On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 20:30 Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <[email protected]> wrote:
> i'm trying to get myself with a phone again and have hit some snags. > a month or so ago data stopped working on my hpp-l55b, so i took an > image, reflashed it, tried to sort it out. > with a fresh OS it still didn't work. my next plan was to try other > phones with the same sim and see if it had data on them. > it took me a while to do this due to psychology. > today, i've dedicated a night to working on it, and brought a second > phone of the same model to a library. > it turns out the new phone was likely made for german distribution, > all the text looks german after first boot. > strangely, i can't connect mtkclient or even the official mediatek > sp_flash_tool to it! maybe they are us-regional? they give an error > code of 0 and a corrupt number on connect. > i also can't connect my old phone to these flash tools either. it no > longer shows as a serial port when i connect it. maybe the > initialization code got corrupt in an interrupted flash? maybe a virus > in my system disabled it? > > i have more of these phones. next i suppose i'd try one that isn't from > germany. > > it's discouraging my old phone doesn't show up. i really wanted to > troubleshoot the data issue, and without the phone to test i don't > know whether it just starts working again, or if it was because of the > specific phone. i eventually remembered that i originally figured this out utilizing resources that were dedicated to helping with generic situations like this. i’m thinking i can try hovatek.com to sort these things out and am excited to do so. > > there is also sketchy stuff in the online communities more, for > example the main twrp dev chat says it is inactive and twrp no longer > has devs O_o. just in these past few months ?? when i joined a year or > two ago (and then left until now) they were so active. it's like i > joined and then they broke. >
