How I Soft bricked my P10 Plus and how I recovered it

icyyicee

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Hey all,

Thanks for reading my thread!

I am on build VKY-L09C654B203. First I unlocked the bootloader successfully, then I installed TWRP 3.1.0.0 with no trouble.

But while I was trying to root my device, I must have flashed a faulty supersu.zip. My device went stuck on "your device is booting now" screen.

At this moment I still have access to:
  • eRecovery (useless)
  • TWRP (entered with UP_VOL + POWER, hold until you see the TWRP screen, DO NOT attach any cable to your phone)
  • Fastboot / Bootloader / Emergency mode (entered by first turning off your phone, then hold DOWN_VOL while connecting your phone to your computer)

Realizing that I might have a corrupted boot sequence, I tried and flashed several boot.img, but they didn't help.

I tried flashing some other versions of the supersu.zip, even tried a UPDATE-unSU-signed.zip to revert back the damages, but none worked.

So after panicking a lot, I calmed down and realized that the problem is still the boot.img file.

I used fastboot commands:

Code:
fastboot oem get-build-number
fastboot oem get-product-number
to get my precise build number, then googled a russian site that listed my build in full zip.

The site is http://pro-teammt.ru/ and I downloaded the "FullOTA-MF" file.

I then used this wonderful tool called Huawei Update Extractor (worstenbrood) 0.9.9.5 to extract the UPDATE.APP (you'll have to unzip the zip file first), and found the BOOT.img in it.

After extracting the BOOT.img, I booted my phone to bootloader mode and used the command:

Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
After receiving a success message, I restarted my phone and it was able to go right pass the loading screen!

Anyway, I started this thread while losing all hopes in humanity, but ended up solving my problem before pressing publish, so I thought I might as well turn this into a guide. I couldn't have done it without many people's help, but sadly I didn't keep record of the authors where I got my helps with, so apologies to them.

I'm attaching the tools I used so you can download them.

Best Regards!