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[FIX] Stuck at S/W Upgrade, Running Windows 7 64bit

I posted this in another thread, but created this new one specifically for these users that are having this issue and can't solve it because they don't have access to an XP machine.
I solved my issue late last night. I am running Windows 7 64bit. I saw that a lot of the guys here used XP to run the KDZ flasher and that wasn't an option for me until I installed XP Mode.
XP Mode allows you to run a virtual XP machine inside Windows 7. I was able to run the KDZ flasher in there and successfully flashed the KDZ GB file to my phone.
You do need to flash stock recovery first. I tried unsuccessfully to flash the KDZ with CWM recovery installed. It would not work until I flashed stock recovery.
One other problem I ran into is, in XP Mode, you are "attaching" USB devices to the virtual XP session via a "stub USB driver." For some reason during the KDZ flashing process the USB modem driver for LG kept releasing from my session. What I did to counteract this was manual attach it each time it released. This was easy, but I had to stay on top of it until the flasher finished the job. I have two monitors so I had the "Devices and Printers" window open in Windows 7, and when I heard the ding indicating the USB driver had left the session, and saw the LG devices appear in the Devices and Printers window, I would just click attach on the USB pulldown in the XP session.
I know this sounds a little complex for some (and possibly vague), but once you get into the XP Mode session you will see what I'm talking about.
I hope this helps you guys still stuck on SW Update screen that don't have XP.

hey guys whats up
i lost my nerves for 2 days tr5ying everything to bring back to life my P990..
since im huge noob with android i messed up everything when i tried to update phone with cm7. anyway i can bring it back to life with rom for p999 and thats it...
all other techniques dont work. cant even boot phone or whatever.. tried smartflash but i dont get anything what should be automaticaly assigned.. like communication driver..com port etc. i wanted to try kdz but this file cant be downloaded..its forbidden on lg site and now it cant be downloaded on megaupload. can i download file from somewhere else? im really pissed off cuz im stuck like this. please help

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
And if you have a P990, you're in the wrong forum (this forum is for the P999).

omerika.emir said:
hey guys whats up
i lost my nerves for 2 days tr5ying everything to bring back to life my P990..
since im huge noob with android i messed up everything when i tried to update phone with cm7. anyway i can bring it back to life with rom for p999 and thats it...
all other techniques dont work. cant even boot phone or whatever.. tried smartflash but i dont get anything what should be automaticaly assigned.. like communication driver..com port etc. i wanted to try kdz but this file cant be downloaded..its forbidden on lg site and now it cant be downloaded on megaupload. can i download file from somewhere else? im really pissed off cuz im stuck like this. please help
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The Roms for the p999 and the p990 are not inter changeable. Different frame work.

jrfaulkin said:
I posted this in another thread, but created this new one specifically for these users that are having this issue and can't solve it because they don't have access to an XP machine.
I solved my issue late last night. I am running Windows 7 64bit. I saw that a lot of the guys here used XP to run the KDZ flasher and that wasn't an option for me until I installed XP Mode.
XP Mode allows you to run a virtual XP machine inside Windows 7. I was able to run the KDZ flasher in there and successfully flashed the KDZ GB file to my phone.
You do need to flash stock recovery first. I tried unsuccessfully to flash the KDZ with CWM recovery installed. It would not work until I flashed stock recovery.
One other problem I ran into is, in XP Mode, you are "attaching" USB devices to the virtual XP session via a "stub USB driver." For some reason during the KDZ flashing process the USB modem driver for LG kept releasing from my session. What I did to counteract this was manual attach it each time it released. This was easy, but I had to stay on top of it until the flasher finished the job. I have two monitors so I had the "Devices and Printers" window open in Windows 7, and when I heard the ding indicating the USB driver had left the session, and saw the LG devices appear in the Devices and Printers window, I would just click attach on the USB pulldown in the XP session.
I know this sounds a little complex for some (and possibly vague), but once you get into the XP Mode session you will see what I'm talking about.
I hope this helps you guys still stuck on SW Update screen that don't have XP.
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I'm running Windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit and Virtual XP Mode is not compatible with this version of Windows 7... Is there another way around this issue...???

Erocks said:
I'm running Windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit and Virtual XP Mode is not compatible with this version of Windows 7... Is there another way around this issue...???
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VMware with XP on it/Google how to bypass limitation?
Found this to get Xp Mode on home edition idk if it works I just use VMware personally
http://m.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-mode-windows-7-win7,10213.html
Sent from my LG-P999

[Q]S-Off failing to communicate with phone?

(I posted this in the guide to installing s-off etc etc but yeah I don't know if anyone's going to pay it any mind there :S If I was wrong to create this, I'm sorry ><)
Hi,
I keep getting a Communication interrupted error. I don't know if anyone else had this problem and can help me? I'm a n00b with this s-off thing and I triple checked with like 4 different websites to make sure I'm going the right way with this.
Doing this on Windows, I got the HTC driver, removed anything that would sync the phone to the computer, everything going well up until this point:
Zerging Root... this may take a minute or so..
Sending in Caroline...
Cleaning up...
Rebooting to fastboot...
Whien life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take back the lemons
Waiting for fastboot...
Rebooting to fastboot (again)...
Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted. Try Again.
Press (almost) any key to exit.
What's wrong with it?
also:
I put on the USB Debugging, I turned off Fastboot, and yes, I checked - it is still S-ON *sad*
HTC Sensation 4G (pyramid-1.17.0008, Android: 2.3.3, ROM version: 1.29.531.2)
I have tried with the fastboot on as well
As for these troubleshooting methods, I've been through it over and over:
Revolutionary Hanging on "Method 3"
1. Make sure you have installed all the drivers from above.
2. Please Make Sure you have HTC Sync uninstalled and Droid Explorer uninstalled.
3. Install These Drivers HERE:
4. Basically anything and everything that will allow your phone or other phones to automatically connect or sync to your computer has to be uninstalled
5. Try another Computer or Factory Reset your device as a last resort.
I've tried 3 different computers (I have no access to anyone who has a Linux computer) I've factory resetted my phone twice + my SD card. I really don't know what else to do
I've tried it in Charge Mode, and HTC sync mode as well.
Can anyone help me? :S

you have to do it in charge mode, make sure fast boot is off, and here is the tricky part, ANY app that could sync with the fone, needs to be uninstalled.
for me Zune kept messing with the install cuz it kept trying to sync...
Also, make sure your HBOOT is compatible with the version of revo you are using
so try this:
1) uninstall itunes (and other apple device software), zune, and any htc software (plus the stock drivers)
2) reboot
3) clean the registry (regclean or something similar)
4) reboot
5) reinstall stock drivers then plug in the phone (charge only) and let the pc detect the hardware.
6) unplug the fone and reboot the pc
7) NOW try to S-OFF, should work, this is the process i had to take

Thanks, i tried everything you told me and it still won't work. I'm running out of ideas. Isn't there another method I could go through so I can just flash a custom rom. Lol...

if its unbranded, you can try the HTC method, but im not a fan of their approach to it...revo is much more user friendly in the long run...
also have you tried disconnecting all usb devices other than the keyboard, mouse and phone? also try doing a battery pull and leave it out for 10-15 seconds, and give it another shot
also, what ver of revo u using? the latest? and whats your hboot?
EDIT nm, saw your hboot etc in your first post long night at work

also, this may be a super stab in the dark, try another cable if you have one, just try to eliminate any possible issue

This exactly what I had with my Win7 tappy lappy. Its the "sucky usb stack".
Then I used a win xp 32 bit machine no problems.

DJW6927 said:
This exactly what I had with my Win7 tappy lappy. Its the "sucky usb stack".
Then I used a win xp 32 bit machine no problems.
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yeah, apparently win7 is giving different users this problem, i used WinXP SP2 32bit with no issues

Yup. Definitely related to Win7 64 bit version for me. Although the user didn't report what version they were using.
It's also worth remembering that all USB ports aren't all the same.
I have to use the ports on the front of this particular 32 bit XP workstation for some operations and the ports on the back for other. Magldr for my HD2 never works on the front.....
Like Rev say in their FAQ... there's something about the USB stack on windows that sucks. Not surprising really when we're talking about interop between such dissimilar operating systems (Android vs MS Win). Its gonna be a headache sometimes.

I'm on Win 7 32 bit, when I tested Revolutionary my device wasn't detected at all.
Rebooted many times, installed drivers and did lots of things and still nothing.
I changed USB port, and it worked xD
Try different USB ports and another USB Cable in-case
Gd luck
Edit: Just found out that you tried 3 different computers... Sorry then, if I come up with anything I'll tell you
Edit 2: Can't he try it on Safe Mode? Maybe it would help?

safe mose wont work, the usb stack works even less at that point :/ go windows!
worst case scenario, get a liveCD of ubuntu and boot it from BIOS, thats the easiest alternative to trying on windows

Solidus_n313 said:
safe mose wont work, the usb stack works even less at that point :/ go windows!
worst case scenario, get a liveCD of ubuntu and boot it from BIOS, thats the easiest alternative to trying on windows
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Wow
Way to go Microsoft xD

I'm having the exact same problem as with the poster of this thread. I've tried a fresh install of xp sp3 via vmware on my macbook pro. I've also installed Ubuntu but can't even get the revolutionary.exe file to open. Linux is too foreign for me, can anyone help me with that?

I had to use HTC sync mode in order for it to work on Windows 7 64 bit.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

Run it 3 times, each step completes as normal and it'll say it's done

Hi Nelliel.. I had this problem bt got it working all well.... Here uninstall all drivers of htc... Htc sysc etc etc.... No matter what advices what...simply install htc sync and keep the folder of downloaded drivers on desktop.. now start the flashing after reboot it will ask for driver of android fone..do not do anythng to fone bt go to device manager and select the htc device with yellow exclamation select uninstall device and scan for changes and intall the device manually by directing it to drivers folder u downloaded...it will immidiately execute fastboot commands bt fails on 3 rd reboot. Now reboot fone and flash again this time it will go straight no probs...I hv tried on 7 fones works wow...
Note : make sure u download not exe bt open drivers files availavle in development section....cheerz
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA Premium App

lalitsehgal21 said:
Hi Nelliel.. I had this problem bt got it working all well.... Here uninstall all drivers of htc... Htc sysc etc etc.... No matter what advices what...simply install htc sync and keep the folder of downloaded drivers on desktop.. now start the flashing after reboot it will ask for driver of android fone..do not do anythng to fone bt go to device manager and select the htc device with yellow exclamation select uninstall device and scan for changes and intall the device manually by directing it to drivers folder u downloaded...it will immidiately execute fastboot commands bt fails on 3 rd reboot. Now reboot fone and flash again this time it will go straight no probs...I hv tried on 7 fones works wow...
Note : make sure u download not exe bt open drivers files availavle in development section....cheerz
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listen to this, his situation was WAYYYYY worst than yours, and he got his fone working perfectly and S-OFF'd

By flashing, I assume you do mean using the revolutionary program? I will try this process a little later and will post results. Thank you

i also had this problem when i wanted to set my sensa s-off. i run the tool several times and i always got this error message. So then i plugged of the phone, plugged it on again and then the tool says my phone is already s-off.
i boot the phone into bootloader and yes, the phone was s-off, on top is the revolutionary text and the bootloader version is 1.17.1111

[Q] Root Problems

I am coming from the Galaxy S Vibrant and so far I am not impressed by the whole rooting process for the Skyrocket. I have tried on 3 different windows computers and every time it says it is unable to recognize device. I installed the drivers but I don't believe they were installed correctly. When I click root in super one click, the application stops responding.
I made sure to select debugging and when I connect the phone to the computer nothing prompts me on the phone. Is there something I am missing in order to get the Skyrocket recognized by Windows?

eshewski said:
I am coming from the Galaxy S Vibrant and so far I am not impressed by the whole rooting process for the Skyrocket. I have tried on 3 different windows computers and every time it says it is unable to recognize device. I installed the drivers but I don't believe they were installed correctly. When I click root in super one click, the application stops responding.
I made sure to select debugging and when I connect the phone to the computer nothing prompts me on the phone. Is there something I am missing in order to get the Skyrocket recognized by Windows?
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You need to be patient. the program stopped responding for nearly 5 minutes for me before it started going again and my PC is lightning fast.
Try installing Samsung kies. Should give you all the drivers you need.
If your computer doesn't recognize the phone at all then you most likely dont have the drivers installed correctly or a USB hub driver issue in which case no USB devices would work. Like I said, try installing kies. Once you can get the PC to recognize the phone as a storage device, you should be good to run the root program.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA App

I tried Kies already and it didn't help. I can connect my Vibrant with no problem to my computer as well.

eshewski said:
I tried Kies already and it didn't help. I can connect my Vibrant with no problem to my computer as well.
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Can you connect other USB devices to your computer? USB drives etc
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA App

i had somewhat the same problem , I rooted my old vibrant first incase i screwed something up , no big loss , it went smooth as butter , then I hooked the SR up and it took forever , 3 try I unplugged alot of my other usb devices , restarted the pc and tried , it hung for a few minutes and I left it alone , it eventually worked the last time. I also have a pretty solid pc , running win7 64bit , unplugging alot of my usb devices seemed to be the thing that really helped.
hope that helps ya

eshewski said:
I am coming from the Galaxy S Vibrant and so far I am not impressed by the whole rooting process for the Skyrocket. I have tried on 3 different windows computers and every time it says it is unable to recognize device. I installed the drivers but I don't believe they were installed correctly. When I click root in super one click, the application stops responding.
I made sure to select debugging and when I connect the phone to the computer nothing prompts me on the phone. Is there something I am missing in order to get the Skyrocket recognized by Windows?
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rooting this device is easier then posting that on the forum =)
1) If you are still 2.3.5 (and didn't do the OTA upgrade) -> use doomlord's script (DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su) or newer if there is one:
-if you did do the OTA upgrade - search the forum for another way to root.
2) install KIES (if its installed, continue to 3)
3) extract the DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su.zip to anywhere (maybe c:\doom )
4) open a command prompt (run as administrator if your not running windows XP)
5) goto c:\doom\files\
6) type "adb devices"
- if it finds your device - just run the script , it will root your phone
- if it does NOT find your device, troubleshot kies (uninstall it, reboot, reinstall, disable anti virus/firewall, etc etc) because if it can't find the device then the problem is someplace on your computer.
good luck!

[Q] CASUAL not recognizing S3...

Hello
I picked up my S3 from VZ the other day and obviously the first thing I want to do is unlock the boot loader and root it. And it looks like CASUAL is the easiest way but I'm having some trouble with it..
CASUAL starts fine but I can't for the life of me get it to recognize the phone. It always says 'Link Status Disconnected'. Windows does recognize the phone (both as 'Media device (MTP)' and 'Camera (PTP)'). I enabled USB debugging mode but that didn't help either. I tried several USB ports and USB cables but that didn't help; and to rule out the PC being the issue I tried it on a different computer but had the same problem.
Either I'm missing something or the update that came over the phone when they activated it in the store isn't compatible with CAUSAL?
I'll keep trying different things but any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

quake3god2004 said:
Hello
I picked up my S3 from VZ the other day and obviously the first thing I want to do is unlock the boot loader and root it. And it looks like CASUAL is the easiest way but I'm having some trouble with it..
CASUAL starts fine but I can't for the life of me get it to recognize the phone. It always says 'Link Status Disconnected'. Windows does recognize the phone (both as 'Media device (MTP)' and 'Camera (PTP)'). I enabled USB debugging mode but that didn't help either. I tried several USB ports and USB cables but that didn't help; and to rule out the PC being the issue I tried it on a different computer but had the same problem.
Either I'm missing something or the update that came over the phone when they activated it in the store isn't compatible with CAUSAL?
I'll keep trying different things but any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
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I used Adams casual over Ububtu 12.04 and it worked flawlessly. Do you have a Linux computer?

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joebob296 said:
I used Adams casual over Ububtu 12.04 and it worked flawlessly. Do you have a Linux computer?
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I found out what the problem was... it was with the drivers (I kinda figured it was something mundane like that). I noticed the Windows Device Manager didn't have proper drivers loaded for all the devices associated with the phone. I went on VZ's website and downloaded/installed them. After that CASUAL recognized the device and I was able to unlock the bootloader, flash Clockworkmod, and get root access. :victory:
Thanks!

Fastboot doesn't work on Windows 8.1

So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.

Theshawty said:
So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.
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I have been trying to get it recognized in fastboot for pas four hours without any luck.. Prior to this, I also had W8 with working fastboot and now I get the same error as well. I tried numerous times, even uninstalled all my drivers (except for display and mouse) to do a clean driver reinstall, but without luck :/

Theshawty said:
So before installing Windows 8.1, adb and fastboot worked beautifully, however after grabbing the update from the Metro store, fastboot doesn't work, my phone isn't recognized. It says something about "failed enumeration" in the device manager. I've tried reinstalling HTC Sync and redownloading it from HTC's site ti get the latest drivers (after which I uninstall HTC Sync of course)
I've also tried Koush's drivers but neither installs the fastboot driver.
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rs70 said:
I have been trying to get it recognized in fastboot for pas four hours without any luck.. Prior to this, I also had W8 with working fastboot and now I get the same error as well. I tried numerous times, even uninstalled all my drivers (except for display and mouse) to do a clean driver reinstall, but without luck :/
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Hi, can you guys try this method if you still in windows 8.1???
I personally having a samsung phone and I also having this problem after upgraded to windows 8.1 but now I'm back to windows 8 so I just cannot test it. After test please report back the results to me and I really hope it works. Thanks~
By the way, can you guys tell me your phone model???

DreamerTKM said:
Hi, can you guys try this method if you still in windows 8.1???
I personally having a samsung phone and I also having this problem after upgraded to windows 8.1 but now I'm back to windows 8 so I just cannot test it. After test please report back the results to me and I really hope it works. Thanks~
By the way, can you guys tell me your phone model???
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Well, I tried something similar, but whenever I uninstalled the usb port from device manager, it reinstalled back and reported that the device is not recognized..
I've got HTC One and its drivers don't work on 8.1. However, I installed HTC drivers (by installing and uninstalling HTC Sync Manager - possibly the lamest method that exists) on Vista and it instantly recognized the phone. So the five hours on 8.1 could have been saved by spending circa 3 minutes on Vista.
But on some forum somebody mentioned that you can use live CD of linux and it will get recognized easily

rs70 said:
Well, I tried something similar, but whenever I uninstalled the usb port from device manager, it reinstalled back and reported that the device is not recognized..
I've got HTC One and its drivers don't work on 8.1. However, I installed HTC drivers (by installing and uninstalling HTC Sync Manager - possibly the lamest method that exists) on Vista and it instantly recognized the phone. So the five hours on 8.1 could have been saved by spending circa 3 minutes on Vista.
But on some forum somebody mentioned that you can use live CD of linux and it will get recognized easily
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Thanks for your fast reply. Seems that even Microsoft is providing free update for windows 8 but a phone that unable to flash by using bootloader is kinda useless for unofficial ROM users like us.
I have something don't understand from your post. You mentioned that install and uninstall the sync manager on Vista but why not back to 8? The drivers will work on 8 right? I formatted my computer back to 8 and now finally the windows recognize back my phone.
Other than that, do you still have the link to the live CD forum??

DreamerTKM said:
Thanks for your fast reply. Seems that even Microsoft is providing free update for windows 8 but a phone that unable to flash by using bootloader is kinda useless for unofficial ROM users like us.
I have something don't understand from your post. You mentioned that install and uninstall the sync manager on Vista but why not back to 8? The drivers will work on 8 right? I formatted my computer back to 8 and now finally the windows recognize back my phone.
Other than that, do you still have the link to the live CD forum??
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Well, my primary PC is my laptop with 8.1, but I've got desktop as well with dual-booting Vista and 8.1 and it is way faster to do it on vista, than to partition HDD and install Windows 8. Also I'm not dev or some tinkerer, so I don't need to use fastboot that often.
To answer the second question, I closed all tabs regarding the drivers on 8.1 as soon as I did what I needed on Vista, so I'm afraid I don't have the link. I could probably find it somehow using my internet history, but I spent several hours browsing various forums, so it would take me an eternity...