I downloaded the z4root app and started it. I started the install for permanent root. It appeared that everything started up fine, a screen came up stating that it was "running exploit in order to obtain root access..." this ran for approximately 10 minutes then stopped processing. The phone is now stuck on the Blue z4mod screen showing no activity. The little circular icon has stopped moving.
I have not done anything to the phone to disturb it, but......
Is it locked up? Should I pull the battery and reset? Not sure, this is my first Droid (Blackberry before).
Some help ASAP to get the phone going again would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Use z4root 1.1.0 instead and it will work immediately. Some bug in newer version causes it to hang like that.
Hey, thanks for the reply. I actually pulled the battery and it reset itself.
I then tried the temporary root and it worked, but...
It said there was a new version of the su binary available. Press ok to attempt to install it automatically. When I pressed ok the message came up
An error occurred and the su was not updated. A zip file (su-2.3.1-bin-signed.zip has been placed on your SDcard, please reboot into recovery mode and flash it to update your su binary.
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How do I reboot into the recovery mode?
Thanks
Had oxygen mod installed and franco kernel etc and after months of using it fine I thought the phone was running a bit funny so thought it reinstall fresh.
I knew the files were still on my sd card so i went to go into bootloader or recovery and i got a black screen that had a message Firmware Update Step 1/2 Unpacking.
It finished and appears to put me back on Android 2.21
I then rooted the phone and tried installing clockword mod etc but was having all sorts of problems getting marketplace to work. Can search for apps but when i click install nothing happens. I did enter my gmail account details for sync and it can list my apps available from my account.
USB is not working, it shows up sometimes in the top bar but when i click connect nothing happens and the phone freezes or reboots.
I cant get into the bootloader screen it instead brings up the standard Android bootloader and wont recognise my rom on the sdcard.
I tried rooting with superoneclick and although it roots the phone it seems to cause the issues???
Is Superoneclick the only way of rooting U8800?
Hello there. I'm a noob and now I'm stuck in the web of the consequences of my sudden stupidity.I have been trying to update my AT&T HTC One X for the last 4 days. I had already unlocked the bootloader and installed the Supersu through the TWRP. but when I was trying to install the rom it wrote failed and I had two variants. Go back or press reboot. So I touched the reboot button and discovered that I had to install all the stuff I once had again, I noticed that I wasn't asked to connect to a wifi. so I carried on after checkin once again. Then I opened my settings through the status bar and it was written "Error" under the Wifi switch and I couldn't use any downloaded applications, they turned up to be not responding as soon as I opened them. I booted into recovery mode once more and tried to restore my backup through the TWRP.But it didn't show any files.. PLEASE help!
Hello there. I'm new and I have a problem upgrading to 5.0 from kitkat. I barely know anything about cellphones and my friend was helping me out before this happened.
So the background story was this:
My cellphone (Moto G LTE XT1040) was not showing the push notifications so after digging, I looked for some solutions that required a rooted cellphone, so I did it.
I unlocked the bootloader and installed a custom recovery (TWRP), then I installed SuperSU to make the cellphone root and tinkered around with the solutions to the push notifications issue, and left the cellphone untouched after.
Just this week, I recieved the upgrade to android 5.1 and before installing it I unrooted the cellphone, uninstalled SuperSu, flashed it with stock recovery and then a factory reset it. That should clean everything, but it turns out that after 2 failed tries, It doesnt install the upgrade. The cellphone shuts down and it shows that it tries to install the upgrade but the bar fills up until around 15% and a quick error message displays and it restarts normally.
Should I just install the stock rom (the 500 mb file) so all functions and settings go back to true default?
Thanks beforehand and sorry for the bad english
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Hi all. I have been trying to update my VS980 to Lollipop for a week now; I've tried absolutely everything I can think of / find in the forums, and nothing works.
The basic problem is this: I have a rooted (via Stump Root) Verizon G2 running stock 4.4.2. I wanted to upgrade it to Lollipop, so I unrooted with SuperSU and tried to OTA update it, but somehow it still knows it was once rooted, so the OTA fails. I have tried MANY things to fix/work around this, but here are the highlights:
Hard reset. The hard reset procedure completed ok, but when I try to then install the OTA update, it fails with "Err: 1117008." Settings -> About Phone still shows "Status: Rooted," even though I don't actually have root control anymore.
Use LG FLash Tool to flash back to factory stock: VS980011A_01.tot. Tried two different computers, using both Vista and Windows 10. Failed because the proper LGE Mobile USB Serial Port driver was never found/installed by Windows (despite it clearly working in the video).
Copied a text file called RCT_security containing "forel.lee" onto the SD card, b/c somehow that's supposed to reset the status to "unrooted." It didn't.
Re-rooted with Stump Root, manually installed TWRP to try to flash a ROM that way. Phone is now rooted again, but attempts to boot into recovery result in "secure boot error," and no TWRP.
Installed Quick Boot to boot directly into recovery. Fails with same "secure boot error."
Installed FreeGee and TWRP Manager, b/c now I'm just grasping at straws. FreeGee hangs on a black screen and does nothing. TWRP Manager tells me that TWRP is already installed; haven't tried using it to flash a new ROM from here, b/c that feels brickish.
Use AutoRec to fix the "secure boot error." Fails b/c running AutoRec results in it hanging at "checking for loki....installing," When I backed out after many minutes, I got an error that said "Tried to install Loki Tool, no luck."
I am out of ideas. I am pulling my hair out. The phone is working fine, except that it's stuck on 4.4.2. When I started, all I wanted was a working version of Lollipop, even if it was stock/unrooted. At this point, I'm so mad at Verizon/LG/Android for making this process so painful that I really just want to flash the latest CyanogenMod just for spite. But really -- I'll take anything.
Help?
jackpurrton said:
Hi all. I have been trying to update my VS980 to Lollipop for a week now; I've tried absolutely everything I can think of / find in the forums, and nothing works.
The basic problem is this: I have a rooted (via Stump Root) Verizon G2 running stock 4.4.2. I wanted to upgrade it to Lollipop, so I unrooted with SuperSU and tried to OTA update it, but somehow it still knows it was once rooted, so the OTA fails. I have tried MANY things to fix/work around this, but here are the highlights:
Hard reset. The hard reset procedure completed ok, but when I try to then install the OTA update, it fails with "Err: 1117008." Settings -> About Phone still shows "Status: Rooted," even though I don't actually have root control anymore.
Use LG FLash Tool to flash back to factory stock: VS980011A_01.tot. Tried two different computers, using both Vista and Windows 10. Failed because the proper LGE Mobile USB Serial Port driver was never found/installed by Windows (despite it clearly working in the video).
Copied a text file called RCT_security containing "forel.lee" onto the SD card, b/c somehow that's supposed to reset the status to "unrooted." It didn't.
Re-rooted with Stump Root, manually installed TWRP to try to flash a ROM that way. Phone is now rooted again, but attempts to boot into recovery result in "secure boot error," and no TWRP.
Installed Quick Boot to boot directly into recovery. Fails with same "secure boot error."
Installed FreeGee and TWRP Manager, b/c now I'm just grasping at straws. FreeGee hangs on a black screen and does nothing. TWRP Manager tells me that TWRP is already installed; haven't tried using it to flash a new ROM from here, b/c that feels brickish.
Use AutoRec to fix the "secure boot error." Fails b/c running AutoRec results in it hanging at "checking for loki....installing," When I backed out after many minutes, I got an error that said "Tried to install Loki Tool, no luck."
I am out of ideas. I am pulling my hair out. The phone is working fine, except that it's stuck on 4.4.2. When I started, all I wanted was a working version of Lollipop, even if it was stock/unrooted. At this point, I'm so mad at Verizon/LG/Android for making this process so painful that I really just want to flash the latest CyanogenMod just for spite. But really -- I'll take anything.
Help?
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VICTORY IS MINE. Here's what I did:
I decided to focus on the LG Flash Tool as my best potential for a successful outcome, and I further decided to focus on the LG drivers, which didn't seem be installing properly. So:
Nuked my computer and installed a fresh version of Windows 10, to ensure no errant drivers were present.
Installed LG United drivers from the top of this page: [link deleted b/c xda won't let me post it] (LG VZW_United_WHQL_v2.16.1.exe)
Connected the phone in Media Sync mode and waited while Windows installed some more drivers.
Connected the phone in Internet Connection -> Ethernet mode and waited while Windows installed yet more Drivers. (I think this may be the step I missed in all previous attempts; once this was done, the correct LG driver appeared in Device Manager.)
Installed LG Flash Tool 2014 (download link in the description of the below video).
Followed the instructions in this video: [link deleted b/c xda won't let me post it] ...
... to install VS98027A_05.kdz, which I found somewhere, but now can't remember where. But it's around.
Once all those elements were in place, it worked perfectly. Got a completely stock phone, just like the day I bought it. Immediately installed 3 software updates and am now on Lollipop.
I'm still not sure which parts of this puzzle mattered and which didn't, but I *think* the key was installing those specific drivers (and not the many other versions of the same that I came across while researching), and THEN connecting the phone in MTP mode (ethernet) -- because that's when I finally had the correct drivers appear in Device Manager. Once I got there, the LG Flash Tool worked the first time.
Right. I hope this helps someone. I lost two weeks of my life to this (and a perfectly good CentOS box).
Last thing: download mode for me doesn't work quite the way anyone describes it. I have to turn it off, hold the UP volume button, plug it in, then let go of the UP button briefly and then hold it down AGAIN. No one mentions that last part.