Lenovo A6000 Hard Bricked - Cannot Find Solution - Sahara errors

[jm691]

Hi, so I've been around here for a while and I've had pretty good success with flashing phones.

However, I have a Lenovo A6000 that is hardbricked with Resurrection Remix ROM:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a6000/development/rom-resurrectionremix-5-8-1-t3555184

Followed the destructions and now it is stuck rebooting. I'll see the neat RR logo start and then it will freeze, and then reboot.....over and over. I didn't wipe the phone and start new...thought I could install TWRP and wipe it, flash the new ROM and be done. Nothing like being confident.

So now, it is hardbricked after trying to flash the stock rom....and I cannot figure out how to fix it. Downloaded QFIL, and the stock ROM, installed the Qualcomm drivers, put the phone into Fastboot with VOLUME DOWN + POWER BUTTON and QFIL see's the phone but gets stuck on fail sahara error. I have done countless searches online and the videos I have found don't resolve the problem. Google search turns up no solution. There is a thread here that basically just dies with no solution.

The phone ready for the trash bin?

Also tried Lenovo Downloader and it also gets stuck on step Sahara.

The little cheap phone belongs to a girlfriend of mine (she's a single mom) who has no money to buy a new one, and everyone here knows how awful the stock ROM. So I'm trying to help her out and flash this bugger. I had an A6000 before I bought my MiMax2 and it wasn't a bad little phone after getting RR on it.

Will anyone be willing to help?

 

[jm691]

?

So no one is willing to help with this problem huh?

From what I can tell the phone is junk now....even though both QFIL and Lenovo Downloader will see it when I plug it in.

Well...thanks anyway.

 

[jm691]

So who wants to be paid to help fix this problem? You must have PayPal and must be able to solve the problem.

 

[user0u]

I guess the problem is that a lower version OS can't be installed via QFIL. For example if the phone got bricked in lollipop you can't install kitkat on it via QFIL. Although the same version OS might work (lollipop to lollipop) and of course higher version OS will work.
I have also had some version of QcomDLoader flash tool work where other flash tools simply failed or even older versions of QcomDLoader didn't work.

This is the one that worked for me https://androiddatahost.com/dt3gh9

 

[Vejainam]

move firmware (SW_LENOVO BLABLABLA) to loca disk :C
restart pc > then flash again.