Full wipe a damaged OnePlus 5

CurtisAndroid5

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Hello!

Unfortunately, my device suffered a major mishap - Started with a few minor cracks and then somehow the screen has fully went whilst in my pocket (60% of the screen is black and the other 40% is just full of random colours and shattered pixels out of nowhere).

I've just paid my contract off and upgraded to the P20 Pro so now I've got this device in my office ready to be donated to a relative. I'm sending it off for repairs this week but I'd rather it was fully reset before I send it off.

Since the top half of the screen is unusable I'm struggling to reset it as I can't use TWRP, OS reset menu or even ADB (ADB shell gives unauthorised error as I can't swipe down to enable access to the PC.

Any one have any genius solutions? I'd appreciate it!

Thanks

And here is what I'm dealing with;
 
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CurtisAndroid5

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Red led is a boot partition problem related, if i remember right

Are you able to boot up the bootloader? If yes, you can flash stock recovery and wipe everything from there
Unfortunately due to not having access the top 60% of the screen I can't reboot into recovery/bootloader/fastboot as I can't select the reboot options in the centre of the screen and I don't think the volume rockers are working properly either as I can't select options in the boot safety pop-up.

And as I can't give ADB permission I'm stuck in an unauthorised error on the cmd window!
 

Hitman478™

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Unfortunately due to not having access the top 60% of the screen I can't reboot into recovery/bootloader/fastboot as I can't select the reboot options in the centre of the screen and I don't think the volume rockers are working properly either as I can't select options in the boot safety pop-up.

And as I can't give ADB permission I'm stuck in an unauthorised error on the cmd window!
At this point, i think is without warranty so send it as it is and dont think about ;)
 

CurtisAndroid5

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Update!

Even with a completely invisible screen I managed to boot to fastboot, push stock.img, lock bootloader and then wipe everything in stock recovery. Looks like remember the stock recovery layout has came in handy!

Thanks for all the assistance
 
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