Hi folks,
It appears that I managed to soft-brick my device, while trying to revert everything back to stock.
To make a long story short, I'm working by efrant's guide, but once I try to flash the radio, it takes ages and doesn't really go anywhere, i'm waiting more than 20 minutes now.
In addition to the bootloader (which is unlocked and the computer recognizes), I can also access the recovery (TWRP) - BUT, when I tried to wipe all the data, it wiped stuff and then claimed that there's no OS installed. when I rebooted my device, it got stuck on google's logo and I had to force reboot into bootloader again.
Luckily, the bootloader is the only thing that currently works in this phone, whilst the recovery keeps "claiming" that there is no OS installed and i can't really do something with it.
so i try to flash the bootloader, it works. once i try to flash the radio, it gets stuck. i try to flash system.img, the same.
What do I do?
A lot of thanks in advance!
*update* - I managed to flash it back to stock, eventually. yey.
just flash any ROM and Gapps and It should work.
My G2 continues to boot to twrp. I have tried to flash a new rom and it says it is successful but reboots to twrp. I have also tried to restore from two back ups and again says successful but reboots twrp again. A software update came out today and accidentally hit to push and from that point all the phone wants to do is go to twrp. Any ideas on what I have to do to make the phone usable again?
So I am going to trade in my phone soon and as part of it I need to go back to stock. I was on a stock rooted ROM for today and when I got home I saw it had a software update. I figured Id just install it but then after clicking on it remembered that I would lose root in the upgrade and didnt want to deal with that. It had booted me into TWRP as soon as I clicked on the update and so I just turned the phone off and then on cause I figured nothing tried to actually install so it would be fine. Instead of booting the OS, it booted straight into TWRP. So I figured it had set a flag and wouldnt boot unless the update finished installing, so I would just wipe everything and re-flash a new ROM again. Did that, but I still boot straight into TWRP. Can anyone help me get back to a bootable OS state where I can use the phone again? I know it is kinda retarded to click on a software update on a rooted device, but I never thought it would completely break my ability to boot and still wouldnt even work if I wiped everything and re-installed the ROM or tried a different ROM.
My guess is that as soon as I clicked on the update it set a flag in the bootloader itself, because this issue persists even after wiping and flashing. And if I try to boot into the bootloader it actually boots me into TWRP. Should I try to use ADB in recovery and push a flashable bootloader onto the device and then try re-flashing the bootloader?
So i just did the new update on my V20 and it sent me straight to TWRP and i cant get out of it. It always boots into TWRP. What can i do? ive already tried a factory reset and restoring my back up and nada. Help please.
Its now looking for stock boot image which on yours is currently modified with system rooted.
Try using lgbridge to repairs your boot image or if you have it flash the stock boot image using fast boot command or do a factory reset while in twrp then flash entire stock image with lgbridge.
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somemadcaaant said:
Its now looking for stock boot image which on yours is currently modified with system rooted.
Try using lgbridge to repairs your boot image or if you have it flash the stock boot image using fast boot command or do a factory while in twrp then flash entire stock image with lgbridge.
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Yeah none of those work. The OS is setting off some sort of flag that states it must go into recovery and wont stop going into recovery until that flag is changed which I assume is done by the update. I tried updating with UPPERCUT/LGUP and it errors out at 4%. So right now it's still stuck
It didnt install the update
type
Code:
fastboot erase fota
from bootloader and see if it boots after that.
This will for sure fix you up...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/how-fixed-bricked-lg-v20-t3501310
listen to me2151
delete fota and then pull battery and reboot.
ota's downloaded to the fota folder will cause endless twrp loop.
freeze ota in system/privapps to avoid this again.
Sorry to post on here, but maybe we can get a few tips from each other.
Im also stuck at TWRP. I installed a ROM and went back and forth between both ROMS. After about 4 times of going back and forth between ROMS, my pattern didn't recognize on boot with my original backup and daily. I tried my pattern over 10 times and it wiped everything on me. The strange part was I was swiping my pattern 100% and it failed. Also, my tries were going up and down. It would say I have 6 tries left before my phone wipes, then I would stop anjd turn the screen off, and the screen would say I have 3 tries left, then 5 tries left. My tries were inconsistent, and it finally wiped everything.
I am now stuck on TWRP with no luck of restoring. I flashed the vs995 boot image and system image and it goes back to TWRP. I factory reset, wiped everything, made sure the system folder was clean, then flashed both images again and the same thing, no luck.
I also tried to restore with LGUP, but keeps stopping at 9%. I extracted the dll and copied it into the common folder and I get the same thing.
Error: Error Code = 0x2000, Flashing Fail
When I plug the phone into my computer it shows us996 and not vs995. Strange.
Any help would be amazing.
EDIT: Figured it out!
So, I extracted the dll file from the kdz file and I had to replace it with the one in the common folder. My error was not renaming the file, so the LGUP would stop at 9%. Make sure you pull the file, rename it, remove the old file from the folder, and flash on LGUP.
leyvatron said:
Sorry to post on here, but maybe we can get a few tips from each other.
Im also stuck at TWRP. I installed a ROM and went back and forth between both ROMS. After about 4 times of going back and forth between ROMS, my pattern didn't recognize on boot with my original backup and daily. I tried my pattern over 10 times and it wiped everything on me. The strange part was I was swiping my pattern 100% and it failed. Also, my tries were going up and down. It would say I have 6 tries left before my phone wipes, then I would stop anjd turn the screen off, and the screen would say I have 3 tries left, then 5 tries left. My tries were inconsistent, and it finally wiped everything.
I am now stuck on TWRP with no luck of restoring. I flashed the vs995 boot image and system image and it goes back to TWRP. I factory reset, wiped everything, made sure the system folder was clean, then flashed both images again and the same thing, no luck.
I also tried to restore with LGUP, but keeps stopping at 9%. I extracted the dll and copied it into the common folder and I get the same thing.
Error: Error Code = 0x2000, Flashing Fail
When I plug the phone into my computer it shows us996 and not vs995. Strange.
Any help would be amazing.
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why dont you try flash custom rom?
rowihel2012 said:
why dont you try flash custom rom?
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Tried and no luck. Stuck in TWRP.
akobirovruslan said:
So i just did the new update on my V20 and it sent me straight to TWRP and i cant get out of it. It always boots into TWRP. What can i do? ive already tried a factory reset and restoring my back up and nada. Help please.
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Have you tried booting into twrp manually and reflashing twrp again? Try that
THIS WILL FIX YOUR TWRP BOOTLOOP. Tried and true. Follow step-by-step.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/how-fixed-bricked-lg-v20-t3501310
i did this it worked https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/lg-v20-access-to-fastboot-t3557328
I was running xXx 4.5, and decided to "upgrade" to 5.0.
I did the usual, wiped data/system, then flashed.
I got stuck in a bootloop, and found I had to double back and wipe /data.
I did that, got stuck at the boot animation.
If I go back to recovery, all the data is jumbled, I assume encrypted? I flashed a different twrp for 8.0 compatibility, no change.
I can't push/sideload anything (roms, recovery zips sideload fine), it fails.
So I flashed the stock recovery in fastboot, rebooted there, and tried to sideload via adb the stock 8.0 flash files.
Now it works at it for a few minutes and just comes back as "Installation Failed".
Where do I go next? All i can get to is recovery, fastboot, bootloader.
I've already factory reset/wiped everything, so don't care if I lose anything anymore.
Help?
Thanks.
It appears I found a solution, just a few posts below my own! I hate it when that happens.
Anyways ,
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75364805&postcount=7
seems to have got the ball rolling, I was able to copy files to my phone while in twrp, which I couldn't do before, and currently have xXx installing. The first time it installed it didn't ask about encrypted/decrypted and didn't give me any warnings, this time it did.
xXx still won't boot after flashing, trying stock full flash file..
edit 2: Was able to flash full oneplus update file and boot. had to do a factory reset after rebooting as it was crashing a ton and wouldn't get through setup. It's been running fine since though. Now I'm a little skittish to try again, there are some root features I'd really like to still have.
I have a OnePlus 5 phone stuck in the Fastboot mode, been contacting them for days now but I still keep hearing the same excuses that the matter has been escalated to their tier 2 tech support team Nd would be contacted. Please is there a way to copy files off the phone in this state before it's flashed?