I rooted my phone yesterday and installed TWRP and made a backup. Today there was a new update so i installed it, and my phone turned off. I thought it was updating but after an hour i tried to turn my phone on and it only goes into TWRP. I tried rebooting system but it just takes me back to TWRP. I tried going to my backup, but it STILL takes me to twrp! I also tried pressing the power button but that also takes me back to twrp. What is wrong with my phone?
Killiun1 said:
I rooted my phone yesterday and installed TWRP and made a backup. Today there was a new update so i installed it, and my phone turned off. I thought it was updating but after an hour i tried to turn my phone on and it only goes into TWRP. I tried rebooting system but it just takes me back to TWRP. I tried going to my backup, but it STILL takes me to twrp! I also tried pressing the power button but that also takes me back to twrp. What is wrong with my phone?
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Try to push adb from your computer to your device
vPro97 said:
Try to push adb from your computer to your device
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How exactly would i do that? i did the adb devices command before but what should i do this time?
Oka heres my shot at this
When flashing with twrp their timeout time 30 seconds ect.
Did you interrupt the flashing if so you should beable to restore your phone.
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Killiun1 said:
I rooted my phone yesterday and installed TWRP and made a backup. Today there was a new update so i installed it, and my phone turned off. I thought it was updating but after an hour i tried to turn my phone on and it only goes into TWRP. I tried rebooting system but it just takes me back to TWRP. I tried going to my backup, but it STILL takes me to twrp! I also tried pressing the power button but that also takes me back to twrp. What is wrong with my phone?
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Your mistake was accepting an OTA update with a custom recovery. Seeing as you can get into TWRP, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
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ok so i had fresh 2.0 and the updated radio on my phone. i woke up today and flashed the damage rom, and while it was booting for the first time i decided to take a shower. when i got out, i tried to turn the screen on. nothing. rebooted, screen came on, then it went off tried to turn it back on. nothing. i nandroid resotred back to fresh 2.0, booted, screen turned off, tried to power it on, nothing. called my phone, it rang but the screen didnt turn on. i RUUed it, said it was complete, booted up and froze at the htc screen. i tried to adb into it, nothing. went into fastboot, tried to adb, nothing. turned it on to hboot, restarted, then got the image of a phone with a caution sign. got into Android system restore utility, and it says E:cant read MISC: (no space left on device) i data/factory wiped, said complete, tried to flash an update.zip from the recovery utility, keeps comming up no signature. i tried 4 different roms. wtf?
blankd3ckskat3r said:
ok so i had fresh 2.0 and the updated radio on my phone. i woke up today and flashed the damage rom, and while it was booting for the first time i decided to take a shower. when i got out, i tried to turn the screen on. nothing. rebooted, screen came on, then it went off tried to turn it back on. nothing. i nandroid resotred back to fresh 2.0, booted, screen turned off, tried to power it on, nothing. called my phone, it rang but the screen didnt turn on. i RUUed it, said it was complete, booted up and froze at the htc screen. i tried to adb into it, nothing. went into fastboot, tried to adb, nothing. turned it on to hboot, restarted, then got the image of a phone with a caution sign. got into Android system restore utility, and it says E:cant read MISC: (no space left on device) i data/factory wiped, said complete, tried to flash an update.zip from the recovery utility, keeps comming up no signature. i tried 4 different roms. wtf?
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If the RUU was successful then you wouldn't be able to access the recovery console b/c it restores the phone & takes away root. I'd try the RUU again... Maybe download it again and be sure you follow every step to a T. It's not bricked cause it's turning on. Good luck!
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If the RUU was successful then you wouldn't be able to access the recovery console b/c it restores the phone & takes away root. I'd try the RUU again... Maybe download it again and be sure you follow every step to a T. It's not bricked cause it's turning on. Good luck!
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im not talking about the rooted recovery console. im talking about the built in android recovery utility. my pc cant find my phone.
blankd3ckskat3r said:
im not talking about the rooted recovery console. im talking about the built in android recovery utility. my pc cant find my phone.
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Built in Android Recovery? Never seen that... Idk man. I'd be running the RUU over and over all day. If that doesn't work go into a Sprint store and say your phone "just won't turn on for some reason."
How do you access the built in recovery??
mrcharlesiv said:
Built in Android Recovery? Never seen that... Idk man. I'd be running the RUU over and over all day. If that doesn't work go into a Sprint store and say your phone "just won't turn on for some reason."
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The stock android recovery is the ! screen with no options. BTW, there isn't adb access via android recovery, you need Amon_RA's or Cyanogen's
HeroMeng said:
The stock android recovery is the ! screen with no options. BTW, there isn't adb access via android recovery, you need Amon_RA's or Cyanogen's
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Oh... Yeah I've seen that. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Try holding down the house and the back key and turning on the phone... should be a hard phone reset that may work.
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It's not bricked cause it's turning on.
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This is untrue (unfortunately, I know from experience)... My phone "turned on" but would go into a specific FastBoot menu that did not allow anything to be performed that would take it out of that state... many people have gotten stuck at the same place and nobody has a solution. Its the Error 110 when RUU-ing...
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thats a new one to me.
i cannot repeat cannot see my phone on my computer when booting it on. the built in recovery lets me facotry reset but says cannot read MISC and that my devices memory is full. its whatever. gettign a new hero tomorrow anyway
I rooted my G2 about two months ago. I'm currently using MIUI, not the latest but the one before it. Somehow, my phone got turned off and when I tried to turn it back on, it was stuck in a bootloop. I have a custom recovery image so I don't know if that affects anything. I tried to reboot into recovery by pressing volume down and power, nothing happened. I then did volume up and power. It vibrated three times and the orange light started flashing. I pulled the battery and now when I try to turn it on, nothing happens. So how do I reboot into recovery and so I can restore my backup? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Never pull the battery during something like that. It sounds like your bricked. Someone else confirm?
I don't think it's bricked. I plugged it up and then Clockwork came up so I selected reboot now. Clockwork came up again so I tried to restore my latest backup and the screen went black. I'm going to let it charge and then give it another try.
Ok good. That's lucky because whenever you pull on a boot like that, it usually bricks. If you have the option, try to re-flash your ROM. Maybe even try stock. If you were getting a black screen, it's most likely you flashed incorrectly.
Ok, I was able to boot into recovery and now I'm restoring my backup. I don't think I had a custom recovery image with this one so hopefully I won't get stuck in a bootloop. When you say stock, do you mean before I flashed MIUI (it was the first rom I flashed)? Thank you for your suggestions and all of your help.
first install adb on you PC, it helps a lot in these kind of cases.
1. try "adb logcat", it would tell you about what's going on in your machine.
2. once you get your adb working, try "adb reboot recovery" to see if it could boot your phone in recovery.
3. if after doing everything you fail to boot either your phone or in recovery then try using PC10IMG to boot a stock rom and then re-root your phone.
I got it back working. For some reason, I'm just starting to think that it needed charging (the battery had been out for about a day or two). I do have adb installed and configured on my computer since I needed it to root. Thank you for your suggestions, I will definitely rember them if this happens again.
lol of course when you get black screen and led blnking means your battery begging for juice, you're lucky that when the phone booted back in recovery and you tried to restore a backup the phone went off before actually starting to restore, that would've bricked your phone
DO NOT FLASH ANYTHING WITHOUT AT LEAST 40% OF JUICE LEFT
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...
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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
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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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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!
So I'm rooted with TWRP loki and had CM 11 on and running for a while. I just downloaded the latest nightly through CM OS and it asked to be rebooted.
Upon rebooting to TWRP and installing the update it then just kept on trying to reboot with the CM logo. I cannot get the power and volume keys to boot it to recovery and my computer won't recognize it in this state to boot into recovery.
Any ideas??!! Please! I don't know of any way to restore it.
wave28 said:
So I'm rooted with TWRP loki and had CM 11 on and running for a while. I just downloaded the latest nightly through CM OS and it asked to be rebooted.
Upon rebooting to TWRP and installing the update it then just kept on trying to reboot with the CM logo. I cannot get the power and volume keys to boot it to recovery and my computer won't recognize it in this state to boot into recovery.
Any ideas??!! Please! I don't know of any way to restore it.
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have you tried turning it off entirely then booting into recovery and flashing a)an older cm11 or b)nandroid backup
XxZombiePikachu said:
have you tried turning it off entirely then booting into recovery and flashing a)an older cm11 or b)nandroid backup
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I had to take the back off and manually unplug the battery to turn it off. Then I tried the button combinations posted *power and V down* when LG logo comes on repeat to get to wipe screen. However, the phone did not go to the wipe screen, it just rebooted again.
If I could get it to boot to recovery I'd be golden.
wave28 said:
I had to take the back off and manually unplug the battery to turn it off. Then I tried the button combinations posted *power and V down* when LG logo comes on repeat to get to wipe screen. However, the phone did not go to the wipe screen, it just rebooted again.
If I could get it to boot to recovery I'd be golden.
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have you tried getting into download mode while powered off volume up and plug into pc
XxZombiePikachu said:
have you tried getting into download mode while powered off volume up and plug into pc
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Success!! I'm in Download Mode... What next? ADB still doesn't look to be recognizing the phone.
wave28 said:
Success!! I'm in Download Mode... What next? ADB still doesn't look to be recognizing the phone.
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well you should be able to use this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476 to get back to stock make sure you download correct files for your device
XxZombiePikachu said:
well you should be able to use this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476 to get back to stock make sure you download correct files for your device
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Fingers crossed. Appreciate the help. I don't think I can go back to my Nexus!
XxZombiePikachu said:
well you should be able to use this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476 to get back to stock make sure you download correct files for your device
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Error due to low batter. I'll have to see if I can charge it without it wanting to turn on. However, it looks promising -- after three times trying I got the utility to recognize the device at least!
Either way, I appreciate the assistance.
wave28 said:
Error due to low batter. I'll have to see if I can charge it without it wanting to turn on. However, it looks promising -- after three times trying I got the utility to recognize the device at least!
Either way, I appreciate the assistance.
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SWEET!! Took a LOT of doing but it finally got restored to stock! Let's pray that never happens ever again!!!
wave28 said:
SWEET!! Took a LOT of doing but it finally got restored to stock! Let's pray that never happens ever again!!!
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great to see everythings up and running
woke up and it was sitting in recovery, so i rebooted a few times to only end up in the recovery screen. i then wiped the cache and system and rebooted,and when TWRP asked if i wanted to root, i swiped right(never seen that screen before). but this time im stuck at the LG logo with no options for recovery/reset/etc.
when i plug it into my PC, device manager sees it as "LGE Android phone". HELP PLEASE! thanks.
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Were you rooted running stock or a custom rom at the time this happened? Try to long press power for 15 seconds to shut the phone down, then use the hard keys to enter recovery. Is TWRP still availabe or no?
iowabowtech said:
Were you rooted running stock or a custom rom at the time this happened? Try to long press power for 15 seconds to shut the phone down, then use the hard keys to enter recovery. Is TWRP still availabe or no?
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custom rom based off the stock 4.4 and im not sure i remember if i rooted or not. I cant enter recovery. thanks for replying!
wasssabi5 said:
custom rom based off the stock 4.4 and im not sure i remember if i rooted or not. I cant enter recovery. thanks for replying!
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Well you were clearly rooted if you were running a custom rom. Since you were in TWRP following the mishap, it should still be there. You sure you're going about that correctly? You need to press and hold power for 15 seconds to power off. Then use whatever button combo is necessary for your variant, there are some differences. Then accept the factory reset option to enter TWRP.
My guess, and it's only a guess...is that your phone, being close enough to stock, applied an OTA without your knowing or even choosing to accept it which landed you in a recovery reboot loop. That's a known side effect on a G2 with stock + custom recovery. But since you were on a custom rom and you said you wiped system, it's no mystery that you don't have a booting phone. You need to get back into TWRP, adb push a rom to /sdcard and flash it. Unless of course you have a working nand backup in which case you can restore that and save yourself some time and effort.
iowabowtech said:
Well you were clearly rooted if you were running a custom rom. Since you were in TWRP following the mishap, it should still be there. You sure you're going about that correctly? You need to press and hold power for 15 seconds to power off. Then use whatever button combo is necessary for your variant, there are some differences. Then accept the factory reset option to enter TWRP.
My guess, and it's only a guess...is that your phone, being close enough to stock, applied an OTA without your knowing or even choosing to accept it which landed you in a recovery reboot loop. That's a known side effect on a G2 with stock + custom recovery. But since you were on a custom rom and you said you wiped system, it's no mystery that you don't have a booting phone. You need to get back into TWRP, adb push a rom to /sdcard and flash it. Unless of course you have a working nand backup in which case you can restore that and save yourself some time and effort.
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how exactly do i get back into TWRP? my phone cant access recovery
wasssabi5 said:
how exactly do i get back into TWRP? my phone cant access recovery
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If using hard keys it can vary slighly by variant. adb reboot recovery should do it though.
huh, took apart the phone to try the linux fix(didnt end up working), put it back together, and now the download mode works. not sure if i was just being stupid in the past or what, but HURRAY! thanks so much