Return to stock ROM

[fisch92]

Just because it is sometimes not easy. I want to summerize the steps here.

Download the Recovery image from here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface-recovery-image

Follow the steps here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/recover-surface-duo-if-it-won-t-start-1e6fb3cf-4e24-92a8-bc05-4984274bc6a4

If recovery mode isn't working. Follow the steps here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/surfaceduo/comments/12vb5h2/help_stuck_on_boot/

In my case this wasn't working. I had to add a fastboot -w before flashing the images.

I hope this will help you.

[Archfx]

Great!!! thanks for this

[oilcan-productions]

I have been trying to get my 256GB model back to stock ROM to test something out today and found that I am not able with the steps above or the help_stuck_on_boot and fastboot -w
It either goes to BootLoader loop and does not enter recovery mode after adb sideloading the recovery image or I can factory reset and get back to A15.
Any ideas?

[jlempen]

I've been trying to flash my 256GB Surface Duo 2 back to stock ROM through the Micro$oft instructions here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/recover-surface-duo-if-it-won-t-start-1e6fb3cf-4e24-92a8-bc05-4984274bc6a4 as well. Flashing the stock ROM with ADB works fine but when I reboot, it tells me to reset the device and ends up rebooting into the DUO-DE setup again...

FYI, when I flashed the DUO-DE ROM, I had to do the steps from #36

./fastboot delete-logical-partition system_ext_a
./fastboot delete-logical-partition system_ext_b
./fastboot delete-logical-partition product_a
./fastboot delete-logical-partition product_b

before flashing the ROM because of the Not enough space to resize partition error.

Any ideas?