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flash tool not working - Enity - 03-11-2016

Goodday admin,plz i need ur help,while i was formatting my phone,it was interrupted, and i got ( brom error_BROM_CMD_STARTCMD_FAIL (2005))error...i cant really say if it did format but my phone is totally dead.no sign of life. the stock rom i downloaded has no userdata.img and cache.img file. Tecno phantom z. thanks.

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RE: flash tool not working - Enity - 03-11-2016

surfing through this site ,i came across a thread that deals with fixing totally dead phone.i flashed the preloader.bin,after a short while,a red color progress bar appeared after which something popped up saying "pmb has change:it must be downloaded"...every attempt to flash any file proved abortive...plz kindly help out...thanks in anticipation

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RE: flash tool not working - hovatek - 03-12-2016

(03-11-2016, 08:59 PM)Enity Wrote:  surfing through this site ,i came across a thread that deals with fixing totally dead phone.i flashed the preloader.bin,after a short while,a red color progress bar appeared after which something popped up saying  "pmb has change:it must be downloaded"...every attempt to flash any file proved abortive...plz kindly help out...thanks in anticipation

Format first then flash

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RE: flash tool not working - Enity - 03-12-2016

According to the video guide(how to use sp flash tool),if you must format , u must have cache.img and userdata.img ,which i dont have in the Rom i downloaded for tecno phantom Z A7.Should i still proceed? thanks alot

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RE: flash tool not working - hovatek - 03-13-2016

(03-12-2016, 02:15 PM)Enity Wrote:  According to the video guide(how to use sp flash tool),if you must format , u must have cache.img and userdata.img ,which i dont have in the Rom i downloaded for tecno phantom Z A7.Should i still proceed? thanks alot

userdata and cache are optional. ensure you have the rest

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RE: flash tool not working - Enity - 03-14-2016

thank you very much,i formatted and flashed using download only since cache.img and usrdata.img are not part of the rom i downloaded.it flashed it but my phone keeps booting at smartlife and tecno logo.plz i dont have a good phantom z around me here. plz i wouldnt know if u can help wth the cache.img and usrdata.img .it can boot into recovery mode.plz what can be done?thanks alot

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RE: flash tool not working - Enity - 03-14-2016

i just did something now,went to recoverymode, wiped cache,wiped dat/factory rest. the i rebooted the system....my phone worked like a new phone but without imei number? what can i do?

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RE: flash tool not working - matybazz - 03-14-2016

(03-14-2016, 09:16 AM)Enity Wrote:  i just did something now,went to recoverymode, wiped cache,wiped dat/factory rest. the i rebooted the system....my phone worked like a new phone but without imei number? what can i do?

Fix https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-116.html

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