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This tutorial is for MEDIATEK chipset based phones and people who use SP FLASH TOOL to flash firmware through this tool. SP TOOL is an official software flash tool of MEDIATEK.
I am writing this guide for people who commit mistake while flashing firmware through SP TOOL and suddenly stopping it in the midst when the firmware is flashing to your phone.
Points to be noted :
1) Once u start download of firmware don't interrupt it in the middle by pressing STOP button. If you do so your phone will not start up & also when u try to flash it again through SP tool it won't detect your device saying no driver and device not detected.
2) Don't worry if you have done so and fear that you have bricked your device completely. All you have to do is not panic and follow the below steps.
INSTRUCTIONS :
1) Download USBDeview from the following link
32 bit - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip
64 bit - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview-x64.zip
2) Now open it. It will display a list of all drivers installled in you system. Uninstall drivers related to mediatek. ( U can figure them out easily. This app will show the names of all drivers ). The driver names would be of the following. Mediatek USB Vcom, Mediatek preloader, Android ADB etc. Uninstall all of them by right clicking them and selecting Uninstall. Now close the app and restart system.
3) After restart now connect your bricked phone and install drivers. ( Go to device manager and add the driver file as you do normally )
In case u forgot how to install drivers here is a small guide for it ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180436 ) Thanks to bhargav1991 for the driver thread.
Win 8 users don't forget to turn off Driver signature verification.
4) Now u should see drivers installed successfully. Now open SP TOOL load the scatter and again connect tour device. BOOM ! Now your device should be detected and firmware will start flashing. Now ur phone is back
Let me know if you face any issues in this. I will be always glad to help you in this regard.
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Santhosh M said:
This tutorial is for MEDIATEK chipset based phones and people who use SP FLASH TOOL to flash firmware through this tool. SP TOOL is an official software flash tool of MEDIATEK.
I am writing this guide for people who commit mistake while flashing firmware through SP TOOL and suddenly stopping it in the midst when the firmware is flashing to your phone.
Points to be noted :
1) Once u start download of firmware don't interrupt it in the middle by pressing STOP button. If you do so your phone will not start up & also when u try to flash it again through SP tool it won't detect your device saying no driver and device not detected.
2) Don't worry if you have done so and fear that you have bricked your device completely. All you have to do is not panic and follow the below steps.
INSTRUCTIONS :
1) Download USBDeview from the following link
32 bit - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip
64 bit - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview-x64.zip
2) Now open it. It will display a list of all drivers installled in you system. Uninstall drivers related to mediatek. ( U can figure them out easily. This app will show the names of all drivers ). The driver names would be of the following. Mediatek USB Vcom, Mediatek preloader, Android ADB etc. Uninstall all of them by right clicking them and selecting Uninstall. Now close the app and restart system.
3) After restart now connect your bricked phone and install drivers. ( Go to device manager and add the driver file as you do normally )
In case u forgot how to install drivers here is a small guide for it ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180436 ) Thanks to bhargav1991 for the driver thread.
Win 8 users don't forget to turn off Driver signature verification.
4) Now u should see drivers installed successfully. Now open SP TOOL load the scatter and again connect tour device. BOOM ! Now your device should be detected and firmware will start flashing. Now ur phone is back
Let me know if you face any issues in this. I will be always glad to help you in this regard.
Hit :good: if i helped you ! It doesn't cost you to hit thanks.
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Sir thanks a lot!
Sir by mistake i press the stop button during flashing in sp flash tool now i dont know what to do
i tried the above method and it didnt work
*** I've been receiving many requests and PMs from members asking to help them unbrick their device. Please note that I no longer own this device (and even if I did I would not purposely brick it just to reproduce your problem), therefore I am unable to help out beyond this tutorial. ***
Hello,
First some background and credits:
There are a few ways to brick a phone. Sometimes it's lack of experience, sometimes it's an accidental thing, sometimes there just isn't an explanation for what went wrong... (share your experience here, if you wish). For me, I owned my OPO for about 4 hours before things went wrong. First thing I did was I rooted it and installed TWRP. After creating a nandroid backup of the stock image I installed my favorite custom ROM and restored all my apps with TiBu. Everything was great and configured just the way I wanted it. I then wiped my old phone (Nexus 4), installed a new ROM and got it all ready for my wife. She was so excited to get rid of her GNex and move up to the N4. But then, for whatever reason, I opened an app on my OPO that I used to manage, download, and install kernels with. It came up with "there is a new kernel update!" and I instinctively clicked on "Install". 10 seconds later my phone was bricked. Nothing came on the screen, no fastboot, no recovery, nothing to boot to, no way to send data to and from it. The second the screen went black and the phone became lifeless I got that wretched feeling in my gut as I realized I just flashed a N4 kernel on my new OPO. Restoring the kernel management app with TiBu made it act like it's still running on my old phone, and in my excitement I didn't take a second to think things through...
I received a bit of consolation when a quick XDA search revealed that I am not the only dumbass to brick his phone this very way. I joined forces with some pretty smart and desperate people and tried different things, all described in the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/wrong-kernel-black-screen-fastboot-adb-t2835696. Unfortunately it took us what seemed like many long weeks to figure it all out. Well, in the end a solution was found and I documented it in the the following post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55024864&postcount=136.
This was a few months ago, but I recently noticed many people continue to search for these directions and have problems finding them hidden among many pages and other threads, so I've decided to put this stand alone thread with these, now updated, directions.
Let me get one more thing straight, for the record. I did not find the way to unbrick the OPO. In fact I wasn't even the very first one to do it. It was a collective effort of few people who tried many different approaches and ideas, and I eventually documented these steps for others to follow. Being said, the following people deserve credit as well: @os_man, @rezor92, @Mnt-XDA. If I am forgetting other significant names and efforts, I apologize.
***CAUTION***
The following instructions are for hardware bricked devices ONLY and will not work on soft bricked devices. To determine whether your device is soft or hard bricked, click the button below:
Hardware brick
A hardware bricked OPO has nothing but a black screen (nothing ever comes on the screen, not even a boot logo), it might vibrate when a power button is pressed and held for 20 seconds, has no Recovery partition, no adb mode, and no fastboot partition. The device might be detected in Linux and you might be able to even send commands to it. In Windows, the bricked OPO should be detected as QHSUSB_BULK USB. You might have a bricked OPO as a result of flashing a kernel meant for a different device (or a ROM meant for another device that included a kernel), tinkering with the boot logo or bootloader, or your attempt of unlocking the bootloader resulted in corrupting the boot partition.
Software brick
Please do not attempt to use these directions if your phone is soft bricked. A software bricked OPO is one that might be stuck in a bootloop, but has a working bootloader, recovery partition, fastboot, or adb. If you press the power button and images appear on the screen and you are able to enter fastboot mode (Power + VolUP) or recovery (Power + VolDOWN) then your device is soft bricked. This thread does not encompass soft brick recovery, the instructions below do not apply and will not work on these phones. Consult other threads for help on soft bricked devices.
If based on the above explanation of differences between soft and hard bricks you determined your device is hard bricked, here's what you will need to do...
1:
Download Color.zip from (mirror needed).
After downloading, unzip the archive on your computer.
2:
Next, you need proper Windows drivers. There are architectural differences between Windows XP and Windows 7/8, so follow the directions below that pertain to you. One quick note about the drivers: the installation and process is very simple and straightforward on Windows XP (I also tested successfully on Windows 2003), but proves to be quite a challenge when running on Windows 7 or 8. Over and over people report issues when attempting the unbrick procedure on Windows 7/8, some have more luck than others. Being said, if you have access to a Windows XP computer, I highly recommend that you use that. If you have no choice but to use a Windows 7 or 8 computer and have problems, please share them here and read others' experiences.
So first, by now you probably tried a few different things to fix your phone and you've already installed some drivers, including Qualcomm USB drivers for 9006 and 9008. My best advice is to uninstall the drivers you tried so far and use the ones listed below. Go to Device Manager, right click on the bricked USB device (QHSUSB_BULK or Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008) and go to Properties, click on Driver, then select Uninstall. Check the box to remove driver files, if prompted. Then:
2a:
Windows XP users:
You are in luck, driver installation is straightforward. Go to the extracted Color.zip folder and find Driver.iso. Extract Driver.iso. Inside the extracted folder find Setup.exe. Run Setup.exe to install the drivers. The installer is Chinese, but all you need to do is click through the prompts.
2b:
Windows 7 and Windows 8:
These operating systems block unsigned driver installations by default. Follow these steps (thanks @nag4pl for testing these):
Download and extract these Qualcomm 2012 drivers: (mirror needed).
Connect your bricked phone and let Windows do its thing.
Now something very essential you need to do here is to execute two commands to allow you to install unsigned drivers for QHUSB_BULK. Click on Start Menu > Type cmd.exe > Right Click and Run as Administrator.
In the CMD window type in the following commands (hit enter after each):
Code:
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
Code:
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
After both the commands should run successfully, restart your computer.
You can now proceed to install unsigned drivers from the file you downloaded. Open Device Manager, you should be seeing ugly yellow warning under other devices for QHUSB_BULK. Right click on the name and select Update Driver Software > Browse my Computer for driver software. For driver software location provide the path where you have extracted Qualcomm 2012 drivers you downloaded and make sure 'Include Subfolders' is checked. Proceed through all the installation prompts ignoring any warnings.
3:
Once you have the drivers straightened out, connect your bricked phone to the computer and start it up by holding VolUp + Power to about 10 seconds, and let the computer do its thing. Don't install drivers if they are not installed by itself. Instead launch Msm8974DownloadTool.exe as Administrator (right click on Msm8974DownloadTool.exe and select "Run as administrator") from the extracted Color.zip archive. It will scan all the COM ports and find the phone. That's the one line that looks different in the list. The list is just a list of your com ports and devices. If you unplug the phone and move it to another port, it will show your bricked phone on a different line.
Clicking on "Enum" just rescans the busses. Clicking the big square button in upper right corner scans the phone and reports what's good and what's not. It takes a minute for the scan to finish.
If you don't see your phone in the list of com devices, try unplugging/plugging in your phone a couple times, and rebooting it with VolUP + Power (hold 10 seconds). You will see it in Device Manager as well.
Once you see the phone in the list, click Start. You should see the programs start writing different files to the phone. Each time it writes a file you'll see a progress bar. Once you see this process happening, smile, you know you will be good to go... After all files are written, the com line with your device will turn green. You're good, unplug and reboot your phone. It will boot to ColorOS, the Chinese OS that comes on OPO.
4:
Optional Steps:
Your phone is no longer bricked. You now have a few options to get back to stock. The easiest way is to use a toolkit from http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/oneplus-one-toolkit-manudroid19-gui-t2807418, or you can flash an image manually by following directions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-return-opo-to-100-stock-t2826541. Download the proper image zip and after extracting it, run the following commands in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn
fastboot flash dbi sdi.mbn
fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash LOGO logo.bin
Make sure you have the proper image. I accidentally installed the 16GB version on my 64GB OPO first time and obviously didn't get 64GB of space.
That's about it. I think if people are still having problems then it's likely due to drivers, or Windows 7/8 issue.
Good luck! Share your experience here and let me know if I can improve this thread.
Please click the Thanks button if you found the above guide useful.
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did this and it finally worked but still i have unknown baseband and no imei.........flashed coloros using the msm tool and rom goes into a bootloop......tried all the ways with no luck....even flashed the persist.img......still no luck.......my last hope is claiming warranty and act like a noob in service center.......will they get to know taht i unlocked the bootloader?
mysterio619 said:
did this and it finally worked but still i have unknown baseband and no imei.........flashed coloros using the msm tool and rom goes into a bootloop......tried all the ways with no luck....even flashed the persist.img......still no luck.......my last hope is claiming warranty and act like a noob in service center.......will they get to know taht i unlocked the bootloader?
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You should be able to boot to fastboot now. From there flash the cm11s image. I believe that "fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn" will fix the imei issue.
Also, unlocking bootloader does not void your warranty. Not with OPO.
netbuzz said:
You should be able to boot to fastboot now. From there flash the cm11s image. I believe that "fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn" will fix the imei issue.
Also, unlocking bootloader does not void your warranty. Not with OPO.
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Tried it......still no imei
mysterio619 said:
Tried it......still no imei
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Just to give one last try, flash color os modded zip from relic, i used 2.0.43 purezip and it gave me back my imei. Had the same issue as you last week. Be sure to flash TWRP 2.8.4.1 first and then flash color os.
Legit method.
Worked for me 2 weeks ago!
unbrick oneplus one, oppo 7
Hi there my friend, i had many works about unbricking solutions, a few of you know that, i have much easier and faster ways now, tested many times before i decided to share with you, it will be a long topic ( and my brain is messed up to sum them up clearly), as soon i can think clearly again, i start to write them, till then,
greetings from Istanbul to all geeks around thw world.
Ps: including restoring imei's if they got lost during this process.
Ps2: just a quick info abou imei, if your imei is "invalid" , this means your modem.bin (NON-HLOS.bin, baseband) is not inadaptable with your rom, just try flashing the right modem ( from fastboot), your imei will be back.
Ps3 : This will lead us to unbrick many Snapdragon's out there , not only oneplus one's or oppo's.
I had to use this tutorial some days ago.
There is also a modified .zip where the tool from OPO flashed CM11s instead of ColorOS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/tool-oneplusrecovery-tool-v1-0-restore-t2991851
I had many driver problems and i had to use this driver from qualcomm so my win7 could recognize the phone.
Tutorial to install the driver:
1. Open your device manager (Start - right click on computer - properties - devices manager)
2. Press on power + vol up for like 10 sec until you see a device showing up (called QHSUSB_BULK)
3. Right click on this devices and click on "Update Driver Software" -> "Browse my computer for driver software" -> locate the Qualcomm 2012\fre\Windows7 8 or vista folder depending on your setup. Update the driver.
michaeldepotter said:
I had to use this tutorial some days ago.
There is also a modified .zip where the tool from OPO flashed CM11s instead of ColorOS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/tool-oneplusrecovery-tool-v1-0-restore-t2991851
I had many driver problems and i had to use this driver from qualcomm so my win7 could recognize the phone.
Tutorial to install the driver:
1. Open your device manager (Start - right click on computer - properties - devices manager)
2. Press on power + vol up for like 10 sec until you see a device showing up (called QHSUSB_BULK)
3. Right click on this devices and click on "Update Driver Software" -> "Browse my computer for driver software" -> locate the Qualcomm 2012\fre\Windows7 8 or vista folder depending on your setup. Update the driver.
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Hi, Dropbox link for drivers seems to be wrong.. could you please update correct one.. I am in very much need of it! pls!!
nag4pl said:
Hi, Dropbox link for drivers seems to be wrong.. could you please update correct one.. I am in very much need of it! pls!!
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Sorry. Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgujdut93m341qm/Qualcomm 2012.rar?dl=0
Sent from my A0001 using XDA Free mobile app
michaeldepotter said:
Sorry. Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgujdut93m341qm/Qualcomm 2012.rar?dl=0
Sent from my A0001 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thank you.. Troubleshooting my phone now..
may i ?
http://www.androidbrick.com/?wpdmdl=2599
Back from Brick!!
First of all Thanks a lot to @netbuzz(for such a life saver guide on unbricking 1+1) and @michaeldepotter for providing link to download appropriate drivers.
Here is some good news by my findings and can be a quick help for those who do not have or can't get XP. You can use Windows 7 itself for the process mentioned by @netbuzz
All you need to do is:
1. Download drivers from link provided by @michaeldepotter : https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgujdut93m341qm/Qualcomm 2012.rar?dl=0
2. Extract to some folder under C: or whichever drive you prefer.
3. Connect your bricked phone after pressing Volume Up and Power key (make sure phone vibrates once)
4. Now that QHUSB_BULK should be detected and Windows will eventually try to download drivers from update, which you can skip and close the window.
Now something very essential you need to do here is to execute some commands so that you will be able to install unsigned drivers for QHUSB_BULK.
4a. Click On Start Menu > Type cmd.exe > Right Click and Run as Administrator (make sure you are running cmd as admin)
4b. Now type below command
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
>hit Enter
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
> hit Enter again
4c. Both the commands should run successfully, then restart your computer.
These steps are to disable driver sign verification. You must proceed to next steps only after above steps executed successfully.
After machine booted back to desktop
5. Now Open Device Manager by Start > Run > type "devmgmt.msc" and hit enter
6. You should be seeing ugly yellow warning under other devices for QHUSB_BULK.
7. Right click on the same > Update Driver Software > Browse my Computer for driver software
8. Now under driver software location, provide the path where you have extracted drivers which you downloaded from step 1. For me it was:
"C:\Users\Arjun\Downloads\Qualcomm 2012\fre\Windows7" - Remember to provide path only till windows 7 and make sure 'Include Subfolders' is checked.
9. Click next, and it should install driver for QHUSB_BULK. Click on Install Driver if you get any warnings.
Now your driver set-up for QHUSB_BULK in Windows 7 is complete and now you may proceed with the steps to run Msm8974DownloadTool as provided by netbuzz.
I have attached the screenshots for the same just for confirmation.
SuccessfullDriver - showing successful installation of driver
FlashInProgress - showing tool flashing the system image
FlashSuccess - showing green row indicating successful flash.
Once again, thanks a lot for all the guide and help. Hope this quick guide helps some one in need!!
nag4pl said:
First of all Thanks a lot to @netbuzz(for such a life saver guide on unbricking 1+1) and @michaeldepotter for providing link to download appropriate drivers.
Here is some good news by my findings and can be a quick help for those who do not have or can't get XP. You can use Windows 7 itself for the process mentioned by @netbuzz
All you need to do is:
1. Download drivers from link provided by @michaeldepotter : https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgujdut93m341qm/Qualcomm 2012.rar?dl=0
2. Extract to some folder under C: or whichever drive you prefer.
3. Connect your bricked phone after pressing Volume Up and Power key (make sure phone vibrates once)
4. Now that QHUSB_BULK should be detected and Windows will eventually try to download drivers from update, which you can skip and close the window.
Now something very essential you need to do here is to execute some commands so that you will be able to install unsigned drivers for QHUSB_BULK.
4a. Click On Start Menu > Type cmd.exe > Right Click and Run as Administrator (make sure you are running cmd as admin)
4b. Now type below command
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
>hit Enter
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
> hit Enter again
4c. Both the commands should run successfully, then restart your computer.
These steps are to disable driver sign verification. You must proceed to next steps only after above steps executed successfully.
After machine booted back to desktop
5. Now Open Device Manager by Start > Run > type "devmgmt.msc" and hit enter
6. You should be seeing ugly yellow warning under other devices for QHUSB_BULK.
7. Right click on the same > Update Driver Software > Browse my Computer for driver software
8. Now under driver software location, provide the path where you have extracted drivers which you downloaded from step 1. For me it was:
"C:\Users\Arjun\Downloads\Qualcomm 2012\fre\Windows7" - Remember to provide path only till windows 7 and make sure 'Include Subfolders' is checked.
9. Click next, and it should install driver for QHUSB_BULK. Click on Install Driver if you get any warnings.
Now your driver set-up for QHUSB_BULK in Windows 7 is complete and now you may proceed with the steps to run Msm8974DownloadTool as provided by netbuzz.
I have attached the screenshots for the same just for confirmation.
SuccessfullDriver - showing successful installation of driver
FlashInProgress - showing tool flashing the system image
FlashSuccess - showing green row indicating successful flash.
Once again, thanks a lot for all the guide and help. Hope this quick guide helps some one in need!!
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Thanks for this Win7/8 workaround. I'll be adding your info to the OP.
Finally Unbricked mine...Drivers resolved on Win 7
netbuzz said:
Second note about drivers is that I had the worst time trying to get things to work on my Windows 7 computers. Both Windows 7 and 8 block unsigned driver installations by default. I've tried overwriting these settings in Windows and spent half a day messing with it, and I never got things to work properly. At first all looked good to go, but then latter steps were failing. You might have a better luck getting drivers to work on Windows 7 or 8 (I've heard some people did it), but if you have access to a Windows XP or 2003 machine, try it first, it should save you some major headache.
Once you have the drivers straightened out, connect your bricked phone to the computer and start it up by holding VolUp + Power to about 10 seconds, and let the computer do its thing. Don't install drivers if they are not installed by itself. Instead launch Msm8974DownloadTool.exe from the extracted Color.zip archive. It will scan all the COM ports and find the phone. That's the one line that looks different in the list. The list is just a list of your com ports and devices. If you unplug the phone and move it to another port, it will show your bricked phone on a different line.
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I have used the override tool for certificates: DSEO - Driver signature enforcement overrider
to allow the unsigned drivers to be used and it worked like charm on windows 7 64 bit.
Also, I used the additional Qualcomm 2012 drivers and not sure which one might got picked in that mess :cyclops::cyclops:
Thanks!!
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nevermind!
Well I managed to hardbrick my phone. I am download the ColorOS file from Mega at the moment. It's downloading at 30KB/s and will take around 6.5 hours. Is there any other source to download it from ? Thanks !
Also, about the driver ...
While I wait on the colorOS to download I want to clarify one more thing about the driver.
According to the screenshot of @nag4pl the driver should show as Qualcomm USB diagnostic 9006, while for me it shows as Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008. Is this going to be an issue ?
This is what I did. I uninstalled the default driver that came with windows 7. After that it failed to install the driver provided in this forum because it kept saying that device descriptor failed. I rebooted the phone several times and changed the USB ports and eventually windows detected it but AGAIN with the windows driver even though I had checked the option to delete the original driver while uninstalling it. Through the update driver option I managed to force it to install the unsigned driver.
Now I can see both the drivers under the update drivers option. Interestingly the default driver is a version ahead of the unsigned driver provided in this forum.
My only concern is that I see a different driver name compared to the one posted by @nag4pl
Thanks! Very useful for me!
That shouldn't be a problem. Not sure if that is specific to region, mine is India version phone.. Can some one clarify on this?
First of all, i have read some similar threads about this, and all advise diffrent solution besides the hardware mod, I have tried for 2 days all methods in Miui forums and none have worked for me except the hardware method.
My Device: Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro / SD version.
State:
-would only show "Mi" logo when powered on.
-Would enter only Fastboot.
- No EDL mode
- No recovery
-bootloader locked
-In this state, you can't flash absolutely nothing with any software. (from fastboot).
Requirements:
- windows 7/ windows 10 x64 edition.
- ONLY LATEST version of miflash, from 2016 onward, so it has the required drivers and methods to work with the phone. (I have tried with older versions and it did not work, i thought there was no hope for my phone).
- one hard bricked Redmi Note 3 Pro
- any fersion of Stable FASTBOOT OFFICIAL rom. (.tgz extension) - I personally used kenzo_global_images_V7.2.3.0.LHOMIDA_20160129.0000.14_5.1_global_c85ba6c524.tgz
- medium disassembly skills,
- a lot of patience,
- minimum set of tools (one small cross screwdriver, 1-2 strong finger nails, good eyesight).
- one microusb cable
HOW TO:
1. uninstall all drivers and software related to the Xiaomi phone. (I ended up reinstalling windows 7 just to be sure all was gone - that is how desperate I became). To be sure this is done correctly, with the phone turned off, connect it to the computer.
Go into device manager, search in com ports, or wherever any drivers are installed for the phone, and uninstall all of them, ticking remove driver files also.
after doing this, hit refresh, and see if any drivers get installed again.
Repeat until there are no drivers installed, and the device will be without a driver.
2. Disconnect the phone and RESTART WINDOWS
3. Disable driver signature verification/enforcement:
a. in windows 7, this is easy: restart windows, hit f8 until a menu pops up where you can choose disable driver signature verification/enforcement.
b. in windows 10, it is a little bit longer, but: http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how...8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/ - Be careful, when choosing the option in the last menu, use F... keys, not number keys.
4. while in windows, in the bottom right corner, there should be a message saying "test mode"
5. install ONLY the LATEST VERSION of Miflash! you may get some messages about driver installation (2 times), allow installation!
6. RESTART WINDOWS
7. Prepare the phone!: I followed the video here, even I did not understand the language: http://choimobile.vn/threads/video-...o-snapdragon-650-fix-download-mode-edl.65098/
- First, I used my nail to open the phone up, just like in the video. It is great that the screen is not glued to the body, there are only some clips holding it in place!
- after opening the cover please be careful - there is a cable connecting the case to the mainboard - the fingerprint sensor.
- after this, unscrew the 7 or 8 screws as in the video.
- unlock the cables as in the video - please be sure not to disconnect all the cables.
- now, first get the antenna plastic cover outside of the way.
- after disconnecting the camera module, I would personally advise you to get the camera out of the way first, as there is a piece of foil glued between the mainboard and the underneath of the camera module (on the display)
- with great care, rise the Mainboard from the display.
- to have better access to the testpoint pins, I turned the Mainboard over the battery.
- now, connect the microusb cable to the phone.
8. connect the phone to the computer.
9. go into device manager and check if there are any devices installed, there should be under ports.... a device called Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E.
10. Now comes the tricky part, switching the phone to EDL mode (emercency download)
look on the back of the motherboard of the phone to connect the 2 testpoint pins as in the video. You can use anything to do this. a metal wire, a small scissors, an untied paperclip... You will have to do this while device manager is opened, as you must check it when the driver changes to "qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008".
Please be careful when trying to connect the 2 pins not to touch any metal housing, ans this will restart the device each time.
Now, try and try and try until the driver changes to "qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008".
11. unzip the rom using 7 zip to a destination of your choosing. I advise as short destination as possible and no spaces used in the folder naming. I unpacked it in C:\rom\
12. Open Miflash
13. As per other many many instructions:
a. click browse - select the folder where you unpacked the rom (for me, c:\rom\)
b. click the arrow next to brows button and select advanced.
c. in the first field, navigate to the folder where the rom was unpacked and select flashall.bat
d. in the third field select prog_emmc_firehose_8976_ddr.mbn from the "images"folder in the folder whre he rom was extracted
e. field 7: rawprogram0.xml and field8: patch0.xml
f. Hit the Refresh button, the device should appear as a com port in the white field of Miflash.
g. just to be sure, tick also "flash all" in the bottom of miflash.
14. Hit the Flash button on Miflash and this should be the last step before powering up your revived Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.
This is what I learned in the past 2-3 days.
Different errors I got during the learning process and what i did to avoid them:
- different problems with drivers not installing correctly or showing different device names - just use the method i pointed out in the beginning to uninstall any driver previously installed on the computer, with the refresh in device manager and than uninstalling all.
- "end of package" error at second 2 while flashing in Miflash - you are using an older or an unsupported version of miflash, just use the latest one.
- not being able to flash anything while in fastboot - if you have a locked bootloader, on redmi note 3 snapdragon version, you simply won't be able to flash anything. end of story. this is the whole purpose of having a locked bootloader.
- trying to go into EDL mode using fastboot comand "fastboot oem eld" - this will not work for a really bricked device as was mine. the only solution is to go through the tespoint pin connection.
i wonder if there's a way not to make trwp locked in the recovery partition, so if someone flashes a factory rom without precaution, twrp will simply get overwritten by factory recovery. Wouldn't that prevent these hard bricks?
btw, nice guide
Please move the thread into guides/tutorial section.
Well, mine was bricked too 2 days ago... even I already unlock the bootloader using the official way.
It happened because I'm on AOSP and I flash Xiaomi.EU ROM from TWRP.
'MI' Logo flashed twice then the phone turns off itself.
It can't boot, can't enter EDL mode. I just can go into fastboot mode. But nothing can be done there because it always says 'device is locked'.
'fastboot oem device-info' also says the phone is on locked state.
Dunno why this happen, I think its because I play with the unlock bootloader toggle on previous MIUI and AOSP ROM.
After countless of times trying to get into EDL, I give up.
Device manager always show "QCom HS-USB Diagnostic 900E" instead of "QCom HS-USB QLoader 9008"
Finally I try the official Mi Unlock software, re-unlock success and BAM... Phone boots again into system. lol...
This makes me think the bricked problem can prevented/solved to by:
- At least bind a Xiaomi Account to your phone once when using official ROM (recommended China Dev ROM)
- Use that account to apply for the unlock, and when you got the phone bricked/relocked, you can re-unlock it using official way to revive the phone
Now is possible unbrick without disassembly:
http://en.miui.com/thread-267263-1-1.html
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1174700
jujusito said:
Now is possible unbrick without disassembly:
http://en.miui.com/thread-267263-1-1.html
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1174700
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please read through all the thread, don't just throw in a link. the method mentioned by you will not work on some bricked devices, including mine. this did not work for me, so I ended up disassembling the phone.
aabenroi said:
Well, mine was bricked too 2 days ago... even I already unlock the bootloader using the official way.
It happened because I'm on AOSP and I flash Xiaomi.EU ROM from TWRP.
'MI' Logo flashed twice then the phone turns off itself.
It can't boot, can't enter EDL mode. I just can go into fastboot mode. But nothing can be done there because it always says 'device is locked'.
'fastboot oem device-info' also says the phone is on locked state.
Dunno why this happen, I think its because I play with the unlock bootloader toggle on previous MIUI and AOSP ROM.
After countless of times trying to get into EDL, I give up.
Device manager always show "QCom HS-USB Diagnostic 900E" instead of "QCom HS-USB QLoader 9008"
Finally I try the official Mi Unlock software, re-unlock success and BAM... Phone boots again into system. lol...
This makes me think the bricked problem can prevented/solved to by:
- At least bind a Xiaomi Account to your phone once when using official ROM (recommended China Dev ROM)
- Use that account to apply for the unlock, and when you got the phone bricked/relocked, you can re-unlock it using official way to revive the phone
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I also applied for an unlock code, but this takes up to 15 days, and I have the phone for only 3 days . I could not wait for the code, I had to do something to revive it.
meangreenie said:
i wonder if there's a way not to make trwp locked in the recovery partition, so if someone flashes a factory rom without precaution, twrp will simply get overwritten by factory recovery. Wouldn't that prevent these hard bricks?
btw, nice guide
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I made a modified TWRP which will not cause hard bricks
Rajdip said:
I made a modified TWRP which will not cause hard bricks
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great work! your modded twrp will no doubt save me when i forget i have to delete the emmc file in the future.
Dear, thank you for your contribution, this deserves to be a section more important, really saved my phone from the hard brick. Again very grateful
how do i know what a test point looks like on any phone? like the new redmi 3s? i cant get into edl because im stuck in Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E
xdarkmario said:
how do i know what a test point looks like on any phone? like the new redmi 3s? i cant get into edl because im stuck in Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E
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maybe look for something like this?
http://choimobile.vn/Temp/Testpoint_Redmi_Note3_PRO_3.jpg
I doubt they will have much variance from xiaomi phone to phone to make it easy for factory / repair centers to fix many models... (I could be wrong though), other brands are probably different.
Well you can enter edl mode from fastboot via this simple tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and.../guide-how-to-reboot-to-edl-fastboot-t3394292
And then you can flash any miui .tgz based rom and resurrect.
I hard bricked my Device last night and resurrected
PS : you must have the MiPcSuit installed
ilvmyname said:
Well you can enter edl mode from fastboot via this simple tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and.../guide-how-to-reboot-to-edl-fastboot-t3394292
And then you can flash any miui .tgz based rom and resurrect.
I hard bricked my Device last night and resurrected
PS : you must have the MiPcSuit installed
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links dead
Quick addition: if you're using Virtual Box, like me (on a mac), you need to enable USB 2.0 on the virtual machine. On Virtual Box, this means you have to add an extension pack. This might save you 48hrs, like it cost me
I got bricked Pop C7 7041D Dual Sim as "gift", and I'd like to fix it. Phone has installed TWRP Recovery by hanuma50 v.2.4.1.0 - pretty much this is all I can do with it. It's unable to wipe system, I dont have any custom ROMs to try.
Reguar boot just loops from boot logo to white screen.
I tried SP flash tool, but it gives all sorts of errors, Mobile Upgrade S fails (cant connect to phone).
Computer sees it as Mediatek USB Device, but it keeps on connecting and disconnecting round and round?
Is there any way to make this phone usable?
Also, I can't do adb via recovery, as the computer does not see the phone.
voolandis said:
I got bricked Pop C7 7041D Dual Sim as "gift", and I'd like to fix it. Phone has installed TWRP Recovery by hanuma50 v.2.4.1.0 - pretty much this is all I can do with it. It's unable to wipe system, I dont have any custom ROMs to try.
Reguar boot just loops from boot logo to white screen.
I tried SP flash tool, but it gives all sorts of errors, Mobile Upgrade S fails (cant connect to phone).
Computer sees it as Mediatek USB Device, but it keeps on connecting and disconnecting round and round?
Is there any way to make this phone usable?
Also, I can't do adb via recovery, as the computer does not see the phone.
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I've got a solution if you wanted to try it, search on google MTXXXX preloader drivers, replace the X with your processor number, if you are not too sure of your processor number search up the Alcatel pop C7 specs on gsmarena, then once you downloaded the preloader drivers type in devmgmt.msc on the run command, this will launch device manager, then click on the top where it says username-PC, go to action > add legacy hardware, then click next, advanced, show all devices and then have disk then click on the folder that you extracted with the preloader drivers, then wait for the drivers to install, you will get a code 10 error, that's normal just ignore it, then go to SP flash tool and flash the firmware and you no longer got a bricked "gift", sorry if its a little confusing just read through carefully and you will be fine
After spending 2 days on the forums and softbricking my device for several times, here's my 2 cents about on how to do the upgrade from Andorid 10 to Android 11 or even to downgrade ... on the HA units from Dasaita.
First of all, a small disclaimer:
This worked for me, it might not work for you.
You might end up in bootloop, blackscreen, softbrick, be aware of this risk
My device is a Dasaita Max11, I wanted to downgrade to A10, in order to get Magisk and Hal9k v5 mod installed.
After purchasing modinstaller 3pro, and trying to install Andorid10 I ended up in a blackscreen. Hopefully @Hal9k_ will be able to fix this in his further releases.
Remember, this was ONLY tested and worked on a MTCE_HA device. A rather new model sold by Dasaita last december. If you have a HTC or other device this has no or litlle importance to you, since the images atached are ONLY for HA devices. Also, if you have an older Dasaita model, it might not work as described bellow:
What you'll need:
- a USB A to USB A cable (as short as possible)
- the purple usb plug cable (labeled carplay/android auto) that comes out of the back of de divice (this is the only one that recognized my device in bootloader mode. Feel free to try the others, in function of what configuration your device might have.
- driver assistant (see google drive link)
- flash tool (see google drive link)
- full system image of Android 11 or 10 regarding what you want.
- a pin or paperclip to push the reset button.
The procedure is rather simple:
1. Download and install the driver assistant (google drive link at the end), run it to install the drivers on your windows machine
2. Unpack rkdevtool and run the exe (google drive link at the end). At this point the program will display a huge message in the bottom part saying: "no devices found". That's good.
3. Connect the Usb cable to the HU and to the PC, while the device is turned off (like no power, not in sleep mode)
4. Push the reset button and keep it pushed. While doing this turn on the device. At this point if everything is setup correctly you should hear a notification sound from windows and RKDevTool should say: "Found one bootloader device".
4a) If you only hear the notification and the device is not found in boot loader mode by RKDevTool, check Device Manager and try to reinstall the drivers / install other drivers, try another USB port. (at this point, the usbA to usbA might be to long if the device manager shows: unrecognized device)
4b) If you hear no sound, RKDevTool still shows no devices: Turn off the HU, (really of, no power). After 10-30 seconds turn it on, while it is on, press the reset button and keep it pressed (even after side leds flashing) until the device enters bootloader mode and it is recognized by the RKDevTool.
4c) If none of the above work, switch the usb port on the HU, or try another combination of reset pushing (like trying to enter recovery)
4d) If the PC won't recognize the device in bootloader mode, it might be a situation in which the device is not capable of this, and you might need to take it apart and use the direct SOM flash method ... search the forums.
During step 4 the HU display should remain black, so the only indication of being in bootloader mode and connected to the PC, is the windows notification sound and the messege displayed by RkDevTool.
5)With the device in bootloader mode, connected to the PC, in RKDevTool go to the tab that says: Upgrade firmware. Click on the line(empty rectangle) that says firmware and browse for the desired android img. (10 or 11). See drive link. Attention: the zips from the drive MUST be unpacked and the update.img must be loaded in RkDevTool.
6)After selecting the desired update.img, click on the ERASE FLASH button, wait until the process completes. If everything goes well, the device should reboot in maskrom mode.
7)After the device enters maskrom mode, RkDevTool shoul display the message: "Found one MASKROM device". At this point, just click the UPGRADE button. The new android is flashed on the HU. When the process is finished the HU reboots ITSELF. If that doesn't happen after 1-2max, cut the power and power on.
It should boot in the new android.
Final thoughts after 2 days of thinkering:
This worked for me to downgrade from 11 to 10, and also to upgrade from 10 to 11. Be aware it might NOT work for you!
In theory, if one can get the device in bootloader mode it should work also to upgrade from andoid 9 to 10. This is just a theory and I did not test it.
The advantages of Android 10 over 11 are (for me):
- root access via Magisk (for the time being I could not root 11 with any of the tutorials found online)
- less crap and restrictions imposed by the growing Google censorship..
- the possibility to install the Hal9k v5 mod, one of the greatest and customizable mods ever made for MTCD/MTCE devices.
- using both 11 and 10 I could very certainly tell you, that (from my point of view), 11 has no advantages over 10, nor in stability nor in sharpness.
The images from the google drive are vivid for android 10 and max for android 11. Again, this are FULL images, not just OTA. I put them here after endless hours of searching the net. I respectfully thank to those that took the time to upload them on xda and dasaita forums.
Once you install the base 10 or eleven you can easily switch from vivid to max via update.zip flashed from an usbstick.
Also: there are many tutorials that involve a sdcard, sdcardtool and different combinations of zip images. I tested them ALL using the side sd card slot of the device. NONE OF THEM worked for me. I found the OTG flash method to be the fastest and most reliable, once I figured out how to connect de HU to my pc in bootloader mode.
PX6 MTCE_HA Android 10 full image, Android 11 full image, RkDevTool, Driver Assistant link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eigYrCKl8Z34KQxBoX3Q91Foy2K15CGm?usp=share_link
Nice! Do you perhaps know where to find the files for other headunits? I have a MTCE_HT and have no idea where to look!