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[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] joaodrp:
Following the first page guide, I have successfully unlocked the device but I can't get to the recovery.

My stats:

- OP3 CB 3.5.5 (installed by ADB from 3.2.7, downloaded from the OnePlus support page)

- Stock recovery

- Locked

- No root

What I did:

1) Unlock with fastboot

2) Flash the recovery (downloaded from the first post) with fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img), which gives me:

target reported max download size of 442499072 bytes

sending 'recovery' (17776 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.453s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.141s]

finished. total time: 0.609s​

3) Disconnected the USB cable, select "Power off" option in the fastboot mode.

4) Boot phone into recovery mode (power + volume down).

Problem:

Now the problem is that it wont boot to the recovery. I go straight to a page where it says that my phone has been unlocked and can't be trusted and if I don't press any key it will boot in 5 seconds. I press one key and then I go to the "Options menu". If I select "Recovery" from the listed options the screen goes black, the phone vibrates and I get again to the first menu (where it says that my phone has been unlocked and can't be trusted). Can't get to the recovery. I can however get again into fastboot mode. I tried flashing the recovery again from there, even downloading it again, but the problem remains. Can anyone help me? :(

I can boot the system, however what is also odd is the fact that in the phone info the OxygenOS version appears as 3.5.5, but in system updates I have one notification to update to OxygenOS 3.5.5 (17MB) .....
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
From now on use this recovery always.

http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=21065

And yeah that 17mb package is a hotfix package so better update it but flash this recovery with fastboot 1st
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] joaodrp:
Great, it worked, thanks! If I now update the system will it loose the root or twrp?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrMeeseeks:
Yes.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] joaodrp:
I tried to do the update (after unlock, twrp and superSU) but it failed. After confirming the update the system has rebooted and TWRP asked for a decryption password (???), which I dont know, so I canceled and then swipe to let TWRP apply changes, then rebooting to system (like the first time I started TWRP).

Now it shows me that I have an 3.5.5 update available, but it's not the 17mb one but one with 1444mb. Is this normal?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] let92:
From what I've understood on these days that I made some reasearches (I received the phone few days ago and I rooted it like you), in order to update the phone with latest OxygenOS you have to manually download the latest zip from OnePlus forum and flash it with custom recovery.

But I don't understand why you've the 3.5.5 update that is community build and not regular. I received the phone with 3.2.5 build and now I have 3.2.7 to download, maybe you have opted for community build?

Nobody can help me on this?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] wokdogol:
Is this official or modified twrp?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
modified from bluspark thread.

Use it for flasing all official and unofficial and OOS related stuffs.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lensgrabber:
Well crap. Thanks for confirming.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HatRiGt:
Does relocking the bootloader will help me to get updates from oneplus???
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Probably not. But don't worry. I have OxygenOS 3.1.2 Full Zip. Will be uploading it tomorrow morning. You guys can use full zips to update
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] UnnamedFile:
Without losing any data on the device?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Here is the OxygenOS 3.1.2 Full Zip :-

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591020540821926

Probably just clean flashing it alone might bring back stock recovery which can further be backed up.

Just clean flash it (backup apps using Titanium Backup Pro, wipe dalvik, system, data, cache and flash and then reboot and restore apps via Titanium Backup Pro)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mauronofrio:
i search in that zip i didnt find recovery
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vatumb:
How to Root OnePlus 3 and Install TWRP recovery

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[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
There is no recovery and why is it even needed though? As far as I know, you can flash OTA from twrp unless you are rooted.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] UnnamedFile:
My thought behind that was the possibility to restore the phone completely to stock form, being able to relock the bootloader and have only the original software on it. But since OP released the stock recovery for all their previous devices, I think it will be available for OPT as well.

[QUOTE As far as I know, you can flash OTA from twrp unless you are rooted.[/QUOTE]

So when you're rooted, is there a way to flash the firmware to an updated version without losing all data on the device? I still haven't completely understood that point yet (which is basically what prevents me from starting the procedure of setting it up, since my main concern is about having root while being able to get new firmware releases without having to backup/restore the whole phone).
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
So when you're rooted, is there a way to flash the firmware to an updated version without losing all data on the device? I still haven't completely understood that point yet (which is basically what prevents me from starting the procedure of setting it up, since my main concern is about having root while being able to get new firmware releases without having to backup/restore the whole phone).[/QUOTE]

Just flash the updated full ROM zip using TWRP. No data etc will be lost. Internal storage is never gone and if you want to wipe apps and app data, you can backup them using Titanium Backup Pro
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PhoenixAG:
Hi Naman,

I unlocked, flashed twrp and rooted using your guide. Phone works fine. The first time I flashed recovery, it didn't stick and it kept taking me back to the stock recovery.

I had to flash it a second time and rooted. Haven't checked if it has stuck for now but everything works fine. I get the "this phone isnt trusted anymore" messages too when I start up.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ravikirancg:
Ok.. I just had a very very odd experience.. I just received my device a few moments ago. I wanted to unlock it initially itself so that I wouldn't have to go through the setup all over again.. I went ahead and did the standard stuff. Once I unlocked and it rebooted itself, instead of the expected android welcome screen, I got a very strange screen. It was completely dark with one input which asked for a password. Other than that it would let me make emergency calls. That did not make sense. The phone was supposed to have been factory reset. And moreover, I never even setup a password. I restarted the phone a couple of times. The issue still persisted. I freaked out a bit and decided to try and lock it back. Once I locked it back and rebooted, it worked just fine. I wanted to get a pic of this to post here so I figured I would unlock it again. But this time, the unlocking went just fine. I just booted back into android setup.

Has this happened to anyone else? Do you know what happened? And why the unlocking worked just fine the second time but not the first?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HatRiGt:
Shall I flash it as update over stock rom?

Or I hav to wipe ol and flash this?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] City Slicker:
Recovery and rooting failure

I've been thru the recovery image installation/rooting process described at the top of the thread and it's ended in tears.

The critical piece of information is that if you opted to start your phone with a pin number, this probably encrypts the phone - I say probably because at the moment I'm waiting on a stock rom and recovery to test whether the phone is supplied encrypted (as some other posts here and elsewhere suggest) or whether it is at that point in the initial setup this takes place.

Any way round, TWRP recovery prompts for a password to the encrypted part of the system -this is not the PIN numbers typed when setting up. Without the PIN you can't proceed to root the phone or install zips .

So at this point I had a phone with stock rom, custom recovery not working, and a normal boot which demanded a password when os was loaded - the same problem as in TWRP recovery.

I was still able to fastboot though, so I re-locked the bootloader with the 'fastboot oem lock' command. I was then able to boot normally.

In the absence of a stock rom for the phone, first I used 'fastboot oem unlock' to unlock bootloader again, I wiped the user partition by starting TWRP and using it in read only mode, from which I was able to use the advanced wipe functions. TWRP then functioned properly without demanding a password. I used adb sideload to install CM13, gapps and supersu with commands like 'adb sideload D:\Data\Desktop\cm-13.0-20160614-UNOFFICIAL-oneplus3.zip'.

My phone is now rooted but with an OS I didn't particularly want. I'm currently waiting for OP tech support to hold my hand to restore the stock firmware (they kindly sent this to me in a password encrypted zip file in prep for the ts call, so at the moment I can't pass this along). Will keep you posted.

---------- Post added at 12:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:23 PM ----------

Thanks for posting this, just what I have been looking for. OP tech support sent me a stock rom titled 'OnePlus3_16_A.07_160606.rar' which is earlier than the one you have.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
You can directly update it.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Yes. Oneplus 3 comes encrypted by default and do decrypt it, you need to fastboot format userdata
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HatRiGt:
It's more than 1Gb.. Wats in it?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
A stock rom is always that big.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] City Slicker:
I've now reflashed using the file 'OnePlus3Oxygen_16_OTA_008_all_1606122244_e0cfc5ffc8bf411a.zip'. The device is encrypted by default, but this did not prevent me from rooting the phone using the procedure in this post.

What caused my problems is having a pin registered at boot up. This would have been set when I set lock screen PIN and checked 'Require PIN to start device'.

The fact that this wasn't set this time round solved my issues. I am informed that if you want to remove this protection, you can change the lock screen security to 'none', repeat the procedure to use a PIN, this time you decline the additional security step.

Still waiting for news regarding OP tech support. Don't need it but I'd like to unlock their stock image for everyone's benefit in case it has some nice goodies in it (stock recovery.img anyone?)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
It not only has stock recovery.img but a hard brick unbrick tool too. ;)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] wokdogol:
Oke noted :good:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jj71787:
nvm I fixed it
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gabbbbbbb:
Do I have to seriously check if OEM unlocking is enabled every time before I reboot, or did I misunderstand something.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] let92:
Only after you've unlocked the bootloader you have to check if it is enabled ;)

From that time, it must be checked forever.

I don't know what happen if you change that option... :confused:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Klausoneplus3:
Oneplus 3, black screen trying to boot into recovery mode

Hello and thank you for the guide, which was easy to follow.

I am not too familiar with all the processes, but at first it looked all fine.

Now I need help!

After flashing cm-14.1-20161119-NIGHTLY-oneplus3-recovery.img and installing the custom Rom cm-14.1-20161119-NIGHTLY-oneplus3.zip, my phone started well. Next I wanted to add the google files and could not get into recovery mode any more. (SU is installed as well).

The one-logo appears for a few seconds and then the screen goes black.

All I can do is power off by pressing the power button for some time. Otherwise the phone seems to work.

One other problem ist the wifi connection. The phone will not connect at all.

Is there somebody with a solution?

I appreciate every bit of help.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
flash this recovery with fastboot

http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=21065
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Klausoneplus3:
Thank you very much for your quick reply. It worked!!:D

Now I am left with teh WiFi-issue, but shure I will find a solution.

Thanks again
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] theduke7:
what about relocking the bootloader...

i think one must go back to stock oos and kernel if he was on custom ones... but then ? is there a fastboot command for that...

i know there are tools that says it does that, but i like to know the manual one.

edit/ sory i found the answer in previous page

fastboot oem lock

so stock oos and kernel then fastboot the command locks the bootloader.?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] marf28101995:
Don't forget stock recovery
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] theduke7:
thanks, i would've forgot :)

i'm not locking it back really jsut conering my bases just in case, i did this before on my Sony devices by being new to a device, i don't want to brick it , as far as i can till from all i read on xda, there's no reason to relock the boatloader once unlocked ...like in sony you lose DRM key when unlocking and that (without a fix) coasts you some features, but as far as i can till that's not the case with OP3, no features lost when unlocking!! right!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] theduke7:
i followed the instruction and installed the drivers correctly and have everything enabled but when executing the unlock command i get an error : FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))

screen attached

Edit/ I figured it out , i had to run as admin
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mit2nil:
OK I really don't have patience to read through 40 pages of comments. I did read till page 18 though. Can I blindly follow the instructions and assume glitches found (if any) so far are updated in original instructions?

Also one quick question, does the process apply to all variants of one plus 3? Mine is north America version of one plus 3 (A3000). If not what is extra stuff I need to take care?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
There are no issues, the guide is really well made so you can (almost) blindly follow it. I'd only suggest that you find other download links as some of these here are outdated by now.

I strongly advise using modified TWRP 3.0.2-22 by eng.stk. And while you're at it, get a newer version of SuperSU.

Everything else is OK.

And yes, the procedure is the same for both A3003 and A3000. There are no software differences between those models.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] J.Bart:
Thank you very much for these instructions. It's perfect and really easy to do!!!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] some random user:
Fastboot devices is currently unable to find my phone. I followed the steps and installed ADB and USB drivers for OP3.

Currently on CB 3.5.5.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
That means proper drivers are not installed. Are you on Win10? If so, search and find the proper method of installing drivers for OP3 using Win10.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mtpx7:
Sorry for OT, but does anyone know if OP3T will have a micro sd card slot and/or 128GB internal storage? If I bought op3 I would have 10-15 gb left. Will the device start to slow down?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] let92:
OnePlus 3T doesn't have micro SD card support and it has also 128GB, but it costs more obviously.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] andyman_187:
i recently flashed 3.2.8 successfully, but trying to flash SuperSu 2.78 (tested on stable and SR4) I get bootloop. before flashing supersu, I checked /system and I still have 305MB left. I have to reflash full OTA zip just boot but no root :(
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
flash full zip.

reboot recovery

mount system

delete bull**** apps [emoji14]

flash supersu

flash kernel if you want

reboot [emoji106]
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] andyman_187:
like I said, I still have 305 MB left in /system, so there should be enough space for the modules
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
I followed this method and booted perfectly fine. If you are still not able to boot I can upload my twrp backup of boot and system rooted.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] andyman_187:
yes please, that would be awesome
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
here you go.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-p2nW4_KDPjSXIxWF9UdlU1WTQ/view?usp=sharing
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] pratik_193:
can i directly flash modified twrp via fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command ? or i have to 1st flash unmodified twrp & then flash modified within twrp itself ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
You can flash direcrly no problem
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] pratik_193:
cool.. thanks for the quick response...

weird though..

i was on official cm 14.1, wiped everything, flashed stock beta 7 via modified twrp, when i clicked reboot in twrp, it got stuck on twrp, i hard rebooted... & now i have official recovery.. do you know why?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
that is because ob7 writes stock recovery again. to prevent this after flashing rom flash twrp.img from twrp itself and reboot recovery
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] pratik_193:
aah.. now i got it..thanks a ton..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] c0dac0da:
I'm on OOS 3.2.8 stock , are the links in the OP be good enough for TWRP & supersu .
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
It's better to get newer ones, just in case (at least TWRP).
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] c0dac0da:
Can anyone provide a link to the latest twrp & supersu
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] naxalite971:
Confused. I rooted using superu and twrp. I then updated oxygen.

1. How do I re root? When Rebooting it still gives the quickboot options and such.

2. Will I need to wipe my device?

All the walk throughs presume a Virgin device.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
You simply flash SuperSU through TWRP. You may have to wipe Dalvik and cache after flashing but will not lose anything.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] naxalite971:
Worked like a charm! Thx!!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mjose:
Hi all, Need help...

Issue: VoLTE not working in dual sim setup after flasing stock rom 3.2.8/3.2.6 from CB Beta 7.It worked perfectly in stock rom before flashing CB beta 7.It worked in CB also.I reflashed CB to stock rom 3.2.8.Then problem started.Volte not working if i have two sims.Data is working.But no VoLte calls and no VoLte icon.If i use single sim, volte works. No root, stock recovery.

What i did: Mobile is full stock.No root.Bootloader locked.Stock rom. No modification.Rom flashed using adb sideload only.

1)From Stock rom 3.2.7,sideloaded full 3.2.8 rom.Every thing works fine.

2)Factort reseted,sideloaded full CB beta 7. Every thing works fine. (No option to select 2G/3G/4G to individual sims as in stock rom.I need one sim in 4G and other sim in 2G mode. So need stock rom.)

3)Factory reseted, sideloaded full stock rom 3.2.6.It booted and asked to reset again by showing some decryption error. Reseted.Mobile started. Every thing work fine apart from the VoLTE issue.

4)I reflashed other stock rom also. Issue was there.

5)**If i flash again community rom, VOLTE works fine with both sims.

Help to find what i am doing wrong and any solution to fix the issue.

Thanks.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nikhilsnigam:
dial *#*#4636#*#* and check if volte provisioning is enabled or not. If not< enable it.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mjose:
Hi, Its enabled only. Any other option to check?

Thanks.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] NoobMonkey:
Tried to find how to get rid of the unlocked bootloader warning but couldn't find the answer. Is there any way to get rid of it or just have to deal with it?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] 5nickers:
any idea how i get twrp when i already have beta 8 with official recovery?

edit: got it via the oneplus 3 toolkit.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
Not possible to remove that as of now (and probably won't ever be).

If you don't want to wait, just press the power button again, it'll skip the warning. And if you don't like it for cosmetic reasons ... deal with it ?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] denungedansker:
I have some problems with connecting to my phone in fastboot. I have installed the adb drivers and the phone comes up in commandpromt, when its turned on, but It dosnt show in fastboot.

My phone has been rootet before, but something went wrong and i ran trough the proces for a bricked phone.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] NoobMonkey:
What version of USB port are u using? I also had connection problems when I used USB3. After switching to USB 2 everything worked fine.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] denungedansker:
I think i use usb 2. I have 2 usb 2 and 1 usb 3 and no one works.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lucignolo1:
Goodmorning everyone. On my OnePlus-3 is installed there in the resurrection remix 5.7 mm and I would go to the resurrection remix 5.8 nougat. On this site recommend installing the TWRP unofficial 3.0.2-23 while on my device is installed TWRP version 3.0.2-1. However, whenever I run the writing process of the new, unofficial TWRP, the operations are successful, but when I return in the TWRP recovery remains the 3.0.2-1. These procedures for installing TWRP the run from both the PC and the TWRP, both from the app, but with the same result. Can someone help me? Thank you and please forgive me for my english
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
You don't really have a problem, you just can't know that (unless you spend some time searching around) ?

Unofficial TWRP versions do not change displayed version number. Meaning you can flash any modified version from 3.0.2-19 to 3.0.2-28, but when you boot it it'll always show 3.0.2-1. Dev just made critical modifications and didn't bother changing displayed version number.

So if you didn't get any errors while flashing, you can be sure that you're running modded version.

Also, as I mentioned, latest modified TWRP is 3.0.2-28 (or .1-28) so I suggest you use that.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lucignolo1:
Thank you very much for all. I am trying your advices.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] carlos67:
ok, so is the modified 3.0.2-1.28 version only meant for nougat or can be used on Marshmallow also?? What was the modification compared to official twrp?

TIA
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Explorer23:
.28 supports ALL ROMs and firmwares.

Main differences compared to official:

- support for new firmwares (official doesn't work well - or at all - with many newer ROMs, open betas ...)

- support for f2fs filesystem
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] carlos67:
Ahh, thanks. So does that mean if I'm currently on BJRR marshmallow Rom (03/11 eliminator version) with firmware version 3.2.4 (and f2fs for data and cache only) that I can update the firmware to 3.2.8 as long as I'm running the modified twrp .28??