Hi folks. I have the PRA-AL00XC675 (India) variant of the Honor 8 Lite. I recently updated my build to B151 and proceeded to root with Magisk. However, instead of patching a backup of my actual ROM, I extracted BOOT.img from a previous OTA update.app, I couldn't find one for my current build on firmware finder.
After flashing, my bootloader is still unlocked and it boots up, but is now stuck on "Your device is booting now..." screen. I appreciate any inputs to get my phone booting properly again. Does anyone have a back up of the Boot from a PRA-AL00XC675B151 ROM? Or know where I can find one?
Related
EDIT:
It seems since there is no Huawei P8-Subforum, my thread seems to has been postet to misc. Development. Im sorry about that!
Hello there,
I spend the last three hours trying to get the device (L09) to work again. I made the terrible mistake to update my phone with custom recovery (TWRP) installed. My target is to upgrade from B191 to Marshmallow.
The main probleme here is that I don't own a micro-SD card plus the internal storage contains a dload-folder which I can't delete.
My current situation:
- The phone is bootlooping at bootanimation
- I can access the fastboot-mode, stock-recovery and upadte-mode
- My internal storage (intenal SD-Card) contains a folder named "dload" with the B200 firmware
- I flashed the stock B200 recovery.img and boot.img (extracted with Huawei Extractor)
- When going to update mode the phone proceeds to 5% and then shows "Software install failed!"
I don't really know how to proceed from here on. I tried to flash TWRP again to clear the dload-folder and place another firmware, but somehow twrp can't be installed anymore - flashing shows "OKAY" but when booting into recovery, the same old Huawei recovery is booting. Also I'm confused as to when to leave the USB plugged in or disconnect it.
My current plan is to revert to 170 firmware to start completely over. I downloaded the 170, 200 and 313 firmware.
How to proceed?
EDIT:
I flashed recovery.img, boot.img and system.img from B170 and now the boot repeats at the Huawei logo. After flashing boot.img and recovery from B200 I get to the bootlogo again, which is stuck.
Solution:
After flashing boot.img from B191 the B170 firmware booted successfully. I got a few random reboots at the start, but they quickly grew less and now I have a somewhat stable B170.
Upgrading to B191 or B200 didn't work, tho. I'm trying to get behind that now.
Hi guys!
I have an issue here with the Huawei P8. I wanted to go back to stock from ARROW ROM, so
-I used Huawei Extractor to get the stock recovery and flashed it via fastboot adb
-Updated my phone with the 3 button method and put the DLOAD folder into my SD card
-I used B394 to get the recovery img and to update as well (it was ~1,6Gb)
The update started and everything worked fine, the phone said everything is fine but my phone stuck in bootloop. I mean it doesn't restart or anything but all I can see is the Huawei logo.
What should I do? Any tips how to fix this?
First try getting into Recovery mode & doing a factory reset & cache wipe.
If that doesn't work, try with a stock rom that's one prior to what you had before installing Arrow - like in this thread & follow the steps there (i.e. you first need to flash boot, system & recovery .img files extracted from the prior rom): [GUIDE] How to unbrick HUAWEI P8 when failed to update and ends in bootloop
If you cannot find where to download the prior stock rom, ask for help - someone may be able to provide a link that works. Tell us your phone's full, original model number (GRA-????), the region rom you need (e.g. C432 would be European) & the version B???.
Urgent help needed as I'm leaving the country at the end of the week o any help is appreciated!
Just successfully rooted my device:
Black, Unlocked, PRA-LX1, UK, Dual SIM
After doing so successfully, I attempted to flash LineageOS from the following link:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p8lite/p8-lite-2017-development/rom-lineageos-15-1-hi6250-devices-t3811583
Although when I completed Step 6 on the Installation guide and rebooted the phone, I started seeing the message:
------------------
ERROR MODE
Attention!
Please update system again
(Green Android picture)
Error!
Func NO : 11 (recovery image)
Error NO : 2 (load failed!)
------------------
Despite this, I didn't receive a box with my phone due to being second hand, and I didn't see the model number on the receipt as it was from a reselling store. I didn't remember to note down the specific model number
It'd be extremely helpful if someone could possibly help just from the device description above as I'm not sure if it's safe for me to just attempt to flash every stock rom for every other LX1 device out there.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Update:
To restore this, I connected via fastboot with a working USB & flashed an original stock recovery in the video found here
(Just in case their download link ever goes down, I have uploaded the same copy to my MEGA, found here)
The recovery installed fine when using the command
fastboot flash recovery oeminfo.img
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Whenever trying to flash any other recovery such as twrp before this fastboot stuck on a loading icon.
The stock recovery seems to be downloading the original firmware, too.
PRA-LX1C432B202 is presumably the model.
Both the bootloader and FRA were unlocked when everything else was inaccessible.
Looks like the custom ROM's recovery that you've flashed is not compatible with PRA-LX1. Try to flash stock recovery. If not working, then flash stock firmware.
Thanks @Botar230!
I didn't see your comment until just now after deciding to edit this post since I've gotten a step closer to restoring my device.
Your solution was the method I used although I didn't know my phone model, so I found a random solution which just worked for my device, and the eRecovery seems to be downloading the stock firmware anyways. Thanks again
Before flashing this lineage os you should update to EMUI8 to get treble support, i suppose you was running EMUI5, hence the error mode.
My device was using Oxygen OS Pie official version OTA 43 and the I got the notification for OTA 46 update.
Having an unlocked bootloader and TWRP codeworkx recovery 3.2.3-0, I removed the compatiblity.zip from the OTA, like the other times I did, and tried to flash it, which resulted into a failure. But after rebooting to bootloader and flashing the original oneplus recovery image, I tried to flash the zip again. Which also failed. I have no root, or modifications done to the system. However upon reboot I got the unlocked bootloader warning but nothing else showed up. I couldn't access the recovery nor the bootloader. Fastboot or ADB was unable to detect any device. So I was stuck with a Hard Brick.
After that I downloaded cheeseburger_23_O.13_170803 MsmDownloadTool 4.0 from the unbrick thread and followed the instructions. It completed successfully and I have stock Oneplus 5 on Oxygen OS 4.5.8 and Android 7.1.1 however system update was available to Oxygen OS 5.1.4 and I tried to install it, which failed. I unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp official 3.2.3 and tried again, which also failed with E3005: exit code 7
I tried flashing codeworkx recovery but it results into a black screen at the recovery and a continuous blue light at the LED — like when it was when Hard bricked. I don't understand what to do anymore. Also Bootloader has changed:
Product Name: QC_reference_Phone
Variant : MSM UFS
Bootloader Version: (it is blank)
Baseband Version: (also blank)
Serial Number: (present, same as what it used to be)
Secure Boot: yes
Device State : Unlocked
Did I miss something while Unbricking?
EDIT:
I don't know if something was wrong with my bootloader or unbricking, but I fixed the issue by using an updated version of unbrick tool from: Here
Some information is till missing from the bootloader screen ie. baseband version and bootloader version, but I could update to latest OTA at least.
Kj1594 said:
My device was using Oxygen OS Pie official version OTA 43 and the I got the notification for OTA 46 update.
Having an unlocked bootloader and TWRP codeworkx recovery 3.2.3-0, I removed the compatiblity.zip from the OTA, like the other times I did, and tried to flash it, which resulted into a failure. But after rebooting to bootloader and flashing the original oneplus recovery image, I tried to flash the zip again. Which also failed. I have no root, or modifications done to the system. However upon reboot I got the unlocked bootloader warning but nothing else showed up. I couldn't access the recovery nor the bootloader. Fastboot or ADB was unable to detect any device. So I was stuck with a Hard Brick.
After that I downloaded cheeseburger_23_O.13_170803 MsmDownloadTool 4.0 from the unbrick thread and followed the instructions. It completed successfully and I have stock Oneplus 5 on Oxygen OS 4.5.8 and Android 7.1.1 however system update was available to Oxygen OS 5.1.4 and I tried to install it, which failed. I unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp official 3.2.3 and tried again, which also failed with E3005: exit code 7
I tried flashing codeworkx recovery but it results into a black screen at the recovery and a continuous blue light at the LED — like when it was when Hard bricked. I don't understand what to do anymore. Also Bootloader has changed:
Product Name: QC_reference_Phone
Variant : MSM UFS
Bootloader Version: (it is blank)
Baseband Version: (also blank)
Serial Number: (present, same as what it used to be)
Secure Boot: yes
Device State : Unlocked
Did I miss something while Unbricking?
EDIT:
I don't know if something was wrong with my bootloader or unbricking, but I fixed the issue by using an updated version of unbrick tool from: Here
Some information is till missing from the bootloader screen ie. baseband version and bootloader version, but I could update to latest OTA at least.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
try a different recovery like "Oreo" and if doesn't help then use unbrick tool
Himanshu.Shukla said:
try a different recovery like "Oreo" and if doesn't help then use unbrick tool
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did try to install codeworkx twrp recovery, for the Oreo build but it was giving me a hard brick, ie. A black screen and a blue LED when trying to boot to recovery. But as I said, using Unbrick tool v4.0.8 I was able to restore to Oxygen Os 5.1.7 and then everything worked fine.
I am just unsure why it didn't work with Oxygen Os 4.5.8
I mean, with a locked bootloader and a freshly installed OS, you should be able to get OTA updates, right? But the system update was failing. So maybe there was something wrong with the partitions? I don't know. The bootloader in the older Unbrick tool was different than stock. Maybe that was a fault, well, I'll never know. But all I'm saying is, newer Unbrick Tool worked wonders for me.
About phone: Huawei P9 lite VNS-L21C432B161 (central Europe)
First modifications
A long time ago i unlocked bootloader and successfully rooted the phone. I turned off OEM unlock option in settings after rooting, because someone said i should do so for security. Then came EMUI 5 OTA. It somehow updated itself without me agreeing. Android nougat detected, that the bootloader was unlocked and so it assumed that OEM unlock option was also ENABLED when it really wasn't, making me unable to re-enable the option.
So i used the https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p9lite/how-to/tutorial-rollback-n-to-mm-c432-devices-t3563955432-devices-t3563955" <-- official rollback package and installed stock ROM through dload.
Here is the part where i messed up horribly
Now i wanted to update to android 7 again, but updater wasn't giving it to me and i was unable to flash it through TWRP. I installed the rollback package again through download mode as it said it allows any ROM to be installed, hoping i could then install android 7 through Download mode, which would in turn allowed me to install newer version of TWRP to then install a nougat based custom ROM.
Current situation
Now i am stuck at the 'Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted. TWRP 3.0.1 should be installed but it never boots. Can't access bootloader, phone doesn't seem to be detecting the Power+Volume down combination. Recovery gets stuck at the shorter warning screen during boot, erecovery gets stuck as well. This has been like this even before i tried this, no idea what caused it. I can't even access download mode, which gets stuck at the shorter warning screen as well.
What i hope to achieve now
At best: To make it work again.
At worst: To at least be able to turn it off somehow so the text doesn't get burnt into the screen in case i ever manage to fix it.
Thanks in advance