yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] decatz:
I use latest firmware to update my phone (2.21.40.44) recently and able to revive my bricked phone (few month ago with the the 1.14.40.50 ww firmware)

a little update on my mini guide should be more clear now

- Download ADB and Fastboot (install at c:\adb for easy access )

- Download and install the Windows zenfone 5 driver

- Download firmware from Asus site for WW ( extract this zip file to get fastboot.img, boot.img and copy these to your ADB Fastboot folder )

- Rename the WWzip into "rom.zip" and move it to your ADB Fastboot folder (for easy typing in cmd)

- Turn Off your phone - connect to pc with usb cable

- Hold vol up and then press power On button of your phone - Keep holding both buttons, it should went into Droidboot screen.

- Open command prompt (cmd) and go to your ADB Fastboot folder (e.g. cd C:\adb)

- Type the following 2 lines: "fastboot flash fastboot fastboot.img" and "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (look phone screen, should say successfully done for both)

- Scroll down(use volume keys) to recovery and select it(use power key) and your phone will reboot

- now that you are in recovery(you can see a droid symbol lying down with red triangle over its stomach)

- Hold Vol Down and press Vol up (menu should appear)

- Choose "Apply update from adb"

- From cmd above type "adb sideload rom.zip"

- Wipe cache/dat and reboot
[General Questions and Answers] budjang_l:
Flashing fastboot with wrong image.

Hi there.

As the title said, i've mistakenly type the flashing command with "fastboot flash fastboot xxx.img". The xxx.img actually a "recovery" image not a "fastboot" image. Since that i can't flash official firmware with fastboot command because i can't get in to droidboot/fastboot mode. I did the flashing because of "com.android.systemui" FC'ed in the end of booting and hinder me from doing anything in homescreen.

I have Phils Touch CWM as recovery. I tried flashing official firmware with CWM with no luck. Is there anyway to have fastboot mode again? Please help me. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] chetan_dua:
adb sideload

Go to recovery. Choose option for adb sideload and flash the firmware which you are currectly having eg:2.21.40.41(lateFirmware can be downloaded from support.asus.com Firmware
[General Questions and Answers] angelica_san:
please help me unbrick my ASUS_T00K i can't enter droidboot

Hi, could you help me..

I unbrick my zenfone same woth you. But my problem is I can't enter droidboot (

Could you help me on how you fixed it?
[General Questions and Answers] MiguelSC_:
Hi, i am having a serious problem here, i tried to root my zenphone 5 WW and something went wrong, it was a few months ago, the phone kept working. A few days later i noticed the serial number on droidboot changed to 123456789abcdef, i read about it and i am not the only one with that problem after trying to root, but i give up rooting the phone. Bad serial number in droid boot, no worries OTA updates keept comming, everything else was working, but recently, maybe after some system update i dont know for shure when it started, sometimes the green led stayed on after i removed the charger along with an on screen information that the phone was plugged in. That disapeared after a reboot, i never waited a few minuts to see if it would go back to normal on its own, i just rebooted. Because of that i went to droidboot to factory reset the phone and thats when the real problem happened.

After that it wount charge. If the phone is on it just doesnt charge at all, if its on and pluged in to the computer it is not detected, and its not MTP settings, i checked that.

Also the phone doesnt boot if its conected to a usb port, on the computer it freezes or shows that white usb logo and shows up in device manager as a CLOVERFIELD PLUS, (the PLUS only came after i installed iSoc drivers), on the wall charger the logo apears for a split second and then turns in to an empty battery logo, if i leave it like that it charges, but doesnt indicate its charging onscreen, neither the charge led lights up.

I can then disconect the usb cable, hold the power button to turn it off, enter droidboot, reboot from droidboot and it runs perfectly, appart from usb conectivity, no issues at all.

If i enter droidboot first and then plug the usb, the computer just doesnt know its there, i know how its done, the drivers are installed, tryed 2 different usb cables on 2 different computers, windows doesnt even plays that anoying new device sounds. That means no adb. I tryed to folow some instructions using "xFSTK Downloader", but no joy, when it has the white usb logo it is detected so i dont think its a hardware problem.

The phone is running WW_2.21.40.44, presently the latest release.

After 2 or 3 more factory resets and still the same, i downloaded the firmware from asus support, renamed the file to "UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-2.22.40.44-user", and rebooted but it didnt solve my problem, it "updates" but the problem remains.

FSTK Downloader detects the phone shows the SOC Serial number but not the phone serial number and returns error code 0x20000015 when flashing IFWI, FW_DNX, OS_DNX and OS_IMAGE, tryed to flash the same files using"Phone Flash Tool 3.1.4" and the results are the same.

I tryed to extract those files from the firmware and download them following an online tutorial, could i be doing something wrong in this step?

Any sugestions anyone?

Thx

forgot to mention, i did not unlock the bootloader...
[General Questions and Answers] dani filth:
adb sideload

hi there this error occurs when i adb sideload... kindly help please. thank you
[General Questions and Answers] dani filth:
fastboot flashed with recovery.img

we exactly have the same scenario dude... and i cant find a perfect solution still... lets keep it up... i assume we have "deleted" our fastboot
[General Questions and Answers] dani filth:
Z5

any update please... thank you guys.. just droppin by
[General Questions and Answers] jinconstantine:
My Phone ASUS Zenfone 5 (A501CG T00J Kitkat 4.4.2) is Bricked

When i go to Bootloader (Hold Physical Power + Vol Up) this will show up an Empty Battery Logo

When i go to Recovery (Hold Physical Power + Vol Down) NOTHING will show up on the screen not even a vibrate from the phone

When i just turn on ASUS Zenfone 5 it will show the White USB Logo then it will Bootloop

When i plug ASUS Zenfone 5 to Wall Power Outlet for charging it LED Indicator will not light up

When you turn on ASUS Zenfone 5 while its plugged to the PC the USB Logo is stucked on the screen and it toggles from White to Red Colored Buffer by itself sometimes

When i plug it to my PC while its powered on "Cloverview" will be recognized by my PC's devmgmt.msc but phone screen will shut on and off by itself and "Cloverview" from devmgmt.msc will appear and dissapear the same time that the screen goes on and off

When i plug it to my PC while having an Empty Battery Logo (Bootloader) "Cloverview" will not show up from devmgmt.msc

I need help Badly Please help me :crying: :crying: :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] chetan_dua:
Whats the last thing u have done before going into this situation
[General Questions and Answers] zenfone beginner:
Nothing to worry

Hi my name is mihir i got the same problem as you go got but i got easiest and fastest fix of this that is just connect usb cable so that it will show white usb icon ok now remove cable and switch off your phone by pressing volume up and volume down button as it switches off press the power button and after you see asus logo press volume up button then you will enter droidboot mode after that using volume up and down button go to reboot and press power button this will fix it and at boot you will not find the usb logo and without losing data or and time you will get into normal boot and you can now access the phone

Enjoy :)
[General Questions and Answers] minabe1vn:
hi Mihir,

Could you specify to step:

1. Connect usb cable so that it will show white usb icon

2. Remove cable

3. Switch off your phone by pressing volume up and volume down button

4. ???
[General Questions and Answers] zenfone beginner:
Step 1: connect the USB cable to laptop or computer then switch on the phone.

Step 2: you will see that there is a white USB logo visible.

Step 3: now remove the USB cable and switch on the phone pressing volume up button

Step 4: now you will enter droidboot mode now using volume down button go to reboot and press power button. Now you will be booted with normal os.

The bug is you have too do this everytime you restart your phone
[General Questions and Answers] winlemony:
Dear mihir i cannot decipher nor decode nor decrypt what are you trying to say it does not help me thankyouandhaveagooddaysincerelyyourswinlemonyp/s: pleaseuseproperpunctuationmarks and for your info punctuation marks are period(.) Comma(,) question mark(?) Exclamation mark(!),apostrophe(') etc

No offence thanks ;)
[General Questions and Answers] johnblackwood:
Please help this problem, thanks guys!
[General Questions and Answers] zenfone beginner:
Oh please don't show my mistakes first see how good english u speak Mr winlemoly.
[General Questions and Answers] johnblackwood:
Anyone can help me? krikkk krikkk krikkk
[General Questions and Answers] KlydeXV:
I solved this problem a moment ago

I just press the power button and volume up, the my phone takes me to the hmmmm idunno what do they call that sections were i can see Factory reset, Reboot DroidBoot and etc. Just select the "Factory Reset" and let the phone take its time to reset itself, and then asus logo appears. it loads, and it your phone will magically back to its home scree. (Sorry for the bad english, im shaking because of this) Im hoping that this could help you. Good luck guys
[General Questions and Answers] johnblackwood:
Thank you but that didn't work for my dead phone. Anyway, a developer is helping now, hope that my phone can be made alive again! :D
[General Questions and Answers] shubhayan:
Waiting for device

unable to apply the above procedure

when i type the commands it says WAITING FOR DEVICE and nothing happens

when i connect my phone to the PC , the suddenly shows the WHITE USB logo and below it is a bar which is RED in color

please help
[General Questions and Answers] azaryaivan21:
now can you solve it? i have that problem too.. :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] xchan06:
does your phone have been fixed by the developers ?, is it working normally again ?, my zenfone 5 is dead too, and i have to surrender it to where i bought it for 90 days for them to fix it, i just want to know if they really can fix it.
[General Questions and Answers] luxumbra:
Hello guys,

I have had the same problem some time ago, I tried many different things, and one worked...

Go to your bootloader (at list that worked for me), then reboot your phone from there, and the usb logo doesn't come.

If it doesn't work, install CWM, http://www.asus-zenfone.com/2015/04/twrp-philz-recovery-zenfone-5.html, then do the same thing, go to your bootloader, and reboot from there.

If that doesn't work, turn off your phone from the bootloader, and then turn it on again, it the same thing but both worked for me.

You will have to do this each time you get out of the recovery, but only once.

I hope it could help you :)

Luxumbra
[General Questions and Answers] susuhero:
unbrick phong cách VN

mấy má trên đây giấu nghề wài, nó hiện cái logo usb trắng rồi đỏ thì bấm giữ volume up + nguồn nhưng bí quyết ở đây do zenfone bị lỗi board nên phải nhấp nhấp thêm nút volume down liên tục trong lúc boot mới vô được recovery mode (hiện con robot ngửa chim có dòng NO COMMAND ở dưới) sau đó nhá volume up + power 2 lần là hiện menu wipe cache, adb sideload rom phát về như cũ.
[General Questions and Answers] ndankrieca:
can't enter fastboot or droidboot to

i cant enter droidboot via hit power + vol up,,,but i can enter recovery

i try to update sideload use the same firmware,,its failed,, instalation aborted,just android 4.4.2 can update to 5.0,,,, how fix this problem,help me
[General Questions and Answers] macky_ebmec:
hello bro, i cannot enter droidbot also when i go to recovery mode,battery with question mark appears..i tried to open it and reset the battery terminal, no luck, what are the problems causing my zf5?

hope anyone can help me, thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ochaides:
l have problem samwe with you...can you solve this ???

please help me to
[General Questions and Answers] devilboynv:
for those people who are getting battery logo (or) battery logo with question mark

do this :-

switch off the phone and connect it to the charger and just let it charge for 30-40 min

then reboot into droidboot (or) bootloader by holding power button + volume up button until the asus logo appears !!

bingo you just enterd droid boot!

common sense :laugh: :- that white battery logo with question mark is shown while entering droidboot because of low battery ........... charging it for some time will fix it!

:good:
[General Questions and Answers] ochaides:
my battery is full brother ...my droiboot missing...

if i'm go to droidboot just appear asus logo and then usb logo and then dead again...
[General Questions and Answers] devilboynv:
i think you have flased a wrong droidboot image file i guess! the above fix is only for those people who have a working droidboot but cant get into it after rebooting!

in that case check if you can boot into recovery by switching off your phone and by bolding power button + volume down button until the asus logo appears

if you can...... then you should adb sideload the firmware of which that recovery belongs to .

ex:- you can only flash 2.22.30.53 firmware with 2.22.30.53 recovery.img

can you post a pic of your recovery here?
[General Questions and Answers] ochaides:
I have installed cwm recovery Phillips touch... i can log into recovery by pressing power on+volume down after phone vibrate press volume up..

I try adb sideload but always error bla bla bla /tmp/update.zip abort
[General Questions and Answers] tearichy:
after i type fastboot flash fastboot droidboot.img. It says waiting for device even though im on the update from adb screen
[General Questions and Answers] ochaides:
Uninstall all driver ...

restart pc...

Turn on again and install driver again

Intel usb driver

iSoc uab driver

Adb driver
[General Questions and Answers] anil2025:
Fastboot is also frozen

Hi,

I have the same issue on my zenfone 5.

I am able to get to droidboot, but that screen is also stuck, not able to use the keys to select any option other than the first option that is REBOOT DROIDBOOT. I was hoping to SELECT RECOVERY OR FACTORY RESET. :(

Any suggestions???
[General Questions and Answers] chriszx12:
1.Yes i can enter TWRP recovery

2.Yes my phone is working i can use it normally.

Please tell how to fix it..

---------- Post added at 06:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:13 AM ----------

the same problem here...i'm also getting the white usb logo.

Please help me? i can use my phone normally and works fine.. but my fastboot or droidboot both are dead.. and i have the twrp recovery working but tried adb sideload <filename.zip> shows waiting for devices and error closed..

:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] rfka:
ADB sideload not working

When i use adb devices it find my 500cg ww, but when i do adb sideload UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-3.23.40.60-user.zip the terminal says total xfer: 0.00x and in the phone many messages of "can't mount cache, failed to mount cache."

The same happens when i rename to asus.zip and do adb sideload asus.zip.

Pressing power and volume up does not enter in fastboot so adb is my only option because droidboot recovery failed with the same "can't mount" mistakes.

I tried to flash using asus flash tool and the .raw image that i found and will share here after my tenth post, i found for many versions of Zenfone, a mega link, but the asus flash tool detected my phone but sent a message of wrong serial.

I'm am running out of options and sending the phone 2 miles away to sao paulo will take weeks before they send back and cost a lot.
[General Questions and Answers] rfka:
Volume up + power does not open fastboot. Those instructions are wrong.

Asus has the most complicated way to get in Droidboot and Recovery i ever saw in a phone.

The correct instruction:

Enter Droidboot: Phone must be turned off first. Press only power button and after 2 seconds, still holding power button, press the volume up releasing the power button when the phone vibrates while still holding the volume up for 5 seconds. Now enter droidboot.

Recovery directly without go through droidboot: Phone must be turned off first. Press power button and volume down, when vibrates release the power button while still holding the volume down for 5 seconds. Now you see the android logo with belly up. Do not freak out seeing the no command exclamation. Now press volume up and power and quickly release both but volume up first. Now you are in recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] shifft:
could you please tell... how i can cover that wrong droidboot image issue....
[General Questions and Answers] liey87:
Unable to enter droid mode

Any other way to enter droid mode? Try all things but never enter droid mode..
[General Questions and Answers] Zenfone 1614:
Hello please guys!

Zenfone 5 A501 brick!

IMEI null Recoverry method 1 zenfone 5 A501

1.First root your device

2.downlodand installterminalemulator

3.download mmcblk0p03.img and copy it to internalsd card

4.open terminal emulator and type su

5.grantsuperuser acess

6. type ddif=/sdcard/mmcblk0p3.img of/=dev/block/mmcblk0p3

7.and enter

8.after sucess restart ur phone and pray

9=ZenFone 5 Brick Stuck in logo Asus

HOW TO UNBRICK YOUR ZENFONE

1. Intel USB Driver for Android ( Download Here )

2. ADB Fastboot Tool ( Download Here)

3. Recovery IMG (Recovery version must be earlier then your

current.) (Download )

4. Asus Zenfone Firmware (Download From Asus Website, and

Put it in the same folder with adb fastboot tools) Zenfone 5(Go To Download)

For Zenfone 6 (Go To Download) (Select OS Android and Choose Your zenfone

Model, the version must be lower than your current version)

InstructionsHow To)

1. In this Tutorial, My current version is WW2.19.40.6 and i

have WW1.17.40.6 Full firmware in My computer so i

download WW1.17.40.6 recovery img

2. Install Intel USB Driver and Extract ADB Driver

3. Copy Recovery img to ADB Folder

4. Extract downloaded WW1.17.40.6 Firmware and Copy to

Adb Folder

5. When USB logoPress Power+Volume up will enter droid

mode

6. Connect Zenfone with USB Cable to Computer /Laptop

7. Open ADB Folder and Open Command Prompt (Shift + right

Click > Open Command Here)

8. When at Droidboot Type : fastboot flash recovery

<filename.img> in this tutorial i type:

fastboot flash recovery 1.17.40.16_22_recovery . img

9. choose Recovery at Droidboot when android robot appear

press volume down+volume up and Choose update from

ADB

10. Type in CMD: adb sideload <firmwarename.zip> and wait

until complete

11. Wipe Cache and Data (Tutorial Here)

12. Reboot

Result

8. When at Droidboot Type : fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Error E:failed to mount/factory (invalid argument)

E:Unable to mount/factory

FLASH COMPLETE

Not respond en zenfone

ADB command window and type the following cmd:

adb shell

mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

reboot

C:\Users\user\Desktop\adb\adb shell

adb server is out of date. Killing...

*daemon started successfully*

error: device not found

C:\Users\user\Desktop\adb\adb kill-server

C:\Users\user\Desktop\adb\adb shell

*daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037*

*daemon started successfully*

error:device not found

please some other method

somehow to repair mmcblk0p3 .img

Odin toll for sansung! ASUS there is not!

Sorry for my English.
[General Questions and Answers] aquaphx:
omg this zenfone 5 is frustating.. i never trust asus anymore..

last time.. i got bricked due to failed to mount /factory.. and i took it to service center, there's no other way..

and now i got bricked/bootloop too.. with no hope.. i tried sideload it said error..

so frustating
[General Questions and Answers] Zenfone 1614:
Error E:failed to mount/factory (invalid argument)

E:Unable to mount/factory

FLASH COMPLETE

Sansung tool odin! :good:

Asus has not!

Assus there is no!

Asus tool:(

Asus recovery utility not exist!

Sorry for my English.
[General Questions and Answers] pakarbu:
Sorry to bring up this old thread.

Just a question for mr/s klydeXV, does factory reset from droidboot wipe internal memory partition?
[General Questions and Answers] KlydeXV:
Yes bro
[General Questions and Answers] konker:
Flash with official 5.0 upgrade ROM to restore access

I have an unrooted Asus Zenfone 5 LTE model T00P.

Last night, when restarting the phone, it would not boot up.

After the static Asus boot screen, the screen would turn black and stay that way until I long-press the power button.

By doing that, the phone would vibrate and then the screen flash momentarily and back to the static Asus boot screen.

Every attempt to start the phone would result in the same outcome.

Using the Vol- + Power key combination, I was able to enter the droidboot mode (I think that's what it's called) and enter the recovery mode by choosing the option to update from SD card.

In recovery mode, I saw the option to install update from an external storage card.

This gave me the idea to use the official Lollipop upgrade ROM to try and restore access to the phone and data.

I did not want to perform a factory reset as I have not backed up my data.

After copying the UL-ASUS_T00P-WW-12.4.5.58-user.zip into the external micro-SD card and rebooting the phone into the recovery mode, I was able to flash the ROM into the phone, wiped the Cache partition and rebooted the phone. I finally regained access into the phone and all my data and settings are intact. Phew!

I honestly did not know what went wrong but it would seem like some system file has been corrupted somehow (soft brick maybe?).

PS: I got the idea to do that from my recent upgrade (from 4.4) experience. I noticed the data and user settings were left untouched.
[General Questions and Answers] amitgupta2792:
i have same problem but i solved our self.

only for zenfone 5 tested

important device is out of warranty so use this method.Device in warranty period go to authorize service Center.

download all driver from unbrick zenfone 5 blog.

1.switch off zenfone.

2.press all three button power,v+,v- and hold wait for start zenfone

3.after start show android logo for recovery mode.

4then press v+ and power button or search go to recovery mode

5.connect to pc and go to apply update from adb

6.download zenfone 5 downgrade image from asus support L to kk if mobile have Android L or kk to jb if device have android 4

l to kk aply 5.3.3.3 image than restart if working ok or apply adb to 5.2.2.2

automatic restart droid bot restore and use your zenfone,no need to change main board.

if any problem email at amitgupta2792@gmail.com
[General Questions and Answers] BeenStuckTheWholeTime:
Stuck on USB logo when trying to sending commands from PC

Yes, it functions pretty normally, but my phone does not enter droid boot at all ( I have tried power+vol up several times with no result). When I try to send command from PC, it will get stuck on the USB logo for some time, then restart normally.

I want to flash a new ROM, but I have been stuck in this USB logo for quite a long time.

EDIT:

After a lot of failed tries, I tried one dangerous feature, which is forcing the mobile to come out of the boot loop.

Don't ever try it, if you are stuck in boot loop or can't access the bootloader.

That's all. My phone can't boot now, it is always stuck at the USB logo with a white rectangle below it, which becomes red when connected to a PC by USB cable.​

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[General Questions and Answers] CrivonZean:
Help I bricked my zenfone 5 lite and i can't open fastboot

i tried to fix it and now it's stuck in the "intel inside" logo please help me fix it. I also can't detect it in the adb list of devices :crying::crying::crying: