Guys, I was an idiot about this, but I am at the end of my rope and could really use some help to try to fix things.
Here is what I did incorrectly:
Used TWRP to flash the wrong ROM
Created a backup in CWM format, not TWRP, so I can't restore it.
I have tried the three major methods on these forums multiple times to try to unbrick, with the following results:
Flashing official factory firmware with LG Launcher got hung up at the 12 s mark (when it transitioned to the "downloading software" step) for upwards of 15 min before I exited
Using the KDZ method seemed to work and actually got me really excited! But the "firmware update" progress bar on the download mode screen didn't move and a reset only ended up back at TWRP
Using the TOT method also appeared to start to work, but it failed because the build/dll didn't match. I have the VS98011A_01 version and used the TOT that I found in the thread.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have the LG bootlogo coming up, if so try this:
(Something similar happened to mine, and I hope this will help.)\
Turn off phone, then when off, hold down power and volume down button until it reaches the LG logo and then release and hold it down again, if that doesn't work, when just hold it down until you see a screen that says something like: Hard reset/ factory reset. For me it took me to my recovery screen, where I just flashed a older ROM onto it, and you should be fine. I then later flashed a recovery file. I hope this helps, and if you need it any clearer, just reply :good:
Also from reading this, try flashing another ROM, if you have one present on the device, which will then allow you to boot-up then restore.
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Please buy hyelton a beer or a damn new phone. He's a hero.
This worked: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476&highlight=decrypt
Hey guys, but of an emergency here...
I'm stuck at the LG logo after flashing the Pacman ROM with the latest unofficial CWM, and it seems to have failed at Formatting system. All four touch buttons on the bottom were blue, as if they had been pressed and highlighted. No response from anything.
Reboot. Then it got stuck on the LG logo. I can't access CWM anymore, holding power + vol down does nothing, I just go back to the logo. I'm running a D802.
This was a pretty standard flash for me, I have done this many times, so I was confident in it, but now have no way back into a phone I desperately need within hours.
Process went as follows;
Full wipe, format, initialize install, it failed/crashed/whatever, rebooted, now stuck on logo, unable to access CWM, and obviously unable to access ROM.
USB Debugging was on, but as the ROM doesn't exist anymore, not sure how much help that'll be.
I'll gladly go back to either CWM or TWRP, as well as stock ROM or whatever. I can sort all that out later, right now just need things back in running order.
Edit1: I can't even turn it off. It simply boots up again, so now also worried of damaging display or battery.
Edit2: It's not showing after entering "adb devices". List is empty.
ANY help appreciated.
I'm running Windows 8, and no, I will not be able to reinstall to W7 or Ubuntu.
Thank you
Hello,
I have bricked my LG G2 (D802) and installed the stock image with the LG flash tool. Now, I don't have a recovery anymore (I press volume down and power on boot but it doesn't open a recovery, just tells me in the left corner that I'm in security mode).
Also, the biggest problem here is, that if I boot my LG G2, I can't use it. There is all the time a message popping up that com.android.phone was shut down, I can't do anything.
I want to wipe the phone completely but don't have a clue how. My computer doesn't recognize the booted phone, it's just working in download mode. But I can't install the recovery from download mode.
Could someone please help me?
Flashing kdz makes you loose that. Only way to get it back is by following the procedures mentioned everywhere.
Also note, its likely on your version different combo key opens recovery. Forgot what it was but its been mentioned plenty of times.
Use that combo, do a factory reset and it should be fine
Short version: Phone is boot looping at LG logo and when I try to volDown+power into recovery it gets to the factory reset prompt and I press power twice but nothing ever loads and the backlight just stays on. I'm guessing I no longer have a functioning download mode either because of the way these flashable bootstack zips we've been using on the VS980 ROMs mention that they disable download mode, so I probably can't use LG Flash Tool either. Bricked?
I had been on CloudyRom 1.3. I switched back to xdabbeb's VS980 ROM, the newest version with the 25B bootstack. As many people ran in to, for some reason after coming off of Cloudy, KnockOn doesn't work on other ROMs. I had tried to do this hidden menu trick to update the touch screen firmware which some people reported got the KnockOn working again. Long story short I was having trouble getting the hidden menu trick working while on the xdabbeb ROM, I went back to Cloudy ROM and tried to do it but that didn't fix it either. I saw people having success by going back to a purely stock ROM and doing the hidden menu trick from there.
Here is where I probably messed up, I had a backup from April of this year that I didn't have labelled/named well but I was certain it matched up with the last time I had probably been on a purely stock ROM when the VS980 finally got KK earlier this year, a backup I had made for the convenience of ever having to return to stock. I tried to restore this and that's where the trouble happened. At the time I figured worst case scenario would be that the baseband wouldn't match up and I wouldn't get a signal, but in hindsight I'm guessing it wasn't safe to try to restore this after updating to different bootstacks. Original KitKat rom was 24a I believe but I had just recently updated to 25B to use the newest xdabbeb ROM.
I saw a small ray of hope when I calmed down enough to remember the voldown+power sequence to get into recovery, but after reaching the factory reset prompt and pressing power twice to continue, nothing ever loads and the backlight just stays on, like my recovery is gone now too I guess.
And in a comedy of errors I'm guessing I no longer have a download mode that would allow me to use the LG Flash Tool through PC because these flashable bootstack files always mention that they disable download mode and I never worried about restoring it.
So, bootloop, can't get into recovery, probably can't get into download mode to work with LG Flash Tool.
Screwed? :crying: :crying: :crying:
Yeah, volUP + plug into PC just gets me fastboot mode.
Don't really understand why my recovery is gone, thought the button sequence to get back into recovery was the safety net to this entire thing and why I wasn't too worried. Was running TWRP.
I'm at the mercy of checking the internet when I have access to another computer because my phone was also my internet access on my home PC. Hoping someone can help. : (
After installing Lineage for att (h910) and flashing gapps, which didnt work, I'm stuck and getting a bootloop into twrp. So, twrp is easily accessible. The actual operating system is failing to load.
Considering going tinto the bootloader and running step3 fastboot flash boot boot2.img from the dirtysanta root files.
My thinking is this might give me another shot at a boot image that works.
Any ideas to help? I have a Skype interview tomorrow afternoon and I need this fixed asap.
cwis said:
After installing Lineage for att (h910) and flashing gapps, which didnt work, I'm stuck and getting a bootloop into twrp. So, twrp is easily accessible. The actual operating system is failing to load.
Considering going tinto the bootloader and running step3 fastboot flash boot boot2.img from the dirtysanta root files.
My thinking is this might give me another shot at a boot image that works.
Any ideas to help? I have a Skype interview tomorrow afternoon and I need this fixed asap.
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If is TWRP loop then .... there are countless threads here with the same question and an answer for it. First, flash a rom (any rom compatible with your variant) then completely power off the device. Then go into recovery mode by doing the appropiated gesture (which means leave pressed volume down an power button until the lg logo shows, right whent he lg logo shows , quickly remove your finger from the power button and press and hold it once again (do not remove your finger from the volume down at any moment) Then you will see the white screen where you have to press yes in both. and then you will be out of the loop. ) If you didnt understand my guide, follow this: http://www.recovery-mode.com/android/lg-v20.html . :good: This should take you out of the TWRP loop.
Thanks for the reply, but heres the thing: the LG logo doesnt show. It goes right into the izarre red triangles thing. Then goes to the white factory reset choices. I tap yes twice and the it gives me the LG logo. Several times I've held the button combo down after the logo appears but it ignores it and goes right to twrp.
cwis said:
Thanks for the reply, but heres the thing: the LG logo doesnt show. It goes right into the izarre red triangles thing. Then goes to the white factory reset choices. I tap yes twice and the it gives me the LG logo. Several times I've held the button combo down after the logo appears but it ignores it and goes right to twrp.
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But wait.... are you explicitly turning off the device? Like off off? (remove the battery if you must). ? if not then you will be booted into twrp. Now, if that doesnt work... hmm kdz would be the ideal , if and only if you had a kdz file. Now, i see that there is a kdz file but it is for the h910pr and not h910. ... Sorry. Hope someone else can help :good:
h910pr kdz
I flashed the h910pr kdz to recover from a severe brick. worked a charm. it has a claro boot logo and i occasionally receive a notification in Spanish but it saved my butt. i have seen a report of someone doing it and their cellular service not working, but i did not have this issue. if the h910pr rom could be rooted id say its a safe kdz to fix bricked phones with. once its on the h910 it could be rooted and used to reinstall twrp and then reinstall the proper firmware.
So this is a weird one for me. I've been running an H910 on an LOS 16 build from I think August and Gamma kernel 3.0 (never found the time to update stuff), and a couple nights ago I had the phone completely freeze on me while switching browser tabs, wouldn't even shutdown after holding the power button for ~30 seconds, so I pulled the battery to restart it. However, when I powered it on, after the initial LG logo I just got a screen of unchanging static IDENTICAL to what this poor soul had in the third photo of his linked album. My anxiety then ramped to 10 when I tried booting to recovery and after the "are you sure you want to delete your data" prompts I was greeted by the exact same screen. Booting to download mode would show the same screen after the few seconds of the "download mode" photo, and looking back I'm pretty sure it was just booting to download mode after encountering an error when I tried booting to system or recovery.
The bootloader was A-OK though, so the first thing I tried was flashing the latest TWRP, which seemed to work. I was able to boot into the system, but it was pretty buggy (the open apps button didn't work), so I tried booting to recovery, but it still gave me the static. I booted to system and it worked again, so I went back to fastboot and flashed the recovery again, which put me back where I started, static on everything but bootloader.
At this point I came to terms that things were getting wiped and began looking up what I could do in terms of KDZ flashing. I first settled on converting to US996, so downloaded US99610f_00_1205 and after dumping my system tried flashing it with the patched LGUP using the partition DL option. When I did, it cleared up the static issue in download mode showing the "Firmware Update" header and everything beneath it, but then download mode was still what recovery and system would boot to. I could boot to fastboot, but my bootloader was now locked. I tried that a couple times, but always got the same option, and the "Upgrade" option in LGUP would always return an invalid KDZ error due to H910 -> US996. My device still showed up as version H91010v as well. I then tried flashing over the H91510e_00_VTR_CA_OP_1205 KDZ as described in this thread for getting H910 root, but this gave me the same results.
So that's where I am right now, a phone with nothing but Download mode and where using Partition DL to flash stuff doesn't seem to actually flash it. The program I've been using is the LGUP files in this thread that's always linked. Any help on what next steps to take would be greatly appreciated, thank you.