[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thanas:
due to constant flashing my k3 note has been bricked at least 2 times, ive recovered it through preloader etc.

im also quite known to spflashtools and metatool etc.

some time ago my phone had water damage however i cleaned it thorough with alcohol and didnt use it for a month it worked after.

i also during dissasembly stripped torn the power volume button cable which i resoldered a replacement which is working.

my phone was working perfect although as some might know through experience some TWRP versions dont flash certain roms and others do

so i was on 3.1.0.0 twrp and any rom got me in a bootloop. i flashed through recovery itsself 3.0.3.0 and all was fine.

(btw prior to this i restored an original rom with scatter file through spflashtools to be sure and after straight ahead to the correct TWRP working version and just one stable rom which in my case was lineage 14.1 of this month 16 june if im not mistaking)

so all working better than ever as development progressed etc. suddenly i flash twrp 3.1.1.1 by daniel_hk and twrp booted without the logo i had to press the power button for it to show up in twrp as if it were in standby.

i wipe dalvik and cache i boot up normally. i shut down the phone i turn it on later and nothing blackscreen.

what is frightening is this time with or without battery no matter what settings or drivers no preloader detection on the computer.

i have had bricks due to flashing in the past which had exactly same result no screen no charging light completely dead BUT there was preloader detection on the computer.

the thing is i didnt mess with the preloader now lately it was just regular flashing. as in the past for the same reason my phone got bricked twice i wasnt flashing anything special just through recovery. the brick due to this was also not just a bootloop but as i explained above...

any thoughts?

i hesitate it is water damage since i took all measures and it was just working perfect. also prior to this it had bricked due to same reasons just recovery flashing etc.

id appreciate tremendous if anyone has something to share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3TmXtOA0IA the second half of this video shows a hardware method for gaining preloader access when all else fails. anyone can help me with figuring this out?

its about shorting a certain pin to ground of which i have no clue of on the k3 note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPn4FBAHib0

heres another example claiming of shorting the mountpoints ground and kcolo. the problem is on the lenovo k3 note the mountpoints which there are plenty of have no label and it might be a bad idea to try shorting the whole board.

ive been reading this shorting method can be effective on mediatek devices

heres a detailed thread of the process of fixing phones which might even have a corrupted preloader

https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-11802.html

http://apkdevelop.blogspot.gr/2015/0...broken-of.html

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as i continued researching today to put it in a nutshell there are solder mountpoints on mediatek phones of which 2 points of one which is ground and the other goes by many names also known as colo etc are short circuited which results in a forced preloader state. if someone does have this information on which is which i would tremendously appreciate it since this way i can access the preloader and fix this phone.

i cannot just try blindly because some contain voltage and that might make the phone completely unusable