Hey guys, I'm having trouble identifying the version of my G2.
I bought an LG G2 off a Hong Kong vendor back in October, and was told it was a D802. It had D802 firmware on it, and it came in a D802 box, with what I think is a D802 IMEI. It ran perfectly for the last few months, but then I got greedy.
About three weeks ago, I tried to install AutoRec D802 version, and everything fell apart. It went to fast boot, and I spent a week trying to unsuccessfully restore D802 stock. It turns out, the problem is that I don't think I actually have a D802. If you take the case off the back, parts of the internal casing is labeled D800. Today I took off the internal casing, and found that parts of the circuitry, including the motherboard, are labelled D801.
So which is it?
I've tried installing D800 roms in the past, and they seem to work alright (I can root and install recovery) but the baseband and IMEI is missing, regardless of any modem/baseband I flash, and I can't install a custom rom without bootloops (I've tried CM, and Paranoid Android).
Now I've seen that D801 is printed on the motherboard, should I go ahead and try D801 roms? I'm worried I'm going to make everything worse, and end up with an unfix-able mess.
So what do you think?
Blackham said:
Hey guys, I'm having trouble identifying the version of my G2.
I bought an LG G2 off a Hong Kong vendor back in October, and was told it was a D802. It had D802 firmware on it, and it came in a D802 box, with what I think is a D802 IMEI. It ran perfectly for the last few months, but then I got greedy.
About three weeks ago, I tried to install AutoRec D802 version, and everything fell apart. It went to fast boot, and I spent a week trying to unsuccessfully restore D802 stock. It turns out, the problem is that I don't think I actually have a D802. If you take the case off the back, parts of the internal casing is labeled D800. Today I took off the internal casing, and found that parts of the circuitry, including the motherboard, are labelled D801.
So which is it?
I've tried installing D800 roms in the past, and they seem to work alright (I can root and install recovery) but the baseband and IMEI is missing, regardless of any modem/baseband I flash, and I can't install a custom rom without bootloops (I've tried CM, and Paranoid Android).
Now I've seen that D801 is printed on the motherboard, should I go ahead and try D801 roms? I'm worried I'm going to make everything worse, and end up with an unfix-able mess.
So what do you think?
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Trust what your motherboard says.
Youtube - LG G2 Disassembly Test Point and Model Check.
This Thread may also be useful to read through.
Man that's weird.
can you post the image of your phone with back cover removed....
as i`m having the same issue
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Deepak Pracheta said:
can you post the image of your phone with back cover removed....
as i`m having the same issue
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Sure thing, but i wont be able to get them until tonight or maybe tomorrow though.
I've managed to get a Kitkat D801 rom working, rooted with recovery, but now I have a bigger problem. My phone shows unknown baseband and unknown IMEI. I've tried flashing kitkat basebands but that didn't change anything. So, I think the EFS partition has been lost. I don't have a backup, because this whole mess began before I could put recovery on, and I originally used towelroot so IORoot couldn't backup the partition. I've been searching all day with no luck.
Is this a lost cause? Is there anyway to restore EFS, baseband and IMEI? I still have the original D802 IMEI and serial from the box it came in.
I've attached various pictures of the cover, internal covers and motherboard for anyone interested.
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Hi all, hope you can help me. I've tried searching on the internet but no-one seems to be having any problems like mine. and my phone is now near enough bricked.
So i bought a LG G2 D802 from aliexpress, all working fine but no 4g lte option for some reason. Had a look around and seems updating to stock europe rom would have sorted this so i thought id do this.
So Updated the rom using flashtool2014, downloaded lg usb drivers, the europe rom D80220D_00 and lgmobile support tool. Went through the process and it all ran fine with no errors completed 100%and then said done pressed exit and disconnected phone.
Now, switched phone on . Straight away touch completely messed up click on the screen and different parts keep of the screen keep clicking. Eventually after 15mins managed to get out of the startup where it asks for wifi settings etc so i could try to factory reset. No luck even out of startup have not yet managed to get to the screen for usb debugging yet due to random screen clicking (keeps opening other apps, screens).
I cannot rerun the flashtool as i cannot enable usb debugging or even switch away from charge only to pc softwarw and it just says phone not connected on the flashtool and keeps ending.
Switched off by holding power button for long time. Holding down the down button and power does nothing just keeps restarting when i eventually let go.
Also sim is in phone but it says service disabled?
Any ideas how i can fix the phone! All was working fine before I did the europe rom update
Thanks
Jon
You can connect a mouse via otg and navigate to usb debug
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Maybe try factory reset and just use mobile support tool update stock rom?
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I would just use a wireless keyboard with an otg cable like sugested before
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I eventually managed to select lg software as connection mode and flashed to another firmware but exact same issue again.
After trying for ages and opening the wrong thing again and again i managed to get to the screen in settings to click 5 times to enable developer options however now the screen just freezes and then you get a message saying settings has stopped working and phone locks up. This has happened 3 times since. Doesnt seem like anyway to get it sorted if i cant enable usb debugging.
Also it seems to be that the firmware change has erased the imei and that is what is causing all these problems. I found one site that details how to restore but once again you need usb debugging enabled.
Droidview has the page where you have to backup and restore imei, i dont have a backup so will need method 2. If i can get usb debugging enabled that is!
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I eventually managed to select lg software as connection mode and flashed to another firmware but exact same issue again.
After trying for ages and opening the wrong thing again and again i managed to get to the screen in settings to click 5 times to enable developer options however now the screen just freezes and then you get a message saying settings has stopped working and phone locks up. This has happened 3 times since. Doesnt seem like anyway to get it sorted if i cant enable usb debugging.
Also it seems to be that the firmware change has erased the imei and that is what is causing all these problems. I found one site that details how to restore but once again you need usb debugging enabled.
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Try using onscreen phone maybe you could manage to set that up and then enable usb debugging?
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thanks for all the help, lg on screen just didn't work for some reason wouldn't connect to the phone. Was thinking about a otg cable but after an hour of clicking again and again I managed to get the developer options and usb debugging enabled.
I went through the procedure at droidview to restore imei using qpst but after finding the com port it says no phone detected so theres nothing more I can do, looks like I just have to accept this brand new brick lol.
Anybody know anywhere in London that does repairs like this, I have tried a couple of shops in London Victoria near work but they couldn't do anything. Apparently theres something called an octoplus/octopus box that can fix LG G2 imei or flash firmware.
Thanks again for everyones suggestions. .
Jon-jay, I have the same issue. I tried the "easy" kdz flash and tot flash and basically bricked my phone. The phone turns on but the screen is calibrated incorrectly like you describe so I can't click anything without trying over and over. I click one area of the screen and another is activated. I can pull down the notification pane but can't click anything in there. The phone is in a boot loop too if I don't touch it. I also want to turn on USB debugging so I could try to restore with adb or fastboot. I will let you know if I find anything.
Yeah very tricky to fix this phone after flashing. Ive flashed loads of lg phones with the flash tool and never any problems until now. Ive currently sent to a shop in south wimbledon who quoted me £50-£80 for repair if he could fix it. I dropped it off on mon and still no response so im not holding my breath. It seems this phone will be going to the recyclers if he cant do anything.:crying:
JON-JAY said:
thanks for all the help, lg on screen just didn't work for some reason wouldn't connect to the phone. Was thinking about a otg cable but after an hour of clicking again and again I managed to get the developer options and usb debugging enabled.
I went through the procedure at droidview to restore imei using qpst but after finding the com port it says no phone detected so theres nothing more I can do, looks like I just have to accept this brand new brick lol.
Anybody know anywhere in London that does repairs like this, I have tried a couple of shops in London Victoria near work but they couldn't do anything. Apparently theres something called an octoplus/octopus box that can fix LG G2 imei or flash firmware.
Thanks again for everyones suggestions. .
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Check out the thread lg g2 is unbrickable now, it involves shorting a couple capacitors to unbrick but its ingeneious. I bet itll help you out.
.::.LG G2 D803.::.
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okay so it has been a few months now and I revisited the phone sitting around. This is how I got on:
I gave the phone to shops in London, no-one could fix it got it back first week of Jan. So I thought I'd retry myself.
One guy told me that the imei may be for D802 but the screen and insides of the phone is a d800 model.
That makes sense as the touch works erratically. This was a refurbished phone I bought from aliexpress which claimed to be a EUR D802 but after I took the back cover off it says D800\d801\d803 inside on a lot of the flex connections and at the bottom of the plastic it says d800. I downloaded the AT&T stock rom and flashed with octoplus - touch worked perfectly! but phone kept restarting itself and looping really badly so I put in download mode and went back to D802 uk firmware - and touch not working again.
(Prior to this I bought the octopus box also in the hopes that restoring the imei I had previously lost will somehow be related to the screen.
This worked in restoring imei only and I have restored the d802 imei with octopus box)
Anyhow I then flashed stock uk firmware on the phone so everything in the phone works perfectly fine except the touch! so I am controlling touch with otg cable and mouse.
my next thought was install a d800 custom rom it will fix the touch! Now I then rooted, and installed d802 autorec.apk. I came on xda and downloaded a d800 stock custom rom (D80020k) from the AT&T subsection and thought I'd install this through twrp. All though the custom rom says successful when I reboot it comes to fastboot mode again. so I then go about restoring the stock d802 firmware. I installed d800 autorec.apk but that too send to fastboot mode.
So I am lost. Everything working perfect except the touch. Any ideas anyone? Im hoping some one says there is a stock lg custom rom that has all the screen settings for d800/01/02/03 which will sort my problem!
What it seems is the chinese company selling the refurb has somehow managed to get a d802 imei on a d800/01/03 not entirely sure how this is possible either!
JON-JAY said:
What it seems is the chinese company selling the refurb has somehow managed to get a d802 imei on a d800/01/03 not entirely sure how this is possible either!
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What they're doing is flashing a d802 system.img with otherwise d800/01/03 firmware.
I saw a thread in the T-Mobile G2 area saying to get d802 on your d800/d801 you just flash a custom d802 rom and then a d800/801 kernel but this causes my phone to go back to fastboot...still lost! the custom rom works fine itself (Except for touch again!)
JON-JAY said:
I saw a thread in the T-Mobile G2 area saying to get d802 on your d800/d801 you just flash a custom d802 rom and then a d800/801 kernel but this causes my phone to go back to fastboot...still lost! the custom rom works fine itself (Except for touch again!)
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There is a way to get them back to their original frankenphone state but it's quite a procedure. Flash d802 firmware. Use a otg usb mouse to navigate since it'll have touch issues. Root and install custom recovery using the actual hardware as your guide to which twrp version to install. D800 in your case. Do a nandroid backup. Move the nand backup to your pc for safe keeping. Now install d800 firmware using a hex edited tot to allow it to proceed and a generic dll to avoid cross dll issue. Root, install twrp again. Move twrp backup from pc to phone. Do a restore but only restore the system.img. Now you have firmware that cooperates with d800 hardware while appearing and acting like a d802 in every other way.
The other thought I had but have not tested yet would be to flash d800 firmware right off the bat, then root and install twrp. Then use dd to flash system.img to it's partition ( /dev/block/mmcblk0p34 ). I'm not sure how that would work due to the very large size of the system image. You'd have to extract it from the kdz. Because it's so large when it's extracted, it does it in parts so it must be merged back together to make one file. But if it did work, it'd save the step of having to root/recovery twice on two separate firmwares.
hello, so it all began with the lollipop update, i wanted it on my new phone (less than a week old), so i've read everything i can about flashing the G2, and i guess i did nothing wrong (i used normal flash instead of CSE the first time), but i didn't back up my original ROM and that's the problem, so the KDZ installed normally, but when tried to configure the phone, the touchscreen went crazy , exactely like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYwumfkokOA. so i downloaded a 4.4.2 kitkat rom, but it didn't correct the problem, i used an OTG and a mouse to use the phone, and i found out that my IMEI is "null", and there is no signal at all, plus the phone heats up and the battery drains really fast, and some apps like the browser freeze when i open them, i tried at least 5 roms, and they all have the very same problems.
then i tought maybe my phone isn't a d802, so i checked my IMEI on every IMEI check website, and they all told me it's a D802, but when i removed the back cover, i found "D800 0815" written under some sticker, and i'm afraid that i'll brick my phone if i try the stock d800 firmware, and it's android 4.2 while my original firmware was 4.4.2, i even took my phone to a repair shop but no luck, i'm really confused and can't replace or buy another phone, all my savings went into this one, and this forum is the only place that can help me, so please, if anyone has a solution help me
TL;DR: my touchscreen went crazy and my IMEI says "null" after i tried a lollipop update on my LG G2 D802
Where did you got your phone from?
There are a lot of shops selling refubished D800 or D801 as D802. They replace the Model number in build.prop which is a simple trick. Then you get flashing errors and other crazy errors.
It might seem like a simple topic with a simple answer, and a thread that shouldn't be created, but it's not like that.
The story goes like this. I bought a couple of LG G2's "D802" 32G (ill explain quatation mark later) from Alliexpress for reselling and decided to keep one myself. Being an android fan the first thing I would do is update the firmware or flash a custom ROM. So I tried to install TWRP with no luck, I bricked my phone (trying to get the phone out of the state of "fastboot mode only" resulted in hard brick, after that I sent it for warranty to alliexpress seller). I got a replacement phone, everything as usual, perfect phone from the first sight. Now to my question(s)... :
1. I checked the IMEI on Swappa, it doesn't even show what phone model it is. I tried to enter the IMEI to this site: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/svc/popup/model_check.jsp?esn=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for .img extractions it won't load as such IMEI seems to be not real!!!
2. After reading around I found this thread: http://androidforums.com/threads/in...-international-hong-kong-version-32gb.877957/ . It says here that IMEI counterfeiting is not a new thing and changing one model to appear as another (for example D800 to D802) is just a matter of flashing a modified image, thus resulting in wrong IMEI numbers.
3. Now the main question: How do I safely install a custom ROM for my particular model (ill check what model number is printed under the back when I get home)? Would flashing a recovery requires reflashing the phone to it's original state trough download mode , let's say to D800 partitions? Would model check when flashing wrong files prevent me from installing anything at all?
If someone knows how to deal with this, or maybe even had simillar experience could help me, that would be amazing. Thank you for taking your time to read and reply.
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Okay, so I checked what's under the cover... Hidden under a few stickers I found that it's actually not a D802, but rather D801/D803 (that's what's written under the cover). So the phone is D801/D803 , the back cover is D802, the software is D80220b. Any ideas how to get to custom rom without bricking the phone??
I just booted to recovery and guess what, it's preloaded with working PhilZ Touch 6.25.4 - LG G2 (cm_d801) recovery. Where does this lead me to? Should I try installing a rom?
Hello guys, I hope you can help.
So, last week I had a problem with my lg g2. When dialing a number it would show the wrong contact number, so I thought, what the heck, I'm still with KK (I'm lazy), time to upgrade! I've flashed a rom but something went wrong and I softbricked the phone. I was able to go into download mode and restore the latest official LG firmware (I made sure to download the 32gb version of it). However, now I have 21.87 gb of Misc files and I have no clue what they are or what is the problem. Ideas? Thanks!
No one, pls?
Hi.
Got the same problem. It happened exactly after the failed upgrade. Tried a number of things (including returning back to the KK and rooting the phone). Unfortunately failed to find a solution.
Does your sim work and is you screen messed up?
Have you tried to look into those Mics files?
32GB D802 unbranded model (Hong Kong), same inside case on metal strip(D802/805) and plastic inner housing. Bought brand new with JB.
Used LG tool, CSE Flashed 'Hong Kong D80230B_00.kdz' (KitKat 4.4.2) No problems!
Tried Flashing Lollipop Firmware for 32GB D802 from other countries Spain, Germany, even China, but upon reboot after flashing the screen back-light is lit, but there's no picture or logo, stays like that for 20 mins.
Rebooting into Factory Reset I can see the screen again, but that's it.. So is it possible to flash other countries Firmware? There's no LTE option with Hong Kong.
Another thing, I've checked my IMEI thru the dialer and it's '0'. In Hardware mode a bunch of "0000000000000'
But I still have phone signal and no problems at all. Should I concern myself with that?
Are you really sure its a true d802, did you cechk motherboard.? check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/warning-to-people-bought-phones-ebay-t2991195
I'm not game enough to dig that far into my phones hardware, but failing all else I could..
However...I have successfully used AutoRec (D802) to install recovery 3 times already, no problem and IOROOT to root it...
And...I didn't buy this from Ebay secondhand. I bought new from a shop.
After flashing another regions Lollipop Firmware(d802) and encountering the blank back-lit screen on reboot, it didn't brick my phone, I could still enter download mode and go into factory reset (which is where the screen actually worked) Actually tried the factory reset after the flash but it didn't help.
After not being able to see anything I just entered download mode and flashed KitKat back again, no problem. I can't see how others are just flashing any regions Lollipop ROMs on their phones and they're working.
Photo's attached showing under casing markings(not so good quality, I used my old Desire S)
twiice said:
I'm not game enough to dig that far into my phones hardware, but failing all else I could..
However...I have successfully used AutoRec (D802) to install recovery 3 times already, no problem and IOROOT to root it...
And...I didn't buy this from Ebay secondhand. I bought new from a shop.
After flashing another regions Lollipop Firmware(d802) and encountering the blank back-lit screen on reboot, it didn't brick my phone, I could still enter download mode and go into factory reset (which is where the screen actually worked) Actually tried the factory reset after the flash but it didn't help.
After not being able to see anything I just entered download mode and flashed KitKat back again, no problem. I can't see how others are just flashing any regions Lollipop ROMs on their phones and they're working.
Photo's attached showing under casing markings(not so good quality, I used my old Desire S)
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then i guess if it flashed with no problems then it might be a d802, not sure about the imei though.
i cant really help here, i ive never been into jb,kk on my g2. but it shouldnt be aproblem flashing different region i dont think it matters right as long as its your variant.
I'll try flashing a Hong Kong based Lollipop ROM and see what happens.
Thanks for your input!
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I'll try flashing a Hong Kong based Lollipop ROM and see what happens.
Thanks for your input!
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youre welcomed and good luck. reprot back.
The Hong Kong Firmware worked, no problem at all. It has 4G enabled too which is excellent.