yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
if the update.app doesn't work you'll have to flash TWRP and the Stock Rom and wait like everyone else that's stuck trying to update the L21
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] christopher2007:
The only way I know to flash a ROM, is to go over TWRP.

So I now did the following:

Phone power off

connect to pc

voldown+power

in the fastboot flash the recovery from twrp

shutdown

copy the "customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip" to the sd-card

volup+coldown+power what normally starts twrp, but only the huawei update manager is shown

I only need twrp, no update and nothing else.

What options do I have left, because "flash a ROM" is not working ...

How can I stop this terrible update that is blocking my twrp?

greetings,

Christopher
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
are you flashing TWRP ?

you enter recovery with Volume up and Power

in TWRP you choose Install then choose customromtemplate-5x-plk21-b130-r3.zip

swipe to flash when it's done reboot

and your rom should load
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] christopher2007:
I flashed TWRP using "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img". I also used this one last time (one month ago) and it worked then and also now.

Flashing was successful, but when I press volup+power I get a huawei menu.

At the top there is the "EMUI" circle and below there are three buttons:

Reboot system now

Wipe data/factory reset

Wipe cache partition

I can move around in this little menu by using the volume keys.

But this is not TWRP.

And normally I enter the recovery by using volup+voldown+power. But this is currently blocked by the update progress from huawei.

greetings,

Christopher
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
You still have stock recovery

Flash TWRP -

fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img

Do not reboot the phone

Hold power plus volup and TWRP should load.

Now flash your rom
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] christopher2007:
C:\adb>fastboot flash recovery kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img

target reported max download size of 266338304 bytes

sending 'recovery' (45196 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.442s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.703s]

finished. total time: 2.148s

I now flashed this more then ten times ... but with power+volup I still get the EMUI menu.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
Are you rebooting from the fastboot screen?

From the white boot loader screen hold volume up and power for 15 seconds
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] christopher2007:
The last six hours I tried to fix my phone ... again. One thing I did really helped a little:

With this I am not able to start my phone again. It will boot normally and I have a clean android. No userdata and no root.

So I now did the same like last month:

Unlock OEM -> not necessary, because it is already unlocked

install twrp with fastboot

reboot to twrp and there it is again

I did exactly what you said and also I did exactly the same thing I did last month but both times there is the same result: TWRP will not show up.

The "stock recovery" is blocking twrp in some sort of way. I can do whatever I whant ... volup+power out of the fastbook mode, or with "adb reboot recovery", or other ways ... twrp will not show up.

How is this possible? I also tried different twrp images. (The "kiwi_twrp_2-27_recovery.img" and "kiwi_twrp_3-21_recovery.img" out of your repository, and also the "twrp-3.0.0-0-kiwi.img" and "twrp-3.0.2-0-kiwi.img" from the twrp website itself ... always the same result: no twrp)

I am really at the end of my knollage :(

greetings,

Christopher
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
First off thanks for the very informative post.

Without actually having the phone in my hands I'm also stumped at what to try next.

After flashing TWRP and still in the boot loader unplug the USB before you reboot with power and volume up.

That's all I can think of right now
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] christopher2007:
I must thank you for all your help :)

So I now read some more articles and tried some things. So there are old problems solved, but also new problems came up:

For me it is no longer possible to flash a recovery that is permanent. I have no idea why but I am ignoring it, because I can start the phone with voldown+power into bootloader and then use a usb-connection to enter the following command:

So i can enter twrp temporary and because I do not need TWRP this often, that is ok for me.

BUT:

with the extracted "UPDATE.APP" and flashing some "*.img" files manually (see my last post), I have a more or less working "L21C432B130" version of android.

So now there is everything original (recovery, system, ...).

The update to "L21C432B140" is still not working. But that is also something I can live with.

So now I whant to restore my old system in order to have my old data/apps/... .

So I enter my temporary TWRP, go to Restore and select my old backup. Then the restore starts. Restoring EFS, Restoring efs2, Restoring Recovery, Wiping System and Formatting System using make_ext4fs. All of this in this order are successful. But the last operation "Restoring Data" failes with the following error message:

So I searched on xda and found out, that this could be ANYTHING. I tried five or six different methods in order to fix it. In the end I am not sure what really fixxed it, but now I can restore my old update without any error. The phone now runs and I have all my old data.

There are four main differences on my phone to the time before I tried that damn update:

1. I have less internal storage

2. I have no TWRP permanently avaible

3. I can not Factory-Reset

4. I can not use a "UPDATE.APP" inside a "dload" folder on the sdcard

(the last two things always failes)

But as long as the android system now runs smooth again I can live with these things.

Is there maybe anything else I should be careful? maybe a known bug/problem that I have not seen yet?

The reason why I wanted to update in the first place was, that I have problems with my sd-card.

Some Apps do not allow to use the external storage. Easy Voice Recorder is the main problem. But also the Call Recorder has problems with it.

Is this a well known bug? Does a update helps? And if so, how do I update? (Now I know how to rescue my phone, so I could try it again xD )

Or does this problem gets solved with an custom ROM? If so, what good custom ROMs are out there for the honor 5x?

Or is this a problem that is not possible to fix on the honor 5x? Because these apps does not have this problem on my HTC One M9 ...

And thanks again so much for all your help :)

greetings,

Christopher
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] clsA:
from your current state you can try flash recovery with TWRP by choosing install / image / your version of TWRP / choose recovery / swipe to flash

Now choose reboot / recovery

As for the sdcard try the sdcard fix for kit Kat in the play store. It works for some older apps.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] jimandroidnerd:
So i have this issue too. im so stupid for doing this. I can go into fastboot mode and i flashed stock recovery and when i rebooted into recovery it still said that it was updating the firmware. I flashed twrp after that and it had the same message. am i doing something wrong or is it my phone? I tried rebooting into bootloader using adb but only fastboot will reconize my phone so adb also wont work. could you guys maybe help me?

Edit: Yessss. i got it using the temporary command. Thank you guys all for your help. it was so stupid of me to flash it with twrp still on it. Thank you all very much
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] mastershex:
i have a honor 5x stuck on logo . i can access to recovery and fastboot mode but frp in on and bootloader is locked

when i try to reset factory device from recovery it give me error ( data and cache format failed )

behind the device it is chinese KIW-AL00 but when i get info from device it shows KIW-L21 C185B140

i dont know what is wrong with this device .. any solution would be nice ... thanks in advance

what i have done so far

try to flash device with a full file update.app

C185B310

C185B130

C185B140

all failed at 0%
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] MYSOMS:
Why don't you try firmware for kiw-Al00?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawc7:
hi

i made downgrade from loliplipop to kitkat and to 4.4.2

and evrthing fine

and ota update kitkat come to my moto g

and i downloaded it and installed..

after reboot my device wont power up

wont charging

it dead

can any one help me
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost101:
[TIPS] How to prevent a Hard-Brick | Lost IMEI

Sorry to say, but you are now in club 'hard-brick.'
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawc7:
hahaha

there is a hope to fix it

i am sure

only it is in a coma lol
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawc7:
update:

now my phone plugged in wall charge..

and LED on( countinue not blinking)

is that good or what?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost101:
Hard-bricked phones do that. Many people have made the same mistake as you and they all have dead phones.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawc7:
Well

Thats mean no hope..

Ok

Baybay motorola..

I will buy any phone..but no motorola after 2 phones died.

Thanks
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samewaterbottle:
Umm, killing the phone was kind of your fault; even though Moto has gone to **** after Lenovo, not buying it is kind of unfair.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 6856899:
If you can't boot in bootloader mode I can't help you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] dteze88:
View attachment 3729994

New update available. Its has the April security patch. Everything is working fine. Just FYI. PD3 update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] nickmilla15:
Thanks! Checked my S7E after seeing this, and installing now! Are the changes in performance noticeable? How is palm rejection now? :)

Edit: Phone has a black screen that reads, "Installing Applications" after it rebuilt ART. The progress bar isn't moving after a few minutes. Is this normal?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] dteze88:
I never had any issues with that before. Performance and battery seem great so far. Android System/OS each are using less resources than before too. Very happy so far.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] nickmilla15:
It stayed like this for probably ten minutes, rebooted randomly, then went back to it. I came back to it and it was booted up normally. Weird, but oh well. Palm rejection is crazy! You can set one finger on the edge and use another to swipe around the screen now :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] spyderdreams:
does the hotspot fix work for this update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] nickmilla15:
I can't confirm this, anyone else?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] 70dad2:
Mine downloads the update fine but then it gets stuck at 31 percent during installation then reboots and says update failed. Tried four times.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Son Rise:
Any chance of an unlock bootloader?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Already seeing way less Android System battery usage. Love it. Hopefully battery life goes back to launch day levels & easily hitting 6 to 7 hrs of SOT.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Robisgnarly:
still have the grayed out APN settings :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Even with MSL?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Robisgnarly:
Correct, even with the msl i cannot edit the apn settings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] spyderdreams:
ok skipping PD3 too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] rwright64:
Battery life is much improved! 5 hours of screen time and I'm at 30%.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] phyba:
Still early to see if I see any difference in battery. I think they just fixed the way battery stats report android os use. Before the update, Android was #1 on the list showing 800+ mah of estimated battery usage. Now it's showing 326 mah usage. Not sure why my android os usage would change after an update on the same charge?? Maybe someone can explain that to me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] nickmilla15:
Things might still be settling in, but I've noticed that my fingerprint scanning times are much quicker and accurate, and the speed/fluidity of the entire OS seems to be much, much smoother. Since the device is still in its infancy, Samsung might have gone to work patching and smoothing out things, working out better resource management, etc. which might be reflected in the battery stats?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jr71x:
I'm still on the original rom, any thoughts on if i should update? Thanks...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
I wouldn't if I were you. I wish I could go back to the original version. I wonder if the Samsung guys at Best Buy can flash my phone to its original version.

---------- Post added at 06:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:35 AM ----------

On the new update, can someone test this for me? Set Location to GPS Only for a few hours & then check Battery Usage for Android System. Is the GPS constantly on for almost as long as GPS was turned on or was GPS active for just a few seconds or minutes?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] meyerweb:
If you had hotspot enabled via changing the APN settings prior to this OTA, it will still be enabled after. The OTA leaves the option to edit the APN settings grayed out, but doesn't reset the values. I just confirmed that tethering is still working for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] spyderdreams:
Yes but one day they will update the profile or something and you will be stuck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] meyerweb:
Yes, I understand. But if you've already taken the previous update taking this one doesn't change anything in regards to tethering.

---------- Post added at 01:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 PM ----------

I'm not sure the figure under Android system is reflecting time that the GPS was actually in use. Mine shows about 2 1/2 hours of GPS on in the last three hours. But if I look at GSAM, it shows the GPS coming on only intermittently, for brief intervals, except for the 45 minutes or so I was using Maps to navigate (when it shows GPS on constantly.

As far as battery usage, so far the update doesn't seem to have made much difference in Android System usage, but OS usage seems to be a lot lower. Will see how it goes over the next day or two.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Thank you. I figured out, I think, what was causing my massive battery drain when the phone was just idling with the screen off & GPS set to GPS Only. It was a service called LocationServices. After I greenified it, the drain stopped.

Yesterday morning before I greenified that service, I dropped 20%in 3 hrs during screen off idle. This morning, it dropped 3%in 3 hrs. Greenifying that service caused no disruption to GPS functionality in apps & Google Now. Seems to be a bug.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
I spoke too soon. I'm still experience the GPS battery drain bug. Wakelock Detector confirms the issue coming from GpsLocationServices_ex within Android System. I have to turn off Location or suffer huge battery drain. Hoping Samsung will finally fix this in the May update, if we even get one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] the drugstore:
Agreed on battery drain

It is still present. I HATE this phone. Its the biggest pile of **** i have ever used.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Are you guys having Android System battery issues still?

To pinpoint which service within Android System is causing the most wakelocks without Root, you can use this app (Wakelock Detector Lite) & adb to view the stats.

Here's the link to the Play Store app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot

After you install the app, go into Settings > Developer options & turn on USB Debugging.

Then connect your phone to your PC, open adb, and type:

adb devices

Then

adb tcpip 5555

Now you can view your wakelock stats without root!

My number one wakelock within Android System is GpsLocationProvider_ex. It prevents my phone from deep sleep & Doze.

The only workaround is to turn off GPS until needed.

Please share your findings.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Contact Samsung & report it & get a ticket number. I did that today so my issue will be forwarded. Gotta make them aware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xcaliburpcs:
No we cannot reflash you back to the original version, software we use detects current version and will only let us flash over the version you have or newer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Yea, I know. Went to Best Buy over the weekend & was told it's not possible. Sucks...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xcaliburpcs:
It does im still on APB5 and don't want to update till there's a fix for hotspot. At best buy we are very limited on what we can do.

---------- Post added at 02:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:20 AM ----------

What about unlocking the phone? Would it unlock apn settings so they could be edited?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] daitritue:
thank for share
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
I got much better results yesterday.

17 hrs off the charger & SOT of 4 hrs & 42 mins.

GpsLocationProvider_ex wakelock of only 3 mins & 51 seconds using the GPS+WiFi+Mobile location setting.

My settings:

-Firmware version PD3 (Sprint GS7E)

-auto brightness

-sync off

-Location = GPS+WiFi+Mobile

-WiFi & Mobile data always toggled on

-Bluetooth always on & connected to Gear S2 3G

-No power-saving mode

-Google Now & Now on Tap on

-Push apps running: Kakaotalk, Slice, Pushbullet

-140 apps installed

Before the refresh, this was the kind of crazy GPS wakelocks I was getting:

Finished yesterday with over 6 hrs of SOT.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] iBowToAndroid:
Lolol. Just because Best Buy can't do it, doesn't mean it's not possible.

Odin + stock tar.

Profit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
You were able to downgrade to the Feb firmware, pb5? I tried with Odin & the flash wouldn't proceed. Which version Odin did you use?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] iBowToAndroid:
I'm not saying downgrading is possible in every single situation. They could have implemented antirollback in PD3. Haven't tried it. I was just saying, Best Buy isn't the only option
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Dang, you gave me false hope. I thought there was a way to downgrade to pb5. Contacting Best Buy & Samsung advanced tech support was after trying with Odin first.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] iBowToAndroid:
Are you wanting hotspot?

And what did you "try" exactly..? Do you have older firmware?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
I want my old awesome battery life back.

Used Odin to flash the original PB5 firmware. Downgrade is blocked by Samsung. I have all 3 firmwares- PB5, PC5, and PD3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] iBowToAndroid:
Make a tar with AP and CP only. Should work ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Hmm, a mish-mash, huh? Like time I flashed a mixed tar was on Note 3 and Galaxy S4 to upgrade to next Android version and keep DSU.

Maybe I'll try. But I kind of got the battery under control now with Greenify Aggressive Mode and ForceDoze.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xcaliburpcs:
Thats why we are here at xda, he was asking if samsung reps at best buy could downgrade and i said no, i did not say you couldn't but as of right now even with odin its not possible. And you haven't tried so that says alot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] FlowingAway:
I don't see any Sprint specific firmwares anywhere on that page.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] cbrox:
You have to follow the links to get to the sprint specific s7 and s7e 2nd party install firmware links. They have all 3 listed. Or you can download the tool and download them direct.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] pr0xyw0rm:
Battery is still bad on this update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] iBowToAndroid:
F--k that adware s--t.

AFH mirror!!!!

http://xdaforums.com/sprint-s7-edge/how-to/official-factory-stock-firmware-file-t3380641
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] sac23:
guys anyone have older firmware tars please let me know if someone has it thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] FlowingAway:
Literally look one post above yours
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] sac23:
no [MENTION=657205]FlowingAway[/MENTION] i need older firmware
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] FlowingAway:
This link is further into the thread.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=56092

Enjoy.

I gotta warn you about the PB5 firmware. It gives me bootloops, and also be aware the BL won't flash. The uploader says he downgraded from PD3 to PB5 using the files just fine, but I can't get it to work. So your mileage may vary.

PD3 can be downgraded to PC5 with these zips all day, however. BL included.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Has anyone flashed back to PB5 except for the bootloader?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] sac23:
porting to s6 bro

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] FlowingAway:
I tried it every way I could imagine and kept getting stuck on the blue recovery installation screen. Tried flashing recovery from PD3 and it got through the blue screen but bootlooped on the splash screen. That was as close as I got to getting it to work. Maybe someone else will have success or figure out a series of steps to get it to boot.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] candersen:
My JasJar will not charge from mains anymore but it will charge through USB could this be a bad battery or because I have upgraded my extended rom or something worse

Cheers Christian Andersen
[General Questions and Answers] vechan:
My HTC Desire 526g+ is bricked when I was trying to flash it with some rom. Now, it turns on - HTC logo (powered with Android) appears - turn off and automatically it turns on - HTC logo (powered with Android) appears - turn off and automatically...... repeating this again and again. I didn't installed CWM or TWRP in it. When I am trying to install CWM.img through fastboot, it is showing and error err:0x2017. When I try to install custom ROM Zip for install from sd card in recovery mode, it is showing installation aborted :( . Even PC is also not recognizing my device. Can anyone please help me to fix my mobile?
[General Questions and Answers] salman986:
try with this custom rom hope it will work for u

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/rom-resurrection-remix-5-5-9-htc-526g-t3488566
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay_07:
Hello everyone,

last tuesday my Lumia 930 automatically tried to install the new Insider preview.

When it was completing the procedure (the progress bar was lose to 100%) it restarted and after that I got the "sad face".

Starting from that moment the Lumia didn't boot up again.

I tried with soft reset procedure (volume down + power button) but I always got the spinning gear + sad face.

I don't want to do the Hard Reset right now, since I would like to know if there's a procedure to recover the photos there are on the internal storage.

If I try to connect it to my PC, it is recognized as "LumiaBootmgr".

Could you please help me? Is there any way to read the internal storage?

Thank you in advance.

Jay