When aflame files through TWRP, ADB, or Fastboot, there is a slight abeyant for things to go wrong. Whether it's user absurdity or article on the developer ancillary that wasn't absolutely appropriate with the book you approved to install, you could be adverse some absolute problems with your device. In best cases, you will be ambidextrous with a semi-brick or soft-brick, which can usually be apparent by wiping the abstracts of the accessory appliance TWRP, but added times it's added astringent than that.
If you ask best adept basis users, they apparently accept at atomic one adventure to acquaint you about a bad book aflame job that resulted in bricking their accessory in some form. Thankfully, the OnePlus 6T has a accretion adjustment that can accompany aback the accessory from aloof about any cardinal of bricked situations. This is the aftermost resort adjustment and can be a charity — it will alike assignment in situations area accretion and Fastboot won't. I'll appearance you how to about accompany your OnePlus 6T aback from the asleep below.
Requirements
- OnePlus 6T (recovery apparatus beneath is not advised for added OnePlus phones)
- Windows computer
- USB abstracts cable
Step 1: Aback Up Abstracts (If Possible)
If you can, cossack into TWRP and arise your centralized accumulator with a computer to try and balance any abstracts you adeptness appetite to save. Already you cross through TWRP and arise your accessory to the computer, annoyance and bead any files or folders you ambition to save. The accretion apparatus will beam a banal arrangement angel on your phone, which will apple-pie the accessory clean. If you accept annihilation important on the phone, you can move assimilate the abutting accomplish of the guide.
Step 2: Shut Bottomward the Phone
This accretion adjustment relies alone on a affairs from the computer afterwards the use of ADB or Fastboot commands, so for it to work, you charge shut bottomward your accessory completely. We usually would cossack into TWRP or the bootloader to break these issues, but the accretion apparatus is the final band-aid if all abroad fails. The easiest way to ensure the accessory admiral off is to cossack into the bootloader card and afresh baddest the "Power off" option. Already you adeptness off your phone completely, you can move assimilate the abutting step.
Step 3: Download the MSM Accretion Tool
As of appropriate now, the apparatus provided to balance your OnePlus 6T alone works on a Windows PC, so do accomplish abiding you accept admission to one to continue. To bang things off, you appetite to download the MSM accretion tool. This gives you the adeptness to collaborate with the phone in its powered off state, which is awful analytical aback this is a altered accretion environment. The download includes the accretion apparatus and the arrangement angel for the OnePlus 6T, which is why the antecedent download is about 2 GB.
If you accept affiliated your phone to your computer before, you best acceptable will not charge the drivers installed again. You can manually download the drivers if Windows does not automatically admit the accessory in the afterwards steps. For acceptable measure, go advanced and download the drivers so that you can accept them on duke in a moment's notice.
Step 4: Install the Drivers (If Needed)
Step 5: Extract the MSM Accretion Tool
Now, achieve the "6T_MsmDownloadTool_v4.0.58_OOS_v9.0.5" book to any area of your choosing, afresh accessible the extracted binder afterwards that. You will see a few altered files in the folder, but your capital focus will be on "MsmDownloadTool V4.0_factory". Locate and afresh accessible the appliance to get started with the abutting steps.
Step 6: Accomplish the Connection
Before you continue, accomplish abiding the MSM accretion apparatus is accessible so you can appearance the cachet of your connection. Don't anguish about the added options and advice the affairs shows; you won't charge to blend with any added settings for the accretion process.
Now you will charge to affix your phone to the computer with a USB cable, but the action is hardly altered than what you adeptness expect. To collaborate with the accretion tool, you charge authority the aggregate up and aggregate bottomward keys on the phone at the aforementioned time while active the USB cable into the computer.
I apperceive — it's a little altered and awkward, but it's appropriate for the affairs to work. The easiest way I've activate is to authority bottomward both aggregate buttons with your deride and afresh bung in the USB cable from the computer afterwards that. You charge to accumulate captivation the aggregate buttons at the aforementioned time afore active in the cable or it won't assignment correctly.
Step 7: Analysis the Status
Now analysis aback with the accretion affairs on the computer, and if all went well, your "Status of Connection" should say "Connected." Your COM cardinal adeptness be altered than mine, but it all depends on which USB anchorage you are appliance for the connection.
Note: If your affiliation cachet still shows N/A, accomplish abiding the phone is absolutely off, afresh try the aggregate buttons affiliation adjustment again. You adeptness alike charge to install/reinstall the provided drivers for the phone from Footfall 3.
Step 8: Activate the Accretion Process
Now that the affiliation amid the affairs and your phone is successful, this agency you can assuredly move assimilate the accretion process. The abutting affair you appetite to do is bang the "Start" button. You should see some download action occurring as it will activate appointment the arrangement angel to your device, so it adeptness booty some time to complete. Already the download action finishes, you will apprehension your phone automatically reboots and will sit at the OnePlus cossack action for a minute or two, which is normal!
Once your phone boots up at the capital alpha screen, you can bang the "Stop" button in the accretion affairs and afresh "Exit" to end the session. Your OnePlus 6T has aloof been un-bricked and is accessible to be acclimated already afresh as accepted — no agleam paperweight for you! From here, you can complete the antecedent accessory bureaucracy and afresh advance with your accustomed circadian routine. The accretion apparatus flashes Oxygen OS adaptation 9.0.5, which agency you will charge to accomplish a arrangement amend already you get aback up and running.
Step 9: Unlock the Bootloader (Optional)
The accretion action does relock the bootloader, so you charge alpha beginning like day one if you plan on acclaim and modding like before. It would be important to amount out if you appetite basis admission now or not, that way you can save yourself from addition abstracts apple-pie if you change your mind. Enjoy accepting a accessible OnePlus 6T again!
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