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DavRant
7y

I just fucked up real bad:

My phone was giving some error about not being able to install an update. Fair enough, i think to myself, so i try rebooting. Still nothing...

I then remember that i at some point OEM unlocked it for some testing, so i start up adb and see if i can connect during the update process. I can't. This is bad: I can't get into my home environment, nor can i connect with adb

Then i try booting into recovery, but instead of booting to ACTUAL recovery, it boots to some custom made "E-Recovery" made by huawei (my phone is a huawei p9 lite), which only gives me the option to download the update, which crashes, and no way of resetting. However, from here, i am finally able to connect to my internal storage via hisuite to make a backup

Next up: Bootloader
So i next load up the unlocked bootloader to try and manually flash the update. That works great, but it still wont boot normally. So i figure: it must think my device is in fact a different device. At this point i'm pretty fucked: Even though i have my data backed up, i can't manually download the update from huawei's site because i don't have the right keys, and i can't download an OTA because their site sucks and half of the downloads don't work, including the one i need. So now i'm stuck here with a bricked phone because EMUI doesn't know how to install an update.

I then did the stupidest thing i have done to date: i wanted to flash a custom recovery image over the "E-Recovery" in order to do some troubleshooting, but instead of writing
"fastboot (mydeviceid) flash recovery recovery.img"
I wrote
"fastboot (mydeviceid) flash boot recovery.img"
Meaning i flashed my BOOT partition with a custom recovery image that turned out to not be able to run. Great! Now i've totally fucked my boot sequence

I can't call their support line either, because as soon as they realize i've tried to restore it myself, and therefor had my OEM unlocked, they basically just hang up.

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    @irene as far as i could tell from googling for a few minutes they dont, but i could be wrong. At least the link to the recovery for my version doesnt work and just gives me a 404
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    do a full flash: radio, boot, recovery, and rom.
    there should be an official tool for this, used by tech professionals. search XDA for links.

    you won't have your data, but at least your phone will work.
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    @magicMirror thanks! i'll see if that works. Is there anything model specific or anything i have to look out for?
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    search for a general tool, then for your specific model. HTC has installer tools specifically for phone model + version for instance. I am not familiar with huewai.
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    @magicMirror awesome! thanks so much for the help!
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    @DavRant carefull with it. Do some research first before you try to use it. I destroyed quite a few phone with a bad burn in the past.
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