Well long story short i busted the lcd when replacing the charge port flex.. The owners mother is sick and she really needs the contacts. Charge port is now functional and commucates with my pc but kies and other backup utilities are not cutting it and i think its guna be more complex then that becuase nothings ever easy for me.
Phone does respond.. Led comes on/sound works.
Ive installed/reinstalled all the legitimate drivers i could find but 'mtp device' never actually installs in device manager.
Ive had a good bit of experience rooting and backing up android stuff before. No worries i can understand whats happening.
If anyone can help me with some info on how to go about it with making a minimal footprint(meaning root.?) you would be a hero.. Normally i would do more research but im limited on time. I ate the cost of a new screen so if all else fails ill have the phone back together friday/Saturday.
are the contacts backed up to google? if they are, they can be accessed from any device, phone, tablet, computer.
i believe its the same if its backed up to a samsung account
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I bought a lg vortex and it worked great i rooted it with z4root no problems at all
that was intill i did a flashclockrecovery and it turned off and now is stuck at lg boot logo!
i have no clue how to fix it i called lg they said to send it in so the can reflash the rom software to the phone and i was thinking i could do that my self any one know how to do this?
any advise would be great!
How can you get it to recovery mode? so there for i can install the software with the lg updater tool to the phone.?
(if these makes a diffrence it the same exact button layout of optimus "t" an "s"
buttons just look diffrent !)
I also performed the same steps, and am now stuck at boot screen. The hard and soft reset methods do not work. Phone does not connect to pc, I have even tried an LG flashing application...but still could not detect the phone via usb. Any advice?
I have found one solution and fixed my phone which btw was the only solution to this mess :/
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I am having the EXACT same issues that you described. Could you please tell me how you got it fixed. I've tried everything I can think of.
Here is the thing, the LG Vortex has no support for hacking right now. You can only root the device.....no overclocking, roms ect. as of yet. So before I sadly explain how I fixed the issue....do not make the same mistake twice. Z4 root does work, both perm root and temp root. Anything beyond that, sorry. I bricked my phone just like you. Sadly you are screwed buddy. I came up with the bright idea of totally frying my phone so that Verizon does not know the root process had taken place (void warranty). I cut a dc adapter up stuck both ends on battery terminals for phone....after battery was out and flipped the powerstrip on and bam...fried phone. The low voltage like that is safe so dont worry. I would advise using a powerstrip instead of physically plugging the ac adapter in. Take phone back and say it suddenly stopped charging. SAY NOTHING ELSE, NO APPS FROM MARKET, NO PC HOOKUP OR ANY DATA PLACED ON PHONE. If you do by chance get shocked from doing this.....stop your crying its 12volts.
by the way, dont leave any root programs on your sd card...as verizon will want all the original items back for a phone exchange. Also ya know make sure you did indeed fry it.....I double checked and first time it didnt do it. If you put batt in and phone does not come on at all....then it worked. Just make sure those wires are not touching eachother so much as seperate connecters where the battery touches ya know. If you just touch wires together, powerstrip will pop/lil sparks on wires or you may pop a breaker. But them little dc adapters I do not think can pop a breaker. Just get an electricity flow through the phone and it will fry.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to give me a heads up on that stuff. I've been afraid that it was bricked. Just to clarify, what do you mean by dc adapter? I've been having nightmares of verizon finding out that i tried to root it from seeing something on that internal memory, so I'm really glad you went into that. So, I know how to remove everything from my sd card and/or reformat it if need be, but i'm confused about exactly how to use the "dc adapter" to baby buzz this thing into amnesia.
Thanks alot for the help,
T
I placed the wires from the DC adapter on the the little terminals where the battery touches. I wouldnt recommend doing this beyond the 30 day warranty period fyi.
I bought this phone for my bride. THe screen was smashed it was changed and now the phone will not boot. It ios recognized by the computer and shows up as the proper device. THe screen is just dead. It vibrates, but that's all. There is no screen I have tried everything I can think of. I have done the hard and soft reset with no luck. Of course, I can't be sure as I can't see the screen. I was able to use a Nokia program to update the software. (Nokia Software recovery Tool version 1.5.0) see attached photo. Any ideas or help is appreciated. When the phone reboots the software is asking for the phone pin. This is impossible for me to input it because I don't know it and further I have no way to input it. Any advice is needed.
Hello, that's sad.
Something you can do is disassemble it and see one of those disassembly videos and check if something is wrong.
Example :
Maybe this one is not the best, but you can surely find one with lots of details on connections.
If you're lucky, it's only a connector not correctly linked.
Who has changed the screen ?
Not that lucky
The connections are correct. I'm starting to think BRICK.. These window phones are just garbage in my opinion or I am just dumb or both. I got to figure this out as it is what my bride wants. I again thank all of you for any ideas.
did you make it work?
I have the same problem like you...
Before I begin I should mention that I have been scouring the interwebz for an answer and while I've been to XDA forums multiple times with no avail, I still feel it is the most appropriate place to ask.
Basically, like many people I've seen on XDA, I've purchased a "GooPhone i5c" from Aliexpress. I put that in quotations because I believe from the research that I've done, the phone I have is a knock of (of a knock off) and no GooPhone ROMS have worked so far.
I'm lost and seeking help, the phone is in a state of complete death, pressing buttons does nothing (no screen back light!), my computer does seem to recognize it, however. Basically, when I plug it into the PC, I it's recognised as "MTK USB Port (Com 5)" and that's about it. The phone was working when I originally got it but being stupid like I am, I attempted to flash a new ROM with no knowledge of the process whatsoever. It was stupid and I don't plan on doing it again.
I've attached a little image with the specs rundown from the Aliexpress page. What do guys?
Never dropped it or got water in it. Never tried to change the OS or anything like that either.
It started freezing and a soft reset would get it back up. Started happening more often and eventually none of the suggested resets would work and even when charging with the phone off it would freeze. I eventually managed to get it into the recovery boot (just the once) and it said E:/ failed to mount over and over. When i pressed a button it froze again and since then i haven't been able to get any response. Not even the little battery symbol or red light when it's on charge. It seems completely messed up and essentially a brick right now.
Any ideas? I can get it repaired via my UK network provider (O2) which would take a couple of weeks but would really like to back up and factory reset my stuff if possible as i have lots of personal data on my phone including passwords to peoples websites (i'm a web developer). As well as the ordinary things your girlfriend wouldn't want ending up on the net. My online banking and everything is on there. There's pictures with some famous people at Glastonbury and also some brilliant sporting events i was at that i'd never be able to get the vids/pics back.
With the failed to mount error, would that mean they'd have to factory reset it regardless of what happens and i'd have no chance to back it up either? I'd really rather not lose my files but i also don't want some random guy snooping through my stuff.
Thanks in advance for any replies guys!
Have you tried a different charging method?
From PC with a different USB lead for example
Leave it connected overnight and see how it is the next day
Thanks for the reply.
My girlfriend uses my charger to charge her blackberry as she lost hers and it works fine. I also tried leaving it for a few hours connected to the laptop using the USB connection from the original charger with no response whatsoever. My mother has as Samsung too... given the points i just told you, is it worth trying to borrow another charger still?
I'd reluctantly be happy even if i have to factory reset to save me having to wait for ages to get it back.
No, sounds like you can rule out the charger being the problem
Sounds like something inside the phone has fried, possibly the charging port if you can't even get an LED on, but considering the errors leading up to the fault it sounds more like the motherboard has died, which, unless you saved anything to external SD (MicroSD), contains the Internal storage where all your files are
More than likely, Samsung will just replace the board rather than fiddling around trying to repair that one, so unless it is something else at fault you can probably relax about them snooping, it'll end up in the recycling bin to be melted down for it's gold contacts never to be powered up again
I can't think of anything else you can try to get life out of it tbh other than opening it and charging the battery another way / replacing the battery with a charged one, but warranty is gone after that and not even sure how you would go about switching batteries tbh, if you can
If it is already out of warranty, you could find where the battery terminals connect to the motherboard, and put an alternate power source to them matching the battery voltage etc (Removing the battery first), might give you time to remove / erase / copy
Thanks again for the reply.
So you think the motherboard just progressively died? I hadn't mentioned this but a while ago i accidently left the phone on the radiator for a short while whilst working. It worked fine afterwards and when i asked on another forum they said if any damage was going on it would have restarted or gave an overheat message (which it didn't).
I guess i'll be sending it off to my network provider (O2 UK) then, it's still in warranty (just) so they should fix it or send me a new one. I've seen so much stuff on amateur porn sites of videos or pictures that probably weren't meant to be "released", leads me to having a fear about my girlfriend ending up on them. And like i said, passwords are stored on there to some websites i create for people so its not just my personal data but theirs. I don't really know how these businesses are run, i'd imagine they'd want to get as many phones done as possible... but knowing me if i was doing that job i'd probably have a snoop where i could lol.
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Thanks again for the reply.
So you think the motherboard just progressively died? I hadn't mentioned this but a while ago i accidently left the phone on the radiator for a short while whilst working. It worked fine afterwards and when i asked on another forum they said if any damage was going on it would have restarted or gave an overheat message (which it didn't).
I guess i'll be sending it off to my network provider (O2 UK) then, it's still in warranty (just) so they should fix it or send me a new one. I've seen so much stuff on amateur porn sites of videos or pictures that probably weren't meant to be "released", leads me to having a fear about my girlfriend ending up on them. And like i said, passwords are stored on there to some websites i create for people so its not just my personal data but theirs. I don't really know how these businesses are run, i'd imagine they'd want to get as many phones done as possible... but knowing me if i was doing that job i'd probably have a snoop where i could lol.
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If the phone powered on when you sent it in then no doubt somene would have a snoop, but if it is DOA they won't waste their time, they'll be getting thousands of phones a day to go through, yours will just be another number: Press power > Nothing > test with some USB device > Nothing > open > replace motherboard > test > working > job done
Something like that I would imagine
For future reference, get a MicroSD card for your replacement and save all media to that, then you don't have this problem if it dies
I'm new to this forum and this is my 2nd attempt to get help to solve my problem. I have read ALL the rules posted in the XDA New User Guide - Getting Started On XDA, as well as all of the linked pages that are suggested to read before posting. It was very informative but I'm more confused then ever about the right place to seek help. This is all very overwhelming and I'm afraid I'm going to say something to offend someone or post in the wrong place and get in trouble, or worse, ignored. I suspect I did just that in my last post because I never got a response. I apologize in advance if I have done something wrong.
Ok, I'll do my best to explain my problem. I have an LG K20 Plus (I'll refer to this as my original phone) that I bought, brand new, from T-Mobile in May. In August I cracked the screen but continued to use it because besides the crack, it worked fine. By September the crack had worsened significantly and I decided to replace the outer glass as I had successfully done that with my older LG G3.
In that process, while trying to get that dreadful glue off, I scraped off some of the black stuff under the glue on the LCD which caused a white spot, about the size of a 1/2 dollar, on my screen. Although it was bothersome, the phone itself still worked fine. I continued to use it while I searched for the easiest way to fix it within my budget. After reading posts here and realizing it would work, I bought a used LG K20 Plus (I'll refer to this as my used phone) with a bad esn. The plan was to put my original logic board into the used phone and be on my way. That didn't happen.
When the used phone arrived, I turned it on to verify everything worked. I then put my original logic board into the used phone and turned it on. I saw my orignal wallpaper and was so happy I had my phone back. Then I tried to swipe to unlock and nothing happened. I booted it up a couple more times and still nothing. I connected a mouse via an OTG cable and verified that there were no more obvious issues with the phone except the digitizer. To confirm the dispaly wasn't faulty on the used phone, I put the used logic board back into the used phone it came with and booted it up. The digitizer was back to working again. I ran through as much as I could on a locked phone and the digitizer worked like new.
I, carefully, put my original logic board back into the used phone and, again, no touch capability. Again, I researched this problem to no avail. I realized I was way over my head and I decided to ask for help instead of making things worse by trying to fix it without knowing what I was doing. So, I put the phone in a drawer and asked for help here. That was a month ago. I know you are all very busy and, like I said earlier, I'm sure it's my fault and I messed up somewhere because my post didn't receive any replies.
I can't use my original phone because I have no touch ability and I can't use the used phone because it has an esn lock. At this point I decided to try and (I'm sure I'm using the wrong terminology here) flash the used phone and root it to bypass the bad esn lock. After researching that and seeing the word "illegal" A LOT, I decided I just didn't know if it was legal or not, so I decided to not take the risk of doing something that may get me into trouble.
At this point I decided I didn't have much to lose so I backed up my original phone and, with only the display of the used phone attached, I started the process of flashing it with TWRP and rooting it via this guide https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/recovery-twrp-v3-lg-k20-plus-t3616248 So, it is now successfully rooted but it still has no touch ability. The really weird thing is, while I was in TWRP Recovery mode, the touch ability worked again. But as soon as I rebooted the phone into regular mode, the digitizer stopped working again. I'm so confused and I don't even no where to start looking because I can't define the problem or the exact thing that is failing. I don't even know if it's hardware or software related.
So, I guess my question is, does anybody have any experience with this kind of problem you could share with me. I'd settle for someone being patient enough to explain to me exactly what is going on so I could research it better myself. Asking for help was not my first step. I have been looking and looking for 6 weeks now. I'm way out of my league with this stuff. It's really difficult to find a solution to a problem you don't quite understand. It's a little bit like being told to look up a word in the dictionary to find the spelling.
*LG K20 Plus
*LG-TP260
*T-Mobile
*Rooted
Baseband: MPSS.JO.
2.0c1.2-00012-8937_GENNS_PACK-1.85468.1
I think it's my original ROM
Kernel Version 3.18.31
I flashed TWRP
USB debugging enabled
OEM Lock Off
Here is what you do. Hook it up to a pc. Take a logcat and that will tell you what is failing. It sounds like a kernel compatibility issue.
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Here is what you do. Hook it up to a pc. Take a logcat and that will tell you what is failing. It sounds like a kernel compatibility issue.
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I'm so sorry but I have run into a few problems .. firstly, on my phone I have to use a mouse connected via OTG cable because I have no touch ability and my usb connection is set to "charge only". Apparently you can't change that until the phone is plugged in and obviously I need the mouse so I can't connect to computer. I downloaded an app called LogCatX and made a log file but I don't know how to attach a file and when I copy/paste it into the reply it says it is too long and reduce by 30000 characters. Any advice?
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I'm so sorry but I have run into a few problems .. firstly, on my phone I have to use a mouse connected via OTG cable because I have no touch ability and my usb connection is set to "charge only". Apparently you can't change that until the phone is plugged in and obviously I need the mouse so I can't connect to computer. I downloaded an app called LogCatX and made a log file but I don't know how to attach a file and when I copy/paste it into the reply it says it is too long and reduce by 30000 characters. Any advice?
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I think the new touch screen will need a calibration.
PS: i liked how you explained your problem
Sorry for my confusion but I'm not sure if you were telling me what I should do to figure out where the incompatibility issue may be or if you were asking me to upload the catlog so you could look at it and help me. I don't know what a catlog is, nor how to interpret it. At any rate, 6 hours later, I have, finally, figured out how to upload a file. :victory: I've been looking at how to fix a kernel incompatibility issue and I've read you can flash a custom kernel. If I did something like that, would that resolve my problem. Are they specific to the version of operating system your phone has (ie nougat, marshmallow etc) or do you need to use one for your specific phone model? Would flashing a custom ROM do the same thing? And is that model specific or OS specific? Where would I go to find something like that?
NOTE... In looking for differences in my phone to try and figure out where this kernel compatibility issue might be, I noticed that there are two different numbers on the midframe of my phones. I don't know if this means anything. I'm just trying to help someone help me.
zelendel said:
Here is what you do. Hook it up to a pc. Take a logcat and that will tell you what is failing. It sounds like a kernel compatibility issue.
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Hello? Was this the extent of your help? I'm not sure if you were asking me to run a catlog to upload so you could help me figure out what was wrong or if you were just telling me what to do and then moving on. Because if it was the later, all you've done is piled more stuff on my steadily growing mound of confusion. To make matters worse, my posts is showing as getting a response, so, I fear, nobody else will look at it and I will be left in the same place as before. If someone happens upon this post, could you give me advice that will actually help me solve my problem, along with instructions on how to do whatever I need to do. Thank you in advance. Until then, I'll be anxiously awaiting your reply....