[Huawei P9 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] gh0stza:
Hi,

Hoping to get some help from the Huawei Dev community here on XDA.

POPPING MY CHERRY - 1st HARD-BRICKED DEVICE :eek::eek::eek:

Doesn't feel very good!!!!

So I was trying to upgrade my old VNS-L31 from Android 6 to 7 or install a custom ROM due to some apps no longer having support for Android 6.

Dload method failed.

Was on C16 somehow (supposed to be on C185). Tried to flash new OEM_info which is where the problems started. Initially my DATA partition got corrupted, not sure exactly where it happend but I suspect it happend while I was trying to fastboot flash the newer Android 7 stock system cust etc images.

No TWRP posted here on XDA worked - tried 9 of em NON WORKED

So I was stuck at 3.0.2-0 that worked from SRKToolkit way back when I first rooted it.

After the data partition get corrupted it all went down hill. Nothing worked to fix the partition.

No Dload method worked (finding stock roms for this thing proved a massive challenge so I was stuck with trying what I could find)

After flashing new C432 oem_info and custom.bin I I got bootloop and tried the following stock roms with dload

- C4432B172

- C432B413

- C432B130

- C432B172

Non worked, complaining about incompatible versions.

Stock recovery also couldn't fix the data partition

eRecovery couldn't find a ROM ( I think cuz huawei doesn't have the ROMs on their servers anymore (neither C185, C16 or C432 got a ROM on eRecovery).

With no other options remaining I was forced to try and fix the data partition manually ( this is where the device got hard bricked ).

So I used parted and deleted the userdata partition -> re-created it and added it to the /etc/fstab.

Using this post as a reference: [DEV][ Expand System Partition To 4GB - P9 Lite ]

Note: parted said the primary GPT partition table was corrupt. It said the backup GPT partition table would be used.

As soon as I rebooted from TWRP I got black screen everywhere and the only mode the phone would go into was fastboot.

Tried everything there to get the device back but with a corrupt partition table I knew I was farting into the wind.

After that failed I knew this device was basically dead and the ONLY, ONLY way to unbrick it would be to try EDL test points.

Ok so I got the phone open and got into EDL Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 mode (OLD mode it seems -> No storage device detected).

PotatoNV detects the device now as a EVA-L19C432B166 (I have no idea how that happend, I have no ROMs that has that BUILD).

I have QPST and QFIL but lack the programmer file and basic knowledge of how this type of flashing works.

So this is where I'm at - I think I might as well throw this thing in the trash bin but since I got the opportunity now to work with QFIL and try everything to unbrick this thing and gain some knowledge about how EDL mode works I'm thinking I might as well play around with it.

Any advise/Help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

PS: interestingly PotatoNV generated a NEW unlock code for me now - cant believe I payed DC-unlocker to get me an unlock code for this phone.

So PotatoNV generated a new code not the old I had - and it worked to unlock the bootloader

@-Alf- :eek::eek: