODIN but it still boots into regular bootloader

I followed the forum instructions to flash TWRP onto my N910F Note 4 according to instructions: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55277852&postcount=3
All works fine. But when I reboot into the bootloader I still get the original bootloaded with the "Downloading Do not turn off target" notice.
On that tutorial it does say at the end that if the recovery hasn't changed then to uncheck the auto-reboot option. Did that, but same again.
What could I do?
Download mode is nothing to do with recovery.
You flashed a custom recovery, therefore you'll need to boot into recovery, not bootloader (download mode in Samsung phones). Power off your phone, then hold power, home and vol up to access the recovery you just flashed.
Sometimes the phone indeed overwrites the newly flashed custom recovery with the stock one, in such cases it usually helps to disable auto reboot in Odin (as you did), holding power+home+both volume buttons to force a reboot, then booting back to download mode and flashing the recovery one more time. Happy flashing!

Stuck at Asus logo during boot

So I was installing magisk with the help of twrp, but I was having a difficult time finding the magisk zip in twrp. Had rebooted the device and booted to fastboot and recovery mode for around for more than 30 times. Now, this is the situation of my device: its right now switched off. I can enter the twrp, i can access the fastboot mode but if I try to normally switch it on, the boot is stuck at the Asus logo. Nothing happens after it. From the Asus logo, i am able to swtich it off and move to fastboot and twrp. Help me please.
Maybe flash decrypt zip ?
Try this. go back to twrp, abd instead of reboot phone, press power off. then press power on button manually. Works everytime for me

HELP ASAP I was installing my custom recovery and my phone entered a bootloop.

So I was installing twrp and everything went right until it didnt boot to the recovery and from then it keeps booting to lg logo and bootloader warning forever.
I know I can install the stock rom with lg up by I cannot enter download mode since the phone isnt technically turned off. Does anyoene have a solution.
It's my main phone and I literally cannot afford a phone right now.
A way to turn it off would be the solution. Battery was around 70% so it will take a long time to actually have 0%.
Update: I got to the fasboot menu from where I can run fastboot reboot recovery after installing twrp again. Now I have some mounting issues and I cannot flash any zip without entering bootloop. Im trying to use the shut down menu of twrp to try to enter download mode.
2nd Update: solved using lg up with the latest android version.

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