Is unlocking your bootloader a prequisite to flashing recovery.img? I have (from what I've gathered) a soft bricked XT 1032, and I forgot which Lollipop version it was running (I'm a loser, I know).
I vaguely remember seeing 5.0.1 . Less likely, it could have been 5.0.2 as well, but less likely. And I'm almost sure it was not 5.1 (I would have remembered).
Anyway, since I did not want to unlock the bootloader (I have still not given up on recovering my data as I did not back them up because of the loser that I am), I did not try flashing a custom recovery like TWRP, and instead tried:
- flashing the GPE recovery.img. I got the partition error (cannot erase).
- flashing gpt.bin, got Preflash vaidation failed
I repeated these steps with 5.0.2 files, and got the same results.
Could this be all because my bootloader is not unlocked? Please tell me that I don't HAVE to unlock bootloader. Of course, I have never tried rooting my phone either. I was running pure OTA stock when my phone suddenly stopped booting up and went into a boot loop.
I vaguely remember seeing 5.0.1 . Less likely, it could have been 5.0.2 as well, but less likely. And I'm almost sure it was not 5.1 (I would have remembered).
Anyway, since I did not want to unlock the bootloader (I have still not given up on recovering my data as I did not back them up because of the loser that I am), I did not try flashing a custom recovery like TWRP, and instead tried:
- flashing the GPE recovery.img. I got the partition error (cannot erase).
- flashing gpt.bin, got Preflash vaidation failed
I repeated these steps with 5.0.2 files, and got the same results.
Could this be all because my bootloader is not unlocked? Please tell me that I don't HAVE to unlock bootloader. Of course, I have never tried rooting my phone either. I was running pure OTA stock when my phone suddenly stopped booting up and went into a boot loop.
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