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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.
schollianmj said:
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
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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?
Hey guys. Here's the deal: I screwed up my BELL LG G2 and the only thing I could get it to take was a TMobile .TOT file. So I did that and it "works" now. Thing is, I get no bell internet now because well... It's messed up. The phone thinks it's a D801 but it's actually a D803. So anyway, I want to get Bell stock back. I downloaded the stock bell kdz so that's not a problem. I have that latest (like last month I believe) KDZ flash tool from LG called "LG Flash Tool 2014". Here's where things get messy...
Step by step:
1) I open the file "LGFlashTool2014.exe" and it opens fine.
2) For "type" I select "3GQCT" (I don't even know what this means to be honest), for "PhoneMode" I select "Emergency" (tried DIAG too and it makes no difference) and for KDZ I select the D803 Bell LG G2 KDZ file I have. I leave version blank as it fills itself in.
3) I select either "Normal Flash" or the other one that wipes everything (neither work....)
4) It then brings up it's second screen and I select "Start" at the bottom.
5) It brings up the third screen asking about language and I either leave it or choose "other country". Both of these options (in the top drop down menu) give me no options for actual languages in the bottom drop down menu. The bottom drop down is just blank. Anyway, so I then select "start" again.
6) The LG Update Tool pops up and does the following:
It verify's my phone's connection, says "extracting software" then "S/W Upgrade is in progress" then it suddenly stops and says "Upgrade stopped due to error." Followed by instructions to disconnect the phone, remove the battery, reconnect the phone, and turn it back on (it's a bloody LG G2 so I can't take out the battery...)
What do I do here guys? I'm seriously confused. Oh, and yeah I've tried uninstalling and re-installing... My phone is in download mode. USB Debugging is on. What the hell else can I do?
I have this same error.
I have s80210a-EUR-xx and Rayblobe ROM (since late last year) , android 4.2.2
I get stuck to that exactly same point "Upgrade stopped due to error."
Trying to get kitkat with this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2705259
edit: finally all the searches got me somewhere. so, tomorrow i'm going to try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ght=upgrade+stopped+due+to+error#post49513049
terhiha said:
I have this same error.
I have s80210a-EUR-xx and Rayblobe ROM (since late last year) , android 4.2.2
I get stuck to that exactly same point "Upgrade stopped due to error."
Trying to get kitkat with this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2705259
edit: finally all the searches got me somewhere. so, tomorrow i'm going to try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ght=upgrade+stopped+due+to+error#post49513049
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Firstly, thanks for taking the time to reply to me. I reallly appreciate it (nobody here seems to give a flying.... Well, you know). What exactly is that post you linked saying? Not sure I understand what he means.
BUMP!
Can you boot into recovery?? Try getting that ROM in zip mode and flash it through recovery. It should work.
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I'm trying to first flash stock ROM and then go back with the original plan.
Also, I did find "stock kitkat ROM" .zip. But I don't know if you can post links to other places than xda?
I've made my nandroid backup already, so first i'm going to test that kitkat rom. because, if it works, it's much easier
Shao Merng said:
Can you boot into recovery?? Try getting that ROM in zip mode and flash it through recovery. It should work.
Sent from my LG-E610 using XDA Free mobile app
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If you mean to get bell stock rom and flash it, I tried. It bricked my phone and I had to do the TMobile .TOT. Now that I have TMobile, I have no recovery and I have no idea what recovery to put on the phone (CWM or TWRP? Bell or TMobile?)... God this is such a pain in the butt... If I ever get the G3 I wont be rooting it...
Alright so I rooted the TMobile rom on my LG G2 (again, it makes no sense because I have a Bell phone). I then installed "Flashify" which can be found in the app store. I found the TWRP recovery img for D801 TMobile LG G2 (you can find it by searching on google) and then I booted up adb (you need to install adb if you don't have it). I put the bellstock.zip (I renamed the file) into the folder for adb and opened adb. I then typed "adb sideload bellstock.zip" (you need adb sideload to be running from recovery on your phone first. In TWRP Recovery -> Advanced -> Adb Sideload). Adb started to very slowly sideload the .zip and I was excited that it was working. Well, it got to 100% and said "Success! Enjoy!" and I was so happy. I hit the reboot button and...
LG Symbol just stays on my screen and the phone never finishes booting. It's not a bootloop though, just the LG logo on my screen with a pulsing blue/green notification light. How do I get past the LG Logo?
Thanks guys...
Just tried sideloading a different version of the Bell Stock rom... It failed. Maybe I should have cleared cache or something first? Anybody?
Try to push roms to your phone instead of sideloading since sideloading is more risky. If youhave a custom removery then did you tryed to format system first? And then installing the rom? You dont need to wipe data if same android version if you still have data on it else also wipe data factory reset and also dont forget to flash the right modem for your stock kitkat/jellybean.
wulsic said:
Try to push roms to your phone instead of sideloading since sideloading is more risky. If youhave a custom removery then did you tryed to format system first? And then installing the rom? You dont need to wipe data if same android version if you still have data on it else also wipe data factory reset and also dont forget to flash the right modem for your stock kitkat/jellybean.
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When I try to push adb just re-pastes the whole menu into the cmd window and does nothing. I could only get sideload to "work". And yeah, I have the radio for Bell, I just haven't flashed it yet because I want get rom working first. Also I did wipe everything before installing the rom.
I have the update installed on my tablet right now. I pulled the update from cache and am working on uploading the file now.
and here it is
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_zOoAATV12ZNmVpb1BISndoWkU/view?usp=sharing
Restore to completely stock 4.4.4 here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
Also just had the system update notice on my gpe, downloading now. Hope it is a good update on the gpad
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What if I am rooted
Would it be a problem to get back root? I actually need to be rooted for some stuff I do at work. I ask because I do not see a big developer presence for this tablet.
vtmike said:
I have the update installed on my tablet right now. I pulled the update from cache and am working on uploading the file now.
and here it is
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_zOoAATV12ZNmVpb1BISndoWkU/view?usp=sharing
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I got the OTA but I had forgotten that I still had TWRP installed even though I'm on the stock 4.4.4 rom and not rooted anymore. TWRP interfered with the install and now it says my system is already up to date! Grrr.
Would it work if I just flashed your file via TWRP?
kuboa said:
I got the OTA but I had forgotten that I still had TWRP installed even though I'm on the stock 4.4.4 rom and not rooted anymore. TWRP interfered with the install and now it says my system is already up to date! Grrr.
Would it work if I just flashed your file via TWRP?
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I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
vtmike said:
I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
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Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected that much and I've been trying to find a "back to stock recovery" tutorial for the last hour but failing, so I really appreciate the link. Cheers.
kuboa said:
Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected that much and I've been trying to find a "back to stock recovery" tutorial for the last hour but failing, so I really appreciate the link. Cheers.
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No problem. It was a bit frustrating to get everything to work and not very straight forward process. Would be much easier to just push the stock recovery in fast boot, but I couldn't find a file anywhere. It may be possible to extract it from the tot file from that thread but I couldn't figure it out.
vtmike said:
No problem. It was a bit frustrating to get everything to work and not very straight forward process. Would be much easier to just push the stock recovery in fast boot, but I couldn't find a file anywhere. It may be possible to extract it from the tot file from that thread but I couldn't figure it out.
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Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
schalmers said:
Also just had the system update notice on my gpe, downloading now. Hope it is a good update on the gpad
Sent from my LG-V510 using Tapatalk
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Check to see under device manager if the driver is set to com41, and the other thing I mentioned previously, get to the point that photo is at without the tablet plugged in, then when it says ready plug it in.
kuboa said:
Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
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I have an error during update. And now the update notification is gone after restarted the tablet
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Would be great if someone could get this working for the V500.
chding said:
I have an error during update. And now the update notification is gone after restarted the tablet
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You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
vtmike said:
You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
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Any idea where can I get the factory image?
My update finally works!
My Gpe Gpad only has root and Xposed. I uninstalled Xposed and removed root but OTA was still failing with a generic 'ERROR' message. No details. However, when I sideloaded the update, I got the message "system/etc/permissions/platform.xml has unexpected contents". I figured out which app modifies this file. It's called Kitkat SDFix. This Play Store app modifies this file to enable read/write access for external sdcards. The developer makes a backup of the original platform.xml file (in the same location - system/etc/permissions/). So all you need to do is rename the modified platform.xml into anything else and rename the original backup back to platform.xml. You'll need a root explorer to achieve that.
After that the OTA works fine for me. Hope this helps someone else. Not that I had no custom recoveries or kernels so this process is for people who only had root and Xposed.
vtmike said:
I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
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From this thread mentioned earlier.
chding said:
Any idea where can I get the factory image?
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vtmike said:
You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
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vtmike said:
From this thread mentioned earlier.
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Thanks mate. I was using this restoration instead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-...510-gpe-4-4-4-ktu84p-l002-stock-twrp-t2797883
and follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575783 to boot twrp
kuboa said:
Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
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Same here. Uninstalled LG drivers, cleaned up drivers in device manager (Win 8.1), still stuck. I'm clicking the yellow arrow, then plugging in.
Colchiro said:
Same here. Uninstalled LG drivers, cleaned up drivers in device manager (Win 8.1), still stuck. I'm clicking the yellow arrow, then plugging in.
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When you plug in the tablet it shows up as LG-something-something in Windows Device Manager. It was showing up as COM4 though, after changing that to COM41 I didn't have problems anymore. Did you do that first? The option is buried under a menu a couple of clicks down but it's there.
vtmike said:
Check to see under device manager if the driver is set to com41, and the other thing I mentioned previously, get to the point that photo is at without the tablet plugged in, then when it says ready plug it in.
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Thanks for the tips. I was able to restore to stock with your link and apply the 5.0 update. The port was off on mine, so that tripped me up a bit at first.
Trying to go back to stock but having problems with the LG Flash Tool giving me the Download user image is only available in the online environment!! error message. Any ideas?
Edit: Never mind. Got it working.
So I've been working on this thing for a while but maybe it's because I'm new to this whole there are a few issues I'm having in getting it restored.
Here's the story. I purchased a bricked LG G2 D800 (I fix phones so it's not my own personal phone). It goes to the LG logo when you boot and stays there. I don't know what firmware is on it. It does however have CWM and I can connect to it via ADB but I'll list my issues there below. It does also have download mode but my computer won't recognize it the phone when it's plugged in.
CWM:
OK, some of the issues I'm having here but just be because I'm still nooby and it's hard as hell finding a complete guide to this stuff for noobs.
Anyhoo, I have:
1) Gone into sideload to install the stock zip files; however, no matter what I do, ADB "cannot read <zip.file>". I've re-zip, tried a different zip, renamed the zip, tried a different zip, rebooted. I'm out of ideas there.
2) I tried pushing the zip and install from CWM. That didn't work either.
If the thought "why are you trying to go back to stock via adb" pops into your head and YOU actually know what you're talking about, it's probably because I don't.
DL Mode:
*Comp won't recognize
*Can I even do anything here if I never authorized USB bugging?
I'm kinda lost on what to do here. I know most methods of restoring back to stock are pretty simple but since I haven't been able to get DL mode to work or get that zip file to work in sideload, I'm kinda out of ideas.
Oh, another issue I've been having: WHERE THE HELL IS THE KDZ?? I have not been able to locate the KDZ for the d800 anywhere on the interwebs. Every link I've found takes me either to the cowshare place or elsewhere but everyone has only had the .zip file... and since I have no idea what the different is between the kdz and the .zip (I did spend some time researching that one but to no avail), I'm not sure if that's a problem or how to fix it.
Another idea I had that I haven't tried yet is flashing a bootloader. IIRC from when my VS980 was stuck after trying to install Cyanogenmod, a bootloader was the fix. However, since I don't know what software is on here, I think I can just cycle through a few until something works?
Anyhoo, any suggestions would be totally welcome here.