Stuck on bootscreen at first start

/e/OS Devices ZTE
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Hello,

I’m trying to remove google from my life so i’m here.

I followed the install howto, everything gone well.
When I reboot my phone, it display the boot animation but nothing more.
I waited at least 30 minutes.
It’s not the first time I change rom on phone.

If someone could help me, it would be nice.

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You can try to wipe data and cache in TWRP and boot again (userdata will be lost).

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Thank you for your quick reply.
I flashed data and cache but doesn’t change anything.
I think bootloader could be the problem, I don’t know which one is the good one.

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Bootloader or bootstack. What were you on before? If you were on Oreo you’d have to downgrade to a Nougat bootstack, like B32 or B35 maybe. Someone I know tried to do a Nougat ROM after having been on Oreo. Also got stuck like that. I wound up having to fastboot flash stock Nougat firmware to fix things up.

If you were already on Nougat then I’m not sure why it gets stuck. Maybe do a clean clean wipe by also wiping internal storage. That would require backing up a bunch of stuff first though or lose a lot of files. In lieu of that you could remove the /sdcard/Android/ directory which may hold cruft from previous ROMs. Only had to do that once or twice over the years.

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Thank you for advice.

I tried on B32 with full wipe but nothing change.

I’ll retry later.

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You didn’t specify if you were on Oreo or not. If you were on Oreo then just flashing B32 bootstack probably wouldn’t work.
For the other user’s phone I had to fix in that case, I used Axon 7 Toolkit to flash a B32 EDL stock firmware (back to stock essentially) before being able to flash Nougat custom ROMs.

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I was on LOS 15.1 with the DrakenFX A2017x_LineageOS15.1_UniversalBootstack_v2 bootloader

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Sorry for late reply. Yep, that’s Oreo. You might have to go back to stock Nougat firmware first to be able to flash /e/ or any other Nougat ROM. You’ll have to weigh the pros and cons of going through all that just for /e/. I would say wait for /e/ Oreo but I don’t see that on the horizon. There is Lineage for microG Oreo as an alternative.