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[REQUEST] US996 (Unlocked, not USC variant) stock recovery image or full firmware

Dear all.
My phone is US996 Unlocked, no USC variant model.
My phone has bootloop to recovery. My phone can't boot to system OS.
I tried flash boot.img and wipe data partition, I can't solve my problem.
Anyone, Can you help me?
I need stock recovery image or full firmware(KDZ).
Thanks.

naraymm said:
Dear all.
My phone is US996 Unlocked, no USC variant model.
My phone has bootloop to recovery. My phone can't boot to system OS.
I tried flash boot.img and wipe data partition, I can't solve my problem.
Anyone, Can you help me?
I need stock recovery image or full firmware(KDZ).
Thanks.
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I was in a similar position to where it would just always boot into recovery forever. I tried doing several restores from stock and other backups. Different ROMs and even went through dirtysanta again. Nothing worked.
What wound up working was me getting into the device's factory restore screen (not TWRP's). I believe you get there by turning on the device while holding the Vol down + power button, when the LG screen comes up - let go of the power button for like 1-2 seconds and then press/hold it again. It should be a white screen that's asking if you want to do the factory screen or not. Just do that. It did its thing - then went to the LG screen again. I was a bit impatient and only waited like 2 mins. It didn't go anywhere (you could probably wait longer or so) but I just simply took out the battery and then put it back in.
It did wind up booting to the system again after awhile.
Just letting you know what I did after I messed up with a certain thing in a hidden menu.
Twisted

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twistedvip said:
I was in a similar position to where it would just always boot into recovery forever. I tried doing several restores from stock and other backups. Different ROMs and even went through dirtysanta again. Nothing worked.
What wound up working was me getting into the device's factory restore screen (not TWRP's). I believe you get there by turning on the device while holding the Vol down + power button, when the LG screen comes up - let go of the power button for like 1-2 seconds and then press/hold it again. It should be a white screen that's asking if you want to do the factory screen or not. Just do that. It did its thing - then went to the LG screen again. I was a bit impatient and only waited like 2 mins. It didn't go anywhere (you could probably wait longer or so) but I just simply took out the battery and then put it back in.
It did wind up booting to the system again after awhile.
Just letting you know what I did after I messed up with a certain thing in a hidden menu.
Twisted
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Thanks for your reply.
But, I didn't solve the problem. I tried your method, but is's no changed. bootloop to TWRP recovery.
I can't use my phone.

Solved . Thanks to all member
Dear all.
I solved the problem.
I tried flash system.img and boot.img use fastboot flash command.
and re-flash de-odex system use TWRP again, wipe data and cache.
It's rebooted to system OS.
Thanks.

Can't get past TWRP

Phone was working fine yesterday. Went to sleep and woke up to the phone booted into recovery. Now I can't get it to reboot past recovery. Anyone know why this happened or how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Check and see if system is mounted. Also are you sure that it didn't attempt an update last night?

The EXACT same thing happened to me this morning! Unfortunately I had to get to class before I could figure out how to fix it. When I get back home tonight I will try to get my phone to boot like normal and will tell you how I did it.

my_handle said:
Check and see if system is mounted. Also are you sure that it didn't attempt an update last night?
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I have no way of knowing if it attempted an update last night. I was asleep. I tried restoring a nandroid backup from 8 days ago and it still won't boot past TWRP.
Help please! I'm at the Cleveland Clinic with my wife and just found out that my grandmother died today and have to drive back to Michigan tonight. I need a phone and Waze!

animator776 said:
The EXACT same thing happened to me this morning! Unfortunately I had to get to class before I could figure out how to fix it. When I get back home tonight I will try to get my phone to boot like normal and will tell you how I did it.
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I'm sorry to hear, but glad I'm not alone in this. Hopefully we can figure something out.

Sorry about your lose. But click mount and see if system is checked. That's what happened to me before. Making sure system was checked let me boot back up.
If that doesn't work plug your phone into your comp if possible and check to make sure you still have everything on your phone. Another time I had accidently wiped everything and only way to get back up was using the kdz
pieces of cake said:
I have no way of knowing if it attempted an update last night. I was asleep. I tried restoring a nandroid backup from 8 days ago and it still won't boot past TWRP.
Help please! I'm at the Cleveland Clinic with my wife and just found out that my grandmother died today and have to drive back to Michigan tonight. I need a phone and Waze!
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my_handle said:
Sorry about your lose. But click mount and see if system is checked. That's what happened to me before. Making sure system was checked let me boot back up.
If that doesn't work plug your phone into your comp if possible and check to make sure you still have everything on your phone. Another time I had accidently wiped everything and only way to get back up was using the kdz
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I checked system under mount, rebooted and still won't go past TWRP.

Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.

midmadn said:
Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.
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Dude, I love you. I'm back! Just in time for my 3 hour drive home!

if this dosnt work
use twrp file manager to go find the fota and mis folders,
or boot into fastboot and send these comands
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase fota
data/mis
data/fota
something like this is its path.
data/etc/misc
data/etc/fota
this 2 spots have the update commands that cause twrp loop.
i have a help post in my rom with full walkthrough.

Bootloop into TWRP recovery
Thank you so much, I too was having a panic attack after I flashed a custom rom and it some how altered this and put me in a boot loop into TWRP. I had a couple of questions in regards to ROMS that have native tethering enabled. 1. Is there one that allows Native tethering enabled for sprint? and 2. Is there one that you can update the PRL and profile settings and also one that does use an APN that has DNS issues and a proxy that blocks certain sites? currently I downloaded the ROM that is on the Dirty Santa site its called LS997-deODEXd-signed and it has a hidden proxy that blocks DNS from certain sites also you cannot update.

pwoolston2 said:
Thank you so much, I too was having a panic attack after I flashed a custom rom and it some how altered this and put me in a boot loop into TWRP. I had a couple of questions in regards to ROMS that have native tethering enabled. 1. Is there one that allows Native tethering enabled for sprint? and 2. Is there one that you can update the PRL and profile settings and also one that does use an APN that has DNS issues and a proxy that blocks certain sites? currently I downloaded the ROM that is on the Dirty Santa site its called LS997-deODEXd-signed and it has a hidden proxy that blocks DNS from certain sites also you cannot update.
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Download one of my 11 roms ive currently put out.
they all work 100% as far as dns stuff
for tether you need to add the "dun" to your apns. There isnt currently a built in mod.
as well as using shortcut master to add the "dun" to your apns also gets you to where you can change them
prl and profile updates work also as well as fm radio, wifi calling, fingerprint, comfort view etc.

midmadn said:
Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.
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I had to do this again today. This is not good. How can we stop this? I rely on my phone as an alarm clock and this could really screw me if it happens again at night.

Have you frozen or disabled the apps that look for updates?
Supposedly this is what causes it. The bootloader looks for update files in the folders where updates are downloaded and if it finds a file there it reboots recovery.
You have to remove those files, ( I think it automatically deletes them if you go through the factory reset process with the volume down, power button sequence).
And you have to freeze or disable the update apps.

These are the apps I froze. The 3 near the bottom that are blue.

i did this https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/lg-v20-access-to-fastboot-t3557328

Most bootloops are caused by an update file residing on the internal memory. It is not necessary to do all of the stuff in that post. You just need to do the volume down / power button trick to go through the 2 factory reset screens.
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Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.

Stuck on bootloader

A couple days ago, my volume buttons were not working so I thought a quick restart would fix it. But when I restarted it, it went into bootloader. Its stuck on the 'Restart bootloader' option and I can't select it with my power button nor can I select other options with my volume keys. I try and hold down the power button and it restarts into bootloader again. I booted into recovery and tried to restore it with a nandroid I made that had everything stock but that didn't work. I also did a factory reset, but every time I try to boot into system it goes to bootloader instead. The only problem I can think of was that I held my phone when my hands were wet so maybe water went inside? I'm tempted to get rice to get the water out but I want to be certain that this is the result of water damage. If it helps, I had TWRP and a very early version of Lineage OS on the device before it happened.

TheGentleShark said:
A couple days ago, my volume buttons were not working so I thought a quick restart would fix it. But when I restarted it, it went into bootloader. Its stuck on the 'Restart bootloader' option and I can't select it with my power button nor can I select other options with my volume keys. I try and hold down the power button and it restarts into bootloader again. I booted into recovery and tried to restore it with a nandroid I made that had everything stock but that didn't work. I also did a factory reset, but every time I try to boot into system it goes to bootloader instead. The only problem I can think of was that I held my phone when my hands were wet so maybe water went inside? I'm tempted to get rice to get the water out but I want to be certain that this is the result of water damage. If it helps, I had TWRP and a very early version of Lineage OS on the device before it happened.
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Hi... How did you manage to boot into recovery without the volume rocker?
Have you tried a simple:
fastboot format cache
fastboot format userdata
fastboot reboot
From bootloader?
Is your bootloader unlocked? If yes, try loading a factory image from Google if none of the above work.

5.1 said:
Hi... How did you manage to boot into recovery without the volume rocker?
Have you tried a simple:
fastboot format cache
fastboot format userdata
fastboot reboot
From bootloader?
Is your bootloader unlocked? If yes, try loading a factory image from Google if none of the above work.
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I used 'fastboot boot recovery.img' to get to recovery. I tried to format the cache and userdata again, but still didn't normally boot. I also tried flashing the stock images from Google's website but still it won't boot.

TheGentleShark said:
I used 'fastboot boot recovery.img' to get to recovery. I tried to format the cache and userdata again, but still didn't normally boot. I also tried flashing the stock images from Google's website but still it won't boot.
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I never seen this before. If you type fastboot reboot, it reboots directly into bootloader, right? I first thought avout the bootloop issue many currently report. But if you can boot a recovery.img or if your phone only reboot into bootloader, I think this scenario can be excluded.
Hmm you said you touched you phone with your hand wet?!
Could it be the moisture that oxidized the volume down contact inside of the phone? I don't have another idea. Wait for other people to chime in. Hopefully it's another (easy to solve) issue which I am unaware of.
Good luck.

5.1 said:
I never seen this before. If you type fastboot reboot, it reboots directly into bootloader, right? I first thought avout the bootloop issue many currently report. But if you can boot a recovery.img or if your phone only reboot into bootloader, I think this scenario can be excluded.
Hmm you said you touched you phone with your hand wet?!
Could it be the moisture that oxidized the volume down contact inside of the phone? I don't have another idea. Wait for other people to chime in. Hopefully it's another (easy to solve) issue which I am unaware of.
Good luck.
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Ah well. Thanks anyways.

TheGentleShark said:
Ah well. Thanks anyways.
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Did factory image flash without error?
Last try: did you try pressing power button till it reboots?
Good luck...

5.1 said:
Did factory image flash without error?
Last try: did you try pressing power button till it reboots?
Good luck...
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No error came up when I flashed it and holding power button at bootloader restarts the phone back into bootloader. I might just stick it into some rice and use my old Nexus for now unless another solution presents itself.

Hi TheGentleShark, did you manage to resolve this? Stuck in a similar situation

WRDD said:
Hi TheGentleShark, did you manage to resolve this? Stuck in a similar situation
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Hi. In order to get the attention of @TheGentleShark you should either reply directly to one of his posts, or put an ampersand in front of his name so he gets a notification. Otherwise he will never know (or see) your question. Hopefully he has some useful feedback for you.

WRDD said:
Hi TheGentleShark, did you manage to resolve this? Stuck in a similar situation
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Sorry for late reply, but I did manage to get if fixed. I sent it back to my phone company to get fixed since it was still under warranty (even though its rooted with unlocked bootloader). Though, they didn't really tell me what went wrong. I assumed it was a hardware problem (a piece of rice was stuck in the speaker hole and was impossible to remove but was gone when I got the phone back).

No Mac Address(No WiFi) and Setup Wizard stops responding, SS Included

The WiFi stays toggled off and wont turn on whenever I restart the devices. Sometimes it works, but not most of the time. And the Setup wizard stops responding only once for each time you factory reset the device. Not sure if they are related, but I hope it helps. I'll also include a few screenshots below.

What was the precursor to all of this? An OTA update? ROM switching? Factory reset? A crash?

ktmom said:
What was the precursor to all of this? An OTA update? ROM switching? Factory reset? A crash?
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I updated to the latest one(PH1-OTA-PQ1A.190105.045), but even If I downgrade it still occurs. Mac address is 02:00:00:00:00 after I finish the setup.

Moocow25 said:
I updated to the latest one(PH1-OTA-PQ1A.190105.045), but even If I downgrade it still occurs. Mac address is 02:00:00:00:00 after I finish the setup.
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Did you try booting to the opposite slot after the upgrade? Remember that the upgrade goes to the inactive slot, the current slot doesn't get touched. So just by switching slots in fastboot then rebooting, you can go back to the previous OS. If you flashed again since, then both slots have been overwritten.

ktmom said:
Did you try booting to the opposite slot after the upgrade? Remember that the upgrade goes to the inactive slot, the current slot doesn't get touched. So just by switching slots in fastboot then rebooting, you can go back to the previous OS. If you flashed again since, then both slots have been overwritten.
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Yeah. Same thing happens. I am able to get the wifi to work on random restarts, but that's it.
Are there any WiFi drivers available?

Moocow25 said:
Yeah. Same thing happens. I am able to get the wifi to work on random restarts, but that's it.
Are there any WiFi drivers available?
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If it works randomly, my first things wouldn't include fussing with drivers.
Have you booted into recovery and wiped cache?
Have you tried in safe mode?
To get to safe mode, with the device powered on, press and hold the POWER button until the POWER menu displays. Then long press on POWER OFF. This should bring up a dialog confirming you want to boot to safe mode.
This will disable everything except the basics. If everything works in safe mode, I would do a clean install.

ktmom said:
If it works randomly, my first things wouldn't include fussing with drivers.
Have you booted into recovery and wiped cache?
Have you tried in safe mode?
To get to safe mode, with the device powered on, press and hold the POWER button until the POWER menu displays. Then long press on POWER OFF. This should bring up a dialog confirming you want to boot to safe mode.
This will disable everything except the basics. If everything works in safe mode, I would do a clean install.
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Yeah, same issue.
I did fully charge my device and that seemed to help. Gonna see if it last below 50%.
And if not I'm gonna download AICP to see if it's a kernel issue.

Bricked out of the blue.... how to unbrick it without access to recovery?

My HTC U Ultra suddenly froze past nigth, then it rebooted... and never came back, it won't go past the HTC logo over and over. I am not able to enter in recovery mode either, the only thing I can do is, by pressing both volume buttons and power, entering in what seems to be fastboot menu. In that state I can send the phone fastboot commands (no adb commands though) but If i try to wipe it it says "unable to do in s-on" or similar. I was pretty happy with this phone, and spent a few bucks in a new battery not two months ago.... anything I can do?
Thanks.
PS: I failed to state that the phone is stock, not unlocked or rooted.

If it has just happened out of the blue and you haven't been doing anything with your phone, have you tried a simple reset? (Press and hold volume down and power button until your phone vibrates - Usually about 20 seconds for me)
If not, and you are struggling to get into recovery etc, see if you can follow the method in the thread linked below if you are currently on stock rom!?
(Not sure if this would delete all your data or not, so perhaps only use as a last resort....)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u-ultra/help/howto-unbrick-ultra-t3891033

spikey001 said:
If it has just happened out of the blue and you haven't been doing anything with your phone, have you tried a simple reset? (Press and hold volume down and power button until your phone vibrates - Usually about 20 seconds for me)
If not, and you are struggling to get into recovery etc, see if you can follow the method in the thread linked below if you are currently on stock rom!?
(Not sure if this would delete all your data or not, so perhaps only use as a last resort....)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u-ultra/help/howto-unbrick-ultra-t3891033
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Reset doesn't work, and the other procedure didn't work either.
If I leave it plugged to the charger, it will fall into an endless reboot loop. Sometimes (few) it will end up booting, but If i try to do something with the phone it doesn't respond and reboots again.
Thanks.

As you can send fastboot commands, can you flash a recovery.img (i.e. TWRP), and then wipe cache and dalvik/art to see if that helps, but if not, flash corresponding rom to that which you already have?

spikey001 said:
As you can send fastboot commands, can you flash a recovery.img (i.e. TWRP), and then wipe cache and dalvik/art to see if that helps, but if not, flash corresponding rom to that which you already have?
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I tried that, too, but didn't work. If I do a fastboot devices it detects the phone, but if I do a fastboot getvar all it doesn't give me any information, it doesn't admit adb commands, when I try to flash a rom or a recovery, it fails, I suspect it needs to have the USB debugging enabled, but I can't enable it in this state.
As I said before, if I leave it plugged to the charger, It will randomly end up booting (it can happen in the third loop or in the 50th), but it will freeze or reboot again in few seconds.

Ah I see, if you haven't got USB debugging enabled then I am unsure how to help sorry. Have you got your media backed up, or stored on micro sd? If so, might have to bite the bullet and do a factory reset. Sorry I couldn't be of any help. Maybe someone else would be able to help you further?

spikey001 said:
Ah I see, if you haven't got USB debugging enabled then I am unsure how to help sorry. Have you got your media backed up, or stored on micro sd? If so, might have to bite the bullet and do a factory reset. Sorry I couldn't be of any help. Maybe someone else would be able to help you further?
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The data is not a problem, every important file has been backed up.
Regarding factory reset, since the device won't go to recovery, I can't see how can I do it.
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I noticed that when the phone is cold, those few times it boots, it lasts a little bit more (a matter of seconds) until it freezes again, so I tried to leave it in the freezer for a few minutes, and tried to boot it, and had enough time to do a factory reset. The factory reset worked, because now, when it boots, it goes straight to the intial setup, but keeps hanging after a few seconds. I suspect that the internal memory was somehow damaged, I don't think there is much left to do...

Is it possible to skip setup in order to get to settings and enable USB debugging so you can install a recovery?
If you can, then it might be an idea to try performing a repair of all the partitions and install a fresh ROM... Just to ensure it isn't a hardware issue!!

spikey001 said:
Is it possible to skip setup in order to get to settings and enable USB debugging so you can install a recovery?
If you can, then it might be an idea to try performing a repair of all the partitions and install a fresh ROM... Just to ensure it isn't a hardware issue!!
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I can't see how to skip initial setup... and I don't have time enough to go through it, the phone will hang in 30 seconds or less. At this point, I really needed a working phone, so I bite the bullet and bought a new one... I will deal with the old one later, or I might sell it for parts.
Thanks everybody for the help.

No worries, enjoy your new phone