So how do you differentiate if your phone has been soft-bricked or hard-bricked? Below are some of the signs that could help you figure this out. a soft-brick or a hard-brick), your OnePlus 8T could stay stuck at the OnePlus boot screen and/or further get into a boot loop.
There are 2 folders in this download, 圆4 or 64-bit computers and x86 for 32-bit computers.
From here, you want to manually tell Windows where the driver file is since we have already downloaded it in Step 2 of the guide.
You do this by right clicking the detected device and then clicking the Update Driver Software Option. If you don’t see the OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 3T recognized as a Qualcomm 9008 device, then you’ll need to find where it is in the Device Manager and update its drivers. The goal is to get your OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 3T to look like this while in this special boot mode. Then download and extract the tools for your device (thanks goes to here and here for the tools) onto the PC. Still, you should go ahead and boot into that special Windows mode just in case. If you’re just looking to return to stock (like I was), then you can skip a number of these steps (like I did in the embedded video above). You’ll likely only need to deal with the driver part of this guide if your OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 3T is really bricked.