[GUIDE] How to return to Stock/Flash Images with QFIL (2024)

Here is a step by step guide on how to flash the stock rom with QFIL and by extension any image.

1. Download and install the Qualcomm drivers from here
2. Download either of the firmware from here
3. Download the support files (Firehose/rawprogram0.xml/patch0.xml) here
4. Extract the firmware and support files to the same folder so you can easily access them like your desktop
5. Download and install QPST from here
6. Open the QFIL application (Find it in your start menu)
7. In the "Select Build Type" field select Flat Build
8. In the "Select Programmer" field navigate to the folder you extracted the firmware and support files to and select the prog_emmc_firehose_8909.mbn file
9. Select the "Load XML" button and navigate to the folder you extracted the firmware and support files to and select the rawprogram0.xml and then the patch0.xml when prompted.
10. Plug in your tablet
11. Run the following adb command "adb reboot edl" (Now the screen should be blank but the led light should be red)
12. If the text at the top of the QFIL application says "No Port Available" click the "Select Port..." option and pick your device. If your device isn't showing up there you didn't install the drivers properly.
13. Click the Download Button to begin flashing your device

So the above explains how to flash everything if you want to flash individual partitions you can edit your rawprogram0.xml to only include the ones you want. (patch0.xml stays the same) I have linked below 2 examples, one of them flashes just a boot.img and one that just flashes the recovery.img. But you aren't limited to those.

Recovery
Boot

ZTE 971 not recognized by either QPST or QFIL

Thanks for all the detailed instructions. But my ZTE 971 is not visible to either qpst or qfil eventhough the phone shows in windows 8.1. In the Developer Options menu, I noticed Select USB Configuration, RNDIS (USB ethernet) option cannot be enabled. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. OEM unlocking, USB debbugging are already selected. Any suggestions, please? Thanks.

ps. I live in Turkey. I got this phone last year from AT&T and have unlocked the sim.

My PC is not detecting my ZTE MAVEN 3

I have installed all drives but still facing the issue. I am using it on Windows 10.

000Nick said:

I flashed the B13 (ZPST tool shows my device as B13) with the QFIL like your guide says and it says all completed successfully and finishes, but now my phone went from only being able to boot EDL + FTM + Recovery, to now booting directly to EDL mode, which obviously means this guide completely screwed up my phone... Thanks.

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solucionaste hermano

Mod edit:
you solved brother

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Hello All.
I am not able to get the following files

rawprogram.xml and patch.xml for LG G8x​

Please help me to get this files ASAP as i have hard bricked the mobile, all partitions deleted

deadman96385 said:

Here is a step by step guide on how to flash the stock rom with QFIL and by extension any image.

1. Download and install the Qualcomm drivers from here
2. Download either of the firmware from here
3. Download the support files (Firehose/rawprogram0.xml/patch0.xml) here
4. Extract the firmware and support files to the same folder so you can easily access them like your desktop
5. Download and install QPST from here
6. Open the QFIL application (Find it in your start menu)
7. In the "Select Build Type" field select Flat Build
8. In the "Select Programmer" field navigate to the folder you extracted the firmware and support files to and select the prog_emmc_firehose_8909.mbn file
9. Select the "Load XML" button and navigate to the folder you extracted the firmware and support files to and select the rawprogram0.xml and then the patch0.xml when prompted.
10. Plug in your tablet
11. Run the following adb command "adb reboot edl" (Now the screen should be blank but the led light should be red)
12. If the text at the top of the QFIL application says "No Port Available" click the "Select Port..." option and pick your device. If your device isn't showing up there you didn't install the drivers properly.
13. Click the Download Button to begin flashing your device

So the above explains how to flash everything if you want to flash individual partitions you can edit your rawprogram0.xml to only include the ones you want. (patch0.xml stays the same) I have linked below 2 examples, one of them flashes just a boot.img and one that just flashes the recovery.img. But you aren't limited to those.

Recovery
Boot

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Hi. Tryin' to return to an older firmware, or newer, i've found that in those stock firmwares there's not one "prog_emmc_firehose_8909.mbn", but there are four;

prog_emmc_firehose_8909_ddr.mbn
prog_emmc_firehose_8909_lite.mbn
validated_emmc_firehose_8909_ddr.mbn
validated_emmc_firehose_8909_lite.mbn

...and there are 3 .xml:

rawprogram_upgrade.xml
rawprogram_unsparse.xml
rawprogram0.xml

I guess that everything could be easyer if the prog_emmc_firehose_8909.mbn was in the folder, but it isn't. I think that these four xml files must be managed as Lenovo Smart Rescue Assistance does, a software that does not require user intevention, exerpts for start the device in Download Mode (terribly limited to the firmware that Lenovo/Motorola offers), but Qfil obviously requires that we choose a file.

And if i choose prog_emmc_firehose_8909_ddr.mbn or prog_emmc_firehose_8909_lite.mbn and rawprogram0.xml the download finishes well, but in just 10 seconds, obviously the image is partial, minimal, the tablet refuses to boot a all. If i choose rawprogram_upgrade.xml or rawprogram_unsparse.xml the process seems to works almost perfect, download finished ok, the tablets try to boot but ends in a bunch of yellow warnings and finally a recovery screen with less options than a normal one and the name of the rom in red.

I'm sorry for a so extended answer, is that there's not enough and clear info in the whole www, i'm really goin' crazy.