ALCON,
I have tried repeatedly to install a custom recovery after rooting my phone and have been highly unsuccessful thus far.
I originally rooted my phone after the 12B OTA. I tried flashing the 2.6.3.2 version of TWRP using the Loki Flash tool via command prompt on my PC. However, it gave me an error at the end that stated the input file was not a Loki image. I was unable to reboot into any recovery at this time.
I used the LG flash tool to unroot and reinstall 10B, after this i was able to root again using IOroot and access the stock recovery.
This time i decided to download an already Loki patched 2.6.3.2 TWRP from their website and push it from my sdcard using the dd command in a terminal emulator window. It pushes fine and looks like it installed but i end up with a black screen when i reboot into recovery.
Whwt gives? Thank you for taking any time to help, ots greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Crunch
are you following this guide?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
Yes, that was one of many guides i was utilizing. I ended up getting it to work. It appears i was trying to flash 2.6.3.3, not 2.6.3.2, which from what I've read is intended for 4.4 -- long story short i was able to install 2.6.3.2 from my sdcard using terminal emulator.
Thanks for chiming in, mate!
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Hello all.
Over the past few days, I have been attempting to install CyanogenMod on my LG G2, but I am currently stuck on getting TWRP to work properly. I have followed the steps (more than once) on the forum post here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670), but it has yet to work. I either get the "fastboot" text screen (two lines), or (now) nothing more than a backlit screen. If anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated.
Info on the device:
Rooted
Model: LG-D800 (10o)
If anything else is needed, please let me know. I'd like to get this working.
Thanks
-C
I used this video to bypass all that fastboot nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJI9ThY0mk
Basically all you do is:
!Phone Must Be Rooted!
Download Recovery:
http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/g2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.2-g2att.img
Download from the Google Play Market:
>Flashify (for root users)
Open flashify,
Click on 'Recovery image' and look for the recovery you downloaded,
Click on the recovery file,
Hit flash,
Hit Reboot and it'll reboot you into TWRP
And you're done!
Convice said:
Hello all.
Over the past few days, I have been attempting to install CyanogenMod on my LG G2, but I am currently stuck on getting TWRP to work properly. I have followed the steps (more than once) on the forum post here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670), but it has yet to work. I either get the "fastboot" text screen (two lines), or (now) nothing more than a backlit screen. If anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated.
Info on the device:
Rooted
Model: LG-D800 (10o)
If anything else is needed, please let me know. I'd like to get this working.
Thanks
-C
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Easiest way:
1)Back to stock
2)Root from here
3)One click recovery install once your rooted
Convice said:
Hello all.
Over the past few days, I have been attempting to install CyanogenMod on my LG G2, but I am currently stuck on getting TWRP to work properly. I have followed the steps (more than once) on the forum post here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670), but it has yet to work. I either get the "fastboot" text screen (two lines), or (now) nothing more than a backlit screen. If anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated.
Info on the device:
Rooted
Model: LG-D800 (10o)
If anything else is needed, please let me know. I'd like to get this working.
Thanks
-C
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I have been having a weird issue flashing the latest trwp versions over stock recovery on my D800, resulting in me booting to fastboot. Oddly, if I flash cwm recovery it works. then from cwm recovery I flash the twrp zip and then I am set. No idea why and I have been able to duplicate it. shrug
Barsky said:
I have been having a weird issue flashing the latest trwp versions over stock recovery on my D800, resulting in me booting to fastboot. Oddly, if I flash cwm recovery it works. then from cwm recovery I flash the twrp zip and then I am set. No idea why and I have been able to duplicate it. shrug
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Any chance you could communicate the method you used to do this, at some point? I've tried flashing CWM as well, but I've had the same outcome as with TWRP. Would be awesome to get Cyanogenmod on here finally.
Thanks for the replies!
-C
Convice said:
Any chance you could communicate the method you used to do this, at some point? I've tried flashing CWM as well, but I've had the same outcome as with TWRP. Would be awesome to get Cyanogenmod on here finally.
Thanks for the replies!
-C
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Have you tried the app Flashify, once you are rooted?
Alternatiely, I have put the recovery.img file in the root of my sdcard and then did:
adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
Another app called Freegee will install either CWM or TWRP on there for you.
diehardbattery said:
Another app called Freegee will install either CWM or TWRP on there for you.
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You are awesome. Worked like a charm. Thank you!
I have a Verizon LG g2 and I have it rooted and followed all of the steps to get cyanogen mod on my phone but I can not get past the boot loader. I tried using the command prompt method discussed in another thread but every time it fails saying it's an invalid command. what am I doing wrong??? I need simple step by step flashing for dummy instructions.
JEWBERT said:
I have a Verizon LG g2 and I have it rooted and followed all of the steps to get cyanogen mod on my phone but I can not get past the boot loader. I tried using the command prompt method discussed in another thread but every time it fails saying it's an invalid command. what am I doing wrong??? I need simple step by step flashing for dummy instructions.
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If you have superuser...
Try flashify on the market.
Download twrp 2.6.3.3.IMG (not the zip)
Or... CWM 6.0.4.4 Touch.IMG ( not the zip)
Choose flash IMG
Find the file flash and reboot...
Boom!!!
If that doesn't work you'll have to use fastboot to flash the recovery.
I can probably walk you through that if needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468858
Mikkey81 said:
If you have superuser...
Try flashify on the market.
Download twrp 2.6.3.3.IMG (not the zip)
Or... CWM 6.0.4.4 Touch.IMG ( not the zip)
Choose flash IMG
Find the file flash and reboot...
Boom!!!
If that doesn't work you'll have to use fastboot to flash the recovery.
I can probably walk you through that if needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468858
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OK I got it to reboot into recovery with freegee and flashed the twrp.
JEWBERT said:
OK I got it to reboot into recovery with freegee and flashed the twrp.
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Will this method also work with the tmobile variant d801? Cant flash recovery or roms, adb wont load for me.
I'm using VS980, on 12B (sorry if I shouldn't have taken the OTA for what I want to do but I didn't know it'd be a problem). I just got this phone a few days ago and I've spent a fair amount of time trying to flash CWM touch to it, using the "loki" method (which I have no idea what loki is or what it's for), and consistently failed.
Each time I try pushing a CWM img with adb using loki_flash it results in an error at the end saying [-] loki aboot version does not match device.
I'm assuming this means the version of loki_flash file I'm using isn't compatible with 12B, but the OP in this thread states that in his walkthrough he's referencing the VZW img file, so I'm confused as to why it isn't working.
Moving on from that, I tried pushing the img without loki just using adb (method #2 in the above thread), and it appeared successful judging by the command prompt, however upon reboot I'm left with a black screen and have to hard restart my phone. I'm left without a working recovery.
With both of these methods failing, I tried installing CWM using an app called freegee, which I found to work, and CWM was fully functional. However, I thereafter tried flashing an AOKP ROM and a CM ROM and both failed. Both failure prompts were different, but the first one mentioned something about loki (again, what does this mean?) I tried rebooting from there and found my phone soft bricked (bootlooping) and I had to restore my nandroid backup.
So in summary, clearly I'm doing something wrong throughout all of the flashing processes that's resulting in recoveries that don't correctly flash ROMs for this phone. Right now I'm left running rooted stock with absolutely no recovery, unless I use freegee to flash TWRP or CWM but I'm left with recoveries that won't flash ROMs.
If anybody could help me sort out this mess I'd appreciate it.
Krogey said:
I'm using VS980, on 12B (sorry if I shouldn't have taken the OTA for what I want to do but I didn't know it'd be a problem). I just got this phone a few days ago and I've spent a fair amount of time trying to flash CWM touch to it, using the "loki" method (which I have no idea what loki is or what it's for), and consistently failed.
Each time I try pushing a CWM img with adb using loki_flash it results in an error at the end saying [-] loki aboot version does not match device.
I'm assuming this means the version of loki_flash file I'm using isn't compatible with 12B, but the OP in this thread states that in his walkthrough he's referencing the VZW img file, so I'm confused as to why it isn't working.
Moving on from that, I tried pushing the img without loki just using adb (method #2 in the above thread), and it appeared successful judging by the command prompt, however upon reboot I'm left with a black screen and have to hard restart my phone. I'm left without a working recovery.
With both of these methods failing, I tried installing CWM using an app called freegee, which I found to work, and CWM was fully functional. However, I thereafter tried flashing an AOKP ROM and a CM ROM and both failed. Both failure prompts were different, but the first one mentioned something about loki (again, what does this mean?) I tried rebooting from there and found my phone soft bricked (bootlooping) and I had to restore my nandroid backup.
So in summary, clearly I'm doing something wrong throughout all of the flashing processes that's resulting in recoveries that don't correctly flash ROMs for this phone. Right now I'm left running rooted stock with absolutely no recovery, unless I use freegee to flash TWRP or CWM but I'm left with recoveries that won't flash ROMs.
If anybody could help me sort out this mess I'd appreciate it.
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The files from the thread you linked to aren't Loki patched (to my knowledge) look in the Verizon development thread and search for CWM/TWRP for 12B. Those should work. I've been using TWRP and can flash ROMS fine. Also its a matter of those ROMS being patched to flash while on 12B. CM11/gummy/carbon/cyanfox are patched and flash fine.
Here's the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48879826
Sent from chdhsheh fhhdud
Thank you, that did the trick as far as adb pushing a recovery with loki. It worked and I'm looking at my CWM screen right now. I'll try flashing CM and let you know how it goes although I don't anticipate any problems from here on out.
Thank you again.
Greetings,
First I'm sorry if this isn't the right thread for this, I'll gladly delete and change threads if need be.
Second, I just got an LG G2 (Verizon) today. It's great but I want more so I rooted it, confirmed that it's rooted. But that's all I can do. I can't install a recovery app on here to save my life. I tried downloading the VZW recovery img and pushing that with the loki_flash but I got two errors mainly.
Input file is not a valid loki image and Loki aboot does not match device. I'm trying to run either TWRP or CWM, anything really so I can flash a custom ROM on this bad boy.
If the image is not a valid loki image I'm assuming I don't have the right pair of files? (loki/recovery) and if the aboot image doesn't match the device I'm assuming that I don't have the right loki? Are these correct assumptions or am I making an ass out of just me???
My phone is rooted, ROM Manager says I have both TWRP AND CWM on my phone but if I try to boot into recovery via ROM Manager or adb I get a black screen and nothing more.
Does anyone have ANY insight at all into how I can go about the next step?
paryguy said:
Greetings,
First I'm sorry if this isn't the right thread for this, I'll gladly delete and change threads if need be.
Second, I just got an LG G2 (Verizon) today. It's great but I want more so I rooted it, confirmed that it's rooted. But that's all I can do. I can't install a recovery app on here to save my life. I tried downloading the VZW recovery img and pushing that with the loki_flash but I got two errors mainly.
Input file is not a valid loki image and Loki aboot does not match device. I'm trying to run either TWRP or CWM, anything really so I can flash a custom ROM on this bad boy.
If the image is not a valid loki image I'm assuming I don't have the right pair of files? (loki/recovery) and if the aboot image doesn't match the device I'm assuming that I don't have the right loki? Are these correct assumptions or am I making an ass out of just me???
My phone is rooted, ROM Manager says I have both TWRP AND CWM on my phone but if I try to boot into recovery via ROM Manager or adb I get a black screen and nothing more.
Does anyone have ANY insight at all into how I can go about the next step?
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Sorry didn't mean to hit the thanks button.
What build are you on (11A,12B? What recovery image are you using (ie, from what thread)?
Sent from chdhsheh fhhdud
TWRP
Follow the install instructions for TWRP 2.6.3.2. Then after you've confirmed you can boot the OS from the recovery, place the 2.6.3.3 on the root of your SD. Reboot into recovery and flash 2.6.3.3. Reboot into recovery again and you'll be good to go.
Version 2.6.3.2 won't flash 4.4 ROMs but 2.6.3.3 will flash 4.2 (I'm assuming), 4.3, and 4.4.
Download FreeGee app from the play store and install TWRP recovery from it. It was the only way I could install it on my LG G2.
So many
simon_lefisch said:
Sorry didn't mean to hit the thanks button.
What build are you on (11A,12B? What recovery image are you using (ie, from what thread)?
Sent from chdhsheh fhhdud
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I followed many tutorials last night including this one.
(I am too new to post links in a message.) The link I was going to post was from howtorootmobiledotcom
I downloaded any version of TWRP I could, there were only 2, one img of each version and one zip. I used the loki from the zip that came with it as well but still no go.
paryguy said:
I followed many tutorials last night including this one.
(I am too new to post links in a message.) The link I was going to post was from howtorootmobiledotcom
I downloaded any version of TWRP I could, there were only 2, one img of each version and one zip. I used the loki from the zip that came with it as well but still no go.
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What build number are you on?
Sent from chdhsheh fhhdud
vnrse Theologisch
simon_lefisch said:
What build number are you on?
Sent from chdhsheh fhhdud
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I used RussGJohnson solution and it worked in a matter of seconds. Now I'm stuck though. I wiped everything and can boot into TWRP but I have no ability to sideload anything. I have all the latest LG drivers, even the lastest android sdk drivers, nothing is working. If I boot up normally the LG logo comes up and just sits there.
I can boot into recovery using the whole volume down + power button combo but then when I go to sideload my computer isn't seeing the device. I'm on a Win 8 machine using the stock cable. I've tried both USB 2 and 3 ports
It's done
Using RussGJohnson's suggestion worked great.
The issue I had with being unable to sideload a ROM wasn't resolved but I just used my Mac to do it instead. That worked just fine. Win8 couldn't recognize the device while in recovery. Go figure.
free gee very fast
Use Flashify u n00b.
I have read many post on how to install recoveries. There is no clear method on which recovery to use and what version. TWRP has 2.6.3.2, 2.6.3.3 and 2.6.3.4. The TWRP 2.6.3.4 has many versions. People are saying use 2.6.3.4 for Kit Kat. Others say use 2.6.3.3 or CWM 6.0.4.4. It seems to me everyone always has problems installing Rom's no matter which one you use. I hope this post can clear up the confusion. I'm using Verizon vs980. Please, could you list the different recoveries to use for the different LG G2 versions and for JB and KK? Also post the links for the recoveries. Thanks.
Bruce
Install freegee from the play store if you're rooted select twrp 2.6.3.3 or cwm twrp is easier to setup
I AM NOT responsible for bricks you can brick your phone by rooting,flashing you can brick your phone especially with 12b
Sent from my LG-VS980 using Tapatalk
spinninbsod said:
Install freegee from the play store if you're rooted select twrp 2.6.3.3 or cwm twrp is easier to setup
I AM NOT responsible for bricks you can brick your phone by rooting,flashing you can brick your phone especially with 12b
Sent from my LG-VS980 using Tapatalk
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I'm on 12b. What about 2.6.3.4 for KK? I currently have twrp 2.6.3.3 and want to install a KK Rom. I read the posts here everyday and I see another bricked phone with other people with 12b going to KK that are using twrp 2.6.3.3 or Cwm. I would like to see a common thread on what to do. Why do some people brick there phone and others don't? Is there other steps, other than installing a recovery, to properly install a KK Rom? I have never had so many issues installing roms on other phones and tablets before.
DO NOT USE TWRP! ITS A DEATH TRAP
I used TWRP and it bricked my device , I had to use TWRP because CWM was not out at the time I had to use the warranty to get a new LG G2 (I drowned it and said it broke cause of water xD) So yeah do not use TWRP always go with CWM its the safest.
bashall said:
I have read many post on how to install recoveries. There is no clear method on which recovery to use and what version. TWRP has 2.6.3.2, 2.6.3.3 and 2.6.3.4. The TWRP 2.6.3.4 has many versions. People are saying use 2.6.3.4 for Kit Kat. Others say use 2.6.3.3 or CWM 6.0.4.4. It seems to me everyone always has problems installing Rom's no matter which one you use. I hope this post can clear up the confusion. I'm using Verizon vs980. Please, could you list the different recoveries to use for the different LG G2 versions and for JB and KK? Also post the links for the recoveries. Thanks.
Bruce
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What build are you on? 11A or 12B? I have the vs980 and I'm running twrp 2.6.3.3, but its the version made for the 12B OTA. It allows you to flash kk ROMs and has USB-otg support. ADB is the safest way to flash recovery to your phone.
CHlCKEN said:
DO NOT USE TWRP! ITS A DEATH TRAP
I used TWRP and it bricked my device , I had to use TWRP because CWM was not out at the time I had to use the warranty to get a new LG G2 (I drowned it and said it broke cause of water xD) So yeah do not use TWRP always go with CWM its the safest.
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TWRP works fine. Been using it since I got the phone (Nov). Just cuz you had bad luck with it doesn't mean it doesn't work. It was most likely user error. I've flashed plenty of ROMs, ranging from JB to KK, without any probs.
Sent from my gxidjeb on planet vakcovuhf
simon_lefisch said:
What build are you on? 11A or 12B? I have the vs980 and I'm running twrp 2.6.3.3, but its the version made for the 12B OTA. It allows you to flash kk ROMs and has USB-otg support. ADB is the safest way to flash recovery to your phone.
TWRP works fine. Been using it since I got the phone (Nov). Just cuz you had bad luck with it doesn't mean it doesn't work. It was most likely user error. I've flashed plenty of ROMs, ranging from JB to KK, without any probs.
Sent from my gxidjeb on planet vakcovuhf
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Can you post the link for twrp for the 12b OTA version? Can you show how to install with ADB? Once you get twrp 12b OTA installed, is there anything, other than flashing the ROM and GAPPS, that needs to be done. Thanks.
bashall said:
Can you post the link for twrp for the 12b OTA version? Can you show how to install with ADB? Once you get twrp 12b OTA installed, is there anything, other than flashing the ROM and GAPPS, that needs to be done. Thanks.
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- download ioroot from here and unzip it on your computer.
- download TWRP for 12B from here. unzip and place the .lok file in the same folder where you placed ioroot.
- download the loki_flash.zip file below. unzip and place the file in the same folder where you placed ioroot.
(YOU SHOULD NOW HAVE THE loki_flash AND twrp.lok FILES IN THE SAME FOLDER AS ADB )
- assuming you still have the window open where you placed all the files, right-click an empty space and choose "open command window here".
- in the command window enter the following code (you can copy/paste them if you like):
adb push loki_flash /data/local/tmp/loki_flash
adb push twrp.lok /data/local/tmp/twrp.lok
adb shell
(IF YOU DONT SEE A # prompt, type su to get it.)
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 777 loki_flash
./loki_flash recovery /data/local/tmp/twrp.lok
exit
adb reboot recovery
- you will know be in recovery. if you flash a custom rom, make sure to backup your stock rom first so you have something to revert back to in case you have any probe. also, this version of recovery has usb-otg support, which means you can connect a flash drive to your phone and keep you backups on there instead of your phone. heres a link to a usb-otg cable.
let me know if you have any probs and i can walk you thru it.