ok i think i just completely messed up my phone with no hope of recovery but im praying one of you guys is a miracle worker so heres what happened like any other person wanting the latest software i wanted to upgrade my lg g2 to lollipop i found a tutorial and it explained that i needed a custom recovery system (Phone was rooted btw) any way he was usisng twrp so i looked on how to install it from here .addictivetips.com/android/what-is-twrp-how-to-install-use-it-on-android-devices-guide/ then after reading some i went to this link .addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/ thinking i was a smart ass and not fully reading the article called "Automated Methods" i knew a little about ROM manager and took it from there installed it on my phone and messed with the settings trying to figure out how to install it only to read the article and realize i needed goo manager which is not on the play-store instead is a twrp app so i downloaded that and went to install loaded the twrp file on my phone that i got from their site and installed it and also picked my device as listed lg g2 international it was called so after this thinking i was done i became stuck in fastboot mode thats all it said on the screen so i looked for a way to solve it and found this .reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/1soiyj/stuck_in_fastboot_mode_need_help/ which is how my phone looked when plugged in my computer so i followed the instructions and this is where i messed up i did everything it said to do but when doing "fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img" command i got an error so i skipped it and did the other commands in order then came back and tried to do it again and i kept getting error so i ignored it my great mistake and typed the final command "fastboot reboot" after which my phone turned off and never restarted and now i cant turn it on and when plugged into my computer nothing happens at all PLEASE HELP no matter how long i hold the power button nothing happens and power and volume do nothing either is this fixable or is my phone done for??? Also as a new user i couldnt post links so deleted the www part im sorry for going against rules but i feel like looking at the links would help alot
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ok i think i just completely messed up my phone with no hope of recovery but im praying one of you guys is a miracle worker so heres what happened like any other person wanting the latest software i wanted to upgrade my lg g2 to lollipop i found a tutorial and it explained that i needed a custom recovery system (Phone was rooted btw) any way he was usisng twrp so i looked on how to install it from here .addictivetips.com/android/what-is-twrp-how-to-install-use-it-on-android-devices-guide/ then after reading some i went to this link .addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/ thinking i was a smart ass and not fully reading the article called "Automated Methods" i knew a little about ROM manager and took it from there installed it on my phone and messed with the settings trying to figure out how to install it only to read the article and realize i needed goo manager which is not on the play-store instead is a twrp app so i downloaded that and went to install loaded the twrp file on my phone that i got from their site and installed it and also picked my device as listed lg g2 international it was called so after this thinking i was done i became stuck in fastboot mode thats all it said on the screen so i looked for a way to solve it and found this .reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/1soiyj/stuck_in_fastboot_mode_need_help/ which is how my phone looked when plugged in my computer so i followed the instructions and this is where i messed up i did everything it said to do but when doing "fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img" command i got an error so i skipped it and did the other commands in order then came back and tried to do it again and i kept getting error so i ignored it my great mistake and typed the final command "fastboot reboot" after which my phone turned off and never restarted and now i cant turn it on and when plugged into my computer nothing happens at all PLEASE HELP no matter how long i hold the power button nothing happens and power and volume do nothing either is this fixable or is my phone done for??? Also as a new user i couldnt post links so deleted the www part im sorry for going against rules but i feel like looking at the links would help alot
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The battery died perhaps and if the firmware gets bad then the charge handler doesnt charge the phone. Then again, there is no such thing as a total brick. You should take it to a service shop and have it looked at for a second opinion. Just for the heck of it, hold down the volume up key and plug in the USB cable. Does it show download mode anyways?
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I tried to upgrade my brothers samsung galaxy gio with a leaked version of it's 2.3.4 upgrade via "Odin".It kinda got stuck in the process and following the guide for it I removed the battery (it said to remove the battery if it stuck at a process for more than 10 minutes). After that when I tried to power it up it got stuck with an image of a phone and a pc connected with dots and a caution mark in between. For extra info recovery mode doesn't open but the download mode does. And I have tried to upgrade it a few times but gets stuck at the process named "ididb download"or something like that.
Is the phone bricked?????? Plz reply quick.
Hi,
Don't worry: as long as you can turn the phone on you should be OK, it's only a soft brick . Have you tried going in download mode again, and reflashed another ROM or even the one you attempted? Got evering right? OPS? Evering you must tick? Re-read the whole tutorial cause generally people mess up because they don't pay enough attention ^^
P.S. At least a million threads exist for this, you obviously haven't looked far before posting..
hi im pretty new here a friend of mine gave me her lg c800 mytouch to try and fix it for her.. not sure what she did she said she rooted the phone and the root was successful but i have a good idea that she doesnt know what she was doing..i will post a pic of the error screen im getting. but it says
E:Cant find misc
E:cant find misc
Finding update package...
E:unknown volume for path [sd:/download/adb_fastboot_and_other_tools.Zip]
E:Cant mount SDCARD:/download/adb_fastboot_and_other_tools.zip
Installation aborted
facory reset failed
restart factory reset..
now im far from a pro at this i know a lil more about computers and Ios devices..but ive rooted a few phones and to me it looks like she unzipped adb fastboot on her phone from her sd card??
ive tried holding F..A..vol down..and power..Nothing..
ive tried volume up .volume down and power still nothing..
BUT if i hold E..vol UP and power it brings me to a white screen that says S/W update
the big problem is the phone wont stay on long enough to do anything on the computer it stays on 3 sec. then reboots to same screen (computer says phone is unplugged) then phone just keeps restarting.
but the phone WILL stay on when i put it on the S/W update screen..but computer wont recognize the phone at all on that screen
ive tried the adb and fastboot commands but the phone wont stay recognized..it will recognize the phone and say thats its in recovery mode but when phone restarts it dont see phone no more..
well thanks ahead of time if anyone has any input or solution
and hopefully all this will make sense to someone lol
i think this pic will work.. if not ill try again
any ideas please?? or am i completely out of luck?
When you say:
delilah25 said:
it will recognize the phone and say thats its in recovery mode but when phone restarts it dont see phone no more..
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...do you mean that you can successfully communicate with the phone over USB, but you only have 3 seconds? What way is the phone recognized? Is it visible to adb/fastboot?
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When you say:
...do you mean that you can successfully communicate with the phone over USB, but you only have 3 seconds? What way is the phone recognized? Is it visible to adb/fastboot?
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Yes In Adb device list it shows the phone and then says recovery..but after that I don't have enough time to type any other commands ..the phone is also recognized in "my computer" as removable device then when the phone restarts seconds later it says device unplugged ..and just keeps restarting on its own till I remove the battery...I just read on the forum in a post that Adb will recognize the phone if it's off but I remove the battery and put it back in and plug in USB and phone turns on and keeps restarting won't even let me turn it off!! I'm losing patience with this thing lol
But I don't get why the error mentions fastboot? Not my phone so if it's not fixable I don't really care but I'm just the stuborn type when it comes to fixing electronics ..again thanks ahead of time to anyone that helps cuz I'm completely lost on this one
Have you tried timing it to send a quick "adb reboot recovery"? If you can use fastboot, you can tell it to boot off a new, custom recovery img, without actually flashing it.
i have the same problem
post-mortem said:
Have you tried timing it to send a quick "adb reboot recovery"? If you can use fastboot, you can tell it to boot off a new, custom recovery img, without actually flashing it.
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i used an app on the market to remove bloatware. i removed slacker and the app stated that after two reboots that everything would be fine and the app would be gone. after one reboot the phone has the same screen this gentlemans lady friend has. it looks like the app its looking for is no longer zip aligned properly. someone told me to rename a recovery image the error message to trick the bootloader into thinking the missing app is there. hes an app dev so i figured he knows whats what. ive tried everything the gentleman in this post said and more. hell i have two of these phones and rooted the other and made a backup of that phone and dragged the backup to an sd card and rebooted to see if any of the backed up system apks would trigger a successful reboot but to no avail. i have all the drivers i need and adb commands but nothing works because the phone doesnt stay connected to my pc long enough for anything. please reply with some knowledge. ive been scouring the web for at least a month. i was so happy when i came across this. i actually became a member just to post about this erroer (look up diabolus ae in the forum search field. my post is about 3 days old with a better pic of the screen message. i bought a galaxy s II but i want to give the lg to my son. please help or respond:cyclops:
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i used an app on the market to remove bloatware. i removed slacker and the app stated that after two reboots that everything would be fine and the app would be gone. after one reboot the phone has the same screen this gentlemans lady friend has. it looks like the app its looking for is no longer zip aligned properly. someone told me to rename a recovery image the error message to trick the bootloader into thinking the missing app is there. hes an app dev so i figured he knows whats what. ive tried everything the gentleman in this post said and more. hell i have two of these phones and rooted the other and made a backup of that phone and dragged the backup to an sd card and rebooted to see if any of the backed up system apks would trigger a successful reboot but to no avail. i have all the drivers i need and adb commands but nothing works because the phone doesnt stay connected to my pc long enough for anything. please reply with some knowledge. ive been scouring the web for at least a month. i was so happy when i came across this. i actually became a member just to post about this erroer (look up diabolus ae in the forum search field. my post is about 3 days old with a better pic of the screen message. i bought a galaxy s II but i want to give the lg to my son. please help or respond:cyclops:
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Normally, if you want to flash a custom recovery through fastboot, people will tell you to run 2 commands:
fastboot flash recovery nameofimagefile.img
fastboot reboot recovery
Since you don't have time to execute those 2 commands, you can tell it to just boot from the .img file, without flashing over your current recovery. (This is actually proper form, as you can test if the .img file works properly without damaging your existing recovery.) The way you do that is to 1st copy a recovery .img file to the root of your SD card, then execute the following 1 command:
fastboot boot nameofimagefile.img
Since you only have ~3 seconds, type the command in, and wait for the right instant to hit enter on the keyboard. If the command is successfully sent to the phone, it will reboot into that .img.
See if that works for you. Good luck.
Im not a big computer guy but for the most part can figure stuff out, i have rooted several phones before and flashed new roms. I just got the verizon g2 and rooted it, then attempted to do twrp recovery, Nothing even came close to working until i read that flashify worked, so i did that and it said it worked, took 2 seconds, when it restarted it showed my ddroid dead with a warning symbol comin outta his belly. I held down volume down and power keys and it came back on. It will not go into download mode or restore mode.
I had hoped that it worked so tried to flash malladus but once again, nothing!
I have been going at this for close to 12 hrs now and i am about to just break this thing.
Please, i need step by step instructions of what to do that for sure will work.
the forums about twrp do NOT work no matter what i do. and im not missing anything, debugging mode on, connected with ethernet, all info entered correctly, files in the correct folders, yet nothing works!!! PLEASE HELP.
I just want to get that rom! lol
i have an lg g2 vs980 and i rooted it but have not yet installed a recovery like twrp it is only the very basic root with super user. it decided to install some ota update and now it will not boot past lg screen, white letters flash really fast all i could make out was secure boot error or something. i cannot get it into any kind of download or reset mode, iv tried absolutely everything anyone on this forum has recommended or suggested and nothing works, also when i connect it to my pc running windows 8 it is seen as QSUSB_BULK i have installed the correct updated drivers for my phone and iv manually installed them, nothing i have done will allow my pc to see my phone correctly. when i plug it in it under computer there are local drives f-u that pop up and say i have to format them in order to use them, but they are write protected so i cannot view whats in them, format them or anything. does anyone out there have any kind of suggestion to fix this or am i just completely stupid and missing some big major step? i am also very new to android this is my first android phone lol im a converted apple user haha so the more indept detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated
Same issue here
haeli said:
i have an lg g2 vs980 and i rooted it but have not yet installed a recovery like twrp it is only the very basic root with super user. it decided to install some ota update and now it will not boot past lg screen, white letters flash really fast all i could make out was secure boot error or something. i cannot get it into any kind of download or reset mode, iv tried absolutely everything anyone on this forum has recommended or suggested and nothing works, also when i connect it to my pc running windows 8 it is seen as QSUSB_BULK i have installed the correct updated drivers for my phone and iv manually installed them, nothing i have done will allow my pc to see my phone correctly. when i plug it in it under computer there are local drives f-u that pop up and say i have to format them in order to use them, but they are write protected so i cannot view whats in them, format them or anything. does anyone out there have any kind of suggestion to fix this or am i just completely stupid and missing some big major step? i am also very new to android this is my first android phone lol im a converted apple user haha so the more indept detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated
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Has anyone come up with a solution to this? I am very new to Android, I have Rooted my G2 so I could install Custom Rom's. Yesterday I receive a OTA update, I refused it and then later when it came up again was going to refuse it, but my shaky finger touched the screen and started the update! next thing I know I have a $600.00 brick. if you hold the power button down It will flash the LG logo and then NADA, screen is lit but nothing happens. Hold the power button and after a few it will Flash the logo again but NADA again. If you hold the down and power button it will go to the reset screen, but again this will not reset the device. PLEASE HELP!
Thank you.
Hi everyone, im a new guy here and in the world of android too.
So my story starts 4 months ago, when i bought a used HTC M4 unlocked from a dealer. it was unlocked by them.
After three months the phone compelitely broke while i was reading the news, it froze and after a while i managed to restart it.
since then, everytime i try to switch on the phone, the bootloader shows up and i cannot do anything there it just keeps on restarting and non of the options work. i brought it back and they said they cannot repair it, cause it was flashed with a corrupted version. Since i had to wait 1.5 month for telling me its broken, i am a bit suspicious, and they seemed to be just a joke.
is it possible that they switched boards too, and it still has the same problem?
PS: i hope im in the right thread
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Hi everyone, im a new guy here and in the world of android too.
So my story starts 4 months ago, when i bought a used HTC M4 unlocked from a dealer. it was unlocked by them.
After three months the phone compelitely broke while i was reading the news, it froze and after a while i managed to restart it.
since then, everytime i try to switch on the phone, the bootloader shows up and i cannot do anything there it just keeps on restarting and non of the options work. i brought it back and they said they cannot repair it, cause it was flashed with a corrupted version. Since i had to wait 1.5 month for telling me its broken, i am a bit suspicious, and they seemed to be just a joke.
is it possible that they switched boards too, and it still has the same problem?
PS: i hope im in the right thread
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Nope, a mod will move you to the correct section.
Moved to proper subforum, cheers guys!
Maszkos said:
Hi everyone, im a new guy here and in the world of android too.
So my story starts 4 months ago, when i bought a used HTC M4 unlocked from a dealer. it was unlocked by them.
After three months the phone compelitely broke while i was reading the news, it froze and after a while i managed to restart it.
since then, everytime i try to switch on the phone, the bootloader shows up and i cannot do anything there it just keeps on restarting and non of the options work. i brought it back and they said they cannot repair it, cause it was flashed with a corrupted version. Since i had to wait 1.5 month for telling me its broken, i am a bit suspicious, and they seemed to be just a joke.
is it possible that they switched boards too, and it still has the same problem?
PS: i hope im in the right thread
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I doubt they could have switched the boards, though it seems that your OS was wiped(don't ask me how, I'm curious how that happened
while reading the news). You will have to flash it. Since you are new to android, I'll provide a step by step guide for this
1. Download the stock firmware from here. Make sure you download the "Firmware" which can be found on the link below the heading "Firmware Download".
2. Download Minimal ADB and Fastboot and install it.
2.a Shift the downloaded firmware file in step one the the install directory.
3. Make sure you have HTC drivers installed on your PC, the best way to ensure is to install HTC Sync Manager
4. Power on your phone while holding the Vol-Down button, this should bring up a screen with a white background. Navigate with the volume keys and select "Fastboot" by highlighting it and pressing the power button.
5. Connect your phone to your computer. The screen should say "FASTBOOT USB".
6. Open "Minimal ADB and Fastboot" on your phone.
7. Type "fastboot devices", this should show the serial number of your phone and the word "fastboot"
8. Now follow the "Sense 6 Firmware & How To Flash " instructions given in the link of step 1.