Hello All,
This is my first post on this forum. I am not a technology idiot, but as far as Android goes "under the hood" I'm a relative neophyte.
I purchased an LG Optimus V not long after they were introduced. The device was never used for mobile phone service as I already had a phone and was replacing a Palm Zire as Palm OS was reaching its end of life. It came with Froyo on it and after I had it for about a year I rooted the device.
It has since been replaced and had been being used as an MP3 player (but it was handy to be able to take a quick peek at e-mail, etc.) and hummed along for several years doing that. Then one day, when I went to turn it on, it would not boot up. When the device is off and plugged in to the charger, the battery charging state (battery with flashing bars showing how charged until at 100%, then they stay solid) behaves as it always has. When I try to boot up, I get the LG icon splash screen followed by the "big" Virgin Mobile splash screen with music, followed by the black screen with the small Virgin Mobile icon in the center and there it sits. It will stay on this screen until the battery runs out or you pop it out.
Since then I have tried getting into recovery using the hold HOME plus Volume Down plus Power Button technique and I can get in to the stock recovery. I have tried wiping the cache partition (which shows it worked) and a wipe data/factory reset (which claims it worked) but when I try to reboot I get precisely the same behavior as described in the last paragraph.
So, I thought I might try loading a custom ROM, but any attempt to do that fails saying that there is no such file or directory but also adds that signature verification failed and installation is aborted.
I gather I need to load a custom recovery first, but have no idea how to do that with the phone in its current state. I can still bring up the stock recovery mode, though.
This is really a "can I do this" sort of project rather than driven by any real need. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to proceed, or knows that proceeding is actually not possible, I'd appreciate the input.
Thanks,
Brian
Just one additional data point. I've now got Android Studio and adb on my machine and have installed the drivers for the LG Optimus V.
When I run "adb devices" it comes back with the correct MEID for the OV and reports that it's offline.
After a great deal more time and effort I finally unbricked this device using the step-by-step instructions, including an RAR file that contains all the needed items, on androidforums.com in a thread entitled, [GUIDE] Unbrick/Upgrade Optimus V [EASY] [KDZ]. I would have posted the link, but apparently my post count is not yet high enough to allow that.
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I've got a rooted (Super SU, but the original root manager was Superuser) LG C800 that I was having problems with. To be specific, I installed some apps on to the system. Some of these apps would be Titanium Backup for root, Avast Mobile Security, ROM Tool Box Lite, Super SU, and a quite a few others. From day one they seem to be kicked right back to my S.D. card, but not all at the same time, and some would stay on the system. I read where I should move the apps back to my S.D. card and try to re-install them on the system minus the data. When I did, the phone went nuts. Now it stays in a restart mode but never fully boots up. Can I salvage it, and if so, please tell me how?! I have tried the hard reset/recovery boot where you hold down the power button, volume, and a few other keys, but it did not work. I'm a broke college student and can't really afford to buy a new phone. I used this one for everything including tethering it to get my assignments done at home and turned in on time. Please help! I'm open to suggestions....... My phone will be completely off. When I plug it into my computer, via U.S.B., it automatically turns it on whether I want it to be on or not. Then it starts off in "reboot recovery" mode, will boot all the way to the point to where the home screen would normally turn on, but then it starts in that "boot loop" all over again but never fully boots up before going back to the beginning of that "boot loop" yet again. I can't even get it to register on my laptop as being plugged in. The reason I took the apps I placed on the system off was because sometimes when I'd re-boot the system the apps would be on the system and sometimes back on my S.D. card without my involvement of any kind other than rebooting my phone. Is completing a Nandroid recovery or re-installation of my ROM even possible with my computer no longer recognizing it as even being plugged in? From what I can tell it won't be. Am I fighting a lost cause or is it salvageable?
Rooted myTouch Q 4G, a.k.a. LG C800
I believe it has a 2.3.4 GRJ22-perf, and then something like 2.6.35.7? I can't remember off the top of my head, and I can't pull it up on my phone anymore or else I'd double check.
Have you tried booting into recovery?
(More about my phone from the original post) Honestly.........I'm not what you may consider technologically inclined. I have however done about as much research online concerning this matter as any one person can do. I've looked it up on all major sites, and many smaller ones too, that post remedies for phone, or "human" if you'd rather, malfunctions. They all talk about still being able to reach a home screen or doing the whole holding the power and volume decrease buttons until I "reboot recovery" screen appears (if that's what you're referring to as doing a recovery reboot as). Don't forget the one where you hold hold the power and volume decrease buttons along with the "A" and "F" keys as well. I even tried one from here where you're supposed to push the genius button after the Android figure leaves the screen. My phone won't allow me to do either. Basically if it's online, I myself, or this girl that's been staying with me, have tried it without any results. On the initial boot the Android figure and the box with the arrow coming out of it show up and it boots until just about the point that it use to switch over to the home screen and it will start the whole "boot loop" over again. The thing is though that the Android figure and box aren't there any other time after the first boot, and with every boot loop it makes after that, the time is reduced from the beginning of the loop to the end when it starts all over again. The phone won't shut off unless I remove the battery and even though my laptop no longer recognizes the device, when I plug my phone into it or another power source and it's off, it automatically turns itself on and begins that boot loop all over again. there is one thing I have yet to try. I read on one site where I could download a custom ROM on my S.D. and then try reboot it, but it never makes it to the point in which the files on my S.D. card are ran, much less scanned. I am still 100% open to any and all suggestions in the diagnosis of this issue. I may record and place a video on one of the more popular "tube" sites to better show or further explain what's happening and then come back on here to post the link?! Feel free to reply back if it's possible you can help before I'm able to complete that later this evening. And thanks for any and all help in advance to everyone.
So heres the story....wife has had lg g2 since it came out with 0 issues. About 3 days ago the phone starts doing some crazy ****, flipping through screens by itself, opening and closing apps, deleting things, rebooting, changing system settings. This was after earlier in the day she had downloaded some random games for my son to play (not sure if this was the cause/is at all relevant, just trying to be as detailed as possible).
My first though was that one of the games may have had some virus/malware **** going on, so did a factory reset. The reset was successful, however the issues continued. Next though was to root/unlock/install custom rom. (I have done this to all my phones, with minimal issues, so i felt fairly confident in doing so) So i rooted, installed twrp 2.7.0.0, and flashed this rom - ATT-stock-rooted-D80020K.zip - and all seemed well. Phone booted and behaved normally for the rest of the day (12 hours or so). Plugged in charger, went to sleep.
Next morning, wake up, grab phone, and its showing the LG logo (like when you first power it on). Restart (power button long press) and it boots into TWRP, and i go looking for the rom file to reflash, and its gone. All files are gone. In the file explorer in TWRP, i can see the files,(data, system, boot, and so on) but when i click on them there in nothing in any folder. All downloads gone. Everything.
But i can still get into TWRP, so i thought ok, ill just plug into pc, mount the phone, copy appropriate files, reflash rom, and all will be good. WRONG. I cannot get TWRP to mount the phone, and at this point ive got a pretty expensive paperweight.
All my unlock/flash/root experience has been on HTC devices up to this point, and i have never had an issue like this.
If anybody can advise what to do next, Im listening. Ive exhausted my knowledge on the subject at this point and NEED HELP PLEASE.
Thanks in advance.
So, yesterday I decided to reboot my phone since it was very sluggish for whatever reason. I think it shut down properly but when it came back on, there was a very interesting problem that had come up - it didn't boot any further than the logo screen, which didn't even play its standard animation; it just stood there with the LED on the home button changing colors (like normal). I left it on overnight hoping the problem would be gone, but to no avail. It still hadn't booted when I woke up. If it matters, the only thing I can boot to is download mode. It doesn't let me get to safe mode or however it's called (the menu you navigate with volume up/down and the power button). Needless to say, I was very puzzled. Then I went on and tried to flash the latest kdz since I thought that would fix the problem. I hoped that would easily fix the problem. But no, it decided to be funny and give me more headache. I tried using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2409308 but after step 20 the LG Mobile Support Tool crashes and I can't continue. Sure thing, I will try the Upgrade Recovery that the tool has built in. It properly detects my phone, the software download and extraction goes smoothly. Then I reach the S/W Upgrade part of the process. The few first seconds everything is fine, but then the bar reaches 5% and just stops. Just like that. Now it's been 8 hours since I began the recovery and no progress has been made.
Can anybody help me? I'm lost here...
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So, yesterday I decided to reboot my phone since it was very sluggish for whatever reason. I think it shut down properly but when it came back on, there was a very interesting problem that had come up - it didn't boot any further than the logo screen, which didn't even play its standard animation; it just stood there with the LED on the home button changing colors (like normal). I left it on overnight hoping the problem would be gone, but to no avail. It still hadn't booted when I woke up. If it matters, the only thing I can boot to is download mode. It doesn't let me get to safe mode or however it's called (the menu you navigate with volume up/down and the power button). Needless to say, I was very puzzled. Then I went on and tried to flash the latest kdz since I thought that would fix the problem. I hoped that would easily fix the problem. But no, it decided to be funny and give me more headache. I tried using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2409308 but after step 20 the LG Mobile Support Tool crashes and I can't continue. Sure thing, I will try the Upgrade Recovery that the tool has built in. It properly detects my phone, the software download and extraction goes smoothly. Then I reach the S/W Upgrade part of the process. The few first seconds everything is fine, but then the bar reaches 5% and just stops. Just like that. Now it's been 8 hours since I began the recovery and no progress has been made.
Can anybody help me? I'm lost here...
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Hi guys looking for some advice for some problems I am experiencing with my Tesco Hudl 2. I was directed here by a friend of my mothers, so I am new here. I have searched and searched for a possible solution and haven't had any luck however I sincerely apologise if this question has already been asked.
So onto my problem I have a roughly 2 year old Hudl, other than the current problem it is in good condition, never been out the case or dropped and I haven't rooted it. This is the first problem I have had. A few months ago a friend was using it and despite me telling her not to, she played some Facebook games on it. After that it started coming up with crash reports and error messages and within a few hours was switching itself off. I had a quick search for some help at the time but as I have very little experience with android devices and couldn't find any kind of help I switched it off and left it at that. I realise now being switched off for that few months may not have helped.
Yesterday I tried switching it on to see if I could get it working, on switching it on with a full charge, it goes as far as the powered by android logo, sits for a minute, switches off and then tries again. I have attempted to perform a reset using the power button only, this done nothing.
I also attempted to bring up the Android system recovery menu using the power and volume up buttons. This brought up and error message stating that the 'efi hard drive boot failed', the next error message was 'no bootable device, hit any key' '[ok]', from here I can do nothing. The touch screen and the volume buttons are unresponsive.
Holding the power button eventually powers off the device.
I know this means that my boot partition is corrupted as I have previously performed boot partition fixes on a pc when a Linux clean install went haywire but I have very limited Android experience. The advice I received was that I have to factory reset the device and install a new copy of my boot partition, using abd on my laptop and to come here to XDA-developers forum for help with the process. I am using a windows 7 laptop currently. To be honest I don't know where to start and any advice would be hugely appreciated! Thanks in advance and sorry about length!
Hello all, and thanks for having me:
I am here out of desperation. Other Android forums have been telling me that I need the correct RUU file, to get my HTC One X (Evita) back to factory preset(s). That's assuming it has already been wiped. I've been trying for over a month.
I am not, BY ANY STRETCH, knowledgeable in these kinds of smartphone problems. I know nothing about the various terminologies, nor what they represent, i.e. flashing, rooting, etc. I actually think that if some members here could possibly ask ME a couple questions, that that might be a faster way to try and get to the root of the problem, so to speak.
I can tell you that, as I type this, I DID manage to get the "BOOT"?? screen up. It has several commands or options, and three large bar codes at the bottom of that screen. I can also tell you that after I found out about holding down power and pressing volume down 3 times, and wait...my touch controls at the bottom of the phone, flash 15 times and stop. Much more often than not, if I continue to hold those buttons down, the HTC "Brilliant" logo pops up briefly, then disappears, but you can tell by looking closely, the screen isn't totally black, it is grey, still on, and will remain that way until the battery dies...unless I try to do something to turn it off.
Apologies for the long post. To me, this takes a more verbose explanation than it probably would those more "experienced" with the technological aspects involved in any attempt to "repair" the phone.
I need to add that, when the phone was purchased, it was bought for me, by my wife, for 1 penny, as part of an AT&T promotion. It has the AT&T logo molded into the top center of the phone, and that there are/were many AT&T apps in the phone. My wife told me long ago, that AT&T had the phone locked, and that their apps could not be removed.
We no longer use AT&T as our carrier. We use Consumer Cellular. To anyone with any expertise, advice, knowledge, etc., that could possibly aid in my restoring the phone back to what I refer to as "normal Android", I would be forever in your debt. I am disabled, and on a pittance of Social Security benefits. With prices of GOOD smartphones today, I seriously doubt I would ever be able to afford even a used one. Thanks very much. Again, my apologies for the "novel".
Its been a while since i have done an RUU as i dont own an HTC anymore but if you have access to a pc this might work.
Steps
1. Download the RUU for your device from here: http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
2. Put the device into bootloader mode. (black screen with the android in the center has options for recovery, ect)
3. make sure drivers are set up on the PC and run RUU.
This "should" put you back to 100% factory settings and return the device to "out of the box" android. Again this is done at your own risk as i dont know for sure what state your device is in unless i can see it personally.
Hope this helps
Wolf
I have finally gotten to the previously mentioned "unnamed" screen. This screen has a much shorter menu. Please recall that at the top of the FIRST and only screen I was able to get said "HBOOT" at the top, above a list of various details such as the Evita name, Radio, openDSP,etc. At the top of this one, it says ***LOCKED***, above the like details mentioned.
There is then, in the center of the menu, a red highlighted "FASTBOOT AC" that cannot be selected for anything that I know of. Finally, the possible workable selections are, from top to bottom, read BOOTLOADER, REBOOT, REBOOT BOOTLOADER, and POWER DOWN.
If by "the Android" mentioned by SynisterWolf, she means the green robot icon(s), there are three of them on skateboards at the bottom of this screen. These observations are all that I know, with regard to the main issue at hand.
I have the RUU already stored in my PC, but the exact procedure to execute from this point forward is still unclear. After all, I am a self-confessed "pre-novice". ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I haven't had my phone in a normal Android state for nearly 2 months.
I had already made it known that I do not see a black screen as described by SynisterWolf above. At present, ( 12am/Thursday, 4/20 ), I was going to take the leap, go ahead and run the RUU. As soon as I plugged in the USB, my PC gave me a message that it isn't recognizing the phone. Now, I am even more perplexed than before. It is far past the point where I REALLY NEED this phone. If anyone could assist with a possible solution to my super-dilemma, I would be forever in your debt. Thanks very much to all members here.
EriktheRed565
EriktheRed565 said:
I have finally gotten to the previously mentioned "unnamed" screen. This screen has a much shorter menu. Please recall that at the top of the FIRST and only screen I was able to get said "HBOOT" at the top, above a list of various details such as the Evita name, Radio, openDSP,etc. At the top of this one, it says ***LOCKED***, above the like details mentioned.
There is then, in the center of the menu, a red highlighted "FASTBOOT AC" that cannot be selected for anything that I know of. Finally, the possible workable selections are, from top to bottom, read BOOTLOADER, REBOOT, REBOOT BOOTLOADER, and POWER DOWN.
If by "the Android" mentioned by SynisterWolf, she means the green robot icon(s), there are three of them on skateboards at the bottom of this screen. These observations are all that I know, with regard to the main issue at hand.
I have the RUU already stored in my PC, but the exact procedure to execute from this point forward is still unclear. After all, I am a self-confessed "pre-novice". ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I haven't had my phone in a normal Android state for nearly 2 months.
I had already made it known that I do not see a black screen as described by SynisterWolf above. At present, ( 12am/Thursday, 4/20 ), I was going to take the leap, go ahead and run the RUU. As soon as I plugged in the USB, my PC gave me a message that it isn't recognizing the phone. Now, I am even more perplexed than before. It is far past the point where I REALLY NEED this phone. If anyone could assist with a possible solution to my super-dilemma, I would be forever in your debt. Thanks very much to all members here.
EriktheRed565
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HELP!! I see that my HTC One X (AT&T) needs a driver update, but cannot find one. HTC's website is NO HELP at all. Can someone help me to find the web page or site where I can obtain a driver update for this phone, PLEASE?
EriktheRed565 said:
HELP!! I see that my HTC One X (AT&T) needs a driver update, but cannot find one. HTC's website is NO HELP at all. Can someone help me to find the web page or site where I can obtain a driver update for this phone, PLEASE?
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Flash stock firmware dude