yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] ashyx:
This one should boot OK. However untested.

Install with ODIN: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261625220
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] DualJoe:
Boot mode decision happens right after bootloader (before vibration) and it just needs vol+up/dn + home. Power button is just to cycle the device. If you reset by recovery you don't need the power button at all.

But believe me, i tested everything. It was power cycling/vibrating continuously and it got warm. Nothing could stop that. Strange feeling that there's nothing you can do. I opened the phone, removed the battery, replugged it and it fortunately didn't autostart. After restarting it was in the same hard bootloop. So another replug with immediate download mode and finally success. I could flash my recovery back and your damage was fixed. Unfortunately, when lifting the display the glass separated from the led and its broken now so i have to get a new display. At least i've learned a lesson.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] ashyx:
If you'd have actually taken on board what I'd advised non of what you did would have been necessary. I have been working on Samsung devices for many years and have compiled TWRP for a great number of them from gingerbread to Pie.

I have bricked, bootlooped, hung these devices many many times and always have been able to recover and have NEVER had to disassemble a device.

If you'd have held the buttons in the correct order as advised you most certainly would have booted to download mode.

Your mistake was holding VOL UP at the same time. VOL UP has no effect on download mode.

There are 4 boot modes for this device:

1. POWER + VOL UP + HOME = RECOVERY

2. POWER + VOL DOWN + HOME = DOWNLOAD

3. POWER + VOL DOWN = HARD RESET(From ANY state)

4. HOLD VOL DOWN AT BOOT ANIMATION = SAFE MODE.

POWER + VOL DOWN is hard reset for this device, so no matter what state the device is in whether its boot looping, stuck on Samsung logo or what ever the hardware will always detect the button combination and restart the device.

Add holding the DOWN button to the combo and the device hard resets and then the bootloader detects that DOWN button is also pressed and boots into download mode.

The device needs to cycle for it to take effect. Its seems obvious you didn't do this and thus encountered an eternal boot to recovery.

You are the first and only person i have encountered in all my years developing for these devices that has had to open a device because of a bad flash. Period. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] DualJoe:
If that's all you have to say i'm done here.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] drnightshadow:
Lol, yeah safer for you and better for us...:D... a little joke :angel:

I had never such problems on any Samsung devices... and yes I soft bricked many of them and its really easy to get in to download mode and unbrick it with odin.

You are clearly doing something wrong. And yes you need press power with other buttons until you'll get samsung logo than release power button, but you'll need to keep holding vol-/vol+ and home buttons. Just follow ashyx instructions in last post. Sometimes it takes some patience and keep trying (release all buttons and press them again on boot)... no need to disassemble device.

Good luck.

Edit1: im gonna test last TWRP 3.3.1-2_sm-a300x_101119 on sm-A300FU...ill report the result soon

Edit2: short test done..in TWRP upgrade (install image - unpacked tar) from 3.1.1-0_FU to 3.3.1-2 and it is booting to twrp just normal (sd card is mounted as usual, can't test MTP - no pc around and not tested USB-OTG) and booting to system also works... so far all is working.. gj [MENTION=4899305]ashyx[/MENTION] and thank you for your work

Edit3: some more testing... backup and restore from sd card is working just fine, lol even after using tipatch (XDA lab apps) recovery image for data (incl. storage) - pictures and downloads included, is still working perfectly.. awesome :victory:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] DualJoe:
I can send you the 3.3.1-1 image for testing so we have confidence. Are you brave enough?

Regarding power button anyone can test/prove it himself: Go to recovery and press reboot/system. Immediately hold vol+up + home (without power button).

Usually aboot cannot be interfered by anything indeed but it did happen. I've seen strange mtd0 write protection errors before in TWRP when trying to write to PARAM. Maybe the mtd0 flash is corrupt on the phone or its maybe related to the new TWRP A/B flash method that brings the phone accidentally into a corrupt state.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] drnightshadow:
Ahh just stop with this nonsense - you smell like a crying troll

On working phone yes, you can cheat like that but on bootlooped or soft bricked you cant... do I need to draw you or do you get it now...

Lol to send me your toasted twrp lool no thank you ... ashyx posted androidfilehost link for 3.3.1-2 ,

but if you don't know how to download it and flash it... than this time not a joke, as you said "I'm done here", please do it.. your wasting posts and ashyx's time and energy and mine... I proved that ashyx twrp 3.3.1-2 is working and I'm using it right now..

hmmm..:cool:

Ha i have an idea... I'm done with you...:victory:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] DualJoe:
As you're currently on the latest TWRP. What happens when you reboot/recovery and then reboot/system? Does it work?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] drnightshadow:
Are you able to read ...read my post up before your offer to send me your twrp... read edit1, edit2 and 3.... and I also quoted ashyx post with latest link...

Do you know how to use ODIN and how to flash recovery or how to root your phone??? If no, go google it before your next post.

Now I'm sure you are trolling...

Next troll post ill report :cool:

Tip: yes I'm using latest TWRP and all is working..boot/reboot/recovery boot/system boot/wipe/backup/restore/....
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] DualJoe:
This is a serious question. Several ppl noticed the bug. Show some respect to the community and answer the question.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] drnightshadow:
Lol This is a joke ..good one...

Ok you clearly have a bug.... removed recovery button, ouch (impossible to boot directly in new twrp after update twrp with twrp).

Hmmm.. what about... porting orangefox recovery to samsung devices ...:silly: haha that should be magic for you

simple no reboot or no system bugs on 3.3.1-2 by ashyx... :D Perfect TWRP!

Lol good luck and don't ask ashyx for help lulz
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Android Development] carlos974:
Can we format Data and Cache partitions in f2fs with twrp 3.3.1-2?
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] cincon:
can i use use other than verizon htc m8/9 LTE: 700/1700/1800/2600 MHz (Band 3, 4, 7, 13) bands? like band 5/8/20?

because verizon only works 3/4/7/13 bands, i am not able to use LTE europe band in eu =(

is there any way to overcome this problem?

thnx
[Verizon HTC One (M9)] Keioboy:
Follow this thread.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bazerald:
First of all, I wanted to apologize if I'm posting at a wrong section but please do move this thread if necessary.

Second, I know some of you have already read a bunch of problems regarding to this model of zenfone 5 but I'm still hoping that one day someone can help us A500KL users. I've spent sleepless nights browsing the internet for solutions. I've been through different websites like taiwanese, chinese, russian and many more but still can't seem to find any guides or solution to my problem.

The thing is, one day after booting my phone and making it to home screen a few seconds later it's restarting on it's own. restarted and same thing happened over and over again. I didn't mind losing my files so i went to recovery to do a factory reset hoping it will resolve the problem. But the moment I press enter, a bunch of errors saying E:failed to mount...... (invalid argument) showed up. It failed wiping to factory reset. i tried wiping cache but still gets a bunch of those error. I know little about flashing so I came to a place where they said that i have to download the stock firmware from asus website with the same version and same SKU. so i did that and stored the stock rom on my external SD card (can't save in internal since I can't boot to homescreen anymore. Just ending up in Asus logo loading forever.) but still no luck. I Searched some more and found a guide about flashing using AFT. I tried but still no luck, says it needs a .raw firmware. unfortunately anywhere i go there is no .raw firmware for my phone. so I explore some more and came across about bootloader. but recently i found out that my bootloader is locked. Neither can I flash using sideload.

My phone is not rooted, no custom recovery installed, no option to install update from ADB and can't install from recovery. BUT still able to go to recovery, boot until asus logo, when charging battery icon still shows. still vibrates when powered.

I really hope someone out there can help me with my current problem. I still think this can be done cause i don't think theres a problem with the hardware. Been searching for days and I really need to recover my phone. Oh and not to mention there are 2 more of this phone on my relatives and all of them have the same problem. So please help us A500KL users. Sorry for the long message, I'm just so desperate to recover my phone. God Bless :)
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaibhavnarain11@gmail.com:
hi bro

well firstly bootloader unlock is NOT needed for sideloading stock firmware.i'm giving you the link to one of my tutorials,follow the procedure carefully.note one thing that do NOT download the firmware whose link is given in tutorial,instead use kitkat firmware of your phone(download from asus support page)....use only kitkat firmware pls.coz my experience says that flashing lollipop directly gives errors.http://xdaforums.com/zenfone-5/help/bootlooped-bricked-returning-to-stock-t3358662
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherXI:
That method only work for A500/501 cg models. Not A500KL .It will not work. I already came across this problem. There is NO RAW FIRMWARE FOR ZENFONE 5 LTE
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaibhavnarain11@gmail.com:
but when did i say that you need raw firmware??

what we are doing is flashing fastboot,recovery and then sideloading the zip firmware which is available on asus website...
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bazerald:
Hello bro.. your tutorial is well said but unfortunately Zenfone 5 LTE is different. Yes i do have a firmware downloaded at the official asus website and it doesn't contain any recovery.img and fastboot.img there's only boot.img inside. and yes its only kitkat. its WW 11.4.6.94

Lastly, zenfone 5 LTE doesn't have "apply update from ADB" option in recovery by default so sideloading is not really possible. I can only depend on fastboot with locked bootloader. so yeah that makes things difficult.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherXI:
You din't get what i mean.... His system partition is MESSED UP. The partition also contains fastboot and recovery partition. Flashing fastboot and recovery WILL FAIL. He will have to find AND RAW FIRMWARE NOT A ZIP FIRMWARE FROM ASUS.

I already searched for Raw firmware for zenfone 5 lte. There is no raw firmware for that model. Using that guide requires the raw firmware. In the process that tool will use the RAW firnware to fix the partition table.

Hopes that clears everything up
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toki Yoki:
Hi Bazerald,

My 18-month old A500KL has exactly the same problem as you had described - startup never get pass the Asus logo screen, got a bunch of "E: failed to mount ....." error messages in Recovery. I was told by the Asus Service Centre technician that the problem was caused by a broken ROM and to revive the phone, a replacement of the mother board was required and they were charging megabuck for the job. I ended up taking my phone back without fixing and here I am browsing in this forum hoping to find an alternative solution.

Since I know everything else on my A500KL is still working except the internal ROM, what I am hoping to do is to find if there is a way to load the stock firmware onto an external SD card and boot up the phone from there, in other words, I would like to swap the internal and external memory. I can find a few discussions on this topic for the Samsung Galaxy, but I have yet to find a viable solution for our A500KL.

Any member has any suggestion on this idea?
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaibhavnarain11@gmail.com:
hi friend

i'm really sorry,i just somehow missed the line saying that he has system error..

thanks for noting
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bazerald:
I agree, I was hoping for the same thing here since xda is very popular for fixing tons of problems. I guess we'll just have to wait for THE ONE who can help us.. since A500KL doesn't seem have a raw firmware I'll be very happy if anyone can spend a time and make a raw firmware for us (if it's possible). Recovering the 3 A500KL here will be very rewarding.

Also, I'm trying to not depend too much on the raw firmawre cause the main reason is the messed up partition. Still searching for a way to fix it manually and getting some ideas on how it is done on other phones.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherXI:
Unless you guys found a RAW firmware for the LTE model. It's preety much hopeless. Sorry........
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bazerald:
does anyone know if repartitioning the messed up partition of A500KL manually is possible?
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktxda1988:
I got the same problem a few months ago. I searched through the Internet and found that many many people having such problem, I concluded that it is the quality of the chips (usually 15 months of usage), not software problem alone (the phone just died suddenly, I did nothing at all!!). This was the first time I had hardware failure in phones (in the past 20 years!). I WILL NEVER BUY ASUS phone again.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TabascoTX:
Ok guys, give me a sec and i'll find the firmware. Theres one on the website thats a revert firmware that will fix it. I had the same issue with mine. This firmware will revert it back to Kitkat. Yes.. Its DOES have the stock Recovery,Boot.img and System.img files.

This is the firmware your looking for Version WW_11.4.6.94 (Downgrade Version)

http://www.asus.com/us/support/Download/39/1/0/6/8/

ONLY FLASH THAT VERSION! Only Version WW_11.4.6.94 (Downgrade Version) (WorldWide) Version..

Only the Downgrade Versions have the complete files needed to repair a bad flash or root attempt.

Follow the directions Vaib posted on the previous page, but use the firmware file above.

Should fix the software,recovery and partition issue. Also, the bootloader unlock provided by Asus is hit and miss.

I've used it to root,but alot of the files are interlinked. So you run the risk of another app not working when trying to debloat the rom. As of now there is no Alternate non Stock Rom for the A500KL. Note: After flashing the WW firmware you phone will be recognized as an Asus "T00P". This is normal and doesnt cause any issues.

If all else fails, go here for more info on the A500KL. http://www.asus-zenfone.com/search/label/Zenfone 5 LTE

Good Luck. Happy Flashing
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenooi1984:
Tabasco , WW_11.4.6.94 (Downgrade Version) did not have recovery.img and fastboot.img inside as well.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TabascoTX:
It should have, unless i accidentally linked to the wrong one. Let me see what happened.

The downgrade version should have recovery and fast-boot. It kicks it from L to KK. Since the fast-boot and recovery aren't compatible from L to KK, it should flash it. When i boot looped mine trying to a flash an alternate recovery i re-flashed using the downgrade version to fix it. I guess possibility that it could be in another WW Version, but im pretty sure i remember flashing the first WW Downgrade. I'm going to look at WW_11.4.6.71 and see if it in there.

OK, WW_11.4.6.71 has a script to install recovery. So the recovery.img is in the firmware somewhere. Try WW_11.4.6.71 instead and see if that fixes it for you.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenooi1984:
thanks for tried to check , i downloaded WW-11.4.6.107 it did not have it either.

due to my super slow internet speed ,it took me abt 3 hours to downloaded 1 firmware....... i wish to download all to check but...... poor me..
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TabascoTX:
OK, WW_11.4.6.71 has a script to install recovery. So the recovery.img is in the firmware somewhere. Try WW_11.4.6.71 instead and see if that fixes it for you.

The recovery isnt exactly named recovery.img, there's a script that refers to installing the recovery from another location. So i'd try flashing the downgrade version after getting the phone into fastboot. And unfortunately it can be difficult to tell if the phone is actually in fastboot.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenooi1984:
ok thanks , will try it later on.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherXI:
Wow.

You people really didn't read the comments section throughly.

Trying normal or downgrade firmware will not work.

This procedure requires a RAW firmware.

And using the offline update tool provided by [MENTION=6292495]dgadelha[/MENTION].

If any of you found a RAW firmware for the A500KL model.

You can easily adapt the script from his Offline update tool.

It will repartition the device.

AGAIN. trying normal firmware is not going to fix the problem
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red.lines:
[MENTION=7419459]Bazerald[/MENTION] (i think that your a500kl is WW) Try: with stock recovery try wipe the phone (data, cache), flash the firmware downloadable from asus site UL-ASUS_T00P-WW-11.4.6.94-user, (not the downgrade version), if not success, try UL-ASUS_T00P-WW-12.4.5.22
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bazerald:
Hello, as you can see as of now I'm still looking for a fix. but unfortunately, that method won't work.. anything I do in recovery just gives me a bunch of E: failed to mount errors.. even wiping data, cache or factory reset. flashing in recovery wont work. The only possible way is through AFT but it needs a .raw firmware, not the downloadable firmwares from asus websites. I'm starting to lose hope now but something tells me I need to wait a bit more.. ;) Appreciated your replies guys :good::laugh::D
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teks0427:
Has anybody found a RAW image for the A500KL? I've been looking for several months already but haven't found a suitable one yet.

I'm using Zenfone Assist and I can get the phone into Fastboot mode. I just need the RAW image to restore it from and I think it should work. I wonder if there's a generic Android RAW image that would work. I think it has to be a RAW image because the partition structures also have to be restored since they got screwed up somehow.

The way I understand it, (although I'm not sure if it's correct) is that restoring from a RAW image is like installing Windows on your PC using an installer CD (formatting, partitioning, then installing the OS) whereas installing from a ZIP file is like updating the installed operating system only. Since the partitions are screwed up, only a restoration from RAW image would work. I'm not very sure since that is only my guess. Please correct me if I am wrong.
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paktepu:
Try this

http://xdaforums.com/zenfone-5/general/stock-a500kl-zenfone-5-lte-t3303475
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyby1601:
Hello.

2 weeks ago my A500KL went crazy. I install from Asus website WW_Phone-12.4.5.22 but now same problem.

I try to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition but only erors .....(invalid argument).

Same error if i try to flash again the rom from Asus and the phone is stuck at Asuus logo.

Help, please

Trimis de pe al meu Nexus 7 folosind Tapatalk
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomineshi:
I posted on a group support in fb to pm me for the ones who have working A500KL but the admin keeps deleting my post and not approving it. I may be able to get system.img by using a working rooted a500kl
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyby1601:
I tried to use Fastboot to flash a new recovery but Fastboot does not see the phone. (it shows the same number as the AFT and recovery)

When i am in the phone recovery the AFT show a serial number and at state , Connected, but i do not have the RAW file...

I think i will buy another phone...
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyby1601:
Trimis de pe al meu Nexus 7 folosind Tapatalk
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfs00321:
Try This

this is a taiwan URL goo.gl/LSKlws

I am a new user so need add https: / /

Hope can help you
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patvan2020:
Hi Christopher XI

Do you know has anyone managed to find the RAW image for A500KL yet? or if anyone managed to fix the messed up partions on the A500kl specifically?
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dilanchamikara:
Can you help me to fix my ASUS A500KL. I can give you access through TEAMVIEWER.

Please whatsapp me or email

Whatsapp - 0094776010191

email - dilanchamikara@ymail.com

Please. Appreciate your help. Thanks.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rajdip:
DELETED
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] filthyrich77:
Wow
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sikica133:
there is a simpler way, which works on RN3 with snapdragon & locked bl, and is persistnat

just use kingroot apk to root it, and supersume if you dont rly want kroot to switch to supersu. works perfectly
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rajdip:
it doesnt work anymore
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sikica133:
hmm, im guessing thats on china version then? im on 7.1.9 global and it works
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rajdip:
it doesnt work on all the latest roms, Global/china stable. Working on a alternative method with less hassle :p
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9001user_:
Hi there. I have a Galaxy S5 G900FQ. I m currently using TWRP and using CM13 klte version. Until here, there is no problem. In the Galaxy S 5 Android Development Forum, I downloaded Popwiz Telstra and Revolution roms. Both of them are available for G900F. I tried to install both roms but I got bootloops. Is it because of the G900FQ or anything else? Isn't the Q just country code?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9001user_:
Is it okay to trying from cm13? Now it looks g900f inside about phone.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9001user_:
Yes because I m from Turkey :D
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9001user_:
Again I have bootloop after full wipe and installation :confused: What can be the problem?