yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] richardbembridge:
I've followed the steps in Method 2 but when I run the MsmDownloadTool V3.0.2 I keep getting an error message "Sahara Communication Failed£¬Please try again after power off phone"

Does this mean the phone is actually switched on? I've held down the power button for over a minute and I hear the PC making the USB connection sound - the device disappears from Device Manager but then instantly reappears.

Please help!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dgendreau:
From my understanding, you need to hold the power button for at least 40 seconds without the phone plugged in. Then volume up for around 10-20 while plugging it in.

If not, try different USB ports.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dgendreau:
Update for anyone who cares:

Sent it in. Did the RMA process. Brought my phone to FedEx Monday afternoon, received my phone at my door step Wednesday afternoon fixed and repaired. Warranty covered all of the costs, I didn't need to spend any money. Phone is fixed and repaired. They said they put a new main board in it. Not sure what the problem was but that's what was replaced.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Run it as admin bro.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dsp333:
After the MSM download tool run it shows me "FAIL" and nothing ahead happens.....

pls. someone help me out!

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Was your phone under warrenty at that time when you gave phone to OPO tech support?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
He is talking about support over the phone and over the internet. It doesn't require warranty.

Only physical repair requires warranty for free repairs.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] avi0025:
A vey useful thread

Bricked my op3 .....Didn't know what to do found this on the forum ...followed the crisp and neat instructions ..MY OP3 up and running again ...Great work guys ...thank u from the bottom of my heart..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
Method 2 is getting a successful download mesaage, i got the green message with download complete. After this the device in booting, i have a locked bootloader and a stock recovery ocoures the unbrick tool give you back to oos 3.1.2 witn android 6.0.1. So i am still in into boot loop ... i cannot use. i cannot flash custom recovery because is the booloader locked and no usb debugging enagled into this bricked op3. The only and last solution is if someone can prepare an MsmDownloadTool with an unlocked bootloader .... can anyone do this? i offer donation ... please send private message if can do...

Thanks
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
It shouldn't relock your bootloader, atleast for me it doesn't. Pretty sure you do not need usb debugging for Fastboot.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
I cannot use adb commands because of locked bootloader, unfortunately I need to boot this phone in Android and enable unlock oem . The only remote command is "adb sideload filename.zip" with a signed ROM oos or h2os. But after this command, the phone boot ( no more boot loop) and I got black screen and white lighted notification led, and after this I cannot enter recovery only bootloader. Another thing is that when I have the black screen with white notification led, in device manager in com ports I have quallcom 900e diagnostic in com3 in my case. So how I can do a diagnostic .... I need a diagnostic soft from Qualcomm but is not out.

I also tried to flash over adb sideload a signed script zip file ( from Ahmed , unify tool) but I giving me an error, this would debloat and enable USB debugging......

Looks like I am stuck ....

I don't know if I can send back to support because I bought it on eBay without a box .... So no ideea ... Maybe somebody else has ideas ..

Thanks
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
You are thinking too far. If you use the Unbrick Guide, you will revert to 3.2.X you don't need to enable oem unlock since you simply do not have this option on this build of OOS. All you need to do unlock the bootloader with Fastboot, keep in mind adb and Fastboot are two different things.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
I tried under facstoot, the command "unlock oem" but is giving an error that is not possible in remote ...or something .. I know the difference between fastboot and recovery ... I. Stuck with locked fastboot ... And everywhere I see the same , I need USB debugging enabled .... What I not possible ... To enable ...

Stucked for the moment ..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Again you are thinking too far. You get the so called "remote error" because you are using wrong drivers. The problem lies in the drivers not the phone. Follow the unbrick guide especially the first 8 steps. If that doesn't solve it try different adb drivers.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
Thanks a lot, I will try later under a Windows XP machine ...

Thanks! Could be so simple?

I'll let u know

That is precious info that ... Is only drivers issue, I tried under win7 x86 and win10 x64 ...

So I start over under win xp ... Thanks !
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Well, depends on which machine you use it. If you use it on a Win10 x64 // 64bit then you take the version specially for that. The drivers have different versions aswell. Let me know :)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] marcopolo:
Hi Naman,

The link for downloading QC is dead or invalid, can you help me with a mirror link?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] broke23:
Might be of any help if I can recover msm v3.08 version that one plus used on my remote session ?

or not of any use?

mine still looks dead though
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
I tried on a fresh windows xp, so I installed the corect drivers ... Now I reflashed with the tool, got green message,

Than I go into fastboot mode, and I try this command" fastboot devices, I have the confirmation than my device is in fastboot, (look I attached pictures) tahm I go" fastboot flash recovery recovery.img " I got message " remote: partition flashing is not allowed" recovery.img is the renamed TWRP ....

What else ...

I am done ... No ideea ....
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Okay well, how does your phone show up under Device Manager? As shown in the guide? If not so. Make sure you follow it properly. It has to show up as mentioned In the guide. If Fastboot doesn't have permissions the unbrick guide won't work either since it does the exact same thing. Do you have a Win10 or Win7 machine? Make sure you do follow all steps, especially 1 to 8 are the most important.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
If under fastboot, I type th command " fastboot devices" the device is recognized bY the serial number: xxxxxx fastboot ....

I don't see why should be a problem here ... of drivers ....

Indeed I had a problem under windows 10 x64 when I flashed over recover, using fastboot update, I had memory error, so I needed to use a adb for x64 bit, to be able to flash a 1.4 GB file (digitally signed full ota oos). ..... But still if I do that the device will go in black screen mode ... And white notification led on...

....

So you still want m to try .... I the step 1 to 8 there are only two things, important, 1 is the quallcom driver, 2 the unbrick tool, ....and here I have the port com with 9008 ....that's mean the device is recognized .... And I did connected well ... Otherwise I cannot run and end up with a successful download of all the files ...... Question is why after the download tool apllyed .... Is still doing the boot loop?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] som_1704:
Please help!!!

I am getting "error:cannot load system.img" while manually loading the files that failed in md5 checksum.

All other files are showing okay.

Thank you.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Drivers buddy.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
No wonder you face issues. You are very impatient, you jump to conclusions, you don't read anything fully and you still expect everything to work.

PuddiPuddin has been telling you very patiently that steps 1 to 8 are important and have to be done correctly. (It is another matter that i also told you the same thing on another thread that you created). But in all of steps 1 to 8, what catches your eye are Qualcomm driver and the unbrick tool.

Your phone has to be recognised not as 9008 but as Qualcomm 9008. Next is adb. For this guide to work, it is not sufficient that your phone is recognised and a device number is shown. It has to be recognised as a particular device and that is Qualcomm 9008. I can go on like this.

So be patient, don't think that since you have been flashing things on various phones, you can take certain shortcuts. Each phone is different and this guide, if properly followed, will restore your phone. Try again.

Good luck.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
This time I tried under a virgin windows xp, please look at the pictures, if you find that I did mistakes, why do I have a successful download on the end?

I did all the 9 steps ..I am this since 3 days.

Look in the attached pictures :) ... If you want I can make a pictures.

I noticed that into stock recovery of oos 3.1.2, I don't have the option to flash from local storage only USB ....

I also flashed over recovery, using USB update, adb sideload filneme.zip successful ...but still boot loop.

Why the device cannot see the internal storage?!

Any idea is welcome ...

Thanks
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ysharief:
Hard Brick solved After Relock in a easy way

Hi all, i have just tried to relock the OP3T, and landed in to hard brick, i Tried some options, but i was unable to Switch off on 40 second, But never able to Switch it off, Than i tried different key combination, Volume key down + Power key, Suddenly device booted in to Recovery, From the recovery i was able to boot in Fastboot mode, and all the option, and i can see the device is locked, if choose start from fastboot or recovery the device is not booting just looping on every 2 seconds, so i again ulock oem and chose to boot, Thada:D:D the device booted without any errors.

i hope this solution works others, if it works The OP should updated with this solution..
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
I don't know why it behaves the way it is, for you. Method 2 of this guide should solve your issues. I am yet to come across a single case so far, where it did not work ultimately unless the motherboard is faulty.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bibiii79:
I fought the phone as bricked ... But I think the motherboard is faulty , I just trying ... But I feel that I will replace the motherboard, I have another phone in the way with a working motherboard and broken screen ... I guess next weekend will arrive from Russia.....

Now I am trying to modify the msm download tool to flash a custom recovery, ...what I did is changed the md5 code ... That when you hit the verify button in the right corner it shows verified ( with the new twrp custom recovery.img inside) . That is working, but after flashing incoming out that md5checksun recovery.img failed ...

I try to unpack the md5.img file with Cygwin in windows ... To see what is inside ...
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] J's:
Unlock using "fastboot oem unlock" command on adb? Anything else? coz i tried but not permited.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] maxogun:
Thanks a lot...

Thanks a lot for your method 2. My phone went deeply bricked yesterday, no recovery and no OS and errors while flashing recovery or firmware in fastboot. But your method 2 saved my phone. Thanks:)
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkrai:
same problem here bruh.

anyone has any fixes??

tried all posible driver drivers...

i mean it gets detected as unknown device but no drivers get installed in safe mode.

please halp... :crying: :crying: :crying:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
How does it show up under device manager?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] TNSMANI:
"Safe mode" or Driver Signature Verification Disabled mode?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ka1:
Getufsinfo failed....

Hey, i Hope anyone can help me...everything Goes Fine but in the msmdownloadtool step "getufsinfo" the Progress failes...everytime....My Device is shown as Qualcomm ...9008 like in the description of the guide.

Ive tried different Ports and another PC with different Windows.

Anyone had the Same Problem and a Solution?

Thnx for Ur help^^
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] drmuruga:
If you are using method 1 change to method 2 unbrick.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] naikpinku:
Latest Unbrick Tool

based on Oxygen OS 4.5.0

https://s3.amazonaws.com/oneplussupport/Op3/N/OnePlus3_16_A.56_170923.rar

OnePlus3_16_A.56_170923.rar

Anyone know the password of rar please.....
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] burgess_boy:
I have carried out the instructions in method 1 and unfortunately am still left with only 24 GB of internal storage. Any further help would be much appreciated.

Would it be worth formatting my internal storage in TWRP?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
See if repairing the file system does the job.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] burgess_boy:
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately this didn't solve the issue.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] naikpinku:
Backup important data........

Factory reset including the internal storage.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bimchi:
My Phone stopped working from one second to another, without me doing anything to the system. Recovery mode didnt work, LED doesnt light when I charge it.

Tried Method 1 didnt work, so I wanted to try Method 2 but my pc (and 2 others i tried) cannot find the device anymore :(

What to do?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] xkhael:
oneplus cant fixed

sahara communication failed...tech support of oneplus cant even fixed the problem......they suggest to find tech repair nerby to solve the problem maybe its in the hardware problem....any idea how will it fix?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kakado74:
Problems with the Unbrick-Proceed

Hey Guys!

Thank you for that amazing unbrick-guide....sooooo now i´m trying to get my OnePlus3 "back to life" since 23.10.2017

I had the custom rom - lineageOS- on it and tryed to switch my custom rom to FreedomOS. So i wiped my phone (clear wipe/install, means: data/cache/system/dalvik) and started to flash the new custom rom FreedomOS..

So i get through the install-process (in twrp-recovery) via Aroma-Installer...after finishing the installation process i´d rebooted my phone and got stuck at the OnePlus-Logo.

After that i tryed it another time to wipe my phone and flash the FreedomOS.

And then!!!!....:(....i´ve got stucked at the OnePlus-Logo again and can´t get in Recovery-Mode anymore. Only the fastboot-mode. That´s it.

I can connect my phone to my pc like descripted in the guide and it´s recognizing my phone like "Qualcomm 9008"...everything good!

But when i´m trying to start the MsmDownloadTool and click on start, then i get everytime the message: "firehose communication handshake failed" OR "sahara communication failed" OR "CheckHwid Failed! Phone: MSM8994, Image: MSM8996 Pro"

Does anyone got an idea for that problem? I did luckily a nandroid backup before flashin the rom, but can´t get the phone back anymore.

Would be really happy about any answer! Thanks - cheers!:good:
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] a_khusairi:
Sorry, did you ever try to flash again twrp with ADB methode in fastboot ? "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

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try this, i hope your phone back again. https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-3/how-to/oneplus-3-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t3398733
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Eddie__cz:
Hi,

if you are interested, I'm sending new flashing tool.

uloz.to/!N5R1z7mIxHLk/l2-drivers-zip

uloz.to/!ycZn06lHps6A/oneplu...-56-170923-zip

Eddie
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Iceax123:
Press and hold vol up and power button while you van read this errors

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Guys my phone is bricked (stock beta) just wouldnt turn on, no led while charging.

Tried method, 1 wouldnt work, got to method 2 installed - but phone still wont boot?

Anything else i can try

Thanks

A
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MultiCulti:
hoi mate ... i have the same issue ... phone is working again, but have just 24 gb storage ?!?!

what was your answer?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] burgess_boy:
I think I formatted via twrp and everything was ok again.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] isoladisegnata:
Me too..a little bit of information, does anyone know why when I get format userdata ,via adb,I find less memory in sdcard ? About 21 GB on 29

Can anyone post the correct procedure via twrp? tnk
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
It's a partition bug. Switch partitions and it should be fine. Also try to use partition repair in TWRP.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] junantho:
hello

not working for me it ask me to enter a password for start the device but i have no password
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] novas78:
It is better to use a different cloud than "uloz.to". E.g. Mega, Gdrive, etc. or AFH. The "uloz.to" server is full of malware.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Completely format your phone or perform a factory reset.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] junantho:
thanks but why did it want a password only for a update ?

it's the second times that he ask to enter a password.

for openbeta 25 he ask me the same and i need to completely format my phone for use it but it 's very long too reinstall all
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Puddi_Puddin:
Because of Force Encryption. Your phone on OOS encrypts on boot. The OS sees that you are encrypted while you haven't set a password. Because usually you only get a encrypted phone when setting up a password on boot. So the OS thinks you did setup a password because it sees that you are encrypted.

Now you can easily disable Force Encryption by flashing SuperSU, Magisk or a special zip. I personally recommend Magisk because if you dirty flash a rom, Magisk will automatically reinstall itself (Not if you wipe system tho). Just don't boot your phone without Magisk or any other mods I mentioned or it will be encrypted.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PashaF:
To all 3T users experiencing the dreaded "Sahara communication failed" message, download the latest tool from the official website. Having it updated in the OP would have been very helpful and saved me 2 hours of reading through different worthless pages.

Guide:

http://www.androidbrick.com/oneplus-one-two-3-3t-5-mega-unbrick-guide-twrp-flashing/

File:

www.androidbrick.com/download/oneplus-3t-qualcomm-hs-usb-qdloader-9008-unbrick-fix/
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Eddie__cz:
ok, new downloads:

mega.nz/#!RqgTQTyJ!LXv3bRmoG_HH-oxIZi8jbKqDLe4ZwtzVQxOjLfDRB2E

mega.nz/#!NmhhgZyB!CM7Fw8VjECiMIhh4gRXUx24QVCiE599_ZFAPDf08AiM
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Have you followed the instructions on the OnePlus website to return to stock? Maybe you need to start over?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] néonaloj:
[MENTION=6652601]Mit Hipster[/MENTION] do you please have a link for this?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
http://downloads.oneplus.net/oneplus-3/oneplus_3_oxygenos_3.1.2/
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bahdma:
Hello

My device's bootloader is locked, I can't boot into recovery (phone just flashes the oneplus logo then reboots over and over) and when I try to unlock the bootloader via fastboot or ADB it says FAILED (remote: oem unlock is not allowed) Actually when I try to do much of anything it tells something along those lines. When I have it connected to my computer the phone is recognized as either android adb or Marshall London Device - Marshall London Bootloader Interface. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my computer to recognize my phone as Qualcomm. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Super bummed here.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Before you can unlock the bootloader you need to enable OEM unlocking in Settings > Developer options. Did you do that first?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bahdma:
Unfortunately I cannot boot the device. When I try to start it, the oneplus logo pops up the the phone reboots and repeat.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
See if following these instructions on the OnePlus website helps.

http://downloads.oneplus.net/oneplus-3/oneplus_3_oxygenos_3.1.2
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
Power off phone by pressing power button for atleast 40 sec. Then press only volume up button for 10 sec and after 10 sec, while keeping volume up pressed, connect phone to PC and keep volume up pressed till a new device shows on pc (there won't be anything on phone though)

Then follow the guide.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bahdma:
Hey Bud, not sure why but something about the way you explained what I'd be looking at on the phone allowed me to fix the problem. I appreciate your help, heh, I appreciate EVERYONE who helped me. Thank you all so much. It's nice to see humans still helping one another. You guys rock, this community rocks! Again, THANKS!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] JHthe4:
Hey,

My OP3 was bricked and I successfully ran these steps. First I did method 1, which succeeded, but when booting the phone it told me about md5 mismatches in some partitions (boot, cache, system). So I ran method 2, which was also successful, but now when I try to boot my device it goes to oneplus logo and then to black screen with notification LED shining white. The same thing happens when trying to get into recovery. Can you help me? Thanks so much
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
1. You don't need to check the MD5. It is because I didn't edit rawprogram.

2. Umm. Frankly, I haven't seen that yet. It might be a pressed button.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kamrul.auntu:
Hi OP, First of all thanks for this useful post. I presume it's a fastboot ROM package which I was looking for. Can you please tell me which version it is?
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Naman Bhalla:
It is 3.1.2 and not fastboot package but Qualcomm package. Though, we can get fastboot images from it.
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] JHthe4:
1. I did not check the md5. The phone did this automatically and then refused to boot, i.e. shut down.

2. I have contacted OnePlus Support and created a support ticket. However, I would like to try Method 2 one more time in case this fixes it. Am I correct in assuming that the device does not need to be displayed in device manager as "Qualcomm 9008"? For me it shows "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" and flashing works with the tool provided.

Thank you for your time!
[OnePlus 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kamrul.auntu:
Yea I mean indirect fastboot. However I just flashed the full package from your android file host page. My phone wasn't bricked but I was successfully flashed it from the bootloader mode. I also use another QC820 device as Mi5 and apply the same concept of flash though the interface is different but at the end both works same way. Basically earlier I flashed couple of stock recovery found here and there in the web. For the peace of mind I flashed this full package. Now my OP3 is running on 3.1.2. But my expectation was it would be the same as when I received the phone 3.1.1. However, I am still not getting 3.2.0 after couple of check in System updates. I want to set my mind that I am on pure stock mode. Am I on pure stock already ? Because I am not getting 3.2.0 update?