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[Q] LG P500h with recovery issues...

Okay, so I read and read, searched and searched. So far I'm pretty stuck.
I did a ton of research before taking my LG P500h, and flashing the ROM because I wasn't a fan of the Froyo android setup. Did everything properly, ran an nandroid backup, everything that I was told to do.
Rooted using Gingerbreak APK, custom backup using Amon_RA custom recovery. All done using the latest USB drivers LG updated me with.
I am currently with Koodo Mobile here in Canada. Pretty much an offspring of Telus Mobile. Currently I am running Cyanogen Mod 7 the 6.5.7 beta build, and the phone is not bricked, or giving me any errors or hassle.
The problem is that I cannot use the 3G network or use the Koodo network. It only defaults to Telus towers. No android market showing up anywhere either. From what I've found on here, there doesn't seem to be a bugfix solution to this, and no settings I've been able to change on the phone has helped my situation. Maybe I missed something.
So, I decided to take it back to where I began, back to Froyo 2.2.1 . This is where it all went wrong. Tried going through the Nandroid backup and restoring that, I was given an " Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via adb! " . Okay, I'm not exactly a Java programmer so I'm a little intimidated. I do however have Android SDK going on my laptop.
Some more searching revealed the KDZ_FW_UPD.exe flashing method. I got the right KDZ file for my Koodo phone, V10V_00.kdz and began the process. Everything checks out, good to go, started update. Wait, phone not found? WTF! My laptop recognizes it, says my phone is connected and working. No problems here, just can't find it? UGH.
So, I need someone to either give me info on getting it to flash the kdz, or get Cyanogen Mod 7 working properly on my device.
Please help, I'll fully admit I'm a noob to this, and not an expert programmer either. But, I know computers and I fully understand what I have done so far to my phone. Just not enough to fix it.

Okay, I have gotten some things working on my phone. I think I am settling into Cyanogen Mod nicely. I missed the Google apps flash zip so I have my market and stuff. Its a shame the data does not work though. Oh well I will keep updating as it gets developed.
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App

GOT IT! finally...
Finally got my phone recovered to OEM specs. I had to restore my computer back to before I installed all my drivers and reinstalled all my USB drivers from there. Phone connected to USB properly, ran the KDZ updater, and it sucessfully installed the V10V kdz. All is well.

finally good luck.. enjoy androiding..

When you flashed the cyanogen mod rom what program did you use to flash the phone? And how did you make a rom backup? When you reflashed the stock rom did it still have all the original bloatware?

LG Optimus P500h TELUS became dead during Upgrading
Hi everybody!
I have LG Optimus P500h Telus. I purchased from Kijiji. I don't have any papers or documents for that so i cannot claim its warranty.
I was trying to upgrade its version during upgrading my device was stuck so I disconnected and plugged out its battery and inserted again. When i tried to turn it on. It never turned on again. It never ever appeared emergency mode again. I tried for several times by pushing home, power, and volume up and down buttons, and escape buttons. Now its just like dead. It never showed any sign of life. If anybody have any idea what happened with it and how I can recover or where I should take this one for repairs. I am in toronto, canada.
Your help and suggestions will be appreciated.

HELP!
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-lg-phoenix-thrive/127858-jobans-kernel-2-08-overclock-cm7-2-3-7-etc-gyro-fixed-60.html
My problem starts from post #600
Please.

Totally bricked!!

Hi guys,
Well it just happened the unwanted.
After an unsuccessful upgrade to 20E I'm left with a bricked phone.
My phone is an European version (p920). I've tried all procedure described on this forum about how to get him back to live but all ended into a failure. The bin methode gave a partial "success" but at the end it made things worst cause it messed up my baseband and now it doesn't have a GSM network and there's no IMEI.
Well I tell you how all these happend.
A couple a days ago I was having 21A installed which I ended up rooting it in order to try some custom roms. I have tried a couple of them but at the end I was having some troubles with my wifi connection so I decided to revert back to 21A or just install another once using the kdz update method.
It was while upgrading to 21D that I got a connection fault and I had to detach and attach the phone. First I though it would be a cable though I changed it and I started all over with the provided cable from LG but always with the same results. As a result the phone didn't power up. I founded later that it powers up only when the wall charger is attached.
After many tries and after reading how to solve this issue I gave it a try trough flashtool with a bin file of 20E I downloaded here in the forum. I tried several times but after 95 seconds the upgrade just fail, well it never really got further. I also tried to flash a GB baseband and I remember once it got up untill 75 seconds of progress and the I got and ERROR. I remember the same happened when the first leaked GB rom came out and you had to flash the baseband separately using these method.
I can't get the phone into recovery mode. I ran out of button combination don't work. I read that some other people were having the same issue and they haven't found a fix yet.
Sorry for the large story but I wanted to be clear with it.
Can someone point me out how to solve this or just come with some ideas.
I really thank you in advance
Lucio

Have you tried this method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186460
It worked for me for about 3 different types of bricking, even though it's very tricky and frustrating to get it to enter emergency mode correctly. However, when it does, it feels like a better way to flash a rom in my opinion. I prefer this method when installing a new rom.

Using V20E in mine right now.
Works just fine.
download this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=887870&d=1328537753
if your phone doesnt start put it in download mode like Trekfan422991 does in here
and then just watch this video i have uploaded the procedure here

xbsall said:
Using V20E in mine right now.
Works just fine.
download this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=887870&d=1328537753
if your phone doesnt start put it in download mode like Trekfan422991 does in here
and then just watch this video i have uploaded the procedure here
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HI XBALL,
Thanks for the links man. I was using old driver and that was causing the constantly connection failure. I download the new USB driver trough the LG Updater app ( Recovery Phone) and installed them. I disabled the LG Android USB moden and started the upgrade procedure with a full success.
I've crazy for about three days. Now time for a bier.
Thanks

My IMEI is gone:(.

Hello,
Todat i got the problem that my IMEI is gone.
After i went from stock v21e via KDZ method to cyanogenmod rc3 everything was working fine.
now i wanted to try DNA rom and flashed that. but it didnt work. my IMEI was gone.
so i flashed it back to stock v21e with smartflash because kdz method is not working anymore?
But my IMEI is still GONE
is there a way that i cna get this back or do i nee to send it to LG?
Greets, Paul

Help 4 you
Same happened here. Use LGMobileSupportTool, google it. And use recover mobile by S/N and model, or press update device. It will put everything back to normal. But make shure you have most LGïsh rom flashed, coz the software will not accept your phone otherwise. Or just drop me a pm with your email. Ill sent you the software.

Hi. Yes, I’ve had that same problem. You might want to try this fix: Google “TitanKernel_V0.4.2_V21D_09-04-2012”. This might fix it, before having to go through starting from the beginning. I have V21e KDZ flashed, this fix and “ICS_Real3D_Edition_GB_v1.2_Final” flashed on top. Works great.

I got a problem with flashing back the KDZ. i got everything liek normal with lgmobilesupporttool. but when i start small http like normal and start lgmobileupdate.
i get an maintenance error? from lg?
program is not used anymore by LG?
greetings, Paul

Ok so i got it flashed back to stock. by letting it update.
now i got v21b. and got it rooted with megatron.
but when i install any custom rom except for cyanogenmod. my IMEI gets lost again?

Soft brick/boot loop

I was running the latest tweaked ROM yesterday when it rebooted itself into a boot loop. Iets stuck at "Samsung"
I attempted to restore using Odin following the instructions in the how to fix your phone thread. Though i've been successful with that in the past, this time it didn't fix the phone. Its still stuck on Samsung, but will randomly display the stock boot ani with sound, or even get to the lock screen, but then immediately go back to displaying Samsung.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, and yes, i've followed all instructions correctly with wipes and loading things in Odin, etc.
Thanks!

Hmm... was there anything going on at the time of reboot? Very curious.
Beyond that - assuming all went as it should with ODIN, if you are still having issues then the problem is a bit beyond the rom. It seems a scapegoat but perhaps a hardware error is underlying things...?
Anyhoo - what file (or files) have you tried to ODIN? There are a few to choose from, and they all can be found here (just be sure to only DL and use the charge-specific ones of course). I would try each one and hope at some point something sticks to where the phone is usable again. Sorry for the troubles!

Thanks for your reply! Phone was just sitting on my desk, I was text messaging...it may have been plugged into a non Samsung charger. I doubt its the fault of your ROM tho, as it had been running great since I installed 2.1 a few weeks ago. Its always run hot so that might have just caught up with it.
I'll try all those files this time on fresh downloads, might have been something corrupted.
thanks again!
UPDATE: Successfully loaded ED1 on, and it boots. I can unlock the phone, begin the setup process, but then it reboots. I'm so confused...

Find the most current OTA file and flash it instead of working your way all the way from Froyo to Gingerbread.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium

I had something similar happen to me just a week ago. I was on stock debloated deodexed and odined to tweeked and it bootlooped, Odin said successful but nothing was happening just Samsung logo. I knew there was no problem with tweeked cause I used the same file b4 and it worked fine. Tried to Odin back to stock ep4 same Samsung logo Odin still said it was successful. So I changed cable and made shure I was not moving phone or cable while it was doing its thing. It worked. Then updated to fp1, cwm superuser then Odin to tweeked. Everything ok. I figured the only problem of my was that the cable was a bit loose when I plugged it in the phone, the connections in the phone I guess were not getting the full contact as they should have. So try making shure you connect/plug in cable all the way and don't touch it while Odin is doing its job. You might also need to flash the stock ep4 file. Sorry could not help more. This worked for me, now on tweeked 2.2 n no problems.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda app-developers app

[Q] Unrecognized SIM card

Hey guys,
So I got a quite annoying problem and I already spent quite some time searching the forums and google without results. Either the solutioins didn't work or the cases I found were unsolved.
Anyway, here is the story.
I have a xperia tipo (st21i) and I rooted it and unlocked the bootloader and flashed several kernels and roms to find the one I'm most comfortable with.
I used: CM 10.0, paranoid android, super jelly bean and performa v4 in case this is of any interest.
I decided to go with cm 10.0 and it worked fine until after one reboot suddenly my SIM card was unrecognized and it said I should restart the phone with a valid SIM card. I flashed different ROM's and went back to stock now but the problem persists. I really ran out of ideas and since I'm not really skilled and rich of knowledge beyond the point of flashing and the rough structure of android I'm a bit helpless here.
Any help is really appreciated and thanks in advance
P.S.: first post

I don't know if it would work but you can try it
Try flashing ics ftf it should work fine..

follow this may work
first flash the original .ftf file then flash cm10 :fingers-crossed:

This happened to me aswell, but it was a while ago, when I wasn't even rooted yet. Went to the shop to ask about it from them and they said SIMs can go outdated or something.. They gave me a new one and it was fixed. But if you decide to ask them about this, make sure you are on stock ROM and locked bootloader, also unrooted. Because if not, your device isn't under warranty, and they can blame it on that
Sent from my C1505 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

SmashMii said:
This happened to me aswell, but it was a while ago, when I wasn't even rooted yet. Went to the shop to ask about it from them and they said SIMs can go outdated or something.. They gave me a new one and it was fixed. But if you decide to ask them about this, make sure you are on stock ROM and locked bootloader, also unrooted. Because if not, your device isn't under warranty, and they can blame it on that
Sent from my C1505 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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So you are saying it's due to my SIM? It still works perfectly fine in my other phone (a samsung galaxy xcover s5690). The phone was used when I got it and I don't have any receipt or anything so I don't have warranty on my phone anyway right? Should I still visit a shop?
I also tried ICS and it didn't work either. I got the ftf file from that link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/development/rom-official-st21a-america-firmwares-t2302630
I tried flashing different kernels and roms already even after it refused to take my SIM but nothing helped. It didn't fell down or anything so I don't think anything went loose inside. Could it still be due to hardware failure?

heeey
I got almost the same problem
few weeks ago i found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/development/sony-xperia-tipo-dual-t2594389
about making custom roms works tipo dual by making it 1 sim not 2 well its ok with me so i used it and all was perfect
custom rom - working gsm - fast - smooth like i dont need anything else
but yesterday well my annoying gf was spamming calls while i was sleeping so i turned airplane mode On
then after i wake up i turned it off and suddenly the device can't recognize the sim any more the same problem this dude got
so i tried everything like tryin to swap the sim place - installing new rom - restore my old stock rom - hard reset - testing the sim - so i tried installing the last update stock ftf which is 11.0.A.6.5 i think it's like this using flash tools anyway it worked and the problem is solved now the phone is workin with no problems u should try it

DreamingDude said:
So you are saying it's due to my SIM? It still works perfectly fine in my other phone (a samsung galaxy xcover s5690). The phone was used when I got it and I don't have any receipt or anything so I don't have warranty on my phone anyway right? Should I still visit a shop?
I also tried ICS and it didn't work either. I got the ftf file from that link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/development/rom-official-st21a-america-firmwares-t2302630
I tried flashing different kernels and roms already even after it refused to take my SIM but nothing helped. It didn't fell down or anything so I don't think anything went loose inside. Could it still be due to hardware failure?
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I tried other phones aswell, it was working on them, but not on my phone. Weird, but yeah, I suggest you go visit them at the shop, they can probably help you out.