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[FIXED] Stuck at S/W Updater Screen

I was slow around flashing to the latest baseband but finally took the dive today and the program locked up at 5% for like 2 hours before I yanked it. Now it just gets to the "S/W Updater" screen regardless of what I do (NVFlash recoveries, roms, kernels, format, hard reset, etc). When I try to update it again, it just immediately says it's already the latest version. Why won't it just flash over it like most flashing programs.
Tmobile is pinging me $20 for a replacement but I have a really good G2x. Is there anything I can do to revive mine or is it toast? ADB commands or something? I have clockworkmod on there now, but I'm not really getting anywhere.
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Use this NVFlash method to completely format your phone, re-setup your partition tables, and flash the stock GB rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229

Dead
It's dead. Same thing happened to me and to many many others. Turn it back to TMo and take the hit--it's not worth the time playing around with it any more.
Call TMo and ask to be forgiven the $20. If you've been a long and loyal customer they might even do it.
Your new phone should come with 2.3.3 installed. Mine did and I've had no trouble with it--it's finally settled down into a very usable and fast phone. Stock ROM. But I won't buy another LG phone again for a very long time--not until they hire a few software engineers who know what they're doing.

No my friend. I got revived!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
It totally erased everything, formatted everything, reset all the partitions, and flashed the GB Stock rom.
Booted up, NVFlashed CWM, Restored my Nandroid backup, viola!
Thought it would be a good thing to make more available. It was in the Android development thread but the title is tricky as its listed as a rom (which I guess it kinda is).

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i dont understand why people get stuck on this. ok
when i did it. the LG Tool stop responding on half the period % and my phone had the S/W updater screen so what i did i click on closed unpluged my device then open the LG Tool again plug my device and the LG TOOL said that there was a problem if i wish to continue with my update i click yes and it kept doing till it was done and my phone was fine with 2.3.3

The mistake you made was just stopping the update. Mine did the same thing. Instead of listening to the stupid message about removing the battery, etc. I just removed the usb cable, waited for the beep, put the cable back in, waited for the beep and then pressed "restart" on the update. It completed perfectly after that.

Well I've gone through all of those scenerios and it would attempt to reflash it, but the last time it got stuck on 5% for about 2 hours... no error message or anything. After 2 hours at 5% I pulled the plug. When it is in the middle of "flashing" and gets locked up, there is no Cancel button or Restart button like when it errors out.
I had no errors, just a locked up program. Regardless the posted link really fixed me up and got it working again.
I changed the title and updated the OP with the solution.

[Q] I think I might have bricked my phone

Hey guys...
Kinda ultimate noob here, so I'll start from the beginning because I don't know what information could be pertinent. I don't really know much lingo at all, but I have a completely stock, unrooted HTC Inspire 4G from AT&T that my cousin gave me a few months ago. On and off since then, I've had a few random restarts and crashes, no big deal, always came back up. The other day,about a week ago, the headphone icon started blinking and my sound stopped working, so I restarted the phone and it got stuck on the ATT boot screen, so I took out the battery, let it sit, and when I put it back together, everything was fine. Last night, I was in a meeting and my phone battery was at 2%, so I turned it off so avoid it dying. I got home and plugged it in, and when I went to turn it on, it would not load past the ATT boot screen. I let it sit overnight, and a couple hours ago I tried a factory reset, and tried to boot up again, and it got stuck in what I believe is called a boot cycle, where it would go from the HTC startup screen to the ATT screen, go black, then repeat over and over. I did some research, and tried to use an RUU to set everything back to complete stock, but both of the ones I tried gave me the "Please get the correct RUU and try again" error. I have the 1.03.2011 RUU up right now, and it says that my image version is 3.20.502.52, and gives me that same error. I don't know if I completely effed it up or what, so any possible help would be greatly appreciated. I've been looking through guides and trying things for over 12 hours, but I can't get anything to work, so it would be best to start from the beginning. I tried to get everything I know about the problem in there, but if more information is needed, just let me know and I'll do my best to get it for you. I've heard great things about XDA and did most of my research here, so I'm hoping you can work some of your magic on my phone

Phone stuck in Reboot loop

Posted this on reddit but figured might be helpful on here.
Did some testing with the phone with very little apps for the last day. Decided to go to the play store and go to my apps and started DL'ing my apps I mostly use basically everything that's on my G4. Phone froze rebooted OK whatever, rebooted again, again, ok stuck in reboot loop. Called Alcatel was able to do a master reset took maybe 10 mins for it to load back up in Android everything is froze and just reboot loops again.
I can't even power if off well I can but it power's back own and does the loop. Waiting for the battery to die. Now here's a reason why removable battery is great.
Seriously WTF happened.
After talking with Alcatel and Amazon they are sending a replacement with 1 day shipping be here tomorrow. Wonder if I should even bother with it. Was going to mostly use it for my 2nd line for a Hotspot for the Data and just a backup to my G4 and or rotate them.
https://vid.me/grFZ
Now I do recall after it first froze and rebooted it said Android is updating or whatever that screen is. I recall the phone having 2 updates it updated though the day before. Should have the replacement on here later this evening.
I had CPU temp app running so I could see what app were heating up the phone when I used and when I had Google Maps on it the car it did heat up to the low 70's C once in awhile and was sticking mostly around 67-69C did the phone get too hot. Not even sure what the overheating temps are for this.
Probably just a defective phone but was fine running basically not added apps just installed NoChromo, Battery Monitor Widget, CPU Temp, Netflix, Rhapsody, Signal Check Lite, Speed Test, Spotify, I believe that's what I had installed before the issue. Then I just went and download everything else I usually use at once.

BDestroyer8418 said:
Posted this on reddit but figured might be helpful on here.
Did some testing with the phone with very little apps for the last day. Decided to go to the play store and go to my apps and started DL'ing my apps I mostly use basically everything that's on my G4. Phone froze rebooted OK whatever, rebooted again, again, ok stuck in reboot loop. Called Alcatel was able to do a master reset took maybe 10 mins for it to load back up in Android everything is froze and just reboot loops again.
I can't even power if off well I can but it power's back own and does the loop. Waiting for the battery to die. Now here's a reason why removable battery is great.
Seriously WTF happened.
After talking with Alcatel and Amazon they are sending a replacement with 1 day shipping be here tomorrow. Wonder if I should even bother with it. Was going to mostly use it for my 2nd line for a Hotspot for the Data and just a backup to my G4 and or rotate them.
https://vid.me/grFZ
Now I do recall after it first froze and rebooted it said Android is updating or whatever that screen is. I recall the phone having 2 updates it updated though the day before. Should have the replacement on here later this evening.
I had CPU temp app running so I could see what app were heating up the phone when I used and when I had Google Maps on it the car it did heat up to the low 70's C once in awhile and was sticking mostly around 67-69C did the phone get too hot. Not even sure what the overheating temps are for this.
Probably just a defective phone but was fine running basically not added apps just installed NoChromo, Battery Monitor Widget, CPU Temp, Netflix, Rhapsody, Signal Check Lite, Speed Test, Spotify, I believe that's what I had installed before the issue. Then I just went and download everything else I usually use at once.
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Gotta love boot loops! Sorry to hear your troubles.

kevin6876 said:
Gotta love boot loops! Sorry to hear your troubles.
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LOL could use a bowl of those.

BDestroyer8418 said:
Posted this on reddit but figured might be helpful on here.
Did some testing with the phone with very little apps for the last day. Decided to go to the play store and go to my apps and started DL'ing my apps I mostly use basically everything that's on my G4. Phone froze rebooted OK whatever, rebooted again, again, ok stuck in reboot loop. Called Alcatel was able to do a master reset took maybe 10 mins for it to load back up in Android everything is froze and just reboot loops again.
I can't even power if off well I can but it power's back own and does the loop. Waiting for the battery to die. Now here's a reason why removable battery is great.
Seriously WTF happened.
After talking with Alcatel and Amazon they are sending a replacement with 1 day shipping be here tomorrow. Wonder if I should even bother with it. Was going to mostly use it for my 2nd line for a Hotspot for the Data and just a backup to my G4 and or rotate them.
https://vid.me/grFZ
Now I do recall after it first froze and rebooted it said Android is updating or whatever that screen is. I recall the phone having 2 updates it updated though the day before. Should have the replacement on here later this evening.
I had CPU temp app running so I could see what app were heating up the phone when I used and when I had Google Maps on it the car it did heat up to the low 70's C once in awhile and was sticking mostly around 67-69C did the phone get too hot. Not even sure what the overheating temps are for this.
Probably just a defective phone but was fine running basically not added apps just installed NoChromo, Battery Monitor Widget, CPU Temp, Netflix, Rhapsody, Signal Check Lite, Speed Test, Spotify, I believe that's what I had installed before the issue. Then I just went and download everything else I usually use at once.
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More than likely either the 1st or the 2nd update applied to your phone put it in a bootloop but you would have had to click on them to allow them to install. Going into recovery via rebooting till you first see the alcatel screen and then holding down vol up would have allowed you to do a factory reset which in all previous cases of boot loop being mentioned corrected the issue.
If it wasn't the updates then one of the apps downloaded did not work well with the phone but a factory reset should still have fixed that, unless you were installing apps that use superuser in which case you should first have at least booted twrp and backed up system if not all the partitions so you could do a restore. Remember these suggestions for your 2nd phone.
Ideally we need someone to back up system both before the 1st update and the 2nd so we could "downgrade" if necessary. Some have complained the 2nd update caused a bug that makes making google voice calls unavailable.

warranty repair..the easiest anf fastest way at this situation.

famewolf said:
More than likely either the 1st or the 2nd update applied to your phone put it in a bootloop but you would have had to click on them to allow them to install. Going into recovery via rebooting till you first see the alcatel screen and then holding down vol up would have allowed you to do a factory reset which in all previous cases of boot loop being mentioned corrected the issue.
If it wasn't the updates then one of the apps downloaded did not work well with the phone but a factory reset should still have fixed that, unless you were installing apps that use superuser in which case you should first have at least booted twrp and backed up system if not all the partitions so you could do a restore. Remember these suggestions for your 2nd phone.
Ideally we need someone to back up system both before the 1st update and the 2nd so we could "downgrade" if necessary. Some have complained the 2nd update caused a bug that makes making google voice calls unavailable.
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I installed both updates before doing anything with the phone. The phone was fine for 24 hours or so. I did the power button and volume reset with Alcatel and it was able to reset it just fine but still was stuck in the reboot loop. Not sure why one of those apps would have cause it to do that but maybe it was defective and one of those apps just finally pushed it ? I was not trying to Root the phone at all, atleast not right now I'm not. Don't you need to flash TWRP for root if so I don't have access to that and not doing that at this time.
I did get the replacement one yesterday as promised. Turned it on downloaded and installed the update. AFAIK it only downloaded and installed 1 update for me this time. Not sure if this is the current build 7SQR-UER0 but that's what I have after the update and it showing it's up to date. The build before it I checked was 7SQ3-UE30 that's what came on the 2nd phone I don't recall what was on the 1st phone.
I just set it up and went to play store and downloaded everything didn't have any issue's so well test some more the next few days. Could of just been bad phone.

BDestroyer8418 said:
I installed both updates before doing anything with the phone. The phone was fine for 24 hours or so. I did the power button and volume reset with Alcatel and it was able to reset it just fine but still was stuck in the reboot loop. Not sure why one of those apps would have cause it to do that but maybe it was defective and one of those apps just finally pushed it ? I was not trying to Root the phone at all, atleast not right now I'm not. Don't you need to flash TWRP for root if so I don't have access to that and not doing that at this time.
I did get the replacement one yesterday as promised. Turned it on downloaded and installed the update. AFAIK it only downloaded and installed 1 update for me this time. Not sure if this is the current build 7SQR-UER0 but that's what I have after the update and it showing it's up to date. The build before it I checked was 7SQ3-UE30 that's what came on the 2nd phone I don't recall what was on the 1st phone.
I just set it up and went to play store and downloaded everything didn't have any issue's so well test some more the next few days. Could of just been bad phone.
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If you have not yet rooted and have any model other than 6045i (settings, about phone) you could really help the idol3 users out....details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/idol-3/general/want-to-able-to-install-ota-updates-t3163745

famewolf said:
If you have not yet rooted and have any model other than 6045i (settings, about phone) you could really help the idol3 users out....details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/idol-3/general/want-to-able-to-install-ota-updates-t3163745
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I believe that is the model I have what ever the USA bought on Amazon.com are.

I have rooted successfully with king root. Tried to change it to Supersu but failed su binary i think because Im on 5.1. Also is it actually boot looping or does it just not load. Because mine will boot up say Alcatel One Touch then be stuck on boost mobile boot screen for a while. I unplug battery and try again and just leave it. It takes a long while but it comes back

i7vSa7vi7y said:
I have rooted successfully with king root. Tried to change it to Supersu but failed su binary i think because Im on 5.1. Also is it actually boot looping or does it just not load. Because mine will boot up say Alcatel One Touch then be stuck on boost mobile boot screen for a while. I unplug battery and try again and just leave it. It takes a long while but it comes back
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why you root it with king root, when there is a procedure to root the device with custom recovery?the device couldnt be running android 5.1 becaouse we all have only 5.0.2. How you manage to unplug the non removable battery?

Boot Loop, sort of...

I'm having a weird issue that literally just started yesterday. First of all, I didn't do any changes yesterday before this occurred. Anyway, my G3 just started freezing, then rebooting randomly, BUT that's not all! When it tries to reboot, it flashes the LG screen, and SOMETIMES makes it to the AT&T screen....and even, sometimes makes it all the way booted up. But, at any point, it can/will reboot and start the process all over. I read on another site that it could be a battery going bad, but I only trust XDA. So, could someone chime in with some help or info pointing me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Ontabok

same issue i am having ..i thought about the battery thing so i pulled it out and put in a fully charged one and no bootloop..but now 3 hours later and 85 percent left on battery and bootloops have started again..btw other battery was a 20 percent when changed it out for fully charged batt..so im just as lost trying to figure it out

Ontabok said:
I'm having a weird issue that literally just started yesterday. First of all, I didn't do any changes yesterday before this occurred. Anyway, my G3 just started freezing, then rebooting randomly, BUT that's not all! When it tries to reboot, it flashes the LG screen, and SOMETIMES makes it to the AT&T screen....and even, sometimes makes it all the way booted up. But, at any point, it can/will reboot and start the process all over. I read on another site that it could be a battery going bad, but I only trust XDA. So, could someone chime in with some help or info pointing me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Ontabok
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Sadly that sounds like a hardware issue

hyelton said:
Sadly that sounds like a hardware issue
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How can I figure out what part of the hardware could be causing this? Is there a diagnostics or something I can use? I've tried factory reset (multiple times), LG Flash Tools to flash previous version, and the strange thing is it may not even make it through the process without restarting again. It's been rooted, but I've never had a problem until this. I never deleted anything.

Ontabok said:
How can I figure out what part of the hardware could be causing this? Is there a diagnostics or something I can use? I've tried factory reset (multiple times), LG Flash Tools to flash previous version, and the strange thing is it may not even make it through the process without restarting again. It's been rooted, but I've never had a problem until this. I never deleted anything.
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Not really other than swapping out parts. If using flash tool won't work and it won't go back to stock then it's definitely a hardware issue.
What percent does it get too before rebooting? If 80% that's normal. If before it's definitely a hardware problem.

hyelton said:
Not really other than swapping out parts. If using flash tool won't work and it won't go back to stock then it's definitely a hardware issue.
What percent does it get too before rebooting? If 80% that's normal. If before it's definitely a hardware problem.
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I can try Flash Tools again. Maybe it just didn't take. I just noticed another thing. When it's trying to boot, if the notification light flash when the LG screen is on, it will load. But, if it doesn't flash, then it will just go black, then flash the LG screen again.

Kameirus said:
same issue i am having ..i thought about the battery thing so i pulled it out and put in a fully charged one and no bootloop..but now 3 hours later and 85 percent left on battery and bootloops have started again..btw other battery was a 20 percent when changed it out for fully charged batt..so im just as lost trying to figure it out
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Yeah. It's really weird. It seems to do it less when the battery is charged, but if I get down to 40-50%, it could go into a loop that runs the battery into the red. Also, it seems to heat up around the power button when it's stuck in the loop. And, to top it off, my software update popped up yesterday. I've been anxiously awaiting Marshmallow for a while, but I'm afraid to update because of boot-looping right in the middle and bricking the whole thing. I already have a bricked G2 due to something weird that happened while trying to update to Lollipop. I'm going to the AT&T store today, I think. I'll let you know what I find out. Maybe, it can help you.
Thanks,
Ontabok

hyelton said:
Not really other than swapping out parts. If using flash tool won't work and it won't go back to stock then it's definitely a hardware issue.
What percent does it get too before rebooting? If 80% that's normal. If before it's definitely a hardware problem.
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Ok. So, first of all, sorry for the long wait on a reply.
I did manage to get through a factory reset, but it still is doing the boot loop. I'm going to take it in to AT&T today. You can see my reply above to see more info. I unrooted everything and factory reset, but it still loops. I think it's a problem with the phone. I may have to go to LG, depending on what AT&T says.
Thanks for the help!
Ontabok

So, final update. I had to go into the AT&T tech store. I was having the random boot loop for about a week, then, on Saturday, I got the Demigod green screen. I had went in the day before and ordered a new battery, but I couldn't find any information on the green screen error. I took it in and they immediately (after checking for rooting) replaced it (warranty). They said they had never seen/heard of this screen. They had to actually Google it to see if it's attached to rooting. (It's not) Anyway, so I'm back in the saddle with a brand new phone. ?
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Also, thanks for the replies!
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ok so my g/fs g3 just started doing this. updated to mm about 3 or 4 days ago. was doing fine. haven't changed anything software wise. completely stock. no root.
what is really odd is that it doesn't loop when plugged into a power source. take it off the charger= insta loop ...
hoping a rom might solve the issue but from the sounds of the replies maybe that isn't the case.
any help greatly appreciated. i've not owned this phone myself or i would already have it rooted and custom recovery..
is there even a root method for MM? recovery?
i'd love to see if its a software issue. the phone worked swell before the update...
im trying to get to the bottom of this tonight if i can my g/f has a final tmr early in the morning and i'd like to make sure she has a phone to go with her. prob send her with mine if i can't get this working. but thats less than ideal PM if you've got anything i can try or links to get me started... i'll be reading in the mean time...

[Q] Acatel 4060a "Ideal" Stuck at Boot Logo

My Nexus 6P was recently broken but my GF (on accident lol but still she's lucky I love her. If it had been anyone else, like one of my guy friends, I prolly woulda had to hit em haha j/k)
Anyways, borrowed a friend Acatel 4060a IDEAL. He dropped it off last night. I then factory reset it and all that, hooked up my google accounts, downloaded WoW - Hearthstone and my Drastic DS emulator, and everything was fine. Then this morning I was bored and figured I would see about if this cheap POS is rootable. Which it is, and I proceeded to do so. Everything worked fine the whole morning, til bout 45min ago, I was leaving to run up to the AT&T store to get a SIM card so I could hook it up to my account, and on the way out the door I reset it cause I just had finished updating some apps in the play store. It then became stuck at the Bootlogo. So I then did what you always do in this case, try taking the battery out and the SD Card, then putting just the battery back in, see if that works. Didn't. Tried just resetting it a few more times, and let it sit for like 20min hoping maybe it was just taking extra long. Nope. So I then booted into the stock recovery wiped the cache and did a wipe/factory reset. Still nothing, still stuck. Tried a couple more times. Still nothing. And this phone apparently doesn't have a download mode, so I can even plug it into my laptop cause it can't make a connection obviously without being in download mode, or fully booted into the OS. I am at my wits end.
I'm hoping one of you fine peeps might have a suggestion of something I could try that I perhaps have overlooked or didn't know about. Learn something new every day right So please HELP ! lol its gonna be at almost 2 more weeks til I get paid and will be able to afford the Insurance Deposit for them to send me a replacement Nexus 6P, and I got way too much going on right now and I can't go two weeks without a phone.
I'm All Ears !

Silicon Knight said:
My Nexus 6P was recently broken but my GF (on accident lol but still she's lucky I love her. If it had been anyone else, like one of my guy friends, I prolly woulda had to hit em haha j/k)
Anyways, borrowed a friend Acatel 4060a IDEAL. He dropped it off last night. I then factory reset it and all that, hooked up my google accounts, downloaded WoW - Hearthstone and my Drastic DS emulator, and everything was fine. Then this morning I was bored and figured I would see about if this cheap POS is rootable. Which it is, and I proceeded to do so. Everything worked fine the whole morning, til bout 45min ago, I was leaving to run up to the AT&T store to get a SIM card so I could hook it up to my account, and on the way out the door I reset it cause I just had finished updating some apps in the play store. It then became stuck at the Bootlogo. So I then did what you always do in this case, try taking the battery out and the SD Card, then putting just the battery back in, see if that works. Didn't. Tried just resetting it a few more times, and let it sit for like 20min hoping maybe it was just taking extra long. Nope. So I then booted into the stock recovery wiped the cache and did a wipe/factory reset. Still nothing, still stuck. Tried a couple more times. Still nothing. And this phone apparently doesn't have a download mode, so I can even plug it into my laptop cause it can't make a connection obviously without being in download mode, or fully booted into the OS. I am at my wits end.
I'm hoping one of you fine peeps might have a suggestion of something I could try that I perhaps have overlooked or didn't know about. Learn something new every day right So please HELP ! lol its gonna be at almost 2 more weeks til I get paid and will be able to afford the Insurance Deposit for them to send me a replacement Nexus 6P, and I got way too much going on right now and I can't go two weeks without a phone.
I'm All Ears !
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I'm assuming you used Kingroot to root it? It's a common issue for Kingroot to cause a bootloop.
Typically, this is fixed by re-flashing the stock firmware but you have to get it to connect to PC to do it, and that's only if the stock firmware is even available.
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