We'll I put myself in quite a predicament.
I was running off of KitKat, rooted and running off of TWRP using the TowelRoot method.
Received the update from Tmobile while I was on the phone today and wasn't paying attention and just hit install. Phone rebooted and will not leave TWRP.
Read the post with the recovery methods.
Can access phone via adb and push files.
Installed flash tool 2014 and chose correct phone model. Upon lauching the firmware update utitlity it says the phone isn't connected. I am using the lg Sooner driver. Initially the driver would not get fully installed. Manually chose the Sooner driver after trying the Android ADB one from Device Manager. Was that the correct one?
Next I tried the Tot method.
Followed steps, phone sits in download mode and does nothing.
Any help you wizards can give would be great. Sitting here with about 60% battery worried that I'm sitting here with a $500 brick.
Thanks guys.
Don't respond to anything yet. I may have made some progress!
Good luck.
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I rooted my VZW LG G2 using ioroot10. Last night my phone took the VZW OTA update, and now I can't boot past TWRP.
I tried using autoprime's ioroot17 but it is hanging looking for device. I did have trouble getting the device driver installed. I am manually selecting a ADB device driver after downloading LG_VZW_United_Driver. It installed OK, and I can see my device in adb devices, but the script is still hanging while looking for my device. Any help? I am afraid my phone is bricked
amosk said:
I rooted my VZW LG G2 using ioroot10. Last night my phone took the VZW OTA update, and now I can't boot past TWRP.
I tried using autoprime's ioroot17 but it is hanging looking for device. I did have trouble getting the device driver installed. I am manually selecting a ADB device driver after downloading LG_VZW_United_Driver. It installed OK, and I can see my device in adb devices, but the script is still hanging while looking for my device. Any help? I am afraid my phone is bricked
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This worked for my T-Mo G2 last night: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696 Make sure you do both the 2 commands - one take care of the fota and the other one the misc files. After I ran the two commands then hit Reboot in TWRP my phone got out of boot loop and works normally.
Good luck!
chirawat said:
This worked for my T-Mo G2 last night: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696 Make sure you do both the 2 commands - one take care of the fota and the other one the misc files. After I ran the two commands then hit Reboot in TWRP my phone got out of boot loop and works normally.
Good luck!
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Thanks, that worked beautifully on my VZW phone!
Just switched over to Tmobile from Sprint and before even signing into google i went ahead and tried to root my phone. Rooting was a success. Used Flashify to flash twrp recovery. Downloaded rooted stock D80110G rom and began debloating it (like I did with the Sprint version) and then booted to recovery, wiped twice, flashed and reboot. Well, now it will just keep rebooting back to recovery and thats it!
I still have access to download mode
still have access to custom recovery
Did not do a nand backup unfortunately
cant mount in twrp because computer no longer recognizes phone!
shows up under unknown devices as LG D801
Tried the stock recovery using LG Flash tool posted in generals but ran into the "can not update because of your device policy" or something like that. Reinstalled and tried it again many times, even switching languages and countries (the last step)
Tried using the ubuntu method posted by partager.info but even ubuntu does not recognize the device. Matter of fact nothing even happens when i plug the phone in.
Tried reinstalling drivers, tried on 2 different laptops (one windows 8.1, one windows 7, and an ubuntu usb boot) and my desktop computer (windows 8.1) and am just unable to mount using twrp because none of them recognizes it!
tried using the adb sideload but twrp just stays trying to load adb sideload forever and adb terminal cant even find the connected usb device.
Tried factory reset but that just takes me to twrp.
I've redownloaded the rooted stock rom and left everything as is. I'm assuming I just need to get it onto the phone somehow so I can flash it.
I have an otg cable but not quite sure how to work it wit twrp or if that's even an option; I've just purchased it.
I feel like I've exhausted my options. Anything else I can try?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Should've just used Titanium to debloat instead of trying to do a fresh install! I know I know
Figured it out! not sure how to delete this thread now
zaft1 said:
Just switched over to Tmobile from Sprint and before even signing into google i went ahead and tried to root my phone. Rooting was a success. Used Flashify to flash twrp recovery. Downloaded rooted stock D80110G rom and began debloating it (like I did with the Sprint version) and then booted to recovery, wiped twice, flashed and reboot. Well, now it will just keep rebooting back to recovery and thats it!
I still have access to download mode
still have access to custom recovery
Did not do a nand backup unfortunately
cant mount in twrp because computer no longer recognizes phone!
shows up under unknown devices as LG D801
Tried the stock recovery using LG Flash tool posted in generals but ran into the "can not update because of your device policy" or something like that. Reinstalled and tried it again many times, even switching languages and countries (the last step)
Tried using the ubuntu method posted by partager.info but even ubuntu does not recognize the device. Matter of fact nothing even happens when i plug the phone in.
Tried reinstalling drivers, tried on 2 different laptops (one windows 8.1, one windows 7, and an ubuntu usb boot) and my desktop computer (windows 8.1) and am just unable to mount using twrp because none of them recognizes it!
tried using the adb sideload but twrp just stays trying to load adb sideload forever and adb terminal cant even find the connected usb device.
Tried factory reset but that just takes me to twrp.
I've redownloaded the rooted stock rom and left everything as is. I'm assuming I just need to get it onto the phone somehow so I can flash it.
I have an otg cable but not quite sure how to work it wit twrp or if that's even an option; I've just purchased it.
I feel like I've exhausted my options. Anything else I can try?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Should've just used Titanium to debloat instead of trying to do a fresh install! I know I know
Figured it out! not sure how to delete this thread now
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Hi, I have the exact same problem as you. Did you end up using otg? how did you finally end up getting a rom in your device and flashing it? I sent you a pm hope fully you see it. please respond im desperate!
mnb91 said:
Hi, I have the exact same problem as you. Did you end up using otg? how did you finally end up getting a rom in your device and flashing it? I sent you a pm hope fully you see it. please respond im desperate!
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Hey sorry, I haven't been on the site for a couple days.
I used the flashtool to go back to stock. Had to enter download mode and work from there. The big issue I was having was a driver issue. Uninstalled every driver related to android and then reinstalled after a restart and that did the trick. For some reason android phones are giving me a lot of driver issues on windows 8.1
follow these steps here but make sure you read a chunk of the thread as the steps in the main post are not complete
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
Hello, so I am having a bit of a crisis. LEt me start by giving a brief description of what has been done to the phone...
LG G2 ATT (d800) running 4.4.2 OTA.
Was rooted AFTER the OTA update.
I tried to install a custom recovery first by using ROM Manager to install from the phone itself. The stock recovery was intact as of this point, as ROM manager just flat didn't work. My next move was to follow the thread found here...http://theunlockr.com/2013/11/03/fla...ersions-video/
That is were I started seeing issues. The phone no longer was able to boot into recovery at all. I received the "secure boot error". So I took another approach.
I followed the post found here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2582142
This is where I am now. The phone is stuck on the LG boot screen. I suspect my problem began when I used the files found on that post for the d802 instead of my d800. However, ubuntu will not recognize my phone now. Download mode will not help, it appears.
I think the solution may lie in the post found here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2432476
The issue I am seeing with this is that I cannot see the COM ports within device manager to set the correct port. I will post in that thread as well, just to reach as many people as I possibly can.
WHAT DO I DO.
Thank you for your future help.
So, I rooted my coworkers Sprint G2 or LG LS980 using IoRoot a month ago and had TWRP installed on it. prior to doing this I had looked into what it would take to revert it to factory unrooted unmolested state. didnt seem to hard with the lgFlash tool and what not....
Well two days ago he accepted and tried to install the new OTA. he was on ZVA firmware, and I believe the new OTA was for 4.4... well the install of the OTA failed im pretty sure do to TWRP being installed instead of stock recovery. instead of stopping there and calling me he tried to fix it himself... I believe one of the things he did was to wipe the device. as in advanced wipe, select EVERYTING including system....
He gave it to me today rather pissed and asked me to fix it.
Ok, I have bee through MANY threads about reverting back to stock, and it seems I am having a serious driver issue... In my laptops device manager I can see the LS980, but it has no driver installed. I have downloaded many different versions of the LG drivers from various tutorials here and on other websites. I even tried to find them on LG.com, but no luck there.
I can get it into download mode, holding vol+ and plug in USB, but once I try to connect to it via LGMobile Support tool or LGFlash tool, they do not detect it. it tries to load three different modems, and the center one always fails. is there anyplace I can get JUST the driver, not the entire self extracting EXE files?
I was just going to copy a ROM onto the internal storage, but even using the mount tab in TWRP it will not connect to my computer.
PLease for the love of all that is sacred to XDA help me!!! I sadly do not know much about ADB... I have never really used it. at this time it is not installed and I wouldnt know what to install and how to ADB Push a rom onto the phone...
Edit, here is ONE of the tutorials I tried, but since I cannot get the proper drivers installed this hangs when I click the yellow arrow to start it....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
schollianmj said:
So, I rooted my coworkers Sprint G2 or LG LS980 using IoRoot a month ago and had TWRP installed on it. prior to doing this I had looked into what it would take to revert it to factory unrooted unmolested state. didnt seem to hard with the lgFlash tool and what not....
Well two days ago he accepted and tried to install the new OTA. he was on ZVA firmware, and I believe the new OTA was for 4.4... well the install of the OTA failed im pretty sure do to TWRP being installed instead of stock recovery. instead of stopping there and calling me he tried to fix it himself... I believe one of the things he did was to wipe the device. as in advanced wipe, select EVERYTING including system....
He gave it to me today rather pissed and asked me to fix it.
Ok, I have bee through MANY threads about reverting back to stock, and it seems I am having a serious driver issue... In my laptops device manager I can see the LS980, but it has no driver installed. I have downloaded many different versions of the LG drivers from various tutorials here and on other websites. I even tried to find them on LG.com, but no luck there.
I can get it into download mode, holding vol+ and plug in USB, but once I try to connect to it via LGMobile Support tool or LGFlash tool, they do not detect it. it tries to load three different modems, and the center one always fails. is there anyplace I can get JUST the driver, not the entire self extracting EXE files?
I was just going to copy a ROM onto the internal storage, but even using the mount tab in TWRP it will not connect to my computer.
PLease for the love of all that is sacred to XDA help me!!! I sadly do not know much about ADB... I have never really used it. at this time it is not installed and I wouldnt know what to install and how to ADB Push a rom onto the phone...
Edit, here is ONE of the tutorials I tried, but since I cannot get the proper drivers installed this hangs when I click the yellow arrow to start it....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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okay so have you tried the following from this thread-
If you DONT have ADB access (because of an early build of TWRP), you can simply use TWRP's awesome "terminal command" option to run the following:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
You'll have to type that whole thing out, and be VERY careful with spaces and punctuation. One wrong letter and you could nuke your phone.
XxZombiePikachu said:
okay so have you tried the following from this thread-
If you DONT have ADB access (because of an early build of TWRP), you can simply use TWRP's awesome "terminal command" option to run the following:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
You'll have to type that whole thing out, and be VERY car
eful with spaces and punctuation. One wrong letter and you could nuke your phone.
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Ok, I think its TWRP 6.1.3.3? Maybe 6.2.3.3... not sure. Phone isn't in front of me this second. As to the terminal command... do I type the word code first? Or is it just there as part of your sentance, type this terminal code..... yea, I'm a retard sometimes. Thanks for your help.
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Ok, I think its TWRP 6.1.3.3? Maybe 6.2.3.3... not sure. Phone isn't in front of me this second. As to the terminal command... do I type the word code first? Or is it just there as part of your sentance, type this terminal code..... yea, I'm a retard sometimes. Thanks for your help.
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I think you mean 2.6.3.3 but how knows maybe your from the future
I think it's just the dd... and there is another command over in the thread that ends in misc you can search it up(some people have needed to use the both, while others just the one)
Sent from my LG-D800 running stock kk, rooted with philz using XDA app
What thread? And what's dd?
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What thread? And what's dd?
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this one and by dd I meant the command I just was too lazy to type it again
Sent from my LG-D800 running stock kk, rooted with philz using XDA app
Huh, that didn't work... Bummer. Any other ideas?
Can you still get to download mode. If so follow
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
And then root with ioroot25.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
secret.animal said:
Can you still get to download mode. If so follow
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
And then root with ioroot25.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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Yea, I have been trying that method... my issue now seems to be that one of the drivers is not installing correctly. So I cannot change the device to port 41. And the app will not see my phone. When I get off work tonight and can use my laptop again I will try downloading advanced and setting that up and see if I can make it work that way. I also read the other thread that was linked last night looking for the two terminal commands to try, both the fota, and the miscellaneous command... found the commands, typed them in, and now my phone boots to the LG logo and my notification light starts scrolling through different colors. I can still get to both recovery and download mode though, so I am not giving up.
Also in that thread someone mentioned koush's generic adb drivers... I downloaded those and will try that as well.
Basically if I can just get my darn laptop to connect to this phone I think I might still have a shot at reviving it.
Multi color led makes me think, wing kernel. Like installing zvc kernel over zva system modem.
You may have to uninstall all lg drivers, and reinstall
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
Well it was running fine until he tapped accept on the ota so I dont know how he would have gotten the wrong kernel.... I have uninstalled the drivers a few times and reinstalled different versions. There is always one that fails when I plug in the phone. Plus I get a message on the device about mediadata unknown, or not found.... something like that. I know before he called me he tried the wipe option in twrp. I know on my galaxy s4 we were not to use the wipe data command in there, I'm thinking he did...
But I can still get to download mode so if I can get my laptop to recognise it I have faith I can lgflash tool it back to life... if I can get the drivers to cooperate...
Quick update on this... I found a tutorial on using adb and managed to sideload a rom, derp milestone 1 I believe it was, and after it completed the phone booted up just fine. My friend wanted it to be reverted back to its stock unrooted state, so I tried LG mobile something or other on my laptop... you all know, the one where you hit options then upgrade recovery and it should download and flash stick software? Well it saw the phone, and said there was no upgradeable software on it... mind you the phone still has a working twrp 2.6.3.3 on it... I don't know... I tried LG flash tool, but i can't get it to be port 41 for that to work... but at least the phone boots and runs fine now.
Still having my driver issue though. When I plug in the phone windows installs 3 drivers. One is CDC driver which always fails. No clue why.
Any ideas?
I figured with the amount of bricked LS980s with Justins rom I've been seeing at my shop I might as well make some sort of tutorial to help some people out. Searching doesn't bring up too many threads but there are a couple and hopefully a few of the guys in those chime in. My goal is to make this visible and save many of you hours of trouble. Many thanks to Justinswidebody for building the rom. I won't post the link as most can use the search to find it just fine.
Why does the LS980 brick with Justins rom?
It updates.
I think the majority of people flash the rom and forget to take the necessary steps to prevent an update and when it does it will try to reboot into recovery and wipe the system resulting in a soft brick. Most of the time TWRP will remain, which is good, but reflashing the rom will do no good.
Right after this happens what do I do?
Imeadiately plug in you usb and adb push the stock ZVA rom onto the sdcard
use this command:
adb push nameoffile.zip /sdcard
It will take a while.
Once it finishes you need to wipe everything but internal and flash. Once done, power off and boot into download mode.
Prepare LG Flasher and correct TOT file with DLL. I may post a link later.
In my personal experience with installing justins rom it's best to start fresh with ZV7, trust me you will have less headaches. Once it finishes you're ready to redo the whole thing.
I dicked around with the phone and now I can't get into recovery?!
You have to have recovery on there.
If you can't get into download mode then your journey ends here, not sure there is a fix for that, however, you probably already have it in DL mode and getting a fail "wrong DLL" or some ****. Your phone now thinks it's a T-mobile D801. Forget the sprint files, you're gonna flash the tmobile files just to get it to boot. I actually had a customer bring me the phone and managed to flash the right combo to get it to boot but he didn't know what he did, I'll have to find them.
Now, once booted up you'll notice wifi and data will not work along with keyboard and other things thus making it impossible to download flashify and reflash recovery. The phone, in some cases, will only stay booted for 20 seconds and then reboot over and over. It's like this phone is actively tying to make your life difficult. Relax, and let the adb drivers install. Test it by opening a command prompt and write: cd/
/adb
/adb devices
Allow the rsa key. You won't have time to transfer the stock sprint ota file so we need to transfer it in recovery.
Download the simpletool flasher by OptimusRS, this will flash recovery to your phone and remember to choose d801 not ls980. Reboot into recovery. Once the adb drivers have installed you're going to adb push the stock zip back onto the sdcard like you did before. Wipe everything and flash, then power off. Once you boot into download mode it should recognize the phone as an LS980 once again and you are free to flash the correct tot and dll files.
Congrats! You did it!
How do I prevent this from happening in the future?
I've been fighting with this for a while and I think finally know how to be 100% successful in turning off the OTA, if anyone has something to add please do
Go into the app manager and find google services framework and uncheck or disable or both
Use a file manager to go up to CACHE and delete the update that will most likely be hiding in there
Go up to system/app and rename any service that looks like it would provide an update- LDdownload provider is one. I wish I had a list of all of them but I really don't know what the exact app is.
Special thanks to all the guys contributing in these threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2641831
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682926
Exactly at this point
I am exactly at this point, but not turned on usb debugging, so i don't have adb access to the phone. When I try to flash the phone with ls980 TOT it says, the device is D801 and if I try D801 KDZ file, it shows an error message "previousLoad()". I have both download mode and Recovery mode. I have tried sideloading rom on recovery, but I get an error like "E: footer invalid, E: signature invalid"
What can I do to unbrick it. I am trying desperately for the past few weeks.
Anoop S S said:
I am exactly at this point, but not turned on usb debugging, so i don't have adb access to the phone. When I try to flash the phone with ls980 TOT it says, the device is D801 and if I try D801 KDZ file, it shows an error message "previousLoad()". I have both download mode and Recovery mode. I have tried sideloading rom on recovery, but I get an error like "E: footer invalid, E: signature invalid"
What can I do to unbrick it. I am trying desperately for the past few weeks.
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Honestly, this kind of brick is a *****. I had a customer bring in one that he actually used Flashtool to put on the original t-mobile dll and tot file, and adb does not work in order to get recovery on. Sucks.
Not many people have experience with this stuff and flashtool is a pain when this happens
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Honestly, this kind of brick is a *****. I had a customer bring in one that he actually used Flashtool to put on the original t-mobile dll and tot file, and adb does not work in order to get recovery on. Sucks.
Not many people have experience with this stuff and flashtool is a pain when this happens
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Lol I'm having this issue with one of my customers and it fails. I unlock these things and pass them on but I ALWAYS disable the Google Play Services firmware update in order to avoid this and clearly warn them NOT to factory reset.
This one guy got his elsewhere and the guy gave him no warning on the update. So he contacted me and his is worse than my first experience with the T-Mobile rom OTA brick. Seems like his seller didn't use AutoRec which is more reliable. Basically, mine still had TWRP, this one does not. Mine would boot into the LG logo with those wonderful white words on the top left. His is completely discharged, NO TWRP or anything. Boots the LG logo breifly and basically kicks it directly into Firmware Update mode.
So basically I have to restore the D802? I used the T-Mobile 4.4.2 kitkat based rom on mine, not sure what this had, but I know it was a T-Mobile rom as the customer described. Question is, how do I install a custom recovery then? I know that mine would get detected as a T-Mobile, but since I had the luck of having TWRP, I simply wiped everything, and it would then flash via flashtool as a normal LS980.
Any ideas on how I get TWRP on it? Should I experiment using the AutoRec for the T-Mobile variant?