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Help, I downgraded from 2.3 to 2.2 for various reasons,but now when I try to upgrade again I just get the pink screen ,if I try using the option from settings/storage,it says key data couldn't be backed up , the installation will stop. Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up completely so I can't even continue to use it in 2.2 can anyone advise ?
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Try to put the 2.3 dload folder to a sd card, then remove the battery, plug in a USB cable to the computer and the phone, volume up+down+power (if I remember right lol). See if it will update that way.
no, that's the usual way I've been flashing it, I can get to the image folder ,but it won't boot into recovery either
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totsy1972 said:
no, that's the usual way I've been flashing it, I can get to the image folder ,but it won't boot into recovery either
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Odd. Maybe try to flash the ICS pink screen unlocker? I had weird issues at some point too, then I flashed that and the problems went away. Afterwards flash ICS.
Just tried that,still no luck,it doesn't even get to the unpacking screen,it just stays pink. beginning to think its beyond repair
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totsy1972 said:
Just tried that,still no luck,it doesn't even get to the unpacking screen,it just stays pink. beginning to think its beyond repair
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I think it's still possible to fix it. I was loosing hopes too, but I messed around with it anyway and got it working. Just try different dload's, different methods and maybe you'll get it running. Maybe other users will have some ideas too.
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I think it's still possible to fix it. I was loosing hopes too, but I messed around with it anyway and got it working. Just try different dload's, different methods and maybe you'll get it running. Maybe other users will have some ideas too.
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I've been trying all different ways, this is what I get when trying it from storage menu
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@Moihack maybe you have any ideas? You've written this to me before:
Moihack said:
As long as your phone still gets power and pink/blue screen shows there is nothing to be afraid of yet,since this isn't a hardbrick.
Contact me on hangouts telling me what you have done resulting in the above issue.
I have bricked my u8800pro in every possible way both soft and hard brick (thank god warranty was still active back then).
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Hi there!
I think when you upgrade from software menu there is an option for data back-up.
Uncheck this option and the error should go away.
Also what do you mean with this: "Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up" ?
What do you mean it locks up? Touchscreen is not responsive for example?
My suggestions:
1) Do a factory reset and then check if you can upgrade
2) Try re-installing your recovery(use cwm 5.0.27 by geno for best compatibility) or even replace the whole image folder with the froyo one from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2146856
Your phone is not beyond repair that's for sure. Since it boots fine.
Moihack said:
Hi there!
I think when you upgrade from software menu there is an option for data back-up.
Uncheck this option and the error should go away.
Also what do you mean with this: "Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up" ?
What do you mean it locks up? Touchscreen is not responsive for example?
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I haven't noticed an option for data backup,will check again later on. And yes when it locks up touch screen becomes unresponsive and none of the buttons respond either. Also when I try to enter recovery ,both custom and stock, it displays the kernel logo then vibrates with a black screen for a second then back to kernel logo and continues to boot.
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Ok guys,I copied over the stock image folder and now it works ok, however I still can't upgrade from froyo. At least I can use it again though so thanks for your help, its much appreciated. Incidentally, there wasn't an option to back up data when upgrading, but that error has now gone, except it now just reboots instead, so I will just keep trying.
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[Edit] Finally I've managed to upgrade to GB , had to put both step 1 and step 2 in the same dload folder and it worked. So cheers for the tips
You've put all steps in one folder?
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You've put all steps in one folder?
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Steps 1&2 in dload folder ,step 2 renamed to UPDATE_G.APP.
Didn't use step 3 as I was updating to ICS after that
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hello...could anybody help me please...i was updating my htc magic to [ROM][32b] Official AOSP 2.2 OTA...but after i copied the update to sd,and i rebooted at the recovery menu i couldn't scroll to select the update.zip..it takes very long n i decided to pull out the battery n restart it again..unfortunately it went wrong somewhere n the phne keep on restarting again and again...i've tried to hard reset and all...but it won't works...help pleasee...
no replies yet...that's very sad..
If you can get to the recovery screen try wiping and factory reset.and flash a different rom. If that doesn't work. You can always do the unroot method by using the smping.mbh file or something like that. Look up how to unroot in google and you should know what I mean. Hope this helps
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lucasleiva said:
If you can get to the recovery screen try wiping and factory reset.and flash a different rom. If that doesn't work. You can always do the unroot method by using the smping.mbh file or something like that. Look up how to unroot in google and you should know what I mean. Hope this helps
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thanks lucas..but,the problem is that i can't get the recovery...it's keep on restarting again and again..??any idea?
Well then you need to unroot your mytouch it basically puts it back in factory settings and you do it through fast boot. I'm guessing you have the original mytouch this how I did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lReoBy848PI
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lucasleiva said:
Well then you need to unroot your mytouch it basically puts it back in factory settings and you do it through fast boot. I'm guessing you have the original mytouch this how I did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lReoBy848PI
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thanks lucas...i'll giv it a try now...let see...
giggsy_lel said:
thanks lucas...i'll giv it a try now...let see...
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ok..tried..same thing goes again....it can't load up the recovery menu...started until the splash screen "htc magic" n restarted again...hemm...seems like a big probl!damn it!!...
giggsy_lel said:
ok..tried..same thing goes again....it can't load up the recovery menu...started until the splash screen "htc magic" n restarted again...hemm...seems like a big probl!damn it!!...
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You don't need to get in recovery screen. Turn the phone off and hold the up volume button and the power button and fast boot the sapping.nbh file
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What I did is:
Through fastboot I flashed SAPPIMG.nbh. It put my phone to the cupcake (1.5). Then I installed rooted HTC 1.6 update. After that I flashed any Rom I wanted.
Tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=586363
PS: This is the only working way I know since I am a noob too and finally got it going. Tried almost every rom in this section
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You don't need to get in recovery screen. Turn the phone off and hold the up volume button and the power button and fast boot the sapping.nbh file
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okay done!thats very helpfull lucas...seems i tried to reboot wrongly...insted of pressing the volume up button,i pressed the down button...my bad! luckily the original stock rom is ok!so i dont need to restore to factory settings...now the only thing i had to do is,just update the cupcake to eclairs... now i have to read very2 carefully i think..coz there is alot of ways to root n update...hemm...which u suggest easier lucas??thanks alot dude...
You're very welcome. this method had saved my phone from being bricked like a hundred times.if the g2 had a fail safe like that I would of already rooted it. Glad I could help
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yo lucas...sorry for the late reply..now the phone had the same problem again...i just tried to do recovery using ROM manager..but after it saves everything and reboot and the splash screen looping continuosly again..damn it..it's my 2n tiime now..grrrr!!i tried ur method n it didn't work...n seems there is alot of people with this same problem when i tried to search around..seems there is no better solutions yet for this "semi-brickd" problems..
So you can't put it back to stock? If you manage to get it back to stock by doing the same thing you did beforev you should try using a different recovery. aman-ra's recovery is the best for me. But I can't see how you can't get into the fastboot screen by pressing power and volume up,that's never failed for me. If its really impossible you should have tmobile replace it. I don't think they can tell you hacked it if they can't even get into fastboot.sorry if I took long to answer
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So you can't put it back to stock? If you manage to get it back to stock by doing the same thing you did beforev you should try using a different recovery. aman-ra's recovery is the best for me. But I can't see how you can't get into the fastboot screen by pressing power and volume up,that's never failed for me. If its really impossible you should have tmobile replace it. I don't think they can tell you hacked it if they can't even get into fastboot.sorry if I took long to answer
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no probl lucas..i do apprcte ur replies to me.. i really don't know wats happening..n seems there is no ways other than sendng it to the manufacturer..if it's the motherboard problem...i'm doomed!!hopefully not...
Okay, so I was listening to a YouTube video via Popup Browser BETA. When the song finished, I tried closing the window, but it wouldn't let me interact with the window. Not sure why. I just figured since the app was in beta it was just confused, so I went to the settings->running applications->I force closed the app. But for some reason, the little window still wouldn't go away. So I decided to reboot my device. Bad idea, apparently...
Now whenever I boot up my phone it'll vibrate, display the Google logo for a few seconds, and then... it goes to a blank black screen. Not a clue why. I've tried:
- Leaving it to charge and rebooting
- Leaving it in the blank black screen
- Booting into recovery, then trying to reboot the device from there
- Clearing cache partition
Nothing works. I still can't boot up my phone again.
I'm running Slimbean 4.2.1 (not the latest version). There really isn't anything that might have triggered this. I can still charge my phone (the charging animation still occurs) and I can still go into CWM Recovery. I'd really rather not have to install a new ROM or anything... but if I have to, is there a way to extract the data I have on my phone now while in recovery or something?
Any suggestions?
EDIT: This has been FIXED. Moderators, if you see this, you can close this thread. If anyone else has this problem, try reflashing your current version of your ROM, that's how I fixed mine. I'm not responsible for damage to your device.
Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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Surpass said:
I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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I've not got enough free space on my phone I don't think (it's only 16GB, I got about 2GB free).
Unless I'm mistaken the backup will take more than that, yes? Considering I've got a few games apps that probably equate to about 4GB.
gallardo5 said:
No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
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Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
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Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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gallardo5 said:
Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
EDIT: Tried downloading the Zip from their site and now it's saying I've got to log in, but no place to register... grr. I might be a bit longer..
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
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Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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Yes either that or perhaps switch to a new one, I've been with semi-stock Android for quite a while now I'm really liking the port of MIUI V5...
Ok so i just bought a new lg g2 d801.
I unlocked it succesfully, then went on to root it succesfully using ioroot.
Then I tried installing twrp using freegee and it didnt work giving me comparable results to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50501346&postcount=867
so I went on to install it manually from terminal emulator (I installed the rogers version as suggested by another user here as this is exactly my situation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50502408&postcount=869
I followed this method for the code in terminal emulator:
su
dd if=/sdcard/recoveryfilename.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
replacing "recoveryfilename" to the name of the rogers .img.
Now the phone just boots normally into the stock interface but it is all glitchy, no wifi, computer doesnt recognize it and then within about 1 minutes it boots into the lg logo with the "turning on" sound randomly and keeps doing that.
adb devices gives nothing. I cant browse the contents of it but it does seem to be interacting with the computer since it is saying "driver updating... etc."
Ahhhh not too sure what to do from here.
If anyone can guide me I will be infinitely grateful, so discouraged right now.
I just want to bring it back to stock, nothing valuable at all on it, I have had it for 4 hours.
U can do a factory reset and see how it goes. Go to settings > general> backup and reset> factory reset.
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I cant access any settings.
Just says: Error
In a little black box. I can browse the menus but cant actually enter into the specific settings areas.
I did factory reset from twrp which is accesible, didnt help.
Thank you though, I would love more ideas!
In that case u should flash stock rom using a computer. Go through this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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Ok im going to try using the lg mobile support tool
I went in usb mode holding the up key and inserting the usb cable.
Seems to be working, downloading a ~2gb file.
I will update.
All the best
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of course my wifi cuts when the download is at 1443 of 1772 mb.
I think the gods have something against me today.
Should I cancel the download and start over? Doesn't seem to be picking up where it stopped.
Do you have any other option to resume ur download?
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OK thank god it went through.
Installed the stock recovery succesfully.
Restored factory settings.
Still doing strange boot shutdowns randomly and wifi is not working. I cant access any settings.
It seems like there is rom compatibility issues or something.
What should my next step be?
Btw thank you so much for being here I really appreciate your help.
Did u flash the stock rom or just recovery?
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Did u flash the stock rom or just recovery?
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Just recovery I think... I just let the lg mobile support tool do its thing
It was in the usb download mode.
Now I am planning on attempting what you linked. Only problem is that the flash tool links are not up to date and I cant fidn where to download it.
U should flash the whole stock rom, not just recovery, u will find all the necessary tools in the thread I mentioned
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I cannot seem to find the flash tool. What is the path where the download is located?
Thanks again...
It's there in the first page of that thread
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I am actually going slowly insane right now.
I have been sitting in front of my computer for over 8 hours trying to get this back to functional condition.
I followed the procedure exactly as detailed, when I press "upgrade start" I get this:
Please install CSMG B2C Client Tool" "Select tool ->B2C Client setup
Absolutely discouraging. I wish I could just talk with someone right about now. I am making no progress.
Phone keeps turning on all the way through til the homepage then off again. I actually cant keep it off. It turns on by itself.
adb devices is now recognizing it but it says "offline"
Ideas? Recommendations?
I really appreciate everything so far
Did u run that update tool before running the flash tool?
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Flash TOT back to stock. below is instruction how to
http://optimusforums.com/threads/guide-complete-guide-to-unbrick-your-soft-bricked-g2-f320.9232/
Thanks cccho. looking into this now looks like it could very well work.
I actually didnt even sleep last night. Havent done that in a long time, I figured I would manage to figure out by morning but I was not even close!
Much love to all who helped.
Hopefully this works.:good:
Actually I have a question... In your link they are using .tot files. I have only ever seen .kdz files for this purpose... Am I safe to follow the procedure with a stock .kdz file?
Thanks
Ok so I have managed to succesfully reinstall the original exact videotron firmware that the phone was running just one day ago.
There is something else going on. Its still rebooting every 10 seconds, whenever there is a text input prompt the cursor goes when I press within the box but the keyboard never appears. Wifi is non functional. Imei is saying "null" now whichI find extremely worrying...
Anybody heard of this before? I would really love to understand what is happening to this seemingly incredibly fragile phone.
Im about ready to toss it in the trash.
It seems like it has a virus or something.
Every now and then during the short glimpses of functioning it undergoes, there is a small grey box that appears near the bottom that says error.
It is not recognising my sim card either.
Please somebody help me out, I am willing to pay for help at this point.
Much love,
Zach
Also, I can never close/lock the screen. If I close it, its a guaranteed reboot. Every signle time. so for the phone to work screen has to stay on. 24 hours ago it was showing absolutely no signs of any of this
Ok, I was on a custom ROM for LS980 and all of a sudden it rebooted and I had no control of anything. There was no service either.
So first thing I did was a reboot. no good. Then I went booted into TWRP and restored my last backup, thought this would surely fix it but nothing. Still booted but had no functionality, plus now it started to go into a boot loop. Tried recovering different versions and no luck.
Then, I decided to use the Flash Tool recovery method. It worked in the sense that there was no longer a boot loop, but I still had no service and could not use a lot of the functions like updating PRL/PROFILE and few of the apps would not launch like the quick remote, it would say "SIM not ready"
I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point as I only have the flash tool option and since I lost recovery.
Is this considered BRICKED or does anyone have an idea? thanks
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Ok, I was on a custom ROM for LS980 and all of a sudden it rebooted and I had no control of anything. There was no service either.
So first thing I did was a reboot. no good. Then I went booted into TWRP and restored my last backup, thought this would surely fix it but nothing. Still booted but had no functionality, plus now it started to go into a boot loop. Tried recovering different versions and no luck.
Then, I decided to use the Flash Tool recovery method. It worked in the sense that there was no longer a boot loop, but I still had no service and could not use a lot of the functions like updating PRL/PROFILE and few of the apps would not launch like the quick remote, it would say "SIM not ready"
I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point as I only have the flash tool option and since I lost recovery.
Is this considered BRICKED or does anyone have an idea? thanks
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If you are still able to enter in the ROM it's not Bricked....
Put the phone in Fastboot and flash a recovery via Fastboot commands.
Then you can wipe everything (except internal) and flash a new ROM.
I've never fastbooted before. Is there a quick tutorial link for this?
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There is no normal fastboot mode as on other phones. Best thing i think try to go back to stock via kdz/tot method and reinstall root and recovery
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basti2909 said:
There is no normal fastboot mode as on other phones. Best thing i think try to go back to stock via kdz/tot method and reinstall root and recovery
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So I tried the flash tool again using different TOT files. ZV8 and ZVA files caused boot loops. The only file that almost worked was the ZVC file. By almost I mean, there's no boot loop, and i'm able to use the stock ROM however certain things don't work, like when launching the quick remote app, it says "SIM not ready", or stock video cannot play "Unsupported file type" error, and most importantly I'm not able to get any service.
The good part is, my wifi is working. So next I tried to root, however I get this a "unable to open /system/xbin/su: no such file or directory" (i'm attaching the photo for reference).
Thanks for any other tips of directions.
remove sim card and reinsert try that. Not working.
also check your imei. If its not there you may need to recover it from a twrp backup, (recover the efs that is) at least from the time you had no issues. Not working?
Also I read nothing about wiping. (wipe everything except internal sd) before performing a clean instal. Check for same issues, not there victory.
be carefull with full backups, they might contain the issue you are experiencing.
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remove sim card and reinsert try that. Not working.
also check your imei. If its not there you may need to recover it from a twrp backup, (recover the efs that is) at least from the time you had no issues. Not working?
Also I read nothing about wiping. (wipe everything except internal sd) before performing a clean instal. Check for same issues, not there victory.
be carefull with full backups, they might contain the issue you are experiencing.
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this is a ls980 so I can't remove the Back cover unless there's a way I don't know.
Also, I lost twrp recovery when I used the flash tool and tot method. Now, i'm trying to root and get recovery back but can't even root.
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I am not very familiar with your model. But on the d802 there is a small slot on the side of the phone with a small hole. With the phone in box was a small metal device which you could poke in hole and the slot would open. Maybe other user could confirm.
Did you backup your twrp backup of the phone? Then now is also the time to put it back if the tot method deleted it.
Anyway did you check your imei, (dial *#06#, it should show your imei). usually when service is lost there is something wrong with imei, or simcard.
imei can be recovered by the efs backup in a twrp backup. Simcard via putting out back in, reboot, etc.
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I am not very familiar with your model. But on the d802 there is a small slot on the side of the phone with a small hole. With the phone in box was a small metal device which you could poke in hole and the slot would open. Maybe other user could confirm.
Did you backup your twrp backup of the phone? Then now is also the time to put it back if the tot method deleted it.
Anyway did you check your imei, (dial *#06#, it should show your imei). usually when service is lost there is something wrong with imei, or simcard.
imei can be recovered by the efs backup in a twrp backup. Simcard via putting out back in, reboot, etc.
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Thanks for all your help! sounds like its definitely a imei and Sim related issue.
I don't have any backups but I can get to the factory recovery which has an adb side load option. Do you think I can side load a stock ROM this way? If so, what type of file do I use?
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centro714 said:
Thanks for all your help! sounds like its definitely a imei and Sim related issue.
I don't have any backups but I can get to the factory recovery which has an adb side load option. Do you think I can side load a stock ROM this way? If so, what type of file do I use?
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you can go to download mode and flash a stock rom, but that wont help get you imei back sir if thats whats gone cant help you with that without a backup. Even though there are guides somewhere
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you can go to download mode and flash a stock rom, but that wont help get you imei back sir if thats whats gone cant help you with that without a backup. Even though there are guides somewhere
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Yup, that's what I figured after numerous flash tool and tot files.
I found this link that sounds suspiciously like what i'm facing:
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-lost-imei-on-lg-g2/
Itching to get home and try it.
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Can't get the software to recognize that the phone is connected via USB even though I reinstalled drivers and restarted.
I'm pretty much stuck.
Since I have no imei does this also mean it's a bad esn?
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With no imei.. It's confirmed gone.
Lim Wee Huat said:
With no imei.. It's confirmed gone.
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Damn. now I have a small lg tablet:banghead:
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Found this, it may help. I haven't tried it, so it's up to you....
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-lost-imei-on-lg-g2/
matt_tee said:
Found this, it may help. I haven't tried it, so it's up to you....
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-backup-and-restore-lost-imei-on-lg-g2/
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Yea tried this but stuck on step 8 like one of the commenters.
Anyone else have last ideas before this phone goes on the auction block?
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centro714 said:
this is a ls980 so I can't remove the Back cover unless there's a way I don't know.
Also, I lost twrp recovery when I used the flash tool and tot method. Now, i'm trying to root and get recovery back but can't even root.
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uy can remove sim, on left side there is a tray just use any sim removal & bingo.
I wonder how can people use a phone & dont even know that they can remove sim... lol
RohanM said:
uy can remove sim, on left side there is a tray just use any sim removal & bingo.
I wonder how can people use a phone & dont even know that they can remove sim... lol
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So I removed Sim and reinserted it and still no imei. At least I know there's a Sim card access.
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Well if you got no imei and no backup, you can't fix it home.
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Has anyone received the 1.4 update. I read it was supposed to have started yesterday. I tried updating but no joy. ?
They pulled it because some 500GB model users got soft-bricked, and the device would only boot into fastboot (which is easily fixable by unlocking bootloader and flashing factory images).
If anyone captured the OTA url before they pulled it it would be appreciated
Got an update today
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I think my unit got soft bricked.. How do I boot into fast boot?
dunemessiah said:
I think my unit got soft bricked.. How do I boot into fast boot?
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you can try HW solution by press the power manytimes when you connect power cable
HW method:
- Disconnect power cable
- Insert USB OTG cable and make sure to connect other end to a host PC
- Connect power cable to SHIELD
- Quickly start pressing power button for ~3 seconds
- Do not hold the button and connect power supply afterwards
- HDMI TV should be always connected to SHIELD
I got the update seems to be running OK...
Nice update. Now es can write to external storage devices. :thumbup:
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Anybody else's notice the device is sluggish here an there even before the update.I got the pro version just doesn't as snappy like it was first couple weeks I had it..
Since you have a working 1.4 update, could you boot up TWRP recovery, you don't need to install it, and backup system, then upload it where people can access it please? Proferably with the boot partition in case something changed there. As for speed, your drive needs trimmed. They claim it's done automatically, but I'm calling BS. When I trim twice a day, the drive is much much faster. I suggest fstrim. There are ways to do it from the command line, but may as well get it automated since it helps. I do it on my SSD's also, and there is little to no life degen as some think. It has to trim before adding files anyways, just gets it done all at once.
kdb424 said:
Since you have a working 1.4 update, could you boot up TWRP recovery, you don't need to install it, and backup system, then upload it where people can access it please? Proferably with the boot partition in case something changed there. As for speed, your drive needs trimmed. They claim it's done automatically, but I'm calling BS. When I trim twice a day, the drive is much much faster. I suggest fstrim. There are ways to do it from the command line, but may as well get it automated since it helps. I do it on my SSD's also, and there is little to no life degen as some think. It has to trim before adding files anyways, just gets it done all at once.
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Thanks for the tip about "fstrim". There are several in the play store. Could you please clarify which one you are using?
- Trimmer (fstrim)
- LagFix (fstrim) Free
- Lagfix (fstrim) Premium
Many thanks.
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Thanks for the tip about "fstrim". There are several in the play store. Could you please clarify which one you are using?
- Trimmer (fstrim)
- LagFix (fstrim) Free
- Lagfix (fstrim) Premium
Many thanks.
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All of them work. I personally use option 1,but they all run the name command. Some devices prefer one or the other. Trimmer seems to be the most up to date.
after 1.4 anyone have issue using fastboot boot command to boot into twrp?
I tried it and it says it sending the image and finishes but the SATV just freezes on fastboot menu and you have to pull plug.
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after 1.4 anyone have issue using fastboot boot command to boot into twrp?
I tried it and it says it sending the image and finishes but the SATV just freezes on fastboot menu and you have to pull plug.
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Also having the same issue on Shield Pro.
new update made everything sluggish. Almost made the system unbearable to use
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I did the 1.4 update but still can't write to my SD card. Am I missing something?
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I did the 1.4 update but still can't write to my SD card. Am I missing something?
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1.4 dont add support for that.
Android 6.0 will enable that by stock.
At the moment you need root access.
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1.4 dont add support for that.
Android 6.0 will enable that by stock.
At the moment you need root access.
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Oh OK...somebody earlier in the thread said ES File Explorer could now write to external storage.
toanau said:
new update made everything sluggish. Almost made the system unbearable to use
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Mine was a little sluggish before update now after update a little worse.The whole system just seems very buggy
I guess I'll wait for the next update. Seems it's breaking things. Nothing wrong with 1.3
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I used the kitkat SD card fix application in the play store and that seemed to fix the SD write issues. I was on 1.3. I don't run stock these days, so I haven't tested 1.4, but should work.