Go 7 attempted root and now stuck on boox logo

[Alfaa]

I actually managed to make some progress on this issue this morning by trying some of the recovery ideas in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/jdkruzr/BooxPalma2RootGuide/issues/9

Using the FairPhone patched ABL, modified FRP and your misc-recovery image I was able to finally get my Go7 to boot into stock recovery.

However, I cannot get the device to accept a stock update.zip because of timestamp mismatches and if I do try to boot, the device immediately goes into dump mode, so something is still not working right.

[Alfaa]

Just wanted to update this and say after 10+ hours of pain, I finally got my Go7 to boot again after the soft brick.

Once I had a working recovery, I attempted to sideload the latest update.zip but it would not install because the timestamp on the update was earlier than the one on the recovery. This is annoying because it means you can't 'reinstall' updates over the same version.

HOWEVER, I also found a link to the 4.0 firmware and flashed the 4.0 recovery using EDL. Because the timestamp on that recovery was behind my 4.1.1 zip, I was able to flash it using ADB and I

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have a working device again.

[Renate]

Well, too bad that I still don't know if my custom recovery for the Go7 works or not.

[idovitz]

Originally Posted by Renate

Well, too bad that I still don't know if my custom recovery for the Go7 works or not.

Hi Renate, I ran in the same problem. I tried to flash your misc-recovery.prc but after edl reset* it restarts in fastboot.

./edl.py --loader=0000000000000000_bdaf51b59ba21d8a_fhprg.bin reset --resetmode=reset

[idovitz]

Originally Posted by Alfaa

Just wanted to update this and say after 10+ hours of pain, I finally got my Go7 to boot again after the soft brick.

Once I had a working recovery, I attempted to sideload the latest update.zip but it would not install because the timestamp on the update was earlier than the one on the recovery. This is annoying because it means you can't 'reinstall' updates over the same version.

HOWEVER, I also found a link to the 4.0 firmware and flashed the 4.0 recovery using EDL. Because the timestamp on that recovery was behind my 4.1.1 zip, I was able to flash it using ADB and I

F I N A L L Y

have a working device again.

Can you describe the steps you folowed to this result? I flashed the FP4 abl and frp_oemunlock.img and Renate's misc-recovery, but no luck.

[Renate]

Many people have asked my help.
Most have not ever reported back.
I don't know what's going on.

[idovitz]

Sorry to hear that.. I want to report back. What do you expect in this report?

[Renate]

Originally Posted by idovitz

Sorry to hear that.. I want to report back. What do you expect in this report?

I don't know what you flashed.
Did you write a custom recovery?
Where did you get it from?

I don't want to hear/get mixed up with FreePhone anything.
If there are changes needed they can be made to the Onyx stuff.
I spent a bunch of time making unlocking mods for Onyx limited abl's.
That was in January.

[idovitz]

I first overwrote **boot_b** with a Magisk‑patched image. That didn’t have any effect, so I also patched **boot_a**. Now the device only boots into fastboot (locked).

► `./edl.py --loader=0000000000000000_bdaf51b59ba21d8a_fhprg.bin r boot_a boot.img`
► `./edl.py --loader=0000000000000000_bdaf51b59ba21d8a_fhprg.bin w boot_b magisk_patched-30700_8NVgz.img`
► `./edl.py --loader=0000000000000000_bdaf51b59ba21d8a_fhprg.bin w boot_a magisk_patched-30700_8NVgz.img` (stupid)

Rebooting to recovery doesn’t work. I tried flashing **misc‑recovery.prc** to **misc** in order to get into recovery, but that also failed.

► `./edl.py --loader=0000000000000000_bdaf51b59ba21d8a_fhprg.bin w misc misc-recovery.img`

Ideally I’d like to build an OrangeFox‑style recovery for this device. I extracted the device tree from the stock recovery using **twrpdtgen**. My knowledge of custom ROMs and recoveries is a bit rusty, unfortunately, but I bought this device to tinker with. For reading I still have my PocketBook*630.

https://github.com/idovitz/android_device_Onyx_Go7