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[HELP] im stuck with no os and mtp wont work in twrp and also ADB isnt working

i flashed miui 9.3.28 and then booted twrp , but it was asking for password so i went to wipe and repaired data using ext4 ,and then procceded to wipe data, vendor, cache, system and now im stck with no os and i cant use adb sideload to install a rom please help :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

Reboot into fastboot(keep pressed power and vol - buttons until you plug cable to pc otherwise it can start rebooting system) and flash latest fastboot miui(you need to unzip it first): http://en.miui.com/a-234.html via XiaoMiFlash tool with clean all option. If you can't see your device in tool press refresh in MiFlash tool you have also Driver section check this. Another option is to install google latest_usb_driver via device menager(right click on your device->update-driver->browse pc -> and select usb driver.

I got the exact same problem after flashing the same beta build. Nothing worked for me so I had to flash the fastboot image and roll back the stable channel.

Op next time don't wipe vendor partition.In your case you should get recovery with supports MIUI on androind 9 and if ou had encrypted data you should format the data. Here you have similar situation: https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/how-to/recovery-pie-update-miui10-t3916963 (I didn't try this one)

Remember For decryption it only needs to format data partition only.
How will it boot if you wiped system as well as vendor partition.
If you can get in recovery just flash the update file 9.3.28 and u r ready to go.

I did all that and formatted the data partition which was decrypted afterwards. The problem is that internal storage gets re-encrypted after I boot to system.

HeRoKaNe said:
I did all that and formatted the data partition which was decrypted afterwards. The problem is that internal storage gets re-encrypted after I boot to system.
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Flash lazyflasher-no-verity-opt-encrypt after flashing custom ROM and then decrypt. Try if it's works.

Letrix said:
Flash lazyflasher-no-verity-opt-encrypt after flashing custom ROM and then decrypt. Try if it's works.
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I tried that but every time the installation fails with ERROR: 1.

HELPPPP
I was on Masik X3.7
I want to install to another rom
so , I booted into TWRP and formatted data.
from then my laptop not recognizing device.
Also, not able to boot in to Fastboot mode !
it shows charging sign in TWRP.

rasik107 said:
HELPPPP
I was on Masik X3.7
I want to install to another rom
so , I booted into TWRP and formatted data.
from then my laptop not recognizing device.
Also, not able to boot in to Fastboot mode !
it shows charging sign in TWRP.
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same problem here, please someone help!

ltv07 said:
same problem here, please someone help!
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actually it was booted in fastboot mode only.
just that logo was not visible.
so u can connect device and try to run "fastboot devices" to check if its connected !

ltv07 said:
same problem here, please someone help!
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Resolved installing older twrp version

ltv07 said:
Resolved installing older twrp version
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Can you give the version of twrp which worked in Pie.

Regarding your problems
Copy any rom to a micro sd card and flash it through twrp if done ur done

Try using OrangeFox Recovery, I had the same issue ADB & MTP connection with TWRP for Whyred.

varunsngh786 said:
Copy any rom to a micro sd card and flash it through twrp if done ur done
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rockstar1997 said:
Try using OrangeFox Recovery, I had the same issue ADB & MTP connection with TWRP for Whyred.
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Thanks. My main problem was that mtp driver of Miui was wrong. And the decrypt error was solved by Redwolf recovery. i have yet to try OrangeFox one.

rockstar1997 said:
Try using OrangeFox Recovery, I had the same issue ADB & MTP connection with TWRP for Whyred.
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You're a rockstar! I was also having the same problem and orangefox fixed it!
Thanks mate!

Redmi note 5 pro(Whyred) I need help guys

Well I flashed to twrp recovery using the redwolf recovery and after that twrp asked me for a password to decrypt, as I didn't have a password on my phone I just ignored it and tried switching back to miui 10.3.2( same version I came to pixel experience from) and I needed up clearing my internal storage as well... Luckily I had saved the pie firmware and mi room on my SD card but when I flash from SD card it gives me an error saying zip file cannot be mapped. The pie firmware was successfully installed but the MI room isn't installing. I am not even able to switch back to redwolf as well it also gives an error while flashing.
can anyone help me?

coolved1543 said:
Well I flashed to twrp recovery using the redwolf recovery and after that twrp asked me for a password to decrypt, as I didn't have a password on my phone I just ignored it and tried switching back to miui 10.3.2( same version I came to pixel experience from) and I needed up clearing my internal storage as well... Luckily I had saved the pie firmware and mi room on my SD card but when I flash from SD card it gives me an error saying zip file cannot be mapped. The pie firmware was successfully installed but the MI room isn't installing. I am not even able to switch back to redwolf as well it also gives an error while flashing.
can anyone help me?
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Flash orangefox r10 it will decrypt it.

i am not able to flash anything.
somilgupta49 said:
Flash orangefox r10 it will decrypt it.
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I tried flashing redwolf and another recovery it gives me error
I flash using the code
fastboot boot redwolf.img
is there any other way to fix it
pls help

coolved1543 said:
I tried flashing redwolf and another recovery it gives me error
I flash using the code
fastboot boot redwolf.img
is there any other way to fix it
pls help
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To flash the recovery
fastboot flash recovery redwolf.img
Do not reboot!
fastboot boot redwolf.img
(like somilgupta49 wrote: if you have 'encrypted-issue' use OrangeFox instead)
Really good How-to --> https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/how-to/one-xiaomi-redmi-note-5-whyred-unlock-t3778049

coolved1543 said:
I tried flashing redwolf and another recovery it gives me error
I flash using the code
fastboot boot redwolf.img
is there any other way to fix it
pls help
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Extract recovery.img rom OrangeFox zip file on your pc, then boot that from fastboot by typing fastboot boot recovery.img, your device will boot to OF recovery, copy the Orangefox zip file to your sd card, then just flash the OF zip file you have copied to your sdcard, you'll now be rebooting again to recovery, now you can format partition to get rid of the encryption.

Install twrp on device without os?

So I almost ****ed up trying to flash a custom rom on my redmi note 8. I had to wipe my whole system image so I had no os installed there. I did almost accidentally wipe my whole internal storage. So twrp would've been gone aswell. So I could've thrown my phone in the trash can, right? Or is there a way to get twrp on a phone with no os and nothing on it? Or maybe even flash a rom? Idk I'm kinda new to this whole topic. What can you do if your phone is completely wiped? No os, no twrp, nothing.
Edit: I just figured out that wiping the internally storage doesn't remove twrp. But still would there still be a way to save your phone with twrp removed and no os? Basically a completely blank device?

Re: @Johnny3_3
Can you boot to twrp by long pressing POWER and VOL UP?
According to your description, your bootloader has been unlocked. But maybe you can't boot with only a boot without ramdisk. Go to fastboot and flash the right fastboot ROM for your phone. Then flash, and go to TWRP using the key combo. Don't use fastboot boot command. Then do anything you want.

Yuki1001 said:
Re: @Johnny3_3
Can you boot to twrp by long pressing POWER and VOL UP?
According to your description, your bootloader has been unlocked. But maybe you can't boot with only a boot without ramdisk. Go to fastboot and flash the right fastboot ROM for your phone. Then flash, and go to TWRP using the key combo. Don't use fastboot boot command. Then do anything you want.
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Hey, im sorry I think I didn't explain it that well. I have havoc installed already. I just wanted to know what I could have done if I had no os and no twrp installed.

Re: @Johnny3_3
Wiping Internal storage will not wipe the recovery partition.
Once you wipe system partition, you maybe can't boot with a boot that has no ramdisk.
If you have no OS and no TWRP, you can only boot into fastboot and flash images.
If you wipe system, recovery, data, internal storage, cust, you will only be able to boot into fastboot.
If you want to flash twrp on device without OS, just flash the TWRP img file through fastboot.

Johnny3_3 said:
Hey, im sorry I think I didn't explain it that well. I have havoc installed already. I just wanted to know what I could have done if I had no os and no TWRP installed.
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Get into fastboot mode and flash/boot the recovery with Fastboot - ADB Tools.
There is also an app on github called "Xiaomi ADB Fastboot Tools" I used that to do everything on my phone.

Yuki1001 said:
Re: @Johnny3_3
Wiping Internal storage will not wipe the recovery partition.
Once you wipe system partition, you maybe can't boot with a boot that has no ramdisk.
If you have no OS and no TWRP, you can only boot into fastboot and flash images.
If you wipe system, recovery, data, internal storage, cust, you will only be able to boot into fastboot.
If you want to flash twrp on device without OS, just flash the TWRP img file through fastboot.
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OK. And what i need to do now? I have Samsung Galaxy A6 and the same problem as @Johnny3_3, but idk how i can now use the phone without enythong in there!!! Pls help me figure out what i should to do in this situation.
~GTHX

Because i dont have the twrp and os on my phone... it just looping the logo of samsung galaxy A6 blablabla....

GTHX2021 said:
OK. And what i need to do now? I have Samsung Galaxy A6 .....
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This topic is for XRN8.
Better is to ask in the right A6 topic, because the procedure to flash twrp is not the same

Yuki1001 said:
Re: @Johnny3_3
Wiping Internal storage will not wipe the recovery partition.
Once you wipe system partition, you maybe can't boot with a boot that has no ramdisk.
If you have no OS and no TWRP, you can only boot into fastboot and flash images.
If you wipe system, recovery, data, internal storage, cust, you will only be able to boot into fastboot.
If you want to flash twrp on device without OS, just flash the TWRP img file through fastboot.
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Hi, I have the same problem with my OnePlus 5T. I've tried many times flashing TWRP but it doesn't boot up

Question Cannot flash TWRP from Fastboot, TWRP reboot shows Slot A/B, dont know what to do

Ive already flashed a few phones, but this is the first time that Ive got CMD error "FAILED (remote: (recovery_a) No such partition)". So I booted twrp.img, falshed ArrowOS and TWRP from within TWRP and it said something about Slot A and B, which I dont understand ... some guide also said to Format Data, which I did, and then I just could boot into TWRP in Slot A, and no OS on Slot B, which rebooted me into Slot A. I couldnt find any info about this and I dont know what to do. Anybody knows how to properly flash TWRP and custom ROMs please ?

Start fresh by flashing stock MIUI rom through fastboot and proceed from there
1 Boot once into MIUI and reboot into fastboot
2 fastboot boot twrp.img (from platform tools folder)
3 Flash custom rom like ArrowsOS with inject twrp option checked
4 Reboot recovery
5 Format Data by typing "yes"
6 Reboot to system
7 Done

Follow the TWRP install instructions by fastboot boot TWRP.img
advanced, install TWRP
It should then reboot and TWRP will be installed
Then proceed as above by flashing a ROM e.g ArrowOS with TWRP inject.
Then reboot TWRP and wipe data

Use "fastboot boot TWRP.img" to temporarily boot TWRP.
You can install TWRP by using "Install to Ramdisk" inside TWRP and selecting TWRP.img

Cvenda said:
Ive already flashed a few phones, but this is the first time that Ive got CMD error "FAILED (remote: (recovery_a) No such partition)". So I booted twrp.img, falshed ArrowOS and TWRP from within TWRP and it said something about Slot A and B, which I dont understand ... some guide also said to Format Data, which I did, and then I just could boot into TWRP in Slot A, and no OS on Slot B, which rebooted me into Slot A. I couldnt find any info about this and I dont know what to do. Anybody knows how to properly flash TWRP and custom ROMs please ?
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Did you manage to fix it? I got into the same problem, I could only fix it downloading the most updated version of adb/fastboot. I don't remember where I downloaded it, but it was what solved this problem for me.

pedrowood said:
Did you manage to fix it? I got into the same problem, I could only fix it downloading the most updated version of adb/fastboot. I don't remember where I downloaded it, but it was what solved this problem for me.
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well Iam still confused about that Slot A/B thing, but since Ive probably bricked my phone, I flashed the fastboot ROM through MiFlasher and I havent tried flashing TWRP or custom ROM since, there are some things I really like about MIUI so Iam gonna see which ROM Iam gonna choose in the future

Cvenda said:
well Iam still confused about that Slot A/B thing, but since Ive probably bricked my phone, I flashed the fastboot ROM through MiFlasher and I havent tried flashing TWRP or custom ROM since, there are some things I really like about MIUI so Iam gonna see which ROM Iam gonna choose in the future
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Slot A and B refer to Project Treble, where there are 2 separate partitions. 1 for OEM like Samsung and other for core Android OS. That way Google can update the OS partition with security updates without having to wait for Samsung to implement those security update into their version of Android, as was the case before Galaxy S9. Needless to say, this way security updates get pushed out way faster, because there is no need to wait an entire year (I'm looking at you Samsung) for OEM to finally implement it. Hope this clears things up for you.

Milan-XDA said:
Slot A and B refer to Project Treble, where there are 2 separate partitions. 1 for OEM like Samsung and other for core Android OS. That way Google can update the OS partition with security updates without having to wait for Samsung to implement those security update into their version of Android, as was the case before Galaxy S9. Needless to say, this way security updates get pushed out way faster, because there is no need to wait an entire year (I'm looking at you Samsung) for OEM to finally implement it. Hope this clears things up for you.
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reason for slots

Robert314 said:
Follow the TWRP install instructions by fastboot boot TWRP.img
advanced, install TWRP
It should then reboot and TWRP will be installed
Then proceed as above by flashing a ROM e.g ArrowOS with TWRP inject.
Then reboot TWRP and wipe data
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there is a slight problem with this ... I cannot upload any file to the phone, because I have wiped Data, so there is no folder that I can access from the PC, so I can only sideload .zip files, and most of the .zip files just doesnt work for some reason, only ArrowOS, but not the PixelExtended, nor CrDroid ... I cannot even sideload TWRP.img to install it into ramdisk
EDIT: after sideloading ArrowOS and booting TWRP using "fastboot boot twrp.img", I can access internal storage, so I uploaded twrp.img into /sdcard/Download folder, installed it into ramdisk, rebooted to Recovery and now successfully flashing CrDroid ROM that I uploaded to /sdcard/Download

Cvenda said:
there is a slight problem with this ... I cannot upload any file to the phone, because I have wiped Data, so there is no folder that I can access from the PC, so I can only sideload .zip files, and most of the .zip files just doesnt work for some reason, only ArrowOS, but not the PixelExtended, nor CrDroid ... I cannot even sideload TWRP.img to install it into ramdisk
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You can adb transfer files in TWRP. You could also use a USB stick connected via OTG cable

Robert314 said:
You can adb transfer files in TWRP. You could also use a USB stick connected via OTG cable
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its behaving so randomly ... I often get error kInstallDeviceOpenError, even tho I successfully installed that ROM at least one time ... I dont know which slot (A/B) to use and when ... now I have ArrowOS in slot A and CrDroid ins lot B, and I cannot flash anything from booted TWRP.img ... Iam gonna try to install TWRP into ramdisk again from USB OTG

Cvenda said:
its behaving so randomly ... I often get error kInstallDeviceOpenError, even tho I successfully installed that ROM at least one time ... I dont know which slot (A/B) to use and when ... now I have ArrowOS in slot A and CrDroid ins lot B, and I cannot flash anything from booted TWRP.img ... Iam gonna try to install TWRP into ramdisk again from USB OTG
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In order to wipe the super partition (both A/B and data) flash Xiaomi.eu and then wipe data

Robert314 said:
In order to wipe the super partition (both A/B and data) flash Xiaomi.eu and then wipe data
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how exactly should I proceed ? flash fastboot stock ROM with MiFlasher, boot into bootloader, boot twrp.img, wipe data, and then what ? which slot do I choose ? should I install TWRP into ramdisk, reboot into recovery and then flash custom ROM ?

Cvenda said:
how exactly should I proceed ? flash fastboot stock ROM with MiFlasher, boot into bootloader, boot twrp.img, wipe data, and then what ? which slot do I choose ? should I install TWRP into ramdisk, reboot into recovery and then flash custom ROM ?
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ROM: xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/alioth/
Mi Flash: xiaomiflashtool.com
ADB & Fastboot: developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xiaomi-poco-f3-xiaomi-mi-11x-redmi-k40.12161/?prefix_id=33
Clean Install of Xiaomi.eu ROM:
Flash Stock ROM with Mi Flash
Boot System once (to create /data)
Boot TWRP from Nebrassy or @Vasishoth
Flash Xiaomi.eu ROM
Format Data & Dalvik Cache

dreamytom said:
ROM: xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/alioth/
Mi Flash: xiaomiflashtool.com
ADB & Fastboot: developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xiaomi-poco-f3-xiaomi-mi-11x-redmi-k40.12161/?prefix_id=33
Clean Install of Xiaomi.eu ROM:
Flash Stock ROM with Mi Flash
Boot System once (to create /data)
Boot TWRP from Nebrassy or @Vasishoth
Flash Xiaomi.eu ROM
Format Data & Dalvik Cache
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in case of flashing custom ROM, are the steps same ? just instead of Xiaomi.eu ROM I flash PE, or CrDroid ? and should I format data and dalvik also or wipe data (that option where I need to type YES) ? Ive found official guide for flashing CrDroid, but Iam stuck st booting animation for 30 minutes

Cvenda said:
in case of flashing custom ROM, are the steps same ? just instead of Xiaomi.eu ROM I flash PE, or CrDroid ? and should I format data and dalvik also or wipe data (that option where I need to type YES) ? Ive found official guide for flashing CrDroid, but Iam stuck st booting animation for 30 minutes
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Go into TWRP and press wipe then format data (type yes).

regedit12345 said:
Go into TWRP and press wipe then format data (type yes).
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I have stock rom in slot A (bootable and working) and custom rom in slot B (stuck at booting animation), and I should format data while being in slot A right ?

Cvenda said:
I have stock rom in slot A (bootable and working) and custom rom in slot B (stuck at booting animation), and I should format data while being in slot A right ?
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Doesn't matter. Just select format data > yes > reboot to system

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Doesn't matter. Just select format data > yes > reboot to system
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sooo what seemes to work for me now is, that I formated data, then flashed PE ROM from OTG and booted into it without any problems

Question (Please help me) Mounting problems

Hello,
I recently tried to flash a custom rom on my poco f3, but I couldn't install twrp, because I didn't have the option to install it when i boot to it.
So I followed some instructions online and formated data partition to ext2, and then back to ext4. Now I can't copy any files to the phone storage and can't do anything else.
I can reboot to fastboot, and I can boot to twrp, but it's pretty much useless because I can't sideload anything, and can't install twrp anyways.
Did I do something wrong? Is it easily fixable?
Thanks in advance.

f2fs?

aIecxs said:
f2fs?
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I don't understand what you mean, sorry. I'm newbie.
Should I format the data partition to f2fs？

Idk depends on ROM. MIUI is f2fs

aIecxs said:
Idk depends on ROM. MIUI is f2fs
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Oh. I tried a different twrp version and could install it on the phone. Now flashed crDroid and it said my system was broke so had to factory reset. It is working now. Thanks.

But now I can only access the crDroid recovery, how can I install back twrp? if I try to fastboot boot twrp.img it simply reboots back to system.

try to boot TWRP from other slot maybe? (don't forget to switch back)
Code:
fastboot --set-active=other
fastboot boot twrp.img
if that fails just flash TWRP into vendor_boot partition, and restore vendor_boot.img from crDroid right after