[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] My-man-G:
A real amateur....strikes again! Technology isn't my friend...

Hi guys,

This just proves how much of an amateur i am. Spent the best part of about 35 mins writing my essay in 'quick reply', only for it to expire....and i was typing on my little Hudl2 keyboard.... :confused: :eek:

So now i'm starting ALL over again, this time with otg cable and wireless keyboard. Let's see if i remember it all...... eh?

So in conclusion to your reply

, i have only just found out how to tether my phone to pc for internet. 21 days later to your reply but i whole heartedly appreciate your help.

With the reply last night, not having a pc at hand, i wasn't at home but i had done some looking around online and found that the marshmallow os is no longer to be updated, so, therefore, i looked around for a new & stable os for the oneplus 'bacon' & came across the pie os from watching Max Lee's (high on android channel) on Youtube. Claiming it's stable and battery life is good (that was my attraction to this).

So.....first things first (and this was all done without a pc, last night).

I backed up my phone to my hdd using the otg cable and backed up via twrp recovery as advised before by

I then searched for the pie os and found it on XDA site. But as i watched further on Max Lee's channel, i needed to update the twrp recovery ( mine was v2.8.0? i think?). Found twrp version 3.2.3 img file. downloaded it via phone, swtiched to recovery and wiped phone but reinstalled Ressurection Remix (as i backed up to hdd but needed an os to operate) then flashed latest twrp.

Instead of rebooting phone from recovery (don't know why i did this??) but i switched off the phone and back on. Knowing all apps and contacts were gone, i wanted to see if twrp had updated it'self. So i switched off the phone again and back to recovery, only to see that it would not load recovery at all......? :( It just froze with the oneplus logo (not even with 'powered by Android' at the bottom).

It would switch off by holding down the power button, would go to fastboot, would power back up but never into recovery.

So then today get's better...........!!!!!

I watched more about adb & fastboot on various channels on youtube, online and guides via xda and thought this is my only option to get it back open. So i went home and tried to sort this mess out by:

1, opening development options on phone & enable debuggin

2,download adb driver & fastboot from Max Lee's site

3,unzipped and loaded them into my pc

4,reconnected phone to pc to activate the debuggin message on phone screen( was none?)

This didn't work as my pc said there wasn't a driver for the adb (error code 28).

I updated my pc, even via windows update to restart updates, as some had failed. Pc all up to date.

In device manager, tried manual search for driver path (to universal adb file), no luck. Then tried to find online, still, no luck as pc said to find vendor/website host? Most search for driver came up with the same Universal adb download.

Tried to then fix the code 28 by installing intels adb driver and other adb driver's and still no joy.

But the thing i found strange was in Programs (uninstall), both Universal adb & fastboot were there. just can't find the link between them to the phone?

So i'm very frustrated by technology so no need to shout at me for doing silly things.....But i guess that's how we learn to fix things i guess? :confused:

If anyone who has read this and willing to help a fool out, i sincerely appreciate this! :victory: PLEASE?

Without fastboot (code 28)

without twrp recovery

Basic Ressurection os

Without my contacts & apps & life stuff.

Not able to backup from hdd

Stuck............ :rolleyes:

FYI.

PC is Intel i3, running windows 7 32 bit. Should that help anyone with my issue.

Yours sincerely,

My-man-G