Would probably need to find a full firmware download for your model. That should have a download_agent folder with the DA binary. Are you using Quintus? Once you have that, what I did was: uv run mtk.py --loader the/DA.bin r misc misc.img cp misc.img misc-mod.img # Make a backup, just in case # >> e...

Managed to clear the recovery boot flag be zeroing the first string in the misc partition using mtkclient.

Hello, I have managed to hit an exceptionally esoteric situation (I would say bug) by an unexpected amount of unlucky fumbling. Device is Volla Plinius plus. The OS is ubuntu touch. I fastboot flashed vendor_boot.img that contained a broken recovery ramdisk into the phone. I then proceeded into runn...

I guess I solved it by reflashing the firmware with ubports installer. Wipe personal data - off, bootstrap (flash system partitions with fastboot) - on. However, all user data was deleted, even though I did not check the "wipe userdata" on ubports installer. Bit sad, but nothing major was ...

Welp, PEBKAC. Fastboot now works, maybe it was the cable.

I did find the way to go to recovery, but the device is not reachable over usb in recovery / fastboot mode for some reason. Could it be pogopins are the main usb or something? Currently want to figure out how to do a fix without factory reset (which I assume nukes everything).

Hello, Volla Plinius with Ubuntu Touch is stuck in a dreaded bootloop. Holding power+volume up does not go into recovery mode (as per faq?). Right now would be nice to know how to stop the bootloop if possible. Regarding why: I think I buggered the apt packages by installing build-essential, gcc, an...