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[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] therebel88:
Bit of a noob question here as this is my first encrypted device. My OP3 is currently encrypted. I would like to follow this guide, and don't care much whether it stays encrypted or not. Can I follow the directions as they are written, or do I have to do something different to achieve root and twrp if I am currently encrypted?

Thanks!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivAnash:
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Encrypted or not, really doesn't matter to me ( I have no clue if u loose encryption if u unlock bootloader ) , can't use a android device without root..

If u want to unlock your bootloader, install a custom recovery and get root, follow the opening post step by step... Cheers..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] CWolfCW:
So there's currently three versions of TWRP available for the OP3. Which variation should I be using?

Or should I just wait until one becomes official?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] JumboMan:
Can anyone step by step guide me to disable forced encryption and dm verify
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] littleprince86:
How return stock ?stock recovery and stock firmware
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] therebel88:
Rooted and installed TWRP with no issues. Thanks for the guide!! Gonna stay on OOS until the binaries are released for dash charging.

Cheers!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
To add to my previous post, a few days later my PC just randomly decided to finally install drivers for fastboot mode (did not have phone plugged in in the mean time, weird).

So I was finally able to unlock bootloader, root and now I'm messing around with Xposed :victory:

Probably gonna stay on stock ROM for a while, it seems pretty good. Currently I don't see benefits of changing it, especially because of Dash charge which I like a lot.

Thanks for a guide and have a nice day! :good:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raka936:
I have a huge problem, I had the same issue on my OPO but solved it easily each time, but it appears that it is not working on the OP3...

On my OPO, each time I flashed TWRP, the phone wasn't able to boot anymore (it was stuck in a bootloop), to solve it I had to boot in TWRP and do a factory reset, then everything worked fine again.

On my OP3, I just had the same issue, the difference is that doing a factory reset doesn't solve the problem, the phone is still stuck in a bootloop, I don't know what to do...

I perfectly followed the guide (unless you didn't mention that we have to enable OEM unlocking to unlock bootloader so I found it myself and did it). After unlocking the bootloader a warning message started to appear everytime I boot, saying that the device is unlocked and can't be trusted, but I guess it's normal, right ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] arpith.fbi:
after unlocking and flashing recovery tried to root..but always stuck at boot..wiped cache....any idea ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raka936:
I have exactly the same problem ! :crying:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Weird. It should just reboot once itself and then the boot should be perfect. I have myself tested this many times.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] arpith.fbi:
my bad..i was flashing wrong zip...downloaded the modified beta root zip and it booted just fine.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
OnePlus?*3?*Stock Recovery is here :-

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424942569

Enjoy !
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Guide updated.

Edited Making and Restoring Nandroid Backup sections. Noted added.

Best Regards,

Naman.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raka936:
I repaired my OP3 by flashing the stock recovery and reinstalling Oxygen OS in sideload, but now I'm afraid to flash TWRP again... I don't understand what I do wrong, I just enter the command to flash recovery, then when I reboot the phone bootloop...
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fentadroid:
Did ./fastboot oem unlock and then ./fastboot reboot

Installed TWRP and now it asks me for a password once android is rebooted. (TWRP too)

What can i do now?

EDIT: "fastboot format userdata" worked....
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] opn6:
Where can i find info on unlocking bootloader, Flash TWRP, and rooting the op3 on ubuntu? thks.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Process is the same, no matter what system you have on PC.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] danyvw:
I put the same post on OP forum but would I like the response from you guys too.

I'm going to root my OP3, since I got it I unlocked the bootloader but nothing else, I was trying to see how stock phone worked but I can't stand an unrooted phone (even the OP3). It is a good advise to decrypt? If so shoul be done before or after flashing TWRP using "fastboot format userdata" command? Thanks
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bradl79:
[MENTION=5641921]Naman Bhalla[/MENTION] do u plan on doing a return to complete stock since we do now have a stock recovery?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Actually, yes. Now we have all files needed for a fastboot image of a OnePlus 3. I just need to place them, make a script and done.

I will do that soon.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ryttge:
TWRP is overwritten by One Plus stock recovery upon reboot?

Any idea on how to fix this?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] anshmiester78900:
Guys while i was unlocking my phone's bootloader the cmd showed a message that remote unlocking is not allowed. Does anyone know how to solve it ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Did you enable OEM Unlocking in Developer Options ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] anshmiester78900:
Sorry I just did right now. So now I'm good to go ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivAnash:
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You're good to go.. Dude just follow the OP step by step.. I don't think the instructions can get any more clearer..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] psxsnake:
after unlock bootloader i got this every reboot (EU OP3)

how to solve it?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] anshmiester78900:
Thanks man just unlocked and flashed twrp and now on custom ROM ;)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
There is no way for it yet. It is secured boot, an Android feature. I am still waiting for my device and then will try.

Oh, BTW Some guys nor from India had PMed me for donations and told that they can't donate through the method on my link. I have updated my webpage. Probably you should be able to donate now. And I am trying to get a PayPal account too. Thanks for appreciating. Not needed but definitely this motivates even more. Thanks again. :)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kalpik:
Yep, I'd like to get rid of it too, no matter how minor it is :P
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] whitenoyz:
yes, the warning message at boot time is quite annoying.

By the way, had my OPO2 rooted and had it sent to warranty for a screen matter, no problems at all. Warranty covers a rooted device also.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] stefanero313:
Hi,

I got a question. I rooted my device and the terminal app works fine when I type - su -

But when I start ES file explorer or helium backup they seam to not find root. I am on OOS 3.1.3

Can someone help me please.

Thnx a bunch
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
This is an ES File Explorer issue. Chainfire has clearly mentioned it a lot times. Not sure about Helium but guess it hasn't been updated since long, so might have issue too.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] stefanero313:
Okay, Thnx for the response.

It has always been working opo and op2... I guess I will switch to other apps then.

Br
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rene040:
Unlocking the bootloader worked fine, however now when I flash TWRP and boot into it, then select "Reboot" and "System" like the guide says I get back into OOS. Then the next time I boot into the recovery the stock recovery is back(the thing asking me to choose between Chinese and English). Tried it 3 times now. I checked, before restarting the 3 options in the developer settings where still set. (read that a few pages back in this thread)

What could be wrong?

Edit: fixed by selecting Install in TWRP, allow modifications. I didn't do that the first time and it never asked again.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] WettbackMartyr:
Same but opposite problem here. Was able to unlock bootloader no problem because fastboot is working fine but "adb devices" command will not show me the device. Can't for the life of me figure out why fastboot would work and not adb. It can't be the phone because Nexus 5 adb is working with the same computer. Has to be a driver issue. Anyone?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
And do you see your device in ADB Interface in device manager ? If no, update driver software manually. If yes, I think I know the issue.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] WettbackMartyr:
OK well my dumb ass did see the adb interface in device manager but it has an ! Error on it. Tried updating the driver manually using universal naked driver and latest Windows USB driver I got from Google however continue to get the error windows could not find driver software for you device. This is when manually pointing the driver update to the folders. Why could this be now? (And for the record I haven't found any other drivers specifically for the oneplus 3 in my searches)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hastaloego:
depends on your local law and how op handle it .

in germany, software aka rom / root, ect and hardware are separated.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] WettbackMartyr:
Quoting myself cause I solved my problem. If anyone else is having adb driver installation issues PM me. Happy to help any and all.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
I don't see a reason why it would depend on local law. The phone is (usually) bought directly from OnePlus and if you need repair you send it to OnePlus. So it depends only on what OnePlus decides.

And OnePlus doesn't care what you do with software. Heck, even Carl Pei personally suggested using custom ROMs if you're not satisfied with official one :)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nightfox7:
First of all, great guide! It covers a lot of the stuff that some other guides gloss over.

But the whole little preboot screen is really bothering me.. (I should have read through the thread first but that was my mistake). And I would prefer to have updates OTA, rather than flashing them. Until we find a way to do this and get regular OTAs while rooted

How do you re-lock the bootloader?

I flashed the stock recovery, then booted into fastboot, and issued "fastboot oem lock" and it seemed to go through fine, but when I try to start the phone it flashes the oneplus logo then turns off, and nothing after that. I tried doing a factory reset through the stock recovery as well..

Any ideas?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bahdma:
I'm having the same issue as you. If you happen to figure it out somewhere besides this forum would you please let me know as well? It would be much appreciated. Thank you.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nightfox7:
So I did end up figuring it out yesterday, on my own, I couldn't really find any resources for this phone on how to do it. Everywhere seems to indicate that you can just re-lock your bootloader once you restore stock recovery but that is not the case with this phone it would seem.

These are the steps I took:

Restore stock recovery

boot to Fastboot -> fastboot flash recovery <stock recovery file here>

Reboot phone

Flash stock OTA firmware via sideload

Download stock firmware: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591020540821926

Make sure usb debugging is on

Reboot phone into stock recovery (I like to enable developer options then enable advanced reboot)

Navigate to "install from ADB" - or something similar

then on your computer: adb sideload <ota file>

Relock the bootloader

Reboot to bootloader

on your computer: fastboot oem lock

Confirm on phone

reboot phone
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
AFAIK you can't get OTAs while rooted. In order to get OTA updates your system has to be unmodified - so no root.

But you can have unlocked bootloader and custom recovery, just the system partition has to be fully stock.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nightfox7:
Hmm then maybe I am remembering incorrectly.. I could had sworn I was rooted on my zenfone 2 with the stock ROM and still getting OTAs, but that was a while back before I switch to cyanogenmod.. Also I thought I was running my nexus 7 rooted when I had it on stock Android and getting OTAs.. Now, I did have to re-root after getting the updates from what I remember, but that wasn't a huge deal..

But, maybe my memory is just failing.

I guess I don't see a huge benefit of having the bootloader unlocked and a custom recovery installed without being rooted (for me). I know it gives you more flexibility with making backups and such.

Now maybe I have a wrong understanding, but in this case, doesn't unlocking the bootloader cause the OTAs to not come in? Because you get that boot message saying that the phone cant be trusted.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Maybe it's possible, I don't know ... Just forwarding info that I came across somewhere on this forum (possibly even in this thread, to lazy to check). Somewhere, someone said specifically for OP3 that it can receive OTA with unlocked bootloader and TWRP installed, but the system has to be clean.

Also there's a possiblity that stuff works differently on devices from different manufacturers. Maybe some can get OTA updates while rooted/unlocked/whatever and some don't ...

I don't really have much personal experience with OTA. I usually have all my devices rooted and modified as soon as possible because I can't live without root, so I never really got OTA updates. My first OTA was with OnePlus 3 :D And that was a second after first boot ...

We'll see these days how things work. OOS 3.2.0 (a.k.a. 3.1.4 for reviewers) is slowly rolling out so we should get reports from people getting or not gettting OTA updates.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] RASEVEN:
So i unlocked bootloader and flashed TRWP, but when i reboot with Power+Vulome down, no recovery TRWP??

"C:\Users\RASEVEN\Desktop\ONEPLUS3\TOOL_ALL_IN_ONE_1.0.2.0\adb>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'recovery' (17776 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.401s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.135s]

finished. total time: 0.543s"

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[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] matteo.fornero:
Hi guys,

Yes the unloock and root worked, but the warning message is very annoying for me as I turn off my device every night. I come from a Nexus 4 and there wasn't this thing. Is it possible to go back to a stock and looked device with the stock recovery (and of course no message)?

Thank you in advance
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Yes, it's possible, just reverse the procedure.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] matteo.fornero:
How can I revert something I flashed?

I mean, is it the procedure above?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
You can't directly revert it, but you can flash stock recovery using the same procedure. After that, you can re-lock the device in fastboot mode with the command "fastboot oem lock".
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Psyborgx023:
Fastboot can't recognize my device, even after installing oneplus usb drivers properly. Any help?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Had the same problem, tried everything and nothing helped. And then it suddenly fixed itself a few days later.

Sadly we don't have files to manually install fastboot drivers (they are not the same as for adb), so we have to rely on operating system to find and install them. I'm running Win10 and for some reason it just didn't get fastboot drivers... Until a few days later I got a notification to restart PC in order to install drivers (I think "bootloader" was mentioned). After restart I tried connecting my phone in fastboot mode and it was detected.

So make sure your OS is allowed to automatically find and install drivers and just give it some time.

Meanwhile I'll see if it's possible to somehow extract installed driver. It would be very useful to have it in file form and not rely on automation...

EDIT: Also try different PC if you can. Can't hurt... :D
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HemanthPHaridas:
Can i root my op3 running oxygenos 3.2.0 with the same procedures ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Yes, nothing has changed.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Spliffman1:
I have tried to unlock bootloader 2 or 3 times. Everything appears to be going well, adb and drivers installed,, it detects my device, shows serial number in adb, I run the fastboot oem unlock command and it executes okay. But when I reboot nothing has been wiped, my system boots right back up with my setup and data intact!!! I'm right back to where I was. Am I missing something? Hope someone can help.

EDIT: All is well, did it again today and it worked!!!! I must have been doing something stupid yesterday:p
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nightfox7:
I outlined how to do it, if you want to look a few posts back.

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Try going into device manager when your phone is plugged in, and uninstall the drivers for your phone (or whatever your computer sees your phone as), then turn off your computer, boot it back up, and plug your phone in, see if it automatically installs, if not, manually install and try again. If that still is giving you issues, make sure to try different USB ports on your computer (sounds crazy but it can help sometimes). Try it on another computer if you have access to one, if you don't have access to another computer you could make a bootable linux USB stick and do it in linux.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Psyborgx023:
It worked actually after i disabled signed driver verification (something like that) from Windows startup. Thanks for helping
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] gro0vr:
Bricked device

Hi brothers.

I followed everything to the letter, after reading this guide 3 or 4 times, and still managed to brick my phone within hours of it getting delivered. Needless to say, I am Forrest Gump levels of dumb.

I installed TWRP, then installed SU, everything was fine till here, took at backup of my EFI, then went ahead and flashed Xposed.

At this point, my phone wouldn't connect to my WiFi. My neighbours connections were coming, but mine was invisible.

So I reset the phone, go through the first setup, wifi is connecting again, so I think maybe if I just install SU without xposed, it might not DC(before this point I had flashed SU and xposed a couple of times, and everytime the wifi prob would return, so I'd reset again, maybe reset the device 5-6 times.)

So I install just SU(thinking wifi was connecting with just SU the first time, as I had downloaded terminal emulator as the guide suggested) , but this time, I couldn't see my network. Even manually adding the network wouldn't let me connect to the wifi.

So, I being the dumbass I am, decided to wipe in advanced wipe, and restore from the backup I had created, but now, the device is stuck at the black and white android logo.

Any help is appreciated
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Had a similar problem, restore didn't quite go well...

Chances are, system is restored (just like in my case), but something went slightly wrong and it can't boot.

Try downloading and installing (via sideload) new ROM - preferably newest OOS 3.2.0. So just open cmd where you have the zip, boot phone into TWRP > advanced > ADB sideload and then write command "adb sideload rom-name.zip". No wiping (or maybe just cache), you should then be able to boot into working OS and have all your files, apps, setting. If the backup actually restored and just couldn't boot.

If not, then try the same procedure again, but manually wipe all partitions prior to sideloading ROM.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] buduff:
Hey! I did everything that was written and everything has functionnate. But now, everytime I reboot I got the message "your device has been unlocked and cannot be trusted" then after 5 seconds it's reboot normally. Any solution?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Not yet.

Btw, you don't have to wait those 5 seconds, you can press the power button to skip that message.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] salomaoa:
I just can't install the recvery

Whenever I try to flash it, I get an error message: FAILED (status read failed (too many links))

How can I solve this?

Please help
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nightfox7:
First thing I would do is uninstall and reinstall drivers. Be sure to have unsigned driver installation enabled.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGBE:
How did you fix it? On the first boot in to TWRP after installing it, you do not choose "read only"? I have the same issue as you did and can't get the custom recovery to stick after rebooting the OS. Tnx...
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] gro0vr:
I had already downloaded 3.1.2 from downloads.oneplus, so flashed that.

Its booting now, but still won't connect to wifi, so annoying.

Showing my neighbours wifi, but not mine (so frustrating)

Downloading 3.2 now, will take 5-6 hours, lets see if flashing that works.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] 36dbldz:
I've been trying to keep up with this thread. I've never rooted a phone but have a few questions if you unlock add twrp then supersu, that is using stock rom. So I'll get otas then have to redo the root.

Do the banking/ android pay and dash charge still work?

Does the nandroid stock recovery need to be saved on phone or computer

Do you always need an update to twrp each time a new update comes out
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
You can't get OTA updates on modified system, you'll have to update manually (flash zip) when new system comes out. And yes, you'll have to re-root.

Can't say for Android Pay as I'm not using it, but it should work.

Nandroid should be saved on both the PC and phone. PC for safe storage and phone because you restore from it. (Although I think it's possible to set external storage on TWRP so you might be able to restore from PC, haven't tried).

You don't "need" to upgrade recovery every time a new one comes out, but just like everything else, it usually makes sense to use latest stable version.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] gro0vr:
I'd already downloaded 3.1.2 overnight from downloads.op. Installed that, but the wifi issues keeps propping up.

Downloading 3.2 from a post here on XDA, will see is that fixes the wifi issue.

If I save my connection, and restart the phone, it will not show up under avialable connections. But I tried something where I deleted the connection details, turned off the phone for 4 hours and took a long ass nap, and when I woke up and switched it on, it is connected. Creepy.

If 3.2 doesnt fix it, I may seek a replacement, IDK at this point.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
It might not be ROMs fault then. Sometimes some devices just refuse to work well together, even if they individually work fine. Especially when we're talking about network connections, logic doesn't apply to this ...

If you'll still have issues on 3.2.0/1 try changing your router if you can (borrow someone else's).