Please help, phone bricked

mohammad409k · Apr 7, 2018

Hello,

my problem started trying to flash Elite-ROM. I got in a bootloop but I could get out by restoring the data from the backup I made in TWRP.
After getting back to my ROM, many functions didn't work on the phone like calling, camera and many apps, and the NFC sign keeps blinking on the status bar, even that it's not on.
Then I tried to flash the original firmware but I couldn't find it so trying to be a smartass I found out that changing the OEM info to the available firmwares could help

I tried that and now my phone is "bricked" if I'm right about the naming.
here are the only 2 things I can get. one by default and the other when restarting the phone holding the Volume down button.

What is really interesting that Huawei multi-tool by team MT detects my phone...
But it says that my bootloader is locked and when I try to unlock it it says that there is a problem with the USB conncection
PS: I tried to boot into recovery but it just won't.. :crying:
My phone is WAS-LX1A (middle east) and was running EMUI 5.1, build number was: WAS-LX1Ac18

Is there any way to fix my phone?

update: after poking around in the multi tool by MT, I could unlock my bootloader, now I have access to TWRP and the corrupt backup that I have
Update 2: now I just trying to download different firmwares and will try to flash them, I restored the stock recovery to be able to install the firmware via the volume and power buttons on startup...

Aalesund · Apr 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM

I can't find a service rom for your region!
In theory you can re-brand it to C432 (Europe) and you can flash original service rom.
Steps:
1. Install TWRP
2. Download OEMinfo for Dual SIM WAS-LX1AC432 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-k_1rnfFeEvdWxZZE1tNWwwOHM/view
3. Extract the 3 files into folder called "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
4. Put the folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" into "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER"
5. Must be: "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER\DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
6. Download ROM Warsaw-L21_C432 - http://androidhost.ru/JT
7. In the root directory of your SD Card create a folder "dload"
8. Put the file UPDATE.APP and folder WAS-L21A_hw_eu (contains the file update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app) inside your dload folder
9. Must be: "SDCARD\dload\UPDATE.APP" and "SDCARD\dload\WAS-L21A_hw_eu\update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app"
10. Reboot into TWRP, create a backup of your original OEMinfo
11. Restore TWRP backup: Go to TWRP -> Restore and select a folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" then restore the OEMinfo partition.
12. Go to TWRP -> Reboot -> Turn OFF you phone
13. Once the phone is turned off hold all 3 buttons volume up, volume down, power until you see EMUI update menu
14. An automated system update process will begin
15. After successful install your phone will have Dual Sim and STOCK WAS-LX1AC432B182

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

Thanks a lot, I'll try it later today.

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

Aalesund said:
12. Go to TWRP -> Reboot -> Turn OFF you phone
13. Once the phone is turned off hold all 3 buttons volume up, volume down, power until you see EMUI update menu
14. An automated system update process will begin
15. After successful install your phone will have Dual Sim and STOCK WAS-LX1AC432B182

I got to step 13 then I got the error screen with Error Func NO 11 (recovery image) and Error NO 2 (load failed)

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

Aalesund said:
12. Go to TWRP -> Reboot -> Turn OFF you phone
13. Once the phone is turned off hold all 3 buttons volume up, volume down, power until you see EMUI update menu
14. An automated system update process will begin
15. After successful install your phone will have Dual Sim and STOCK WAS-LX1AC432B182

So after getting stuck there, I decided to restore the stock recovery because, with TWRP on my device, I boot to TWRP recovery whenever I press the + and - volume buttons with the power button at the same time.
After getting the stock recovery the installing process started but it was stuck at 5% until it restarted and got a boot loop for like 4 times. Then It did a system reset on boot, after which I got back to the corrupt ROM...
Maybe I'll try the same thing with different ROMs and their OEMs, do you have other ideas?

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

@Aalesund

Thank you bro !! you saved me, I've been suffering for 2 days with this till now.
After the reset, I just turned off the phone and tried again, it just worked

the past 2 days were really long and full of suffer, thanks to you I have my phone back.

Aalesund · Apr 7, 2018 at 8:50 PM

mohammad409k said:
@Aalesund

Thank you bro !! you saved me, I've been suffering for 2 days with this till now.
After the reset, I just turned off the phone and tried again, it just worked
the past 2 days were really long and full of suffer, thanks to you I have my phone back.

Now you have working WAS-LX1A European region C432, right? If everything is successful your phone will no longer be Middle East region. Will be European region but it doesn't matter

The phone info should be WAS-LX1A with firmware WAS-LX1AC432B182.

BTW, I was going to show you another Unbick method via Huawei Multi Tool.
Download if you need in future ;p
https://mega.nz/#!yB5wzb6R!L_hzd6XtfN4GHP8NxWvZRiuBgoX5Tlq4vBpC8XX9qNs (use Google Chrome)
How to use:
1. Install adb-setup-1.4.3
2. Install Multi-Tool 8
3. Turn OFF the phone
4. Press and Hold Vol- and connect phone to PC via USB cable
5. Open Device Manager and make sure the phone is shown as Android Bootloader Interface
6. Open Multi-Tool 8 and go to tab Unbrick
7. Press Specify folder and select the folder WAS-LX1AC432 and on the right side, you should see a message that all files are available
8. Press Unbrick button

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

Aalesund said:
Now you have working WAS-LX1A European region C432, right? If everything is successful your phone will no longer be Middle East region. Will be European region but it doesn't matter
The phone info should be WAS-LX1A with firmware WAS-LX1AC432B182.

BTW, I was going to show you another Unbick method via Huawei Multi Tool.
Download if you need in future ;p
https://mega.nz/#!yB5wzb6R!L_hzd6XtfN4GHP8NxWvZRiuBgoX5Tlq4vBpC8XX9qNs (use Google Chrome)
How to use:
1. Install adb-setup-1.4.3
2. Install Multi-Tool 8
3. Turn OFF the phone
4. Press and Hold Vol- and connect phone to PC via USB cable
5. Open Device Manager and make sure the phone is shown as Android Bootloader Interface
6. Open Multi-Tool 8 and go to tab Unbrick
7. Press Specify folder and select the folder WAS-LX1AC432 and on the right side, you should see a message that all files are available
8. Press Unbrick button

I tried doing that, but with the OEM version that I've downloaded, it couldn't find all the files for the unbrick..
Thanks a lot again, I'm saving the files and thinking about uploading them to my google drive to never lose them again and to never be afraid of poking around with my ROM

PS: changing my phone's region to EU makes it only less suspicious with my name :laugh:

gsmfonefun · Jun 21, 2018 2 0 0

Hi sir Aalesund

i have p10 lite that stuck on download recovery screen and i used ur mthod to unbrick with multitool but at the end get error and set is still in same condition plz have a look and help me to fix it
thx

Unbricking started. Your computer may freezes during the process.
flash boot "C:\Users\Documents\Multi-Tool\Unbrick\WAS-LX1AC432\boot.img"
The Boot image is flashing successfully
flash system "C:\Users\Documents\Multi-Tool\Unbrick\WAS-LX1AC432\system.img"
The System image is flashing successfully
flash cust "C:\Users\Documents\Multi-Tool\Unbrick\WAS-LX1AC432\cust.img"
The Cust image is flashing successfully
flash recovery "C:\Users\Documents\Multi-Tool\Unbrick\WAS-LX1AC432\recovery.img"
The Recovery image is flashing successfully
flash userdata "C:\Users\Documents\Multi-Tool\Unbrick\WAS-LX1AC432\userdata.img"
target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending 'userdata' (24576 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.825s]
writing 'userdata'...
(bootloader) success to erase cryypt info in oeminfo
OKAY [ 0.340s]
finished. total time: 1.165s

Error#1
Completed
Something went wrong (((

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TiT∅ · Jun 26, 2017 11 0 0

Aalesund said:
I can't find a service rom for your region!
In theory you can re-brand it to C432 (Europe) and you can flash original service rom.
Steps:
1. Install TWRP
2. Download OEMinfo for Dual SIM WAS-LX1AC432 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-k_1rnfFeEvdWxZZE1tNWwwOHM/view
3. Extract the 3 files into folder called "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
4. Put the folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" into "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER"
5. Must be: "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER\DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
6. Download ROM Warsaw-L21_C432 - http://androidhost.ru/JT
7. In the root directory of your SD Card create a folder "dload"
8. Put the file UPDATE.APP and folder WAS-L21A_hw_eu (contains the file update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app) inside your dload folder
9. Must be: "SDCARD\dload\UPDATE.APP" and "SDCARD\dload\WAS-L21A_hw_eu\update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app"
10. Reboot into TWRP, create a backup of your original OEMinfo
11. Restore TWRP backup: Go to TWRP -> Restore and select a folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" then restore the OEMinfo partition.
12. Go to TWRP -> Reboot -> Turn OFF you phone
13. Once the phone is turned off hold all 3 buttons volume up, volume down, power until you see EMUI update menu
14. An automated system update process will begin
15. After successful install your phone will have Dual Sim and STOCK WAS-LX1AC432B182

Pleaseeeeeeee, I have exactly the same problem, a method for the was-lx3c605 ???

mohammad409k · Jul 1, 2015 8 1 0

Guys, sorry for not replying and telling what happened..
anyways, it worked then, after I changed to Europe but then the GPS signal was lost, until I got the app (GPS Status) and now whenever the signal is lost I just launch the app and wait a bit then it's perfect for few months.

now I have the build WAS-LX1A (C432), and everything is just perfect.
Thanks a lot for your help

saprey · Jul 16, 2017 17 0 0

Aalesund said:
I can't find a service rom for your region!
In theory you can re-brand it to C432 (Europe) and you can flash original service rom.
Steps:
1. Install TWRP
2. Download OEMinfo for Dual SIM WAS-LX1AC432 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-k_1rnfFeEvdWxZZE1tNWwwOHM/view
3. Extract the 3 files into folder called "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
4. Put the folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" into "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER"
5. Must be: "SDCARD\TWRP\BACKUPS\YOUR_PHONE_SERIAL_NUMBER\DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432"
6. Download ROM Warsaw-L21_C432 - http://androidhost.ru/JT
7. In the root directory of your SD Card create a folder "dload"
8. Put the file UPDATE.APP and folder WAS-L21A_hw_eu (contains the file update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app) inside your dload folder
9. Must be: "SDCARD\dload\UPDATE.APP" and "SDCARD\dload\WAS-L21A_hw_eu\update_WAS-L21A_hw_eu.app"
10. Reboot into TWRP, create a backup of your original OEMinfo
11. Restore TWRP backup: Go to TWRP -> Restore and select a folder "DUAL-SIM-OEMINFO-C432" then restore the OEMinfo partition.
12. Go to TWRP -> Reboot -> Turn OFF you phone
13. Once the phone is turned off hold all 3 buttons volume up, volume down, power until you see EMUI update menu
14. An automated system update process will begin
15. After successful install your phone will have Dual Sim and STOCK WAS-LX1AC432B182

Thanks a lot that fixed mine.

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