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Bricked after installing twrp, any ideas?

Hey, was just setting up my mi5 for custom roms. Got the bootloader unlocked, then installed TWRP via fastboot as per the instructions here (https://twrp.me/devices/xiaomimi5.html).
After I got into TWRP I made a quick backup of the image, and then set the phone to reboot. Now its in a bootloop, flashing the mi logo (and bootloader unlock on the bottom). Doesn't turn off, doesn't do anything when plugged into pc, fastboot reboot doesn't do anything.
Any ideas? Didn't think I had done anything wrong (done this kind of thing a couple times before).
Cheers!
EDIT: Hang on, managed to get into fastboot, I guess I should be able to sort things out from there? What should I aim to do. I can also get into recovery. Still won't boot into system anymore though.

flobbadob said:
Hey, was just setting up my mi5 for custom roms. Got the bootloader unlocked, then installed TWRP via fastboot as per the instructions here (https://twrp.me/devices/xiaomimi5.html).
After I got into TWRP I made a quick backup of the image, and then set the phone to reboot. Now its in a bootloop, flashing the mi logo (and bootloader unlock on the bottom). Doesn't turn off, doesn't do anything when plugged into pc, fastboot reboot doesn't do anything.
Any ideas? Didn't think I had done anything wrong (done this kind of thing a couple times before).
Cheers!
EDIT: Hang on, managed to get into fastboot, I guess I should be able to sort things out from there? What should I aim to do. I can also get into recovery. Still won't boot into system anymore though.
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Which twrp version are you using?
Did you actually flash any custom rom or do you try to start miui?
Did you change any partition?

Something similar happened to me one time. I solved it by doing the root right after installing the twrp. And magically started my rom.

lanceindie said:
Something similar happened to me one time. I solved it by doing the root right after installing the twrp. And magically started my rom.
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+1! Thanks :highfive:

Did you solve it? I might have some ideas.

Treble ROMs working?

Has anyone managed to get any Treble ROMs working? I tried the 3 from this post but they just cause a bootloop https://www.xda-developers.com/flash-generic-system-image-project-treble-device/

Do yourself a favour and remove your password / pin / pattern as i've just flashed one via fastboot (no treble recovery)
And it didn't work, now i can't get back into TWRP.
Any ideas?

No new treble ROMs work with our P20 pro's.. its the same for me which is why I'm back on stock for now... As every new version of treble ROMs I have tried do not boot for me they just stick me in a boot loop as well, its the same for the new version of lineageos.. Not sure if it will ever be fixed in the future though on newer builds considering the whole Huawei locking bootloader permanently thing... will probably put developers off Huawei phones all together...

danielfrancisarthurs said:
No new treble ROMs work with our P20 pro's.. its the same for me which is why I'm back on stock for now... As every new version of treble ROMs I have tried do not boot for me they just stick me in a boot loop as well, its the same for the new version of lineageos.. Not sure if it will ever be fixed in the future though on newer builds considering the whole Huawei locking bootloader permanently thing... will probably put developers off Huawei phones all together...
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How did you get back to Stock? I have no OS now at all lol, i'm in limbo

Erecovery I used.. when booting and you get the unlock boot screen it will tell you to hold volume up I think for 3 seconds to go to erecovery and then just download and restore stock firmware and recovery and let the phone do it's work!

danielfrancisarthurs said:
Erecovery I used.. when booting and you get the unlock boot screen it will tell you to hold volume up I think for 3 seconds to go to erecovery and then just download and restore stock firmware and recovery and let the phone do it's work!
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Yea i used eRecovery a little earlier myself, we really need twrp which actually allows decryption or even twrp which allows treble
Either that or decrypt and use no verity, haven't bothered with all that yet.
After today though, jesus i'm thinking about it, i literally ended up with nothing, all my wifi networks in work need a second log in, something which eRecovery can't offer.
Completed it when i got home.
Have you managed to install any treble roms? Has anybody?
I don't think it's possible on my device in it's current state, i tried TWRP, Fastboot, several different roms on both and nothing.
Spotted this earlier, might actually work on our devices, what do you think?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hu...rp-3-2-1-0-t3782866/post76668571#post76668571
It's a treble recovery from the p20 lite forum, similar device, might work, anyone fancy trying it
PS: If i flash this can i just flash my Unofficial TWRP from our forum should it not work? Or can damage be done?

I have no idea! I assume the issues are because of twrp or something in that area.. I have tried flashing system images via fastboot but for some reason I get errors trying it.. I'm not sure what the main issue is on why they don't boot but i would strongly suggest to not try flashing any twrp that's not specifically for our device as you could brick or even break your phone!

danielfrancisarthurs said:
I have no idea! I assume the issues are because of twrp or something in that area.. I have tried flashing system images via fastboot but for some reason I get errors trying it.. I'm not sure what the main issue is on why they don't boot but i would strongly suggest to not try flashing any twrp that's not specifically for our device as you could brick or even break your phone!
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Apparently you don't need to use twrp at all, I've successfully flashed system images, via fastboot, but they've never booted which is horrible because there's just nothing else here.
In regards to flashing twrp, again apparently if it goes wrong then we can just flash the stock recovery, personally I think flashing another functional recovery would work too. But in all fairness the one in the p20 lite thread doesn't work any more than ours does in the pro thread.
Just hoping things move along.

Yeah I'd assume so.. I haven't been able to flash any image via fastboot but I'd assume it's the ROMs not the recovery.. anyway just heard that Huawei have released the Source code for the P20 so maybe it might be good news for the treble ROMs if they were to implement fixes for the boot loops!

danielfrancisarthurs said:
Yeah I'd assume so.. I haven't been able to flash any image via fastboot but I'd assume it's the ROMs not the recovery.. anyway just heard that Huawei have released the Source code for the P20 so maybe it might be good news for the treble ROMs if they were to implement fixes for the boot loops!
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Sounds superb on any other flagship in the world, really hope this one picks up, it's a great device, never been happier with a stock ROM before, I think with all aosp lineage ROMs there's going to be huge issues fixing the cameras. Twos hard enough, 3 lol very hard.
Not trying to be negative just a bit worried is all

Can someone take a video of the boot loop
There's actually a method to how this phone loops. It could indicate the problem

Not sure about the camera but there's always ports into the future.. anything is possible! But could be a while till we are able to be booting any decent treble ROMs.. but then again as the source code has been released it may not be that long.. depends how quick the developers for treble react and whether or not they have a Huawei device to work with to fix our issues..
All we can do is hope!
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I will give it a try flashing a system image again tomorrow and take a video of it if I'm able to! But someone else needs to give it a try too just incase I don't get time please? The best way I can explain it is once the system.img is flashed in twrp I restart system as normal and it boots up normally with the Huawei logo when phone turns on then goes to bootloader unlocked screen and press different buttons for different options to boot from or wait until device boots normally so I wait for it to boot normally and soon as I get past the unlocked bootloader screen it just instantly reboots and just keeps rebooting doing that!

virtyx said:
Can someone take a video of the boot loop
There's actually a method to how this phone loops. It could indicate the problem
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What signs are you looking for?
First time I tried it went from the press up for 3 seconds page then black, then vibrate then back to solid white Huawei, repeated 3 times until eRecovery asked to wipe.
For me after that point I flashed another and it went through to a lower case android sign, changing times from white to silver in a flow type effect, it stayed that way for around 10 minutes then back to eRecovery, flashing another treble ROM did the same thing.
Currently running: c782, 110, L09 p20 Pro, unofficial twrp and magisk.
The initial installation was via twrp, subsequent flashes wereb performed via fastboot.

Thats pretty much the same for me of what happens! Just boots then get a boot loop and black screen and back to the Huawei logo again from the start.. never able to actually boot a rom..

danielfrancisarthurs said:
Thats pretty much the same for me of what happens! Just boots then get a boot loop and black screen and back to the Huawei logo again from the start.. never able to actually boot a rom..
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I thought the idea of treble was to match the Android version?
Seems as though it's trial and error with what's allowed.

Treble is still a work in development at the moment.. it doesn't help as well that Huawei are being assholes and making developers want to stay away from Huawei completely due to the whole locking bootloader thing but hopefully there are a couple of developers out there that keeps our devices in mind and hopefully means we will see a fix for our devices soon.. but when that is I have no idea..

danielfrancisarthurs said:
Treble is still a work in development at the moment.. it doesn't help as well that Huawei are being assholes and making developers want to stay away from Huawei completely due to the whole locking bootloader thing but hopefully there are a couple of developers out there that keeps our devices in mind and hopefully means we will see a fix for our devices soon.. but when that is I have no idea..
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Aye it looks grim, that being said though, the stock ROM with a few tweaks is excellent, I've never once liked a stock ROM before on any device.
Root is easy, twrp is workable, bootloader was a breeze, we only have one actual ROM (LOS) but by all accounts even the p20 Pro camera works exactly the same on that, with that in mind what more do we need?
Course I'd like to be up to my neck in baked ROMs but if you're honest we truly only stick with one or two, as it turns out the two we have are pretty great.
Maybe I'm being optimistic

Just had a reply from another thread, quite interesting...
dladz said:
So in order...
Wipe
Flash ROM / IMG
Factory rest via twrp?
We're you referring to me by the way?
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Yes, lol
the way i did it was with a stock recovery and system image
boot into erecovery and do a factory reset or a fastboot -w
boot back into the bootloader
flash the system image for the treble rom
then go into erecovery and do a factory reset
and then it should boot no problem at all
twrp cant wipe properly on treble roms
ive done the same on my p20 lite today, all stock and no issues booting at all
let me know how you get on
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From this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p20-lite/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3782866/page2

Hi, i have been occupied all day to get this to work, it just doesnt. i have followed the exact steps you layed out but when i try to factory reset after flashing the treble rom using fastboot it just gives me the error: "reset failed". I have tried using other GSI images but none work, had to restore my phone thrice because of this. I dont know what is the issue. These are the steps i followed:
1. Went completely stock ( no twrp or root )
2. Successfully factory reset my device.
3. Boot into fastboot and then flash a treble GSI.
4. as soon as the device turned on, went to the recovery to attempt a data wipe but at around 60% of the process completion the recovery gives the error with a red exclamation mark enclosed in the circle.
My device is a CLT-29 (C185). Was really looking forward to treble as my previous device was a Oneplus.

psycho.b94 said:
Hi, i have been occupied all day to get this to work, it just doesnt. i have followed the exact steps you layed out but when i try to factory reset after flashing the treble rom using fastboot it just gives me the error: "reset failed". I have tried using other GSI images but none work, had to restore my phone thrice because of this. I dont know what is the issue. These are the steps i followed:
1. Went completely stock ( no twrp or root )
2. Successfully factory reset my device.
3. Boot into fastboot and then flash a treble GSI.
4. as soon as the device turned on, went to the recovery to attempt a data wipe but at around 60% of the process completion the recovery gives the error with a red exclamation mark enclosed in the circle.
My device is a CLT-29 (C185). Was really looking forward to treble as my previous device was a Oneplus.
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Ah the OnePlus , got the 5 still with me, great phone, great development.
Perhaps if your device was debrand? Could that be it?
Maybe it's just not meant to be

Redmi K20 Pro / Mi 9t pro stuck in the boot logo please help

My device is stuck in the initial boot sequence in which the logo will show as if it is booting normally, then it will stay on this screen until it goes completely blank, at which point I have to hold the power button for a long period of time to get it back to the boot sequence. My phone is unlocked and I was trying my first time at flashing a custom recovery and OS, I flashed my device with TWRP and successfully installed it along with a flash of pixel experience, After using pixel experience I wanted to try lineage OS since it wasn't as good as I hoped, so I tried to get into the TWRP and I could not do it at all I tried every method I could search. After an hour of trying different methods of getting to twrp I tried to re-flash the recovery and that is when the phone because unresponsive and does what I have described above. I currently have access to fast boot and I dont want to go ****ing my phone up more than I have. If anyone can give me a step by step guide on how to fix this it would help so much since im new to android and I cant afford another £400 phone.
Thanks

BJack0 said:
My device is stuck in the initial boot sequence in which the logo will show as if it is booting normally, then it will stay on this screen until it goes completely blank, at which point I have to hold the power button for a long period of time to get it back to the boot sequence. My phone is unlocked and I was trying my first time at flashing a custom recovery and OS, I flashed my device with TWRP and successfully installed it along with a flash of pixel experience, After using pixel experience I wanted to try lineage OS since it wasn't as good as I hoped, so I tried to get into the TWRP and I could not do it at all I tried every method I could search. After an hour of trying different methods of getting to twrp I tried to re-flash the recovery and that is when the phone because unresponsive and does what I have described above. I currently have access to fast boot and I dont want to go ****ing my phone up more than I have. If anyone can give me a step by step guide on how to fix this it would help so much since im new to android and I cant afford another £400 phone.
Thanks
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try booting twrp
'fastboot boot img name' then flash recovery from there. hope it works.

BJack0 said:
My device is stuck in the initial boot sequence in which the logo will show as if it is booting normally, then it will stay on this screen until it goes completely blank, at which point I have to hold the power button for a long period of time to get it back to the boot sequence. My phone is unlocked and I was trying my first time at flashing a custom recovery and OS, I flashed my device with TWRP and successfully installed it along with a flash of pixel experience, After using pixel experience I wanted to try lineage OS since it wasn't as good as I hoped, so I tried to get into the TWRP and I could not do it at all I tried every method I could search. After an hour of trying different methods of getting to twrp I tried to re-flash the recovery and that is when the phone because unresponsive and does what I have described above. I currently have access to fast boot and I dont want to go ****ing my phone up more than I have. If anyone can give me a step by step guide on how to fix this it would help so much since im new to android and I cant afford another £400 phone.
Thanks
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Don't worry, things can be recovered easily. Until you get more knowledgeable and you understand more about flashing use this failsafe to recover from (almost) anything
Go here and get the latest fastboot ROM for your phone.
https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/miui/raphael/
For now make sure you get the one that matches the region for your phone.
Then follow this guide to flash it
https://c.mi.com/thread-1857937-1-1.html
Use the fastboot flashing section.
Make sure you change the flash option to 'clean all' when flashing. The default option will lock the bootloader again after flashing. If you do the default option with any ROM that is not the same region as the phone you will hard brick the phone, this is why I recommend getting the ROM that matches your phone.
When unpacking the fastboot ROM, it is a Linux/Unix zipped tarball, most Windows zip software will need to extract it twice. The first time will give you a single .tar file (if it doesn't have an extension then rename it and add .tar to the end) You will then need to extract everything from the tar file, which you give you the folder, containing the ROM data, to point the Mi Flash Tool at.
After doing this you, if you've remembered to change the flash option to 'clean all', then you'll have restored to stock and kept the bootloader unlocked. Now you're good to try again.
Keep a copy of the fastboot ROM on your PC and back everything up on your phone before flashing. Then if you get in a mess you know how to easily recover things.
Once you get more experienced there will be other things you might be able to do, depending on the situation, that allow you to get things working without losing everything and needing to start from scratch.

Thanks
Robbo.5000 said:
Don't worry, things can be recovered easily. Until you get more knowledgeable and you understand more about flashing use this failsafe to recover from (almost) anything
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Thank you so much for the details post, I will try what you have said above and will report back with my results. I have one question if you know the answer ( My phone is the UK edition of the Mi 9T pro ) Would I need to download the global or EEA fastboot version.

BJack0 said:
Thank you so much for the details post, I will try what you have said above and will report back with my results. I have one question if you know the answer ( My phone is the UK edition of the Mi 9T pro ) Would I need to download the global or EEA fastboot version.
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For safety download the EEA ROM.

I also suggest you immediately flash dm_verity (https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/how-to/flashing-orangefox-recovery-mi-9t-pro-t3980579), after you flash twrp, wipe data and then flash that
Sent from my Redmi K20 Pro using Tapatalk

Robbo.5000 said:
For safety download the EEA ROM.
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Everything you said worded flawlessly and your a life saver. If you dont mind do you have a link to a set of guides on how to correctly flash a custom recovery and lineage OS? since when I try to research these guides I get 5 different versions of TWRP and lock my phone out :laugh:

ishaqtkr said:
I also suggest you immediately flash dm_verity after you flash twrp, wipe data and then flash that
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If you dont mind me asking could you go into slightly more detial on that since I have seen orange fox but I dont understand what dm_verity is.

Please ignore all reply's above as I am going to make another separate post about lineage OS
Thank you for replying and resolving my issue.

K20 Pro freezes on 'powered by Android' boot animation then bootloops.

Have tried flashing various miui and a few custom roms, all get stuck on animation. Have tried miui fastboot roms first build and latest, pretty much everything I can think of to no avail. Am I missing something? Open to any suggestions to get this phone working again. Fastboot and recovery (custom and stock) all work, flashing works it just won't get past that loading screen.

hoopsnake said:
Have tried flashing various miui and a few custom roms, all get stuck on animation. Have tried miui fastboot roms first build and latest, pretty much everything I can think of to no avail. Am I missing something? Open to any suggestions to get this phone working again. Fastboot and recovery (custom and stock) all work, flashing works it just won't get past that loading screen.
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If flashing a fastboot ROM isn't working, then maybe something physically has gone wrong with the phone. Are you using the clean all or the keep data option, when flashing? Make sure you're using the clean all option (but definitely not the clean and lock option).
Fastboot ROMs are normally the last resort, failsafe way to recover the phone, so it's unusual for them not to work.
Also how long are you waiting at the initial animation screen?
Also try a different, good quality USB lead and/or a different USB port and/or a different PC if you can.

Robbo.5000 said:
If flashing a fastboot ROM isn't working, then maybe something physically has gone wrong with the phone. Are you using the clean all or the keep data option, when flashing? Make sure you're using the clean all option (but definitely not the clean and lock option).
Fastboot ROMs are normally the last resort, failsafe way to recover the phone, so it's unusual for them not to work.
Also how long are you waiting at the initial animation screen?
Also try a different, good quality USB lead and/or a different USB port and/or a different PC if you can.
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Something more than likely broke hardware wise.
Always clean all, but unfortunately after many hours of trying I misclicked and locked a few hours ago, on the stock rom but which would of been lucky if I wasn't already stuck in bootloop.
Next option, took back panel off and had a look, red water indicator near headphone jack, the rest are still white so many some sort of water damage has happened idk how, everything else is clean and dry.
Next best bet is edl with a authorized mi account (no luck yet) or just ship it off to Xiaomi.

Umm, what did you do before you got this problem?
tbh, most users just skip a step and then nothing works. I'm assuming this is the case?
What is your phone variant? previous ROM? ROM you tried to apply?
what vendor are you using? and most importantly, what steps are you doing to flash the new rom.

Sandeeep Kiran said:
Umm, what did you do before you got this problem?
tbh, most users just skip a step and then nothing works. I'm assuming this is the case?
What is your phone variant? previous ROM? ROM you tried to apply?
what vendor are you using? and most importantly, what steps are you doing to flash the new rom.
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Literally nothing, flashed global stable zip a week before with f2fs, and dfe, it was about a week without modifying anything or even entering twrp and it just did a random reboot then just died and started boot looping.
K20 Pro, previous was lineage os, format data to get back to miui, flash miui, f2fs, dfe.
Now since bootloop, and edl, fastboot, recovery all work but with locked bootloader, I guess only option is edl flash.

My mi account must be magic or something, so downloaded mi unlock and bootloader unlocked immediately, no wait time. Was very surprised so to double check did fastboot OEM device-info and indeed bootloader is unlocked. Now flashing fastboot rom fingers crossed.

IT BOOTED, I have my phone backkkkkk. No idea how or what happened, happened but it's back up and running hopefully for good.
Somehow locking and unlocking bootloader fixed it.

touch screen doesn't work with twrp (or pitchblack)

I have a Redmi 9c on which I try to install a new rom like many tutorials suggest
So once I switch to bootloader, I run fastboot reboot recovery I get to twrp (3.5.2) but my touch screen doesn't work, I can't do anything.
do you have an idea of the problem ?
(in doubt I tried with PitchBlack but I had the same problem, when it turns itself off, I can't even swipe to unlock it ^^)
I think I forgot something or did something wrong but I don't know what, and I can't boot on the original rom anymore, at best I have the fastboot

rudak987 said:
I have a Redmi 9c on which I try to install a new rom like many tutorials suggest
So once I switch to bootloader, I run fastboot reboot recovery I get to twrp (3.5.2) but my touch screen doesn't work, I can't do anything.
do you have an idea of the problem ?
(in doubt I tried with PitchBlack but I had the same problem, when it turns itself off, I can't even swipe to unlock it ^^)
I think I forgot something or did something wrong but I don't know what, and I can't boot on the original rom anymore, at best I have the fastboot
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Hi, I think the issue is that twrp and PitchBlack is not compatible for your device. I don't think the error is in your phone, but in those costum revovers.

I tried to put back a stock rom because even with orangefox it didn't work, exactly the same problem.
but i must have done something wrong because the phone doesn't answer anymore, it's always trying to reboot and when i plug it in the pc, it's not visible on the usb.
✝✝ it's the end. ✝✝
we'll all go through it one day, and for the redmi its done.
thank you for reading my sad story^^

rudak987 said:
I tried to put back a stock rom because even with orangefox it didn't work, exactly the same problem.
but i must have done something wrong because the phone doesn't answer anymore, it's always trying to reboot and when i plug it in the pc, it's not visible on the usb.
✝✝ it's the end. ✝✝
we'll all go through it one day, and for the redmi its done.
thank you for reading my sad story^^
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Try taking the phone in for repair