Worst experience was hard bricking my android phone after I've messed with its partitions. I'm still sad about that.

@putty It was the beginning of the whole thing, but no, not really. :/

You can use JTAG or Qualcomm flasher to restore it.

@flag0 Apparently there's an app called QPST for doing those kind of things on Qualcomm chipsets. But I couldn't really make my head around it. As I recall there's been lots and lots of switches in its UI. And there was no proper tutorial on how to do the simplest things with it. I couldn't even connect the two.

But I would appreciate it if you could help.

and your best experience?

I can't leave on that bombshell, too sad

@stisch It sure was good that I got hired by a top rated company in my area. It's no Google, but it's something. :-)

I hard bricked my OP3 and ended up using some random Qualcomm drivers for the chipset and re-flashing my phone through the actual chip manually through some weird hardware hole where you hold down some buttons and the USB routes straight to the chip (directly through the processer, lower level than fastboot or recovery)

@goofle I don't really remember the name of it but I used it about a year and half ago to restore my Mi3 (extra dev device i play with) when i fucked up its partition table. I think I might be able to help.

@rmahey yup did that on my phone. You flash the factory firmware which units the device with blank partitions. You then flash the recovery and use it to flash the ROM. There are some image bundles that essentially does this all for you on some devices.

@flag0 Right now I'm in the middle of my exams. But thanks. I will reach you in case I needed help.