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I bought a Rogers HTC Magic for a pretty cheap price. It had The Rogers 1.5 Sense UI update on it. I decided I wanted to root it and load other ROMs, etc. So I read that the easiest method was to use Universal Androot to root it, and ROM Manager (from the Market) to flash the appropriate recovery image.
So, I installed both apps. I first ran Universal Androot and rooted. I confirmed root through ADB and also Super User permissions. I then restarted the phone just for peace of mind. After the restart, I ran ROM Manager. It automatically popped up and asked me if I was running an Ion/My Touch or an HTC Magic. I selected HTC Magic, because that's what this is. So then it flashed the recovery image and restarted the phone. When it restarted it went to the Rogers boot screen for a few seconds, and then started a loop of restarts. That's all it does now. It shows the Rogers screen for a few seconds, goes black and reboots over and over. I have tried booting into HBOOT, Fastboot, and into recovery. I cannot boot into any of them. One thing I did notice is that when I'm pressing any of the combinations (volume down + power, home + power, menu + power) for a very brief half a second right before the phone restarts, the bottom of the screen says "ClockwordMod ..." where ... is the version of the image (I'm at work without the phone, so I don't recall the exact number there).
So, is this thing officially a paperweight now, or is there some sort of hope?
Thanks.
Paul
Well, I don't know if you are full-bricked but here is what went wrong. The HTC Magic recovery is incorrect for the mytouch3g (at least the 32b). There was a top option for "saphire/mytouch 3g" which is what you should have chosen. So, you can't load the incompatible recovery. Can't you boot back into the rom you were using? The recovery flash shouldn't have messed with it. If you can, boot back in and flash the correct mytouch3g recovery in rom manager.
adrift02 said:
Well, I don't know if you are full-bricked but here is what went wrong. The HTC Magic recovery is incorrect for the mytouch3g (at least the 32b). There was a top option for "saphire/mytouch 3g" which is what you should have chosen. So, you can't load the incompatible recovery. Can't you boot back into the rom you were using? The recovery flash shouldn't have messed with it. If you can, boot back in and flash the correct mytouch3g recovery in rom manager.
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Okay. That's weird. I mean, my phone is a Magic so choosing the option for the Magic instead of the Ion/MyTouch seemed to make sense.
Anyway, I cannot get anywhere. Holding vol+ and power does nothing, neither does home and power or back and power. Are there any other tricks to getting anywhere beyond this endless restart loop?
Thanks.
Starting to think I'm screwed.
PaulieORF said:
Starting to think I'm screwed.
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You may be, I'm not sure exactly what state you are in but the recovery you installed was for a magic 32a (that you have) with a 3.x radio (that you don't have)
The rogers sense rom uses the 6.x hero radio and needs a hero recovery.
The mt3g uses a 2.x radio thus yet another recovery.
Try booting with volume down to see if you can get into the hboot/fastboot screen, but I think you tried this already.. you may also try letting it loop unplugged until the battery drains it may error out giving you access again..
Besides that there is the option of jtag and fixing the software stack that way.
ezterry said:
You may be, I'm not sure exactly what state you are in but the recovery you installed was for a magic 32a (that you have) with a 3.x radio (that you don't have)
The rogers sense rom uses the 6.x hero radio and needs a hero recovery.
The mt3g uses a 2.x radio thus yet another recovery.
Try booting with volume down to see if you can get into the hboot/fastboot screen, but I think you tried this already.. you may also try letting it loop unplugged until the battery drains it may error out giving you access again..
Besides that there is the option of jtag and fixing the software stack that way.
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Thanks for the reply!
Right, I cannot get into fastboot or hboot. I'll try running the battery down when I get home today. Interesting idea.
Unfortunately running the battery dead with restarts didn't do the trick.
Any idea if there's any place I can send it to who has the smarts to jtag recover this thing?
Thanks.
me too
I did the same thing on a 32B. Rooted. loaded ROM Manager. Ran the recovery, I choose the Ion/MT3G option. tried to load CM6-FroyoRedux-v1.7-32b-blk.zip. Now it's stuck in the boot screen.
tmokeith said:
I did the same thing on a 32B. Rooted. loaded ROM Manager. Ran the recovery, I choose the Ion/MT3G option. tried to load CM6-FroyoRedux-v1.7-32b-blk.zip. Now it's stuck in the boot screen.
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I don't think it's the same thing.
I rooted, loaded ROM Manager and installed the recovery. I was never even able to get into recovery in order to try to load any ROMs.
I have a Rogers magic, and its a 32a. One way to fix it is to go to the HTC website and punch in your serial number and download the rogers update. Only problem is that will make it a pain to root again. But should fix that reboot loop. But do that as a last resort to get the phone running again.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App
nate_benji said:
I have a Rogers magic, and its a 32a. One way to fix it is to go to the HTC website and punch in your serial number and download the rogers update. Only problem is that will make it a pain to root again. But should fix that reboot loop. But do that as a last resort to get the phone running again.
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The phone does not identify itself to the computer, so this doesn't work.
The program should try to put the phone into fastboot mode, and install the upgrade. Have you tried pulling the battery and pressing the power button + back, once the battery is installed again?
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nate_benji said:
The program should try to put the phone into fastboot mode, and install the upgrade. Have you tried pulling the battery and pressing the power button + back, once the battery is installed again?
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Oh yes. I've gone crazy trying every key combination with every combination of taking battery out, plugging it in, USB cable attached, detached, etc.
The phone never identifies itself as a piece of hardware to the computer in the 5 seconds between reboots.
I had the same problem yesterday, and i was doing the same rooting with Universal Androot and flashing recovery witch Rom Manager (choose the same options). I tried to go into recovery and then it started to bootlooping the whole time.
I was pretty scared when that happens, can't open fastboot menu and the only thing that my phone was showing was HTC logo and a quick blink of clockwork sign over and over.
I don't know exactly how i managed to fix it, but it started to work when i quickly plug off baterry and i immiediatly plug it in (I was doing it at the exactly time when the phone reboots) while holding the power button.
Now my magic turns on, but recovery won't work (just flash for a moment, and reboots) and it always say at the beginning of booting system that SD card was removed which means i can't use any SD card.
I hope it somehow helped you.
naparstekk said:
I had the same problem yesterday, and i was doing the same rooting with Universal Androot and flashing recovery witch Rom Manager (choose the same options). I tried to go into recovery and then it started to bootlooping the whole time.
I was pretty scared when that happens, can't open fastboot menu and the only thing that my phone was showing was HTC logo and a quick blink of clockwork sign over and over.
I don't know exactly how i managed to fix it, but it started to work when i quickly plug off baterry and i immiediatly plug it in (I was doing it at the exactly time when the phone reboots) while holding the power button.
Now my magic turns on, but recovery won't work (just flash for a moment, and reboots) and it always say at the beginning of booting system that SD card was removed which means i can't use any SD card.
I hope it somehow helped you.
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I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.
PaulieORF said:
I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.
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I wasn't able to get hboot or fastboot. I pluged off and on the battery in the exact moment when the Logo came out after restarting. The logo was on the screen for the whole time, even while battery plugged off. I guess, i've done it so quickly that phone didn't switched off.
I think i was holding the power+home or power+back buttons all the time.
Can't really rember the exact way, sorry.
PaulieORF said:
I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.
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Try removing the SD card and booting if its not restarting due to the wrong radio too soon that may help.. if you get into android restore the SD card and run the exploid process I posted a bit back for rogers magics, or the older goldcard method.
I've played around with taking the battery out and putting it right back in at all different times during the booting and can't get the phone to behave any differently. Iv'e tried it with SD card in and SD card out, USB cable in and USB cable out. I can't get anywhere.
I did notice that the phone does show up as an Android device for a second when it's booting. Tried to catch it in adb but no luck.
Starting to think this thing is shot. Any other ideas?
Just so everyone can see what's happening, I recorded a video and uploaded it. Linked below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoxMzm0MVU&hd=1
try to hold and KEEP holding the back + power... Not volume down!
Don't push and release like you did in the video.
So basically I rooted my vibrant, and realized it was hardware locked, as in recovery/download key combinations don't work.
I installed clockwork Mod recovery and backed up my system using the backup function. I then proceeded to flash the "Obsidian V2 - JK2 Official Froyo Based 2.2 - Team Whiskey" rom.
When that was done, I think I made a mistake by restoring the backup before restarting the phone before the first boot. Therefore, I am now stuck on the Vibrant/Samsung first boot screen.
I've researched a bit on how to get the phone into download/recovery mode on hardware locked models and none of the methods I found worked. A friend told me that apparently there was a method by using heat and a soldering iron....but if possible I want to avoid that unless its the last thing I can do to restore it.
Extra Info:
I had ADB turned off on phone before flashing ROM
It is samsung Vibrant Tmobile version, not Bell, and its hardware locked.
What I think the cause of the problem was that I restored a backup from 2.1 immediately flashing the v2.2 rom. Maybe I should have booted first into the new rom before trying to restore any backups...
When I plug my phone into the computer it starts charging (Battery icon with amount and animation of dots works)
I've tried using Droidexplorer as well but it doesn't detect my device.
My device makes the connection sound when connected to windows.
So hopefully, if you have any ideas for how this can be fixed with ODIN or how to get the phone back to the stock ROM, or even how I can force my phone into recovery or download mode without using a soldering iron then that would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance
just happened to me too. Please help!
I figured it out.
Its because I flashed a backup which was a 2.1 image when I had a 2.2 kernel installed. And that = death.
The soldering method isn't that bad, so i fixed the problem.
That`s what happened to me too. But i just recovered my wife`s phone. While holding volume keys i pluged usb and voila, got into download mode. That means it`s not fully bricked. Then just did the odin recovery and the phone is back to life.
Thanks to all the devs in this forum.
Unfortunately, that method wont work for hardware locked phones, so the soldering jig is the only possible way to force the vibrant into download mode if its hardware locked.
You can still get to download mode using adb even if the phone won't fully boot.
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Possible, but if ADB on the phone itself was turned off before the soft brick would it still be possible?
Zeltex said:
So basically I rooted my vibrant, and realized it was hardware locked, as in recovery/download key combinations don't work.
I installed clockwork Mod recovery and backed up my system using the backup function. I then proceeded to flash the "Obsidian V2 - JK2 Official Froyo Based 2.2 - Team Whiskey" rom.
When that was done, I think I made a mistake by restoring the backup before restarting the phone before the first boot. Therefore, I am now stuck on the Vibrant/Samsung first boot screen.
I've researched a bit on how to get the phone into download/recovery mode on hardware locked models and none of the methods I found worked. A friend told me that apparently there was a method by using heat and a soldering iron....but if possible I want to avoid that unless its the last thing I can do to restore it.
Extra Info:
I had ADB turned off on phone before flashing ROM
It is samsung Vibrant Tmobile version, not Bell, and its hardware locked.
What I think the cause of the problem was that I restored a backup from 2.1 immediately flashing the v2.2 rom. Maybe I should have booted first into the new rom before trying to restore any backups...
When I plug my phone into the computer it starts charging (Battery icon with amount and animation of dots works)
I've tried using Droidexplorer as well but it doesn't detect my device.
My device makes the connection sound when connected to windows.
So hopefully, if you have any ideas for how this can be fixed with ODIN or how to get the phone back to the stock ROM, or even how I can force my phone into recovery or download mode without using a soldering iron then that would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance
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Just a suggestion:
1:Open ODIN
2:Connect USB cable to computer (not phone)
3:NOW, connect USB to phone
4ress POWER, VOL. UP, & VOL. DOWN at same time and HOLD (yes i read that ur hardware locked but just try )
5:Wait for first Vibrant logo to appear, and as SOON as it dissapears...release ONLY the POWER button. Keep hold on both volume buttons.
Uh sorry if this didnt work but atleast it was worth a try.
*words in caps are keypoints, im not angry
roguly said:
Just a suggestion:
1:Open ODIN
2:Connect USB cable to computer (not phone)
3:NOW, connect USB to phone
4ress POWER, VOL. UP, & VOL. DOWN at same time and HOLD (yes i read that ur hardware locked but just try )
5:Wait for first Vibrant logo to appear, and as SOON as it dissapears...release ONLY the POWER button. Keep hold on both volume buttons.
Uh sorry if this didnt work but atleast it was worth a try.
*words in caps are keypoints, im not angry
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Doesn't work....it only keeps bringing up the battery charging screen and won't even boot to vibrant screen.
Zeltex said:
Possible, but if ADB on the phone itself was turned off before the soft brick would it still be possible?
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That I'm not sure on, but worth a shot.
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Can you please link me to an article on the soldering method? I couldn't find anything on google.
Well as I said earlier, I just did the soldering method and forced my hw locked vibrant into download mode and restored with Odin. Unless you modify your hardware or flash something special to get rid of the hardware lock, the volume/power key combinations don't work.
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gonintendo said:
Can you please link me to an article on the soldering method? I couldn't find anything on google.
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Here's the guide. Its pretty hard to mess up so don't worry.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
I have a question about using this method:
once boot the phone by odin, is the phone going back to a
fresh state or with all the saved contacts/apps backed up
with Titanium Backup?
I am having trouble to boot the phone when I tired to restore to 2.1 update1.
Rooted, backed up with TB, then flashed to Obsidian V4, Froyo 2.2.
Now I want to restore to 2.1 so that I can get all my contacts back.
Thanks for help.
roguly said:
Just a suggestion:
1:Open ODIN
2:Connect USB cable to computer (not phone)
3:NOW, connect USB to phone
4ress POWER, VOL. UP, & VOL. DOWN at same time and HOLD (yes i read that ur hardware locked but just try )
5:Wait for first Vibrant logo to appear, and as SOON as it dissapears...release ONLY the POWER button. Keep hold on both volume buttons.
Uh sorry if this didnt work but atleast it was worth a try.
*words in caps are keypoints, im not angry
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Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but something that has worked for me many times is this:
-Take battery out
-connect phone to the power chord (best to do it while connected to the computer)
-hold both the volume up and down buttons at the same time
- insert the battery into the phone while still holding buttons
You should see download mode pop up and you're ok to release the buttons after that. Now you're free to odin it up.
villaparv said:
I have a question about using this method:
once boot the phone by odin, is the phone going back to a
fresh state or with all the saved contacts/apps backed up
with Titanium Backup?
I am having trouble to boot the phone when I tired to restore to 2.1 update1.
Rooted, backed up with TB, then flashed to Obsidian V4, Froyo 2.2.
Now I want to restore to 2.1 so that I can get all my contacts back.
Thanks for help.
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By restoring with Odin, all your stuff will be wiped out, but think on the positive side, at least you don't have to carry a broken phone around with you all the time now. Unless you put your backups on the external SD card, not internal 16gb memory, then maybe take out the SD card before restoring.....
And as a precaution to those who don't want to end up in the same situation as me, don't use nandroid to backup and restore a 2.1 backup when you flashed a 2.2 rom.
2.2 roms will flash a 2.2 froyo kernel to your device and then the 2.1 backup will flash a 2.1 image to it, therefore causing your phone to brick.
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And again, no method by pressing the physical hardware keys will work on Hardware locked model vibrants. Even taking the battery out or plugging in the USB won't work as these functions have been "disabled" by the lock. I'm pretty sure the soldering method is the only effective way to force your phone back to download mode and to restore to factory conditions. I've spent at least 39882884385820384872 different combinations with the battery pulling, USB plugging, holding key combinations and they don't work.
Zeltex said:
So basically I rooted my vibrant, and realized it was hardware locked, as in recovery/download key combinations don't work.
I installed clockwork Mod recovery and backed up my system using the backup function. I then proceeded to flash the "Obsidian V2 - JK2 Official Froyo Based 2.2 - Team Whiskey" rom.
When that was done, I think I made a mistake by restoring the backup before restarting the phone before the first boot. Therefore, I am now stuck on the Vibrant/Samsung first boot screen.
I've researched a bit on how to get the phone into download/recovery mode on hardware locked models and none of the methods I found worked. A friend told me that apparently there was a method by using heat and a soldering iron....but if possible I want to avoid that unless its the last thing I can do to restore it.
Extra Info:
I had ADB turned off on phone before flashing ROM
It is samsung Vibrant Tmobile version, not Bell, and its hardware locked.
What I think the cause of the problem was that I restored a backup from 2.1 immediately flashing the v2.2 rom. Maybe I should have booted first into the new rom before trying to restore any backups...
When I plug my phone into the computer it starts charging (Battery icon with amount and animation of dots works)
I've tried using Droidexplorer as well but it doesn't detect my device.
My device makes the connection sound when connected to windows.
So hopefully, if you have any ideas for how this can be fixed with ODIN or how to get the phone back to the stock ROM, or even how I can force my phone into recovery or download mode without using a soldering iron then that would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance
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had the exact same problem only diff is that i was kinda doing while snoozing off
nd when i was in recovery mode i deleted ALL USER DATE nd stuff.
right now i followed most of the comments nd now i'm on DOWNLOAD mode connected to the computer i'm still trying to find out how to use ODIN to fix my phone think u can help me a lil.
Hi
I own a HTC magic from rogers. Im on android 2.1 and 32a motherboard. I tried to root my phone today by using super one click, and it said it was successful. So then i tried to install a rom using Rom manager from the market. I made a custom recovery then tried to install a cyanogen mod 6.1 EB1. It told me to restart my phone so i did. Now my phone just show the rogers screen and restarts. I have tried to hold the power button with the back/home/volume button to no avail. Is my phone bricked?
Thanks for your time
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Hi
I own a HTC magic from rogers. Im on android 2.1 and 32a motherboard. I tried to root my phone today by using super one click, and it said it was successful. So then i tried to install a rom using Rom manager from the market. I made a custom recovery then tried to install a cyanogen mod 6.1 EB1. It told me to restart my phone so i did. Now my phone just show the rogers screen and restarts. I have tried to hold the power button with the back/home/volume button to no avail. Is my phone bricked?
Thanks for your time
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Pull the battery, put the battery back in, and hold (home+power) until you get into the recovery or the phone starts bootlooping again and let me know what happens.
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hey thanks for the quick response
Ive tried what you said, it keeps on bootlooping, do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks so much
patel1 said:
hey thanks for the quick response
Ive tried what you said, it keeps on bootlooping, do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks so much
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Did you leave the battery out for a few seconds. Does it go right back into the bootloop or does it start to boot normally and then starts the loop? Did you try doing the same thing holding back and power?
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yea, ive tried all the possible of holding buttons (home, back, volume down) and pressing power and none of them have any effect. The phone keeps boot looping. Basically what happens is then i press power, it shows the rogers logo for about 10 seconds, then turns off, then turns back on and shows the rogers logo again. This cycle keeps going on and on. Do you have any more suggestions
Thanks
This has happend to many people trying to use the rom-manager. It's mainly because RM is more for the 32B devices.
But you can still save the phone... just keep pushing the back button and keep restarting..'
I know someone who did for an hour, but he managed to get into fastboot :0)
Hey thanks for the advice
When you mean press back and restarting, do you mean constantly press back while the phone is in bootloop, or take out the battery and put it back in and press back
patel,
i have had the same problem as you. forget rom-manager with phone =\
Google "htc magic keeps restarting" should find info on how to get it into fastboot - i think.
I fixed my problem by downloading the 1.5 sense update from htc's website.
Plug my constantly rebooting phone to my computer and run the RUU update.
Then the phone should automatically grab 2.1 ota - i did this back in december.
So it fixed this problem and i never dared to try and put a custom rom on this phone again.
good luck.
What is the RUU update youare speaking of is it the regular download from HTC?
Hi i have a MyTouch 4G rooted with Virtuous Fusion ROM. Everything was working until when I tried to install Miui Music Player on it. I did adb push but after doing it when i unplugged the phone from my computer several Force Close came up then i rebooted my phone then the MYTOUCH Tmobile logo start up screen came then the HTC logo came then my phone will shut down. I tried to start my phone again the same thing happen. I did Hboot and tried recovery from there but it didnt work. I tried Factory Reset but it failed. I go to clockwork recovery mode if i do backup and restore or factory reset nothing happens. Does it mean my phone is gone? Is there anything i can do to fix it? Please anybody help
pching999 said:
Hi i have a MyTouch 4G rooted with Virtuous Fusion ROM. Everything was working until when I tried to install Miui Music Player on it. I did adb push but after doing it when i unplugged the phone from my computer several Force Close came up then i rebooted my phone then the MYTOUCH Tmobile logo start up screen came then the HTC logo came then my phone will shut down. I tried to start my phone again the same thing happen. I did Hboot and tried recovery from there but it didnt work. I tried Factory Reset but it failed. I go to clockwork recovery mode if i do backup and restore or factory reset nothing happens. Does it mean my phone is gone? Is there anything i can do to fix it? Please anybody help
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Hey Everyone, just got my G2 today and already have a problem. So naturally the first thing I did was root it, and after a few hours researching the nuances of doing that on a VZW model I got that to work. Next I went and downloaded Titanium and moved my backup files onto the phone, and restored my apps no problem. Then I went to restore my system info (just call logs, sms/mms, bluetooth pairings) and rebooted the phone only to get stuck in a bootloop (the VZW animation would just play over and over.) So I powered off the phone thinking something just went wrong with the reboot. When I went to turn it back on I started to get worried...
No matter what key combo I pressed I could not get the phone to power on. I decided to plug it in and thankfully it did come back on, but once again went into the bootloop. So I did some researching and tried every way to reflash the stock VZW firmware, but nothing has worked. I tried the KDZ method mentioned here, but I cannot get the B2CAppSetup.exe program to install (looks like LG has moved or revoked access to csmg.lgmobile.com:9002). So I moved to this post, but I cannot get the LG Flash Tool to start the flashing (when as instructed I unplug the phone and restart it in download mode again and plug it back in the Flash Tool just says "Waiting for Connection" and doesn't do anything.)
At this point I am out of ideas. I have a feeling that since I cannot even power the phone on unless its connected to USB/Power Adapter something is seriously wrong, but I have no idea what Titanium could have restored to cause this.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Did the same thing myself and nearly crapped myself. Here's how I got out of it:
Power down the phone (hold down power button)
Turn on phone by holding power & volume down buttons
When the LG screen comes up, let go of the buttons and then hold them down again
You should then get options to factory reset.
I will say this, I was never able to restore SMS or call logs from Titanium. Doing a few factory resets just made me stop caring.
Thanks for the reply, however no matter what key combo I press I cannot get the phone to power on unless it is plugged into USB/Power Adapter so I cannot get into the stock recovery app.
Any other ideas guys?
TRDeal195 said:
Thanks for the reply, however no matter what key combo I press I cannot get the phone to power on unless it is plugged into USB/Power Adapter so I cannot get into the stock recovery app.
Any other ideas guys?
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This happened to me while flashing as well.
You have to keep trying, the timing of exactly when to release the buttons and press them again is very precise, meaning you don't have much time at all.
It took me several tries to get it back to recovery.
I also only released just the power button, not both,
Good Luck!
drice72 said:
This happened to me while flashing as well.
You have to keep trying, the timing of exactly when to release the buttons and press them again is very precise, meaning you don't have much time at all.
It took me several tries to get it back to recovery.
I also only released just the power button, not both,
Good Luck!
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Where you able to power your phone up by just pressing the power button (without it connected to anything)? That's what keeps throwing me off about this whole thing, without connecting it to something no matter what button(s) I press the phone simply will not do anything.
When you plug in the device via USB and hold the vol+key you should get the same prompt for a factory reset...
Cyko.Tech67 said:
When you plug in the device via USB and hold the vol+key you should get the same prompt for a factory reset...
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When I do this the only thing that happens is a small message comes up saying "Download Mode" and then the phone immediately goes to the firmware update screen....
TRDeal195 said:
When I do this the only thing that happens is a small message comes up saying "Download Mode" and then the phone immediately goes to the firmware update screen....
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were you running a custom rom?
or stock LG
Cyko.Tech67 said:
were you running a custom rom?
or stock LG
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Stock VS98011A_01 rooted via IORoot.
TRDeal195 said:
Stock VS98011A_01 rooted via IORoot.
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Here is my suggestion to you... try and push twrp recovery to your phone, theres a change you adb bridge might still be working, then id try flashing a rom once done with that... i can get you a link for the method on pushing twrp using the iOroot folder... will edit this in a min. once i find it
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Heres that link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
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if your having any troubles pushing twrp let me know
Cyko.Tech67 said:
Here is my suggestion to you... try and push twrp recovery to your phone, theres a change you adb bridge might still be working, then id try flashing a rom once done with that... i can get you a link for the method on pushing twrp using the iOroot folder... will edit this in a min. once i find it
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Heres that link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
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if your having any troubles pushing twrp let me know
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Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give this a shot now and let you know how I make out.
TRDeal195 said:
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give this a shot now and let you know how I make out.
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please do!
So I tried TWRP but ADB could not see the phone. As a last resort I tried the TOT restore method on the computer that I used to root it initially and it actually went through. Once 10B was restored it finally booted back up and OTA'd 11A and I was able to re-root it after that.
Lesson learned, next time I will not try to recover the phone using a difference laptop then I rooted it on.
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys!
TRDeal195 said:
So I tried TWRP but ADB could not see the phone. As a last resort I tried the TOT restore method on the computer that I used to root it initially and it actually went through. Once 10B was restored it finally booted back up and OTA'd 11A and I was able to re-root it after that.
Lesson learned, next time I will not try to recover the phone using a difference laptop then I rooted it on.
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys!
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Happy to hear you got it fixed! Now that you have got it working agian, your adb bridge should be working! so i would save that link in case of wanting to rom in the future! Hope i helped you!