need help with rooting my at&t lg v20 - LG V20 Questions & Answers

ok so i just bought my v20 yesterday and i tried to root it, i did the adb and fastboot method and it seems like everything went fine but when the phone booted back up it shows the lg logo then it goes to the at&t logo and its stuck there, what should i do? did i brick my phone or what? or does it just take a long time for the twrp recovery to boot?

ayo2001 said:
ok so i just bought my v20 yesterday and i tried to root it, i did the adb and fastboot method and it seems like everything went fine but when the phone booted back up it shows the lg logo then it goes to the at&t logo and its stuck there, what should i do? did i brick my phone or what? or does it just take a long time for the twrp recovery to boot?
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Does ADB detect the device
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First boot usually takes about 20 minutes on Sprint variant, not sure if it's the same for AT&T.

At&t requires an extra step from the opp I got stuck there too but if ADB detects the device you can flash a working boot .img in twrp by typing adb reboot recovery which is easier than fastboot. Here is the step just in case
me2151 said:
It has come to my attention that some users have encountered abnormally long first boot time(over 20 minutes before first time setup)
To resolve this issue:
Boot into bootloader by pulling the battery and reinserting it and holding VOL- and phugging in the phone. then typing:
Code:
fastboot flash boot bootbackup.img
fastboot reboot
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It should work after that
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daw41 said:
At&t requires an extra step from the opp I got stuck there too but if ADB detects the device you can flash a working boot .img in twrp by typing adb reboot recovery which is easier than fastboot. Here is the step just in case
It should work after that
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sorry for being a noob, but where do i type in the code once i have it in fastboot? i have the phone in fastboot now

ayo2001 said:
sorry for being a noob, but where do i type in the code once i have it in fastboot? i have the phone in fastboot now
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In your computers command prompt
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daw41 said:
In your computers command prompt
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ok i did that and now it looks like this

ayo2001 said:
ok i did that and now it looks like this
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Great that's the static boot screen have you been to your recovery yet
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daw41 said:
Great that's the static boot screen have you been to your recovery yet
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no, i dont believe so, from what i can see it looks like its at the setup screen, did i do something wrong?

ayo2001 said:
no, i dont believe so, from what i can see it looks like its at the setup screen, did i do something wrong?
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No you're in the right place open your ADB command prompt on your computer intake ADB reboot recovery and you should reboot into TWRP
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daw41 said:
No you're in the right place open your ADB command prompt on your computer intake ADB reboot recovery and you should reboot into TWRP
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adb command prompt? you mean cmd? or do you mean something else

ayo2001 said:
adb command prompt? you mean cmd? or do you mean something else
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Yes it is the same input window that you used in fastboot mode
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daw41 said:
Yes it is the same input window that you used in fastboot mode
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now the stupid thing says "error device not found" even though i have it plugged into my computer, do i have to have it in fast boot mode right now?

ayo2001 said:
now the stupid thing says "error device not found" even though i have it plugged into my computer, do i have to have it in fast boot mode right now?
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No you don't it's just not far enough along in the Android is starting screen be patient try the command again in about 5 minutes
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daw41 said:
No you don't it's just not far enough along in the is starting screen be patient try the command again in about 5 minutes
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ugh, im getting really fustrated, i keep trying but i keep getting errors, i see its still at the setup screen on my phone, its still got the static on it but i cant do the command, can you tell me if im doing anything wrong in the picture?

ayo2001 said:
ugh, im getting really fustrated, i keep trying but i keep getting errors, i see its still at the setup screen on my phone, its still got the static on it but i cant do the command, can you tell me if im doing anything wrong in the picture?
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ok i managed to get the static off the screen, i went through the setup and everything, i got to my desktop re enabled debugging and everything, i typed in the adb reboot recovery command, it restarted the phone, i got a static screen for a couple of minutes then it took me back to the lockscreen, what do i do now?

ayo2001 said:
ok i managed to get the static off the screen, i went through the setup and everything, i got to my desktop re enabled debugging and everything, i typed in the adb reboot recovery command, it restarted the phone, i got a static screen for a couple of minutes then it took me back to the lockscreen, what do i do now?
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Just to be sure you haven't been to TWRP you haven't wiped data you haven't done any of that
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daw41 said:
Just to be sure you haven't been to TWRP you haven't wiped data you haven't done any of that
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yes I have wiped my data i just havent been to twrp recovery yet, should i see a red triangle or something?

ayo2001 said:
yes I have wiped my data i just havent been to twrp recovery yet, should i see a red triangle or something?
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Go back to fastboot mode and rerun step 3 it sounds like TWRP wasn't installed on your device
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daw41 said:
Go back to fastboot mode and rerun step 3 it sounds like TWRP wasn't installed on your device
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yes i do believe you are right, i remember seeing an error when doing step 3 about twrp, do i not have the img file in the wrong place or something?

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oppo find 5 doesn't find recovery

hello, i have a big problem
Yesterday, i flashed new firefly rom and my phone doesn't enter in recovery.
I try to reboot into recovery with fastboot, trying to flash another recovery but it stucks on logo fastboot
When i try to enter in recovery, i find words in photo.
However i can enter operative system, and my objective is get root in fastboot and then enter in recovery. Is there a guide? thanks
ryder_r said:
hello, i have a big problem
Yesterday, i flashed new firefly rom and my phone doesn't enter in recovery.
I try to reboot into recovery with fastboot, trying to flash another recovery but it stucks on logo fastboot
When i try to enter in recovery, i find words in photo.
However i can enter operative system, and my objective is get root in fastboot and then enter in recovery. Is there a guide? thanks
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problem solved.
If you would enter in recovery with latest firefly 3194, push volume down and shutdown buttons.
At the begin it seems phone stucks on boot logo oppo find but wait some minutes without press buttons and it automatically enters in cwm recovery.
Then at reboot, it stucks on that chinese words, to overcame them, I pressed shutdown button with volume down for some seconds, or only shutdown button and then starts.
where you able to get everything sorted?
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Coreym said:
where you able to get everything sorted?
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I've tried every possible way to enter in recovery, and what i've just to do was only to wait more or less 100 sec. However it's strange why phone doesn't enter in recovery via fastboot. When i put commands on cmd, it continues stuck on fastboot mod despite cmd says "rebooting"
I guess i need to hold from flashing firefly
ryder_r said:
I've tried every possible way to enter in recovery, and what i've just to do was only to wait more or less 100 sec. However it's strange why phone doesn't enter in recovery via fastboot. When i put commands on cmd, it continues stuck on fastboot mod despite cmd says "rebooting"
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Yeah, got in same situation after firefly OTA update(prev. chinese version), though I got a brick LOL
This was introduced by the 2013.05.09 update(OTA or full ROM) and the trick is indeed to wait a bit more on that screen message, maybe a fellow from China help us understand what it says in that message.
The message u got is put by Oppo to overwrite the custom recovery image with the stock one.
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ryder_r said:
The message u got is put by Oppo to overwrite the custom recovery image with the stock one.
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Yep, figured that, but what it say?
recovery should still be there, it just takes awhile..
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Had the same issue and i thought i have to put cwm on it again
Thanks for the advice
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I got this messages after trying to flash PFF from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275447&page=10
Actually, is there a PFF rom confirmed to get properly installed?
Desiredrive said:
I got this messages after trying to flash PFF from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275447&page=10
Actually, is there a PFF rom confirmed to get properly installed?
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it is already under development
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ryder_r said:
it is already under development
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So i can't even install the chinesse beta?
Desiredrive said:
So i can't even install the chinesse beta?
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Yes you can but have to install playstore and language is in english
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bricked phone!

can anyone please help? I flashed the incorrect rom and phone will not boot, it goes to lg logo then enters fastboot mode, have tried entering recovery using the botton combination but I end up in fastboot, I have tried entering download mode but after about two seconds I end up in fastboot mode. I have a d800 lg g2, any help? I think root and twrp are gone from the rom
theinspector said:
can anyone please help? I flashed the incorrect rom and phone will not boot, it goes to lg logo then enters fastboot mode, have tried entering recovery using the botton combination but I end up in fastboot, I have tried entering download mode but after about two seconds I end up in fastboot mode. I have a d800 lg g2, any help? I think root and twrp are gone from the rom
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477595
Search, Search, Search, and Search.....
casual_kikoo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477595
Search, Search, Search, and Search.....
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I did this and same problem. download mode shows up for a bit then goes into fastboot mode
Then google search how to fastboot commands to flash new rom via fastboot.
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lingarajug said:
Then google search how to fastboot commands to flash new rom via fastboot.
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tried this and also tried fastboot commands for twrp, and it says booting or flashing failed dtb not found
Then probably remove battery for few minutes and then try again, i am not sure if this would help.
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lingarajug said:
Then probably remove battery for few minutes and then try again, i am not sure if this would help.
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I have the d800, which has no removable battery. I powered it down a while with no luck
Yes it does all u have to do is flip back cover gently look in youtube videos
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Rebooting Phone Goes to Bootloader

I recovered from bricking my phone, but a new problem popped up: when I reboot my phone, it boots into the Bootloader screen. I have to manually start.
How do I make the phone boot normally?
Details:
Rooted
Went to stock, re-rooted phone, reinstalled TWRP
Nandroid restored to last good save.
Running rooted Stock February 2016 update.
Anyone? It really is annoying: it always reboots to the screen with the green bot has it's gut panel open. I am not telling it to reboot into the bootloader screen.
sunNsnow said:
Anyone? It really is annoying: it always reboots to the screen with the green bot has it's gut panel open. I am not telling it to reboot into the bootloader screen.
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Try this- with the phone in bootloader connect to PC and try commands:
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
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DonKilluminati23 said:
Try this- with the phone in bootloader connect to PC and try commands:
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
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:good::good::good: THANK YOU!!!
Worked like a charm.
sunNsnow said:
:good::good::good: THANK YOU!!!
Worked like a charm.
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You're welcome [emoji106]
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[BRICK] Nexus 7 (2012) wont turn OFF (yes!!), Bricked at Boot, Cant access Recovery

The current state of my tablet is quite curious: Its stuck on Google logo and it will be this way until the battery completely drains.
What I've tried:
- Holding the Power button shuts it down for 1 second...then it boots right back up by itself.
- Recovery (POWER+VOL DOWN) doesnt work, it goes straight to Google screen.
- Connecting via USB to the computer, Windows doesnt recognize the device.
In fact, the only way I found to Turn the Tablet off is popping the back cover and unplugging the battery cable. I've left it unplugged at night, hoping it would clear some sort of Cache, didnt work. Also I've tried unplugging the battery cable, plugging it back and Turning it on with POWER+VOL DOWN in hopes of acessing recovery but it goes straight to Google screen.
Additional Info:
- This happened while I was trying to downgrade from 5.1 to 4.4.4.
- My device is the LTE version of N7 2012
- My device is currently rooted.
@RavenEffect hold down the power button for at least 20 seconds to turn it off, 1 second is not enough
How did you try to downgrade? Probably flashing went wrong? In worst cases the bootloader was erased during downgrade ... in that case ther will be no hope.
AndDiSa said:
@RavenEffect hold down the power button for at least 20 seconds to turn it off, 1 second is not enough.
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1 second is the ammount of time the tablet remains off, not the ammount of time i've pressed it. Yes, I've held it 20 seconds obviously.
AndDiSa said:
How did you try to downgrade? Probably flashing went wrong? In worst cases the bootloader was erased during downgrade ... in that case ther will be no hope.
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Followed this guide right here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz6x7k-VkpUJU09paVM5cmh2Xzg/view
All the steps worked until the fastboot flash boot .\boot.img command. Sometimes it would get stuck on the command prompt and the tablet was frozen in Recovery Mode. I had to close the command Prompt, reboot the tablet into recovery again and Flashing another thing first, like recovery and system and THEN i would flash the boot.img.
So theres no hope?
First of all which factory image package did you use?
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AndDiSa said:
First of all which factory image package did you use?
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The one indicated on the guide, named razorg-mob30x-factory-10b7ca08.zip, the link is in the guide link also.
I suppose you have flashed the Nexus 7(2013) images onto your Nexus 7(2012) device ... that's not a good idea.
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AndDiSa said:
I suppose you have flashed the Nexus 7(2013) images onto your Nexus 7(2012) device ... that's not a good idea.
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Oh Crap, really? Is there a fix?
Yup, same deal here, not done by me. Now I am stuck in APX mode and I need to somehow flash bootloader back into the tablet. Please, don't tell me there isn't any way to do this...
RavenEffect said:
Oh Crap, really? Is there a fix?
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Have you tried flashing the images google gives on their website? (they also give a helpful guide)
Charles IV said:
Have you tried flashing the images google gives on their website? (they also give a helpful guide)
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Yeah, of course, but there is one problem. I can't boot into recovery mode, the bootloader got destroyed. So the only thing I have is either google logo with padlock on the bottom or nothing with APX mode. So no ADB, no FASTBOOT.
krivulak said:
Yeah, of course, but there is one problem. I can't boot into recovery mode, the bootloader got destroyed. So the only thing I have is either google logo with padlock on the bottom or nothing with APX mode. So no ADB, no FASTBOOT.
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I know for mediatek, there is smartphoneflashtool, which flashes to the device when it's turned off. I don't know if there is an equivalent that you can use.
I don't think NRT does it, so you might be screwed.
There is nvflash ... but only if you have backed up *your* individual device images before you need them. So if your device is already bricked there is no chance ...
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krivulak said:
Yeah, of course, but there is one problem. I can't boot into recovery mode, the bootloader got destroyed. So the only thing I have is either google logo with padlock on the bottom or nothing with APX mode. So no ADB, no FASTBOOT.
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Problem is that, when you plug the Tablet to the PC via USB, it doesnt recognize the device, like I've stated on the original post, so I cant even get to a step where I can flash any sort of file.
Well, if I think about it, only the bootloader got destroyed. The image is free on google sites. I just have to put the bootloader image into the tablet so I can get to the bootloader and flash everything else with fastboot. There has to be way to do that. I mean if the "BIOS" (screen with google logo) got destroyed, that is bad, but it is just matter of damage on free to share universal loader. There has to be way...

Bricked Essential Phone

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
sublimejhn said:
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
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Do not try to lock the BL if you are not completely stock.
If you have TWRP or anything like Magisk installed do not lock the BL.
If something goes wrong, you have a brick.
only lock the BL if you are completely stock.
sublimejhn said:
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying to root my phone, and everything goes fine but for some odd reason as soon as I relock the bootloader the phone wont boot anymore, I just get stuck at the boot screen indefinitely and have to revert to stock. I went through this process several times with the same issue, and unfortunately I got frustrated and started messing around. Not thinking I went into developer options and uncheck "allow OEM unlock," and forgot about it and rebooted. Now I can't get the phone to boot, but I can't flash unlock either. It will not boot into TWRP for some unknown reason as well, so at this point I don't see how I am going to fix this.
Even better, I just got the phone today...
Help!
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Why would you relock bootloader? Not a good idea especially after modifying software
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tech_head said:
Do not try to lock the BL if you are not completely stock.
If you have TWRP or anything like Magisk installed do not lock the BL.
If something goes wrong, you have a brick.
only lock the BL if you are completely stock.
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Man, I could have sworn it was not recommended to leave the bootloader unlocked. Not exactly the answer I wanted to hear unfortunately. Any idea why it won't boot just because I relocked the bootloader? It just seems like an odd thing to cause a boot loop, and it did it 3 separate times
Can you go to bootloader?
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TJSteveMX said:
Can you go to bootloader?
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I can get into fastboot
sublimejhn said:
I can get into fastboot
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If your PC can recognize adb fastboot then just get the stock zip file from "back to stock" section here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3701681
I messed up too and back to stock was my only way.
Make sure under bootloader, if you type fastboot devices and is waiting for device, use
fastboot devices -i 0x2e17
If the PC recognize your device then, you can save from your bootloop
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TJSteveMX said:
If your PC can recognize adb fastboot then just get the stock zip file from "back to stock" section here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3701681
I messed up too and back to stock was my only way.
Make sure under bootloader, if you type fastboot devices and is waiting for device, use
fastboot devices -i 0x2e17
If the PC recognize your device then, you can save from your bootloop
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I would do this, but I had unchecked "allow OEM unlock" when I booted up earlier. I cannot unlock the bootloader now from fastboot, and I can't flash back to stock because my bootloader is locked. I am pretty sure I am screwed at this point
sublimejhn said:
I would do this, but I had unchecked "allow OEM unlock" when I booted up earlier. I cannot unlock the bootloader now from fastboot, and I can't flash back to stock because my bootloader is locked. I am pretty sure I am screwed at this point
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Try holding volume up and down right after essential logo and see if you can get into safe mode. Worth a shot.
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do you see your device in fastboot at all? try switching the slot.. fastboot --set-active=x where x is either _a or _b.
superior8888 said:
Try holding volume up and down right after essential logo and see if you can get into safe mode. Worth a shot.
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Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but holding both volume buttons does nothing for me.
And I can get into fastboot and it registers the phone, but when I try to change slots it tells me it failed and I cannot change slots while locked
sublimejhn said:
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but holding both volume buttons does nothing for me.
And I can get into fastboot and it registers the phone, but when I try to change slots it tells me it failed and I cannot change slots while locked
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It just stays on lineage boot screen?
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try reinstalling TWRP and flash LOS again, I think once you flash a different software the OEM UNLOCKING switch are not highlighted anymore(what I mean is you can't turn it off), if you can do fastboot, try doing fastboot -w and wait till it reboots.
imna357 said:
try reinstalling TWRP and flash LOS again, I think once you flash a different software the OEM UNLOCKING switch are not highlighted anymore(what I mean is you can't turn it off), if you can do fastboot, try doing fastboot -w and wait till it reboots.
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It's OEM locked. Not true, you can lock it, and so he did.
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See this thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/7hocrl/psa_if_youre_running_a_custom_rom_recovery_on/
sublimejhn said:
Man, I could have sworn it was not recommended to leave the bootloader unlocked. Not exactly the answer I wanted to hear unfortunately. Any idea why it won't boot just because I relocked the bootloader? It just seems like an odd thing to cause a boot loop, and it did it 3 separate times
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Check any forum of a phone with an unlockable bootloader. You never ever relock the bootloader unless you are 100% completely stock. Once relocked with modified software there is nothing you can do to get it to boot.
Your only hope might be a deep flash cable and qpst if you can figure out how to use it.
superior8888 said:
It just stays on lineage boot screen?
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Yeah it just continues to boot as normal, and then of course goes into the boot loop.
I cannot reflash twrp or any other room. Attempting to flash anything fails with the error cannot flash while locked. Same with using -w
Did you try the fastboot unlock command?
varxx said:
See this thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/7hocrl/psa_if_youre_running_a_custom_rom_recovery_on/
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Just saw your post. Wonderful. Might be a good sticky on xda, I didn't see this on Reddit. Anyone want to buy a really expensive shiny brick?!

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