Unable to sideload a file to One Plus One. What are my alternatives?

Question

I have a oneplus one which had CM 13 installed on it. The recovery is TWRP. Last day I tried to install Kali Nethunter ROM on the same from recovery. However things got messy and the phone didn't boot. To make things worse, I by mistake wiped everything on the device.

So I now have A device with NO OS and NO Data.

Then I booted the device to recovery and tried to use sideload. However the device wasn't getting detected on my laptop. Following commands resulted no positive results.

adb devices [no devices connected]
adb push [failed]
adb sideload [failed]

Since the device is not even getting detected as an unknown device in the USB port, I tried installing the universal adb driver available. That also didn't help.

What could I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can flash the phone in fastboot mode.

1. First you need to unlock the bootloader (if it wasn't done before):

   • Power off your phone then boot into fastboot mode with power button + volume up button.

   • Connect your phone to your PC via usb cable.

   • Open a command prompt

   • Check your fastboot connection by issuing this command: fastboot devices It should return your device serial number, if not you need to make sure your drivers are installed correctly.

   • Once you've confirmed your fastboot connection issue this command:

   fastboot oem unlock

   The device will now go through the automated unlocking process, just let it do its things.

   • Done

     2. Flashing thee Cyanogen OS Fastboot Images

   • Download the latest stock images

   • Reboot your device into Fastboot Mode (power + volume up) and connect your phone to your PC via usb cable.

   • Unzip the file you downloaded and put its contents into your fastboot folder.

   • Open a command prompt.

   • Issue these fastboot commands (Every line ends by hitting enter):

   fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin

   fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn

   fastboot flash dbi sdi.mbn

   fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn

   fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn

   fastboot flash tz tz.mbn

   fastboot flash LOGO logo.bin

   fastboot flash oppostanvbk static_nvbk.bin

   fastboot flash boot boot.img

   fastboot flash cache cache.img

   fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

   fastboot flash system system.img

   fastboot flash userdata userdata_64G.img

or  

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img 

(if you have the 16gb model)

• Reboot your device with this command:

  fastboot reboot

• Done.

Let me know if something goea wrong.