[OnePlus 7 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Dew Me:
I'm lost here

I haven't rooted since flip phones, so yeah, I'm a newb.

I'm generally pretty good at understanding things, and figuring them out, but it just isn't working here.

It seems that all the information I need is in the opening post, and others have said it works in the tread, but I think maybe there are some blanks that I'd be able to fill in if I knew what I was doing?

I rooted my 7 Pro the day I got it. I used Max's XDA YouTube video. Phone came with 9.5.8

The root initially went fine.

When I sent to update to 9.5.10 I had problems. I researched every method I could find on XDA, and elsewhere on the web.

Nothing worked.

I'd try one, it would boot to TWRP, and I'd eventually boot back into my original drive, and I'd have to start over again trying a different method.

It was very frustrating. Since it was my first update, I decide maybe the other slot wasn't formatted correctly? Or if following Max's way to root had messed me up?

Eventually, through trial and error, (and I can't say exactly how sadly) I was able to get the phone booted up with the 9.5.10 update. In the process the phone got completely wiped, so it was like I was turning it on for the first time, except that it was unlocked and rooted with Magisk, & TWRP.

So now that 9.5.11 is out it was time to try again. This time the instructions I choose said to flash the update to BOTH drives. So instead of being able to boot back the the other partition with a mistake, now I can't reboot at all.

So this is what I did:

---Turned off (but didn't delete) my Magisk Modules. I don't think I'm using any that interfere anyway. No voice recording, or XPosed stuff.

---Rebooted

---DL'd TWRP & Magisk from their apps.

---DL'd 9.5.11 without installing

---Booted into TWRP

---Flashed 9.5.11, TWRP, Magisk, in that order, and didn't clean dalvik. (Speaking of dalvik, I gotta do some searching on cause and effect on that)

---Rebooted into recovery, made sure I was in the other slot, and flashed 9.5.11, TWRP, Magisk, in that order again, but this time did clean dalvik.

---Rebooted

That didn't work.

Since then I've tried everything I can think of.

Flash TWRP, recovery then Magisk

Flash TWRP, then straight to flash Magisk

Flash update, flash TWRP, recovery, Magisk

Flash update, flash TWRP, straight to Magisk.

Couple times reinserted the boot image.

Nothing gets my phone rebooted.

Sometimes I get back to TWRP, sometimes it goes to the screen with Chinese writing, and I spend a while hold power and volume buttons till I can get it to bootloader, so that I can use ADB to get back to TWRP.

This thread seems to be advising an extreme flush, and I feel like that might be where I am now.

But nothing seems to me to be an actual action?

I DL'd the zip, I unpacked the zip, and I'm staring at all these commands.

It kinda seems like maybe one command is designed to automatically make the others run.

For example, it seems like "Run flash-all.bat" is such a command, but is that really a command?

If that is the command, then where does the unzipped DL come into play?

Am I supposed to be combining commands and files together? If so, I don't see exact which ones, and in which order?

Please help me get my phone turned back on?