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Swift 2 Plus won't boot, stuck with locked bootloader

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By xrmnx, Junior Member on 3rd December 2016, 12:47 PM
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8th December 2016, 10:18 AM |#11  
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Can't we put the dirty cow bug to a use now? It should work on the phone unless it has the latest security patches, right? And with root privileges you should be able to flash a new recovery or reset the phone.

I read a little about dirty cow, now (didn't know much about it before), but if I understand it right, I need adb to upload files onto the phone, right? Sadly, adb doesn't work. Only fastboot :/
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9th December 2016, 10:57 PM |#12  
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Hmmm, there is a similar thread for the Nexus 5X. You might want to check it out if you haven't already ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexu...t3232105/page2 ).
A few of the suggestions were to try with:
Code: 
fastboot flashing unlock
or
Code: 
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
I don't know if it will be of any help but it is worth a shot.
You could try to flash individual portions of the stock image like the recovery or the userdata but I doubt that it will be successful.
PS: From the thread above, for some reason removing the SIM card allowed them to enter recovery.
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11th December 2016, 05:49 PM |#13  
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Thanks, but none of these solutions works. Already tried all of them a couple of times....
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11th December 2016, 07:28 PM |#14  
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Hmmm, how about you try to trick it then?
Grab the official signed firmware, place it on SD Card and try with:
Code: 
fastboot update <path/to/zip>
or this one to try to wipe the device? (dunno if the command is still in use, though)
Code: 
fastboot -w
If this doesn't work as well, I guess it will be a waiting game for QFIL files.
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13th December 2016, 11:27 PM |#15  
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Hmmm, how about you try to trick it then?
Grab the official signed firmware, place it on SD Card and try with:

or this one to try to wipe the device? (dunno if the command is still in use, though)


If this doesn't work as well, I guess it will be a waiting game for QFIL files.

I tried to flash/update every official rom (with and without -w) there is, but I never put it on an SD-card. Does that make a difference? If so, this might be one ofhe stupidest mistakes I ever made :/
I'll try in a few days. Not much time, at the moment...
Yes... Waiting for QFIL files is what I'm prepared for...
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17th December 2016, 12:48 AM |#16  
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The idea with the SDCard is just a random thought. There is a slight chance to trigger the allowed update policies.
Usually you place the update.zip through adb (not possible in this situation) but placing it on the sdcard is possible.

Still, QFIL is the safest bet once someone uploads the files.
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19th December 2016, 10:15 AM |#17  
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Still, QFIL is the safest bet once someone uploads the files.

That's what I thought. Since I couldn't find any (yet), is there a way to extract the QFIL files from a working phone (I bought another one since I needed a phone)? I don't think so, but I hope I'm wrong...
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