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Root [FIX]Soft Brick One Click Fix

edodson84

edodson84

Android Expert
Fix for soft bricked Devices that can still access FTM mode!!!

This will fastboot TWRP recovery with a one click bat file for people not familiar with adb or fastboot

Instructions: extract contents to directory of choice,boot into FTM mode and run brickfix.bat

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Next time dont forget to make a backup!!!!
 
What is FTM mode? Is it the same as fastboot? I'm gonna try this man, Thank you for making it. I dont know if I can access fast boot yet, but I'll try. Also a backup won't do anything for anyone, who runs into same problem that I'm having.
 
it wont fast boot TWRP for me. it does something though. Causes the phone to vibrate and then goes to a black screen. this is all from FTM, which does work on my phone still.....at least as far as i can tell
 
could someone please help me out with a way to push a recovery to my phone from the computer. while trying to fastboot anything, im getting messages that fastboot isnt a recognized command and i dont have a good enough connection to try and download drivers.
 
DsyMnapTic said:
could someone please help me out with a way to push a recovery to my phone from the computer. while trying to fastboot anything, im getting messages that fastboot isnt a recognized command and i dont have a good enough connection to try and download drivers.
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Did u let it sit at the black screen until it said press any key to continue??
 
DsyMnapTic said:
could someone please help me out with a way to push a recovery to my phone from the computer. while trying to fastboot anything, im getting messages that fastboot isnt a recognized command and i dont have a good enough connection to try and download drivers.
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Can you get into recovery cwm or twrp?
 
I can get into my CWM recovery, but nearly nothing is functional. Can't flash anything or restore backups. I don't know maybe sideload will work, but I can't get my device to be seen by adb...... I think I need some drivers...
 
DsyMnapTic said:
I can get into my CWM recovery, but nearly nothing is functional. Can't flash anything or restore backups. I don't know maybe sideload will work, but I can't get my device to be seen by adb...... I think I need some drivers...
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What I'm going to suggest you do needs adb to be working. Try installing the drivers to see if your device can be seen.
 
brittnearl said:
Did u let it sit at the black screen until it said press any key to continue??
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The "press any key to continue" thing came up pretty quickly, but I'm thinking something didn't work properly, because of adb saying that 'fastboot' is not a recognizable internal or external command.
 
phenomx4 said:
What I'm going to suggest you do needs adb to be working. Try installing the drivers to see if your device can be seen.
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Okay, you'll have to give me a moment.... I'll get back to you when I can get the drivers..... Also I was looking for them yesterday on ZTE site and couldn't find them.... anyway that you could direct me to them please?
 
DsyMnapTic said:
it wont fast boot TWRP for me. it does something though. Causes the phone to vibrate and then goes to a black screen. this is all from FTM, which does work on my phone still.....at least as far as i can tell
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If ur rebooting to black screen then adb is working. Did u retry??
 
Wow, well this is ridiculous. I think I'm having problems because there's no way I can enable USB debugging. The computer keeps telling me that the MTP driver is failing, I downloaded some MTP stuff from the internet, but didn't help.....
I've gotten to two other screens in the phone while hooked into USB. I get the screen that asks me what type of connection (ie; install drivers, MTP connection and whatever the other two were) Then, from there it takes me to a screen that has the little oval Android UI icon in top left corner and it says USB mass storage and gives me an option to turn it on. After I click it, the loading icon just spins round and round.... and guess what!!! Nothing!
 
DsyMnapTic said:
Wow, well this is ridiculous. I think I'm having problems because there's no way I can enable USB debugging. The computer keeps telling me that the MTP driver is failing, I downloaded some MTP stuff from the internet, but didn't help.....
I've gotten to two other screens in the phone while hooked into USB. I get the screen that asks me what type of connection (ie; install drivers, MTP connection and whatever the other two were) Then, from there it takes me to a screen that has the little oval Android UI icon in top left corner and it says USB mass storage and gives me an option to turn it on. After I click it, the loading icon just spins round and round.... and guess what!!! Nothing!
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If you're on a windows pc, there are few things I can think of.
1. Make sure you're plugged into a usb 2.0 port (3.0 causes problems with adb)
2. Try this fastboot driver from cooldudezach http://androidforums.com/awe-all-things-root/803847-fastboot-drivers.html
3. If you get to the menu with the connection type prompt, select, "connect to pc" then try enabling usb from the drop down notification bar. (I've ran into multiple problems from not doing it this way.)
 
DsyMnapTic said:
Wow, well this is ridiculous. I think I'm having problems because there's no way I can enable USB debugging. The computer keeps telling me that the MTP driver is failing, I downloaded some MTP stuff from the internet, but didn't help.....
I've gotten to two other screens in the phone while hooked into USB. I get the screen that asks me what type of connection (ie; install drivers, MTP connection and whatever the other two were) Then, from there it takes me to a screen that has the little oval Android UI icon in top left corner and it says USB mass storage and gives me an option to turn it on. After I click it, the loading icon just spins round and round.... and guess what!!! Nothing!
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If u can access ur phone why are u trying this???
 
Okay thank you..... and there's definitely no drop down notification bar anymore, lol. Fast boot drivers was my next thought.
 
brittnearl said:
If u can access ur phone why are u trying this???
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I cant access my phone its all jacked up. it only gives me certain screens. The encryption unsuccessful one, The connection type screen that you usually see in settings and some weird USB mass storage screen that gives me an option to turn it on, but doesnt work. .....oh and my crappy non-functional CWM recovery and FTM
 
DsyMnapTic said:
I cant access my phone its all jacked up. it only gives me certain screens. The encryption unsuccessful one, The connection type screen that you usually see in settings and some weird USB mass storage screen that gives me an option to turn it on, but doesnt work. .....oh and my crappy non-functional CWM recovery and FTM
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Were you able to get adb working in recovery
 
phenomx4 said:
Were you able to get adb working in recovery
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I wasn't ever ale to get adb to recognize the phone. It's frustrating me. I'm thinking it might have something to do with being unable to enable USB debugging.


The only friggin driver that says it won't install is the MTP driver which shouldn't matter for what I'm wanting to do. All the other Android and ADB drivers are set and ready to rock.
 
DsyMnapTic said:
I wasn't ever ale to get adb to recognize the phone. It's frustrating me. I'm thinking it might have something to do with being unable to enable USB debugging.


The only friggin driver that says it won't install is the MTP driver which shouldn't matter for what I'm wanting to do. All the other Android and ADB drivers are set and ready to rock.
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Did you try a different usb port?
 
phenomx4 said:
Did you try a different usb port?
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Tried all three. The computer kind of sucks. There's a lot to go through in order to do every single method I've been tying, thoroughly on every port. I guess I'll have to go back and try them again. Everything is so jumbled on that damn computer.... I don't know, am I supposed to remove old drivers to install new ones? It's hard to know where everything is at, as I don't know much about computers. I do know that my device has been recognized before by that computer, so this leads me to believe it's a phone end issue and that it has to do with USB debugging disabled.
 
DsyMnapTic said:
Tried all three. The computer kind of sucks. There's a lot to go through in order to do every single method I've been tying, thoroughly on every port. I guess I'll have to go back and try them again. Everything is so jumbled on that damn computer.... I don't know, am I supposed to remove old drivers to install new ones? It's hard to know where everything is at, as I don't know much about computers. I do know that my device has been recognized before by that computer, so this leads me to believe it's a phone end issue and that it has to do with USB debugging disabled.
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Give this a try...
1. Power down your phone.
2. Reboot into recovery (if you can)
3. Connect your phone via USB 2.0.
4. Open a terminal/CMD window and enter the following.
adb shell su mount -o remount,rw /system cd / echo "persist.service.adb.enable=1" >> default.prop echo "persist.service.debuggable=1" >> default.prop echo "persist.sys.usb.config=mtp,adb" >> default.prop echo "persist.service.adb.enable=1"prop/system/build.prop echo "persist.service.debuggable=1" >> /system/build.prop echo "persist.sys.usb.config=mtp,adb" >> /system/build.prop
This should enable debugging via adb if you can access recovery.
 
Alright, I'll try when I can get back to my phone. I can get into recovery, but I could never get adb to see the device, however the .bat file that brittnearl put together did in some way respond with the phone...so something is in fact happening. Thank you for writing that up :)
I will get back to you when I have access to all my stuff.
 
Alright, I've finally been able to fast boot into TWRP. I think I know what the problem is. My data partition will not mount whatsoever. I think this is a bigger problem than I can handle without a serious reflash of all partitions to stock.


Only thing I can think of is being able to boot from SD card, but I've only heard of this, don't know much about it.
 
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