So here's the story. My phone hasn't been updated since April. I was warry because I messed it up that time and lost some data. So I finally get around to updating it again. I updated to Pie stock. It went well. I then installed a custom rom, pixel dust. It went well. I rooted it, no problem, restored some stuff, etc. This happened last night. I couldn't get Always on Display to work, but whatever.
So today, I am uninstalling apps that I no longer want, setting up widgets, etc. I go to attempt to restore some data from Titanium Backup, to avoid having to sign into everything again, see if that works. If not, no big deal. I notice, however, that magisk is gone! Where did it go? It was just there last night!
So I'm like ok, let's just reflash magisk. It's a no go. Now I get bootloops. After being stuck on the pixel dust animation for a bit, it boots into recovery. I don't know what went wrong, the very same magisk was working last night, and can't remember root disappearing out of the blue like that before.
This is all in slot A. My slot B is empty according to TWRP. Not sure how that happened. My i tried to flash the rom, it corrupted while copying to the phone, so I flashed with ADB sideload. That worked fine, but one consequence is that I don't currently have the zip of the rom on the phone. I also did not bring a USB cable to the office with me, didn't expect to need it. So I won't be able to use a USB to transfer a ROM or anything until later today.
Any ideas what happened? Is it possible to fix this soft brick without a USB cable before I go home? Is it possible to fix without losing all the setup I have done so far? Critical data is backed up to Titanium, Google Cloud, and my work Mac. But I would prefer to not need a full wipe if possible. How do you use both slots?
Thank you very much.
So today, I am uninstalling apps that I no longer want, setting up widgets, etc. I go to attempt to restore some data from Titanium Backup, to avoid having to sign into everything again, see if that works. If not, no big deal. I notice, however, that magisk is gone! Where did it go? It was just there last night!
So I'm like ok, let's just reflash magisk. It's a no go. Now I get bootloops. After being stuck on the pixel dust animation for a bit, it boots into recovery. I don't know what went wrong, the very same magisk was working last night, and can't remember root disappearing out of the blue like that before.
This is all in slot A. My slot B is empty according to TWRP. Not sure how that happened. My i tried to flash the rom, it corrupted while copying to the phone, so I flashed with ADB sideload. That worked fine, but one consequence is that I don't currently have the zip of the rom on the phone. I also did not bring a USB cable to the office with me, didn't expect to need it. So I won't be able to use a USB to transfer a ROM or anything until later today.
Any ideas what happened? Is it possible to fix this soft brick without a USB cable before I go home? Is it possible to fix without losing all the setup I have done so far? Critical data is backed up to Titanium, Google Cloud, and my work Mac. But I would prefer to not need a full wipe if possible. How do you use both slots?
Thank you very much.
