yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
can you please provide another download link for raw firmware

In asus flash tool it says that serial number match fail
[ZenFone 2 General] SystemeD:
Something for the Asus Selfie ZD551KL, please?

Thanks!
[ZenFone 2 General] Sumit007s:
Post updated for ze550ml users . :)
[ZenFone 2 General] Sumit007s:
I will try to find out unbricking method for your ZD551KL . ?
[ZenFone 2 General] ishantanish:
thank u so much :)

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raw firmware ze550ml Link not working plz update link
[ZenFone 2 General] Sumit007s:
Will try to update new Asus flashtool link in my post .
[ZenFone 2 General] Sumit007s:
All the old/dead links will be updated soon . :)
[ZenFone 2 General] rajlko:
Please provide necessary files for ze550kl.

asus zoold.
[ZenFone 2 General] Sumit007s:
Ok i will make New Thread for Laser users.

It will take little time to get necessary files for Zenfone 2 Laser ze550kl . :)
[ZenFone 2 General] rajlko:
we will wait dear,

recently, my device was hard bricked & it s was repaired at asus service center.

http://xdaforums.com/zenfone-2-laser
[ZenFone 2 General] SystemeD:
Any news? Thanks!
[ZenFone 2 General] arwansel:
is there any tutorial how to create own raw image?
[ZenFone 2 General] arunajati:
i cannot download the raw firmware file for ZE551ML. its asking for OTP code or something.

anybody has it at another download server?
[ZenFone 2 General] 24imelqui:
thanks for this, saving the link for this thread just in case.
[ZenFone 2 General] k1t4r0:
Guyz, does any body knows why when i open xFSTK it´s blank? :confused:

[IMG="xFSTK Blank"]http://i.imgur.com/NiwpjiO.png[/IMG]

Solved!: install order error.

But even with this tutorial the pc recognizes my cellphone. But it charges "/

This was last resort "/
[ZenFone 2 General] ChiqOmar:
I have been trying to run this on my ZE551ML, which got messed up because of the bootloader unlock first (thanks a lot Asus) and when I got to the recovery, when I tried wiping the cache, I shut it down assuming it was hanging. Now, I can't access the reocvery, my fastboot is broken, and turning on my phone it just hangs indefinitely at the loading screen. I have attempted the weird ways to get fastboot to function, according to the official unlock thread, and have attempted this method many times now....

When I use this, it seems to download something correctly, but when it gets to XFSTK-STATUS--Firmware download completed. Continuing to OS..., it starts the phone up, and attempts to reconnect 20 times, and fails. I have attempted to shut the phone down, and also let it start up; shutting the phone down leads to it redownloading, and failing. Basically, I could use a lot of help, because my phone seem to be completely bricked.

I have contacted the Asus warranty department, but haven't heard back yet. Anyway, it'd be nice if I could unbrick this thing. Thanks!
[ZenFone 2 General] jhenu:
[MENTION=2151453]ChiqOmar[/MENTION] I'm having the same problem.... Any solution found.
[ZenFone 2 General] rahul99999@gmail.com:
Raw Firmware Link for ZE550ml not working

Raw Firmware Link for ZE550ml not working. Plzz updte. Thanks.

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Raw Firmware Link for ZE550ml not working. Plzz update. Thanks.
[ZenFone 2 General] michele.degano:
Hi, this procedure can be used for return back to factory state ? without root, unlook fastboot and original firmware ?
[ZenFone 2 General] jpkillerage:
I'm having the exact same problem!

I was thinking some people said this DEFINETLY works when your bootloader is completely destroyed, meaning the phone only boots to the usb logo.

Maybe if we flash some trash file (basically ruining the bootloader) and then try this method it'll work?

See, my reasoning is that our bootloaders arent really messed up but rather stuck on triying to unlock themselves over and over (which is what the official unlocker does for some s*upid reason) AND since we were dumb enough not to wait 15-20 mins for our caches to wipe, our cache partition is corrupt (i dont know to what extent) which stops us from entering recovery mode.

Now, if our bootloader was absolutely destroyed, we replaced it with a working one, and we flashed a temporary recovery, we would be able to wipe the cache properly and therefore (kinda) solve our problems!

whatcha say, people? anyone with their hopes as low as mine that wants to try this?
[ZenFone 2 General] jhenu:
[MENTION=5739384]jpkillerage[/MENTION] [MENTION=2151453]ChiqOmar[/MENTION] I figured out a way out. TRY it definitely works.

Step 1. Power off your phone

Step 2. Install adb tools in your laptop

Step 3. Press power button +volume up together when you get 2 vibration release power button but keep holding volume up.

Step 4. Phone enters into fastboot and release the volume up button.

Step 5. You should see blue text like continue in fastboot. Then connect to laptop using micro USB cable.

Start adb commads and enter the below code exactly as specified.

Wait for it to complete. Now we should see recovery instead of dead android bot.

Step 6. Enter into recovery by pressing volume down and select recovery mode from top and press power button.

Step 7. After entering into recovery sucessfully select wipe cache partition (by using volume up or down buttons and press power button) and wait for 25 mins.

Step 8. Reboot to system now.

Step 9. Voila you have your phone as before. Best part no data loss.
[ZenFone 2 General] jpkillerage:
only that doesnt work because what the other couple guys and i have is a problem with fastbot in the first place.

(at least my) fastboot doesnt ever say "continue" but rather reboots every 5s or gets stuck in a "fail" state. You cant erase cache in any of those states.
[ZenFone 2 General] Stringsko:
can u give me all this things for ZE500CL ?
[ZenFone 2 General] Veelog:
RAW files for ZE550ML not working. Please help.
[ZenFone 2 General] grimrifer:
IT HAAPPENS TO ME ALSO HOW CAN WE FLASH ANY OF THE FILE IF OUR PHONE RESTARTS OR BEING REMOVE INTO THE CONNECTION EACH AND EVERY TIME WE TRY TO FLASH IT?

ANY SOLUTION ANYBODY?

HELP US! PLEASE!:crying:
[ZenFone 2 General] _WiNNa_:
[MENTION=2151453]ChiqOmar[/MENTION] [MENTION=5500267]jhenu[/MENTION] [MENTION=5739384]jpkillerage[/MENTION]

Did you guys get your phones working again?

I got the same problem and the 20 times reconnecting failure.

Any ideas?
[ZenFone 2 General] grimrifer:
here's the solution guys!

yesterday ive revive my zenfone zooad by this thread!

hope it helps you to!

heres the link!

http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/general/guide-brick-soft-hard-bricked-zenfone-2-t3284256

:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[ZenFone 2 General] _WiNNa_:
Basically that's the same as here..

So, no change. My phone's still bricked.

Even tried the 'enable miscdnx' option, but still the same result.

After 'continuing to OS...' my phone restarts, doesn't show up as Moorefield device in device manager and xfstk can't connect.

Any more ideas anyone?
[ZenFone 2 General] cbjun:
Also I think you can not ask to create files for ZE601KL?

Please.
[ZenFone 2 General] _WiNNa_:
After one week of trying day after day, I've send my phone to Asus - RMA.

Think they will replace the motherboard. Only thing is, I'm very sad because I've got pictures of my children on internal sd. After replacement they will be gone... [emoji22] [emoji24]

So I've learned the hard way: Next time I will configure camera app to save to external sd...
[ZenFone 2 General] ericvet:
It works, but.....

Hi there, eventually it works, but it was useless for me because i can access bootloade again but i can't access the phone by recovery mode, it doesn't flash any file by fastboot commands, it doesn't work with tethered recovery like TWRP or CWM (they actually open, but you can't flash any image or zip file), i can't ADB sideload any zip either.

I wonder if it may affect that we don't put the OS DnX file, or the files that we put in there are wrong for my phone, i don't know.... my phone is bricked about 10 days ago, i don´t know what other tut or path to try....

:crying::crying::crying:

Can i flash the system by xFSTK Downloader??? what do you think??

Thanks anyway for this tut and for any answer you can give me.

I have a Zenfone 2, 4Gb RAM, 64 GB. root until it gets brick,

I had rooted my phone (it worked normal, no problem)

I updated my ZF 2 by OTA being root (what a mistake)

I entered bootloader and recovery mode (it worked normal, no problem)

I wipe cache, it got a lot of time and i didn't wait, forced shutdown (what a mistake mistake)

i got usb logo with a bar under it, every time i turn on my phone.

i did this tut, bootloader came back but recovery mode did not.

so.. i'm here so far.
[ZenFone 2 General] lor3nz123:
ze550ml

can fix my ze550ml :( help please
[ZenFone 2 General] lor3nz123:
Bricked Zenfone 2 ZE550ML

Help :( Cant fix my 550ml, flashed a wrong raw file :(

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HELP, cant fix my 550ml :( TIA
[ZenFone 2 General] grimrifer:
What happen?

if it still has the usb logo and can connect to the pc it can be fix.
[ZenFone 2 General] gugas123:
worked very well. tank you
[ZenFone 2 General] Toyotaro99:
cannot find RAW firmware for ZE550ML

Hi, Sumit, this is great guide and I am recovering my bricked phone back to fastboot mode(boot as 4-color image). but I cannot find the RAW file of ZE550ML, the link you provided is broken and says nothing found, could u please post and share again!! thanks a lot in advance.

Also could u please share what's the next steps or any other guide to load RAW (and/or following steps) and following steps to fully recover phone... I am a bit new here.

bought this phone at Taiwan but using at Japan... got bricked suddenly and cannot repair in Japan (only can in Taiwan).. thanks for your help in advance!!
[ZenFone 2 General] mk256:
ze550ml

Hi

I've done as the tutorial mentioned but it boots as 4-color image

Please help
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
1.Run Asus Flash Tool as administrator

2.then select phone model from top left corner

3.select wipe data give

4.give path for raw file n flash

It will be done if not then at least it will fix the fastboot n adb then download latest fw zip from official Asus site n load to phone using adb side load
[ZenFone 2 General] mk256:
Hi

thanks for reply but my phone is not detected in aft .

http://uploads.im/axb19.jpg

P.S: I'm not a noob ,I'm sure that drivers are installed properly
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
Just let me know in devices n printer under which section its showing ur phone?
[ZenFone 2 General] mk256:
It's not shown there . just when pressing power button and restarting the device is detected only for a few seconds
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
Check for hardware- try another cable, make sure battery is charged, if problem continues then repeat the entire process, the only thing we can do is give a try and you will success, i had tryed for 40 days but finally succeed[emoji4]
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Hi

My laptop won't recognize my asus mobile. I'm stuck on the usb charge logo btw.

I tried installing the intel driver as well as the iSOC driver, but when I try to go to Device Manager and update driver for MOOREFIELD, it says Windows can't find Driver software for this system. Did I do something wrong?

Please help me out here.
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
Its different for Windows 7 and 8+... There's a trick to install drivers,
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Mine's windows 8 plus, if you could please provide the link for the asus ze551ml driver for my windows os it would be really great :)

Also, just to confirm, am I doing it right? I first update the driver software for MOOREFIELD (my mobile), and meanwhile (or before or later) I install an intel android driver (or should I install the iSOC driver? which is better?), then I install the xfstk downloader and follow the steps mentioned?
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
You have disable signature verification or something like, search for a guide
[ZenFone 2 General] LeonelG:
Hi, all

I have the same problem.

Swithed off ZF2 while wipe cache. Now only display the green robot with a red triangule on top.

Read all theard, did everything, disable signature verification, install driver from intel, and SOC driver, after on device manager only shows intel soc, and the flash tool didin't recognize my phone. I've Win10.

Any advice?

Thanks
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
Can you go in fastboot, if u can then u can flash recovery, if your bootloader is unlocked then flash custom recovery, if not then go for stock recovery
[ZenFone 2 General] LeonelG:
Hi,

Pressing Power+Vol. Up, the phone don't vibrate, starts and the Asus logo flash twice , enters a menu with red letters on the left side, saying FASTBOOT MODE, where i can select with vol up or down, NORMAL BOOT, POWER OFF, RESTART BOOTLOADER, RECOVERY MODE, and at bottom blue letters saying "continue the fastboot process"

Then when i press Vol Down, it switch, POWER OFF, RESTART... and so on (cycle right) till RECOVERY MODE.

Sorry if my english, doesn't making sense.
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Hi

I disabled the signature verification from Troubleshoot like you asked. Thanks, I'll try installing the driver now.

Can you tell me which driver to install now? Should I install Intel Android Driver as well as iSOC (because when I install xfstk downloader it asks me if I have an iSOC driver installed already and if not then tells me to install it), or is just the intel driver enough?

Also, which of the two drivers do I use to update in Device Manager settings for my mobile to get detected?

Thanks a lot!
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
Intel isoc
[ZenFone 2 General] AcostaJA:
Seems this is the good one, for those that still have a valid serial ( different to 0123456789ABCDEF ) I dont have a valid serial thanks the other guide, so I cant apply this.
[ZenFone 2 General] AcostaJA:
[MENTION=6917075]Sumit007s[/MENTION]

I have the same problem, maybe f the first guide better written I shouldn't have this problem, now my phone's fastboot report 0123456789ABCDEF as my phone serial which is invalid for AFT v.1.0.0.14 aka v.1.14.

If you have any link or friend at asus try to get an complete OS image to burn thru xFSTK or at least a flash/paritionig tool or the complete xFSTK package (OsDNX), or a custom AFT w/o serial chek
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Please help, the computer won't recognize my phone.

I install iSOC but can't seem to locate it anywhere on the computer, tried uninstalling and reinstalling many times still won't work.

SO I tried to update the Android Intel Driver for Asus from Device Manager, but it says it can't locate the required software even though I clicked on the installed folder (and included all subfolders too).

If my phone won't be recognized by PC the above steps won't work. Please help.

(Note: Not a hardware issue, because I can hear the two beeps when it connects, but it keeps getting disconnected after a while then reconnects automatically.)
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
check if it is under unknown device? if yes then you may have not installed drivers correctly, in Windows 8 and above we need to disable signature verification, search how to disable it and then install again
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
should i reinstall the drivers? because i'm sure i disabled signature verification

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I think I am unable to install the iSOC driver correctly. If it's not too much trouble would you please try and installing it once and guide me accordingly?

There's some messages that show up while installing like, connect an intel device while installing, then remove. Please take a look at it :/

And yes, the phone does show up under Other Devices > Moorefield. I had tried installing some other driver before when it worked fine but then the xfstk won't work. Right now the scenario stands that neither the Intel Android Driver nor the iSOC is able to update the driver. iSOC I think hasn't even installed correctly.
[ZenFone 2 General] aniruddha007:
It's not to hard there is a pop-up with clear instruction just follow it, and then use xfstk if it doesn't work try on another pc , coz it will consume ur time to find error n fix , instead try xfstk on another pc
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Okay I'll give it a try, Thanks !
[ZenFone 2 General] _WiNNa_:
Just install the driver without your phone connected to your PC. And when it says connect an Intel device, just connect your zenfone. That's the mentioned Intel device [emoji6]
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Still can't install the driver properly :'(
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
use usbdeview and uninstall all drivers aND start afresh :)

also like to add ... have all driver packages ready to install on pc and come off the internet while setting up , sometimes windows installs drivers and you get conflicts
[ZenFone 2 General] birenda:
rhks for share ............
[ZenFone 2 General] AcostaJA:
Mine still stuck on 0123456789ABCDEF serial invelid. swapped USB connector, flex, only thing left is to switch logic board.
[ZenFone 2 General] vedabot:
Hi I have the USB logo problem. I took it to a repair shop and they said the RAM's not working anymore and it would cost approx Rs 2.5k . Is he trying to rip me off or should I keep trying this method?
[ZenFone 2 General] AcostaJA:
This phone itś a lemmon
[ZenFone 2 General] benjammin:
Thank you so much. i just adb'd erase cache and restarted, and everything was back to normal. It's beautiful thank you!.
[ZenFone 2 General] Siddk007:
i'm getting this error and now my phone is not even booting after doing this :(
[ZenFone 2 General] ponnuvelpandian:
Me too getting the same issue after trying some research on Androind M Beta...:(

It shows in xFSTK

But it fails after that...
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
You keep flashing the fwr and ifwi over n over till you get 4 colours then repeat till you get boot loader on phone , then flash raw , you see it install on phone screen not on pc ..

Then flash stock recovery via fastboot related to the raw

Then boot into recovery select sideload

Then sideload stock WW- bla bla firmware related to raw

Rename firmware to MOFD_SDUPDATE

with adb cmd ..

adb sideload MOFD_SDUPDATE.zip

That's it...

First, repeat the two file flash in downloader till bootloader...

That's what its for ;)

Ps , sidenote ..you flash os image with the two initially and it takes .

Then fails repeatedly ..you then leave os image empty...

And while it connects (20 times)

You reboot phone while still attached and flash the two over n over till you get boot loader.

Keep persevering , pressing vol+ etc

Disconnecting fone too.

But first try a pc reboot, have a/v disabled.

Come offline too, obviously
[ZenFone 2 General] Siddk007:
Now my phone is in service center!!
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
You keep flashing the fwr and ifwi over n over till you get 4 colours then repeat till you get boot loader on phone , then flash raw , you see it install on phone screen not on pc ..

Then flash stock recovery via fastboot related to the raw

Then boot into recovery select sideload

Then sideload stock WW- bla bla firmware related to raw

Rename firmware to MOFD_SDUPDATE

with adb cmd ..

adb sideload MOFD_SDUPDATE.zip

That's it...

First, repeat the two file flash in downloader till bootloader...

That's what its for ;)

Ps , sidenote ..you flash os image with the two initially and it takes .

Then fails repeatedly ..you then leave os image empty...

And where it connects (20 times) you power off fone instead and power on

You reboot phone while still attached and flash the two over n over till you get boot loader.

Keep persevering , pressing vol+ etc

Disconnecting fone too.

But first try a pc reboot, have a/v disabled.

Come offline too, obviously
[ZenFone 2 General] ponnuvelpandian:
Dear timbernot,

Thanks for your reply,

But I'm doing this for the past two days and still got nothing on screen (not even four colors), is there any other tool/way to do this?

I'm unable to reboot my phone when its plugged. Pressing power button gives no response while its connected...
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
Press power plus vol+ ..not a quick press but keep pressed till two buzzes, if it doesn't buzz within 10 secs ,release and repeat
[ZenFone 2 General] ponnuvelpandian:
I'm getting two buzzes, but nothing happening after that. What to do next?
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
Repeat the on off process within the (20 times) process of down loader ..over and over ..till success.

Also , try leaving on charge for an hr or two before attempting .also is your fone detected in raw flash tool ?

If not , leave connected to pc till it does , then retry downloader.
[ZenFone 2 General] ponnuvelpandian:
I'm already charging my phone daily all the time when I'm free (also in the night). My phone is getting detected in xFSTK as Moorefield, but not detected in ASUS Flashtool (RAW). Power button does nothing when its connected to PC. So, ON/OFF process within the (20 times) process of downloader is not possible. But I'm trying my best to bring it back to normal... Finally hoping on GOD..... MAY THE LORD SHIVA BLESS ME.....

But, in the middle, if you find anything new to do, kindly inform me.... Thanks a lot ....
[ZenFone 2 General] timbernot:
Few things , try other downloader , there's 3 I think about..

Also , reinstall with a/v disabled ..that includes unpacking from rar or zip...put iwfi and dnx and os image in your documents..less links for downloader ...;)

Also , can you describe what and how you got in this state and anything that you have tried that worked ?
[ZenFone 2 General] NimishDavid:
xFTSK not working

My ZE551ML has been hard bricked. I have downloaded the necessary files. I opened xFSTK before installing iSoc drivers. It opened and the window was blank. After that I installed the SoC drivers. Then opened xFSTK again. Nothing happens except the mouse pointer "Loading" symbol for some time. Later I booted in to safe mode and opened xFTSK. It showed an error saying it is unable to access some memory location or something like that.

Also what cost can I expect to get this repaired from service centre? My phones warranty is over and is rooted.
[ZenFone 2 General] ponnuvelpandian:
If you go to service center, they will ask you to replace the main board which will cost around Rs.9000 INR... But no need to pay.... You can recover it by yourself here...

http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/help/bricked-phone-display-marshmallow-berta-t3401151
[ZenFone 2 General] NimishDavid:
What did they say? Did it return?
[ZenFone 2 General] Siddk007:
Got a mail from them to collect the phone, will get it tomorrow
[ZenFone 2 General] NimishDavid:
Did they replace the board? What was the total cost?
[ZenFone 2 General] Siddk007:
Yes, motherboard got replaced. Free of cost, was under warranty
[ZenFone 2 General] manu9t9:
asus site requires login id n password

in pdf there is one asus website...

it requires login id and password for accesing files
[ZenFone 2 General] NimishDavid:
How did you solve this? I got a blank window like this at first. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled in the correct order. But thereafter this application doesn't open at all. Please help.

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xFSTK doesn't work for me. What did you do to make it work?