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I did not see any thread for this so opening a new one so its easy to find.
I rooted my phone using gingerbreak and like a wiseazz, loaded a custom recovery image of "recovery-RA-GNM-thunderg-1.2". Although the costom recovery loaded fine, I am stuck with a phone which has only blue and green colors. I loaded one of the custom 2.3 ROMs by Andy and it loaded fine, but still the graphic display is all messed up, only green an blue and some other tinges. When I look at the About phone I see that it says the model number as LG P500 , although mine is LG P506. Any help people??
My wife will kill me. Its her phone!!
why would you flash a P500 ROM to a P506 ? did you make a backup ?
I made a backup of the ROM, but I did not backup the recovery.img.
Can I try NAND restore of the old ROM. I have my doubts if that would work, because as soon as I put the custom recovery in it. It started getting messy colors. But I will try. If any one else has any pointers please let me know.
Also, I ready in one of these posts that Thrive and Phoenix are just variants of Optimus One, architecturally same. Bad decision
Ok. An update. I did a Nandroid backup and I have the ROM which came with the phone. It sucks. But I guess I will have to wait till one of the brainys in here come up with a good "Custom Recovery" and "Custom ROM" for LG Thrive.
I have a LG Optimus T and the LG p500 roms work fine with no problems. I would of expected the same for the att version. I guess you have to wait for one that supports it.
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More bad news. I thought if I can mix and match boot.img of LG506 with the system.img of P500, I can get away by loading the Custom ROM.
Bad Bad Bad decision. Right now, its in a bricked stage. Basically stuck in something called..fastBoot udc_start()...
Its not getting to recovery mode whatever I do. I wanted to get to recovery so I can restore NAND backup. I can even get to adb so I can start in recovery....
Somebody help please
Can anyone help me. I tried all possible routes to unbrick my phone. It keeps getting wosre and worse. Right now its stuck in "Emergency Mode". I have the NAND backup file with system.img and boot.img, but cant do anything with it since no ADP or customer recovery. I tried to do a KDZ update, but I think i need the v11e_00.kdz file for P506. Can anyone give me some pointers to recver my phone.
I have a thrive as well and I get the weird blue green screen using the unofficial cm7 rom from the optimus dev section. Luckily I back up the phone with rom manager first so now im back to where I started.
edit: Well after your post I decided to try it again... mistake. Now im stuck at the cm7 logo and im not really sure how to fix it...
edit 2: cant load recovery either... ****
I have tried out the custom roms and i get the strange color problem too. It's strange how the cell phone board is P500 but the model is P506. The phone must be different somehow hardware wise. Hmm....
Ok. An update.
I bricked my phone trying to experiment. I sent it out to LG repair and they put in the stock ROM and sent back. I will not be continuing my experiments again
Can any big hearted rooters help the LG thrive owners please..
Do experiments but cautiously
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I have a similar problem with my phone now. I flashed rom and now my phone gets stuck on boot screen. I can get to recovery. But my backups not there for sum reason.
Edit: I found what was supposed to be tha stock rom for my phone but didnt work. Gets stuck after lg screen goes away. It will go to recovery. Does anyone have a copy of a nand
Backup for a P506 thrive?
I've managed to get myself in the same situation would you happen to recall the LG number you called or have a lead on who I can contact at LG. I will continue to search also. Thanks in advance.
Ok wow. You need to go to WWW.androidcentral.com once there go to the Phoenix/ thrive thread. We have a custom kernel made by joban to run the p500 roms without the color issue. Also have how to threads for rooting, CWM, and flashing.
Running oxygen v1.1 w/ joban kernel,cwm on my LG Phoenix. And its awesome. Fast, great battery
Don't forget to hit the thanks button!
Sorry that it took me forever to get back to this, but just one question. Are the kernels for the Phoenix and Thrive exactly the same?
No issues that i can recall being specific to the kernel.
Question: I have rooted the phone and installed ROM Manager. Set up Rom Manager as Optimus One. Here is the issue: I am able to reboot normally and keep root. But when I select to reboot into recovery from ROM Manager, the phone does a default setup and I'm back to factory default. When I try to get into recovery by using the PWR+Home+Vol up (and vol down at times), I get into fastboot with "udc_start()". Which I'm guessing is normal. What am I missing to get into recovery?
Thanks.
Assuming you have a thrive. You may want to check this out.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-lg-phoenix-thrive/138186-how-clock-workrecovery-mod-cwm-6.html
There appears to be a hickup with thrive and CWM.
lg thrive p506 EMERGENCY MODE!
my lg thrive come on and immediately goes into emergency mode. i have been searching for about two weeks for anything that will help me in xda forums, and youtube and phandroid. i cant find anything that conclusively brings the phone out of emergency mode. can anyone direct me to a program or forum that might be of assistance?
need more info. are you on stock unrooted, just rooted, or rooted with custom recovery and rom?
what were you doing when this happened?
^^^^need to know^^^^^^^^^
try this and let me know what you get. hold at same time Home+vol down+power.
Am I screwed. First, I know Im a noob. I tried to post for clarification in more appropriate places but it wouldn't let me (first post).
I essentially followed the cyanogenmod directions to root and install CWM, then installed CM7.1 and Gapps from the SD card. Unfortunately, I didnt install NVFlash, and am now stuck in a boot loop where it goes to the cyanogen loading screen and crashes. As (I now know) I should have expected, I cant get into recovery mode to use the NANDroid backup I made first. Am I SOL, or is there some way to un-ruin my new $500 dollar toy.
Also, it is a WindMobile Optimus 2x, so apparently its really a G2X? (LG-P999)
This is the second phone i have run cyanogen on. I just got rid of an HTC Glacier, I am comfortable with simple command line, I had some frustration rooting it, but managed. Truth be told im more of a button pushing kinda guy.
HELP ME PLEASE!!
Just nvflash it now. Follow the how-to thread in the dev forum. Doesn't matter if u are bootlooping.
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For a less complicated process to NVFlash your recovery, there's a nice nvflash utility posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
Makes it a little more button-pusher friendly.
No worries you are on XDA the help offered by the folks here is second to none.
Reading the boards I've noticed quite a few people who have possibly bricked their phones by using this horrendous piece of garbage. Leave it to LG. Regardless, I would strongly recommend against using it and either waiting for an OTA update or using xboarder's flashable, rooted update here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179748 .
As far as I can tell, no one has been able to fix the s/w updater issue, which is leaving phones either with no recovery or unable to boot past recovery/restore ROMs.
This isn't the first time either. Just google "LG Software update bricking phones".
Oh wait, I did: http://www.google.com/search?source...gc.r_pw.&fp=79f73547dc11dcbf&biw=1366&bih=667
For those of you who possibly bricked your phones; hang on, I'm sure some of the great minds on this board will come up with a fix. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them.
ALSO! For those of you who don't know this already -- you MUST restore the stock recovery BEFORE trying to upgrade. That's also been causing problems. Just use NVFlash to restore the stock recovery, THEN upgrade using LG software if you must.
The stock camera app doesn't focus as quickly or have nearly as good quality (unacceptable quality IMO) as the LG app. I use my camera frequently and would not have updated if I knew it would be gone (reason why I didn't flash CM7).
Does anyone know of a way to restore to stock? I installed Nvflash at one point or another...
I was stock rooted and update killed that. No more root. But phone works great so far.
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Update: I was able to restore Clockwork Mod (or had it from before, didnt check) with NVFlash. Then restored one of my NANDroid backups from before.
Bye bye ****ty LG gingerbread update.
I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
MuzzRock said:
I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
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It come back, I brick it the same way, once's before, if you didn't root, hold the power button and volume up at the same time, or if you did root, uses NVflash or clockwork to recover. And don't recommend using a 64bit OS for any type of programming or flashing, just install VMware player, it uses your CPU virtualization to run a different OS, while in your host OS and it's free, that allow you to run XP on a virtual partition, and use USB devies from host machine. The nice thing is if you mess something up, it won't effect the rest of the machine, and you can run the 32bit XP version of the tool.
Works great on mine. I backed up, used tga gunmans stock restore, replaced with stock recovery, unrooted using super one click. rebooted, installed the update, reflashed to custom recovery with tga gunmans app and installed the rooted version from xboarder56. Time consuming would be my only complaint and I love screwing with this thing so who cares.
Yes, my phone is too bricked by this app. Did any of you that are now bricked get to 4% after the download and during the update process, then windows popped up a dialog and claimed the app was no longer responding? this is what happened to me and boom, now i can't get back. I even tried doing the nandroid restore of the stock rom from CWM. Still can't get out of the S/W updater screen. Is there anyway to reflash the bootloader? I did try a live chat with a LG tech and he wanted me to do a hard reset. which is basicly holding down the vol-down and power button. so i did a nvflash back to stock recovery and tried it. It showed the box and android screen but then rebooted back to the S/W updater screen. So I called Tmobile and they won't do a replacement since i used LG's app. Said I HAD to go through LG to either fix or replace the phone. Called LG and have a RA# to send it in. Unfortunatly I have to pay for shipping there and it could take about a week to get it back. This really blows.
MuzzRock said:
I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
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Mine worked fine on a 64bit windows 7 machine. I have not had no issues at all. The update is great (I think). The only problem I have is that the camera on the update sucks.
Here's an APK for the stock camera, but I haven't tried it on the update yet because I'm waiting for my phone to restore. Feel free to be a guinea pig
http://www.mediafire.com/?p9aiay5zofq5c1m
pvtodorov said:
The stock camera app doesn't focus as quickly or have nearly as good quality (unacceptable quality IMO) as the LG app. I use my camera frequently and would not have updated if I knew it would be gone (reason why I didn't flash CM7).
Does anyone know of a way to restore to stock? I installed Nvflash at one point or another...
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maybe you should have waited all of 30 minutes from when it came out for someone to say that it was the vanilla android camera app? either way, just flash your recovery again and just restore a stock nandroid...
I didnt have any problems on win7 64bit installing via the update tool... follow the freaking directions and stop getting so antsy and messing with things... mine was stuck on the S/W screen for a bit but all i had to do was unplug pull the battery and put it back in and plug back in and the update kept going...
deanp0219 said:
Here's an APK for the stock camera, but I haven't tried it on the update yet because I'm waiting for my phone to restore. Feel free to be a guinea pig
http://www.mediafire.com/?p9aiay5zofq5c1m
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stock camera does not work. try it already. thanks though.
i tried the LG updater on my win7 machine. let it sit @ 5% for 48mins.
then i tried the KDZ on the win7 machine, it crashed.
got out an old laptop w/ winXP SP3 - tried the KDZ method a few times, the final time it gave me model dll msg not found error 100 times, after that it rebooted the phone into gingerbread.
do it the KDZ method on a winxp computer before you mail these phones! i tried for 2 hrs and finally got it working!
edit: my phone was rooted & stock (no nvflash installed)
JHaste said:
maybe you should have waited all of 30 minutes from when it came out for someone to say that it was the vanilla android camera app? either way, just flash your recovery again and just restore a stock nandroid...
I didnt have any problems on win7 64bit installing via the update tool... follow the freaking directions and stop getting so antsy and messing with things... mine was stuck on the S/W screen for a bit but all i had to do was unplug pull the battery and put it back in and plug back in and the update kept going...
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just because you had no issues doesn't mean others aren't. relax dude. i'm very adept at upgrading/modifying,recovering what seem to be bricked phones. much experience with haykuro's 1.33 death spl. but my win 7 64 bit machine would not install the update. NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I UNPLUGGED ETC. it was stuck on s/w upgrade. i nvflashed recoveries,did nandroid backups. tried everything i know of. different cables/ports....nothing worked. until i installed xp on a spare partition. finally kdx worked on the first try,even after the lg update tool failed on xp.
No one has bricked their phones. NVFlash and your back to life. Mine wouldn't even power on... No display... No boot logo... Nothing.
NVFlash and your good.
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player911 said:
No one has bricked their phones. NVFlash and your back to life. Mine wouldn't even power on... No display... No boot logo... Nothing.
NVFlash and your good.
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my point exactly... nobody really understands what bricking is... the definition of a brick means its literally nothing more than a paperweight... it is IMPOSSIBLE do anything to get it to work because the phone will not respond to anything... the fact that its on the S/W screen means it has life yet and as already pointed out just use NVFlash to breathe life into it...
Mine worked fine on the update with XP Pro
JHaste said:
my point exactly... nobody really understands what bricking is... the definition of a brick means its literally nothing more than a paperweight... it is IMPOSSIBLE do anything to get it to work because the phone will not respond to anything... the fact that its on the S/W screen means it has life yet and as already pointed out just use NVFlash to breathe life into it...
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How? I have NV flasher and tried to flash to stock and it still sits on the s/w update screen. Please if you know what to do, feel free to pm me or respond here. I am at a loss as to what to do.
chrisdepew said:
How? I have NV flasher and tried to flash to stock and it still sits on the s/w update screen. Please if you know what to do, feel free to pm me or respond here. I am at a loss as to what to do.
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Take your sd card and hook it to your computer. Create a folder named "clockworkmod". Open that folder and create a folder named "backup". Place TGA Gunman's stock recovery in the folder.On your phone hold down the volume down and start button at the same time. You will then see a new screen, release the buttons. Go to "backup and restore". You navigate using the volume up and down buttons and select with the power button. Choose the back up that you will see there. When it is finished navigate back and choose "wipe data-factory reset". Reboot. Power on and you are back to the day you purchased it. Or download a ROM from the developers section. I liked "Ultimate ROM". Then choose "install zip from sdcard. You are now better than when you purchased it.
I am able to get into CWM recovery but unable to install any OS on the phone. Ive tried installing all sorts of .zip, didnt work. NEED HELP.
It is Wind mobile Canada version of Optimus 2X.
How about a better explanation of "didn't work".
And, specific information about which roms you've tried to flash.
Also how did you flash CWM?
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i bet you he didn't flash it through nvflash correctly or maybe he didnt use nvflash at all.
rapswiller said:
I am able to get into CWM recovery but unable to install any OS on the phone. Ive tried installing all sorts of .zip, didnt work. NEED HELP.
It is Wind mobile Canada version of Optimus 2X.
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i bet you he didn't flash it through nvflash correctly or maybe he didnt use nvflash at all.
follow this instruction here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
I have used NVflash via command prompt on windows XP. when i hold the power+ -volume I see another LG logo( since I'm using the latest version 5 of clockwork mod recovery). I download rome like eagleblood, weaponG2x, WindG2x(some one had posted original android), miuiandroig2x etc. I have been creating .zip of each of them and pasted onto my sd card via mounting sd card from CWM recovery. then installed .zip from sd card and selected each of them but it says INSTALLATION ABORTED before starting. Not able to get any rom installed. Please help.
kdz updater crashes after 100% under download section. it says decompressing necessary files and doesn't respond after 100% and crashes. I've tried win 7 home basic 64 bit, xp professional 32bit.
Does not respond after saying NORMAL MTK UPGRADE START
read the guides/tutorials again
First and foremost I think you need to read ALL the tutorials on here a little more thoroughly, the way you're describing things indicates that you are unfamiliar with the correct process of flashing different roms. "S/W upgrading screen"?? "creating .zip of each of them"?? The issues you're experiencing are almost 100% user error and nothing hardware related.
Having said that, before you start blindly flashing, do a nandroid backup of your stock Wind rom immediately, then and only then proceed to flashing custom roms/kernels. Also, I would double check the nvflash instructions and repeat that process in its entirety, there's really no need to use rom manager at all or have the latest recovery release (from my experience with 5+ Android phones rom manager serves little purpose unless you're on cm nightlies, cwm and some patience is all you need).
Hopefully that didn't sound harsh, I'm honestly trying to help you, but seriously re-read everything then proceed with flashing, and if you're still having issues hopefully you can include more detailed information next time.
PS Weapon + faux's kernel = WIN
Hi, I have a similar problem.. I rooted my phone yesterday and then installed rom manager. When flashing, I chose LG Optimus 2X (which turns out to be P990) instead of the T-Mobile one (which is P999). My phone is the P999 one with Wind as well.
After a few seconds, the phone restarted and got stuck in the loading screen.
After doing a few searches, I nvflashed a stock image, but under phone info, the Model changed from P999 to P990. Problem is, the baseband says unknown and cannot get any signal. I tried KDZ updates as well as trying to restore stock ROMs using CWM Recovery with no success.
The KDZ method doesn't work as it gives an error saying there is a problem with the phone connectivity. Stock restores get stuck in a bootloop.
Does anyone know what I should do?
I have also tried the following :
Booted into CWM Recovery>mount SD card>USB Mount > extracted LG-P999-V10f>backup and restore(in CWM)> restore> YES
It went through and at the end said Restore Complete! but when i reboot I still see the S/W upgrade screen. I tried Factory restore too after restoring the above mentioned RoM
PS:My phone is not rooted and it is Wind mobile Canada LG-P999dw. Incase i need to root it then how am i suppose to do that since i am not able to bypass the Stupid S/W upgrade screen
aceofserenity said:
Hi, I have a similar problem.. I rooted my phone yesterday and then installed rom manager. When flashing, I chose LG Optimus 2X (which turns out to be P990) instead of the T-Mobile one (which is P999). My phone is the P999 one with Wind as well.
After a few seconds, the phone restarted and got stuck in the loading screen.
After doing a few searches, I nvflashed a stock image, but under phone info, the Model changed from P999 to P990. Problem is, the baseband says unknown and cannot get any signal. I tried KDZ updates as well as trying to restore stock ROMs using CWM Recovery with no success.
The KDZ method doesn't work as it gives an error saying there is a problem with the phone connectivity. Stock restores get stuck in a bootloop.
Does anyone know what I should do?
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You've somehow flashed an Optimus 2X baseband and ROM, so your baseband is messed. There was a couple of users that have done that here already. Try searching for the threads. They got their problem solved.
rapswiller said:
I have also tried the following :
Booted into CWM Recovery>mount SD card>USB Mount > extracted LG-P999-V10f>backup and restore(in CWM)> restore> YES
It went through and at the end said Restore Complete! but when i reboot I still see the S/W upgrade screen. I tried Factory restore too after restoring the above mentioned RoM
PS:My phone is not rooted and it is Wind mobile Canada LG-P999dw. Incase i need to root it then how am i suppose to do that since i am not able to bypass the Stupid S/W upgrade screen
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Try flashing recovery again with this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
mr mystery said:
Try flashing recovery again with this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
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I have already performed the exact same procedure. I am able to get into CWM recovery. The issue is even after flashing rom it says S/W upgrading please wait. Tried extracting V10f.rar in clockworkmod>backup>V10f and then hit restore from CWMrecovery. should installation complete!. then when i reboot it still says S/w upgrading. Tried Installing .zip files but still the same problem.
rapswiller said:
I have already performed the exact same procedure. I am able to get into CWM recovery. The issue is even after flashing rom it says S/W upgrading please wait. Tried extracting V10f.rar in clockworkmod>backup>V10f and then hit restore from CWMrecovery. should installation complete!. then when i reboot it still says S/w upgrading. Tried Installing .zip files but still the same problem.
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I don't understand why you are zipping ROM's. They are already zipped and ready to be placed on the root of your card for flashing.
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mr mystery said:
I don't understand why you are zipping ROM's. They are already zipped and ready to be placed on the root of your card for flashing.
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I have tried flashing those zipped roms. but still the same s/w upgrading screen. I have not tried zipping them all over again. but Flashing through those zip files didnt help either.
rapswiller said:
I have tried flashing those zipped roms. but still the same s/w upgrading screen. I have not tried zipping them all over again. but Flashing through those zip files didnt help either.
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Where are you located?
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mr mystery said:
Where are you located?
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alberta, canada
mr mystery said:
You've somehow flashed an Optimus 2X baseband and ROM, so your baseband is messed. There was a couple of users that have done that here already. Try searching for the threads. They got their problem solved.
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I have tried to no avail. All the users that have had that problem seemingly stopped posting, and don't reply :/ Can anyone find links? I need to fix my partitions through nvflash I think.
My phone is LGP999dw v11H. Wind mobile, canada.
PLEASE HELP. stuck at s/w upgrade please wait screen since 1 week. tried Nvflash. able to get into cvm recovery. tried restore with stock rom, showed installation complete but still the same s/w upgrade screen. tried installing roms with choose zip from sd card option, tried almost all roms but most of them show installation aborted and some show installation complete and when i restart i am stuck at the same screen. Ive doing wipe/factory data before installing each and every rom, also wipe dalvik cache.
Please need help
LGP999dw v11H WIND MOBILE CANADA
aceofserenity said:
Hi, I have a similar problem.. I rooted my phone yesterday and then installed rom manager. When flashing, I chose LG Optimus 2X (which turns out to be P990) instead of the T-Mobile one (which is P999). My phone is the P999 one with Wind as well.
After a few seconds, the phone restarted and got stuck in the loading screen.
After doing a few searches, I nvflashed a stock image, but under phone info, the Model changed from P999 to P990. Problem is, the baseband says unknown and cannot get any signal. I tried KDZ updates as well as trying to restore stock ROMs using CWM Recovery with no success.
The KDZ method doesn't work as it gives an error saying there is a problem with the phone connectivity. Stock restores get stuck in a bootloop.
Does anyone know what I should do?
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aceofserenity said:
I have tried to no avail. All the users that have had that problem seemingly stopped posting, and don't reply :/ Can anyone find links? I need to fix my partitions through nvflash I think.
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This is totally a misunderstanding for everyone. T-mobile got a specific branded version called the G2X (in the usa) but the rest of the world got Optimus 2x. I hate when G2X owners frown upon Optimus users that have questions in the G2X thread & vise versa (though there were none in this thread ). The threads need to be better named to P999 & P990 & these misflashes would not have occured. Not just on this site but the whole damn internet. Let me sum it up for the world lol ... There were 3 versions of the Optimus 2x released... The p990, The P999 & The Tmobile specfic branded G2X which is also a p999. I have a p999 Optimus 2x as stated in my Signature. People need to check their version & goto the appropriate forum, But it doesnt help when you are in the correct forum as a newbie & 10 ppl who actually have no idea what version your Optimus 2x is end up telling to to goto "THE OTHER FORUM" because they're in their own closed little world lol. C'mon guys... u know I love you all!
ANYHOW
I've heard of people using Smartflash (a tool made for the p990 ONLY) to partially unbrick p999's to a working state. Here's a small conversation I found on another site:
"Mrjava65, on Apr 29 2011, 18:48, said:
Is there any update on this?
I was one of (hopefully) many who confused the P990 as the same thing as the Optimus 2 @ or the G2X.
So now Im stuck ...If there was a smartflash for the P999 i could undo all this mess !
Any update would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
LOOK!
Sorry for not updating this topic previously. I had thought I did so however that was on xda. I was able to reinstall the factory rom from a link provided by a user on the xda forum and is also linked on this forum. Go here to download the rom http://www.fileserve.com/file/cwSGYn2/BIN_LGP999AT-01-V10f-310-260-MAR-27-2011+0.zip. You'll need the smartflash tool for the LP9990 to flash the bin files. I was only able to successfully flash the AP.bin, I believe Paul is working on getting a working baseband. The phone will be restored to factory settings after flashing the AP.bin with full functionality. I noticed the baseband is weak and searching for networks does give errors occasionally so we'll be patiently awaiting an update to solve this issue. Albeit your phone will be functional enough to satisfy you till then. If you need any help with the steps just reply in this thread"
*****UPDATE***** : Try reading this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226795 seems like this 1 would be your best bet rather than the above!
Now I don't know if this will work but it appears to be the only option u have. AGAIN Smartflash is a tool for the p990 ONLY & I suggest u only use that method if the second method (second link above) does not work. The KDZ method was crashing for me too when I was trying to update to T-mobile GB OTA update stock but I found that skipping the part that says "Read Phone Information" helped me get past any freezing/app crashing. If you are have connectivity issues w KDZ then make sure you downloaded the correct driver from the LG website for the correct version of windows.
Please update us & let us all know if it remains a brick or if you worked out your problem.
-Dave
Hey, I'm kinda new to this, but uh, I have a LG730 (Venice) And I want to flash cyanogen to my phone but I honestly have no idea what I need to use... When I first rooted I was new and dumb, so as a idiot I just immediately tried putting in on my phone and I used Rom Manager.... Bad choice either way but, as I was saying it didn't have my phone listed, but it had the LG Optimus L7 Which is the LG Venice but not LG730 the Optimus was like P700 I think? And I used that and I downloaded Cyanogen from Rom Manager and booted into Clockwork mod and it gave me a screen as soon as it booted that I had to wait because it was downloading and it also said not to disconnect the cable but I didn't have a cable in it? So i tried booting into recovery but, no luck. So I then realized I messed up and bricked my phone, I was nervous knowing that I couldn't simply send it back since it was rooted so that voids the warranty, it was out of the question, so I looked it up and I got lucky and reinstalled my stock rom and drivers so I rooted again and it's back to normal now but, I do want to Flash Cyanogen mod onto my phone so if you guys could help me out here it would be appreciated :angel: