Mind to share how you bootlooped, so that others can avoid it?
Patched with magisk 24312:
Unfortunately, the patched boot.img still didn't fix the bootloop.
Currently, I am attempting to build TWRP for the device to see if that can fix anything. I used the twrptgen command to make a device tree for the Ghost with the boot.img and am trying to build TWRP, but I am running into an error.
I have posted on this
forum (page 240) if anyone could help with that.
In terms of bootlooping, the process of unlocking the bootloader with MTK Client as documented in the GitHub went fine. After booting, it did show a dm-verity error and orange state saying the bootloader had been unlocked, but all was still fine. Proceeding, I decided to try to flash a GSI and this is where I ran into problems. I attempted to flash the original system.img again, but that didn't work. Also for some reason it wouldn't boot into recovery, even though it should be tied into the boot.img not system.img because of the A/B partitioning. However, I still have access to BROM mode for MTK Client and fastboot mode. I think the bootloop has something to do with dm-verity and vbmeta.img, but I have tried a lot on those lines with no prevail.
I think there are two fixes to this problem. One being TWRP, if I can successfully build it, and the second flashing the entire stock firmware with a flash.bin file and starting over. I didn't realize until it was too late that I should have backed up everything into a flash.bin file using MTK Client, and instead only backed up specific partitions.
It would be awesome if you could help me and post a flash.bin file to this forum of the stock firmware for the Ghost. The instructions on how to do that are
here, but in specific are as follows (on a Linux distribution, preferably Ubuntu):
Code:
sudo apt install python3 git libusb-1.0-0 python3-pip
git clone https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient
cd mtkclient
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py build
python3 setup.py install
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev $USER
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
sudo cp Setup/Linux/*.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo udevadm control -R
**Make sure to reboot now before proceeding**
**To put the Ghost into BROM mode (which is how you will read the partitions) make sure it is powered off. Then run this command:**
python3 mtk rf flash.bin
**Then, press and hold VOLUME UP, VOLUME DOWN, AND POWER, all at the same time, and at the same time, plug the phone into the computer with a USB cable.**
**The phone should start reading all the partitions and once it is done, it will have outputed a flash.bin file for the Ghost**
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. I am going to **** around with a Moto E5 (similar CPU, but has lots more documentation) and see if I can figure a way to load via ADB.
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