[GUIDE][TOOL] Reboot to EDL mode from FASTBOOT! No More "Test Point Method"! [kenzo]

R

ROUGE13

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
62
0
0
Dec 17, 2018 at 12:32 PM
vaab69 said:
For Linux (and more precisely, debian flavors), here's how to add a "reboot-edl" command in "fastboot" command:

Code: 
mkdir /tmp/fastboot &&
cd /tmp/fastboot &&
apt-get source android-tools-fastboot </dev/null &&
cd android-tools-*
cat <<EOF | patch -p1
--- a/core/fastboot/fastboot.c
+++ b/core/fastboot/fastboot.c
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ void usage(void)
             "  continue                                 continue with autoboot\n"
             "  reboot                                   reboot device normally\n"
             "  reboot-bootloader                        reboot device into bootloader\n"
+            "  reboot-edl                               reboot device into EDL (RedMi Note 3 Pro)\n"
             "  help                                     show this help message\n"
             "\n"
             "options:\n"
@@ -803,6 +804,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int wants_wipe = 0;
     int wants_reboot = 0;
     int wants_reboot_bootloader = 0;
+    int wants_reboot_edl = 0;
     int erase_first = 1;
     void *data;
     unsigned sz;
@@ -929,6 +931,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         } else if(!strcmp(*argv, "reboot-bootloader")) {
             wants_reboot_bootloader = 1;
             skip(1);
+        } else if(!strcmp(*argv, "reboot-edl")) {
+            wants_reboot_edl = 1;
+            skip(1);
         } else if (!strcmp(*argv, "continue")) {
             fb_queue_command("continue", "resuming boot");
             skip(1);
@@ -1009,6 +1014,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         fb_queue_reboot();
     } else if (wants_reboot_bootloader) {
         fb_queue_command("reboot-bootloader", "rebooting into bootloader");
+    } else if (wants_reboot_edl) {
+        fb_queue_command("reboot-edl", "rebooting into EDL mode");
     }

     if (fb_queue_is_empty())
EOF

apt-get build-dep android-tools-fastboot -y </dev/null
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
cd ..
dpkg -i android-tools-fastboot*.deb
I have a blog post about this providing a few more information Here. Any comment is warmly encouraged and welcome.
Click to expand...
Hi, thank you for your work :),
I'm on linux Mint 17 and 18 and I got a problem with your script:
When I try
Code: 
apt-get source android-tools-fastboot
I get
Code: 
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
or:
Code: 
Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for android-fastboot
This is weird to me cause normal installation is working:
Code: 
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  android-libadb android-libbacktrace android-libbase android-libcutils
  android-libext4-utils android-libf2fs-utils android-liblog
  android-libselinux android-libsparse android-libunwind android-libutils
  android-libziparchive fastboot libf2fs0 p7zip-full
Suggested packages:
  p7zip-rar
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  android-libadb android-libbacktrace android-libbase android-libcutils
  android-libext4-utils android-libf2fs-utils android-liblog
  android-libselinux android-libsparse android-libunwind android-libutils
  android-libziparchive android-tools-fastboot fastboot libf2fs0 p7zip-full
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
Need to get 1 591 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6 102 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
What am I missing? :confused:

Edit: I update the terminal output to English language
 
Last edited:
B

Black_Stark

Senior Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,481
1,010
0
GOA
Dec 17, 2018 at 1:28 PM
ROUGE13 said:
For Linux (and more precisely, debian flavors), here's how to add a "reboot-edl" command in "fastboot" command:



Hi, thank you for your work :),
I'm on linux Mint 17 and 18 and I got a problem with your script:
When I try
I get


This is weird to me cause normal installation is working:


What am I missing? :confused:
Click to expand...
U missing English :D
 
R

ROUGE13

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
62
0
0
Dec 17, 2018 at 4:29 PM
naik2902 said:
U missing English :D
Click to expand...
Yes my English is quite terrible :/ but I just figure out debian =/= ubuntu
I thought ubuntu was based on debian...
(I have a raspberry and the command are the same as on my mint)

I will try to find the compatible commands. If you have an idea it could be great too.

---------- Post added at 05:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:23 PM ----------
ROUGE13 said:
Yes my English is quite terrible :/ but I just figure out debian =/= ubuntu
I thought ubuntu was based on debian...
(I have a raspberry and the command are the same as on my mint)

I will try to find the compatible commands. If you have an idea it could be great too.
Click to expand...
Hey the commands are the same !
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1822
So I don't get it when you said "u missing English"
 
B

Black_Stark

Senior Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,481
1,010
0
GOA
Dec 17, 2018 at 4:31 PM
ROUGE13 said:
Yes my English is quite terrible :/ but I just figure out debian =/= ubuntu
I thought ubuntu was based on debian...
(I have a raspberry and the command are the same as on my mint)

I will try to find the compatible commands. If you have an idea it could be great too.
Click to expand...
I was not talking about ur english.
Ur linux terminal output is not in english.

On Xda forum. Stay in english. Rules.
 
R

ROUGE13

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
62
0
0
Dec 17, 2018 at 4:46 PM
Last edited:
R

ROUGE13

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
62
0
0
Dec 17, 2018 at 5:13 PM
naik2902 said:
Whats the issue.?

Did u installed android fastboot tools

Now u cant put phone to edl mode?
Click to expand...
I tried to modify fastboot tool to send the reboot-edl command (see here vaab69 work)

But I don't know why I can't get the source of fastboot. But no problem for installing it.
On my home computer the error is a little different but the result the same.
 
B

Black_Stark

Senior Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,481
1,010
0
GOA
Dec 17, 2018 at 5:20 PM
ROUGE13 said:
I tried to modify fastboot tool to send the reboot-edl command (see here vaab69 work)

But I don't know why I can't get the source of fastboot. But no problem for installing it.
On my home computer the error is a little different but the result the same.
Click to expand...
Use windows pc. And follow page1 instruction. Dont put too much stress on brain.:laugh:
 
  • Like
Reactions: Zozomon
paolocorpo

paolocorpo

Senior Member
Jan 9, 2013
1,783
378
113
Sassoferrato
Dec 28, 2018 at 10:59 PM
Dear @BRoy_98,
A friend of mine has a Mi A1 bricked and is asking my support
He is not able to boot into EDL mode
He is able to boot into fastboot mode
May he use your guide in OP ?
Attached the emmc_appsboot.mbn extracted by 9.6.8.0 fastboot image (but he has 9.6.7.0)

Thanks
Paolo

Inviato dal mio Mi A1 utilizzando Tapatalk
 

Attachments

Last edited:
Ricky_Karmator

Ricky_Karmator

Senior Member
Jul 25, 2012
161
22
18
Brescia
Mar 10, 2019 at 9:29 AM
Hi guys! A friend of mine just showed to me that he bought a RedMi Note 4 (snap) but never updated. So I check and on his devices there is an old fake rom with the Classic 0.0 in the final MIUI version.
I checked in the developer option and said that the bootloader is unlocked, but I don't know if is a real statement or just another fake. I remember that the vendor rom has edl mode active, so I can follow this guide to flash directly the latest MIUI 10?
 
B

Black_Stark

Senior Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,481
1,010
0
GOA
Mar 10, 2019 at 9:35 AM
Ricky_Karmator said:
Hi guys! A friend of mine just showed to me that he bought a RedMi Note 4 (snap) but never updated. So I check and on his devices there is an old fake rom with the Classic 0.0 in the final MIUI version.
I checked in the developer option and said that the bootloader is unlocked, but I don't know if is a real statement or just another fake. I remember that the vendor rom has edl mode active, so I can follow this guide to flash directly the latest MIUI 10?
Click to expand...
Yes. U can use edl zip to put ur phone in edl mode.
And download latest mido fastboot image and flash using pc.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ricky_Karmator
R

realtebo

Senior Member
Dec 13, 2012
54
5
0
Apr 3, 2019 at 7:24 AM
Code: 
PS C:\Users\mirko\Downloads\Fastboot_edl-v2> fastboot.exe reboot-edl
fastboot: usage: unknown command reboot-edl
? What am I doing wrong? I downloaded your linked zip
 
R

realtebo

Senior Member
Dec 13, 2012
54
5
0
Apr 3, 2019 at 8:51 AM
First, let me say thank for this tool and for your reply.

I first rebooted into fastboot, then double-clicked on reboot.bat

It simply requested me to press Enter, I did.

It told me 'your device is rebooted to EDL succesfully' but in reality nothing happened. Still on standard fastboot mode.

So I opened the bat file, I seen

"%~dp0fastboot.exe" reboot-edl

and when tried to execute it manually, it told me

Code: 
PS C:\Users\mirko\Downloads\Fastboot_edl-v2> .\fastboot.exe reboot-edl
rebooting into edl...
FAILED (remote: Device is already locked!)
finished. total time: 0.005s
 
B

Black_Stark

Senior Member
Sep 24, 2012
3,481
1,010
0
GOA
Apr 3, 2019 at 8:55 AM
realtebo said:
First, let me say thank for this tool and for your reply.

I first rebooted into fastboot, then double-clicked on reboot.bat

It simply requested me to press Enter, I did.

It told me 'your device is rebooted to EDL succesfully' but in reality nothing happened. Still on standard fastboot mode.

So I opened the bat file, I seen

"%~dp0fastboot.exe" reboot-edl

and when tried to execute it manually, it told me
Click to expand...
Enable usb debugging on phone

Also check if ur phone detects below command

fastboot devices
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

New posts

Our Apps
Get our official app!
The best way to access XDA on your phone
Nav Gestures
Add swipe gestures to any Android
One Handed Mode
Eases uses one hand with your phone