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[Q] G2x stuck at LG logo/cannot access recovery

Hey all
Before anyone mentions that i should be searching around more, i would like to say that i've been on multiple threads and they all state the same thing (use NVflash to flash CWM and then boot into CWM but the solution did not work for me past flashing CWM and then trying to access recovery after) and i wasn't able to find one that had a similar problem as mine.
I have CWM flashed through NVflash and was running CM7.1 RC1. I took a screenshot with the 'shootme' app and proceeded to look at the gallery to make sure it came out okay. The gallery crashed and i was sent to the home screen. I swiped to a different homescreen when my phone froze halfway through the transition to the next screen. No combination of buttons/long presses were able to get me out of it so i went ahead and did a battery pull. So my dilemma is that now i'm stuck at the LG boot logo with no blue status bar under it. It freezes there and will not do anything every time i boot up. volume down+power does not give me access to recovery nor does any other button combo get me past the LG boot logo.
Are there any other methods i might be able to use like ADB or what not to get myself out of this situation? or at least into recovery? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as i've been searching for hours with little help and my eyes are starting to get strained.

hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
If so.. do the nvflash again? Edit: Not sure if I would do this without getting further guidance tho..

schmit said:
hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
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This. I remember when I boot looped my phone I had the problem of letting go of the volume key too early, you need to hold down volume and power from a totally powered off phone until recovery actually starts and you see the green "android" logo of CWM.
Try re-flashing CWM, NVFlash CAN fail. There is literally nothing you can do within the OS that will prevent recovery from working. Either you did something wrong somewhere along the recovery process or you discovered an entirely new problem with the phone. I'm going to hazard a guess and say it's the former.

Thanks for the response guys. I wish that it was the case of not holding the buttons long enough. I have tried numerous times with the buttons held down for a long period of time. I even held the combo down for almost 5 minutes a few times.
Every time i try to boot up, it won't go past the LG boot screen so i would pull the battery out and go through flashing CWM through NVflash again. I'm sure I'm not missing anything because everything goes through and gets sent to the phone successfully.
I did happen to run into a thread that was closely similar to mine but his method was to just keep reflashing CWM and the stock recovery back and forth every time it failed until it turned on. I might have to try that if i cannot figure out this problem out soon. Not being able to use this phone is killing me! heh.

I just joined your club. Wow this sucks.

So apparently this is a whole new problem that's been found? Every other help thread seems to point to using NVflash or remaking the partitions due to a bad flash using an O2x based file instead of G2x.
But none of those solutions come close to doing anything. There has been some people with the same problem as me but aren't proactive at all enough to get someone's attention, so i'm guessing this problem is getting pushed to the side with people just going about getting their phones replaces/buying new ones.
I did happen to run into a thread on paulobrien/modaco's forum that had people using NVflash to get out of any sticky situation like this. It just reverts everything back to the stock factory settings but with root. We cannot use this though because he hasn't built it to be compatible with our LGP999's because everything was built for their UK LGP990's. Maybe that's a start to getting this solution fixed?

I hate to say this, bit you might have to call t mobile and get a replacement. Flash back to stock recovery and they won't know you messed with anything.
Sent from my Nexus 5g using XDA Ultimate App

Don't send back....you'll get same defacement a battery pull go into nvflah and go back stock then flash nv flash fix pArtitions

As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.

Jduhb said:
As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.
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Did you ever find a solution to this issue? Because my phone is doing this...
I attempted to restore my phone back to the wrong backup that was from a galaxy sII (2.3.4 i think); needless to say, the restore failed. I then restarted my phone from CWM and it gets stuck at LG screen.
I have tried to NVflash back to stock; nothing. same thing reflashing back to CWM.
ideas?

have you tried this link out yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180331

same problem..... anybody find something to fix this yet?

From what I heard is that you need to remove the battery, then boot into recovery or something.
Sent from my G2X

Use smartflash for the p990 but only use the p999 ap.bin file which will put the rom and kernel back to stock p999.

Rom for recovery always fixes any soft brick back to stock 2.3.3 OTA. It's saved my phone multiple times from stuck on S/W screen to being stuck on lg logo or even the dreaded can't mount sdcard-cache errors in cwm.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229

jcbofkc said:
I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
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omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!

sabotage99 said:
omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!
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Glad for you that it worked.
Kwes1020 pointed me in the right direction last week. Be sure to give a thanks to ILUHA_89 who came up with the fix.

Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.

d12unk13astard said:
Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.
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It's really not that big a deal. I was brand new to android once and asked all sorts of things.
I, like you, happen to read everything I can get my hands on. Some struggle going through all the info. I was here the day the forum opened, so I kind of remember where everything is.
Some are lazy and others just have no idea what the heck is going on and are intimidated by certain processes. I would rather help someone instead of listening to them ***** about their broken phone.

[Q] completely dead ns last resort please help

i flashed ics ota update along with superuser zip and all was fine, ics was running perfectly along with root access. google wallet kept forceclosing so i uninstalled it. then i decided i wanted it back to see if i could fix it. without thinking i rebooted to recovery and reflashed the update and su. when i rebooted the phone shut down and wont restart, its completey dead. it wont charge or boot at all. after thinking about it i realize i shouldnt have flashed it since i was already on 4.0 and the update was from 2.3.6 to 4.0. can anyone help me or am i screwed. please help!

Dont know if it is bricked or what, but this may help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
but yeah that sucks, good luck

swamp goblin said:
Dont know if it is bricked or what, but this may help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
but yeah that sucks, good luck
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tried that but i get some theme error

Can you get to the bootloader?
From off, Power + VOL-UP. If you get the bootloader screen w/4 options, youre phone is not bricked.

nickmv said:
Can you get to the bootloader?
From off, Power + VOL-UP. If you get the bootloader screen w/4 options, youre phone is not bricked.
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no does not power on at all and will not charge

OK got it to boot using unbrickable resurrector everything works great but if I power off or reboot its unresponsive again. Anyone know how to make it stick from terminal emulator. Haven't had any luck with adb or fastboot from my computer and would like to use terminal. Please help, soon close!
Sent from my Nexus S

Try flash a stock full ROM.

Si_NZ said:
Try flash a stock full ROM.
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how? Can I do it through terminal, because I cant power off or reboot to recovery.
Sent from my Nexus S

Pm sent...

Everything fixed......thanks
Sent from my Nexus S

Please explain how you did it. I bought my phone outright and am scared to brick it.. can be us s be bricked. Can I use a Samsung jig to put in download mode since it is a Samsung Google phone??
Sent from MY Google Nexus S

navykid0211 said:
Please explain how you did it. I bought my phone outright and am scared to brick it.. can be us s be bricked. Can I use a Samsung jig to put in download mode since it is a Samsung Google phone??
Sent from MY Google Nexus S
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The nexus s is pretty hard to permanently brick, but can be a pain depending how bad it is. This time was bad for me. I had already flashed the ics update and flashed superuser zip and all was fine except Google wallet. I uninstalled it with titanium but had second thoughts , so I decided to flash the update again. I know better but just wasn't thinking. The update was from 2.3.6 to 4.0 and since I was already on 4.0 it really screwed it up. It wouldn't do anything absolutely nothing. Apparently the bootloader , boot, and recovery images were completely gone. I did some searching and found unbrickable resurrector. Only problem was it only worked on Linux. So I had to make my laptop duel boot Ubuntu and windows. Ubuntu for unbrickable resurrector and windows for adb/fastboot. Although it sounds rather easy it took about 2 days till I finally figured it all out. I could probably do it now in 30 minutes. And a jig would most likely work but I wouldn't know where to get one. Anyway the resurrector allowed me to boot into fastboot mode and adb/fastboot allowed me to reflash the lost images. Thank God that's over!
Sent from my Nexus S

[Q] Nexus S stuck in Boot loop

Hi,
sorry for my post, but i'm devastated and can't find anything
I flashed my Nexus S, I9023, with the new ICS update from the Google servers
and now it is stuck in a constant boot loop
Going into fastboot and choosing recovery doesn't help
I can only see a lying Android with a red triangle and then nothing happens
Is there anyone who can help me?
Thanks

Mrbaharroth said:
Hi,
sorry for my post, but i'm devastated and can't find anything
I flashed my Nexus S, I9023, with the new ICS update from the Google servers
and now it is stuck in a constant boot loop
Going into fastboot and choosing recovery doesn't help
I can only see a lying Android with a red triangle and then nothing happens
Is there anyone who can help me?
Thanks
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Try this...it will work after that : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393

tried it but i can't get it working
I always get a theme failure...

you will need to do do a full wipe. then install as install from sd card and locate the update file.

Same Issue Here
Mrbaharroth said:
tried it but i can't get it working
I always get a theme failure...
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Hi, any luck with this issue?! I'm having exactly the same problem

You could try flashing the recovery through fastboot or even wipe the device and flash the ROM through fastboot.

Thanks... At the end I wasn't even able to get into Clockwork Mod Recovery. Found a guide on how to force my way into Clockwork Mod, and tried to load a ROM - without success...
I ended up leaving my phone on boot the whole night, and sure enough, it was working in the morning. Mind you, I've had it booting or more than half an hour before, and nothing happened.
So personally, I don't have an explanation why it works all of a sudden.
My suggestion is, leave it booting overnight and "hope for the best" - it worked for me.

Need help with bricked(?) Inspire

Hey guys. I'm in a tough spot so any help will be appreciated. So here it goes.
I'm rooted and was running LeeDroid v. 5.1.1. Everything had been fine, my phone was acting completely normal for the past months. and even that day (this past friday)
After I got off the phone a couple days ago, I wanted to charge it a little bit. I tried to plug it in to multiple outlets and chargers, and it wouldn't charge. I decided to restart my phone just to see if that would help. Well then it got stuck in a boot loop. When trying to get into recovery from the bootloader, it just went back to the HTC splash screen and continued to boot-loop. I really have no idea what went wrong.
Is there anyway I can get into recovery again? I want to at least try to re install a ROM but that seems inpossible right now. Also, would loading an RUU via pd98img method work? I have no idea. I would minimally like to unroot so I can send it in for warranty. I guess if all else fails I could try my insurance, but that's a 125 dollar deductible =\
Any sort of help is appreciated. Thanks guys.

ahhxd717 said:
Hey guys. I'm in a tough spot so any help will be appreciated. So here it goes.
I'm rooted and was running LeeDroid v. 5.1.1. Everything had been fine, my phone was acting completely normal for the past months. and even that day (this past friday)
After I got off the phone a couple days ago, I wanted to charge it a little bit. I tried to plug it in to multiple outlets and chargers, and it wouldn't charge. I decided to restart my phone just to see if that would help. Well then it got stuck in a boot loop. When trying to get into recovery from the bootloader, it just went back to the HTC splash screen and continued to boot-loop. I really have no idea what went wrong.
Is there anyway I can get into recovery again? I want to at least try to re install a ROM but that seems inpossible right now. Also, would loading an RUU via pd98img method work? I have no idea. I would minimally like to unroot so I can send it in for warranty. I guess if all else fails I could try my insurance, but that's a 125 dollar deductible =\
Any sort of help is appreciated. Thanks guys.
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Sounds like a hardware problem. Maybe volume rocker is messed. If you can't boot into hboot, then there's not much that you can do...
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Actually I can get into hboot. But the problem is I can't get into recovery at all. I can select it from the menu, but it goes back to the HTC splash screen and does a boot loop. I tried installing a recovery via the pd98img method and still does the same thing.

ahhxd717 said:
Actually I can get into hboot. But the problem is I can't get into recovery at all. I can select it from the menu, but it goes back to the HTC splash screen and does a boot loop. I tried installing a recovery via the pd98img method and still does the same thing.
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You don't have to install a recovery from a PD98IMG.zip file. You have to do it from command prompt in cmd...
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Reboot to CWM only- help

So this is what happened. I was in the middle of using navigation on Trickdroid 7 and my S4 started to reboot and kept rebooting every 15 to 20 seconds. I was able to re-flash trickdroid 7 and everything was ok for the past month- yesterday I flash trickdroid9 everything was OK and I decided to go back to trickdroid 7 because I use wifi a lot. Thats when things got squirrely- I did a factory reset before and after the flash and it would just hang at the HTC logo and disappear. Now, I'm stuck at it being in CWM only, can't seem to even be able to get to the bootloader anymore. even by power and volume down.
Any hope of recovering? Any input would be appreciated.
Dan

Thats what happens when you use a crappy recovery.
Keep trying vol- and power. Once you get into bootloader flash twrp.

Goatshocker said:
Thats what happens when you use a crappy recovery.
Keep trying vol- and power. Once you get into bootloader flash twrp.
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Dude you should pimp my thread for this stuff lol.

After a good hour of trying I finally got TWRP installed..... I was able to push trickdroid 7 but it gets to the 1st HTC boot screen and just goes blank. Wait about 10 minutes....
Any further suggestions of what to push?
Thanks for the help so far.
Dan

OK- thanks. Back in business. I flashed the trickdroid7 Kernal and BAM! working again.