Thanks guys. This was definitely a learning experience so I doubt I'll find myself in the same situation again. After all, my first experience with a PC was buying one at a garage sale back in the 90's and promptly breaking it by deleting the files that make DOS work. Then I had to learn how DOS wor...

:D :D :D THIS IS THE REAL RESOLUTION , as opposed to marking the topic SOLVED when the only solution given is "sorry but we cannot help you" which BTW also discourages other community members who may know the answer from reading the topic at all. I hope this solution can help others who ma...

That was very helpful, Jman. I read a post elsewhere (a similar situation with a different phone) where it was suggested to just flash the stock recovery image. I have downloaded the newest ROM from Blackview and it contains multiple images (boot.img, cache.img, recovery.img, system.img, etc.) and I...

I allowed my BV8000 Pro to download and install the latest OTA update today. Process began normally until the phone rebooted itself - now it only boots into TeamWin Recovery Project (TWRP) which was installed onto the phone at an earlier point. TWRP has the option to flash a partition with a .img fi...