Restore OnePlus Nord CE 5G to Stock via Fastboot Commands and Unbrick it

In this guide, we will show you the steps to restore the OnePlus Nord CE 5G device to stock via Fastboot Commands and hence unbrick it. There’s no denying the fact this OEM is perhaps the most active player in custom development. Once you bypass the sole restriction of a locked bootloader, there are a plethora of tweaks that you could welcome onto your device.

Right from flashing a custom ROM to installing a custom recovery like TWRP, there’s a lot to try out. Along the same lines, you could also gain access to the system partition by rooting your device via Magisk. This will then allow you to flash a plentitude of mods, such as Magisk Modules, Xposed Framework, Substratum Theme, Viper4Android. However, this is just one side of the coin.

These tweaks do bring in quite a few risks as well. Among them, the device going into a bootloop or getting softbricked is the most common phenomenon. Fortunately, there’s an easier way out to rectify this issue. And this guide shall make you aware of just that. Given here are the detailed instruction steps to restore the OnePlus Nord CE 5G device to stock via Fastboot Commands and hence unbrick it.

How to Restore OnePlus Nord CE 5G to Stock via Fastboot Commands

The below instructions are listed under separate sections for ease of understanding. Make sure to follow in the exact same sequence as mentioned. Droidwin and its members wouldn’t be held responsible in case of a thermonuclear war, your alarm doesn’t wake you up, or if anything happens to your device and data by performing the below steps.

STEP 1: Install Android SDK

First and foremost, you will have to install the Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC. This is the official ADB and Fastboot binary provided by Google and is the only recommended one. So download it and then extract it to any convenient location on your PC. Doing so will give you the platform-tools folder, which will be used throughout this guide.

STEP 2: Download OnePlus Nord CE 5G Stock Firmware

1. Next up, grab hold of your device’s official firmware from OnePlus’ official site [Direct Link].
2. Once downloaded, you will notice that the firmware is in JAR format. So right-click on it, select Rename, and change the extension to ZIP. You will get a confirmation prompt, click YES.
   
3. Now extract this ZIP firmware via WinRAR/7ZIP, etc.
   

STEP 3: Extract Payload.bin and Get Fastboot IMG Files

OnePlus packs all its partition files inside the payload.bin file. So you will have to extract this payload.bin file to get hold of all the IMG files, such as boot.img, system.img, recovery.img, and the likes. For that, please refer to our detailed guide on How to Extract OnePlus payload.bin.

STEP 4: Boot Bricked Nord CE 5G to Fastboot Mode

You will now have to boot your soft-bricked/boot-looped device to Fastboot Mode. Here’s how it could be done:

1. To begin with, power off your device.
2. Then press and hold the Power and Volume Keys together.
3. Keeping both these keys pressed, connect your device to the PC via USB cable.

STEP 5: Flash Stock Firmware on OnePlus Nord CE 5G via Fastboot Commands

1. Head over to the platform-tools folder, type in CMD in the address bar, and hit Enter. This will launch the Command Prompt.
   
2. Now type in the below command in the CMD window to completely wipe your device:

   fastboot -w

3. Once that is done, you may start off by flashing the Fastboot ROM files via the below commands. Make sure to execute one command at a time, don’t copy-paste all at once. fastboot flash boot boot.img

   fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
   fastboot flash modem modem.img
   fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
   fastboot –disable-verity flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
   fastboot –disable-verity flash vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img

4. One-half of the commands have been flashed in the Fastboot Mode, the other half will now be flashed in the FastbootD Mode. So use the below command to boot your device to FastbootD Mode

   fastboot reboot fastboot

5. Your device will now boot to FastbootD, you may now flash the rest of the commands:

   fastboot flash abl abl.img
   fastboot flash aop aop.img
   fastboot flash bluetooth bluetooth.img
   fastboot flash devcfg devcfg.img
   fastboot flash dsp dsp.img
   fastboot flash featenabler featenabler.img
   fastboot flash hyp hyp.img
   fastboot flash imagefv imagefv.img
   fastboot flash keymaster keymaster.img
   fastboot flash oplusstanvbk oplusstanvbk.img
   fastboot flash odm odm.img
   fastboot flash qupfw qupfw.img
   fastboot flash tz tz.img
   fastboot flash uefisecapp uefisecapp.img
   fastboot flash xbl xbl.img
   fastboot flash xbl_config xbl_config.img
   fastboot flash system system.img
   fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
   fastboot flash product product.img

6. Once that is done, you could now reboot the device back to Fastboot Mode from the current FastbootD Mode. Use the below command for that:

   fastboot reboot bootloader

7. Finally, you may now reboot the device to the OS via the following command:

   fastboot reboot

That’s it. These were the steps to restore your OnePlus Nord CE 5G device to stock via Fastboot Commands and hence unbrick it. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments.

Moreover, if any of the partition files show up an error during the flashing process, then please let us know the name of that file as well as the error message that you got. It will help us in quickly rectifying the issue.