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After several unsuccessful attempts to mount 3.1 on my Xoom, something seems to have caused the display to reverse. That is, the display is a mirror image of what it should be! This starts with the boot-up image of the Motorola Icon and carries all the way through till it's up. Several restarts have failed to resolve it, and it has me in a bit of a panic.
Have I just bricked my Xoom? Has this happened to others? Ideas? Suggestions? There's nothing on it that I have to save, so I could re-flash it, but I am not sure if/how to do this.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions/fixes!
Phillip
Its not bricked if it boots...
That is strange though. May have to reflash stock images.
Try bringing everything back to stock?
Thanks, I would be happy to do that, but it's kind of hard to do it with everything backwards!
I had to hold my cell phone up to the screen to (barely) read the mirror image text in the System Recovery. But, when I selected (what I thought was) the 'Restore Defaults' option in the blue recovery area, I got another screen with a list of selections that I also couldn't read! Rather than choose the wrong thing, I opted to reboot, but no luck, alas.
Gr3yghost said:
Thanks, I would be happy to do that, but it's kind of hard to do it with everything backwards!
I had to hold my cell phone up to the screen to (barely) read the mirror image text in the System Recovery. But, when I selected (what I thought was) the 'Restore Defaults' option in the blue recovery area, I got another screen with a list of selections that I also couldn't read! Rather than choose the wrong thing, I opted to reboot, but no luck, alas.
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No push the images using adb
I figured it could be done. Could you please point me to a thread explaining how to push images using adb?
Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
djsaad1 said:
Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
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That's great, thanks for the info. I'll have to do this later today when I am at a PC (now at a Mac).
Any ideas about why this would happen in the first place? I've looked through the forums but haven't seen any other threads about this issue. It may be fixable with a reflash, but it sure was 'easy' to 'break' today without even knowing why...:^(
djsaad1 said:
Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
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I have the 3G model. Looking at the instructions in that post, I have to admit I am not sure about a few (like most!) of the steps. It may become more apparent when I am doing it, but right now I am not clear as to where these steps take place.
[edit] Ok, I have just done some more reading and it appears I have quite a bit of work ahead of me, and that's just to get back to square one. Dang this was too easy to mess up!
I am confused now, I figured you would have adb installed since you already tried upgrading to 3.1 a few times.
All you need to do is flash the stock system, recovery, and boot image files.
djsaad1 said:
I am confused now, I figured you would have adb installed since you already tried upgrading to 3.1 a few times.
All you need to do is flash the stock system, recovery, and boot image files.
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Sorry for the confusion, but I haven't been using adb. I was trying to install the update manually with a usb data stick and the microsd cord that came with my Xoom. That's how I got myself into this pickle...way too easy it was!
Sent it back
Thanks to all who helped here. I ended up taking it back to Verizon and asking for a replacement. This they did, and even shipped it overnight at no charge (though I had to ask them to do that--they were going to charge me). The fellow at the counter was as perplexed as me. Apparently this is not a common problem.
I notices a few users have mentioned that they're dealing with trying to restore or unbrick their Continuum after flashing incompatible kernels and other problems.
I made this backup immediately after I got root, before I did anything else, to make absolutely sure I wouldn't be SOL if anything went awry. I've made absolutely certain this works, by unzipping and flashing on my own Continuum prior to uploading. It contains the system, recovery, and kernel partitions.
This file is also helpful if you need to get back to stock for warranty purposes, in which case you can manually un-root by using your favorite file explorer (I happen to prefer ES File Explorer), grant root permissions, mount system as rw, then manually delete SuperUser from /system/apps, su from /system/bin, and busybox from /systen/xbin. I hope this helps some of you who have been stuck.
You don't need to be rooted to flash this. Simply unzip, flash the .tar.md5, and you're golden. If you end up in restore mode after flashing, you probably need to do a hard reset, but this is unlikely as I tested it by flashing this a few times after installing various programs from the Market and never had to do a hard reset.
Don't forget to put your phone in Download mode by removing the battery, then holding the vol down button while inserting the usb cable. Good luck!
http://www.mediafire.com/?a897dbakz4j7k4f
Thanks for this. I had been messing around with the phone. I was able to get it back to stock.
Kay I try to flash this and it's telling me it's an invalid image type
Never mind, I got it. Thanks
Not a problem, glad I could help!
My phone was soft-bricked. This worked like a charm. Thank you so much!
I ran this and everything passed then when i boot up the phone with animations and sound after the animated verizonwireless logo is up for a while; everything goes black.
any suggestions? never mind I had to do a wipe then it worked
kingtuk1 said:
I ran this and everything passed then when i boot up the phone with animations and sound after the animated verizonwireless logo is up for a while; everything goes black.
any suggestions? never mind I had to do a wipe then it worked
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Yup, gotta wipe! At first it's so easy to forget this step. When you get to customizing your installation, you'll get to used to having to wipe it'll become second nature!
I'm so glad to hear this is coming in handy for you all! Now that you got this done, get yourself froyo, courtesy of imnuts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197415
Ok after having installed EC03 Froyo via imnuts's thread. Everything was going fine except for some bugs here and there. Fast forward a couple weeks later and I try to fix those bugs by installing a stock odin rom via torque's thread (seems so foolish now that I look back on it). Which brings me to today and my bricked Continuum.
Well to explain further I tried to install the odin Rom only to receive a FAIL in the end (Selected the md5 file through the PDA option and proceeded to flash). Disconnected afterwards only to find out I can't even get the Samsung logo to show up or the phone to charge, but the phone will still go into download mode.
And this leads me to this thread with the same outcome. I've tried flashing this eclair? image only to end up with the fail message again. After the recovery.bin stage it just says "Complete(write) operation failed." Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Edit: After some searching, gonna try it with imnuts' DL17 image. Will post results.
Edit2: No luck with that either. Guess I'll just wait until the Bionic gets released, but for now I'll have to dig up my dumbphone.
Native89 said:
Ok after having installed EC03 Froyo via imnuts's thread. Everything was going fine except for some bugs here and there. Fast forward a couple weeks later and I try to fix those bugs by installing a stock odin rom via torque's thread (seems so foolish now that I look back on it). Which brings me to today and my bricked Continuum.
Well to explain further I tried to install the odin Rom only to receive a FAIL in the end (Selected the md5 file through the PDA option and proceeded to flash). Disconnected afterwards only to find out I can't even get the Samsung logo to show up or the phone to charge, but the phone will still go into download mode.
And this leads me to this thread with the same outcome. I've tried flashing this eclair? image only to end up with the fail message again. After the recovery.bin stage it just says "Complete(write) operation failed." Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Edit: After some searching, gonna try it with imnuts' DL17 image. Will post results.
Edit2: No luck with that either. Guess I'll just wait until the Bionic gets released, but for now I'll have to dig up my dumbphone.
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Read the OP from pastorbennett here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1203597 and try the unbrick process. You can do a search for pastorbennett and trailblazer. Both have posted "recovery processes", or at least links to others that have posted recovery processes. They've saved my butt a couple of times... Except on my first phone that wouldn't go into DL or Recovery Mode. It would just flash the Samsung logo, over, and over, and over again... That happened before pastorbennett posted the unbrick info. Oh well, Verizon replaced it under the hardware warranty. Thankfully.
Looks like I didn't search hard enough.
Thanks for the link Moon. I will be trying this ASAP.
Hit a little bit of a snag trying to get it to work. It told me to install drivers for my device, however my Phone does not show up in the dropbox and the only related thing I can find is "Gadget Serial".
I've tried uninstalling the drivers, but Win7 is being a fool and automatically installing drivers for me.
Does anyone know why i get a 'FAILED' after trying to flash this with Odin? My phone is soft-bricked btw.
Native89 said:
Looks like I didn't search hard enough.
Thanks for the link Moon. I will be trying this ASAP.
Hit a little bit of a snag trying to get it to work. It told me to install drivers for my device, however my Phone does not show up in the dropbox and the only related thing I can find is "Gadget Serial".
I've tried uninstalling the drivers, but Win7 is being a fool and automatically installing drivers for me.
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Okay, if you can, grab a different computer (either Windows XP or Windows 7) and install the samsung drivers from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1203597. The hint here with ANY Windows computer is to install the device drivers FIRST! (I've been a system administrator for about 20 years.) Then plug in the hardware. It usually makes the installations go MUCH smoother.
If you have to use your computer, try installing the Samsung drivers first, then plug the phone in.
zzir said:
Does anyone know why i get a 'FAILED' after trying to flash this with Odin? My phone is soft-bricked btw.
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The key to odin seems to be this:
1. Start odin.
2. Click the PDA button and select the odin TAR or MD5 file. (You can only do one. Not both.)
3. Make sure the phone is not plugged into the computer.
4. Make doubly sure the phone is not plugged into the computer.
5. Put your phone into download mode. (With the phone off, hold the Volume Down button and turn the phone on.)
6. Then plug the phone into the computer.
7. Start the odin flash and you should be good to go. Also, before unplugging the phone, make sure it says either success or failed. If it doesn't say anything, or says loading (or something like that), WALK AWAY! Go get yourself a cup of coffee, a soda, a nice cup of tea... Something. I recommend waiting at least 10 minutes. If the progress bar has not moved, in that time, okay, then pull the cable and the battery and start again.
I tried to do this, but when it boots into recovery mode, it says update.zip is gone. Any ideas why this might be happening? Also if it's like this, will Verizon take it back within the 14 day return policy without charging me anything?
Tarheel487 said:
I tried to do this, but when it boots into recovery mode, it says update.zip is gone. Any ideas why this might be happening? Also if it's like this, will Verizon take it back within the 14 day return policy without charging me anything?
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Did you flash the CWM Recovery in Odin? (cwm_recovery_test4_adryn.tar) Can be found here if not http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230072
is it possible to flash this with heimdall or only odin?
ntien said:
is it possible to flash this with heimdall or only odin?
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I don't know, however, pastorbennett posted this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16600453&postcount=29. It might help? I use Linux at home to build most of this stuff, then use my wife's Windoze machine to flash. It just seemed easier.
Yes, you can use heimdall, you just need to extract this .tar and put the extracted files in the corresponding location in heimdall xD
Sent from my SCH-I400 using xda premium
yeah i saw that but in heimdall 1.3 the UI is different. i don't know where to put any of the stuff. i have the .tar but i dont know where to put the other stuff. here's a screenshot
Dear forum
I know you guys hate noobs, but unfortunately I am one.
My A500 is stuck on the acer logo screen, and although I have read through many a post, I'm yet to find a noob-friendly tutorial. So help!
What happened? One day my A500 was out of juice. I plugged it for charging and got impatient. Pressed the power button too soon and too hard it seems. The tablet wouldn't boot beyond android screen. Tried soft reset, then hard reset (Power, Volume plus, lock). It reached the cog working android robot with yellow triangle once, and on trying repeatedly, it is now stuck perpetually on the acer logo screen.
So.
What do I do?
Do please break it down for me.
I do have an SD card.
mannubhatt said:
Dear forum
I know you guys hate noobs, but unfortunately I am one.
My A500 is stuck on the acer logo screen, and although I have read through many a post, I'm yet to find a noob-friendly tutorial. So help!
What happened? One day my A500 was out of juice. I plugged it for charging and got impatient. Pressed the power button too soon and too hard it seems. The tablet wouldn't boot beyond android screen. Tried soft reset, then hard reset (Power, Volume plus, lock). It reached the cog working android robot with yellow triangle once, and on trying repeatedly, it is now stuck perpetually on the acer logo screen.
So.
What do I do?
Do please break it down for me.
I do have an SD card.
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Well, you can try this.
Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816560
Scroll down the list till you find the a500 ICS update Roms. Download a couple of them.
Then go here and get the acer update decrypter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869505 instructions for the tool are there.
You may not have to decrypt the Files. They may already be decrypted. You will know when you try to open them using 7zip or Winzip app.
DO Not Extract the files, just open it. Pull the update.zip to your PC desktop.
Copy the update.zip to your Ext SD card. Do not put it in a folder.
Boot your Tab holding Vol+ and PWR untill you see the package installation, then release buttons.
You may have to try 2 or 3 different update files, but one of them should work. They should be FULL Update files (300+mb)
It will install a fresh stock ICS, so if you had a unlocked bootloader, CWM recovery, and user data, say hasta la vista to them.
MD
Thanks @Moscow Desire
Thanks buddy! I am trying this. Downloaded an encrypted ROM earlier, and the decrypter was old, hence couldn't decrypt. Now, I have found a decrypted ICS ROM, and have gotten as far as the green robot with a rotating polyhedron on its tummy and a progress bar. Let's hope this works out fine. Been waiting for the last 40 min and the update progress bar is still at around 25%.
How long do you think this should take?
Moscow Desire said:
Well, you can try this.
Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816560
Scroll down the list till you find the a500 ICS update Roms. Download a couple of them.
Then go here and get the acer update decrypter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869505 instructions for the tool are there.
You may not have to decrypt the Files. They may already be decrypted. You will know when you try to open them using 7zip or Winzip app.
DO Not Extract the files, just open it. Pull the update.zip to your PC desktop.
Copy the update.zip to your Ext SD card. Do not put it in a folder.
Boot your Tab holding Vol+ and PWR untill you see the package installation, then release buttons.
You may have to try 2 or 3 different update files, but one of them should work. They should be FULL Update files (300+mb)
It will install a fresh stock ICS, so if you had a unlocked bootloader, CWM recovery, and user data, say hasta la vista to them.
MD
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Still stuck
Still stuck at the same point, almost 3 hours. Whatever shall I do?
mannubhatt said:
Thanks buddy! I am trying this. Downloaded an encrypted ROM earlier, and the decrypter was old, hence couldn't decrypt. Now, I have found a decrypted ICS ROM, and have gotten as far as the green robot with a rotating polyhedron on its tummy and a progress bar. Let's hope this works out fine. Been waiting for the last 40 min and the update progress bar is still at around 25%.
How long do you think this should take?
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mannubhatt said:
Still stuck at the same point, almost 3 hours. Whatever shall I do?
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Charge your tab, then try a different one.
It seems one won't work, but the other will.
The process shouldn't take but 15 minutes max.
I've heard where some folks had to do it 2 or 3 times with the same update.zip, but I would try a different one. Eventually it will work.
MD
Still struggling
Finding it hard to find either
(a) a working decrypter with a working key ($12 doesn't work anymore it seems)
(b) a decrypted update.zip, not too finicky about the version as long as it works
Do provide a resource for the above if you can.
Moscow Desire said:
Charge your tab, then try a different one.
It seems one won't work, but the other will.
The process shouldn't take but 15 minutes max.
I've heard where some folks had to do it 2 or 3 times with the same update.zip, but I would try a different one. Eventually it will work.
MD
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mannubhatt said:
Finding it hard to find either
(a) a working decrypter with a working key ($12 doesn't work anymore it seems)
(b) a decrypted update.zip, not too finicky about the version as long as it works
Do provide a resource for the above if you can.
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Tell me the name of the Rom files you tried to decrypt, and the download link to them.
I'll check them out. Might already be decrypted.
Looks like it'll take awhile. After downloading, I'll pull the update.zip's and post them for you to a different server. Downloading slow......
EDIT: Decrypter tool works fine. Just decrypted 4 of the update files. You have to wait a couple minutes after hitting the START button. And there's no animation telling you what's going on, but after a couple minutes it finishes. I would also suggest closing and starting the app again after you finish with one. This clears the "Done" message.
MD
Dowmload links for the decrypted update.zip's for the A500. For those having issues using the Decrypter tool..
Note: Remove the build numbers from the filename. They were only added to keep order. Rename to "update.zip"
41-124-01-update.zip
41-125-03-update.zip
41-203-01-update.zip
41-206-01-update.zip
Don't ask me which is better than the other. I don't know. But if you're tab's stuck at the Acer display, a working tab is better than a non-working tab
MD
Thanks
Thanks MD!
(Sorry I was away for a few days).
Gonna try this and let you know what happens.
Thanks again, you're a sweetheart.
Moscow Desire said:
Dowmload links for the decrypted update.zip's for the A500. For those having issues using the Decrypter tool..
Note: Remove the build numbers from the filename. They were only added to keep order. Rename to "update.zip"
41-124-01-update.zip
41-125-03-update.zip
41-203-01-update.zip
41-206-01-update.zip
Don't ask me which is better than the other. I don't know. But if you're tab's stuck at the Acer display, a working tab is better than a non-working tab
MD
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update
Tried rooting with 41-206-01-update.zip
Curiously the progress bar (with Green android robot and rotating polygon) still stuck at around the same place (25%).
Gonna try another of these files and let ya know.
mannubhatt said:
Thanks MD!
(Sorry I was away for a few days).
Gonna try this and let you know what happens.
Thanks again, you're a sweetheart.
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curiouser and curiouser
Trying 41-124-01-update.zip now.
On trying the same, it first came up with the belly up robot with triangle.
On retrying, the update progress bar again stuck at around the same point.
Well, still 2 more of these to try.
I wonder if someone else has faced a problem similar to mine.
mannubhatt said:
Tried rooting with 41-206-01-update.zip
Curiously the progress bar (with Green android robot and rotating polygon) still stuck at around the same place (25%).
Gonna try another of these files and let ya know.
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Hoping one of them will work
Stuck at the Acer logo, usually represents 1 thing. Bad data in the Data partition. (corruption). Usually, runing one of the updates (some of them don't work) will set everything in order.
If not, well, not looking good.
MD
Ok. Tried all four. All of them get stuck at exactly the same point during the update progress.
Now, I'm stalled.
Any ideas, anyone?
Moscow Desire said:
Hoping one of them will work
Stuck at the Acer logo, usually represents 1 thing. Bad data in the Data partition. (corruption). Usually, runing one of the updates (some of them don't work) will set everything in order.
If not, well, not looking good.
MD
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Well, the "normal easy method" didn't work.
Ok, check this post. Guy had more or less the same issue. In the end, he started running EUU roms. EUU roms are exe files rum from the PC while connected to your tablet.
You can download them from the same sticky post in the Dev forum I believe.
It's the "flash everything" approach. Basically, he wound up back on HC 3.2, which is ok as you can normal OTA update to ICS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31572588&postcount=6
MD
Thanks, MD.
Will try this and let you know either way.
Thanks for your time. Highly appreciated.
Moscow Desire said:
Well, the "normal easy method" didn't work.
Ok, check this post. Guy had more or less the same issue. In the end, he started running EUU roms. EUU roms are exe files rum from the PC while connected to your tablet.
You can download them from the same sticky post in the Dev forum I believe.
It's the "flash everything" approach. Basically, he wound up back on HC 3.2, which is ok as you can normal OTA update to ICS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31572588&postcount=6
MD
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Moscow,
I was also in the same boat, my tab was stuck at ACER screen after I rebooted one day.
I had NO custom ROM, everything was stock except I had root...
I followed your directions here and it works!!! :good::good::good::good:
I have followed your posts over the past year and appreciate you and everyone else here.
One question about those 4 packages you posted, everything is now stock? Stock ROM and Stock bootloader, etc...?
Just want to make sure!
Thanks again!!!
Malachi
hey cuban
Can you guide me to the stock ROM you used to reboot your tablet?
cubanorafter said:
Moscow,
I was also in the same boat, my tab was stuck at ACER screen after I rebooted one day.
I had NO custom ROM, everything was stock except I had root...
I followed your directions here and it works!!! :good::good::good::good:
I have followed your posts over the past year and appreciate you and everyone else here.
One question about those 4 packages you posted, everything is now stock? Stock ROM and Stock bootloader, etc...?
Just want to make sure!
Thanks again!!!
Malachi
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cubanorafter said:
Moscow,
I was also in the same boat, my tab was stuck at ACER screen after I rebooted one day.
I had NO custom ROM, everything was stock except I had root...
I followed your directions here and it works!!! :good::good::good::good:
I have followed your posts over the past year and appreciate you and everyone else here.
One question about those 4 packages you posted, everything is now stock? Stock ROM and Stock bootloader, etc...?
Just want to make sure!
Thanks again!!!
Malachi
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No problem!
Yeah, you're going to be back on stock bootloader and no CWM. However, you're up and running!
MD
Moscow Desire said:
Dowmload links for the decrypted update.zip's for the A500. For those having issues using the Decrypter tool..
Note: Remove the build numbers from the filename. They were only added to keep order. Rename to "update.zip"
41-124-01-update.zip
41-125-03-update.zip
41-203-01-update.zip
41-206-01-update.zip
Don't ask me which is better than the other. I don't know. But if you're tab's stuck at the Acer display, a working tab is better than a non-working tab
MD
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Mannubhat, I downloaded all four of these but the first one I tried worked.
41-124-01-update., renamed to update, put on root of sdcard, boot tab volume+ and power, and that was it.
Good luck!
Already tried my man. Didn't work.
You lucky you.
cubanorafter said:
Mannubhat, I downloaded all four of these but the first one I tried worked.
41-124-01-update., renamed to update, put on root of sdcard, boot tab volume+ and power, and that was it.
Good luck!
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Elite thanks in advance. No, seriously, thanks. I'm a broke single parent of 2 kids and I realized my phone is about my only guilty pleasure after giving my kids 200% of my time and money. Any help would be appreciated.
I have an LG G2 that I apparently bricked by using an app to "freeze" the latest OTA software update that was pushed to my ATT LG G2 about a month + ago if not slightly longer. I unfroze the process and the update suddenly appeared and said it would reboot the phone and or apply the update it in 30 seconds. I panicked and held the power button in to turn the phone off.
Once the phone was turned back on I was greeted with tiny white text that said "error: Boot certification verify" From here I was unable to get into down load mode, do a hard reset. I was able to see fast boot mode but wasn't sure what to do with it. I was able to see the phone in Windows 7 Pro Sp1 device manager but it was listed as QHSUSB_BULK
After initially freaking out which lasted about 20 mins, I was able to compose myself and start researching my new seemingly serious problem. After a few hours of reading a dozen or so treads / hundreds of replies it seemed I would have to load into Ubuntu and push some files to my LG G2.
I followed this guide - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
I was very careful to follow this guide to the letter and everything went as expected the first, 2nd and 3rd time only the results were worse and worse and worse.
The first time I lost fast boot, the 2nd time I lost the boot certification verify error, After the 3rd attempt I get a split second LG Logo and that's it. What did I do during those 3 attempts? The first time, the 4 files and the recovery as directed. The 2nd time, the same files, plus the boot.img and a different recovery. The 3rd time, all the files and yet a different recovery. All the files were pulled from here - http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G2/D800
The other recovery.imgs were for the correct model, just older, newer variants. I was very careful to push the right files to the right partitions.
I can still see the phone via Ubuntu. I'm scared to do anything else along the lines of what I've been doing. In fact I'm lost as to what to do next.
Can anyone here help me push more / different files via Ubuntu that would help bring my phone back to life? I'm completely dead in the water. Or perhaps an exe package / program that can fix my problem? If I sound stupid, it's because this is all new to me.
Thanks in advance, Tom
@rthefley Go back to the autoprime downloads and get the boot, aboot and laf image. Follow the ubuntu guide and flash those images only.
@art
Thank you for taking the time to stop and help me. I greatly appreciate it. I followed your instructions and pushed those 3 files in the order you gave me. Results were the same, nothing. I still get a very brief LG logo but nothing more. I can get into the hard reset but it does nothing as well.
Here are pics I took of the files and directories from my phone connected via usb through Ubuntu. There are a few wrong commands, ignore them. GF was behind me talking and I wasn't focused. I can assure you the proper cmds were given when it counted.
Well ....... I guess I cannot post links ............. so they are edited out. I wanted to show that my highest number was sbe43 so I had to use sbe
Im using the files from the D800 dir which is the ATT LG G2. Or should I tried another directory or files? I can still access the phone via Ubuntu ... THANK GOD
I am still hopeful.
rthefley said:
@art
Thank you for taking the time to stop and help me. I greatly appreciate it. I followed your instructions and pushed those 3 files in the order you gave me. Results were the same, nothing. I still get a very brief LG logo but nothing more. I can get into the hard reset but it does nothing as well.
Here are pics I took of the files and directories from my phone connected via usb through Ubuntu. There are a few wrong commands, ignore them. GF was behind me talking and I wasn't focused. I can assure you the proper cmds were given when it counted.
Well ....... I guess I cannot post links ............. so they are edited out. I wanted to show that my highest number was sbe43 so I had to use sbe
Im using the files from the D800 dir which is the ATT LG G2. Or should I tried another directory or files? I can still access the phone via Ubuntu ... THANK GOD
I am still hopeful.
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In that case, you should try to push a recovery image, too!
Raymonf said:
In that case, you should try to push a recovery image, too!
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I've pushed 4 or 5 different recovery images. Should I try something different than the recovery images suggested? I am willing to try anything at this point.
rthefley said:
I've pushed 4 or 5 different recovery images. Should I try something different than the recovery images suggested? I am willing to try anything at this point.
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Did you lokify them?
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Did you lokify them?
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@Raymonf first let me thank you for taking the time to try and help me sort out my ... what I consider a serious issue. Thank you!
I've not read about lokify. So I am not sure what that is but I can absolutely tell you, I'm a great listener. I've spent 12 or 13 hours reading all over the internet, tread after tread and post after post. So I somehow missed the instructions on lokifying the files.
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rthefley said:
@Raymonf first let me thank you for taking the time to try and help me sort out my ... what I consider a serious issue. Thank you!
I've not read about lokify. So I am not sure what that is but I can absolutely tell you, I'm a great listener. I've spent 12 or 13 hours reading all over the internet, tread after tread and post after post. So I somehow missed the instructions on lokifying the files.
Tom
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Okay, are you now able to go into download mode?
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Art Vanderlay said:
Okay, are you now able to go into download mode?
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No, I've never been able to get into the download mode.
The only way I can access my phone is via Ubuntu. Hard Reset doest work even though I can get to that screen and initiate the process, it doesn't complete.
One other person that's also trying to help me out asked if I've lokify those img files. No I haven't. I've not come across those instructions yet. Would that make a difference?
I also sent you a private PM with links to pics I took of my directory structure from my ATT LG G2 via usb / Ubuntu
rthefley said:
No, I've never been able to get into the download mode.
The only way I can access my phone is via Ubuntu. Hard Reset doest work even though I can get to that screen and initiate the process, it doesn't complete.
One other person that's also trying to help me out asked if I've lokify those img files. No I haven't. I've not come across those instructions yet. Would that make a difference?
I also sent you a private PM with links to pics I took of my directory structure from my ATT LG G2 via usb / Ubuntu
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Your directories are fine. But if you successfully flashed those 3 partitions, you should Have a working download mode. Make sure you fully power off the phone, you might have to hold the button down for a while.
Art Vanderlay said:
Your directories are fine. But if you successfully flashed those 3 partitions, you should Have a working download mode. Make sure you fully power off the phone, you might have to hold the button down for a while.
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Yes I'm pretty sure it's completely powered off. I will try again but I've held the power button in for several several seconds and saw the screen go solid black. I've flashed those 3 files just as instructed. Nothing is working sadly. Maybe I am missing some key procedure others take for granted that I just personally do not know about
Is there anything else I could try doing? I'm going in circles here.
Do your results match the one in the forum when you type gdisk -l /dev/sdb in the terminal.? Also is your fastboot still gone.?
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LilDemon124 said:
Do your results match the one in the forum when you type gdisk -l /dev/sdb in the terminal.? Also is your fastboot still gone.?
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No they are different, I actually gdisked all of the different letters but I have an sda,c,b and e, I even have have an sde1. All the numbers follow sde however up to 42 or 43. So when I gdisk -l /dev/sde that's when I see all the files.
I've tried to gdisk sdb but I get a mbr / gpt or something error saying something is corrupted so I just leave it alone.
Should I be looking at a different letter then? If so, I can't seem to get into any of them other than the one I mentioned, sde
Guys, I'm now offering a $40 paypal bounty directly to your pocket or a donation to this web site for help allowing me to get back into my phone.
I will try my best to help you. Im at work, but will be home soon so that I can do some snooping.. From what your saying you MIGHT have a corrupt storage OR you might have a corrupt file.
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Im going to have to work on this a bit later. Worked all day. I'm still here and around just need to get a little sleep before I even think of trying to dive into this again. Thanks.
I have the update installed on my tablet right now. I pulled the update from cache and am working on uploading the file now.
and here it is
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_zOoAATV12ZNmVpb1BISndoWkU/view?usp=sharing
Restore to completely stock 4.4.4 here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
Also just had the system update notice on my gpe, downloading now. Hope it is a good update on the gpad
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What if I am rooted
Would it be a problem to get back root? I actually need to be rooted for some stuff I do at work. I ask because I do not see a big developer presence for this tablet.
vtmike said:
I have the update installed on my tablet right now. I pulled the update from cache and am working on uploading the file now.
and here it is
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_zOoAATV12ZNmVpb1BISndoWkU/view?usp=sharing
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I got the OTA but I had forgotten that I still had TWRP installed even though I'm on the stock 4.4.4 rom and not rooted anymore. TWRP interfered with the install and now it says my system is already up to date! Grrr.
Would it work if I just flashed your file via TWRP?
kuboa said:
I got the OTA but I had forgotten that I still had TWRP installed even though I'm on the stock 4.4.4 rom and not rooted anymore. TWRP interfered with the install and now it says my system is already up to date! Grrr.
Would it work if I just flashed your file via TWRP?
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I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
vtmike said:
I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
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Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected that much and I've been trying to find a "back to stock recovery" tutorial for the last hour but failing, so I really appreciate the link. Cheers.
kuboa said:
Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected that much and I've been trying to find a "back to stock recovery" tutorial for the last hour but failing, so I really appreciate the link. Cheers.
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No problem. It was a bit frustrating to get everything to work and not very straight forward process. Would be much easier to just push the stock recovery in fast boot, but I couldn't find a file anywhere. It may be possible to extract it from the tot file from that thread but I couldn't figure it out.
vtmike said:
No problem. It was a bit frustrating to get everything to work and not very straight forward process. Would be much easier to just push the stock recovery in fast boot, but I couldn't find a file anywhere. It may be possible to extract it from the tot file from that thread but I couldn't figure it out.
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Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
schalmers said:
Also just had the system update notice on my gpe, downloading now. Hope it is a good update on the gpad
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Check to see under device manager if the driver is set to com41, and the other thing I mentioned previously, get to the point that photo is at without the tablet plugged in, then when it says ready plug it in.
kuboa said:
Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
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I have an error during update. And now the update notification is gone after restarted the tablet
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Would be great if someone could get this working for the V500.
chding said:
I have an error during update. And now the update notification is gone after restarted the tablet
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You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
vtmike said:
You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
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Any idea where can I get the factory image?
My update finally works!
My Gpe Gpad only has root and Xposed. I uninstalled Xposed and removed root but OTA was still failing with a generic 'ERROR' message. No details. However, when I sideloaded the update, I got the message "system/etc/permissions/platform.xml has unexpected contents". I figured out which app modifies this file. It's called Kitkat SDFix. This Play Store app modifies this file to enable read/write access for external sdcards. The developer makes a backup of the original platform.xml file (in the same location - system/etc/permissions/). So all you need to do is rename the modified platform.xml into anything else and rename the original backup back to platform.xml. You'll need a root explorer to achieve that.
After that the OTA works fine for me. Hope this helps someone else. Not that I had no custom recoveries or kernels so this process is for people who only had root and Xposed.
vtmike said:
I had a similar situation. It does not work with twrp. I followed this thread to get completely back to stock 4.4.4 and then adb pushed the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2910570
V510 4.4.4 .tot
Also, there seems to one thing left out of the instructions. Don't plug your phone into the USB until after sitting up the file paths in lgflashtool and hitting the arrow to begin the flash. After the message reads ready, then plug in the phone.
Although you initially have to connect the USB to set up the driver before getting to the above step. Its a tricky process and took me a little while to get to work.
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From this thread mentioned earlier.
chding said:
Any idea where can I get the factory image?
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You have to make sure you have completely stock 4.4.4 and recovery for it to work.
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vtmike said:
From this thread mentioned earlier.
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Thanks mate. I was using this restoration instead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-...510-gpe-4-4-4-ktu84p-l002-stock-twrp-t2797883
and follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575783 to boot twrp
kuboa said:
Same here, no stock recovery anywhere. When I first bought the tablet I thought it was gonna have developer support like crazy, but no, it hasn't gained much traction unfortunately.
I'm doing the LG FlashTool thingy, but I don't see any movement in the tool. The tablet is in Download Mode and the tool looks like this: http://gyazo.com/47c9009fc9f90bffa582890d0a8e1587 No feedback whatsoever... is it working? Should I just be patient, do you think?
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Same here. Uninstalled LG drivers, cleaned up drivers in device manager (Win 8.1), still stuck. I'm clicking the yellow arrow, then plugging in.
Colchiro said:
Same here. Uninstalled LG drivers, cleaned up drivers in device manager (Win 8.1), still stuck. I'm clicking the yellow arrow, then plugging in.
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When you plug in the tablet it shows up as LG-something-something in Windows Device Manager. It was showing up as COM4 though, after changing that to COM41 I didn't have problems anymore. Did you do that first? The option is buried under a menu a couple of clicks down but it's there.
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Check to see under device manager if the driver is set to com41, and the other thing I mentioned previously, get to the point that photo is at without the tablet plugged in, then when it says ready plug it in.
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Thanks for the tips. I was able to restore to stock with your link and apply the 5.0 update. The port was off on mine, so that tripped me up a bit at first.
Trying to go back to stock but having problems with the LG Flash Tool giving me the Download user image is only available in the online environment!! error message. Any ideas?
Edit: Never mind. Got it working.