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After stock KitKat upgrade attempt stuck in TWRP!? :(

Hi,
I really would need some help, think I kind of did a stupid thing yesterday. :crying:
I bought a secondhand LG G2 d802 a few month back and been very happy with it. I live in Singapore and yesterday I remembered that I had read that LG would realse the KitKat update for LG G2 in Singapore in mid March.
I went in under phone settings and serched for LG updates and it was a an upgrade on around 500Mb. I got really exited and started to download it. After it downloaded it restarted the phone but then open up an app called TWRP, and no mater how I try to rebot the phone it always comes back into TWRP.
What i kind of have understood is that my phone was/is rooted and I guess that didn't go well with trying doing a stock upgrade. I have been using stock android 4.2 so not had any custom roms installed.
My question: is there any way to either role back to my prev version (4.2) or install 4.4 without loosing my data (pictures, don't really care about the apps)?
(I have tried to find where the phone downloaded the update to run it through the install feature in TWRP but can't find the zip file. I can't enable the OTG port in TWRP so not sure how I would be able do run another ROM either)
Hope someone can help me!
Thanks,
Sandra

So it looks like your phone has a custom recovery installed and you tried to install the stock OTA. What you can do is either KDZ back to stock or flash a custom ROM. I would just flash a custom stock ROM. Easier and less steps.
Good luck!
Sent from my LG-D801 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

mackster248 said:
So it looks like your phone has a custom recovery installed and you tried to install the stock OTA. What you can do is either KDZ back to stock or flash a custom ROM. I would just flash a custom stock ROM. Easier and less steps.
Good luck!
Sent from my LG-D801 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Hi mackster248,
Yes that's correct, that was my thought as well but in TWRP under mount I can't enable OTG usb. So I cant read any ROM from any external source and I dont have any saved on the phone either so how would I be able to do that?
Thanks,
Sandra

laSandris said:
Hi mackster248,
Yes that's correct, that was my thought as well but in TWRP under mount I can't enable OTG usb. So I cant read any ROM from any external source and I dont have any saved on the phone either so how would I be able to do that?
Thanks,
Sandra
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You can use the lg mobile support tool to flash a stock rom after going into download mode on the g2 (holding volume up and press power on). Don't flash Kitkat since there's no root option yet.
I don't see a way to keep your pictures though.

You can use the terminal in TWRP to nuke the fota partition and restore normal boot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696

laSandris said:
Hi mackster248,
Yes that's correct, that was my thought as well but in TWRP under mount I can't enable OTG usb. So I cant read any ROM from any external source and I dont have any saved on the phone either so how would I be able to do that?
Thanks,
Sandra
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Ahhh, I see. You'll have to KDZ back to stock then. I think someone already posted the link, but if you need help let me know and I'll try to see what I can do. I have the T-Mobile D801 so I'd have to see if it's the same process for your D802.

Worked like a charm! Felt like an idiot when this happened to me. Good thing I backed up all data before trying the KK update. Thanks!

laSandris said:
Hi,
I really would need some help, think I kind of did a stupid thing yesterday. :crying:
I bought a secondhand LG G2 d802 a few month back and been very happy with it. I live in Singapore and yesterday I remembered that I had read that LG would realse the KitKat update for LG G2 in Singapore in mid March.
I went in under phone settings and serched for LG updates and it was a an upgrade on around 500Mb. I got really exited and started to download it. After it downloaded it restarted the phone but then open up an app called TWRP, and no mater how I try to rebot the phone it always comes back into TWRP.
What i kind of have understood is that my phone was/is rooted and I guess that didn't go well with trying doing a stock upgrade. I have been using stock android 4.2 so not had any custom roms installed.
My question: is there any way to either role back to my prev version (4.2) or install 4.4 without loosing my data (pictures, don't really care about the apps)?
(I have tried to find where the phone downloaded the update to run it through the install feature in TWRP but can't find the zip file. I can't enable the OTG port in TWRP so not sure how I would be able do run another ROM either)
Hope someone can help me!
Thanks,
Sandra
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i have the same with the one you got and here is the fix for you
Here’s the easy fix:
Method 1: Using ADB access, plug in your phone and run this:
adb shell
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota of=/sdcard/fota-backup.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
Now you should be able to successfully reboot your phone via the TWRP menu option, or via a simple reboot command in adb.
Method 2: Using TWRP’s "terminal command" option to run this:
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 LG G2.

friend accepted sprints new OTA. Phone wont boot past TWRP

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?

schollianmj said:
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?

Bricked on Justin's T-Mobile rom? Phone thinks its a D801? Here's how you fix it.

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

2strokenut said:
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?

[Q] After 4 1/2 yrs on XDA I am finally stuck! Bricked No download mode, No OS.

Hello my fellow XDA Members. I am stuck in a tight spot and after reading and re-reading some things the situation doesn't look very promising. I hope this is the moment that Karma shows up and I can get some help on this. Here it goes.
Specs - LG G2 D801 Variant > TWRP V2.8.3.1 > NO OS Currently
I was running Cloudy G3 Rom smoothly and got bored and decided to flash that new rom that is a 5.0 Rom all variants. Did the usual back ups and flashed it. Something happened when I flashed the rom. It went through the Aroma installer and then said "successful" but stuck in a bootloop. I tried it again and nothing happened. Then I tried to wipe everything again and started getting an E: Cannot mount (data or system I forget which as that error went away after I completely formatted data, wiped everything and reflashed Cloudy Stock. )
> Cloudy stock bootlooped and nothing is happening in TWRP. I Am using the USB OTG method of getting files on the phone and getting it charged but anytime I try to do anything (flash a rom, an older version of TWRP) it just immediately restarts TWRP and thats that. I have No OS at all.
> I tried to use one of the methods to get into download mode and flash a stock KDZ but the phone acts like it is going into DL mode (shows the little blue transition screen) but never gets into the ACTUAL download mode where the PC or flash tool can recognize it.
So in a nutshell > No OS > I can get into TWRP but it does nothing > No Download Mode > Don't want a new phone > Don't want to take it apart and try to short circuit anything if possible. LOL.
I am totally stuck here. I am done alot of work and even helped friends and family out with their devices over the years. I am just not sure if I need to consider it a done deal and get a new phone or maybe one of you guys know of something easy and obvious (please let it be the latter) I am missing. Thanks for any help you can offer. I Will be standing by.

Have you tried to reflash bootloader? If not, do that and reflash cloudy right away

wisefreakz said:
Have you tried to reflash bootloader? If not, do that and reflash cloudy right away
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I haven't thought about flashing a bootloader. How would I flash the bootloader if I can not the phone into either DL mode and or TWRP doesn't do anything either? Is a bootloader file just a flashable file like any other .zip file?

jcnbama said:
I haven't thought about flashing a bootloader. How would I flash the bootloader if I can not the phone into either DL mode and or TWRP doesn't do anything either? Is a bootloader file just a flashable file like any other .zip file?
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@jcnbama
Have you tried this or this?

euphoria360 said:
@jcnbama
Have you tried this or this?
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The first one I can not do as I do not have any knowledge at all of Ubuntu, Linux, or any of that. It would take forever to get a working knowledge of that software in order to get things going again. I would probably just have to either take it to a cellphone repair shop or get another phone before I could do the first link.
I have not tried the second one but it is a viable option. I was looking at it online and trying to talk myself down from having to do that. I would reallllllllly rather not have to take my phone apart if I can keep from so that's kind of what this post is all about. Just trying to see if anyone knows of ANYTHING else before I go taking apart my phone.

Can you describe more about "twrp doesnt do anything"?
Does twrp boot up?
Can u see/wipe partitions?
Can u install any rom in twrp? Does it finish?

euphoria360 said:
Can you describe more about "twrp doesnt do anything"?
Does twrp boot up?
Can u see/wipe partitions?
Can u install any rom in twrp? Does it finish?
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TWRP boots and I can go into wipe, advanced wipe, and format data and it says it's successful. I can use file manager and move items back and forth from USB OTG. If I try to flash anything it just reboots TWRP immediately so I can't install any .zip files at all.

My guess is that your bootloader is damaged.
The only option i can see for you is that Ubuntu thing i shared with you. So, lets stop acting lazy and do what needs to be done. Dont scare since there is nothing to loose. LG G2 is unbrikable
Booting up ubuntu or any other linux os is so easy. And there is nothing much to learn. Trust me.
Go to ubuntu website and download their newest iso file. Burn it on dvd and boot it up. You dont have to install it, just choose "live mode" and it boots up. Just like that. Then yiu can proceed with tutorial mentioned above and it shouldnt take more than an hour from you. Its all typing some commands in terminal (remember CMD in windows!).
Just make sure to download the files mentioned in that tutorial before proceeding.

euphoria360 said:
My guess is that your bootloader is damaged.
The only option i can see for you is that Ubuntu thing i shared with you. So, lets stop acting lazy and do what needs to be done. Dont scare since there is nothing to loose. LG G2 is unbrikable
Booting up ubuntu or any other linux os is so easy. And there is nothing much to learn. Trust me.
Go to ubuntu website and download their newest iso file. Burn it on dvd and boot it up. You dont have to install it, just choose "live mode" and it boots up. Just like that. Then yiu can proceed with tutorial mentioned above and it shouldnt take more than an hour from you. Its all typing some commands in terminal (remember CMD in windows!).
Just make sure to download the files mentioned in that tutorial before proceeding.
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First of all calling people lazy is not nice. I'm not lazy I am trying to play it safe. I wouldn't want to brick it to the point to where I don't even have recovery and it can not even be charged any longer. I have Ubuntu on my desktop upstairs. I have used it a little. It's not that I am completely ignorant to Ubuntu I am just a total novice. Also the issue described in that post doesn't exactly match my situation. I am not in a black screen. It's more like a bootloop that I can not get out of because TWRP is not doing what it needs to do and I can not flash TWRP a ROM or get into DL mode at all. Also that post says,
"VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!! You must use the img files that correspond to the ROM you have installed before getting the problem to avoid breaking your phone."
I don't have a rom on my phone soooo...

You didn't answer my question well. If on TWRP you can finish installing rom without any error, and you keep coming to twrp after restarts, that's another situation. Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
But if you cant even finish install in twrp (twrp gives you errors or just restarts before giving you "successful", either you have problem in rom you try to flash or you need to build everything up from start.
That lazy thing was for encouraging you to do it.
And you cant brick your device. There is always a way on G2.
For img files: find them from last stock rom that was working on your phone.

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[Q] D800 Stuck on LG, has CWM, has DL mode but comp no recognize HELP

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.