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[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] strictlyphat:
Have u tried the local upgrade while bootloader locked? From 9.0.7 to 9.0.10?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Yup, same as .7, installs fine and reboots, no issues.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
Thanks Dark, I didn't see anything specifically related to my issue regarding Magisk, but I did a bunch of random button combos and my phone booted into fastboot mode finally. So I let it boot normal and everything seems to be ok. It's weird, that's the second time it's happened to me. The first time was the very first time I switched from the TMO rom to this one. I'm just glad it's back, I'd really hate to have to go through all the trouble of trying to convince TMO to let me have another unlock code.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Regardless of what you do to this device, we can recover it, so don’t worry about getting a new device/unlock code.

I think the issue may be with magisk pushing the app and system files without properly modding the boot image, most of the times I rooted or had rooting files in the system the device wouldn’t boot, but once I rooted by flashing the magisk zip via recovery I booted fine, if any part of the system is modded and the boot image isn’t properly modified to adjust for this, it won’t boot.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] strictlyphat:
Just curious is the msm tool that in depth? No matter what can be restored?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Knowing how much I’ve messed with this device and things I’ve done, yes, outside of that, someone explained once how it works, as a separate untouchable partition Qualcomm creates using their firehose protocol, that pretty much no matter how bad things get, it goes into qusb mode and washes everything down, writing back all partitions from the designated firmware file to start over fresh. Msmtool uses this protocol, Qualcomm tools can do the same, but they’ll write just about anything, so be careful.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] strictlyphat:
Nah was just looking for info.

BTW doesn't look promising g that a ota will pop up for us on 9.0.7 converted. I may just local upgrade it. I'm getting a weird bug where my ringtone for phone reverted to 'no ringtone' randomly. Kinda annoying.

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Been getting issue on intl that I'm losing my ringtone and missing all my calls because it isn't making noise. May have to revert to T-Mobile a final time.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] strictlyphat:
See attached. I have set a ringtone 4 times throughout the day. But it always reverts to no ringtone.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Do the local upgrade and see if it persist.

These devices have the most random bugs and they’re rarely ever widespread...
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] fogame:
So not sure here....do I use the tmobile international rom to flash or do I do the straight OOS international rom? Not sure which one to download from mauronofrio's thread
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] BIGWORM:
There is no TMO Int'l ROM, just the Int'l version flashed on the TMO variant.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] fogame:
That's what I thought....I downloaded the wrong one the first time. Thank you.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lionel_messi1:
I am currently on converted 9.06, if I update via the same conversion process to 9.0.10. Will it wipe all my app data?

Also is it possible to do a local update (my bootloader is currently unlocked)? Do I need to lock it and then try the local update?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Local upgrade to 9.0.7 first then do the local upgrade to 9.0.10, I’m not sure if .10 is a go like .7 was and I don’t have my pc to test, so do the .7 then .10 upgrades to be safe, it doesn’t matter if you’re locked or not, if your device was rooted you’ll need to flash twrp and root before the device boots or you’ll have to wipe the data, otherwise, you don’t, it won’t wipe your data.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lionel_messi1:
Thanks, I went the traditional route via fastboot and upgraded to .7 and then to .10

:good:
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
The new TWRP update officially supports OP6t. Does anyone know if it'll work though the app?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
This confirms .10 is safe to update then, since the traditional way doesn’t update the bootloader, only local upgrade does.

It should if it’s offically supported.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] jkeith1:
I was on . 07, did the local update to . 10, is that correct?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Yup, this is assuming you did the update on the device.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] majortaylor:
So if we update through local we can no longer use the TMobile msm tool correct?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Regardless of what we do to this device, we will always have to use the T-Mobile msm tool to recover from a brick, the rsa sigs remain the same and there’s no changing it even if we do change the criticals or well some of them to the global version like we’ve done doing the local upgrade.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] majortaylor:
I could have sworn I read somewhere that after using the local upgrade option people were having issues with msm. Oh well I'm glad to see it does indeed still work
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Never had any probs, use the tool and have yet to be able to come back from anything
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Most if not all issues I’ve seen to date are surrounding driver issues, bad cables or USB ports.

Even I had an issue with the tool when I first converted using the local upgrade method, felt like I finally found our kryptonite, ended up being a bad USB port.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
Every time I try to unlock the bootloader I type the command in adb fastboot flash cust-unlock unlock_token.bin and I get the error "unable to load unlock_token.bin. I tried searching and couldn't find any answers. Can someone tell me what I may be doing wrong?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
you need to replace unlock_token.bin with the name of your unlock token bin file.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
I'm sorry I feel like an idiot, but I have no clue how to find the name. I'm new to all this so please bear with me.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
That's ok, so let me make this easy for you, download the unlock token from Oneplus's website, then in the command line when you type fastboot flash cust-unlock, don't type unlock_token.bin, instead, type the following:

fastboot flash cust-unlock

put a space after unlock then drag and drop the unlock token file you download into the cmd window, then hit enter. Let me know if it goes through.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
It worked! Thank you so much for working with me and for your patience...now I am having a problem flashing the room lol. I rune the flash all partitions fastboot and it just gets an error....can not load

Can not load

Can not load

Etc. I have no clue what I am doing wrong. I'm pretty sure all of the files are in the right place
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
[IMG="Did my phone brick?"]https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7828/44622337020_09cba0dfe0_b.jpg[/IMG]

I tried to unlock my T-Mobile device and load the International rom. After issuing the Fastboot flash cust-unlock unlock_code.bin command, it just says "waiting for device" and nothing happened. So I issued a Control C, shut down the phone and tried to manually boot the phone into Fastboot. It now won't boot. Did I just brick it? Anyway to recover from it? any help would be greatly appreciated. See my screenshot. Thanks.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/guywong/44622337020/

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I was able to boot into fastboot mode and now the device is unlocked. Now, I just have to use the OP to load the International Rom. Thanks.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
The files aren't where they need to be, show me your working folder.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
For some reason I am not able to upload screenshots at the moment. I'll post tomorrow or sooner if I figure out why. Thanks for all of the help.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lemonspeakers:
I'm on T-mo 6T with 9.0..7 international.

I finally decided to do a Local upgrade. Downloaded the FULL 9.0.10 ROM. Put it into the root of internal SD. Disabled all Magisk modules.Then went to system to update. One done, I lost root entirely.

I used the ROOTER tool and that crashed my phone. Device would start and then go straight to recovery. It wouldn't go back to the ROM.

I did a full system wipe using fastboot format userdata. :(
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] feezler:
Are you still stuck in boot to recovery? I updated to 9.0.10 using local update method from 9.0.5 and lost root. I tried the one plus one rooter and it didn't fully root the phone. I was getting a fail for safety net. I downloaded the all in one tool for the OnePlus and used the flash recovery/root and choose to only boot to TWRP not flash. It flashed magisk 18 for me and after reboot magisk was working correctly. I don't know if this will work for you but it's worth trying. I was having issues with the OnePlus one rooter so maybe there is something that breaks on 9.0.10.

Side note- thanks for.the guide here OP and all the other devs. You have made it easy for us! Even when something doesn't work correctly there is so much support here it's awesome.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
Here are pics of my work folder
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Every time u flash an update, it flashes the kernel. A new kernel is not rooted until u root it. So u will lose root and TWRP. Don't use rooter tool, u complicated it. Go to fastboot, flash boot twrp.img, flash twrp installer zip then magisk reboot. Now u will boot and be rooted. It wouldn't root with the rooter cuz u technically are rooted on the opposite slot. And that rooter uses a old twrp that doesn't decrypt right. Also, Any ota zip installs to opposite your active slot. It doesnt switch slots for u.

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U have a mess in there bud. Unzip the rom u are trying to install where u have fastboot's platform tools located. Then unzip other imgs from within the rom, and the other zip with the scripts ie fastboot flashall blah blah. Then once u unzip both then double click the flashall partitions fastboot.bat
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
It looks like everything is there for the most part, reboot the device into fastboot and try again, try a different usb port, you may also need to give the pc a reboot, if a windows 10 pc has updates pending or partially installed, it messes with the adb/fastboot setup.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
Ok I tried everything you said and it worked. Thanks for all your help I'm now on 9.0.10
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] jkeith1:
Is anyone using the beta?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Perfect ??
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
I used it for a little bit, why?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] jkeith1:
Nothing more than just curious. Any difference?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
I didn’t notice anything special tbh, but it was light use, check the beta thread, should be more in depth.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
What did I do wrong?

[IMG="Errors loading .10"]//c1.staticflickr.com/8/7873/45729943684_ebe161a587.jpg[/IMG]

After unlocking my bootloader, I went ahead and flash the extracted files of "TMOUS_OPO6T_9.0_FULL_ROM.ZIP with flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat. I seem to be successful doing it. However, when I rebooted the phone, it still gave me the T-Mo pink splash screen. ROM version reverted back to 9.0 and security patch back to Sept, I believe.

My next step was to flash the extracted version of 9.0.10-OnePlus6TOxygen_34_OTA_17-all_1812111237 ...zip" with flash-all.bat. I got a lot of error messages at the beginning (see screenshot) but the flash went through and my phone rebooted; this time with the OnePlus splash screen. However, as soon as the phone showed the Start button for the initial setup,it rebooted back to Fastboot. Am I supposed to flash 9.0.5 before flashing 9.0.10? That's what I plan on doing next. If I remember correctly, I read something about a new kernel in 9.0.5. Could that be my problem?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/guywong/45729943684

Thank you folks and Merry Christmas!

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After flashing 9.0.5, I experienced the same problem. The phone reboots to Fastboot at the START button.

Any help would be appreciated.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] fogame:
I flashed the 9.0.6 international ROM, factory reset, then did the local upgrade to 9.0.7.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
Thanks. I wonder flashing the TMOUS Full ROM was a mistake. When flashing 9.0.6, did you extract the two zip files into the same folder or let the zip files create Image subdir underneath that folder? I tried both ways but neither worked.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Why flash tmo rom? Especially if u are trying to be intl. Unlock bootloader, interrupt that first boot. Manually boot to fastboot, flash whatever rom u want, i go mclaren or oos 9.10. then once booted up use local upgrade to flash same rom zip to update criticals. Bam. I do this 3x a day. I brick testing stuff, break verity i can't get back from, usually, use msm, then skip setup after boot, enable oem unlocking, back to fastboot, unlock BL, interrupt that boot, back to fastboot manually, flash intl rom of choice, then skip through setup local upgrade for criticals, then setup phone. Have never used tmo rom but from the tool for like 2 mins
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Free4ever2:
I'm on 9.0.5 rooted and from what I read, I have to do the following to go to 9.0.10 without losing user data. Disable/uninstall all Magisk mods. Install 9.0.7 first via local upgrade. Then go to fastboot, flash boot twrp.img, twrp installer, Magisk and reboot. Once 9.0.7 loads, do the local upgrade to 9.0.10, then go to fastboot and flash boot twrp.img, twrp installer and Magisk again, then reboot. Are these steps in the correct order?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
The reason I flashed the TMOUS ROM was I was confused. The linked ROM webpage has different sections for "non- branded" phones and for T-Mobile phones.

My guess is by flashing the TMOUS ROM, I reverted my phone from T-Mo 9.0.1 to 9.0 and therefore doesn't have the lastest firmware, modem, or something. At this point, I have no idea what I should do. Do I use the MDMDownloadtools to revert back first,if so, do I use V.1 or V.2?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Dont need to revert anything. Just boot to fastboot and double click the ROM u are trying to flash. U can use any of them, just cant go from a higher version os to a lower version unless u erase data when u run the flash all bat. I would boot to fastboot and flash 9.07, then download the entire otazip from oneplus for 9.10, and flash that via local upgrade. Local upgrade updates us tmobile variant users critical partitions. If i were u after i got up and running, i would read into everything more till u are familiar. Never hurts to have a full understanding of what u are doing before so. If i am unsure i read from the beginning to recent of an entire thread. If nothing in the middle is pertinent, i skip to the end. But always important to read read read, before flashing
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
Thanks, I will try that a d report back.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
It Works!

Thank you very much for your guidance. I reread the OP and reflashed 9.0.7 as you suggested and used the flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat file.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] lendawg:
I flashed 9.0.10 on T-Mobile variant with fastboot. Should I sideload 9.0.10 and flash via local to flash critical partitions or would I have to start with 9.0.7? What is so important about TMobile critical partitions?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] fogame:
Yes. I extracted everything and downloaded the modified fastboot script on the first post. That auto reboots the phone once done.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
You don’t have to do the local upgrade to update the criticals, only if you’d like to relock the bootloader. It’s entirely optional.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
Thanks again. I reread the OP and was able to reflash 9.0.7 successfully. My next step is to load a ROM zip file locally and then relock the bootloader. I also reread some of the old messages and saw your question on which ROM to download. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't know whether to download the "not branded" ROM or the TMOUS ROM. :)
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
I'll make a note in the OP for clarification purposes.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
Thank you, Dark Nightmare. I see that you have already changed the OP.

Have another noobie question. How do I copy the zip file to the "root" of the device? I have copied the zip file to the "top" of Internal shared storage without using any folder. But Local Upgrade does not recognize it. It still asks me to "move installation package into root directory." File Manager doesn't recognize the presence of the zip file either. I see that there is an "Ota" folder, but that's not root.

I tried copying the zip file into the CD Drive: OnePlus Drivers, but got an error message on insufficient space.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Did you download the FULL rom or the incremental update?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
I thought I downloaded the full ROM for both .7 and .10. The .10 i's called 9.0.10-OnePlus6TOxygen_34_OTA_017_all_1812111237_f52c4612-FASTBOOT.zip and is 1,967,670 in size.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Wrong ROM buddy, that's for fastboot flashing purposes, as can be noted by the fastboot denomination at the end of the file, you need to download the full rom from the thread I linked in the OP or just go to general section this thread is posted in and go to the OTA thread and download the full ROM directly from OnePlus.

Edit: link to the .10 full rom: http://otafsg1.h2os.com/patch/amazo...Oxygen_34_OTA_017_all_1812111237_f52c4612.zip
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] guywong:
Local Upgrading 9.0.10 now!

Thanks for your patience, diligence and guidance, Dark Nightmare. Doing a Local Upgrade from .7 to .10 now.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Perfect, have funnn
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
Hey Dark I got a question. I'm on the international rom, version 9.0.10, rooted with with windows root application. If I flash the TWRP official, will it cause any issues with how the root program uses temp twrp? Or can I just flash the official TWRP and it'll do its thing nirmally?

Edit. Like you said nothing is unrecoverable now so I took a shot. Worked just fine. I flashed TWRP img, booted into TWRP flashed the full zip and Magisk.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] audioman42:
I finally flashed the 9.0.10 international ROM, and now I regret waiting so long. The fingerprint scanner is so much improved, and the phone is somehow even faster than before. Battery life seems better, too. If anyone out there is still running the (9.0.1-based) T-Mobile ROM, quit beating around the bush and submit that unlock.bin request. Thanks [MENTION=4204048]Dark Nightmare[/MENTION] for the guide!
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] phillymade:
[MENTION=4204048]Dark Nightmare[/MENTION] someone posted they re locked TMO bootloader and successfully took an OTA, is there any truth to this?

Here is the post

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=78505324
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
Lol

You're welcome :)

I'll have a look see at this, so far no one else, including myself has gotten the OTA to show, so I'm skeptical as usual, brb.

Edit: a few posts later, it was posted that it was a manual update, so yeah, theory still stands on OTA's not coming through, but manual has worked perfectly to date, I'm bootloader locked too at the moment.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] strictlyphat:
Definitely had to do with resoteing with OnePlus switch. Restored without ringtone this time and works fine. Intl firmware is so far better than tmo it's not funny. As soon as 7 comes out I'm ordering intl version
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] naxalite971:
NVM

On 9.0.10 now. Good to go
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Coderedpl:
Followed the steps here right after getting my unlock.bin.

Now I'm on 9.0.10!

Didn't have a chance to finish setting up yet. Debating root now to see if I want/need it.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Alec_Lightwood:
Wanted to confirm that the beta works as well. Currently on the beta 2
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
Did you grab the zip and flash through OTA or TWRP?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
You can flash via local upgrade or twrp.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
I've done the local upgrade before no problem. I'm intimately familiar with TWRP but only vaguely so on the a/b partition. So if I flash the update zip with TWRP, it doesn't modify the TWRP? IE: flash over the boot and I'd have to go back into fastboot to reflash TWRP again?

Basically can I flash the update, then flash Magisk and boot with no issues?
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark Nightmare:
If you’re using twrp you’ll need to reflash magisk and twrp right away before you boot, everything is overwritten when flashing a stock rom.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
Right right right, ok gotcha. Flash zip, reflash TWRP while still in there, Magisk then boot
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] TKruzze:
[MENTION=4204048]Dark Nightmare[/MENTION], I wanted to get your thoughts on the best way to install a full Int'l OTA to our branded phone. My thought is that that it would be best applied using the local upgrade method rather than flash through TWRP because it's possible that it might do a more thorough application of some of the critical partitions.

Is that something you agree with?

I also realize that this could also more likely lead to a soft brick if something gets updated that's not compatible with our hardware, but as long as it works for one of us, it should also work for all.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] Addiso:
You can use local upgrade for any international firmware above 9.0.7. You can even use twrp to flash these. I would not recommend flashing any full rom below 9.0.7. It hasn't really been looked into in what critical partition causes the hard brick. Take note it's not a soft brick you will NEED MSMtool to bring back your TMO 6t from a hardware mismatch. There should always be caution when updating to newer OTA as some partitions can change and lead to a brick. So far it hasn't with 9.0.7 and newer which is good on my book but it can still change with later otas.

EDIT: To clarify there's RSA checks in place that leads to a brick critical partitions from being flashed, it just happens to not pertain to every single critical partition.
[OnePlus 6T  Guides, News, & Discussion] TKruzze:
Thanks for the input. I should have mentioned that I was talking about updates post 9.0.7. So, you don't think there's a potential advantage to doing the local upgrade versus flashing with TWRP?