Hey everybody,
Yesterday I tried flashing a theme to SmoothRom and got caught in a bootloop. In a panic, I accidentally factory wiped my sd card and lost my roms so now I can't flash another rom to my Nexus 7. I've tried adb pushing a rom to the sd card, but my Nexus 7 is not being recognized in adb devices. I've tried everything to my knowledge but I still cannot get anything to work, even tried working on Mac and PC computers and my Nexus won't show up in adb.
I'm ready to count my losses as it is my fault, but I figured you guys could help out. I love my Nexus so if you guys know anything I could do I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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tjonestmj137 said:
Hey everybody,
Yesterday I tried flashing a theme to SmoothRom and got caught in a bootloop. In a panic, I accidentally factory wiped my sd card and lost my roms so now I can't flash another rom to my Nexus 7. I've tried adb pushing a rom to the sd card, but my Nexus 7 is not being recognized in adb devices. I've tried everything to my knowledge but I still cannot get anything to work, even tried working on Mac and PC computers and my Nexus won't show up in adb.
I'm ready to count my losses as it is my fault, but I figured you guys could help out. I love my Nexus so if you guys know anything I could do I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Do you still have access to recovery? What about fastboot? What version of android were you on?
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This worked for me: http://blog.dantup.com/2012/10/fixing-adb-device-not-found-with-nexus-7-in-recovery-mode
heavy_metal_man said:
Do you still have access to recovery? What about fastboot? What version of android were you on?
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Yeah I can still get into fastboot & recovery (Clockwork mod touch). I've tried mounting the sd card in recovery but nothing happens. Tried doing adb to sideload a rom but my device is showing up.
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I saw this while googling some stuff gonna try it out thanks.
tjonestmj137 said:
I saw this while googling some stuff gonna try it out thanks.
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https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images flash the one for your device (You will need to use fastboot)
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You can go two ways here, either you can do as the above user posted and flash a stock image via fastboot or if you have a otg cable and a pendrive/removable media you can use that to install the rom
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Ok guys, I spent all last night trying to get this to work, and I'm still having problems. I tried adding the line to the driver inf file but nothing worked. I tried adding the PDANet drivers, but the Nexus of course is not showing up. I know that my Nexus is not doomed it's just something I'm not doing right, not gonna give up I'll keep at it. Thanks for the help guys, if anything have any suggestions let me know!
Sounds like you should find out if CWM touch can mount a USB flash thumbdrive via an OTG cable. You can avoid driver problems that way (as long as it works). The filesystem formatting of the USB drive with the highest probability of success will be a FAT format.
good luck
hello!sorry for hearing about your tablet!mine today fell of a chair and the glass is broken so if you try everything and you can't fix your tablet i would like to buy it for the screen cause it costs a lot for a replacement!!!thanks!
komakos96 said:
hello!sorry for hearing about your tablet!mine today fell of a chair and the glass is broken so if you try everything and you can't fix your tablet i would like to buy it for the screen cause it costs a lot for a replacement!!!thanks!
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There's nothing wrong with it... you just need to flash stock with fastboot or adb sideload it.
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Thanks for the help guys. Unbricked it with OTG cable that came in the mail yesterday!
tjonestmj137 said:
Thanks for the help guys. Unbricked it with OTG cable that came in the mail yesterday!
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Good news.
Click the "Thanks" button on the posts of those that helped you - at the end of the year we'll be able to trade them in for something valuable - brownie points
tjonestmj137 said:
Thanks for the help guys. Unbricked it with OTG cable that came in the mail yesterday!
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Good stuff pal, it's handy to have otg eh?
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Then...
tjonestmj137 said:
Yeah I can still get into fastboot & recovery (Clockwork mod touch). I've tried mounting the sd card in recovery but nothing happens. Tried doing adb to sideload a rom but my device is showing up.
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Wipe data again, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, and re-flash SmoothROM.
Good luck, a bootloop is not a simple thing...
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tjonestmj137 said:
Thanks for the help guys. Unbricked it with OTG cable that came in the mail yesterday!
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If you have your problem solved, please put [SOLVED] at the start of the title of the thread, then the people will not post a solution.
Thanks.
Somehow I have screwed my nexus 7(16gb wifi only) up so bad that I cannot get back into fastboot or recovery mode. Any attempt at bootup is met with a blank screen. How do you suggest I proceed?
thefugugitive87 said:
Somehow I have screwed my nexus 7(16gb wifi only) up so bad that I cannot get back into fastboot or recovery mode. Any attempt at bootup is met with a blank screen. How do you suggest I proceed?
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If fastboot is really dead, then you're out of luck. Have you tried running fastboot commands, however, after trying to boot into fastboot? Sometimes the underlying software will run correctly, even if the screen is nonresponsive.
Rirere said:
If fastboot is really dead, then you're out of luck. Have you tried running fastboot commands, however, after trying to boot into fastboot? Sometimes the underlying software will run correctly, even if the screen is nonresponsive.
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So I assume this means my only hope is to replace the motherboard which houses the memory. Is that a good assumption?
HELP!
so i had the same thing happen to me. I had access to recovery still but instead of re flashing i tried to use nexus root toolkit to factory reset. somehow fastboot failed halfway through and now recovery is gone with everything else. The only thing i can get into is the bootloader mode....
My device is still listed as a fastboot device, but when i try to re-run the flash to stock i get this: (see attached picture)
Please help, I honestly have been working on this for days, but i simply do not know enough to fix it!
I will post a new topic if no one responds. Thanks
Help Needed
tjonestmj137 said:
Thanks for the help guys. Unbricked it with OTG cable that came in the mail yesterday!
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I'm having a similar problem. Present state of the device is that my N7 boots into the bootloader and then to the custom recovery. I've accidently erased the OS.
Can you tell me how you managed to unbrick via OTG. Should I move the factory image to usb flash drive and then mount it via OTG and then try to flash it via recovery???
Please help:crying:
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I flashed a patch for the tablet UI, but after it installed, it is stuck in CM10 animation. Tried to manually boot into recovery and its stuck on Google with the unlock sign. Imma nubee sorry... Please i really need some help.
Have you tried to hook up to a computer and try command adb reboot recovery?
akamachine45 said:
I flashed a patch for the tablet UI, but after it installed, it is stuck in CM10 animation. Tried to manually boot into recovery and its stuck on Google with the unlock sign. Imma nubee sorry... Please i really need some help.
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Travisdroidx2 is right. You simply need to connect your N7 to a computer's USB port and then you can access recovery mode via the steps you mentioned or via adb. It's a bug that Google is going to fix eventually (I hope).
Sent from my Paranoid Nexus 7
Hi,
If you wish to use Tablet UI, I would recommend you to flash my rom It is called 'SmoothROM'
Thanks
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How?
how do i do the ADB recovery??
Def, i will check out your ROM. post me the thread.
I GOT IT!!
Thank you so much!!
i check the tool box for nexus 7 and did like you said adb recovery and got it to restore.
THANK YOU!! seriously!!
LOVE XDA!!
LOVE ANDROID!!
jamesst20 said:
Hi,
If you wish to use Tablet UI, I would recommend you to flash my rom It is called 'SmoothROM'
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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I Don't think this is a good time to advertise your ROM.
Edit: Didn't mean to post this but since it's here... Anybody have a quick fix for no OS install but won't mount to push new file to tab?
Told you not to use the toolkit.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Try disabling Android Debugging or mount USB in custom recovery.
Or since you just want to transfer a file from PC to N7 try AirDroid.
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Told you not to use the toolkit.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Wasn't the toolkit, I accidentally formatted and erased the OS lol now im trying to get the OS back on... any idea how I can do it?
DirtyShroomz said:
Wasn't the toolkit, I accidentally formatted and erased the OS lol no im trying to get the OS back on... any idea how I can do it?
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Can you boot into fastboot mode? Flash the stock images via fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
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ÜBER™ said:
Can you boot into fastboot mode? Flash the stock images via fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
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Yeah, that's what I'm attempting now
Edit: Attempted to push and gave me an error while copying over... grrr. First time ever having issues rooting anything and i've worked on 20+ devices. I feel like a n00b all over again.
Edit 2: My friends computer was in read-only mode. I think i've finally found the issue... after 1 hour lol
Edit 3: No luck... *sigh* I think my brain has shut down for the day
Edit 4: Finally got device to mount, all is well again
I feel kind of sick...
I hope someone can assist. I screwed up, big time.
I decided to full wipe my device and choose to flash stock using Toolkit. However, usb debugging isn't shown as being enabled (I think) and I'm unable to get back into a ROM to enable it, since fully wiping my entire storage.
I have tried reinstalling drivers on so many occasions, I've tried pushing files, using sideload. Nothing works. I literally cannot find a way to flash any rom onto the device. I have CWM recovery, but no way of getting zips onto the device. I cannot access usb debugging. Toolkit always reads the serial for fastboot but never shows any active devices for ADB.
I'm stumped and currently have no way of using my device.
I should've never tried to wipe it to begin with.
Thanks to anyone who might be able to assist. I'm sorry to burden you all.
if you can access via fastboot just flash your system.img to the phone with fastboot flash system system.img!
too bad google pulled the nexus 4 factory image
I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.
Use the nexus 4 toolkit to download the stock image for the phone and use keys on phone to boot to fastboot. Then connect phone to your PC and run the nexus 4 toolkit. It should detect your phone in fast boot mode and allow you to flash stock rom
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endursa said:
if you can access via fastboot just flash your system.img to the phone with fastboot flash system system.img!
too bad google pulled the nexus 4 factory image
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Many thanks for your response.
Where might I find my system.img? I've never needed to look for it before but would know how to flash it via fastboot if I could find it! :good: (as long as this would solve my issue?)
URPREY said:
I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.
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I've PM'd you. Thanks so much. Can the factory image be flashed via fastboot without ADB? Thanks so much for responding. I feel so stupid.
uberNoobZA said:
Use the nexus 4 toolkit to download the stock image for the phone and use keys on phone to boot to fastboot. Then connect phone to your PC and run the nexus 4 toolkit. It should detect your phone in fast boot mode and allow you to flash stock rom
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I did try it but received this error:
Download now starting
--2013-01-07 17:31:39-- http://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jop40c-factory-cd
3dc140.tgz
Resolving dl.google.com... 173.194.41.66, 173.194.41.69, 173.194.41.67, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com|173.194.41.66|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-01-07 17:31:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Completed
Your image is now ready for flashing [your device must be in Fastboot Mode]
Do you want to flash the image now? [type yes or no]:
It doesn't actually download, despite attempting to. I'm not sure why.
Google pulled the files on Dec 12 hence no download. What toolkit are you using? The one from WugFresh has a link to the images on goo.im.
Otherwise look at this thread for a link in the first post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971169
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
I was in your situation about a week ago I was in front of my PC for about 7 hours, until I downloaded wug tool kit funny enough the stock ROM that toolkit downloaded worked fine. When I saw my baby boot up I a bit of wee nearly come out. Try it and holla back :thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
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djemgee said:
I was in your situation about a week ago I was in front of my PC for about 7 hours, until I downloaded wug tool kit funny enough the stock ROM that toolkit downloaded worked fine. When I saw my baby boot up I a bit of wee nearly come out. Try it and holla back :thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
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There's a thread on here somewhere where a guys got googles stock ROMs if you can find it. I'll take a look aswell
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URPREY said:
I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.
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Many thanks man. The factory image worked like a charm. I didn't even have to extract it. I just flashed in via toolkit. I dropped the file into the put_google_factory_image_here folder and then flashed it using option 9. I'm so relieved to have a working device again.
Thanks to all that attempted to help my situation. I appreciate every effort made. Thanks for being so very patient.
Please feel free to use the thread to discuss similar matters further. I'm sure many in the future will find it very informative to refer to. It saved me and my N4 from a lifetime of despair! :good:
BIG LOVE!
hospital349 said:
Many thanks man. The factory image worked like a charm.
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Cool. Glad to help!
Hey so yesterday I mucked around with the mounting/unmounting/formatting stuff in fastboot. Now it's not booting up, it's stuck at the GOOGLE logo. I left it on overnight, and it's still stuck there. I can still turn off the device and enter fastboot mode. Anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks
How do you want to know what's happening to your device if don't tell us which commands you have done exactly with fastboot and why ?
Nico_60 said:
How do you want to know what's happening to your device if don't tell us which commands you have done exactly with fastboot and why ?
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Sorry
I went to the fastboot menu and unmounted everything, and formatted everything. Then I deleted all user data and the cache partition. I'm running xenon HD rom.
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You were running xenon rom before you formatted everything! Now if you want to stay with xenon you have to push the rom in your device using adb and install it with recovery.
Nico_60 said:
You were running xenon rom before you formatted everything! Now if you want to stay with xenon you have to push the rom in your device using adb and install it with recovery.
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I could care less about the rom. I just want to turn on the device...
It could be stock, I'll just root it again.
I'm kind of a beginner with this, how exactly do I push the rom
Anyways, thanks
nicetaco said:
I could care less about the rom. I just want to turn on the device...
It could be stock, I'll just root it again.
I'm kind of a beginner with this, how exactly do I push the rom
Anyways, thanks
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I can't push it because it's not being recognized on my computer
Anyone help please?
92 views an only 1 person helping..
I would say to get Wug's tool kit and use that to unbrick/flash back to stock. To get your computer to recognize the tablet you likely need to install the proper drivers, which are included with the toolkit and instructions on installing them.
Edit: link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
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Волк said:
I would say to get Wug's tool kit and use that to unbrick/flash back to stock. To get your computer to recognize the tablet you likely need to install the proper drivers, which are included with the toolkit and instructions on installing them.
Edit: link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
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The problem is, I don't have USB debugging on, so it's impossible to install the drivers.
Go in bootloader/fastboot mode and then type "fastboot devices" to see if your device is recognized
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Go in bootloader/fastboot mode and then type "fastboot devices" to see if your device is recognized
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Sorry if I sound stupid, but I don't think I can type in bootloader mode...
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Go in bootloader/fastboot mode and then type "fastboot devices" to see if your device is recognized
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This may sound stupid, but I cant type in bootloader mode
You did already use fastboot commands no?
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You did already use fastboot commands no?
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No, I didn't...
nicetaco said:
No, I didn't...
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Please help I think I'm going crazy o.0
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Please help I think I'm going crazy o.0
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OK never mind I fixed it. I just installed the ROM through a USB from a OTG cable. Thanks a lot for your help though!
-Kevin
Enjoy my thanks
same case with me...
my nexus 7 3g now stuck on google screen
buncit8 said:
same case with me...
my nexus 7 3g now stuck on google screen
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what did you do before it was stuck at the Google logo?
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what did you do before it was stuck at the Google logo?
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i want to install xenonHD rom but failed with error bla bla bla... (status 7).
so i try to wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, and format system
when i do reboot, it stuck on google logo
really need help,
Did you reflash the ROM and gapps after doing the wipes? Otherwise, try: factory reset, format system, flash ROM, flash gapps, reboot.
Well, it looks like I unintentionally wiped the /data partition using TWRP right after I did my first backup after rooting. Now I obviously can't boot since system, data, cache, etc. are wiped. The backup I just made was also wiped
tuamazing said:
Well, it looks like I unintentionally wiped the /data partition using TWRP right after I did my first backup after rooting. Now I obviously can't boot since system, data, cache, etc. are wiped. The backup I just made was also wiped
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Wiping data partition does not wipe the rom. It just resets your rom back to a freash install.
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gentlemandroid17 said:
Wiping data partition does not wipe the rom. It just resets your rom back to a freash install.
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i formatted my phone so everything got deleted. when i restart my phone take me straight to twrp
tuamazing said:
i formatted my phone so everything got deleted. when i restart my phone take me straight to twrp
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Not sure about twrp. I use cwm and able to load roms through recovery from PC. You should be able to do it with Twrp. If not you will have to kdz back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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Is there anyway to mount your phone to your computer? As there is the button on the main page of twrp 3rd one down. If not you should be able to use the adb push command to push it onto the "memory" of the phone allowing for you to read it and you to flash it from there. Or that's happened to me. I've used both of those options :$
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I did the same accidentally
pball52998 said:
Is there anyway to mount your phone to your computer? As there is the button on the main page of twrp 3rd one down. If not you should be able to use the adb push command to push it onto the "memory" of the phone allowing for you to read it and you to flash it from there. Or that's happened to me. I've used both of those options :$
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I did the same accidentally.....cannot get past the LG boot screen ...ADB will not work because its unauthorized and I cannot access my SD card....its a pain in the ass and im pretty upset I slipped so bad considering im kind of a veteran in this stuff and screwed this up ....I just cant find a way to get my rom in there to fix this crap...any help would be fantastic
MoE MuRk said:
I did the same accidentally.....cannot get past the LG boot screen ...ADB will not work because its unauthorized and I cannot access my SD card....its a pain in the ass and im pretty upset I slipped so bad considering im kind of a veteran in this stuff and screwed this up ....I just cant find a way to get my rom in there to fix this crap...any help would be fantastic
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OTG Cable man!!! There like really cheap!!!
ok thanks
pball52998 said:
OTG Cable man!!! There like really cheap!!! Also thank you for your service for our nation! :victory:
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ok brother ill look into it and pray it works....thanks a lot for everything:good:
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ok brother ill look into it and pray it works....thanks a lot for everything:good:
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I've heard it works great!! Actually the LG is set to read OTG in stock. It reads it in recovery also! Just try it, I've heard it works great!! :good::fingers-crossed::highfive:
pball52998 said:
I've heard it works great!! Actually the LG is set to read OTG in stock. It reads it in recovery also! Just try it, I've heard it works great!! :good::fingers-crossed::highfive:
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I HOPE!!!!!!!!!!LOL.....ill let you know for sure..lol
MoE MuRk said:
I HOPE!!!!!!!!!!LOL.....ill let you know for sure..lol
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Sounds great! ;D
Item ordered
pball52998 said:
Sounds great! ;D
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7648748&CatId=5411 :good::good::good:
Hope this one will do the job. its on its way lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did not work!!!!
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7648748&CatId=5411 :good::good::good:
Hope this one will do the job. its on its way lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DID NOT WORK!!!!! I WASTED 21 DOLLARS ON THIS TO FIX MY PHONE AND IT DOES NOT WORK.....DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON THE OTG CABLE FOR THE LG G2 IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DELETE ****!!!!! BECAUSE IT.....WILL!!!!!!!NOT!!!!!!!WORK!!!!:crying::crying::crying:
I GOT BAD INFORMATION!!
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Guys I accidentally deleted everything in my LG G2(VS980) during a cwm cleanup and now my phone gets stuck on the LG screen and goes nowhere. Adb wont work because I cant confirm the handshake and I cant push anything on the internal storage with OTG neither.....Ive wasted money trying to do so....Everyone out there is telling me this has never ever in the entire world happened to them???their really aint a fix or what???I need help bad....all the geniuses in this world have to know something........:crying:
I managed to do this once, I used TWRP adb sideload to push CM11 to my device then flashed back to stock from there.
if u have twrp 2.6.3.3 it will support otg u have to mount it after you connect to phone in recovery mode if not try format the card u r using for otg with fat32 file system and then try and if it still does not use and sideload in advanced settings to push rom, unfortunately LG drivers in pc does not seem to help pc see your phone in sideload mode so try installing pdanet drivers in ur pc and then connect ur phone to pc in sideload and push rom I did this several times and it worked all the time.
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