How To Guide Rooting OnePlus Nord 2 CE lite

[TeunB]

I think they should all let you flash them if you do it from recovery mode. I never used the super/force command myself so I don't think it'll be necessary. You might want to try flashing it from the opposite slot though. I was on slot B when I flashed everything to A so that might have something to do with it.
As far as I know, all the partition names were the same as the image names so it should be rather straight forward.

I tried flashing these imgs:

flashable/working img (both slot a & b):

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash modem modem.img
fastboot flash oplusstanvbk oplusstanvbk.img
fastboot flash oplus_sec oplus_sec.img
fastboot flash splash splash.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img
fastboot flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img
fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot.img
fastboot flash core_nhlos core_nhlos.img
fastboot flash engineering_cdt engineering_cdt.img
fastboot flash bluetooth bluetooth.img
fastboot flash featenabler featenabler.img
fastboot flash dsp dsp.img

The "--force" command also doesnt seem to work
Not flashable due to critical partitions not allowed:

fastboot flash abl abl.img
fastboot flash devcfg devcfg.img
fastboot flash hyp hyp.img
fastboot flash imagefv imagefv.img
fastboot flash keymaster keymaster.img
fastboot flash qupfw qupfw.img
fastboot flash tz tz.img
fastboot rpm rpm.img

Probably also critical but partition not found / (img_a/b) no such partition

fastboot flash product product.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot flash odm odm.img
fastboot flash uefisecapp uefisecapp.img
fastboot flash xbl xbl.img
fastboot flash xbl_config xbl_config.img
fastboot flash system_ext system_ext.img
fastboot flash system system.img

When i try to boot into the recovery screen or fastbootd ("fastboot reboot fastboot"), I get this text:

系统文件被破坏 , 无法开机.
请安装正确的系统软件或联系售后处理.
The current image(boot/recovery) have been
destroyed and can not boot.
Please flash the correct image or contact
customer senvice to fix it.

Not sure how else to execute the "critical" flashes
Maybe I should give up and try to send it to OnePlus for repairs?

 

[Matz125]

I tried flashing these imgs:

flashable/working img (both slot a & b):

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash modem modem.img
fastboot flash oplusstanvbk oplusstanvbk.img
fastboot flash oplus_sec oplus_sec.img
fastboot flash splash splash.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img
fastboot flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img
fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot.img
fastboot flash core_nhlos core_nhlos.img
fastboot flash engineering_cdt engineering_cdt.img
fastboot flash bluetooth bluetooth.img
fastboot flash featenabler featenabler.img
fastboot flash dsp dsp.img

The "--force" command also doesnt seem to work
Not flashable due to critical partitions not allowed:

fastboot flash abl abl.img
fastboot flash devcfg devcfg.img
fastboot flash hyp hyp.img
fastboot flash imagefv imagefv.img
fastboot flash keymaster keymaster.img
fastboot flash qupfw qupfw.img
fastboot flash tz tz.img
fastboot rpm rpm.img

Probably also critical but partition not found / (img_a/b) no such partition

fastboot flash product product.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot flash odm odm.img
fastboot flash uefisecapp uefisecapp.img
fastboot flash xbl xbl.img
fastboot flash xbl_config xbl_config.img
fastboot flash system_ext system_ext.img
fastboot flash system system.img

When i try to boot into the recovery screen or fastbootd ("fastboot reboot fastboot"), I get this text:


Not sure how else to execute the "critical" flashes
Maybe I should give up and try to send it to OnePlus for repairs?

Yeah, I don't really know. I didn't get that, it just allowed me to flash them. Sending it in is probably the safest bet although unlocking the bootloader might've voided the warranty. If nothing else someone else here might know how to fix things. Sorry I could help.

 

[Timmyb83]

I tried all of the above but failed huge. Now my phone is bricked I think, it keeps getting started in either bootloader or the message that the phone is corrupted. I found a working TWRP 3.7.0_12Beta_v1 but I can only use it to install magisk and nothing else will pass.
I tried the origional boot.img that i got off my phone when it was working but if i try to install it with TWRP it fails. I found some boot.img online that matches the phone but they also fail.

Can someone please help me. I'm currently stuck with an expensive paper weight.

 

[TeunB]

I tried all of the above but failed huge. Now my phone is bricked I think, it keeps getting started in either bootloader or the message that the phone is corrupted. I found a working TWRP 3.7.0_12Beta_v1 but I can only use it to install magisk and nothing else will pass.
I tried the origional boot.img that i got off my phone when it was working but if i try to install it with TWRP it fails. I found some boot.img online that matches the phone but they also fail.

Can someone please help me. I'm currently stuck with an expensive paper weight.

I think the only solution is entering EDL mode and using the MSM tool to factory reset the phone with an .OFP package. The problem is the MSM tool for nord CE 2 Lite hasnt been released by One plus yet. After reading some posts it appears it might not ever be publicly available.

To enter EDL mode in case they release the MSM tool:

1. Open device manager on windows
2. Power off the phone (fastboot menu navigate to power off with volume keys)
3. hold vol up+down keys (DO NO HOLD POWER, this will make it just go to fastboot)
4. plug in the cable to your pc while holding the volume UP+DOWN
5. The tool should detect your phone
6. If the phone isnt detected Check device manager, if this is a device with a triangle its probably the phone
   (the edl drivers aren installed on windows)
7. Go to windows update > advanced options > optional updates
   (Some qualcom update should be listed here)
8. install the optional qualcom update
9. try again and check if the tool can connect

Now we just need to wait for the MSM tool and an .OFP package for CPH2409.
Not much else I know that would help/work right now

EDIT: not sure if MSM tools are universal? cant seem to find this. If so maybe you could try a MSM tool and OFP from some sketch website. but this is at your OWN RISK ofc.

 

[TeunB]

Okay I may have found a way. I'll keep you updated.

Yeah, I don't really know. I didn't get that, it just allowed me to flash them. Sending it in is probably the safest bet although unlocking the bootloader might've voided the warranty. If nothing else someone else here might know how to fix things. Sorry I could help.

I tried all of the above but failed huge. Now my phone is bricked I think, it keeps getting started in either bootloader or the message that the phone is corrupted. I found a working TWRP 3.7.0_12Beta_v1 but I can only use it to install magisk and nothing else will pass.
I tried the origional boot.img that i got off my phone when it was working but if i try to install it with TWRP it fails. I found some boot.img online that matches the phone but they also fail.

Can someone please help me. I'm currently stuck with an expensive paper weight.

 

[TeunB]

I tried all of the above but failed huge. Now my phone is bricked I think, it keeps getting started in either bootloader or the message that the phone is corrupted. I found a working TWRP 3.7.0_12Beta_v1 but I can only use it to install magisk and nothing else will pass.
I tried the origional boot.img that i got off my phone when it was working but if i try to install it with TWRP it fails. I found some boot.img online that matches the phone but they also fail.

Can someone please help me. I'm currently stuck with an expensive paper weight.

Thanks to the kind people at the Nord ce 2 ite telegram group I managed to find a way. I got it running again perfectly fine now.

So what went wrong:
My partition table was f*cked, so i couldn't flash any more. I also couldn't go into the "fastbootd" (to flash critical partitions) and my touchscreen didn't work.

!!! Important !!!

• These are my steps, it can always be different for you so dont blindly copy them
• If you tried to root and something is wrong or looping etc. > FIRST TRY TO CHANGE THE SLOT TO A/B BEFORE FLASHING ALL KINDS OF STUFF LIKE I DID!!!
  (the other slot should still be clean and bootable)
• My model (CPH2409)
• The OTA I used is the A14 one
• If the phone doesn't get detected in bootloader, fastbootd or Recovery: try the other slot a/b
• delete COW files/partitions in fastboot enhance
• always enable logging in fastboot enhance
• fastboot enhance also has a payload extracter build in if you need a single img
• If using a external SD card check if its fat32, if so format it to the other fat one (fat32 wont allow single big files)

Key combos:

• POWER + VOL UP = recovery/fastbootd
• POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN = bootloader/normal fastboot\
• VOL+UP+VOL DOWN + INSERT CABLE = edl mode (If an MSM tool ever gets released)

The solution

first:

1. download the latest OTA (preferably via oxygen updater)
2. download fastboot enhance (Ui makes it convenient and it can flash an entire payload.bin)
3. download the TWRP from spector0
4. extract the vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img from the downloaded OTA
5. boot into the bootloader
6. flash vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img with fastboot enhance
7. flash the twrp.img from spect0r
8. reboot to recovery

Now I got Into the TWRP recovery screen and my touch screen was working again. Using TWRP I was able to reboot into fastbootd again. but my partition table was still messed up so I couldn't flash the super imgs properly (system, system_ext, etc).

To fix this I needed a TWRP back up, restoring this will repair the partition table too:

1. Download twrp back up
2. extract the zip/rar if archived
3. put the extracted back up folder on your phone somewhere where TWRP can reach it (I used an external micro sd)
4. In TWRP go to restore
5. Select the back up (if sd: select storage > select the mircroSD)
6. select the twrp back_up
7. restore the back up
8. not sure if needed but I rebooted to be sure

The partitions table should now be fixed. Now to restore the system/OS:

1. boot into fastbootd/recovery
2. open fastboot enhance (should show under basic properties which slot and if yoru'e in fastbootd)
3. check: show logs & Ignore unknown Partitions
4. flash the entire payload.bin file (from the downloaded OTA)
5. after its done, check the logs for which partitions failed (probably most starting with: "my_")
6. in fastboot enhance (fastbootd): partitions > Create > *name of failed partition* size: 12000b > ok
   (size will automatically be adjusted when flashing)
7. Check the logs if nothing failed
8. reboot to system
9. You should now get into the setup screen

My phone is now working again! yay!

Once I made a back-up of my clean twrp I'll link it here and the OTA too if possible.

OTA LINK

TWRP-backup

 

[keyra74]

i'll keep that for later

 

[TeunB]

i'll keep that for later

Thanks to the kind people at the Nord ce 2 ite telegram group I managed to find a way. I got it running again perfectly fine now.

So what went wrong:
My partition table was f*cked, so i couldn't flash any more. I also couldn't go into the "fastbootd" (to flash critical partitions) and my touchscreen didn't work.

!!! Important !!!

• These are my steps, it can always be different for you so dont blindly copy them
• If you tried to root and something is wrong or looping etc. > FIRST TRY TO CHANGE THE SLOT TO A/B BEFORE FLASHING ALL KINDS OF STUFF LIKE I DID!!!
  (the other slot should still be clean and bootable)
• My model (CPH2409)
• The OTA I used is the A14 one
• If the phone doesn't get detected in bootloader, fastbootd or Recovery: try the other slot a/b
• delete COW files/partitions in fastboot enhance
• always enable logging in fastboot enhance
• fastboot enhance also has a payload extracter build in if you need a single img
• If using a external SD card check if its fat32, if so format it to the other fat one (fat32 wont allow single big files)

Key combos:

• POWER + VOL UP = recovery/fastbootd
• POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN = bootloader/normal fastboot\
• VOL+UP+VOL DOWN + INSERT CABLE = edl mode (If an MSM tool ever gets released)

The solution

first:

1. download the latest OTA (preferably via oxygen updater)
2. download fastboot enhance (Ui makes it convenient and it can flash an entire payload.bin)
3. download the TWRP from spector0
4. extract the vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img from the downloaded OTA
5. boot into the bootloader
6. flash vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img with fastboot enhance
7. flash the twrp.img from spect0r
8. reboot to recovery

Now I got Into the TWRP recovery screen and my touch screen was working again. Using TWRP I was able to reboot into fastbootd again. but my partition table was still messed up so I couldn't flash the super imgs properly (system, system_ext, etc).

To fix this I needed a TWRP back up, restoring this will repair the partition table too:

1. Download twrp back up
2. extract the zip/rar if archived
3. put the extracted back up folder on your phone somewhere where TWRP can reach it (I used an external micro sd)
4. In TWRP go to restore
5. Select the back up (if sd: select storage > select the mircroSD)
6. select the twrp back_up
7. restore the back up
8. not sure if needed but I rebooted to be sure

The partitions table should now be fixed. Now to restore the system/OS:

1. boot into fastbootd/recovery
2. open fastboot enhance (should show under basic properties which slot and if yoru'e in fastbootd)
3. check: show logs & Ignore unknown Partitions
4. flash the entire payload.bin file (from the downloaded OTA)
5. after its done, check the logs for which partitions failed (probably most starting with: "my_")
6. in fastboot enhance (fastbootd): partitions > Create > *name of failed partition* size: 12000b > ok
   (size will automatically be adjusted when flashing)
7. Check the logs if nothing failed
8. reboot to system
9. You should now get into the setup screen

My phone is now working again! yay!

Once I made a back-up of my clean twrp I'll link it here and the OTA too if possible.

OTA LINK

TWRP-backup

Still making the back-up of twrp so that's coming a bit later

 

[Timmyb83]

Thanks to the kind people at the Nord ce 2 ite telegram group I managed to find a way. I got it running again perfectly fine now.

So what went wrong:
My partition table was f*cked, so i couldn't flash any more. I also couldn't go into the "fastbootd" (to flash critical partitions) and my touchscreen didn't work.

!!! Important !!!

• These are my steps, it can always be different for you so dont blindly copy them
• If you tried to root and something is wrong or looping etc. > FIRST TRY TO CHANGE THE SLOT TO A/B BEFORE FLASHING ALL KINDS OF STUFF LIKE I DID!!!
  (the other slot should still be clean and bootable)
• My model (CPH2409)
• The OTA I used is the A14 one
• If the phone doesn't get detected in bootloader, fastbootd or Recovery: try the other slot a/b
• delete COW files/partitions in fastboot enhance
• always enable logging in fastboot enhance
• fastboot enhance also has a payload extracter build in if you need a single img
• If using a external SD card check if its fat32, if so format it to the other fat one (fat32 wont allow single big files)

Key combos:

• POWER + VOL UP = recovery/fastbootd
• POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN = bootloader/normal fastboot\
• VOL+UP+VOL DOWN + INSERT CABLE = edl mode (If an MSM tool ever gets released)

The solution

first:

1. download the latest OTA (preferably via oxygen updater)
2. download fastboot enhance (Ui makes it convenient and it can flash an entire payload.bin)
3. download the TWRP from spector0
4. extract the vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img from the downloaded OTA
5. boot into the bootloader
6. flash vendor_boot.img and dtbo.img with fastboot enhance
7. flash the twrp.img from spect0r
8. reboot to recovery

Now I got Into the TWRP recovery screen and my touch screen was working again. Using TWRP I was able to reboot into fastbootd again. but my partition table was still messed up so I couldn't flash the super imgs properly (system, system_ext, etc).

To fix this I needed a TWRP back up, restoring this will repair the partition table too:

1. Download twrp back up
2. extract the zip/rar if archived
3. put the extracted back up folder on your phone somewhere where TWRP can reach it (I used an external micro sd)
4. In TWRP go to restore
5. Select the back up (if sd: select storage > select the mircroSD)
6. select the twrp back_up
7. restore the back up
8. not sure if needed but I rebooted to be sure

The partitions table should now be fixed. Now to restore the system/OS:

1. boot into fastbootd/recovery
2. open fastboot enhance (should show under basic properties which slot and if yoru'e in fastbootd)
3. check: show logs & Ignore unknown Partitions
4. flash the entire payload.bin file (from the downloaded OTA)
5. after its done, check the logs for which partitions failed (probably most starting with: "my_")
6. in fastboot enhance (fastbootd): partitions > Create > *name of failed partition* size: 12000b > ok
   (size will automatically be adjusted when flashing)
7. Check the logs if nothing failed
8. reboot to system
9. You should now get into the setup screen

My phone is now working again! yay!

Once I made a back-up of my clean twrp I'll link it here and the OTA too if possible.

OTA LINK

TWRP-backup

thanks for the update,
but i can't acces oxygen updater because the one plus is my only android phone in the house. Is there any other way to download a working OTA of oxygen?

super thanks for all the help so far

 

[TeunB]

thanks for the update,
but i can't acces oxygen updater because the one plus is my only android phone in the house. Is there any other way to download a working OTA of oxygen?

super thanks for all the help so far

Check the link on the bottom, its official OTA i downloaded from the Oxygen updater

 

[keyra74]

now all we miss is a L1 widewine

 

[Timmyb83]

Check the link on the bottom, its official OTA i downloaded from the Oxygen updater

thanks I've missed it reading fast and wanting to start

 

[TeunB]

thanks I've missed it reading fast and wanting to start

Here is the TWRP backup

Its made after I did the setup. I excluded the data, and I didn't log in or configured wifi or anything, So it should be clean.

With some luck you might not even have to flash the entire payload and only the boot.img(A14) as I backed up everything except data. But I'm not sure. not so good at TWRP stuff.

I'll also update my big post to contain the link,

 

[Timmyb83]

Here is the TWRP backup

Its made after I did the setup. I excluded the data, and I didn't log in or configured wifi or anything, So it should be clean.

With some luck you might not even have to flash the entire payload and only the boot.img(A14) as I backed up everything except data. But I'm not sure. not so good at TWRP stuff.

I'll also update my big post to contain the link,

I've tried to download it 10 times on different browsers and it always stops before the end and gives a fault.

 

[TeunB]

I've tried to download it 10 times on different browsers and it always stops before the end and gives a fault.

I'm sorry to hear that! Apparently it's a Google drive thing. I tried to download it after you said it's acting strange and for me it cancelled too.

But this worked for me: open the file/link with Google drive > select the 3 dots > create copy > select a place in your drive > then download the copy from your drive. That should work.
Try the browser app on pc.

Hope it works, I gotta sleep now. I'll check again tomorrow.

 

[TeunB]

I've tried to download it 10 times on different browsers and it always stops before the end and gives a fault.

Did you manage to download it yet?
I just tried on ms edge without any google accounts or plugins etc. and I could just download it straight from the link.

 

[Timmyb83]

Did you manage to download it yet?
I just tried on ms edge without any google accounts or plugins etc. and I could just download it straight from the link.

yes finaly thanks.

 

[keyra74]

oh, there's a new update, gonna check if root works

 

[keyra74]

confirmed working on android 13

https://imgur.com/a/35fFP9X

 

[Matz125]

Correct me if I'm wrong but if I flash the new update to the B slot instead of A, I could essentially dual boot and just switch back to android 12 if I don't like the new update, right?