I am a noob at this whole rooting, flashing mods, etc. But when i got my first smartphone the LG VORTEX in the begining of May, 2011 and started downloading apps i noticed a lot of ROOT apps. Ever since then and finding out what root was..I just couldn't keep my hands off anything "ROOT" ever since.
Anyways my problem is:
I downloaded the app Root Toolbox. My phone is ROOTED, although i have been to chicken to actually flash a custom ROM. Obviously I should have. because after changing almost every option i could in the app Root Toolbox, i chose to reboot after changing the options. Well i chose just "reboot" and now my LG Vortex will not boot up. It stays stuck at the black screen that says LG in the middle.
PLEASE HELP I THINK I NEED TO FLASH A CUSTOM ROM. BUT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THAT UNLESS I CAN ACTUALLY GET INTO MY PHONE!!
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How can I bring my Droid X2 from Verizon back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I rooted my phone using MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe "pete's motorolla tools"
I removed bookmarks and I removed two or three verizon stock apk like Blockbuster and Slacker. Also allowed super user permission for apps like barnicle wifi tether and a screenshot program. I have done nothing else.
I recently got the request to upgrade to 1.3.380.MB870.Verizon.en.US but I can not upgrade.
Attempt #1
I factory reset the hard way. Hold power plus volume down... The phone boots back up and I still have Superuser icon showing but everything else is different. I realized at that time I would have to unroot but I could not remember which program I used to root my phone.
Attempt #2
I ended up installing gingerbreak and used the unroot uption on that program to unroot my phone. It said successful. I tried to install the update and it failed. I factory reset the phone and it failed. IDK why but I attempted to root the phone again using gingerbreak after that... but gingerbreak would not root my phone again, it just sat there doing nothing for an hour and 30 minutes.
Attempt #2
I searched more and found the program I originally used. I loaded it up and clicked the unroot option. It unrooted my phone sucessfully. I attempted to upgrade and it failed again!
Attempt #3
I ran the temporary root that came with MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe . Thinking maybe gingerbreak messed up some files and I needed to restore them for the unroot to work properly. The temporary root was not what I had used the first time so I'm thinking maybe I should have done the permanant root... I then unrooted the phone again. After that, I factory reset again and attempted to upgrade the phone. Still fails.
I havn't removed or modified any sytem folders. I simply deleted bookmarks and Blockbuster and other useless stock apps. I've unrooted and factory reset but blockbuster and the stock applications never come back...
I can't upgrade my phone and I need some help. I can't remember what came with the phone by default so IDK how to manually set it back. Please, how can I resolve this? How can I bring my phone back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I want that ugrade.
Notherwise fully aware if we have a forum for your device but if we do....head in over to that place and look fir the "stock ROM" for your device.
First thing is first....you need ti remove root...not familiar with device so don't know is stock Rom will restore root.
Another option is to go to the first thread on this forum and ask Samuel.....he might be able to help.
Cheers and good luck mate
I don't want to restore the root. Honestly I never really used the super user features for anything other than screenshots.
I have no roms or anything. This is just 2.3.3 with the root enabled. I did lurk around and find a link to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf but I'm not sure if that is what I need to do? Will an SBF restore my phone and applications so I can upgrade again?
Update to my previous post. I searched around like I should have in the first place.
I used RSDLite 5.3 to flash my phone to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf. Which was android 2.2.2
I was then able to update the phone to version 2.3.3 and then finally 2.3.4 official OSA over wifi.
I've recently bought a LG Optimus Black aka P-970, rooted and themed the hell out of it. For rooting, i used GingerBreak. However, yesterday i tried to install a rather complex UOT Kitchen theme file, and got my phone stuck in a bootloop. Since LG cleverly enough don't offer a way to boot into recovery mode, i had no other option than to run the LG Recovery software from my computer to restore the default settings.
Now, after that procedure, all stock apps are back, but none of the 3rd party apps was gone either. However, the root access was gone, and if i try to run GingerBreak now, it apparently starts doing its thing, but nothing happens. If i let it go until the screen turns off, and then unlock it again, GingerBreak is closed as if it was never started.
I don't know why, but i suspect that there is some cache somewhere which ruins my funday. I did uninstall GingerBreak and Superuser, then reinstalled GingerBreak, but nothing changed...
Similar for me. Any advice?
Not yet. I found out that the reason was because the update process upgraded to V10E, and that version is not supported by GingerBreak. I know it is possible to root it, i've seen guides, but i haven't tried much yet. V20R is supposed to be released today with GingerBread for EU users with V10E, so i don't put any effort to it atm...
Hi, I'm new here.
So I've got kind of a funny problem.
It involves my root system folder.
I neglected to make a back-up in my haste to make a custom boot animation for my Samsung Galaxy Rush.
It had .qmg format for the files so I flashed a zip that I believed would allow me to easily install a new boot animation.
But something kind of strange happened. The mod worked, but not in the way you'd expect. A few hours before I installed the mod I purchased Rom Toolbox Pro that has Boot Animations included with it. I tried to install one that I thought was nice before I realized that it was specifically for an HTC Eris. Luckily for me, the install failed from the app, so I was left with the same old Boost Mobile animation on start-up. Funny thing though, is I found a few more appropriate boot animations in the same app that I'd prefer and they also failed to install. Although I believe the Eris one was my first attempt.
So then I install bootanimation4U, from a developer on this site, and much to my chagrin, instead of the bootanimation.zip I put into my system > media folder, the HTC Eris boot animation showed up upon restart instead.
Can anyone explain this?
Or at least inform me on how to return my boot animation back to normal?
just flash the stockrom to return to the normal boot animatian
iwjosi said:
just flash the stockrom to return to the normal boot animatian
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I don't have a stock rom. Samsung Galaxy Rush is kind of obscure. I don't think there's anything about them on this site.
I'm kind of a noob. Could you explain how I could manage this?
Well. Actually. I do have a stock rom I could flash. But I'm not sure I trust the source exactly. It's not from xda.
I suppose I could make a back-up.
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Okay. I flashed the only stock rom I could find and it wont load past the samsung screen.
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Problem solved, but I flashed a custom ROM. Boot animation still gone.
So I bought a Blu Studio 5.5 unlocked from boost earlier today and decided to mess around with it. I rooted and installed a clockwork recovery made for the device. I then flashed a supposedly ported version of MIUI for it too (stupid idea). The next boot did nothing but get stuck at the BLU logo. I've tried flashing two different stock roms to no avail. Now it is just stuck in a bootloop. I also seem to have lost root and cannot reboot the phone unless I removed the battery. I get the " Root access is missing. Root device. THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE" And then no and another option that is cut off and I can't even select the 2nd option. I stupidly don't have a backup image to restore with.
Is there anything I can do or have missed to potentially fix my stupid mistakes?
I have the metropcs lg optimus f6 and used the y4pie app to expand my drive space but noticed it completely bogged the phone down. I thought i removed it via the uninstall within it but to no avail. When i do an lg hard reset the y4pie android logo still comes up when rebooting the phone. During the bootup/setup phase the phone randomly reboots and after getting to home screen still continues to randonly reset/reboot sometimes going back to the start of the setup of the phone. Im on the metro rom no custom rom but was rooted at one time. 4.4.2 kitkat and no outside apps only preinstalled ones on device. I think i have the lg rom to loadvon the phone if there is a way to conpletely wipe the phone 100% clean.
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I have the metropcs lg optimus f6 and used the y4pie app to expand my drive space but noticed it completely bogged the phone down. I thought i removed it via the uninstall within it but to no avail. When i do an lg hard reset the y4pie android logo still comes up when rebooting the phone. During the bootup/setup phase the phone randomly reboots and after getting to home screen still continues to randonly reset/reboot sometimes going back to the start of the setup of the phone. Im on the metro rom no custom rom but was rooted at one time. 4.4.2 kitkat and no outside apps only preinstalled ones on device. I think i have the lg rom to loadvon the phone if there is a way to conpletely wipe the phone 100% clean.
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Hello, and welcome to XDA!
I see where the hack is mentioned:
> General discussion > Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking > [Root/Recovery] LG Optimus F6 safest and easiest way
It sounds like a ramdisk hack (packaged with the kernel). I done something like this before, for the F3Q.
So, you will need either a different stock kernel or (if you have files) restore from KDZ. The former is the better option, while the latter is easier to acquire but will leave you with a device that thinks it's from T-Mobile.
You might get in luck with the former option if you ask in the above thread for a copy of the unadulterated boot.img (or any other stock-based kernel that does not have the pressy4pie hack).
Hope this helps, and good luck!