[ZenFone 2 General] lucianoinso:
Thank you so much

Thank you so so so much, my phone is back to life after 2 months of roaming the netherworlds, It was a frustrating and long process, I tried this guide 2 months ago but couldn't get more than using the xFSTK program and having the Reconnecting to device and timeouting every single time, then I thought maybe it was a hardware problem, the battery had a strange behaviour since couple of weeks, so I thought it had finally died, I tried a lot of more times and same result, timeout, then I decided to buy a new battery, I was traveling to my hometown on those days, which is a small town, so I thought maybe when I get back I'll get a new one, getting there my mother convinced me to buy a battery from a guy on a website which was the only dude that sold the battery (the phone is not sold oficially on my country, and doesn't even have asus service centers for phones, got it on Brazil). So I bought it, it was one of the chinese copies that look similar but doesn't have the logo and are a little bit wider, but thought meh, tried it, the phone started vibrating like crazy, it was a freaking faulty battery, and spent a lot of money on it, I thought I broke the phone even more, got discouraged started thinking on getting a new phone, waited till I got where I live surviving with a freaking old phone (Galaxy core plus), I ordered a battery from the capital of the country, cause again, noone solds anything zenfone related where I live, spend more money on it, got the battery, felt more legit, had the asus logo and everything, just like the original, tried it, same than with the original battery, bricked, now I thought that was it, thought of selling it bricked for a couple of bucks and getting a xiaomi mi a2 lite, researched in the web a bit, watched some videos and some things didn't convinced me but thought well it was a good phone, checked the specs and compared it to my dead zenfone2 and it was pretty similar, and thought damn I need to try to fix this little guy one more time...

So again, searched for this guide and started from 0, noticed that "Moorefield" device appeared when I started the phone with the power button and the volume down, and it appeared and disappeared if I turned it on normally, so I tried to install everything having the constant "Moorefield" device appearing, tried xFSTK again, bingo! "Four tv colors" there was still hope, but then again, no bootloader, waited and nothing, did de xFSTK stuff again, four colors but nothing, I said this is it, it should be fixable, so I started browsing and searching, thought of reinstalling TWRP but couldn't, adb didn't listed the phone, Zenfone flash tools didn't detect it, but tried fastboot and it did, tried fastboot reboot and it did reboot, so I searched on how to use fastboot and got a good stock RAW image, after searching and finding lame guides got back to this guide and read the "Flashing Firmware Without AFT" part to check if it used fastboot and it did so started following it typing like if I would be doing ****ing surgery praying to the universe in each enter, got to the part of fastboot reboot, prayed to the universe again, enter, bam! Asus logo, everything works, can't believe it, after all that trip finally could do it, thank you so so so much again, although I check this forum from time to time I wasn't registered so I just did to thank you and giving hope to other people in my position lol, huge thanks, sorry for the long post and english is not my first language in case you read weird expressions lol!

TL;DR: My phone was bricked, tried guide, nothing, changed battery twice (after faulty one), nothing, tried the guide again and back to life, thank you! <3