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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Install the USB drivers for Samsung phones, install Odin 3.10 or newer.

First flash, try it WITHOUT the PIT, refrain from using the PIT to see if it fixes without it. If it doesn't, then use the PIT, I'll explain how to use it if it comes to that.

Charge battery to full, open Odin on PC(disable any antivirus programs while using Odin, they interfere with flashing), boot your device to download mode, connect device to PC. If Odin recognizes your device, you'll get a box with blue or yellow #comm. If your firmware is an all in one .tar.md5, find the AP slot in Odin, click the AP button, browse to where you have the firmware stored, select it, when you're back in Odin, click start(if your firmware is a 4 part or 5 part firmware, each "part", e.g. BL, AP, CP, CSC, etc.., goes in its corresponding lettered slot in Odin, a 5 part firmware gives you choice of using CSC or CSC Home). Let it flash, if successful, you'll get a green "PASS!", then the device should reboot, of it still bootloops, try booting to stock recovery and factory reset then wipe cache and reboot. The reset is common, sometimes there is conflicting user data still on the device after flashing, reset/wiping the data corrects that. Bing, bang, boom and you're done.

If you have problems, here is a thread for common issues and troubleshooting Odin flashing.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831

Don't be afraid to try different versions of Odin if you have issues.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
Thanks!! I will give this a try lol I hope it works. When you say install Samsung usb drivers, do you mean download drivers for my windows pc? Is this specific or just a general update

Thanks [emoji106][emoji106]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Yes, download the Samsung USB drivers for Windows, the full set of drivers are needed, not just the drivers that install when you connect the device, those are mostly just the MTP drivers for accessing the device storage via PC. The driver required for flashing is not included in the drivers that auto install.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
Thank you so much for all your help!!! After following the steps, my phone is finally working as before [emoji119][emoji119][emoji119]. I wanted to ask since your an expert, I noticed with Android 4.1.2 that a lot of my apps downloaded from the play store stopped working. It would tell me that my version of android can’t work with the app etc. In that case, do you recommend that I flash a rom or stick with the stock rom here?? Ideally I would love something small, stable and fast.

Cheers dude [emoji106][emoji106]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Make sure that you update Google Play Services. If your apps still don't work, I would personally try a custom ROM, the trade-off would be an updated android version at the cost of speed, performance and battery life. I would seriously consider getting a more up to date device, not necessarily "new" and not necessarily a flagship or high end device, there are many decent devices for $50 - $100. Unless you would just prefer a $200 - $400+ device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
Funny you said that, I am getting like 3 different error pops every second all related to google play store, services and gapps. The phone is almost unusable with these errors which keep popping up. Apart from that, it use to work great before and I always kept it cause I run a lot of my media stuff from it still. I do have a S6 which I could use as a back up, I just don’t want to root that phone.

Is their a way of finding out if I’m rooted or not, if I am, I want to unroot and just do a factory reset. Is that possible? Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Root should have been removed when you flashed the firmware via Odin.

I figured that you'd get the errors with the Google apps.

Try booting to stock recovery by holding the volume up+home+power, the opposite of download mode, you'll see a list of options in recovery, use volume up/down to move up or down the list, select the factory reset option, press power to confirm, after the reset finishes, select the option to wipe cache partition, after that finishes, reboot the device.

Don't login to your Google account during setup, just bypass all of that, don't open any apps at all. Give it a few minutes to see if it starts the errors again, if it doesn't, go to system settings>accounts and add your Google account to get signed into the device. Once logged in, don't open any apps, give it a few minutes to see if the errors start, if they don't, open the Playstore app, look for app updates, update all listed Google related apps. If it won't update or starts giving errors, you'll have to download updated versions of your Google apps from the internet or from this website if they are linked here, you can also go to apkmirror .com and download them if they have updated versions that work for your device. Make sure you only download apps that are compatible with ARM devices, download them using PC then move them to an sdcard then put the sdcard in the device. Then go to system settings>security, find the "unknown sources" option and enable it, this will allow you to install the updated apps from the sdcard. Then, using your devices file manager, you can go to the sdcard and install the apps from there by tapping on them and selecting install.

If you have difficulty with any of this, we'll take a step back and go one step at a time so I can get a sense of what is going on at each step along the way.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
Great help! Errors all seem to be gone and I have updated most if not all of the google apps. My only issue is that I cannot ring out or use WhatsApp. It’s telling me that my phone is registered to a network? I have tried to do some troubleshooting but still no luck. Not sure how I can get it to recognise my T mobile network, something must have become corrupted.

Thanks [emoji3][emoji106]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Check your network settings, you might need to configure your Access Point Name(APN) settings. Find the required APN settings for your carrier and then edit an existing APN profile on your device or create a new set of APNs

Also, try booting to stock recovery and select the option to wipe cache partition, but DO NOT factory reset, then reboot. If it doesn't help, try calling your carriers customer support(I know it's a drag but they may can help). Just tell them that you updated the device and it started network issues.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
Hi, thanks for all your help. I contact my carrier which is T mobile and they told me that my number was axed months ago as T mobile has moved to a new network. But up until I did a factory reset, I could use whatsapp using my old number, although they told me it was cut off back April which is odd! All those contacts that were in my WhatsApp I have probably lost now, as I won’t have my older number. If only I would have known....

Cheers [emoji119][emoji106][emoji106]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
stuck at boot mtk device

Hey guys I have a mt6735 device which is stuck in boot with orange state your devices has been unlocked and cant be trusted Your device will boot in 5 seconds but keeps on rebooting every 5 sec to same state

Have been googling every possible solution and haven't come up with any

All i did was unlock the bootloader and without rebooting installed twrp since its all been trouble trouble trouble

your help would be greatly appreciated
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Can you get the device to boot into fastboot?

If so, flash your stock firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
nah no fastboot no twrp no sp sp flash tool
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PioneerSeeker:
I wanna ask one question, I flashed twrp 2.8.6.0 with xzrecovery in my rooted lollipop 5.1.1 z3c

Now if I flash mm 6.0.1, will it be there or just disappear like foam of soap.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
You can flash whatever ROM you want, it shouldn't change or remove your TWRP recovery, the only way it would change your recovery is if there is a recovery built into the ROM.

99.5% of the time, ROMs don't have a recovery built in, that is a very rare thing, the only device I've ever flashed that had recovery and ROM compiled together was on my Sprint S2 years ago.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
what do you do if flashing the original rom is causing bootloops?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
What device and what issue occured that required flashing the stock firmware. What you did before this might be causing specific issues which are interfering with flashing stock firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. I can't remember what exactly caused in to bootloop but it only started once I installed orange recovery and formated data to decrypt it. now no matter what I flash it bootloops. the stock rom can get into the menu but instantly ask for my mi password and i cant connect to wifi at all. On my miui9 rom it says encryption can't be completed and suggects a factory reset yet returning to stock recovery and factory resetting does nothing

Edit: Okay just disabled all ota settings and flashed rom from fastboot mode and now it's loaded into stock recovery saying that this miui version can't be installed on this device (Miui10).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Can you get to fastboot mode? If so, when you're in fastboot and you connect your device to PC, what does it show in device manager? Does it recognize your device correctly or does it say something like "qhus-dload"

I'm not very familiar with Xiaomi devices, but I can still try to help. Once I understand exactly what state your device is in, I'll have a better idea of what kind of information/tools you need.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
Can't find my device in device manager. Only thing i can find even relatable is the android bootloader interface. In terms of state it's unlocked and i can boot into fastboot, stock recovery and can flash twrp and push files to it to flash. Been using orange recovery
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Why orange recovery? TWRP is the best version of custom recovery to use on android devices.

If you're in fastboot when you connect to PC then it's working correctly.

It seems to me that you're having issues with compatibility between orange recovery and the ROMs you're flashing. Is the orange recovery and the ROMs you're trying to flash made for your specific model number? Are you flashing gapps alongvwith the ROM? What size gapps are you using(full, micro, mini, nano, pico)?

When you flash via orange recovery, are you factory resetting and wiping cache after flashing the ROM? If not, that would cause a bootloop.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
Well somehow trying to flash a miui9 rom has re locked my device. How screwed am I?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
If you mean it relocked the bootloader, have you tried unlocking it? A locked bootloader would definitely prevent flashing anything custom.

Sometimes, you actually have to corrupt the device in order to force it into qhus-dload mode, then unbrick it from there. But I wouldn't try that until all other possibilities are exhausted.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
unlock oem/flashing unlock both failed so i think deepflash/testpoint is my next option? no other way of unlocking the bootloader. I think it's because i unbound the phone from my mi account yesterday, that was dumb
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Yeah, see if any of these instructions get you anywhere.

https://xiaomifirmware.com/guides-and-tips/how-to-restore-redmi-5-plus-and-fix-bootloop/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
Okay i just used the testpoint flash method and got the flash to go through with the official redmi 5 plus fastboot rom on their website, yet it bootloops into recovery mode and still shows the error message "this miui version can't be installed on this device". What is going on?!

Edit: One guy says it's only going to boot if you have the original 9.5.3.0 miui fastboot version yet all websites have the link coming soon. Guess i have to wait before trying the next method?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
I think you need to find some active members in the Redmi 5 plus forum, they are more familiar with your device. You've got some device specific issues and this is a "general" bootloop guide. You're going to need some device specific guidance from members experienced with that device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brooksey24:
Cheers for the help though hopefully i do find the answer soon!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lion2001:
Samsung note 3

I have samsung note 3 and its a rooted phone i update my phone and its stuck in loop... i try to format and clean catch wipe every thing in recovery mode not work... is there is any sulotion please help and tell me the way to fix my mobile without pc... casuse spmeone challenge me tp fix it without pc... is there anyway to fix my mobile without pc... contact me lionleandross89@gmail.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
The only way you're going to fix it without PC is if you have TWRP and if there are custom ROMs available for your model number. If there is a ROM available, you can store the ROM and Gapps on an external sdcard or a USB flash drive with an OTG cable or USB to microUSB adapter, then boot into TWRP and flash the ROM and Gapps from the external sdcard or flash drive.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanfidzularus:
Help guys.

Im on xperia x compact nougat. Accidentally i delete init folder in system/etc.

And then my phone wont boot. How do i fix this without re flashing?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
My rooted xt908 is stuck in boot loop what can I do
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Try wiping cache or factory reset in recovery

May need to reflash firmware

See

[INDEX] Motorola Droid Razr Development (2015)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
I've done that, I can't even remember how many times
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
If you reflashed the firmware and wiped data,

There's nothing left.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Sorry I didn't specify, I haven't reflashed the firmware, yet but I will give it a try and let you know how it goes. Also does it matter which one I use, RSD lite or ADB?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Rsd lite usually works better for me, but adb is maybe necessary.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
I'm sorry but I have just one more question and that would be, is there any way that I can get it out of bootloop without losing all my stuff on my phone because I have a lot of pictures and videos of my wife and my kids you know like back when we first got together and when they were first born?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Flash the firmware without the wipe commands might work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Ok so then I go in and edit and delete all of the wipe commands, or just certain ones?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Just the 'erase user data' line
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Alrighty thank you very much sir I will let you know how it goes as soon as I can get to it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Hey shadow you did an ADB pull off your xt908 could that help me any? My xt908 is from nex-tech.?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
No you will need signed firmware.

---------- Post added at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 PM ----------

Pretty limited to what can be done with the locked bootloader.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
So I will have to flash with the file you told me to use in the first place?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
Yes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Ok thank you very much sir.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PitbullKemo:
Hey Shadow okay I've got my xt908 in AP fastboot Flash mode okay, I've got the the command prompt on my computer screen. I'm going to want to click push right, and then click on the zipped file and then push it over to it? And while it's in ADB toolkit I'd when I edit out the delete data part right?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sd_shadow:
No, you need to extract the firmware from the.zip

Then either edit the .xml with a text editor like

https://notepad-plus-plus.org

Or manually run the commands in the .xml with fastboot.exe

Just skip the userdata and modem/radio commands

See

[youtube]njXQYn53SPc[/youtube]

And Using Mfastboot.exe to Unbrick a Motorola device
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Korreya:
My device is "SoftBricked" but still as good as a brick .... It's driving me crazy

https://xdaforums.com/general/help/honor-4c-fastboot-flash-ok-changes-t3913407
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarn:
I got Huawei Mate 10 Pro stuck in bootloop. The only thing showing is the huawei logo, and when i press the power button, it restarts and im back to the huawei logo. Is there any way to fix this and still keep my data (pictures)?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Let's start simple and go from there.

Have you tried booting to recovery and wiping the cache partition? If this doesn't fix it, try flashing the stock firmware via your device's flashtool, if there is a way to flash the firmware without wiping the device, you may be able to save your data.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarn:
There are two modes I can reach: fastboot and eRecovery. When in fastboot (and usb cable plugged in the laptop) Hisuite wont find the device, its not in device manager and the storage is not loaded in "my computer". I havent been able to connect the phone to my laptop after i got stuck in bootloop.

eRecovery has the option to factory reset but there is no option to wipe/clear the cache. When I go into this menu, the only option is to factory reset. There is an option to download software, but after downloading 100% the download fails (this is very common, not any problem with my internet).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarn:
recovery option worked the 4th or 5th time. then i was able to load hisuite to take a backup. But in the middle of the process, the phone randomly shut down and is now back in the bootloop..! so frustrating
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voland34:
bootloop and logo

Hi. I'm stuck in bootloop in teclast m98 (mediatek device) after i unlocked bootloader,installed twrp and magisk: it only booted into twrp, not system, so i ended up flashing an older version of twrp (supposedly good as well), and then it has stayed at that bootloop. It says "your device has been unlocked and cant be trusted. Your device will boot in 5 seconds" so it does endlessly (i assume this is sign of unlocked bootloader, though it might not be; maybe i did wrong by fastboot oem unlock, but too late now).

I can't access recovery nor fastboot at all.

every 5 secs it restarts. buttons work (i can turn off, and if i press for +30 sec the device stays off; UPDATE: though if i reconnect to charger it restarts bootloop, and via usb with PC it stays off but is not recognized , not even in command window - adb or fastboot; and eventually after a while it reboots in the loop) but i have let battery waste away. Now fully discharged, I try to plug it but still same bootloop. I would need a way to enter fastboot at least (as i understand) to reflash whole stock rom (using sp flash, as i understand) or at least to stop that bootloop for a while...

i dont know much about all this, so i might be saying something weird...some proper version of the following partial original .bat is going to work for that? (I tried and it did nothing, so maybe it doesnt make sense, but some variation might?)

1 [MENTION=8011874]Echo off[/MENTION]

2 cd /d %~dp0

3 echo.

4 echo Waiting for device…

5 adb wait-for-device

6 echo.

7 adb -d shell stop

actually: Is there any way to access recovery or fastboot through some script? cos buttons as i said are not doing the job (its brand new, so there not broken, its just an extra quick loop that renders buttons access useless)

Thanks for ANY help (I screwed this gift for my wife's birthday tomorrow and i need to do anything to get this back into function).

UPDATE: it seems SP FlashTool allowed me to quickly reflash preloader, boot and recovery (one by one) from stock rom in the scarce 3 seconds it connected w the device, so at least now i can get into that littel menu to fastboot or stock recovery...stilll i need to reflash everything but itt seems it gives me choices.

I'll leave it here in case anyone else finds it useful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamiehunter88:
please help

i installed twrp on my zte z982 and i accidentally deletd the os nd n the process oof tryng to recover that i bricked my phone now it tries to bootup an itll go to zte screen but nothing else it wont go to recovery either....it goes black an the home button stays lit up....pleas help!!!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
The only way to fix it is to flash your stock firmware, if your stock firmware is not available to the public(which it probably isn't), you will not be able to fix this. In this case, you would need to get another device and take it as a learning lesson.

In the future, if you ever flash TWRP on one of your devices, the FIRST thing you should do is to create a nandroid backup of your stock ROM BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE. If you had done this on your ZTE, you could have just restored the backup and everything would be fine.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guyzz6370:
I'm using a mi 8

I'm running into some big problem now...I flash the TWRP...did a wipe of cache ,system, dalvik, and internal. Then flash the PE ROM (i wanted to try PE) and now it just stucks in fastboot!

i can't get out of fastboot...

I've already wiped the internal, dalvik, everything in the TWRP wipe option, now I just select, reboot > power off

Help me, what should I do now?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leerh:
is there any reason why flashing twrps via ADB would send z5 pro gt into boot loop into bootloader unable to access the custom recovry or phone needing to do emergency flashing via qfil to stock firmware i did previously use trwps on device to flash files and to sign boot to always boot twrps recovery when trying to access recovery mode . (before bootlooping)

affter bootlooping and fixing via qfil i have been unable to successful install trwps if i do it bootloop to bootloader.

whats the difference between "meta" / "flat" options in qfil
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidriven:
Do you know if the firmware that you used to flash the device via qfil had a locked bootloader or an unlocked bootloader? If it is locked, that would cause a bootloop when attempting to flash TWRP or anything else custom/non-stock.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leerh:
the firmware is stock from(china)

can be unlocked via ADB

https://xdaforums.com/z5-pro-gt/how-to/guide-unbrick-guide-lenovo-z5-pro-gt-t3915945

https://xdaforums.com/z5-pro-gt/how-to/installing-ota-update-11-5-141-via-twrp-t4050027 twrps can be installed